Not Of This World

I hope my impending sense of doom of sorts is just personal, and not of a wider scope.  

The seeming release and correction of the: stress of constant gaslighting, the economic oppression/thievery, the blatant corruption/perversion--the calling good bad, calling bad good . . . the destruction of history and cherished shared memories of such, the wicked and blatantly satanic upending of relatively installed Biblical political and civil truths understood and established . . . addressing the horrific longtime and surging child abuse, s#x trafficking . . . . And on and on and on.  The Spirit cries out for justice!  Even unbelievers (of sorts) can appreciate that!

I'm sorry, but I just cannot ignore the sense that there is a big--perhaps one of the biggest--set-ups for disappointment ever so far.  I, like so many others, I know . . . pray and yearn and cry out for some sort of relief and correction!  I hope I am just being "donnie downer" and I will happily, exultantly bear that title ongoing if my concern is proven incorrect!  FOR REAL!  

I wish nothing but the best, and could use some of it myself and for those I love . . . which starts with those closest to me, related to me and then radiating outward to ALL who are suffering under the rule of the "god of this world."  The suffering is near unbearable . . . but then I think of The Lord Who took ALL of it on Himself!  So, what complaint can I or anyone who loves and follows Him have!  The greatest gift EVER GIVEN in all of history--if one can grasp it/be graced, chosen to See/Hear it.

Hopes are being sprung high.  An exultant refreshment, feeling is in the air, indeed, it's tangible and being broadcast. . . .  

If I were an Amos type character, I would simply say . . . keep a part of yourself, your soul, centered on Spiritual purposes.  And beware of prophesied days of trouble. . . . 

If . . . things in the world . . . "go south" as they say . . . do not let that EVER extinguish your love and faith and dedication and worship and humble submission personally to GOD'S PURPOSE ABOVE ALL . . . which Purpose is Written and foretold in His Book, His Writing, His WORD!

Jus' sayin'. . . .

Enjoy the moment . . . but keep it Real . . . in the depths of your soul, your Holy Spirit-inspired-and-instructed higher self (who is eternal and exists ABOVE the shiftings and sidetracks and distractions--albeit sometimes materially pleasurable--never forget that the devil is still at play). 

(Just writing, just saying, sharing my thoughts and observations and feelings. . . .)

God blesses you :) with EVERY BREATH YET! Take care!

And thank you for checking in over here in this little light corner of the things and the people and God-loving corner NOT of the world. . . . 

Birthday thoughts 2024

 Birthday boy today.  Heh.  I almost forgot, but a few loved ones and friends reminded me, lol.

Went to the doctor (spooky high blood pressure as usual, but a bit over the top this time).... Had some weird thing going on with my thumb, which was the main issue to address--won't share the gory details lol. . . . Then worked, painted some walls, wrote some more bars/melody/lyrics (in my head) on this song that I dreamed of a few weeks ago that has been pressing on me, kind of haunting me . . . which I hopefully can get recorded/manifested sometime soon . . . before I forget it. Went to dinner with wifey--to our local fave Mexican restaurant. Coddled and gave attention to the doggies. . . . Fought off the bizarre energy company trying to do (who know's what) in our yard--something to do with "gasline" repair.... But it came out of nowhere and I'm a bit sus... not even sure they are really the gas company... Will have to keep an eye on that going forward...

SOoooo a fairly typical day.  I'm still kickin'. . . .

WELL AND of course . . . watching and listening, observing, analyzing the remarkable current events. . . .

I still say (hope I'm wrong) as I have before . . . "they" will not go quietly into the night.

Enjoy the sugar high . . . stay alert, prayerful (never forgetting GOD ABOVE ALL) while the next stages of the script play out. . . . 

God blesses you, and I thank you for your friendship and support and your divinely created intelligence, soul, spirit, body et al!  Intricate amazing creatures, one and all of you, praise God!

I'll Paint, You Can Keep The Feak-Off Ticket

 I have so much to share, say . . . 

This is the only place where I can get to a semblance of it all...

Regarding the gatekeepers in the "entertainment industry" . . . I really just need to do some talking, conversation on a podcast or something...  otherwise, it's turns into a small, unfinished book here.

I'll continue to share what I can. . . .  

Yeah . . . bottom line . . . I was on the close outskirts of the "industry" . . . but, I was, myself, deliberately far away from SPIRITUALLY getting too close, and thus, could wave it away.  

The stink of the pit wafted from far away . . . and that was enough for me to stay clear.  

Yes, I heard the tales.  It's run by "the mafia".  I was approached several+  times with various seductive offers.  "We will have you break into the top 10 in the UK, then we will have you conquer the American charts."  

But I had already, long before committed to God, and rejected the tempter when I was 13 and he came to me and showed me "the crossroads" path choice.  

He (the devil)  said, "you have two choices right now!  You can be a young, breaking-ground, 'cutting edge' famous kid-artist/musician/singer/celebrity . . . OR . . . you can reject my offer and take the ignominious path.  What will it be?" 

I sat there for about 3 minutes . . . realizing this was the big choice. . . . But I was already owned by God, seeking Truth, and said, "well . . . I have to go the Godly way.  I have to stay with Truth, with God."

He (satan) said, in so many words, chuckling, mockingly,  "ok, sucker. . .  now your life will be very hard.  Good luck buddy."

That day I made my choice.  THE ONE TRUE GOD.

And, indeed, from about that day forward, it was rough.  I was an orphan, survivor.  BUT GOD always was with me.  Like He said "I will always be with you."  THAT is a Spiritual promise and message which has kept me faithful, alive through thick and thin.  And to this day . . . God Willing, praise God, Jesus, ongoing!

YET, he (the evil one never stops) kept coming back and saying, "are you SURE you want to go with God?  Surely you can ride the fence for a while . . . let me help you out with your dreams and talents for a while, and then later . . . if you want . . . you can go back to your God. . . . "

Yes, if you crave the world, yes you have to cross certain lines, do certain things, that are, of course, captured, recorded, .... then blackmail and/or bribe.  Most, that are desperate to be rich and famous (especially if they are not really that talented) WILL eagerly cross that line/take the ticket..... 

I saw it fairly close, but far enough away to just say no.

"They/he" told me . . . while scoffing, mocking, "Ha... well, now you will just be a day laborer.  Blackballed.  No one will understand or care about what you rejected and denied.  Now you will work 'by the sweat of your brow' and have calumnies subtly, ongoing tossed at you."

I said, "fine, Jesus was a carpenter.  I'll paint."

 

Cartoon Break

Intermission . . . cartoon break.  There are some wild cartoon's from back in the day. . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezoKP5fgC64&t=156s

"Basement Predators" tales continued....

 Yes , , , when and if I can get ever get to podcasting (before they shut it down) I can then perhaps fill in all kinds of interesting details.  Especially related to the Spiritual angle of things that was going on at the same time that I was bumping up against the world and its/his attempted seduction. . . .

Meanwhile, I'll continue here with a few of the (many) notable points and memories. . . . 

So, during the time of dealing a bit with Browning, I was also making waves in one of the oldest in the country (biggest around town) AM talk radio stations.  There, I met Martin and wife Natasha (top prime time hosts at the time) and they were fascinated by my talk radio satirical bits I self-produced and brought into the station, which they played and I became a regular guest/feature of the whole station (guest appearing on  various other main host's shows as well (as "T-Ray: Regional Director Of the New World Order").  This was was 1990-93, although I had already submitted produced previous satirical bits which aired regularly in mid-late 80s).

I saw the future of "talk radio" . . . which, eventually turned into "creator content" podcasting.... BUT I DIGRESS...

Anyway... Natasha, Martin's exotic wife, once they heard the original music I was self-producing, said she knew Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, and they wanted to introduce me.

As a young wanna-be artist pursuing a record deal, I thought, "great!"

I took them with me for one of my meetings with Browning.  

Nothing came of that meeting (as far as Martin and Natasha were concerned) but I carried on with Browning's interest.  

 I continued to be a regular and star guest/producer of satirical comedic/political bits for Martin's show for a a few years thereon, among other shows.  

I was basically JP Spears/Mark Dice/Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh/Crowder/Phil Hendrie etc., (regarding doing heavy political comedic satire) before they were really on the scene.  BUT I was in little ol' Mormon town Salt Lake City... and so, other than being a local underground celeb... never broke out to the big time as far as talk radio is concerned, though I could have, but was more interested in doing my music.  

Well..... and finally Senator Bob Bennet's campaign advertisers during--I think around '92--finally called the station owners and threatened to pull their advertising, because my mocking, satirical political slams of HIS hypocritical ads . . . were running back-to-back--thanks, lol, to another brilliant iconoclastic libertarian talk show host at the time there, Bob Lesh, who realized and supported my subversive intents (subversive in a GOOD way--against the cabal/ corrupt system)

ANYWAY, I digress again, lol!  See?  I just need to be a guest on or have my own podcast so I can go into detail and don't have sit here typing words that get onerous for some to have to read.... 

But... I'll continue.  This is what I've got for now. . . .

Back to the music industry part.

