Our Great Commission

Posted on March 26, 2017 by ehurst

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20 NKJV)

Given what I say about my religion and sense of mission, how would I implement the Great Commission? We cannot run off into the world the way most religions have done that in the past. Nor is this quite the same world in which the First Century disciples of Jesus found themselves. That is, how we communicate the gospel message so as to make disciples and teach them what Jesus has commanded isn’t going to be exactly the same because their implementation matched a different world than ours.

Context is everything. The language we use comes within a cultural context, so that actions are part of the language. You can’t just isolate the act of speaking, as if it simply must be the same in every tongue and time and place in the universe. You have to translate it fully, not just some kind of mechanical word-for-word rendering. That’s just ink on paper; we need souls living that message as if Jesus were brought to life in every time and place.

First, we have to be in the right place; we have to plant roots in the ground where God covers us with His favor. And we stay there as long as it pleases Him. He’s the Creator who knows what should be growing where; it’s the same for whom is growing and bearing fruit.

Second, we each have to discover our own fruit. If we can discern with biochemistry how two identical trees in different ecosystems can offer varied nutrients, so we should understand that the parable of bearing fruit means we each play a small part in the broader spiritual nutrition of souls. No one of us is the sole influence in any other person’s redemption.

For myself, the biggest current mission is what you experience as my writing on the Internet. But I most certainly have been working here in the meat space of where I reside in Central Oklahoma. However, given the long legacy of pushy sales-pitch “evangelism” around these parts, I have to offer the gospel in a different means; I have to speak a different language into this context. So for now, I am plowing the ground, breaking up the hardened surface defense against a more vivid gospel message by simply living what I preach on this blog. I show the power of God’s revelation in terms of my shalom. They know it’s about Christian faith even if they don’t have a clue, and aren’t quite ready to hear the story behind it.

So for the time being, I’m waiting for something that will open their souls to the planting of seed. I’m plowing dry ground unless God makes it rain. Given the long season of drought, you can be sure that rain will come with terrifying storms. Gentle weather patterns can’t push past this massive high pressure dome of hot dry weather; it requires a very strong storm. Until the folks around me tribulate, they can’t hear the gospel message I bring. Some have suffered more than others, so everyone has their own unique level of readiness, and it takes time for God to move things in their lives until they are ready to receive. And even then, I know that there are few who will hear the divine call. Everybody is looking for something, but most people tend to think they’ve already got eternal stuff worked out. They have to be thrown into a place to question that. So in my faith and convictions, I know I’m in the right place, but the context is not complete.

Meanwhile, by the same faith, I also know that I am called to take this message elsewhere. I am gripped by a certainty that there are contexts that aren’t always tied to a physical place, contexts that are shaped by other factors of human existence. In those contexts people are already living in a condition that makes them question their certainties. Within those contexts is where my certainties shine brightest. I’ve done it before when I was serving in uniform with the US Army. The military service is a tribulational context wherever the military takes people.

There are other contexts that bear an inherent tribulation. Somewhere out there is another one for which I’m best fitted as missionary. Maybe it isn’t quite ready for me now, but I sense that it can’t be that far away in terms of time. In a prophetic sense, I believe that God is preparing me to take this gospel message to some folks who will, in turn, carry it wherever the winds of Heaven blow them on this earth. My evangelism in their lives will be just one more means of revelation that will prepare them for their own missionary calling.

This isn’t like the first few missions in the New Testament where the Apostles carried the message to people who weren’t moving around that much. I’ll do that, but I’ve been given a commission to discover other folks who are now, or ought to be, missionaries themselves. I’m supposed to be an influence in the souls of influential folks.

This is why I keep talking about some mission yet in front me on this path. There are some folks out there still chained by something that they don’t really belong to, but they need just one more key to open the lock. Or at least I’ll give them a key they need for some later final break into spiritual freedom. It doesn’t matter; I’m passing out keys to folks who are aware they need one. And they are people with missionary feet.

