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Donald Messiah

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:01:51 GMT

World leaders tend to have inflated egos. Familiarity with worldly power and the ability to command armies and multitudes tends to go to their head. But as arrogant and narcissistic as the average head of state is, few of them claim to be god.

That class of elite arrogance is usually reserved for a select group of the great megalomaniacs of history. ¹ Pharoah in Egypt right before his country was destroyed by the ten plagues. Herod before he was eaten by worms, right after the multitudes declared, “it is the voice of a god, and not a man” – Acts 12:22. Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti, who rewrote the Lord’s Prayer to give worship to himself – “Our Doc, Who art in the National Palace…/Hallowed be Thy name…/Thy will be done at Port-au-Prince and in the provinces/Give us this day our new Haiti/and never forgive the trespasses of the antipatriots who spit every day on our country”.

Pharoah. Herod. Alexander the Great, who is rumored to have drowned in his own vomit. Papa Doc. And Donald Trump.

Long tending towards delusions of deity, the president released an end time signal picture on April 12, 2026 on his own platform, “Truth Social”.

The picture features Trump as Christ healing a man, and surrounded by adoring patriots. Nationalism and religion is blended. A union of church and state. The picture is messianic, rapturous – literally. In the clouds behind the Donald-christ are dead soldiers returning at the second coming, and what appears to be an alien-like creature with them.

The picture is a signal of the rapid fulfillment of end time events. If you have not read the book, “The Great Controversy”, you can do so at this link: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/132/toc

Please take the time to read this book, especially chapters 32-42, which provide a step-by-step breakdown of the final events of Bible prophecy in the end times.

The time is at hand.

Jesus is coming back soon, and He warned us to beware of false christs. And Donald is one of them.

Jesus said,

Mark 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:

Mark 13:6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:

Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

Matthew 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.

Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

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If they say to you, “Behold, he is in the White House”, do not believe them.

Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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When Christ returns it will be visible to all. He will come in the clouds of heaven, “and every eye will see Him” – Revelation 1:7. Until then, expect imposters doing miracles, strange events and occurrences so that if it were possible it would deceive the very elect – Matthew 24:24.

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Its true, many other pagan countries claimed their king was a god. But that just underscores the point, doesn’t it.

HORMUZ STRAIT-JACKET, OVERWHELMING SURPRISE

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:35:55 GMT

The following paragraph was penned over 120 years ago, but accurately describe the events of our world today. And tomorrow.

In the last scenes of this earth’s history, war will rage. There will be pestilence, plague and famine. The waters of the deep will overflow their boundaries. Property and life will be destroyed by fire and flood. We should be preparing for the mansions that Christ has gone to prepare for them that love Him. Maranatha, 174 (1897).

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It is March 30, 2026. The Strait of Hormuz, a corridor through which a third of global shipping once passed, ⁱ has been largely closed to traffic for thirty days. The population at large has yet to realize the full catastrophic implications of this closure. When they do, they are likely to panic.

In the weeks leading up to the commencement of the war in Iran, the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate fluctuated between $55 and $66/barrel. Today, it is $101.56/barrel. Brent crude is even higher, surpassing $115/barrel as of the time of writing.

The Strait of Hormuz is the conduit for 40% of global fertilizer shipments, and 50% of urea shipments. 50% of global sulphur, used in pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides, come through the Strait of Hormuz. All such traffic is at a standstill. Already struggling farmers are confronted with the twin spectres of rapidly rising fuel costs and limited fertilizer.

Maybe the timing of the invasion of Iran is just a coincidence. Maybe it was unforeseen that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if it was attacked. Maybe the people who plan wars don’t have sophisticated war gaming capabilities and artificial intelligence war simulators which project likely outcomes.

Or maybe, if the elites who want a global population collapse could pick any moment to interrupt shipping traffic and create conditions for widespread famine on planet earth, they would pick the spring planting season.

Coincidence or not, in addition to the cessation of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, China has also restricted fertilizer exports. ⁱⁱ Suddenly, the prospect of famine in various places globally is rising. To say that people are unprepared would be a gross understatement.

Grocery stores in the western world stock approximately 3 days worth of food. Nearly all domestic food transportation globally runs on diesel. On February 23, 2026, the U.S. retail diesel price was $3.809 per gallon. By March 23, 2026, it had risen to $5.375 per gallon. Those costs will be passed on to consumers sooner or later, and inflation will erode the savings and financial stability of the population.

Nations are being squeezed. Many countries in Asia have implemented fuel rationing. Sri Lanka has introduced a QR-code-based rationing system limiting private cars to 15 litres per week. Bangladesh restricts motorcycle purchases to 2 litres per day and private cars to 10 litres per day. Myanmar has instituted an "odd-even" rationing system for fuel purchases based on vehicle registration numbers. Cambodia has seen significant closures with a third of petrol pumps shut down. South Korea has ordered public servants to reduce passenger car use and capped refined fuel exports. Thailand has encouraged remote work, limited air conditioning to 26°C, and suspended fuel exports. Vietnam is encouraging remote work and limiting personal vehicle use, while some smaller stations have temporarily closed due to declining supplies. Nepal has limited the use of official vehicles to essential services and is considering an odd-even system for private vehicles. Pakistan has reduced available fuel for government vehicles by half.

We have repeatedly been told that the war in Iran will be over quickly. But US soldiers were informed by their commanding officers that this war will bring in Armageddon. If the theocons who control the White House are anticipating Armageddon, why would anyone think that this is going to be a transitory situation? Or that everything will go back to normal if the Iran issue is resolved?

The reality is that a paradigm shift has taken place in the upper echelons of power in America. There is now a union of church and state, and the Iran war is a religious war. A “holy war”, at the conclusion of which the theocons claim will usher in a “golden age” of peace and prosperity. Stock markets and political analysts have yet to understand, or even begin to consider, what this means in all its various ramifications.

In the meantime, we propose that readers watch the following video on food scarcity, and seriously consider taking steps to plant a garden soon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c77M4mC7yLg

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i https://www.etcgroup.org/content/experts-warn-strait-hormuz-fertilizer-and-fuel-blockage-could-lead-global-food-crisis

ii https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-restricts-fertiliser-exports-further-crimping-war-tightened-supply-2026-03-19/

“WE WILL SHOW YOU NO MERCY – THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION”

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:28:38 GMT

NATIONS AND IMPERIALISM

America is both a nation and an empire. By necessity, nations are inherently self-interested. They have their own geographic boundaries to protect, and they are supposed to guard and advance the best interests of their citizens.

Imperialism is a byproduct and a magnification of the tension between nations. There have been many empires in human history, and each at various times has subjugated and violently dominated their neighbors and pillaged their resources. None of this is unusual in the context of human history.

But when the most powerful nation in history starts wars, steals other countries resources, and demands territory from its allies under threat of force (Greenland), and at the same time loudly declares for the entire world to hear that it is “a Christian nation”, it seems reasonable for thinking people to ask what exactly that means.

WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY?

Christians have faith in Jesus Christ as the prophesied Messiah. They believe He is God in human flesh; “God with us” – Isaiah 7:14. His teachings matter to them, and not just as external forms. Christianity says the teachings of Christ are to govern and motivate their conduct, and that Christ will give His followers a new heart, a new birth, so that His commandments become internal and natural. Selfish people become self-sacrificing people. Rage-aholics become peaceful and serene. The greatest miracle is a changed life.

Christ instructed His followers to follow the golden rule: “do unto others as you would have others do unto you” – Matthew 7:12. Christ says His kingdom is “not of this world” – John 18:36, but that His kingdom is within the hearts of His followers – Luke 17:21. The territory He wants is not geographic – He already owns the universe and the cattle on a thousand hills are His – Psalms 50:10. The contested ground on this earth is the individual heart, and it is hearts He came to save and renew.

Given the foregoing, how could America possibly be a Christian nation? Has it been born again – John 3? Does it die to self daily – 2 Cor 15:31? Does it “seeketh not its own” – 2 Corinthians 13?

We make no complaint if America, or any other nation, is simply honest, and states the truth: “we are concerned about our own interests. The protection of our borders and our resources. The prosperity of our people. We are inherently selfish, greedy and domineering.”

But American politicians and Christian pastors within it are loudly and repeatedly declaring that America is a Christian nation. ⁱ Such a claim invokes, nay invites, the scrutiny of America’s conduct against the measuring rod of the life and teachings of Christ. Further, it invites the scrutiny of the Deity Himself. It should come as no surprise that claiming to represent Christ invites the scrutiny, and even judgment, of Christ. As the commandment says, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh His name in vain” – Exodus 20:7.

“BY THEIR FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM”

Six years after the First Amendment became part of the US Constitution, the Treaty of Tripoli was signed in 1797. Article 11 contains the following provision, which was adopted by the US Senate and signed by President John Adams: "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion". ⁱⁱ

Jefferson, Madison and Adams never claimed that America was a Christian nation, but the theocons who control the White House today do. It is therefore fair to test their claim.

The Bible says that not everyone who professes to follow Christ is really a follower of Christ. Jesus Himself said – you will know them by their fruits – Matthew 7:16. In other words, according to Christ, you will know if they are Christians by their conduct. Not just by their profession.

Which raises an interesting question: if there is conduct which is unchristian in individuals, is there not conduct which is unchristian in nations? What does one call the folks who declare they are Christians and then constantly violate every principle of His teachings?

We understand that people make mistakes and so do nations. But you’d think nations that claim to be Christian nations could at least have the decency and empathy to apologize.

If you accidentally bomb a school and kill 150 schoolgirls, you’d think the least a Christian nation could do is ask forgiveness and make reparations to the families. Isn’t that the Christian thing to do? Or do “Christian Nations” not have to act like Christians?

The person who is now head of the Department of War, and the most powerful military in human history, Pete Hegseth, once authored a book wherein he invoked religious language to describe a Christian nation in a holy war against Islam. It ought to be unnecessary to point out that “holy wars” are inherently church/state affairs. They take place in nations in which the religious leaders have substantial control of the civil power, and thereby the military.

Hegseth’s book is called, “American Crusade”. It spends little if any time discussing the need to send missionaries to the Middle East, or the Great Commission from Christ to share the Gospel with “all the world”, which presumably would include Iran. Somehow that part gets skipped. Mr. Hegseth issues his call for Christian jihad with the mantra, “Deus Vult”, or “God wills it”, which he also has tattooed on his body. Deus Vult is a Latin exhortation from 1095 that Pope Urban II used to rally crusaders during the First Crusade.

Secretary Hegseth faced backlash recently for stating that “no mercy and no quarter” will be given to “our enemies” in Iran, which signifies that soldiers who surrender will be executed rather than taken prisoner. Multiple legal experts immediately protested, reminding Hegseth that such statements constitute a war crime under international and congressional law. ⁱⁱⁱ That is no doubt true.

But there is an even higher law that Hegseth has violated, and it is contained in the teachings of Christ Himself, who Hegseth claims to represent.

Note the contrast.

Jesus : Blessed are the merciful, for they will obtain mercy – Matthew 5:7.

Hegseth: “We will give no mercy, and no quarter to our enemies”. No mercy for Iranians even if they surrender.

Jesus : “Love your neighbor as yourself.” “This do and thou shalt live” – Luke 10:28.

Hegseth (and maybe you!): “Surely Jesus, surely, Iranians are not our neighbors?”

And how does the Bible answer that troublesome question? “But he, willing to justify himself, said to him, “Who is my neighbor?” – Luke 10:29. This is the famous preamble to the parable of the Good Samaritan told by Christ, and you presumably know how the story goes.

The Bible says, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” That means not murdering him. It means not coveting his oil. Or his land. It means not stealing from him, even when you are more powerful. These are not suggestions for the Christian, they are absolutes. And above all these, the spirit of the commandments contain positive obligations. If your neighbor is in the ditch, you help him. These are commandments for Christians, so wouldn’t they also be commandments for Christian nations? Nations who have claimed to represent Jesus Christ?

Christ says, “He who lives by the sword will die by the sword” – Matthew 26:52. America spends more on its military than the next top nine countries combined. ⁱ It has been involved in countless foreign conflicts, openly and clandestinely providing weapons and money for proxy wars to Israel, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq and a host of other nations. It even provided weapons to Iran, the country which it is currently “bombing the hell out of.” ⁱⁱ America is the world’s largest arm’s exporter. ⁱⁱⁱ It is the largest consumer of oil, which appears to be a major factor in all these wars. ^iv

And speaking of consumption: America has the highest number of obese people of any nation in the world. ^v America produces the most pornography of any country. ^vi It uses more illicit drugs than any other nation, with Canada having the very dubious distinction of having the second highest illicit drug use globally. ^vii America has the world’s largest national debt, at $39 trillion dollars and growing rapidly. It has the highest incarceration rate of any nation, with 2 million people behind bars at any given time, including approximately 400,000 people who have been charged but not convicted. ^viii

Don’t mistake us: we love America. We love the principles it is founded on – liberty of conscience, separation of church and state, republicanism. We love that America guards freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, and yes, those rights are biblical, and yes, they come out of the suffering of the Reformation!

But is America a Christian nation? Does it demonstrate the fruits of the spirit? Is it meek and merciful, and a peacemaker? Is it going into all the world, preaching to all nations, and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

These are questions for you to weigh on the great scale of truth. There is no need for us to tell you the answer – the founding fathers said, “we hold these truths to be self-evident.”

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i Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Former Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Jeff Sessions, Senator Sam Brownback, Pastor Jared Longshore, Pastor Douglas Wilson, Stephen Wolfe, Joel Webbon, and many others have all claimed that America is a Christian Nation. The theologians have spoken explicitly in favor of a union of church and state.

ii John Adams, 1797, Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and other International Acts, 2:365

iii https://www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth-no-quarter-international-law

iv https://www.statista.com/statistics/262742/countries-with-the-highest-military-spending/

v https://youtu.be/ZKv7FlAxJpM

vi https://247wallst.com/military/2025/04/19/which-countries-buy-the-most-us-arms-and-what-are-they-buying/

vii https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-consumption-by-country/

viii https://healthylifebariatrics.com/most-obese-countries/

ix https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/top-15-countries-that-supply-the-most-pornography-online-understanding-global-trends-and-the-role-of-ethical-content-creation-1441936/

x https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/drug-use-by-country

xi https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/US.htm l

BIBLE PROPHECY UPDATE: “HOLY” WAR IN IRAN

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:00:52 GMT

Bible prophecy watchers are increasingly focused on current events indicating a union of church and state is being formed in America.

On March 3, 2024, it was widely reported that US military commanders are informing their soldiers that the war in Iran is part of “God’s divine plan, and that Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus” to commence the battle of Armageddon and hasten the second coming of Christ. This overtly religious and apocalyptic messaging to the troops has resulted in well over a hundred lawsuits from 40 different military units on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state in the Constitution. Which of course it does.

Holy wars are overtly religious affairs. It doesn’t get much more “union of church and state” than declaring that bombing another country is biblically mandated (and justified) by the book of Revelation and commanded by Jesus Christ. Apostate Protestant America has formed an image to the Roman Papacy, which instigated the crusades centuries before

The truth is that US foreign policy in the Middle East has long been influenced by Christians who hold false dispensational beliefs about the end of the world and the second coming of Christ. These beliefs include

That whoever blesses Israel will be blessed by God;
That the temple in Jerusalem must be rebuilt to usher in end time events;
That the secret rapture will occur at the start of a seven year tribulation during which the antichrist will rule the world;
That the battle of Armageddon will be fought by the nations of the world on the plains of Megiddo, in modern day northern Israel;
That following these events Jesus Christ will return and there will be a 1000 year millenium on this earth where the nations of the earth reign with Christ.

Stay tuned – this is a developing story.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-soldiers-say-commanders-told-them-they-re-fighting-for-armageddon/ar-AA1XryLg

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/hundreds-of-us-troops-claim-commanders-saying-iran-war-is-biblically-sanctioned-reports/

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanlarsen/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED: HERITAGE FOUNDATION CALLS FOR SUNDAY LAWS IN 2026

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:35:38 GMT

Part 1

When the Heritage Foundation proposed to penalize employers who operated their businesses on Sunday by requiring them to pay workers time-and-a-half wages, thereby “encouraging” Sunday closing, there were Bible prophecy watchers who took note. The proposal was detailed in the document entitled, “Project 2025”, and was released to coincide with the election which would culminate in the election of Donald Trump as President.

On January 8, 2026, the Heritage Foundation released a further and much more explicit document calling for the enforcement of Sunday blue laws for the good of the nation. The document appeals to lawmakers to “re-establish a shared day of rest for American workers” and to “protect Sunday as a day of rest, reflection, and family time.” The proposal can be read here .

If you think the Heritage Foundation is irrelevant, think again. Tom Homan, Russel Vought, John Ratcliffe, Jonathan Berry, Karolyn Leavitt, Brendan Carr, Stephen Navarro, Stephen Miller, and many more, are all from the Heritage Foundation. Newsweek stated in March 2025 that at least 31 people linked to Project 2025 had been given government roles. ⁱ In addition, nearly 30% of Republican members of Congress employ at least one former Heritage staffer. That’s a whole lot of influence.

That same Heritage Foundation claims that Sunday blue laws are necessary for the good of America so that it can prosper for the next 250 years. It is calling on government, the same government that has so many of its members in official positions, to compel the observance of Sunday.

But Sunday is a common workday. It is one of the “six days thou shalt labor”, according to the Bible in Exodus 20:9. Yes, most of Christianity honors it as the “Lord’s Day”, but it’s the papacy who claims to have the power to change the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day of the week, ⁱⁱ and keeping Sunday sacred is honoring “lord god the Pope”. But that is not stopping so-called Christians from calling to impose their dogmas on American society using state power.

Make no mistake – this quickly growing relationship between the church and state is a fulfilment of Bible prophecy. Religious leaders are wooing the state, and the state is wooing them.

Trump showered religious leaders with remarkable promises in order to get re-elected:

He would restore Christianity’s influence in American public life and protect religious freedoms;
He would bring God back into the public square, and reverse the decline of religion under the Biden administration;
He committed to specific policy actions, including establishing a task force to combat “anti-Christian bias,” supporting school vouchers for religious schools, ending the contraception mandate from Obamacare, and appointing anti-abortion judges to the federal courts, including the Supreme Court;
He promised to repeal the Johnson Amendment, allowing churches to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status;
He promised to defend Christian symbols like the cross;
He emphasized alignment with evangelical priorities, such as opposing transgender participation in women’s sports, supporting prayer in schools, and displaying the Ten Commandments in public classrooms; and
He framed his campaign as a "righteous crusade" to restore America as "one nation under God," appealing to conservative Christians by portraying himself as a protector of their values and a tool for national spiritual revival.

He did not stop there. At a Turning Point USA event in July 2024, Trump informed the gatherers that if they vote for him in 2024 election, "in four years, you don't have to vote again." ⁱⁱⁱ He said, "Christians, get out and vote, just this time.” "I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote.” "In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote." You won't have to do it anymore... We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote."

Now, and somewhat parenthetically, you would think that any candidate’s election promise to end all elections once in office would be absolutely fatal to that candidate’s chances. In any sane world, that would create alarm bells that would shatter the ear drums of a people who value their liberty and their right to self-determination.

But you would be wrong. And we do not live in a sane world. Sanity got left fifty stops back.

The political abuse of the left has created an unquenchable thirst for power in Christian circles. They are done with turning the other cheek. Climate change, abortion, gay marriage? Atheism, secularism, transgenderism? It’s payback time. Forget, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. No. That is finished. Now its, “Do unto others as they did unto you.” That’s not the golden rule, folks. That’s the law of iron.

“You made our kids to listen to your trannies in the library? Now your kids will listen to our priests and pastors. Ever hear of eternal hell? Well, you will. Tax dollars funded your woke public school programs, now they will fund our Old Time Religion.”

“You aborted millions of babies? Now your women will be chained in the kitchen, unable to vote, ^iv and they will make baby after baby after baby.”

“You said there was no God? Now you will go to church instead of Walmart, because guess what? Walmart is closed on the Lord’s Day.”

The Heritage Foundation claims forcing people not to work on Sunday will save America, but forced religious observance has always created oppression and hypocrisy, which is why America dispensed with it at its founding, and constitutionalized a strict separation of church and state. In Europe, and later in the American colonies, cruelty and oppression marked the enforcement of religious laws by the state. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”, states the First Amendment. They had seen the oppression firsthand.

Enforced idleness also breeds crime. Idleness. Abuse. Dissipation. Gainful work that might be done is criminalized and persecuted on the basis of religion. Crime stats rise significantly on the weekends because people are idle.

The Heritage Foundation hides the cruelty in its proposals. They omit the ugly and tyrannical result of their compulsory Sunday laws. Civil laws impose punishments for their breach. Historically, people who worked on Sunday were fined and imprisoned for breach of blue laws. They ended up on chain gains, imprisoned, and executed.

Eventually, the Bible states that all who will not accept this “mark” of the authority of the beast, Sunday sacredness, will be prohibited from buying and selling, and condemned to death – Revelation 13:15. The beast system is being built to impose the mark of the beast. Even secular non-religious people call the digital cage being constructed around us “the beast system”.

Bible prophecy, so long ignored, so long doubted, is being fulfilled.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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i https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-contributors-trump-administration-2040464

ii “Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; – she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” - Cardinal Gibbons

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“You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday.” - Canon on Tradition p. 263

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“The authority of the Church could, therefore, not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed…the Sabbath into Sunday, not by the command of Christ, but by its own authority.” - Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, May 21, 1995

iii https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/28/donald-trump-tells-christians-they-wont-have-to-vo/

iv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBiPIfx-UA

THE MAN OF SIN: THE PAPAL CLAIM TO DIVINITY

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:21:00 GMT

As ecumenical dialogue sweeps the planet and the Protestant denominations return to their mother, as Revelation 17 prophesied, we wish to remind the remaining Protestants on the fence of the history of the Reformation: please remember your history, and who you are thinking of going back to.

At the heart of the Reformation, is the issue of sola scriptura. The Bible is the Word of God. It is the sole rule of faith. The Papacy has always put itself above the Word of God. Like the serpent of old, it says, “hath God said?”, and insinuates itself between man and God.

The Pope “opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” – 2 Thessalonians 2:4

Nothing has changed in the Papacy. The change is in Protestantism. Please consider where you are going before it is forever too late.

“The Pope is of so great dignity, and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God. and the vicar of God.” (Ferraris Ecclesiastical dictionary)

“All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope.” (On the Authority of the Councils, book 2, chapter 17)

“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, “Cities Petrus Bertanous”.”…the Pope is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power.”

Lucius Ferraris, in “Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis, Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica”, Volume V, article on “Papa, Article II”, titled “Concerning the extent of Papal dignity, authority, or dominion and infallibility”, (#1, 5, 13-15, 18, published in Petit-Montrouge (Paris) by J. P. Migne, 1858 edition.)

“The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth…by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock. He is the true vicar, the head of the entire church, the father and teacher of all Christians. He is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge of councils; the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged by no one, God himself on earth.” (Quoted in the New York Catechism)

These words are written in the Roman Canon Law 1685: “To believe that our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed, is to be deemed heretical.”

Writers on the Canon Law say, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in heaven and earth.”(Barclay Cap. XXVII, p. 218. Cities Petrus Bertrandus, Pius V. – Cardinal Cusa supports his statement)

Pope Nicholas I declared: “the appellation of God had been confirmed by Constantine on the Pope, who, being God, cannot be judged by man.” (Labb IX Dist.: 96 Can. 7, Satis evidentur, Decret Gratian Primer Para)

“The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man …. he is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power.” (Lucius Ferraris, «Prompta Bibliotheca», 1763, Volume VI, ‘Papa II’, pp.25-29)

“The supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires… complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.”
(Leo VIII, «On the Chief Duties of Christians as Citizens», Encyclical letter, 1890)

“God separates those whom the Roman Pontiff, who exercises the functions, not of mere man, but of the true God…dissolves, not by human but rather by divine authority.” (Decretals of Gregory IX», Book 1, Chapter 7.3)

“Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven and of earth and of the lower regions (infernorum).” (Lucius Ferraris, «Prompta Bibliotheca», 1763, Volume VI, ‘Papa II’, p.26)

“Innocent III has written: “Indeed, it is not top much to say that in view of the sublimity of their offices the priests are so many gods.” (The dignity of the priesthood by Liguori p, 36)

“The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, he is Jesus Christ himself, hidden under the veil of flesh.” (Catholic National July 1895)

“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty” (Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter of June 20, 1894)

“For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman, finally thou art another God on earth.”
(Labbe and Cossart’s “History of the Councils.” Vol. XIV, col. 109)

Roman Catholic Canon Law stipulates through Pope Innocent III that the Roman pontiff is
“the vicegerent upon earth, not a mere man, but of a very God;” and in a gloss on the passage it is explained that this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, who is “very God and very man.” Decretales Domini Gregorii translatione (Episcoporum, [on the transference of Bishops], title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice (2nd Leipzig ed., 1881), col. 99; [Paris, 1612], tom. 2, Devretales, col. 205)

“The pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land… He is the vicegerent (replacement) of Christ, who is not only a Priest forever, but also King of kings and Lord of lords.”
(La Civilia Cattolica, March 18, 1871, quoted in Leonard Woosely Bacaon, An inside view of the Vatican Council [American Tract Society ed.], p.229)

“Christ entrusted His office to the chief pontiff;… but all power in heaven and in earth has been given to Christ;… therefore the chief pontiff, who is His vicar, will have this power.”
(Corpus Juris chap. 1 column 29, translated from a gloss on the words Porro Subesse Romano Pontiff)

“The pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land . . . He is the vicegerent of Christ, and is not only a priest forever, but also King of kings and Lord of lords” (La Civilta Cattolica, March 18, 1871)

“All the faithful must believe that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff [the Pope] possesses the primacy over the whole world, and the Roman Pontiff is the successor of blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and is true vicar of Christ, and heed of the whole church, and father and teacher of all Christians; and that full power was given to him in blessed Peter to rule, feed, and govern the universal Church by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ, “Eternal Pastor,” published in the fourth session of the Vatican Council, 1870, chap. 3, in Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom. vol. 2, p. 262)

“The Pope’s authority is unlimited, incalculable; it can strike, as Innocent III says, wherever sin is; it can punish every one; it allows no appeal and is itself Sovereign Caprice; for the Pope carries, according to the expression of Boniface VIII, all rights in the Shrine of his breast. As he has now become infallible, he can by the use of the little word, “orbi,” (which means that he turns himself round to the whole Church) make every rule, every doctrine, every demand, into a certain and incontestable article of Faith. No right can stand against him, no personal or corporate liberty; or as the [Roman Catholic] Canonists put it—“The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.” Ignaz von Dollinger, “A Letter Addressed to the Archbishop of Munich” 1871; as quoted in MacDougall,

“The Saviour Himself is the door of the sheepfold: ‘I am the door of the sheep.’ Into this fold of Jesus Christ, no man may enter unless he be led by the Sovereign Pontiff; and only if they be united to him can men be saved, for the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ and His personal representative on earth.”
(Pope John XXIII in his homily to the Bishops and faithful assisting at his coronation on November 4, 1958)

“This is our last lesson to you: receive it, engrave it in your minds, all of you: by God’s commandment salvation is to be found nowhere but in the Church; the strong and effective instrument of salvation is none other than the Roman Pontificate.”
(Pope Leo XIII, Allocution for the 25th anniversary of his election, February 20, 1903; Papal Teachings: The Church, Benedictine Monks of Solesmes, St. Paul Editions, Boston, 1962, page 653)

“Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.”
(Pope Pius XI, Encyclical, Mortalium animos, January 6, 1928, The Papal Encyclicals, Claudia Carlen, I.H.M., McGrath Publishing Co., 1981, pp. 317, 318)

“We define that the Holy Apostolic See (the Vatican) and the Roman Pontiff hold the primacy over the whole world.”
(A Decree of the Council of Trent, quoted in Philippe Labbe and Gabriel Cossart, “The Most Holy Councils,” col. 1167)

“But as for you and your companions, you certainly sin, if, having heard the decrees of the Apostolic See, and of the universal Church, and the same is confirmed by Holy Writ, you refuse to follow them; for, though your fathers were holy, do you think that their small number, in a corner of the remotest island, is to be preferred before the universal Church of Christ throughout the world? And if that Columba of yours (and, I may say, ours also, if he was Christ’s servant), was a holy man and powerful in miracles, yet could he be preferred before the most blessed prince of the Apostles to whom Our Lord said ‘Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and to thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven’?” When Wilfrid had spoken thus, the king said, “Is it true Colman, that these words were spoken to Peter by Our Lord?” He answered, “It is true, O king!” Then says he, “Can you show any such power given to your Columba?” Colman answered, “None.” Then added the king, “Do you both agree that these words were principally directed to Peter, and that the keys of heaven were given to him by Our Lord?” They both answered. “We do.” Then the king concluded, “And I also say unto you, that he is the door-keeper, whom I will not contradict, but will, as far as I know and am able, in all things obey his decrees, lest, when I come to the gates of the kingdom of heaven, there should be none to open them, he being my adversary who is proved to have the keys.”
(St. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, quoted in Readings from Church History, Volume I, edited by Fr. Colman Barry, O.S.B., The Newman Press, Westminster, MD, 1966, p. 273.)

The Law of Iron

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:37:33 GMT

The following remarkable interview occurred this week between Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller and CNN’s Jake Tapper. The discussion involved the capture of Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela, the fate of its enormous resources, and growing imperialistic intentions targeting the island of Greenland.

Mr. Miller in the interview stated that one of the largest naval armadas in history had blockaded Venezuela. He dismissed “international niceties” and questions about the legality of the capture of Maduro, and made the following assertions.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force , that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world from the beginning of time.”
“By definition, we are in charge because we have the United States military stationed outside the country. We set the terms and conditions. We have a complete embargo on all of their oil and their ability to do commerce. For them to do commerce they need our permission. For them to be able to run an economy they need our permission.”

After declaring in essence that might makes right, Mr. Miller made the following statements regarding the Danish colony of Greenland:

“It is the formal position of the US government… that Greenland should be part of the United States.”
The United States “is NATO” and in order to fulfill its treaty obligations it must have Greenland.
“By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? What is the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony?”
“Obviously Greenland should be part of the United States.”
“Nobody is going to fight the United States, militarily, over the future of Greenland.”

It was subsequently confirmed by the White House that it was considering all options, including military force, to seize Greenland.[i] For its part, Denmark has advised that it will shoot first and ask questions later if America attempts to invade its colony.[ii]

To many, this abrasive rhetoric is bewildering. What? America is going to invade … (checks notes) … Greenland?

Administration officials claim the menacing posture is simply “the art of the deal”. Trump wants Greenland for strategic reasons and for its rare earth minerals, and thinks military threats will help the acquisition. But this claim only raises more questions. What friend demands another friend’s resources at gunpoint? What kind of “deal” is obtained by threats of war? Where is this headed? What does it mean?

FOUNDATIONS

As this website has often discussed, in concept America was founded on an absolute hatred for tyranny.

The Declaration of Independence itself is a litany of complaints against the high-handed imperialism of King George III. Here are just a few you should consider and contemplate.

Grievance 7: "He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners..."
Grievance 14: "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us."
Grievance 15: "For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States."
Grievance 16: "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world."
Grievance 17: "For imposing taxes on us without our consent."
Grievance 18: "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial."
Grievance 19: "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.”
Grievance 24: "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people."

The Founding Fathers and their countrymen hated the imperialism of King George III. They hated his tariffs, his taxes and his control of their trade. They hated how he dictated to them from across the ocean, and demanded their resources. Thomas Jefferson called him “a plundering tyrant.”

The colonists loathed how King George passed laws which he pretended legitimized his cruelty and oppression. “I’m acting according to law!”, said King George, “its you who are the law breakers!”

But there are higher laws than King George, and higher Powers than earthly rulers. The colonists appealed to these higher laws that are forever above all earthly tyrannical laws. The Declaration of Independence states:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… [iii]

Human laws may authorize theft, but they cannot supersede that eternal law which declares, “Thou Shalt not steal”. Human laws may legitimize murder, but there can be no immunity from the bar of God, which declares “Thou shalt not kill.”

One of the grievances of the colonies was that King George was shielding British troops from accountability for the murder of colonists. Britain made its soldiers above, and immune from, the civil law. That is fascinating.

Is there a modern equivalent? As checks and balances are broken down and the deterioration of the principles of the Republic become metastatic, one would expect there must be. And astonishingly, according to a recent statement by Vice President Vance, ICE agents operate pursuant to federal law alone and have “absolute immunity.”[iv]

The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action – that’s a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity. – J. D. Vance

If you read that too fast, go back and read it again slower.

Vance is not just arguing there should not be civil accountability for the specific ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. Vance is asserting that state laws do not apply to federal agents like ICE at all. According to Vance, federal agents, ICE agents, IRS agents, soldiers, etc. are all immune from civil penalties like state laws against murder.[v] And that, folks, is textbook King George-ism.

If King George did not hold his soldiers accountable for wrongs against the colonists, the colonists are incapable of doing so because British soldiers are immune from colonial penalties.

It ought to raise the hair on your arms.

SPEAKS LIKE A DRAGON

There is only one way to make sense of it all.

The Bible says that America begins lamb-like. It comes up out of the new world, out of the land (Revelation 13:11); it is not one of the nations that came out of the waters of the old world (Daniel 7). It is a place of refuge for the woman who fled from the persecution of the Papacy. But the Bible says that for all of these positive attributes it will speak like a dragon – Revelation 13:11. Since a nation speaks through its legislative bodies, the Bible reveals that we will see many oppressive and even imperialistic laws today and in the future.

You will never hear this from big-box Christianity with its repetitive, hypnotic 7-11 music and its near illiteracy of the Bible. But the Bible warns that the benevolent mighty power which was the envy of the world will change. It will “speak like a dragon” – Revelation 13:11. What does that mean? Who or what is “the dragon”? And how will America speak like it?

The dragon, the Roman empire mentioned in Revelation 12, and the empire which held dominion at the time of Christ’s life on this earth, was not merely a pagan power. No, it was an imperialistic power. Writing of the same power, the prophet Daniel saw the great iron teeth of the Roman empire.

After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns – Daniel 7:7.

Daniel saw its cruelty. It’s force. It’s imperialism. He saw the law of iron. And in declaring that the lamb-like beast will “speak like a dragon”, the Bible accurately predicted the developments of today.

Stephen Miller also unknowingly referenced Bible prophecy about the lamb-like beast: it will control buying and selling. It will control or coerce whole countries and impose its will on their economies. It will “causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” – Revelation 13:16, 17. The Bible prophesies that America will impose restrictions on commerce, and impose the mark of the beast on the whole world.

Miller boasts that Venezuela cannot run its economy or do commerce without the consent of America, and that sure sounds like Revelation 13. But this control is small scale compared to what is coming. Palantir. Google. Microsoft. Alphabet. Visa. Mastercard. Hosts of other American and international companies are involved in building the global digital prison prophesied in Revelation 13.

You need to wake up and realize that Bible prophecy is true, and the only way to make sense of this mad world is by the Word of God. It is given to you for your sake because the God of the universe wants you personally to understand what is happening, and what is about to happen.

Seizing the oil of a sovereign nation but leaving its communist government intact. Demanding Greenland. Economic controls. Absolute immunity. There is much more to come.

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[i] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/trump-greenland-military-white-house.html

[ii] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-greenland-us-invasion-trump-b2896721.html

[iii] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

[iv] https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/politics/ice-immunity-jd-vance-minneapolis

[v] Minnesota reports it has been blocked from participating in the investigation of the shooting. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/politics/investigation-minneapolis-ice-shooting-deviates-police-shooting-playbook

FAKE MONEY, FAKE SABBATH

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:13:59 GMT

FAKE MONEY, FAKE SABBATH

Everyone knows it is a crime to print fake money, or to use it, also known as “passing it off”, as legal tender. If you want to go to jail fast, print fake money and give it to your buddies for their trips to 7/11.

