A Conclusion

A Race of Giants...or a Spritual flaw?

2006-02-20T22:29:00.000-05:00

The Heart of the Matter
by a true Believer

Good is a God of simplicity. It’s why He looked upon the lowliest of man with the greatest of sympathy. These lowly ones were in the most honest and simplest form of His creation of men, with a spiritual additude that He desired greater than any other. It is those who are fallen sons of God who complicate what God is in their desire to become like God according to what they want God to be.

But God is pure simplicity.

Look the eyes of a child who loves unconditionally and you will see what I mean. Listen to the purety of their innocent statements. Our own imaginations and complicated thoughts pertaining to God according to all that the world holds out as to what it wants God to be has destroyed this simplicity, this innocence, straining at gnats while swallowing a camel if you will. But all is vanity, and vanity of vanities.

To understand the simplicity of God, consider this, that the entire gospel and heart of God is contained in the first two chapters of Genesis. "What," you say? "How can that be?"

Yes, God’s perfect creation, man’s fall from grace, and God’s provision for him, are all contained in these two chapters. It is the whole heart of the matter. The rest of the book, until Jesus Christ is filled with the results of man’s rejection of God’s provision, as well as warnings as to what this rejection will ultimately lead to. It is filled with types, and anti-types, in all figurative, symbolic and plain understanding in order that anyone can discover its hidden truths all down through the ages. Nothing was left out that really matters but that it is all contained in simplicity for anyone to see, if it’s their desire to see. The same gospel of Salvation’s truth is also contained in the first chapter of Isaiah. It’s most basic form. The rest is a description of what results from the rejection of it. See this for yourself.

I have found through many experiences that it’s those who would like others to see them as something other than lowly and humble man, which they will do in an attempt to lead men off into directions that simplicity should prevent them from following. These will fit whatever complicated facts that they can find to their doctrines of men in order to pursue this goal. They will make things up, piece things together, ignore anything that disputes with them, and hang onto their belief even at the destruction of theirs, or anyone’s soul who continues to follow them.

In the days of Christ, Jesus often challenged the traditional interpretations and the minute rules that had been issued to guide the people in every area of their behavior. These rules were given for the purpose of controlling and manipulating the consciences of the people through fear so that some could be seen as godly above all others, while these others strained against the burdens imposed upon them. But, as Jesus pointed out, they were false teachings and missed the intent for which God provided their original meaning. It was perversion of the truth for the sake of recognition, respect and the desire to lord over others. It was to be like God. It was selfish in nature and never cared about those whom the burdens were placed upon. It was often the well to do, the aristocrats and the authorities who practiced outwardly what they led others believe was necessary in order to be godly according to their standards of godliness. At the same time they allowed others to fall under the yoke of oppression as these could neither afford the ritual purities, nor get out from under the bondage of oppression that caused them so much shame.

High moral, standards, outwardly displayed are for the rich and well to do, because these are not faced with the burdens of providing for the simple, basic, day to day necessities of life that consume the attentions of the poor. Their day is not filled with the misery of poverty. Their surroundings are designed to allow them to falsely think of themselves as better than those who struggle day to day. Their inheritance gives them the false impression that they are somehow, by birthright and privilege, more worthy than others to Lord over mankind. And by these things, they can manipulate others according to conscience, emotion and necessity. Theirs is too usurp the throne of God as fallen sons of God thrown down to the level plain of humanity.

Today we are in a different time as when these things were written, but the same principles hold true. These principles are what God gave us to guide us through the complications of the strong deceit from these fallen angels, and anyone who does not embrace the simplicity of His meanings, who are not lovers of these truths, can easily be led astray through the delusion of their own imaginations, often guided by the delusion of someone else’s imagination. They can easily lose heart, becoming discouraged, or even afraid. This brings them to ruin and provides a ready field for Satan, the devil.

The word of God was given to man for him to love, but also so that he could not be so easily led astray. It is the final authority to which we should all turn to find the answers we seek, if it is truly answers that we want. All too often though, people believe what they want to instead of what they should. God gives His way to success, and the world gives its way. It's the choice each must make. Freewill is always preserved.

All too often people reject the written word of God, claiming it is too hard to follow or understand. But that is because they have become so accustomed to everything being so complicated that they miss the simplicity of what is meant. All too often we put our intellect ahead of principles and confuse even the simplest of them.

And why not? This is what we've been taught from early childhood by the very individuals who say they love us. Their priorities become ours. You have to do this...you have to do that...if you want to be accepted...or a success...you must strive in this way. The whole world screams at you until you can hear no more.

Lately I have watched as people are blown about by every wind of doctrine. Someone fixates their attention on a particular subject, and through imaginations these things become real, and fact to the ones who are deceived by them. Whether of fear or no longer caring, all too often they forget the heart of God’s thought and what really matters to Him, which is to give us a simple understanding in what He desires, as well as show us what mistakes we can make in discovering His own heart. His soul purpose is to bless us according to Himself.

Instead many will say, “But what about me? How will it make me godlier? How will it get me that choice place in heaven? If it can't do this according to what the world offers, then I want nothing more from it."

Thought becomes about self and not about this wonderful God who created us. We’ll find this in the Word which from its beginnings is much more than simply a history. But rather, it explains the conditions we live in to this day. “I Am the same today, as I was yesterday and will be tomorrow. I change not. There is nothing new under the sun.”...and that includes the condition of man. We are a stubborn race.

This is the bases for understanding.
Christ also said, “The Kingdom of God is within you.”

If you were to read the Bible today, and heard of a people and a place called Israel, being carnal minded you would think of a people other than yourself, and a physical land as well as it's history. But what God is attempting to say is that He desires a people who will go to the heartland of their soul in a place called forever.

Those people are true Israel...and the land is the center of your own heart...the heartland within and the throne of God's kingdom within. It's a way of life that comes through individual truth about ones own self in relation to the perfection of Godliness as found in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The earth is the centralness of youself...and the heavens are your thoughts and the place where God can communicate with you through your meditations on Him and what He teaches. The world is anything outside of that realm. Truth is what truth must be within.

It’s not only that the external realities of nature are to witness and testify to internal truths, but that internal truths are to reveal the kingdom of God, in order that they become external realities in man. This most often requires a brutal honesty about our own selves. And this is to bring us into the same harmony with Him that all of nature enjoys.

What God’s word teaches is meant to bring us to the discovery of the internal truths that make up His kingdom within, for the purpose of Him revealing Himself without us by what is within us if we would only learn to discover it. That may sound more complicated than it really is.

But consider this…God is love…God is spirit and truth…not as man would have you believe, but as God’s personhood really is according to Himself. I Am that I Am. Truth, love, spirit, God Himself is determined by what He has determined He should be. And that this kingdom which Christ preached has always been at hand shows us that we only need to reach way down deep inside of ourselves to discover it. To peel away the layers of the worldly view, which is becoming more difficult as time goes by.

Here is one example:

Today there is much speculation and conjecture on a subject that pertains to “The Nephilim." It has become a subject that has caught the imagination and attention of many, and also a wind of doctrine that has drawn men and women away from the heart of the matter. It has been decided by some that it is an external truth; the Nephilim being a fallen race of angels who physically towered over man in physical form. They were 40 - 60 foot giants.

I would like to say that God’s word never described their height in any physical measure that we know. Anyone who attempts to lead men in this belief is a false teacher who perverts the pure thought which God intended for us to understand. And when it was for us to understand His word in terms of physical form, he was precise in giving to us the exact measurements and description thereof...i.e., the ark of Noah, the mesurements of the Kingdom as given to Ezekial, the height of Goliath, the physical description of the temple, etc.

No where in His word does He do this about the Nephilim other than to say they were ‘giants.’ And this is where the heart of the matter can be lost to imagination.

Language is something that can easily distort what the true meaning behind a simple principle was meant to show. God confounded our language at the destruction of the tower of Babel. But He did not confound His own language. His language was always a pure thought intended to demonstrate a pure truth for us to learn. So to understand this pure thought it is a mistake to only look at one word which attempts a translation of that thought according to our own understanding.

“Lean not unto your own understanding.”

All too easily a principle can become distorted by the focus of and usage of the wrong word, or a single word only.

It is now and has always been God’s desire for man to worship Him. But not as we desire that worship to be, or according to our own way. While He is a forgiving ,gracious, and merciful God, and can maybe even accept for a time our own ways of worship towards Him in order to prove their deficiency, I am certain that He would like us to love Him as He desires to be loved for the soul purpose of revealing Himself through that pure love. This was shown to us during Christ’s time when the system of religion in place was brought to its end. And all of His words put together are His thoughts as to how this should be done for His sake and our benefit according to the way He desires it to be. He showed us what is not, in order that we might see what is. The Old Testament is the “what is not” part mixed with "what is"…and the New Testament is the “what is” part revealed and very simply put.

So to lay out the thought God intended us to know from His word, and the short account of the ‘Nephilim,’ I will attempt to lay out the first foundation of this simple message. Sorry if it took me so long to get around to it. After all, this is about the Nephilim, a race of giants, is it not?

God desires pure worship. Very simple and basic. It is not His desire to complicate our lives as we find in the chaos or confusion of a faithless life; Babylon if you will. This same worship can encompass every fiber of our being and every aspect of our lives if we would find the simplicity that it is. God's is not to lay heavy burdens, but the world’s is. God's way is pure simplicity. The worlds way is chaos and confussion...or civilization ruled by greedy men if you will.

Civilization defined: A human society that has a complex cultural, political, and legal organization; an advanced state in social development.

How very different man's creation is as opposed to the simplicity of what God intended for us. The complexity of human civilization and the advanced state that we presume it to be has done far more to pervert the simplicity of merely being fruitful and multiplying than it has in promoting it. It has gone further to destroy mankind than it has gone towards uplifting him. We have traded God's creation for our own...eating daily from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

True worship is simply the desire and way of those who worship to imitate that which is worshipped and not how they desire it to be according to what the world has shown them. It is not in forms, or rites, or rituals, it is not in a programmed response from years of repitition. Instead it comes out of us as spontaneous and natural obediance to the commandments of God apart from the rigidness the world attempts to impose for the sake of control. It is not in the minute details and letter of the law, but is of the heart and mind according to what is shown to us by God to be godd and righteous, and then demonstrated by us out of love. It is voluntary in nature as only true love domonstrated can be. It is not coerced, or threatened upon. It is not bribed or gained through the use of fear.

Evidence this in the two, simple commandments God gave to Adam to simply ask that Adam demonstrate his loyalty, love and worship in return to the God who created him. There was nothing complicated.

“Don’t eat that.” And then God told Adam to "be fruitful and multiply' in that same respect. That…is the simplicity of God’s love. He asks only that we hear Him...and obey what He commands us to do...or not to do...out of demonstrated, spontanious, voluntary love in acknowledgement to Him and according to His design.

That is true worship at its best.

Case in point:

When I was young, I thought that the best way I could show my love to my family was to work all the time in order to provide them with what they wanted and needed. This was my idea of love as the world would have me believe. It fit the worldly view for the benefit of the worldly ruler.

They (my family) attempted many times to grab some of my valuable time, but my mind was set on what I thought I should do according to this worldly view. Now much time has slipped quickly by, I am old, and I began to see that I had little or no relationship with those who I said I love. They had grown up and I had missed out on much of the joy that goes along with being a part of this. I provided them with things and necessities, but there was a matter of the heart that was missing. My idea of love rejected their idea of how they desired that love to be shown. It did not take into consideration the personhood of these objects of my love. We had two different languages. Mine was external, and theirs was internal. Mine was a worldly, false religion of love, theirs was the simplicity of relationship. Theirs was God’s desire and mine was man’s attempt.

Time together and relationship is what they craved. There’s was a desire to give as much as it was to receive. I almost missed this valuable lesson. They desired to be taught the issues of life in order to know so they could apply them to their own, but I was always too busy for this, never remembering that it was this same exact thing I craved from my own father. And it’s this that we need to see as the purpose behind God’s written word, His heart, which is still working to this day to bring this principle back to our attention.

When Eve disobeyed God, eating from the tree which she was forbidden to eat, God related in His word the first example of false religion. He said, “No, this is not what I meant by love.” It was a selfish religion that was love of our own thoughts towards how to worship, how to love in return if you will. It was pleasing to the eye, good for food, and able to make one wise. It only benefited the desire of the one and seperated itself from the consciousness of the other.

But, it was all external and was meant only to benefit the one practicing it. It was selfish love that did not consider the object or person of anyone else’s love. It was false love, false worship, and false religion if you will. It was based on an individual desire that was not that of the One who desired to be loved. How often do we find this principle at work in rejecting those whom society deems unfit, relegating them to the fringes? It determines by itself what is good and evil towards that love, manipulated by the surrounding circumstances and is intended to replace God’s desire towards us with the desire for oneself.

"What in God’s name does this have to do with the ‘Nephilim’," you are now probably wondering?

And the answer is everything, for they are the beginning example example of what false religion was based on and what it produced, as was the account of Cain and Able, as were as all accounts up to Noah…and in between the calling out of Abraham.

But remember, as for the ‘Nephilim’, it is not simply a word such as “giants” that should be considered, but rather the pure thought intended by the account the word was written in.

In other words, it is not about the ‘Nephilim’, or about ‘giants’, but is about the thought that God was attempting to help us to understand. These race of people were only a small part of that thought in order to assist us in the understanding.

To see what this pure thought is intended to show, the pure Hebrew language must apply. This is the original language God chose in order to relate His account. Why, I'm not sure, but perhaps it was because of their ability to express what they really meant in their language.

The word “giants” is little more than an English translation that conjures up an image in our imagination that has been nurtured by the world in opposition to God’s pure thought. To focus on that conjured up word by itself attempts to rob us of the focus from what is intended. But no account given by God describes these “giants,”...their physical stature... in anyway. Wonder about this.

That all mankind descended from Adam, who was created by God and was in the image of God until his fall from grace tells us also that the daughters of man were also his descendants, and also descendants of Eve, created in the fallen image of Eve as opposed to the image God originally created. Both Adam and Eve were still children of God, but their fallen nature could only produce offspring in the image man had created for himself when he took it upon himself to eat of the fruit that would give him the ability to make his own choices towards good and evil. These daughters of man, like Eve, were in the image of false worshippers towards God. They were pagan in their practices. They were, figuratively speaking, the false religions of mankind adopted by the daugters of mankind, and whom the fallen sons of God saw as beautiful and whom they chose over God, just as Adam chose Eve over God.

Learn the differnces by carefully studying the two accounts of man's creation given in the book of Genesis. God created mankind and then He created man in His image. It was this mankind whom the sons of God (originally created in God's image) found the daughters of to be so beautiful. Rather than being fruitful with tham and multiplying them according to God's ways, their fallen nature produced an offspring of tyrrants who used their ability to choose good from evil to manipulate these according to what they chose...which was evil according to God.

The offspring of these fallen Sons of God produced offspring with these daughters of man, and also with these false religions, created for themselves a race of ‘giants’. But that is the English translation of a Hebrew word with a far different meaning than what our imaginations conjure up.

This word “giants” is used to replace the Hebrew word ‘nephil’ or ‘nephyl’ which is were the word ‘nephilim’ originated from…’nephilim’ also being the English variation of 'nephil.' Early versions of the scriptures, even in English, did not use the word “giants” but referred to them as “nephilim”. It’s only our more modern Bible versions that use this word “giants.” 'Nephilim' however was from the original language it was written in, which was Hebrew.

But what is the Hebrew translation for this word ‘nephyl?’

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible defines ‘nephyl’ pronounced nef-eel’ properly as, a feller (one who has fallen, as from grace), i.e. a bully or tyrant; -- hence what was referred to in those days as having the spiritual stature of the figurative word “giant”. This is the Hebrew word used in Genesis 6: 4 in our modern translation.

This does not refer to a physical description, but a spiritual flaw. It’s this spiritual flaw that developed when the fallen sons of God took for themselves the wives of man and the false pagan religious practices they had. If their religious practices were what God desired, they would not be daughters of man, but daughters of God. So now you have fallen sons of God whose desire it was to be like God, intermarrying with the daughters of men who practice pagan religions. What a wild mix that must be!!! These produced the bullies and tyrants of the day…or, if you will, figuratively, ‘giants.’

A ‘bully’, as defined in Collins concise English Dictionary, is a person who hurts, persecutes, or intimidates weaker people in order to make him do something. This is done by demonstrating an outword moral superiority. A ‘tyrant’ is defined in the same dictionary as a person who governs oppressively, unjustly, arbitrarily (according to his own whims and not God's ways); a despot. We can certainly see these giants in the world today. And through this character flaw corruption and violence abound, not only at a high, government level, but even schoolyard bullies who terrorize gentle souls. From the head to the foot. This is what abounded in the days of Noah. The whole world became filled with violence and corruption.

There are other references to “giants’ in God’s word.

Numbers 13: 33 uses a different Hebrew word for the English word ‘giants’.

Here the word used is ‘gibbowr’ or gibb’or.’

This word has a similar meaning as ‘nephyr.’ In that instead of “giants” as we understand the word to be according to the imaginary Paul Bunyan image we were fed as children, the meaning is: powerful men, warriors, tyrants: i.e., men who are champions, chiefs (government leaders) that excel in greatness, mighty men, strong men, valiant men. Or so many are led to believe according to their high outward show of morality. And again, we see these men today. The heroes and supermen we we're led to believe we should admire as children. Only now they represent governments, powers and principalities sat upon by men who deceive themselves and others into believing that’s what they are. But the figurative word used to describe these men is “giants.”

I want to impress upon you one more time that nowhere does the word of God describe these men as having a physical stature such as those we in our imaginations might conjure up according to what the world would have us believe. 40 to 60 feet tall, Jack in the Beanstalk, Paul Bunion, or even Goliath, who was six cubits and a span…or roughly 9 feet tall…certainly a tall man, but not a race of men, or a man that was anything that could be considered a giant.

More than likely this Goliath was an anomaly of his day. He was the champion of the Phillistines. Not only that, but a height of nine feet would have made him cumbersomely slow and clumsy as with anyone today who attains to that height. Throw some scary armor on him…hand him a sword…and his name fits him well. He most certainly must have been an intimidating sight. However, as David proved, size doesn't matter to God, and this Goliath had the same weaknesses as any man in that he could die, be killed, perish. It only took one small stone to find the weakest point that could do the most damage.

Certainly 65 or even 40 foot men are a stretch of the imagination though. There is no physical evidence that someone like this ever existed despite what others would have you believe. There are no bones secreted away. For what purpose, given the nature of man, who would display as a sideshow something as freaky as this? They were not even demons as the world would have you conjure up this thought, but fallen sons of God, men, who took to themselves the false religious practices of the daughters of men, made them their own, and used them to elevate themselves as mighty men. In this, they allowed the wickedness of evil forces to enter their hearts.

All these things are an attempt to take our focus off of God and put them on man…even if it’s some kind of scary, imaginary, created thing. And as something repeated often enough, these things can be given their life according to our own thought when what has become ingrained through repetition…even if it’s false, becomes a reality of our nature. And in this find the true intent of the devil.

Picture this. A fallen son of God, with all the intellect, freewill and reasoning powers God allowed him to have, came into the false pagan religions practiced by the daughters of mankind by taking to themselves their daughters. They saw the ability to exploit the superstitions of these people because, as fallen sons, they desired what Satan hepled them to learn...which was that they could be worshipped as gods... and by this practice were able to gain power, renown, and greatness…the giants in those days of the world. Like Christopher Columbus and his party from Europe, or the Spanish conquistadors trying to portray themselves as gods to the Native Americans if you will. They used their special gifts of sophistication, intellect and reasoning for their own selfish purposes. They desired to be worshipped as gods and it was this reason why they were fallen from grace, or more accurately, thrown out of the garden and thrown down in the rebellion. Yet they refused, as Satan did, to bow down to mankind.

I also want you to consider this; that from the book of Genesis on is not just a history, but is also the beginning of what will be…it is a forecast of the future written in the past…as in “I change not.” To know what lies ahead, just look back upon what was. In eternity, time does not exist, as everything exists at the same time. This is the realm that God resides in and from where He inspired His word.

This is the heart of the matter about what God is trying to explain in His very simple word about “giants,” summed up in the last paragraph that starts with “picture this.”

Today, emperors and world leaders all claim support from the God most of humanity fears. They invoke their god in all their destruction, claiming him to be the same God of the humble. But that is only to give them legitimacy and expose our weakness as though God is a respecter of persons. Yet it is all of humanity that God supports…not just these privileged few. I am a foolish man…but God will use me to confound the wise and the prudent. So let me be a foolish man.

And why?

Because they want to play upon the superstitions that these people were led to believe by their very own religious leaders as to what might happen if they do not follow as obedient sheep the governments who support these very same religious leaders. It is the very same distorted truth, or lies if you will, that the ruling class in the days of Jesus were feeding to the people of Israel and the Judaic religion. They hardly ever teach that these same people are to follow God’s laws over man’s laws, or that Jesus Christ is Lord and not some tyrannical, despotic, bully, because they haven’t the courage to do so and yet men follow them straight to their destruction like sheep being led to the slaughter.

It is much easier for me to visualize in my mind what I am attempting to explain, so I hope I did not complicate the simplicity of God’s word too much. But if you simply follow within your own heart what God’s own people did, accoding to His standard way of living you have nothing to fear even in death.

And what did they follow?

God’s laws allowed them to abide in this world as the aliens they knew they were…but when man began to pass laws that were in opposition to God’s…they took a stand against them even at the expense of their own lives in defense of the very same people they were aliens among. The book of Danial clearly explains this by Danials refusal to follow the decree passed by Nebuchadnezzar which ended prayer and required everyone to bow down to the image he created.

These are the true sons and daughters of God today, and they defend mankind with the truth they were given, in both word and in practice, and not the way others decide for themselves.

“Shrubism,” is what is practiced by the giants of our time and is their attempt to manipulate us through a campaign of disinformation…even at the expense of using our own religion and whatever superstitious practices that religion may hold…because they themselves reject and even despise the simplicity of our true nature... a nature they are afraid to take upon themselves. They will reject anything that does not agree with the facts they want to present in order to pursue their agenda of forcing man to worship their way, even if those facts go against what they say they believe or what outward morality they may appear to project. Don’t be taken in by it. And don’t be deceived into thinking that because you’re not taken in by it, that there aren’t multitudes that are. It’s these who will one day cry out for salvation, and we need to be there for them when they do.

Ours, despite others willingness to see it, is a religion of truth. We are not the gullible daughters of men anymore and are not so easily deceived by their hocus-pocus even though they have not changed and still attempt to deceive us. But the ultimate deceit is when God's truth is ignored and men and women begin to look upon these men once as gods, believing they are where salvation will be found, by these giants, by these mighty men of old, these valiant warriors, when in truth they are little more than bullies who need to impress others to ignore the fact that they have been rejected by God and His kingdom…thrown down if you will…fallen from grace having no other recourse than to draw as many with them into hell as they can, while they still exist.

Many a playground bully will gather the stronger boys of weak character into loyalty with him in order that this one bully can stand behind his taskmasters to do his dirty work for him. And this is usually because he’s too afraid to act alone, or not be the manipulator, the deceiver. It’s this character we now find pervades much of this nation’s government, as with all worldly government administrations. But they are really just cowards who attempt to appear strong. Strip away all that they need to hold on to what they think they own…and then you will see the real face of fear.

I will be happy to discuss this at length with anyone once they absorb what I’ve related.

And I hope you won’t think I am attempting anything other than to guide you to what God’s pure word says, and not to me. Fear is a dangerous force, and is the favorite tool of the devil. But God does not give us a spirit that we should fear, only a spirit that should desire to know Him through the truth of His love. These giants today do not act as my God Jehovah and therefore are not worthy to follow.

Jesus Christ gave us two very simple and basic commandments: to Love God and to love each other, and then a commission to be fruitful and multiply…to spread this love. It is in effect the same commandments given to Adam before his fall. Whether we obey this these commandments or heed the words of Satan will determine our destiny and our eternity. And only in obeying them will we subdue the earth and have dominion over God's creation. It begins with each of one of us if we would only stop allowing the world to complicate it for us. This is Jehovah God's pure thought and our pure religion as He desires it to be. We need not be concerned with the faces of evil…but only the faces of love. God will deal with what is evil if we will only deal with what is love.

Watch out for those who attempt to present to you what is false…and what I have said here you can research yourself through the only authoritative word I know on the matter of truth. In practice I have not even gained this perfectly myself, but when I become confused or afraid, I find it good to return to the heart of the matter…but also to hear the whole matter.

Follow the example of the godly line that went about doing what they had to, who made the necessary preparations for what was to come, but as this was testimony enough, were also ridiculed, persecuted and even killed for it. Don’t expect any less. Put aside all pride, fear and thought for self…and hold onto only the hope that awaits you. Do not be deceived by any means.

Your friend,
The hughman1

The Righteous Soldier

2006-02-07T12:56:00.000-05:00

“All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:8

I bow my head, knowing that I am as responsible as the next man, but must take my responsibility to myself.

Has humanity grown so tired of battling the hidden flaws within its own walls and upon its own shores that it must now turn its attention outward and engage in oppressive wars upon the boundaries of others?

We can do this individually, or collectively as a nation. It is by our own individual or collective choices that it has come to exist. This is the flaw of the religious, the self-righteous masses of those who presume. It is the same flaw that has given rise to the most evil empires that man has ever known.

Because we have all failed so miserably within our own selves, knowingly or unknowingly, we then presume our success can be found without as we wrongly presume we have individually, or collectively attained to something other than imperfection.

When will we learn that our successes are not determined by ourselves or according to ourselves, but that we can only take credit for our failures. We can only pursue these same failures in others as an instrument of evil, rather than face them squarely and individually as men and women within our own selves. Our biggest mistake is that we can confuse our recognition of failure with that of dealing directly with them ourselves. We see them in ourselves, so we attempt to rid them in others. This is hypocrisy.

If this is the tragedy I find within myself, how much more so the world? But do I turn first to the world in order to avoid dealing with it directly within my own self?

Perhaps in doing so, I am admitting to myself that I cannot even overcome these flaws in me by myself and need the rest of the world to see them too so that we can do this together, rather than alone. This is cowardice and comes from doubt. Change begins within. And if we fail in this, we have fallen into doubt, which is not of faith.

What else then is left but to pursue a course that will rip this flaw from our heart whether we like it or not? We hate in order to learn love. We destroy in order that we should build anew. We make war in order that all should desire peace. We do what we hate in order to learn what we should love.

Or... do we learn to love what we should learn to desire to hate? It’s this question each heart will have to give an answer to.

Perhaps this is what is meant by loving thy enemy, in order to understand that we are our own enemy within. Loving thy self. For how do we love our neighbor as thy self unless we first love thy self first, despite our flaws, understanding that the flaws of others, are our own flaws.

If the oppressed hate the oppressor, if the humble hate the arrogant, if love hates pride and fear, what course does each have except war in order that we should remove what is not desired within us so that we might find what is? Our only alternative is to deny that these exist...which is a lie?

But no matter whether we admit these things exist, or deny them, we can fully realize that hate abounds. When all become transformed, no one becomes transformed. Hate begets hate no matter the noble cause. See this first in yourslves.

If this then is to be our final battle, and its outcome belongs finally to all, then I march gratefully to our ultimate destruction, whether through wars of hate in order to discover love...or wars of love in order to discover hate...so that others who come after us may learn to live...and live more abundantly.

My life becomes the beneficiary of all life that proceeds me. And this is what all of God's creation testifies to. That which preceeds should minister to that which comes after. Amen.

This is the way of those who stand over the gates of hell, the righteousness of man, his glory, and tremble at its sight, crying out to be saved.

This also was Christ’s all. He attempted to expose in man his doubt, his fear, his pride, anger, jealousy, greed, corruption, hate, his weaknesses and infirmities, his blindness and deafness to himself; all the forces of evil known to exist within us, so that we might understand that it is these that destroy us, and why we go on destroying. He was even willing to endure all those destructive forces so that we might see them in ourselves. Can you now appreciate it.

In the end, what He taught us by example is that we should desire a better way and no longer deny that evil can and will, if allowed, exist within us all. But just as evil can exist, it can be overcome so that goodness too will have its place. The choice is ours and ours alone.

To sit back waiting for a miracle is only a slothful attitude towards what we need to accomplish, so that what is to be accomplished in us can be. Another miracle will not suffice if because though one died...and was raised from the dead is not enough...how much less will be another display of a miracle be enough to determine your mind.

This is your choice...what will it be?

The destructions of war exposes these things in men, despite their willingness to admit them outright from their beginnings. In essence, it is little more than pointing the finger at others, even at the end of a rifle. And when we have grown tired of trying to rid evil in others, when we each begin to see these destructive forces in ourselves by the blood we shed, ours or someone else’s, perhaps then we can throw this off for good, and learn what has been the desire of ages for us to understand. Freewill is always preserved...whether freewilling towards destruction...or freewilling towards salvation...only we, the people can decide.

What is your choice...and how will you embrace it?

I am that man of sin. This is the beginning of what will become the end. Admit it, or don't. It's your choice. But to admit it brings it to a quicker end and a new beginning despite what the proud will offer you. And they will offer you the world in order that they not see the same in themselves.

Do not buy that lie.

Hugh Lipsius 2/6/06...the hughman1

http://hughman8.blogspot.com/

Pharisees and Saducees- Republicans and Democrates- Jew and Christian...none of it matters

2006-02-06T14:50:00.000-05:00

The Pharisees and Saducees were two of the major sects or special-interest groups among the jews in the New Testament times.

What is a "sect?"...a definintion in order to understand.

Collins Concise English dictionary defines a sect as:

sect (sekt) n. 1. a subdivision of a larger religious group (esp. the Christian Church as a whole) the members of which have to some extent diverged from the rest by developing diviating beliefs, practices, etc. 2. often disparaging. a. a schismatic religious body. b. a religious group regarded as extreme or heretical. 3. A group of people with a common intertest, doctrine, etc.
This word is from the latin, secta, menaing 'faction,' and from sequi', meaning 'to follow.'
You decide how you would wish it to apply, but that the Pharisees and Saducees were two of the major 'sects' among the Jews in New Testament times.

These groups stood for different principles, but Jesus clashed with both parties at different times during His ministry. Why...in order to show their hypocracy and despite what they believed...Jesus attempted to show how very much like everyone else they were, despite what their doctrine showed them. This is the essence of false religion.

How many different parties do we have today that clash according to special interests for purely religious reasons? Let's name a few.

To begin: Protestant v. Catholic
Roman Catholic v. Eastern Orthodox Catholic
Roman Catholic v. Greek orthodox Catholic
Protestant Fundamental v. Evangelical
Epicopalian fundamental v. Evangelical
Episcopalian v. Lutheran
Lutheran v. Presbytarian
Presbytarian v. Methodist
Methodist V. Baptist...
Baptist v. whatever, and on, and on, and on, until the entire body is broken up in so many pieces that the gates of hell cannot prevail against it until God in Christ comes to establish His Kingdom reign when all these schisms and divisions will mean nothing. We will all be, no matter what 'sect' witnesses to God's majesty, dominion and might, casting every crown towards Jesus Christ. And the sooner we learn this, the sooner we will be able to overcome the world.

The word "Pharisee" means "seperated." Another word, confused by Christians today is "sanctified." Their burning desire was to separate themselves from those people who did not observe the laws of tithing and ritual purity--- matters they considered very important.

Today many Christians attempt to seperate, to sanctify themselves, by some truth or another...but not according to the whole truth...which brings us all back together... because we are only one part of a whole. We have become like...what...?God...?...who is all inclusive...or like man...who would like to exclude... according to what he desides is inclusive or exclusive?

The Pharisees exerted strong influence in Jesus' time. They supported the scribes ( experts in legal matters) and rabbis (religios leaders) in their interpretation of the Jewish law as handed down from the time of Moses.

In Jesus' day, this interpretation of the law became more authoritative and more binding than the law itself. Jesus often challenged these traditional interpretations and the minute rules that had been issued to guide the people in every area of their behavior.

Jesus condemned these hypocrates...read Matthew 23: 13-36...and then lamented over those who were teaching peace by salvation in the Love that God gives...Matthew 23: 37- 39.

Jesus was sensitive to the needs and hurts of individuals--- an attitude that brought Him into conflict with the Pharisees. Matthew's gospel (23: 1-36) contains Jesus' harsh words against the Pharisees. He believed they placed too much emphasis on minor details, while ignoring the "weightier matters of the law," such as "justice and mercy and faith." (Matt.23:23)

The Pharisees often tried to trick Jesus into making statements that would be considered heretical or disloyal to Rome. On one occasion, Jesus used a denarius, a common coin of the day, to show that citizens of his country had responsibilities to the civil authorities, as well as to God. (Matthew 22: 15-22).

