Wicked in contrast to Sinner

I think just about everyone in the United States has seen a church on a corner or the cross so prominently displayed on the apex of many such buildings. To each of us, the notion to know and understand is human, and I believe it comes into play with these symbols of faith, Christian faith. I can’t see how anyone is exempt from not at one time asking, “What does that mean?” or “What does that stand for?” Dread be to those who corrupt the seeker with a misguided answer!

If someone set out to destroy Christianity, one of the first things they would do is seek to abolish Christian gatherings; no more Sunday services, no Wednesday night prayer sessions, put a clamp on Chaplains in the hospitals and the military, outlaw home meetings and the like. That would be the first thing, divide and conquer through fear and causation.

Seems like the Covid-19 thing got such a ball rolling. As I drive around Fort Worth, I don’t see any Summer Bible School offerings, and not every church has resumed corporate worship, either. That leaves folks still to themselves with TV-angelists or sequestered at home with their Bible. My parents, if still living, would definitely say “These are the end times for sure!” Thank God we haven’t started book-burning yet!

In an earlier wideastexas blog, Don’t Pray for the Lost,I lay the foundation for understanding these times we are in. The message of Christ’s cross is NOT for everyone! Here I want to approach the subject from a different angle that of wicked in contrast to sinner.

The message of the Cross is that all true human beings are under law, especially in the case of original sin, because we all trace our lineage back through the lineage of man to Adam. Adam disobeyed a direct command from God, and the consequences fell upon him and all who descend from him. This is called ‘original sin.’ There is no way a true human being can escape this. However, Christ’s cross, his unwarranted death in our behalf, satisfied the righteous judgment of God. The Cross was the game changer for mankind because Jesus’ death in our stead repaired the separation caused by original sin, freeing us, and paving the way for us to freely respond to God! Those who believe Jesus died for them, are exonerated, and in faith believing they have favor with God through Jesus, and are saved from the judgment to come upon the whole world. This message changes lives, but is not for everyone.

Those affected by the Cross of Christ are referred to as sinners. Yet there is another grouping the bible terms, wicked. A sinner can be touched by the message, repent of their sinful ways and be forgiven. Someone who is wicked, or evil through and through cannot change. The apostle Paul speaks of individuals who have their consciences seared, having made evil their way of life^[i]. Why do we sear meat before cooking it? Searing seals the essence of flavor inside the meat, thus it is not lost during the cooking process. Searing steak meat keeps the good elements of taste inside. Likewise, but conversely, a conscience seared is one that has sinful elements of evil locked inside! 

Now, just as there is no way to un-sear a piece of meat that has already undergone the process, so too with the heart/ soul of man that has been seared, locking in only evil continually. This is Paul’s lament.^[ii]A seared human conscience is beyond repentance. Well, you might say, what about a death-bed confession and acceptance of Christ? To which I say, it doesn’t happen! The wicked soul is so far removed from the grace that could have been, from the opportunity for contriteness of heart, of true repentance, and a saving faith in Jesus! Can’t happen. That’s what searing does. It is not a blinking of the eye occurrence, but a radical change over time. Searing takes time. In the end, a wicked person might demonstrate some measure of remorse, but I think that’s just lip service of the moment. Their lot is with the wicked.^[iii]

These then may very well be those who once had their names written in God’s book of life, but have since had it scratched out!^[iv]Wicked versus sinner, there is a difference. This message is not for average folk who might think they are “wicked” but are not. Examples of wicked are Hitler, Musolini, Pol Pot, and the like…

^[i]Another reference to conscience in the New Testamentis to a conscience that is “seared” or rendered insensitive as though it had been cauterized with a hot iron (1 Timothy 4:1-2). Such a conscience is hardened and calloused, no longer feeling anything. A person with a seared conscience no longer listens to its promptings, and he can sin with abandon, delude himself into thinking all is well with his soul, and treat others insensitively and without compassion. (gotquestions.com)

^[ii]Hebrews 10:29. KJ21. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath despised the Spirit of grace?

^[iii]Revelation 9:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and lewd men, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Weymouth)

also in 11 Corinthians 5:10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive (for) the things done in hisbody, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. (KJV)

^[iv]Revelation 17:8b And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. (KJV)

On the heals of my previous post The Witness of Two I feel urged to share in short episodes something I previously published at Smashwords in 2016. I trust you will find this prose most interesting.

