No Need to Fear

Posted on February 28, 2025 by ehurst

So long as Christ needs us here in this world, nothing Satan and his minions can do will ever harm us. Keep a watchful eye on the Enemy’s lies.

The greatest danger to Trump’s life is his own inner circle. The globalists have been crushed; they will not recover. The last holdouts in government will be removed over the next few years, but the political momentum has already turned away from them. The salvageable pieces will be absorbed into the real threat: the technocrats and Zionists infesting Trump’s administration.

Whether Trump lives or not, these technocrats have already begun seizing full control of the country. It will be messy, and there will be some bloodshed, but it will proceed. Many millions of lives will be turned upside down. The economy will shake and shiver. Most importantly, the US as we know it will cease to exist.

Somewhere down the road, this will also fail, but we must get through this part first.

You could see all of this with heart-led conviction, but if you want some evidence, take a look at this article from Whitney Webb. It was published back before the election, so keep that in mind.

Are you among those who really cheer the idea of immigration control? Imagine this scenario: There is no hard currency, only electronic banking tokens. You cannot get an account without a registered ID and facial recognition. Immigrants would be forced to resort to barter, unable to shop at stores or even online. Oh, and don’t forget that social credit score, because a bad score will restrict what you can purchase with your facial recognition.

Illegal immigrants would be locked out of the system, no point in coming here.

Of course, this whole thing would be impossible to tolerate, and it would come apart at the seams, but that won’t stop the technocrats from trying. Meanwhile, it’s all linked way back in history. I can recall when the PROMIS software scandal broke, when the US government stole the whole thing from Inslaw. I can recall being trained in the Military Police to start working on that kind of database system to track everyone. I saw that shift in government doctrine in the late 1980s at the ground level, and my heart knew it was a huge, suffocating evil that was coming upon the US.

I recall a rash of thefts from government employees who carried government laptops that were stolen, which contained various databases of citizen records not yet linked into PROMIS. The whole thing was masked as common petty theft, except the thieves had a massive network of people to trip up anyone along the escape route who dared chase the thieves. Because of the PROMIS software and the Main Core database, a significant portion of US citizens have been tagged as potential terrorists already.

Do you remember TIA (Total Information Awareness)? It never went away; it was just hidden. The program still exists. It’s part of Palantir’s contract with the CIA. Not every hack attack on companies with a huge customer database, with credit card numbers, is simply greedy criminals. The all-seeing eye of surveillance knows where you’ve spent the majority of your money, every TV program or video you’ve watched, books you’ve read, tracked your movement by cellphones, knows what you eat, can read your medical records, who you talked to and what you said, etc. There is an electronic diary of your life in that database called LifeLog.

Your face has been picked up by Clearview AI.

But of course, they don’t call it that any more. With all the things DOGE is cutting, they will not touch the big database because it’s not identified in any way that makes it show up on a budget. It’s not a single data pile, but a linkage of many hundreds of databases held in many different agencies public and private.

But all of this is more fragile than you might imagine. It cannot know the hearts of God’s people. It cannot prevent the Spirit of God working to destroy every stronghold the Enemy raises up on the graves of fools. Watch and see the hand of the Lord protecting His Covenant and Word.

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Cabin Fever Cure

Posted on February 27, 2025 by ehurst

Like most folks in the Heartland, the week of harsh cold led to cabin fever. I couldn’t wait to get out and ride again. On Monday, I visited the construction site of the new railroad spur between two lines. It required building a bridge over Crooked Oak Creek adjacent to the Eagle Lake Park. While the construction site is not officially cleared, there’s not much left to do. A skeleton crew was there engaged in the final closure activities and waved at me, welcoming me back — cyclists had been locked out of the area during the construction.

What cyclists missed for just a bit longer than a year was the closure of the Eagle Lake Trail that runs from the lower dam on the Oklahoma River Recreation Area to the trail built by Del City within Eagle Lake Park. Trucks hauled in hundreds of tons of clay and rock to create the high artificial ridge necessary to keep the rails at grade. In the process they destroyed the original asphalt trail that ran along the banks of Crooked Oak Creek. Now that the tracks are laid, the temporary roadbed has been removed. The construction contract called for replacing the cheap asphalt surface with concrete. In this case, it was cheaper to splash a little more concrete onto the site than having to hire a separate crew to lay asphalt.

