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September 26, 2021 • 02:00 0

Random Thoughts 13

RANDOM THOUGHTS 13
Originally posted: September 21, 2021

Various bits of miscellany which have accumulated (mostly on sticky notes) since the last RANDOM THOUGHTS (almost four months ago).

+ Perhaps this edition of RANDOM THOUGHTS ought to be labeled “Continuing Updates,” since several of the notes have to do with checking the Corporate Media’s (Satan’s Mouthpiece) progress on assorted story lines they had begun.

+ OR, perhaps this edition of RANDOM THOUGHTS should be titled, “GREAT End Times Changes,” as several of the notes have to do with the sundry CHANGES which have taken place over the last twelve-fifteen months.

+ One of fashion’s latest trends–which started many years ago–is the wearing of sunglasses in order to portray the wearer as an effortlessly COOL person. Yes, we know the rocksters have been doing this for years, but it seems to be spreading to other pockets of the rich and celebrated. NOT ONLY THAT, but it appears that there are regular, ordinary people who walk among us who believe that if they don a pair of shades, they have somehow changed the composition of their being. They have not–but this hasn’t stopped these hipsters, young and old, from trying. SOME go so far as to alter their speech patterns once they put on their casually COOL sunglasses. IF the reader believes that his whole persona CHANGES when he sports a pair of dark glasses, there is NOTHING that can be said to him to disabuse him of this notion. MAYBE, when one sees one of these poseurs, the BEST thing that can be said is “Wow! You REALLY look good in those sunglasses!” Of course, the reader should be aware that this will only encourage such folks.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

Random Thoughts 12 – 5-26-2021
Comments and Asides 5 AND Random Thoughts 11 – 3-21-21
Random Thoughts 10 — 10-11-2020
Random Thoughts 9 –- 8-22-2020
Random Thoughts 8 –6-28-2020
Random Thoughts 7 –5-31-2020
Random Thoughts 6 –9-26-2019
Random Thoughts #5 – 7-7-2019
Random Thoughts #4 – 6-16-2019
Random Thoughts #3 – 5-27-2018
Random Thoughts #1 and 2 – 2-26-2018

+ Perhaps NOTHING illustrates the modern reliance on MAN and the SCHEMES OF MAN (including government-backed schemes) to, not only provide comfort and joy, but also to soothe whatever nerves might be fraying due to worry about the future AS the various plans involving Social Security–or other privately-administered retirement programs.

+ The most common reactions to ANY suggestions that these programs will soon enough be nothing more than a bad memory, seems to fall into four groups.

a- The first group reacts with COMPLETE and UTTER DENIAL. “Why do you say that? No, it will be fine! They have very smart people working night and day to make sure that never happens!”

b- The second group reacts with (what they feel) is REASONED DENIAL. “They would never let that happen!” “I deserve that much!” “Any politician that would let Social Security fail would be looking for another job ASAP!”

c- The third group reacts with DENIAL based on how many years they expect to live. “I worked hard for that! Take it away? It COULD happen, but I’ll be dead and gone when it does!”

d- The fourth and final group reacts by ATTACKING anyone who suggests that the gravy train will soon stop. “You’re one of those nay-sayers. What are you: a Communist?”

+ The number of folks who seem totally baffled by the details of modern conveniences–such as hooking up a DVD player to a modern TV–appears to be growing. This was evidenced lately when, upon stopping to chat with an acquaintance, the visitor was met with a query, “Are you an electronics person?” Now, the reader should be cautioned that NO surveys were conducted; NO studies performed; NO testing of this observation in ANY form was done. It is only an observation based on the many pleas received OR the number of folks who have taken EXTRAORDINARY measures to ensure that their TVs or cellphones are working properly. These are NOT technologically-challenged knuckle-draggers, but they include a man who recently invested, not only in some woodworking tools, but also LUMBER and hardware, so that his TV would receive the optimum number of channels from his somewhat-complicated antenna setup.

