It alludes to God bringing an end to Capitalism among many other events that have already come to pass. I lack confidence in myself even though I have faith in God and His word. It’s difficult to put myself out there in any capacity. Following God isn’t always easy.
Here’s a portion from the prophecy. Dagon represents Capitalism.
And the Lord says,
“Ready yourselves, for I will break Dagon. The Philistines will be punished for taking what they thought was a dead god into their camp, thereby leading My people into captivity and thus defeating them. Along with Dagon, Eli also will fall and break his neck for all the evil he has done in My name when I had nothing to do with it. Depart from me for I have not known you – for Eli will be broken and the Ark returned to My people.
Even The World Is Sensing The Change
Now in 2023 here is a prominent intellectual, Eric Weinsein stating that now is the time we stop trying to wrestle with Capitalism and Communism and instead develop an entirely new economic system.
I’m telling you dear people, those of you who believe in God, cling to Him alone! Let the world do as it must – we will be grieved at the evil taking place but God will be the pillar to keep us steady and strong. Not Intellectualism, not Economics, not one political party or another….God alone. He will keep dismay at bay.
Weinstein asks, What is the next Economic System?
God Is Bringing A New Wave Of The Spirit
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19 NIV
There is another move of God that is upon us right now. I’ll post about this next. The current Protestant ministers will reject this new wave of God’s Spirit – it always happens this way, the old always rejects the new. Jesus is the greatest example of this kind of paradigm shift.
The main core of this movement, believe it or not, is not being birthed out of the Church as we know it.
It’s being birthed out of intellectual atheism where many intellectuals are following their curiosity about God and in seeking truth, it’s brought them out of the dark and into God’s presence. I’ll share more in the next post.
God cannot and will not be put into a box made by mankind. Get ready, as Eric says here, in a secular sense, God is saying in a spiritual sense: Everything you know is about to break loose because I’m doing something altogether new!
I was thinking this morning about this blog, small and obscure, and I wondered, could there people at some future point in time who might need to know what I know, after I’m gone. And then I realized this blog will cease to exist because there’ll be no one to pay the annual fee.
Preserving Our Work as Christians
I often record things; my thoughts, the sound of nature, the environment when I hike or go to the pool. I like ambience, it helps me focus and write without the visual distraction.
This got me thinking that maybe I should verbally read and record all my, haha 50?, blog posts. And to back them up somewhere. There are free versions of blog and recording platforms that will remain after I’m no longer here and I wouldn’t have to worry about them going dark if the fees aren’t paid.
But the other thing is censorship. Anything can be taken down at any time. Not to mention shadow bans which are much more sneaky…slowly traffic drifts away.
I wondered, what benefit would there be to create a site that I didn’t try to promote and allow it to lay dormant and hidden? Let it remain a secret?
Then I started thinking about something else, that I keep thinking about.
Censorship and Destruction of Truthful Knowledge
We know that when any anti-Christian power prevails, things get burned, censored and destroyed. (The devil comes not but to steal, kill and destroy.) The devil is constantly trying to destroy all the road signs that his doom is eminent. That leaves very few ways for the word of God to be passed on to those who are left once the Church is raptured. It would have to be the word, or the seed of God’s word, preserving biblical knowledge from the heart, from one person word of mouth to the other. Not in all cases, there will be bibles and notes saved and hidden no doubt.
But for many, there immediate family will be taken and they will be left. These are the ones who will rationalize, finally, that indeed the biblical text was a prophecy and correct. But they are left with no knowledge or very little to move forward into chaos.
Hopefully, the world won’t be so treacherous immediately following the rapture because the Church will still be in the earth and God will not destroy a place until the righteous are taken out. Bibles won’t have been burned and blogs and videos censored. It will give those who are to be saved, ‘even though only as one escaping through the flames’, a chance to gather knowledge of Christ and the prophecies. There will hopefully be time to seek out information if only a small window of time, before the internet is locked down to all things biblical and Christian.
Persecution Will Arise and Get Fierce: The Darkness is Growing
But I don’t know that this will be the case. Much persecution could take place before the Church is removed, and it must be removed before the tribulation period can begin. This means the printing and selling of bibles could become illegal. And don’t try it, or your social credit score will be tanked and your cbdc chip will be locked.