Yesterday was my first longish ride after the freeze. This shot is viewing the city skyline from the southwest side. To be more precise, I was standing in Woodson Park just west of Interstate 44. This is on the path of my Grand Boulevard Trail and River Trail loop, around 25 miles in total.

One of the more amusing parts of this adventure was that we went from shocking brutal cold to shorts weather in just a few days.

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Stocks, Bonds and Investments

Posted on February 25, 2025 by ehurst

Let’s review something that applies to several current conversations I’m having. Review the Bible, and Proverbs in particular. You gain the worldview that God is the maker and owner of all things. He portions out His property to whomever He desires, and on terms that suit His purpose.

His purpose is to reveal His glory. The whole dispute He has with Satan and his allies on God’s staff turns on the question of who merits glory and worship from humans. On the way to asserting His truth, God has granted provisional limited control of parts of His Creation to Satan’s feudal authority. As humans, we are by default under Satan’s authority. We can trump his authority by appealing to Christ.

Doing so requires that we embrace His Covenant. His Covenant includes referring back to Proverbs, where we learn that God grants us our bodies and all the means to glorify Him while here in this world. Everything we can possibly have is on loan from God. When we acknowledge that and give Him due glory and worship, He asserts His privilege, and inserts Himself into the authority structure of Satan.

Because we acknowledge God’s ownership of our property, we are careful what we do with it. If you abstract the clear statements of Biblical Law, you learn that buying stuff is one thing. You may not have too many choices in vendors and what you buy, but you naturally strive to glorify God in how you do business. When He grants us a surplus, we try to honor His name (His reputation) by how we use it.

The Covenant defines that as doing everything we can to bless our covenant family. We put their human needs in the same basket as ours. If we have still more surplus after meeting our convictions on that issue, then we can invest in their future welfare in other ways.

This is where we bump squarely into sources like Proverbs. When you read passages telling you not to cosign a loan for a stranger, there’s a lot more than what’s in the words themselves. Hebrew proverbs are like that. It’s not the words themselves, but what they indicate about the larger issues of life under the Covenant. The main principle is that you don’t let God’s loans to you get tied up in affairs that you cannot directly observe, and over which you cannot assert some control.

You are responsible for seeing that what God gives you goes to His glory. You don’t invest in the lives of strangers who are not under your moral covering. Unless you are directly involved in the business, it is a sin to invest in it. You have no idea how your investment is being used. At the least, you must have a trusted proxy (under your covering) working for you in that business. God Himself requires of you a personal interface.

Thus, you cannot ever invest God’s money in a stock market, for example. Most financial markets are designed specifically to keep you away from your investment. You can audit all you want, but if you are not involved in the business, you cannot possibly see whether God is glorified in the operations.

As it is, the whole world of western contracts and labor are inherently wicked in God’s eyes. The legal system itself directly contradicts God’s Word. The mere existence of corporations as persons is purely Satanic. It is about as defiant as you can get against God’s Word.

Here’s something most people never consider: The entire structure of things like stock markets is bogus. Your investment is real, but nothing else about the market is. The whole thing is entirely notional; there is no real property exchanged. It’s all nothing but electronic noise. These days you can’t even get real currency out of the market, only numbers on a computer at some bank. And that bank could collapse for no reason you could understand, taking all your imaginary dollars with it.

We have very little choice about banking and currency. Every day we are creeping closer to virtual money only. Under the Covenant, you aren’t obliged to fight that monster. But you are obliged to stay out of the stock market and similar means of gambling. You are not permitted to invest God’s resources in places you are not directly involved.

Giving outright gifts/charity is another matter. The only constraint is your convictions; share according to your heart. You can give anything to anyone at all, and you are off the hook for how it gets used once it leaves your hands.

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NT Doctrine — 1 John 4

Posted on February 22, 2025 by ehurst

Let’s remind ourselves that John is being somewhat sarcastic about the various heretical cults around Ephesus and their claims of deep “gnosis” by using juvenile Greek grammar to express the real knowledge of God. The revelation of God in His Son does not require a lot of intellectual depth; it requires a lot of commitment, surrendering to the Cross. This chapter sounds very repetitive in English translations, but it’s not hard to grasp the message.