+ “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you”
–Mark 13:3-5

Though mankind is warned REPEATEDLY in God’s Word about DECEPTION during the end times, most completely ignore whether they are lied to or whether they are told the truth DEPENDING upon how favorable their circumstances are at that moment. The ONE circumstance which Jesus Christ Himself cautioned against was end times deception, including the deceptions associated with false prophets and false Christs.

+ Yet, Americans in particular (though they may loudly protest), are okay with lies AS LONG AS THE GRAVY TRAIN KEEPS ROLLING. The country can be falling apart, American leaders might be ESPECIALLY terrible, and the culture might be bleeding sewage, but as long as the checks and money keep flowing, Americans might grumble about the other stuff, but they’ll “roll with it.” It is STRONGLY suggested that once the bucks stop, Americans will suddenly discover they have been LIED TO!

Heavens.

+ Was wondering the other day about HOW MANY have bought their “Team SCIENCE!” T-shirts?

IF one is going to fall for the stories, one really should go all in.

+ Headlines from the past few months about cars going bye-bye. The reasons given most frequently are 1) giving up cars is good for the planet; and, 2) Cars are too expensive for the average person to own. (Of course, the government and Satan’s Mouthpiece (the Corporate Media) will NEVER run out of REASONS WHY prices are so high, money is so tight or products you need are so scarce.

+ RE the promises of man: WHOEVER is president of the USA–when the USA ‘goes out of business,’–will be remembered by future generations of Americans as a FAILURE: a goof; a bonehead; a fool of the highest order.

+ The ‘pandemic’ and all of its associated stories seem to have slowed down the rush to make HALLOWEEN into the Great American Holiday Season.

We will see…

WHAT ‘random thoughts’ does the reader have to ADD TO these?

It is not YET too late: there is still a little time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

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DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

A Reminder: The Gospel is Simple

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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: September 21, 2021.]

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January 2, 2021 • 09:00 0

2021

A very popular question this time of year seems to be, “What do you think the New Year will bring?”

(OR, something similar along those lines.)

NOW (as we wrote several years ago), the first thing the reader should remember–should he find himself being asked the same question (or one very much like it): practically EVERYONE who makes such a request is NOT all that interested in your reply.

What they are doing is a social matter: they are just greeting you using something nearly everyone understands.

This is like the person who asks “How are you?”

They REALLY do not want much detail in your answer. Offering a “Fine–and how are you?” is very much the desired reply. THEN, the conversation can move on to more important things.

SO, when someone asks about 2021, it would be wise to remember that SHORT AND SWEET is the proper answer.

Something like, “Pretty much more of the same, I figure. What do you think?” has become the standard, accepted reply of this writer.

THEN (after the other person makes what he will of your reply), the conversation can move on.

“What do you think the New Year will bring?”

HOWEVER, there are a select few people who DO want to know what you think about 2021.

(This article is for those select few who really want to know and who didn’t get a chance to ask in person.)

1- The Bible gives NO specific advice on the new year, one way or the other.

2- Satan’s Mouthpiece (the Corporate Media) wants folks to think 2020 was BAD.

In fact, it wants folks to think 2020 was VERY bad.

The unspoken point the media is trying to make is that 2020 is VERY bad and is an aberration; that 2021 will be SOOOOOOO much better (especially for America!)–just you wait and see! 2021 has also been associated with that ever-elusive will ‘o the wisp: a return to NORMAL.

3- One man’s considered guess is that 2021 will be more of the same as 2020.

2020 usheredin the beginning of RULES UNLIMITED because of the “coronavirus/COVID-19.”

Line up.

Wash your hands–repeatedly.

Wear your mask.

Practice social distancing while in your line.

Go get your shot (more than once, it seems).

Show us your papers.

Stay home.

Do not gather together with family and friends.

Superspreader!

…and so on and on and on…

2021 appears to be more of the same–and MUCH MORE!

