What Will It Look Like Tomorrow?

Posted on August 7, 2018 by ehurst

Consider how this virtual parish began. One introverted outcast mumbles to himself online and attracts a few others like himself. I had no idea where I was going, but I knew it couldn’t be back into the mainstream. The longer I kept at it and the farther I went on my path, the more sense it made. That meant that I had something to say about moving away from the mainstream.

At some point it caught on with quite a few others. It became obvious there were others with a similar yearning for something different from the mainstream. But I kept bumping into problems with the old instincts trying to drag me back, so my reflexes kept making false starts on what this was to become. I got some bruises from those mistakes. Somehow, a number of you have stayed with me. I can’t promise that what I envision now is any better, but it’s certainly different.

One of our signature differences is a serious effort to reclaim what was given to us back in the New Testament times. We do what we can to ditch all the false assumptions and just study what life was like for the disciples. Then we try to figure out what that means for us, because it’s painfully obvious our context is quite different. Instead of getting stuck on the particulars of the first century Christian activities, we are trying to understand the soul of their mission.

And I’ve tried to make it clear my answers don’t have to be your answers. As always, I warn that the teaching here is more meta-religion, a serious effort to study what religion should be, how it’s supposed to work. I like to think of it as not reinventing the wheel, but choosing how to design wings instead. In my mind, the single biggest failure of the religion around us is a bad approach, asking the wrong questions.

The gospel of Christ was quite new in the first century after His Ascension. So the idea of missionary journeys to spread the message was the obvious answer. People had never heard, nor had they seen the miracles that went with it. But to be honest, it didn’t explode in most places. The relative number of Christians remained tiny in the Mediterranean Basin. Indeed, a significant element in growing beyond that tiny number was a compromise with worldly ways. Part of that was the fault of Judaizer influences, recreating the failures of Judaism that amounted to perverting the true Old Testament religion into something else.

So we went from a tiny minority called by genuine faith, to a massive conversion based on civil law. And it is this brand of Christian religion that has most certainly spread itself across the globe. We live in a time when virtually every human has heard some version of the gospel. Any different version is discounted pretty quickly, simply because there is a proliferation of highly varied “gospels” out there. It takes a special arrogance to pretend yours is the only true version, and I have no interest in going there.

I’m not interested in using the methods of fallen humanity to spread our message. There’s enough of that crap already. It’s not elitism, except in the sense that only God can bring new souls to our parish. We live in a very strange time, a world radically different from the New Testament. What we do here is about as public as it can be already. Sending missionaries is merely an anachronism, when the message by itself travels to places we could never go. Granted, it’s pretty much overwhelmed by all the other noise people are making, but it’s there.

To my knowledge, none of us live close enough to another member of the parish to have face-to-face fellowship. Yet several of you have already begun spreading the word simply by living it where you are. Right now, most of the world is distracted. Something will have to get their attention, and we know from history that it usually requires some kind of tribulation before people start hearing the cry of their hearts.

So this first planting of seeds of faith happens to be a bunch of mavericks and loners; very few of us are extroverts. If we were, we would not have come to the point of soul-searching and introspection so that we could hear how we don’t belong to the mainstream. Extroverts just don’t think that way. Yep, God chose as His first wave a bunch of cranks and weirdos. I have no doubt our way of faith will spread sooner or later, but it’s simply not in our nature to go out and campaign for attention. God can add people like that later.

Let’s not make the mistake of thinking that we the norm for what our message produces. We have no business trying to make Radix Fidem something that reflects our peculiarities, as if someone joining later can’t add some attributes that we don’t have. Let our distinguishing features be the power of our new and ancient faith in the heart-led way. That kind of change is already very radical compared to the mainstream. Let that define us.

When tribulation hits, an awful lot of people are going to question whether their religion is sufficient for the needs of their convictions. Some portion of those who start to question that way are going to find us, either online or individually in real life. God alone knows what Radix Fidem will look like in years to come. Don’t be afraid. Just keep your fellowship boundaries where they have to be and give thanks when folks step out on their own.

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The Anglo-American Identity

Posted on August 6, 2018 by ehurst

Some of you are going to get this wrong no matter how I say, or how well I present it. All I can offer is what I’ve seen. If you can’t use it, set it aside and move on with your life. I have zero interest in your attempts to debate or establish some kind of external objective standard to which you can appeal.