Why does the government get so bent out of shape if you make your own money? Because that’s their exclusive domain. The Constitution (Article 1, section 8) says that only Congress has the power to print money. And boy are they doing a lot of it! 38 Trillion of it in fact, and counting, and they don’t want any competition from civilians. Yes, if there’s anything left in the Constitution that the federal government actually takes seriously it’s the right to print money!

The Bible says that we are to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s – Matthew 22:21. There is no doubt that regulating money is primarily the domain of government. Similar to ancient Rome, it has the faces of it's leaders on it. American money also bears the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the coat of arms on one side, and the so-called Eye of Providence on the other, a symbol which bears uncanny resemblance to the Eye of Horus in the rites of ancient Egypt, as well as the All-Seeing Eye in occult practices.

God, the Creator and eternal sovereign of the universe, also has an exclusive domain, and he’s even more jealous about His authority than Caesar. Caesar has been delegated temporary oversight (by God) of civil government while this earth remains. But God has always retained sovereignty over religious matters. His domain is itemized in the first four commandments of the Decalogue, separated and enumerated on a separate table of stone to show unmistakably that this is the Creator’s exclusive domain.

As part of humanity’s obligations to the Creator, God declares that the seventh day of the week is His Sabbath, and He blessed it as such. The Sabbath predates the fall of humanity – Genesis 2:1-3. It is the sign of His creative power – Exodus 20:11. It is the sign of His sanctifying power – Exodus 31:13; Hebrews 4:9, 10. The seventh day is “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God” – Exodus 20:10; Mark 2:28.

God has exclusive jurisdiction over the Sabbath. It bears the great seal of the Creator – His name – the LORD; His title – Creator; His jurisdiction – heaven and earth – Exodus 20:11. God is far more jealous over His Sabbath than Congress is over money printing. The government will throw you in jail if you help it print money. But the Bible says that those who attempt to change the words of the Most High will be destroyed – Revelation 22:19.

The Founding Fathers of America believed in the separation of church and state. But there has arisen new kings today “who know not Joseph”, nor the blessings that Providence bestowed on this great land in the past. The forces which are running America into the ground through debt will also establish a counterfeit Sabbath. Sunday sacredness will be exalted, and passed off to the public as the genuine article in much the same way any common counterfeiter makes fake Benjamins.

If Congress jealously guards the right to print money, does it not think the God of the universe will jealously guard His Sabbath from counterfeiters? But that is what Sunday sacredness is – it is a counterfeit. It is the mark of the Papacy, and the sign of its authority. It is the Roman Catholic Papacy which boasts to have changed the law of God – it admits it is a counterfeiter.

The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine by Reverend Peter Giermann states the following:

“ Question: Which is the Sabbath day?
Answer : Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.”

The Reverend Steven Keenan’s Doctrinal Catechism says similar:

“ Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day; a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.”

There are many indicators which demonstrate that powerful forces are pushing American society toward a union of church and state and the imposition of Sunday rest laws on the populace.

Jesuit-educated Erika Kirk, the new president of Turning Point USA, has given an interview where she laments the loss of Sunday blue laws, and has stated that society must be “retrained”. ⁱ
On November 13, 2025, the Michigan House of Representatives passed House Resolution 222 which officially declares November 23, 2025, as “Christ the King Sunday”. Christian Nationalists today want the same thing Pius XI wanted when he wrote his encyclical Quas Primas in 1925 (which is referenced in the Michigan resolution), and created the original Catholic Feast of Christ the King Sunday. They want a union of church and state. The Michigan resolution was sponsored by Republican state Representative and Catholic, Josh Schriver, who also sponsored a resolution in September 2025 to honor Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pope. ⁱⁱ
The White House has issued another press release honoring another Catholic holiday. First it honored Lent, and encouraged Christians to observe Lent, which is a festival entirely devoid of biblical basis. Now it has honored the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. ⁱⁱⁱ The executive branch of government has declared that, “For nearly 250 years, Mary has played a distinct role in our great American story”, and “As we approach 250 years of glorious American Independence, we acknowledge and give thanks, with total gratitude, for Mary’s role in advancing peace, hope, and love in America and beyond our shores.” The attribution of God’s blessing and protection over America to Mary is idolatry, and blasphemy.
Papist Jonathan Berry, architect of Project 2025’s Sunday provisions, has been ratified as Solicitor of Labor. The Department of Labor has wasted no time in moving toward a unification of church and state. It is hosting regular prayer services where federal employees are encouraged to pray and sing hymns. ^iv Berry has stated his intention to restore Sunday sacredness in America and use his civil authority as Solicitor of Labor to punish transgressors of Sunday rest laws. ^v

Sunday laws are coming. A global conversation has begun and it will grow until it becomes the dominant issue on this planet. Everyone on earth will pick a side. On one side is the Creator of the universe, and His pledge to “write His laws in our hearts and in our minds – Jeremiah 31:31-33. To make all things new. He says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”

On the other side is the ecumenical movement, the Papacy, the civil and apostate powers of government, and their false Sabbath, the eminent pagan day of the Sun.

You will decide where you stand.

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i https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2HjvrMaHnlw

ii https://www.wingsofliberty.net/michigan-house-of-representatives-pass-resolution-to-establish-papal-holiday

iii https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/

iv https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/department-of-labor-hosts-first-prayer-service-emulating-regular-pentagon-events

v https://www.wingsofliberty.net/copy-of-the-curse-of-church-and-state-part-3-liberty-threatened

MICHIGAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASS RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH PAPAL HOLIDAY

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:26:22 GMT

On November 13, 2025, the Michigan House of Representatives passed House Resolution 222 which officially declares November 23, 2025, as “Christ the King Sunday”.

Since we had never heard of this festival some research was in order. The Feast of Christ the King is an annual Catholic holy day instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 in an encyclical entitled Quas Primas, Latin for “In the First”. ⁱ SPOILER ALERT: If you have read papal encyclicals before, this one is just as pretentiously arrogant as the rest of them, full of flowery rubbish the substance of which is that the pope ought to be reinstated as ruler of the world, and outrageous lies about utopia on planet earth if this were to occur. The encyclical would be ridiculous but for the deadly serious history of the murder of millions of martyrs by the Papacy. Rome never changes.

Quas Primas was written by Pius XI prior to the Lateran Pact in 1929 which restored civil power to the Papacy. In consequence, the encyclical is a manifesto for the restoration of the union of church and state, and contains a number of statements to this effect:

If We ordain that the whole Catholic world shall revere Christ as King, We shall minister to the need of the present day, and at the same time provide an excellent remedy for the plague which now infects society. We refer to the plague of anti-clericalism, its errors and impious activities. [Anticlericalism is criticism of the clergy, especially clergy who are always meddling with civil power].

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Moreover, the annual and universal celebration of the feast of the Kingship of Christ will draw attention to the evils which anticlericalism has brought upon society in drawing men away from Christ, and will also do much to remedy them. While nations insult the beloved name of our Redeemer by suppressing all mention of it in their conferences and parliaments, we must all the more loudly proclaim his kingly dignity and power, all the more universally affirm his rights.

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When we pay honor to the princely dignity of Christ, men will doubtless be reminded that the Church, founded by Christ as a perfect society, has a natural and inalienable right to perfect freedom and immunity from the power of the state; and that in fulfilling the task committed to her by God of teaching, ruling, and guiding to eternal bliss those who belong to the kingdom of Christ, she cannot be subject to any external power.

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But how is this connected to Resolution 222? Why is the Michigan House of Representatives making resolutions to impose Catholic religious festivals on the people of Michigan, most of whom are not Catholic?

The answer is that Christian Nationalists today want the same thing Pius XI wanted when he wrote Quas Primas in 1925, and created the Feast of Christ the King: a union of church and state.

The Michigan resolution was sponsored by Republican state Representative and Catholic, Josh Schriver, who also sponsored a resolution in September 2025 to honor Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pope. Mr. Schriver has ties to the so-called Christian Nationalist movement and its ongoing efforts to unite church and state in America. In a 2023 talk radio interview on WCHY-FM, Mr. Schriver declared that “it's God who appoints our elective officials. Honestly, I work for God and not for man. And so I answer to one person, and that's Jesus Christ.”

Mr. Schriver’s assertion that he is not accountable to the citizens of the 66 ^th district is something they will perhaps remember when they have occasion to revisit the ballot box. But we digress.

More to the point, the Michigan House of Representatives has taken steps to unite church and state, a violation of the Establishment Clause which is extended to apply to the individual states via the 14 ^th Amendment. See Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947) - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/330/1/.

Bible prophecy foretells of a coming union of church and state in America, and in the world at large, and the imposition of the mark of papal authority, which is Sunday sacredness. It is not so far fetched as one watches events in the state of Michigan.

i https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_11121925_quas-primas.html, para. 24.

https://trackbill.com/bill/michigan-house-resolution-222-a-resolution-to-declare-november-23-2025-as-christ-the-king-sunday-in-the-state-of-michigan/2749367/#:~:text=HR222%20%7C%20Michigan%202025%2D2026%20%7C,%2D%20Legislative%20Tracking%20%7C%20PolicyEngage

The Sun Is Setting on the British Empire

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:12:10 GMT

Humanity is accelerating toward the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the events warned of in Revelation 13-18. Ecumenism is bringing Protestantism back into harmony with the Papacy. The wall of separation between church and state is under attack from religeonists who covet state power to compel their dogmas on the human population.

We have passed another signpost. The Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 during the Reformation over a dispute about papal authority and the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage.

As a result of this schism, Anglicans have long had an established creed similar to the Westminster Confession of the Reformed Church. Like the Westminster Confession, the “39 Articles of Anglicanism” formally rejects the papal claim to universal supremacy for the Bishop of Rome.

The 39 Articles of Anglicanism include the following:

“As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, have erred, so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith”;
“The Romeish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshiping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Relics, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God”,
“It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church to have public Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments, in a tongue not understanded of the people”,
“Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness”, and
“ The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.”

The Popes assert they “hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty”. England rejected these boastful claims and the Pope’s presumptuous authority to dominate the minds and hearts of humanity. It is not a coincidence that while many other European countries were suffering under the oppression of the Inquisition, England was advancing toward empire. So vast was is influence at one time it was famously even claimed that “the sun never sets on the British empire”.

But a great change has come. For some decades England, which never sufficiently distanced herself from Rome doctrineally, has been increasingly friendly toward the Papacy. Today, the globalism of the Roman pontiff is the globalism of King Charles III. The climate change agendas of Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV are also shared by King Charles III, the latter of who’s father publicly advocated for population reduction and compared humanity to a “plague”. England is also adopting digital IDs and carrying out mass surveillance and censorship on its own citizens, a practice near to the hearts of the prelates of Rome, to be sure.

And now, King Charles III, who holds the title of not only king but Supreme Governor of the Anglican Church, is headed to Rome to hold a public prayer ceremony with Pope Leo XIV.

The leader of the Anglican Church has not engaged in public prayer with the Bishop of Rome for approximately 500 years. According to the Royal Palace, “This will be the first state visit, since the Reformation, where the Pope and the Monarch will pray together in an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel, and the first time the monarch will have attended a service in St Paul’s Outside the Walls, a church with an historic connection to the English Crown.”

According to MSN News, Charles III will also accept a new title. “Charles is also being recogenised for the British monarchy’s historic association with the Papal Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome, the seat of a Benedictine Abbey, and will be made “Royal Confrater” of the abbey.”

Rome never changes. The Papacy has not retreated one letter from its false doctrines. It still claims authority over this earth. It still teaches the false doctrine of purgatory and forbids priests to marry, as well as many more false doctrines which Protestants, including Anglicans, object to. So why this ecumenical development today? The change is with the Anglican Church, which is drifting back toward the once-estranged mother as prophecy foretells. The light of sola scriptura that was brought to England by the Bible is being rejected. It seeks the company of the pope, the pretender to the throne of Christ. Like Israel of old, Anglicanism will say, “we have no king but Caesar.”

Of all the Protestant denominations, Anglicanism is the closest to Catholicism. The pageantry and formal rites still have many similarities. England mirrors the union of church and state of Roman Catholicism by unifying church and state in the person of the monarch of England. It has no pope, but it has a king who claims to be the head of the church.

Now that king will go to Rome. All roads lead there, it is said, and Protestantism has set itself to prove it.

The sun is setting on the British empire after all.

SOURCES:

https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13praec.htm

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/king-to-pray-at-public-service-with-pope-during-state-visit-to-vatican/ar-AA1OF5lH

https://www.ibtimes.com/prince-william-shares-prince-charles-philips-grave-concern-over-issue-2767853

An Inconvenient Study

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:09:08 GMT

In 2016, journalist Del Bigtree issued a challenge to the head of infectious disease at one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the world: conduct the most thorough vaxxed vs. unvaxxed study that has ever been done. The expert took up the challenge and ran the study to prove Del wrong. That study never saw the light of day... until now. Learn the implications and maybe for the first time see what the actual data shows.

Too often we depend on medical experts , media, what our neighbor says, or what we have always believed. In this documentary type film learn what actual studies show on this issue. It may seem controversial but this presentation strives to reduce controversy to facts. View and perhaps be surprised and informed.

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 4: THE FIRST DUTY OF CITIZENS

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:25:38 GMT

“ It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens...” – James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance

Let us soberly consider Madison’s warning. It is “ proper ” to be alarmed at the “ first ” experiment (in modern terms, “threat”) to our liberties . The first threat, mind you. And, not only is it “proper to take alarm”, but “ this prudent jealousy ” is the “ first duty of citizens .” What a warning!

Our world is full of tyrants. There are tyrants on the Left, and yes, do not deceive yourself, there are also plenty of tyrants on the Right. Let us soberly evaluate ourselves as citizens then. Have we, do we, exercise “that prudent jealousy” to safeguard individual liberties, not only ours but the individual liberties of our society?

No. If we are honest, the answer is “no.” Collectively and individually, western society has woefully failed to take alarm when individual liberties are threatened. If “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”, as Jefferson said, we should expect to be enslaved. And we ought not to be surprised that this is precisely what is happening.

We are entertained. We are preoccupied. We are self-absorbed. And we have failed to be vigilant for liberty.

What liberties are we to guard? We do not have to guess. We are to jealously safeguard as our first duty those liberties enshrined in the Constitution. First and foremost, we are to safeguard the separation of church and state, freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, and the right to assemble.

Before considering the existential threat to liberty that Christian Nationalism poses, which is the primary subject of this article, we first must make dishonorable mention of certain other threats to liberty which so many of us have ignored to our shame and peril.

Compulsion to use biologically discordant gender pronouns is a threat to liberty. Silence while the world plays make-believe about men becoming women and having babies is a threat to liberty. Government removal of parental rights is a threat to liberty. Suing bakeries to punish them for refusing to make wedding cakes for gay weddings is a threat to liberty.

And yes, killing millions of babies in utero is absolutely a threat to liberty. Not only is it uncivil and immoral, it is national suicide to wilfully destroy the next generation of human beings. Killing millions of babies is correlated with western willingness to accept mass migration. There is a need to replace workers the western world does not have. How is that going for you, France? Germany? UK? America?

But if any of the above makes you feel partisanly righteous, however, let us disabuse you of your sanctimony.

Both Left and Right governments locked their populaces down during Covid. Both forced and bullied their citizens into social distancing and “two weeks to flatten” the spine of the population. What would Madison have said about an America where the government threatens the civil liberties of the entire country, and American’s response was to roll up their sleeves, and say, “fine, Fauci says I need it, and I really want a free hamburger”?

We are to take alarm at the First Experiment upon our liberties. And when does that start?

Is 37 trillion dollars of national debt a threat to liberty? What about currency debasement? Mass warrantless public surveillance? Digital money tied directly to the Federal Reserve so that authorities can shut your entire life off with the push of a button?

No, Christian Nationalism is not the first threat to liberty. Not even close. But it is a threat to liberty and more than this, it is biblically prophetic, as we have discussed. Click Here For Previous Articles

You might ask – why shouldn’t the Christian Right take control of civil power and abuse the Left as much as the Left has abused us?

And we could respond, and do respond, “because it is unconstitutional”. And it is. But the answer is bigger than that.

Doug Wilson, and Jared Longshore. Timon Cline and Lennox Kalifungwa. Stephen Wolfe. These, and many other modern and intolerant “Christian” thought leaders all believe in the establishment of a Christian Republic in America as a cure for society’s ills.

What do they propose? Liberty? Far from it.

The Woke Left violated free speech through state-sponsored gender confusion and forced pronouns. The Christian Nationalist response is blasphemy laws enforced by the state. Doug Wilson and friends are constantly telling everyone who will listen how great the Puritans in Massachusetts were, and that they founded America, which is false by the way. But they do not tell you that in Massachusetts violations of blasphemy laws were historically punished by piercing the offender’s tongue with a hot poker, or death.

Today in Massachusetts, a blasphemy law still exists (although it is not currently enforced), and states as follows:

Section 36: Blasphemy

Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.

Are we so blind that we do not see that censorship from the Right is as much a threat to liberty as censorship from the Left?

Christian Nationalists claim Swiss Reformer John Calvin is the father of America. This is a dangerous and outrageous falsehood, and will be the subject of an upcoming article. It must never be forgotten that John Calvin had men murdered for the supposed crime of heresy, the substance of which was nothing more than disagreeing with John Calvin.

The Woke Left hijacked government to enforce their religion of gender ideology. And Christian Nationalists want to establish Protestantism as an official state religion, contrary to the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Doug Wilson and company intend to legislate compliance with the first table of the Ten Commandments. That includes blasphemy laws, of course, but also Sunday ‘Sabbath’ blue laws, and punishments for supposed violations. Violations of Sunday laws historically included whipping. Jailing. Chain gangs. Stocks. And death. And in case you were wondering, all of those things when imposed for simply disagreeing with religious bigots are a threat to liberty.

Christian Nationalists want to demolish the separation of church and state in America, and even admit their intention to impose a religious test for public office, contrary to the Article VI of the Constitution:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution ; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Doug Wilson and company are openly stating their intention to threaten the liberty of every single American. Madison would have opposed them publicly, were he alive. But he has left the trust to us.

Madison as a youth stood outside a local prison and listened to an incarcerated minister preach through the bars of his cell window. The minister had been imprisoned for the so-called “crime” of “preaching the Gospel incorrectly”.

Because he had seen oppression from religious bigots firsthand, James Madison had a lifelong animus to the union of church and state. And so should you. It is a threat to liberty, and it is your first duty as a citizen to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmSG4U06X2o – Discussion between Walter Veith et al and Doug Wilson where Doug Wilson states he is in favor of the state establishment of the Protestant religion. “I believe the Christian faith ought to be the public faith of our civic polity. That’s why I’m a Christian Nationalist.” – Doug Wilson, minute 33:30. Wilson claims he nevertheless believes in the First Amendment and the separation of church and state, which is disingenuous. He also believes the government should enforce the first table of the Decalogue, proving further that he is really aiming to break down the wall of separation between church and state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgkfi191qV0 – David Shepherd and Lennox Kalifungwa interview Pastor Douglas Wilson and Ben Merkle

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZ1eTNX65w – Senate hearing on Covid shot safety, September 2025

https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeIO0ZjdF8 - CNN interview with Christian Nationalist Doug Wilson

Is Christian Nationalism a Threat To Religious Freedom?

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:30:10 GMT

Charlie Kirk

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:03:31 GMT

The world has lost a giant, and his name was Charlie Kirk.

We live in a world of silent cowardice. There are cities in America today where a woman can be raped on the subway in broad daylight and bystanders will say nothing. It is a world where selfishness and iniquity have caused the hearts of many to grow cold, as the Bible warns in Matthew 24:12. It is a world where wickedness unobjected to has strangled principled discourse. People have stifled the voice of conviction in their personal lives for so long that it has subdued independence and courage in the public square. Put simply: people who are cowards in their personal lives will be cowards in their public lives.

Under the best of circumstances in such a world, it would be difficult for anyone to stand up in the public square and voice their opinion, even if that opinion is a majoritarian position.

But it takes supreme courage to enter public territory where one holds a minority opinion and engage in public dialogue with those who hate everything you stand for. When Charlie Kirk went to a public university to speak on the Bible, the sanctity of life and marriage, or how it is impossible for men to become women, he was entering territory where he knew his opinions were hated and would be misrepresented. He knew he was going to be threatened and vilified. He knew there was a risk to his life. But he went anyway.

Whether you agreed with him or not, liked him or not, whether he was right about everything or not, it is necessary to somberly consider and lament the killing of such a man. We mourn the loss of rare species of animals and insects, flora and fauna. Billions are poured into the fight to save threatened animals. But the rarest of all things in this wicked, cold-hearted world is the principled and courageous human being. The silencing of a principled man, killed for the express purpose of censoring his voice, is a tragedy of infinitely greater magnitude than this foolish, dissipated generation realizes.

We live in a world where closeted podcasters voice their opinions from the comfort of their living rooms. Most have never faced a big crowd, let alone a big hostile crowd. Let’s face it. Some of the most brazen and cocky online personalities who bark the loudest from their private apartment cocoons would soil themselves at the prospect of standing at a microphone surrounded by hundreds or thousands of actual people. Especially real hostile people.

But Charlie Kirk was not only courageous, he respectfully dialogued with the people who screamed at him, insulted him, and hated him. In a world of polarization and cancel culture, and naked, open hostility, Charlie was measured and polite.

A perverse generation of leftist students celebrates the loss of Charlie Kirk. They bask in it. They do not realize that they are rejoicing in the loss of that rarest of blessings: someone who cared enough to come speak to them despite their hostility. And who will go now?

The ultimate censorship is murder. Cain killed Abel to silence his conscientious and courageous, principled speech. The Bible records the deaths and persecution of the prophets, every one of them censored and punished for speaking the truth. Isaiah sawn in two, Jeremiah thrown into the pit, Elijah hunted by wicked Jezebel. The apostles faired no better. Peter crucified, James killed with the sword, Stephen stoned, Paul beheaded.

The blood of righteous Abel cried unto the Lord from the ground, and “he, being dead, yet speaketh” – Hebrews 11:4. Does the blood of Charlie Kirk cry less loudly?

It takes courage to speak in the face of hostile crowds, but it is not only courage which drives a person to take such a risk. It takes conviction. A love of the truth. And yes, a love of people.

The world has lost a giant. And it is right to mourn the passing of such a man.

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On December 9, 2025, Charlie Kirk’s last minority opinion will be published posthumously.

The book is on a subject he felt to be infinitely more important than mere politics. It is on the subject of the ancient and forgotten seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible, and is titled, “Stop in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life”.

A Christian world which has embraced the papal falsehood of Sunday sacredness will soon hear the thoughts of a martyr on the sacredness of the seventh day of the fourth commandment. These are doubtless words that the conservative right, and proponents of Project 2025 need to hear. These are words which the left, who have rejected Creator God and Redeemer need to hear. It is another sign of the times.

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3: LIBERTY THREATENED

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:15:23 GMT

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3:

LIBERTY THREATENED

Nearly a hundred and forty years ago there was a major national initiative to unite church and state in America and impose what was claimed to be Christianity on society. The push united representatives from at least eleven denominations, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. After a severe struggle the movement failed. ⁱ Today, America is facing another similar crisis.

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THE HISTORICAL PUSH FOR CHURCH AND STATE UNION IN AMERICA

In the late 1800s, the National Reform Association (NRA) ⁱⁱ achieved country-wide political momentum for its initiative for a religious amendment to the Constitution to make the United States a Christian state. Its proposed amendment was worded as follows:

"We the people" would acknowledge "Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among nations, His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government..." ⁱⁱⁱ

The stated purpose of the NRA was to unite church and state. It’s organizational constitution contained the following purpose:

To secure such an amendment to the Constitution of the United States as will declare the nation's allegiance to Jesus Christ, and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Christian religion, and so indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions and usages of our government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land. ^iv

The practical result of the proposed constitutional amendment was stated in the Christian Statesman, the flagship publication of the NRA, on February 21, 1884. Writer Rev. J. C. K. Milligan asked the question, “How is the Amendment to be carried out practically?viii In answer he stated:

“In brief, its adoption will at once make the morality of the ten commandments to be the supreme law of the land, and anything in the State constitutions and laws that is contrary to them will become unconstitutional. v

Another proponent of the NRA, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D., stated the following in a speech at the New York National Reform Convention:

We want State and religion—and we are going to have it. It shall be that so far as the affairs of State require religion, it shall be revealed religion, the religion of Jesus Christ. The Christian oath and Christian morality shall have in this land ‘an undeniable legal basis.’ We use the word religion in its proper sense, as meaning a man’s personal relation of faith and obedience to God. vi

Those who opposed the religious amendment to the Constitution were declared to be “infidels” and “lunatics”, and Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, and all others, including Seventh-day Adventists, were classed with the atheists, and pronounced as ‘atheists’ themselves by Mr. Edwards:

These all are, for the occasion, and so far as our Amendment is concerned, one class… They must be counted together.... they must be treated as [atheists], for this question, one party. Now look at it—look at the controversy. The question is not between opinions that differ, but opinions that are opposite, that are contradictory, that mutually exclude each other. It is between Christianity and infidelity. It is between theism and atheism, between the acknowledgment of a God and the denial that there is any God… They “are conjoined with the other members of this class by the accident of differing with the mass of Christians upon the question of what precise day of the week shall be observed… ^vii

After stating that those who opposed the NRA religious amendment were only a “minority”, Mr. Edwards proceeded to describe the unfitness of such people for “advanced” societal participation:

“I would tolerate him [the atheist, including Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, etc] as I would a conspirator. The atheist is a dangerous man.... But he shall be tolerated. He may live, and go free, hold his lands, and enjoy his home; he may even vote; but for any higher, more advanced citizenship, he is, as I hold, utterly disqualified. ^viii

The NRA ultimately failed in its initiative to have a national Sunday law passed and the push to unite church and state sullenly subsided for a time. Today, however, a resurgent coalition of parties, Protestant and Catholic, has largely already succeeded where the NRA failed. Christian Dominionism, including the Heritage Foundation/Project 2025, and adherents to the New Apostolic Reformation, have seized political power and are altering government to implement religious policy and goals, as Revelation 13 foretells. We believe this union of church and state represents the image to the beast recorded by John in Revelation:

Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. ^ix

EXAMPLES OF CHURCH/STATE UNION TODAY

There is no shortage of examples to evidence that religious power is influencing, or outright controlling in some instances, the state. For example, Christian dispensationalism controls foreign policy in the Middle East, as Senator Ted Cruz recently admitted in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Ecumenical Christianity is convinced that whoever blesses the nation of Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses it will be cursed.

As Tucker Carlson alluded to in this interview, the flimsiness of the theology behind this belief has done nothing to suppress its popularity. Since World War 2, Israel has been the largest single foreign recipient of US aid by far, ^x and these figures do not include direct and indirect military and intelligence assistance.

This religious narrative is held by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is also a believer in the Christian dispensationalist view that the temple must be rebuilt in Jerusalem to usher in the final events of Bible prophecy, and who was recently in Israel for both diplomatic and religious reasons.

A strong ecumenical Christian lobby led by Paula White Caan (herself a third temple advocate) has the ear of the President, who for his part had promised that Christians would receive political power like they never imagined. xi

Christian dominionist Pastor Doug Wilson believes in a union of church and state, and his pastoral staff supports the rescission of the 19 ^th Amendment, which guarantees the right to vote to American women. One of his congregants, is Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defence, who is also a vocal advocate for the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.

We are living in incredible times. A dramatic shift is under way, and it is a fulfilment of prophecy. Today, Christian Dominionists argue for the reinstatement of blasphemy laws, claiming falsely (and ridiculously?) that suppressing public speech for religious reasons is entirely consistent with the Founding Fathers’ vision for America, as though the American Founders had not fled that very type of persecution in Europe!

Note minute 41 in the following video:

THE NEW PUSH FOR SUNDAY SACREDNESS

Sunday laws were a central aim of the NRA in the 1800s, and they are central to Christian Dominionism today. Right now, in our time, demands are rapidly increasing for the implementation of Sunday sacredness by government edict.xv

The Heritage Foundation, creator of Project 2025, is linked with Opus Dei, and is intimately connected with the current administration of the executive branch of government. ^xvi Multiple contributors to Project 2025 are serving in cabinet. The full extent of the reach is unknown, but the Heritage Foundation’s influence over government is explicitly religious in nature.

Project 2025 contains a proposal on page 589 to legislate religious doctrine in the form of Sunday laws. In the section on reforming the Department of Labor, the following statement is made: “God ordained the Sabbath [Sunday] as a day of rest, and until very recently the Judeo-Christian tradition sought to honor that mandate by moral and legal regulation of work on that day.” ^xvii

The individual who wrote that provision, attorney Jonathan Berry, has been nominated to take the position of Solicitor of Labor in the current administration. His nomination has been contested, and congressional hearings have not yet occurred.

It is no secret, however, what Project 2025 or Jonathan Berry wish to do with political power. In a 2024 article in the publication First Things, Mr. Berry outlined his argument for government laws to compel observation of what he terms “the Christian Sabbath”.

Mr. Berry discusses the intentional new embrace by the Republican Party of labor unions, which were previously aligned with the Democratic Party, and discusses how Sabbath (Sunday) rest laws should protect workers, then writes as follows:

The biblical account of work does not end with work. “And on the seventh day, God ended his work . . . and he rested” (Gen. 2:2–3). Rest completes work, for human beings as it does for God. It preserves workers’ dignity as co-creators. As the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church explains, Sabbath rest “constitute[s] a barrier against becoming slaves to work whether voluntary or by force” and thus gives us a “fuller freedom”.

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The revival of “blue laws” and other measures to guard Sabbath rest is thus one more example of a prudent policy intervention to protect the subjectivity, the personhood, of workers.xviii

Mr. Berry makes no effort to hide the fact that this is an overtly Catholic view of work/rest in which one earns rest by working, and in which Sunday is the reward for union labor in a world which has exploited their efforts without properly compensating them. He invokes both Pope John Paul II, and Father John Ryan, ⁱ the latter of whose writings on Catholic social doctrine influenced the New Deal economics of Franklin Roosevelt to argue that America is broken, and only Sunday laws will fix it.

Berry concludes his article, entitled “Renewing Labor”, with a strange paragraph that could well be viewed as a threat if the demands for protection of workers rights and union favors are not met. Read the article for yourself and leave your comments in the chat below.

As we previously discussed, Sunday is the mark of the authority of the first beast of Revelation 13, the papal power, a fact which we suspect Mr. Berry is well-aware of.

The Catholic Church explicitly claims the move of the 4 ^th commandment of the Decalogue as the mark of her authority.

Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?

A. Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; —she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.

—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 174

Q. In what manner can we show a Protestant, that he speaks unreasonably against fasts and abstinences?

A. Ask him why he keeps Sunday, and not Saturday, as his day of rest, since he is unwilling either to fast or to abstain. If he reply, that the Scripture orders him to keep the Sunday, but says nothing as to fasting and abstinence, tell him the Scripture speaks of Saturday or the Sabbath, but gives no command anywhere regarding Sunday or the first day of the week.

If, then he neglects Saturday as a day of rest and holiness, and substitutes Sunday in its place, and this merely because such was the usage of the ancient Church, should he not, if he wishes to act consistently, observe fasting and abstinence, because the ancient Church so ordained?

—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 181

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Question: Which is the Sabbath day?

Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.

Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.

—Rev. Peter Geiermann C.SS.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50

Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.

—C. F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, in answer to a letter regarding the change of the Sabbath, November 11, 1895.

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“Sunday is our mark of authority. . . . The church is above the Bible, and this transference of sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” –The Catholic Record, London, Ontario, September 1, 1923

CONCLUSION

Today, America is facing another similar crisis, but a great change has taken place in the resolve, education, and independence of the population. We are equal parts deceived and entertained by mass media, loaded with personal and national debt, and collectively uncomprehending of the stakes, and thus indifferent. Most Americans are detached from the history of the Founding Fathers through miseducation and wilful neglect of history, and today’s contest finds resistance to the new theocratic aggression unprepared.

The well-known aphorism, “those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, xviii is applicable to America. This nation is founded on the express rejection of the despotism of church and state. A return to a papal model where religionists control government marks the end of the American dream. As was pronounced over a hundred years ago, “When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will the papal sabbath be enforced by the combined authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.”xviii

The next article in this series will discuss further instances of church and state union, both in America and the western world abroad.

i The authors believe that Alonzo T. Jones submissions to the U.S. Congress in 1888 were pivotal in the defeat of the national bill for Sunday sacredness advanced by Senator Blair, and supported by the NRA. These submissions may be read here: https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Tracts/RLT/RLT1892-102.pdf

ii The National Reform Movement had and has no relation or connection to the National Rifle Association.

iii Miller, Randall M.; Stout, Harry S.; Wilson, Charles Reagan (1998). Religion and the American Civil War. Oxford University Press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reform_Association_(chartered_1864)

iv Beck, Luke (2018). Religious Freedom and the Australian Constitution: Origins and Future. Routledge.

v. The American Sentinel, A. T. Jones, December 1886.

vi Ibid.

vii Ibid.

viii Ibid.

ix Revelation 13:12-14

x https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-receive-the-most-aid-from-the-us/

xi Christianity will have power,” he said. “If I’m there, you’re going to have plenty of power, you don’t need anybody else. You’re going to have somebody representing you very, very well. Remember that.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html

xii https://adventmessenger.org/the-christian-post-claims-that-americas-spiritual-renewal-begins-with-reclaiming-sunday-as-the-lords-day/;https://adventmessenger.org/the-christian-reformed-church-in-north-america-says-keeping-the-sabbath-is-no-longer-optional/ ; https://adventmessenger.org/respect-our-holy-day-public-backlash-as-rugby-tournament-is-scheduled-on-sunday/

xiii https://www.afge.org/article/new-trump-administration-packed-with-project-2025-architects/

xiv https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise/#document/p589

xv https://firstthings.com/renewing-labor/

xvi h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Ryan

xviiGeorge Santayana, The Life of Reason

xviii Ellen G. White, Manuscript 51, 1899

Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Signs of the Second Coming of Christ

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:19:23 GMT

The largest earthquake to hit the planet in 14 years struck off the coast of Russia on July 29, 2025. The monster 8.8 magnitude quake triggered global tsunami warnings, including officials urging the evacuation of the Hawaii islands coastline. Sirens blare. Anxious millions watch the internet for news updates, concerned for themselves and the safety of their loved ones.

People watch and wonder. Floods and storms and earthquakes. War and disease and famine. What do these things mean?

It is all a fulfilment of Bible prophecy. Nearly two thousand years ago, Jesus warned humanity of the signs of the end of the world, culminating in His return to this planet to raise the dead and rescue His faithful believers - 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, and the destruction of the wicked – Matthew 13:30. We should expect to hear of “wars and rumors of wars” – Mathew 24:6, and to see “pestilences and famine” – Matthew 24:7. The Lord specifically referred to earthquakes and the roaring of the waves.

Christ warned:

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:25-28

The signs of the times are everywhere, friend. While officials can tell you to evacuate the coastline, and news agencies can inform you of the devastation which took place from this or that natural disaster, the explanation and deeper meaning of the increasing agitation and unrest in our world is found only in the Bible. These are the signs of the approaching Creator and Redeemer. Are you ready?

Today is the day of salvation - 2 Corinthians 6:2, the door of mercy is still open. Christ is ministering in the courts in heaven on ehalf of humanity. But when he returns to this earth it will already be too late for repentance. The work of intercession will be finished and the door of mercy closed. Today is the day to seek the Lord while He may be found!. It is not safe to trifle with the call of mercy.