4- The continued decline of the US economy looks to continue.

More business closing. More that stay open moving elsewhere. Restrictions announced because the business has to “cope with COVID-19.”

5- The continued push to buy one’s neccessary items ONLINE.

Businesses not only have less items on hand to sell, they announce on their websites “This item NOT available in store (or for pick-up).”

6-2021 looks to continue the massive shift from buying a product in person to being approved to buy a product and then (hopefully!) the customer will receive what he wanted?!?!

This shift to buying and selling ONLINE brings several more layers of control over who gets to buy a product. At every step, the buyer has to be approved before he is granted the opportunity to pay for something and then wait for it to arrive.

Have enough money in your account?

That’s only the beginning of mass approval processes which ENSURE that only the most acceptable will be able to buy a product.

7- For the few who pay attention to what God’s Word warns of the end times, 2021 will likely move humanity further down the unsettling road to a world in which they did NOT grow up.

“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: 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. 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.”
–Revelation 13:16-18

“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
–Revelation 13:7-8

“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse [Jesus], and against his army.”
–Revelation 16:16;19:19

FINALLY, it is the SINCERE hope that all who read this will turn to Jesus Christ, repent (change their minds about sin) and join forces with the kingdom of heaven in 2021. The reader should NOT listen to TV preachers, false prophets, the local branch of the churches or ANY other person but what God’s Word declares.

2021 would then be a VERY GOOD YEAR.

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

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December 27, 2020 • 07:30 0

Christmas 2020: Seven Observations

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”
–Matthew 1:21

A few thoughts on Christmas, Christmas 2020, as well as this and that in the hours leading up to Christmas 2020.

1- This worldly holiday we call “Christmas” has been built on a SOLID foundation of paganism. One is reminded of just how much the Christmas we celebrate owes to pagans while scanning photos, trying to find one which was appropriate for a piece titled “Christmas 2020.” There were photos GALORE of Christmas trees (a pagan tradition), Yule logs (another pagan tradition), wrapped gifts under a Christmas tree (ANOTHER pagan tradition) and/or folks singing Christmas carols (yet another pagan tradition.

2- After DECADES of playing coy, the media has finally (the past few years) joyfully begun to write about the many pagan traditions Americans observe at Christmas. Satan’s Mouthpiece (the Corporate Media) certainly wants Americans to KNOW the Christmas traditions they have come to know and love are PAGAN IN ORIGIN.

Most of the Christmas traditions celebrated around this time of year may be pagan in nature, but that doesn’t mean that NEW TRADITIONS can’t be established.

The latest “new traditions“?

Limiting one’s gift giving to a specific number of gifts seems to be something HIGHLY promoted by the media over the past several years.

3- It is supposed that the BIGGEST single difference between Christmas 2020 and previous Christmases is the coronavirus–and all of the various changes brought about in the name of “keeping everyone safe.”

From trying to belt out a hearty “Ho ho ho” through a required mask to observing social distancing in the checkout lines, the virus has certainly left its mark on Christmas 2020.

4- Americans may be currently indoctrinated on how their lives are falling apart, but Americans are STILL very well off economically, compared to the rest of the world.

One way the reader can know this is true is by HOW MANY folks are proclaimed to be “hard to buy for” (finding them a gift). The reason most often given for such difficulty?

“What do you get a person who has EVERYTHING?”

“They don’t need ANYTHING!”

“They told me they appreciate ANYTHING; they can’t think of something they really want.”

5- Because the Christmas season involves SO MUCH gift giving (and planning for such a massive undertaking), so many approach such a season with, what could be called, a “battle plan.”

Because of such a circumstance, the primary emotion felt on Christmas Day is not JOY or EXCITEMENT.

It is RELIEF: relief that everyone on one’s gift list received their appointed present; relief that the entire holiday is over for another year.

6- The time most people seem to take for a little relaxation (and the quiet contemplation which comes from being able to afford such a time) is Christmas Eve.