The people in this world are driven by spirits. If you are not driven by the Spirit of Christ, then your spirit is dead and you are driven by the spirits of this fallen realm. When you deal with someone who has a dead spirit, you can tell from the conversation because they don’t know God. Their claims to know God mean nothing if they speak poorly about His Son (implying they speak poorly of God’s other children, too).

Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. God’s Spirit is not going to say anything different from that. People who fail to confess that Jesus came as a human Son of God are not driven by the Spirit of God. Those people are driven by a spirit of Antichrist. We were warned about the Antichrist; that spirit is here. It is the same spirit that drives the rest of humanity who don’t serve Christ. Their chatter makes sense to this world, but the people who know God would prefer the testimony of John and his associates.

Another signature of spirits is the power to love when there is no human reason to do so. The Spirit of God gives us to power to love His children regardless of all the good human reasons not to care at all. Don’t walk in the flesh, but in the Spirit; show His love to His children. Let Jesus live and walk in your flesh. He sacrificed His flesh for us, so we should offer up ours for His use.

Again, if God loved us that much, how can we not express His love for each other? As long as you are in this fleshly existence, you’ve certainly never seen Him with your eyes. How can you claim to love Whom you have never seen, if you cannot love your fellow believer that you have seen? If His Spirit lives in you, you cannot help but love each other. That’s the primary signature of His Presence in your life. John reminds his readers that he speaks from a personal acquaintance with the Messiah, so he knows what he’s talking about.

With all the people running around denying that He was a real human and also the Son of God, let’s not complicate things. You should assume that someone carries the Spirit God if they confess Jesus as the human Son of God. John notes that his sole source of confidence is the power to love in the way Jesus taught about His Father’s love. The sacrificial love of the Cross is our covenant with God. We can stand before Him on the Day of Judgment because we allow His Spirit of love to overwhelm us. Whatever Jesus was in this world, that’s what we are. That cannot fail.

His love chases out all our human sorrows and fears. People who worry about the Judgment haven’t tapped into that love yet. We are able to love because He loved us first. Honestly folks, His love in us really is that powerful. Give yourself in love to others and your sorrows will evaporate. Your situation might not change, but how you feel about it will be different.

So, anyone who can resent or detest a fellow believer is not operating in the power of God. The only way you can love the invisible God of Creation is to love Him where He lives in His children here where you can see them. That’s our law in Christ.

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NT Doctrine — 1 John 3

Posted on February 15, 2025 by ehurst

John refers to his readers as the progeny of God, His beloved brood. The world at large is the brood of Satan, so it recognizes neither our Father nor us. While we are His children already, the fullness of what that means has not yet been revealed. Somewhere out in the future, this will be fully manifested. When Christ returns for us, we shall see His eternal form, and simply seeing this will transform us to be eternal like Him. People who are looking forward to that day work hard to shed their fleshly nature as much as possible, trying to be like Jesus.

(The pseudo-Christian cultists didn’t fight their fleshly nature at all.)

It’s one thing to miscalculate what God intends; that’s the nature of childhood. Nobody’s children are perfect. Otherwise, we’d call them something other than “children”. But people who sin habitually are diving deep into injustice. They are rejecting the Father’s dominion. They aren’t His kids; they are foreigners. Jesus came to open the divine covenant and rescue people from their fleshly natures. He had no sin; He was the mature adult Son of His Father. Thus, we who have accepted His offer aren’t habitual sinners. Habitual sinners have never encountered Jesus.

So there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who belong to Jesus strive to live just and righteous like He did. Everyone else belongs to sin; they are children of the Devil, because the Devil rejected his Creator’s will for him right from the start. That’s why God sent His Son — to clean up the damage the Devil had done. When God reclaims a soul from Satan, He gives that soul a spiritual nature it did not previously have. That soul can no longer be at peace with habitual sin; it’s contrary to who they are. Moreover, those who lack that spiritual nature, who still belong to the Devil, are quite obvious by how they live. They have no interest in pleasing the Father. Keep your eye out for anyone who treats any believer with contempt.