No food for you rebellious troublemakers! With all your love and morality doctrines…
The forces of Darkness and Light are becoming so evidently distinct that even mainstream, once lukewarm Christians are taking notice. The Light is becoming concentrated and brighter, the Narrow Way is making Himself evident to all.
And here’s an interesting thing I’m noticing, even intellectuals are taking notice. It’s almost as if the next move of God will be coming from outside of the Church. There’s no telling what God is up to. The Jews would never have thought God would extend His message outside of their parameters, but He did. Through the Gentiles no less, of all ruthless people, those wild olive branches:)
And yet, here we are. “I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” John 10.16
Small Footprints Can Still Make a Path
So I’d encourage you, if you also are Christian and you enjoy sharing His word online, think of a few different avenues to use in order to preserve the knowledge and wisdom God has given you. There will be many in the coming years/decades who may find themselves left in the cold and needing what you’ve shared in order to survive.
And you may think, as I do, that’s crazy there are plenty of resources out there. No one is listening now so why bother? But things don’t always work out rationally. And it’s not beyond my imagination that most of the popular well known avenues of biblical resources will be the first to be shut down.
All I know is this: if you’ve also been thinking about this, or what I’ve said resonates with you, it might be a good idea to follow the Spirit’s leading and preserve your work. God knows all, He already sees how all this will play out in the final days. Trust Him and act on faith – the worst that can happen is that you spent time spreading the knowledge of God to a few more platforms across the internet. That’s a positive any which way you look at it.
Because man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Getting to work writing short stories these past few months and submitting to publishers which also includes managing rejections. I look over the acceptance percentages on Submissions Grinder to calm my rejection anxiety which, to be honest, I’ve grown rather accustomed to as a creative person.
From the Top…
I always start with the hardest SF/F magazines to get into first. My thinking is this, if the magazines that are easiest to get into reject the piece, then I’m done playing, game over. So to prolong the fun and the agony of rejection, I start at the top. That way I get a multitude of highs followed by dejecting lows all the way down. At least my story lives and dies a little longer before completely rolling over.
As writers, looking at a 1%-5% acceptance rate, we know the odds are stacked against us. But, it’s a passion and I enjoy the challenge. It’s not a complete waste of time because I’m happy working at it, I enjoy writing and the fun of submitting, and I’m learning a great deal.
If you can hold on to that attitude or something similarly positive, you’ll accomplish much.
Just recently, I saw where a writer submitted 50 times to Clarkesworld and finally was accepted.
And…you have to tier your rejections in this business. Some rejections are better than others, ha. If you’ve received personalized rejections then that’s the best rejection you can hope for. But even if you get the coveted words try us again in the future, then you know you’re on the right track.
I have received a few try us again/hope to read something new from you soon rejections, which means I’m getting close. But no cookie. Hey, in this business, you’re allowed to count the eggs that at least touch your basket as they fall…
Managing Rejections
Some of the rejection emails I’ve received showed ‘managing editor’ or ‘editor’, but there are different interpretations for this; some say it’s still a basic form rejection regardless of who is listed as the email sender. I’m not so sure of that. They say personalized is when the editor mentions something specific about the piece you’ve submitted.
Others say a personalized rejection is any email from the editor(s) that has a personal ‘submit again’ or ‘looking forward to reading more of your work soon’.
I like the following interpretation:
Treasure your personal rejections. Even if they’re just a sentence long. Personal rejections mean someone’s read your work, deemed it worth commenting on, and taken the time to let you know what they think. A personal rejection is a GEM in a pile of rejection-rocks. In most cases, you’re likely to get some useful feedback with a personal rejection – maybe the editor liked your writing but wasn’t so sure about the story, or maybe they didn’t want this particular submission but request that you send them something else. Or maybe they want to offer you some personalised critique to help you improve your writing.
The Stats So Far: I’m Counting the Act of Submitting as Progress:)
I’ve submitted 4 stories to 12 markets. They were Science Fiction, Creative Non-fiction and Literary fiction magazines.
If I use the above interpretation, I’ve had 5 personal rejections and the remaining 7 were form rejections coming from ‘teams’ or first readers. The stats on ‘personal rejections given’ by various magazines are between 3.9% and 14.93%. The magazines to which I’ve submitted range from Smokelong to Black Static to Clarkesworld.