I scored a documentary for a wealthy fellow around the time of the initial Browning era (while I was also scoring, doing all the foley, sound effects, songs, engineering for one of THE FIRST ALL DIGITIAL MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS made (Lucas Films was doing similar at the same time, but we were near close to beating them!).... It hadn't been done yet--an all digital soundtrack and editing. . . . I was the one who did it (the soundtrack part) every night... I had the keys to the studio and for weeks and weeks wrote and engineered the whole soundtrack part....  (Well and there is a whole other tale...how the studio I was working with/for and what happened to them--the brilliant, but "green" Mormon boys with some good investment money alongside Redman Movies and Stories (still in business btw), who let the whole thing collapse when the Hollywood cats came in with their seductresses and blow... BUT I DIGRESS YET AGAIN!!!! SORRY.....)

So, yeah, one of my other soundtrack clients at the time hired me to write, produce, record the songs for a vanity project of his, retelling his "recovery" story about coming out of alcoholism/debauchery . . . and finally "getting straight".  

Which I did.

When he gave me the check, he made a side chuckle comment . . . "yeah, don't worry about the surname... lol.... it's just some family stuff from back in New York."

Confused (and naïve) I said "What? What do you mean?"

He chuckled, looked away, realized I didn't catch his slightly embarrassed smirk . . . "Lucchese."

I was about 23 years.  There was no internet, obviously at the time, and I didn't get the inference... But he was basically saying he came from the Luccehese mafia crime family of New York... but that he had changed his ways . . . hence, making his personal documentary redemption video which I had just scored.....

[He was actually a sweet guy with a nice wife, living peacefully in SLC, trying to work honest, wanting to be a sort of video/tv producer]

AND, he saved my butt in Rock Springs, Colorado, when our car broke down, towing a U-Haul on the way to Florida, with my young wife and two little boys. . . . More on THAT adventure later....

Ahhh... but back to the (unsuccessful) predators all along the way. . . . 

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>>>>> Which I'll get to next... (for now, as the night wears on, I've gotta take care of Dude, one of our beloved dogs who had a pretty serious surgery... just got all the stitches out from several "mass" removals from a few weeks ago.... It's been a bloody mess... and a lot of time, keeping an eye on him so he doesn't get to the wounds.... not much sleep... lots of cleaning, washing things... constant attention... And we have Bruce, his "brother" dog vicariously suffering through all of it.... It's been an ordeal... And... meanwhile gotta keep day-laboring, painting peoples houses... bills, food, two boys/men still in the home with special needs, wife working fingers to the splits and bone keeping up the household...

 OY VEY THE INFLATION! Yet, I never am not aware of all that others are going through, so I'm not one to complain or whine--just commiserate.

It is crushing, for instance, feeling . . . the most recent horrific ASSAULT/NEGLECT in NC . . . similar to Lahaina, Acapulco, Paradise CA, and others that haven't had even that slight attention.... I see and know what's going on, and empathize, pray for, feel for--heartbroken for ALL THOSE being attacked . . . by the wicked one(s)....!)

WE also have a close one who just got word of stage 4 C . . . . 35 yr old mom, with 2 young ones... (I believe it is turbo C exacerbated by the j*b (but that's just my own suspicions--may be wrong.) 

I am well aware of the ubiquitous pain and suffering and struggle and hope by telling some old tales of mine, I do not in any way want to marginalize what else everyone is also experiencing, struggling with.  

Time may be short to share, so I'm sharing.  We'll see.  

"They", little doubt, will pull out all kinds of novel, evil, maleficent acts to continue their subversion, corruption, perversion, wickedness, and censoriousness . . . going forward.  They actually "get off" on it! . . . . I know! It is hard to comprehend that there are those who actually ENJOY and RELISH evil, cruelty, oppression etc.  (WHICH, is why they have gotten away with it for so long and continue to do so). 

The hoi poloi, "the masses" in general, just don't have the imagination or spiritual insight to realize what is going on and how diabolical and serious it (Spiritually) is. . . . 

I thank God there is A Judge . . . at the end of the day. . . .

I fear Him in a Holy way!  I love and worship Him as able, as Given to do so, which is the ultimate gift!

God willing . . . I'll carry on with some tales of "basement predators" meanwhile, fwiw.  (Well, and I'm just using the term "basement" . . . as a metaphor, obviously.  The line can be crossed on a yacht, in the attic, in the front room, in the mind , not literally just a basement--although it happens there too.

Prince said "we're not gonna let 'the elevator' bring us down" ... and by that he meant... even though he had "gone to the basement" . . . crossed the line, he regretted it and fought back against his relinquishing to the wicked one, for fame, fortune, temporary power . . .

BUT.... he finally died in an elevator.

It's real.  THEY are ruthless.  You can sing about it all the way to your grave and garner a few shekels and fame and some posters and t-shirts at the end. . . . 

It is better to NEVER cross that line, take the ticket, go to the basement--SELL YOUR SOUL for "fame and fortune".

Better to live in ignominy, or as a martyr known or unknown.   

God blesses and loves you.  He is fathomless and mysterious and yet close and personal ALL THE WAY.

More Tales From "Don't Go To The Basement"?

[forgive me... I just quick wrote this, and if I don't get it posted, it tends to languish... but I haven't had time to edit grammar and typos, so I'll recheck....and correct as needed.. But for now.. here this is.

Because it's all over the news . . . a bit more on this topic--the rites and ways of the entertainment business at the top levels.  Also, I have a family member who has landed very near that whole scene; it was a scene I worked my up to through talent, relentless creative hard work (because I am an artist, and of course, it would be nice to be compensated for creating art/music which you love to do, and will do and have always done, regardless if there is a payday or not.)  

When I wended my way, writing, producing, scoring movie/tv soundtracks (using at the time the most cutting edge digital/sampling technology--one of a few who were doing it, because it was so new, early 80s, I'm in my early 20s with wife and 2 children) . . . my first of several investors was John Browning, of Browning Arms . . . he liked my "soundscape" experimental music, but barely . . . he was an old-world elite type guy in a suit and bow-tie at 10 in the morning.... me, I was across the desk with my shoulder length rocknroll hair, rocknroll boots.. lol, it was a couple of surreal, funny meetings.  I pitched to him my philanthropic ideas (remember, I was about 22-23 years old, a bit idealistic, but also I've always seen the future of things going on in the world, before they have manifested... If I were a "playa" I could have long ago taken WORLDLY advantage of that foresight $....  BUT, I've always been more interested in and committed to--because bought and paid for by Jesus God and HIS purposes, I dare say.

Anyway, sitting there with John Browning Jr., I'm pitching my music, music video ideas 9early days of MTV)  . . . and telling him, if and when the money rolled in, then private prisons and animal rescue sanctuaries would be something to develop.  I did not realize how nefarious the "private prison" racket would be... (my idea was to actually create privately funded prisons that would REHABILITATE lovingly, Godly, the prisoners)  Re that . . . and regarding the animal sanctuary idea, he said, basically, "why would I care about that?" .... He then let me know that "they" were moving into "shale oil" ... in some part of the ocean around Australia.  I will say, he was kind enough to give me a moment of his time, several times, and DID invest a little bit into my musical creative ideas. . . . Well, and I could go on about that whole connection and how and why I even was allowed to end up there (mainly a few different family connections/legal related things...)  But bottom line (which is one of the songs "The Bottom Line" I wrote and produced via his "help" at the time  at Osmond Studios--which is about how... the "bottom line" is death--making terms and realizing . . . that for all the money, status, clout-seeking etc in this world... YOU DIE AT THE END OF THE DAY and YOU BETTER KNOW WHAT IT WAS ALL FOR!.....

Then.... I met with a dude who claimed to be one of James Brown's (illegitimate sons). . . .

That was early days.... 

I'm just recalling a few of the initial ventures into trying to "make it"... (spoiler alert: lol... I NEVER took the ticket, never "went to the basement" .... SO... I didn't "make it" ... but could have . . . several times over.)  Because I have always been focused on GOD, TRUTH . . . and very skeptical and resistant to the wiles and ways of the world.  Had no taste for that.  

But wait!  There's more! .... 

Does anyone want me to continue on with some of these tales?  It would be easier to do on a podcast, and I can fill in interesting details, if and when I can get that up and running.....

Never Took the Diddy Ticket/Basement Crawl

 [Sidenote blog related to the daily news]: 

All the revealing of the scene.  The diddy stuff.  I've alluded to it before.  I came up against it quite a few  times.  I was a young, super talented, charismatic, pretty young boy/man.  I was always having to fend off "chicken hawks", which I did, successfully, btw!  

It actually started when I was 7 or 8.  I believe I was Protected, otherwise I could have been molested, assaulted.  I never was, thank God!

I was eventually taken to a few adult parties, as a sort of token, novelty, because . . . well, was an only child, babysitters were hard to find, sooooo. take the little kid to the party .  