We should hardly be surprised that the spiritually dead folks don’t like us. Do you remember Cain and Abel? They were two different kinds of men; Cain had no power to overcome his fleshly annoyance at this brother’s holiness. Our power to love each other is the proof that we have moved from the Abyss into the Kingdom of Heaven. Those who fail to manifest that kind of sacrificial love for believers are still dead. That kind of self-centered spite is the root of murder. People who can hate believers have never experienced spiritual birth.

The reason we have any grasp on love at all is because of the example of Christ taking up His Cross. Following Him means having that same level of commitment; we are ready to die for our fellow believers. How would you call it “sacrificial love” if someone is unwilling to sacrifice so much as a little of the material goods of this world for a brother in the Lord? It’s not enough to say the right words, but we must act on those words and live that truth.

The power to sacrifice for a fellow believer is all the assurance we need that we belong to Christ. Don’t listen to a condemned fleshly conscience; God’s voice in our spirits is louder than such a false testimony. Eventually the conscience will learn the truth and cease to condemn us, and we will see clearly God’s favor on us. It gives us the confidence to bring our requests before Him, knowing that He wants what is best for us.

His will for us is that we submit fully to His Son, swearing our undying allegiance. And His Son said His royal law for us was to love each other as He loves us. The folks who keep that law can do so only because of His Presence in their souls. When we can recognize that Presence in our souls, it becomes our assurance in serving Him.

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Give It a Shot

Posted on February 11, 2025 by ehurst

This is just my personal expectations…

I’m convinced Trump and Netanyahu will not stop until they have evacuated all the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. From what I’ve read so far, they are putting a very hard squeeze on several different national governments to accept the Palestinians. If nothing else, I would bet they simply push them into Syria and Iraq in the absence of a strong central government that could organize to prevent it.

I’m sure Trump will do what he can to fund a building program of refugee housing and maybe even some reasonable infrastructure for life support to receive them. I don’t believe he’s lying about that. Meanwhile, various Islamic governments will most certainly object and find ways to fight the dispossession of Palestinians. What we’ve seen so far as forces have supported Palestinian resistance has been piddling by comparison to what they might do when expulsion actually gets started.

I find it hard to believe that this isn’t going to result in a serious commitment of American troops to the Middle East. I’m sure people will call it a war, but I doubt it will be an actual national mobilization (declaration of war), but more like a “police action” kind of deployment. That’s the same stuff the US has been doing in that region already, so this would be just a different flavor.

Still, it would be a major drain on resources. It’s part of the motivation for DOGE. All the bogus spending the Democrats/globalists have been doing for decades will simply shift to a different program. Instead of USAid to news agencies and globalist agitation, it will be military aid to promote Zionist dreams. And instead of secret funding, this will be quite out in the open.

As the resistance to Zionism escalates quickly, so will the crackdown from the US government. Right now it’s on the back burner, but censorship is just waiting for the right moment. When anti-Zionism starts looking like treason against the US at war, that’s when it will get ugly.

I have no idea what kind of timeline this would follow, but some of this has already started. I’m just pointing out what direction it seems to be headed. I believe Trump’s resolve is that strong.

While the US opposition needs no excuse, I’m willing to bet they will see this as a major opportunity. Any such commitment of US resources will galvanize resistance and further polarize the population. This is likely the time when states will openly talk of secession to avoid supporting something they hate.

In the face of this tribulation, let me remind all my readers that the Covenant works. We will come through this just fine. If you take the Covenant seriously, it will cover you. It’s not an intellectual commitment, but a heart-led feudal submission to Christ the Person.

I’ve tried to warn for many years that the mainstream model of religion here in the US is entirely cerebral and emotional. People talk of “Jesus in your heart” but their concept of “heart” still ends up being a sales pitch conversion with a shallow commitment, not a full feudal submission to Christ as Lord. Thus, the bulk of mainstream church stuff is emotional and cerebral, not faith conviction.

Our community recently lost a few members who were committed on that shallow level. We had been worried they were fake in that sense. Their instincts from lifelong influences of the mainstream churchian ways held them too tightly. We wish them well; we had hopes they would get it, but they didn’t belong. Despite our best efforts, we could not help them find the peace with God they were seeking.

Trust me; I know how hard it is to break that pattern of thinking. Embracing the Covenant path is not a small thing. Our community offers spiritual covering for those who want what we have. You can’t do this without a firm conviction. If this looks like home for you, give it a shot.