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 2: SILENCE, HERETIC

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:40:55 GMT

Control is the aim of all religionists who desire civil power. They want the power of government for one single reason: they are not content to allow their religious ideas to stand or fall in competition with other religions and philosophies in the marketplace of ideas, judged by each person for themselves as true or false. Instead, they intend to dominate human thought and behavior by having government compel their religious views on society using the force of law. Since they have lost the argument in the public square, they will win it by force. Some of these religionists may have vague intentions of altruism, hoping to reform a corrupt society through religious compulsion. But, regardless of motive, as soon as the objective is obtained it is inevitable that the union of church and state will result in persecution.

This is because the power of government is to make laws for society. When religionists have this power they will make laws for their religious purposes, and laws to punish breaches of their religious laws. The result is religious persecution, and the corruption of church and state.

There are many examples to demonstrate that the above proposition is true. In theocratic Muslim countries where the church controls the state, censorship of media of all sorts is enforced, from books to movies, and the internet. There are religious restrictions on every aspect of society, and these restrictions are for the good of society in the minds of those who pass them and enforce them. Compliance is mandatory, and a person is considered an enemy of the common good if he dissents.

In Islam, as in all religions, the ultimate dissent is considered to be conversion away from one’s former religion. But when the mosque controls the state, one converts from the religion which controls the government. In much of Islam, conversion is to be punished by death. Islamic teaching stipulates that a delay of three days for “reconsideration”, is appropriate prior to carrying out the death penalty. ⁱ

The Roman Papacy also wants control of government, even global government, ⁱ and it long ago proved that it persecutes dissenters. For centuries it banned books and persecuted their authors, ⁱⁱ justifying it actions with the claim that reading John Locke, Galileo, and John Milton, was “heresy” and “contrary to morality”, and suppression of writings is necessary for the common good. Many martyrs were tortured and killed for possession or creation of prescribed religious materials.

This censorship and persecution is supposedly justified by the papal teaching extra ecclesiam nulla salus - "outside of the Church, there is no salvation”, and, “it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” ⁱⁱⁱ Thomas Aquinas, often lauded by Catholic scholars, agreed that "to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is absolutely necessary for salvation." ^iv Thus, the Papacy justifies censorship by the following perverse argument: since only Catholic doctrine can save society, dissenting or heretical views must not be tolerated if society is to be saved.

This position is not only ancient, but also modern. In advocating for a new reinterpretation of the Constitution through a lens of Catholic social doctrine deceptively called “common good constitutionalism”, ^v Harvard legal scholar and Catholic Integralist, Adrien Vermuele, stated:

The libertarian assumptions central to free-speech law and free-speech ideology – that government is forbidden to judge the quality and moral worth of public speech … [should] fall under the ax. Libertarian conceptions of property rights and economic rights will also have to go, insofar as they bar the state from enforcing duties of community and solidarity in the use and distribution of resources. ^vi

Carefully consider Vermuele’s assertions in this vein and it will slowly dawn on you that he is quietly but vehemently opposed to American independence, the Bill of Rights, and probably apple pie. Vermeule believes the United States government should be subordinate to the Roman Catholic Papacy. When he advocates for government censorship of public speech that is low in “quality and moral worth”, what he means is that the Catholic Church should direct the government to suppress public speech it opposes.

Vermeule’s contentions prove the proposition that a union of church and state results in wickedness and oppression, as President John Adams wrote. ^vii But there may be another word to describe his intentional attack on US independence. What do you call a proposition that your country’s government and Constitution be subordinated to the Pope of Rome, who is not only a religious leader but a foreign monarch, and that your fellow citizens be stripped of their freedom of speech and property rights?

While these menacing thoughts are published under the sometimes-subversive cloak of academia, Vermuele betrays enough of an inner latent Torquemada that there should be serious alarm bells for liberty lovers.

Take David French, for example. French, a lawyer, former editor of the National Review, and Protestant twice has debated Sohrab Amari, a well-known Catholic Integralist and editor of the New York Post, on the subjects of American liberty and Originalism versus a Catholic social doctrine reinterpretation of the Constitution. ^viii French is a staunch supporter of individual rights, and the defense of civil liberties as enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Amari believes the government should be subordinated to the Catholic Church, and that the Constitution needs to be “reinterpreted” so that it conforms with Catholic doctrine.

French handily won both debates. But if the Catholic church controlled the government, the French/Amahri debates probably do not end with a handshake. They end with French’s writings proscribed, his house expropriated and converted into a camp for Catholic migrants, ^ix and French himself chained to a rack and tortured for heresy. That is the difference when the church controls the state.

Many Protestants today want civil power, and claim to be setting up a kingdom for Jesus Christ. They claim there will be more liberty in this kingdom, not less. But Protestants who believe in a union of church and state are not much different than Papists. They have behaved like Papists when they have had civil power and there is every reason to believe they will again if they obtain it again.

There are many examples of the foregoing, but one or two will suffice. In Scotland, “The National Covenant or Confession of Faith” was first created in 1580 and certified by an act of Parliament in 1640. The law was approved by Charles II in 1651 as a condition precedent of his restoration to power.

As noted by author and liberty advocate A. T. Jones, the Covenant “declares, in approval of various acts of the Scottish Parliament, as follows:

… do condemn all erroneous books and write concerning erroneous doctrine against the religion presently professed, or containing superstitious rites and ceremonies papistical, … and ordains the home-bringers of them to be punished … and ordains the users of them to be punished for the second fault as idolaters. ⁱ

In order to protect the Covenant religion, the Covenant declares that “all within the realm are bound to profess it”, and states all must:

… recant all doctrine and errors repugnant to any of the said articles, and all magistrates, sheriffs, etc., are ordained to search, apprehend, and punish all contraveners; … that none shall be reputed loyal and faithful subjects to our sovereign Lord or his authority, but be punishable as rebellers and gainstanders of the same, who shall not give their confession and make their profession of the said true religion. ⁱⁱ

Magistrates were required by the Covenant to:

Maintain the true religion of Jesus Christ… and be careful to root out of their empire all heretics and enemies of the true worship of God who shall be convicted by the true Kirk of God [Church of God] of the aforesaid crimes. ⁱⁱⁱ

Scottish Reformer Jon Knox himself stated that “none provoking the people to idolatry ought to be exempted from the punishment of death”, and “it is not only lawful to punish to the death such as labor to subvert the true religion, but the magistrates and people are bound to do so unless they will provoke the wrath of God against themselves.” ^iv

As noted, this is far from the only example of Protestant misdeeds when they obtain civil power. John Calvin had Michael Servetus arrested and murdered over a religious disagreement. Zwingli endorsed violence to encourage conversion, and Melanchthon drowned an Anabaptist for the “heresy” of being rebaptized.

Thus we see a union of church and state in Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism all yields the same evil result. The supposedly “true” religion (as declared by thin-skinned religionists who cannot stand to have their ideas debated and adopted or discarded as the individual decides) is established by civil law, dissenting views are censored, and the expositors punished, persecuted and murdered. That is the lesson of history in all ages, and it is the prophecy of Revelation 13 that so will it be at the end of time.

Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The next installment in this series will examine the links between Catholic social doctrine, the labor movement, and the push for church and state union.

i The Papacy is in a fixed battle for global domination. See, for example, Malachi Martin, “The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West”, Simon & Schuster, 1990, pages 16-18.

ii https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum

iii Unam Sanctum, Pope Boniface, https://www.papalencyclicals.net/bon08/b8unam.htm

iv Thomas Aquinas, Against the Errors of the Greeks, Pt. 2, ch. 36

v Individual rights are for the common good. In fact, the highest common good is served when freedom of thought, speech, religion, and the press hold sway. The name, “common good constitutionalism” falsely implies that constitutionalism itself neglects the common good, which is the exact opposite of the truth.

vi Adrian Vermuele, “Beyond Originalism,” The Atlantic, March 31, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037

vii See www.wingsofliberty.net/the-curse-of-church-and-state-part-1-canon-and-feudal-law

viii https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/david-french-sohrab-ahmari-and-the-battle-for-the-future-of-conservatism ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gFiDNIaIVA

ix https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2019/07/a-principle-of-immigration-priority-.html

x https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2019/07/a-principle-of-immigration-priority-.html

xiThe American Sentinel, September 1886, pages 69-70.

xii Ibid

xiii Ibid

xiv Knox’s Works, Laing’s Ed, vol IV. pages 515-600; Lecky’s History of Rationalism, vol II, pages 50, 51.

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 1: Canon and Feudal Law

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:03:46 GMT

In times of persecution and danger, anonymity has long been the necessary cloak for the truth. Speaking of the oppression under which the truth labored as the Revolutionary War approached, the eventual second president of the United States, John Adams, anonymously stated the following in the Boston Gazette in 1765:

Every body knows how dangerous it was to speak or write in favour of any thing in those days but the triumphant system of religion and politicks. And our fathers were particularly the objects of the persecutions and proscriptions of the times. It is not unlikely therefore, that, although they were inflexibly steady in refusing their positive assent to any thing against their principles, they might have contracted habits of reserve, and a cautious diffidence of asserting their opinions publickly. These habits they probably brought with them to America, and have transmitted down to us. ⁱ

Adams was saying that the pilgrims who fled Europe passed down a knowledge of the dangers which public opinions could bring from kings and priests. The Papacy was hostile to not only religious freedom, but to freedom of thought, speech and the press. English monarchs, both Catholic and Anglican, had harshly punished dissenting views. The “fathers” Adams references are those who suffered for their faith and opinions in the public square, even to the point of martyrdom. They had consequently learned to be careful when expressing their views publicly, especially on the “triumphant system of religion and politicks”.

Today, many so-called Christians loudly (and often arrogantly) demand that church and state once more come together in America and enforce their version of Christianity on the population by force of law. ⁱⁱ But of course such a system will result in the same oppression and punishment of dissent as it has in the past.

Politicians and advocates of church/state union in America might be surprised to hear the second president of the United States speak with such ardor against their cause. But John Adams denounced the union of church and state as “tyrannical” and “wicked”. Hear this father of American independence in his own words:

Since the promulgation of Christianity, the two greatest systems of tyranny that have sprung from this original, are the canon and the feudal law …

By the former of these, the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order. All the epithets I have here given to the Romish policy are just, and will be allowed to be so when it is considered, that they even persuaded mankind to believe,faithfully and undoubtingly, that God Almighty had entrusted them with the keys of heaven, whose gates they might open and close at pleasure; with a power of dispensation over all the rules and obligations of morality; with authority to license all sorts of sins and crimes; with a power of deposing princes and absolving subjects from allegiance; with a power of procuring or withholding the rain of heaven and the beams of the sun; with the management of earthquakes, pestilence, and famine; nay, with the mysterious, awful, incomprehensible power of creating out of bread and wine the flesh and blood of God himself. All these opinions they were enabled to spread and rivet among the people by reducing their minds to a state of sordid ignorance and staring timidity, and by infusing into them a religious horror of letters and knowledge. Thus was human nature chained fast for ages in a cruel, shameful, and deplorable servitude to him, and his subordinate tyrants, who, it was foretold, would exalt himself above all that was called God, and that was worshiped.

In the latter we find another system, similar in many respects to the former; which, although it was originally formed, perhaps, for the necessary defense of a barbarous people against the inroads and invasions of her neighboring nations, yet for the same purposes of tyranny, cruelty, and lust, which had dictated the canon law, it was soon adopted by almost all the princes of Europe, and wrought into the constitutions of their government. It was originally a code of laws for a vast army in a perpetual encampment. The general was invested with the sovereign propriety of all the lands within the territory. Of him, as his servants and vassals, the first rank of his great officers held the lands; and in the same manner the other subordinate officers held of them; and all ranks and degrees held their lands by a variety of duties and services, all tending to bind the chains the faster on every order of mankind. In this manner the common people were held together in herds and clans in a state of servile dependence on their lords, bound, even by the tenure of their lands, to follow them, whenever they commanded, to their wars, and in a state of total ignorance of every thing divine and human, excepting the use of arms and the culture of their lands.

But another event still more calamitous to human liberty, was a wicked confederacy between the two systems of tyranny above described. ⁱ

You likely were unaware that Founding Father John Adams spoke so strongly against a union of church and state. And you will not likely hear his views repeated by most modern conservative thinkers or politicians. You will not hear them from the Opus Dei-linked Heritage Foundation, which authored Project 2025, or from Harvard scholar and Catholic Integralist Adrian Vermeule, who openly advocates that the Catholic Church should control the U.S. government. ⁱ You will not hear of John Adams treatise on canon and feudal law from adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation, who believe they have a mandate from Christ to control every major aspect of society. ⁱⁱ All these would prefer John Adams be buried in the dustbin of history because he speaks contrary to church/state ambitions.

In denouncing canon law, John Adams condemned the Roman Papacy as an engine of superstition and oppression, designed to imprison the minds of the populace in “a state of sordid ignorance and staring timidity”. In denouncing feudal law, he condemned that system of nobles and lords who owned the land, while all the common people were required to serve them, supposedly in exchange for protection. Medieval feudal law finds its echo in the policies of the World Economic Forum. The oft-repeated claim that “you will own nothing and be happy” is in fact nothing less than a call to return to serfdom.

The devil, prince of this world, tempted our Savior in the wilderness with the allure of earthly power – the same earthly power that many Christians covet today. Satan took Christ up into an exceedingly high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and said unto Him, “all these things will I give thee if Thou wilt fall down and worship me.” Jesus replied, “get thee hence, Satan” – see Matthew 4:8-10.

It is the antichrist of the Scriptures, that man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalt himself above all that is called God, who desires temporal power. As soon as he had it he turned persecutor. As soon as modern Christians have civil power, they also will turn persecutor. This has been proven time and again in history, as will be discussed in the next article.

In denouncing both canon and feudal law combined, John Adams condemned the unconstitutional aims of a growing and ambitious group of modern Christians who intend to make their “Christianity” the law of the land for the common good of society. The heart of humanity has not changed. Such a system was a curse in the time of the Inquisition, and it would be a curse in our day should it be recreated.

i https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0052-0007 [original spelling preserved]

ii https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4308643-speaker-johnson-separation-of-church-state-a-misnomer/ ; https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/03/david-barton-mike-johnson-texas-church-state-christianity/ ; https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nudging-towards-theocracy/ ; https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-church-founding-fathers-government-colorado-1719760

iii https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-dissertation-on-the-canon-and-feudal-law/ [emphasis added, original spelling preserved]

^iv https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/ ; Vermuele has also argued that atheists should not hold office, and that Catholic immigrants should be given priority over Protestants. Jews and Muslims https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nudging-towards-theocracy/ ; https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2019/07/a-principle-of-immigration-priority-.html

v See for example, https://www.wingsofliberty.net/the-seven-mountain-mandate

Seven Mountain Mandate EXPOSED | Dominionism, Prophecy & End-Time Deception

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:52:43 GMT

Bob’s Your Uncle *- Pope Leo XIV

Fri, 09 May 2025 21:38:18 GMT

* Bob's your uncle" is a British idiom which means, "there it is

The death of Pope Francis after his twelve-year pontificate initiated all the wheels of pageantry, intrigue and mystery of the process to select a new pope. Tens of thousands of social media pages and channels focused on Rome, waiting for the puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Major news channels around the world offered free live coverage of the conclave. Breathless anchors analyzed every nuance from the Vatican.

The global focus and elaborate ceremony is calculated to perpetrate the myth that popes, and the Papacy itself, are invested with some great authority and deserves honor and recognition from the world. The media charade is effective, wouldn’t you say? Revelation 13:3 says the world will wonder after the beast, and it certainly is.

But the truth is that the pope is simply a man, just like Bill or Bob down the street.

We now know the name of the man selected to be the next pope. His name is Robert Prevost, and he was born in Illinois in 1955. But a change of name is part of the mysteries of Rome, so “Robert Prevost” will be henceforth referred to as “Pope Leo XIV”, and “His Holiness”. According to the Vatican, Bob from Chicago is now the representative of Jesus Christ on earth. Since Jesus Christ is holy, now it is claimed that Bob is holy. It is said that he has the keys of heaven and earth, and is the successor to Peter (who the Papacy self-servingly claims was the first pope).

All of this is blasphemy of the highest order, and is why the Bible unmistakably points to the papacy as “the man of sin”:

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God – 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4. See also Daniel 7, and the little horn power described in verses 24, 25, and Revelation 13:5-8.

Mr. Prevost’s election as pontiff was announced by the cardinals with the words, “habemus papum”, translated literally from the Latin, as “we have a father.” The word “pope”, in English, comes from the word, “papa”, in Latin. The word “papa” means “father. By this, the cardinals, who are the so-called princes of the church, are announcing to the world that it has a spiritual father once more. But Jesus warned us clearly not to refer to mere men as “father”, because we have a Father, and He is in heaven – Matthew 23:9. The throne of God is never vacant – He is the Everlasting Father, and He is our Father, not Mr. Prevost from Chicago.

What does it take to draw the attention of the entire world at the same time, to the election of one fallible man for a religious position? What does it take to perpetrate a global fraud? It takes money. Coordination. An agenda. And a power from beneath. The dragon gave his power, seat and great authority to the Papacy – Revelation 13:2.

So what can we expect from the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV?

Nearly everything the Vatican does has some symbolic meaning, and the assumption of the name “Leo” by Robert Prevost is no different.

The last time Leo was used as a papal name was when it was used by Leo XIII, in his pontificate spanning the years 1878-1903. Leo XIII wrote the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the infamous anti-capitalism treatise on unions and workers’ rights. Leo XIII was known as “the Pope of the Workers”, and it seems likely that Leo XIV will continue the narrative of qualifying and curtailing individual rights in favor of implementing what the Papacy decrees to be the “common good”. A connection to watch will be papal support for principles and aims of Project 2025, and the initiatives in that document to harness the political power of labor unions, including by enforcing a mandatory weekly day of rest on the papal Sabbath, commonly known as Sunday.

It should be remembered that it was during the papacy of Leo XIII that America had its Sunday law crisis in 1888, where national legislation was introduced by Senator Blair to compel observance of the papal Sabbath. This effort, which ultimately failed, was the culmination of the work of the National Reform Movement to combine church and state in America, a work which is mirrored by today’s New Apostolic Reformation, and its efforts to take control of the so-called seven mountains of societal influence.

It ought not to be forgotten that it was Leo X who excommunicated Martin Luther, and demanded to have him delivered to Rome to face the Inquisition.

Conclusion:

It has long been said that there never would be a pope from the United States because of the global influence America already has. This has now suddenly changed, and is a solemn indicator of some momentous push requiring maximum political and religious clout.

THE SEVEN MOUNTAIN MANDATE PART 4: THE LOVE OF MONEY

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:18:14 GMT

For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has fraudulently told the world that it holds the keys to salvation. It has even placed these keys, symbolizing its usurped authority over all things in heaven and in earth, on the Vatican flag. ⁱ And it has made merchandise of salvation, advertising that people can pay to enter the kingdom of heaven, selling forgiveness by issuing “indulgences” and relaxed punishments for sin.

Catholicism teaches the unbiblical doctrine of eternal torment in hell, as well as the doctrine of purgatory, another place of punishment in addition to hell where a person must supposedly suffer for their sins and be refined before going to heaven. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven”. ⁱ But (surprise, surprise!!) this process can be rapidly sped up, it is claimed, as long as the living are willing to pony up and pay for expedited cleansing of the dead. In the 15 ^th century, Johann Tetzel, one of these false hawkers of salvation, famously broadcast that, "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs."

This blasphemous and shameless exploitation of public ignorance and fear led Martin Luther in his 95 Thesis to proclaim that “They preach only human doctrines who say that as soon as the money clinks into the money chest, the soul flies out of purgatory." ⁱⁱ Luther wrote that indulgences were sold by the papacy for the most vile crimes, so that even if a person had raped Jesus’ mother they could get forgiveness by paying money to the Pope. ^iv

The practice of issuing indulgences is still practiced by the Papacy today. Pope Francis before his death offered indulgences for sin and escape from purgatory during the Jubilee year of 2025. ^v These indulgences can be obtained, according to the Catholic Church, by going on a pilgrimage to Rome.

Another indication that the New Apostolic Reformation is among the daughters of the Roman Church of Revelation 17 is its obsession with the accumulation of filthy lucre.

C. Peter Wagner, church growth specialist, self-styled “apostle”, and often-credited originator of the name, “New Apostolic Reformation”, declares that, “Prosperity is the will of God, while poverty is the will of Satan.vi Wagner claimed that the reason Christianity had not succeeded in the Gospel commission is because it did not have enough money, asserting that money is the key to societal transformation. ^vii NAR Apostle Bill Johnson claims that “poverty is demonic”. ^viii

Wagner taught that the NAR apostles needed to enter spiritual warfare with the powerful demons that controlled the seven mountains of society, and that “we will not experience sustained societal reformation until we bind the spirit of poverty through the blood.” ^ix NAR apostle Lance Walnau claims that Christianity doesn’t need more conversions to shift the culture , what it needs is “more disciples in the right places, the high places.” ^x It seems to have eluded Mr. Walnau that the apostate kings of ancient Israels also went to the high places to practice their idolatry. ^xi

According to the teachings of NAR apostles, these assertions aren’t just opinions, either. “While there are several things that distinguish apostles from other members of the Body of Christ, the major characteristic that stands out over the others is their exceptional authority.” ^vii Like mother like daughter: the claim to authority is also papal.

So, is the problem with the advancement of the Gospel in this world due to a lack of funds? Is Jesus waiting for His people to get a big pot of money before He can send them out successfully to do His work? Is that biblical, or is it unbliblical? The test of all doctrine is the Scriptures. We are to compare the teachings of the NAR with the Bible: “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” – Isaiah 8:20.

The Pope claims to be the successor of Peter. He makes this boastful claim in regard to the same Apostle Peter who said to the lame man who looked to him for alms, “silver and gold have I none” – Acts 3:6. Jesus instructed the apostles to take “neither bread, neither money” (Luke 9:3) when they went out in ministry: they were to rely on the power and providence of God. But the Popes of Rome could hardly say that they have no silver or gold. The Vatican is full of both silver and gold, and all manner of costly riches in extraordinary abundance.

When Simon Magus attempted to purchase salvation and the power to work miracles, Peter sternly denounced him, saying, “They money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money” – Acts 8:20.

But Peter wasn’t finished. He continues: “Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God” – Acts 8:21. Simon had no lot or part in the Gospel ministry.

The Bible says that “the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows” – 1 Timothy 6:10.

Who had the money bag during the time Jesus was with His apostles on earth? It wasn’t Peter – it was Judas. But Judas was a thief, and he was stealing from the money bag.

Paula White Cain, another of the New Apostolic Reformation’s Apostles and official leader of the White House Faith office, recently also monetized the blessings of heaven by selling Passover cups to her followers, and promising them that if they donated more than $1000 they would receive a crystal cross and 7 blessings, including God’s assignment of an angel to them, prosperity, healing, long life, etc.

So dull has the sensibilities of Christianity become that there was hardly a ripple in response to Paul White’s outrageous advertisements. But make no mistake, promising God’s blessings in exchange for money is a page straight out of the papal playbook. God does not send angels, healing or long life if you give Paula White a thousand dollars. Martin Luther would have cried out against Paul White and her greed and exploitation of the Gospel in the same way he cried out against the corruption of the Papacy.

Notably missing from the New Apostolic Reformation’s theology is the warning to the world of the mark of the beast, which includes the end-time test where all those faithful to Christ will be unable to buy or sell – Revelation 13:17. The NAR claims that poverty is “demonic”, but Jesus was poor in this earth’s goods, and so were His apostles. The faithful end time church will also be impoverished because governments around the world, influenced by the apostate churches, will prevent those who do not have the mark of the beast from buying or selling.

Do not be deceived, Friends. The words of Christ sound the warning down to our generation. At the end, those who have hoarded earthly wealth “will cast it to the moles and the bats”, and “call for the rocks to fall” on them – Isaiah 2:19-21; Luke 23:30; Revelation 6:16. A wealthy church is no sign of the favor of God at the end, for Babylon is declared by the angel of Revelation 17 to be clothed in wealth – Revelation 17:4. The true church of God, in contrast, will be impoverished as it goes through end time events, unable to buy or sell. But like the early church, it will once more be full of the Holy Spirit, having finally heeded Christ’s message to the Laodicean Church to buy of Him gold tried in the fire, and the white raiment of the righteousness of Christ – Revelation 3:18.

May it be so.

Even so, come Lord Jesus.

ⁱ Bruno Bernhard Heim, Heraldry in the Catholic Church: Its Origin, Customs and Laws (Van Duren 1978 ISBN 9780391008731), p. 54, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Holy_See#:~:text=the%20previous%20century.-,Keys,the%20hands%20of%20the%20pope

ⁱⁱ Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1030.

ⁱⁱⁱ Martin Luther, 95 Thesis, #27. https://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html

iv Martin Luther, 95 Thesis, #75. https://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html

v https://www.nashvillecatholic.org/news/posts/pope-offers-indulgences-for-pilgrimages-penances-during-2025-jubilee

vi Wagner, C. Peter. Invading Babylyon, p. 101.

vii Ibid, p. 100.

viii Wagner, C. Peter. Invading Babylyon, p. 42, quoting Bill Johnson

vix Ibid, p. 101.

x Ibid, p. 65.

xi See for example, 2 Kings 16:4, describing King Ahaz’s practice of worshipping idols in the high places of Israel.

xii Wagner, C. Peter. Apostles Today (p. 2). Baker Publishing Group. Copywrite 2006, Kindle Edition. p. 22.

Don’t Relent! Ash Wednesday, And the Image to the Beast

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:08:23 GMT

Bible prophecy warns us to expect powerful religious forces to hijack the American government and endorse and enforce a Roman Catholic institution as a condition of buying and selling. ⁱ

This website has spoken ( here , here , here and here ) of the repeated papal and false Protestant efforts to seize control of civil power in the United States and reunite church and state. As Delilah the harlot sought to discover and eliminate the secret of Samson’s power, so the Papal harlot has unceasingly sought to find and eliminate the source of America’s power, and bring it to its knees.

As Delilah sensed the moment of her triumph had come, the Papacy surely senses that the fall of the mighty is near. On behalf of apostate Protestantism, the harlot’s daughters, the New Apostolic Reformation believes in the subordination of the state to the church, and counts a number of prominent politicians and advisors in Washington D.C. as its followers. ⁱⁱ Catholic Integralism also maintains the church must control the state, and counts the Vice President as its follower, ⁱⁱⁱ as well as multiple Cabinet members from the Opus Dei-influenced Heritage Foundation. ^iv Catholicism and apostate Protestantism, therefore, are in a position to exert substantial control over government, in effect uniting church and state in fulfilment of Bible prophecy.

In another harbinger of the proximity of the crisis, on Wednesday, March 5, the White House held a Catholic mass on its grounds and issued a statement in celebration of the commencement of the Catholic festival of Lent on Ash Wednesday. The statement of the President and First Lady reads as follows:

This Ash Wednesday, we join in prayer with the tens of millions of American Catholics and other Christians beginning the holy season of Lent—a time of spiritual anticipation of the passion, death, and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

During the Lenten season, Christians spend 40 days and 40 nights praying, fasting, and giving alms to deepen our faith and strengthen our belief in the Gospel. Today, followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads—a sacred reminder of our mortality and our enduring need for Christ’s infinite mercy and redeeming love.

As we solemnly contemplate Jesus Christ’s suffering and death on the cross this Lent, let us prepare our souls for the coming glory of the Easter miracle.

We offer you our best wishes for a prayerful and enriching Lenten season. May Almighty God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America. ^v

The White House should not be hosting Catholic mass on government grounds. The White House is a government building, and it ought to be a neutral religious space, not a place to endorse the practices of any one religion, or denomination. So why are the President, the head of the Executive Branch, and the First Lady, issuing a statement on a government website with respect to Lent at all?

Donald Trump and his wife Melania can celebrate Lent if they want, but they ought not to misuse the enormous power of the US government to encourage or endorse religious practices to Americans. The Bible says, “Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.” ^vi

The point is that government leaders are welcome to observe Lent if they wish in their own personal lives, but they are out of their sphere of authority to use their influence to normalize Lent or any other religious observance.

The White House statement then claims that Lent is a Christian practice, but is Lent biblical? Does the Bible talk about moping around with the sign of the cross drawn with ashes on your forehead?

The Bible answer is a resounding ‘No’. Lent is not a biblical precept or festival any more than Sunday is the biblical Sabbath. Both are Roman Catholic traditions devoid of Scriptural origin.

With respect to Sunday observance, Rome boasts of its change of the Sabbath, even issuing an unanswerable challenge to Protestants who bow in homage to her authority in honoring Sunday. We invite you to read “ Rome’s Challenge ” if you have never done so. ^vii

Similarly, Lent is a Roman Catholic tradition. It is a merits-based exercise from start to finish devoid of the righteousness of Christ. The Reformer John Calvin called it “superstitious” and “wrongheaded zeal.” ^viii The Reformer Ulrich Zwingli declared the observance of Lent incongruous with the Christian gospel in a sermon on April 16, 1522. ^ix We would add that Lent is precisely the kind of public virtue signalling the Bible condemns ^x and right-wing conservatives dislike about their left-wing opponents. Think of it as the Catholic version of painting a rainbow on your face.

Key Points of the White House Statement

The endorsement and promotion of Lent by the White House is a violation of the spirit of the separation of church and state. It is a formal commendation by the civil power of the US government of a Roman Catholic religious festival.

Consider the following.

The Executive Branch of the US government has no business declaring its favor, participation in, or endorsement of a certain religion’s festivals

The White House in its statement on the official government website refers to "the holy season of Lent". As discussed, there is nothing in the Holy Bible about Lent being a holy season. God never said anything about Lent at all, it is wholly an ordination of the Man of Sin. But apart from this, the Executive Branch of government should not be declaring festivals or feast days to be holy or unholy. That is not the proper role of any earthly government.

When God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, they were written on two tables, thus evidencing the difference between humanity’s obligations to God, and humanity’s obligations to their fellow humanity. Christ declared in immortal words the principle of the separation of church and state when He stated, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” ^xi

God is holy, and it is for the Lord to declare what is holy and what is not. Caesar is not holy, and has nothing to do with saying what is or is not holy. Any attempt to declare that something is holy when God has not said that it is holy is an intrusion on the exclusive territory of the Deity.

2. The White House states that, During the Lenten season, “Christians spend 40 days and 40 nights praying”, and "Today, followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads."

It is not for the American government to declare what the followers of Christ do or do not do. This ill-conceived statement underscores the pitfalls of government wading into the religious realm to declare what is orthodox.

First, and strictly factually speaking, it is the followers of the Papacy, and Pope Gregory specifically, who put ashes on their foreheads, ^xii it is not done pursuant to any decree of Christ. According to the Catholic Church, “the use of ashes is a survival from an ancient rite according to which converted sinners submitted themselves to canonical penance.” ^xiii Canonical penance is a form of works-based righteousness by which Catholics believe they accrue or accumulate personal merit to gain standing with God. Penance in Catholicism was declared by the Council of Trent ^xiv to be “at all times necessary for the remission of grievous sin.” ^xv The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the person who sins “must repent and as far as possible make reparation to Divine justice.” ^xvi

But the Bible teaches that Christ has made reparation for humanity. He died “once for all”, ^xvii and that the “Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” ^xviii No additional reparations (works) can be added to the completed work of Christ in taking the sins of the world upon Himself. The Apostle Paul states, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” ^xix

3. The White House claims the penance of Lent “deepens our faith and strengthens our belief in the Gospel”

Is this true? No, it is not. Works based righteousness, i.e. wearing ashes on one’s forehead to make reparations for sin, undermine and repudiate faith in the Gospel. They do not strengthen faith in the Gospel at all! Such acts of penance declare that a person places merit on their own acts of contrition, their own works, to commend themselves to God, and disbelieve the sufficiency of Christ’s payment for the sins of the world. ^xx

4. Jesus Christ never wore ashes on His forehead, nor did He command His followers to do any such thing, nor is there any example of any of His apostles doing this

On what basis does the White House presume to declare that the followers of Christ do this?

Do the mournful people following the Papacy’s Lent realize that Jesus specifically taught His followers not to fast in this way? The Lord declared, “When ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast . Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.” ^xxi

Christ said the reward of the people with ashes prominently displayed on their foreheads is the notice of men, not the commendation of God.

5. The White House states that we should "... prepare our souls for the coming glory of the Easter miracle" by fasting for Lent.

Should a neutral state on a government website be making this statement? Is it the place of the Executive Branch to offer spiritual advice to Americans? Why is the U.S. government promoting the Papal teaching that penance and fasting is required to prepare for Easter?

Promoting papal teachings on Lent is a definite step toward promoting Papal teaching on the sacredness of Sunday. Since the White House has already declared that the Papal practice of Lent is “holy”, is it not reasonably foreseeable that the White House will one day declare that the Papal teaching of Sunday is also holy, and is the day that Christians rest from their labors?

CONCLUSION

The Bible teaches that religious forces will cause America to make an image to the Papal power, and enforce observance of the mark of Papal authority – the change of the fourth commandment to solemnize dia solis, the Day of the Sun – Sunday.

Revelation 13 states that the Lamb-like Beast will cause everyone “to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads .” ^xxii Given the certainty of the prophetic warnings in Revelation 13, the White House’s endorsement of Papal ashes on the foreheads of Americans is uncomfortable foreshadowing.

Lent has its origins in paganism and Babylonian myth. The word "Lent" comes from the Old English word for Spring, "Lencten". To read about the pagan origins of Lent, and the 40 day weeping for Tammuz referred to in Ezekiel 8:13, 14,..... click here .

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i Revelation 13: 11-18

ii https://forward.com/culture/672745/christian-nationalist-guide-influence-trump-election/ ; NAR Apostle Paula White is the Senior Advisor of the newly created White House Faith Office.

iii https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/j-d-vance-and-the-rise-of-the-postliberal-catholics.html

iv https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/kevin-roberts-project-2025-opus-dei

v https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/the-president-and-first-ladys-message-on-ash-wednesday-2025/

vi Romans 14 :22

vii https://www.romeschallenge.com/

viii https://heidelblog.net/2013/02/calvin-on-lent/

ix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages#:~:text=The%20Affair%20of%20the%20Sausages%20(1522)%20was,God%2C%20Huldrych%20Zwingli%27s%20Reformation%20took%20its%20start.%22

x Isaiah 58:4, 5 “ Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?”.

xi Mark 12:17

xii https://www.dynamiccatholic.com/lent/ash-wednesday.html?

srsltid=AfmBOopiIDBGnYFGsJhchQ4xtGbzxfWFN-JckjKMQbIAu_fMH_IUkgo-

xiii https://www.ncregister.com/blog/9-things-to-know-and-share-about-ash-wednesday-oeeorfvu - penance is a Catholic concept of works-based merit to earn standing with God.

xiv (Sess. XIV, c.i)

xv https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11618b.htm

xvi https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11618b.htm

xvii Hebrews 10:10

xviii Isaiah 53:6

xix Romans 4:4,5

xx 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if One died for all, then were all dead: And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again. Colosians 1:20, 21 For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled.

xxi Matthew 6:16

xxii Revelation 13:16

Humanity on Collision Course With Revelation 13

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 02:21:51 GMT

Economic developments globally are a 24-hour burning signpost which tell us that we are nearing the events described in chapter 13 of the book of Revelation. Financial Instability. Out of control national debt. Central Bank Digital Currency. Digital ID. Artificial Intelligence. Facial recognition. Palm scanning and biometric data as a means of payment. Social credit scores. Apple Pay.

Never in earth’s history has the means to control all buying and selling been so available to totalitarian abuse.

Revelation 13 declares that the Lamb-Like Beast will coerce and compel the world’s governments to prevent buying or selling if he or she does not have the mark. That means restrictions on commerce, transportation and mobility, speech, internet usage – everything. There will be no exemptions.

What Is The Mark of the Beast?

The “mark of the beast” is the mark of the authority of the leopard-like beast of Revelation 13.