But later...Christ also showed that while God's laws always were in accordance to man's...man's laws weere not always in accordance to God's....and herein lies the godly way.

Not all Pharisees were legalistic and hypoctitical, however. Three Pharisees favorably recognized in the New Testament are Joseph of Arimathea [ARAM] (Luke 23: 50- 53), Nicodemus [Nicholas] (John 3: !-21), and Gamiliel (God has rewarded), (Acts 5: 34-39).

The apostle emphasized his own heritage ( that which is laid up, preserved and prepared) as a Pharisee (Acts 23: 3), but he also (and you also) recognized the importance of abandoning this emphasis for the way of Christ...the annointed... (Phil 3: 1-14).

The Saducees were the elite of Jewish society in the time of Jesus. As priests, merchants, and aristocrates, they supported the Roman authorities because they enjoyed a privaledge status under Roman rule.

In contrast to the Pharisees, they advocated loyalty to the original law of Moses, insisting that interpretation of the Law could not be trusted. Also, unlike the Pharisees, they did not believe in the resurerection of the dead... (those who were found dead in their sins, not to be confused with the literal dead which is what the Sadducees were confused by) ...a belief which Jesus challenged on one occassion ( Mark 12: 18-27).

So in conclusion to this all...I have played the Pharisee, the Saducee and all that is in opposition to Jesus Christ, and the laws of God's love...I have become the adversary, the devil, Satan if you will...hated, despised, and rejected...but not as...or in any likeness of...but as one who will always believe in and towards the best...because it has been my intent and purpose to test, to tempt, to exercise, to strengthen, in all doubt and confussion, in all tribulation and distress, in all depression and sorrow, my wife, Karyn O'keefe, and her resolve to avoid at all messure, even at the cost of losing everything...which she has...but which she has not...so that what she has determined to be as good...what she has determined in her own mind...to be love...and not good in opposition to evil...forgive me God...forgive me wife...you are no Eve...but are more worthy to be received than you will ever know...but know...and continue to consider...
My only purpose and responsibility was to prepare you beyond a shadow of all doubt...until you could say without a shadow of all doubt...that salvation was determined by what you believe...in whom you will believe...and to step forward into that belief as thought it was your own...possesed by you...not given to you by me...but decided by yourself....and today, I know...because you will give up everything...to hold onto what you've learned....and discovered as true.
If it were any other way, I would not be certain...and would always be left in doubt as to whether someone else could come along and snatch from you what belongs to God...and what belongs to you...and for this, I accept my own...and am gratefiul for what it is...Amen...and Hallelujia...and for this I spend my life in all understanding according to how it evolves to the one who finally understands according to the one who reassures all understanding.

Staying the Course

2006-02-06T13:18:00.000-05:00

"All these are the beginnings of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8

Killing Women and Children: The “My Lai Phase” Of The Iraq WarBy Mike Whitney 03/20/06 "ICH" -- --

What goes through George Bush’s mind when he sees the dead bodies of Iraqi women and children loaded on the back of a pickup truck like garbage? Is there ever a flicker of remorse; a split-second when he fully grasps the magnitude of the horror he has created? March 15 was another defining moment in America’s downward moral-spiral in Iraq. Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a wanton act of slaughter executed by American occupiers. Photos taken at the scene show the lifeless bodies of young children, barely old enough to walk, lying motionless in the back of a flatbed truck while their fathers moan inconsolably at their side.

What parent can look at these photographs and not be consumed with rage? The US military openly admits it attacked the house in Ishaqi where the incident took place. Reuters reports that, “Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said US forces landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including five children. After they left the house they blew it up”, he said. “The bodies, their hands bound, had been dumped in one room before the house was destroyed,” (policeman) Hussein said. Police had found spent American issue cartridges in the rubble.” (Reuters) The autopsy report at the Tikrit hospital said, “All the victims had gunshot wounds to the head”. Iraqi policeman Farouq Hussein noted, “It is a clear and perfect crime without any doubt”.

The evidence provided by Reuters suggests that we have entered the “My Lai phase” of the Iraq war, where the pretensions about democracy and liberation are stripped-away and replaced with the gratuitous butchery of women and children. The carnage in Ishaqi illustrates the growing recklessness and desperation of Washington’s failed crusade. Military spokesman Major Tim O’ Keefe justified the attack saying they were searching for “a foreign fighter facilitator” for Al Qaida in Iraq. He added, “Troops were engaged by enemy fire as they approached the building. Coalition Forces returned fire utilizing both air and ground assets….Two women and one child were killed. The building was destroyed.”

In fact, 11 women and children were killed and there’s no evidence to verify that the house was being used as an Al Qaida safe-house. The US military made similar claims after bombing raids in January and December when a total of 17 family members were killed. The grim fact is that is that the lives of Iraqi women and children are of no real consequence to US officials. As General Tommy Franks boasted, “We don’t do body counts”. The victims of American aggression are simply dismissed as collateral damage undeserving of any further acknowledgement.

The story has received scant attention in the establishment media, which prefers to highlight the stumbling oratory of our Dear Leader as he reaffirms our commitment to western “pro-life” values. In truth, George Bush is as responsible for the deaths of those children as if he had put a gun to their heads himself and shot them one by one. At present, we have no way of knowing how frequently these attacks on civilians are taking place. The Pentagon strategy of removing independent journalists from the battlefield has created a news-vacuum that makes it impossible to know with confidence the extent of the casualties or the level of the devastation.

The few incidents like this that find their way into the mainstream create a troubling picture of military adventurism and brutality that is no longer anchored to any identifiable moral principle or vision of resolution. It is simply violence randomly dispersed on a massive scale; traumatizing the Iraqi people and bringing the United States into greater disrepute. There were no Al Qaida fighters in the home in Ishaqi. The attack was just another lethal blunder by a blinkered military fighting an invisible enemy. “The killed family was not part of the resistance; they were women and children,” said Ahmed Khalaf. “The Americans promised us a better life, but we only get death.”

He Has Been Here!!!

Rather than presuming moral superiority, our nation should sorrow and lament along with the parents of those Iraqi children... the real innocent martyrs in a world and a nation gone mad. It truly is "the beginnings of sorrows." Or do you not believe the word from the gospels you profess?

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A Nation Blind To Their Disgrace

2006-02-06T12:24:00.000-05:00

No BraveryA nation blind to their disgraceA must watch 4 minute video http://www.blogger.com/

Slicing Away Liberty: 1933 Germany, 2006 America

2006-02-05T11:55:00.000-05:00

By Bernard WeinerCo-Editor, The Crisis Papers
02/22/06 "ICH" -- --

I must confess that I'm utterly baffled by the lack of sustained, organized outrage and opposition from Democratic officials and ordinary citizens at the Bush Administration's never-ending scandals, corruptions, war-initiations, and the amassing of more and more police-state power into their hands. And so, facing little effective opposition, the Bush juggernaut continues on its rampage. How to explain this? Certainly, one could point to a deficient mass-media, to the soporific drug of TV, to having to work so hard that for many there's no time for activism, to education aimed at taking tests and not how to think, to the residual fear-fallout from 9/11, to a penchant for fantasy over reality, to the timid and unimaginative Democratic leadership, to scandal-fatigue, etc. But I would suggest that even more disturbing answers can be found by examining recent history. Just so nobody misunderstands what follows: I am not saying that George W. Bush is Adolf Hitler, or that the rest of his Administration crew are Nazis. What I am saying is that since history often is opaque (making it difficult to figure out the contemporary parallels), when the past does offer a clear lesson for those of us living today, we should pay special attention. What happened in Germany in the 1920s and '30s can teach us much about how a nation in a few years can lose its freedom in incremental slices as a result of a drumbeat of never-ceasing propaganda, strong-arm tactics, government snooping and harassment, manufactured fear of "the other," and wars begun abroad with the accompanying rally-'round-the-flag patriotism. In America of the 1980s and '90s, it was extremists on the far-right fringes who believed the country was moving toward "black helicopter" authoritarian rule in Washington, and often blamed big-government liberal Democrats. Now, as a result of just four-plus years of the Bush Administration (supposedly anti-big government, conservative Republicans), huge segments of American society, including many in the mainstream middle, wonder what has happened to our democratic republic, our civil liberties, our time-honored system of government.THE ENABLING MANTRA OF 9/11The Busheviks defend the Administration's harsh, sweeping actions as necessary in a "time of war." The U.S. was attacked by forces representing fanatical Islam, this reasoning goes, and the old rules and systems simply don't apply anymore -- they are old-fashioned, "quaint." Instead, we are expected to inculcate the "everything-changed-on-9/11" mantra, the effect of which is to excuse and justify all. Defense of the fatherland comes first and foremost, trumping all other considerations, including the Constitution, checks-and-balances in the three branches of government, separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, international law, etc. etc. (The Busheviks refuse to believe that one can be muscular in going after terrorists and do so within the law and with proper respect for the Bill of Rights and Constitutional protections of due process.)Not only do the Busheviks pay no attention to modern history, but they seem to have forgotten how our very nation came into existence and why: Our Founding Fathers rebelled against a despotic British monarch, a George who ran roughshod over their rights and privacy and religious beliefs. Learning that hard lesson, they established a system of government that scattered power so that no person or party or religion could easily reinstate authoritarian rule. Politicians and citizens would have to compromise and cooperate in order to get anything done. It's a slow, cumbersome system ("Democracy," said Churchill, "is the worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others"), but the system they devised served this nation well for more than two centuries, making American government a model for much of the rest of the world.And now, using the fear of terrorism as justification for all their actions, the Bush-Rove-Cheney-Rumsfeld crew within just a few years have moved America closer to a militarist, one-party state, led by a ruler in whom virtually all power is vested. In '30s Germany, this was called the Fuhrer Principe, the principle of blind obedience to the wise, all-powerful Supreme Leader. We've seen other such examples in Stalin's Soviet Union, Kim's North Korea, Mao's China, Saddam's Iraq, etc.THE GOOD, THE BAD & LOTS OF UGLYTo the Busheviks, there is pure Evil and pure Good, and because we Americans are pure Good, especially blessed by God, we can do anything in the service of fulfilling God's plan, which only we understand. If you're not with us, you're against us; get on board or get out of the way. And so, under BushCheney, we've become an America that has codified torture in official state policy, that admits it went into a war under false premises but continues to keep our targeted troops there anyway, that spies on its citizens without court orders, that is willing to out a covert CIA agent (one who was probing the extent of Iran's nuclear program) for reasons of political retaliation, that "disappears" American citizens into military jails and doesn't permit them any contact with the outside world, that flies suspects in its care to secret prisons abroad and "renders" others to countries that use even more extreme torture measures, that passes laws permitting police agents to "sneak and peek" into citizens' homes, phone records, computer databases, library requests, e-mails and medical records without permission or even informing those whose privacy had been violated, that neuters the Congress by saying it will listen to "suggestions" but that the ultimate decisions are to be made by the Chief Executive, that emasculates the political opposition in Congress by cutting them out of the key decision-making processes, that declares the president has the right to violate the law whenever he so chooses and Congress and the courts have no role to play in reining in that power-grab, that keeps America on a permanent war footing in a never-ending battle against a tactic (terrorism), and on and on.Even though much of the above transpired in secret and is only now being revealed, not all of this desecration of the American ideal happened overnight. As in Germany in the 1930s, the extremists placed in charge of the government said one thing in public and did another in private, slowly slicing away at rights of the citizenry, to avoid triggering a popular uprising.THE SLICING MACHINEIn the beginning of their rule, the Nazis would announce restrictive policies aimed at marginalized citizens (the mentally handicapped, for example), and if no great uproar of objection came from any power centers such as the churches or hospitals or political parties, the Nazis would proceed to the next slice aimed, say, at Communists or homosexuals or Jews or Gypsies. All of these moves were carefully couched in terms of saving the "national security" of the Reich or purging the country of "non-productive" or "destructive/dangerous" elements in society. The Nazi propaganda machine was clever, intense and all-pervasive, using the Big Lie technique masterfully -- endlessly repeating its falsehoods until the drummed-upon populace came to accept them as truths.Many ordinary "good Germans" and moral arbiters went along with these violations of civil rights and liberties either because they inwardly agreed with the propagandists or because they were afraid to disagree in public. Those few leaders in academia, the church and the press who courageously or even tentatively demurred or asked too many questions tended to be punished -- demoted, fired, their honors revoked, etc. -- and so more and more citizens got the message to "watch what you say." The Nazi juggernaut pushed on, widening its list of what was forbidden, issuing harsher and harsher edicts, and treating any dissidents roughly.Hitler, leader of the rabidly rightwing Nazi party, was installed as Chancellor in 1933, even though his party was not in the majority, in the hope that he could bring some order and stability to a society still reeling from the horrendous economic/social Great Depression that had devastated the country during the '20s and early-'30s. Given the reins of power, Hitler felt free to unleash policies that most citizens earlier had rejected as way too extreme. He had written about them in his book "Mein Kampf," but many thought he would modify his demented views once he was inside the establishment corridors.The "Enabling Act" that gave Hitler total control of the organs of power in Germany was passed in 1933, following the burning of the German Reichstag (Parliament), an arson that was blamed on Communist "terrorists." Hitler "temporarily" suspended civil liberties during this "national emergency," which of course never ended. Hitler lied to the Reichstag about his true intentions in order to obtain approval of the Enabling Act. Shortly after its passage, Hitler began rounding up tens of thousands of political enemies and sending them to concentration camps. Democracy was dead in Hitler's Germany.The corporate titans, seeing that there might be profit to be gained from Nazi economic and military policies, supported Hitler's rise and rule; those who had objections to what he was doing thought they could tame his passions through their immense influence. But slowly, and then quickly, the Nazis took over one institution after another; totalitarianism was in full force. To stamp out any hint of dissent, all citizens were to spy on each other --"each one of us the Gestapo of the others," to use Sebastian Haffner's scary phrase -- and the security forces arrested and tortured at will. (To learn more from Haffner's contemporaneous account, see "Germany in 1933: The Easy Slide Into Fascism").Arming itself to the teeth, Hitler's military forces carried out lighting-quick wars of conquest ("Blitzkrieg") on weaker nations and the fascist German empire spread over Europe and, in alliance with Japan, in Asia as well. More than 40 million human beings would die in the resulting World War II. Hitler's arrogant belief in his own intuition and infallibility led to his downfall, as, against all common sense and advice and military history, he invaded the Soviet Union and wound up in a destructive quagmire of the worst sort.THE PARALLEL UNIVERSEAgain, what follows here is not to allege one-for-one comparisons to Nazism, but to note certain parallel events and tactics that require special consideration if we are to avoid imitating disastrous history even more fully.In our time, a Leader (who, we later learned, probably lost the 2000 election) was installed in the White House by a far-right majority faction of the Supreme Court. The HardRight had been laying plans for a restoration of Republican rule after Clinton won re-election; first they made sure Clinton would be unable to concentrate on his political agenda by constant iterations of supposed scandals that, as various probes demonstrated, revealed no illegality. When Clinton handed the Republicans an opening by engaging in a sexual dalliance in the White House, they engineered an impeachment and trial by the Senate; it didn't really matter that Clinton was not convicted, as the requisite damage had been done, with a side benefit -- his Vice President and presumable successor, Al Gore, was tainted by being close to Clinton and thus weakened politically.The point of all this is that the HardRight restoration forces were planning for a Bush administration far in advance of the actual 2000 election. There was no one person's "Mein Kampf," but other writings had laid out in stark terms what this neo-conservative cabal had in mind for the country's foreign/military policy should they return to power, especially in the reports of The Project for The New American Century: "pre-emptive" wars of conquest, permitting no rivals for influence, control of energy sources, etc. (See "How We Got Into This Imperial Pickle: A PNAC Primer", where PNAC lays out the sole-Superpower strategy for achieving "benevolent hegemony" around the globe.)Some of that planning included an invasion of Iraq. Even though Cheney still won't reveal which oil executives were part of his secret energy task-force, we do know that at least part of that panel's meetings in early 2001 involved the question of Iraq, with discussion and a map of which companies might get exploration blocks after Saddam was removed from power. Further, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill revealed how astonished he was that at the first meetings of the Bush Cabinet in early-2001, much time was spent on the need to invade Iraq.The terror attacks of 9/11/2001 served as the equivalent of the "Reichstag Fire" -- or, seen another way, as a "new Pearl Harbor," the phrase lifted from a 2000 PNAC document. The Bush Administration's "Enabling Act" came in several key bills passed by Congress: the unread and barely-debated Patriot Act, which gave virtually unlimited police powers to the government in rooting out "terrorism," and the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), written so broadly as to give the "commander in chief" authority to take whatever unspecified actions he considered necessary against those responsible for 9/11. Attorney General Gonzales recently claimed that the AUMF, in conjunction with Article 2 of the Constitution, permits Bush to authorize both the torture of prisoners and spying on American citizens, without the need to seek any court warrants, thus over-riding the Fourth Amendment and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that states in no uncertain terms that ALL such eavesdropping requires court permission.REINING IN DISSENTERS & THE INTERNETEven though the mainstream, corporate-owned media by and large does the bidding of the Bush Administration, ignoring and playing down bad news and hyping the Administration's spin points, full control of the mass media is still not complete -- even with the Bush Administration spending $1.6 billion tax dollars last year on its own public-relations spin. The few insurgent media outlets and reporters, and the unruly analysts on the internet, are still to be dealt with. (FEMA has contracted with Halliburton and others to build several hundred detention camps around the country, ostensibly to house illegal immigrants but easily convertible for malcontents of one sort or another. See Maureen Farrell's "Detention Camp Jitters". Likewise, the Judiciary. Bush&Co. have placed nearly two hundred of its HardRight jurists on the federal appeals courts, and got its new Federalist Society justices onto the Supreme Court -- presumably tipping the balance in favor of more rightwing decisions -- but more work needs to be done to lock down total control of the Judiciary.The democratic institutions that possibly could still backfire on the Bush agenda are approaching terminal weakness: the Republican-controlled Congress has become a rubber-stamp appendage of Karl Rove's political office; the Democrats are essentially marginalized with no real power except to whine and complain and embarrass.Plus, and most importantly, election votes are counted by the same GOP-friendly corporations that controlled (and appear to have manipulated) the vote-tabulations in 2002 and 2004, that manufacture the computer-voting machines, and that own the secret, proprietary software.The one dangerous element that cannot be fully controlled are the human beings who are the public face of the HardRight elite. Bush is a simpleton who often says more than he should, giving away the game; Cheney is a callous Rasputin whose penchant for secrecy and power-lust as he runs the government constantly gets the group into hot water; Rumsfeld is a media-savvy incompetent whose dirty fingerprints are all over the Iraq disaster and the torture scandal; Rove, a brilliant dirty-pool tactician (his grandfather reportedly was an active Nazi Party supporter in Germany), is likely to be indicted in the Plamegate scandal. Others Administration heavies, such as Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzales are little more than toadies for the big boys.WE'VE BEEN WARNEDSo, let's see: a Supreme Leader who has taken his country into blitzkrieg ("shock & awe") attacks on foreign nations, bogging down in an ill-advised invasion quagmire in Iraq; who has traded historic civil rights and liberties for defense of the fatherland; who has destroyed or rendered toothless his nominal opposition party; who has wrapped himself in the flag and questioned the patriotism of those who raise questions about his policies; who has engaged in a Big Lie propaganda strategy to move his agenda; who has demonized internal enemies; who violates the law to get what he wants and claims that he serves a higher power in doing so; who has marginalized the other two branches of government; who effectively controls the voting process; and so on.What's scary is that it didn't take much verbal stretching to come up with those parallels, even admitting that life in Bush's U.S.A., however comparable in many areas, can scarcely be equated to life in Hitler's Germany.Even so, history has presented its warnings to us. Will we understand and act in time to return our country to a more moderate balancing point, thus making us better protected in terms of national security? It's up to each of us.This bungling Bush crew seems to have a reverse Midas touch; virtually everything they touch turns not to gold but to foul-smelling waste matter. They are so out of touch with the American mainstream that they've brought their own poll numbers down into the 30s, and key Republicans in self-defense are racing to separate themselves from BushCheney before the November elections. Bush&Co. may be reckless bumblers, endangering America's national security and economy and environment, but they still wield the levers of power and they're not about to give them up; indeed, it appears they are willing to take us all down with them as they fall.That's our challenge, to get rid of them as quickly as possible -- by agitating for impeachment hearings now, or moving for impeachment and a Senate trial after taking back the House in November -- and help bring America out from its current dark cave to the bright light of hope and civility and reality-based governance.
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at various universities, worked as a writer/editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently co-edits The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment, write crisispapers@comcast.net .
Copyright 2006, by Bernard Weiner
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2005-10-14T17:03:00.000-04:00

Before I begin, before I conclude, let me make one thing perfectly clear. That I am but man, and am no god, so I am admonished by this:

"Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.
So before I begin, "Let us hear the conclusion to the matter:

"Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man's all.
For God will bring every work into judgement,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.

When I have made a completion of what I have been led to write, I know that I cannot say that I no longer understand or am in any way confused by God's word. It is I who will stand rebuked, and will know that it is also I who must forsake whatever I am doing that is of my own will, in opposition to the will of God...and for this reason, open my heart so that Christ can enter in.

But it is also my hope that whoever sees the same in themselves, will act upon it as I know I must. May God put His blessing upon this word. Amen.

The Scarlet Thread

2005-10-13T16:24:00.001-04:00

The Number of his Name-
Six hundred, threescore and six
In Opposision to The Scarlet Thread

What is the hidden agenda that guides the thoughts of the self designated privileged few...those whom it has somehow been determined, whether by deceit or by design, that they are the ones who are more worthy, by the virtue of their self-righteousness, to lead a people, and rule over the world?

What motivates them except that there are worldly things they want to protect and gain for themselves? Do they do this in sacrifice of their own lives?

No!

These are the ones who worship themselves and demand that the rest of the world do the same in an effort to obtain their favor...whether by the same deceit or design that they used to gain their power to begin with...because a lie always begets another lie.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8

He has been here.

But test this if you will. Speak out against this system in anyway and do so armed with the truth and see what becomes of you.

The face of Pharoah has suddenly changed because he fears loosing his power...he's worked hard to get what he has...he will not give it up easily...even forgetting the favor his forefathers showed to God's people because of Joseph...he who has an ear, let him hear.

These few ask the rest of the humanity to sacrifice for them everything we hold dear, including the lives of our sons, our daughters, our husbands, wives, fathers and mothers, as well as the liberty of being sovereign as a nation under God.

They ask this sacrifice for themselves and their creation in substitute for God Almighty and His creation. They do so in an effort to control it all...to rule over the people, the spoils and abundance and wealth of the world... as their price for this selfish guidance. They grab for themselves what they can and heap it up in abundance far greater than they will ever consume themselves. They fill their storehouses with everything the people might need in order to control who gets it...this is the power they crave.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

Yet,this is little more than extortion on a global scale, as if they were worthy by the very virtue of the sacrifices that others have to make so that they can satisfy their greed....as if they were God Almighty Himself.

Not the living sacrifices only do they desire...but dead souls also. It is the dead souls they desire the most; those who will obey them and do their bidding at every turn without question of conscience as to whether it is right or wrong... even if it is for only a short time... because they know their time is short...no more than the life of a man.

But by whose nature do they ask this?

"But go and learn what this means, "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

While 70 % of the worlds population survives on as little as a cup of rice each day, and some even less; and while 1% of the worlds population controls the wealth and abundance of this planet…heaping to themselves whatsoever they desire...who then do the 1% serve if not they serving themselves? And whose way of life are we asked to defend, what national interest do we submit ourselves to? The national interest of truth spoken and the way of self-sacrificing love...or the national interest of worldliness gained through the way of lies and deceit, violence and corruption.

Of the remaining 29%...those who enjoy some of the benefits offered by this 1%...who do they serve…the one who are few…or the many? Are they soldiers of oppression to protect the wickedness of a few, or soldiers of truth for the salvation of the many? What sword they weild determines their motive.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

It is we who stand in the worldly gap between the one and the many, as Chritians for the way of The Almighty's cause? Our lives in opposition to the 1% and for the uplift of the many...providing this is what we practice.

Not by force do we need to do this, but through the word of truth in our heart and in our mouth. Whether we defend and uplift the many by the truth, the 70% who are looked down upon as last and of little value to the few...or visa versa... is what determines whose mark we shall receive...whether of our God Almighty...or whether of the beast of all evil...Satan himself.

If you oppose the many in defense of the few for the sake of your own survival and comfort, you have received the mark of the beast. If you have kept silent you suppot it nonetheless.

But if you speak out in opposition to the powers and principalities of the privaledged few, in defense of the many, resisting what the few hold out and instead stand alongside the many with whatever gifts you have, you are sealed into the character of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

You cannot do this in lip service only, while continuing to support the few, or while providing for your own comfort...but in both word, and in deed...shunning what the few hold out, and embracing what the many need. This is the only way that we are able to change what is in the hearts of evil men to do...or heap the wrath of God's judgments and indignation upon their heads. For in the end, their own conscience's will bear witness against them according to the practice of this truth.

It is not for we as Christians to walk in the moral uprightness of the Pharisees, the ruling class of today...those who presume upon their righteousness in all outwardness. For these do so for the sake of being seen as upright while they help fill the world with violence and corruption by supporting its system of greed. They know that it is this system which benefits and supports them. But there is a far greater righteousness which we should be reaching towards. One that is not in an effort to gain recognition and honor for ones own self, but is only for the purpose of uplifting others.

E Pluribus Unum means “out of the many came the one.” This message of Satan is printed on all that is necessary to buy or sell the things necessary for the sustanance, and even comfort of the flesh. It is right alongside the words, United States of America as if to say that she is the one who came out of the many. It is on the same coin that says, "In God We Trust." It is a conflicting message meant to confuse the ability to reason properly.

But, the "one" what?

The One that Came out of the many!

Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other is yet to come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time.
The beast that was and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition. Revelations 17:9-11.

Today this prophecy of the "one who is to come" has been fulfilled in your hearing. For it is here and we are in its midst.

"These are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24 :8
he has been here.

If this 1%, the self designated privileged few, who have all demonstrated wickedness by their love of self...by heaping to themselves the abundance of the world, dividing it up with only those who show their loyalty to them by their support or silence... had anyone’s best interest in mind but their own, then why have we seen the rise in so many billionaires? Only a few decades ago it was a great thing to be a millionaire, but now that time has passed and the world is now seeing the wealth of these men rise into the tens of billions of dollars due to their love of that worldly wealth and the power that it will purchase, while the ranks of those who have little or nothing continues to grow.

Those who are able to enjoy the abundance of the world have once again been determined by the straw that Pharoah provides or withholds in order that they should make for him his bricks of pride which he uses to fortify his security and comfort.

Our quota of bricks, our labors for life, are never diminished. Rather, as these ruling men grow wealthier, greedier, they also grow more afraid. And under the disguise of sharring some of this worldly wealth, the burdens of the slave class, the laboring bunch, are increased, while the burdens of the poorest suffer even greater. Only the straw that holds these bricks of pride together is diminished. This is the money that we use to support ourselves in Pharoah's system, to consume the goods and services necessary for our brick hard hearts of pride, sustanance and comfort. We do this, all the while preserving, supplying, and protecting pharoah's worldly kingdom.

Mortor and bricks, hardend, dry, sun baked lumps of clay. Prideful people with no spirit or soul, who have basked in their own glory are what is produced for the purpose of building a strong support for man's glory and protection...so that his goods will flow freely, and worldly wealth flows to the top.

As the cost for keeping and maintaining this pride grows, we find this harder and harder to sustain without the enough straw or money necessary to do it...we begin to make inferior bricks. The pride of our hardened hearts becomes like crumbling, dried out clay with nothing to hold it together, then turning to dust. Yet pharoah, who sits atop this national pride, is surrounded and presumes he is protected by the strong fortresses that these bricks make. He refuses to see them crumbling before his very eyes, because he himself is deceived by his own lies. He refuses to hear of anything that will make him understand..."Give me no news that is bad," he will say, "because it interfears with my vision for the world."

"All thes are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

Don't think for a moment that those who have nothing do not desire crumbs from under the rich man's table of those who have it all for the very sustanence and comfort of their flesh. What little these privileged few have shared has only been for the purpose of gaining more for themselves by the loyalty that they buy from those who were meant to stand in the gap. In this way, they put to death the spirit and soul of a nation. Everyone becomes agreeable for the sake of their own survival.

This loyalty that was bought is for nothing more than protecting what they have. Each one who favors that system is someone who was bribed at a cost to others. They use this 29% to insulate themselves from the masses...fearing the multitude, setting them up as taskmasters over the multitude in order to increase their burdens...while the few at the top pursue their worldly vision.

Because the lives of the 29%...those who stand in the worldly gap... have been favored to rejoice in the few, defending their (own and the 1%'s) honor and way of life, they are unable to see that it is because they depend upon these few to supply them with even their very most basic needs, a dependency that at one time belonged to The Almighty.

They are blinded from the truth that these very needs were created by the greed of those privileged few who control them. Instead this 29% has been led to believe that it is freedom they enjoy and that they are blessed by their own wordly belongings...but instead they have become slaves to men. The freedom they think they enjoy is controled by those whom they serve. The blessings have become a curse unto them as they toil endlessly to obtain and keep what they consider blessings.

This toil is what draws them apart from worshipping God as He should be, from learning and doing what is required by the LORD GOD our Father. And now we feel trapped by it, without an escape, because we have allowed ourselves to be deceived into believing that there is no way out.

We have grown accustomed to our wealth and might...victims of our own averice and fear. The starving masses throughout the world are a testimony to the truth that we are unwilling to give up what we think we own and what we believe we deserve.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

Six is the number for man… “And on the sixth day, God created Man…” "Six hundred" is therefore a multitude of men, (out of the many, E Pluribus)...in all essence, a merry multitude of men.

“Threescore” or 60 is taken from a root word, “suws” or “siys” meaning to rejoice, be bright, , make mirth, joy. And again…6…the number of man…as in one man…self... “The one...”...Unum.

What then have we except "a merry multitude of men” (600) who are “rejoicing” (threescore) in “ man” (6)… "666."A character of man demonstrated by the work of his hands and the thoughts of his mind. It is not one man who is God, or the Son of God, or Immanuel…but rather simply and merely…man...as in a part of mankind.

And on the sixth day, God created man

...it does not say, "A Man." Nor, "For out of the many, came the one.” But what it says is, "God created man." Mankind.

When God set about to create man, as in mankind, all mankind, in His image, He created first for Himself man...male and female He created them... and then He was to create them in His image. He did this in order to set before mankind certain lessons and examples. Just as He created all things necessary for man's survival in the five days that preceeded his creation as mankind.

Yet, before He had done this, "before any plant of the field was in the earth, and before any herb of the field had grown, God had not caused it to rain on the earth, but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground., and the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground...

This beginning man was formed through a mixture of this dust and water which formed the clay that was used to mold him...crumbled bricks of pride mixed with tears. It was not until after that, when God planted a garden east of Eden in which He put "The man whom He had formed." First He formed the man, then He planted the garden in which He put "the man."...a man, as in singular...one man whom He called Adam. And then He made the trees to grow in this garden.

In the first account of creation, all creation was created prior to mankind...."and on the sixth day...God created man." And it was this mankind who were to be made in God's image...all of mankind as a whole. Yet, did not God look upon all His creation that He had created by that sixth day, and was it not called, "very good."

So what then was their yet to create in mankind, considering that it is God Himself that is "good?"

We busy ourselves with questions like, "How could God possibly create everything in six days. But what we fail to see is that the word written was to establish the order through which God creates. We fail to see that it is by this arrangement that He reveals Himself to men. We fail to understand that it is God's express desire to bless men with Himself...and so we busy ourselves in doubt and attempts to be like God in the way we desire Him to be. It is God who destroys and then makes alive.

In the second account, "the" man had been formed out of the dust of the earth" before God planted the garden east of Eden, putting him there, and then out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow...

This was the first first Son of God whom God had formed out of the earth, who was intended for the purpose of making mankind into God's image by the obediance demonstrated in God's hearing before God and to the rest of mankind...but because of this man's fall from grace, by his own desire to create himself, he became seperated from God causing the fall of the rest of mankind with him. He became (not made)...like God. "Like God" would suggest that man was able to be comparred to God, and it was not God who hade made him into this likeness, but man himself, "becoming like God" according to what man had determined "like God " meant.