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NT Doctrine — 1 John 2

Posted on February 8, 2025 by ehurst

The unifying factor in the various cults plaguing John’s ministry in Ephesus — Gnostics, Nicolaitans, and followers of Cerinthus — was immoral living. Each had their own excuse, but it was transparent to any follower of Christ that these former church folks were desperately seeking for an exit back into sin and wanted to drag as many church folks as they could with them.

The Gnostics in particular were arrogant about their “superior insight” and intellectual acumen, so John uses schoolboy Greek grammar to shut them down. He begins the chapter by referring to his readers as preschoolers, using this simple language anyone could understand. The whole point of this letter is to stop sin. Since our fleshly natures are weak, as we see with toddlers making natural mistakes, we can take comfort in knowing that our Lord is patient and indulgent with those who love Him. Jesus walked in the flesh and takes up for us in the Presence of His Father.

You cannot claim to know (gnosis) God without a tendency to act as He requires. Even toddlers can work that out. Maturity is walking in His teaching. And it’s not that hard to figure out, just do what Jesus said and did.

On the one hand, it’s the same old covenant truth from ancient times: Submit to God as your Father and Lord. At the same time, it’s still very fresh in Christ, as He is the New Covenant in person. John chose to write in prophetic terms of how the revelation of God had progressed in steps ending at Jesus. Darkness is being washed out by the light of Christ. So, what did Jesus say was His single greatest command? Love your fellow believers as He did. Walking in the light means you cannot detest those who have escaped the darkness. The light of the Spirit changes our attitudes. You either see your fellow believers as the precious treasures of this life, or you are still blind.

Like children, we love the Father who adopted us. Like elders, we have embraced the ancient truth. Like men of fighting age, we have fought the Darkness and won. John repeats this, affirming that his readers are that kind of people.

You cannot cling to this world. The fleshly nature belongs here and will stay here when you leave it. Fleshly appetites, the expectation of being able to know everything by your intellect, and the arrogance of trusting in the flesh are not spiritual gifts. They are marks of the Fall; if you cling to those things, you cannot understand the Spirit. You’ll then die when this world dies, but those who seek to obey the Lord will pass on into Eternity.

We come to that term “last hour” — a Hebraic concept meaning that God has no unfinished business in this world. Sending His Son was the last step of revelation calling us back to Him. The next time He does something with this world, He will pull the plug. We know this because folks have left the churches and manifested the spirits of anti-christian teaching. This could not happen until there was a Christ to which dark spirits could contrast themselves.

John implies that Satan and his allies weren’t fully aware of what Christ would do when He came, and didn’t quite realize what kind of handicap they faced in trying to keep men alienated from God. That job required sending people to walk among the Christians and then rebelling from the particular teachings of Christ about subjecting the flesh to the Spirit and walking in holy conduct. Those people left because they were never a part of the Elect, but they would have had no power to seduce if they didn’t first absorb some elements of Christ’s message.

With the Presence of the Holy Spirit, we can grasp the true gift of relief from the burden of our sinful nature ruling over us. That’s the one thing that escaped those who abandoned the gospel. For them, fighting sin by the flesh was a far greater burden than just giving into it. That’s why they never belonged to the church in the first place. John’s audience understands this. He isn’t telling them something they don’t know but reminding of them to encourage them to stay the course.

Denying that Christ came in the flesh is a primary marker of the spirit of Antichrist. You cannot claim the Father’s peace and reject His Son. If you cling to the Son, you cling to the Father, and you will see them in Eternity. Don’t fall for the fancy lies of the heretics. Indeed, you don’t need that level of teaching; His Spirit in your spirit will make it obvious those people are lying. When the Lord returns, those liars will run and hide, but we will run to greet Him. And you already have a good idea who will be running alongside you: the people who walk as Jesus did on this earth, like children of the Father.

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Jehovah Jireh

Posted on February 7, 2025 by ehurst

I’m praying that you are ready; I want you to handle tribulation with aplomb. Think about it.

You remember the shortages in connection with the COVID restrictions? That was intentional; certain bigshots admitted that they were trying to destroy the economy. Some businesses never recovered. Right where I live today several businesses were shut down and never reopened. A few new ones opened up in their places, but overall, the market for some consumer goods and services is smaller now.