We do not have to guess who the leopard-like beast is. The leopard-like beast in Revelation 13 is the papal power. ⁱ

Similarly, we do not have to guess what the mark of the authority of the papacy is.The Catholic Record declares that “Sunday is our mark of authority …. The church is above the Bible, and this transference of sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” ⁱⁱ

The Catholic Encyclopedia states:

Sunday was the first day of the week according to the Jewish method of reckoning but for Christians it began to take the place of the Jewish Sabbath … as the day set apart for the public and solemn worship of God. … [D]uring the first three centuries practice and tradition had consecrated the Sunday to the public worship of God by the hearing of the Mass and the resting from work. With the opening of the fourth century positive legislation, both ecclesiastical and civil, began to make these duties more definite.” ⁱⁱⁱ

Pope Benedict stated that “Sunday is the day of the Lord and of man, a day which everyone must be able to be free — free for the family and free for God”, and that “by defending Sunday, one defends human freedom.” ^iv

Pope Francis declared that, “Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him.” ^v

The Bible, however, plainly declares “that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God”. ^vi The papacy is a pretender to the authority of the God of the universe and it has set itself against the Word of God.

According to Scripture, the Lamb-Like Beast will compel (or otherwise convince) the world to worship the papacy by compelling the world to receive the mark of papal authority, Sunday, as a condition of buying or selling. ^vii

This world fell when our first parents made a conscious decision to believe the serpent’s lies. The test at the beginning was simple: a choice between the fruit of two trees. One led to life and immortality, the other to shame and death. Adam sold this world into slavery. And Christ died to buy it back. ^viii

Humanity is rapidly coming to the final point where all will decide for themselves. You, Reader, will decide for yourself. We will all be faced with a test akin to that of our first parents. Same God. Same deceitful serpent. And a choice.

Once per month this website will provide a synopsis of recent global events which have transpired which show the inexorable march of mankind toward the test of the mark of the beast.

Stay tuned for the March report.

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i https://bibleask.org/who-did-the-reformers-identify-as-the-antichrist/

ii The Catholic Record of London, Ontario, Sept. 1, 1923

iii https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/sunday

iv https://www.catholicsun.org/2012/06/06/sundays-must-be-a-day-of-rest-dedicated-to-god-family-pope-says/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSunday%20is%20the%20day%20of%20the%20Lord,%E2%80%94%20By%20Carol%20Glatz%2C%20Catholic%20News%20Service .

v https://x.com/Pontifex/status/553838709812908033

vi Exodus 20:8-11

vii Revelation 13:11-18

viii Romans 5:6-21

Donkeys, Elephants, and Citizens of a Better Land

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:20:34 GMT

Christians are not immune to becoming entrenched politically and allowing a partisan mindset to obscure the spiritual and prophetic significance of events taking place around them. If there were any doubt on this point, the global Covid pandemic provides many examples of Christians doing this very thing.

Christians ought to have been the last people fooled by global lockdowns and digital passports during Covid. Anyone with a proper working familiarity with the Bible knows that it tells us the signs that the world will end. We are instructed in the most solemn terms to discern the signs of the times. Jesus Himself stated, “Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them” – Luke 12:37. Also see Luke 21:34-36, Matthew 24.

Amongst the many other prophecies of this sort interspersed throughout Scripture, there are two main books which speak extensively on prophecy and the end of the world. Those books are the books of Daniel and the Revelation. In both there are specific revelations from God regarding end time events. The book of Revelation begins with the statement that this is the “revelation of Jesus Christ” to the Apostle John regarding the end of the world – see Revelation 1:1.

Revelation 13 contains the prophecy of the “mark of the beast”, and describes it as a condition imposed on every person on earth by civil authorities who operate under the directions and influence of the “Lamb-Like Beast”. The mark of the beast, simply put, is a test for participation in society – it is a condition imposed by governments which completely restricts an individual from buying or selling if he or she does not have the mark. That means restrictions on commerce, transportation and mobility, speech, internet usage – everything.

If you think that sounds a lot like central bank digital currencies, digital passports, a cashless society, and the profound restrictions on personal freedom and movement that arose over the course of nearly four years, you’d be right. The global events we have witnessed are surely a harbinger of things to come. The system is being built before our very eyes.

The Bible emphasises that no one on the earth will be immune from the test of the mark of the beast, and in case there was any doubt, Revelation emphasises that it applies to “ all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond ” – Revelation 13:16.

Contrary to what the “once saved always saved” crowd says, the mark of the beast test is determinative of the salvation of the people at the end of the world. The class that refuses the mark is persecuted and ordered to be put to death by civil powers – Revelation 13:15, but triumphs in the end – Revelation 15:2. They get “the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name”. The class that takes the mark can buy and sell for a short time, but then it receives the plagues mentioned in Revelation 16, and is thrown into the Lake of Fire with the devil and his angels – Revelation 14:9-11; 19:20.

Most Christians who study their Bibles to some extent, as opposed to the vast number of professed Christians who do not, have some general awareness of these prophecies. And yet during Covid, there were millions upon millions of Christians who failed to recognize that near-global forced lockdowns, vaccine passports, restrictions on cash, segregated societies etc. were a prophesied move in the direction the events described in Revelation 13.

Those who failed to recognize the prophetic implications can be generally subdivided into two classes.

One group of Christians, as stated, were oblivious to the prophetic significance because they simply do not read their Bibles, or only read them cursorily. These people have essentially obtained all of their understanding of the Bible, such as it is, from their pastor or priest. They fail to inquire of the Word of God themselves.

While this nominal and uninformed type of Christianity is still labeled by the world as “Christianity”, this is illusive because Christians are instructed to study and watch - for example, see Mark 13:35-37. ⁱ Christ never instructed His followers to be ignorant and uninformed, to bow to public pressure on matters of conscience, or to receive their information from their equally ignorant and uninformed pastors or priests.

The other group of Christians in this category, however, failed to recognize the prophetic significance of the events around them even though they read the Bible to some greater or lesser extent. A large number in this class of persons, it can safely be said, often missed the prophetic significance of global lockdowns and economic restrictions because of their political allegiance to left wing ideology and/or parties.

Since it was primarily their tribe which imposed lockdowns and vaccine passports, etc., these Christians often proved incapable of putting sufficient distance between their party’s positions and their obligation to uphold and align themselves with Christian principles which have superior claims, such as liberty of conscience, the right to bodily autonomy, and freedom of speech. When governments around the world began to violate the right of free speech, these Christians sided with the state. When Christian pastors were being arrested for having a Bible study or a church service, these Christians sided with the state. When the governments told their citizens they had to have injections from Pfizer or Moderna or Astra Zeneca, these Christians sided with the state. They were unable to discern that what was taking place all around them was in fact an obvious advance toward the events of Revelation 13.

To underscore the depth of their blindness, many in this class are so deluded that they still think that coercing billions of people to take the useless and dangerous Pfizer shot, and locking them away from society if they refused, was a good idea.

We could generally summarize all the points made so far thusly: in America, if a Christian person was a member of Team Donkey, they were much more likely to rationalize oppression because it was Team Donkey that was doing the oppressing.

An observer might reasonably conclude from this, therefore, that a Christian person could avoid this spiritual blindness by simply not being a member of the Donkey Party. And of course, that would be a good idea for further reasons we will come to momentarily.

But it turns out the phenomenon is not exclusive to only to Team Donkey. It can be readily proven, in fact, that Christians who are on Team Donkey or Team Elephant both have a similar problem applying Bible principles objectively to a given fact scenario which touches on Revelation 13.

In case there were any doubt of this, Providence has now determined to demonstrate the point for the world to see by way of observation of those Christians who are members of Team Elephant. Observation supports the proposition that Christians on Team Elephant experience a similar cognizance-impairing bias.

When the Lamb-Like Beast imposes and threatens to impose aggressive global tariffs, ⁱ or threatens land seizures (Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal, and now the Gaza Strip) ⁱⁱ , Christians on Team Elephant tend to ignore it.

When the Lamb-Like Beast makes public pronouncements from the Executive Branch that society needs to return to God, or that God’s plan for America will be fulfilled “sooner rather than later”, ⁱⁱⁱ they are silent. Most are not inclined to defend the separation of church and state or the First Amendment of the Constitution.

When the very co-author of Project 2025, which outlines plans for the state to legislate a national Sunday law, becomes part of the White House Cabinet, they are silent. ^iv Sunday legislation is undoubtedly the prophesied mark of the beast, the enforcement of the day of the Roman Papacy which boasts of its claimed change of the law of God as the special “mark” of its authority. ^v But many Christians, even those from the Seventh-day Adventist and Seventh-day Baptist denominations, are quiet.

The Bible prophesies that the Lamb-Like Beast will make use of coercion as a mechanism to persuade the nations to impose the mark of the beast. Notice the language in Revelation 13:14 and 16: “ saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and did live”, and, “ he causes all, both small and great” etc, to “receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads”.

Tariffs are a tool of coercion. America has the greatest economic clout on the planet, and prophecy indicates that it will utilize its leverage to compel nations to impose the mark. We know the nations of the world will fall into line. ^vi

We appear to have come to an inflection point in the timeline of Bible prophecy, and ought to know that the imposition of the mark is on the near horizon. When the leader of the Lamb-Like Beast boastfully claims that it has the nations of the world “over a barrel” economically, ^vii watch out.

Around the world, plans to control buying, selling, speech and movement are being implemented in phases using digital IDs and artificial intelligence. Team Elephant has committed to funding AI in America to the tune of $500 billion dollars. ^viii There is a proposal to replace most Federal employees with machines. ^ix But there is little comment by Christians, and can there be any doubt their political allegiances are causing this silence?

The call in Revelation 18:4 to “Come out of her my people” applies not only to the apostate churches, but in principle applies to earthly party allegiances. It includes a separation from human tribalism. Therefore, come out of Team Donkey, and come out of Team Elephant, and be free of partisan loyalties because both of them will support the taking of the mark, and both of them will receive the plagues, and both of them will be thrown into the lake of fire. And if you are in them still, so will you.

According to the Apostle Paul, Christians ought to stand as registered independents with respect to political allegiances. God calls His followers “citizens with the saints” – a group who is called out and who’s allegiance is to heaven first, not second. They are of the “household of God”, not Team Donkey or Team Elephant.

Speaking of those who had gone before, Paul writes:

Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Heb 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Heb 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Heb 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

This world is not our home. We have a city. We have a country. Let us stand as independents, judging righteously and not corrupted with partisanship. Let us watch faithfully and impartially, and weigh each issue against the inerrant standard of the Word of God. For we seek a city also, “Whose Builder and Maker is God” – Hebrews 11:10.

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i https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/brics-is-dead-donald-trump-reiterates-100-pc-tariff-threat-on-brics-nations/

ii https://allisrael.com/shock-proposal-trump-tells-netanyahu-us-is-going-to-take-over-gaza-pacify-rebuild-and-run-it

iii https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-christian-bias-attorney-general-b2693563.html

iv https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise/?q=Sabbath&mode=document#document/p621 – see page 589. https://apnews.com/article/trump-russell-vought-confirmation-budget-project-2025-7d1c476694176876256e95cecbd49231 - Russ Vought, co-author Project 2025 confirmed.

v “Sunday is our mark of authority …. The church is above the Bible, and this transference of sabbath observance is proof of that fact” (The Catholic Record of London, Ontario, Sept. 1, 1923).

vi https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/asian-economies-scramble-to-appease-trump-as-the-us-president-ratchets-up-tariff-threats-.html ;

vii https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/brics-is-dead-donald-trump-reiterates-100-pc-tariff-threat-on-brics-nations/

viii https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2025/01/23/trumps-ai-push-understanding-the-500-billion-stargate-initiative/

ix https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/elon-musk-led-doges-big-plan-for-the-us-government-replace-humans-with-ai-tools-and-automate-majority-of-jobs/articleshow/118126032.cms

Witches, Science and Idols: The Many Faces of the Occult in Our World Today

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:46:08 GMT

Witches, Science and Idols: The Many Faces of the Occult in Our World Today

The Bible plainly declares that witchcraft, spellcasting, and attempting to communicate with the dead are an abomination. When God drove the pagan nations out of the land of Caanan so that ancient Israel could take the land the Lord had promised to Abraham, He gave unambiguous instruction to His people:

When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee , thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations . 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits , or a wizard , or a necromancer .

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. ⁱ

God absolutely prohibits witchcraft and necromancy (attempting to communicate with the dead). What else did God prohibit that the pagan nations were doing? The Lord declares in His Ten Commandments that idol worship is a sin. The second commandments states, in part:

Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image , or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them .

Yes, you heard that correctly. God prohibits spell casting, witchcraft and trying to talk to the dead, just like He prohibits worshiping statues of Buddha or Mary.

Israel ignored God’s warnings, and God sent the judgments of heaven against them. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans repeatedly invaded and destroyed their cities. They were starved, deported or killed, and their temple was destroyed, razed to the ground not once, but twice.

The western world is repeating the sins of ancient of Israel. Today, the occult is everywhere in our society. Hollywood relentlessly promotes it to the masses. It’s in movies and its on TV. It’s on Netflix and Disney Plus. It is shamelessly marketed to children. It’s on Tik Tok and Instagram, where millions of people each day watch videos on spell casting, hexes, tarot cards and palm reading. ⁱⁱ There are witch influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers online. ⁱⁱⁱ “We’re everywhere”, bragged a 36-year-old witch to a news reporter in Australia. ^iv "Summoning demons has never been so fun!", declares a popular children’s book. ^v

The word “occult” comes from the Latin occultus, meaning secret or hidden . Satan, the rebel angel who was cast out of heaven and “deceives the whole earth”, ^vi promised Eve hidden knowledge. That is how death and suffering entered out world. You can read about it in Genesis chapter 3.

You may not have realized that occult practices are no different in God’s eyes than the idol worship of false religions. For one thing, attempting to talk to the dead using a séance is no different than attempting to talk to Mary, who is also dead. Both are necromancy, forbidden occult practices. It is just that one uses mediums and Ouija boards, and the other uses images and cathedrals.

But even if Mary were alive, which she is not, the Bible states clearly that it is a sin to make an image of anyone, or anything, whether in heaven or in earth, and bow down to it, or worship it.

But what does this have to do with science, you ask. “The enlightened person is opposed to such superstition”, you may say. “I don’t believe in witches or ferries, and I don’t believe in God. I am a scientist.”

But Satan is clever, and scientists are not immune to the temptation of supposedly hidden knowledge.

Alfred Russel Wallace, co-developer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection, was a spiritualist, and saw “spiritualism as a legitimate domain of scientific enquiry. ^vii

Pierre Curie, physicist and husband of Marie Curie, often consulted a medium and believed in both her abilities and in the underlying claims of a spiritual realm containing entities.

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, pioneer of quantum physics, believed that quantum physics would return spiritualism to the world that was once ruled by atheistic paradigms. ^viii That’s interesting, considering the emerging promise of quantum artificial intelligence and a coming singularity. ^ix

Most people do not realize that famous inventers Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were both involved in spiritualism. Tesla built a device to communicate with the dead, and spent years listening to recordings of what he believed to be the spirits of the departed.

Tesla was scared but fascinated by what he heard. “My first observations positively terrified me”, he said, “as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night.” ^x

“The sounds I am listening to every night at first appear to be human voices conversing back and forth in a language I cannot understand.” ^xi

Tesla filed a patent for the device, which he called a “Spirit Radio”. Today, people are building the device using plans posted on the internet, and using artificial intelligence to inform them of what “the dead” are supposedly saying. Like Tesla, they say that the recordings are disturbing, and listening to them can lead to mental deterioration. ^xii

Make no mistake, Tesla was involved in the occult. His device to listen to the voices that he thought were the dead is as prohibited by the Bible as going to speak to a clairvoyant or a medium. Satan simply substituted so-called science and technology for the human medium, and repackaged the deception.

The Bible states that the dead are dead – “the dead don’t know anything”. ^xiii Their thoughts have perished. Don’t attempt to speak to them, God warns. You’ll be listening to devils ^xiv – the fallen angels who were cast out of heaven and who deceive the whole world.

The rise of the occult in our day is yet another sign that the end of all things is at hand. Don’t be deceived, friends. Jesus is coming again, and before He does, the Bible says that there will be a great “falling away.” ^xv People will be seduced by the occult and false religion. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s spell casting or so-called “science” that brings you into the occult, Satan would be happy with either.

The Bible is our safeguard. The dead are dead. Do not be deceived.

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i Deuteronomy 18:10-14

ii https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-63403467

iii https://qz.com/quartzy/1411909/the-explosive-growth-of-witches-wiccans-and-pagans-in-the-us ; https://influencers.feedspot.com/witch_instagram_influencers/

iv https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/modernday-witchcraft-is-on-the-rise-in-australia-as-support-for-organised-religion-plummets/news-story/ccbc9bbcbc05ffd8acd8c5ab3f780f38

v https://www.newsweek.com/satan-getting-hot-hell-american-pop-culture-1790669

vi Revelation 12:9

vii https://www.cell.com/current-biology/p Deudf/S0960-9822(13)01317-1.pdf

viii https://medium.com/paul-austin-murphys-essays-on-philosophy/the-weird-case-of-wolfgang-pauli-hardcore-positivist-and-mystic-041551d67dde

ix The “singularity” is a tech industry term refering to their long-expected moment when artificial intelligence will become self aware.

x Nicola Tesla, 1901.

xi Nicola Tesla, 1918.

xii https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1831722931522826636 - “Tesla said he listened to this radio his entire life, I personally do not suggest this. This is why I have let the AI listen in. I am certain some of what is heard may contribute to a decline in some ways with people. This is why I hesitate releasing the schematics based on the actual patents. I advise to extend great caution in listening to more than a few seconds. And yes the feeling you have when you hear this is quite normal. And I will explain in detail why at some point. But I urge limited listening if you are handy enough to decide to build such a device. No I am not joking. However AI listening for us is incredibly useful. I have not only had the AI look for a language but also insights about the other sounds it hears and to discover if they are also a form of language.”

xiii Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6.

xiv Revelation 9:20; Revelation 16:4

xv 2 Thessalonians 2:34

Seven Mountain Mandate

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:40:36 GMT

Part 3: Clasping Hands

What is the link between the Papacy and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)? This installment hopes to provide some answers to this question.

On a stage in a Los Angeles stadium on April 9, 2016, NAR Apostle Lou Engle warmly welcomed a delegation from Pope Francis before a packed crowd of ecstatic worshipers. The wet weather had not deterred the throng of 60,000 people who had gathered to commemorate the 110-year anniversary of the original Azusa Street Revival, recognized as the beginning of both the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. ⁱ The crowd eagerly welcomed the messengers of the Pope.

Pope Francis’ delegates greeted the gathered masses in the name of the Catholic church, and especially the 100 million plus charismatic Catholics whose worship practice closely resembles those in the Pentecostal/Charismatic movements. Charismatic Catholicism has grown rapidly around the globe, and like its Pentecostal cousins, focuses on deep emotional experiences, uplifted hands during worship singing, speaking in tongues, and a personal relationship with Jesus. ⁱⁱ Vatican II encouraged ecumenism, formally declaring that “The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican Council.” ⁱⁱⁱ

After effusive mutual expressions of unity and forgiveness, the Pope’s delegate and Lou Engle kissed each other’s feet before the gathered masses and the world, proclaiming a holy moment ending the “the diabolical sin” of division between Catholics and Protestants. The papal delegates proclaimed, “Jesus doesn’t care about our differences [in doctrine]”, “we must fly united”. The exchanges can be seen starting at the 6 hour and 50 minute mark.

This incident, and other ecumenical gatherings like it, are a stunning and ominous development in the Protestant world. It is a fulfilment of Bible prophecy.

It is all too clear that the aims of Vatican II have been balefully successful. For Pentecostalism and the Charismatics, gone is the protest of Luther, forgotten are the lives of Huss, Jerome, and Wycliffe. Abandoned are the works of John Knox and John Bunyan. Forgotten are the martyrs who died by the rack and at the stake, killed by the papal power. Forgotten are the centuries of persecution, and the suffering of Pilgrims who fled Europe for America to escape the persecution of that worst of all evils, the combined rule of the church and the state. Forgotten are the warnings of Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Roger Williams and many others.

For many in what passes for Christianity today, the faith of their fathers is gone. Gone is sola scriptura. Instead, the paramountcy of the Bible has been replaced with the primacy of emotional ecstasy. The doctrines of salvation are supplanted, and dismissed as unimportant. Repetitive and trance-inducing rock music leads to an emotional high and what is seen by many charismatics as the worship’s climax: the ecstatic emotional utterances of congregants speaking in gibberish tongues.

Today, this worship experience is not only for Pentecostals. Its entrenchment is well advanced in
almost every major denomination in the world, including, as stated, in the ranks of over a
hundred million Catholics.iv

A clip of NAR Apostle, Lance Wallnau, teaching his followers to speak in tongues can be viewed
here.v

Bible Prophecy and the Papal Power

The Bible revealed that the Roman papacy would be dominant for a period of 1260 years.vi

History demonstrates the truth of the infallible Word. From 538 AD, when civil power was
assumed by the Bishop of Rome pursuant to the decree of Emperor Justinian, to 1798 and the
capture of Pope Pius VI by Napolean’s general Berthier, the Papacy had tremendous authority
and influence over western Europe. Kings knelt at the feet of the Pope for centuries, and did the
bidding of the Roman pontiff.

Church and state in union brought incredible peril to the human family. The Dark Ages were
marked by superstition, censorship and persecution. It was the age of the suppression of the
Bible, of the Inquisition, and the burning of so-called heretics.

With the Protestant Reformation, the power of the papacy to control the state gradually
weakened until the pope of that period, Pius VI, was taken captive and died in exile in France.
The Bible had prophesied that at the conclusion of the 1260 years the papal power would receive
a deadly wound, and so it did. To hear a detailed presentation on this subject, click here.vii

A beast in Bible prophecy symbolizes a kingdom.viii There are two beasts, or kingdoms,
mentioned in Revelation 13. The Protestant Reformers knew and taught that the leopard beast of
Revelation 13 was the papal power. They knew from the Bible that the papacy was predicted to
persecute God’s people,ix and then one day receive a deadly wound.x They were aware that the
book of Revelation also foretold the rise of another kingdom around the time the papacy was to
lose its dominance. In 1752, the Reformer John Wesley correctly predicted that the lamb-like
beast with the two horns of Revelation 13 was not far away.xi

History shows that only one nation was rising to global prominence at the time of the deadly
wound to the papal power, and that nation was the United States of America

America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen, and it was founded on an express
rejection of papal teaching and authority. The papacy vehemently opposes the
separation of church and state.xii The U.S. Constitution requires a separation of church and state
in the First Amendment.xiii The Papacy is opposed to liberty of conscience.xiv The U.S.
Constitution protects liberty of conscience and religious liberty as a God-given right.xv

The papacy is opposed to freedom of speech and freedom of the press,xvi and maintained a list of
banned books for centuries.xvii The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom
of the press, and the Founding Fathers taught that without a free press liberty would perish.xviii
The papacy systematically trampled on the principles of due process both before and during the
centuries of the Inquisition, torturing people to obtain a confession to so-called heresy.xix The
U.S. Constitution constitutionalizes due process, including a right to remain silent,xx and rejects
torture.xxi

The Bible foretold that the Bride of Christ would flee into the wilderness to escape the dragon
and from the power of the Roman papacy. Ultimately, Protestantism found its way to the New
World, and one of the last great wilderness areas on the planet. How fitting that the lamb-like
beast, the United States, comes up “out of the earth” – Revelation 13:11, as opposed to the point
of origin of the other beasts in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13! Geographically, those other beasts
come out of the water, and specifically find their geographic location around the Mediterranean,
as noted in Daniel 7:2.xxii But America rose from the ground of the New World.

The Declaration of Independence repudiated the contentions of the church/state system and thus
rejected the dominionist claims of the Pope. The Founders trumpeted that human rights come
from God, not from the state. The Founders declared as “self-evident truth” “that all men are
created equal, and endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

“Righteousness exalts a nation” – Proverbs 14:34. America’s protection of the rights and
freedoms of humanity has brought it greatness. It’s secret strength, like Samson’s, has its source
in the Almighty. America was raised by the Lord as a haven for the persecuted, and as a place
where the Gospel and the light of the Scriptures could be proclaimed to all the world. Individual
rights, constitutionalism, and the separation of church and state have made America great.

But like Samson, even the mighty may fall.

Samson, the mightiest man recorded in the Scriptures, fell through continued liaison with a
harlot.xxiii Delilah wooed him and plied him with her charms until he violated the secret trust
between himself and God and gave up the secret of his great strength. In liaison with the
Philistine civil powers, Delilah cut his hair and took his power. His two eyes were put out, and
his liberty was taken from him.

Sadly, the Bible predicts that America will fall the same way. The harlot who seeks America’s
power is the papal harlot, described in Revelation 17.xxiv Long has she sought to bring America
to its knees

As discussed HERE and HERE , the NAR apostles also want political power. The Papacy is more
than willing to ally with the NAR to accomplish her ends.

In 2016, NAR leaders met personally with Pope Francis to discuss their mutual interests. This is
a photo of NAR Apostle Che Ahn and Pope Francis.

Further details of this meeting can be found here .

Conclusion

The Bible foretells that the Papacy’s deadly wound will be healed.xxv The Bible states that the
world will wonder after the first beast, the Papal power, and it is. And the Bible states that
America and the Papacy will work together to bring about the final events of Bible prophecy.

Today, both the New Apostolic Reformation and the Catholic Integralism of the Heritage
Foundation, which openly advocates for a reunification of church and state, are within striking
distance of their goal. This will be the subject of an upcoming installment in this series.
For now, we conclude with words written nearly a hundred and thirty years ago regarding the
events now taking place before our eyes:

Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan
will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of
spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the
United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand
of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and
under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.xxvi

ⁱ ^{https://news.ag.org/en/article-repository/news/2016/04/what-azusa-had-and-we-need}

ii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charismatic_Renewal

iii Unitatis Redintegratio , the Decree on Ecumenism (1964, #1).

^iv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmMHdYjWGI

^v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZi9F-5pXf8

^vi Revelation 13:5 – the time period of the 42 months is the same as the time period of the 1260 years mentioned in Daniel 7: . Using a Hebrew lunar month of 30 days, 42 months is 1260 days. The day for a year principle of prophetic interpretation is found in Ezekiel 4:6.

vii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OX2Fzr1IU

^viii See Daniel 7.

ix Revelation 13:7

^x Revelation 13:3

xi https://ccel.org/ccel/wesley/notes/notes.i.xxviii.xiv.html

xii Pope Pius X, Vehementer Nos, 1906: “That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error.” “Hence, mindful of Our Apostolic charge and conscious of the imperious duty incumbent upon Us of defending and preserving against all assaults the full and absolute integrity of the sacred and inviolable rights of the Church, We do, by virtue of the supreme authority which God has confided to Us, and on the grounds above set forth, reprove and condemn the law voted in France for the separation of Church and State, as deeply unjust to God whom it denies, and as laying down the principle that the Republic recognizes no cult. We reprove and condemn it as violating the natural law, the law of nations, and fidelity to treaties; as contrary to the Divine constitution of the Church, to her essential rights and to her liberty ; as destroying justice and trampling underfoot the rights of property which the Church has acquired by many titles and, in addition, by virtue of the Concordat. We reprove and condemn it as gravely offensive to the dignity of this Apostolic See, to Our own person, to the Episcopacy, and to the clergy and all the Catholics of France. Therefore, We protest solemnly and with all Our strength against the introduction, the voting and the promulgation of this law, declaring that it can never be alleged against the imprescriptible rights of the Church.”

Also see - Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, 1832: “Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty.”

xiii First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

xiv Pope Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said : `The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error—a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.’ Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of December 8, 1864, also anathematized `those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship,’ also ‘all such as maintain that the church may not employ force.’

xv First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

xvi Pope Pius IX, Mirari Vos, 1832: “This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it. “But the death of the soul is worse than freedom of error,” as Augustine was wont to say.[21] When all restraints are removed by which men are kept on the narrow path of truth, their nature, which is already inclined to evil, propels them to ruin. Then truly “the bottomless pit”[22] is open from which John saw smoke ascending which obscured the sun, and out of which locusts flew forth to devastate the earth. Thence comes transformation of minds, corruption of youths, contempt of sacred things and holy laws — in other words, a pestilence more deadly to the state than any other. Experience shows, even from earliest times, that cities renowned for wealth, dominion, and glory perished as a result of this single evil, namely immoderate freedom of opinion, license of free speech, and desire for novelty. https://rsf.org/en/dangerous-comments-pope-freedom-expression

^xvii https://www.britannica.com/topic/Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum

xviii “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost” -Thomas Jefferson, 1786. “The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1787.

xix https://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/fox105.htm

xx The Fifth Amendment states: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/

xxi https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/constitutional-amendments-amendment-8-freedom-excessive-bail-fines-and-cruel-punishments

^xxii Danel 7:2 “Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.” The Great Sea of Danel’s vision is the Mediterranean. All of the beasts come up out of that sea, and all of the nations in the vision find their geographic location around the Mediterranean.

xxiii See Judges chapters 13-16.

xxiv Revelation 17 will be examined in an upcoming segment.

xxv Revelation 13:3 The healing of the papacy’s deadly wound will be covered in detail in an upcoming segment. It is the position of the author that the wound has been healed, and current events demonstrate the proof of this.

xxvi Great Controversy , p. 588. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/132.2635#2659

The Seven Mountain Mandate

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:14:31 GMT

Part 2: “And To Whosoever I Will Give It”

The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) claims to have a mandate to conquer and rule society in the name of Christ. Coupled with the promise of wealth and influence, it is unsurprising that the NAR has become wildly popular. Power, influence, money – are these not the things that people love? According to some estimates, the NAR has 32 million adherents globally, and is growing at a rate of nine million members per year. ¹ Some estimates place its influence as much larger, especially in the United States. ²

Popularity, however, is no determiner of righteousness, or truth. Rather, Christ stated that the gate was wide that leads to destruction, and many go in thereat – Matthew 7:13.

How then is a perplexed person to know which is the right way? We are to go to the Scriptures for the answer. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them – Isaiah 8:20.

The Scriptures record that following His baptism, Christ fasted in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights. When He was weak and emaciated and near the point of death, Satan personally approached Christ to tempt Him. It was Satan’s purpose to make the Savior doubt His divinity, and turn Him from a life of self-denial and sacrifice if possible.

The book of Matthew records the moment when Satan offered the world to Christ:

Matthew 4:8-11 Again, the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world , and the glory of them ; 9 And saith unto Him , All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth Him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto Him. [emphasis added]

Satan claims this world as his own. The Bible calls him, the “god of this world” – 2 Corinthians 4:4, and “the prince of this world” – John 14:30. He is the thief and liar who stole it from Adam and Eve at the fall. And Luke records that Satan bargained with Christ on the mountaintop: “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them : for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it ” – Luke 4:6.

Satan still offers earthly power and wealth today. As Hollywood and the music industry well know, ³ the stated prerequisite for obtaining fortune and power on this earth is the same as it was on the mountaintop two thousand years ago: “fall down and worship me”.

Though Christ rejected the devil’s temptations on the mountaintop and rebuked him, Christian Dominionism claims to know better. Lance Wallnau, one of the New Apostolic Reformation’s “apostles”, and promoter of the claim that Jesus gave the NAR the “seven mountain mandate” to conquer and rule society, asserts that things are different today. Christ now wants His church to take earthly power. He asserts that now Christ wants His church to rule the nations.

According to Wallnau,

…when Satan offered Him [Christ] all the kings of the world in a moment of time, he said “all this is yours if you'll bow down and worship me.” He [Jesus] said, get behind me Satan for Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God and Him only shall thou serve. He rejected Nations when they were offered. But now the Father says, “I'm offering them this time. Ask.” Here's the challenge I've got right now: the Father is looking for a church that will give Jesus what belongs to Him, which is Nations. ⁴

Wallnau’s claims appeal mightily to the carnal heart but the Lord Jesus does not need His followers to take earthly power for Him. Jesus Christ is already “heir of all things” – Hebrews 1:2. He has already “overcome the world” – John 16:33. The Father said to Christ – “sit Thou on My right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool” – Psalms 110:1; Matthew 22:44; Luke 20:42; Acts 2:34. [emphasis added]

The Rock that hits the statue of the successive nations from Babylon until the end of the world in Daniel 2 is a symbol of Christ, and it is “cut out without hands” – Daniel 2:34. No human assistance is required to establish the Lord’s kingdom. The work is His. The glory is His. The Rock strikes the statute in its feet and breaks “in pieces and consumes all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever” – Daniel 2:44.

Christ’s instructions to his disciples have nothing to do with taking control of governments and ruling the world. He has instructed His followers to “go into all the world and preach to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit” – Matthew 28:19, 20. He said to His disciples, “take up your cross, and follow Me.”

The temptation to Christianity from Lance Wallnau and the other NAR “apostles” is as subversive of this mission as was Satan’s temptation to Christ. “This life of self-denial, tribulation and persecution is not for you. Oh no. You are meant to rule. You are meant to have dominion over the nations.”

“Christian dominionism”, however, is a contradiction in terms. There’s no such thing.

The word “dominion” comes from the Latin, “dominium”, from “dominus”, which means “lord, master”. The new apostles of NAR claim that they are meant to be lords and masters. Is that what Jesus said?

The Bible records the story of the mother of two of Jesus’ disciples coming to Him with an unusual request.

Then came to Him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him. 21 And He said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in Thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask.

…

24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. 25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 26 But it shall not be so among you : but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Jesus says it is the princes of the Gentiles which exercise authority over their fellow human beings. Dominance is what the pagans aspire to. Christ informed his followers “ but it shall not be so among you.” This is a standing rebuke from Christ to any who will come after Him who want to make an earthly kingdom where they rule in the name of Jesus.

It is a rebuke to the papacy, and its constant meddling in political matters. It is a rebuke to the “new apostles” of the NAR.

The Bible says that Satan is the one who covets dominion:

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms? – Isaiah 14:12-16.

The carnal human heart is in harmony with Satan, not God. It is the fallen human heart that says, “I will ascend”, not the converted heart of the new birth spoken of by Jesus. The New Apostolic Reformation’s lust for temporal power and dominion is the fruit of the unconverted heart

The thing Satan wants is power. His children want the same thing.

But God says, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise” – Psalms 51:17.

Jesus says it is the meek who will inherit the earth – Matthew 5:5.

We will conclude with these short clips of Paula White, NAR apostle and spiritual advisor to the President-elect.

Can you imagine Moses claiming that everywhere Moses walks is holy ground? Us neither.

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In the next article on the Seven Mountain Mandate, we will more closely examine the New Apostolic Reformation and its connections with the Roman Papacy, and begin to consider the implications in light of Bible prophecy.

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https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/perspective/on-faith-new-apostolic-reformation/article_c9d37e4b-b7af-593a-8443-515b2dcda749.html
https://www.texasobserver.org/new-apostolic-reformation-texas-leaders/ - some estimates place the number of Christians in America influenced by NAR teachings as high as 33 million.
See for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vOJ-UoZ7uo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9InAiJYH5I, “The 7 Mountains of Culture 3”

The Seven Mountain Mandate

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:05:55 GMT

Part 1: My Kingdom is Not of This World

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Protestant Christianity affirmed that Christ’s kingdom was “not of this world”. John 18:36

One of the criticisms from the Protestant Reformers against the outrageous worldly excess of the papacy was its many violations of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Not only did the papacy accumulate gold and silver sufficient to make a sultan blush, not only did it flood the world with superstitious and unbiblical teachings such as the doctrine of purgatory, the veneration of the saints, the teaching of the mass etc., it claims the right to command the civil state.

The Popes of Rome have expressly declared that the Pope is the ruler of this world. It has never resiled from these statements, or many others like them.