The night before Christmas–the calm before the storm, so to speak, of Christmas Day–appears to be a time when many folks reflect on the past year, on their many blessings (though, increasingly, folks do not think of their blessings as “blessings“) or on the luxury of having time to reflect on ANYTHING.

Some folks maintain that Christmas 2020 will be remembered because of the many coronavirus changes.

Other folks claim that Christmas 2020 will be remembered because it was the FIRST to feature coronavirus.

And a very few believe that coronavirus could be only the beginning of much worse things yet to come.

MUCH could be written about the coronavirus and its resulting effects on the USA. MUCH has already been written, most of it by Satan’s Mouthpiece.

So, since this is Christmas, we will leave it at that.

7- ALL THAT being said, as has been pointed out before, Christmas–for all of it pagan trappings–is STILL the only day of the year when the world gives Jesus a little lip service.

At least then, for those few moments, folks may have concentrated on Jesus Christ and the claimed season which supposedly honored the Son of God.

Even though Christmas was supposedly a time of focusing on Jesus Christ, it became anything but that.

BUT AT LEAST it was a day that the world PRETENDED to focus on Jesus Christ.

However, for a few moments each season–which ran about six-eight weeks–the odd person MAY have put aside the pagan celebrations and quietly reflected on Jesus Christ.

Maybe.
—Christmas: A Pagan Holiday…BUT

WHAT does the reader think about when he hears the word “Christmas“?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: December 25-27, 2020.]

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October 11, 2020 • 07:30 0

Random Thoughts 10

RANDOM THOUGHTS 10
October 9, 2020
[Taken from several recent discussions as well as emails, comments and the odd note–but mostly from the odd note.]

How many of those looking to make an easy buck could have saved themselves YEARS of trouble and affliction by paying attention to Ecclesiastes 4:6.

“Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.”

How many (in Hollywood and Washington, especially), upon being offered wealth for their participation in a marriage of convenience, thought “Yeah, that’s quick and easy money!”

One of these days, man will learn that you can’t outsmart God and that God’s Word is true.

One of these days.

Until then, man will continue learning the same hard lessons over and over and over and over…

While on the subject of the various flesh-pleasing siren songs the world seldom tires of singing: Satan has spent almost 2000 years PAINSTAKINGLY erecting a false reality.

This deceptive smog surrounds MOST of mankind and provides a backdrop for any number of other, daily deceptions which mislead man. This false world is powered by stories which supposedly explain to man how he got here, why he is having such a hard time living his life and how to make that miserable life better.

It was a LITTLE thing for Satan to deceive man with repeated whispers that “You are God. You are Jesus Christ.” It was a MUCH smaller step for man to embrace those whispers and turn them into fist-pumping revolt and rebellion against the Creator.

As night follows day, the arrogance and pride of man allowed him to look at the deceptive reality erected to trap him and smugly proclaim, “Yes, I certainly did make something great and wondrous!”

The HUGE problem for man then became how does he escape the false reality which surrounds him?

For deceived man, there are NO easy answers.

Particularly because deceived man is deceived.

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OF COURSE, those who sit above the deceptions they have helped create for the REST of humanity suppose themselves to be in the position of God.

The end times will demonstrate how mistaken that belief is.

And will demonstrate it BEYOND any argument.

And while on the subject of the pretend relationships which deceive man, will man–at some time in the future (a future MUCH different than what most believe)–proclaim the times we now live in as the “Golden Age of False Marriage”?

Even now, many “old-timers” celebrate the years they have remained together RATHER than what benefits their union bestowed upon them.

The world tells hundreds–THOUSANDS!–of stories about how the world works and HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE NOW.

The public clings to these fairy tales so tightly because the world REWARDS all those who buy into its fables. Whether it is the schoolchild who gets good grades for being able to recite the stories of the world OR the stay-at-home mother who swallows–and later spits back to any who will listen–those worldly stories because she wants to be known among her acquaintances as “in the know“, the world REWARDS those who believe the falsehoods which they are told.