I remember in 6th grade, at one of the occasional parties at our house, my step-dad taught me how to mix drinks, be the bartender for a bit... it was a novelty... I mixed the party goers' drinks, they chuckled, thought it was cute... And then, (thank God nothing weird happened, and I would go off to my room to sleep, listening to the talking, laughing, music well into the night, as I drifted off to sleep, then school in the morning) my "dad" lawyer with his associates (he was a big up-and-coming lawyer, very German in his character and ways...super intelligent, not emotional, introduced me to Plato, Aristotle, logic). . . . I found out later in life that those were wild parties--not WILD wild... they were just 70's boomers, smoking weed, drinking, and perhaps doing some other stuff, but on the surface very straight-laced and professional).

Well, and then after that all the "offers" . . . from very wealthy, placed people.. which I always was repulsed by... and never "took the ticket"/"went to the basement" . . . .

Because I loved Truth and God above all--above money, fortune and fame.... I was told by the evil one(s) . . . . "you will only then be a day laborer, just working by the sweat of your brow" ...... And I said, "that sounds rough, BUT I am not going to cross that line!"  

And I didn't, and haven't.

It was obvious to me.  They want to get you into a compromised situation . . . record it all . . . then blackmail or gift bounteous $ bribes.  It's either, you are blacklisted OR . . . you have a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow.   

I said no.  I saw and rejected over and over . . . that whole play.

 I love God above all.

Tempted in all things, . . . The Lord said NO!  And did NONE!  HE IS PERFECT!

He said, if you Know and follow Me. . . so will you be tempted and tried and made the least.

I sorted through the whole assaults of The World/Devil, and said NO! to the temptations. 

"They" said . . . "ok... fine.... now your life will be hard."

And I said, "The Lord had nowhere to lay his head, how dare I expect anything more than that!"  

And I find myself grateful for every breath of life . . . and the opportunity to give comfort and blessing to THE LEAST OF THESE.

Nope (What we DON'T do is comply with casual evil)!

 I'm over here in the wilderness.... Found myself working on . . . an almost sort of . . . "last blog and testament" . . . for several days I hope not, lol, .... but, yeah it's been a rough week, let alone, year.  It hasn't let up.

BUT, I dare barely complain (well, I don't complain . . . I am grateful for every moment of life, breath and graced Love Of God . . . . . . .)  BUT .... like you I feel and am well aware of all the other suffering going on in any moment, yet each of us must needs be . . . share, for we are a communal human race.  It's in our designed nature.  SO . . . while the availability is still extant . . . fwiw, I'll share my thoughts and ongoing experience.  AND . . . I know and feel YOU have your own--just as important, meaningful, intense, real.

Been dealing with a beloved one . . . in house . . . after fairly serious surgery . . . since Monday.  It's been near minute to minute, hour to hour, watching, caring, protecting, healing . . . . . . And in these especially hard-hearted times, "they" would just as soon have ya die off--one less mouth to feed.

Nope.

Regardless of the worldly cost and time . . . a Christian--a lover of the least and all God's creatures, you find yourself taking care of others and trusting God's will in the end. We do what we can do, God strengthen us!

What we DON'T do . . . is  "c'est la vie" (leave that to the Godless, self-seeking existentialists!!!) 

Nope.  A disciple of The Master, Lord of All . . . strives to save and comfort "the least".  For we are born of, and thrive in, and long for . . . The Lord's loving sacrificial Spirit (the world be damned if it's not appreciated and recognized--which it is and will be in The End).

Whatever the cost, we love and succor and save and garnish and heal and care over life as able!

.....  ..... ......  . . . . . . . . . . .

Anyway . . . yes, I have a near short book/blog-post written up, addressing most general things current, personal, historic, and specifically related to the immediate and coming spiritual times, which I can't seem to post just yet . . . so this is, I'm surmising a prelude of sorts. . . . . fwiw... .

Not trying to oversell it!... Just saying... it's been days, amidst the triage, in the making.  

If, perchance, it were the last thing I wrote/conveyed (I wouldn't necessarily be thrilled, lol) ....BUT, I wouldn't mind it being such, such as it has gone, as I continue to hone it, and we'll see where things go.

Well, and as I said a few times lately, just a while ago, "we are in the fast moving waters" ......... 

Turns out that phrase was (sadly) poignant lately.

But there it is.

And there's more. . . .

Brace yourself.  

Pray, love and seek God above all!  (I too say, extol and pray for this to/for myself and loved ones daily!)

 

   

 

Do Not Fear, He Is Always With You

 Fast moving waters . . . we are in, as I've noted, written of, melancholily anticipated, in real time.  

We're in them, and hitting the rocky rapids, whirlpools, waterfalls.

Getting hammered from the left, from the right, inside outside, physical, material, psychological, spiritual. . . . and then some.

Bottom line, is whether you truly have faith in God or not?

We are being hit with all kinds of "total war", "asymmetrical (demonic) warfare" on all sides.  I know me and mine are . . . and I see and feel deeply for all the others that are also.

We are in a last days of new martyrs, I dare say.  Most (as usual) will die in (worldly) ignominy.  Some will be seen and known by The Remnant even in this fallen world.  Regardless . . . GOD SEES AND RECORDS AND REWARDS the least, unseen, unheard in this vaporous realm AND, we trust IS THE AUTHOR OF ALL!  So shall it be!  HIS WILL BE DONE!

Every deed, every thought, every selfless task, effort--striving to love others as one loves oneself--IS WRITTEN . . . IN THE BOOK OF LIFE>!

Take heart, take heed, stay in prayer, repentant, humble, grateful and keeping YOUR EYE SINGLE TO THE GLORY OF GOD!  For that is what it is ALL ABOUT!

And He promised and WILL reward those who love and value and serve and yearn and appreciate HIS GLORY ABOVE ALL!!!

This fleeting, fallen, corrupt world . . . will have it's end.

And those who love it more than The Lord, will find their place--what THEY wanted aside from GOD!

God bless the suffering, the penitent, the humble, the grateful, the righteous in Christ . . . the martyrs and saints through the ages, including this age.

Praise God all the way!

Do not fear!  Bless and love and hope and be strong in your faith!  Times of especial trial are upon us at last. . . .  ALSO a time for reflected glory in serving and staying true in and to His Revelation!

Most is dross, sent to the pit.  That is HIS will, so shall it be.  So it is Written.

Me? Just shouting through the din of tumult and chaos and multitudinous assaults; I dare not say "a watchman" . . . but . . . it does feel like that sometimes, finding myself piercing through the haze of war and darkness, weaknesses of my own. 

God bless you!  I pray for you.  Your prayers are felt also and deeply appreciated.  

We shall mostly feel abandoned, alone, afraid . . . the few that be who Know and are willing to give all for The Truth. . . . 

BUT HE SAID (and if you Believe what He said, then never forget and thus cherish!) He Said: I will never leave or forsake you.

That promise along with accompanying gratitude . . . is mightier than all the armies and chaos and charades and subterfuge etc., that the puerile, debased, doomed enemy may impenitently toss your way. 

 

YOU Will Not Cave

[I will revisit this post . . . I am suspect that there are typos and some clarification wording that ought straighten it out... BUT ... the time is such, and, I dare say, some impending . . . hmmm. ... from what I've been seeing and feeling in The Spirit..... (It looks like a dark, solid, maleficent, irrevocable wall of sorts . . . moving up closer, soon, and about to get into place)] . . . 

Such that, I want to quick share these timely thoughts/feelings/spirit (see below) . . . 

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..... feeling the suffering, sadness going on, viscerally.  The people, the pets, the animals. . . . And a continuous foreboding sense for all.

The wicked . . . are wicked . . . and evil . . . and delight in the suffering of others.  

They always have, through the ages.  

We are in an age.  Nothing new under the sun.  

There are the day-to-day worries, bills, inflation, people changing, family, friends, taxes, beloved friends and family dying, pet losses, looming more treachery, demonic influences swirling about, subtle back-stabbing whisperers, projected impending doom, intended doom, perversion of God's laws/commandments/nature in your face  "pride".... getting old body falling apart and reducing, "cultural revolution" Mao 4.0 where the children that have been brainwashed to hate their elders then put them up to have stones thrown at them and then eventual calumny them to gulags, or outright tortuous executions..... 

I recall reading (AND hearing personally from actual survivors personally, the many accounts--now mostly censored and hard to find) of how the godless God-hating cabal communist marxist devil spawn... would suss out the "Christians" . . . main target . . . and then, for instance, in a case I learned of . . . they took the man, a believer who would not renounce his faith, and put him in a tall barrel . . . encased . . . with nails sticking in from the outside... just touching his body barely.... THEN ... they rolled him in the barrel . . . down a steep hill.... And they laughed and drank and played poker and continued their torture the rest of the days on the others.  Christians were primary targets--because . . . in the communist world . . . the state is God . . . there can be no other contender.

Most in that position of torment and threat (who do not have the grace of God, Holy Spirit) cave.

They do not persist. They still have hope in this world.

But True Believers . . . martyrs . . . simply CAN NOT cave!  Once you have seen the Truth and the Glory of THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GOD . . . you cannot deny it.  Separation of goats and sheep happens at that moment.