The son of God was now the man of sin and could no longer fulfill the purpose for which God intended, which was to serve God. He became spirtually seperated from God and His nature due to man's fallen nature of attempting in his own strength to be "like God," and now served only himself. In man's ability to decide what the image of God was, according to his own likeness, he no longer needed God to determin that. Or at least, that's what he thought.

This fallen nature was from man's own effort to exalt himself, rather than humbling himself so that God might exalt him by the loving care He desired to show so that He could be worshipped by man. Mankind instead became as in the image of Satan serving Satan, exalting himself above the throne of God.

In his obediance towards hearing God, the desire to be like God was formed in his heart through the deception of self-righteousness. It was then that desire that became the voice he heard rather than the voice of hearing God. It was just a matter of time before he found himself standing beside that tree, tempted by the serpant whose nature it was to exalt himself in his own righteousness. It was Satan's purpose to engage man in an independant thought apart from faith and trust in God. To think outside of the spirit and in the flesh. He spoke to man's desire, which was now to be independant from God and like (comparable) unto God himself, determining the order for his own creation according to what He decided the image of God should be.

What teenage child does not demonstrate this today in seeking their own independance from his or her parent. They reach a stage in their life when they rebel away from the parents, thinking they have all the answers to life, and setting out to prove it. A parent can do little except hope that what was taught to the child will one day bring him back to the principles of love he was shown. And if the rebellion in the child is of a great enough nature, the parent can only hope from a seperated and distant place. Oftentimes, it is not until the rebellious child has children of their own that these principles are made manifest in them.

Christ was the first Adam, the man of God who became sin...the man of sin, and the last Adam, the Redeemer, regenerate man, the Son of God without sin. In that lesson He gave us a clear example to either look for in our lives or ignore in order that we might be made Sons of God with Him, or remain as the sons of Satan. He went before us so that we might come after Him.

"You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have life...but these testify of Me."

He showed us first what the consequences of not abiding in hearing God would bring, and then the blessings of abiding in and hearing God and what that too would bring. We are man, as in all mankind, as in that in whom God desires to make into His image by the examples Christ set forth before us as opposed to the example which Adam gave and we fell to.

Adam exalted himself. Christ humbled himself. He had to suffer everything that man did in order that He be the perfect sacrifice for our sins. And this would have included being seperated from God. Christ was without sin, but Adam was not. Throughout man's history, there were many preincarnate Christ's, each sharring a character with Him, but none without sin...Christ was the first after prefallen Adam. The first became last...and the last became first...for it is we who see this and believe it who will come after Him.

Though God did not purpose that sin through self-righteous deception should exist, He knew of its existance in Satan, and therefore made it manifest to us through His first son, Adam. It only existed through not hearing His commandments in the desire to exalt self through the knowledge and ability to determine for himself, right and wrong, good and evil, the ability to create himself in whatever image he determines is good.The first Adam was formed for the purpose of exposing sin, the last, who was Christ was begotten to redeem us from it, so that sin could be destroyed without destroying what God had made. And in it, Christ said, "I Am the Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.

Six Hundred, Threescore, and six has a similar meaning to “E Pluribus Unum.” Unum being man, as in one man or men who are one, or as one man, who must always make preparation, the sixth day of the week being the day of preparation, and a man who is neither complete nor whole as Christ is. He is always trying to create mankind in the image he desires...that is his continual preperation. God did not set about to create mankind in His image until after He had created man. We are not complete and whole...none of us...until God makes us so according to His roadmap.

He, the One man, singular man, or men who are as one man, as in self-appointed rulers through the creation and deception of their own righteousness apart from the righteousness of God ( they who rule this present system of worldly support), fear the multitude. So through his bribes and extortion, his wars and violence, he gains the loyalty of some...those who have adopted his ways to do his bidding...so that with that man, they can be as one man, a man...and not as mankind...in diversity of purposes and ministry...and in all others they create the fear necessary to control them through the use of more lies.

He is always making preparation for his own protection. One more war...one more people to conquer and cause to create so that others will bow down to his will...more armies...more war machines...more human resources spent...more lofty causes and exploits...while the lives and souls of men perish. He calls it progress...calling it civilization. This is his beastly mark upon those who have received it. George W. Bush saying..."I want to create a world..." according to the image he has determined by his vision that it should be for all mankind. These are the word's of Satan himself coming out of this man's mouth.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

In all of the six days that God created in, there was no mention of any wars being fought. And if the nation of Israel, with the many wars it fought, fell to the self-righteous deception at the hands of Rome, this was to be for the rest of mankind an example of what and how God creates by, apart from what man creates by.

Let's examine for a moment that word..."civilization"...

The English definition defines it in these terms:
A human society that has a complex cultural, political, and legal organization, an advanced state in social development.

Complexity denotes that its nature is intricate, difficult to understand, obscure and of a wide variety, diverse in its nature, but that it is all intertwined to make up a whole. The only sameness about each strand is that it is intertwined with the rest of the whole, but in no way does it refer that any one strand is the whole unto itself...that all should be Christian, or democracies, or Islamist, or Communist...that all should be identical. Instead it suggests that all work together to make up the whole in the diversity that was designed to keep it seperate...but united to the whole...intertwined.

God purposed that they all should exist together in harmony with one another and the account of His creation seems rather simple in comparrison to what man attempts. One societal strand works together with every other societal strand to make up the whole...none is more important or of more value than the other...but all have a purpose that is necessary to keep together what is the whole vine, giving to it its strength.

Each day of creation saw something different, but that each thing created was vital to the overall sustaining of life and well being. None more so, or less so than the others.The strength of the vine depends upon the part each strand plays in working together towards staying united with the whole. It is a system of checks and balances that is found in all of nature.

If any one part of that vine becomes too strong and prosperous; if it in anyway exalts itself over the rest, as the philosophy of western civilization has done, it chokes out and destroys the diversity and divinity of the vine that makes up the whole. If one part exalts itself it is up to the rest of the strands to seperate it from them...in order that it be cut down and removed down. We can now see this happening today.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

If a tree begins to exalt itself over the ground that it grows from and nurishes it, the ground no longer sustains it and the tree begins to die. If the same tree drinks too much of the water that it needs to grow, no other life around it can be sustained. Eventually the soil becomes dried out through errosion, barren and cracked. The moisture that all other life gave up, can no longer rain back down to water that one tree. No fruit can be produced. No life can continue. A strong wind can uproot it forever.

How can this be done? How can the rest of the vine seperate itself from that which exalts itself over it?

The intertwining of humanity has become so intricate that one might not see how they can seperate themselves from something that is choking them out. And that is what that one part wants to keep hidden. For this purpose, God has intertwined with man's culture, a scarlet thread that holds itself out as perfect in relation to the rest. It is the truth of what God considers to be His perfection and not what man would have you believe.This scarlet thread is the embodiment of truth as found in the life of Christ Jesus.

Jesus Christ was and still is "the Annointed One." He did not come, but was sent. He is Divinity veiled in humanity, who “was sent for” the “many,” prepared from and existing with the Father, God Almighty from before the foundation of the world… predestined and already complete and whole...the Word of truth that confronts the lie who humbled Himself to become man. He intertwined Himself with human civilization for the soul purpose of not allowing one part of the vine to exalt itself over all others without the others seeing it. He is the scarlet thread that waters and nurtures and prunes the entire rest of the whole vine.

But if He be removed, if He be taken out of the way by any part of the vine through self-righteous deception, then what will become of the rest of the vine?

The same as the tree that exalted itself over the soil of the ground.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

He is the sacred 777 and what He finished also is complete and whole needing nothing else to finish His work.

He is the true vine, and the government He founded on truth, faith, faithfulness, love , and hope, has intertwined itself in the vine called human civilization for the purpose of cutting down, or seperating out any part of the vine that begins to exalt itself over the rest, if the rest will only take hold upon it. It is the scarlet thread that weaves itself into the whole and stands apart from any other part in perfection to the whole by the truth that it is. Only the rest of the parts of the vine can seperate Him out...but this is to their own end...or take hold on Him to seperate themselves out and away from that exalted part that chokes them.

"Once and for all mankind."

What Christ finished upon the cross, the truth that He showed us of God's redemption sets us at liberty, making us free to serve the One true God, serving Gods justice, uniting us in His love, and giving us peace with that very same God who created us for all eternity...if accepted and believed. He opposed every belief by man that was held. He exposed every lie that some are superior to others and therefore worthy of our worship and sacrifice. He needed no defense for who or what He is. The Truth He spoke and lived testified in His defense. He is "the way, the truth and the life."

All that is required from us is to humble ourselves and claim what He finished, never having to defend our decision to do so, nor our desire for such. The way to life is through the truth. And once claimed, we never have to worry about losing it if it comes under attack because it is already defended by the same truth that set us free. Truth is our defender. He will then intertwine Himself into our lives and become a new government for us. All that can attack Him are the lies that attempt to create fear and doubt…the tools of Satan in order to set himself up as ruler of this world by the agency of men who succumb to those lies. The lies that attempt to remove the truth from the vine.

But truth is stronger than even this. It is but for us to know, to accept willingly so that we can live by it. And in this way only, can we abide in the love of God.

This nation’s (America"s) executive administration are trying so hard to be god–like themselves…to exalt their throne above the heavens…to sit on the throne of God, thinking they are God and yet, rejecting everything that is Godly…like so many nations who have gone before us....to establish the “Kingdom of God,” in their own right and by their own power and through the wars of their own making, so that they can sit as lords over it by the establishment of their laws. And yet they do this through the power of their lies that are believed by those who do not know the truth. O, How many there are who refuse believe it...becoming lovers of the lie and not lovers of the truth. The power that has been gained testifies to this causing one strand of the vine to grow in power over the others. It is a truth of its own making that attempts to remove from our midst the very truth that sustains us.

What testifies of this truth is that all who expose the lies are considered to be outcasts and who, by the very nature of laws that are passed, become marginalized from among men! Call them what you will... liberals, radicals, fanatics, freaks, and yes, even terrorists, who foment a people with the truth about who they are and what they have become them selves. They begin to grow from the bottom of the exalted vine, encircling it until it is fully overgrown, and either destroying it, or causing it to succumb by the truth it is.

These laws are only meant to oppress a people by eliminating any opposition to the lies, while giving the impression of keeping order, national security, patriotism and for the safety and well being of the nation. Yet their true design is to insulate the few from the many...the lie from the truth, the few who by their very nature are lawless according to the laws of the Father...the principles of self-sacrificing love.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

God’s Kingdom is within us and not of this world… it cannot be gained by the enactment of more laws or the heaping up of more abundance. It is not gained through endless wars meant to subjugate by force a people to itself. We must find in ourselves all unrighteous deception and root it out by the truth. We must begin individually and spread from their. From the root, to the very fruit of the tree that we are.

But what does it say?

God is spirit and truth, God is love, not flesh and blood, and His laws are commandments of the heart, not meant to exhibit an outward morality, but evidenced in the thoughts of our soul. He uses the fear of those who create and support the lie, to seperate the light from the darkness through the very agency of these men who seek to insulate themselves from the truth and the masses. If we find within our own selves any of that unrighteous deception, we must allow ourselves to be seperated...divided...sanctified...apart from it by the very nature of the truth itself.

Then God said, let there be light." And there was light.

"And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness."

God saw the truth, that it was good; and God divided the truth from the lie. He did not see the darkness, the lie, that it was good. But in what He created by His word, which was the light, He divided the two. They cannot exist with each other. He did not, by His word create light and darkness, but only light so that it could be divided apart from the darkness...the truth apart from the lie.

We do not enter into the Kingdom by keeping the worldly laws of greed, oppression, violence, selfism, racism, seperatism or apathetic silence. These are all lies that create each themselves.

We enter in through repentance that forsakes these things, and belief in the word of truth which speaks and exposes all lies, especially the ones we tell ourselves...this is the narrow gate by which we come into God's presence. This is the light, and to stand in the presense of that light humbles us to the principles of love...keeping us on a sure foundation .

Any attempt to create a worldly, fleshly, self-centered independant kingdom apart from God is an idol, an image, and is false...it is the darkness of the lie, it is a government that is founded on seperation of church and state...a usurper to the throne as much as the light is divided from the darkness. Gods kingdom cannot be created from without and put on, it is not ours to create, but rather it must come from within by way of the truth and be radiated outwardly in our lives through the opposition which we show to its principles of selfism.

It is not created by man to suit his purposes, and for his comfort in things owned or moral self-righteousness displayed, but can be received by man from the Father to share with God…an inheritance that everyone might share a portion of.

The account of God's creation, and also the gospel of Jesus Christ, show to us that we are allowed to experience sin, and its consequences in hope that we will return to God through the redemption of His Son, fully exposing sin to us, and circumcising it from our heart, without destroying what God created and intended for us to be. It is not imposed on us and neither are we compelled to accept it by force. The longer we attempt to cover ourselves in moral sel-righteousness, the more we are destined to suffer in the pride that it creates. God had a purpose for man's fall...and that was to show us by whose hand we are saved. Anyone who says they have not fallen, or are without sin, has the spirit of anti-christ in them. They exibit it in their exalting of self over others, in their moral self-righteous behavior, and unless they see that, it has been determined where their place will be.

Rather than yielding to the true powers that be, the inheritance set aside for us from before the foundation of the world, those that existed before we were ever created in order to be that example that Christ laid out before us, this nations administrators and all who follow their lead have fallen to the deceit of Satan in thinking that they are or can be the Savior of the world...that this nations righteousness is somehow greater than all other nations. It attempts to be the moral voice of the world, labeling as sinners, or despots, or dictators, or evil men, or terrorists those who do not bend to its will in presenting the lie about itself to the world. But in doing so, it has revealed the true nature of itself.

Though we may be "one nation under God"...all nations are under God, whether they will admit this or not. And yet our government which we follow is by its very nature, seperate from the body of Christ, the church, as stated in its own constitution. It is a government of the people, by the people and for the people, making it an entity unto it own self, for itself and by itself...serving only itself and not serving God, nor His government of spirit, truth, love, grace, forgiveness, goodness, patience, and kindness, as He would be served. And unless this people called "The United States of America," consider themselves to be like God, which by their very nature of independence from and exaltation over the rest of the world demonstrates that they are not, then its government is a false government of man serving itself in moral self-righteousness towards the world, usurping the authority that belongs only to Christ the King, who was meek, and lowly, yet the embodiment of truth. He spoke the truth in all circumstances, not in condemnation of anyone or anything, but in a bringing to light in truth the fallen nature we had become in the darkness of our deceptive lies.

We cannot claim ignorance to this, because God has given to us His word...we can only accept it...or reject it...but we cannot pardon ourselves from not knowing it.

How difficult it is for us to accept this truth...but unless we do, we will all go down to perdition, right alongside the evilness God will put there. Then we will know condemnation, for it will be accusing us day and night for the rest of eternity by the very truth we rejected.

I've stood over this bottomless gaping pit of hell. I was given an opportunity to pear down into it for a moment. I was saved from it by the truth and have no desire to spend eternity in it. It is a terrible place of condemnation that torments the soul. It is made up of all the voices of all those we failed to love, and the faces of those we rejected because of our greed. There is no love there, no compassion or warmth. There is no tenderness, or comfort. It is only endless, relentless, never ending condemnation of our guilt, our shame. And it is not my desire to see anyone suffer there. So I must speak what I know, write what I've seen and heard, for the saving of any soul who desires to be saved from this terrible fate...or I will not be fulfilling the purpose for which God gave His truth. I will not be loving you as myself. You are my countrymen, and it is you that Satan desires.

This is a nation that relies on its own strength, the power of its own military might, its own thoughts, ways, and ideas of governance apart from God's. The devices and desires of its own heart, once again testifying to the nature of its own governance. It believes it is the answer for all of the rest of humanity...man's last best hope. which by the very nature of that stated hope fails to recognize God as its hope.

Many of its religions are false, being approved or rejected by its govenment by sanction, in that they are meant to be easy, requiring little from us and that they do not cause trouble for the worldly status quo, but only tend to the fleshly needs of the poor which they have rejected.

It is difficult to tell the difference between one who follows any particular form of religion, and one who is simply part of the secular society with no religious belief. Yet there are some. It believes in and tries to sell its ways of independant life and material blessing to the rest of the world whether through coersion, bribery, extortion, or force, when in truth it has not enough answers for its own people. Now that we are all independant from one another, everyone is free to take what they can for themselves. To pursue their own happiness even at the expense of anothers. Religions that call themselves democracies. The road to Rome which does not lead to the kingdom of God and delivers no message of faith and salvation to its people.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8
he has been here.

And yet, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to be a sacrifice for our sins, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

Western Civilization is the "world" today. It's the portion of the vine that exalts itself over every other strand. Yet we who have been born free, are Christ's slaves, and unless we humble ourselves to our Master, we will be punished for it as any disobedient or unrighteous servent would be.

The United States takes for itself in the global arena, attempting to heap the abundance of things to itself. Taking by force if necessary, the very resources that another nation may depend upon. Violence and corruption fill its land…Misery and suffering are its byproducts...all have turned to their own way.

While there is a form of happiness, it is fleeting, and for most, it is false. It can be swept away just as surely as loosing all ones worldly possessions that keep it sustained. See this in the reactions of people who survive natural disaters.

It gauges the prosperity of other nations according to its own abundance. It marginalizes nations who do not agree with its free market philosophy of greed and who attempt to resist its corruption by making known the truth. You've seen this over and over...but yet you still do not believe. How many more signs in heaven do you need...or do you still yet look up in the sky? Perhaps you even claim that you and our nation are righteous over all other nations and therefore worthy of this honor.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8

he has been here.

What do you base your happiness on and what sustains it? Do you measure it in the abundance that you may have? Would you still be happy if that abundance was suddenly gone? Would you be content to own nothing? Is there anything of this world that you would miss if it were to be suddenly swept away? Would you still know happiness? To what lengths would you go to in order to hang onto the way of life you now enjoy? Does the blood and lives, peace and prosperity of other nations mean more to you than holding onto it at their expense? Answer these questions truthfully within your own heart and do not be deceived by it.

Here is a list of the empires who have gone before us in their efforts to rule over God’s creation… not His Kingdom...but what man attempted to create as its substitute. They are the ones who came out of the many, who wanted to rule the world; to sit at the right hand of God with judgement on their wings against all men...who made the claim too, that all nations are either for them, or against them:

Babylonian Empire- Created by man's ideas,Conquered and fallen
Persian Empire- Created by man's ideas,Conquered and fallen
Greek Empire- created by man's ideas,Conquered and fallen
Phoenician Empire- Created by man's ideas,Conquered and fallen
Egyptian Empire- Created by man's ideas,Conquered and fallen
Roman Empire- Created by man's ideas,Conquered and fallen
Ottoman Empire- Creted by man's ideas, conquered and fallen
Byzantine Empire- Created by man's ideas, Conquered and fallen
Spanish Empire- Created by man's ideas, Conquered and fallen
British Empire- Crteated by man's ideas, Conquered and fallen
The German Empire- Created by mans egocentrism, conquered and fallen

I am sure that there are some that I've missed...but you get the picture.

Each of these nations went forth to conquer under the illusion of liberating...but in the end were conquered by God the Father Almighty because they thought they had been raised for their liberating conquest because of some righteousness on their part...the national pride that made them believe that they were somehow deserving of the spoils of any victory...not knowing that they were only God's instrument to defeat the empires that went before them.

Each chastised nation then fell to their own pride and yet , each empire that arose after them as God's instruments fell to the same deceit. This nation, America, has now fallen to the same error. What started with Godly intentions, will end in its defeat.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

from spiritual faith to great courage;

from courage to liberty;

from liberty to abundance;

from abundance to selfishness;

from selfishness to complacency;

from complaceny to apathy;

from apathy to dependence;

from dependency back again into bondage.Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8

he has been here.

The scarlet thread is already growing up from the soil, truth in the way of life is encircling the one strand that is exalting itself over all others in human civilization. It is but for men to take hold upon it.

How long, O Lord must man still not learn from Thee...how long, O Lord, before He understands? How long before Your justice is vindicated?

Each of the man-Gods that ruled these empires tried to establish their own way, their own wisdom, and their own set of principles, rules, and laws…to establish their own wisdom and prudence apart from Godliness...and yet, invoking God in their wars. Each attempted to impose them on the rest of the nations they brought under their influence, drawing off of the empires that fell before them in an effort to improve on their errors, thinking that they were somehow different, more righteous, more blessed because of some victory only handed to them by God for the purpose of testing and to prove His truth and power about man and his system of governance.

"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8

he has been here.

If we do not embrace fully what God intends us to be apart from the world...it will be this world that we will become bound to and enslaved in...the choice is ours alone.

From the very beginning The Almighty God raised up nations to demonstrate His power before His people in hopes that they would follow His ways. Starting with Egypt God said to Pharoah, "But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that my name (character) may be declared in all the earth.
And yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go. "

God's power is in His truth, that He is almighty over all. That His government is not one of anxious fear, caused by lies, it is not one of oppression, or violence or corruption, but one of reaping what you sow. If you sow lies that control by fear, if you use oppression, or violence, or corruption, then you will surely be destroyed by these. When I saw you, I speak as to a nation. For it is these that bring upon a nation the very plagues that destroy it. The very things they used against other nations will be used against them and twofold...because they will now see what their condemnation will be...and shall be very afraid.

Each empire-nation saw themselves as invincible, above the law, and beyond reproach. In the end the prudent and wise men who ruled these empires and those who became their followers saw that what started with good intentions on their part, ended in their ruin, as well as the decay and ruin of their empires which were gained on the backs of the people.

No conquering nation that came after them saw themselves as being brought up for the purpose of showing the Almighty's strength over them. They fell to the deceit of Satan every time...that it was because of their own righteousness when they were not righteous. And while God allowed this in order to skim off the dross from the gold He was refining...many refused to believe it. God's people saw this truth and seperated themselves from the deceit...they accepted the reason for their chastisement, repented of their deeds, forsook their ways, and returned to God in belief that He (His character) was their salvation.

What had brought about this ruin is the national pride that comes through conquest, the self-righteousness that comes through domination, the corruption that comes through wealth, and the violence that is necessary to hold onto it in order maintain the empire. It hardened the heart of a nation, while at the same time it weakened their spirit. All of these are in opposition to God Almighty's principles of righteousness towards self-sacrificing love. Towards this, God gives to us a spirit that is strong, and a heart that is soft, and for which there are no laws against.

The rulers of these empires exhibited an outward image of high moral values in order to fool the people...they used this to lord over their nation and empire...(this is God's way of sending strong dillusion to those who did not love the truth)...while all the while they plotted and schemed ways to grab more for themselves. The administrators of these empires did all they could to hold onto the power that they received. They refused to give up the power they enjoyed when in the course of human events, they began to abuse it, thinking they were like God, passing judgment, taking vengence, creating the world, and possesing the lives of men.

Their own pride refused through the use of lies and deceit to hand over their kingdoms to God and so they were destroyed at the expense of the people whom they claimed for themselves...and who supported them through either their actions...or their silence. Those who defended the honor and pride of these men went down to perdition alongside them...as did those who remained silent in the face of evil...those whose duty it was to administrate government.

The way that future generations view them is how they will spend eternity...despite any rewriting of their history by man in order to show differently...they will have become a curse to their own people who go down with them, or who remianed silent in the face of it...and will remain so for eternity because their followers and silent ones and those who administer government, will be right alongside them wailing and gnashing their teeth day and night as will the adversay...Satan,the devil himself. They will see clearly what they rejected and that will be their torment.

These will never be able to forget the sins they commited , both against The Almighty and His people....for all who have supported him, through actions or silence, have become that curse too...eternal condemnation will be their reward on the day that they die...unless they repent, and forsake their ways first, and believe that it is God who makes us and not we ourselves.

"All these are the beginning of sorrow." Matthew 24: 8

he has been here.

What you have done for the least of these, My bretheren, you have also done unto Me.And what you have not done for the least of these, My bretheren, you have likewise not done unto Me.

What you sow, so shall you reep. Believe that.

What will history say of this generation? Its leadership? Will we be viewed as a wicked generation who only sought after our own? Or will we be called a blessed generation for speaking out against the wickedness of the world, not in condemnation, but in hope that it will change.

“Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” I Corinthians 1: 20
For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

There is and always was…only One answer, One way; and rather than freely receive what we have been freely given, but at a heavy price to be paid by the Giver, in order that we might set an example before the world and reflect that light...that truth…many have fallen, like the rest of the nations through history, to the devices and desires of their own hearts... their own ideas of govenments by self-righteous deception for their own gain.

All mankind receives the government that they deserve, reaping what they sow. If truth is sown, a government of truth will be reaped. If lies are sown, a government of lies. And any religious organization that supports this goverment either outwardly, or by silently withholding the truth from its people, is false.

And though you may confess these things during your solemn services…you have not forsaken them, which is what true repentance brings. "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart ( Godly truth) brings forth good; and an evil man (one who speaks lies, which is the ) treasure of his heart, brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of a man's heart, the mouth speaks." Luke 6:45

Is it your desire to sit at the right hand of God…a place that is already occupied…and a place that every man, woman and child desires to be at the expense of his/her neighbor, exalting self so that others might see...to show you are righteous, knowing in your heart that you are not?

From the head, to the very soul of our nation the manifestation of Satan has taken hold...and is evidenced in the silence that you keep...a silence that comes from doubt and fear. Who has bewitched you to do this, who has cast this spell upon you? I am afraid for you.

Yet, as it is written:

Those who exalt themselves will be humbled.

Prepare yourself then, for the humbling of a nation...those who have exalted this nation and those who have tried to humble other nations under the lie of protecting national intersts...as though they are more deserving of The Almighty's abundance and what the world may consider to be blessing...and those who by their silence have supported it and lived luxuriously in it. This will come upon you as a curse...as a theif in the night takes from you what you thought was yours to own.

For the Kingdom of God is now at hand, and now is here ! It is but for you and I to reach out to it and receive it...to let it encircle its truth around that which exalts itself, and then to become what we cannot be in and of ourselves.

If you do not recognize or receive it, then you are lost. If you do not see it then you are blind. If you do not hear it then you are deaf. History testifies of it, nature reveals it and The Word of God speaks it. So shall it be. It is a perpetual promise that reaps what was sown to all generations.

So now, I look for the brightness of the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Mine eyes have seen it.
I pray for the coming of the tribulation which will usher in either condemnation to the world for those who refused to believe the truth...or rest for those who do.
It will be the darkness that light shall shine from, that all might see the same glory in the end, so that all might see salvation and Who our Savior is. All shall bow down, from the head down to the very soul of every nation. Amen!

"All these are the begining of sorrows." Matthew 24: 8

he has been here.

"And I see no bravery...in your eyes anymore...only sadness."

All you can do now is resign yourself to your fate.

Proverbs 31:6-9

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Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to those who are bitter of heart.
Let him drink and forget his poverty,
And remember his misery no more.
Open your mouth for the speechless,
In the cause of all who are appointed to die.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Truth Written...Truth Spoken...Truth Handed down Through The Ages...Truth Always Matters

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by Hugh K. Lipsius

There are times in man's history when truth is more important than freedom, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and anyone's way of life. Because without truth to light the way, all other things are doomed to destruction.

In all of man's history, truth (that which agrees with the final reality) has always held itself out to be embraced...and whether it waxs or wains...freedom, liberty, national interest, the pursuit of happiness, or any nations way of life must take a back seat to it. Without the written and spoken word of truth to light the way,to help us recognize the lie, lawlessness occurs, and all other principles and values are doomed to destruction. Truth is the forerunner of justice, and without it to confront the lawlessness of the lie, there is nothing to value.

Truth Has No Boundaries. When Addressing anything...truth is what matters most...when truth was told thousands of years ago that has its bearing today...it must be embraced...not ignored...it is time tested.You might do all you can to prove this wrong before you will accept it as truth...but when you finally accept it...then truth will be all that matters. Politics nor any government administration can seperate itself from the truth...no matter how hard it tries...there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed in its time.

The lawless one cometh - read carefully

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day (the Day of our Lord) will not come unless the falling away ( of truth speaking, saving faith, the faith once delivered unto the saints) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition...who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God (mercy, grace, patience, kindness, goodness and truth) or that is worshipped (life), so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God (thinking to himself that he knows what is best for mankind and it is his destiny to fulfill that mandate)...( "if you eat of that tree you will surely die"[Sound like someone you know]?)...Do you not remember that while I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, (mercy, grace, patience, kindness, goodness and truth), that he (the lawless one) may be revealed in his time ( when these are no longer embraced by Gods people on earth)...For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He (God, and all His character) who now restrains (when that character is yet still in us) will do so until He (God's character that is meant to be embraced in us) is taken out of the way. (Love and its characteristics are received or rejected voluntarily by an act of our own free will)....And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord (the spoken and living word of truth) will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming...The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders...and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish (who reject, or turn from the truth and instead embrace the lie), because they did not receive the love of the truth (even though it was offered, instead choosing forms, rights and rituals,...all external coverings of what is meant to expose internal truth...false Christianity...the lie), that they might be saved...And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrightousness (selfish, self-centerdness that desires to control the freewill of others through the deception of self-righteousness and seeks its own reward)...But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification (setting apart) by the Spirit and belief in the truth (which refuses to allow us to exalt self in place of GOD). II Thessalonians 2:3-13

This prophecy is now fulfilled today in your hearing! If you know the truth as spoken by God...not what you want to perceive as truth...but that which agrees with His truth...you cannot be deceived. You are sealed in Christ...you have entered His Kingdom, which for those who embrace the truth they will be known by, who are the personification of that same truth. All else is of the lie...and those who embrace the lie will never see the Kingdom of God which is now here for those who love the truth, the word of truth which is in their hearts and in their mouth.

The Fish In The Bowl

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written by Hugh K. Lipsius

Who can take from a man what he’s gained or what he’s done, where he’s been, what he’s learned, or what God has made him. And I tell you, no one but God, and unless that man willingly surrenders them, God will allow him to keep them.

The world seems to think that it has the answers for another man’s success. They may even tag him a failure because he won’t buy their ideas, especially when all around him so much misery seems to be starring him down.

In a fishbowl, separated by their distorted views, he sits in silence behind its glass, watching as the world rushes by, too damn busy to take a moment to wonder what their hurry is… or perhaps too afraid to stop because they know the reason why.

Blinded by desires that sooth not the inward parts, their frantic race is a search for more of what they’ll never find. They seem to toil endlessly for luxuries and comforts so as to appear to others that they have what it takes to be a success, but they miss this golden opportunity, this time called life.

This trampled path is well worn and wide as an ocean, littered with decaying carcasses, old bones, and ash. While it appears to lead somewhere, it goes no where forever. There are many who go this wide way. There are many who have been. And yet, the man they sit in judgment of is one who by his faith in God and the droplets of his brow, has attained his bowl of happiness.

Content, this man sits behind the glass, humble in his watery womb. But the world that sees him by a distorted view are envious amid their torturous ruin, and even this, they try to snatch away from him.

As they sit atop their heap of ravaged souls, clutching in their hand some gleaming prize of more, they are giddy with their sickly laughter. They scan the landscape all around, of wasted efforts and unrealized hope in a desperate search for more of what they’ll never find.

What is that on the far horizon; that glimmer of light; that smile; that faith; that truth; that ray of hope? Never satisfied and too foolish to understand, jealousy overrules their soul as they scheme inside themselves for how to remove the fish from the bowl.

So as you enter your own field of dreams, be careful, because in that same field are many disappointments too. Wishes and desires can seem to rush by like strangers in a crowd. They can quite easily whisk you off your feet as you attempt to reach out and grasp something that can all too easily slip right through your fingers if you squeeze too tightly.

These same wishes and desires can also bob around like soap bubbles, causing your head to twist around in a direction that your body fails to follow, separating you from yourself in vain attempts to capture what is not yours to own.

Be careful in that place of dreams. Fix your eyes on One, stretch out your hand, and let It float down slowly into your palm, curl your fingers gently round it, careful not to crush. Now hold it to your heart, never letting go. For in this field of dreams with many lofty words, there are also many disappointments mingled with much vanity. In this field of dreams lies heaven, or hell.

___________________________________________________________________________ To Give...Or To Take...The Royal Motive of Our Heart

While most may believe that it is necessary to take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a friend for a friend, a neighbor for a neighbor, a brother for a brother, a life for a life, there are a few yet that believe we should give a vision for vision, teaching for teaching, caring for caring, sharing for sharing, loyalty for loyalty, love for love. To give any of these is a voluntary act of love. To take any of these is a vengeful act of hatred. It is the battle we are all now in and the mortal or royal motive which we must all decide upon; from the head to the very soul of our nation.

Thus saith the LORD:

"If men fight and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him, and he shall pay as the the judges determine.