Everything Pans Out In The End

Episode One of several

Episode Two

“Predetermined! Everything is predetermined; where you live, what college you will go to, whom you will fall in love with, and then of course, when and how you die, and even your fate afterwards,” Bobby had said during the discussion on the Saturday before. 

“What happened to free-will?” Diedra had asked.

“It’s locked within the myriad upon myriad of episodes each and all funneling you forward like a venturi effect on to the next episode until you are at the end!”

Auburn haired 25 year-old Diedra Prost, had never seriously considered the notion before. She was a restorative curator at one of Philadelphia’s most prestigious museums, highly educated, and near to be at the top of her game. To her, there is no God, everyone is a free soul, able to decide for oneself from the differing choices that confront us every day. Still, the tenants of the conversation disturbed her.

Every day she made her way to the preservation room at the Sternholz Museum, which might appear foreboding to the uninitiated. For Diedra it was her sanctum, a place she usually felt vibrant and alive. Located below ground, her expansive room was specially engineered within the basement of the building. Without windows, it is a dry, secure atmospherically controlled environment for safely keeping the ancient artifacts catalogued there.

The somewhat macabre space she utilized was home to several sarcophagus, dozens of bowls, pots, and other items of everyday use in Egyptian life, many items dating back several hundred years B.C. In addition to the lone mummy of a young teenage woman, kept hermitically sealed under glass, there were the papyri scrolls and fragments.

Diedra Prost, Ph.D. candidate Egyptologist, Deedee to her few close friends, sat alone at the broad wooden worktable under a special wavelength emitting florescent light. She carefully pieced together papyrus segments that had long ago separated, long before the museum had acquired them. These fragments were considered more ‘modern’ than the truly ancient texts cut in stone, these fragments contained pictographs and hieroglyphs she was quite familiar with.

Her given field of study had brought her to this moment. She had but to finalize her dissertation, then defend it orally, and that would be that. Diedra looked forward to when she could drop the Ms. from her title, and replace it with Doctor. The journey had been arduous, and up until now, worth the struggle. She had spoken the epithet silently in her mind many times before. Doctor Diedra Prost.  It has a nice ring to it,she had said to herself.

Shaking her head as if someone had blown in her ear, she felt air movement when there shouldn’t have been any. The sensation sent a cold chill down her back.  She shrugged, momentarily remembering the hours of discussion she had had with ‘the girls,’ Tammy, Bobby and Gloria Jean over the weekend.

 Life as she had previously foreseen it was settled, chiseled in stone perhaps. Now, after that one discussion, she wasn’t all that confident. What she once gaged to be her stoic existential outlook had been pummeled, and a resultant chink in her confident demeanor surfaced. For the first time in her life she felt fear, real lingering fear, the kind of sensation that has substance, you know, almost as if you could cut it with a knife!

It had been a late Saturday afternoon gathering of friends around an each-one bring-one salad mixer. The topics of discussion had spanned the gamut of female interests.  Then the mood changed when Tammy breached the tranquility with her outburst, and everything went downhill from then on.

Episode two (June 14)

The television had been on, muted in the background. Their heads occasionally bobbed up to catch the picture, and then back down to their salad portions, and conversation. All of a sudden the news channel displayed a graphic video of a Buddhist monk in Thailand dousing himself with gasoline and self-igniting!

“Holy shit! Look at that guy! He lit himself up like a candle!”  Tammy shouted pointing to the screen. They all glued their gazes to the figure engulfed in the flames.

They bantered. “That’s got to hurt,” someone remarked.

“Why do you think he did that?” said no one in particular.

“Got to be a religious statement.”

“He’s a monk for heavens sake! Aren’t they the ones closest to God or something?”

Deedee had a thought she didn’t voice, “He’s going to meet him/her now.”

 “Why think that when I don’t even believe in God, any god,”she had asked herself after thinking the thought. It was a strange thought for an educated woman who really didn’t believe God existed to have. Diedra is an agnostic from a family of agnostics. Although she had no particular spiritual or religious beliefs, she had spent a good part of her life studying the archaeological record of a culture group who spent most of their livelihood preparing for death, and a hoped for afterlife existence!

No matter how hard she tried to avoid the subjects of religion, god and death, aspects always found a way into the discussion. Maybe that was because she was always dealing with the stuff of dead people, Diedra had figured. That, and being close to ‘piled higher and deeper’ as her friends put it. They were only jesting, she understood. 