It isn't easy, for sure! It is Awful . . . terrible, painful! 

BUT . . . when you think of the One Pure Sacrifice, Who gave Himself to suffer and take on all your fallen sin, iniquities . . . and you recall, having read thereof, and even barely grasp . . . the depth, and suffering, and sacrifice, and the disgusting mockery put upon, and the calumnies spread against THE PERFECT LAMB OF GOD.

There is all the physical, material, worldly threats and attacks and subterfuge, as usual. . . .

BUT above all . . . never forget and always keep in mind and in spirit and soul . . . THIS IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE!

This worldly life is a vapor.  It goes fast, even if you live a long time.  Many get clipped way before even a long life.  Tomorrow is not promised.  SO . . . pray always . . . always be striving for a prayerful, grateful state of mind.  AND (and this might sound flippant, but it's not) . . . a certain sense of humor amidst the oppression . . . is Godly.  We would not have a sense of humor, if God didn't Himself, within his essence, being.  

Gratitude . . . a sense of humor . . . love . . . compassion for the lost fallen . . . empathy . . . loving others as much as you love yourself . . . loving GOD above all--finding yourself graced with the unfathomable (albeit "through a glass darkly")  love and desperate desire for THE TRUTH, GOD . . . and being gifted with having the recognition of The Lord, The Word.

Arrogant Internet $ Spiritual Grifters

Tonight.. tracking things . . . observing, like I always find myself doing. . . . 

I just got to quick say,

Sam Shamoun . . . no Bueno.

Money, cheap internet fame, ego . . . EGO . . . deluded, pervasive and vile arrogant mouth, not of Jesus. . . and I wouldn't be surprised if . . . some "accelerants" fueling the flame.......

He is exposing himself.  It's over for the cat.

ARROGANCE . . . PRIDE . . . is the original fall from grace.

Not gonna end well.

He is an arrogant fool, sad to say.  All of that weaponized autistic memory going to waste, and serving self and the wicked Marxist atheist pope. . . . 

So . . . yeah, he can beat up on Islam . . . but he is not of, with Jesus, I dare say.

And I just did. 

Beware wolves in sheep's clothing.

THERE ARE A LOT.

(AS ALWAYS!)

I'll stick with the least, the poor in spirit . . . pleading, praying every night for mercy, because it is the heart of the humble, submitted.

Not impressed with encyclopedic arrogance.

That . . . is Talmudic . . . 

Yep.

And the least shall be first.  Take heart ( if you find yourself the least, and simply loving and seeking and finding THE LORD . . . in the quiet of the night)

Where Does Your Attention Go?

 Like I mentioned before . . . ATTENTION is a thing.

It runs the world and was the falling sin of Lucy-pants.

WHO DO YOU PAY ATTENTION TO?

WHO and/or what do you expend your energy toward?

I've addressed this before.  It's worth mentioning again.

This world is run by attention.  It is run by the fallen one who wanted attention.

The fallen one, kicked out of Heaven, then got allowed a realm for an amount of time to showcase how that works.

It works like . . . perversion, child trafficking, murder, violence, hate, jealousy, greed, subversion, destruction of all that is good and of God, 

So, God allowed the Rebel/rebels to show what they could do WITHOUT His Sovereignty.  

And look at it now.

Horrific.  Pure dedicated evil.

WHERE does your attention go?   Are you focused on and loving ONLY GOD?!  NOT the god of this fallen world, but THE GOD OF ALL, WHO IS SOVEREIGN, HOLY, GOOD ABOVE ALL, KING OF KINGS!

A Sudden Strike

 Last night, in the wee small hours, I Saw the sudden crippling cyber/power-grid attack.   I saw Russian military operatives . . . biding their time, analyzing the best strike points, planning, getting ready and waiting . . . then of a sudden, they hit, out of the blue. 

Imagine, if this happens near simultaneously with widespread terror attacks on the ground. 

It will get rough quickly, to say the least. 

Vanity . . . All Is Vanity, other than the 1st commandment

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing."  --Ecc 1:2-8

Sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, bereft, self-seekers, winners, losers, and the rest, BEWARE.

It is not about YOU, regardless. 

Recall and strive to live THE FIRST COMMANDMENT if you can't muster the effort to do anything else worth striving for.  For, if you do (follow the 1st commandment) . . . all else worthy and holy and joyful follows.  THAT is the whole of the law, the rest follows.

"You will not have any other gods before Me. Thou shalt not."  Start with this directive above all.  All else can go jump off a cliff.  

[Well, and strict in tow is the 2nd commandment, which is tied to the first.]

It's Not About You, It's About HIM

 Meanwhile...

If I could say anything, all in all ... of what I've Seen...

IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU!

Thank God for air, existence, water . . . some food ....

What you find yourself doing . . . is surging, yearning towards LOVING GOD. 

Everything besides that is a distraction.

How and why do the angels spend all of their eternal time singing glorious hymns and songs dedicated to the honor, glory, unfathomable reality of GOD?  Moment after timeless moment... this is what they do.  From before time, through time and after time... through eternity. . . . .

Oh, we should be so blessed!  

Once you get even the slightest micro sliver of seeing His glory and light... EVEN A FAINT SLIVER!  THAT ALONE . . . is enough to find yourself on your face, face down, in awe, that HE IS WHO IS IS ........... THE ALPHA AND OMEGA!!!

Words don't do justice to even attempt to describe what you see and know and acknowledge Who He Is!

HE IS GOD!   

He is THE ALL IN ALL!

YOU... meanwhile . . . with petty temporary concerns, trying to make a big splash in the fleeting material world and mortal life . . . are a fool, if you so do. . . . 

The suffering and burden borne . . . by The Son . . . Who died in the flesh, yet rose, defeating death . . . is beyond mortal appreciation and understanding.  The only way you might grasp it--be invested and a part of it--IS ONLY ... BY HIS GRACE.

He IS love . . . and gracious!  Merciful. And wholly Holy. 

He is all in all . . . and has no need whatsoever to do ANYTHING for you.

If you find yourself loving and serving and suffering in this (quick, brutal temporary mortal) life then PRAISE GOD!

There is a perfect Divine justice to it all.  Those who hate God . . . get what they want.  Justice.  They hate God and want nothing to do with Him.  And so, they fairly get what they want.

What do you crave, yearn for?  

Truth?  God?   

Or..... just stupid, myopic temporary self-seeking/fulfilment.... ?

The Lord came down to this realm . . . and suffered ALL that we have or might have had gone through.  He took it all upon Himself, through His only begotten Son. . . .

Tempted in all things...

Yet, perfect....

He conquered all.  The proof was rising from the dead.  NO ONE EVER BUT JESUS DID THAT!

And all of the witnesses... Apostles... went to their tortuous dying ends proclaiming what they had witnessed! ...... They could not and did not and would not DENY what and Who they saw, heard, knew.

The Lord IS coming soon.

The Lord is HERE NOW, having gifted His Holy Spirit to succor those who believe and have faith.

Everything needed for guidance . . . is Written.

Everything that can console the troubled soul yearning for solace and truth and the Lord . . . has been given.

All to do . . . is to press into faith, belief, hope and trust in The Word, guided by the Holy Spirit, searching for yearning for, loving The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Together, Who are together ONE . . . and the ONLY TRUE LIVING SOVEREIGN GOD OF ALL.

Heaven is a place . . . where . . . GOD . . . shares HIS immutable reality with His deigned and perfect subjects, for His and their endless righteous pleasure.

The devil people hate that.  THEY want to usurp WHAT IS.

THEY want to subvert what is Truth!.

They got given a pittance of existence . . . and then got full of themselves, and want to overthrow THE THRONE OF GOD.

The LORD is GOD.  Usurpers, upstarts are NOT.  They don't realize or accept that they only exist as a subject creature BECAUSE OF HIS DESIGN.

He is an awesome and fearful God.

He is Who He Is.

You can either accept it or reject it.

Here's what you can't do. . . . OVERTHROW HIM!

Fools--those who think they can. . . .

We suffer for His Name and Glory's sake! . . . For now. . . . 

THEN.......... the reward!

Stay fast, true, in love, in submission to The Lord, THE ONE TRUE AND  HOLY GOD.

Who Is "главный враг" "Glavny Vrag"?

 I think it was roughly a year or so ago I mentioned a sort of "flash vision" in the night which came with a sense of dread, where I Saw multiple "terrorist" attacks in multiple cities, near simultaneously across the country.  I've seen lately increasing "chatter" about that exact thing now being expected--even coming from certain high level law enforcement leaders "in the know".  When I Saw it unfold, it came also with an ominous feeling/knowing of inevitability.  

So, just bear that in mind, stay alert in large gatherings, events.  

I had another (what I've long termed) a "flash vision" last night.  This one was likewise brief, but intense and came with that same sense of inevitability.  In this one, I also Saw a wide-view of the whole country, border to border.  There was a sort of invisible barrier around the country, as in, it was closed off.  The country had, in essence, become one giant, geographical prison/gulag.

I've always been a bit suspicious of "the wall" and thought it ultimately is not meant to keep others out, but to keep us within. . . .

