Epiphany

   There is no escaping politics, sadly, not even in our churches, it permeates every aspect of our lives. It is divisive, sinister and dangerous. But of course on the other hand, it is a necessary evil as in many ways, life in this world is politics. All of us jockey for position every day, call it "the I'm right your right" syndrome. But every day, we are trying to have our point of view accepted as the correct one, it's a form of politicking. So now the latest of the political story nation and world wide. 

  And so it is that we are told that there is another national holiday that should be proclaimed, or at least have a day of somber remembering, that day being January 6th. To those who look to divide us, we are to see it as the day of insurrection, the day when the deplorables looked to violently overthrow the government. This is the lie now that the propagandists spew. But believe it or not God lays claim to that same day, January the 6th is His. Now, how do I make such a claim? For that answer we'll turn to our old friend the Dictionary.    

Webster's New World Dictionary/ The American language  The original came out around 1970, the latest reprint I could find being July 1983 

  Epiphany: A Christian festival revealing Jesus as the Christ to the Gentiles Who among you would write this fact off as mere coincidence? Amazing! I'm reminded of the scripture which says that what the world means for evil, He will turn it for good.  (a paraphrase, my apologies to you purists) So there are two ways you can remember that day, one is the ridiculous way of the propagandists, who are evil by nature, or as the day that we consider the reality of God and thank Him for being our King, and the foundation of this Republic. 

Christmas 2021

  If ever we needed the Spirit of Christmas in our lives, it is now. No matter your political perspective, or even if you could care less about politics, both sides of the divide agree that this country, our home, is in a lot of trouble. People are afraid. For most, it's the first time they considered their mortality. People are frightened, whether it be the latest flu variant, or the ongoing political coup which is a danger to us all. The answer and remedy to all of this is what it has always been, return to our roots, return to God. The path to knowing Him is easier than you might think. 

  For instance, if you think of yourself as a logical person, start by using common sense. Common sense and logic walk hand and hand with truth. Common sense springs forth from logic. What is true is always logical, and what is logical is always true. God is logic, as logical orderly thinking is His way. The Lord's logic is always correct, He is never wrong. 

  So, maybe your fretting over the next flu bug, or perhaps you're more concerned that goose stepping Nazis are just around the corner, what do you do? Well, to quote an old bumper sticker, Jesus is the reason for the Season, is true. Afterall, it's His birthday we celebrate. How about giving Jesus a present? He is certainly due your consideration. God is real, He lives, He is the source of it all, without Him there is nothing. He is the Great I am, He is the Creator. If you care enough to do a little research and you should, you'll find over and over again that the living God exists, and that He is the answer to the question "why are we here". You have been trained your whole life that God and Science are mutually exclusive, they are not. PHD's in all the different sciences and disciplines,  and more each day, come to believe in creation. Not only are God and science compatible, but one verifies the other. When you consider the intricacies of the human body, or the perfect order that the cosmos is, and how any deviation from that order would effect not only life on this planet, but how the celestial bodies keep from crashing into one another. There is no way those things are mere circumstance, such perfect order can only exist if made by intelligent design, a Creator. God is that creator. 

  Again, if you really want things to change for the better both long term and short, Pray. Humble yourself and pray that God save us from ourselves. America's foundation started by entering into a covenant with God the government rests on His shoulders, all of our founding documents are based on scripture, the words of God found in the Bible. If we are to save our nation, we must return to our roots, our foundation, we must return to God. All things are possible with God, it's perfectly logical, we must repent as a nation (go 180 degrees in the other direction), and pray the Lord forgive us and save us. Merry Christmas.     

Happy Thanksgiving

   WE have a special reason to give thanks and to celebrate the greatness of our country. All in about a week, two important trials ended today, and reinforced that we are indeed a just nation. Today America kicked the dirt from her shoes, and peeled the filth of the critical race theory off her shoe's sole. Justice in this country is alive and well, thank you very much. Young Mr. Rittenhouse was found innocent completely approximately a week ago, and just today, a racist father and his two boys were found guilty of the murder of a young black man. 

  Rejoice America, and give thanks that all the vile lies about this country and her people have been laid naked and ashamed. We may argue, and we may get mad at a situation, but if not to ourselves, to most all of the world, we still are that shining city on the hill. Give thanks because we are still free, and even though certain elites may scoff at your patriotism, pay them no mind for they are the fools and the mindless followers. The two pronged attack of this current spiritual war will pass, hopefully we will learn a great lesson from this our time in history. All of us are a living part of the history we make, and you are seeing it in real time. These current problem/problems will pass, so in the short run we are still fine. Long term? Now thats a different matter all together. This unseen war, one of microscopic size, and this threatening socialist/communist takeover attempt are both invisible to the naked eye. One a germ seen only via high powered microscopes, and the other a failed ideology. Both are invisible, and both are very much part of this spiritual war that is at the heart of all this trouble. 