One of those stories which the world has told–and which MOST of mankind believes–is the one about how man used to live in caves and was little better than an animal with an opposable thumb.

SO, did Adam and Eve live in a cave?

Modern man does NOT know what happened in the past. Modern man ONLY knows what he has been TOLD has happened in the past.

“Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.”
–Franklin P. Jones

“History isn’t what happened, but a story of what happened.”
—History is a Weapon

So why is so much time and effort spent on supplying man with a fake history of what has occurred?

“He who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
–George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Modern man supposes he knows how the world works–particularly EDUCATED modern man. BUT, modern man only knows what he has been told about how the world works.

This creates a LOT of confusion when the stories the world tells disagree with what modern man can see happening around him every day.

This confusion is MOSTLY handled by the world telling modern man, “Hey! Listen to me! Who are you gonna listen to: me (who brought you here where you are today) or God’s Word (which its few adherents will attest have GREATLY improved their lives)?

AND SO, moderns continue to be lied to.

Moderns continue to live their lives according to those lies.

Moderns continue to protest VEHEMENTLY against ANY who would attempt to tell them differently.

During the end times, there has been MUCH confusion about what is in God’s Word.

MOST of that confusion has been carefully planned by the prince of this world and his followers, who deal in confusion.

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

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August 22, 2020 • 06:00 0

Random Thoughts 9

RANDOM THOUGHTS 9
August 16, 2020
[Taken from several recent discussions as well as emails, comments and the odd note–but mostly from the odd note.]

* How did the apostles of Jesus know the things they knew?

Jesus Christ chose his apostles mostly from the uneducated working class.

Only Matthew–who was a tax collector–and later, Paul, primarily used their minds in their employment.

YET those men wrote the entire New Testament of the Bible: with all of its intimate knowledge of salvation, the New Covenant and other information on which Christianity was based. ALL of it woven seamlessly into what had already been written in the Old Testament.

The question has always been: How did these uneducated men know the things they knew?

The world answers that question by insisting that other wrote those things in the names of those apostles. But the world is hopelessly deceived.

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* Movies help spread falsehoods.

They ALWAYS have.

One of those lies which was very popular in older movies was the one about someone being pursued (usually by the authorities) and what keeps the hero–who is pursued–safe is the canard that the hero has damning information about the authorities and if anything happens to him, he has ensured that this information will be sent to the New York Times, supposedly to expose the evil plot of those authorities who are pursuing him.

AS IF the civil authorities and the New York Times are somehow playing for different teams and are adversaries–instead of collaborators.

* One modern past time is the appearance of ADULT COLORING BOOKS.

SO, it makes sense–at least to those who know the times in which we now live–that one of the most popular genres of adult coloring books is the MEDITATIVE adult coloring book.

“Meditation” in terms of coloring is not the same as a traditional meditation practice, as you will not be focusing on your breath and clearing your mind. Instead, you will focus your attention on coloring, unlocking the creative side of your brain, and through the act of coloring you can clear your mind of other worries.

Clearing one’s mind through coloring.

Yes, that is certainly a most modern topic.

* One of the hallmarks of religions is the perfectibility of man.

Usually through the techniques, traditions and rituals advocated by that religion.

Man enjoys hearing this hogwash. Man entertains fantasies about being perfect, IF ONLY he knew the secrets of such a transformation.

False religions will NEVER lack for converts as long as they peddle stories of man’s perfectibility (using their methods).

Galatians 6:3 is the answer to all those who believe that man, through much effort, can make himself much better than a normal man, composed as he is from the dust and dirt of the earth.

“For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”

* Anyone who has watched much television is familiar with the propaganda which goes by the name of HOLLYWOOD BIOs.

These 30- to 60-minute puff pieces supposedly tell the life stories of those men and women who have become known–in the PR of Hollywood–as “actors,” “actresses,” “stars” and “legends.”