I am particularly pleased that these 5 rejections came from the editor or managing editor and requested to see more of my work. It gives me some hope and motivation:) I’ve also received a few middle tier rejections that came from ‘the team’ or something similar but they included “We look forward to reading further submissions from you.”
If you’ve received emails like this, you’re on the right track:)
So there seems to be a tiered progress for submissions:
a blanket form rejection with no invitation to see more work
a middle tier that ‘requests to see more work’ but doesn’t make it to the editor’s desk
a personalized rejection from the managing editor or the editor-in-chief that extends an invitation to submit more work
and then one other upper tier variation from the editor that includes a personal comment about the work, how to improve it or what they like about it
It’s the Jacob’s Ladder to Acceptance Heaven I guess, lol!
Summertime
It’s a new week! I have been dreaming of a vacation on the beach, it’s been awhile….and it’s been a terribly long year. So I may have to travel south for a bit this summer. But for now, gonna keep working~
Have a wonderful weekend everyone, many blessings <3
In this Youtube video filmed in 1973, Computer Predicts The End Of Civilisation , there is a discussion ensuing between a group of men from The Club of Rome consisting of seventy men, (one being the president of the World Bank, Dr. Alexander King), about interdependence between nations globally and how the power of sovereignty is less than what we presumed it to be even decades ago. The title is strange, the computer making the predictions is called World One. Interesting play on words. But the greatest information is gleaned not from the 1973 behemoth spitting out archaic line graphs, but from the small circle of men discussing the future of the world order.
The discussion is both fascinating and alarming. They are speaking of the very existence of the European Union before it was ever realized. And I believe they are speaking to the greater formation and materialization of the New World Order.
Listen to the language used in the film: ‘population control’, ‘closed world system’ and convincing leaders of nations to comply, a ‘whittling away of sovereignty’, ‘interdependence which has seeds of the draining away of sovereignty within it.” Unbelievably bold language pertaining to stripping nations of their powers, not protecting them. This perhaps is what the lust for power looks like in a calm conversation amongst comrades….
Looking Into Prophecy
There is a section in Revelation where we are informed of a first beast that suffers a mortal wound but lives, and then a second beast which rises as an administrator of power. The second beast was executing serious power over the people; ‘causing’ is the word used in scripture. So it was able to exert force and to bring people to death:
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. 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. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 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. 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.
(Revelation 13.11-15)
The chilling verse in this narrative – as if any part is less chilling! – is the 15th verse: And it was allowed to give breath to the image.
What in the name of all that’s holy is this thing capable of, if in fact it has the ability to ‘give breath’ to an image? Maybe this could be said in this way, ‘bringing a great Lie to life.’ An image, or lie mind you, that the beast is ‘causing’ all the people of the earth to worship? I can’t even dwell on this for too long. When we reach this point, the preservation of life and our salvation will indeed be dire upon the earth.
We Must Discern the Truth Behind the Image
This One World Government is the direction the world is going, indeed has been going for centuries. Leaders, intellectual think tanks comprised of men and women like these (the WEF is a perfect example), who hold the kind of power average people like me could never understand, are making decision and moving nations like Chess pieces over the vast seas of earth.
You may think you know exactly what these players are trying to ‘checkmate’: climate change, pollution, over-fished seas, gluttonous consumption, economic headwinds . All things which need to be handled if we are going to prolong life on this earth, or so the narrative goes dear people.
However, what they are really doing is far more sinister: they are trying to checkmate God.
The Tower of Babel: Is It Not The One World Government?
And how exactly do human beings checkmate God? They replace Him of course and make Him of no consequence. They have to blind the masses and deceive the earth in order to pull off this feat. But I’m reminded of this verse: And it deceived all the people living on earth by means of the miracles which it was allowed to perform in the presence of the first beast.
They build a Tower of Babel, and they are doing so right now under our noses. And like always, we never learn from our mistakes, do we? And so we build, upwards, higher and more grotesque as it rises in its arrogance against the sky, the face of God, defying God to touch it or dismantle the blasphemous abomination devouring everything including parts of itself if need be.