  Because it is of spiritual nature, it must be spiritually fought. This country has long ago, a subtle bit by bit, grown further from the rock of our foundation grown further from the God we were founded on. Our current problems will pass, but as for our long time prognosis, not so good. Globalism is the goal, socialism is the type of government intended to make all nations one, and to have everyone sing about buying each other a coke. But that is only a dream for a false heaven on earth. There is only one Heaven, and it is not on the earth. As for America, we choose to keep our sovereignty thank you, we choose freedom over tyranny. 

  Long range, we know from the book of truth, the bible, that more will choose the easy road, the wide one. The goal, and hopefully the prayer around every families table is to return to our founding documents, but mostly, to return to the rock of our foundations, and the only King we Americans will bend a knee to, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Happy Thanksgiving  

Three of Three

  Words, is there anything more long lasting and powerful than words. At the heart of this on going bloodless coup are words, language and its use. Also, how words are used and who decides what can and cannot be spoken. People such as these are enemies of the state. The perpetrators logic being, If we can stop certain types of speech, eventually their meaning and importance will soon be forgotten, and replaced with thoughts and words more acceptable to their selfish ideology. 

  Strangely, albeit for noble enough reasons, it was the women's movement who first berthed an acceptable change to the American lexicon. Less than three generations ago, when properly addressing a letter or formal document, the prefixes of Mr. or Mrs. were used for adult men and women. Master and Miss for unmarried boy and girl children. The problem was that Mr. meant adult male, married or single, where as Mrs. designated a married female, and Miss an unmarried girl. Having four daughters, I understand them not wanting to advertise their personal life and marital status via a prefix. Hence the new designation and prefix Mz. From this minor change, however logical and fair, people realized that words and their use could bring about change. Dictators like Karl Marx saw it more as the early steps necessary to usher in political change. This of course was picked up as a weapon and the advent of Politically Correct speech was born. 

  But PC speak barely moved the dial of public opinion, and the free among us understood quickly about the inherit danger in such control and quickly exposed it as the joke that it was. Now, only fools and the sheep type people who would rather be led, follow after that stupidity. Clearly, something else more powerful was necessary. Fear is a powerful motivator, and as if a gift from their god was given them, cue the corona/covid debacle. The seemingly humble beginnings of PC speak morphed into the Woke movement, which begot the Cancel culture and where we are today. Thankfully, people in professional sport, singers, writers, and people in all forms of the entertainment industry are speaking up against this very vocal minority who hate this country and the freedom it offers to all its citizens. Out of shear arrogance these kooks actually believe themselves to be the smartest among us all. They're not of course, because who else but fools and buffoons are scared to death of freedom and truth. How do we true Americans who love this country and appreciate all that she has given us get rid of these haters? It's way past time to wake up the woke crowd? In the up coming elections vote to truly wake the woke, and cancel the cancelers. 

And of course to bring about a lasting change for the better means returning to our historical roots. This country was founded by people seeking a new beginning, a place where they could worship God in safety, and free themselves from a personally intrusive government. We the people means just that, We will decide what is best for ourselves and for the country we love. Again, God waits for this country to take up His free offer. All we need do is acknowledge Him and pray to Him, and He will heal this land. Indeed, the whole world.

        

Mission Accomplished 2-3

    Picking up from where we left off, I should explain for those unfamiliar with scripture, the repeat of what Jeremiah warned ancient Israel about, and its rejection of those warnings, leading to the total defeat of Israel, doesn't forecast our doom at this time. This prophecy is not yet near to coming true for America at this time. Bible prophecy unlike others, must be 100% true, any less, and it is rejected as false teaching. We are headed for a final judgement called the Tribulation, but although these are times of great stress and it is a time of tribulation, it is Not the tribulation that will befall humanity at the end of this age. Much must occur before life's final act as told in the book of Revelation occurs. For one thing, the serious followers of Jesus Christ must be removed before this final judgement occurs. This removal of God's people is called the Rapture. How will you know it happened? Many people will suddenly disappear, as they will be taken up to be with Lord Jesus, therefore missing the seven bowls of judgement that will be poured out onto the earth. 