BUT, no matter how much lipstick one puts on a pig, it is still a pig.

And so, MOST of these infomercials about the denizens of Hollywood usually end up with the same tired conclusions about the broken lives and shattered dreams represented by the death of its “stars.”

“Well, Hollywood chewed up and spit out another one.”

* Most of the world’s arguments for trusting the world and the world’s solutions involve promises of increased prosperity in this world.

Which are empty promises, since those who value increased prosperity are NEVER satisfied with what they have.

They want MORE.

* Nothing sums up the world’s great desire for DRAMA over safety like the following quote from Winston Churchill.

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

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DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

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“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

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June 28, 2020 • 02:00 0

Random Thoughts 8

RANDOM THOUGHTS 8
June 23, 2020
[Taken from several recent discussions as well as the odd note–but mostly from the odd note.]

* A great many follow various false teachers, hoping to discover what the end times plans and strategy of the enemy might be.

That great mob could have saved themselves some trouble–and the deceptions that listening to false teachers bring–by referring to God’s Word and by following Jesus’ advice in Mark 13:37.

“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.”

END TIMES STRATEGY OF THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY:

Let homosexuality, murder and chaos run rampant until the populace cries out to be saved by those who instituted the widespread homosexuality, murder and chaos.
Set up a cry that the country needs to “return to god.” Never mind that the country was an enemy of God’s from the beginning.
Bait and switch: Offer the multitudes something that LOOKS like Christianity, but is really from the dragon (Satan).

“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.”
–Revelation 13:11

* Jesus Christ was VERY clear about his ultimate mission while on earth.

It’s revealing that what Jesus Himself said completely contradicts what the sheep-skinned wolves often claim.

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

“For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”
–Matthew 10:34-36

That “a man’s foes may be they of his own household” may or may not be true of the lost, the heathen and the counterfeit.

But it will always be true of the genuine Christian.

* The unwisdom of trusting another man–even one believed to be trustworthy, such as friend or family–was an end times warning to believers by Jesus Christ. That warning was echoed by the prophet Micah–or rather Micah was echoed by Jesus–depending.

“Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.”
–Micah 7:5-6

* Jesus repeated His warning more than once to his apostles and disciples.

“And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.”
–Matthew 10:21-22

“And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.”
–Luke 21:16-17

* Those who are most deceived are likely to be those who depend the most on the government/media for their information.

But this sad, misinformed crew didn’t suddenly wake up one morning overtaken by deception: they–and their close associates–have a history stretching back decades.

“Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of the country…. It remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
—Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

* In the end times, those who refuse to recognize easily-recognizable actions and events will be condemned to enjoy the fruits of such actions and events.

Some time ago, I was talking with an Associated Press reporter about the power elite’s conspiracy to bring about a world government. He asked whether what happened over roughly the last century wasn’t simply an organic evolution of events rather than a conspiracy. I replied that events didn’t transpire organically if there was an organized plan and network carrying it out.

Just ask yourself how certain people knew things before they happened over the last 100 years. How could Stephen Wise write in his autobiography, CHALLENGING YEARS, that in an address before the Trenton YMCA in 1910, he told them Woodrow Wilson would be elected New Jersey governor that year but not complete his first term before being elected president in 1912 and re-elected in 1916?

And relevant to World War I, how could the editor of THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY write that a leading political economist had recently said, “The most fearful war of the century is coming soon, “ in 1908? More specifically, how could Baha’i leader Abdul Baha be quoted in THE MONTREAL GAZETTE on September 11, 1912 as stating that “the time is less than two years hence (when) a tiny spark will set ablaze the world,” and World War I began the summer of 1914? And during the war, how could British King George at 11:30 a.m. on May 7, 1915 tell President Wilson’s chief advisor Colonel Edward M. House, “Suppose Germany should sink the LUSITANIA with American passengers on board,” and 2-3 hours later Germany did exactly that?