But if any harm follows, then you shall 'give' life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." Exodus 21:22-25

The word used is give, as in a sense of self-sacrifice, merciful forgiveness, tender loving care, and in no way implies to take as it is normally misinterpreted. It does not even say that the man or men who fought are to do this, but rather it says, "you."

Jesus asked us to look into the deeper meaning of the law, and the work of redemption that He fulfilled on the cross was the fulfillment of the law. He did not take...but rather He gave. O that a word so small could have such far reaching implications.

Life for Life- Christ gave His Life as a ransom for our sins.

Eye for an Eye- Christ gave us the vision He had so that we could see.

Tooth for a Tooth- a tooth is figurative of sharpness in the sense of diligent teaching. Christ taught us diligently about forgiveness so that we could also teach diligently.

Hand for a Hand-the means of doing something so that we can accomplish it. Specifically the open hand that is used for pleading with; imploring by words and body language. Christ pleaded with us to understand so that we could plead with God in repentence asking His forgiveness, imploring that others also do the same.

Foot for Foot- as used for walking. Christ walked before us so that we might learn the way to go in the sense of coming after Him, or following Him.

Burning for Burning-properly to kindle, or, to brand. He kindled in us the mark or brand of God's people...that our own hearts would burn with affectionate love in us for God and His loving grace.

Wound for Wound- He was wounded for our transgressions, for the sake of all who believe, and this would be evidenced in the truth they spoke, and the cause of their dispersion to all nations.

Stripe for Stripe - He was given our stripes or rather He was bruised for our iniquities, by which we were healed.

What empire that has gone before us did not meet its destiny in shame and ruin because they took it upon themselves to enact their own form of justice on the world? These are they who took for themselves and gave little in return despite the appearance otherwise.None I tell you...no, not one!

"because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." Exodus 17:16

Are we , the United Startes of America, somehow different than the other nations of history, is our righteousness somehow greater than any of them who all started out with good intentions according to their own ways?

For it is written:

All nations before Him are as nothing,

And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless. Isaiah 40:17

Like Silt In a River

"What no one seemed to notice . . . was the ever widening gap . . . between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway . . . (it) gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about . . .and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated . . . by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. . . Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'. . . must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. . . .Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone. You don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' . . . But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves. When everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. . . .You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father . . . could never have imagined.” From Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, the Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government." Martin Luther King

For the sake of those fighting in the battles of war, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent. If I am to support our troops fighting and dieing in foreign lands, it shall be for the good which God designed...and not for the evil which man purposed. Defenders of good does not include anything that the rulers of this world would have you believe. So why do we believe them and even support them despite what our past has taught us?

Unless the LORD had been my help,
My soul would have settled in silence. Psalm 94: 17

I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
My heart was hot within me;
While I was meditating, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue. Psalm 39: 1-3

This message is to you America…and especially to those who profess Christ as their Lord and King...We who are already free…One nation under God. Despite any lack of admission, all nations are under GOD.

How can anyone take that truth away? And the answer to that is , "they can't...only we or they can surrender it." Why then do we insist on allowing administrators of government to lead us this way? They profess to protect what is already ours to possess, not own mind you, for God owns all, but given to us by God and not man for a possession to possess...inalienable rights that preexisted before any defender defended them.

It is the Lord who giveth, and the Lord who taketh away. But in each case, we must make a choice to either receive what is offered, or surrender what we possess...enjoying or suffering the consequences of either.

What kind of leadership would allow us to begin to think we cannot remain free, or that anyone else lacks the freedom to rise up as we did, a nation of our past, and claim it as a possession for themselves?

Why do we feel that as a nation, we must do it for them, rather than by example encouraging them to do it for themselves, rather than forcing them, especially when the God we profess had set us free before we ever claimed it? Or why do we believe that in order to keep this freedom, we must always be slaves to defending it with our blood? That is, unless we have surrendered our freedom already...our liberty...What God and not man had given to us before the so called defenders of freedom came into being. ..we have been deceived!!!...and by the choice of free will, we have allowed it.

The purveyors of this great lie are those who have set themselves up as our only hope...our only protectors...democracy, man's last, best hope, the defenders of the free world...turning our eyes from the truth of the matter, which is to take up God's cause and instead towards their own cause, will and ideals as the price for defending what was already ours to simply receive and possess...inalienable rights...which means they cannot in anyway be transferred away from us as they are God the Father Almighty, granted...but God can remove them from our midst...if we voluntarily relinquish them.

"We hold these truths to be self evident..." are not merely words spoken that are of meaningless worth...but are words that must be embraced...or surrendered willingly....'That all men are created equal,"...may even encourage a truth as meant to be believed ...but not necessarily reflect the will of God Almighty...or what His truth is.

Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.
Where you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.
For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave.
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
Brethren, let each one remain with God in that state in which he was called. I Corinthians 7:20- 24.

Is then a freeman equal to a slave...? Most assuradly, but that does not in anyway infer that they are the same in likeness.

That each one was created by God and loved by God is their only claim to equality, in the eyes of GOD. In the eyes of men, this equality becomes distorted.

Does freedom therefore have aything to do with equality? Or does equality therefore, in the eyes of God, have anything to do with freedom? And yet, when God created, He created for mankind...the mankind that was made in the image of God... to have something meet for himself as a helper.

It was the woman, Eve, the life giving, living place, that was created out of Adam...she was not the same as Adam in many ways...she was to be a helper to Adam who was help in his times of trouble...and yet, she had the same freewill as Adam, was created by God as Adam had been, and was loved by God as Adam was. Her freewill was evidenced through the deceit that Satan, the serpant exposed her to... and that she succumbed to by the use of this free will. It was by her own choice that she succumbed to the deceit...it exposing the desire of her heart which she willingly gave this freewill over to. She was willingly deceived because she fostered this desire to be like God...to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Don't think for a moment that she and Adam accidently found themselves standing beside this tree of which they were forbidden to eat of its fruit. Their desire was exposed when they were forbidden. They succumbed to that desire by an act of their own freewill.
Why then did not Adam see this and rebuke Eve unless the desire was in his heart too.

This is what God desired to teach mankind. It allowed for the continuence of freewill, which voluntarily submits itself to that which it desires...or flees from it in voluntary compliance to God's own will. Either is done freely. There is no force of will. But there is only voluntary compliance with that will...either our own...or Gods.

This is what seperates the character of Satan from the character of the Father.

No one can make you doubt. Doubt only comes through a lack of faith because of our own desires, and God holds out to us the gift of faith. By the same act of our own freewill that we allow ourselves to doubt, we can also reach out and take hold of the gift of faith. The choice lies within our own selves.

Some bibles may infer that God had made for Adam, "a helper comparible to him." ...Eve...Which is that they are able to be compared with each other, regarding as similar so that they are worthy of comparison in that likeness...that the woman was somehow already equipped with what was necessary for her salvation, or for sustaining her life. This was before Adams fall...when he was still a Son of God...made into the image that God intended for all mankind to be.

And yet, it was to Adam that God gave His commandments.

Yet God did not make for Adam a helper that was similar or comparable to him...or in otherwords, comparible in likeness...but... He made for Adam "a helper that was 'meet" for him. ' " How this word comparable came into usage I do not know...but it is a false word used for the furtherance of someones doctrine other than that which God intended. Perhaps the false doctrine of Democracy? Even the word "meet" is not the same as what was intended by the Hebrew word that it was translated from.

Let us now examine that word "meet," as it was meant to be understood and as it was written... not that it has any bearing on the word that was used by the Hebrew...but perhaps God infused in an effort to expand upon the original version.

The Hebrew word " ezer" used here for the english word "meet" which it substitutes for, means "help" in the sense of "protecting, or to succour " which is "help or assistance for times of difficulty. "So then it should be read that ... in Genesis 2:18...And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone: I will make him a helper who is help to him...or a protector who will protect...and aid who will assist...for times of difficulty."

The word "ezer", which is what the english word "meet" was used to replace is taken from the root word "azar' meaning "to surround for protection and aid, to help, or succour in timesf difficulty."

Now even the english word, "meet", as in "a helper 'meet' for him' " does not in anyway denote likeness or comparableness of any type of equality...nor does it imply protection, or assistance, in times of difficulty.It does not infer any similarity...nor does it denote help. Rather, it has the meaning of , "fitting, or correctness through an encounter with, an acquaintance of, or an introduction to, by coming into the presence of , as is meant in the english language.

Eve's correctness or fittingness as a helper was dependent on her encounter with, her introduction to, and her coming into the presense of the commandments of God as spoken through Adam. Adam, who was a Son of God before his fall, and was made in the likeness and image of God through the act of freely giving his will over to the will of God. This in no way infers Eve's equality, or comparableness with Adam, or that Eve is like God, or like Adam, the Son of God, but is a helper of, who surrounds and protects the Son of God in Adam in times of difficulty...as she has learned to do through her encounter with the commandments of God as spoken through Adam...in this they are not like God together, that they are comparable in any sense,but are made as in His image. And as long as their freewill was voluntarily given over to the will of God, so shall they remain.

Eve, as a helper who was help, was to protect Adam in his time of trouble.

...which he, by his temptations from the same desire of the heart, was now in. Though Eve was first tempted, she was not able to overcome because Adam did not do his part at the moment in admonishing her with a rebuke. His was the original sin...he did not repeat the truth to Eve from his love for God. He did not put God's will ahead of his devotion to Eve.

And how do we , Eve, the woman, the church, the wife of the Son of God, surround and protect Adam, who is man, as in mankind as a whole, except to open our mouths and speak out against the lie in opposition to it. To overcome the desires of our heart for the protection and help of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.To be a helper meet for Jesus Christ that God intended for us to be? To stay far from that tree, and not let the desires of our heart to be like God overcome our freewill.

And what prevents us from doing this other than by our succumbing to the deceit of the lie which is that we can become like God through the practice of certain religious beliefs and traditions , and outward practices, determining for ourselves what good and evil is... if we only eat of the fruit that allows us to determine for ourselves what good and evil is...but we succumb because there are few who will admonish us with a rebuke from the truth, that in order to be made in God's image, we must give our will over to Him, make our will, His will and willingly obey His commandments. Satan has deceived many into believing that they will be rejected for it because they offended someone with the truth. He decieves us into not fearing that we will die if we do not obey God's commandments. Not fearing God, but instead fearing what we might loose for ourselves.

Oour nations leadership believes that we are the savior of the world. Our endless wars...or even our leaderships reasons for fighting them, is because of the fear of loosing what we have deceived ourselves into believing. Their noble causes which they try to sell us sound good, but only lead to destruction...as do many of the noble wars that have been fought in the name of religion. But how willingly do we deceive ourselves or allow ourselves to be deceived for the sake of seeking the honor and glory of man...to satisfy our desire to be like God, determining for ourselves his design for mankind, which is the true desire of our heart?

All things that are of the truth are good...all things that are of the lie are evil...that is the end of the matter...why do we need to have the knowledge of both...let our knowledge be only of good as determined by the truth...no matter how difficult it is to hear, and face, and then...to be. Amen.

At this present moment, in this present generation, of this present age, the Word of truth, which is what Christ Jesus embodied...that which holds itself out against the lie...what Adam was before his fall, and what true Christians are to be today as helpers who are help for it...is in a time of great trouble...great distress...great tribulation...as the lie grows stronger, taking in whomever it can, knowing it has only a short time.

Yet we, who call ourselves the Church, the body of Christ, the Bride to be wed, the Woman, the helper meet for Him, the life giving, living place, Eve, are not doing our appointed duty of surrounding, protecting , and aiding our Lord of all truth in His time of trouble with His truth. We do not surround him with the correctness we learned through our encounter with Him. We have in a large part stopped hearing (with the intent of obeying) what our Master has taught us, who only speaks what He hears from Our Father, God Almighty and in a large part we have fallen to the devices and desires of our own heart in the Great Apostacy, the Great Falling Away of His Faithfulness...desiring to become like in similarity toGod instead through outward show, but not made by God in our inward parts, determining once again for ourselves what, or who, or how, or even why...what is good and what is evil. Their mouths do not open that they should speak, and when they do, they only speak what is evil for the sake of protecting them selves...our own ways...because most have fallen to doubt and succumbed to the lie...and have now become afraid of that lie...and have hidden themselves in the tall hardness of their pride...the trees...and with the leaf that covers their shame and nakedness.

But even that is only a thin veil that does not fool The Almighty God. It is instead the mark of the beast. If only we would learn to abide in the fear of God and His promises, believing that if we do not obey His commandments, we will surely die.

Perhaps then, the worldly freedom we now know in America is a false freedom, not really freedom at all. It is a freedom that offers just enough happiness to prevent you from seeing it for what it is…enough contentment to develop a pride that will rush to its defense...a thin veil to cover the nakedness of our shame. It is a false freedom for the purpose of subduing the mind., the loyalty, and the glory that is meant for the Almighty God the Father.

The truth that sets us free needs no defense. It does not need to resist, but is often resisted. It is its own defender and sets us free from our shame. Any freedom that has an ulterior motive towards gaining for itself in order to cover that shame, and is propagated by lies, deceit, corruption and violence is not a true freedom, but is a false doctrine of freedom and is meant to lull those who accept it into a false sense of security for the furtherance of a hidden agenda by those who administrate over it...which is the power of rulership that they crave and protect.

Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us: Butler D. Shaffer

We hold these truths to be self-evident...that all men are created (made) to be helpers for help, assistants to assist, protectors to protect mankind in our time of trouble, by coming into the presense of God's commandments as given to man.

A Time Called "When"

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By Hugh Lipsius

Years ago and far away, or was it yesterday?
Perhaps it never was at all, and now is because it was told;
A time to come and now that is, to help us reconcile.

A bit of poetry, it began,
To paint a picture of a time called when
In an effort to see how happy you’d be
In the face of your adversity.

But with a trembling hand it was great responsibility.
Can you see the pen dangling over the page
Whose blank lines were at once to show
Only truth and no lie about the face that will pass us by?

Perhaps this time and place called when
Is only a hope written down,
We could all hope for it then
In the time we had need for one.

By writing deep thoughts, and mingling it with blood.
This thrill to our heart, that ends in a smile
And a hope of the time called when
Can have its effect in the light that it casts on the pages that are but its shadow.

The shine that its love is hidden behind is the star that shines at night.
So let truth light the way in the darkness of shame and a fear of what it might be.
For stars always shine, but in day we are blind to the wonderful presence they are.

What light, I ask, cannot brighten the darkness of this shadow of death upon us?
Find it then, look hard in yourself, open the eyes that are in you
Believe in the time, a time called when, you need no other time to see.
Was it written for when there would be nothing left, or when there is everything?

The Character of Satan

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Make no mistake, the real enemies are lies disguised as truth creating doubt and fear, given over to by an act of our own freewill and created by the desires of our heart. It is these lies that create the causes that each man is reluctantly forced to take sides with in order that pride shall cover their fear…the true darkness… the cry behind which each man stands on the same killing fields with his brother, his neighbor, while God rips that pride from his heart and the desire to ever kill again those whom he shall never know. Yet it is these causes that will judge the motives and intent of every man.

This will not be just a war, but it will be a moment by moment decision between two brothers who oppose each other, pitted against each other by the fear created in them by their rulers, by the cause they were sold which fills them with pride in order that their fear remain hidden…a cause that causes their hearts to swell in self-righteousness... each trying to survive on the same piece of land, ready and willing to kill for it, or even die for it...each becoming the adversary of the other, the accuser, which is the spirit of Satan him self only desiring the lives and souls of these men.

Multiply this by the thousands, and then by the millions, and even perhaps, billions. It is the same decision that is inside us all between what is of this world and what is greater than this world.

Hatred and love, selfishness and self sacrifice are all intertwined in blood that is confussed by a cacophony of names and ideals, beliefs and dreams, visions and ambitions and causes more confusing than the battles or wars themselves.

No man shall ever be a victor here. It’s only the cause that appears to win, the ideal, the vision or dream while the ground is baptized in the blood of those so hell-bent on dieing for it; an ideal, that no matter how much blood is shed for it may very well die one day itself: Democracy, freedom, unity, liberty, stability, the pursuit of happiness and even world peace, if it is not led by the truth.

These have become merely bywords for the greed and lusts for power and riches of some men; the causes by which they make good men to fight, multiplying their fears, selling them lies, buying their loyalty, giving to these men a royal motive behind which each man is required to stand that his pride shall sit on the throne of God in fear that it is not God who has been invited to sit there. He refuses to remove himself out of fear that there will be no one worthy to take his place.

Yet, there should be only one cause that draws men together, not in battle against one another, but for the learning of good…One word that men should be willing to die for in order that they might live That word is truth…for God is Truth. It is in our heart and in our mouth if we will but find it and speak it.

When Jesus stood accused before Pilot, He didn't resist, He didn't accuse, He did not set Himself up as an adversary, or try to defend Himself. He merely presented the truth. He presented God to Pilot, and because Pilot thought he was a god, could not recognize it. Because Pilot was in a position to determine good from evil, it made him out to be like a god, and therefore held his own perception of the truth. And yet, because it was his own, he doubted even that. "What is truth," he asked? Not knowing that the embodyment of truth, Jesus Christ, is who he was asked to judge. And yet, he was correct in judging when he said, "I find no fault in this man." But because he feared the multitude, he did not act correctly on that judgment. His fear of not appearing like a god distorted his judgment.

The Cause which God gave us to live by is to seek justice, not vengeance, it is not meant to appease a crowd for the sake of their own conscience, but to rebuke the oppressor by word and deed, not wage war against him, to defend or vindicate the fatherless, not create them, or fixing blame on them in order to condemn, and finally, to plead for the widows and the orphans as advocates rather than pretending they don’t exist or that they are someone else’s problem, or creating them through more wars. This can only be done by embracing the truth, by embracing that which agrees with the final reality. By this cause we should stand, and any other is a false cause, a worldly pretense that deceives men into thinking they are doing righteousness. The wars that Satan desire for the purpose of gaining men's souls.

Pilot was so close to discovering the truth...but the accusing noise from the crowd swayed him away from it. He feared their rejection.

These false causes are the way of the world and are merely a pretense for the lusts and greed of some men, stirred up in the hearts of others. They may seem right to man, but only lead to his destruction…they are for the sake of glorifying man…not God. They are for presidents and rulers who seek their own legacy.

The destruction wrought by wars that are based upon false causes, based upon the greed of a few, that continue the corruption and violence of man leaves a swath of death in its path…not just of the flesh, but of the spirit and soul as well. They cause those who resist with violence, to become like the opressors who use violence, as violence begets violence.

“If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. All unrighteousness is sin, (pride and arrogance and the evil way,[ which is by war]), and there is sin that does not lead to death.” I John 5: 16, 17.

I cannot sit by idly, praying in the face of this deadly sin. This is not a time to pray but a time to speak.

To everything there is a purpose under heaven…
…A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak. Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 7
Therefore, the prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.
Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the LORD God of hosts will be with you,
As you have spoken. Amos 5: 13, 14

"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-----torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians, (the beheading of men or of a man)-----which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”: George Orwell

Salvation does not come through our good deeds and righteousness…but rather through our repentance and belief that Christ died for our sins…our crying out because we are slaves to its system of understanding. But unless we can admit the nature of our wrongs…in truth…we cannot repent…nor be saved....and unless we can see these things, we will not turn from them, forsaking them. Are we then truely repentant?...I think not...and therefore, we cannot be saved.

“Thou shalt not kill.”

There are no exceptions to this commandment. “If any man sheds mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed; (he will reap what he sows)...for in the image of God He made man.”

These words were spoken by the Almighty and were said by Him after the fall of man in Eden. They were spoken as a rebuke to all mankind…not just Americans, or Arabs, or Jews…but all mankind. God is not a respecter of persons. They were intended to address the violence and corruption in the world, both before the Great Flood, and after. It is an immutable commandment with no exceptions given. The commandment does not say “thou shalt not kill except in war.”

Those who shed man's blood are they that reject Christ and the way in which He taught us. God made man in His image. Not some men…all mankind. Christ blood was shed so that no other blood need be shed…nor is worthy to be for the purpose it was annointed. All of us are called to wash ourselves in the Blood, the life of Christ, not defile ourselves with the blood of man. And any man that does not speak out for that truth is just as guilty of that shed blood as though he had shed it himself. This truth was brought to our hearing when the High Priest of Israel desired Christ's death, yet he was unable to either order it, or perform it. Instead, he coerced by a lie, the secular government of Rome to perform what was forbidden him to do. However, the high Priest was just as guilty of that shed blood, through his desire for it, as were those who ordered and carried out the act. All who remained in silence, allowed it to happen and were as guilty. This brings all into responsibilty for it.

Yet, that blood must be shed for the atonement of our sins. But woe be unto them by whom it is betrayed and rejected.

Christ did not set us at liberty through the shedding of His blood so that we would kill each other in order to hold onto it…it is only the greed for gain that man kills other men for...betraying other men and rejecting that Christ's blood shed put an end to the sacrifices made by man.

“For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Mark 8: 36, 37.

He will guard the feet of His saints,
But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. I Samuel 2:9

Can you kill someone then, as God often commanded His people to do, without shedding blood? Yes, by making them aware of their sins, they become dead in their sins. The shame for this leaves us empty inside…dead in our sins and in need of God love for salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, which pays its penalty of death and quickens us into the life we were meant to lead. It is what helps us to realize our need for God and not man, or ourselves to rule over our lives, setting us apart in His truth, so that we might freely give our will over to the will of God.

Where then is the manifestation of the conscious bearing thoughts, the plea stricken voice of those who have taken up God’s cause? Is it supressed by Satan, who deceives us into believing that we will be rejected, and into thinking that if we follow the example of men, that we can be like God in that others will respect us as though we are gods because we follow their lead in supressing the truth?

The Greatest of All Commanded

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For it is commanded by God:

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt ( the darkness of the lie), out of the house of bondage . ( out of the lies men deceived you into believing).
You shall have no other gods (men who try to deceive you into believing that they are gods through their outward show of morality and their position of judgment against men, while keeping God's ways a secret and a mysterious thing) before Me. (letting no man be our judge, but allowing God to judge us instead by the word in our heart and in our mouth.).

Thou shalt not take (in relationship to oneself) the Lord thy God’s name (His character as purposed for man) in vain (without taking up His cause).

Shame on us!!!... for believing that using God's title of "God", used when we are angry about what the world is doing is the same thing as what they would have us believe this commandment means.

Being Christian does not mean being Christ like but rather, it means submitting ourselves to His commandments and allowing ourselves to be made into His image…a follower of the way by choice in which He taught us by example and the spoken word of truth. It requires much more from us than simply being nice to everyone…we must love each other in spirit…but also in truth…in word and in deed...and truth spoken or evidenced does not always have the appearance of being nice…study the life of Christ and learn this for your self. Was He nice to those who were perishing...the Pharisees, the Saducees, the scribes and elders, those who professed to be the teachers of the law.

Anyone can be nice…you need no religious profession for that...you can be a law unto yourself...but what sets Christians apart from the world is that they speak truth to everyone they meet for the sake of that individual’s salvation. They do this even at the expense of being rejected by those to whom they speak in hope that the words they speak will awaken in the individual his need for God…and yet…sadly…too many professing Christians do not even know what truth is…or how to speak it.

That my God is the author of diversity is true. All of nature testifies of it. But do the clouds fight to remain united with the sky? Does the earth do battle with the tree that’s planted in it? Does the dry land wage war against the roar of the sea? No, they yield to them. One day the clouds will let forth their moisture, yeilding to the sky that supports them. One day the tree will die and return to the earth that sustained, nourished and enriched it. One day the sea will withdraw to its place, and some of the dry land with it to become its foundation.

Even now all created things declare the glory of His excellence. There is nothing, except the selfish heart of man that lives unto itself. No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that walks upon the ground, but ministers to some other life. There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly blade of grass, but that has its ministry. Every tree and shrub and leaf pours forth that element without which no man nor animal could live; and man and animal, in turn, minister to the life of tree and shrub and leaf. The flowers breathe fragrance and unfold their beauty in blessing to the world. The sun sheds its light to gladden a thousand worlds. The ocean, itself the source of all our springs and fountains, receives the streams from every land, but takes to give. The mists ascending from its bosom fall in showers to water the earth, that it may bring forth and bud: Ellen White, “The Desire of ages.”

Only man, those who are of a one mind to do so, with his so called intellect, prudence, and wisdom, puts his ideals and desires and need to survive above all else in creation, including and especially each other, forgetting that death is only the passageway to life…and instead seeking for his own comfort in his effort to rule the world. But what is there in this world to rule over except the lives and souls of men.

But my soul will not be comforted...nor shall my life seek it...until all receive the truth.

“For whosoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whosoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” Mark 8:35

Only man lives like this…carving up the earth…destroying it in the name of progress…killing for what neither belongs to him, nor , at times does he even need…yet he claims these things for himself, while at the same time claiming to be “under God” who is the Creator and Possessor of all. What matters most is by what name they call their God...whether the Prince of Peace...or the Prince of Darkness. The way each lives determines by what God they were made...despite what each may call themselves.

A tree is not known by the name it is called...but by the fruit that it bears.

He ( the one man, or the men who are of one mind to do evil) adds to this a lofty cause or ideal that stirs up the hearts of other men in order to draw them after him to do his dirty work, while he himself has no heart of his own. In his selfishness, his desire, his doubt, and his fear, he has become an instrument of Satan in order to do the works of the devil. Sitting far from the battlefield, these are men who cannot create one blade of grass, or any other living thing for that matter, but in all they create, death and destruction follows in his path. Dead works in which there is no life…dead works in which life is destroyed in order to create these works and feed his lusts wearing out the earth like an old cloth. He calls this progress and civilization of which we have already determined is false. But rather it is progress towards ruling over civilization, for which I am thankful to the Father for the scarlet thread He has intertwined into that vine.

Then, what is the heart of man?

That all men (and women) are created equal is true, but that does not mean that all men are created identical. That equal means identical is a lie. When God created Eve, he created a partner for Adam who was help to himself. Some would have you believe otherwise.Two diverse individuals, yet equally sharing God’s love in which they were created. It is God’s love and that He was their creator that has made them "bone of bone, and flesh of flesh, and they shall be as (like) one flesh." Not like one God, who is not flesh, but sharing the same purpose of spirit and truth, which is to obey, in their flesh, which is the spirit of truth in them, one GOD. The flesh was only the agent in which they were to do this by the very nakedness, or transparency which they stood before God.

For some men to impose their identical ideals, thoughts, visions, dreams and ambitions on anyone…or any nation…by coercion, intimidation, force, or fear, or even through the enactment of laws of any kind is an attempt to lord these same laws over men in an effort to compel others to become identical to them; to be one world, of one government...a New World Order... which is of their making and design...to usurp Gods love as instruments of Satan, begetting instruments of Satan through the introduction of lies that create doubt and fear, which are the true causes of violence and corruption. Eve offering Adam the same fruit in which she ate. It is an attempt to defy Christ’s words when He said…

“In My Fathers house there are many mansions,” or the words of Paul… “There are diversities of ministries…but the same Lord”… “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit”… “And there are diversities of activities; but it is the same God who works all in all.” Or even that God made some to be honored and some to be dishonored…so who are we to say “why have you made me this way.” He made some to laugh and some to cry…some to be rich and some to be poor…some to lead and some to follow…some to sow…some to water… and some to reap. That the same God works all in all...which does not mean some in all, or all in some as they would like you to believe...but all in all.

If these ideals, these causes, these visions are equal to those of God, then we are reflecting His image and doing what is according to His Word and according to His will. But these manufactured causes are often not in equality with God’s. They are only disguised as though they were for the creation of wars. The very loftiness and ambition of their nature testifies where they are from. They test the true nature of men just as surely as Satan tempted Christ in the wilderness.

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.”

These causes are not for the purpose of teaching the voluntary act of love…but are for the oppression of other men through the deceit of a manufactured cause and for the sake of gain for a few. They are for the purpose of drawing men away from the Father. They are usually propagated by lies, disguised as truth, to create a fear that needs pride to cover it, making wars that only shift power from the hands of a select to the hands of a different select; whoever creates a better cause worth fighting for. What is worse is that the men who pursue these lies believe them, preferring to believe they are noble and good and more righteous above all others, and that their intentions are what is best for all the human race.

If that were so, then why do they fear the truth. Why do they build to protect themselves from the masses and use that fear to deceive? This is not a "New World Order," but is an world order that is of old and of "that old serpent, called the Devil/(Satan), the devil who was of old."

"So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." Revelations 12:9

Only God is good, so why do we follow man...and his "new (old) world order." And I tell you, because he once again has deceived the world into thinking that his world order is new...but it is not new...it is of old.

"He laid hold of that serpant of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceave the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while." ( so that he might try to once again deceive the nations)

But today, the nations are no longer deceived by Satan...they are standing out against him...and this time he will be seperated out and cast down forever...not as the world would seperate, but as men are seperated out for the truth. Satan is unwittingly attempting to cast out God, who is truth...but what he is unwittingly doing is seperating himself from the truth...at which time God will cast him into the everlasting lake of fire. He will bring about his own demise.

Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may overcome when You are judged.” Romans 3:4

Fear is a powerful and dangerous force. Men who create fear through lies are the same ones who use liberty as a cloak for covetousness. The soldier on the battle field gains nothing except to win or loose with his blood, or that of another, the cause he was sold. But when it’s over all will suffer except those who have gained the most power with the money or blood they used to buy it, or the cause they gathered men around...for they lost before they began but now no longer appear to suffer for it. Over time even those causes fought for may, or will soon die or be killed. In the end all will have to give an account.

The founding fathers of this nation…America…The United States…are rolling over in their graves while the elitist few have their way. Their evilness disguised as good intentions have led this nation down its path to ruin.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest: -Thomas Jefferson

Is that still rooted in the mind of every American? Or have we lost our way?

How you can win the population for war:
At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, ( the deceiver)that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, ( the accuser) and each person will be happy over this deceit that calm the conscience ( the mark of the beast).It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion ( fear of the lie). So he will become convinced step for step even there from that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better. (lovers of the lie).: Mark Twain

“One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

This is our pledge that we, the people of the United States of America, attempt to fulfill while the leaders of the so called free world enrich themselves on it by heaping its rewards to themselves through their conquests.

Though we are one nation, and claim in our pledge to be indivisible, our administrators have continually worked to divide us in an effort to either subjugate us to their agenda of power and greed, or marginalize us by their labels.

This is in essence, shoving our own pledge in our own faces so that some may benefit while lives and love are torn apart. It has been the way of some men throughout the history of man without ever learning a thing; "that serpent of old," because “We the People” insist on putting our decisions in the hands of anybody other than ourselves.

By doing this, it gives us someone to blame, and as long as we are willing to pay someone to blame, to have a human king over us, we give them free reign to do as they please…as long as you or I don’t have to take responsibility, pointing the finger and attempt to hold others responsible in the end.

We dare not come into the frightening presence of the mountain, so that we might feign ignorance in the end...let someone else speak to us...for we fear that if we hear God( Truth in all its terrible majesty)...we will surely die.

But we all share in the blame. Everyone who either supports the lies openly, or supports it through their silence, allowing it to continue while their conscience says it is wrong. All share in the guilt. All are guilty before God.

We will cover our mouths and say, “How did things get this way?”...as though it were a shock. Yet if we followed the golden rule to love one another as Christ loved us, in affectionate and fervent spirit through belief in the truth spoken and recorded in writting, then all should be as concerned for his or her neighbors salvation as much as they are for their own.

In that, we love one another as Christ loved us...we love our neighbor as ourselves. As He loved us...we love one another...make no mistake about its meaning...and by that truth, with that truth and for that truth, we love God with all our heart...the two are inseperable...one truth believed as loving God...the other truth believed asevidenced by loving our neighbor as ourself...with truth spoken out of concern for their salvation...no matter their initial response towards or rejection of.

Love thy neighbor as the self

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War is not the price for peace, but is the penalty of sinfulness, in that it brings only death and destruction, confussion and chaos upon those who refused to obey the commandments of God. Whether they be the agressors, or the recipients of the evils it causes.

“One” has already shed the blood for our peace with God, for which no other blood needs to be shed, nor is worthy to be, “once and for all.” And without peace with God, there will never be peace on this earth. “One” has already set men at liberty through the forgiveness of sin. Upon His cross He said, “It is finished.”

But those who create the visions, the dreams, the causes, the ideals, by which they hope to rule over what God has already set free, are usurpers to the forgiveness which God has designed that all mankind should benefit from, selling a false doctrine of worldly peace that excludes the God of our fathers and our God, making for themselves the title of “god, lord, ruler,” by the destruction of their wars.

This is Baal, and all that worship this falsehood worship a false god, a false prophet and a false doctrine of peace...in this they have sinned against God. And their end shall not be peace, but shall be the death and destruction which they wrought by their wars.