This is just some observations. They should help you understand some things that could affect your mission and calling. We need to correct some false impressions that our world has force-fed us so that we can see clearly what a heart-led walk will teach us. So all I’m trying to do is remove bad learning so you can be free to learn on your own what God wants to tell you. Referring you to academic studies isn’t going to help. Read this with your heart; don’t let your mind get in the way.

The Bible refers to “nations,” a term that seems to indicate groups of people who share a culture and some DNA. I doubt there has ever been a pure race of people on this planet, nor could there ever be. However, we do know that a nation in biblical terms includes a set of moral characteristics that can make them unique, and that it is a mix of culture and DNA, if nothing else, in the sense that shared DNA can give folks a predisposition to certain cultural features.

Thus, we observe that Anglo-Americans are mixture of several nations in that sense, but with a certain amount of shared culture. Now, location and conditions will also affect cultural contents. So you mix in all of these considerations and you come up with several broad regional “nations” within the US.

Now, urban areas will always be one kind of nation, always possessing certain recognizable traits simply because of what living in a city does to people. So our urban metropolitan areas will give us broad generalities we can work with, things we’ve come to expect, with only slight variations according to location.

Outside of the cities, we can see broad cultural identities in certain parts of the US. The northeast is broadly a blue-collar culture. The southeast is more redneck. The southwest and west coast are too deeply affected by Native and Mexican presence, so they aren’t really part of Anglo-America. But the Plains and northwestern areas all the way out to the Rockies are somewhat of a cowboy-frontiersman culture. Each of those groups have trademark habits and responses to things, yet they all share a certain amount of overlap with common Anglo-American rule-based culture and expectations.

These reflect my experience. Yours would likely be different. And you could play with your parameters and find all kinds of ways to look it things and get different answers. That’s exactly my point: The US has never been a “nation.” It has always been multiple nations, sometimes overlapping within the same space. If I had visited only with certain minority groups while traveling the US, I’m sure I would have seen a different set of nations.

In broad general terms, Anglo-American culture is rules-oriented, and the people are naturally predisposed to live by them. You shouldn’t have to lock your doors, for example, but we have predators among us who don’t live by those rules. Yet I can take you to some small towns where virtually nobody locks their doors. And then I can take you to communities where houses have bars on the windows and they still get broken into often — because it’s not an Anglo-American community. By definition, Anglo-American culture includes a powerful element of Medieval European chivalry mythology.

Anglo-Americans have this semi-conscious assumption about giving people a break as long as they appear to be playing by those same rules. It’s not just a matter of property, but it’s more that the rules are sacred. Folks who break those rules can expect a very predictable response, in that those Anglo-American rules are written not just in their conscious expectations, but in their genes and in the context in which they live. You can try as hard as you like, but too much of it is written in their DNA, and you won’t change their response to turmoil. It’s more than just education and conditioning.

In broad general terms, Anglo-Americans treat feminism as the same package with political correctness and “social justice” values. Your typical Anglo-American will view them together rather as an intruding minority cult, a treasonous rejection of normal life. They have tolerated it for a while, but in recent times that cult has gotten too pushy. They are insufferably arrogant and pushing their cult as the only possible truth. Along with this, the cult has allied with all kinds of invading nations, trying to wipe away the dominant Anglo-American identity.

It won’t work. That cult is actually the ugly side of the Anglo-American culture, but most folks don’t recognize that. Both sides reject the other, and neither will ever really win, except for a period of time. The mainstream will eventually beat back the cult, but it will lurk beneath the surface and rise again. Right now, the mainstream is just now rising up to beat back the cult again.

Every nation, race and people on this earth are capable of fighting in their own way. They all have their own approach to warfare, and the reasons for going to war. Each has its own prowess and unique advantages. Again, it’s partly culture, partly DNA, and partly a matter of location and context. But here in Anglo-America, nobody is going to defeat the Anglo-Americans. By no means are they morally superior and favored by God, but God has granted them a certain advantage for His own inscrutable reasons. They have one advantage: They are more efficient and effective at combat itself. It’s their native element, their primary form of art and religion. They developed nukes and used them; they won’t hesitate to use them again, literally and figuratively.