I have to be ready to make that message look like a key to them. This means a certain amount of flexibility, a sensitivity to how people see such things. It ranges all over the place. I might talk to one person about philosophy and epistemology, to another about cultural anthropology, to another about comparative civilization, to another about living in harmony with Creation, and with still yet others it will need to sound like just a slight variation on traditional mainstream Christian religion — whatever it takes.

What’s your mission? Let’s pray together about each other’s sense of where God is leading and how we each will carry out that Great Commission.

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Set the Captives Free

Posted on March 26, 2017 by ehurst

The longer I look at it, the more I cannot imagine that my mission is pivotal in God’s work among humans.

Let me reiterate some things my regular readers already know. The gospel message is freedom. It’s the opposite of sectarianism. While a great many Christian denominations use terminology like that, what they mean is that there should be no sects other than their own. “Everyone should be free to do it our way. Who could want anything else?” The problem is that they keep religion a slave to reason. Thus, whatever “freedom” means, it has to pass through the filter of reason — and we all know that reason is the conscious cover story our minds offer for very unreasonable personal wishes.

It is utterly impossible for reason to fill in the blanks of ultimate moral purpose; reason must start from certain moral assumptions and those always rest on the individual’s personal collective mythology. Need we note again that said mythology is itself a moving target? It is simply not possible for any human to be objective. We are all born with an instinct to propagate our genes; most of us are born with a certain drive to propagate our personal mythology. But only a few of us are born with the talents to make either form of propagation happen on a wide scale (and those two talents are often found in the same person). These folks honestly believe: “My way is God’s way.” Thus is born a particular brand of religion that sweeps in larger numbers of people.

And people are taught to disregard some of their own personal mythology in order to participate in some grand vision of conquest. “Everyone should taste the privilege of living like I do.” We see this in secular politics; religion never escapes politics. Despite words to the contrary, nobody in the religious propagation business really wants to make room for significant variations in reasoning and explanation. This reluctance is wired into the culture itself. There is this a priori assumption that it can’t be worth the trouble unless the results bring in large numbers under one single Great Man’s leadership. A part of the Curse of the Fall is an endless supply of human demigods.

Instead of boring you with yet another recounting of my long journey through madness, I’ll cut to the chase and remind you that coming out the other end of the Valley of the Shadow of Death was possible for me only by tossing aside the primacy of human reason and the instinct to lead. Do not follow me. Don’t trade your old demigod for some dream of making me into another one. My mission is to destroy that very thing. What I really want to do is set you free to find Christ on your own path. I’m fully confident that Christ in your heart can lead you where He wants you to go without my interference. I’m just along for the ride.

But this is no small task. It’s made all the larger for all the cultural mythology that demands we cling to a false definition of “holiness.” If there’s one idea that comes from Satan, it’s the truculent insistence that “truth” has to result in one concrete intellectual construction. It’s the big lie that this concrete physical universe, which we experience through our senses and grasp through our reason, is the sum total of all that is. It’s that endless quest for more data so we can nail down what can be, and thus what ought to be. Whatever is meant by “truth” must be some static, dead and cold “reality.” Even when we get people to admit that there could be other realms of existence, they still insist that whatever we can learn from any other realm must result in one single concrete answer here.

And all the while, this “here” is not concrete in any way. That “concrete objective reality” is the ultimate lie of the Devil. The world seems to have somehow agreed to that one underlying assumption, even in the face of vast unresolvable disputes about how we shall define that concrete reality. So we have endless wars because we all agree that there can only be one definition of concrete reality, but we cannot agree on what it is. That’s crazy.

But because everyone buys that fundamental lie, we end up finding ourselves under threat of force to buy one or another false mythology. So we all band together with others, buying into one or another great myth so we can stand together and fight back. Nobody seems to notice how the New Testament taught that we should just nod our heads and salute whatever flag someone runs up the pole because we don’t really care. The reason we don’t care is that we are conscious that this whole thing is one big lie. We play along with the game because we aren’t in a position to reach inside other people’s heads and turn on the light of revelation. Only God does that.