Jesus Christ did not go out and wage war against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of darkness, against the powers and principalities that set themselves up over the hearts of men. It was in overcoming this world order, these powers of darkness, by the truth He spoke, and the lie He rejected at the cost of His own flesh and blood that He became victor over it.

These men who have given themselves to the powers of darkness...the power of the lie which is only fear of it, tally up the cost for their peace (or comfort) in human lives lost and blood shed to consolidate or transfer the power that they crave with greed, flown in on the wings of a worldly vision and then sold to the masses who then become decived into buying it with their blood, or the blood of their neighbor.

One day, a final battle will be fought; one that will so sicken men by its brutality, that the smell, the odor of it, will be fixed in his soul forever, an odor no mans lust can erase; or that any man’s cause or vision or ideal or difference or way of life can ever bring him to lift up his hand in anger or vengeance or hatred against his fellow human, his neighbor, his brother, ever again. This olfactory smell will only bring to recall an agony so sharp, an inherited piercing of the soul so deep, that it can never, ever again be ignored because of the words of men or the thoughts of self. It will be a remembrance that is so deep in the earth and in our thoughts that it will make a soul cringe at the very thought of ever taking another life rather than forgiving it; or of ever lifting up a hand up in anger against his neighbor, friend, or brother from this race we call humanity. It will cry out from the very ground we stand on; the very ground that has soaked up the blood from countless lives in days gone by of endless wars, now forgiven, but never to be again to be forgotten by men; from the multitude of kindred souls crying up, “never again. It is finished. It is enough.”

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the LORD.

This glory will not come until some men have done all in their power to deceive for the sake of destroy its coming. When that has finally failed, then we shall all cry up to God who is our Father, and will finally believe that God the Father does truly love us all, has created us all, loves us all, and learn that we need to love all that God does, yielding to one another as all of nature does.

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood…but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12

The Beast is the pride of a nation created through massive wealth and conquest, accumulated by a few and used to deceive the many.

Anti-Christ is the deceived man who leads this false doctrine and government of false hope and stands before the power of darkness that buy it. He is also the whore who rides the beast, prostituting himself in terror of loosing the power he has to the corporate entities who have bought his loyalty…multinational corporations hell bent on gain of worldly profit, who seek to gain the world at the expense of their very souls and the souls of all who follow them.

The image to the beast is the government of religion established by this power…attempting to reflect a god in the image that men have created him to be, standing up for the lie in opposition to the truth, rather than reflecting the God that God created men to be…it’s given a voice that it might speak for the world and all mankind through each individuals vote that reflects his or her desires…silence too having its voice.

The false prophet are those who speak the lies fed to a people who accept them willingly and gladly, fairy tales and nice things, lofty causes and noble deeds, fears of national enemies both within and without, because they prefer them over love for the truth that is sometimes harsh and hard to swallow because it involves them.

Babylon the Great is the nation who spreads these lies throughout the world and accepts these falsehoods, attempting to get others to accept them too through its wars… a militaristic nation practicing a false religion of pomp and ceremony, rites and rituals of glory to man and all he stands for. It uses its might and wealth to force and bribe and extort its ways onto the sovereignty of other nations through the agency of chaos and confussion. To do otherwise would expose them for what they really are...to bring any kind of true and lasting peace would remove their power over the nations. Its soldiers defend national interests for the greed of a few rather than becoming soldiers for the truth in defense of the many.

The mark of the beast, 666, out of the many came the one, E pluribus Unum, simply put, is the great selfishness of a merry multitude of men disguised as joyous independence and practiced by the works of the hand and the thoughts of the mind. Putting one nation above all nations, or one self above all others in self=righteous moral splendor.

Together, all these make up the Great Satan...and now his time has come so that God can and will make it to come to an end and he knows he has but a short time remaining. Do not be deceived by him little ones. Herin lies the patience of the saints...for all these things must come before the end of this present system of things...hold fast to what you believe. To him who has an ear, let him hear.

Come out of her My people

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“Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her sins and lest you receive of her plagues,” God has cautioned. Revelations 18:4

Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before a mediocre and treacherous leadership that is so paranoid, deluded, lunatic? And I'll tell you...because they are lovers of self and the lie and not lovers of GOD and His truth. They are lovers of the lie and not lovers of the truth.

Atrocities have been carried out in the name of the American citizens and in an atmosphere in which leadership officials have routinely behaved as though they were above God's law, and thus accountable to no one. People have been rounded up, stripped, shackled, beaten, incarcerated, and in many, many cases killed, without being offered even the semblance of due process. No charges. No lawyers. No appeals. No law. Simply and murderously, killed, slaughtered outright.

"Does our law judge a man before it knows him and knows what he is doing?" John 7:51

What you sow…so shall ye reap.

When leaders state that certain events have not happened, and yet we have the victims before us to testify that they did, man does not hear him, and so, government loses its credibility, and it loses its authority. This has been a hallmark of the American administrators. We see before us today governments that lack natural authority and have to make up for that by the use of force in order to protect the lie. They do not have the support of the people because they are not trusted by the people because this force has been routinely used against even them...it has not heard the man.

We hear many fine words seeking national unity, cooperation, and harmony, yet, almost in the same breath orders are given to military units to shoot civilians, protesters are rounded up, many disappear, and many are tortured...their voice is never heard.

No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. Prove this to yourself…stand up and try to oppose these representatives of the people...they will not hear! There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn. There is no going back because the lie would fold in on them and will destroy them. Yet, to go forward in the lie means destroying those whom they fear without ever hearing what they have to say. These are the ones who know the truth even if they were the very ones who mistakenly supported the lie.

"This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Martin Luther King: 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York.

Lawlessness should never be an option for a nation, and yet for our nation, America, it has. Once the rule of law has been extinguished, you're left with an environment in which moral degeneracy can flourish and a great nation can lose its soul.

“Do you not remember when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He be taken out of the way, And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the workings of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders. And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” From a letter by the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians…II Thessalonians 2:5-12.

God is spirit and truth. So it is God who is voluntarily and willingly taken out of the way through the propagation and willing belief of lies. But truth is more than merely quoting scripture. It is facing tat which agrees with the final reality as demonstrated by history, which it seems few want to concern them selves with today…often preferring to keep their heads in the sand through the belief of the lie. It is in applying the timelesness of the truth to that which agrees with today, the final reality.

Truth, simply put, is that which agrees with the final reality. It was written ages ago for man's learning and yet, some men fail to come to the knowledge of it...instead, always attempting to come to that knowledge through endless learning...or study of it.

In order for it, (the truth), to restrain the lie, truth must be spoken at all its turns…the word…in season and out…at the cost of even our fleshly lives. Rejecting it or avoiding it does not change it or make it go away. The more that truth is rejected or avoided, whether out of fear of persecution, or fear of being rejected, the stronger the lawless one of the lie becomes. He is emboldened by our fear of him, rather than our fear of going against the truth, and is caused through the doubt his lies create. And yet, he fears the truth, not in reverence…but in anxious anguish that it will expose his lie. He suppresses it out of fear, often under the excuse that the majority of the world cannot handle the truth as it should be presented it. He makes a great show of protecting the world from the truth, which he calls a lie, yet, he makes that decision for all of us in order to protect his lies, fearing that the truth will expose him for who he is...which is a sinner among saints.

It is the duty of all to educate ourselves in this truth, to learn that which agrees with the final reality, for ourselves, not to fear it as the lawless one does, but rather to embrace it in its starkness and harshness against the lie, humbling us to one another in order to make us whole, as in, mankind as a whole, intertwined with one another for the purpose of our mutual help, our mutualn assistance, and our mutual protection in times of trouble, which is to keep ourselves from the lie.

We do this in order to confront problems in a Godly way, which includes mercy, grace, and kindness; that is our Comforter who comforts. It is only a matter of knowing the fullness of what the problem is, from all sides. It often means going against what is the status quo, to be unfashionable, to go up against what is generally thought to be true and discover for ourselves what is true rather than accepting as truth what those who are trying to protect as a lie may tell us is true.

The sword of truth, set to protect the tree of life, turns in all directions…but the lawless one would like it to cut only one way, as long as it cuts in the direction of another, whatever keeps him from being exposed. It is easier for me to avoid the lie in myself if I am pointing it out in you...but in order for me to understand the truth about you, I must first begin to see the lie in myself.

“Do not put your trust in princes (rulers), nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help (salvation). His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his plans perish.” Psalm 146:3&4. but instead, put it (your trust, your faith) in the truth and who God made us and says we are...And He called us by our name Adam, which is to say, man, as in mankind...and He ( God ) made us to be in His image...according to His will...and by His hand and not our own...and "God saw what 'He had made,' and called it very good."

Whatever you are, if you are truthful about it, you are what God made you...who are you to say, why have You made me this way...and He called you "very good." All is as it should be, for God works all in all for His good.

Satan's nature in opposition to the Father.

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In giving us a clear word on the exact character and express nature of Himself, God has also made plain to us what is not of His character and nature...what is in opposition to it...especially within our own fallen nature. By revealing the truth about His nature that the lie we may tell ourselves is in opposition to Himself, He has put to light the lie. He has given us clear instruction on what the nature of the lawless one is, whose lawlessness comes from believing in the lie. He has shown us clearly what type or antitype is not of the image He created us to be, by showing us who He is. It is up to each and every one of us to learn what that is and embrace it, in order that we are not fooled into accepting the lie. God has given us His character so that we take up His cause. Anything else is in vain.

“For the Lord loves the righteous, (those who believe in Him), but the wicked (corrupt) and the one who loves violence ( the evil way) His soul hates.” Psalm 11:5. “For there are no pangs in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men (by the unrighteous deeds of their own hearts). Therefore pride (through self-righteousness and the failure to see their shorcomings) serves as their necklace; violence covers them like a garment, their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart can wish.(all of these act as a deterant to allow them to see). They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression (they accept is as a way of life); they speak loftily (proudly). They set their mouth against the heavens, ( by thinking that God approves of their behaviors) and their tongue walks through the earth,(accusing others, while excusing themselves). (Are we all not in some way guilty of this?) Psalm 73:4-9.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them: Albert Einstein - Source: letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932 (Not a condemnation, but a truth)

How many more sons and daughters will we sacrifice to the fires of judgment, to the battles of man's wars, propogated by the lies of our own deceit, while the very ones whom we sacrifice them for, take more and more from their future and for themselves? You decide..."We the People."

Challenging a mistaken war can take more courage than fighting one. Not challenging it throws away the soul of a nation.

“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

What has God ever done for mankind that was based on lies and deceit...and I say, nothing...then who is the ruler of those things?

George W. Bush is convinced that God chose him for this special destiny…Adolph Hitler thought the same, as did countless conquerors who came before him. But for what destiny would God choose a leader who deceived his people into thinking that he was like a god?

This is the royal motive that each and every one of us must search our hearts to discover. It is the royal cause behind which each of us must struggle to return to the peace that God intended each of us should know. It is not gained through self deception, or violence, corruption, oppression or war, but in honestly facing the reality that God has shown us, and then living out that reality, that truth; to confess it with our lips, and believe it in our hearts in order that the lawless one is destroyed by the brightness of its (the truth's) coming.

Our silence to it only testifies to our doubts and fears and then what have we become? We have become lukewarm and good for nothing except to be vomited out of the mouth of God. We have become instruments of Satan doing the bidding in his destructive wars meant for our chastisment...remembering that it is sin that begets war...and not truth, which exposes that sin.

So wherein and what is your faith America…and who or what do you put your trust in? Has the abomination that makes desolate set itself up in your heart? Pride and arrogance, lawlessness and lies, doubt and fear? Have you too become the man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that you sit as God in the temple of God, showing yourself that you are God?

By keeping silent, we have allowed this to happen. By concealing the truth. Or do you believe in all your heart that the true nature of God is not found in lies, doubts, fear, and bloodshed. It is not found in pride and arrogance, whether individually or nationally. It is not found in the lust for power and the greed of gain. It is not found in violence and corruption. Are you willing to stand up for what you believe, for what is righteousness and truth? Are you willing to speak out against violence and corruption in order that innocent lives can be sparred even if it costs you the world? Are you willing to humble yourselves from the true nature of man in order to reveal the true nature of God? Or are you lukewarm and good only to be vomited out of the mouth of God?

Perhaps you have become rich (Worldly abundant) and wealthy, having need of nothing ( because you know the truth and keep it to yourself)- not knowing that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, not knowing that you lack courage and conviction to speak, not knowing that your doubt has made you part of the lie and an instrument to be used by Satan.

Into whose hand is your freewill being offered? The one who puts you to silence in an effort to gain and keep for yourself, so that life has an end..or the one who asks that you speak in self-sacrifice of yourself. ..so that He will be given what is His due reward for your life which He gives...and which is eternal...having no end?

You decide...we the people.

Liberators Who Are Tyrrants

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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators: Adolf Hitler, 1938

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland: Adolph Hitler : In 1933, Hitler used the burning of the Reichstag as a pretext to push through emergency decrees suspending the basic civil liberties of German citizens. The "emergency" decrees remained in effect until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.

Wars do not liberate man...they only bring about his suffering...and every nation that thinks its greatness lies within its ability to make war against humanity for their own good will suffer under the same consequenses that it intended to give.

What you sow...so shall ye reap.

When Eve offered Adam a bite of the fruit from the tree that God forbade them to eat of, Adam didn’t refuse…he said not one word in protest. His silence left him vulnerable to do exactly as he desired. He knew it was wrong, but in not opening his mouth to refuse, or even rebuke Eve for her disobedience, he became doubtful of God's punishment of eternal death, instead fearing that she might reject him. He fell to his desire for Eve, which he did not see in his own heart as being more than his desire for God's will.

He saw Eve eat of the fruit…and not die as God had promised...and so he refused to believe. His affection towards her and fear that she might reject him was greater than his willingness to refuse to do what he knew in his heart was wrong. His sin was already conceived in his heart…but when he acted on it…it became exposed and they, ( both Adam and Eve) became spiritually dead in their sin by their separation from God due to their lack of belief, which was the original sin. Adam sinning first in that he was willing to see what happened, or did not happen to eve, first. Adam tempted God in this way, suffering the same consequences as if he had commited the same thing himself.

How great is your affection for Lady Liberty today? So great indeed that you are willing to go against what you know in your heart to be wrong? Have you confused her with the abundance and wealth of a nation? Have you confused oil and national interest and the comfort of plenty with freedom? Have you confussed her instead with what is pleasing to the eyes, good for food, and able to make one wise...all things that appeal to the senses of the flesh?

Why are the interests of our nation greater than the lives of the men of other nations? Is your life, your freedom, your liberty, determined by the abundance of what you own? Is it more important than your willingness to refuse to do what you know in your heart is wrong…or at least to speak out against it? Is it determined by what is pleasant to the eyes, or what in your mind is good for food? Is it determined by a tree desirable to make you wise? Has this liberty, this freedom, this democracy, this American way of life become to you nothing more than a cloak for covetousness? If so, then you have believed the lie and become an instrument of Satan, and unless you confess the truth with your lips, repent of these lies and believe it in your heart that Jesus Christ and only Jesus Christ is Lord, willing to face the word of truth that He spoke and you know is in your heart, determining in your heart to live it...then you cannot be saved from the lie…no matter what you may call yourself....Christian, Muslem or Jew.

A tree is known by the fruit that it bears...and not by what it is called.

Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” To confess Christ then is to confess the truth, which is the way to life…it is to confess that which agrees with the final reality as to what is the way of life. Everything else is of a lie and destines humanity to destruction.

Now I shall ask you to imagine how/ Men under discipline of death prepare for war. / There is much more to it than armament/ . . . and for a while they join a terrible equality;/ Are virtuous, self-sacrificing, free; / And so insidious is this liberty/ That those surviving it will bear/ An even greater servitude to its root: / Believing they were whole, while they were brave;/ That they were rich because their loot was great;/ That war was meaningful because they lost their friends: Homer - Source: War Music A verse translation of Books 16 - 19 of the Iliad by Christopher Logue. 1981. King Penguin.

Wake up and open your eyes America…open your ears and your heart. Stop hearing the ones who spin the lies in order to deceive you, who tell you what you want to hear at the expense of the truth, that our nation is righteous over all other nations and are able to dictate their laws... who pursue with rigor on the backs of the people, their own power and greed.

For when they shall say,” Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. Thessalonians 5:3.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction : John Steinbeck: American novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security: Dwight David Eisenhower: 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force : Norman Cousins: American essayist and editor, long associated with the Saturday Review, 1912-1990

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous: William Proxmire

Let therefore, the voice of God, spoken down through the ages, through the agency of men, become your guide.

Two Weeks In Falluja

2005-10-10T16:23:00.000-04:00

Before I print this article, I must reveal that Ja...as in Fallu-ja...has in it as its name...or character of what God is...a derivitive of the same word used by the Hebrews...Jah...which was an affectionate name of endearment for and towards God...it was a shortend version of the word, "Jehovah," the Almighty, self-Existant, most vehement ( i.e., marked by intensity of conviction, or feelin; charactgerized by great energy,, vigour, or forc:, Eternal Diety.

There is not a single word in Aramaic that begins with the letter "F"...so I am at a loss at this moment to determine for you what "Fallu' means in correspondance to "JA" or God , other than Fallu is "miraculous, in that it revealed by much bloodshed Gods truth as to who and what the beast is."...but I prefer...the Aramaic word..."Padayahuw" which means..."Jah (God) has ransomed."...He does this by the blood of the innocent...in that god has ransomed God...as in God has ransomed god...let him who has hearing , hear...and so listen for God's truth...

They , ( the Iraqi population of innocent civilians)...see absolutely no justification for this war and were constantly asking me to explain how the American people can support these acts against a civilian population. For the first time in my life, I was ashamed to be an American....why...because I had no answer.

By Mark Manning03/30/05 "ICH" - -

I got back from Iraq a few weeks ago where I stayed inside the city of Falluja and lived with the refugees of that city for over two weeks. I decided to go there because it seems to be the heart of the trouble in Iraq and the place to see if any sense or peace can be found. I had also heard that the city had 250,000 citizens in it who were told to leave when my government attacked, yet there had been no stories of their situation in our media.

As an American, I felt responsible for this and decided to take a look myself. On February 10th 2005 I flew into Iraq and drove to the city of Falluja. For over two weeks I was a resident and a refugee of Falluja and I am honored and privileged for that experience.

They hosted me in their homes, and cared for me because they believed that I was there to listen to them and to honestly bring home their stories to the American people. I came to Falluja without military escort or armed protection in any way. I think because of this they thought I was crazy, but they honored what they thought was courage and they trusted me.

Trust means everything there and they look deep into your eyes as they decide who you are. I lived with them and listened to their stories. They told me they do not trust American journalists to accurately tell the story of Iraq. They believe that the American public does not know what is really happening there, and that if they did they would feel differently about the war. They feel that the American people are their brothers and sisters and they are asking them for help. They wanted me to tell you their story.

The horrors of war have been brought to the people of Falluja. The people there say the city had 500,000 people in it, not the 250,000 quoted by our media. The refugees told me that they were given one week notice to leave the city. After three days, they were told they could no longer drive out, they had to walk. No camps were established for them and no refugee location was given. There was no planning by the American government for the people, no food, no shelter, and no water. They were just told to leave or be killed. Anyone who stayed in the city after one week would be considered a terrorist and would be killed.

For five months these people have been living in any location they could find, nothing was established for them in the surrounding areas of the Falluja countryside. They are living in tents in the mud, schools, abandoned chicken coups, burned out buildings, cars and other buildings that people were not using or where others have made room for them. The weather is bad, with much rain and it is very cold.

When they were told to leave the city, it was summer and they were not dressed for this cold and many could not carry out their clothes. Some lucky children are going to school in tents and all the classes have been shortened to 2 hours per day. Food is short and they are eating what the farmers grow and the surrounding community can spare. Again, even after five months they have received no outside aid from either the American government or the new Iraqi government.

The city itself has been devastated. Most houses have been seriously damaged, with about 65% of them totally destroyed. Evidence of depleted uranium (DU) shells is everywhere. This leaves radioactive contamination behind which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. (See note1).

Unexploded ordinance is a common sight. Many residents who were there speak of chemical weapons, napalm, cluster bombs and phosphorous used by the Americans. These are all illegal weapons and considered war crimes by the international community.

Many of the houses were fired, meaning that the troops burned them down after searching them. Many houses with white flags and markings stating "Family Here" were destroyed.

Some families who had nowhere to go stayed in the city during the fighting and have paid dearly. I interviewed many people who were there and their stories will live forever in my mind. Here are somesamples:·

A mother whose son was killed by DU shells. He was in his bed sleeping when the shells came through the walls.·

A father who at 65 years of age was shot during a raid of his house, whose son was arrested during that raid and has not been seen since (he states that his son was not a fighter.)·

A 17 year old girl who hid under her bed with her 13 year old brother during a raid of her house and witnessed her father, her cousin, and her two sisters 18 and 19 years old, all shot to death. She hid for three more days with the dead bodies of her family and then they returned and shot her and her brother after finding them under the bed. Her brother died. She survived and told me her story.·

A Family of ten who lived through all the fighting. The kids were 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 12. They were a mess. These kids will never be ok. Their faces were marked with open and oozing sores and they were exhibiting serious signs of emotional damage.

There is presently very little medical aid available to the residents and refugees, and again, no aid has been provided to the refugees in the surrounding area. The medical centers in the city have been destroyed and have not been rebuilt. The main hospital has been reopened, but to get there you have to walk, as the ambulances are still being shot by the Americans and the Iraqi National Guard.

The doctors have been beaten and their lives have been threatened by the Iraqi National Guard. These are the security forces that the Americans are training. The new government has warned them not to talk to any journalists about the conditions in Falluja. They understand this threat to be very real and a direct threat on their lives and the lives of their families.

To walk to the hospital you must go through checkpoints, sometimes through fighting, and only at certain daylight hours. The checkpoints are manned by the Iraqi National Guards and they are very hostile to the residents of Falluja. When we were at the hospital, an old man died of a heart attack because he was not allowed through the checkpoint. A woman gave birth in the ambulance because they would not let the ambulance back to the hospital after 5 pm and instead turned it away with her in labor.

We delivered by hand the medical aid provided by some of you to the hospital in Falluja. Me and one Iraqi woman, WE were the international medical aid to Falluja. We carried these boxes one at a time through the checkpoints, across the bridge and into the hospital. They would not let us drive in, we had to walk these boxes in. We did it every day for a week, one box at a time.All of the people I talked to had messages to the American people.

They said:

"We did not attack you! We have done nothing to the Americans. Why have you done this to us?"These are the people who hosted me, fed me, and worried about my safety. They took care of me and I will never forget their generosity, compassion and grace. They want peace with America and they want the fighting to stop. They feel they are the ones being attacked and that the Americans are the terrorists. They see absolutely no justification for this war and were constantly asking me to explain how the American people can support these acts against a civilian population.

For the first time in my life, I was ashamed to be an American.There are so many more stories to tell you and I will be making a film about it all. But for now, what I want you to know is that I spent two weeks in the heart of the beast. The place where our government and media said is the heart of the resistance, terrorists, and Saddam Loyalists, and guess what; the place is full of people. People like you and me. Kids are everywhere.

The average Fallujan family has 10 people in it. That means about 8 kids. 500,000 people in the city, you do the math. That is a lot of kids.There are fighters in Falluja. That is a fact. But they are surrounded by some 490,000 innocent people. As a country, we have decided the damage to the innocents is worth the end result, whatever that may be. These people are being shattered by this very serious situation that they have no control over. They are the innocent victims of this war.

I cannot tell you what to do. This is a story of just one area in Iraq. These stories are all over the area we call the Sunni Triangle. But I was there and lived with these people and they taught me about love, forgiveness, truth and compassion.

They, after all that has happened to them, still have the ability to differentiate between the acts of an enemy and the people of a nation. They cry out to us to save them from the ignorance that has brought this destruction on them. They have suffered 33 times 9/11.

Over 100, 000 Iraqis have died at the hands of the American invasion (note 2) and still they say that they have nothing against the American people. This is grace. I learned from these people how to find peace. By deeply listening to my "enemy" I have found that the real enemy is ignorance and fear and acting from that place of weakness.

I will never forget the people of Falluja. Thank you for listening to them.

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This is that which agrees with the final reality of what our nations leaders are doing…and what, in our silence we support.

Pride and arrogance precede every downfall.

The USA's Tragic Withdrawal From the Rule of Law: Pentagon Confirms Unilateral Pre-emptive Strikes Are Now U.S. Policy
By Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D., 03/24/05 "ICH" - -

The Pentagon has released a new strategic plan that explicitly endorses unilateral preemptive strikes.
[1] This is yet another indication that the Bush administration is dramatically accelerating away from longstanding doctrines that are upheld by both general international law and seemingly-important transatlantic coalitions like NATO.
[2] Alarmingly, this plan also equates respected international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, with ... terrorism. According to this sentence from the Pentagon's new strategic plan, the Pax Americana Imperium's overwhelming military and economic strength somehow is being "challenged" by "a strategy of the weak": "Our strength as a nation state will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak focusing on international fora, judicial processes and terror."
[3] The entire world must be wondering WHY the Pentagon's wildly-irrational language conflates diplomatic and legal challenges to US policy in international forums with terrorism? It's bad enough that the scofflaw Bush administration has resorted to grossly mischaracterizing Western civilization's time-honored international conflict-resolution methods as "challenges" which MUST BE DETERRED AS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Nevertheless, it gets even worse. During a Pentagon news conference on 3-18-05, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith removed all doubt about the fascistic nature of these new policies when he clarified points from the document, titled "The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America." Quote the wild-eyed Feith: "There are various actors around the world that are looking to attack or constrain the United States, and they are going to find creative ways to do that, that are not the obvious conventional military attacks.... We need to think broadly about diplomatic lines of attack, legal lines of attack, all kinds of asymmetric warfare that various actors can use to try to constrain, shape our behavior."
[4] Consider Mr. Feith's absurdly-hypermilitarized Orwellian conflations, which are either criminally stupid or deliberately evil:
(1) he defames diplomacy and adjudication by unjustly conflating them with insidious methods of "attack"; and
(2) he inexplicably conflates any "actor" -- whether individual, group, or national -- who contends that America must honor its treaty obligations with "asymmetric warfare" against the USA, despite the fact that duly-ratified treaties are "the supreme law of the land" under Article VI of the United States Constitution! So ... let's see if we've finally gotten our new national-security policy straight:

A) the Bush administration declares that it has a unique "right" to engage in a legally-standard less "preemptive/preventive" war against anyone, anywhere, anytime, even if it merely feels subjectively threatened by the theoretical possibility that it might be "attacked" at some undefined place in the indefinite future;

AND B) any diplomatic or legal disagreement with the USA under international law is going to be construed as such an "attack" -- indeed, as a form of "asymmetric warfare";

ERGO C) the Bushites will inflict "preemptive/preventive" war upon any nation that attempts to "attack" the USA through a cheeky act of diplomacy or adjudication under the rule of law, which is henceforth deemed to be the substantive equivalent of an act of terrorism! Overarching Conclusions: Who's Guarding The Guardians? It says a great deal -- but nothing good -- about the USA's mainstream media that this Pentagon document and Mr. Feith's laughable-yet-fascistic clarifications were not subjected to intense questioning during the news conference, and to scathing journalistic criticism thereafter. Moreover, the Pentagon's outrageously-regressive strategic plan underscores the fact that Mr. Bush has chosen NOT to hold dysfunctional neocons, like Messrs. Feith and Rumsfeld, accountable WITHIN the rule of law. Rather, he's chosen to grant the neocons a second-term stranglehold over his national-security policy, evidently so they can withdraw the USA from the rule of international law BEFORE they begin another propaganda campaign for his next petro-state conquest. Furthermore, it's worth noting in this context that Untergrüppensführer Feith is:

1) the DoD's third-ranking civilian official, behind Rummy and Wolfe, who is primarily responsible for formulating new national-security policies;
2) the DoD official who was directly responsible for the shadowy "Office for Special Plans" -- an ultrasecret propaganda unit inside the Pentagon that concocted pre-war "intelligence" about Iraq's phantom WMD arsenals and nonexistent ties to al-Qaeda -- and who, for purposes of plausible denial,
disbanded the OSP after the invasion [5]; and
3) a longtime militarist, war-profiteer, and fundamentalist Zionist who has numerous ulterior motives for both withdrawing the USA from the rule of law and promoting wars of aggression against Islamic nations in the Middle East.
[6] The Bottom Line: Neofascism In Our Name? Americans ought to be asking themselves:
(A) whether we really want the Pentagon to be implementing its fascistic "national security" policies IN OUR NAME; and
(B) if NOT, why aren't we then creating a firestorm of public protest in opposition to these lunatic-fringe policies? Finally, you'll find more evidence, in endnote
#7 below, which proves, when taken as a whole, that the Bushites are withdrawing the USA from the overarching rule of international law because they regard it as a necessary precondition for more wars of aggression against petro-states like Iran, and then maybe Venezuela.
[7] ENDNOTES
1. John Hendren's 3-19-05 CD/LAT article, "Pentagon: Unilateral, Preemptive Strikes Now US Policy": http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0319-01.htm
2. A. Nicholas Davies' 12-31-04 OJ essay, "The Crime of War: From Nüremberg to Fallujah": http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/123104Davies/123104davies.html B. TJSL Professor Marjorie Cohn's 11-9-04 TO essay, "Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime": http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110904A.shtml
3. John Lumpkin's 3-19-05 CHB/AP article, "Terrorism Report Decries 'Strategy Of The Weak'": http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6428.shtml
4. Lumpkin, ibid.
5. A. Julian Borger's 7-17-03 GU special report, "The Spies Who Pushed for War": http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html B. Right Web's 2-11-04 special report, "Office Of Special Plans": http://rightweb.irc-online.org/govt/osp.php
6. Right Web's 9-3-04 special report, "Douglas Feith": http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/feith/feith.php
7. A. Jim Lobe's 3-11-05 CD/IPS article, "Bush's Unipolar World View Re-Affirmed" [Significant trends in Mr. Bush's second-term appointments -- like naming neocons John Bolton as his UN Ambassador and then Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank -- confirm both his unipolar worldview and his ongoing intention to pursue a unilateralist national-security policy that will be centered around "preemptive war."]: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0311-0
8.htm B. Evan Augustine Peterson III's 3-13-05 TPV essay, "US Withdraws From The Rule Of Law: Now Death-Row Foreigners Can't File International Appeals": http://liberty.hypermart.net/voices/2005/print/US_Withdraws_From_The_Rule_Of_L aw_Now_Death-Row_Foreigners_Cant_File_International_Appeals.htm C. Michael Leavitt's 3-14-05 FL essay, "Is the Bush Administration Repudiating International Law?" [Concludes that his titular question must be answered "yes."]: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/leavitt/20050314.html D. Tom Turnipseed's 3-15-05 CD essay, "A Scofflaw In The White House: Undermining Respect For Law" [Among other salient points, lists the many international conventions from which the Bushites have withdrawn the USA.]: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0315-25.htm E. Ray McGovern's 3-2-05 CD/TD essay, "Attacking Iraq: I Know It Sounds Crazy But..." [Explains the neocrazy groupthink under which the Bushites operate their Mideastern policy and why it's likely to manifest in war during their second term.]: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0302-31.htm F. Fabiola Sanchez's 3-16-05 USAT/AP article, "Chavez Followers Get Paramilitary Training": http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-03-16-venezuela-chavez_x.htm G. Stuart Munckton's 3-20-05 GLW essay, "Venezuela: Bush's Next Oil War?": http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/619/619p17.htm H. Davidson Loehr's 11-7-04 ICH essay, "Living Under Fascism": http://207.44.245.159/article7478.htm Author: Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D., is the Executive Director of the American Center for International Law ("ACIL"). © 2005 EAPIII

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You decide...we...the people!!!

The Unrighteous Servant

2005-10-10T16:21:00.000-04:00

By know you will have turned your ear from understanding...but listen to what the LORD your God has to say:

“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought before him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave the debt. But the servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii’s; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what he had done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. So my heavenly Father will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses. Matthew 18:23-35.

In the name peace and manifest destiny for the American people... those who somehow thought that through their suffering that they were more worthy because their suffering had made them so much more worthy...under the direction of its own government and its corporate backers... hundred’s of thousands of American Indians were slaughtered, murdered and killed outright with no semblence of due process of the law, as "The United States of America "pushed westward...towards the settiing of the sun...towards the going down of the light...towards the gowing down of God"s glory...towars the gowing down of "God's truth."