Yet even though the ‘girls’ were of differing aptitudes and interests, they had grown to like each other’s company. And given the competitive attitude amongst them, that figure of speech was simply a gentle jab in her ribs, to bring her down to earth so to speak, and Diedra wasn’t the least bit slighted by it. She laughed right along with them.

“You know, only about 17% of our world’s population believes in annihilation when we die, the rest believe in some sort of existence after death,” Tammy remarked to the group.

Gloria Jean added, “Correct me if I’m wrong, the remaining 83% is divided between those who believe in reincarnation and those who don’t. Some non-reincarnators even believe the human soul simply goes off wandering, wandering forever and ever, aimlessly. “

It seemed ludicrous, and in a way, humorous to think of a nebulous soul wandering aimlessly forever. They laughed at that, in part to temper the horror of the monk’s action caught on TV. 

“Others believe in oneness of souls, each soul becoming one with a greater consciousness, the sum total of all the earthly departed,” Bobby said. “But we can’t dismiss the millions of people who believe Hell of the Bible is real.”

“I like that oneness thing,” Tammy had said.

That sounded kind of Jung-ish to Diedra, for which she added little to the discussion.

Someone blurted, “But jihadists believe if they die for the cause, they’ll be rewarded with 70 virgins in heaven!”

They all belly laughed together discussing the virgins, and concluded the poor fellows didn’t know what they were asking for! You would think if jihadist heaven offers all that sexual pleasure a guy would desire 70 women with some experience! Now, that would be some kind of memorable party they agreed!

Someone posed the question about women Jihadists. No one ever mentions the reward they get! Seventy male virgins?  The giggling continued but they didn’t even let their discussive imaginations go there. It was hard for the conversation to stay serious.

For several weeks, Diedra had been piecing together funerary papyri of utterances, commonly viewed as spells in her trade, spells that in part comprise the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. The earliest pharaohs were acutely aware of the dangers facing their royal soul after death. Priests by the scores kept their amanuenses busy carving the royal tomb walls and sarcophagus with the prescriptions necessary to protect the pharaoh’s remains.  The ‘Book’ consisted of pronunciations dealing with re-animation, and the subsequent means to pass through the heavens, to Ra, that each deceased soul must follow in becoming Osiris, the Egyptian deity of afterlife. Yet Diedra knew that at some point in Egyptian history, the focus of the death religion changed, as did the spell rituals, no longer to be prescriptive of a heavenly journey, but of a dangerous, oft frightening underworld trek.

Dante had written of a hellish place deep in the bowels of the earth. His description of Hades was emphatically brutal to the senses; unbearable heat, diabolical creatures, and a tortuous existence ever prolonged without an end in sight. It was a fate any sane person would give everything to avoid. Diedra thought of the long-ago Egyptians, and the fears they must have had. She considered her own newfound apprehension in light of the predetermination discussion that had gone on.

“Was it possible the Egyptians were predetermined to build pyramids and great religious complexes?”she wondered. “Were the Mayas and Aztecs also predetermined to carve still-beating hearts out of sacrificial victims atop their pyramidal structures?”

Along the way Diedra had mentally calculated that the pharaohs literally spent millions and millions of dollars, and untold lives of laborers preparing for that ultimate experience touching us all. She could only imagine the expenses other cultures had made. It was a realization that knocked her squarely upside the head. She had focused her whole life preparing for a future, and had given little thought, or prep, or money, for that matter, to her own mortality. Up until this moment, ‘come-see, come-sah’ had been her mantra, and the thought that not only her life, but perhaps, even the events leading to her death were predetermined, deeply disturbed her. (to be continued…)

The Testimony of Two

Whenever we are confronted with new information it is good to have a number of sources that speak to the same idea/ concept/ or truth. In other words, truth, say in the scientific world, might come from differing avenues but address the same thing. Water for instance is known to the chemist as two hydrogen molecules attached to a single oxygen molecule. The biologist sees water as a fluid component of nearly every living life form, and emphasizes such. To the physicist water can exist in several forms, liquid, gas, or semi-solid. Each of these scientific voices would speak to the importance and character of water.

When Bill Gates licensed his Microsoft operating system software to those making the actual physical computer, it brought the device a special life of its own; it could then perform analytical tasks, correlate and co-gregate untold bytes of data, and even allow the user to process such materials with the creation of documents! Yet, Steve Jobs and his Apple computing devices brought about the same results, while using a different underlying operating system, and sometimes, different physical components! In other words, from two mutually differing sources the same end can be achieved.