And His chosen instrument for that process is each of us living by our own provisional reality, consciously aware that no two of us have the same answer. But most of all, we are aware that no two us should have the same answer, simply because we cannot. God reveals Himself differently and individually to each of us. We would not dare tell God what He has to show anyone else. Nor would we dare to demand that the net result of revelation in some soul should come out with a concrete reality that looks the same as ours.

Yet by the very miracle of agreeing that we should not see things alike, we are able to unite in a bond of faith stronger than any shared identity mere men can dream up. We find fellowship and communion, ties of compassion and affection, and we worship the same Creator and Savior and Power to live in this Shadowland of lies and deceit. This world is the prison of souls.

So if there’s one thing I want you to remember me for, it’s that I helped you break out of the prison.

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Dead or Alive

Posted on March 25, 2017 by ehurst

Why do you still live?

Yesterday was my gym workout at the park. It was excellent because I exceeded previous performances on everything. I even managed to sprint up a small but steep hill a few times; I’m trying to regain my previous short recovery time from things like wind-sprints.

When my beloved came home we went to a local eatery that someone recommended. They lied. It wasn’t particularly bad, just very generic and bland. That’s bad for a taco salad. It didn’t digest well, so I didn’t recover well from the workout. Since today was pretty cool on top of that, I just didn’t feel up to a long ride.

Besides, my beloved was hosting a baby shower, so it gave me an excuse to stay home and help her get the place cleaned up and move furniture around. Then I disappeared into my computer office and stayed out of the way while almost a dozen women did what they do at such gatherings. I watched a couple of documentaries on YouTube. I’m a big fan of geographical and historical stuff; it’s the only type of video I can tolerate for more than a few minutes.

Then they left and I helped to put everything back into our normal layout.

The military term “marking time” is a good metaphor for what I’m doing these days: marching in place and waiting for the next order to move. I’ve still got that rhythm going for some kind of mission.

I suppose no two of us would do it just the same, but I try to invest a little time each day in worship. For me that typically means turning on some worship music and humming or singing along. Just for fun, I’ve been working my baritone voice to hit bass notes I couldn’t reach before. Still, I do lose myself in some of the songs. That’s what worship is: losing yourself in something far bigger.

Do you suppose I’m just chasing a dream the will evaporate on the wind?

No one has to tell me that what I claim is coming has no basis in reason. Let’s remind ourselves that a conscienceless psychopath is often utterly rational. Some are more willing to tolerate upheaval than others, but their actions always make perfect sense to someone who can’t even grasp caring for another person. If this material existence is all there is, most psychopaths are better equipped to survive and prosper. Psychopaths exhibit choices that deny the existence of God and a conscience.

This not about me, but a desire to share something other people surely need. But more than that, it’s an overwhelming desire to please God. I wouldn’t care about others if it weren’t for the power of God in my convictions. He’s the One who built that fire of desire for a mission adventure. Without that, I wouldn’t likely bother with working out and trying to stay fit. I wouldn’t care about what kind of food is helping and what is hindering. I’d have gone nuts a long time ago.

I’d probably be dead by now.

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Psalm 124

Posted on March 25, 2017 by ehurst

This is ascribed specifically to David. We should take notice how very much this is like a responsive song, heavy with Hebrew parallelism.

We have this basic confession: Were it not for Jehovah’s favor, there would be no Israel. Think just a moment about her history. How many times did the Patriarchs stand threatened by circumstances? And didn’t Israel face a very well-armed force trying to escape unarmed from several generations of slavery? And that generation that died in the wilderness? Remember those biting serpents, the droughts and lack of food? How many times should Israel as a nation have died by normal human reckoning? This sentiment is restated twice.

This sentiment is expressed in two ways. First, is the image of larger and better armed nations rising against them, described twice. Then the metaphor of an overwhelming flood is expressed three times. Make no mistake — this echoes the crossing of the Reed Sea and Jordan during flood stage.

The song then jumps into praise. God didn’t let them eat us alive. David compares this to a bird caught in a snare that escapes because the trap broke. It’s not that Israel was smart enough to stay out the traps, but that God kept breaking them free. Their salvation was in the “name of the Lord.” That’s a Hebrew turn of phrase that reminds us God operates as an eastern suzerain, and we are His vassals. This is all about His glory, His reputation. Let us remind everyone that this is our Creator.