This nation too, incorporated the slavery of hundreds of thousands more Black Africans, many of whom died en-route, many more of whom were killed, beaten, whipped, raped, and worked to death…all in the name of progress and national interest. ..the innocent blood was shed. ..and the nation that produced themignores it as their atoninment for sin...going out, still again in search of more innocent blood to shed.

Because this nations leadership refuses the atonement of innocent blood...they have decided to sacrifice over and over, that which was finished with Christ...it can never wash its hands...no matter how much innocent blood is shed...because it will forever bear the guilt as a government of shame because it is the only way it can ignore the heart that it was meant to bear.

Each administration from now forward, will bear its mark in that shame, unless it repents of the deeds of its fathers...who taught it to do the same...let truth speak... I do not speak for myseld...but for all of our nation, O LORD

Corporate America has gone into every nation in this world and uprooted whole communities for the sake of this progress. Anyone speaking out or getting in the way through any type of resistance has been imprisoned or killed...evidence this in the despots and dictators we have supported and removed because they came to the truth.

This is the foundation that this country was built upon, despite all the lofty and noble words. This is the debt that is owed to the Master and no matter how hard we may have begged in the past for the Lord to have patience with us, he has done so already, as our song sings, "God shed His grace on thee."

Yet we have forgotten His mercy and the promises of His grace.

Instead we have become a nation of self-righteous individualists who point the finger at everyone in every nation who disagrees with us and the ideology which we attempt to impose. Those whose heart keeps them silent in the face of this evil are only attemptiong to hold onto what they have...to preserve their own life.

The Father now has to do what is just, for the sake of all those fellow servants who have become witnesses against us, our bretheren in sin, and have become grieved by the lack of our compassion that this nations leaders are now hell bent on demonstrating...despite their call for a kinder, gentler, more compassionate nation.

This is what agrees with the final reality…this is truth.

The death of over 100,000 Iraqi civilians: men, women, and children are considered collateral damage, and an acceptable number of casualties for the progress mentioned and the protection of national interests that is nothing more than the greed of a nation. The over half a million Iraqi children who starved to death under the U.N. sanctions imposed before this war began was considered to be an acceptable number by the players of the political landscape. Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Barbara Bush, George Bush.

Before even this, the sanctions imposed at the demands of the U.S. caused the starvation deaths of over 500,00 Iraqi , men, women and children. The bombings that began against this population began well before George "W." Bush ever took his oath of office.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable: Aldous Huxley

Passion and redemption were probably essential parts of our parents' religious experience. But I believe it would be wiser and more humane in our 21st century to reflect upon the sins of our little human gods, those evangelicals who also claim we are fighting for "good" against "evil", who can ignore history and the oceans of blood humanity has shed - and get away with it.

O LORD, hear my cry unto Thee...see my tears for those who have fallen before me...and when I fall, know that I fall for all of those who came before me...those who were considered last, LORD, are those who were first before me...and now it is LORD, that I fall too...it shame for what I believed.

Americans supported this in every way by keeping silent, by consuming goods that they have grown dependant upon, by consuming oil and gasoline at a rate that is anything but conservative, by paying taxes into a system that is more ruthless than any other empire that has gone before it.

While we render unto Caesar what is due Caesar, we also render unto “In God We Trust.” How can two faces be on the same coin unless one face considers itself to be the same as the other? ...Do not believe in that!!!

Satan has certainly grown more bold and has learned how to manipulate here. We allow our system to feed us the treasures that we continue to desire and covet and even crave, heaping them to ourselves at the expense of countless innocent lives, convinced that we are in need of them to sustain the American way of life while other nations whither under our greed.

These treasures are produced by greedy corporations who employ labor in other nations at anything but a living wage. They reap the worldly rewards as America's insatiable demand for cheap, quality goods has caused the suffering of many a poor nation.

And yet...we are still without our chastisement.

That should make you whither and tremble with fear.

[We allow ourselves], those who call themselves Christian, to be deluded into thinking we are more deserving somehow of God’s grace and abundance, and because we think we are righteous, and that we will be going to heaven when we die. We allow ourselves to be diluded into thinking that it is our responsibility in the world to pass out judgments and vengeance on our fellow nation servants, taking them by the throat, throwing them in prison, conquering, pillaging, looting and robbing, after this nation’s debts to God have so graciously been forgiven.

How do we do this?

We do this because those who were set in place to teach us have taught us such...the religious order of the day...and yet...it is not by their own hand...it is by the freewill of our own selves that has allowed it...we cannot pass blame.

By supporting the purveyors of this violence who bring us our goods, we evidence in our own hearts that is our own comfort that we desire over everything else...even if it means destroying another people...even if that people be our own...Chritianity as we would like to have it, but does not in anyway reflect God's will for it.

"God shed His grace on thee"…why?

...because we have been so abominably wicked...not because we have been so righteous...for righteousness needs no grace.

We allow ourselves to feel as a nation, that we, of all people can be the moral voice of the world...that America reflects the Israel of the past...but wereas Israel of the past was chosen...it was because of their ignorance...we have God's word...and Christ's gospel...so what is our excuse.

And yet, we allow ourselves to be led to reject the empathy and compassion necessary to reflect what has been given to us. We allow ourselves, as a nation, to determine and define the poverty of other nations according to a standard we have been fed from our infancy, and by the abundancy provided, by the purveyors of this evil notion.

We have forgotten our own poverty.

In our abundance, we wag our finger at nations less fortunate. And yet, our outward show of moral self-righteousness is only a false covering of the pride for the sins that fester deep in the soul of our nation, helping us to believe the lie that we are better than all other nations in some way.

We may like to think we are noble and righteous and good because we have abundance...but there are countless lost lives that cry out in testimony against what we would like to believe about ourselves.

The parable of the unjust servant that was spoken by Jesus Christ is the truth about whether we can or can’t lose the salvation we all hope in...the forgiveness received. It depends on what we do with the grace we were given as to whether we will enter into the kingdom of God...the promised land.

If we use it based on what we consider to be our own righteousness, we will lose it...but if it is according to God's righteousness, that tells us that we still fall short of His own righteousness then we can gain through the humbleness that it offers.

No empire nation who has gone before us has had the privaledge of doing that...
because they exalted their ways over God's ways...their nation over the rest of the nations of the world...whom God so loved. So why do we desire to follow them?

There were over 600,000 Israelites who fled Egypt in the days of Moses. All but two who left out of that sin world died in the wilderness without ever seeing the Promised Land. One was Calab...whose name means boldness...and the other was Joshua...which means , God is my salvation.

All Christians who were born again, or remain obedient throughout the ages risk dieing in this wilderness of self-righteousness without ever obtaining the heavenly support simply because they refused to take hold on it...they refuse to face and speak and live the truth about their present day reality…to face the reality of ourselves… to speak out against injustices committed in our name…or any other name...to live according to the righteousness that Christ showed us in courage(boldness) and strength (salvation). that entered into the kingdom of God before we were ever born.

Like sheep being led to the slaughter, we refuse to learn the truth for ourselves, preferring that it be given by another. But be damned sure that the other that we hear from is of the same character as that of Moses, who cared for his people, and was not concerned for himself only.

In our ignorance, we remain silent, following the prince of the air, the ruler of this world which is after the workings of Satan. But we fail to seek those in whom would give up their lives to lead us. We say..."they are not qualified"...Instead we give our lives over to the ones who set a price upon it. This in effect makes them hierlings, whose care for the sheep is based upon what the sheep will give to him or her as in a salary to provide for their comfort. The Good Shephard asks for nothing, except the sheep follow His God

Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams

True Liberty is what allows us to continually move forward, freely, away from our own righteousness, our own traditions, and towards the righteouness that comes through God by the truth that will change us...Hugh Lipsius

"Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds that there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves." Eugene Victor Debs - From an address on Industrial Unionism delivered at Grand Central Palace. New York City, Dec. 18, 1905.

If you have faith as a mustard seed, you would be able to say to this mountain, be thow removed from here unto there and it would be removed. Matthew 17:20

America's Superpower Is About to End ( By the prayers of all who have faith)
By Gwynne Dyer 03/30/05 "Cincinnati Post" - -

Assume that the people who run defense and foreign policy in the Bush administration are as ferociously intelligent as they think they are.What would their grand strategy be?

The very phrase "grand strategy'' has an antiquated ring; ( it is from of old as the devil and Satan) Enlightened modern opinion rejects the notion that relations between the great powers are just a zero-sum game. But this is a group of people who are steeped in traditional ( of old)modes of strategic thought: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley and Condoleezza Rice would all have worked quite comfortably for Cardinal Richelieu or Count Bismarck. Because it is the poiwer they crave that is their desire.(Whether they would have been hired is, of course, another question.)

They are, in addition, patriotic Americans who are firmly convinced that U.S. power is an instrument for good in the world. And they all know that the days of the United States as the world's sole superpower are numbered.They must know it. They cannot be unaware of the statistics the rest of us know:
a Chinese economy that has been growing over twice as fast as the U.S. economy for almost two decades now, and an Indian economy that has been growing at around twice the U.S. rate for almost a decade already.And they surely understand the magic of compound interest.China's economy will overtake that of the United States in one long generation if current trends continue. (Goldman Sachs predicted in 2003 that Chinese GDP would surpass that of the U.S. in 2042.)

India, starting later and growing slightly slower, will not reach the same milestone for a further decade or more, but both Asian giants will be nipping at America's heels long before that. And economic power is the source of most other kinds of power.

Per capita income in China and India will still be much lower than that of the United States, but it will not be that low: Goldman Sachs predicts a Chinese per capita income in 2042 comparable to that of Western Europe today. Combine this wealth with populations that will be three or four times bigger than that of the United States in the 2040s, accept that there is unlikely to be any remaining innovation gap, and Washington will be facing a formidable pair of strategic rivals.

Most people are not panicked by this future because they assume that there will no longer be a Communist regime in China 35 years from now, and they know that India is a democracy already. There is nothing in either country's history or current behavior to suggest that they would behave less responsibly than the existing great powers have done (though admittedly the bar has not been set very high). But seeing the United States reduced to only one great power among others cannot be a prospect that appeals to American strategic thinkers of a traditional bent - so what is their grand strategy for averting it?

They must have one.

Paramount powers facing relegation always have one, although it rarely stays the same for long and it never, ever works.

In the past four centuries we have observed three other "sole superpowers'' of the age slide down the slope of (relative) decline - Spain, France and then Britain - and none of them even came close to solving the problem: economics trumps everything else in the long run.

People who search for a long-term strategy in neo-conservative policies invariably end up thinking there is none, but that's because they are looking for coherence. They expect too much. When strategists are confronted with an insoluble problem, they generally try to solve it anyway, and they are not above using irrational assumptions to stick the bits of rational analysis together.

Great powers on the brink of decline typically have incoherent and foredoomed strategies to ward off their fate, simply because no better strategies are available.

"I have not become His Majesty's first minister to preside over the dissolution of the British empire,'' Winston Churchill harrumphed in 1940 - but from the Spanish armada of 1588 to the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt in 1956, the flailing efforts of paramount powers to ward off impending demotion from "superpower'' status have generally just hastened the process.

How might this apply to the senior people inside the Bush administration?

Some of them clearly believe exactly what they say, no matter how simplistic and delusional it may appear to outsiders, but others genuinely are strategic thinkers. These people will not speak in traditional power-political terms in public - instead they will use the "terrorist threat'' or any other excuse that comes to hand to justify their strategies - but they know about the coming erosion of American power and they will be desperately seeking ways to avoid it.

Is the invasion of Iraq, and the whole project of resurrecting Pax Americana that lies behind it, just such an attempt to head off impending relative decline by putting the U.S. back in the global driving seat, as much the "leader of the free world'' as it was in the halcyon days of the Cold War?

Very likely.

Will it work?

Don't be silly. It never works: economics rules, and there is no way of stopping China and India from catching up with the current Lone Superpower short of nuking their entire economies.

And no: I don't think they'd do that. But their little adventure will almost certainly have the long-term effect of hastening America's relative decline. That sort of strategy usually does.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent columnist.
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The Faith Once Delivered Unto the Saints

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By now you might be wondering what all this means. Well, let there be no mistake that it has been written and chronicled all down through history starting with the fall of man. But a testimony by God, as to how He shall defeat the “first of nations” through out the generations was spoken by God to Moses for the remembrance of Joshua and all who are saved.

"Do not think for a moment Satan, that we do not recognize who you are...because we do...and we (this generation) will reveal your character to all who will listen, every chance we get... and why?...because you have fooled us for too long...but we will not let you deceive us anymore...so get ready Satan...you and all who still believe in you...for we...who know the truth, who are weak, and are now strong... we will, as the brightness of the coming of the LORD, with His truth, destroy you, sending you into your abyss forever...you can no longer deceive us with your lies...because there are enough of us who know the truth...history has taught us...and we will not be afraid to speak it...and to implore others to accept it...and speak it too...and we will continue to preach it and let history prove what we say...until there are enough of us to say...get back of me, you devil...for you are nothing but lies that speak to our desires...which we now no longer have because you overwhelmed them with your desire to be worshipped.

It is a good and grateful thing that this generation...who came out of self righteousness...and can have for their posterity...a huge generation of aging men...who are able to teach the younger generation of our folly and hope that they will learn...that we are many, even if they are not...and we are strong...in the weakness you tried to cause us, you have made us so...an this is what we give to those who come after us...and after you...who all come after our LORD of righteousness...the example of our errors...and not our righteousness...for we have none that is like unto Thee, our God...Our only hope is that they, our posterity, will credit their own mistakes to themselves...as we have done...AMEN

So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge (literally “tongue’) of the sword (of truth). Then the LORD said to Moses,” Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” And Moses built an alter and called its name, The-LORD-Is-MY-Banner; for he said, “Because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

In order to fully understand what this means it is important to understand who Amalek and his people were in their time, Because while this people may have been blotted out of remembrance, the character of who and what they represent, is why God has said he will have war with the likes of them from generation to generation. Exodus 17:13-16.

The Amalekites were first among nations. They were the super power of the day. They made war with those who were at rest, the recently liberated nation of Israel.

Then he looked on Amalek, and he took up his oracle and said:

“Amalek was first among the nations,
But shall be last until he perishes.” … Numbers 24:20.

The name Amalek means warlike, so the very nature of its people were warlike in their conduct. They were the first nation to come up against the people of Israel, making war against them to fight while Israel was at a place called Rephidim, which means “rests,” a stop along the way shortly after their exodus from Egypt.

So while the infant nation of Israel, newly emerged from the slavery of the sinful world of Egypt, was at a place of much rest after their great ordeal, they were attacked by the warlike and powerful nation of the Amalekites. These Amalekites dwelt in the land of Edom, and Amalek was a chief of Edom which was the name given to Esau, the older brother of Jacob who sold his birthright for a piece of meat (flesh) and whose people became cursed by God. They were mountain dwellers, which is figurative for dwellers in pride and arrogance, looking down upon the rest of the world before them. They lived in arrogant self-righteousness.

Today it is not much different...the U.S rides roughshod over the Nation of Israel with its roadmap for peace...but it has kept Israel at war for the same 50 years... that they have once again become as a nation. ..but not yet a nation.

But I doubt Israel will be deceived for long...They have grown...not in numbers...but in strength through their chastisement they received when they were dissbersed.throughout the nations...they are not any longer so easily deceived...despite what they may appear...they have learned finally that their destiny belongs to God..who is not a government of man. The nation of Israel is merely using the United States to defeat its enemies...and if the United States was a true Son...once they were defeated, Israel's enemies that is...the United States will hand them over to Israel to rule...this will be the true sign of sonship to a contrary nation, and the beginning of a true, "New World Order." Like it, or not!

But history syas that we will not hand our power over to a foreign nation...and yet..we will prolong the wars..in order that it should not have to...if America does...I will follow it as God's kingdom come on earth...in the physical sense.

This is the character of the nations that the LORD has sworn to defeat from one generation to the next. Whomever sets themselves up as first among nations will have to have war with God, and will be defeated by the same tongue of the sword of truth that defeated the Amalekites by the hand of Joshua when the Israelites were attacked by them at Rephidim. See Exodus 17:8-16.

Perhaps, in our self-righteousness, through our strong defense of the physical nation Israel, we as a nation will become defeated., depleted in our efforts to defend them. And in this way, the scarlet thread, that encircles itself around the strong, will owe its victory to those whom God chose to be a people after His own name...despised and weak.

O,Irony of ironies, as the writer "J" would have understood.

If you have ever played a game when you were young, called “King of the Mountain,” then you understand that the object of the game was to knock everyone else of the mountain in order to maintain the top as king. However, it was also the object of everyone who was not king to try and remove the one who was king from his place and take over…to knock him off until you were able to step up, or someone else, more powerful stepped up ahead of you. This is the position that Amalek and now America find themselves in. Through their greed, pride, and arrogance and self-righteous ways each rose to the top to become first of nations, attacking what they thought to be a weaker nation at rest with the direction they were going. The effort is to be the king of the mountain…a place where it is only Christ’s right to be.

If you wanted to subdue all other nations, you would first desire that they be conquered by your enemies, in order that you not have to fight them...in this way...when all other nations have become weakened...you could merely step up as King.

And so it is with the impurities found in unrefined gold. As the gold is heated to melting, the impurities or dross float to the top, fighting everything to get there in their effort to rise to the top.

They are then skimmed off.

But someone has to first start a fire that heats the unrefined ore.
The first shall be last...and the last shall be first.

The last nation to defend Israel, shall be as the first, in that they saw a nation at rest that needed their prideful strength to defend their freedom...but in the end were defeated because they thought they were the God of Israel for its protection....and because of this...they became the first ones to start the fires of judgment that made them last in the eyes of God.

Is this the position you would like to be in? Speak out then.

Who fought alongside Joshua in this battle against the Amalekites? Was it the men of another nation? No, it was men from within her own wandering nation...but for the rest of the history of Israel's captivity...nations went up against nation for her defense...or captivity...each one taking her captive in its turn...and each one submitting to her defense in the end... then to her God...the God of Israel...by design or by deceit.

Certainly when Moses sent Joshua to “choose some men,” Joshua looked for men in whom he was able to recognize the same character that he found was a necessary element to fight this corrupt and cursed nation.

These were men that believed in the cause for which they fought and believed it was the will of God that it be done, men who could use effectively the edge…or tongue… of the sword of truth. They had seen the great things that God had done to the Egyptians and were not afraid of any man.

Certainly the whole of Israel did not fight, but only “some men.” They were not superior in force, but superior in the faith delivered unto them by seeing and believing the LORD God Almighty.

Joshua chose men who were of the same or similar character as He because these he would be able to easily recognize, even if he could not recognize Him in himself. He would know them by the words that came from the abundance of their hearts spoken by the faith which they held, and then acted upon. They would be willing to go.

While Joshua fought against Amalek as God's instrument for their defeat, Moses (rescued from out of the water) went up to the top of the hill with Aaron and Hur, (brightness and splendor), and seated himself there on the rock of faith. In his (Moses) hand he held the rod of authority, the word of God, and his arms, when they grew tired were held up by the brightness of justice, and the splendor of mercy. Moses depicted God sitting as king seated on His throne upon the hill for all to see. No one else but the LORD could sit there. Not on a high mountain, but on a humble hill. His arms were outstretched as the crucified Christ as if to embrace all those whom God gave to him. And as long as Joshua could look upon God as being “King of the hill,” then Amalek could be defeated.

As long as Joshua could see that the hand that held the rod of God’s authority was held up, then Joshua prevailed. If, however, that hand was let down, then Amalek prevailed. But the brightness of justice (Aaron) and the splendor of mercy (Hur) supported those hands until Joshua defeated Amalek.

And so it shall be today.

Any nation or even worldly religion that sets themselves up on that mountain as first of nations have, as ruler and supreme authority over other nations of the world, usurped the authority that belongs to spirit and truth, mercy and grace, patience, kindness and goodness, sitting upon the Rock of ages... and whose hands are held up by the brightness of his judgements, and the splendor of His mercy...for this is the Almighty God who is enthroned upon the humble hill for men to see.

What further exposes these usurpers to the superior position of world leader is the use of violence and corrupting lies. How many wars have been fought and how much blood has been shed even in the name of religion...twisting what has been normally accepted as truth and righteousness, and misapplying it to their own way in order to suit the purposes of expanding their will over others.

The coming of the lawless one

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“The coming of the lawless one is according to the workings of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For any antagonist who is reading this, whether you are a politician or a general or a police officer or a judge or a stockbroker or a lawyer or anyone, understand that there is an underground movement of people in action. You may not be able to see it, but there is a grassroots organization of the independent that will not roll over and die. We want only what everyone wants, and that is the essence of liberty on which this country was founded. Every year we play by your rules, and every year the forces of evil overcome. But we shall never give up as long as there is a will to live, and life is the most precious thing we have. You label us a threat, and you condemn us to a stereotyped life of heresy, but one day “subverts will become politicians, and finally get the upper hand.” We will not prevail through violence or military aggression, but rather through a common understanding of peace, love and understanding.We will hound you with the truth about the corruption and violence that you practice. We are all and none of your common labels for us: peace freaks, beatniks, hippies or punks, leftists, liberals or whatever you have chosen for the day… rather a collection of sensible people who understand that your ways of suppression through an installation of fear and lies are no longer logical or effective. As the truth of your ways becomes more apparent everyday, we become stronger through solidarity. One day a revolution will come. A revolution of the mind. A new renaissance will triumph. It may not come in our lifetime, but eventually a reformed way of life will be necessary, as the pillaging of human spirit and the earth on which we live on becomes intolerable. As lightning spreads from the East to the West, so will this revolution of the mind. The stock markets and greed machines and mindless consumerism will come crashing down by the decadent hand of your own megaton corporate bombs. The only option after your demise will be ours, that being freedom. And in case you don’t know what that is. Freedom and liberty are what you have used as a cloak for covetousness in order to worship your images and idles of power, what you deceived us into fearing we might loose, but all the while you have done this, we have grown stronger, growing immune to that fear. We have learned from your mistakes. We have listened from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. And when you who have finally floated to the top as the impurity and imperfection of our race, and are finally skimmed off and discarded into the abyss, we are here, waiting to fulfill what has been predestined from before the foundation of the earth. We will be waiting to give vision for vision, teaching for teaching, loyalty for loyalty, love for love, and life for life. So take for yourself all you are able to hold. Fill yourself up now to fatness and overflowing abundance till your arms are so full you cannot hold another thing. And when you have done this, we will kick you in the knees until you stumble and are crushed by the weight of what you hold, and then return it to the ones you stole it from.

The demise of every Empire’s was brought about through internal decline as each one expanded out into the rest of the world until they came to nothing. In their effort to control, their lust for more power, their greed for control of the resources of the world in order to feed the prosperity of their own nations elite, many emperors and kings plundered the resources of their own nation until they had nothing left to squeeze from their own people, who eventually revolted, overthrowing the present forms of government in favor of one that better suited the people.

Decline came slowly and from within as a princely vision of egotistical destiny supported by religion of some sort, substituted for good old fashioned ethical politics that favored those who were governed. Outward morality of the self-righteous type became a royal image to be presented to the people in an effort by some to appear as gods…but inwardly, lusts and greed ruled their heart and eventually the hypocrisy was exposed by the truth. But not before lofty words were spoken to whole nations who bought their causes with blood and watched as the vision of its king brought these nations to ruin.

“Because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” Exodus 17:16

America is not the first nation-empire to think that it has a destiny to rule the world…it is in crowded company. But just as this destiny may one day be fulfilled, so too will the words that God spoke to Moses for a memory of Joshua in the book.

Today this nation , the United States of America, goes out to conquer, to destroy, to rape, pillage, plunder, and rob…all for the lofty and noble cause and a vision by its Commander-In-Chief of a world governed by democracy with America as the enforcer of the rule of law.

But this nation will be destroyed by its own vision. The plunderer will become the plundered, the conqueror, the conquered…blessings will be turned to curses and America will take its place in a long list of nation-empires who have gone before it.

It will have its place in the history books…but so does Babylon…so does Hitler…so too will George w. Bush, Pax Americana, democracy, neo conservatives, the moral majority and all who set themselves up as the self-righteous voice of America and the world in substitution for God and the worldly empire they attempted to dictate from.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any doctrine, whether religious or secular, that relies on force or fears to establish it, is a false doctrine. If it is not willingly embraced with a voluntary compliance to adhere to its precepts, then it is a doctrine of devils. No one can force upon another a way of life and expect them to willingly adhere to its methods.

Eventually the force will fold back upon the enforcer because eventually fear will be overcome, and the masses forced into compliance will revolt as they see and understand the hypocrisy of the craftsman of this folly.

In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
And I didn’t speak up because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me,
And by that time there was no one left to speak for me.

Poem by Rev. Martin Niemoeller called ‘First They Came for…’

“Even now all created things declare the glory of His excellence. There is nothing, except the selfish heart of man that lives unto itself. No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that walks upon the ground, but ministers to some other life. There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly blade of grass, but that has its ministry. Every tree and shrub and leaf pours forth that element without which no man nor animal could live; and man and animal, in turn, minister to the life of tree and shrub and leaf. The flowers breathe fragrance and unfold their beauty in blessing to the world. The sun sheds its light to gladden a thousand worlds. The ocean, itself the source of all our springs and fountains, receives the streams from every land, but takes to give. The mists ascending from its bosom fall in showers to water the earth, that it may bring forth and bud. Ellen White from “The Desire of Ages”

However, man is still attempting to create himself, in the image that he would like to be in order to sit as king of this world to rule over its people…the usurpers to God’s throne...he has yet to discover that he is mortel...he has yet to discover that he is merely and simply, man.

When Jacob brought his family down to Egypt to live, because of Jacob’s son, Joseph, Pharoah, the ruler of Egypt at that time gave Israel the best of the land, the land of Goshen. Israel was to remain in their portion as shepherds of sheep, something the Egyptians found to be an abomination because a shepherd leads his flock rather than lord over them, understanding that this flock is part of God’s creation...this is something that those who are in darkness have yet to fathome.

But rather than do this, stay in their own place and do what they were instructed to do, the people of Israel intermingled and intermarried with the Egyptians.

For many decades there was a peaceful relationship between the people of Israel and the Egyptian rulers…that is until one ruler came along who let his fear of the multitude of aliens in the land cause him to forget the peaceful coexistence that Egypt shared with Israel. The face of Pharaoh changed from one of recognition of the contributions of these aliens to one of fear of them. And because of his fear, he enslaved and oppressed the people who shared his land. He did not acknowledge Joseph’s descendents as legitimate residents of Egypt even though they had lived in Egypt for several hundred years. The leaders of this nation view all other nations and people, to be as Pharaoh viewed Israel and his people.

The Face of Fear

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Fear has a way of changing the faces of rulers...and their people. Their class has struggled to get to where they are, to gain the power that they have, to consolidate it, to hold onto it, and they fear many enemies both real and perceived. They forget the contributions that were made by the people who inhabit the land, considering them illegitimate inhabitants. Anyone who is not like the rulers in their thoughts and loyalties, are considered to be outsiders, not in the loop, no matter how many generations they have abided in the land. These rulers own perverted minds create enemies and fear if need be and despite what everything else shows to the contrary, will pursue a course of action against themselves, against their perceived enemies, in an effort to control or eliminate any real or perceived threat or enemy.

This fear eminates from the power that rules the head of most rulers who have become taken in by the power their position carries. They sit as “king of the mountain” and often fail to realize where their power comes from. ..by whose hand it was given.

Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
And the devil said to Him, "all this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.
Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be yours.
And Jesus answered and said to him, "Get behind Me , Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.' "

Their course of action of those who have given their worship over to Satan, or as Satan would have it, then becomes to sell their loyal followers on the notion of fear, that another people have become strong enough to overthrow their lives and need to be dealt with shrewdly and harshly. They fear that these people living in their land will join together with another enemy in the event of war to fight against them and go up out of the land which they presume to control.

It is the reason why empires are built in the first place…in order to secure the loyalties of other nations for the security of the empire builders... as agents of the devil.

And so they multiply the burdens on these people which have the effect of producing exactly what they feared to begin with. Strong armed tactics, intimidation, segregation of the classes, menial jobs, racial profiling, bigotry, hatred, prejudices, imprisonment, oppression…these are the tools that are used to enslave a particular people living in a society, and the means to create a bitter empire.

The fear that these men nurture, is what will be the agents for their own destruction in the end...but not until they have drawn everyone in that they can. When all others who have been drawn in are destroyed, then the worst fears of these men are realized, destroying them with double the fear that they used to destroy with.

In America today, value is placed on its citizens according to our ability to produce and consume. The more you are able to do either, the more you are valued. Those who are not able to do either are increasingly seen as burdens on society. This class often includes those who are relegated to the fringes of society, as well as the weakest, the oldest, and the infirm.

As individuals, we are dependant upon the greatest producers, who as taskmasters over us, place heavy burdens of fear upon us in order for them to appear as though they provide us with what they have set themselves over us to provide.

Utility companies, grocery suppliers, automobile enterprises, loan agencies, insurance companies, tax collectors, etc. All dipping into what we would wish and desire for thosewho are less fortunate.

Of course, this has provided our nation with the basic needs in a somewhat civilized manner for those who can afford it, so as not to have utter chaos in the taking of it. But it has created a greater dependency of more people on a smaller percentage of suppliers, that are then able to manipulate the actions of the population with the goods and services that they provide.

Greed and lust for power have taken over the minds of these great producers as world consumption according to need continues to grow.

Great cities have been erected that have in them all the necessities of life…or so we are led to believe. Instead they are merely a better means to control the masses and the commerce needed to supply its needs for the enrichment, abundance, and worldly wealth of the few.

What happens then as these great producers get greedy for more? What happens when the resources we were led to become dependent on begin to run out or become hoarded to manipulate their price? Or that soveirgnty of nations takes control of over the gluttony of the manipulators?

The general masses will still be required to labor for the producers who supply their wants and needs. The laborers will still be required to produce as much in order to satisfy the greed of the suppliers who manufacture the goods through the labor of the laborers.…only these laborers will be asked to do so…or forced to do so if necessary…with less and less of what they need in order to sustain a particular way of life...because as the supply of raw material dries up, the cost of obtaining these materials becomes greater...and no merchant will be able to cut that cost...so he will cut the wages of his laborers in order to maintain his profits. He will always want to be sitting fat and happy...the world be damned.

The ones who control everything will not be satisfied to control less. Their greed for power and wealth will not diminish. Like a sickness, an addiction, they will not relinquish anything even at the expense of the suffering of all the people who are asked to produce them for less of what they need to sustain themselves. We then begin to sacrifice the wellbeing of our families, our homes, our very lives, because certain few could not be happy with less. And as this problem becomes world wide, as greed for money and power escalates, wars will begin to destroy what everyone holds dear so the fewer can have what they continuously crave.

What makes this so sad, is that the alcoholic, or drug addict in the street, at the bottom, exposed to the most misery, who sees suffering everywhere, will be marginalized as an outcast from society, labeled a sinner because he cannot bear any longer to look upon this misery. His chemical addiction will become a source of shame, keeping his head hung down low, while those whose addiction is to power and greed exalt themselves even further upward.

And because these people have been led to believe a lie…that these man-gods are somehow agents of God looking after their needs, that they are in control of the world, that they are the only ones who can save us, or govern us, that they are somehow strong enough to overcome...or too strong to defeat...the masses will continue to turn to them for help, even when they learn that they won't get any.

The people who support them will not speak out against them for long, even when they know what is being done in their name is wrong, because their own children are at home expressing their desires and needs, but rather will do their bidding until they drop from old age, exhaustion, starvation, sickness or death.

Pharaoh’s only fixed principle was to hold onto power for himself…to gain as much control over it as he could in his lifetime for the sake of his posterity and for a legacy unto himself...and it is no different today.

In all of 6000 years, the nature of man has not changed.

Once power over a nation, or a people, or a community is gained, or once a nation becomes powerful, it is difficult for those who gained it or are in control of it, to be able to relinquish it. As a matter of fact, history has proved that these leaders, these false shephards, these wolves in sheep’s clothing, spend their time in an all out effort to gain more power, consolidating it to themselves so as not to loose it...so as to be secure. and comfortable above all other concerns for humanity.

And we call them public servants!!!

They are in a state of continuous preparation to protect themselves from loosing what they only presume belongs to them. Political manuvers, political opportunities, polotics of selfism.They will continue this strong hold to the very ruination of their own people as well as any people of the world...despite any generosity that they may show.

If the only fixed principle of the leaders of the world becomes gaining, consolidating, and holding onto power for themselves, what then of the people they rule? Would it not be in their own best interest to follow suit...every man for himself.