“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” ⁱ

“The appellation of God had been confirmed by Constantine on the Pope, who, being God, cannot be judged by man.” ⁱⁱ

Protestantism condemned the papacy’s greed for temporal authority. As recorded in the book, History of the Reformation, D’Aubigne writes,

In an appeal to the emperor and nobility of Germany in behalf of the reformation of Christianity, Luther wrote concerning the pope: "It is a horrible thing to behold the man who styles himself Christ's vicegerent, displaying a magnificence that no emperor can equal. Is this being like the poor Jesus, or the humble Peter? He is, say they, the lord of the world! But Christ, whose vicar he boasts of being, has said, 'My kingdom is not of this world.' Can the dominions of a vicar extend beyond those of his superior?” ^v

Jesus Christ did not come to this earth to live in a palace and compel obedience to Himself via the power of government. The Bible clearly describes the nature of His kingdom. It is not like the kingdoms of the empires that have risen and fallen throughout human history.

“And when the Pharisees had demanded of Him when the Kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said, “The Kingdom of God cometh not with outward show. Neither shall they say, ‘Lo, it is here!’ or ‘Lo, it is there!’ For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:19-21

“ My kingdom is not of this world , otherwise my servants would fight.” John 18:36

You have an “inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you”. 1 Peter 1:4 ESV

“Lay up for yourself treasure in heaven .” Matthew 6:19-21

“In my Father’s house are many mansions.” “ I go to prepare a place for you … I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also.” John 14:2-6

Christ teaches “the meek shall inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5, a standing rebuke to haughty prelates. Christ says, in this world we will have tribulation. John 16:33. “All those who live godly will suffer persecution.” 2 Timothy 3:12

In conjunction with these principles, Christ taught the separation of church and state: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God.” Matthew 22:21. Caesar (government) is to be obeyed when Caesar stays in his lane, and exercises only the legitimate authority delegated by God. ^vi But the individual is not to yield to Caesar when Caesar’s claims conflict with the territory of God.

In like manner, the territory Christ instructed His apostles to win was not geographic territory or countries. Christ told His followers to preach the Gospel and win the hearts of the individuals that Christ had died for. “Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Matthew 28:19.

Jesus had 12 Apostles. History tells us that none of His Apostles were statesman. They were preachers. Healers. Witnesses to Christ and to His resurrection. Ten of them died as martyrs, murdered for preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of Christ. The only apostle who meddled and schemed with earthly authorities for political gain was Judas. Judas the traitor.

Given Christ’s clear declaration of these unmistakable principles, Christians ought to be both alarmed and indignant at the aggressive movements of so-called “Christian Dominionism”, and its “Seven Mountain Mandate”.

The Seven Mountain Mandate refers to the contention that Christians are called to control and conquer the seven prominent pinnacles of societal influence, namely family, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, and government. ^vii Members of what is referred to as the “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) claim to have a mandate from Jesus Christ to conquer the seven mountains and control them for Christ. ^viii Once this is accomplished, they believe that Jesus will return to this earth.

Frederick Clarkson, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates writes that the NAR movement is an expression of dominionism, defined as “the theocratic idea that … Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of political and cultural institutions.” ^ix

The movement is growing rapidly. Amongst its most powerful political adherents are Congresswoman Loren Boebert, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, and spiritual advisor to the President-elect, Paula White.

There are a fascinating number of significant similarities between the Roman Catholic Papacy and the NAR movement. Consider the following partial list.

The Papacy claims to have “apostolic authority” stemming from the Apostle Peter, and running down through the line of popes. It is by virtue of this supposed apostolic succession that it takes the authoritarian positions it does.

The NAR movement also centers around the restoration of apostolic authority, “ essentially reversing the Protestant Reformation’s centering of the individual believer working out their own salvation , and its democratic church governance structures based on systems of elders.” ⁱ

In other words, the NAR movement restores a papacy-type model of human authoritarianism by virtue of its claim of having new “apostles”. Unsurprisingly, these “apostles” speak authoritatively, and their decrees may supersede Scripture. ⁱⁱ This is a reversal of the Reformation and its focus on individual rights and the authority of the Bible.

The significance of this cannot be overstated.

“If you submit to their leadership, then you too will work mighty miracles. You’ll become part of a great end-time army that will bring about a world revival and cleanse the earth of evil by calling down hailstones, fire and the other judgments of God described in the New Testament book of Revelation.

If you do not submit to their leadership then, at the very least, you will miss out on God’s end-time plans. And if you actively oppose the apostles and prophets, then brace yourself for the fallout. Others must be warned that you are the pawn of a powerful demon, known as the “spirit of religion.”” ⁱⁱⁱ

2. The Papacy is the harlot that sits on the seven mountains mentioned in Revelation 17. "The seven heads [of the scarlet beast] are seven mountains on which the woman sits.” Revelation 17:9.

The NAR movement specifically references the seven mountains of Revelation 17:9 as the target of its political and cultural efforts. ^iv Thus, both the Papacy and the NAR want control of the same territory. Or, put another way, there is perhaps sufficient common purpose between them to make common cause to accomplish it. This will be discussed in more detail in the future.

3. Both the Papacy and the NAR movement expressly reject the separation of church and state. ^v

It is common knowledge that the Papacy rejects the separation of church and state. The Papacy itself is both church and state, as the Pope is the Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic church, and he is also the king of Vatican City, known formally as The Holy See. As noted above, the papacy asserts sovereignty over the world.

But Protestantism in America has a long history of affirming the separation of church and state, beginning with Roger Williams, and continuing with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and many others. Read more on this subject here.

The express rejection of the separation of church and state by the NAR movement, and its stated intention to rule over society by conquering the seven mountains is a rejection of the Bible and the teachings of Protestantism.

For the purposes of concluding this introductory article today, we wish to note the oft-cited words of Benjamin Franklin. "When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”

We apprehend the same.

In upcoming articles on the Seven Mountain Mandate, we will more closely examine the teachings of the New Apostolic Reformation and compare them with the teachings of Jesus, and Bible prophecy.

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i Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, Cities Petrus Bertanous.

ii Pope Nicholas I, Labb IX Dist.: 96 Can. 7, Satis evidentur, Decret Gratian Primer

iii Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, 1763, Volume VI, ‘Papa II’, pp.25-29

iv Leo VIII, On the Chief Duties of Christians as Citizens, Encyclical letter, 1890

v D'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 6, ch. 3; see also Great Controversy 88 140.3

vi This point will be examined in greater detail in an upcoming article.

vii https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/the-seven-mountains-revelation/news-story/be825c6262f5e764a3c2cbd385442702

viii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

ix https://politicalresearch.org/strategy/pra-news/meet-new-apostolic-reformation-cutting-edge-christian-right

x https://www.salon.com/2024/01/02/meet-the-new-apostolic-reformation-cutting-edge-of-the-christian-right/ [emphasis added]

xi https://www.biola.edu/blogs/biola-magazine/2015/a-new-reformation#:~:text=NAR%20leaders%20call%20their%20new%20movement%20apostolic,be%20greater%20than%20the%2016th%2Dcentury%20Protestant%20Reformation

xii R. Douglas Geivett and Holly Pivec, God’s Super-Apostles: Encountering the Worldwide Prophets and Apostles Movement, Pivec, Weaver Book Co., December 2014.

^xiii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

xiv https://www.biola.edu/blogs/biola-magazine/2015/a-new-reformation#:~:text=NAR%20leaders%20call%20their%20new%20movement%20apostolic,be%20greater%20than%20the%2016th%2Dcentury%20Protestant%20Reformation

Is America a Christian Nation?

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 05:29:23 GMT

The political temperature in America, already hot, has increased to a boil following the assassination attempt on former President Trump. The stunning (and thankfully unsuccessful) attempt has served to galvanize the right, bringing a unity improbable a few short weeks ago.

It is not hard to understand why. Trump is not only beloved by many, but he has long been the target of the deep state. There is a strong sense among some, even those who were not ardent Trump supporters, that it is possible the attempt on his life was something more than a lone gunman on a slanted roof that was “accidentally” unsecured by Kim Cheatle’s (and Alejandro Mayorkas’s) Secret Service.

After all, Mayorkas’ failure to secure the southern border is intentional. Thinking people are now solemnly considering the implications of the failure to secure the rooftop at Butler, PA, a task which also falls under the purview of the Secretary of Homeland Security. ¹ As former Navy Seal and Blackwater founder, Erik Prince, stated, “the fact that [the Secret Service] allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150 yards to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence.” ²

Of course, the deep state is conducting its own investigation, ³ while running interference to impede congressional investigation. ⁴

Christian Nationalism

Unsurprisingly, the assassination attempt appears to have vitalized certain religious elements within conservativism. But even before the attempt on Trump’s life, the assertion that “America is a Christian Nation” had been gaining force for some time. ⁵

Most recently, at the 2024 National Conservatism Conference and five days before the attempted assassination, Senator Josh Hawley claimed (incorrectly) that America was founded in the tradition of Augustine as carried on by “stern Puritans”, and stated:

And I’m sure some will say now I am calling America a Christian nation. And so I am. And some will say that I am advocating for Christian Nationalism. And so I do. ⁶

Senator Hawley’s assertions are false, and Americans of all political persuasions need to understand they are false.

Most of the Founding Fathers were not Puritans, nor could any sort of viable argument ever be made that they were. George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin: none of them were Puritans, nor were they followers of Augustine. Far from it.

Augustine of Hippo was born in 354 AD, died in 430 AD, and repeatedly advocated for torture and forced conversion. ⁷ His tyrannical views on the subject formed the basis of both the Crusades carried out by the Roman Catholic Church and the Inquisition, including the torture and murder of supposed Protestant “heretics”. ⁸

Augustine was opposed to liberty of conscience, not in favor of it. Augustine, if he were alive, would have been opposed to the Declaration of Independence, and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

In contrast, the Founding Fathers passionately believed in liberty of conscience and were fiercely opposed to state coercion on religious grounds. This was the foundation of America – a land for all, without king or Pope, where no religious zealot could use the power of the state to impose his creed on his fellow men.

Senator Hawley stated the following in the same speech:

Twenty thousand practicing Augustinians made their way to these shores to found a society here on his principles. History knows them as the Puritans. Inspired by the ‘City of God’ they founded “The City On a Hill”.

We are a nation forged from Augustine's Vision a nation defined by the Dignity of the Common Man. The twenty thousand Puritans that arrived on the shores of North America were most certainly “practicing Augustinians” when they arrived… ⁹

Again, Senator Hawley’s comments are demonstrably false. America was not “forged on Augustine’s vision”, but was founded most decidedly in opposition to Augustine’s tyrannical ideas. The Founding Fathers speak for themselves.

James Madison stated the following regarding liberty of conscience and religious freedom:

That Religion or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, being under the direction of reason and conviction only, not of violence or compulsion, all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of it according to the dictates of Conscience. ¹⁰

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. ¹¹

Conscience is the most sacred of all property. ¹²

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion Flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. ¹³

In the fight to pass the Virginia Bill for Religious Liberty, Madison remonstrated with that generation’s version of “Christian Nationalists” who tried to insert the words "Jesus Christ" in a preamble. Madison stated, "The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion..." ¹⁴

Benjamin Franklin stated, "When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”

George Washington, in a letter to Touro Synagogue to assure the religious freedom of the Jews in the U.S., stated:

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation...It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens.

May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy. ¹⁵

Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote of inalienable rights for every person under the sun.

According to the Founding Fathers, it is for the purpose of securing and protecting “these rights” – the very rights that Augustine opposed – that government is instituted. Augustine’s endorsement of torture and persecution is not only un-Christian, it is un-American. In fact, that is the very point of America: it was the intention of the Founding Fathers to render the creation of a persecutorial Augustinian state forever unconstitutional.

It is strange to have Senator Hawley invoke Augustine and Puritans instead of the Founding Fathers. But Senator Hawley is correct about the Puritans insofar as it is true that the Puritans were just as tyrannical and intolerant as Augustine. The Puritans were so persecutorial, most of the Pilgrims settled south of Massachusetts to get away from them.

They were especially cruel in their persecution of the Quakers, whom they drastically outnumbered, and with whom they had certain theological disagreements.

Beginning in 1656, Puritan church-state laws forbade any sea captain to land Quakers in Massachusetts. “Any individual of that sect was to be committed at once to the House of Correction, to be severely whipped on his or her entrance, and kept constantly at work, and none were suffered to speak with them.” ¹⁷

“It was decreed that any Quaker arriving in the Colony should have one of his ears cut off. For another offence, he should lose the other ear. Every Quaker woman should be severely whipped. For a third offence, the tongue was to be bored through with a hot iron.” ¹⁸

Quakers were sentenced to death in several cases at Boston. ¹⁹

A 1661 law ordered that “any wandering Quakers be apprehended, stripped naked from the middle upward, tied to cart’s-tayle and whipped thro the town.” ²⁰

As Providence designed, however, Roger Williams, the eventual founder of Rhode Island, was raised up to face the Puritans’ intolerance. America was forged on Roger Williams’ vision of a free land.

As a preacher standing for civil and religious liberty and against the intolerance of the church/state, Roger Williams’ preaching made a clash with Puritan Governor John Winthrop and the leadership in Massachusetts inevitable. Roger Williams insisted that “forced worship stinks in God's nostrils.” He held “God requireth not a uniformity of religion.” Williams held that, “[E]nforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.” ⁱ²¹

Williams was summoned to return to England to face the charge of sedition, but before his arrest word from the coiner of the phrase “City of God”—John Winthrop warned him to flee before capture. William Jackson Armstrong, an author and citizen of Ohio referenced Roger Williams in 1889 as follows:

The civil power has no jurisdiction over the human conscience. Conscience belongs to the individual, and is not the property of the body politic. All human laws which prescribe or prohibit religious doctrines are damnable and unjust. Magistrates are but the agents of the people; on them no spiritual power whatever can ever be conferred.

Down amid the shadows and fogs of his sea-girt land, there had fallen upon this man [Roger Williams] an inspiration that was to roll back the tide of human hate and fear that had devastated this world for forty centuries. Reflecting upon the suffering of his race from religious cruelty, there had broken into his brain the conception, simple and sublime, of the words of Jesus of Nazareth to the Herodians with the tribute money : "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

From that declaration of Roger Williams, two hundred and forty years ago, was born the American Constitution. Presbyterian England in the first half of the seventeenth century was not big enough to hold this inspired man. His continued presence would have split the throne of the Tudors and Plantaganets. From English religious persecution Roger Williams fled to the Puritans of New England. These gentlemen, too, had fled from Europe to enjoy (as they said) the blessings of religious liberty. But they had only enough liberty for Puritans and not enough for Roger Williams. So this brave man fled once more from the New England Puritans to the wilderness, and, among the barbarians of the North American forests in the Province of Rhode Island, established the first government according religious tolerance ever founded on this earth. ²²

Historian, professor and religious liberty advocate Alonzo T. Jones succinctly points to the roots of Puritan intolerance:

But yet those ambitious prelates of the fourth century were not content with stopping all manner of work, and closing public places on Sunday. They had secured the power of the State so far, and they determined to carry it yet further and use the power of the State to compel everybody to worship according to the dictates of the church. And one of the greatest Fathers of the church, was father to this theory. That was the great church Father and Catholic saint, Augustine— and by the way, he is grandfather to National Reform, too, as we shall prove one of these days.

Augustine taught that,— "It is indeed better that men should be brought to serve God by instruction than by fear of punishment or by pain. But because the former means are better, the latter must not therefore be neglected . . . Many must often be brought back to their Lord, like wicked servants, by the rod of temporal suffering, before they attain to the highest grade of religious development." ²³

Notes the theologian and historian August Neander, “It was by Augustine, then, that a theory was proposed and founded, which . . . contained the germ of that whole system of spiritual despotism, of intolerance and persecution, which ended in the tribunals of the Inquisition.” ²⁴

The Woke Left as Intolerant as the Puritans

It is doubtless true that the woke Left is as intolerant as the Puritans. It has used its increased power in education, media and government to impose its intolerable ideology on society. Large and hairy men who think they are women dominate women’s sporting events. Children are taken from parents by force and given cross sex hormones and have their genitals cut off. Sodom owns the month of June by government edict.

Millions of babies are aborted every year in cold blood. Governments collude with social media companies to make war on free speech. Organized groups loot and burn in large cities with impunity. The border is open and millions of illegal immigrants have entered the country, and the Left thinks they all ought to be allowed to vote. ²⁵

Is it any surprise that the cry arises: “America is a Christian Nation! We must go back to God!”

The state of society is dire. We are witnesses to the moral, social, and economic decay of not only America, but of all the western world in real time. Rome fell from corruption, decadence and profligacy, and the West falters similarly.

But the solution to America’s problems does not lie in so-called Christian Nationalism, a union of church and state, or government legislation to compel some tortured and hypocritical pantomime of the Christian religion. Shall we replace the forced confession of preferred pronouns with forced compliance or confession of some religious tenet?

Make no mistake – what many dislike most about the Left is its tyrannical use of government to cram its hideous ideology down our collective throats. A neutral state ought not to be controlled by religious or ideological partisanship. The state is tasked with the governance of a vast multitude, with vastly different spiritual and religious views. There ought to be no rainbow flags flying at the White House any more than there ought to be flags with a cross or a crescent moon flying at the White House.

The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of God, or Jesus Christ. The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from passing any laws tending to the “establishment of religion”. There is no state religion in the U.S.

In 1796, in the last year that George Washington was President, the Treaty of Tripoli was signed to protect American merchant ships from piracy by the Barbary States. Article 11 states as follows:

As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims], - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. ²⁶

The Treaty was unanimously ratified in 1797 by the Senate, and copies were provided to every senator. Then President of the United States, John Adams, endorsed it as follows:

Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. And to the End that the said Treaty may be observed, and performed with good Faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the premises to be made public; And I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office civil or military within the United States, and all other citizens or inhabitants thereof, faithfully observe and fulfill the said Treaty and every clause and article thereof.

There are increasing calls for a church-state union. Friends, we already have one. That’s what government by left wing idealogues in the Church of the Woke is. How do you like it?

It is no more a solution to America’s problems to have religious tyrants legislating their religion than it is to have left wing zealots legislating their ideology. Tyrants are tyrants. Tyranny is tyranny.

Unity in the political right is desirable if it is in favor of the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. A new intolerant Puritanism is as anti-American as the ideological oppression of the Left.

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1 https://thenewamerican.com/opinion/why-well-never-know-what-really-happened-in-butler-pa/

2 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massive-secret-service-failure-led-nearly-successful-assassination-donald-trump

3 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secret-service-check-box-senate-briefing-leaves-questions-infuriating

4 https://www.foxnews.com/us/congress-denied-access-crucial-trump-protection-plan-screams-cover-your-mode-expert

5 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3540071-boebert-says-she-is-tired-of-separation-between-church-and-state-the-church-is-supposed-to-direct-the-government/

6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgNbGxdDZ2I – see minute 4:20.

7 Augustine's Letters #185 Ch.6: "It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word."

Augustine's Letters #185 Ch.6: "Why, therefore, should not the Church use force in compelling her lost sons to return, if the lost sons compelled others to their destruction? Although even men who have not been compelled, but only led astray, are received by their loving mother with more affection if they are recalled to her bosom through the enforcement of terrible but salutary laws, and are the objects of far more deep congratulation than those whom she had never lost. Is it not a part of the care of the shepherd, when any sheep have left the flock, even though not violently forced away, but led astray by tender words and coaxing blandishments, to bring them back to the fold of his master when he has found them, by the fear or even the pain of the whip, if they show symptoms of resistance; especially since, if they multiply with growing abundance among the fugitive slaves and robbers, he has the more right in that the mark of the master is recognized on them."

8 https://victorspen.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/the-horror-of-the-inquisition/ ; https://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/04/the-dark-side-of-christian-history-the-inquisition-and-slavery/

9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgNbGxdDZ2I

10 James Madison, Amendments to the Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 1776

11 James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, circa June 20, 1785

12 James Madison, essay on Property, March 29, 1792

13 James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822

14 https://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/VFT-UL/candst/detach.htm

15 George Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, Aug. 18, 1790 in: The Writings of George Washington, p. 766-67.

16 https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

17 https://historicipswich.net/2022/11/29/persecution-of-quakers-by-the-puritans/

18 Ibid.

19 https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/15/Mary-Dyer ; https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Barrett-Dyer

20 https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/15/Mary-Dyer ; https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Barrett-Dyer

21 https://www.inspirationalstories.com/quotes/roger-williams-enforced-uniformity-confounds-civil-and-religious-liberty/

22 William Jackson Armstrong “Romanism and Civil Liberty” https://documents.adventistarchives.org/ 7

Tracts/SL/SL18891015-20.pdf

23 Schaf, Church History, Vol. II, section 27.

24 Neander, Id., p. 217. "

25 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13621419/democrats-republicans-vote-illegal-aliens-voter-id-trump.html

26 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp

Blowing Smoke: The Myths of “Democracy”

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:38:43 GMT

Democracy is government by the people, as opposed to rule by kings or dictators. After centuries of often oppressive monarchial rule, democratic reforms promised people input in the laws which govern them. It could be argued it has been an improvement.

But many mistakenly believe that democracy is the shield which protects individual rights from state overreach. This is a mistake. History has shown that democracy without a strong constitution to protect individual rights against majoritarian oppression is simply rule by the mob.

In the French Revolution, it was seen that the mob can be as cruel and capricious as any dictator, ⁱ and that individual rights fall to the crowd just as easily as to the whims of a king.

The Scriptures say that the heart of mankind is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” – Jeremiah 17:9. Direct democracy in France resulted in riots, orgies in the churches, and guillotines on nearly every street corner in the city of Paris. Citizens were accused and massacred on the slimmest allegation, the sentence carried out without due process or appeal.

Humanity is no different today. It is not more enlightened now. Direct democracy in the hands of Antifa, Extinction Rebellion or Black Lives Matter would result in nothing less than the re-creation of the French Revolution. The Roman Catholic Inquisition persecuted and tortured dissenters for centuries. If in charge today it would act no differently than it has in the past. The Puritans of England were known to be as intolerant as the Roman Catholic Inquisitors, but they lacked civil power to exercise their wicked aspirations.

For this reason, it is only when a good constitution is made the supreme law of the land, above the rule of either mobs or kings, above the maneuvers of politicians of the left or the right, that individual rights are safeguarded.

Another word for a strong constitutional government is republicanism. ⁱⁱ Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, but rather a constitutional republic, which incorporates representative government and constitutionalism. The U.S. Constitution does not even use the word, “democracy”, but rather describes the American system of government as republican in nature.

In other words, the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution itself to be the supreme law of the land, over even the desires of the majority.

Let us return to today. In a world where people are losing their individual rights, the political invocation of democracy is often intended to pacify the populace while their rights are stripped away. There even appears to be some correlation between the size of the tyrant and the number of public references to “democracy” that he or she makes, as though tyranny can be offset with sufficient formulistic references to democracy.

For example, it is part of the communist playbook to assert that a totalitarian society is in fact a free and democratic society, when it is not. China claims its one-party authoritarian system is a “democracy” even though there are no meaningful political alternatives to the ruling power in China, and it cruelly stifles and punishes dissent. ⁱⁱⁱ

Venezuela has “elections”, not because dictator Nicholas Maduro cares about representative government, but because he suspects token elections may help stave off greater international condemnation of his regime. ^iv

The Cuban government claims it is a “people’s democracy”. ^v

This is all naked, self-serving propaganda. And similar gaslighting is evident in the western world as freedom crumbles and western governments imitate their communist counterparts.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that she will implement a “European Democracy Shield” if re-elected, but this does not mean she will take steps to ensure robust public discussion, dissent, and criticism of the European Commission’s policies. Far from it. The “Democracy Shield’s” stated purpose, rather, is to “combat disinformation”, ^vi which we know is code for suppression of dissent and undesirable public discourse.

We recently saw how much the European Commission values individual rights when it suppressed “disinformation” during Covid by attempting to eliminate public disagreement with compulsory Covid vaccine mandates. ^vii

In Canada, a country with constitutional protections for individual rights that are unfortunately subject to a powerful override clause in section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Justin Trudeau trampled on the rights of peaceful protesters who opposed vaccine mandates and Covid lockdowns, and did so in the name of protecting “democracy”. ^viii Wartime emergency legislation was invoked to prevent peaceful protests, and citizens were arrested and had their bank accounts frozen. ^ix These actions were consistent with Chinese authoritarianism, which Trudeau stated publicly that he appreciates. ^x

Like Ursula von der Leyen, Trudeau also talks big about how much he cares about democracy. He recently announced an C8.4 million dollar grant to study the impact of climate change in the southern hemisphere on democracy. ^xi

In 2022, Trudeau announced more funding for the G-7 Rapid Response Mechanism to strengthen coordination between countries in responding to threats to their democracies. The “mechanism” was created in 2018 to fight “disinformation and misinformation”, so-called.

If only there was a grant to study politicians who work for the WEF instead of the citizens who elected them, and the resultant impact on democracy.

The Biden administration frequently invokes democracy. In Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address in 2023, he stated, “Folks, there’s one reason why we’ve been able to do all of these things: our democracy itself.” But the Biden administration oversaw vast government collusion with social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube to censor Americans that disagreed with the state on lockdowns and Covid. ^xii

It’s strange how the same politicians who often trumpet their commitment to democracy rarely mention the constitutions which were created to limit their overreach against citizen’ rights.

The truth is that the western world is riddled with corruption. It doesn’t usually have one party rule, per se, but it has a corrupt and power hungry administrative state (a shadow branch of government not subject to the electorate), an increasingly dictatorial executive branch, and courts which fail to follow the rule of law established in their countries’ respective constitutions. It has leaders who have betrayed their electorate to globalist ambitions and who refuse to secure their own borders. ^xiii

Europe does not need a “Democracy Shield”. It needs recognition of the Creator’s gift of inalienable rights to every human being so that politicians can’t strip individuals of their rights of speech and religion. Safeguarding inalienable and intrinsic rights via constitutional protections is the greatest need in Europe, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, and every other country in the world which claims to value individual rights.

Without these constitutional protections, assertions of democracy are just gaslighting from tyrants.

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i https://hannenabintuherland.com/europa/the-french-revolution-and-democratic-tyranny-a-study-of-mob-rule-hanne-nabintu-herland-wnd-column/

ii This is not a reference to the Republican Party, but rather to the principles of a republic which codifies the rule of law, and specifically the Constitution, as the highest law of the land.

iii https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/china/china-us-democracy-summit-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

iv https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/18/venezuela-election-sunday-nicolas-maduro-henri-falcon ; https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-election-european-union-electoral-observers-maduro-5e05e255f0b67bf9f476aa7a1b889016 ;

v https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Politics_of_Cuba

vi https://reclaimthenet.org/eus-von-der-leyen-calls-for-more-censorship-amid-re-election-campaign

vii https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/coronavirus-response/fighting-disinformation_en

viii https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/11/trudeau-takes-disinformation-fight-to-europe-00016709

ix https://tnc.news/2024/01/23/federal-court-declares-trudeaus-emergencies-act-unconstitutional/

x https://www.themainewire.com/2022/02/justin-trudeau-said-he-admired-chinas-dictatorship-canadians-should-have-believed-him/

xi https://nationalpost.com/opinion/trudeau-pledge-democratic-decline-climate-change-study

xii https://nypost.com/2023/03/09/matt-taibbi-eviscerates-twitter-in-congressional-hearing/

xiii https://rumble.com/user/LibertyRUS

How much of the Word is truth? All of it!

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:22:32 GMT

Part 1: Jordan Peterson and the Lobsters

Christianity distilled to its basic fundamental level involves one question and one question only.

Do you place full trust in the Word of God?

That was the question for Eve when she stood before the Serpent, and it was the question for Jesus in the wilderness when He was tempted by the Devil. It is still the question for you and I today.

Unfortunately, while there are many professed Christians in the world, most of them do not trust the Bible.

A 2014 study revealed that only 41% of American Christians are certain that humans did not evolve from non-human life forms. The study also found that only 44% are sure that Adam and Eve were real people. Only 15% of those surveyed were “absolutely/very certain” that humans came into existence within the last 10,000 years. ⁱ Similar and more recent studies have confirmed the trend of questioning and rejecting the plain words of Scripture. ⁱⁱ

This all means that the majority of Christians (at least 59%), some of whom are doubtless the same Christians who assert that America is a “Christian Nation”, believe that humans descended from lower life forms through processes of natural selection over the course of millions of years.

If Christianity is the religion of the Bible, and vast swaths of Christians reject the Biblical pronouncement of Creation and the Fall, then what religion are they actually? Who are they following?

To be a Christian is to be a declared follower and believer in Christ. Christ is specific. Christ taught Creationism. Christ taught that Adam and Eve were real people. The New Testament states that Cain and Abel were real people – Matthew 23:35; Hebrews 11:4, that Noah was a real person – Matthew 24:37, and that the Flood was a real event – Matthew 24:37.

When the Pharisees asked Jesus about whether it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife, Jesus referred them back to Creation:

4 And He answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Jesus could ask Christians today the same question regarding their doubts on the origins of the human race: Have you not read your Bible?

Christianity, which is the religion which follows the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, believes in Creationism. It has no doubts as to whether Adam and Eve were real people because Jesus says they were real people. “Without Him nothing was made that was made” – John 1:3. The Bible says Jesus created Adam and Eve – just like Genesis says. To disbelieve this is to transfer the authority in your life from the Word of God to the words and opinions of finite man.

Now let’s talk about hypocrisy.

Christians vocally lament the loss of sexual and gender norms in today’s culture. Many of them would assert that the fundamental destabilizing mistake which is ruining western culture is the rejection of the Word of God. Which is true. But they are doing the exact same thing when they throw away the Genesis account of Creation and claim to still be followers of Christ.

This is hypocrisy.

The Bible teaches that God personally formed Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life – Genesis 2:7. The Bible says that Adam transgressed and fell – see Genesis 3 – and that God interposed Himself to save humanity from the consequence of their sin. Christianity is all about the redemption and restoration of the fallen sons and daughters of God.

Therefore, to reject the literal creation and fall as set out in Genesis is to reject the atonement and the plan to restore the lost image of God in man.

This brings us to Professor Jordan Peterson, who has obtained something akin to rock star status in conservative Christian circles for his commentary on gender pronouns and free speech. Peterson, formerly an atheist, has publicly asserted recently that he now believes in God. ⁱ

Before going further, I wish to say – I appreciate Jordan Peterson. I appreciate his willingness to speak unpopular truth to an angry mob. We know the mob is angry and violent. It is standing up to the mob – any mob – that is one of the qualities in short supply today.

Jordan Peterson has made no professions of Christianity, and people should stop attempting to make him do so. ⁱⁱ Speaking of the mob, there is almost an obsession on the conservative side of the political spectrum with forcing Jordan Peterson to pronounce some sort of orthodoxy. His wife has been confirmed in the Catholic Church, and there is pressure for him to declare that he is a Catholic, for example. ⁱⁱⁱ

Jordan Peterson has a massive following, and substantial influence. There is no doubt he has taught some important truth. But do the Christian people who follow Jordan Peterson know that God’s Word is a higher authority than Jordan Peterson? That in the event of a conflict between what Jordan Peterson says and the Bible, that the Word is supreme? That it is impossible to follow God without accepting the authority of the Bible as objective truth?

Do Christians realize that Jordan Peterson and the Bible completely disagree about the origins of humanity and life on this earth?

The Bible says that it is by faith that “we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” Hebrews 11:3. The Bible says, “He spoke and it was so. He commanded and it stood fast.” Psalms 33:9. The Bible says God “formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” Genesis 2:7. The Bible says that Adam is the son of God – Luke 3:38.

But Jordan Peterson says that Adam is the son of Larry Lobster. And Mike the Monkey. ^iv Yes, he reads the Bible and says he appreciates the story of the cross of Christ, but he also says you are a highly developed crustacean.

There is a growing contingent in western society which likes some of the traditions of cultural Christianity, and enjoys speaking truth to progressive power, but places a low priority on the Word of God. When evolution clashes glaringly with the Bible, so-called Christians prefer cultural orthodoxy to God’s Word. It’s much easier to stay with the ecumenical conservative crowd that way.

But make no mistake: There were NO monkeys or lobsters in the genealogy of Adam. Christ came to die for His fallen child, made in the image of God. Christ did not leave His throne of glory to die for the descendants of the lobsters. Apart from the fact that the very contention is ridiculous, what would be the point?

Did the lobsters sin? Or was it their ancestors? How did they sin? When? Against what commandment? Sin is the transgression of the law – 1 John 3:4. What law did the lobsters transgress?

Did the lobsters know that they were sinning? Were they warned in advance not to sin?

The Bible teaches that in the beginning everything was made good – very good. The world was perfect. There was no death. Not for Adam or the lobsters. The Bible teaches that death did not enter until sin, and the world deteriorated as a consequence of that sin – Romans 5:12.

But according to Darwin, death has been the norm since the sloppy goo got hit by lightning and turned into the great grandaddy of the craw daddy. The lobsters and their variants grew up with death. They fought, they ate, they lived, they died. For millions of years. Until they became monkeys.

This is progressivism. This is evolutionism. It is not Christianity.

Darwinism has no place for the Fall or the entrance of sin. Darwinism has no place even for the concept of sin or for the broken law of God. This means Darwinism has no place for redemption. There is no need for Jesus in evolution. Jesus does not need to die to save the lobsters or their descendants.

While Jordan Peterson champions the cause of free speech, and the obvious reality that there are only two sexes, male and female, he truly destabilizes the foundation of his arguments by, on one hand, publicly confessing his belief in God, and on the other hand, repeatedly asserting that humanity had lobsters for ancestors.

Perhaps Peterson does not realize he is undermining the foundations of the rights he is championing.

For example, where does free speech come from if we come from crustaceans? Shall we pretend that God gave freedom of speech to lobsters?

Who made men’s mouths, asks God rhetorically – Exodus 4:11. He did. He formed the mouth of Adam, and gave him the breath of life, and the ability to reason and communicate. The right to speak comes directly from the Creator. At Creation.

The right did not evolve. It did not come from millions of years of social hierarchies where the lobsters duked it out and eventually organized themselves into the early beginnings of the modern state, which then condescended to give free speech to mankind.

We need to ask ourselves - Do “we hold these truths to be self-evident” or not? Are all people endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, or aren’t they?

When "Christians” reject the book of Genesis and reject creation, they also undermine the rights the Creator gave humanity.. Evolution is undermining the concept of God-given individual rights every day, all around the world. The Declaration of Independence says rights come from the Creator. Darwinism says rights come from the state.

With evolution being taught around the world, is it any wonder that the concept of inalienable rights is also weakening simultaneously?

Christians need to stop pretending that evolution and Christianity are harmonious. They aren’t. The plain word of Scripture simply does not allow for that interpretation.

Darwin didn’t love you, but Jesus does. So, pick a side.

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1. https://slate.com/technology/2014/12/creationism-poll-how-many-americans-believe-the-bible-is-literal-inerrant-or-symbolic.html

2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/394262/fewer-bible-literal-word-god.aspx ; https://julieroys.com/george-barna-survey-biblical-worldview/

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXU-JJ8d-E

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-OAa4jqok

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-OAa4jqok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZOkxuNbsXU ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j-llZc9X70 ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACt5D6xVRx8

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Coming Soon, Part 2: In Darwin We Tru st

Education and Freedom

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 19:25:33 GMT

...and the Truth Shall Make You Free

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:47:21 GMT

Bret Weinstein and Covid Shot Mortality

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:13:48 GMT

Migrant Invasion: Who’s Behind It?

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:49:11 GMT

Analysts and some politicians are urgently ringing the alarm bell about the relentless waves of illegal migrants coming into the United States through the porous southern border. The figures are stunning. Six million migrants have entered the United States illegally since the beginning of the Biden regime. On average, ten thousand illegals per day cross the southern border. On Monday, December 18 alone, 14,509 entered illegally.