Chivalry is merely a peace-time facade. Anglo-Americans are particularly bad at governing, but when government comes apart, their true nature shines. It’s not as if they never lose in battle, but they will take the most Satanic revenge later. This requires they reassert their self-conscious identity over their own cult folk. In the past few decades, they’ve been pretending they could stop being racist. It’s a facade, a myth. Nor should you imagine that Anglo-Americans are more racist than other identifiable groups. I’ve seen racial hatred in all colors; it’s human nature and can’t be trained or conditioned out of us (only the Holy Spirit can break it). So Anglo-Americans are just as bad as anyone else, but it won’t likely be a mere matter of skin color, but of national identity.

None of this has anything to do with what’s morally right or wrong. This is simply some observations. I no longer identify as Anglo-American; the heart-led way tends to make you walk away from all of that. It changes how you look at yourself and reality around you. You can still understand how the heart-less world operates, but you know you can’t go back into that world.

What I’m trying to say is that you should brace yourself for the Anglo-American backlash to what they perceive as too damned much provocation. Don’t look at the rhetoric, but look at how they act. No matter how hard folks try to tone this down, it could easily be a bloodbath. That’s the Anglo-American way.

Trump is tapping into this Anglo-American sense of identity without calling it that.

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Decentralized DIY Religion

Posted on August 5, 2018 by ehurst

Our group is called Kiln of the Soul, a virtual parish. The religion we share is called Radix Fidem.

There’s only one reason I’m the elder: Some of you have decided you want to share my moral covering, my shalom. If you find my domain comforting and a blessing, then you are welcome. That’s all there is to it. Every one of you has equal access to the Holy Spirit. You all have hearts capable of hearing directly from God. For some reason, some of you like the way I organize faith into a course of thought and action, so we now have a religion.

You are quite welcome to steal all the ideas; there’s no copyright except on the particular way I write them. Even then, all that copyright requires is that you tell folks where you got the writing, so they can come check the source for themselves. I’m not telling people to join this parish to get my ideas, but they are welcome to trust my leadership if God uses it to bless them.

Meanwhile, this blog exists only because I feel an undeniable urge to write about my journey of faith. My whole orientation assumes you should eventually be able to write your own narrative, tell your own story, some way, somehow. If you aren’t telling, you have come up short somewhere. A necessary element of genuine faith is that at some point, in some way, you are letting other folks see it.

Thanks to donations, I just paid another year on this blog and for the email service that attaches to this domain name: soulkiln.blog. That doesn’t prevent turmoil from taking it down, but makes it unlikely. Still, my whole objective is that you develop your own faith and religious expression. Radix Fidem tries to make a lot of room for variation, but without some kind of boundaries, it’s meaningless. We can’t just fellowship with everyone on the planet; too many are saying and doing things that would lead us astray — even if it might be okay for them. No two of us have the precise same experience with the risen Christ, so He’s going to lead us in different ways.

Thus, I don’t call your religion invalid if it’s different from mine. But it may not be a good fit for what I’m doing, so I could ask you to take it somewhere else outside my domain. I explain things as best I can, but I refuse to debate. Debate presumes there is one right answer, and I simply don’t believe that. That doesn’t keep you from sharing different ideas, but we need to stay on topic. That’s how I have to do it here. Our forum is a little more eclectic; it’s set up to accommodate chatter like that. My blog is like my office, my ministry headquarters, with a small classroom; it’s not a forum. It’s compact and sparsely furnished. I don’t waste money on creature comforts like some religious leaders. No private jets; I have a decent bicycle, though.

If this blog does disappear, it’s most likely because someone with power and money wants to shut down our religion. It won’t work. I’m not an easy target because I have precious few dependencies. It wouldn’t take long to set up an office on some other service, maybe in another country or something. And all my important writing is archived in multiple places, so closing this blog won’t do much to silence me. But most important is that you already have all you need to keep on walking your own faith path, hearing your own calling from God, and working out your own mission.

What you need, God provides with our without me.

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Teachings of Jesus — Matthew 20:20-28

Posted on August 4, 2018 by ehurst

The mother of James and John was Salome, the wife of Zebedee. Salome was the sister of Jesus’ mother, Mary. Thus, this was His closest kin apart from His mother. Yet, she came and worshiped Him as the Messiah. It was obvious she had a request, and it was protocol that she wait until He asked her what she sought. Her request was quite understandable, since Jesus had no other family.