Certainly of course it is too much for one man to control everything. So, this one man delegates authority to men under him; large or small armies of men who have sworn their loyalty to this one man, or men of one mind, and each in turn adopts the same fixed principle.

The Iniquity of selfism abounds because there are no other real fixed principles. Certainly none that are according to the fixed principles of selflessly sacrificing ourselves for each other which God has taught and desires for His creation.

Take a look around...you'll find self- sacrifice at a premium comparred to selfism...and that is what agrees with the final reality of the world we live in today...despite the fact that there are over 6 billion people who profess some sort of religion or another that teaches us to be different than this.

In the eyes of God, selfism is not the fixed principle of His faithfulness…instead this is iniquity, which is simply the lack of the fixed principles of God…it is lawlessness. This type of leadership by men teaches the people who are ruled by it that it is every man for himself. You are only of value as much as you are able to produce or consume or consolidate for yourselves of the goods and services that are provided by the ones at the top for the purpose of their own safety, security, and well being. Everything flows upward and there is never anything left for the ones who are weak and infirm, the poor and neediest of the human race, those at the bottom who are counted as last, the ones Christ taught true Christians to care for the most.

Every man in turn, looks to the one who is lord over him and is drawn away from those who are after him. Our eyes are continuously fixated to the top of the heap for our own survival...and away from the bottom of the hill.

Why? And I will tell you...

It is because of the fear and greed of some, that they have made merchandise out of what is necessary to sustain every man for his day to day living. It's called commercial enterprise and is what capitalism is founded upon, and what now supports our system of governmental support.

If I make merchandise out of what you need to sustain your life...and you cannot pay for it by labor or by cash or by some means of your own...then you will die...it is the mark of the beast...and all will be forced to take it.

Yet, does anybody work so that others can have, expecting nothing in return? If we all did this, no one would be without. Instead everything has a price.

Sure, we may not have some of the things we now use for our comfort, but none would have to do without. Why then is this so hard to grasp? Would fear that someone might take more than their share have anything to do with it? And certainly that fear may seem legitimate...but so what if they do...it doesn't have to be allowed always.

No one gives freely of what they have been given freely of...and that is a principle that God says will work for everyone. So why don't we use it?

Well, because ther are those who by their greed have convinced us that this system is better.

Instead they take from the abundance which God has provided, heap it to themselves until there is nothing left but a demand for it...and then they sell it to whomever can pay their price. And anyone who can't they will gladly put into debt to themselves until they can no longer squeeze from them a dime...and then they will turn them out into the cold to suffer, and to die.

As this trend continues to get stronger, truth is avoided more and more.

“He shall hinder until He be taken out of the way.”

Only the brutal honesty of truth hinders the advancement of a lie. When truth is removed, when it is no longer spoken,it no longer restrains the lie. Oh, it is still lived and living, but it is denied at every turn.

What I have been writing will more than likely be discarded in a day by anyone who reads it...even though they know it's the truth. Instead they will prefer to go on living the lie because it is what they have grown accustomed to and it is easier for them...but all the while they do this, they may look down their nose at another and judge him a misfit according to his own standard.

Only those at the bottom…the weakest…know the truth and will not deny it. And as this bottom grows larger and larger…it unknowingly grows in strength. This is what the rulers fear the most. It is what justifies in their minds the heavy burdens that they lay upon this people in an effort to keep the masses down. However, all these heavy burdens serve to have the opposite effect of controlling the masses and instead create a bitterness that threatens to fuel rebellion.

It happens to every nation, whether rich or poor...but whether rich or poor is what determines on how long its leaders can prolong it.

In their desire to remain powerful, and in power, this nation’s rulers have “dealt shrewdly with Christianity, lest we multiply, and it happens, in the event of war, that we also join their enemies and fight against them, and go up and out of the land...they have attempted to overrule anything that allows for the furtherance of what our principles are and Who is credited for them...preferring to take this credit to themselves so as to appear "like gods."

They have set taskmasters (foreman) over us to afflict us with heavy burdens in order that we build for these leaders a storehouse for their treasures.”

Because of our own covetousness which tempts us at every turn, it is difficult to feed Christ’s sheep when we are enslaved to producing or consuming Pharaoh’s goods. This truth must be faced by Christians today. And yet, despite our affliction, we continued to grow and multiply.

“So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve (the Egyptians) with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage…in mortar and brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service with which they made them serve was with rigor.” Exodus 1:13&14.

Because so few people around you show any SINCERE and RELIABLE obedience to their profession of faith, your own SENSE OF OBLIGATION to Christ like character and virtue is diminished. You EXPECT LESS from yourself AND others; and so, like just one domino in the row, YOU TOO, fail to be consistent with your profession; thereby disappointing someone else, who then follows YOUR example. The social life among professing Christians has degenerated into a RAT RACE, in which the PROSPEROUS MAN and the BEAUTIFUL WOMAN get all the applause and attention. Church-Goers strive with each other for authority and reputation within their own group; and THESE are awarded to those who MINDLESSLY perpetuate whatever doctrine or program is already in place.

It's JUST LIKE the Godless world that you thought you WERE LEAVING when you joined the "church": BUT, because you are afraid to start "judging", you ACCUSE YOURSELF, you IGNORE THE OBVIOUS, and you end up doubting that you can ever know the truth. You ALREADY KNOW that if you "rock the boat", you will only be criticized AND rejected by those very people to whom you are looking for love and support.

Taken from the book,” The Great Dream,” by, Just Another Christian.

What no one seemed to notice . . . was the ever widening gap . . . between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway . . . (it) gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about . . .and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated . . . by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. . . Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'. . . must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. . . .Each act . . . is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone . . . you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' . . . But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. . . .You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father. . . could never have imagined." : From Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

BECAUSE iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. This is the falling away of the end times. The Great Apostacy!!! This “falling away” is what directly precedes the coming of the lawless one. It is why Christ says, “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith in the earth?”

Christ is not referring here to just any kind of faith, for there is certainly various types of faith that abound today…but rather, He is comparing it to the faithfulness of God, that was once delivered to the saints from the beginning. That type of faith has been in decline for nearly 2000 years. Apostacy was evident at the time the gospels were being written and nowhere in scripture does it say it gets any better.

“Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now, many antichrists have come, by which we know it is the last hour.

This was written nearly two-thousand years ago. How much more truth does it hold for today???...and yet you are still willing ... O Christian one...to continue down the same path as your forerunners as though they knew where they were going...but yet do you follow Christ?

Certainly we may pat ourselves on the back for the meager groceries we provide for the food pantry…but to be a loving Christian, how many are willing to take time out of our busy day to place those groceries on some poor souls table, and then invite them to be a part of our life…to concern ourselves with the wellbeing of the individual far and above simply providing a days meal for them. How many are willing to genuinely care for, and nurture those who need it the most, and not expect any reward or recognition for it.

How can we?

We are under the burden and yoke of selfism that is propagated by fear from the very ones we place in authority over us. We are so busy serving our own needs that we have no time to serve the truest needs of someone else.

Agapeo love… the active devotion to the welfare and happiness of the one who is loved…the love that gives without calculating the cost or reward, looking only to God for recognition. The love that loves to those who are unloved, unwanted, overlooked, and under fed anything resembling love.

Oh Lord, how then can we return to Your faithfulness in love? How can we throw off this yoke that binds us to the world and the rulers of the world, and remove the shackles of selfishness? Deliver to us, O Lord, Thy faith, and Thy faithfulness and put in our hearts the faithful way in which You showed our fathers, that we not be an abomination in Your sight. Give us the strength and courage to turn from the societal way that says “me first” and instead become unfashionable in the way we do things. Not only in filthy rags, O LORD, but in the cleaness of the garment You wore.

We must all look deep within ourselves and find that hidden portion that has been smothered under the cares of this present world, under the deceit of lies, under the pride of fear, reaching down and pulling out what is necessary for our salvation… that portion that Christ gave to each of us, “once and for all mankind.” We must begin anew to recognize the love and tenderness and compassion for each other that is of greater value than any thing we possess.

It begins with me, and ends with you. We cannot look any longer to the rulers of this world to do this for us…or be our example...they won’t! But that is not our excuse, O LORD!

We can no longer rely on the production and consumption of what they have to offer and instead, give of what we have, counting the loss of all things as dung for the betterment of our race as a whole.

This love is nearly extinct in Christendom today, but it still exists within us all. It may only be smoking flax, but it has not yet been fully extinguished. We must allow it to once again be fanned to a flame that burns brightly within and radiates outward to all who are in need…and we are all in need.

It is generally a given that when a people share some struggle together, that it brings to them a closer bond with each other...it is in the failure to have that mutual struggle, that people go off and find their independance from one another...they become distant in their self-sufficiency and no longer find a need for one another...but this is where the problems begin...now they are all in search of some cause to champion rather than each other...and each ones cause becomes more important than the cause of his neighbor...and for this reason, a society of people will enter a place called Babylon.

Take from us what you will O LORD, that we might have nothing left except to give what we are able to all those whom we love...and all those whom we do not even know.

The Lord of the flies

2005-10-10T16:15:00.000-04:00

We call it progress…the advancement of the human race towards its inevitable end. Yet, this progress comes at a cost, and the benefits of progress can only be appreciated by those who can afford it…those who have not been crushed under its weight. But for those who can’t, a wide swath of death and destruction , poverty and misery are left in its wake so that those who feed off of this progress can satisfy their lusts , their desires, their wants in lives that are continuously being improved for their own comfort. Selling our soul for a piece of meat. That is the cost, the price for progress.

Satan, translated, literally, means, “The Lord of the Flies…and this so called human progress is what allows him to prosper. The waste in human lives is literally consumed by a swarming mass of flies that feed off the human decay and filth left over by “progress.”

No one can say they are ignorant of this…you’ve seen the newsreels of human tragedy, poverty and suffering that takes place in so many parts of the world. 1.1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day, while a huge percentage of the world lives right alonside them in over abundance.

These places were the poorest of the poor eek out their squalerly existance, are generally shanty towns of misery right alongside the massive plantations and cities of the rich who feed the whims of the world that can afford their goods from the labor provided by the very poorest of the land, while these poor starve in the face of abundance.

The next time you sit down to your luxurious feast, think of this “Lord of the Flies” and the human suffering that went into providing it for you. Right here in America, migrant farm laborers struggle for survival, living in squalor as they attempt to eek out a living keeping our grocery stores filled with fresh produce. These are some of the better off laborers in human misery. And yet, they are not far from the misery experienced in the shanty towns that surround the wealthy plantations in Africa, where the laborers are paid even less, if at all.

Maybe you might think to say to yourself that it is by their own choice that these live as they do. while we do have some creative control over our lives, there are human characteristics of a very base nature by the ones who control the abundance that interfears very often, with the ability of those living on the edge to prosper.

This present system of support does not always consider that the playing field of survival is not always an equal field. There are many peaks and valleys on it, and it is not fair that those who are weakest should have to climb so high to receive what by nature, God provided for all to enjoy.

What value is placed on human life these days? Wars for land and riches, greed for money and comfort, ideologies that support no one except those who form them and the few who benefit from them.

What difference does it make to someone who is starving to death, whether they starve in the name of freedom, or totalitariunism, for Christianity, or Islam?

“We cannot simply possess freedom; we must constantly fight for it. (Not in the way the world fights, not with guns and wars, but so that it benefits all). We fight for it by putting it to good use and using it in the cause of truth.” John Paul II.

As progress continues to feed the Lord of the flies, many more will eventually succumb to its horrors. Many who are now experiencing the benefits of progress will be swept away by it as have over 70% of the world’s population. Make no mistake…no one is immune…no one is worthy to be left out of the death and destruction and crushing weight of power and greed. Huge armies and weapons of destruction have been constructed to ensure this. And if its going to happen to you, that you be swept away, it will happen whether you like it or not.

When will these soldiers who have been enlisted to do the bidding of the rich beat their weapons into plowshares to comfort and feed the poor?

A Great Tribulation must take place first. A great distress more terrible than the world has ever known. A darkness so dark will first come upon the earth. A darkness in which there is no light and all is misery. Not one we can see with our eyes...but one we will all know in our heart except for those who stand at the top of the heap. their misery will come later.

When God is completely taken out of the way…voluntarily mind you…and all men can sense it, that is what will be the cause of this greatest of all tribulation. A time when no man on earth can see the end, but that is all he can look forward to. It’s not far away. It’s nearer than you think and will overtake this world like a thief in the night, consuming all.

When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith in the earth?

The answer to that is, “No!” The faithfulness of God’s love will be gone from the earth…The faith that was once delivered to the saints when those who abided in it loved each other with a fervent love that transcended any difficulty…Self sacrificing love that gave everything and expected nothing in return. Love that spoke the truth to each other in encouragment for the tasks at hand.

Where is that love today? How few are willing to give it? How many more even can? How few enjoy it? It is nearly gone. It is being taken out of the world by progress and all who succumb are being eaten alive by The Lord of the Flies.

So how do we stop this madness?

Well, we can’t. But Jesus Christ can, and will, after the entire world comes to that realization. Like lightening out of the east, to the west, humanity must come to the realization that the only thing that can save it from destroying itself is self sacrificing love for one another. God’s faithfulness on a global scale. All will succumb to that…every knee will bend…and every head will bow to it. This is our Salvation and all will one day realize it. It’s greater than the salvation that we realized upon our conversion to the idea of it, when we came up out of Egypt, the sin world of lies we told ourselves to support our pride.

I suppose there are some who are waiting for this tremendous event, attempting to see it in a fleshly sense...maybe great miracles in the sky...but the heavenly message and the signs and wonders that are to eminate from Gods heavenly kingdom are within you just as surely as the kingdom of God is within each of us. We need only open the eyes of our understanding to see it.
Its a Kingdom of spiritual truth, of faith and love and hope. Some miracle for the pleasure of your senses will not open your eyes to it...God will not present himself to our flesh...but to open your understanding that He has given us everything necessary for our salvation...including His son, Jesus Christ...and if that is not enough, then what will one more miracle do?

We have wandered aimlessly in the wilderness for generations; we have allowed the golden calf to become our savior at the urging of a few, but the acceptance of the many. We have willingly allowed it to be made. Yet it has not saved us. We have sat down to eat and, drink and then go out to play. Many in this wilderness will have perished. Only the voluntary act of self-sacrificing love, the voluntary compliance to its principles, will save us.

But we are stiff necked people. We will not succumb to these principles until everything else that matters to us, everything we put ahead of love, every crutch that props up our pride, is stripped from us. When all is gone, sucked up by the selfish few, the few we mistakenly put our trust in, the few whom we relied upon to provide us with our needs, and to whom it seems our very existence hangs in the balance, only then will we realize that God’s ways are good. Only then will we go out to defeat the purveyors of greed and power by no longer desiring their goods. Instead we will plant our gardens, we will once again become fruitful people, bringing back to the world the abundance we once had.

There will be no more need for armies and weapons of mass extinction, because those who remain will understand the Godly principles we now reject. All others will have died in their wars.

It will become then a voluntary act. Only after” these things” are defeated in us will we see that they never brought us happiness, but rather only misery from the labor to obtain them, and the stress of maintaining them. Keeping up appearances for the sake of someone else in order to be accepted.

“These things” that are pleasing to the eyes, good for food, and able to make one wise; everything that appeals to our fleshly senses and removes us from the spiritualness of Godliness, Godly faith, and the appreciation of a simplicity that does not bind us to this life, our false religion of stuff, when they are removed and given a distance in our lives, we will, like Paul the Apostle, say they have become like dung and we will ask ourselves how we lived in the stress of producing and consuming it all...The blessedness of owning nothing, but possessing all.

As natural resources that go for the maintenance of life as we know it become more and more scarce, the cost of obtaining them will rise. As these costs rise, so will the cost of the goods they provide, and so will the cost of protecting them. Fewer and fewer will be able to afford their cost and the wake of human suffering that is left behind will continue to grow while those who produce these goods become more wealthy by the sale of them.

Progress. The Lord of the Flies will continue to devour its decay. All resource now goes for the continuation and defense of it. All humanity is now worthless compared to this defense.

The freedom of Democracy is not the same as the liberty that set the captives free which was accomplished by Christ at the cross. That liberty was not accomplished at the end of a sword, but was accomplished by the self sacrificing love of God and is to be a lesson in how we are to be saved.

“Therefore, if the Son of Man sets you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:36.
However, “Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it. For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. Brethren, let each one remain with God in the state in which he was called.”

Capitalistic progress makes slaves out of men. It causes them to take for themselves what is more than necessary for them to live. It causes them to become slaves to their own survival and comfort because there are those who control all goods and services necessary for survival. We labor for these things as the ones who provide them through our labor become enriched by our labors. And as these goods and services diminish, having grown dependant upon their use, we become slaves to the labor that is required for obtaining them…only the straw that is used to produce them will become diminished. The cost of everything will only go higher because our true human nature is covetous and desires comfort from our labors. We will be required to produce our quota of bricks for Pharaoh even though our supply of straw becomes diminished.

When will we stop this maddness and simply walk away from it all? Stop producing stuff, and begin replenishing the earth. Our eyes have become dazzled by what the world convinces us that we need to live. Our lives have become frantic harried messes in our efforts and attempts to keep it all under control. So why not simply end the madness and forsake everything as Christ asked us to do?

We will only do this if it is what everyone else does, so unless everyone does it, it doesn't make much sense for me to do it. I will be left out in the cold without any comfort or food to sustain myself. But then, where is our faith in what God has promised? That He will provide for us, and provide abundantly...it may only take a leap of faith. And then the Lord of the flies can no longer live for the waste and human misery will no longer be there to feed him.

This time is approaching, and there are already those who have taken this great leap of faith.
But the time will come when all men can see the futility of what this system supports.

"Come out of her My people, before you share in her sins and receive of her plagues. "(referring to Babylon the Great). Unfettered capitalism.

And this will bring about her demise.

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore. Revelations 18: 11
The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing. Revelations 18: 15
For in one hour such great riches came to nothing. Every shipmaster, all who trave by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance. Revelations 18: 17
They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, "Alas, alas, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate. Revelations 18: 18, 19.

And what will this "one hour" be. "As the lightenining comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."

The sudden realization of truth, that our system of producing and consuming stuff, things, merchandise, never brought us any true and lasting happiness, but instead created a world of poverty and misery will cause us to turn away from it, desiring it no more. This is all that is necessary for the end of the worldly oder to cease, because it depends upon our producing and consuming in order to keep it fat, and filled with its own self-righeous, self satisfaction of pride and arrogance.

The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the things which are rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more. revelations 18: 14.

It will not even be your desire to search for them

And what will be the demise to that system?

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great milestone and threw it into the sea, saying , "Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore." Revelations 18: 21.

We will destroy all that we thought was necessary to sustain our happiness and comfort, and no longer feed the lord of the flies.

The great multitude who threw the yoke of consumerism off from around their necks can now turn their hearts and mind in worship back to the loving God who showed them how to do it...and the great joy that comes from it.

After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God!
For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her." Revelations 19:1,2.

No longer will the distraction from our worship of merchandise interfear with our worship of the Lord our God. Amen

Babylon the Great (Harlot)...The Whore that Rides the Beast

2005-10-10T16:14:00.000-04:00

The government of the United States of America is no longer a democracy, but is run on capitalist interest which is a doctrine of self interest by the cause of national security and gain. It is a false doctrine of freedom, which enslaves people to themselves through consumerism as well as to the corporations that provide us with our labor.

Certainly for some this seems good…the ones who benefit the most… But for the majority of the world living paycheck to paycheck, what these few enjoy only increases the misery of the many. It is an angel of light that makes men captive to their own lusts while leaving a wake of human destruction and decay behind it.

Evidence this by the growing number of poorer nations in the world today, whose many people have become victims of corporate greed…A list that continues to grow.

"We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations."
Joel Bleifuss, In These Times magazine

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process."
Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 1907

"The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment."
Michel Chossudovsky, economist

"... the establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..."
Edward Herman, economist and media analyst

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."
General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant, 1935

“The so-called "defense" corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves.”
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author

" There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives."
Edward Herman, economist and media analyst

"True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress?"
Chief Luther Standing Bear, 1933
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"The United States does not have an automatic call on our resources. There is no mind-set that puts this country first."
Cyrill Stewert, Chief Financial Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Corporation

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency. "
David Korten, economist and internationalist

"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."
Abraham Lincoln, American president, 1861-1865

"The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations' favor. The consequence is a "race to the bottom" in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate."
Jeremy Brecher, historian and author

“Rollback [the destabilization and overthrow of Third World leftist-populist governments with right-wing governments] as a foreign policy ... causes untold devastation and misery for millions overseas, and hinders any potential positive U.S. influence in world affairs... To the extent the U.S. public backs rollback; this support is rooted in a misguided sense of patriotism. Patriotism itself - love of one's country and one's people - is a natural and reasonable human feeling. But patriotism which measures one's country by military superiority over all rivals regardless of consequence is irrational... There is surely a more rational form of patriotism that searches for excellence in social, economic, and moral spheres rather than in weapon systems. "
From the book Rollback by Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould

“With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. "
Michael Parenti, political scientist and author

The truth of the matter is, and what we as citizens support, is that this unfettered way of life that we are asked to sacrifice our all for, has become as a millstone around our necks. And until we are willing to cast it off, so shall it remain until it has crushed us to death.

Need I say more!?

Enter By the Narrow Gate

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There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 16:25

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13&14.

What is this way that seems right to a man, but whose end leads to death? Only a lie (which is sin) disguised as truth can seem right but lead to death. Following a lie can only lead to further lies. And once discovered, our shame sets up a pride that refuses to let the lie be exposed…and that causes us to die spiritually from our efforts to protect the lie…and is at the root of all violence and corruption.

Eventually, we even begin to believe the lie because in our pride we did not become lovers of the truth. This lie being today that democracy, and the extension of it to all nations, is about freedom and liberty. We are willing to die for that lie which we were sold while all the while it is about unfettered greed, self preservation, and self interest…that is the truth of the matter, and not believing it is the spiritual death of a nation. It is sold as love of country and patriotism.

All who oppose it are considered to be traitors.

There is another type of patriotism and love of country that loves the people of that country. No matter the cost. It is found in helping those who are desired by God understand the truth at the expense of being rejected, at the expense of recognition, at the expense of any gain for ones own self. Those who are willing to sacrifice all for the purpose of exposing the lie, even if exposing that lie costs them what is believed today to be freedom, understand what self-sacrificing love is.

Those who espose the lie risk imprisonment, torture, and even death for that cause as soldiers of truth, rather than soldiers of oppression. But, no greater love does a man have for his brother than to lay down his life for them. And though he may never see the fruits of his labor, he plants the seeds in hope that they will grow.

Truth has never been popular among the wealthy, because it exposes them as the frauds that they are, counting their lives in the abundance of what they posses...while exibiting an outward morality that creates shame in others...prove this to them...ask them to give up all their worldly things and see what is their response. And believe it when I say that worldly wealth does not belong only to the very richest...for all who share in the abundance of this wealth will find it difficult to do the same... no matter their portion.

Truth is an everyday reality though for the have nots. Today these haves stand at 30% of the world’s population, with 1% standing over them at the top of this heap of ruin...while the other 70% suffer under the weight of their burden.

This 70% cry out to the Lord daily in their suffering… suffering that usually only ends at their physical death. And yet their cry seems to go unanswered by the 30% who enjoy what’s left of the abundance that should be shared by all...it even appears as though God is not listening.

However, do not believe that He has not heard their cry, and acknowledges them, because he has. And He will act upon that cry when it is His time to do so.

Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt ( figurative of pride) died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

So God heard their groanings, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob...(today His covenant is with His people in Christ).

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them. Exodus 2: 23-25.

God hears the cry. He acknowledges the suffering, yet He does not begin to act openly towards Israel for quit some time.

As the dross of humanity rises to the top, He is preparring for Himself and for His little ones a people who will act with one mind, sealed with His mark of truth. He will skim off this dross, make no mistake. Seven times tried in fire must the gold be refined. A completion of its refinement must be accomplished. All the dross must raise to the top before this gold is pure. And then the Lord will come, to execute judgment upon all.

Hold fast to thy faith little ones, and do not forget that the Lord is King. Hold fast to thy faith little ones, and do not forget the lesson you will learn.

But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend (will be saved) into heaven?’” [That is, to bring Christ down from above], or, “Who will descend into the abyss?’” [That is, to bring Christ up from the dead]. But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” [That is, the word of faith which we preach]; that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus (the Lord God is my salvation), and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, (dead in your sins), then you shall be saved.

What is this word of faith then?

Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6.

The life of Christ showed us the way. He took nothing for Himself except what He needed to sustain His life for the purpose it was to serve. He gave everything that He had of Himself in an effort to show that we can live wonderfully with out all the trappings of the world. He was sustained by the truth that He preached and those who willingly received it. He was sustained by the love He received for speaking the truth that needed to be heard. He laid down His life at the time that was appointed for Him.

The way to life was for Him, as well as for us, is in preaching the truth, resisting the lie even unto death, and helping to foster a love for it, and faith in it.

He showed the hypocrisy of the religious order of the day, and how it was only concerned for its own survival, when instead the leaders of it should have been speaking out about the injustices that followed it…how it served the secular world in silencing any voice of descent against it.

He also showed the price to be paid for living that life…But He also showed its reward. Truth is its own reward, but unless embraced on a global scale, it shall be relegated to the fanaticism of a few. And even that fanaticism comes from their desire that all should be saved from the lie.

This is not my condemnation of our race of humanity, but my confession of our failure as humans, my plead for a change in direction, my cry for the help from the God of all of us to please remove from us what has brought us this far. There is no help anywhere else, and today a shout must go up, a cry, a plead, a groaning to the One whose kingdom is not of this world.

Where art Thou, O Lord? Look down upon us and see what we have done to ourselves. I am as guilty as the rest for not speaking out sooner...in my ignorance, which the things of the world had concealed your truth from, I did not understand. But then I turned towards You O Lord, and learned the truth from You...I lifted up my hand and called upon Your name, and You heard me and taught Me. And so now I lift up my voice again, asking that all Your children be shown Your way...Your people Lord, whom You love.

Turn Your face towards them in sorrow, acknowledge their cry, and save us from ourselves, whatever it takes.

I don’t ask You to defeat the children who have fallen, but rather that You turn the hearts of all towards You, lifting them up, so that those who are dying might be saved along with all those who believe and live. It is not my desire that any man, women, or child should be lost, but that all that are lost, it is my hope that You will find and change.

As for those who attempt to lead, Lord, I pray that they hear You; that they put aside their pride, their ego, their arrogance and especially their fear; that they soften their heats to Your word; that they put aside their greed for riches and their lust for power, that they remember the words of our Lord Jesus, His commandments and His covenant, and remember that it is You, O LORD, who stands atop the hill, and it is You O KING who can save us through our faith in Your promises.

This is my prayer, I am not ashamed.

I confess the Lord Jesus…The LORD God of all truth is my salvation and no other. He is the Way…the Truth…and the Life…and in no other do I put my trust. God is spirit and truth…God is love…merciful and gracious…longsuffering and kind…full of goodness and truth. He is Almighty in all that He is.

Guide us then, Almighty God, by Your truth. Lead us out of the things that have kept us in bondage to the kings of the world, and free us into Your way so that we are able to love You with all our heart, with all our strength, and with all our soul...for that is our all, O Lord. Amen.

Do You Love Me?...Then Feed My Sheep

2005-10-10T16:12:00.000-04:00

“So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus (God [spirit and truth and love] is my salvation) said to Simon Peter (hearing the rock [of salvation]), “Simon (hearing), son of Jonah (dove [of peace]), do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “yes Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”
He said to him a second time, “Simon (hearing), son of Jonah (dove [of peace]), do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.”
He said to him a third time, Simon, (hearing), son of Jonah (dove {of peace]), do you love (have affection for) Me?”
Peter (the rock) was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus (God is my salvation) said to him, “Feed My sheep.”
Now the most important thing that Jesus (God is my salvation) ever fed His sheep, and is what He expected His disciples and apostles to feed them, because that is what love is, is the truth, in all its rawness and brutality...but with a love and compassion that let those who heard it understand that it was meant for their salvation.

The people were fed up with being fed lies and fairy tales from the man-gods, and needed more than anything to hear the truth so that they could at least begin to prepare for the future coming. Some accepted the truth, that their sins were forgiven, and no one could lord these things over them any more, and now turned towards the future, that included their children, and their children’s children.

No one in this world could ever pretend to be more righteous than anyone else and therefore worthy of ruling over them based on moral self-righteousness, sin and the imperfection of humanity…because, no matter the appearance, all have fallen short of the perfection Christ Jesus has shown us. We have all become partakers in His death by our sins. Amen.

Yet today, sin abounds, in that we have once again set those above us who have sold us on the idea that they are somehow more superior to us in ethics and morals so that we no longer have to be responsible for the decisions that they make.

Shame on us!!!
Shame on our silence!!!

Where then is the truth that we should all be hungering for?
It is suppressed by fear, propaganda, and lies...it's suppressed by the desire to serve self...it's smothered in all our worries and cares.
You have the word. Its close…its in your mouth and in your hearts…yet your mouths will not confess it…then you do not have a faith that can save… you do not believe with a pure heart…you are cowards and hypocrites. You give lip service to the truth because you are afraid of being rejected…and the government you serve counts on this…they have nurtured this…they rely on it solely from your actions…lukewarm and without effect…trampled underfoot by all mankind, vomited out by the ones who rely on the truth the most...the ones at the bottom of the societal chain.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Perhaps it’s the alternative that you want…perhaps you might say to yourselves…”not in my lifetime…” Then you have sold your children for your comfort. Are you using up the resources that God has given you for your own self? Or are you trying with all your might to save something for your children? Believe you me; The Lord of the Flies knows the difference. He knows your hearts desire, whether you do or not. He’s ready to take you down that road of human desire and down that road of human passion so that you can be like God. Whatever your heart desires...democracy, freedom, mixed with unfettered capitalism...will be provided.

All of which remove us from the will of God.
What road will you take? The wide road, or the narrow way?

Ask yourself this…Will future generations look back upon our generation with blessings…or curses? Will they bless us with the foresight of our vision for them…or will they curse us for our avarice, apathy, and silence, having eaten up the inheritance of a world that can no longer sustain them? Will it be said that we loved those who came after us more than ourselves…or will we be called a wicked and evil generation? Whatever the case, you can rest assured that it will remain with you for all eternity.

I sit here now, in a room filled with man’s creations. As I look around, with the exception of one potted plant, there is nothing that surrounds me that has any life in it. Certainly it is all useful, serving a purpose, but is it all necessary? How much life had to be destroyed so that I could obtain these things, life that once destroyed could never again live...how much energy waisted, how many starving mouths gone empty?

Whole forests, grasslands, natural beauty, and resource for living were carved up from the planet so that I can have comfort, and someone else could get wealthy. And for what purpose does it serve if not for self and greed? These dead works that are the creations of man are a mere substitute for the fruitfulness that God intended for mankind. The abundance of our creation has destroyed the abundance that we once had.

When God created man, he gave him the duty of being fruitful on the earth, to multiply, fill, subdue and have dominion over all that was in it. Now some may take this as a command to take as much of it for themselves as they want, but this duty was intended literally to grow fruit (for food), to bring this fruit in abundance on the planet, to replenish what we use. The duty of subduing the earth was a simple statement to disregard what was here, to give little or no attention; to ignore.

God knew that in the heart of man was the potential for greed. He knew that too much attention to the abundance we were to bring forth would insight this greed, and so in subduing the earth, we are to disregard the greed for the abundance that it produces. Rather we are to have dominion over all its abundance and the life that is in it.

Quite specifically, this means, "to crumble off."

Crumbling off does not in any way infer that we are to take from this earth anymore than what we need for our own day today living. "Give us this day our daily bread.”

It does not say to take what we need for our comfort or store up for ourselves anymore than is necessary for day to day living. If anything,we should bring our abundance into the treasury of the church so that it can be given to anyone who might have need.

Unfortunately for many though, this is not the case. And in the end times, men will heap up for themselves treasures of the earth in greater abundance than what is necessary for their day to day survival.

God has provided everything necessary for our survival, and yet, we have a majority of the population who go hungry every day. Why? Because the over-abundance enjoyed by so few are using up the resources of this planet faster than the earth can be replenished...creating also climatic conditions and poisonous gases that are ruining our planet for the sake of comfort and plenty.

Why is this?

Because some men have made merchandise out of the every substance necessary for day to day life…day to day life that God intended that all men should benefit from. Because some men were unable to have dominion over the greed for the earths abundance, crumbling off no more than was necessary for their day to day living, because they were unable to disregard earth’s abundance, subduing this desire in order to appear to others that they are god. They have left in the path of their greed a swath of human misery that starves on a planet that was meant to sustain abundance for all.