We are already in a sort of medium level prison here in the U.S., subject to arbitrary law enforcement and what is happening with the criminal population is exactly what happened in the final stages when the USSR took over a country.  Criminals, sadists, sociopaths etc., were let loose to terrorize the populace, mildly punished, if at all punished, and many of them actually were conscripted to oppress the people within and without the ubiquitous gulag prison system.  Simultaneously, "thought-crimes" and minor mistakes and infraction (peoples' actions or speech deemed against "the party") were punished brutally, lethally.  We see this already happening, and has been for several years now.

All of the usual stages of communist takeover/conquer have happened and are increasingly in intensity, as they always do.  First, comes infiltration, subversion of the institutions, churches, civil and community organizations. Meantime, also a constant barrage of perversion of morals, re-writing patriotic traditions/history--destroying statues, defaming founders/historic heroes etc., and throwing calumnies and accusations and even charging crimes against any who dare to still support such.  Also, a long term ongoing action is to get the native population to begin mis-trusting, despising, hating their own government, so that the conquering "liberators" are seen as heroes coming in to save the day.  This has been going on for decades.

In the final stages, someone like ie., a Trump type character who represents a return to country tradition, morays is allowed to present an alternative to the ongoing destruction of the increasingly brainwashed/targeted portion of the population and intelligentsia.  This is so that those who support at return to ie.,, "make America great again" . . . expose themselves, such that, when the more brutal, mass clamp-down and round-ups/oppression happen, they will be easily identified and and dealt with.  for these are to be "enemies of the state", of "democracy" of "peace", "unity" etc.

One of the other things to watch for, which mentioned some years ago here--and it is a red flag that we are very close to the full-blown and open takeover, is when prominent "freedom" voices, patriotic leaders--whether in media or politics--start being overtly targeted and either assassinated or incarcerated.  This has already been happening in a few cases.  Some of the upcoming cases will be shocking and will cause widespread outrage.  Although, such outrage will only serve to re-emphasize the point that these "patriotic" types, civilians, are violent and dangerous also and likewise need to be dealt with (incarcerated, exterminated etc.)

Before long, people of conscience, who have wakened to the real tyranny/occupation underway, whether people of prominence or regular concerned citizens, will become terrified and fearful to speak or act out at all.  With the advent of ubiquitous "listening/watching" technology within and without houses . . . it will be difficult to even whisper one's concerns and near impossible to organize any kind of resistance.

The foreboding part nowadays, is that it is now a global tyranny.  There is nowhere left to go that hasn't been already conquered.  It has been a century long strategic march political and moral subversion, infiltration, corruption, with the cherry (America) now about to be consumed.

I also predicted (about 18 years ago) that one day Russia would be seen as the beacon of freedom and traditional values and that they may be portrayed as potential liberators, such that even conservatives and patriots would look to them for rescue from our liberal, left-wing, corrupt government.  That has happened, and is ongoing.  Don't be fooled.  And don't forget that the bulk of the subversion, infiltration, corruption of the country has been directed from Moscow for decades.

I do expect eventual invasion, occupation (portrayed as liberators/protectors of peace/democracy) from China, Russia perhaps in coordination with the UN. . . .

At it's core, it is a spiritual battle.  These are the foot soldiers of the devil.  Hence, why Christianity, Christians and the Bible are главный враг "glavny vrag" ("main enemy" in Russian).

How to prepare?  

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ . . . and in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them is a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God.  For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf.  --Phil. 1:27-29

Coming Soon, No freeSpeech BUT FOR Faith in God/In The Holy Spirit

[forgive me... I wanted to get this out asap... I will proof-read, correct if needed, typos, grammar etc...but meantime.. just felt impressed to quick relate it out to you]

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Oy vey... (well, and I use that term loosely and sparingly, and with some slight intent)... but it isn't too bad for a term of knowing exasperation/wits end. . . .

Meanwhile . . . I have so much to say. . . . And am as I dare, having had seen that the eventual, inevitable clamp-down on free thought/expression . . . will increasingly take out Truth tellers. . . .  As I've long said, that's how it always goes.  I do, (sadly indeed) expect just the same here coming up where the last vestiges of (relative) freedom still exist.  

It has long been obvious to me, where this trajectory is going, in basic terms of geo-political events; which is . . . what I warned of . . . spoke and wrote about . . . global "communist" totalitarianism.  WHICH, is just another term for . . . the beast system described in Revelation.

. . . .Watching, knowing, seeing, hearing, experiencing etc., what's going on and where we are NOW at in the flow of life 2024. . . . AND having pretty much have laid it all out. . . and seeing the horde on the horizon--blood-curdling war yelps in the distance (as ya do, when raiding a "village" with overwhelming odds and excited for the bounties/booty) I'm here still shouting (quietly, lol) from the watchtower . . . AND WILL so long as God wills! 

Well, and I SO appreciate you fellow, longtime suffering servants . . . and those of you who have supported through prayer . . . interest . . . hard-earned ____ .... love and friendship, based IN THE LORD OF ALL, through all these years so far!   I would call you by name . . . BUT no need, as you know I know and appreciate you and have for--dare I say?--yes I do SAY . . . ETERNAL TIME! 

(Sorry if, yet again, being a little cryptic, but . . . that also is how is goes . . . has likewise gone . . . when the hordes and the invader comes in to "steal, kill and destroy".)

I pray for hours a day.  I suspect EVERY Believer does as well, especially now, with the smoky, fiery, teeming horde dust on the horizon . . , let alone, the inner life and the various assaults and attacks there (which are connected to those visible).

FAITH .... NEVER FORGET!  AND CONTINUE TO PURSUE THE DEEP MEANING AND IMPORT OF THIS WORD OF GOD: "Without faith it is impossible to please God." --Heb. 11:6

THAT IS A HEAVY ABSOLUTE DIRECTIVE!!!!!!!!   

Meditate and ponder and pray about that directive!  AND this further information (EVERY WORD OF GOD IS ETERNALLY RELEVANT AND CHERISHED!)

"They" can shut down extroverted "free speech" . . . BUT "they" cannot subvert or control or rule FREE SPEECH IN THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD--THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN!  

YES.... "they" will try to so corrupt your mind and soul and brain and body, such that, you forget the Words of God and fail to apprehend or Hear The Holy Spirit (IF it were possible--it's NOT! for The Elect, take heart!)......... SO always be aware of the various programs and games and smoke and mirrors designed (within and without) to distract and divert you FROM THE SIMPLE TRUTH and LOVE OF GOD .... THAT YOU KNOW!  

It is a strait and narrow path.  The MORE distraction and manipulation (physically, spiritually, mentally etc.) that "they"/the enemy does . . . there is also the contrast becoming more obvious and achievable . . . between all of that evil intent VERSUS the pure, Good, lovely, divine presence and purpose of THE ONE TRUE HOLY GOD OF ALL.

Meditate, ponder/pray upon what He means by "the SUBSTANCE OF THINGS" . . . in this following snippet of Holy Scripture.  From my experience, for what it's worth, it is one of THE (among the many!) most Spiritually guiding and KEY passages, insights . . . into this . . . and the next experience of reality.... 

FAITH IS:

  the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

Suffering Servant

 "Can we read, believe, ponder seriously the wonderful advantages of the Cross, and the great merit of suffering, here described, and not love to suffer, to receive crosses from the hands of Jesus Christ, and submit to endure whatever He pleases, and as much as He pleases, since to suffer much, and in a proper manner, is absolutely requisite for salvation, and is the most tender and efficacious effect of the goodness of God towards us, who does not spare us the pains of time that He may spare us those of eternity.

"It is to bear the visible character of the predestinate, which, according to St. Paul, consists in our resemblance to Jesus Christ, a humble, suffering, and persecuted God; it is to render ourselves worthy of His life of glory, by participating in His life of suffering; it is to efface the punishment due to our sins by perfect repentance; it is to gain the heart of Jesus Christ, merit His love, avenge Him, and punish ourselves, honor Him by our destruction, and prefer His good pleasure before our own satisfaction.

"Shall this not console thee under affliction, and animate thee to bear it with becoming resignation?

"Say, then, in the time of suffering, in order not to fail, 'Hell, which I have deserved, is something more horrible than anything I can now endure; my Savior has suffered much more for me; and heaven is worth infinitely more than I can undergo.'"  --T. A'K.

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This attitude and thought . . . is and should remain foundational, as we exist within troubled times and persecution; especially as such intensifies.  Keep your eye and heart and intention of The Prize!

Total Warfare revisited (what to do?)

Years ago, warning of these very days we are in and about to get into deeper, I wrote and spoke about the military conquest concept/strategy of "total warfare". 

The "takeover", the conquest has already happened at the highest levels.  Then purging of next highest levels, down to middle management, fairly well complete.  Now, enough of the masses, hoi poloi . . . have been indoctrinated into the party line, agitated to hair-trigger violence, in order to cause street level mayhem and cow the remaining targeted native population into compliance, fear, trepidation, paralysis. . . . 