But the wrath of God will touch it. And the wicked will scatter with utter chaos ensuing. Another verse that heralds the difficulty of the times is this one: Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
God help us. If we are still in the earth during these treacherous times, the saints must rest in knowing they have been sealed by the Spirit of God. We were not saved into the Kingdom of God for calamity. Calamity is the bread of the wicked. This we can be sure of.
The Work of the Wicked Continues
These men have passed on. The film being made in 1973. But their ideals and hold on power have carried forward through the generations and will ultimately culminate one day in the realization of that ever elusive One World Government. Ah, the Tower that will govern the whole earth. Except the earth doesn’t belong to mankind.
Humans can be so pridefully stupid.
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?
(Psalm 24.1-3)
No one will. No one will ascend and no one will stand.
A Strange Twist of Fate; The Irony of Their Logic
“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11.4)
Notice the irony of their thought process. The very thing they were afraid of, the thing which inspired and motivated them to build the tower: “…otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth…” is the very fate they walked into. Did you catch that?
The very thing we are doing now, in the earth, in the natural, is trying to save earth from being destroyed and we are doing it by building a Tower of Babel of the modern century. Does it not follow that this Tower also will be judged and destroyed? They say, ‘the world isn’t ending’, but in actuality, the very force they do not believe exists and that they are fighting against will overtake them. That Force is the God who owns the earth and all its fulness. A Force anyone in the right mind, who heeds history, would never defy out of arrogance and pride.
They can’t discern their own folly, thinking they are building for their own sakes, to save their own names, to save their own lives, when in actuality their destruction is already on the way. “Doomsayers” the builders cry, condemning the prophets of God.
Their Deeds Reaped Their Calamity
But these builders of the tower, though I pray some at least might come to understand, have no clue what is happening to them and the world as they understand it is only a false narrative. The narrative, the false meaning of life, is in the building of the Tower; you see, the work itself calls judgement into itself, (that they may not be scattered and yet their deeds caused them to be scattered) having already been ‘weighed in the balance and found wanting’.
“So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel –because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.”
How could so many be deceived together? A disastrous working out of their own destruction and they weren’t aware of it in the slightest.
Getting Serious About Prophecy For The Time Grows Short
These matters are not trivial. Not in the slightest. The seeds of destruction are being sown and erected into a ‘god of man’. There is no ‘alarmist’ sentiment. It is prophecy being birthed in the earth. And in this God cannot be mocked, “whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.”
I had a vision of something like the building of the Tower of Babel, I’m not sure what it was exactly – I’ll have to look it up and read it again – and perhaps I’ll share it here. I definitely have more to say on this subject. There are just too many people who can’t see it. I’m not sure how some things, not all, seem so clear to me. With the Spirit of God, all things can become known.
Hope everyone’s week is going well. Please feel free to leave your impressions of this in the comment section if you feel so inclined. Looking into these things is quite interesting to me.
I have the uncanny notion that first a plan of action, a New World Order, will be established that addresses all the problems and issues that are happening in the world today: cultural, environmental, financial, etc. I think a positive and good world government will come to power, but not long after, wickedness will prevail and pervert it and establish the end time’s prophecy of the One World Government with the antichrist at the center. There is a jostling for power that is shaking everything right now.
I’m thinking through many different scenarios, as this topic is being talked about over a wide range of speakers and influencers lately. Some tackle it as a whole, others in pieces. I’m going to tie together what I see because I find it interesting.
Should we be alarmed? Perhaps we should be at least jolted awake, but if nothing else, we shouldn’t be blind and we shouldn’t be caught unaware. I feel an urgency. The Spirit is waving a warning that the time of the fulfillment of the prophecy is soon. I’m not the only one who is sensing this.
They call us alarmists I suppose, but consider this: we’re sitting in a room of lights, all equally functioning to light the room. I say, ‘the lights are getting ready to go out’, and no one believes me, because all is seemingly working properly. Then one, two, five, twelve lights begin flashing irregularly, everything is chaotic and I along with others say again, ‘the lights are getting ready to go out,’ and still, even with all these signs, all these warnings that are manifesting in the room, they call us alarmists and don’t take heed.
Spheres of Influence
Let’s lay out the components of the One World Government (OWG) that are already instituted, functioning and integrated within the world today; these are aspects of the seven mountains or spheres of influence: religion, family, education, government, business, media, arts and entertainment.