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I Thought It Was Thunder

Posted on March 24, 2017 by ehurst

We were supposed to have storms this morning before sunrise. I was already up when I thought I heard thunder. Because I love that sort of thing, I stepped out to see. We had very high winds but it wasn’t even damp yet. Then I turned and saw this tree lying against the building next door to ours.

The folks living on that lower floor noted that the heavy limb stuck in the wall there came through into their apartment. The manager lives across the street and came out to look at it. While I was ready to help out, as were a couple of other guys, she asked us to wait for the maintenance crew.

This poor air conditioner is crushed. I had noticed that A/C unit was running and not working, and had tried to turn it off but I couldn’t reach it in the darkness. So I waited until it was light enough and took some pictures in case no one else thought of it. I note with some sadness all these sycamore trees on our side of the street have been dying one by one. Two were removed before I moved here, leaving craters next to the sidewalk. Now we’ll have another one.

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Knowledge and Conviction

Posted on March 24, 2017 by ehurst

To review so far: The current shift from Western Civilization to the Networked Civilization is driven by corporate profit-seeking through control of the Internet. While there are some efforts to seize the actual network infrastructure, this is not the primary focus of the real threat. Rather, the biggest problem is how the Internet can be harnessed to mass manipulation.

The technology journalists who have reported on it so far, while they understand the mechanism quite well, do not understand where it’s actually taking us. Both the techies who are building this collection of AI approaches and those who oppose it are blinded by how Satan is using them. It’s not a bad idea to study how the primary actors are building a sort of Matrix to keep people fooled, but we cannot rely on their own stated aims, and we certainly can’t get any real help from crusaders who oppose them. We have to evaluate this thing from the mystical approach to understanding reality.

Perhaps you may recall a company called HBGary; their servers were hacked and all their internal conversations were exposed. The video I linked yesterday mentioned Team Themis and some planning HBGary engaged with several other private espionage firms to create a fake reality. Their plans included writing software that would allow a single agent to create and maintain ten or twenty false identities on the Internet and keep track of each one, and use these fake personas to infiltrate online communities and influence people.

We note that HBGary never sold that idea, and had to shut down because of the exposure. However, the idea itself is now in use by the US government, another others. Right now, there are uniformed servicemen, Intel civilians and private contractors working for the government who are doing this very thing; they are maintaining fake personas and infiltrating various forums and social media services to spy on people and manipulate as many as they can.

Here’s an example: When Barrett Brown first published this hacking of HBGary, at least one conspiracy forum discussion downplayed it all, calling him a nut and pointing out that HBGary never sold their software. But some of those posting on that forum were government agents. You can pick them out if you are familiar with the likes of The Delphi Technique and the rules for spotting disinformation and the shills who use those tricks. Some of this information is a little out of date because it was written up in the days before that false persona software was created. Also, keep in mind that some disinfo agents are true believers, activists who go looking for discussions of some specific issue.

Such analysis is good training for the brain, but without the divine revelation in your heart, you are likely to waste time becoming obsessed with stuff like that. It’s too easy to take that kind of mental awareness and let it run away with you. There has to be something far wiser to decide when it matters. While your mind is occupied with the question of whether someone is trying to deceive you, your convictions need to consider what difference it makes.

In other words, the ultimate question morally is, “What should I do about this?” Often enough, it’s nothing at all, except simply recognizing that you can dismiss the claim. This brings us back to those Three Pillars of Christian Mysticism [PDF]: (1) commit yourself to the truth of God’s revelation to you individually, (2) learn to exercise divine empathy and compassion, (3) yet never allow yourself to become entangled on the human level.

Do you grasp how this threatens the Devil’s plans for us? On the human level, we most certainly are going to fail from time to time. But our failures serve primarily to instruct us to close some door we left open for demonic influences. Once we get our minds used to thinking along those lines, we can reinforce the position that the battleground is internal. Fighting the Devil means beating him inside yourself. That’s it. There’s really nothing else you can do that matters. If you can stay focused on that, God takes care of everything else.

