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. . .  :)

In The World, Not Of It

Mystical philanthropy.  

The Buddhists, zen dudes . . . "christian" monks ... nuns in nunnery's . . . any of the multitude of those who are seeking to push off and avoid suffering in this world--ie., like the Buddha ("life is suffering"), Siddhartha . . . etc,. . . . .

They run off and hide. They go to monasteries or sit under bodhi trees meditating..... and hide from the world.  

Well, but . . . if you pull that scheme long enough, pretty soon the hoi polloi (common folk) will come admire . . . and start throwing money at you.  And then cheap hookers in the back--"temple prostitues".

Yes, maybe you started out with roughly intelligent good intentions--seeking God, the truth, sorting out what the meaning of life is...... 

And so, they get get caught up in the world, but with a pretense of transcendental purpose.  Meanwhile, it is the same old thing.  Just busking.

I respect the old coal minor, or trash collector making a buck . . . more than that ""religious"  pretense.

So, the fakers, phonies, go along, get on with the world (the devil) . . . get some pay . . . and then, to assuage their guilty conscience (for the Holy Spirit is always within and warning) they will ascribe to "causes" of the day. 

It's been like this . . . since the Garden fall.

Nothing new under the circling sun.

MEANWHILE . . . Those who transcend and Hear and Love the One AND ONLY GOD OF ALL . . . Who came in the flesh . . . and suffered (incomprehensibly suffered for and to us miniscule creatures/beings) for our stumbling, bobbling, stupid, weak, fallen sake!

. . . . WE GLORY that GOD IS REAL!  WE have faith and hope and joy, persistence, pressing on. . . .  for the ultimate glorious future in eternity!

IN HEAVEN!

In GLORIOUS HEAVEN made for such!  He loves us, HE IS LOVE!

This place is rough.  

It has been since the dummy and the other dummy fell for the fruit/false promise and relinquished to the temptation of THE WORLD>....to the tempter, to the enemy, to the devil.

Those who DID suck the fruit, got and took in temptation, against God's warnings and commands . . . they then go on to practice superficial (world renowned) acts of "philanthropy".   EVEN THE MONKS AND NUNS all around the world . . . will justify to themselves, they are meditating and praying for the world.... AS they get gifts and treasure and plaudits . . . . . . . 

Jesus, God in the flesh, did not run and hide from the world.  He was in it.  He went to the darkest, most needy places, attracting the "poor in spirit".

Jesus, God . . . loved the least.  The least shall be first.   Pride goes before the fall.

[A lot of people don't believe the scriptures.  If they did, they would heed and be (righteously) terrified.]

He had nowhere to lay His head.  He was not haughty nor trying to make a big way in the world.  HENCE, ... yeah it irked the synagogue of satan cats who wanted to punish and torment and get vengeance and put oppression and torture upon all their longtime enemies... 

AND they haven't quit giving up that angle..... 

If God says "It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God," ... then one should ponder that deeply.  

AS WILL I PONDER EVERY WORD OF GOD, God willing!  AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING< HEARING< KNOWING< SEARCHING> EVERY WORD, PURPOSE OF GOD ALMIGHTY FOREVER!!!!

 

 

Sovereign Lord Of All... Things getting real.

 Oy vey... ;)

I got locked out of my blog here for a bit.  

I'm not a fan of the syncing of everything up . . . so, I'm old-fashioned in that way.   It's a struggle to keep speaking, writing . . . about GOD and the Love of THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GOD.

Eventually . . . obviously, the objective is  . . . to have everything "synced" up under one single identity, number . . . digital . . . cbdc . . . mark o' the (baphomet tranny beast thing). . . . 

I have not and will not ever submit to the rebel.

Yes, we are in the world--there's no getting around that part.... BUT, I'll tell ya . . . one can resist the ultimate temptation (to go against God and join the beasty boy/girl/they/them/thing/it/demon).

Not here.

So, yeah, everything (AND the "kitchen sink") has been thrown at me, and continues to be.

Well, and generally . . . it is going to be more and more difficult . . . to communicate in truth.  

But it always has been.  Hence Jesus spoke in parables, so that He could convey Truth amidst the worldly wicked who would have killed Him before His time, had it been too obvious, among His unfathomable other purposes and reasons.  

And so it is still now.

FAITH is a substance . . . a Spiritual substance . . . within and of The Holy Spirit, which we are blessed to be graced with!  

The Holy Spirit teaches the ever-living individual soul and having faith in The Spirit . . . is a literal, Spiritual substance, WHO transcends ALL of the current trendy trends and perversions of God's Intended Way.

Follow The Way.

Submit to God.

Believe and have Faith In Jesus.

And yes, there is no end to the attacks of the enemy.  On all sides, indside, outside, in house, out of house, in world, here, there, everywhere!

But THANK GOD HE IS OMNIPOTENT, OMNISISCIENT, OMNIPRESENT!  

SOVERIEGN LORD OF ALL!