Who Are The World Players?
These pillars will be reworked and then instituted among the populations of the earth. Each will be defined as something different than the fundamental scriptural and moral meanings they currently hold – because the devil always subverts and perverts the word or logos of God. The educational system will be used to do this, for instance, to twist what the family unit really constitutes, or to call into question what a female is, and ultimately to call into question: a robot is a human is a robot is a human is a…., you get the picture. If you don’t, time to wake up. Religion will be watered down and without any power, save intellectual, carnal and consumerist power. The spiritual aspect of worship will be driven out and rationality and false peace will take its place. “A form of godliness, but lacking the power thereof…”
The players on the scene today:
The World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Bank
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Economic Forum (WEF)
The One World Church (I kid you not, worship of multiple deities (Interfaith) within the same church service. One-World Church Expected this Year
The Spheres Not Yet Manifest and Centralized
These are the present manifestations of the foundation of the New World Order which will be fashioned into the One World Government that is being built to execute rule over all nations. We don’t yet have a central world educational entity that I’m aware of, the spirit is manifesting now globally in much of the antichrist chaos we see playing out in prestigious educational venues, but not yet centralized. That’s coming and will be gravely distorted – no education at all really, just indoctrination.
Arts and Entertainment may not need to be centralized but perhaps one day only A.I. art will be legal because self expression will be illegal. Don’t know, that may be too extreme but art demands freedom of expression which would be too close to freedom of speech, or else it is propaganda art, which is possible too. However at this point, any Panem will work to distract the masses from what’s really going on – we’re working to build your doom; bread and circuses for the peasants to feast upon!Be merry, drink and eat and have your play, be satiated! We’re coming for you soon enough.
Media will centralize but for now, it plays the part of the mouthpiece of the dragon…oh the dragon…perhaps we’ll get to him another time…
The Social Credit Score and Digital Money
Though the most evil, money will contain within it the ability to rule over the people through digitally tying the buyer/individual to a social credit score. This could also be the ‘mark’ in some fashion as no buying or selling can be done without the mark (Rev 13.17). So, if you don’t have the proper social credit score, your chip or digital currency cannot be used to buy food, electricity, clothes, anything. And fiat money at this point will be illegal. And unfortunately, I don’t think gold will save us; they’ll confiscate that too, cunningly at first, I might add. It’s happened once, it will happen again: Executive Order 6102
It is the Universal Monetary Unit, or UMU. The power of this unit seems sweeping in its authority over all other currency. The other thing of note is she alludes to some ‘incident’ that will push this to a universal usage by all nations. God help us what this could be; but I’ve no doubt something along the lines of the 2008 Banking Collapse. And to be honest, fiat money has been pushed so far that to link it back to gold would be very difficult – it would fracture as much or more than bitcoin. And it’s a manual process, how do you make a $1 coin out of gold? It would be too tiny to see.
Some Closing Thoughts
Now this is just something for us to think about and be aware of. I’ll share another post which is rather chilling with a film from 1973, the men appear as prophets but they aren’t – they are the players behind the scene strumming the strings of the OWG instrument. So just consider what I’ve said, stay informed, I would say. Let’s focus on the good dear people. I think we should know what could be coming so we aren’t dismayed when it happens to us. Pray, pray, pray. Preparedness can be beneficial in handling difficult situations. And if it doesn’t happen? Well that’s great! We can bring all the good plans we’ve been focusing on in the meantime to fruition:)
Follow this reasoning, ‘get behind me Satan because your mind is not set on the things of God.” What’s the issue of the Cross here?….Jesus brought up the Cross and Peter rebuked Him because it upset their plans, and then Jesus goes right towards the mind, He goes right to the way of thinking. He says ‘your mind is set on the things of man and not the things of God”….Humanity without Christ as the center is demonic in nature.
Bill Johnson
Some Thoughts on Desire and Ways to Handle It
I spent around two hours this morning writing my thoughts on a YouTube video about desire and the problems associated with it as Christians. Instead of it falling into obscurity, I thought I’d flesh it out here in case it may help someone. Only Jesus understands the ferocious battles of desire we have slain and been slain by; the tears we cry and the wrestling we endure to gain victory over the carnal mind.
You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.