Some of you may not remember the longshoremen’s strike not long after that. Had it run into a month, it would have been worse than the COVID shutdowns because we are still entirely too dependent on imports. The strike ended after a few days, but there is still no contract, just a truce. What would it take to renew the strike?

Once again, my whole point is to ask you to do some research. What would you consume if the only supply was only local? I recommend that you do whatever you can to shift your habits to emphasize the local supply. Don’t make too many radical decisions at once; simply look into it. Be aware of what it might look like.

Trump’s tariffs will hit a lot of things you wouldn’t expect. I realize that, in part, he is trying to encourage bringing industrial production back home to the US, but we aren’t there yet. It will take time; we spent decades off-shoring that stuff in the first place.

Nor is this merely a question of imports from off-shore, but there are already major problems with interstate supply within the US. That Hurricane Helene? She tore up a lot of peach and pecan groves. It takes several years to get new trees back to production stage, usually five years at a minimum. If you live in an area where pecans and peaches are not locally grown, you might want to take that into account as the prices will go up more than just the inflation rate.

The American consumer market is fragile, riding along on a knife’s edge. It won’t take much to break something. This is not about prepping or survivalism. Yes, you could stock up on some items, but my point is more at making you aware and resilient, less dependent on human provision. Be ready to adapt. Invest time and resources into yourself so that you can be ready to keep the gospel message alive during the coming testing.

Seek the Lord’s face on these questions.

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Reprise: Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage

Posted on February 6, 2025 by ehurst

Coming back to our parish examination of what constitutes “law” for those under the Covenant of Christ in general, and Kiln of the Soul parish in particular, we should address the issue of divorce and remarriage.

The first thing to do is disentangle from the mainstream churches’ fierce defense of American law; it is entirely unchristian. American marriage law is an ugly, materialistic contract with the government as a the major party. The couple are not contracting with each other, but with the government for enforcement. And the government has done a horrific bad job of it, making noises about what really matters between a couple, but really only interested in seizing control of physical property, and then treating the children as property, as well.

I recommend private ritual ceremonies and frankly advise people not to involve the government in any way. If the covenant community cannot make it work, then it was doomed from the start. The Old Testament references to marriage assume a covenant community. Everything Jesus said about marriage, divorce and remarriage assumes the whole nation is a covenant community. The provisions don’t work outside of that.

Paul discusses things from an entirely different angle. His letters mentioning marriage were all published before any of the Gospels were. Whatever Paul knew about it came from his PhD background in the Talmud, and his later post-graduate level study with the risen Christ in Arabia. He says something slightly different than Christ taught because too many in Paul’s audience were Gentile converts bring into Christ their pagan marriages.

Unlike most of the other Apostles, Paul was supremely fluent in Greek. He knew all the grammar rules and when they could and should be bent or broken. You cannot really trust English translations on this. If you drill down to what he was actually saying, particularly in his Corinthian letters, the issue boils down to this: If your spouse is a full member of the Covenant, then the rules are whatever Christ taught. If your spouse has a no connection, or a dubious connection, to the covenant community, then it’s a different game entirely.

Once you are in the Covenant, you have no business getting married to someone outside of it. But we are assuming the majority were coming into the Covenant already married.

If your covenant life destroys whatever marriage you brought into it, then you take the loss and move on with your covenant life. If you find that you simply cannot live alone and ignore the sexual urges, it’s okay to remarry inside the covenant. Your marriage outside the covenant can be sanctified and brought in under the covering, but not if your spouse holds out. You want to try to keep your family under the covering as much as possible, but you can’t treat them as slaves.

If it looks like that’s gone forever, then you should try to do without. Paul was referencing the persecution and general tribulation of his time as the primary reason for turning to celibacy. While ours is a different situation, it is nonetheless tribulation and persecution for covenant people. If marriage doesn’t work, I recommend celibacy for prophetic reasons.

However, this is not a hard and fast rule. If you feel led by God to remarry, let’s counsel about that, because the door remains open for remarriage. By no means is this on the same terms as our pagan/secular American society. We decide remarriage on the same grounds as marriage in the first place: If the pairing serves a covenant purpose, then by all means, proceed.