The significance of her request regards His royal Messianic court. The right-hand man would be His heir so long as Jesus had no son of His own. Typically this would be a ruler’s senior commander of troops and personal representative. The left-hand man is a little more ambiguous. If the right-hand was the eastern symbol of power and active authority, the left was the shield from attack. Near as we can tell, this would make the left-hand man his enforcer and bodyguard, the guy who kept a ruler’s prison and punishment program.

We know that the Twelve struggled to grasp the warning Jesus had just given them regarding His fate once they got to Jerusalem. If they believed any part of that, this was to ensure the group could transition to at least a temporary leadership plan until Jesus was back in action. A lot could happen in three days.

What He told Salome meant more or less that she was missing the point. To His cousins, He asked if they were ready to join Him in the bitter cup, a symbol of wrath and doom. He also used the image of baptism, a ritual of cleansing for a new life, but often a symbol of death. They asserted they were ready. Jesus said that was a good thing, because it was sure to come upon them. However, appointing specific vested positions in His Messianic court was not really up to Him. His Father had chosen who would fill those rolls; it just waited the revelation of all these things.

Of course, the other ten disciples were angry about this apparent quiet maneuvering behind their backs. How dare they? There must of have been some harsh words exchanged, because Jesus had to quell the riot. He told them to assemble for a lesson.

The pagan Gentile world of politics was all about strong figures to which others would bow in subservience. It was painfully obvious in that world who was senior and who was subordinate by who lorded it over the others. That’s not the way things work in the Messiah’s kingdom. The superior among the Twelve would be the one who served most humbly. In the Kingdom, serving is greatness. This hearkened back to the ancient shepherd symbolism.

Becoming a shepherd was the antithesis of ambition. A man inherited the role, and it meant forgetting all his grand plans and his personal comfort. He had to care for creatures who focused entirely on eating and making babies, while all the burden of protection and choosing the right pasture was on the shepherd. It was endless hours of sharp attention and warding off threats. He spent more time in the pasture with them than at home, and most shepherds lived in tents because it wasn’t worth the trouble to build a house you could never visit for more than a short season. It was very much a sacrificial role, the hardest job any man could have.

As their shepherd, Jesus was planning to die for them. His sacrifice was a dire necessity for the flock He was going to inherit from His Father. Anyone expecting to serve close to Him had to learn how to shepherd, as well.

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Contextual Loose Ends for Radix Fidem

Posted on August 4, 2018 by ehurst

Is this Radix Fidem thing for real? Is it real to you? Can a heart-led faith in Christ become both a distinguishing characteristic, and the basis for coming together as a community of faith? There are at least a handful of us who believe it is. We are trying to hold together a communion based on shared faith and understanding. Maybe you, dear reader, are a part of that. Along with recent explorations of what defines our shared faith, I want to offer a few practical considerations.

1. Here’s a serious problem: The younger generation growing up with the Internet confuses virtual reality with reality. Because the Internet is borderless, they assume humanity should be borderless. This makes it very hard to get across to them the lesson of the Tower of Babel, that God requires us to be tribal. This is a major flaw in the nascent Networked Civilization.

Once the globalist cabal in America is destroyed, you should expect the ideals to rise again from the ashes. It’s a fundamental tool of Satan and will not die until Christ returns. The Tower of Babel will be built repeatedly until then.

2. Because there is such a big difference between virtual space and meat space, you and I have to learn something very important. In the coming turmoil of tribulation, the best way to avoid being a target is to avoid organizing in meat space. Any time you draw humans together in one place with a clear institutional purpose and identity, that becomes a target.

This is why you see attempts in the mainstream media (MSM) to portray their enemies as easily defined groups. Once you have a handle sticking out there, anyone can grab it. So the MSM looks for ways to define any group with handles they can use to dismiss something that is completely rooted in virtual space. It’s a big lie, but most of humanity has a reflex to believe at least part of the MSM message.

You and I must be careful to put the focus on the message, not ourselves. This weakens the lies of those who would seek to silence us. The MSM is your enemy, willing slaves of Satan, as are a great many standing social institutions.

3. Do not make the mistake of thinking this isn’t a war. Lots of people still hold up the false image of a debate within a unified nation, but that’s the first lie. The only solution is to separate the main groups, but nobody wants to yield an inch of the larger territory. So they will fight until the battle lines become boundaries on the ground.

The reason we have to see it as a war is because at least one side intends to force their vision onto others. They have embraced the dire necessity of crushing dissent. There never was much unity; that was a facade. But now the facade has been ripped away and naked force is exposed for what it is.