Increasingly desperate pleas from southern border states have fallen on deaf federal ears. Texas has taken the extraordinary step of passing legislation allowing state law enforcement to arrest illegal migrants and for state judges to deport them. The Biden regime, complicit in the invasion of its own country, has no intention of securing the border but objects to Texas attempting to secure its own territory using what it says is a federal power. A legal challenge from Biden’s DOJ would likely proceed to the Supreme Court.

Surveillance footage has proven that some of the migrants are armed. Reports have repeatedly detailed that a large number of military-aged Chinese men are crossing the border. Multiple arrests of suspects on the FBI’s most wanted list have occurred. Some in Washington have raised the specter of Hamas-style domestic incidents. No government agency has a significant grasp of who the migrants are or what they are doing when they cross the border.

Whatever the White House might say, this is not immigration under any normal usage of the term. Ten thousand migrants do not come to the border of a country each day without serious infrastructure and coordination behind their journeyings. They need food. Directions. Money. Accommodation. And an incentive to be on the move. So, who is coordinating the mass movement of illegal migrants to the U.S. southern border?

Some have noted the similarities between western leaders, and the coordinated creation of policies which have repeatedly served to undermine the strength and independence of the countries they serve. Migration is one of those issues. Justin Trudeau is bringing nearly half a million people into Canada per year. Macron has done similarly in France. Trudeau, Biden, Macron, Jacinda Ardern (since replaced), Merkel (since replaced), Boris Johnson (since replaced) and others all coordinated with globalist powers on key issues such as digital ID’s, increased censorship of the internet, punishment and marginalization of the holdouts who refused the Covid shot. Global coordination on these issues means a corresponding reduction in national sovereignty and the privacy of citizens.

Criticism of G7 leaders on these issues is warranted and justified. There could hardly be enough.

But there is one central figure that no American politician has publicly called out. This individual is Pope Francis. Francis has repeatedly railed against national sovereignty in favor of a globalist centralist authority under his moral guidance. Francis and the WEF claim that global problems need global solutions, and regional interests interfere with centralized power. Francis has called for the big tech companies to muzzle free speech. Francis spearheaded the global religions calling for global action on climate change. And no one has done more globally to undermine national sovereignty, and especially national borders, than Jesuit Pope Francis.

Perhaps it is just a really big coincidence that all of the western leaders who support the papal push for one world government are all Catholic. Is it likely a coincidence that the exact policies that Francis wants implemented are being imposed by Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden, all of whom are Catholic, and all of whom have a religious obligation to honor the decrees of the Roman Pontiff above the interests of their own nations? Why is the Biden administration working with Catholic non-government organizations to actively facilitate the invasion of America, instead of attempting to prevent it?

The vast majority of illegal migrants to the United States are indisputably Catholic. Who can convince millions of Catholic people to leave their own countries and invade another country, except the leader of the Catholic Church? Catholic charities coordinate, facilitate and fund the migrants as they journey to illegally invade a sovereign nation. Catholic charities house and feed the migrants while they journey from South and Central America to northern Mexico. Within the United States, the Catholic Church transports and houses hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants throughout the country once they arrive.

Who can forget the image of Pope Francis travelling to the Rio Grande river on Mexico’s northern border in 2016, and praying at the border wall erected to safeguard America’s national autonomy?

Invading forces in Bible time repopulated conquered areas to break the national spirit. Deporting substantial portions of the original inhabitants and replacing them with a mix of foreigners with no particular national allegiance or religious cohesion made rebellion unlikely. the assyrians did it. The Babylonians did it. The Romans did it.

And the Roman Papacy is doing something similar. The Papacy’s facilitation of illegal migrants into the United States is an act of aggression against the Constitution and laws of the United States. It is an assault on national sovereignty. And it should be recognized and treated as such.

America is founded on the principles for which the martyrs died in the Protestant Reformation. Out of extreme papal persecution and the fires of the Inquisition come the American reforms of inalienable rights, freedom of speech, liberty of conscience, due process, and the right to remain silent.

The Counter Reformation was instituted to overthrow Protestantism and all these principles, and to return the world to papal control. The home of these principles is America. Global papal resurgence means American deterioration because freedom is the antithesis of papal doctrine.

Think about that next time you contemplate millions of people overrunning the southern border at the instigation of the Catholic Church.

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Sources:

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/how-feds-use-charities-hide-the-true-cost-the-us-border-crisis

https://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/heritage-explains/who-helping-biden-facilitate-americas-border-crisis

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/live/pope-francis-at-us-mexico-border/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrant-caravan-heads-toward-us-blinken-urges-mexico-help-end-irregular-migration

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-border-rancher-saw-ms-110013994.html

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6343938251112

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/12/25/ron-johnson-global-governance-no-borders-behind-lefts-support-of-lax-immigration-policy/

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6343893407112

https://biblehub.com/kjv/revelation/13.htm

Censoring Free Speech: a Page From the Papal Playbook

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 06:21:25 GMT

Bible prophecy speaks of the lamb-like beast of Revelation 13 making an image to the first beast of Revelation. A beast in Bible prophecy represents a kingdom – see Daniel 7 – raising the question of which kingdoms are represented by these two beasts.

The first, or leopard-like beast of Revelation 13, represents the Roman papacy, especially during the 1260 period from 538 AD to 1798 - see, for example, John Wycliffe at:

The lamb-like beast of Revelation 13 represents primarily the United States – it is the only globally dominant kingdom with world-wide significance arising after the 1798 year period and the deadly wound to the papacy (the overthrow of the papal state by Napolean Bonaparte 1 and capture and exile of Pope Pius VI). The lamb-like beast is said to arise from the earth. The United States arose from the land of the New World. The lamb-like characteristics of civil and religious liberty, and the recognition of the individual rights bestowed by the Creator on every human being, are the secrets of America’s great strength. It is this which has secured the blessings of Providence.

But Revelation 13 describes a sad deterioration in the lamb-like beast, and states that it will make an image to the persecuting papal beast, and then force all the earth to worship it.

What then would an image to the papal beast look like? To answer this question we must analyze the papal beast. What is it? What does it do? How does it function?

The papacy is a church-state power. The Pope, the head of the church, is also the head of state. The church, therefore, influences and controls the state. Bible prophecy predicts that at its end, America will be controlled by a religious power. But there is more.

The papacy abhors individual rights. Popes for centuries have railed against the concept of individual rights, and specifically liberty of individual conscience. According to the papacy, there is literally nothing worse for a nation than state recognition of the right to one’s own thoughts and beliefs, and the ability to share them. Pope Pius IX in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: “The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error--a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.”

One of the primary ways the papacy made war against liberty of conscience was the suppression of any and all written material which encouraged individual liberty of conscience. First on that list was the Bible, which the people were prohibited from having in their own languages for many centuries. Next was censorship of the Reformers and suppression of their work.

The Inquisition maintained a list of books which it had banned for centuries, specifically from 1560 to 1966. The purpose of this book was to suppress so-called “heresy”, much of which consisted of Biblical truth, just criticism of tyrannical popes and their legions of institutional minions, and the philosophical doctrines of liberty which built the western world. Foremost among these is the doctrine of liberty of conscience.

Since the papacy was, and still is, a tyrannical censoring power, and the lamb-like beast makes an image to the first beast, would it be reasonable to suspect that the American government will begin to censor and suppress free speech? The answer is yes. The Bible prophesies this very thing.

It has been repeatedly evidenced that the White House was directly involved in the suppression of free speech on social media platforms, and that multiple federal agencies were involved in a national, and even global effort, to suppress the truth about lockdowns, Covid vaccines, and a number of other subjects. In other words, America has repeatedly taken concerted and intentional steps to overthrow the First Amendment free speech rights of its own citizens through collusion with social media companies.

It is expected that tyrannical powers like China and Venezuela will suppress the free speech of their citizens. These countries never have spoken like a lamb – they have always been tyrannical, and they will doubtless remain so. However, America was built on better and more noble and virtuous principles. And that is why its change from being a protector of liberty to an antagonist of liberty is worth sorrowing over, and notably prophetic.

The following video excerpts speak for themselves.

Is There a War On Natural Health Care?

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 20:12:19 GMT

Five Lies of our Anti-Christian Age

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:00:57 GMT

Freedom and the Great Medical Controversy

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:07:15 GMT

Smash-and-Grabs: The Chickens Come Home to Roost

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:20:43 GMT

Large cities in the United States in recent years have been plagued with a rash of smash-and-grab robberies perpetrated by millennials in masks. If you are unfamiliar with the term “smash-and-grab”, the descriptor is exactly what it sounds like. A gang of hoodlums enter a store, smash glass countertops and display cases, and steal merchandise. The sweat pant clad robbers then flee, loaded with handbags, jewelry or designer clothes, leaving shoppers standing with gaping mouths in shocked disbelief. YouTube has plenty of unsteady cell phone smash-and-grab videos if you wish to watch the mayhem. ⁱ

Experts have many opinions as to why millennials are committing coordinated group theft. Some cite Proposition 47 in California ⁱⁱ , others cite insufficient police resources. Those are the more credible sounding reasons. Non-credible and absurd excuses abound.

But there is one big reason that America is being terrorized by millennial looters that few wish to acknowledge, and that is simply this: young people are acting like the brazen thieves their godless socialist educators have taught them to be.

Young people are taught there is no God, that there is no such thing as God’s law and there is no such thing as sin. They are taught that if it feels right, do it, that they can change their gender, that it is fine to abort their in-utero babies. In fact, they are encouraged to abort their babies because there are too many people on the planet, which is bad for climate change.

They are told that they evolved through natural selection. They are taught that there is no meaning to life. They are taught the common good overrules individual property rights. ⁱⁱⁱ This is an argument created to justify theft.

They have been raised on violent video games where their characters steal, and murder and break the law. Millions play in never-ending tournaments where the single objective is to kill and steal more than opponents.

Most of their educators are socialists who hate the Constitution and capitalism, and is it any surprise that they have been taught to be socialists, too?

This is their education. They have been taught that there is no such thing as the truth, only their truth. And their truth is that they need those Luis Vuitton handbags a whole lot more than the stores do.

If this were a grand experiment, with projections about the outcome made in the 1960s at the outset by the scientists carrying out the tests, what projections would be made about the behavior of individuals subjected to such teachings from their youth? What ought to be anticipated about the products of such an education? Would one expect such people to be law-abiding citizens? Could it be projected that they would be principled, noble and responsible? Does anyone think such an education is conducive to creating God-fearing people who love their neighbor as themselves?

Of course there are smash-and-grabs in major cities by young people!!! Of course there are gangs of adolescents assaulting people in broad daylight! ^iv Of course Americas’ cities are full of crime and drugs and wrecks of human beings!! Of course San Francisco is full of feces and needles on the sidewalk, and stores that are closing and leaving town because they cannot stand the filth and the crime and the lack of law enforcement!

For decades now, the western world has existed on a steady entertainment diet of violence and immorality and evil music inspired by demonic forces. People love to watch two men or women bludgeon each other into submission. Of course the streets are unsafe! Of course there are blood-chilling murders and crime of the worst sort across the nation on a daily basis. We live in a perfect storm of immorality, selfishness, and love of violence.

What happens when you constantly feed violence and immorality and wickedness of every sort to people whose hearts are naturally wicked in the first place? God’s word declares that the heart of mankind without Him is “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9). What, honestly, do people expect?

The Bible warns that in the last days perilous times shall com. Perilous, dangerous, uncertain times. The Scriptures teach that at the end, people will be “lovers of their own selves, covetous, ^v boasters, ^vi proud, ^vii blasphemers, ^viii disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.” ^ix And they are.

We are told multitudes in the last generations will be without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” And it is true.

There is no millennium of peace coming on this world, as the popular churches preach. How could there be a millennium of peace with a world like this? There will be no “men becoming gods”, the favorite delusion of the elite. Rather, it is as it was foretold, “in the last days, perilous times shall come.” And they have.

Jesus asked, “When the Son of Man returns will He find faith on the earth” (Luke 18:8)? What about you, friend? Look around you. Are you ready to meet the God of the Universe when He returns, or are you running with the doomed herd? Jesus has bought you with His own blood because He loves you, and wants to give you a new heart. A clean, pure, undefiled heart that loves righteousness, not wickedness. And He says to each one of us, “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near” (Isaiah 55:6). Let us do so while the door of mercy is still open.

i https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4C81NbQc2E ; https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/car-break-ins-san-francisco-alamo-square/3265746/ ; https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/jewelry-store-owner-pepper-sprayed-in-pasadena-smash-and-grab-robbery/ ; https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/three-different-smash-and-grab-robberies-hit-detroit-within-48-hours ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1fHhuODbMw ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2vBqbZyBk ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrQYEjs9t0 ; https://abc7.com/topanga-nordstrom-robbery-smash-and-grab-southern-california-la-video/13640093/ ; https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9NmxjNS8oqM?feature=share

ii Prop 47, as it is known, increased the amount a person can steal before being charge with a felony, from $450 to $950. This change has emboldened criminals and encouraged petty theft, as one obviously would expect.

iii https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-04/the-sharing-of-goods-and-the-social-function-of-private-property.html ; https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2023/06/16/california-lurches-towards-socialism---new-golden-state-legislation-could-upend-capitalism-in-us/?sh=74a8f3c1c9ee

iv https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12268529/Baton-wielding-gangs-teenagers-ski-masks-attacking-moms-wealthy-San-Fran-area.html

v “You will own nothing and be happy.”

vii

viii

The Problem With "Experts"

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:05:21 GMT

The Protestant Reformation hinged on the question of who had the authority to declare objective truth. ⁱ Was the Bible the truth, or was the Pope’s word the truth? Since the Pope contradicted the Bible who were people to believe? Did each individual have the right to answer this question for him or herself?

This is an ancient issue. Since there was war (In Greek, polemos – the root of the word polemics and politics) in heaven (Revelation 12:7), and again at the temptation of our first parents (Genesis 3), the all-important questions have been – what is the truth? And, who can we trust?

Let us turn now to the experts.

In the professional world, the concept of expertise rests on the idea that certain people have developed specialized experience and knowledge in a given field such that they are qualified to give an extra-knowledgeable and therefore authoritative opinion on a given subject. In other words, experts supposedly have more knowledgeable than the rest of us, and we ought simply to defer to their views. The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word “expert” as “a person with a high level of knowledge or skill relating to a particular subject or activity.” ⁱⁱ

Today such “experts” are everywhere. We are bombarded with authoritative opinions to “assist” us in coming to conclusions. There are financial experts, construction experts, diet experts, sleep experts and travel experts. There are experts on language. We have experts on facts, called “fact checkers”. These experts claim to evaluate information and simply inform us what is truth. No need to check for ourselves.

We have experts in geology, theology and evolution, people who claim to harmonize all three. Some, along with the Pope, say that there is harmony between the book of Genesis and Darwin’s theory of evolution. ⁱⁱⁱ They fact-checked evolution – and say, “trust the science”. But this “science” contradicts the Bible. It contradicts the fossil record ⁱ . It contradicts the second law of thermodynamics. ⁱⁱ Isn’t that a problem?

For many of us, our default is to trust the experts. We have become accustomed to having them tell us what to think and what to do. This is the path of least resistance for many even when it contradicts the Word of God.

But we are engaged in a cosmic controversy on life and death questions about good and evil and salvation. There is a great controversy raging between God and Satan, between truth and error. In a world of lies, Jesus calls to the world and says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: No man cometh unto the Father except through Me” – John 14:6. According to Christ, there’s One way. One truth.

The world badly needs to be reminded to question the experts. Implicit in the concept of the Reformation is the notion that the experts were incorrect, and that theology needed to be reformed. But there never would have been a Reformation if people like Wycliffe, Huss, Jerome and Martin Luther had been satisfied to simply trust the authorities of the day. They read the Bible for themselves and weighed truth against error. Then they acted accordingly.

From the beginning, the only way to “fact check” the serpent has been with the Word of God. “To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because they have no light in them” – Isaiah 8:20. Isn’t that the very definition of Protestantism? To test everything by the Word of God?

So what is the track record of many these experts?

Medical experts informed the public for decades that smoking is safe. The leading throat and lung doctors of the United States betrayed their medical oaths and lined up for decades to take money from Big Tobacco. ⁱⁱⁱ

Medical experts claim healthy teenage girls who are confused about their gender should cut their breasts off because it will “help” their condition. Medical experts claim that some men have a uterus, and can “chest feed”. ^iv

Cambridge Dictionary has decided to redefine the word “woman”, ^v now including the following definition, “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth”.

Experts have time and time again given opinions that twist the truth, threaten the public, or both. Often they are compromised and corrupt, selling their so-called expertise to the highest bidder.

Hosts of doctors have given their “expert” opinion that a new drug is safe, only to have it kill and/or injure tens of thousands of people. Rofecoxib (Vioxx) was connected to nearly 28,000 heart attacks in the US between 1999 and 2003. The experts at Merck (Vioxx’s manufacturer) and the FDA claimed it was safe.

Isotretinoin (Accutane) was an acne medication in use between 1998 and 2009 that was recalled due to its increased risk of birth defects, miscarriage, and premature deaths among pregnant women who used it, as well as suicidal ideation and inflammatory bowel disease. It’s use has resulted in multiple lawsuits.

Experts said thalidomide was safe. It was prescribed to millions to treat colds and flus and was widely used in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the treatment of nausea in pregnant women. In the 1960s, however, it was shown that thalidomide use resulted in severe birth defects. ⁱ Thousands of children were born with extreme deformations. Because of experts.

A 2014 study found that prescription medication is the third leading cause of death in the United States, with half of those who die using the drug that killed them as directed. ⁱⁱ Every approved pharmaceutical drug had a battalion of experts who were paid to say, “it’s safe.”

Five billion people around the world were coerced into getting Covid “vaccines” produced by companies with a well-documented history of pharmaceutical fraud. Nevertheless, the governments of the western world granted those companies legal immunity from civil suit for their new products. Scores of “experts” proclaimed they were safe, including ex-presidents. ⁱⁱⁱ The Pope threw his influence into convincing the world the shots were safe: “trust the science”. ^iv

In an incredible statement, Dr. Kadlec, former assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the US Department of Health and Anthony Fauci’s superior, in his first ever media interview, linked COVID-19 not only to gain of function research funded by the NIH, but vaccine research: “We think vaccine research resulted in the pandemic – that vaccine research was the proximate cause.” ^v According to Dr. Kadlec, Dr. Fauci’s attitude was that gain of function research ought not to be restricted because scientists know best. ^vi The attitude of many so-called experts is, “who are you to question me?” ^vii

And now, people are mysteriously dying. ^viii There has been an “unexplained” 34% uptake in deaths in people in the prime of their lives in the United States in the last quarter alone. ^ix A similar phenomenon is occurring around the western world.

The Bible has examples of so-called experts, as well. Nebuchadnezzar had experts in Babylon. Pharoah had experts in Egypt. The Jews at the time of Christ had experts in theology. They were all from the credentialed class. They had all the diplomas and degrees. They occupied positions of influence. But when crisis came, the charade of the experts became obvious.

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i Many think that the Reformation revolved around the issue of Justification by Faith. This issue, along with the other 95 protests of Martin Luther, however, each were underpinned by one issue: the question of truth and the right to declare it. Was the Bible truth or was the word of the Pope truth? Yes, the Reformers protested indulgences, purgatory, the confession of sins to human priests (instead of directly to our great High Priest, Jesus Christ), the claim of transubstantiation in the mass, the immaculate conception of Mary, etc. These doctrines were tested against humanity’s only inerrant compass, the Word of God, and found wanting.

ii https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/expert

ⁱⁱⁱ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pope-would-you-accept-evolution-and-big-bang-180953166/ ;

iv https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-10-25-mn-57403-story.html

^v https://www.icr.org/article/evolution-thermodynamics-entropy/

^vi https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/01/big-tobacco-led-throat-doctors-to-blow-smoke.html

^vii https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/cdc-advises-trans-people-chestfeeding-kids-accused-of-neglecting-health-risks/

^viii https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/cambridge-dictionary-expands-definition-woman-include-transgender-women-95305550

^ix https://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/news/sixty-years-on-the-history-of-the-thalidomide-tragedy ;

^x https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25355584/

^xi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-oxKhvZy0

xii https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/cdc-advises-trans-people-chestfeeding-kids-accused-of-neglecting-health-risks/

^xiii https://archive.ph/7SJ2i

^xiv Ibid.

xv https://rumble.com/vsl8xo-sen.-paul-says-faucis-i-am-the-science-is-an-expression-of-extreme-arroganc.html

xvi https://rumble.com/v1rl1kk-until-proven-otherwise-featuring-cardiologists-dr.-peter-mccullough-dr.-ase.html; https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/association-between-vaccines-and; https://thepostmillennial.com/we-were-lied-to-by-everyone-ben-shapiro-walks-back-support-for-covid-vaccine?utm_campaign=64494; https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2jTgDj7uiX8&feature=youtu.be; https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2022/10/20220512-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccine.pr.html%20;%20 https:/www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/texas-rejects-new-cdc-recommendation-to-mandate-the-covid-shot-to-school-children_4817977.html; https://www.ehealthme.com/vs/pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine/arrhythmias/;

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-study-finds-heart-inflammation-after-covid-19-vaccination-higher-with-moderna-than-pfizer_4861735.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-11-16&src_cmp=mb-2022-11-16&utm_medium=email&est=sdqLBaL0B2yskFoI5HVOzTGwkaOHQ%2BisonWJX8h7iJ5dOlGSNUIPtt%2BnVq6ZVRqS

https://twitter.com/HighWireTalk/status/1592896188801744896?t=EIY6yW0MJ64Ghecmg2KpDQ&s=35

https://dreddymd.com/2022/07/08/birth-rates-plummet-in-hungary-due-to-mass-covid-vaccinations/

https://dreddymd.com/2022/07/08/taiwan-witnesses-catastrophic-23percent-drop-birth-rate-in-may-2022/

https://t.me/PeterMcCullough/2783 ; https://www.theblaze.com/news/pfizer-moderna-trials-vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/japan-finds-stainless-steel-particles-suspended-doses-moderna-vaccine-2021-09-01/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9160865/California-scientist-calls-pause-using-batch-Moderna-vaccines-allergic-reactions.html

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-moderna-covid-vaccine-trials-myocarditis/

https://rumble.com/v1rcdjm-until-proven-otherwise-two-of-the-top-cardiologists-in-the-world.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email ; https://thecountersignal.com/pfizer-admits-covid-vaccine-was-never-tested-for-transmission/ ; https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/leading-british-cardiologist-and?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email;

^xvi https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/more-young-americans-are-dying-and-it-s-not-covid-why-aren-t-we-searching-for-answers/ar-AA1f86xx?cvid=96c5fca883184378fd4fb3a38a9d767b&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=6

Plant-Based Medicine: Herbs for the Service of Man Part 1

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:24:50 GMT

Psalms 104:14 states that our Heavenly Father “causeth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth.” Beyond nutrition, the Creator has also given humanity a natural medicine chest in nature in many of the herbs of the field.

Take for instance Marigold, aka Calendula (Calendula Officinalis). Calendula is one of those plants that testifies of God’s benevolence and foresight towards humankind. Calendula has healing properties for wounds and disinfection and is unique for both its angiogenic and fibroblastic qualities. ⁱ In short, this means that Calendula applied topically to the skin can cause new growth of blood vessels from existing ones. Also, it encourages the body in its natural process to heal wounds by forming new tissue. These capabilities are helpful in healing burns, and repairing tissues in leg, mouth, and nose ulcers as well as healing regular bruising. ⁱⁱ Calendula reduces plaque and gum inflammation. ⁱⁱⁱ It has anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antitumor, anticancer, antioxidant and anti-fever properties. ^iv And it is only one of the Creator’s wonderful medicines.

Yarrow, or Achillea Millefolium, is another plant that has been used to treat wounds. One of its wonderful benefits is its diaphoretic nature. This means it assists the body to break a sweat, or more beneficially, to break a fever. Diaphoretic teas can also help get rid of toxic buildup in the body. Yarrow is antimicrobial ^v , analgesic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant in nature. It is also a styptic or hemostatic agent, meaning it stops bleeding. Simply grind or mash up the plant and put it on an open wound and watch it slow and stop bleeding within minutes. ^vi

As we study the properties of the quiet and powerful lives of these plants, let us bow our hearts and minds in admiration of the Creator Jesus Christ who thought of us.

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i Parente LM, Lino Júnior Rde S, Tresvenzol LM, Vinaud MC, de Paula JR, Paulo NM. Wound Healing and Anti-Inflammatory Effect in Animal Models of Calendula officinalis L. Growing in Brazil. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012;2012:375671. doi: 10.1155/2012/375671. Epub 2012 Jan 24. PMID: 22315631; PMCID: PMC3270572.

ii Ibid.

iii Khairnar MS, Pawar B, Marawar PP, Mani A. Evaluation of Calendula officinalis as an anti-plaque and anti-gingivitis agent. J Indian Soc Periodontol. 2013 Nov;17(6):741-7. doi: 10.4103/0972-124X.124491. PMID: 24554883; PMCID: PMC3917203.

iv Arora D, Rani A, Sharma A. A review on phytochemistry and ethnopharmacological aspects of genus Calendula. Pharmacogn Rev. 2013 Jul;7(14):179-87. doi: 10.4103/0973-7847.120520. PMID: 24347926; PMCID: PMC3841996.

v Toplan GG, Taşkın T, İşcan G, Göger F, Kürkçüoğlu M, Civaş A, Ecevit-Genç G, Mat A, Başer KHC. Comparative Studies on Essential Oil and Phenolic Content with In Vitro Antioxidant, Anticholinesterase, Antimicrobial Activities of Achillea biebersteinii Afan. and A. millefolium subsp. millefolium Afan. L. Growing in Eastern Turkey. Molecules. 2022 Mar 17;27(6):1956. doi: 10.3390/molecules27061956. PMID: 35335326; PMCID: PMC8955464.

vi https://fliphtml5.com/xqwhp/zwxf/basic/201-225 Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herb A Beginner’s Guide 33 Herbs To know Grow and Use.

Yuval Noah Harari and the Last Tower of Babel: an analysis of the doctrine of evolution’s global threat to individual rights.

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:58:51 GMT

If there is today any single mainstream, global orthodoxy masquerading as truth, it is without a doubt, the false doctrine of evolution. The theory is so mainstream people don’t even refer to it as “the theory of evolution” anymore. It is just simply – “evolution”. As in, gravity is gravity. Water is wet. Evolution is evolution. Move on, already.

As we’ve seen with Covid, however, it is imperative to ask questions, especially regarding compulsory narratives. If the media, the public school, the government, the medical complex, and the WHO want to compel you to think a certain way, you ought to be a skeptic by default.

Evolution is a godless theory, espoused by godless individuals. Evolution teaches that the origins of life occurred through a random combination of amino acids billions of years ago, and progressively evolved to the vast interconnected complexity that is observed today. All birds. All fish. All humans. All the biodiversity. The insects. Everything. All, according to the theory of evolution, come from a single cell, and developed through natural selection.

There are at least a billion problems with the theory, so many, in fact, that in 2019 over a thousand doctoral scientists signed a public statement dissenting from Darwinism. ¹ It states the following:

We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged. There is scientific dissent from Darwinism. It deserves to be heard.

But evolution has no intention of having a public debate over its legitimacy. That is not what strongmen do. And most of the scientific world glosses over all of evolution’s glaring and ridiculously obvious flaws with a single BandAid: time. Time is the essential answer to all objections.

You’ve likely heard the analogy about the junkyard and the hurricane. If you give a hurricane four billion years in a junkyard, who knows what amazing machines will be assembled, right? A working telescope? Or (profoundly more complex) the human eye? You can’t say it can’t happen because you’re not going to be alive that long.

That’s basically the theory of evolution.

But when you dig into the implications of evolution instead of assuming it is correct because the overlords who run the Matrix inform you it is, you realize it not only is impossible from a scientific or rational point of view, but you also begin to realize how dark it is.

Evolution, distilled and refined to its logical conclusions, inevitably results in darkness. Hopelessness. Oppression. Indifference. Suicide. Murder. Genocide.

Evolution teaches that there is no meaning to life. It was, and still is, an accident. Since it is an accident, there is no purpose, and no reason to continue to struggle and suffer. That thought alone has driven many a youth to suicide.

Evolution also teaches that the strong survive. Since there is strength in numbers, collectivism and tribalism is the best model of survival. Collectivism creates strength. Companionship. Collaboration. On the other hand, individualism and dissent weakens the collective. It is undesirable.

Survival of the fittest prioritizes aggression. Manipulation. Selfishness. Might makes right. The ends justify the means. Competition for supposedly scarce resources is fierce. So, strike hard, and strike first.

These are all principles inherent in evolutionary thought. There is no golden rule in the evolutionary paradigm. Why would there be? The golden rule is nothing but an impediment to natural selection.

So, we see that there is in Darwinism that which creates outright hostility to the rights of others. Or, in other words, evolution has no room for individual rights.

Consider the implications of the public-school curriculum in the United States, which mandates the teaching of evolution as fact, and has for many decades now.

Evolution is directly antagonistic to the principles of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, which holds “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ²

Evolution, however, teaches U.S. school children that there is no Creator. He did not endow His creation with anything, because He does not exist. He did not create a humanity, the individuals of which are each recognized as equally valuable in His sight. Therefore, God gave neither life nor liberty.

These teachings directly undermine the very idea of America. They are not only antagonistic to its founding principles, they are contrary to the best interests of its misguided youth, and all of its inhabitants. Teaching children there is no meaning or purpose to life is certainly child abuse. But, to compel children to believe there is no Creator, no purpose to life, and no such thing as inalienable rights is a betrayal of the principles of the Republic.

We can also see that force-feeding evolution creates major problems for a social structure which is significantly based on the protection of minority rights, and individual rights.

Take property rights, for example.

Could it be that the public school curriculum is directly responsible for the creation of the smash-and-grab thugs who terrorize major American cities today? Is it possible that teaching youth that there is no God and no Ten Commandments creates young people who reject law and order, and who disdain the rights of others?

And don’t be deceived by the socialist pope: God believes in property rights. That’s why He commands, “Thou shalt not steal.”

If there’s no God, and no objective right and wrong, how can there any objection to the majority oppressing the minority? Who is there to object? Is there any objection to murder, even?

In the evolutionary worldview, how is murder distinguishable from natural selection? And who has the moral authority to say it is different? Your fellow descendant from the primordial ooze, more recently the cousin of the chimpanzee?

These questions bring us to consideration of the globalist powers of our day. Should anyone be surprised that the tyrants of the WEF and the WHO are fervent adherents to the self-centered religion of Darwin? The thugs of San Francisco reject private property rights, and is it surprising that globalist thugs do the same? If most of the people on earth will “own nothing and be happy”, who is going to own everything?

Simple. The elites will own everything, having stolen it all from everyone else.

We know that Professor Yuval Noah Harari, best-selling author, professor, and principal advisor to the WEF’s Klaus Schwab, has drunk deeply from the Darwinian well. Harari has repeatedly made public insinuations that there are no moral barriers at all to the termination of most of the “useless humans” on planet earth. Harari recognizes no God, and no such thing as human rights. His work is endorsed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama. ³

You can and should hear Harari discuss his ideas at the 2023 Frontier Institute conference. ⁴

In popular presentations and in best-selling books, Harari asserts the following:

There is no God, and no Creator. ⁵ He is a fictional story invented by human beings.
Life is a product of billions of years of evolution.
There is no such thing as right and wrong. Life is meaningless and without purpose.
Since there’s no God, and no such thing as right and wrong, there is no judgment, and no accountability. ⁶

Human rights, like God, are just a fiction, a story that we have invented.

Harari darkly states that if you cut a human open, you’ll find a heart, a liver, and a spleen, but no rights. ⁷

Should we be surprised by Harari, or the sudden plethora of tyrants like him? Harari’s overtly sociopathic musings regarding the elimination of so-called “useless humans” is the natural conclusion of Darwinism.

The textbook definition of sociopathy as an antisocial personality disorder is characterized primarily by disregard for others and a lack of empathy. In other words, a lack of conscience.

Should we be surprised that Harari is also a nihilist? Shouldn’t it be an axiom by now that Darwinism in the end always creates nihilists? Isn’t that a predictable “evolution”? And hasn’t humanity seen it before?

Stalin is said to have read Darwin’s Origin of the Species in one night, unable to put it down. It was Darwin which led Stalin to conclude that there is no God.

The following story is recounted of Stalin’s youth by Yaroslavsky, while Stalin was still in his formative years.

At a very early age, while still a pupil in the ecclesiastical school, Comrade Stalin developed a critical mind and revolutionary sentiments. He began to read Darwin and became an atheist.

G. Glurdjidze, a boyhood friend of Stalin's, relates:

"I began to speak of God, Joseph heard me out, and after a moment's silence, said:

"'You know, they are fooling us, there is no God. . . .'

"I was astonished at these words, I had never heard anything like it before.

"'How can you say such things, Soso?' I exclaimed.

"'I'll lend you a book to read; it will show you that the world and all living things are quite different from what you imagine, and all this talk about God is sheer nonsense,' Joseph said.

"'What book is that?' I enquired.

"'Darwin. You must read it,' Joseph impressed on me". ⁸

Another commenter on Stalin’s policies stated the following:

". . .in order to disabuse the minds of our seminary students of the myth that the world was created in six days, we had to acquaint ourselves with the geological origin and age of the earth, and be able to prove them in argument; we had to familiarize ourselves with Darwin's teachings." ⁹

In China, Mao Tse Tung was also a Darwinist. For Mao, Darwin provided the catalyst for rebellion as a right. As noted by China scholar James Pusey,

Mao Tse-tung finally claimed that Marxism-Leninism could all be boiled down to one sentence, tsao fan yu li — “To rebel is justified” — but that standard translation obscures the force of the li (reason or principle) that rebellion was now said to have. That Neo-Confucian word in [its] new context really meant that rebellion was a natural law, and that lesson had been taught to Mao Tse-tung not by Marx but by Sun Yat-sen and Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, who had learned it, rightly or wrongly, from Darwin. For the li of revolution, they had said, lay in evolution. ¹⁰

According to Sir Arthur Keith, Adolph Hitler “consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.” ¹¹ Should this surprise anyone? Isn’t Untermensch just another word for “useless people”?

What Harari is teaching is age-old darkness. But, in largely accepting the theory of evolution into their doctrines, much of the Christian world has made a compromise with darkness, and no longer recognizes it for what it is. But there is nothing Biblical or Christian about evolution, and there is nothing evolutionary about Christianity. The two ideas are diametrically antagonistic to each other, and always will be.

Christianity has as its foundation a self-sacrificing Creator God who came to reunite God and Man, and to pay the penalty of sin. His followers, receiving the promise of a new heart and mind, are commanded to live for the good and salvation of others. They are even willingly to “die daily”. ¹² Nothing could be further from the teachings of evolution. Evolution is a greedy, grasping religion, built on the deification of self, openly embracing Machiavellianism, and rejecting the value of the individuals for whom Christ laid down His life.

There are Christians who foolishly attempt to reconcile the Bible with the theory of evolution, but this cannot be. Evolution recognizes no Creation, no Creator, no Fall, no such thing as sin, no need for an atonement, no resurrection, and no judgment. Attempting to reconcile the teachings of Jesus Christ with those of Charles Darwin is a delusion.

It is no mystery who inspired the theory of evolution. Satan was a liar and a murderer from the beginning, ¹³ and it is unsurprising that his masterpiece of deception, evolution, is an integral cog in the last-day plan for the global elimination of all the so-called “useless people”. The original title of Darwin’s notorious work from 1859 was, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”. It was a work of eugenics from the beginning.

We can see the storm clouds gathering on the horizon. Most animals recognize the warning signs of impending danger, and head for cover. However, it may be that most of humanity is already too brainwashed to recognize its peril.

Crowds of cheering people listen enthusiastically to Harari lay out the globalist justifications for mass genocide, which presumably includes the elimination of the vast majority of people who clap for him.