Psalm 56.8
Desire Isn’t Always A Bad Thing
Desire can be annoying when we can’t have what we want, but it also can be a signal that something necessary is missing in our life; like what some people experience when they crave ashes because they are lacking some mineral in their body. We aren’t careful enough with desire, to slow down and really listen to it.
The Israelites experienced God’s punishment in the desert for complaining about not having anything but manna to eat, no meat, no vegetables. God sent them quail and with it, a plague.
But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
Numbers 11.33
Personally, I believe that it wasn’t Israel’s desire for meat that was punished. It was the complaining which was born out of ruminating or lusting after the thing which then led to punishment. When craving is what the heart is founded upon, it leads to error. Sometimes we are spoiled, complaining brats in need of correction. Other times we really aren’t understanding what the word means when He says, “I come so that you may have life, and that more abundantly.”
I wonder why the Israelites didn’t just ask God for meat? Maybe they were still too young in their experiences with God – the spiritual teenage years are so maddening.
One Key To Handling Desire Is Putting God First
I’ve been practicing putting God and the kingdom of God first, then all else will be added to my life at the appropriate time. This is proper order and balance. If you have a desire for something, pray for it and leave it at God’s feet. Easier said than done but one can avoid entering into discontentment, then craving, then sin.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6.33
I’ve learned in all my years to approach abundance as ‘lacking nothing’, or lacking no good thing. Anything over and above I do my best to manage it responsibly and be extravagantly generous with it. This evens out my own temperament and proclivity to be an asshole.
It’s a matter of the heart because many situations having to do with gratefulness are relative. My cousin is a successful psychotherapist in NY, he founded the Walk and Talk therapy in Central Park back in the nineties. Some of his clients are top 1%. Their problems have to do with managing anger because ‘Fred’ docked his yacht in their prime spot…the bastard. And this is an issue for this particular individual in his demographic. But how many times have I been annoyed (as if I deserved a thing) that I didn’t get to eat at the restaurant I wanted because there were no reservations left or they forgot to write my name in?
And somewhere there’s a woman who gets only one cup of porridge a day to survive on and no clean water to drink.
Experiencing Desire Can Help Us Be More Grateful
Desire is all about the intent of the heart. Having the desire is not the issue; it informs us perhaps of what we are lacking and need. However, cultivating a life of desire leads to greed and this can destroy our relationships, including and most importantly our relationship with God.
After experiencing several situations in my life, one including serving two years of missions work on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, I understand what Paul says to some small degree:
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” Philippians 4.12
I can say once I got back to the States, ten years on, I’m always grateful for easy access to any kind of food (or a/c, or water) I could possibly crave. We only crave what we cannot have or are unwilling to pay the price to obtain (and this is a difficult situation when the price to be paid for that which we desire is a cost too great to bear). Otherwise, we’d just figure a way to have it. And it’s in the familiarity, the ‘taking for granted’ that we lose respect and gratefulness for what we have.
Here’s another post I wrote on sexual desire within relationships; it’s best experienced within the union of marriage, otherwise, it could burn our entire lives down:
A Seal Upon Your Heart
And what about when it’s the people around us who are changing but we aren’t keeping up? The motives and intentions of the heart can be deceiving. We want the best for loved ones but then we find ourselves ungrateful (or complaining) that we don’t experience the same.
Learn To Pray For The Things You Desire, It Will Bring Balance
And then sometimes, we have to let go in order to gain…balance, you know? And Paul’s sentiment is good for anytime in our lives, it really is about balance and contentment in any and all circumstances we find ourselves in and trusting God to fulfill the desires of our heart in due time.
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37.4
Our desires aren’t all bad – sometimes God will put that desire in us so that we might pray and bring it to fruition. Maybe like a spinoff of Cain and Abel: the desire is produced but instead of offering it to God so that He may bless it and it become a blessing to us, we run with it and keep it for ourselves in which case it becomes putrid and makes us sick. Other times we aren’t ready for what we desire and we’d only lose it because the proper foundation to sustain that thing hasn’t been solidified. Especially if we haven’t learned how to keep God in the top place. To be caught off guard complaining and highly satiated – we’ll end up sick. Gratefulness is a soothing medication.