4. Our faith comes with a built-in desire for fellowship and communion in the real world. We have to temper that for the time being with the very real threat to anything that looks like organization. As much as possible, we need to keep the core existence of our religion in the virtual realm. Once things have shaken out and the new political order comes into existence, then we can focus more on building recognizable households of faith. Keep that dream alive.

5. Be prepared to sacrifice in the mean time. Anything still burdened with debt is likely to be taken from you. It’s not so much a matter of packing a bug-out bag, but of mentally getting used to the idea. There’s no way you can estimate in advance what you will need to pack in such a bag because the context is in flux. The greatest survival tool is a heart-led mind ready to march at God’s command.

It’s okay to march alongside any group that’s on your path, but don’t step into their formation. Those who march in formation will always demand something that God says you must not surrender.

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What follows is strictly my personal outlook on things — Trump is an emperor in the making. This business of Q and the online anonymous troll army is the primary means of winning the loyalty of a significant minority. This will turn into a majority-in-effect who will surrender to him the civic authority to ignore the rules. He is the strong man who promises to protect them from a very real threat of globalist oppression.

Again: that threat is very real. The globalist leadership in the Democratic Party had concrete plans to provoke a nuclear war with Russia. They recently convinced some general to launch a missile aimed at derailing Trump’s talks with North Korea. That missile was shot down by an F-16 escorting part of the Air Force One entourage. This is the story told by Q, though not without some pretty solid evidence.

Had HRC won the election, a nuclear conflict probably would have already happened by now. We would have been living in an apocalypse. God saw fit to turn that aside. But the tool He is using is not so different from any other conquering emperor in history; it brings its own sorrows. There’s nothing wrong with keeping an eye on the Q-anon army, along with the more shadowy corps of armed right-wingers ready to defend their emperor with violence (two separate but overlapping groups). It’s okay to watch as Hollywood devours itself. Feel free to watch the economics indicators to discern when things will start to break down.

But don’t let yourself be led astray by the enthusiasm of those who support major elements in this war. Everyone who takes a partisan position is hiding something, even if they hide it from themselves, as well. There is deception all over the place. Just a couple of days ago, CNN was preparing to stage a false flag incident. At a Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre CNN had placed hired agitators carrying fake Q signs who were going to physically attack the CNN crew to make it appear that this Q thing is dangerous and violent. CNN is literally engaging in treasonous espionage against the President. The other major networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS — were also echoing the story (along with big newspapers) that the Q movement was threatening and dangerous. They all ran the same story at the same time by coordination.

Consider that the entire academic foundation of Journalism is rooted in leftist ideology. It’s the same with Teachers’ College and a lot of other professions. I witnessed this first hand during my training for public education. When the a priori norm is globalist religion, with the inherent intent to deceive the populace, you cannot trust anything they say. Even the most innocuous local human interest stories are stained with deception. It’s the same with everything in the entertainment industry — idolatry and deception are the starting point, and they are woven into the fabric of everything they produce.

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Updated and Renewed

Posted on August 3, 2018 by ehurst

Thanks to recent donations, I was able to renew this blog and the G Suite account attached to it. The domain name comes with it. We are good for another year.

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The Fall of America 04

Posted on August 3, 2018 by ehurst

It was almost two years ago that I knew God was planning to bring down the globalists. Don’t read this as tooting my own horn; I want you to understand how God can work if you give Him room. Back in November 2016 I wasn’t really too sure who the globalists were, but I knew their time was short. Nor could I imagine how God would crush them, yet now we see them under fierce attack from the population.

Hollywood has always been one long string of scandals, but the problem of pervasive child molestation is going to destroy the industry. As the pretense of respectability unravels, there is an increasing probability of boycott, or worse. There is a good chance of prosecution in some cases. Keep in mind that I lump together under “entertainment” certain social network sites, also run by globalists. Watch how stock drops can kill major corporations.

On the political side, Trump appears to be making good use of support from the military intelligence agencies to dig into the illegal shenanigans of his enemies. It’s not just public shaming, but it’s clear that legal action is pending. Also, you should be aware that what appears to be inconsistencies in public announcements is a very effective trick to expose the source of illegal spying. False information is planted in certain places, and whoever leaks that stuff has just painted a target on themselves based on their access to where the disinformation is planted. There are numerous other types of traps set like that. It appears the NSA is supporting him, so there is virtually no limit to what he can find out about his enemies.