1 https://thenewamerican.com/over-1-000-scientists-openly-dissent-from-evolution-theory/

Only rudimentary microscopes were available in Darwin’s time. It is now observed, however, that one human cell is more complex than a mid-size city at rush hour. This complexity was unknown to Darwin, who himself was given pause by the sight of a peacock’s feather in 1860 when he wrote, “The sight of a feather in a peacock's makes me sick." He could not account for its complexity.

2 https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2023/06/29/supreme-court-racial-preferences-unconstitutional-college/ - the Constitution ought to be color blind. It is a biblical doctrine that we all are of one blood: Acts 17:26.

3 . https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/meet-yuval-harari-superstar-historian-to-mark-zuckerberg/10200906

4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwt2pxn3UI

5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGt5xklfmsU – Harari says, “God is dead. It just takes time to get rid of the body”.

6 Obviously this also means the elite are unaccountable to any higher power for the hundreds of millions of casualties of the Great Reset.

7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj7Wg4DAbs – minute 9:25 on.

8. E. Yaroslavsky, Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing house, 1940), pp. 8-12.

9. Ibid, pp. 8-17

10. Pusey, James Reeve, China and Charles Darwin, Harvard University Press, 1983.

11. Arthur Keith, Evolution and Ethics, Putnam’s, New York, 1949, p. 230.

12. 1 Cor 15:31

13. John 8:44: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will d. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Herd Mentality Part 1: The Lesson of the Pigs

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:15:35 GMT

In the Gospel of Matthew, the story is recounted of Jesus casting out a legion of evil spirits from two demon possessed men at Gergesa. ¹ The men were living in the tombs near the sea and were a violent terror to the citizens of that area. No one could control them.

Incredibly, profoundly, Jesus crossed the ocean to rescue them – the most seemingly hopeless and wretched of all humanity.

That is good news for every one of us, without exception. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. ² If you long for peace and forgiveness of sins, and to be in your right mind, Jesus is the Great Physician. Rest assured, He knows just how to fix us!

When His boat reached shore, Jesus entered into intentional and immediate confrontation with the demons. He cast them out into a herd of pigs that were feeding on a nearby hilltop.

The demons were forced to leave, and the men’s sanity returned. But when the demons entered the pigs, it was the pigs’ turn to go insane. They went careening off a cliff into the ocean, and were drowned.

It must have been an incredible and horrific scene.

The story is an apt metaphor for our day, here at the end of the world. Prophecy tells us that there will be two groups of people at the very end – those who have been cleansed, like the demoniacs, and those who remain filthy, like the pigs:

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. ³

It is a startling Bible teaching that at the end, there is no one in between. The cleansed are cleansed forever. The maddened demon possessed herd will tear this world apart, just before the return of Christ. We are told that there will be a time of trouble such as never was. ⁴ Then the end will come.

So, are there lessons to be learned from the demonic mass psychosis of the herd?

If there is anything the past three years ought to have taught the average man or woman (and we solemnly affirm the continued existence of same), it is to be wary of established popular orthodoxy. If the mainstream media authoritatively declares it, if the academics trample each other in their rush to write “peer reviewed” papers on it, ⁵ if the government compels it and punishes dissent of it, then the remaining thinking, binary, men and woman should be on guard.

When the herd begins to move, watch out. It is unreasoning, mad, and dangerous. Those who have been trampled bear their testimonies and their scars. The question is, are we listening?

There are a legion of people who rolled up their sleeves for Pfizer or Moderna’s dangerous Covid shot and got myocarditis, or worse. ⁶ There are hosts of reported injuries, ⁷ including most recently, Jamie Foxx. ⁸ The silent testimony of tens of thousands of fatalities ought to be the ultimate byword of warning. But are we listening?

The terrible cult of transgenderism has claimed tens of thousands of victims. Today, the authorities of the western world have gone so far as to inform thinking men and women that there are no such thing as men and women, and that men can get pregnant. ⁸ Media and academics viciously attack dissenters. Disagreement with madness is said to be “hate”.

But it is not hate to feel sorrow for those who rush off the cliff. It is not hate to call a warning to the people standing on the train tracks. On the contrary. Indifference in the face of tragedy is sociopathy.

Exploitative corporations such as Target, ¹⁰ the Los Angeles Dodgers, ¹¹ and now Chick-Filet, ¹² and many others, are exhibit “A” as they rush to cash in on the madness. Instead of utilizing corporate influence to stand for virtue, not to mention biology, these corporations are entirely indifferent to the immense suffering of the youth who only realize later that they have made a life-long and irreversible error. ¹³

These corporations are profiting from the mutilation of children, and so are the doctors.

Imagine being a doctor, having a (figuratively and literally) unconscious child victim on the gurney, and intentionally cutting into their perfectly healthy reproductive organs and removing them, knowing full well that the child is brainwashed and will likely only wake up to the reality of the irreversible tragedy of what has been done to them when they are twenty. ¹⁴

These are our generation’s Josef Mengeles, except the victims today are children deceived by TikTok and the ideology pushed by media, academics and the public school system.

The herd claims these mutilations are based on sound “science”, pointing to the ideologically-motivated changes in diagnostic manuals for psychiatric illness. These 2013 changes removed the diagnosis of “gender identity disorder” as a mental illness, and substituted the diagnosis of “gender dysphoria”, and its recommended treatments of affirmation, and sex-reassignment surgery.

This means doctors have a “scientific” excuse to inform a child that they really are trapped in the wrong body, and the only way to fix the problem is with cross-sex hormones and surgery.

Manipulating textbooks will not exonerate guilty men and women before the judgment seat of God. Changing textbooks does not turn wickedness into goodness.

It takes courage to leave the herd when it goes insane.

But the last message of mercy to planet earth is a final Gospel appeal to all those who are rushing with them toward the edge of the cliff. God’s final call to humanity is a last message of mercy: “Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues”. ¹⁵

Jesus paid an inestimable price, Reader, for you. The Son of God laid down His life for you, to buy you back. And He calls to you right now: Come out, my son. My daughter. Come out, my people.

As the Apostle Paul said, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.” ¹⁶

This is the promise of the Gospel for all who repent and believe.

And the herd rushes on.

Part 2 of this article will examine one of the most pervasive false orthodoxies of all: the theory of evolution. The Bible teaches that we have a loving Creator, and Redeemer. Evolution, the ‘religion’ of the herd, on the other hand, teaches that there is no God, no meaning to life, and most recently by leading philosophers such as Yuval Noah Harari, principle advisor to the WEF, that human beings are a meaningless blip on the evolutionary continuum toward the development of an artificial super intelligence. Harari goes so far as to say there is no right or wrong, there is no meaning to life, and that human rights are a fiction.

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1 Matthew 8:28-34

2 Luke 19:10 – “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

3. Revelation 22:10, 11

4. Daniel 12:1

5 https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/over-300-covid-19-papers-withdrawn-not-meeting-standards-scientific-soundness

6 https://www.newsweek.com/man-getting-bells-palsy-after-pfizer-covid-vaccines-coincidence-1611799

7 https://rumble.com/v1rl1kk-until-proven-otherwise-featuring-cardiologists-dr.-peter-mccullough-dr.-ase.html

8 https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/others/jamie-foxx-left-paralyzed-and-blind-as-an-effect-of-the-covid-19-vaccine-%E2%80%93-reports/ar-AA1c1xEh?li=AAgfYGb

9 https://www.dailyfetched.com/top-british-womens-magazine-features-pregnant-transgender-cover-model-im-a-pregnant-man/

10 https://www.foxnews.com/media/target-ceo-woke-capitalism-great-brand-right-thing-society

11 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-sports/dodgers-apologize-reinvite-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-pride-night-1234740139/

12 https://thepostmillennial.com/chick-fil-a-goes-woke-commits-to-diversity-equity-inclusion-agenda

13 https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/woman-sues-psychiatrist-for-approving-gender-transition/ ; https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/transgender-child-suing-doctors-mutilated-malpractice

14 http://truth.projectveritas.com/site/R?i=FnG4U5tkT4MSX1YfDc0jW4_jBeYd-5H11_wzB3hvlBfCQRWnKOW1KA

15 Revelation 18:4.

16 Romans 12:2.

Surviving Pandemics: The Little Things Make Big Differences: Plant-based Medicines Part 2

Sat, 13 May 2023 15:11:23 GMT

Plant-based and alternative medicine may have humble standing in folk remedies, but their efficacy in home use or as a foundation for mainstream medicine is robust.

Plant-based medicine remains the basis for preventative healthcare in 80% of the global population for a number of reasons. Herbal remedies are inexpensive and easily accessible, often freely available in nature. Secondly, mainstream healthcare is expensive and costs are rising. Third, many pharmaceutical products have proven dangerous side effects, including addiction and the risk of death. ⁱ By some estimates, prescription drug use is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. ⁱⁱ Even “properly” prescribed drugs result in 1.9 million hospitalizations in the United States annually, while providing questionable efficacy. ⁱⁱⁱ Fourth, facilities for specialized treatment often are inaccessible by rural populations. ^iv Lastly, established local and indigenous knowledge is strongly correlated with effective plant-based medicine and has been handed down throughout generations. This knowledge has been increasingly accessed and beneficial to the scientific and medical community. ^v

Today, mainstream medicine owes many advances to folkloric remedies and traditional herbal sources. Some examples include: Viral hepatitis and AIDS both have received treatment/cure from the bark of the Mamala tree. ^vi Digitalis comes from the Foxglove plant and is used to treat heart failure and atrial arrhythmias. ^vii The anticancer properties of the Yew tree were discovered in the early 1960’s by botanist Arthur Barclay. It was later entered the drug development phase, known as Taxol, or Paclitaxel, and was eventually purchased by Bristol Myers Squibb for wide-scale production as a chemotherapy drug. ^viii White Willow Bark was used in the development of aspirin but eventually abandoned in favor of other pain relievers. ^ix The Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum, has compounds used to make morphine, which amongst many other uses, relieves severe pain from heart attacks. ^x The California Poppy, Eschsolzia californica, has been used to successfully eliminate morphine dependence. ^xi

Allopathic medicine maintains a public mystique with pharmaceutical medications by virtue of the close relationship between drug companies, doctors and government bodies, and the enormous advertising machine which urges public use of these drugs. However, as botanists and government websites such as the National Library of Medicine’s, www.nlm.nih.gov , PubMed.org, ClinicalTrials.gov, shine the light on plant-based medicines and biomedical research and their contribution to the pharmaceutical industry, public confidence in these simple, effective and inexpensive solutions continues to grow.

The presence of effective, safe and often widely-available plant-based remedies in nature is evidence of the foresight and wisdom of the beneficent, but all-but-forgotten Creator, who made free and abundant provision for the needs of fallen humanity.

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i https://behavioralhealth-centers.com/blog/prescription-drugs-more-deaths-than-illicit-drugs/ ; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34716774/

ii https://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/2016-09-27/the-danger-in-taking-prescribed-medications ; https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/new-prescription-drugs-major-health-risk-few-offsetting-advantages

iii Ibid.

iv https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/978924151536

v https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2004/11/05/samoas-gift-to-the-world/

vi https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2004/11/05/samoas-gift-to-the-world/

vii https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK350386/

viii https://dtp.cancer.gov/timeline/flash/success_stories/s2_taxol.htm

ix https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjh.14520

x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1767178/

xi http://medcraveonline.com/IJCAM/IJCAM-11-00403.pdf

Another Look At Pandemic Reality

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 17:01:03 GMT

The Precarious Banking System and the New World Order

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:00:03 GMT

In 2017 Joseph Huber wrote Sovereign Money in which he described our current electronic money system as a system of two separate loops that were interconnected by commercial banks. In the first system, the private sector, small, commercial, industrial businesses, along with insurance companies and hedge funds occupy one system, where money is created and issued and loaned out by approximately 4300 commercial banks and private banks . (1) Something like this:

In the second system, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan, US Government, Treasury, commercial banks along with the Federal Reserve occupy the second loop or the Wholesale sector. In this loop, the commercial banks are customers of the Federal Reserve. They do not issue money in this loop, but borrow and transact with the Federal Reserve, a private, non-governmental institution. (2)

The two systems have been largely independent, until September 11, 2019 when Federal money was injected into the private loop due to the pre-pandemic financial crisis. (3) At that point, globalist conversations proposed and initiated implementation of the Central Bank Digital Currency system that would look something like this, however our “national” bank would be subject to an international Central Bank:

To all who have been paying attention, especially in the latest developments of the 2023 Banking Crisis, none of this is news. The globalists continue marching towards their goals and have communicated the following intentions for the CBDC economy:

There will be one central bank to which all global citizens will belong, including the currently unbanked. (One scenario may be that countries are left with a few branches of a “national” bank that “bank” at the international central bank.(4)

Financial transparency and scrutiny on the level of the individual will be the new reality.(5)

Markets prefer totalitarian governments and democracy is messy.(6)

Total control will be exercised over financial affairs of nation-states.(7)

Cryptocurrency (unless it belongs to the FedNow ⁽⁸⁾ program) appears it will continue to be swept into the authoritarian dragnet as well, at least in the US. ⁽⁹⁾

Certainties in the looming new CBDC world include:

Totalitarian control over every aspect of life to the small minutiae, including a record of all personal movements and monitoring of all purchases and transactions.

Punishment of dissenters through financial repercussions and controls, including limits or stops on buying and selling and freezing bank accounts, and resultant control over protest and dissemination of “misinformation” and online dialogue.

Further narrowing of economic competition as smaller businesses are squeezed out in favor of larger commercial hubs, such as Amazon and Walmart.

Increased system vulnerabilities to cyber attacks and power outages.

Increased ability of powerful nations to coerce and control weaker nations through seizure of digital assets and limits of commercial participation using tariffs and sanctions

Negative interest rates will affect the individual, who will be “disincentivized” from saving because money will lose purchasing power.

Greater power for monitoring tax compliance with resultant immediate penalties.

Transferring “surplus” from account holders for national or other debt.

The foregoing is not an exhaustive list. It is apparent that freedom of speech, religion, protest, public dialogue and dissent are going to be starved of oxygen until they whither and collapse. The existent buffers of cash transactions, privacy and private sector commercial banks is disintegrating. Payment systems like the new Amazon One, (8) when combined with a central bank digital currency and digital ID’s, spell the end of freedom in the west. (9)

For all of those watching, the foregoing means your options as a free thinking, and free speaking person are dwindling. This raises the question of what you should do.

First of all, you ought to be making determined and decisive steps to get out of the city. (10) Cities will become centers of mass control and authoritarianism, and enormous human suffering.(11) Cities do not produce anything except for hungry and violent people, and of course surveillance cameras, checkpoints and goons with tear gas and machine guns.

Second, you ought to be taking steps to grow your own garden, because the food supply is not only compromised through the meddling and perversions of Big Agra, but it will be just as impacted by the new digital reality as everything else. Independence for a little while longer means the ability to grow your own food, obtain and purify your own water, and generate your own electricity. Learn to treat ailments with simple but effective natural remedies.

Thirdly, if you believe in the Gospel commission and the sharing of the last warnings in the Scriptures to a dying world, take steps to support missions now. One day in the perhaps not too distant future, your ability to use the wealth that you have accumulated will be gone. Revelation 13 is clear – those who refuse the mark of the first beast of Revelation 13 will be severed from the commercial system. When this happens, the money that you have saved will be useless.

Those who are tempted to capitulate and receive the mark must remember that those who do so will be able to buy and sell for a short while, until the plagues begin to fall and destroy houses, lands, and people who received the mark by the unnumbered millions – Revelation 14:9-11; Revelation 16:2; Revelation 18:4. It is better to stand for liberty, and suffer with the oppressed people of God, than to bend the knee and receive the mark.

There is much more to say, but for now let us conclude with a short story.

Eric B Hare, the great missionary, once wrote an account of having to close his mission due to war, and the great human divide that resulted.

During World War II, I was in Rangoon, Burma, when the merchants closed their shops and dismissed their tired clerks. I saw them fleeing for their lives. I saw the banks close their doors, and the bankers flee for their lives. I saw the post office close, and the post office workers flee for their lives. I was in Rangoon when doctors and nurses put their weak, sick patients out on the sidewalks, and then fled for their lives. The Japanese army was within 75 miles of the city, and our last supply lines had been cut. At the zoo, the keepers shot the lions and tigers to keep them from starving to death, then they fled for their lives. At the leper and insane asylums, the warders opened the doors, then fled for their lives. And at the jail, just three miles from our mission station, the prison doors were opened, and 3,000 criminals came walking into town, while the keepers and the policemen fled for their lives. I was there. I saw it. I saw the last boat leave for India. I saw the last train leave the depot.

And I am going to tell you what happened, for in Rangoon God gave me a preview of the end of the world and the day of judgment.

Just two days before we escaped, I was packing away some of our most valuable articles when a well-to-do woman came into the mission headquarters and asked for Mr. Meleen, the mission superintendent. Mr. Meleen came out, and though I didn't mean to eavesdrop, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation.

"O Mr. Meleen, I have to go, and I can't take anything with me except a little suitcase and a rug for the journey," the woman said. "You may not know me, but I know you. I live in that grand home just a few blocks away where the coconut palms and the big mango trees are, and now I have to go and leave my lovely home behind. I hate to think of the thieves breaking in to steal and loot and plunder. Won't your mission people go over and take all my lovely furniture? Take my beds and my tables and my chairs and my beautiful rugs. I will feel so much happier if I know you mission people can use them."

And I heard Mr. Meleen say, "It is too late now. We are all packed up. We will be leaving any moment ourselves. We have been waiting to evacuate our church members, and when they are out we will be going too, with only a suitcase each. If we could have had some of those things three months ago when we were outfitting our clinic, we could have used every bed and chair and table. But now it is too late, too late!"

I saw the tears come to that poor woman's eyes. "Too late?" she groaned, as if she couldn't believe it. "You are going, too?" As she turned to leave, she threw her shawl over her face to hide her grief, and from her lips came the heartbreaking cry, "Oh, how I wish!”" Then emotion choked her words, but I knew what she wished. Yes, I knew.

I tried to remember if that well-to-do woman, just two blocks away, had ever helped out in the clinic program or the Ingathering program. I couldn't think of a single occasion when that poor rich woman did anything for humanity. Now it was too late and she had to leave everything behind, and oh, how she wished. (12)

While there is time to choose, choose wisely. The Bible clearly describes what is going to happen to the world in the time leading up to the second coming of Christ, and it is not a utopian millennium. A time of trouble is coming such as never was (Daniel 12:1), and there will be blood and fire and sorrow before the great and terrible day of the Lord – Joel 2:11.

While the day of mercy lingers, “seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near” – Isaiah 55:6. Reader, He is calling and searching for you today. “Today is the day of salvation” – 2 Cor 6:2.

Jesus left heaven and came to this wretched earth and died for you. He took your sins, and mine, on Himself. He calls to you to repent and believe the Gospel, to ask Him into your heart and make you a new person by His grace and strength. Today, right now, you can be free of guilt and shame, and worry and at peace with God through Jesus Christ. All who answer His call and forsake their sins will find salvation and mercy, joy and rest. And instead of fear when He returns, you will have peace, and will be able to say with the faithful, “This is our God. We have waited for Him and He will save us” – Isaiah 25:9.

Won’t you answer Him now?

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOEvurCVuk

(2) Ibid

(3) https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-zoltan-warns-of-trouble-ahead-in-money-markets-11625391002

(4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVmKN4DSu3g&t=1537s

(5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmY4AvoPI0A

(6) Cross-Border Payment—A Vision for the Future - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVmKN4DSu3g

(7) Custodia Bank of Wyoming and Signature Bank are two examples. The Federal Reserve, FDIC and Office of the Comptroller Control have illegally denied Custodia Bank, a cryptocurrency bank, a seat at the Federal Reserve table; a lawsuit is pending. This despite Custodia making 100% of customer deposits available 100% of the time, otherwise known as full reserve banking.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/crypto-choke-point

Signature Bank, was one of the three initial banks that precipitated our current crisis and was supposedly shutdown due to insolvency. Its board declared that it was not insolvent and its shutdown was likely due to the cryptocurrency transactions it facilitated for New York City, particularly with respect to real estate.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/barney-frank-says-more-shuttering-signature-bank.html

In both cases, the financial opacity for the NWO was intolerable. Lack of ability to scrutinize transactions on the granular level caused the demise of these banks.

(8) https://one.amazon.com/

(9) https://www.newsweek.com/cbdcs-will-end-american-freedom-opinion-1673676; https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2022/12/15/feds-digital-dollar-idea-has-frightening-implications-for-privacy-and-freedom/?sh=245837394b84;

https://www.intellinews.com/nemethy-are-central-bank-digital-currencies-one-of-the-greatest-threats-to-freedom-270491/

(10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q94HFiqbtM

(11) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paqs8_Y7ohk

(12) https://www.preparingforeternity.com/endofroad.htm

Surviving Pandemics: The Little Things Make Big Differences: Plant-Based Medicine Part 1

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:14:30 GMT

On March 22, 2023, the United States Senate Committee On Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs released a report entitled Short Supply: The Health and National Security Risks of Drug Shortages. To summarize, 295 drugs were found in short supply. Some have been in chronic shortage for over a decade. The domino effects included, “medication errors, treatment delays, in some cases have led to doctors having to ration lifesaving treatments and requiring the use of less effective alternative treatments. Hospitals have also experienced increased costs, medication waste, and limited staffing capacity to address and remedy shortages.” ⁱ In addition, statistics for generic drugs, especially sterile injectables, followed the same trends. In 2019, US Senator Gary Peters released a report stating that 80% of pharmaceutical manufacturing sites are located outside of the United States. This report included findings that 90-95% of sterile injectables are manufactured in India and China. ⁱⁱ The astute reader may quickly ascertain the reliability of “health care” in the United States, especially in the event of a pandemic.

This precarious medical state of affairs naturally begs the question, how can one minimize the need for medications and hospitalization? The short answer is to lead as healthful a lifestyle as possible to reduce the likelihood of medical intervention. When medication is needed, plant-based medicine is quickly becoming a robust alternative for first-world nations. The World Health Organization has identified that 80 percent of the global population, largely those from second and third-world countries, use alternative or traditional medicine including herbal formulations. And although modern medicine has been slow to incorporate some of these alternatives, the World Health Organization has recently partnered with India to establish the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India. ⁱⁱⁱ

Some of the reasons that plant-based medicine flourishes include: 1.) The ability for anyone to research and “treat” themselves quickly and effectively. 2.) Ease of accessibility either in its natural habitat or in low-cost herbal shops. 3.) The targeted approach that plant-based medicine offers to particular health conditions. 4.) The scientific reports and clinical studies provided by governments and private entities to confirm the suitability and reliability of herbal solutions. 5.) The incorporation of plant-based medicines into mainstream medicine.

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the sales of herbal solutions tripled with some traditional medicine manufacturers outselling AstraZeneca and Pfizer. ^iv Elderberry was the top-selling supplement, reaching approximately $275 million dollars in 2020. It outperformed horehound, typically used for respiratory ailments, because it addresses both respiratory health and immune function. Echinacea, garlic and turmeric also made the top ten herbal sales list. Online herbal supplement sales doubled with some remedies targeting heart health, ^v one of the most common co-morbidities in Covid-19 patient deaths. ^vi Ashwagandha was another top-selling herb, primarily used as an adaptogen, or to adapt the body for stress.

In the subsequent article, the efficacy of herbs as plant-based medicine will be reviewed.

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i https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Drug-Shortages-HSGAC-Majority-Staff-Report-2023-03-22.pdf

ii Ibid.

iii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMwFRMfe1I

iv https://www.economist.com/business/2022/06/30/the-pandemic-is-boosting-sellers-of-traditional-medicine

v https://store.newhope.com/products/supplement-business-report-2022?utm_campaign=HLN00NHN-HS-NBJAnalystTake-05312022&utm_emailname=HLN00NHN-HS-NBJAnalystTake-053122&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_MDMContactID=48d08e98-f136-4c0b-8da8-a9e1364bc113&utm_campaigntype=Newsletter&eM=0c94e7ba55d5457e676718ac16ff8df4741e9b191ae8f88ded57a945d35d77c1&eventSeriesCode=ES_NTRBUSNJRNL&eventEditionCode=HLN00NUJ&sessionCode=S_NBJINSGT&sp_eh=0c94e7ba55d5457e676718ac16ff8df4741e9b191ae8f88ded57a945d35d77c1

vi https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34929892/

Surviving Pandemics: The Little Things Make Big Differences: Tackling Inflammation

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:15:33 GMT

Have you heard of the latest health catchphrase? “Reduce inflammation!” You might be living with it and be unaware of how corrosive it is to daily health. A larger concern is that it can predispose the body to a “morbid condition” or disease. During pandemics, such as Covid-19, having one or more morbid conditions such as heart disease and diabetes can suddenly become the factors that jeopardizes one’s life.

First, what is it? Inflammation is the body’s response to an injury with redness, heat, fever, swelling and pain. These signs indicate that a pathogen or damaged cells need attention and in response, the body tells white blood cells where to focus their healing. Inflammation is not only caused by pathogens or injury, but also infections, stress, poor nutrition, lack of sleep, environmental toxins, a sedentary lifestyle, a reaction to medications as well as other factors. Unresolved inflammation prematurely wears down the body’s health. It is associated with cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory problems such as asthma, cancers, and other diseases. ⁱ

To address inflammation, particular white blood cells are directed to carry out specific tasks. Some fight against pathogens and cancer, others protect the body from mold and fungus, others yet clean up damaged cells. Once on site, white blood cells send chemical signals into the blood or surrounding tissue for the body’s protection. The signals are used to create various responses, such as causing a fever, or increasing blood flow to the injury or producing histamines which aid the body in ridding itself of allergens, such as sneezing or a runny nose.

An easy solution to bolstering the body’s white blood cell response is taking contrast showers regularly. A contrast shower is a cycle of one 3-minute hot shower followed up by 30 seconds of an ice-cold shower. Ideally, one “treatment” would encapsulate 5 cycles of hot/cold. The contrast shower increases the white blood cell activity in the body for several hours. ⁱⁱ During times of illness, this therapy may be used three to four times daily, with four hour breaks in between. If time permits, contrast showers should ideally be followed by a rest period.

Although there are many causes of inflammation, eating a less-processed, whole foods plant-based diet is one of the most effective solutions to restoring health. Vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds are medicinal in addition to the powerful nutrition they supply to the body. Simply put, food is the topmost factor that affects the body’s PH balance, multiple times daily. The effect of the quality of meals, snacks, smoothies, or other beverages is such that 24 hours is enough to create a positive or negative change in gut health, which in turn affects the immune system. ⁱⁱⁱ Exercise, maintaining the body’s ideal weight, managing stress, and supporting good sleep hygiene are other key habits that reduce inflammation. Ultimately, keeping the body in good health enables it to be responsive to treatment and wellness during illness and pandemics.

i https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/conditions/inflammation/index.cfm

ii https://www.pharmacologicalsciences.us/supercharge-your-life/10-health-benefits-of-cold-showers.html

iii https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034294/

The Tyrannical Fiction of the Common Good

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:49:14 GMT

William Pitt the Younger addressing the House of Commons, 1793.

British statesman and Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, once stated in a speech in the House of Commons in 1783 that “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

House of Commons, 1783, William Pitt the Younger

Mr. Pitt’s observation is an apt platform from which to analyze the world we live in today. No matter where on the planet you live, you have been through some combination of nearly three years of lockdowns, church and business closures, mass surveillance, threatened or forced Covid inoculation with an ineffective and dangerous drug therapeutic, and technocratic censorship by social media platforms of anyone who questions the wisdom or beneficence of any of it. There is evidence of substantial state involvement in this censorship. ¹ ^, ²

In Orwellian China, 280 million people were recently locked in their apartments and homes for months, unable to do basic tasks like grocery shopping or banking, and suffering intimidation by armed state police. ³

Millions of Chinese recently took to the streets to protest lockdowns and China’s “zero Covid” policy, despite a violent government crackdown against protesting. ⁴

In diverse places, officials have used supposed Covid “non-compliance” as a pretense to arrest dissenters and foment social division and snitching.

Without exception, it was claimed by the powerful that each of the foregoing violations of the God-given liberties of humanity was “necessary” for the sake of the common good.

On the horizon in 2023, there are new “common good” initiatives pending: “climate lockdowns”, more “green passes”, and central bank digital currencies. In Oxford, England, a plan has been approved to build gates at city entrance points to limit vehicle travel in order to battle climate change.

⁷ https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/2250/proposals_to_trial_six_new_traffic_filters_in_oxford_announced ^, ⁸

The plan will restrict residents to 100 exits per year, absent special authorization. These pending measures are increasingly linked to centralized control over buying and selling and a looming forced “climate Sunday” initiative. ⁹ ^, ¹⁰ ^, ¹¹ ^, ¹² ^, ¹³

Of course, we are told Sunday laws are for the common good, also. ¹⁴ ^, ¹⁵ ^, ¹⁶ ^, ¹⁷

So let us return to Mr. Pitt’s statement. The first and second part can be characterized as observations about the nature of tyranny and tyrants generally. At a basic level, Mr. Pitt states, tyrants always attempt to justify cruelty and despotism with the excuse that it is “necessary”. This, Pitt states, is the “argument of tyrants”.

The last part of Pitt’s statement refers to the response of human beings to tyrants. There will be tyrants in this wicked world until Jesus returns, which raises the question of how one should respond to tyrants in their various forms, be they tyrants of the church or tyrants of the state. So, what does it mean that necessity “is the creed of slaves”?

It means this: when the individual, or society, accepts the lie from tyrants that their mistreatment and loss of human freedoms is “necessary”, their acceptance is an act of self-enslavement. Or, put another way, it is the essence of slavery to believe the lie that tyranny is justified under any circumstances.

There is no more fallacious theory extant than that which is embodied in the common idea that natural rights must be limited by law in order to promote the “common good.” Natural rights are the rights given to man by the Creator. They are neither more nor less than what the Creator made them. To say that they need to be clipped and pruned down … is to reflect upon the wisdom of the Creator.

Rights were given to the individual for his good. Among man’s “inalienable rights” the Declaration of Independence enumerates “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The more of these things an individual has, the better off he is, and the more of prosperity does he enjoy. And the more individuals there are of this kind in the community, the more prosperity and happiness is there in the community.

What, on the other hand, is the “common good”? It is a very indefinite term. Each person defines it to suit himself. Government define it to suit themselves. Over in Russia it is declared to be for the “common good” that the little children of heretical parents should be taken from their homes and sent away to be brought up in the orthodox “faith.” In Peru, until recently, it was considered to be for the common good that no Protestant marriage ceremonies should be recognized as valid by the state. In Spain it was for the common good that Protestants should not be allowed to worship in church buildings. The list of instances in which personal rights have been invaded under the plea of the “common good,” might be extended indefinitely. How are these things decided to be for the common good? Oh, it is by the decision of the majority, at least of those in power. And this is the way the question is always decided; this is the way it is proposed to decide the question to day, and the only way in which civil government can consider it, in this country at least. A natural right, therefore, as limited by the “common good,” is simply such a privilege as the majority may see fit to grant. And this would take the matter out of the hands of the Creator entirely. It would leave no force to the term “natural” right at all. For what a person is allowed to have by the majority, cannot be his by nature—by birth. [emphasis added]

American Sentinel April 21, 1898, page 243

Jones sets the matter out faithfully and clearly. The gift of inalienable rights is to ensure that those rights bestowed by the Creator cannot be alienated (removed) from His children by tyrants. Even, and especially, by tyrants who claim to justify their oppression by claiming the false necessity of the common good.

Nor are these inalienable rights solely the property of Americans. No, they are the property of every child of the Creator. As Abraham Lincoln stated,

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Abraham Lincoln, in a speech at Edwardsville, Ill, September 13, 1858

Today, the western world is preparing to wear these chains. A growing chorus of voices is calling for the subordination of the concept of individual rights and freedoms for the sake of what is falsely claimed to be the common good. On issues of climate, social justice, public health, economics and family cohesion, the argument is that centralized authority must control the lives of humanity despite the objections of individuals or minorities with their trifling quibbles of conscience and “rights”. Make no mistake, this is the argument of tyrants.

Let us consider recent examples of the use of this false justification.

Example 1. It was at equal parts urged and threatened that it was necessary for the good of all to compel humanity to submit to forced Covid vaccination. ¹⁸ ^, ¹⁹ ^, ²⁰

It should surprise no one after this display of naked authoritarianism that the efficacy of the Covid shots was a lie. ²¹ ^, ²² ^, ²³

The shots do not stop infection or transmission; they are neither safe nor effective. ²⁴ ^, ²⁵

State and industry leaders, including many religious entities, shamefully collaborated to compel Covid vaccine uptake against the conscientious objections of dissenters, and utilized the false argument of the common good to do so. ²⁶

Example 2. Pope Francis says that global problems, such as climate change and protecting family rest time, need a supranational authority to enforce rules for the common good. According to a 2022 article in the Times of Malta, the “common good … entails devolving authority upwards to international bodies to defend family and individual rights…Human rights cannot be advanced to support claims to individual demands that are morally inappropriate.”

“Supranational authority” is simply another term for a centralized global authority which exists beyond the democratic and constitutional safeguards which exist nationally to protect representative government, national sovereignty and individual rights. The papacy for centuries has opposed strong concepts of nationalism for this reason. The reader will note the Times of Malta’s circular reasoning regarding individual rights and centralized moral authority: 1. human rights cannot be asserted if it is determined that individual demands are “morally inappropriate”; 2. the same centralized international body which determines what is in the common good also has the power to determine whether objections to its initiatives are “morally inappropriate”. Such rationale neatly deprives individuals both of rights, and the ability to assert them, which is the essence of totalitarianism and a re-establishment of the absolute power of the papacy during the Middle Ages.

Example 3. In his commentary for World Youth Day on January 1, 2023, Pope Francis stated the following:

We can no longer think exclusively of carving out space for our personal or national interests; instead, we must think in terms of the common good, recognizing that we belong to a greater community, and opening our minds and hearts to universal human fraternity. We cannot continue to focus simply on preserving ourselves; rather, the time has come for all of us to endeavour to heal our society and our planet, to lay the foundations for a more just and peaceful world, and to commit ourselves seriously to pursuing a good that is truly common.”

https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/12/16/221216a.htm l

Example 4. A number of “Catholic integralists” are openly urging U.S. courts to reject the originalism method of constitutional interpretation in favor of a new concept known as, unsurprisingly, “common good constitutionalism”. “Originalism” is that doctrine which requires courts to interpret the Constitution as it was originally intended, with, for example, its paramount protections for the individual rights of religion, speech, the press, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. “Common good constitutionalism”, on the other hand, is a cloak for the subordination of these individual rights in favor of papal social moralism.

Proponents of these ideas would give global moral authority to the papacy, just as the Pope has now been made the moral authority of many companies, including Visa and Mastercard, in the so-called Council for Inclusive Capitalism.

Conclusion

Obviously, if it is accepted that the common good necessitates and excuses authoritarianism, it follows that those deemed to be non-compliant should and will be punished because, it is argued, all non-conformists endanger the common good.

History warns that there is no regard for individual rights in such a system.

But this is not Christ’s way, and this is not Christ’s system of government, for “the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” – 2 Corinthians 3:17. Christ searches and calls for each one, but compels none. He says, “Come, let us reason together” – Isaiah 1:18, and, “Let him who is athirst com. And whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely” – Revelation 22:17. Christ provides the water of life for all, but He compels none to drink.

As Thomas Jefferson maintained in the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom:

Almighty God hath created the mind free; … all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in His almighty power to do.

Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, January 16, 1786

In contrast to the principles of the religion of Christ, Revelation 13’s end time scenario is built on the argument by civil and religious powers that it is necessary to prevent buying and selling for those who have refused the mark of the authority of the first beast. There is no doubt that this end time mandate will also be couched in the false argument of the common good, and that it will cruelly persecute dissenters. There will be no exceptions allowed.