The above are positive instances of convergent differences. This can also work in the negative. What comes to mind is in the area of legality. Just on the accusation of one person, another can be tainted for life. In this regard I’m reminded of how precarious the field of teaching is in this day and age. Children often have a disregard for teachers if not even for their own parents. The instances of lip-giving to teachers by their charges is alarming. In some areas, the teens rule the school and not the other way around. A teacher today has to tread on eggshells as it were, nay say any child say, “He touched me!” or “She touched me!” And if a child is reprimanded in school, what’s stopping them from bringing some measure of retribution by faulty accusation? The accused is presumedguilty until proven otherwise! They wear a scarlet letter no matter what the outcome.

In the bible, Jesus speaks to the lawyers in John 8:17,

“Even in your law it has been written that the testimony of two men is true.” 

I would hope that the authorities would value the word of two or more than the accusation of one. And this brings me to my point. When one does research on a topic, it is hoped that multiple data points are found that support a thesis, at the very least, two sources, and I think I have a second source for an ear-tickling topic.

On youtube.com^[i]Dr. Kim presents a case for Satan having a literal son. I believe most of his points are valid, and would add my support as corroborating the thesis he puts forth, by offering a second source of proof to the matter. To begin we must understand the foundational verse in the bible that potentially establishes such a thesis.  

Soon after the fall of Adam and Eve, God addresses the beguiling serpent there in the garden stating: I will put enmity between you and the woman, between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head and you shall bruise his heel.(Genesis 3:15)^[ii]

Theologians generally agree that the wording “her seed” is a reference to Christ who would incarnate many hundreds of years later as Jesus, Jesus the Messiah. Yet, these same experts gloss over the wording “thy seed,” by delegitimizing what the text plainly indicates; that as the woman (will have) a physical descendant, so shall the serpent have a physical descendant! For them, it is ok to take and teach the woman’s seed literally, but the satanic seed figuratively. This is a no-no. If this God-given curse / prognostication be taken literally, then many other bible passages jump to the light of true understanding. For instance, in the parable of the Wheat and the Tares,^[iii]Jesus instructs us that the farmer established good seed of wheat in his garden but an enemy came and sowed the tares. Given that what is at stake here is the integrity of human DNA, Jesus instructs us that the enemy is sewing something of differing DNA, thus we understand these tares to be human-angel hybrids! Where is this indicated?

Three chapters over in Genesis 6 we find that the “sons of God” have taken human woman and raped them producing a race of fallen ones, the Nephilim, regarded as giants in the earth. Before the chapter comes to an end, God is bringing a flood to cleanse the earth. What do you think the flood is cleansing the earth from? Not only does the bible state the wickedness of continual evil thoughts and imaginations, it speaks to the sexually corrupted human DNA of his creation! The evil perpetrated by fallen angels (sons of God) upon humankind only continually caused evil to multiply, and salient to this was the sexual promiscuity amongst the whole bunch that continually corrupted the human DNA gene pool! The flood erased the blackboard, and with Noah, the human population began again, he being “perfect in his generations,” meant true human. Ah, but the bible tells us that although there was a new start, corrupted DNA was still with us.^[iv]Now catch this, the second voice of proof.

Exodus chapter 32 records a most grievous sin. The Israelites have been delivered from Egypt, are in the wilderness, and Moses has gone up the mountain to receive the Law of God. God tells him the people below are sinning and wants to consume the whole bunch! After Moses confronts them, he heads back up the mountain to plead for their lives with God. In verse 32 Moses asks God to forgive their sin, and if not, he asks God to ‘blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written!’

There are two instances where such a ‘book’ is mentioned within the New Testament, but in Revelation, it is plainly referred to as the ‘book of life.’ Revelation 3:5 has Jesus speaking, saying “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white rainment, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”

What this verse tells me is that God has a book with names in it, I believe it to be a book of the names of all true human beings (having no corrupted DNA), and that perhaps, every true human at birth has their name in this book. For reasons only Jesus knows, those names may be blotted out of the book of life.

Now, over in Revelation 13:8 we find it is the beast worshipers that do not have their name written in the Lamb’s book of Life, and then we see in Revelation 17:8 individuals living upon the earth that have neverhad their names written in the Lamb’s book of Life from the beginning! Never been there at all!