The globalists are in panic mode. Their actions are going to become increasingly frantic and self-defeating. Even the mainstream media are sounding desperate in trying discredit everything Trump and his fans do. Meanwhile, the patriot troll army is exploding. There is every reason to expect his enemies will be crushed by the end of this calendar year.

Yet be warned: While no one can put a date on it, major economic disruption is right on top of us. At some point, someone holding too much stock market risk will bolt for the exit to save as much wealth as possible. When that happens, there will be a stampede. A lot of electronic wealth will evaporate, and with it comes a halt in certain kinds of consumption that serves to prop up the already weak economy. It will be like falling dominoes as other kinds of business start to close because they were already marginal, too close to the edge of failure. We won’t starve, but we will all be quite surprised at what doesn’t survive the shock.

When things get tight for consumers and businesses, so do resources available to governments. Most bureaucrats and politicians are too stupid to understand the necessity of prioritizing and shutting down services. Look for the most insane scramble for tax revenue that simply won’t be there. This is a rough outline of how the federal government will fall apart. Agencies will start to seize resources and folks will fight back and the system will simply be unsustainable. I’m expecting Trump to be the last President of the US. It won’t be entirely his fault.

The biggest unreasonable demand for resources will be military related, in pursuit of foreign policy goals. As you already know, the prime driver for our foreign policy will be Israel. When we simply have nothing left with which to defend her, that’s when it’s likely she will be destroyed. She has continued to provoke the whole world with an utterly heedless spite for Gentiles in general, and any neighboring country in particular. Her enemies will soon outnumber her friends.

Meanwhile, American evangelical Christian institutions will also be shattered. Some will close up shop, but most will simply be reduced to a thin shell of their former glory. They have long wasted too much effort on “getting folks saved.” Our position is that God and God alone decides who will enter into eternity with Him, and who will stand before Him as enemies. There is nothing any human can do to change their eternal fate; the official theological term is monergism. Churches have been chasing the wrong question. The only thing we can do is seek to awaken the heart so that we can obey His revelation. It was never about “getting folks saved,” but about getting folks to walk in obedience and claim their inheritance in shalom. Like the song says, “Trust and obey, for there’s no other way.” That’s the gospel. Spiritual birth does little good toward that goal if your heart remains silenced by a demonic cultural bias against letting the heart rule.

God alone knows the particulars of how all these things will happen, and most especially the timing. By establishing your genuine faith now, you won’t be distracted by surprising events. America is going to fall, just like Babylon, and for the same reasons.

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Draper Bikeway Early August

Posted on August 2, 2018 by ehurst

There’s nothing like a good hard rain to show you major hydrology flaws in the bikeway. I rode out to Draper Lake yesterday to check on the bikeway. This shot was taken up on the northern end of the loop. You can see how poor drainage created a spot where water pools up on the trail bed. There was some kind of emergency work to drain it off because they are preparing this for paving soon, but it will need a lot more work to prevent it happening again.

I can report that the trail cutting has made good progress, all the way down to SE 134th for the initial clearing work, and the second pass for initial landscaping is down as far as SE 119th. I’ve marked in lavender what I was able to discern checking without getting in their way. However, without aerial photography, there’s really nothing that comes out on camera. They are using mostly the old Westminster roadbed, but around 134th they have to turn back into the woods and cut a raw path until they get past the boat dock area. Some sections of Westminster are still used for vehicle access to the lake, particularly coming in off SE 134th. However, there is no such access near SE 119th.

Down and around on the dam, I noticed that we are still waiting for the pump and valve house construction to finish, but farther along toward the western anchor of the dam I noticed this digging around that swampy spot that I pointed out previously as a trouble area. All of the heavy grass has been uprooted and dumped over the trail on the high side. While I suggest it needs a good build-up with culverts running under it, I can’t guess what they are up to just yet.

We do have some good news: The swamp has been cleared and a flow established. I knew there was an old culvert draining this mess, but it was blocked by at least one very large cluster of willows, and filled with silt. It’s still almost full of silt, but the trees are gone and a trench dug across to the culvert. What it still needs is the culvert flushed out and some rip-rap placed near where the water enters it to prevent silting up again. I’m not sure they’ll do that, so I look for the swamp to flood again this fall when the storm season returns.