  But leaving biblical prophecy to be studied and learned from by those who seek truth behind for now. And lets' concentrate on the immediate future, and what we as a people can do to combat this two pronged attack against our nation. We still have that nasty flu/virus to deal with, complicated by the fact that like everything else, there are those who seek to weaponize it and separate us for political gain. As for the onslaught of the new socialist/communist agenda, which believe it or not has just been made worse as Biden surrendered to the Taliban, by heeding their red line and refusing to extend the 8/31 deadline to get Americans and our allies out of Afghanistan, home of the new caliphate. The greatest power in the known world just buckled to the threat of evil religious fanatics. 

  Now is the time to come together as one. No longer should it matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat, progressive or conservative, we must be as one people. This is not the time to point fingers and gloat saying things like, See, I told you so. But rather, each one of us must become Americans first, and whatever party or group you identify with second. Forgive me if I am repeating myself, but keep in mind the basic truths that surely you've heard before, as in, A nation divided against itself cannot stand, and again, United we stand, divided we fall. Maybe once before in our history have things been so serious and dangerous, that being the Civil War. Thankfully it hasn't gotten that far yet, but could it happen? Before you answer, think to yourself, If someone was to tell you that the United States of America was going to surrender to a third world country, you would have said, No, that could never happen. Come together America, we will live or die together. And as for how an entire country can repent and begin to return to our God, a good start would be to stop being the world's number one baby killer. 

Mission Accomplished 1-

   The debacle in Afghanistan brings with it, the twentieth anniversary of the planned evil against America, which began some twenty years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. You could say that Afghanistan brought it full circle, because as with all things, history is cyclical. That is the main reason that we study history, because again, Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. You've probably heard the term that, What comes around goes around, and so the successful culmination of that evil plan hatched 20 years ago comes to fruition in a few days. The objective in 2001 was not just to knock down a couple of buildings, but rather to strike America at her heart and to humiliate her on the world stage. The original attacks in NYC, Washington D.C. and the horror of Shanksville Pa. was a hard blow and it set us reeling for a while. But we came back defiantly, built a new tower, and killed most if not all of those who perpetrated those crimes. It took twenty years before the Islamist terrorists could celebrate the victory they so wanted. To humiliate this great nation. And thanks to this current administration's blunders, ineptness, and outright stupidity, for the Taliban and their friends, its Mission Accomplished. So now what? 

  Not surprisingly, the answer is right there in world history. Thousands of years ago, Israel had the same problem, and for the same reason. We have ignored God until He has become a punchline. If you want to see the future if things go on unchanged, read the prophet Jeremiah in the bible. People are people, and the ancient Hebrews were all about self and selfish pleasures, just as we have become. They were warned about worshiping self and other idols, and breaking the first commandment. But like us, they would not listen. Of all their idols and gods, one called Baal, ( essence of evil), was the most important god, the one who they gave their children for, to be sacrificed by burning on the alters of Baal. As for us, we may not burn the children, but we lead the world in abortions and the harvesting of baby limbs, organs as such. Sold on the open market like so much beef. To think that we mirror the ancient Jews, hopefully doesn't mean that we are forced to the same end, being beaten as a country so completely, that Israel's people were taken to Babylon as slaves. We, like them, are so far ignoring the warnings from both Sept. 11th attacks, and an endless stream of atrocities that go on to this day. The saving answer then is the same one as now. Because this so clearly is a spiritual war, it must be fought spiritually as well as physically. and as with the ancient Hebrews, God offers to save us from ourselves by promising, If My people will humble themselves and...   

Ancient Highway

   Ah music, Lately I have been seeing a lot of scenes with lonely stretches of highway, railroad tracks and the like. Not in the way of a vision, but rather by natural means, as on my PC, TV and the like. I noticed them of course, and took note to the rapidity of such scenes. But I view them more as road signs on the highway of life. I knew they were there for direction, a way to go for peace. A way to go, a way to escape the tedium. I look back on my life in a metaphorical perspective, I have always envisioned my life as a constant move down a river, sometimes in a boat, sometimes holding onto a log, sometimes just treading water. All I've ever done is left behind in my wake. But be it a highway, a railroad track, or a river, we all head downstream with the current, what's behind and in our wake we leave behind, but what's ahead very few know, but move we must, ever on to the end that it is. It is that way on the river of life. And now a change of mood. 

  I actually linked my PC, Phone and TV all together on Youtube. I know, to most of you you say, So? But for this 20th century man, thats like winning an emmy. As Joe Friday once said,  

The facts mam, nothing but the facts." The ancient Highway connection comes from an old Van Morrison song, which as explained, this is one step further, into whats hi-tech to me, and is a reason to be happy.  Oh, and a shout out to my friend Walt who was teaching me how the sound board works. I tell you, If I don't quit soon I'll be a 21st century man? nah, Too many rules..

see TV show called Dragnet