And it will still be the argument of tyrants, and the creed of slaves.

The Pending Boot of Censorship

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:23:35 GMT

Pending legislation around the world appears set to dramatically decrease and narrow the channels for dissenting communication.

Bill Gates is telegraphing that artificial intelligence will be utilized to hunt and censor those who spread misinformation on the internet. [1] Woke AI is being integrated into apps and will result in monitoring and reporting on individuals. [2] UNESCO and other UN-subordinates are weekly calling for internet censorship, demanding global guidelines for internet speech to silence “insects thriving in the dark”. [3] Washington State is considering legislation to penalize “misinformation” as domestic terrorism. [4] In Hunan Province, China, an application is required for those who wish to attend a church service. [5] Pope Francis often calls for censorship, including claiming that so-called criticism of the Covid vaccines is “misinformation” and a breach of “human rights”. [6]

It seems that the Index Librorum Prohibitorum , the list of banned books maintained by the “fact checking” Inquisition for centuries that censored the works of Locke, Milton and Galileo for their wrong-think, is about to get a major software update.

Totalitarian regimes such as China have long carefully and strictly controlled what information their populations have access to. [7] It is far easier to control 1.3 billion people if they are held in ignorance. Shamefully, western companies have shown themselves to have few scruples about colluding with tyrants in exchange for some silver coins.

China censors commemoration or dialogue of the Tiananmen Square massacre for the same reasons governments colluded with Twitter [8] to censor discussion and scientific debate regarding Covid lockdowns and the harmful Covid shots. They are the same reasons the mainstream media suppressed coverage of Hunter’s laptop. [9] It’s true. And it incriminates the powerful.

There is no more precious commodity than liberty of conscience, and its companion right, freedom of speech.

Harriet Tubman said, “I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” But when she had tasted freedom: “Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.”

“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”

The elites are screaming for censorship because their lies are being exposed. Since they have no intention to cease lying and manipulating the masses, their only resort is to censor. And punish.

There is reason to believe the power to censor, monitor and punish dissent is about to take a quantum leap forward. This has broad and sobering implications for the work of the Gospel and those who follow Christ, who is "the way, the truth and the life." The instruction from our Lord is to be as wise as serpents.

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[1] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/02/12/bill-gates-ai-can-help-solve-digital-misinformation-problem/

[2] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/06/woke-ai-everywhere-openai-offers-chatgpt-subscriptions-to-app-developers/

[3] https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2023/02/23/u-n-demands-global-guidelines-internet-speech-to-silence-insects-thriving-dark/

[4] https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-bill-would-classify-conservative-speech-domestic-violence-extremisml

[5] https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/03/08/chinese-province-requires-government-approval-to-attend-church-service

[6] https://english.alarabiya.net/coronavirus/2022/01/28/Fake-news-disinformation-on-COVID-is-human-rights-violation-Pope-Francis; Francis compares disinformation to snake in Garden of Eden: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/24/pope-francis-fake-news-snake-garden-of-eden

[7] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/04/1025774/china-tiananmen-anniversary-protest-censorship/

[8] https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-files-confirm-stanford-professor-dr-jay-bhattacharya-blacklisted-covid-19-information ; https://www.foxnews.com/media/matt-taibbi-calls-out-censorship-industrial-complex-latest-twitter-files ; https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/09/twitter-files-reveals-troubling-details-of-how-company-blacklisted-libs-of-tiktok/

[9] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-twitter-suppressed-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

Surviving Pandemics: The Little Things Make Big Differences: The Immune System

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:53:24 GMT

Viruses are everywhere but are dormant until they find a host with needed cells for activation. ⁱ Viruses are spread and caught through bites, coughing, sneezing, inhalation, saliva, sexual fluids, and inhalation, amongst other methods. Once a virus has entered its host cell, replication begins and takes over. But the mystifying element in this, is some who have been exposed to deadly diseases, such as Ebola, remain well. ⁱⁱ This is because those with higher immune markers are less likely to get sick or have severe infections. In other words, being a generally healthy person pays off during pandemics.

The immune system is distributed throughout the body and is largely comprised of the thymus, spleen, lymph system, lymph nodes, tonsils and adenoids, appendix, bone marrow, mucus membranes, and skin. The thymus coordinates immune system activities, the spleen is a filter for bacteria amongst other tasks, the lymph system cycles out waste, dead bacteria, and white blood cells, using the lymph fluid to transport the debris. Lymph nodes produce particular white blood cells. The tonsils and adenoids help to trap pathogens. The appendix is responsible for early defense against serious infections and specialized white blood cell immune response. It is also thought to be responsible for producing and storing good gut bacteria. ⁱⁱⁱ The bone marrow is an active center for many types of immune cells. The function of mucous membranes is to trap pathogens and clear them out. And finally, the skin is the largest barrier to protect the body. There are other incidental aspects of the immune system, that are equally as important.

The immune system functions in complementarity with other systems. The digestive system provides one such example. In the mouth, digestion is started by the saliva mixing and coating food. It also contains a pathogen-fighting enzyme which prevents infections. The stomach’s gastric juice doubles as pathogen neutralizer as well as breaks down food. And the gut’s primary task in absorbing food, is home to the microbiome, also houses 70% of the immune system. What is eaten breaks down into food that beneficial bacteria convert and use for fuel. Then, the immune cells are properly educated by the microbiome. Conversely, poor nutrition causes the overgrowth of bad bacteria and results in a poorly functioning immune system. Ultimately, quality nutrition is directly responsible for those who can withstand illness, or a reduced severity in illness during pandemics. Poor nutrition, meaning foods rich in animal-rich proteins, sugar, processed foods and saturated fats, detrimentally impact the immune system. This results in susceptibility to lifestyle diseases and an easy target for pandemics.

As time goes on, science is demonstrating that the single most important determinant of the health of the immune system is proper nutrition. ^iv The answer to the dilemma, of why some can co-exist having been exposed to deadly diseases is simply this; health requires healthy food. ^v

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i https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966842X05001083

ii https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/ebola-fever-virus-infection

iii https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44975217/Trent_paper-libre.pdf?1461301154=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DBiofilms_in_the_large_bowel_suggest_an_a.pdf&Expires=1676501303&Signature=VmitJN687AVjCNFw~ed2Sj0WKbmokhLK-0Z9-xS~t-MvkhSl4b7jV6BO46My-tnFNjNKNSyUnRQSSKBBVC4Jmc6RubMcrATbEUx4Dxz~9VIY~RMgq3B-OPJy3KeZ058dccTySufzO9gq648Hg8ClGuBBSQoR0Gzyukfz0w-bmRRwADBhJ3sqpgDaiVw0kg6OB9hEx4RBcjfUgEJm99RmquP~JVMJ52Yz8ZBnvGz2J8RfYvQKTE5yPSxEt1V

iv https://www.uclahealth.org/news/want-to-boost-immunity-look-to-the-gut

v https://veeroesquotes.com/healthy-eating-quotes/

The Papacy’s War On National Independence

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:32:54 GMT

The world is rapidly heading toward a centralized and globalist authoritarian governance model which will strip individual human beings of their civil liberties.

The World Economic Forum, an elitist cabal with aspirations of global control, has been growing in influence for decades. In 2023, it hosted yet another annual forum in Davos, Switzerland which was attended by many of the world’s key government and corporate leaders. The purpose of the ongoing meetings in Davos are to implement global collaboration on a supranational level to combat so-called global threats. The initiated elites are working overtime to bring in what they call a Great Reset, or Fourth Industrial Revolution, but which in reality is government and private industry uniting to control humanity and to eliminate the civil liberties and freedoms of humanity, including liberty of individual conscience, free speech, and the right to assemble to protest tyranny. The tools being utilized to accomplish these ends are:

A so-called “climate emergency”, which requires supranational control over the nations of the earth for the common good;
The claimed need to centralize information in the form of digital ID and digital currency to control all movement and all economic involvement;
The so-called “Covid emergency” which requires universal participation in a global health initiative to inject humanity with dangerous and ineffective drugs created by corporations who are immune to legal liability or the standard laws of transparency;
Trans-genderism and sexual immorality of every kind to break down family structures, personal independence, and what is left of biblical morality in the western world; and
War and threats of war against non-compliant nations who will not submit to the New World Order.

What is far less well-known is the key involvement of the Papacy with the WEF, and the common interests,

communications and goals between Klaus Schwab and Pope Francis. Schwab and Francis also have a common mentor, a Marxist revolutionary archbishop from South America, Helder Camara. Camara endorsed Cuban communism, and endorsed armed rebellion against government. ¹

One of the key obstacles still standing between global totalitarian control by Pope Francis and the WEF, are national interests and the weakening national constitutions that protect civil liberties in individual countries. Global priorities clash violently with constitutional protections for individual rights. It is impossible for the WEF to control so-called “misinformation” if there is a recognized individual right of freedom of speech in a given land. In the globalist world view, the right of dissent and protest must be eliminated or at least dramatically weakened. That is why there is a constant narrative from elites like Pope Francis of the need to elevate the so-called “common good” (as defined by himself) as a priority superior to individual rights.

Principle WEF advisor, best-selling author and prominent globalist homosexual, Yuval Noah Harari, has declared that human rights are actually a fiction, that life has no meaning, and that the God of the Bible is dead. ²

There is a connection between the Vatican’s war against individual rights and the centuries-old papal attacks on the idea of national sovereignty. The papacy has always claimed to be the vicar of Christ on earth, vested with all of Christ’s authority, and therefore above all civil powers. ³ Pope Leo XIII famously declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” And, as Pope Pius XI stated, “If there is a totalitarian regime, totalitarian in fact and by right – it is the regime of the Church, because man belongs totally to the Church.” ⁴

The clash between the absolute power claimed by the Popes of Rome and the national constitutions which protect individuals from papal authoritarianism, is obvious.

"The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience. Nothing is dearer or more fundamental. Pope Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: `The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error--a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.' The same pope, in his Encyclical Letter of December 8, 1864, anathematized `those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship,' also 'all such as maintain that the church may not employ force.'" ⁵

The clash between papal power and nations right to self-government is equally clear.

Five centuries ago, when Martin Luther was condemned by the Pope by a papal bull, Exsurge Domine, ⁶ a lengthy debate occurred within Germany as to whether Luther ought to be heard to answer to the charge of heresy by German authorities, or whether he should simply be handed over the Papacy to be presumably tortured by the Inquisition.

For himself, Luther burned the papal bull against him in the gate of Wittenberg in 1520.

Pope Leo X, who had issued the bull condemning Luther, demanded that Luther be turned over immediately. But German authorities were not so sure. Perhaps Luther ought to be given an opportunity to answer to the charge of heresy before German officials so his defense could be heard and judged accordingly. This enraged the pope. The Pope had already declared Luther guilty of heresy. The Germans had no right to consider anew a question which the Pope had already determined!

The pope’s agent, Papal Nuncia Jerome Aleander, railed against the interference with the papal bull by German authorities. When asked whether Luther should be permitted to appear before a secular tribunal to be examined as to the faith, Aleander replied, “Never”. He stated:

As for myself, I would gladly confront this Satan [referring pejoratively to brave Luther], but the authority of the Holy See should not be prejudiced by subjection to the judgment of the laity. One who has been condemned by the pope, the cardinals, and prelates should be heard only in prison. The laity, including the emperor, are not in a position to review the case. The only competent judge is the pope. How can the Church be called the ship of Peter if Peter is not at the helm? How can she be the ark of Noah if Noah is not the captain? If Luther wants to be heard, he can have a safe conduct to Rome. Or His Majesty might send him to the inquisitors in Spain. ⁷ [emphasis added]

And here, in plain sight, is the root of papal opposition to the concept of national authority, or nationalism. If a nation is independent from papal (or globalist) authority, then the papacy (or globalists) cannot compel a nation and its people to do anything. The concept of national autonomy must be broken, or at least cowed to the place where nations become compliant. In the words of Aleander, the laity are in no position to judge for themselves. If the laity, the common people, the common nations, have sovereignty to judge for themselves, they may well refuse to bend the knee to Covid vaccines, digital IDs, or climate Sunday laws, the modern sacraments of Pope Francis’ papacy.

The Vatican has been working for over two centuries to recover the loss of its global authority since Napoleon took Pope Pius VI captive, and broke the back of papal domination over the minds and consciences of the nations. Nationalist interests, and national constitutions, still stand in the way of the re-establishment of global papal control.

Below are some recent examples of papal objections to the concept of nationalism.

“No one nation can provide the common good f or its people all by itself”, Francis said. “The common good has become global and nations must come together for their own benefit.”

https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/05/nations-stirring-up-nationalism-betray-their-mission-pope-says

“On one side”, Francis said, “there is “a solidarity grounded in justice and the attainment of peace and unity within the human family, which is God’s plan for our world,” while the other path, he warned, “emphasizes self-sufficiency, nationalism, protectionism, individualism and isolation.“ It [nationalism] must not prevail ,” he added.

https://religionnews.com/2020/09/25/nationalism-must-not-prevail-pope-francis-said-addressing-the-united-nations/

“Our ‘we,’ both in the wider world and within the Church, is crumbling and cracking due to myopic and aggressive forms of nationalism and radical individualism, ” he said.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247547/pope-francis-migrants-bearing-brunt-of-aggressive-nationalism-and-radical-individualism

In our time, world peace is “ threatened by forms of particularism and nationalism, driven by selfish interests and unbridled greed,” the pontiff told a delegation from B’nai B’rith International, a nonprofit Jewish organization. “This increases the risk, in the end, of even greater contempt for human dignity and rights.”

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/05/30/pope-francis-world-peace-is-threatened-nationalism-unbridled-greed/

Conclusion

The Biblical book of Revelation predicts a global coalition between the papacy, the nations of the earth, and the merchants of the earth which prohibits buying and selling except for those who have the mark of the authority of the first beast of Revelation 13 (the papacy). Covid demonstrated the collaboration of these powers to deprive individuals of mobility and civil liberties. Humanity is moving at lightning speed toward the establishment of much greater controls in these areas.

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1 https://markcrispinmiller.com/2022/01/bad-religion-klaus-schwab-pope-francis-and-archbishop-dom-helder-camara-founder-of-liberation-theology/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwz4tPlOYs0

2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGt5xklfmsU; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj7Wg4DAbs – starting at minute 9.

3 See for example Papal encyclical “Quinquagesimo Ante” On His Sacred Jubilee, Pope Pius XI – 1929: “For Italy is Our own country, the country in which the overruling hand of God placed and fixed See of His Vicar on earth. He placed it here in Rome, which had been the capital of that marvelous, yet limited empire, thus making it the capital of the entire world. For thus it becomes the sovereignty that surpasses all national and political boundaries, that embraces all men and all peoples, like the sovereignty of Christ Himself, whom it represents and whose office it fills. The origin and character of this sovereignty… require that it should be, in fact and in appearance, independent and free from every human authority and law…”

4 Kertzer, David I., “The Pope and Mussolini: the secret history of Pius XI and the rise of Fascism in Europe”, 2014 Random House, p. 328, quoting Guasco 2010, pp 94-95.

5 The Great Controversy, p. 564.5

6 Exsurge Domine (Condemning the Errors of Martin Luther) https://famous-trials.com/luther/294-domine

7 https://www.famous-trials.com/luther/298-aleanderview

A Riveting Personal Testimony by Dr. Peter McCullough

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:06:23 GMT

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The Politics of Liberty

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:18:16 GMT

Introduction:

“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.” Lord Acton

In this multi-part series on the vital topic of Liberty, a number of aspects of Liberty will be under consideration. What it is and what it is not. Contrary to popular opinion Liberty and Freedom are not necessarily synonyms. As the above quote states, Liberty has inherent or applied guardrails or boundaries. In the New Testament letter by James, the Law of God with its limits is called the Law of Liberty.

It follows that the most salient opposite of Liberty is slavery. Slavery most commonly refers to the dastardly chattel slavery of not only the Confederate South, but throughout history and even in some parts of the world still today. However, there is a form of slavery masquerading as Liberty that is promised by the doers of evil that results in the restriction of Liberty to think and to do. A Liberty-restricting term we will explore as we move through this series is “wokeness”. The LGBTQ spirit of the age is another extension of slavery that disguises itself as freedom. These many kinds of slavery have resulted a splintering of society and culture as the unity of “One Nation Under God” is tragically becoming tribal, ethnic, and racially divided. Even Science against “the Science” has resulted in a striking bifurcation.

Throughout the Scriptural record the conflict of Liberty and Slavery is continually illustrated. Often this war between the two is called The Great Controversy between good and evil. It is clear that the Founder and Promoter of false Liberty is none other than Satan himself. In the Garden of Eden, Genesis 3, he promised to Eve a pseudo freedom that broke the bounds of God’s established guardrails. Rather than freedom, she and Adam discovered the horrors of destroyed Liberty in the consequences of sinful rebellion.

We see a similar scenario that has been unfolding in America for over 100 years. The guardrail protection of Constitutional principles, as seen through the lens of The Declaration of Independence, are increasingly rendered as old school and hopelessly out of date. Those attacked tenants of Liberty include, but are not limited to: Freedom of speech, a one tier rule of law rather than the two tiers that is now so obvious. Innocent until proven guilty (now the press and corrupt politicians have become judge and jury). Consent of the governed (COVID mandates and lockdowns were often unilateral not legislatively exercised).

Perhaps most troubling is the subtle undermining of the first clause of the First Amendment which prevents the establishment of religion. Increasingly, students of history especially from the 17 ^th century French Revolution to our day see the emergence of the State as the dominant religion. The modern godfather of the State as worthy of worship is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . His philosophy of the State is captured in his succinct, “The State is the march of God on the earth.” Another quote: “The State is God’s Will.” Little wonder, that despots of all stripes, whether Marxist or Fascist, count Hegel as a major influence.

Therefore, one can see the dominance of the Federal Government, whether through the Executive branch and its rogue unelected Administrative State or through the judicial activism of judges who too often rule by opinion rather than Constitutional principles. This rapidly emerging reality may indeed be the greatest threat to Liberty .

The 17 ^th century Framers of the Constitution recognized that separation of Church and State was the building block of Liberty. Mankind must be free to believe or not believe. In 1765 thirty year old John Adams brilliantly showed the positives of that separation in his “Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law”. It follows that in 1776 God used him to assist Thomas Jefferson in penning the grand and timeless document, “The Declaration of Independence”.

Rightly called our “civil religion” The Declaration highlights the equality of all men possessed of inalienable rights that, unlike countries such as Canada, are irrevocable as they are given by God and not the State. The State makes no rights. It can only recognize a right or trample on a right.

Finally, the title may give some pause as I chose the term “Politics”. To many the term has deservedly negative connotations. The concept of Politics originated as a positive and unfortunately, because of abuse, has descended into a virtually a “four-letter” word. In its best sense, politics is simply the art or science of

government . That would include the total complex of relations between people living in society. Moreover, the Greek word for politics was modeled on Aristotle’s “affairs of the city”. Very simply then, the meaning to be used in these essays will reference politics as those principles, policies, and actions that affect Liberty in its highest sense!

Principles of Church-State Relationships in the Writings of Ellen G. White

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:18:13 GMT

Surviving Pandemics: The Little Things Make Big Differences: Water, Part 2

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:28:31 GMT

Hydration, digestion, and immune function work together in a complementary fashion. The first step of digestion begins in the mouth. When food is eaten, it is critical that sufficient saliva combines to create a “bolus,” or mass of well-chewed food with slimy strands that hold the food together. Saliva contains immune cells that bathe and coat the food, signaling to the body that food is no longer a foreign substance, it is now part of “self.” ⁱ If that doesn’t happen, autoimmune diseases can begin to occur. Next, when food enters the stomach, the stomach cells secrete gastric juices to accomplish tasks relating to both digestion and immune function; killing pathogens and digesting proteins amongst other important activities. Ideal stomach acid ph is between 1.5-3.5. Optimal function occurs, therefore, when the body is properly hydrated and fluids are “pre-made, ” ready to work when the system receives physiological cues.

Dysfunction can occur in various ways. Dehydration causes poor salivary PH or insufficient saliva resulting in cavities, slowing food digestion time, and can leave the body open to infection. In the stomach, dehydration causes the stomach cells to produce low levels of acid, leading to disease dysfunction, also known as pathophysiology. Examples include indigestion, ulcers, poor nutrition absorption, and even bacterial overgrowth. The practice of drinking water ⁱⁱ or other liquids with meals also contributes to diluting stomach acids. This deficiency of acid causes a condition known as hypochlorhydria that can allow pathogens to pass through digestion unharmed. If there are not sufficient levels of acid in the stomach, proteins will not be well-digested and will contribute to leaky gut. ⁱⁱⁱ Undigested proteins cause fermentation which damage the gut lining. This in turn opens the gut barrier for pathogens, large food particles/molecules that may not have been completely broken down and other foreign objects to pass through the gut lining. The end results in some type of metabolic disease ^iv such as diabetes, or a cardiovascular condition, etc, certain types of asthma, or an autoimmune condition. Truly, Hippocrates was onto something when he stated, “disease starts in the gut.” But he would have been prophetic if he’d said, “Disease starts in the mouth.”

Additionally, as the gut and brain are in close communication via the vagus nerve (known also as the gut/brain axis) which connects the two systems, gut barrier damage travels and affects the brain barrier known as the blood-brain barrier. (bbb) ^v BBB barrier damage has been implicated in strokes, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. ^vi

Metabolic diseases, dehydration, gut barrier and bbb permeability all played significant roles in the severity of contracted SARS-CoV-2 illness. Simply put, those who had better nutrition ^vii and were well hydrated ^viii had better outcomes after contracting Covid. Those who did not suffered heavily and certain demographics with some of the aforementioned co-morbidities often died as a result.

In the next article, the gut and blood brain barrier will be analyzed in their roles as gatekeepers or entry points in the SARS-CoV-2 illness.

i https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/odi.12867

ii https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18473176/ This study evidences that 200ml or less than a cup of water causes minimal or insignificant disruption to stomach acid. It should be considered that far more than 200ml per meal most likely ingested when dehydrated and this liquid is likely to be juice, a sugary drink, alcohol or some other that further adulterates stomach acid.

iii https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpgi.00319.2017

iv https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-021-00991-6

v https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532923/

vi https://rupress.org/jem/article/217/4/e20190062/151582/The-blood-brain-barrier-in-health-and-disease

vii https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33558839/

viii https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08609-y

Darkness Falls in the Western World..Part 2

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 01:18:23 GMT

Speaking of the American War of Independence, George Washington wrote in 1778 that, “the hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all of this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.” ¹ [emphasis added]

George Washington led the Continental Armies – a group of ragtag colonialists against an experienced and better equipped British force. Washington was on the field of battle, watching the movements of forces and the clash of his armies against the superior power of the British empire. He knew that America was not raised by chance; it was raised by the hand of God.

But Washington’s warnings against infidelity and his reminder to be thankful for God’s blessings, which come with commensurate obligations, are no more fashionable in modern America than they were in the days of ancient Israel. Today, atheism and a godless evolutionism pervade public discourse. So-called science, such as that which imposed lockdowns, useless mask wearing, and the deadly Covid “vaccines”, has been elevated to the status of god. Ancient Israel worshipped the idols of other nations, and modern America worships licentious Hollywood, Anthony “I am science” Fauci, and Charles Darwin. The warnings of the Bible, and the themes of repentance and redemption, are thought irrelevant and antiquated, and it is not difficult to show that Washington’s warnings are almost entirely forgotten by this generation.

What will be the result?

God Himself warned the nation of Israel through Moses, down through Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Micah and Habakkuk, and the other prophets about the coming destruction. Those stern warnings were disregarded until the ten northern tribes were finally destroyed by the nation of Assyria, and Judah and its capital city of Jerusalem was repeatedly destroyed as well, first by the Babylonians, and later, some decades after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ the Messiah, again by the Romans.

Christ warned Israel, “your house is left to you desolate.” Matthew 23:38. When Christ stood before Pilate, and Pilate asked the Jewish leaders who he should release, they desired the release of Barabbas, a robber and a murderer. When Pilate asked them what he should do with their King, Christ, they shouted, “we have no king but Caesar.”

It is not a new idea to connect American prosperity and success with faithfulness to God, any more than it is a new idea to connect ancient Israel’s apostasy with ancient Israel’s destruction. When Benjamin Franklin called the Constitutional Convention to prayer in the summer of 1787, he noted, "God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that “except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Psalm 127:1). I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.” ² The tower of Babel was destroyed for faithless disobedience to the Creator God of the Universe. Lest any miss his point, Franklin is clearly warning America that its end will be the same if it loses the blessings and protections of heaven.

We live in a deteriorating and degenerate age. Violence, witchcraft and perversion of every sort is available at the tap of a smart phone button. False science mutilates children to supposedly change their biology. Millions of babies are killed for selfishness and convenience. Selfishness, narcissism, immorality and deceit are glorified by our entertainment industries. Atheism and relativism are taught as dogma in schools.

Watchful observers know that, like Rome, the western world is rotting at the core. Immoral. Decadent. Selfish. Effeminate. The question is asked – how can we stem the tide? How can we return to God, regain His favor, and forestall the looming judgments?

So-called “Christian nationalism” claims the solution to the widespread apostasy of America and the western world is for “Christians” to seize control of government and compel all people to abide by what it asserts is Christianity. This group hates the tyranny (and it is tyranny, make no mistake) of the woke progressive left and its ideological control of government, but it proposes to address leftist tyranny by imposing its own brand of Christian Nationalist tyranny.

The church and state combination of the woke left/government is an image to the church/state papacy. And Christian Nationalism, if it ever succeeded in controlling the government and imposing “Christianity” would be just as papal. How do you think the Inquisition started? For what purpose was it formed? It was formed to compel the conscience. There is no meaningful difference between the persecution of the Inquisition and the persecution of the left-over transgenderism or climate change. And there would be no meaningful difference between the Inquisition and a state controlled by Christian Nationalism.

Ideological control by the state, either as controlled by the left or the right, is nothing but the establishment of an orthodoxy and the punishment of any resultant “heretics”. If you disagree with the climate change farce, you are a heretic to the globalist tyrants. But if you disagree with the Christian Nationalists, who would compel the conscience on some other issue, you are a heretic to the Christian Nationalist tyrants. And either side would be perfectly happy to burn you at the stake.

So what is the solution?

The masses of the American colonies were from many different lands but were connected by the innate longing for temporal and religious liberty, and a desire to escape the heavy persecutorial hand of authoritarian kings and popes which had held sway over them and their ancestors for centuries. In modern parlance, they fled from state compulsion, and they would have fled from the child-confiscating mutilation of the left, as much as they fled from papists attempting to compel them to worship Mary.

There were many men in the time of Samson, but Samson was unique above all. What set bold Samson apart and made him different than all the other men of his age? How was it that he was equipped to stand alone, and to make war on the enemies of Israel?

We are told that Samson was called to be a leader and a liberator of the oppressed people of Israel. Consecrated to God from his birth, and sworn to uphold the principles of heaven, Samson was set apart from the “womb to the day of his death” – Judges 13:7. ¹

Just as there were many men in the time of Samson, there are many countries on the face of the earth. But America was called in its infancy to stand apart, to lift the banner of liberty of conscience for the oppressed masses of the world.

As Samson had a covenant with God which could not be broken without the loss of God’s special blessings, so America has a covenant with God, the breaking of which will not only result in the loss of the blessings of Providence but will results in the swift retribution of heaven against the nation, as it did in the days of old against apostate Israel.

What is the nature and content of this covenant?

Let us trace the terms of the representations by the Founders of America in the Declaration of Independence:

In Congress, July 4, 1776 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

All rights come from the Creator, not from the state. Governments do not make rights, they can only recognize a right or trample on a right. The secret of America’s success is that it safeguards the liberty of conscience of the Creator’s children, either from tyrants on the left (the current crop of tyrants), or any would-be tyrants on the right. The secret of America’s success is that it safeguards against human tyrants and protects inalienable rights.

If it forsakes this immutable principle, America will become nothing more than every other antagonistic and authoritarian human regime on the face of the earth, but with all the benefits that its forsaken Protestantism has bestowed.

1 The Writings of George Washington (from the Original Manuscript Sources , 1745–1799. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. 39 volumes. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931), 12:343.

2 James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987), 209-210.

3 Samson’s mother was warned that what she ate and drank would impact the child growing inside her. She was prohibited from using any strong drink or eating anything unclean. God says that life begins in the womb, and that there is a connection between the health and spiritual strength of a child and the choices of the mother.

Surviving Pandemics: The Little Things Make Big Differences : Water, Part 1

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 04:08:07 GMT

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Health Security, has released another pandemic “exercise. “ The latest version focuses on a crisis that disproportionately affects children and young adults. For those who have been paying attention, the Center has engaged in periodic simulations for which it might better be named “Center of Health Mortality”. ⁱ

Since the early 1990’s, (and before) scientists and medical researchers have expressed ongoing uneasiness of the impending era of the superbug. ⁱⁱ First world overuse of antibiotics and antivirals had been heedless of these dangers and standard of care practices mindlessly trampled over the liminal reality of this prophetic concern. But the Covid pandemic snapped the public to alert like no other warning could. Covid hospitalizations were ugly, medical supplies were lacking, frontline workers had long since surpassed burnout, nurse to patient ratioswere at an all-time high, and looming contagions were ahead. ⁱⁱⁱ Not only had the medical infrastructure been teetering beforehand, but it was in no shape to usher society into wellness then or any time in the future.

Once Covid protocols were finally implemented, hospital stays evidenced there were simple, yet effective steps that were instrumental in saving lives. Some of those included ensuring patients’ vitamin C, D and Zinc levels were within normal range. In cases of serious illness, emergency doses were pivotal in (in addition to medications) boosting the body’s ability to pull through Covid, even in the cases of those with severe comorbidities. ^iv

These matters ought to concern every Seventh-day Adventist who is tasked with spreading the Three Angels’ Messages, regardless of what occurs in the world at large. A word to the wise worker, therefore, it is best to be apprised and maintain optimal health in an unfriendly political, religious and health climate. Doing so ensures that Jesus has use of His workers when He needs them. And for those who may fall ill, He has made it abundantly plain that His workers may not request healing when simple remedies are neglected. ^v

Drinking sufficient water is one of those areas that is highly underestimated, yet, has such a profound impact on the immune system. Most know water intake is not what it ought to be, but is it considered that the body has the additional task of converting water into fluids otherwise the immune system is impaired? Salivary glands, the stomach and the gut lining are important components of defense in addition to their function in the digestive system. Simply put, when these areas are not supplied with water to properly function, pathogens bypass these protections, sometimes causing immediate illness.

It is common practice to drink water or some other liquid with food to “wash the food down.” But saliva and gastric fluids must be in correct composition before food is consumed, to be most protective. The salivary glands produce around 1.5 liters ^vi of saliva daily which is 98% water and contains antibacterial compounds and beneficial bacteria, amongst other components. Likewise, the cells in the stomach produce between 3-4 liters of hydrochloric (hcl) acid a day for digestion but also to kill pathogens. ^vii Finally, when the gut is properly hydrated, it plumps up, minimizing pathogens from being absorbed into the body, as well as prevents large or toxic food particles from passing through the barrier. If the body is dehydrated either by lack of water or by drinking caffeine, or sugary beverages, for example, the saliva, gastric juices and gut lining are not physiologically ready to kill viruses, bacteria, fungi, and heal wounds. ^viii Pathogens then have access to the system, et voila!! Illness occurs where it wouldn’t have if all systems were “go.”

In the next installment of this series, the lack of water will be investigated in its role of causing comorbidities which can then play a role in pandemic illness.

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i https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/

ii Buhner, Stephen Harrod. Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives For Treating Drug Resistant Bacteria. (2013) Massachusetts: Storey Publishing, X,pp.

iii https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2207252

iv https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8712288/

v The SDA Bible Commentary, Vol 7, p.939

vi https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052503/#:~:text=The%20normal%20daily%20production%20of,chewing%20and%20other%20stimulating%20activities.

vii https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279304/

viii https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855406/

Night Falls In the Western World- Part 1

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:44:46 GMT

As the western world decays and forsakes the founding principles which elevated it to global prominence, it will move ever more rapidly toward menacing authoritarianism. Whether Covid was orchestrated or only exploited by powerful forces working toward this end is the substance of debate, but what is unmistakable is that the shift is ongoing in real time, right before our eyes.

Definable foundations undergird western success and prosperity: liberty of conscience and religious freedom, free speech and uncensored public discourse, and the right to assemble to seek redress for public grievances. Respect for private property rights. These comprise the proven platform for national greatness and individual advancement. Where liberty of conscience and freedom of speech is respected and upheld, humanity tends to advance. Where the heavy hand of the state controls the thoughts, words, and consciences of the populace, human society suffers, retreats and stagnates.

Though unpopular to state it, this is the key difference between the success and prosperity of predominantly Protestant countries and the stagnation and poverty of predominantly Catholic countries.

Many examples might be discussed which evidence the correctness of the foregoing assertions. One could speak of the Huguenots, for example, and their severe persecution by Catholic France. Papal-influenced France murdered hundreds of thousands of Protestant Huguenots, starting with the St. Bartholomew’s massacre, which occasioned the flight of the Huguenots from France. ¹ France’s loss became Belgium, Holland, England and American’s gain when Huguenot merchants, artisans, inventors and chemists sought liberty in flight from their homes in France. ² Many scholars say that France has never fully recovered from the loss of its best and brightest.

Huguenot Irénée du Pont brought expertise for making gunpowder to the American revolutionaries. ³ The Wright Brothers were of Huguenot descent. Warren Buffett is of Huguenot descent. George Washington was of Huguenot descent on his mother’s side. Eight US Presidents were of Huguenot descent, including Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, and Harry Truman. Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, is of Huguenot descent. Alexander Hamilton and John Jay are of Huguenot descent, as is John D. Rockefeller. ⁴

One only has to consider the explosion of invention and innovation in America to recognize the truth of the matter. Humanity stagnated and suffered under the thumb of tyrannical popes and kings for over a thousand years. The Bible was kept from the people, chained up in monasteries and reserved as a tool for priests to use to falsely support the rule of papal powers. The middle class was virtually nonexistent. There were monarchs, lords, and ecclesiastical powers at the top of the societal hierarchy, and oppressed and exploited peasants at the bottom.

But liberty gave a home to the oppressed in America, and created a land without kings or popes. When it did, there was an explosion of human creation and advance that has not been rivalled in history. From this home of liberty came ligh tbulbs and mass-produced automobiles, telephones and airplanes, the artificial heart, the phonograph, the internet, the hearing aid and GPS. The light of the Bible, and its messages of forgiveness, salvation in Christ, and the God-given right for humanity to come to God through Christ alone and not through an intermediary and exploitive human power such as the papacy, was studied and taught by the Pilgrims and their children for generations.

American civil government placed checks and balances on the inclinations of tyrannical leaders. The separation of power between Congress, the Executive and the Judiciary served to restrict authoritarianism and increase accountability. The Declaration of Independence asserts in thunder tones that rights do not come from the state but from the Creator God. The Constitution codifies individual rights. The people have a say in the laws which rule them in America’s republican democratic form of government.

To a significant extent, these governmental principles were also incorporated in most of the western world following the rise of the United States on the global stage.

And each of these principles – liberty of conscience, freedom of speech, limitations on executive power, the basic concept of inalienable individual rights - is under severe threat. America and the western world today increasingly tend toward a slouching and ominous authoritarianism.

In the next segment of this series, we will explore the movement away from liberty and toward authoritarianism which is sweeping the west, and how ominous this development is for global freedom. When malevolent powers attempted to conquer the world and humanity through warfare in World War I and II, the western world rose to do battle with the powers of darkness.

As the western world, with its great might and many blessings, turns villain and persecutor, there is truly no earthly power with the power to stop it. This series will also examine Bible prophecy, and what is foretold to happen next.