I also note that the blacktop has been extended between the start at Point 5 and the model aircraft flight strip. That section took an awful lot of work and it’s still got a couple of places where water is likely to collect and soften the trail bed.

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The Fall of America 03

Posted on August 2, 2018 by ehurst

You won’t come any closer to seeing the face of The Cult than you would by identifying the globalist cabal. This is also the clearest manifestation of Satanism and Luciferian religion. It branches out all over the world with servants and allies. There really is a conspiracy, but too many commentators are looking at the wrong means of identification. By their fruits you will know them. I’m not describing them by tracing out all their operations and contacts, but by how they act in terms of moral effects. The primary key is not what the various humans involved know or don’t know, but how Satan uses people and guides their actions. We don’t have to know all the details on the ground, only how it splashes evil on the canvas of Creation.

You and I are committed to returning to the Garden of Eden; we seek His glory. All our means and methods are based on His revelation of what we can know about how reality is designed. We know that we cannot trust what our human capabilities can tell us about any of that. The globalist religion is a depraved rejection of revelation and elevates a dream of power arising from the assumption that God is hiding from us our true capabilities (Genesis 3:4-5). They seek arcane knowledge on those grounds, whether it be esoteric magic or simply digging into the depths of fallen human terror. It’s the myth of an independent path back into Eden,and that Eden is somewhere in this world. They are rejecting revelation; that means they are willfully serving Satan by default. Anything outside of God’s will is the Devil’s will.

Remember what I said about The Cult: They aren’t Zionist, but they use Zionism. For them, it’s not about Israel, but about world government. It’s a return to the Tower of Babel. They’ll use Israel and Zionism to get there, but will ditch them as soon as possible.

If you’ve read Shahak’s Jewish History, Jewish Religion, you know that one thing has not changed a bit since Jesus’ time: The rabbis despise the common Jewish folk. Over the centuries since that time, the rabbis oppressed their own people with a zeal hard to match. The whole concept of Jewish equal rights throughout history has meant the right of the rabbis to keep their own people under control and taxed painfully.

During the 1300s, Kabbalism became a major factor in perverting rabbinical teaching even farther, so that it becomes common to find rabbis secretly worshiping Satan. Even the more academic study of Kabbalism is radically different from the brand taught and practiced among the Jewish elite. It’s probably impossible to trace at this point, but we do know that during the Enlightenment, there was a split between those who become globalists and those who would become Zionists. Indeed, even though a great many Jewish elite are on the globalist side, a trademark of globalist doctrine is spite for most Jews (for example, the Illuminati were notorious for hating Jews).

While the two camps cooperated on most things for the past few centuries, the Zionists have recently become a major liability for the globalists. Most obvious is that Zionists want to be the global ruling elite instead of the globalists. During American history, the Zionists began cultivating all political sides, but in recent times their only real American friends are the imperialists and the evangelical Christians. We have the comedy of Zionists hoping to rule the world, and Christian Zionists hoping they will try and fail.

And within the so-called Intelligence Community (IC, more than a dozen agencies in Washington DC) there is sometimes little difference between an imperialist and globalist. The reason is because the IC are so very certain they will be part of the ruling elite either way. But when you break it down by agency, we know that the CIA has always been faithful to the globalists, and has never been loyal to the American people or the Constitution. The FBI is somewhat divided — during the past two decades the globalists have taken over most of the leadership positions, but the rank and file don’t seem to share their agenda. Currently, it appears the NSA has joined with various military intelligence agencies to support the imperialists.

So the globalists own Hollywood, the leadership of the Democratic Party, the CIA and the leadership in a great many federal agencies. The imperialists own the Republicans, the military leadership and most law enforcement agencies outside the FBI, and perhaps some portion inside it. This includes the vast majority of state and local “first responder” employees, as well. And while it appears that the deck is stacked against the globalists in some ways, we know that the CIA has moles all over the system, people who would willingly take the fall to gain a solid strategic advantage for the globalist agenda. And if that’s not enough, the entertainment elite have an army of mafioso-like investigators and hit-men who have not been idle. A lot of Hollywood deaths were not at all what the public has been told.

For you and me, the difference is that, while globalists are all about the false religion of Babylon, the imperialists are all about the management and force behind it. Both want Babylon from a different angle. While The Cult has agents among the imperialists, they are much more fully invested in globalism.

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The Fall of America 02

Posted on August 1, 2018 by ehurst

We could spend years discussing what would be required to save America, but it won’t happen.