Thus in proof, we see there are three groups:

1. Every true human with his/ her name in God’s book of life
2. a grouping of true humans who have had their names blotted out of the book,
3. and a group of beings that have never had their name in God’s book to begin with!

How do we account for this latter group if they are the Tares planted by the enemy? And remember, by the very tenants of the parable, Wheat and Tares are not the same thing, similar, but not the same. Hey folks, I didn’t implicate this, the Lord himself forewarned us!

^[i]https://youtu.be/BK_JUg22efs

^[ii]King James Bible, Genesis 3:15

^[iii]Parable of Wheat and Tares is found in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 13

^[iv]Long after the world repopulated after the Noahic Flood, we come to understand that God again chose a man, Abraham, to initiate a special people group, one with a covenant with God Almighty. After traveling to the land where God would bless Abraham, and he establishes there, we see in Genesis 19 that a relative has chosen to live in the city Sodom. Angels are sent to destroy the city for its continual wickedness, and again we see the sexual promiscuity has gone so far that the men of Sodom wish to have sex with the two angel messengers. This indiscriminate sexual behavior was prevalent before flood, and is now witnessed again enraging the Lord. That human men had a deep desire to fornicate with male angels demonstrated the ongoing corruption of human DNA.

I’m old enough to remember the black and white Flash Gordon series that aired on TV in the 1950’s and early ‘60’s. These were adapted for TV from earlier 35mm theater film from the days of good old-fashioned drive-in theater. Could hardly wait until Saturday when Flash would vanquish the tree-men or the stone-men monsters on a black and white television screen about 12 inches across .

Monster movies were the craze, yet, movies having to do with outer space and men from Mars always attracted me the most, simply because I did not come away with the same fear and dread which caused me to tuck my arms in at night under the covers, so as to keep ‘the blob’ from getting me. Then late in the decade came the Star Trek series with William Shatner and the gang. Oh, the places and beings they’d encounter!

Recently, due to a major operation, my wife and I binged on the Stargate series up on Netflix. Every episode filled with wonder as we wiled the recovery time away. One thing bothered me though, other worldly monsters, creatures, and beings (human or otherwise) died in these stories, and that got me thinking about death.

Could these other entities, off on other planets actually die, or was this an entirely earth concept applied to supposed other worldly creatures by Hollywood script writers?

In the biblical writings of the early Christians, the apostle Paul writes to the church there in Rome. In chapter 2:12-19 he makes a unique argument regarding death;

¹² Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

¹³ (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

¹⁵ But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

¹⁶ And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

¹⁷ For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

¹⁸ Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

¹⁹ For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

In the above parenthetical portion (vs. 13) sin was in the world but not imputed while the “law” (Mosaic Law) was absent. In other words, law had not been established whereby the one who would break the law should suffer death as a consequence! Sin was in the world he states. Interesting. But not imputed, or charged to anyone’s personage. Yet we see Adam was first to sin by disobeying the Garden command not to partake of the Fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. He did, thus his ‘original’ sin was imputed to him, and any progeny thereafter came under that condemnation, thus there was death right up until the Mosaic Law was given.

In other words, Adam the first created being disobeyed God’s command, which was a sin, and this sin resulted in condemnation because he disobeyed a direct command, and the condemnation extends to all human beings who descended from that first couple, with no way to ever regain that relationship of rightness with God as there had been in the beginning. However, Paul goes on to introduce Christ who innocently gave his life (in just payment) thus re-establishing the right relationship (the ‘gift’) between God and his human creation.

So, what has all this got to do with Stargate and death. Well, for us human descendants of Adam, death is a consequence of that first disobedience. Sin was around before that happened, but condemnation resulting in death was not imputed. Yet we see in the Hollywood scripts that other worldly creatures do die, they are subject to death. If I am correct, had Adam not disobeyed God, he would have been immortal! The bible does say that man was created a little lower than the angels, perhaps the free-will choice to sin against God is the difference.

Why should it be that other-worldly creatures suffer death? Perhaps because the God of the bible known as Yahweh is creator of all, above all gods, and all these others have sinned in some way resulting in condemnation leading to death potential. Only God is immortal and to whomever he imparts immortality, e.g. angels. Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with immortality!