Meanwhile attacking through food, drugs, perversion of family and traditional (God-ordained) ordered hierarchies . . . plus, a well-oiled and ubiquitous surveillance state (ie., like when in the Soviet Bloc, people were afraid to speak above whispers inside their own homes, lest the dreaded vans and truncheons showed up in the middle of the night)....  Only now with the added advantage of ubiquitous spying technology, which is always listening, watching, recording. (ie., like how Ceausescu in Romania issued "free" state produced television sets to the people . . . which just happened to have recording devices installed, such that... while you're watching, listening to TV, it--the state--is watching and listening to you!)

AND just good old-fashioned bribed or coerced operatives/neighbors/family/friends listening and ready to turn you in for "incorrect thinking" ...... Yes, all very 1984ish. . . . .

What I love and believe (according to The Word) is that GOD is THE "OO"!  He is the ORIGINAL OMNISCIENT . . . and it is He Who is recording, noting, watching, listening to ALL.  (Hence why the pretender/rebel is attempting to mimic the same.  It was what I relayed Seeing . . . regarding my "electronic fence" interviews with Zeph mid-2000s. . . .

It's also what my song "Tri-borg Monstrosity" is about.  They/It/He/She/Baphomet trying to copy the surrounding and ubiquitous, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipresent presence and power of the triune God.

Anyway, I digress a bit....

I'm seeing the term "unrestricted warfare" popping up in social media, X, especially.  Patriot watchers have caught on to how 360degrees (what I called "total warfare) warfare is well under way and entering the final stage, "final solution".  Related to that, we are seeing civilian reports of compounds, camps, foreigners of some sort (military age, shape and size) scattered about the countrysides, hidden, stocking up . . . getting ready for "the word" to go mayhem on the native populace.

One day (I suspect it will be a precursor to what I once saw and called "the day of slaughter", or it may actually be that) these cells will activate.  Right now they are consolidating, jacking-up, getting comms established, getting ready.

I truly hope I am wrong. 

Problem is, everything I thought was going to happen, is. . . . The way I thought and saw it would look like . . . does.

The simple, good, hard-working people are so distracted and beset with basic survival, that they have no time to see these developments under their noses.  The enemies/Enemy use this basic naivete' to justify their oncoming conquest.  As in, to themselves, they think, "If you are so stupid and easily distracted and emasculated and cowed and drugged up and perverted . . . well then, you kinda get what you deserve!"

It has been this way through the centuries.  This is how conquest happens.  An angry, retaliatory violent, focused and determined cabal/cadre can easily wipe away the chap of a degenerate, corrupt, complaisant, Godless state/country/tribe/people. . . .

It's not rocket science.  It's old conquest strategies that work and have worked through the ages.

SO, seeing and have had seen for a long time now . . . what to do?  That is what everyone asks and thinks and wonders about and prays about, daily.  I know I do!  AND HAVE . . . for years, knowing/seeing what's coming. . . .

The Enemy is in (temporary) control and stewardship of this world, at the time.  We know this, because it is Written.

We also have the "cheat sheets" . . . given to His Own . . . to have a heads up on how it WILL go.

THAT is what I always go back to, regarding ie., how to prepare, what to do, what not to do, what to expect.

[sidenote: NOT EVERYONE . . . but most everyone . . . I see "succeeding" in the world, I am suspect of.  THEY should be suspect of their "success".  More times than not, one ends up "paying the piper" in the end.  Which "end" is what everyone should be bearing in mind.  What is the point of it all?  Where does one go after this life?"]

Just yesterday, these verses came to me, as I was praying, pondering, wondering, imploring my Lord what to do and asking for comfort and guidance, but submitted to WHATEVER HIS WILL IS FOR ME AND MY FAMILY (He gave to me). . . . . .

This is what He said:

-----"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death."

(That right there is exactly what happened during the "cultural revolution" in China under Mao.  Children turned on their elders, their very parents.  AND it has happened over and over and over, going back to the Garden)

-----"You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved."

(By this He, as always. reminds me of The Prize, The Crown of Glory . . . that He lovingly shares with HIS Family.  This life is short, a wisp in the wind, the grass withers and the flowers fall--there is a time for all things in His Order.  Submitted and trusting, with all the faith I can muster, I continue to look and hope for, yearn for the Glorious end . . . which is actually the beginning of all that is good, lovely, perfect, within His Will.  For those who persevere.)

-----"When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes."

("through the towns of Israel" means . . . through His chosen peoples' places.  And, as a Christian, that means, through those places, homes, areas, where Believers still exist amidst the destruction.  The Holy Spirit will guide as needed, as He wills you to survive and thrive, as Willed. . . . Well, and one of my longest running prayers, imploring's, deep as can be . . . is praying to be Given "LOVE OF GOD".

(We are natural enemies, haters of God.  All that is Good, Glorious . . . "successful" . . . "well done, my good and faithful servant" . . . comes from having being bestowed, through His grace, LOVE OF GOD!  

(My wife, thank God, has a similar bottom-line prayer amidst the storms, "let me be found to be in the center of Your Will."

(THESE answers to that nagging question of "what to do", "what do we do" . . . are not of this world, and nothing you can manufacture, nor "work"-at, through, ie., showing philanthropic good works, no matter how they may temporarily benefit others.  The Holy Spirit says to the lonely, scared, beset child of God.... PRAY FOR LOVE OF GOD!  PRAY, YEARN, CRAVE to have a burning, dedicated, sold-out LOVE OF GOD ABOVE ALL!  PRAY, SEEK TO BE GIVEN THE STRENGTH TO BE FOUND IN THE CENTER OF HIS WILL!  HELP!)

-----“The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master."  --Matt. 21-25

Beware the Chasm (updated)

 Beware

There is a giant, vast, un-leapable chasm . . . between the depths of our sin and depravity compared to the Holiness of God Almighty.  

Many are casually assuming they have done some good works, enough to get a pass. . . .

If you have been graced with experiencing the gift of The Holy Spirit, The Spirit Of Truth, The Comforter, Advocate . . . then you have experienced the lies blanketing this fallen world, beset on all sides, BUT, yet comforted in the Knowledge . . . of . . . what is called Heaven . . . in The Book.

It is truly sorrowful to witness how many are deluded and not graced and given such Knowledge.  HENCE why so many believers continue to preach, missionary, share as can, stake their lives on shouting from the rooftops THE GOOD NEWS! . . . The un-awakened are bereft of the Awe-full Truth and Glory of this reality/situation we find ourselves in.  I truly don't wish it on the worst of the worst (that includes me!)

Oh yes, He is a Personal and Awesome Lord!  Beyond all words, (though I thank God He gave us His Word(s)!)  The Lord of All!  It never fails to "blow my mind"!  Since early on . . . He "blows my mind"!  (Sorry to use seemingly apparently crass terminology.)  But He does and always has since a child.  

The Creator . . . of ALL?  YES! Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent!!! GOD!  

So, every thought, action, movement . . . Observed, Noted . . . AND I dare say, DESIGNED! For He is sovereign over all.  Alpha And Omega.

Fall on face worship is all there is . . . for the gifted worm--the least!  [ "I am the poorest of Your servants and a wretched worm, far more poor and worthless than I can ever realize or express. Yet, Lord, remember that I am nothing: I have nothing, and can do nothing."--Thomas A'kempis]

I have no question or confusion . . . about how His angels can and do and always have . . . sung His praises constantly and ongoing (but for the rebel ones, who wanted their own glory).

I yearn, pray for, and hope to witness and be a part of that glorious chorus!  FOR EVER!  

It is not one bit confusing or suspect to me . . . to consider that HEAVEN is utterly centered on, about and around, ALL ABOUT the glory and love and awe of God, THE CREATOR OF ALL!  And I pray and yearn . . . to be graced to be there doing that.]

  

 

We Don't Look At The Things Seen, But THE Things Not Seen!

 ". . . . as we received mercy, we do not lose heart . . . and even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they will not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 

". . . .we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed, always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

". . . . Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison. . . .

'. . . . While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

--2 Cor. 4

(A timely message . . . eternally granted . . . for His Children, poignantly now more (as usual) than ever! 

As we trudge, march along, persevere through, within this "mortal coil" . . . behind enemy lines . . . with ever increasingly bedazzlement to distract, mis-direct etc., on the superficial level... WE KEEP IN MIND AND IN SOUL AND SPIRIT THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT "SEEN"!  FAITH! my friends, FAITH!!!

GOD ALMIGHTY! Melee Missives

The devil comes only to steal, kill and destroy.  

The Lord says "I have come that they may life and have it to the full.  I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep."

Because strait is the way and narrow is the gate, which lead unto life, and . . . few . . . there are who find themselves finding it.  ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD SHALL YOU FIND THE STRAIT AND NARROW WAY. 

(He keeps showing me the alternative...and I am not fond of having to relate it), but it is horrific nearly beyond human imagination.  Just remember, the fear of God IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM!  That wasn't said, Written in jest! Nope.  Please, listen.  