It would require at least a couple of generations just rooting out the false intellectual biases that come with a western epistemology. Then we would need another full generation of living in a wilderness experience under a fairly harsh application of Noah’s Law just to whittle down the resistance to basic minimum covenant faithfulness. Then maybe we could look at declaring a covenant nation.

Keep in mind that the Covenant of Noah arose after the whole human population of the world at that time was drowned. That would include at least several thousand “innocent” lives that God knew could not be redeemed for various reasons. And that Law Covenant didn’t work well for very long after starting with just eight survivors. Noah’s own son quickly returned to the sexual perversion of the now dead world he left behind. Further, the grand experiment of Israel ended in the covenant nation rejecting an even more explicit covenant and turning to serve Satan (Revelation 3:9). More about that later, but the point is a covenant nation is possible, but is downright improbable with the fallen human race.

So the US is doomed by virtue of the Law of Noah alone. It’s longevity up to now has been merely the convenience of God in His inscrutable plans. Time’s up; that usefulness has ended. The means to her end is tied up in a particular idolatry. The label I use for this idolatry is “globalism.”

Globalism was promoted a century ago in the US as a dream of efficiency, with the added bonus of what they claimed was a kind of shalom: safety, prosperity, health and peace. That was the sales pitch the elite used. Behind that lie was a long festering evil plan to restore the ancient Babylon of King Nimrod (Genesis 11). It goes back that far. Read between the lines of the Hebrew parabolic narrative: This was a global government binding all humanity under one religion. It was a religion aimed at harvesting and maximizing human capability as the means to ultimate redemption. If you research modern Satanism, it would be hard to tell the difference.

On the heels of unionist victory in the War between the States, the die was cast to enslave the whole nation to the goals of a revived Babylon. A group of globalist elites began implementing a series of plans to capture total control without any further armed conflict. They carefully infiltrated, hijacked and changed public education, organized religion, all means of public address (specifically publishing), and shifted all the assumptions behind what our government institutions did. When moving pictures were invented, they quickly seized control of that. In other words, they set about with full awareness what was necessary to so weaken what little moral fiber there was in the US as to make a more blatant takeover possible.

It’s not that America was ever very morally good, but that she was struggling to maintain a facade of goodness that led to a significant minority actually living pretty good moral lives, at least by their own post-Victorian sensibilities. The elite were seeking to remove that false cover by degrees to make the whole empire consciously evil. This was a genuine conspiracy to debase the people and weaken them for the eventual coup.

Folks, the whole single-minded purpose of Hollywood, TV, music industry and all other forms of entertainment is to drag us all down morally. Step by step, various social moral taboos have been nudged off stage until the public at large accepts lower and lower moral standards. This is the fundamental religious commitment of entertainment.

Now we have an awakening awareness and hardening resistance to this long careful struggle of the Satanists. The resistance is, at best, just a return to a semi-Victorian mythology of morality. Some elements consciously proclaim an even more reactionary return to something that resembles Medieval feudal society. The difference between them is not so significant, when you consider that it is all rooted in heathen cultic idolatry with a thin veneer of pseudo-Christian covering. This awakening resistance stands on the last battle line of pedophilia. That is the one last moral boundary that the Satanist elite cannot cross.

At one time the Satanists had a huge army of conscripts we call Progressive or leftist activists. As previously noted on this blog, the lefties aren’t actually open to pedophilia. Thus, you can spot the difference between a Satanist/globalist versus a typical leftist on that issue. Anyone publicly defending pedophiles is either a devoted Satanist or directly serving them. The other lefties are now having a little trouble defending that, so you can see an exodus of folks from the leftist party.

In fact, there is a similar exodus from Hollywood itself. Most people who have worked in the entertainment industry are victims of this atmosphere of abuse. Some have turned around to abuse others, but we are now seeing quite a few of them coming out and testifying of the depth of depravity that Hollywood has tried to hide all these years. The whole facade is crumbling; the political globalists are losing their cover.

This mess is unsustainable; it was a lie of Satan from the beginning. It cannot work because it is all a violent attack on Creation. Reality is willfully opposed to this and it cannot stand for long. This globalist agenda will collapse in on its own rotten core, and their sins will be exposed.

But the right-wing imperialists are no better, just more stable. Once they have shattered the left, their own fortunes will decline and the empire will break up.

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