Our fight is not against flesh and blood (mortal beings) but against powers and principalities in high places (immortal beings), they cannot be killed/ annihilated but for the moment only kept at a distance, until the King deems otherwise. The name of Jesus and pleading the blood of Jesus are weapons in our struggle. Use them!

There is a fellow up on Youtube creating quite a stir with his insights regarding the origin and makeup of rocks, rock formations, and even the mountainous areas of the world. Roger Spur of Mudfossil University^[i]channel has even gone so far as to say he has found a new human species, the “no-toes.” His research and observations deal much with the chemistry/biochemistry of living tissue becoming stone through a process called, Nucleophilic Substitution, whereby trace minerals found in salt water, deposit in tissues eventually stabilizing becoming stones termed “mud fossils.’^[1]

What I find interesting is that this process basically happens in a saline swamp! In Mr. Spur’s case, stone body parts from the time of the Genesis flood can be found all over the world. Now, in Washington, D.C. we witness a  ‘swamp’ as President Trump called the mired grouping of ‘good ol’ boys’ we know to be politicians. Trump wanted to drain this swamp because he knew a process was occurring in Congress causing politicians’ brains to turn to stone! And, draining the swamp might have stemmed the fossilization going on there. How do I know this could be true? The irrational thoughts and proposals coming from that austere group regarding US citizenship and voting rights leads me to no other conclusion.

Every state in this great country requires proof of personage at almost every level. Enter the Driver’s License or state ID card. Banks require proof of personage before allowing an account to be opened, and then, every stinking time you want to withdraw Your money, you have to provide at least one photo ID if not two identity proofs! Another proof regarding the Washington fossilization is how plain the situation is, and yet while almost every adult American understands that proof of identity is important, the good ol’ boys resist at every turn to institute a mandate requiring proof of who one says they are when it comes to voting. Perhaps, we have conscientiously gone along with the injustice we perceive unconsciously to be fact, that voter fraud exists and tampering will be with us until Jesus comes again! Case in point.

I once took a customer service position at a local big box store. The company issued it’s own ID card (to track purchases, etc). In order for one to shop at the store they needed to get one of these cards, for which you had to show proof of identity with two other photo Ids! A young Latino woman brought a Mexican man to me. I asked for his two ID cards, for which he produced a Mexican driver’s license. Unfortunately, that wouldn’t work, as he needed two photo ID’s from companies/ states situated here in the United States! The woman was livid about getting him an ID, but there was nothing I could do. Several weeks later, I saw that same man shopping at the store with his ID. He had simply gone on down the road to another store where a Latino was working the customer service counter. In this case, a little rule-bending got him a card. Yet…

The only legitimate reason to not want a photo ID voter registration card is that these swamp powers know for a fact the game is rigged and want to keep it operating that way, and in so doing, they think the rest of we American citizens should be happy with having elections at all, even rigged ones! Oh, and the dead do rise again! Perhaps Washington has a new species, the “no brainers.”

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8v44qrU_Fdd7UN_XlUMpew

[1]   Standing salt water, primarily water from the diluvian cataclysm as recorded in the Bible.

[i]    http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8v44qrU_Fdd7UN_XIUMpew

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Who? What? Where? When? Why?

During my humble education one of the first things I learned that stuck with me is the maxim of 5 Ws. To any event or story we attend ourselves, we consciously or unconsciously ask, Who? What? Where? When? And Why? Or some order thereof. This maxim is used in all manner of research from the most basic to the most obscure.

As I write this post, the Christian celebration of Easter 2021 has come to an end, and we are about to begin a new work week perhaps with reflections upon the totality of that celebration and the consequences of the event that may impact our individual lives. Yet my approach will not be straight forward. I’d like to introduce some information that comes to light some months if not years after the historical Passover celebration culminating in the crucifixion of Jesus so long ago.

In my earlier post Art of War in the Heavenlies: Part Two I make reference to the fact that the Devil or Satan could not kill Jesus himself, this had to be done by human agency, and history records that the SanhedrIn, the most high council of Jewish religious temple priests in Jerusalem shouldered the death of Christ. In their eyes Jesus posed a threat to their dominion in spiritual matters concerning Jews, and for me to use a crude analogy, they couldn’t afford to have a Donald Trump-like fellow drain their swamp! They needed Jesus out of the picture, and they proved to be very zealous to the task.

Think of this, at any point along the way of Christ’s suffering, he could have stopped the process. He could have called for angel help, he could have commanded the heavenly host, he could have come off that cross and stood before his tormentors. All these actions would have proven his deity, his oneness with God. The world would have stood there in awe before a god that could not be mortified. But his doing so was not the ultimate goal.