This is capitalism, the the great whore that rides the back of our beastly governmentf…the whore that rides the beast. Make no mistake about it. It takes for its own posterity what it wants from a beast that devours the earth. And it is fed by the people who are in the belly of it.

"Come up out of her My people, before you partake of her sins, and share in her plagues."

Now you might think to say to yourself, “well, that’s just the way things are.” You might think to say to yourself, “that’s the way the world has always been.” You might think to say to yourself, “what can I do about it; I deserve to have things too?” You might even think to say to yourself, “what am I suppose to do, be poor?” And all I have to say to you is, “Think about what you might say to yourself.”

If the situation was not as direly critical as it is today, what I am writing here may not seem to be so important. I may as well be clanging cymbals, or sounding brass. But because God has given me a heart that can love, He has also given me a heart to know the truth. I cannot love my fellow human without including for his salvation, the truth of what I’ve been taught, as my brother’s keeper, concerning myself in love and the desire for his salvation. And while I cannot save anyone, the truth that will set you free can, if you only take hold of it.

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I Asked God by Claudia M. Welz

I asked God to take away my grief,
And God said, “No,
It’s not for me to take away,
But for you to work through.”

I asked God to make my broken heart whole,
And God said, “No,
Your spirit is whole,
Your pain is only temporary.”

I asked God to grant me patience,
And God said, “No,
Patience is a by product of tribulation;
It isn’t granted, it’s earned.”

I asked God to give me happiness,
And God said, “No,
I give blessing,
Happiness is up to you.”

I asked God to spare me pain,
And God said, “No,
Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares
And brings you closer to Me.”

I asked God to make my spirit grow,
And God said, “No,
Grow on your own,
I do the pruning that makes you fruitful.”

I asked God if He loved me,
And God said, “Yes,
I gave you My only Son to die for you.”

I asked God to teach me how to love others
As much as He loves me.
He said, “AAHH, finally you have the idea.”

“Do not love the world (life in opposition to God) or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world…the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life…is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lusts of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

How much cleare can that message be state!

Noah was given the same task by God that the first man, Adam was given…to be fruitful and multiply…to grow fruit and bring in abundance…replenish the earth.

Noah means rest, quietude. He was saved from the flood that destroyed the earth, making peace with God and was now quiet in his heart from his faith that God loves him. All those who are saved have this same assurance in God; they need not worry any longer about that love. They need not worry anymore about whether God will provide for them. THEY NEED NOT WORRY ANYMORE HOW THEY MUST PRODUCE THIS LOVE. They need only go out and do what God has asked, what he has sent them to do. Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth. Not for the sake of greed, but for the purpose of furnishing THE REST OF earths inhabitants , both present and future with the abundance necessary for day to day living.

We can live without many things, we can live without anything. But our daily bread is a must for the sustenance of our bodies and all who inhabit the earth deserve to share in its abundance.

And that is why we pray… “Give us this day, our daily bread…”

We do not pray for food for a month...we do not pray for every desire known to man...we do not pray for enough to keep us from ever having to pray again...we pray only for enough to sustain us today!

“And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.” (Literally, a garden).

Noah began to be fruitful and replenish the earth so that it (the earth) had, once again, the abundance to sustain life. He obeyed God's command so that he was able to demonstate his love for God, and his love for his fellow human being.

It was not the garden of delight and pleasantness that God had placed man in originally…but came from the labor of Noah’s hands and the sweat of his brow. It was up to man to help produce it this time. To abide by God’s decree.

It was not meant to be offered to God in sacrifice, but was meant to be enjoyed by Noah and his family as the fruits of their labor. With it, they could continue to prosper (live), and do well.

They did not go out to do battle with the earth, the sea, or the heavens…they did not build an army for their protection…they did not elect politicians to lead them…they were not asked to do these things. Noah simply took from what God gave him and used it for the purposes for which it was intended...which was to feed His sheep...though these would be future sheep.

How far have we gone astray from what was originally designed that man should do as his duty for this earth and his fellow man?

God’s original indictment against the world…his reason for destroying it by flood was that it had become wholly corrupt and violent. It took for itself whatever it could (corruption) by the force of violence. And where do we stand today?

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. Genesis 6:11&12.

“And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which there is the breath of life; everything on the earth shall die.” Genesis 6:17.

And all flesh died that moved on the earth…all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. Genesis 7:21&22.

This spirit of life is the truth that God is teaching us today. And all flesh has become dead to that spirit because God has taken it from us because of the desires of our heart. Some will be saved though, because they turned from the desires of their heart, and back to the Lord our God who is the truth that leads us to the way of life.

That days of Noah are now

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But as for the Second Coming:

"But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the Son of Man be.

This is not only to say that life is simply going on as usual. But that it is going on as usual in the midst of violence and corruption that fill the earth…that the people of the earth ignored this violence and corruption and went about their business and lives as though it did not even exist because this violence and corruption prospered them. They certainly were not speaking out against it, but rather, they refused to see it. They most certainly were not preparring to move away from its midst.

They refused to accept that they were unaware, unconcerned, and living a lie, because anything that is not of the truth, is a lie. They imagined wrongfully that they were living righteously.

However, that they were not speaking out against these injustices, this violence and corruption showed God that they approved of these things out of fearfor their own safety and comfort. This was not the faith He sought after for this peoples faith was in their comfort and plenty.

They showed that they were more concerned for their own happiness and well being than for the violence and corruption that all the earth was filled with. In not speaking out, they were self serving.

They were all aware of what Noah was doing. They all heard that this was the only way to be saved…and yet they didn’t believe it until it was too late...they could not even imagine what it was they needed to be saved from.

Like the five brides who failed to provide oil for their lamps…when the door to the Kingdom of God …the Kingdom of spirit and truth…the Kingdom of love… when the door to mercy and grace, patience and kindness, goodness and truth was closed, they were left outside knocking: and God said, “I never knew you.”

God who is spirit and truth and all those other things that pertain to His love was rejected until that day.

The word used in Genesis for violence is the Hebrew word ch`am`ac and refers to unjust gain (of any sort). Unjust gain is taking more abundance than is necessary through the use of any false means, which is to say, taking for self. It implies wrong and injustice by an oppressor, unrighteousness (all sin), violence against and violence done, as well as violent dealing. It is taken from a prime root word meaning to imagine wrongfully. Imagine wrongfully that you are more deserving of this gain than another.

The Hebrew word used for corrupt is shachath. It is a prime root word meaning decay, ruin.

Collins “Concise English dictionary defines ruin as decay. It defines decay as decline or cause to decline gradually in health, prosperity, excellence, etc.; deteriorate. Decay is taken from the Latin word decadere, which means, literally, to fall away… perhaps of saving faith as in the falling away that precedes the rising of the anti-Christ.

That is what it was like in the days of Noah…going on about life as if nothing mattered...grabing as much as possible for ones own comfort while violence and corruption filled the earth.

To love your neighbor is to speak the truth to him of this present evil age …not nice things, because truth in its entirety is often stark and brutal… whether he accepts you for it, or rejects you for it is not at issue. It is to speak out against the violence and corruption of our time, not simply believe that it is someone else’s problem. It's all of our problem.

It is to see for your self as well as help others to see the decay and ruin that is the product of avarice, greed and covetousness… taking more than is necessary for daily living…to see the lie…as well as the violence and corruption that surround it.

We here in America, for the most part, choose to remain ignorant of what our “American way of life” is costing and causing in the rest of the world around us. We insulate ourselves with nice things. We refuse to hear of the suffering in nations other than our own and even turn away from that suffering right here in our own country. Our leaders and those who follow them would have you believe that the whole rest of the world is lieing about our atrocious ways in their lands; and that it is only propaganda and not to be believed. But that is the lie.

Poverty, decay, ruin, violence, and corruption abound all around and we say little or do little to stop it. Instead we choose to believe it is somehow the responsibility of another and not the consequences of our nations policies towards them. We refuse any accountability and continue to go on about our daily lives, supporting the very system that is the root and cause of so much misery...believing it is good.

Instead, in an effort to prolong the inevitable, we heap to ourselves more of what is not necessary to sustain our day to day life. We attempt to prepare for hard times this way, not knowing that it can all be swept away.

We are entering a period of woeful disgrace and descending into the abyss, into complete abasement and utter darkness. We have entered it, and unless we change our direction, change our lifestyle, change the very habits and comforts we have become accustomed to, we will be overtaken as dreadfully as those who were swept away during the day of the great flood. That is what the coming of the Son of Man will be. This time it will not be with a flood, as in the day of Noah, but with the fires of judgment; speaking to the very conscience and moral fabric of our being in condemnation that will last an eternity.

Our only hope in the future is to reach up, and take hold upon the truth, and the way to life that Christ showed us...for He is our refuge, He is the living ark today...not democracy, not freedom and liberty...not the American way of life...not the government who deceives us.

If you choose not to believe this for the sake of who I am...which is only a man...then believe this for the sake of yourselves...and for the sake of the love of God.

All The Nations Wll Be Gathered Before Him

2005-10-10T16:08:00.000-04:00

When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne (mercy seat) of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand (those who followed His way), but the goats (those who butted up against His ways) on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him, saying ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.”

Nowhere does this statement by Christ imply that we are to go out and conquer nations. Nowhere does it imply that we are to torture prisoners. Nowhere does it imply that we are to rob nations of their own resources for our own comfort. Nowhere does it imply that we are to ignore the plight of those who are least in the eyes of our rulers, to rob them of their dignity for disagreeing with the violent and corrupt policies of the corporate entities that it stands before. Nowhere does it say that patriotism to a corrupt and violent nation will save us from the day of the coming of the Son of Man. Nowhere does it say that keeping silent in the midst of what we know to be wrong will set us on the right hand of the King. Nowhere does it say to follow blindly down the path to destruction.

Everywhere it says to love from a pure heart those who have nothing, those who are unable to provide for themselves. What you choose to do today, to redeem the time, will have everlasting consequences for you. To feed them the truth so that they too can stand.

What has hindered Christians from standing up for what Christ teaches? What has prevented them from taking up their own cross and following that path of righteousness?
The answer to that is preservation of self, which is doubt in the ability of God to preserve us as He has promised.

Are you now beginning to see the utter need for repentance and belief?

Quite frankly, there is nothing that stands in the way except for self. The pride of life that says unless you have this, or belong to that, or are the other, deceives us into thinking that we are righteous according to the works of our own hands. We are easily led according to the devices and desires of our own heart. We practice religion according to what we have determined is right or wrong, good or evil, the traditions our father handed down, not even knowing if what they were handing down is what God will is...completely neglecting what is in the best interest of others...for the sake of the truth.
We are led, we are deceived, we are conquered by the likes and workings of evil almost continuously throughout our lives, and there is no reason other than our own selfish nature to blame for this failure. And that royal motive is how we shall be judged in the end.

Our own selfish nature would prefer to believe the lie rather than the truth, because the lie requires less of us for another and more for ourselves. We are taught from the beginning that we must resort to violence in order to become men. We grow up in an atmosphere where everyone is seeking gain for themselves; we are in constant competition with one another for financial independence, something taught at a very young age in our very leaning institutes...corruption according to the way God defines corruption.

We are taught early on to succeed according to the world’s standards, or fall away when we see that we can’t...but don't dare see this. The earth is littered with this kind of decay and corruption. Lofty men causing us to believe that the only way to be a success is to be good laborers for their merchandise, whatever it is, so that we can be successful and afford more of their merchandise for ourselves...the food that perishes in its own viscious cycle.

When we find that we can’t, we refuse to allow ourselves to appear as though we are not successful, and resort to many different means in order to keep up that image. Credit, loans, mortgages, debt, have all been the beginning of many a ruined person because they wanted to give the impression to the rest of our society that they were as successful as everyone else is pretending to be, or expecting them to be, fearing rejection, or being relegated to the fringes of society. And when this debt cannot be repaid, when an illness or injury for example, prevent us from fulfilling our obligation to meet it, those who were so willing for us to have their merchandise now turn their backs. They wanted us to appear successful too, because that’s what makes them rich. They don’t care how we repay them…as long as we do, with interest.
If you can’t, they will take everything you needed to appear successful away from you. They do not care that you were living a lie…they helped furnish the lie. They only want what they believe is theirs.

So the world turns.

It spits out those who cannot consume or produce enough to make it matter to those who control it all; The American way of life. And this is what we are trying now so desperately to export to the rest of the world in hopes that they will take this same mark of the beast as we all have. Yet it is spitting out the human waste at a greater rate than has ever been known in man's history.

Even many of our mainstream religious institutions that must first be sanctioned by the secular society that they support have robbed God of His glory. New boilers, high mortgages, a new sound system, bigger and better buildings, high utility bills… anything that can attract men according to the worldly standard… all require money and resources that we have decided are necessary in order that we not forsake the assembling one with another.

The poor widow gives her last two mites to support this system because she believes it to be the way. We support administrators, secretaries, custodians, pastures, priests, and a hierarchy of humbuggery that all dip their hand into the cup with Christ. No one gives freely of what they’ve been given freely of, all want to be paid in order that they can live comfortably...and again the money and resources all flow to the top, with two bags of groceries twice or maybe three times a year for some poor soul who has nothing. All the while these poor souls suffer in the shadow of the very churches and institutions who have sworn themselves to their care.
You don’t see big, mainstream churches supporting the poor neighborhoods where they got their start, but rather following the money trail to the suburbs and the people who helped them maintain their beginning of predatory and host greed.

Though, thank God, there are a few who remain steadfast, the true church.

These innkeepers, who take from the poor souls more than what they were paid by the Good Samaritan, bend to the demands of the secular government they support in that they keep quite and do not rise up against them in truth.

But… will Satan cast out Satan?

What of the independent churches, those considered to be cults, those that are out of the mainstream… where men have drawn Christians to themselves?

Unless they are equipping the saints to go out and evangelize the word for the sake of God’s glory and for the sake of “the least of these My brethren,” then they are nothing more than little antichrists who went out from among the brethren seeking their own gain, filling pews and enriching only those who profess to know the truth, yet who still refuse to preach it because it may cause some sort of persecution that takes away their glory, honor, and livelihood...they refuse to especially see the truth in themselves because their eyes have become bedazzled with what is lavished upon them.

How do I know this? Well, I have been a house painter all my life…and the worst travesty to Christianity was when I painted the home of one of these independent preachers. The home was palatial, and had every modern convenience, including a basement home cinema that was in worth of well over $16,000. I watched as it was being installed. the main living room had walls over 30 feet high. The televangelist preacher, that claimed a following all the way to South Africa, with donations coming in form them all, had a palace of over 7,000 square feet of luxury living. He owned a fleet of automobiles that included a Lexus S.U.V…a Mercedes S.U.V... A Cadillac SUV…and a Roll’s Royce SUV…a porche.
While I was in the process of painting this “prince’s” home, a leather coat that he had misplaced, came up missing. He accused all that were in “his “home of stealing it. Also, an $8,000 Rolex watch that was given to him by the hierarchy of his parish was gone and he could not account for it, so we were accused of stealing it.
Later, this “man” found these items. He offered no excuse or apology…anything to explain his actions. He was simply relieved that he had recovered these “things.”

We, the People of the Lord our God

2005-10-10T16:07:00.000-04:00

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart: Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the head, to the very foot of this nation, violence and corruption abound…there is none righteous…no, not one.

Then how in God’s name can a people like Americans begin to think it can save the world with its democracy? How can this nation even begin to think that it has become the moral voice of the world? Where in our entire self-righteous hypocrasy do we feel that we, of all nations, have the right to go into another sovereign nation and attempt to change it into our image? Not through voluntary compliance, but by force do we do this, with the threat of violence and destruction if our will is not met!

The truth of the matter is, that most American's do not feel we should be doing these things. And yet, we go on about our daily lives as though there is little we can do to stop it, surrounded by our own comforts becuse we are unwilling to face the fact and speak out against it, knowing that the violence and corruption wrought in our name is what supplies us with our comforts.

Everything that is preached about the freedom of democracy is forced upon a people at the end of a spear and the threat of death, whether by financial ruin, or the destruction of wars. This is not democracy, or at least not the democracy the founding fathers of this nation fought for. It is George Bush’s version of Democracy just as much as it’s Anti-Christ’s version of Christianity. It placates and causes a false sense of security for the greed of a few. It is a system designed for conquering under the disguise of giving freedom. It is based on false promises that require its participants to put aside any resistance or opposition to it, taking away any voice of dissent. It preaches independence while it makes its participants dependant.

Yet even the early church dissented and opposed their present system. They refused to become dependant upon it, to rely upon it, to embrace it because it was a device of man; or they would not have had to deal with persecution from both their fellow countrymen, and the ruling nation of the day. Is the threat of thatpersecution what keeps our voice of dissent from being heard?

It is in this dissent that truth is found, as well as the persecution that is a product of dissenting. If silence were the way that Christ taught, if suppression of the truth were His way, then He never would have had to die upon the cross for the sins of the world, because no one would ever be aware there were any.

Rather though, He taught us to preach the word of truth, in season and out of season; when oppression was evident and when there was none; when darkness abounded in order to shed light, and when their was the light of truth in order to keep it burning bright. We have never been taught as Christians by Christ to suppress the truth. Rather, we were taught to put the flesh on the line for the sake of it.

However, we were taught these things by the humbugary that professes to be the leadership of the church. We have been taught to simply mind what the world is doing...and even by some to embrace it. We have been taughtthat the rulership of the world is to be obeyed, even when that rulership goes against the express commnds of our God.

This is not the way that the early church followed. They allowed themselves to be persecuted for the sake of righteousness, which was far greater than an outward show of morality...the moral majority wing of religion bearing witness to both the lie, and the truth.

How can we speak the truth though, unless we are willing to face it, wiling to believe it. Repent and believe is what is necessary to be saved.

We read our Bibles, we listen to the sermons in church, we attend studies, we are always learning… but we never come to knowledge of the truth so that we can understand how we can be saved from this present world order. It will require too much self-sacrifice from us so we continue to go on living in the lie...and then think that we are somehow going to heaven in the rapture. What living sacrifices have we been though?

The present media diludes us. We delude ourselves into thinking that there is nothing we can do to change the present course that we are on.; because that is what it leads us to believe…that it is in the hands of men more capable than ourselves; that it is in the hands of something bigger than we are. We rely on other sources to give us the information we need to make our choices, and yet we are unwilling to face what we know in our hearts to be the truth,; what the Bible shows us to be true…that the principles of self-sacrificing love that God promised to write upon our heart and that oppose the self serving ways we are taught by secular society we ignore because we are still a rebellious and stiff-necked people.

Despite this, we rely upon men to interpret events according to their own lusts, and as long as it sounds good and requires little from us; as long as it doesn’t cause too much distress and we can be deluded into thinking that all is well, all is safe, and secure…then we will go along with whatever we are told even though we may not feel in our hearts that these things are as we are told…despite any mounting evidence that says it is a lie. We may even fear anything that challenges our way of life because it may force us to make difficult choices that cause us to embrace the changes necessary to oppose it. And yet, these things are only temporary fixes that avoid or delay the inevitable. We have traded the lie for the truth and we know it. This is not the saving faith once delivered unto the saints and Satan has been hard at work for two thousand years now removing that faith from among us.

However, the laws that were written on our hearts allow us no peace because we are living the lie, afraid to face what’s in our heart, afraid to face the truth. And fear allows for no peace.
In fearing to face the truth, we fear facing God.

Yet Paul said, “I keep my sins ever before me.”

In keeping these before him, he also kept the truth that he is a sinner before him and also his complete reliance upon God 's will, not his own, to guide and save him. But did paul avoid death by crucifiction?...no...he was put to death for the same truth that Christ taught...that being that the woldly system of government was a lie.

It kept him humble…it kept him from rising up before God. And yet, I hear from so many Christians the deluded notion that they are going to enter the Kingdom of God when they die while living in self-righteousness and unrighteousness.

Yet, if a righteous man can hardly enter in, how much more so a sinner? We all fall short of the righteousness of God? Any righteouness we do have comes only through our belief in what He is saying.

So what is this truth that opposes any usurper to God’s righteousness of mercy and grace; the truth that opposes any entity that sets themselves up as ruler of this world; the truth that restrains and hinders until it be taken out of the way…that sets themselves up as enforcers of mans laws and attempts to lord over men the judgments that God has reserved for himself?

It is simply that all have sinned, and all fall short of the righteousness of God; that there are none righteous…no, not one. And all are in danger of hell’s fire. It puts all men on an equal footing with none more deserving of death than anyone else. All men are created equal with none deserving that any man should lord over any other man. But is this what our present administration displays? I think not!

Despite what men may like to believe in self-righteousness, no one has earned this right. No ruler of this world is worthy to tell anyone that they are less than the adopted sons of God, less than the brothers of Christ, and not in the image that God created them to be. For God made some to be honored, and some to be dishonored. Who am I, (or anyone for that matter) to say, “Why have You made me this way?”

And even those who seek after your shame, saying, “Ahah, ahah! Let them be confounded because of their shame. These are the hypocrites who in their self-righteous abilities only desire to prove themselves more self-righteous. They are focused on your sins in order that they not have to look upon their own. Not for the purpose of uplift...but so they can uplift themselves even higher.

They create a lie in your heart, so that they don’t have to face the truth in their own. But that does not in any way infer that theirs do not exist. So whether their motive be noble or not, that it change you from the course of your own sins, then love this enemy…but if it is only to make them feel better about themselves, more superior than others, then give a vision for their vision, and a teaching for their teaching, (an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth).

Fortunately for them, only God can determine the motive of their heart, and that is why as Christians, we are to love all, enemy and brother alike. There is an eternity of difference in giving a loving rebuke to a brother, a neighbor, or a friend, and in condemning through judgmental accusation those whom one attempts to lord the law over in order to feel more self- righteous about themselves. One gives love, the other seeks vengeance for itself in order to appease itself. It is the royal motive that we must all determine.

One kind is the cause of wars, violence and corruption, the other goes towards the saving of a soul.
There is no authority given under heaven unless it is given by God. Christ testified of this authority to Pontius Pilate shortly before He was condemned to the cross. And just as the Lord, God Almighty gives… the LORD God takes away. If the authority that God allows men for the purpose of keeping order is not used in a righteous manner, if it is used for the gain of only a few, or to appease the lusts of men, if it is used for oppression and vengeance, violence and corruption, the LORD God will see to it that that authority to whom He gave that nation, is taken back from its once exalted place. He has routinely taken those who were once humbled, and exalted them, until they began to exalt themselves and then He humbled them again.

Satan is the ruler of the kindoms of the world...and he gives authority over them to whom he pleases...those who are rulers over worldly things are all under the authority of the devil.

But we are not of this world if we hate what it is and the things, (governments) of it...and therefore we are under the authority of heaven and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But God knows the heart of man. He knows who loves the world and who hates what it is...he also knows who love what it is.

Every empire-nation, so far, under the sun, has reached this self- righteous point in their authority, a point where they refuse to be humbled, and must be humbled. History dictates this. It is the chastisement of sons of which no son received can be considered legitimate without. The removal of this authority usually comes with great pains… but it does come…and a Son is born anew…to those who are exercised by it.

”I shall come again.” …and again…and again…as a perpetual promise to all God’s people.” … God shall defeat Amalek from generation to generation…” Birth pangs of labor down through history have shown this promise, and the more willing we are to embrace God’s law of the harvest so this truth shall prosper, and the more we are strengthened by this pain. Because each time this pain is endured, the gold is refined one more time, until there is no more dross to skim from the surface and the gold is pure, according to God’s vision of purity.

we who love the Lord, love His truth, and what His kingdom is all about are that gold.

Take from me all LORD, God…this life…I gladly give it as coming from You, and as one more step in the refining of Your elect…whom I desire to prosper with You as Your humble servant… I count the loss of all things as dung for the sake of this truth, in order that all those whom You have given me enter in to Your Kingdom before me and give to You the glory that is rightfully Yours and that You deserve, because You are the only One worthy to receive it. I am but Your servant, doing what a servant must do to exalt his King in telling the truth about his King for the glory and honor of Him. There is no King but the Lord our God!

The words of Moses should ring true in the hearts of all who are members in Christ, all who have built an alter to the LORD in their hearts… who was transfigured on the mount into the law and the prophets…Moses and Elisha…should call this alter by name... The-LORD-Is-My-Banner; for he, (Moses) said, “because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

This is not nationalism in the disguiser, usurper and liar of patriotism for the American flag and the false doctrine of freedom it preaches… which can be seen and touched and appeals to all our senses, but rather to an unseen banner that is of a spiritual faith… truth that knows no lie and is able through its own power to defeat all lies, no matter how few there are who know it...no matter what becomes of their flesh.

So know, what is it that we say we must do...? What is it that we say we can do…? Do we keep silent about our own convictions…afraid to speak from our hearts that tell us that what is said and donein the world is a lie? Or do we take courage, though we may be few or afraid…and not be dismayed because we are concerned for the future of our children? Or do we continue eating and drinking, and giving in marriage in the midst of violence and corruption as though it does not exist? Do we begin to plant the seeds of knowledge, the issues of life as freemen, set at liberty by the God who loves us in grace and mercy, or do we follow the lords of this world who look for the shame in others so as not to see the shame in themselves. Do we allow the rule of law that is meant to oppress, to insulate the few from taking the responsibility for the many? Or do we say that we are freemen, set at liberty and fear of shame from all those who feel they have no shame?

You decide… “We the people.” …only your faith in God…The Lord God…determines your destiny. Not any faith…but the faith that was delivered to the saints from the beginning, the faith of self- sacrificing, truth, bearing love.

What banner will you pitch your camp under? The banner of the world…or the banner of heaven…? What are you prepared to do, and what are you prepared to give up…We, the people…?

I seek a people to call out after My own name

2005-10-10T16:06:00.000-04:00

...The LORD God has looked for a people all through history ready, willing, and able to take up His cause…a cause by which no man shall die, but that all shall live by His grace. Are you ready…are you willing…and are you able…to change life as we know it… and have always known it…are you willing to put your flesh on the line for that cause…or are you still desirous of the status quo?

The ones who have the least to lose are usually the ones who take up this cause, because they are the ones who know the truth of the matter the most, because they live it. What are you willing to lose, or what do you count as worthy to be lost?

Do you desire the status quo, knowing it will eventually lead to the destruction of your own posterity; or do you choose to preserve the status quo in sacrifice for them? Or, rather are you willing to give up today and maybe even tomorrow, for a brighter hope of the future? Are you the people of the ruler of this world, the present, or are you the people of the brighter hope for the kingdom of God which considers the children of the future? Will you be considered a blessing to that hope or a curse to that hope in the name of a cause for all eternity? You decide, We, the people.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

This is the promise we who have come before make to all those who come after us. It is how we profess that the elder shall serve the younger. We shall not make this promise in vain. For that is the cause we are called unto...and no other.

George Bush or any other politician shall not make the decision for me to go against this promise that stands at the gates of our shores…and yet as an American, I cannot give this promise without the promise and the purpose of fulfilling God’s cause.

What say you America? Are you liars and hypocrites…or are you fearless believers that God is able? Do not let the fears of others rule the faith in your heart. Our American politicians are not afraid because of something you are I knowingly have done, but they are afraid because of something they have deceived us into believing…a lie that is now being exposed. Their only purpose now is to make their fear, our fear.

Let your royal motive be for all men, women, and children; without dissent, coercion, force, or lack of liberty for the dignity of who they are. Freedom and what you choose to do with it is your choice…let everyone have their choice.

What did your freedom and liberty eventually teach you? Can you teach it? How long did it take before you realized you had choices? What did you choose after you gained this freedom and how did you determine your choices? Was it forced upon you…was it propagated to you…or did you fight for what you knew in your heart to be righteousness.

The answer to these questions determines whether you have gained true freedom…or whether you were sold a lie, because there is a type of freedom that eliminates accountability for those who pretend that they deserve it above all the rest. It substitutes for the freedom that allows our individual consciences to speak for themselves, and attempts to drown it out with an ideology that dictates your future thoughts, according to the thoughts and interpretations of another.

When God sets you free according to the forgiveness of sin found in the belief that Jesus Christ, as sacrifice for those sins, when you are set free from the condemnation of the world… there is a period of time that allows you contemplation for all you have just witnessed in accordance with the way.

This period of contemplation is the hope of God that you will see things His way when the truth is complete in you. It does not force itself upon you, coerce you, or in any way oppress you into deciding upon it; but rather waits for you to decide voluntarily and without distraction of opposition, determining in your own heart what the truth is and what is a lie.

It needs no defense or propagandized conspiracy…it does not have to campaign for itself…because truth is its own defense…it is what it is…I Am that I Am…you either accept it…or reject it, and despite your rejection or acceptation, it does not change a thing about the truth. It does not need you to exist…it exists of its own self. It does not need your support because truth is its own support. You don’t need to save it, because it saves you.

Then He (the LORD God) said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire, a delicate whispering voice. I Kings 19:11&12.

We shall not find God in any other form except on the path of truthfulness and the reality that we are just as much the sinner as our fathers before us. It is that truth that tugs gently at our heart, whispering softly what we need to understand.It takes surrender to that truth that will allow our hearts to become softened enough to allow Christ to enter in.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” I Kings 19:4.

God will hear that cry, and acknowledge it as he did with the captives in Egypt before they were set free. God was not in any of the plagues or curses that came upon Pharaoh, but was in the delicate and soft voice of compassion found in the heart of Moses.

The same for today. God is not found in the great and strong winds of change that are upon us. Nor is He in the political upheavals that thunder across the land like earthquakes. Nor is He in the endlessly blaming judgments of those who use shame to bring fires of guilt down upon the heads of all those who have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior and sacrifice for sin. Rather, God is found in the delicate whispering voice of compassionate loving acceptance for all we are according to what He has made us in this world, apart from the world itself, and He invites us to verbalize our emotions and concerns to Him so that He might help us to see the truth.

Truth is not found in any of those things that shout at you or make you afraid or in any way attempt to force you or compel you to choose it. All those things of complicated commotion are designed to give a perfect contrast to what the truth really is so that in finally realizing and accepting truth, in being set free, you will know exactly what it is that you have been set free from and Who it is that set you free. There will be no mistaking it from the lie. There will be nothing that compares or confuses or needs to be explained because, as a bolt of lightning out of the east, to the west, across your mind this truth will race and imprint itself upon your heart forever. From that point on, no lie can enter in. You are sealed in this truth as assuredly as you are sealed in Christ. It is now only for you to believe it and accept it for who and what it is, without ever having to defend it or doubt it. All others, not sealed in it will then become afraid. For the truth you are sealed in can do nothing except expose the lie in them.

Remember always brethren, when you speak the truth from the heart, “It is a far, far better thing that you do than you’ve ever done before, and a far, far better place that you go than you’ve ever gone before.” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities.”

Voices past and present

2005-10-10T16:04:00.000-04:00

In the struggle of Good against Evil, it's always the people who get killed.: Eduardo Galeano

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty and democracy?: Mohandas Gandhi.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! Helen Keller. - Source: Told to an audience at Carnegie Hall one year before the United States entered World War I.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. -George Orwell

"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly and wickedness of the government may engage itself? Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it? ... A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men." -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator Source: Speech in the House of Representatives, January 14, 1814

The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction. Today there is a "NO" which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the "NO" to war: Subcomandante Marcos - Source: No to war, 2/16/03

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.": Mark Twain - Source: Chronicle of Young Satan

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs: Arundhati Roy - Source: Arundhati Roy, "Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire," 8/24/04

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith that he was sent to us by God to save Germany. Hermann Goering, speaking of Hitler

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this: Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003

There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed: ~Gil Bailie

"When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance or distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am friend of its happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government ." - Thomas Paine

For more voices from our past, visit http://hughman2.blogspot.com "Our Fathers Call Across the Years.

I end this with a poem from the ‘Book of Counted Sorrows.’ …

To see what we have never seen,
To be what we have never been’
To shed the chrysalis and fly,
Depart the earth and touch the sky,
To be reborn, be someone new;
Is this a dream, or is it true?

Can our future be cleanly shorn…?
From a future to which we are born?
Is each of us a creature free…?
Or trapped at birth by destiny?
Pity those who believe the latter.
Without freedom, nothing matters.

In the real world as in dreams
Nothing is quite what it seems.

The end…or perhaps the beginning. You decide, We, the people.

Sketchy Thoughts: The State Is Learning From Fascism – Sarkozy is Using Du Maurras

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Sketchy Thoughts: The State Is Learning From Fascism – Sarkozy is Using Du Maurras