Prior to World War II, how could H.G. Wells in THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME in 1933 correctly predict that there would be a second world war beginning around 1939 and originating from a German-Polish dispute? And how could he also predict that the “Modern World-State” (world government) would succeed on its third attempt (after the U.N. failed) about 50 years later, coming out of a conference in Basra, Iraq? More specifically, regarding World War II, how could Sir Julian Huxley, on December 5, 1941 state that he hoped that America and Japan will be at war “next week” and Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, the first day of the next week?

But in perhaps the most telling prediction covering most of the 20th century, how could Robert Hugh Benson in his 1907 LORD OF THE WORLD say that “in 1917… Communism really began…. (After 1989) the final scheme of Western Free Trade…. With the Release Act of 1998… there were ministers of euthanasia”? Benson also referred to the “American Socialism” and “free trade all over the world” to come.

How could all these people so accurately predict the future? Perhaps it was because the events they foretold were planned by the power elite! For example, Benson’s stepmother’s brother, Henry Sidgwick, was a founder of The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) along with Cecil Rhodes’ Circle of Initiates member British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour and others.
—How did they know? (2008)

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* The USA has always pointed the finger of blame at others–and done it very creatively and successfully.

Which is one reason so many mistakenly believe that the Nazis were responsible for the racial purity mumbo jumbo which came to be known as EUGENICS.

Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior and promoting those judged to be superior.

Now, what group of people does the reader think looks on others as “judged to be inferior”?

At the end of the 1800s, many people in Indiana were being sterilized, so much so that even the Nazi doctors during the later Nuremberg trials after World War II referred to “the Indiana procedure.”
–Dennis Cuddy, The Indiana Connection (2002)

* MANY would be startled at how various items commonly used today got their start.

The Inventor of Ibuprofen Tested the Drug on His Own Hangover

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-–Romans 1:16

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February 8, 2020 • 02:00 0

Passing Along Modern Stories

One of the unshakable beliefs of modern society is that, not only does one have a unique story, but that one should share the STORY of that unique episode with others.

How many times has the reader been told “Everybody has story“?

How many times has the reader been told “Everybody has a story TO TELL“?

How many times has the reader been invited to share his “unique” story with others? (“Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours?”)

So, here is a question for the inquisitive reader: “What are the odds that people of the SAME human condition; who have been raised watching the SAME TV shows; who have been raised listening to the SAME music; who have all went through the SAME 13 years of indoctrination which K-12 provides; who work the SAME 9-5 jobs; who get the SAME propaganda from the SAME TV/smartphone/newspaper/magazine sources; who shop at the SAME stores; who live in the SAME type of housing; who look to the SAME political, government and cultural systems for guidance; ALL have a DIFFERENT story?”

The correct answer to this question can be demonstrated by the trivial details of some trivial event which certain people cling to as “evidence” that they have lived an interesting, DIFFERENT kind of life.

It can also be seen by the number of people who, coming up empty in the unique story department, admit: “I have a boring life.”

Okay THEN: why do so many claim that everyone has a story and that story should be told?

Some observations follow.

1- It is highly likely–since the claim is repeated so often–that “Everybody has a story to tell” is just propaganda.

“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.”
–Adolf Hitler, Propaganda, the Big Lie and Adolf Hitler: 20 Hitler Quotes on Propaganda

2- Perhaps the invitation to share a story that one believes to be unique and DIFFERENT is an invitation for the highly-regimented worker bees of society to think of themselves as something other than the drones-living-the-same-lives that they really are?

3- Getting the individual to focus on some aspect of himself (his story) is a step along the path to placing a high value on SELF–and that is a step on the path of SELF worship, which leads to the worship of Satan.

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There are other reasons for this invitation for the individual to pass along his story to other moderns becoming a regular part of daily propaganda.

The discussion will continue.

Does the reader believe that everyone has a story to tell?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

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DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

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“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: February 3, 2020.]

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