While we are thankful history records the crucifixion of Jesus, he being the promised Messiah, the Christ and all, with Scripture stating that he was appointed once for death, for remission of the sins of the world, such was not the finale of God’s plan. Christ died is of no question, it is fact. History records the 5 Ws of it in numerous accounts. Yet one salient fact remains, the totality of Christianity hangs on his resurrection! And for that, there is also 5 W data if one is willing to believe it.

In the Apostle Paul’s first cryptic letter to the brethren at Corinth, chapter 2 he intimates that the gory crucifixion of Jesus had been God’s plan all along, the fulfillment being shrouded in mystery, something so magnanimous that only the God was privy to, and none of the other occupants of the heavenly realm were privy. You see, most people read the Bible account and superimpose a contrived vision of Jesus as a dirty-toed sandal-wearing guru traveling the dusty roads sharing whimsical anecdotes germain to life experiences, perhaps buddha-like in his presentation, occasionally ministering in such a way that people are made to feel better or even recover from an ailment! That was Tomas Jefferson’s perspective, and he too, discounted the miraculous!

The earthly ministry of Jesus was actually a proclamation, a proclamation made to the fallen powers of heaven that had obtained spiritual control of God’s earthly creation, and here I take liberty to paraphrase, “I have come to do the will of my Father, and that not of myself!” In essence, “Through a means acceptable to the heavenly council, I will pluck the power from you, Satan, and re-establish a right relationship with creation!”

In Genesis 3:15 we find the first glimmer of hope for mankind in a curse aimed at the Edenic interloper, known elsewhere as Lucifer the bright shining one. “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall bruise/(crush thy head (resurrection), and thou shalt bruise his heal (Crucifixion).” [parenthesies mine] The resurrection was the ultimate, consumate blow to the powers of darkness here in the earth, and heaven. The resurrection from death proved the god-head Messiahship of Christ, and brought to naught the repetative, ongoing Jewish religious traditions. The resurrection was God’s secret weapon. Without the resurrection there is no more importance to being a Christian than a mom who joins the PTA!

So secret was this move, Apostle Paul writes in I Corinthians 2:7,8, “…we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages unto our glory; 8 Which none of the princes of this [age] knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” This verse references those controlling spiritual forces, fallen angels, that had worked behind the scenes to influence mankind in evil workings here in the earth. Christ’s resurrection stripped these forces of their lawful power, and gave warning that the end for them was near!

You might ask, “Why all the evil in the world today then?”

Scripture states that Christ must reign sitting at the right hand of the Father until all his enemies are made His footstool! Now, if he is sitting and reigning like a king, who is fighting the battle? What kind of battle(s) is there? Where is this fighting being held? The When and Why of it I think we all know. It is going on around us right now! At no time in history has there been such a massive move on the part of people who love freedom, and yet, their efforts seem paltry. In the past 50 years more and more people have come to America from the outside than in any other period. For the most part these people have grown up under harsh if not controlling, even totalitarian governments that constantly repress their souls. Rather than America being a wholesome oasis, it has become a cesspool of corruption, indignation, resentment and repression. No wonder people do not trust authority, evil extends from our very neighborhood streets right up into the Chambers of lawmakers in Congress! Individuals hopeful to change the system by their very presence in Washington, become embedded themselves in the unjustness, forever entangled in the evil that emanates from D.C.

This mentions just the evil you can put your fingers on, the evil that occasionally leaks to the press that will print of it. What we cannot see or know is evil at the highest levels. Scripture calls it wiles of the devil. He is alive and working feverishly, for he knows his time is about to end. Concerning last days, Jesus once said, “Men’s hearts shall fail them for fear of the things they see coming upon the earth.” Maranatha!

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

P.S. I have not cited my references in this post, you can fact check easily!

Cyber Attacks, Part of The Plan?

The most recent New York Times article[i] raised public alarm over Russian hacking at the highest levels of our government. To capture the importance of this event, the authors state, the hacking activity “is among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times!” Of course, the material subjected to the hack was mostly unclassified documents and data, and the article questioned why the US Cyber Espionage Command didn’t do a better job of safeguarding the information.