When we spread that kind of approach to reality, it tends to pull people out of the Matrix. If there is anything at all we can do for others, it is letting them see us disconnected from that fake “reality.” That’s holiness; that’s God’s glory and His shalom in our lives.

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Cycling: Touching a Nerve

Posted on March 23, 2017 by ehurst

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence. (attributed to Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief; source)

I must have touched a nerve somewhere; I was attacked. Not in the physical form, but in my soul. I should have recognized something was not right. Everything was okay on the way down to Draper Lake, but once there, a memory drifted up that made me just a little hostile. As I was trying to chase down the threads, an overwhelming sweet smell from the woods hit me. It was a real distraction — white blossoms on a tree I can’t name for you, with a heavy fragrance that is very arresting.

A short time later some minor inconvenience set me off. That’s not at all normal; I usually joke with myself out loud, but this time I was furious. It didn’t matter what it was because it didn’t matter. What mattered was that I should have known this kind of thing was lurking in the shadows. Stuff I’ve written lately was not easy to write, not easy to publish. But it was necessary.

I stopped at one of the picnic tables along the shore and took the risk of biting sand flies so I could take a moment in the quiet natural environment. I can’t afford a hardening of the heart; I needed a taste of nature. Those rocky shallows tempted me to take off my shoes and wade for awhile. However, I just barely avoided getting eaten alive; the wind was my only ally at that moment. I removed my riding helmet and prayed for awhile in that quiet spot on the shore.

If you stick with me on this stuff I’m trying to address, I suspect some of you will face some tough moments, too. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Exchanging One Lie for Another

Posted on March 23, 2017 by ehurst

I struggle with trying to expose this thing.

Western mythology has this thing about false heroism. That is, we have the myth of the Great Man as someone who does things that are risky and exciting in pursuit of some great cause. It’s always a battle against others who are lurking around in the darkness. Of course, our Hero is always very human, in the sense of having to struggle against the odds in some way or another.

The Devil loves that. It creates an image that eliminates most of us from serving Christ. As long as you and I are kept out of Kingdom Service by such perceptual barriers, he keeps us from our divine inheritance. We absorb the mythology and find ourselves in a world that only heroes can change, and those changes are limited to big important things. The mythology further defines what kind of change is worthy of all that effort, some kind of world-saving.

But it’s a false world; it’s not reality. Would-be heroes end up fighting to save a world that cannot exist in the first place.

We are in the midst of some radical changes in society. This is part of what’s behind my insistence that our current civilization is ending and another is being born in its place. We are facing that kind of momentous sea-change in our daily lives. There is a whole invisible world being put into place, something that ignores all the boundaries and definitions to which we are accustomed.

Some portion of dystopian fiction is true on this point: It’s a bunch of private corporations that first seduce governments by offering very desirable contract services. But then, eventually the corporations displace the governments by making them increasingly irrelevant, while building a system that sweeps in the whole world around them. But it’s a control that is asserted via the virtual world. Instead of our common physical and geographical points of contact, it’s based on humanity with virtual points of contact. And because the average person has no real perceptual frame of reference for this, the corporations are able to pull it off with little or no hindrance.

These people are shaping our whole frame of reference, pulling our minds into a simulated universe, a sort of Matrix kind of thing where the popular perception is disassociated from the concrete reality. People who believe they are disconnected from the networked virtual simulation are still swept into it by the sheer momentum of everyone who is connected. So the answer is not fleeing the Network, but of being aware of it. The single greatest threat to this dystopian world of corporate control is conscious awareness of it.

There are a rising number of people who are aware of this dark conspiracy. They understand it all too well. Many of them were people who got burned by the corporations. Somewhere early in the game, they were allowed to participate in the critical shaping of the technology, not just seeing but helping to make the technology work. But their dreams and visions of making the world a better place proved elusive, until that moment when they either had to embrace the dark intentions or get out. They got out, and now they are persecuted as the corporations use the government to shut down their protesting disclosures.