God Is A Rewarder Of Those Who Diligently Seek Him; Remember All That He Has Done
And let us never forget! Call into remembrance all that He has given when we didn’t deserve it; and that God is a great rewarder for faithfulness on our part. Job received double for all his difficulties at the end of the day. Joshua and Caleb were the only two who saw the Promised Land due to remaining faithful when all others were faithless. He’s so generous in fact that He causes us to reap pressed down, shaken together and running over. I do not apologize for these blessing of abundance on my life, because I understand the cost to me and to Christ! And this cultivates a heart of thankfulness and gratefulness.
Hence comes a point where nothing more can be managed or added to a situation, no unexpected surprise or additional responsibility because all that was going to crescendo has done so already. Now there is only the Falling Action, the decrescendo where each rung of the ladder is managed carefully and with increasing relief until solid ground is underfoot. That is, until the next Crescendo begins.
The worst, at least for this show, is over.
I’ve learned a few things, things I wish weren’t so, but they are. And I must deal with them.
So, I took a nice Sensory Tech Deprivation moment and began unraveling the gnarly knots. This will take a few posts.
The Covid knot.
The Loss knot. (Will write about later.)
The Shattered Routine or Chaos knot. (Later…)
The What in Hades is on Fire in Here knot.
The Piping Propagandists
All throughout 2021-22, the malevolent players were stitching their Scarlet Letters onto my person one propaganda spew after another. It was increasingly clear, my government was no longer a shelter for me. By consequence of going unvaxxed – and in no way was I going to be – I had become the stigmatized Inferior, stripped day by day of privileges which otherwise were my right as an American citizen. I not only read about the daily erosion of my rights, or witnessed it happening to others, or thought about it…no, I was experiencing it real time. No vax card? No entry. What I believed to be true about reality was crumbling and this new narrative world was closing in on me.
This did something to me, you see, the narrative always starts in the mind then it’s enacted. Take control of the narrative and you control the speed and direction of a thing. I’d liken my mental state during this time to the Precognitives in Minority Report who saw the crimes before they were committed. I sensed this to an alarming, jarring degree – call the after effects of it ptsd or something of the like, but it was unsettling, disquieting, and felt as if reality itself was crumbling beneath my feet. Everything I had ever known to be true and stable was absolutely upended and being destroyed within the context of the Covid and Woke narratives.
What made it worse was the censoring of all other voices like my own. So the isolation tactics were accurately wielded. Another blow to the constitution of reality and truth. Everything that is good is exactly opposite of what you believe to be truth! And alas it is YOU who are the Inferior menace to society, now go be vaccinated!
Just recently has all this come out and still these sinister forces fight, denying, obstructing and pushing a non-reality as if it were truth. Where were the critical thinkers? The truth-seekers?
Oh, right…censored. I wish I could better explain it, but I felt the greater, darker power of what was happening behind the facade. I’ve heard it put like this: it is a war against the Logos. This is perfect. It is the invisible war, the spirit of anti-Christ manifesting in the earth. The image behind the image. And its manifestation, concerning Covid, nearly prevailed. Though in other areas, it’s still devouring truth.
(I must confess: in God there is peace. I have to take responsibility for dropping my end of the relationship equation: Prayer. It’s the equivalent of not communicating with your partner and it’s not sustainable in any relationship. This communication, or time in prayer with God would have kept me grounded and unshakable. I missed the mark here.)
I have an uncanny ability to extrapolate seemingly innocuous behaviors and/or details into a complex future outcome. Sometimes I’m wrong, but when I’m not….
This is a pandemic of the Unvaccinated.
President of the United States of America, Joe Biden
For You, The Scarlet Letter! Filthy Unvaccinated Leper
Second rate citizen. That’s what I was, or so the narrative ran. From late 2020 until just the last few months until all the decaying rot that is Fauci’s little black heart puked itself up for the world to gawk and gaze upon. The wicked monster of deceit, that Shadow of Babel’s Tower, the U.S. Government under Biden et al., the WEF and the CDC were all working together with the mammon Ravenous Rat which jabbed its victims in the arms, injecting its teeth and devoured the health of many. May the light of its Rat life go out, like a spindle of inconsequential smoke from its eyes. And may those who danced like loosed, fiendish puppets around this false narrative trip up and entangle themselves in their own puppet strings….