The NSA, FBI and others seemingly were caught ‘off guard’ with their respective pants down this time, but have been aware since 2015 the Russian cyber hacking has ramped up. The article laid lots of blame on our intelligence community for missing this one. I have another slant. Complacency as an overt act of collusion.

Hey, we have to remember not every one who wears a uniform or serves the military in some capacity is privy to our country’s deepest, and perhaps, darkest kept secrets. Earlier I posited Russia and US collusion with alien entities as part and parcel to the clandestine association going on ever since post WWII, specifically since the UFO crashes at Roswell, NM.  July, 1947 (See earlier post in two parts, Art of War in The Heavenlies). I see espionage as a kind of ‘information-sharing’ avenue, and in this case, it was by happenstance the sharing was even brought to light!

I tend to think of these ‘comrades-in-arms’ aliens as angels fallen from grace such as were mentioned in the Bible, Genesis chapter 6. Therein the scriptures state that one third of the heavenly host fell with Lucifer, yet not all later sinned in the way of the “Watchers” who took human female wive(s), corrupting the human mDNA gene pool! So profuse was the corruption, the Almighty brought a flood calamity to clear the dross so to speak. Yet there remains, perhaps, seed of the serpent blood lines, and these vestigial lines may very well be of those individuals who wield immense power and worldly authority, the secret movers and shakers behind the scene manipulating so as to rule.

Other voices have been very vocal about who and where these blood lines are, exposing such is not my intent with this piece. I just offer an out-of-the-box slant to this idea of corporate, tit for tat espionage that has been going on for a long, long time. Complacency as an overt act of collusion.

[i]  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/russia-hack-putin-trump-biden.html

My wife called me that early morning, telling me to turn on the television set. Before my eyes was a scene right out of Independence Day, or it could have been! The back part of a jet could be seen dangling way up, hundreds of feet in the air with its nose and front fuscilage burrowed into the Tower! Both towers were ushering billows of smoke, and oft seen flames. The news announcer could only speculate how or even why such a tragedy took place. What could have gone wrong with the plane to deviate so? And as I watched in horror, there was no mistaking the intentional second plane. What transpired over the next few hours was bone-chilling macabre. I wept.

Soon afterwards, it was announced that radical Islamic Muslims had been the masterminds of the attack. Even the Pentagon had experienced near devastation! Occasionally, the TV news would air a video glimpse of how Muslims in other parts of the world reacted to our woe. They hooped and hollered, often seen brandishing rifles, a glowering ascent to the demise of the iconic Twin Towers that had stood so tall in the New York skyline. Down the investigative road we learned some flight school sap in Florida had been approached by several Middle-eastern characters desiring flying lessons. “We only want to learn how to fly, we don’t need to learn how to land,” or something like that was spoken. Idiot.

Living here in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area I kept keenly aware over the next few months for any word from our local Muslim clerics. I watched the news, checked the papers and hoped. In the months and years that followed there was no public Islamic voice denouncing the terrorists or their acts. There was concern here and there regarding bank account seizures and freezes, but no one of any report publically came out against the actions of Islamic zealots, not one.

In the years that followed we have seen the growing sentiment of our government embracing ideological tenants of foreign interest, to arrive at a point in American history where our very fabric of existence might be at risk. The seeds of change had been sewn here in America even before 9-11 event. The mantra of the 1960’s conscientious objectors was to effect change by working from within the system, I know for a fact I had Communist teachers in my Chicago suburban high school, and after my military time I found these same individuals migrating to teaching at the State university level!

The whole process to enact change is to do it subtly, like back-masking the old 78 records. Well, modern advertising has done a pretty good job of pushing our buttons without too much rebellion on our part. But how do the movers and shakers, those puppet masters behind the Manchurian candidates bring about a One World Government and or a One World Religion? Conditioning.

Perhaps you’ve heard that if you do something for 21 days in a row, you will create brain pathways that make embracing the task easier. It worked with animals, and trust me, it works with such things as weight-loosing programs! Program your mind through repetition and familiarity! Which brings me to this Covid-19 mask situation. Mandatory wearing of a facial coverings is in some way done to help curb the spread of the viral disease, yet there are many voices stating otherwise. For those in public office that goose-step right along with the program, at least through the mandates for the minions under their jurisdiction, the exercise seems strangely like mass conditioning to me. Do you see anything familiar regarding the “Gators” on the left and right in the pix? The central figure is wearing an Islamic ‘Hijab’… Just my thoughts on the subject.