Tangential but important: It’s not about falling in love. That’s the dumbest reason for anything humans do. What matters most is that it’s a good idea based on the assumptions of the Covenant life. Romantic affection will grow on its own accord. It does not come first, but last. I realize that’s really tough for American women in particular, and it warrants an awful lot of teaching and reviewing to break down that demonic stronghold.

For remarriage: Yes, you know that you’ve lost something that you cannot recover. That first partner imprinting will be a glitch you must live with the rest of your lives. It’s not insurmountable, but you must be extra vigilant against the Enemy forever after. The power of imprinting God built into us is not going to support your marriage for anyone who has had sex with anyone else. That’s a primary meaning of “defilement” — something God gave us is missing. Don’t confuse the ritual meaning of defilement with the spiritual meaning.

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God Is Tired

Posted on February 5, 2025 by ehurst

The headlines are blaring this morning: Trump will send American troops to Gaza and cleanse the land of Palestinians! That’s not exactly what Trump said, of course, but it does reflect the shocking words and actions of our President.

The tariffs he announced last week sent the stock market into a tailspin. We expected the lefties to throw a fit, but even conservative economists are complaining: Trump Bites the Hand that Feeds Us says Peter Schiff. You can find similar noise from the likes of Michael Hudson and others.

Let’s be clear: By no means do I defend Trump’s actions. Rather, I want to respond to what’s happening from a biblical point of view. Also, I want to help our parish members prepare for what God is doing in this time of tribulation.

I’ve already pointed out that the core policy for Trump seems to be a return to the Monroe Doctrine as a way to face a multipolar world. That part in itself is not a bad idea, in the sense that it’s probably the best he could do in the circumstances. That doesn’t mean good things are coming. The various commentators are quite correct that a Monroe-based tariff war with the world is going to hurt us economically.

Without getting lost in too many details, the outline goes like this: It will make the dollar very strong against other currencies, at least temporarily. It will cut us off from a very large portion of our current imported goods market, as Schiff notes in his story about apples and oranges. We can grow tons of apples just fine, but oranges have to be imported to keep the price down. We simply do not produce enough oranges for our own consumption, so the price will soar. It’s a small example of a much larger problem Schiff sees.

This is the kind of whining you expect from materialists. It’s accurate, but it’s also not that important. The bottom line is that economists are just about the ultimate in materialism and worshiping Mammon. Americans at large won’t be happy, but Covenant people should know better.

God favors decentralization; that’s a primary lesson of the Tower of Babel. God knew that “world peace” would foster such catastrophic wickedness that humans must be tribal and compete for resources. A global economy is anathema. God demands that we learn to live with what He provides locally. If we want something else, we have to move and fight whoever is already living there.

That’s how it works outside the Covenant. We don’t care much about this world, except as it offers opportunities to promote Eternity. The Covenant demands that we carry an eternal focus in all we do in this life. Human conflict is simply not a concern in itself, only how conflict should be done. We oppose a global peace and trade in the first place because God opposes that.

Humans demand a return to Eden, but they assume Eden is supposed to be here in this world. They don’t realize that entering Eden means leaving this world. Thus, all human ambition is misguided and rejects God’s offer. A means of global government and trade is a flat rejection of God’s Word.

So, sure, buy the stuff offered at the grocery store when you can afford it; it’s not a big deal either way. But don’t be surprised when the day comes you can afford only beans and grains, and maybe locally grown veggies on the side. That’s about all God ever promised in the first place. If you do a good job of walking in the Covenant, He will surely provide more than that, but as long as people ignore/reject His Covenant, things will appear to swing upward until He gets tired of it.

God has gotten tired of it, okay?

While He promised in general terms that His children would at least have bread and beans to keep His message alive, those outside the Covenant will get whatever the Devil wants to give them. It’s a signature of the Devil to sucker people, bait-n-switch. He offers all kinds of luxury. Once he has people trapped, he destroys them. He delights in their suffering and death. It works somewhat on the small individual scale, but Satan’s real focus is the human race at large, and he works across multiple generations. You have to see it at the larger scale.

America has been baited into the trap, and the switch is here. It will take time from our point of view, but Satan does not suffer from the time-space orientation of a human lifespan. You must see beyond yourself in order to understand. God takes care of His Covenant children; He brings them Home when their lives have served His glory. Don’t get wrapped up in this life — that’s what Satan wants for you.

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