You think I’m over-exaggerating, don’t you? But here’s what almost no one sees: the vaccine failed, but had it not, the false narrative would have manifested in full array, because there is something elsegoing on.
Before our eyes we see the scales of truth are not weighted properly, but the sinister underlying narrative, that image within the image, speaks without moving its lips summoning full conviction that what is evil is good and what is good is evil and all things are equal. This goes far beyond only Covid, far deeper.
The persecution and stigmatization would have continued against those of us who refused to be coerced and I’ve no doubt, I would be in need of food at some drawn out point in the future as I would have no vaccination card to gain entry to pubic spaces. Eventually, they could make it illegal to be free if unvaccinated. Oh, the fever pitch of tyranny! The unvaxxed would have been refused medical support if needed because unlike ‘responsible’ citizens, they had no stamp on their vaccine cards. Social Credit scores are just around the corner.
Sometimes it’s no fun doing that extrapolating stuff….
“Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on in, we’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.”
Jimmy Kimmel
Don’t you know comedians ride and shift the winds of culture?
The cover up and lies were egregious, this article attempted to push back against the narrative but the sticky wickedness prevailed as the vaccine had yet to be exposed as a failure: Questioning A Catchphrase There is a divisive spirit, that anti-Christ spirit, pervasive and unrelenting. It forces unity by coercion and force. It is wicked.
Think of all the things we still wouldn’t know today had Twitter not changed captains – the ship of wickedness would still be sailing, censoring, devouring reality, building a chaotic dark tower. They were taking out some of the most out spoken and powerful voices for truth, one by one.
Shake It Off, There Are Important Things To Do
Now, after all the waves of horror have somewhat passed, being unvaccinated is like the Golden Unicorn of the Forest. But I remember those who danced, ready with self-righteous contempt in their eyes to stitch that Scarlet Letter into my flesh and shake their heads as the Monster moved closer…the fear and anxiety was all too real. And though I’m thankful that the tables have indeed turned to truth and a light has been shone on the whole rotting show, I can’t but accept that this was a Dress Rehearsal gone wrong. The costumes of the next Act are being laid out, the scenes being sketched before the curtain has even met end-to-end on Act I.
What am I going to do the next time something evil this way comes? Either I make a point to determine that now, or the powers that be will determine it for me.
Most of what you need in life will be brought to you, but most of what you want you’ll have to go get. Your survival is ensured, but for you to come into your destiny – that one will not be brought to you on a silver plater. There is a fight that must be gone through; one of persistence, one of diligence, one of knowing how to face loss, knowing how to bring strength and courage to yourself in the middle of confusion – those things are so essential in building us as [His] people in order to contain and continue to hold on to the very answer once we get it….The Lord has called us, like a David, who killed the lion and the bear when no one was watching…laying on our face before God when no one knows…crying to God that we cannot live with the theory and not seeing it demonstrated. It’s those kinds of nights where the lion and the bear get killed. And once you kill the lion and the bear in private God will trust you with killing Goliath in public.
Bill Johnson
You and I have things to do. As small and insignificant as these things may be, if God is asking us to do it, then out of love – not regarding any failure – we should do as He asks. If it’s writing a book no one reads, a blog no one visits, a song no one listens to…if God asks, because He loves us…we should do as He asks. He knows the future, He knows all things. Nothing God plants remains insignificant.
If you’ve picked a timeframe of evaluation that makes what you do appear irrelevant, then maybe you should shift your timeframe of evaluation.
Dr. Jordan Peterson
Everything has grown in importance – this present darkness grows – but the Light is shining more brightly than ever.
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
John 9.4
Living my life like nothing profoundly wicked has rapped upon the psyche of each and every one of us is too disingenuous. We’ve reached Critical Mass. We can only work to make this world a better place right now while it’s still daylight. Night is coming…so let’s build while we have light by which to work.
So they will fear the name of the Lord from the west and His glory from the rising of the sun. For He will come in like a narrow, rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives long.
That’s from Ezekiel 2.8. Let me not act like the prophecy below is just a guess. It’s terrifying. Mainly because one part has already come to pass and another seems to be in progress.
What else can be said? I have published it, tagged it private, published it again….hid the light under a bushel….the responsibility of prophecy can be cumbersome.