HE IS LORD and HE WILL NOT TOLERATE (CANNOT!) anything other than His Holy Presence... (Hence, THANK GOD! we have Jesus, GOD, Who suffered on our behalf.  It is astounding, lovely, beyond comprehension (hence why we get an eternity to suss it out!:) . . . . . The whole scenario is heavy, real, deep, dreadful, glorious, intense IF YOU HAVE THE EYES AND SOUL AND EARS AND SPIRIT TO hear The Word.

The many . . . who throw stones, who take the devilish ticket, who take the easy road . . . will throw calumny at you, with puffed up chest, proud, living a prideful life of self assertion, fancying themselves actually doing things.

The humble know that God rules ALL THINGS and are gloriously humiliated knowing and experiencing his easy yoke (yet, a yoke it is!).

Cleave to The Word Of God . . . and that means . . . search Him night and day . . . strive . . . find yourself yearning for the Truth and the Light and His HOLY Presence.  

This is serious business.  This is serious life.  This is amazing potential.  BUT NOT IN YOURSELF.

Empty out yourself.  THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS AND WHO DESERVES THE ATTENTION AND WORSHIP IS GOD ALMIGHTY!

(just a fellow shouting from the watchtower and seeing the hordes a-gathering, fwiw)

Being Aware Of Personal Space

 On another note.  As one who is out and about because of work, in various areas of the city and outskirts. . . . I have several times run into the new interlopers, of various types and styles.  Cartel cats.  They are everywhere, laying low for now, but very confident and macho roiling underneath.  I fear no no one but God.  Yes, there is a normal sense of self-defense awareness, danger--you know it when you feel and see it; and THAT I have sensed and been made aware of.  

These are killers (I'm specifically referencing the cartel crews and gangsters) and will have no qualms about . . . cutting to the chase when the time comes and the coast is clear to do so.  Heads up.  They are fine with heads off. . . . Jus' sayin. . . .

And yes, I'm also meeting and seeing the more innocent, familial kinds who are just trying to get out of their hellholes (ruled by the same cartel cats).  They are sweet and hard working, religious and not wanting any trouble. . . 

BUT . . . there are the hard core infiltrators who have nothing but nefariousness on their minds and in their purpose.  They are here (usa) . . . pretty much in every nook and cranny of the country now. . . . Laying low . . . lowriders . . . but well funded, full of hubris and machismo, criminal experience, no conscience, hard of heart, backed-up by the perverse demonic elite and have no problem, if they have the whim, to murder, rape, plunder, steal, subvert, pervert, even (especially!) the most innocent and vulnerable.

Anyway, I increasingly come across them, just out and about, in places you wouldn't expect.  They are here and now getting ubiquitous.  

So, keep your "head on a swivel" (so you don't lose it, lol!)  

But seriously, yeah . . . as I've said before, we are behind enemy lines, in many ways.  More and more of those ways are getting increasingly up close and in personal space.  

Spooky Times. Never before quite like this....

Ok. . . . The past couple weeks have been unusually remarkable from my "man on the street" perspective.  And by that, I just mean, because of my self-employed, blue-collar work (house painting) I deal with lots of people, from various economic/societal strata--I see their lives, get to know them . . . most of all my clients have been friends and clients for years.  I'm their guy when they need something done.  Not all, but most of them are quite "well-off". . . . And I'm a top-level painter (40 years exp now) can do anything from exterior house, interior, faux, murals etc.  AND also happy to do small basic jobs--patch it together.  Last summer, ie., I painted the whole exterior, by myself, of a popular downtown restaurant/book store complex.  Also, will just fix, paint someone's "man door" to a garage. . . . So, I get around and get the feel of things, observing businesses and private lives' situtations.

Anyway, and well, I'm only bringing it up, because it is suddenly notable and may be a sign or signal of something big impending--perhaps just for me (and my family here) and/or, for the wider scene. . . .

I've never not had work.  I don't advertise, I don't have a "company" . . . I just paint for people, word-of-mouth, referrals, and have done so, like I say for 40 years.  Yes, here and there, do some things in the music biz, done talk radio, podcasts etc., but painting has been the steady day job.

Every so often, ie., during the 2008 recession, things get sketchy, people are reticent, circling the wagons, and so, the work get tight and I have to lower prices to accommodate, but manage to survive.

The really only regular part of the year where I can count on it usually to dry up a bit, is right before and after Christmas, of course.  People are preparing for the holiday beforehand and then after have spent a bunch of dough so, there is usually a dry spell through early January.  Then it starts picking back up, like clockwork.  

Spring really starts kicking off, and especially summer.  Normally, I have a couple big jobs going on, and others I can't even get to, all through fall.  It's great!  Well, and I'd say it's gone that way pretty much every year, every summer especially. Even through the '08 recession and Covid.  I kept working, there was always enough demand to survive, albeit a bit lean sometimes.

BUT . . . hmmm . . . THIS summer is bizarre!  I have NEVER experienced what it happening now.  I am wondering if (especially the inflation, which is crushing re food and energy costs, especially if you have a household of several or more mouths and energy and general maintenance upkeep to feed, which I do!) it is really catching up, even to the "well-off".

It feels potentially supernatural.  I've long had a reserved a part of me that has foreseen the trajectory of the future (in general and also personally) where I believe I was "told" to watch for certain signs and portents, regarding when some big, radical moves would become necessary, for His purposes and guidance in this life.  It would come up suddenly, near-desperately, and the way forward would be obvious, because all other alternatives would be shut off.  I haven't "Heard" yet if this is it . . . but it's getting a tad "down to the wire"😬

Not sure yet, but just saying, a few of those signs seem to be hitting.  It may be an initial warning, bracing, in order to get ready for the big moves.  Still sussing it out. . . . But it suddenly has not felt so dire, just saying. . . .

Now, I am not one to complain or whine, but I did relate, just to share (because I know others are also getting hit from many sides, and I commiserate) a "parade of horribles" (that is a term I heard in law school, meaning being, someone laying out a laundry list of troubles to evoke an emotional rhetorical response in an argument, debate, case) in which case/blog I listed all the things that have broken, happened, etc., around the house, starting with the flooding of the basement, air-conditioner/heating system, car stuff, one thing after another, and on and on.  And I will note, it hasn't stopped, lol!  I know things get old and break down.  It's just really something when they all do it at the same time AND in succession!  The latest on that mechanical front is . . . yes, this and that (disposal, dishwasher, other car stuff) ... BUT ... NOW (YAY!) THE BODY!  

I've always been athletic--my job is physical.  Never really had any problems medically.  An occasional work accident, but generally very healthy.  So, now add . . . teeth, weird sudden painful arthritis in joints , ear thing.. and that's just me.  My wife has new fun things going on re cortisol, hormones, teeth... It's just kinda wild how suddenly and all at once, out-of-the-blue it all hitting.  Almost makes you wonder about those new black 5-G towers they recently put up, or something . . . "things that make you go hmmmm"?

Anyway, back to the weirdness re economy and work.  Suddenly everyone went dark.  All my usual clients . . . it's as if they just disappeared.  I think some of them may be dead, or experiencing the ongoing medical issues re the jab that (I warned them not to take, but they did, and I've seen their conditions deteriorate in real time over the last couple years) or, regardless of their status, the commi economy is at last taking a bit toll.  I'm wondering (and have long anticipated and foretold) the eventual Zimbabwe/Venezuela type collapse.  Although, hope not.  It won't be fun.   

Truly is, right now, at least for me, a bit spooky.  (I know the sold out to devil crowd is doing better than ever--not spiritually, of course, but materially, getting their "heaven" now, while hell awaits, but never have and never will take that ticket, no matter how difficult it gets!) 

Never not had work and while always have lived basically paycheck to paycheck, being self-employed and all, have been able to sustain and provide quite well enough.  Always, The Lord provides--many times miraculously at the last minute. Not this time, so far, at least, which is a new thing.  

So, it's making me wonder if something bigger is afoot.  I've long had the thought (vision) that one day, when all doors were shut, it meant . . . a sort of forced big move of sorts would occur, "necessitated", and I've always hoped, thought, that it was intended to move us into a "safer" area for what may be about to commence.

Honestly, I'm not sure yet.  Just watching, praying, listening, wondering and sharing :) 

Thank you for your prayers and support, sharing, encouragement and fellowship always!  Been here at this locale for about 20 years now, typing away:) God bless and strengthen and guide you, I DO PRAY, now and these "interesting times"!

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Meanwhile, fwiw . . . re the crass world... a quick political noting:)

So, I'm always still watching, noting the track, development of things in the world. . . . 

I found this comment interesting from a very recent interview between Fox News anchor Bret Baier and DailyMail.com.  It's the first time I have heard mention, suggestion of a potential shared power type arrangement re the presidency.  It is something I "saw" a while ago--a "politburo" of sorts on the heels of a "constitutional crisis".  And, in that same "seeing" I recall, it seemed to be a real signal of an end of the general ongoing order of things....

From the article:

'Now that you're going to have Kamala Harris meeting separately with foreign leaders, like we saw with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu [last week] and having her own press conferences,' Baier said, 'we have a situation where President Biden may fade from the spotlight and there could be, in essence, a co-presidency.'

And here is just one of the mentions of this type scenario I've given over the years in this blog and in interviews; this quote of mine from, I believe 2011:

"…..i am seeing the possibility that some sort of new type of government may be put into place for the U.S. which….is more like a power-sharing set-up….ie., a cabinet of several different factions allowed to control, not just one party or executive ….but government by “consensus”……I see this possibly coming about because of either a major “terror” attack, crippling the gov and forestalling elections….or a major natural catastrophe…….But, the end result is that no longer is there the basic constitutional style gov., but a NEW FORM, a “3rd Way” form, which combines both supposedly the “right” and the “left” in some kind conglomerate cabinet/power-sharing junta." 

Chickens Come Home To Roost, Reap What You Sow (of world/not of world?)

When the chickens come home to roost, they do.  It is Natural Law, designed by God.  For many, the chickens are coming home to roost in, as they do, but extra especially, in "this day and age".

You reap what you sow.

What will you reap?

What did you sow?

There is an allotted amount of time for each one.  For each creature.

The end for each (one) is Written . . . either in The Glorious Book Of Life . . . or in dreadful Hell.

The time allotted for each is an unfathomable gift of God.  But, Know, it is a "great and fearsome" God we serve and love.  And HE is Sovereign Above All.  So, take it seriously. 

HERE IS GOD!

He is THE BOSS . . . OF ALL . . . 

"Love it or leave it" (Him!)

The Children Of God "love it"--HIM!  

The devil's disgusting, perverted, twisted, mean, evil, hateful, jealous, incredibly vindictive and so unbelievably wicked that (although we see and know of how debased and cruel such hatred of God and Goodness can get to) . . . it is . . . always (as a mortal looking about) stunning and frightening to realize the fact of that.

I barely can fathom the depths of wickedness that abounds and what many of the each are capable of (having falling into the EVIL hands of The Wicked One.)

. . . . Such as all the kings and queens and entrepreneurs and sidewinders, conquerors, hustlers, worldly-wise, prevaricators' and overall fudging snaky opportunists, and et al, et al, throughout the time of the world thus far and going forward (for a time). . . . 

Some of the "each"--many actually--spit in His face, plucked out His beard, did and do still whip, beat, shove thorns into head . . . and continue to react and attack with calumnies, blasphemies, violent hatred, resentment (and more!) toward, against Him and His Own. . . . 

They then and now, and will tomorrow beat, mock, torture The Lord, God, Creator of All . . . along with (tormenting) those who love and serve and sacrifice (in their own miniscule ways) their mortal lives, for LOVE OF  THIS GOD--viciously despising God-Given recognition of WHAT HE DID, WHAT IS WRITTEN, WHO HIS IS . . . .

And there is nothing new under the/this sun, to this day.

Until The New Day.

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[Below scripture is simply me paraphrasing some scripture, in a slightly casual form, as if I were sitting around a campfire, in the desert or a mountain top, or on some beach, or in someone's backyard; recalling it as able, off the top of my mind for what it's worth, God willing....] 

"If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. . . . If you were of the world, the world would love you, but because you're not of the world, it hates you. . . . . All these things they will do to you . . . because of my names' sake--who I am and who sent me.  Because I have come, they no longer can hide their sins.  And such, if they hate me, they hate both Me and the Father. The word must be fulfilled, and it is such that they hate(d) me without cause.

However, when The Holy Spirit comes--the Spirit of Truth, Whom I will send to you from the Father, Who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of me, and bear witness that you have been with me (and are mine) since the beginning."  --John 15: 18-27

What Is Written Is Written

As usual, amidst all the old-age new and accruing personal ailments . . . and yet, still battlin' through . . . workin' man (and wife) . . . I'm well aware of "current events", hopes and fears. . . . 

Nevertheless, I still don't think "they" will let an actual "change of the guard" to happen.  "Wouldn't it be nice" (to quote Brian Wilson) YES and would be thrilled to see it!

But, I just don't think "they" will let it happen.  Too much at stake.

So, yeah, I'm sticking to my overall predilections/predictions . . . that . . . "they" will pull out all the stops to finalize (what I've long termed, in effect, and described roughly as "the Tiananmen Square" scenario.)

Hope I'm wrong!  

Praying and hoping for, at least, some more time. . . .

But the end is Written.  "What Is Written Is Written."  

So, there's That, regardless. . . .

Praise God

Eye Of Sauron

 Oy vey . . . ominous black eye of sauron type 5g towers just showed up in our neighborhood.  The timing is suspect to me.  AND, I think they turned them on.  Last night.  

I know they've been setting them here and there all around. 

Among other things (ie., "yay, better cell service") I can already feel them being weapons.

Just my opinion...  

Stay In The Lord, Spirit Amidst the coming and current "storms"

 Here we go . . . 

not quite yet, but obviously the staging has long been set . . . pieces are almost all in place.

HENCE, why . . . over here in this little corner of observation and report, God willing, I am about 20 steps ahead re advice how to weather the turbulence upcoming and planned.  The answer is always GOD,\ and THE Spiritual reaction.  THE (Holy) Spiritual reaction to current events of the world . . . is The Way to go.

Do not be fooled, dissuaded, demoralized by "current events".  Those of The Lord . . . transcend the  temporary flash and booms . . . instigated by the Enemy.

As have long said, and now we are entering the time foretold of, brace yourself, and cleave to God, to The Lord, The Word Of God.  It's gonna be a rough ride here coming up . . . now quite obvious to even the half dead. . . . 

 

Reminiscing And Just Sharing

 Whew!  I am not one to complain--I've got enough anglo/english/danish/viking pioneer/farmer/cowboy stock . . . "stiff upper lip" blood . . . such that, well, not one to complain or whine.  So I'm not.  

Plus, have pretty much been on my own since born.  So, I got tough, living in the bushes, loose around the mountain neighborhood neighbors' backyards.  I was about 4-5 years old . . . and what I remember from that time . . . was living at my grandparents' home up on the mountain, with my near-same-age aunts and uncle in the house.  But I was an early "latch-key kid."  My orig. parents got divorced when I was 3, then my mom become an early "single working mom" -- my dad was in California.  So, I was in Salt Lake City, at my grandparents house.  They were Mormon, so I was sort of an embarrassment to their community, being a result of a failed marriage circa early 60s.

ANYWAY... I was pretty much left to roam ( I kind of think they were hoping I'd fall off a cliff somewhere, or get bit by a snake) but I survived.  I did once fall off their balcony (among other dangerous scrapes)  looking into a bucket full of nails (grandpa was a construction worker contractor Foreman who helped build THE "CHURCH OFFICE BUILDING" -- iconic main headquarters of the LDS church downtown Salt Lake) . . . (which I went to several times later as a 15 yr. old to go through their famous genealogical library, sitting there for hours looking through old family record notebooks and microfiche.. because, well, I've always loved history and original sources and it was fascinating to me . . . to walk down the half mile of mountain, and stroll in and find my way to my family records--I made it back to Sweden, Denmark 1600s)...  

ANYWAY... yeah . . . I fell off the balconey looking at a nail bucket . . . a friend neighbor girl, "Elizabeth?" I think was there . . . we were about 4-5 yrs old, just out and about in the neighborhood... It was about a 15 foot drop.  I somehow landed NOT on the cement wall of the neighbors, but in the weeds and wood below.   Elizabeth went and told my grandma that something happened.

Next thing I remember is laying on the small blue sofa in my grandparents' kitchen/dining room area (which house overlooked the valley of Salt Lake City) . .  and my grandma was sitting at the dining room table there typing away on her old typewriter.  I came to consciousness, looked at and noticed that I had blood coming out of my fingernails, ... .she kept typing away, typing a letter to someone.... Then I went back to rest..... 

Turned out, about 2 or 3 months later, my mom (who wasn't around much) noticed that I kept yelping when putting on a coat or sweater... that I had a broken collar bone... But by then it had sorta healed, so, oh well.

Heh. Just reminiscing.  Ya get old . . . and find you can remember things better now than then, although I've actually never forgot that whole sequence.

Then there several other neglected things.... wild mouth cankers, worms, . . . No worries, everybody was about their business, and I was like a feral animal let alone to wander the woods, and I did, and got tough and developed a tolerance for pain and survival, ingenuity and also digging being a part of nature, getting to know the bugs and plants and animals that I came across, making forts in the bushes, wandering about (within an otherwise safe social neighborhood). . . .

WHICH, lol, brings me to my (NOT COMPLAINING!) mention of getting old pains.  I always hesitate to even mention, because I know many--indeed, I know and see and empathize with many I come into contact with via longtime work clients, acquaintances etc., who also . . . are either already dead, or getting pummeled the last few years. . . . 

I have no complaints.  I am grateful for every breathe . . . every moment of given life, even in this fallen, degenerate world.  Well, and lol, turns out I'm not going to complain about new, outta-the-blue, (probably just old age) aches and pains and teeth and this and that :)

Grateful for another day to battle through.

Just reminiscing and sharing, fwiw. . .  :)