And these people who’ve been thrown under the bus are still trying to save some other dream, a world that never existed. Do you see how this is moving from one kind of big lie to another big lie? Most of the people resisting this creeping Matrix world are stuck in an older matrix. Satan’s grand achievement of Western Civilization has run its course, so he’s conjuring up something even worse to take its place. This Networked Civilization I write about isn’t a bright and shining Utopia; it’s even worse than what we leave behind.

But wouldn’t you know it? This rising new civilization has its own vulnerabilities, same as the old civilization. There are ways to exploit those weaknesses. The exploits are not in some failed vision of heroes, something that never existed except in the common social mythology. If the Devil can keep people tied to the false past, they are more vulnerable to the false future. The weapons of the dark Matrix future are carefully designed to prey on one kind of people — people who still believe the myths of yesterday.

We have to exit the whole thing. This is part of what I keep urging on you; not that you follow me into my escape, but that you take your own path out. It’s a matter of breaking the spell itself. The only way to save the world, if such a thing is at all possible, is to save yourself. There is no one-size-fits-all solution; that’s the whole point. Any attempt to create a unified vision is itself blindness. But our self-saving efforts should shine brightly with divine glory. We have to learn to share what God intended we share, not something cooked up in the minds of fallen souls who were kicked out of Eden. The only way folks can be saved from this is by God allowing them to see you returning to Eden.

I’d like to pursue this in the coming days. I’m no hero, but I’m struggling to find ways to point out the big lies for you. The ultimate threat to the Matrix is a simple matter of not being sucked into it. We aren’t going to break the Matrix; the whole point is just to unplug ourselves. Our mere existence is the single biggest threat to it.

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Defeating Israel

Posted on March 22, 2017 by ehurst

I have a plan for defeating Israel.

Israel’s primary weapon against Gentiles is a two-edged sword. One edge is the huge guilt trip over their Holocaust; the other edge is perverted Christian religion. I don’t have to answer those at this point; historical evidence is more than enough. If you need to know, it’s easy to find online and I’ve covered some of it here in previous posts.

The only historical factor in their favor: Israel claims to be God’s Chosen. They were, and had they embraced the message of Christ, they could still be His Chosen. But they were unable to discern the truth of Christ’s message because they no longer knew God; they had no strong moral instincts. They set that aside in favor of the ego-boosting head trip into Hellenism. And even before that, they took a diversion from their mission to reveal Jehovah to the world and decided it was all about privilege. Israel today offers a barely disguised contempt for Gentiles. In the minds of her leaders, we have sinned if we do not willingly offer everything we own and eagerly bow down as slaves. In their eyes, this could be the only justification we have for living on the same planet with them.

So long as we refuse to do so, the Zionists are determined to make us suffer for our alleged sins. They are doing the Devil’s work. They have many allies in Western countries with laws to prevent even addressing their lies in public. And I’ve already warned how it should be obvious that if we killed all the Jews, Satan would simply sucker a new nation into converting to Judaism and off we go again; he has already done that once. What is the genuine biblical answer to this nonsense?

Lay claim to the heritage they abandoned.

They have annulled the Covenant; they no longer have God’s protection. They are sponsored by Satan, and Satan operates by God’s permit. It’s not a question of divine favor. When you and I gaze out upon the political landscape of the world today, we have to assume that what is is permitted by God for His inscrutable reasons. Whatever keeps Israel in existence has nothing to do with any claim to God’s favor.

But you and I can certainly find God’s favor for ourselves. Why do you think He preserved a record of His dealings with them? We have the Old Testament so that we can study how it was supposed to work, see through the specifics to grasp the true nature of God’s favor. As part of that package, we can seize their ancient intellectual traditions, the ancient Hebrew mystical approach, and see how those specifics, in that context, can be brought to life again in us today.

All the blessings of the Law of Moses are ours today, but we don’t have to wade through the literal provisions of the Law. Christ is the fulfillment of that Law, and He was a Hebrew mystic. What He taught was the original meaning of those commandments. His analysis and interpretation is God’s own. His promises were actually more extravagant than those of the Law.

When the world sees us living in shalom against the egregious whining and outrageous demands of Israel, people will see who has God’s favor. Granted, you and I should know that we are almost starting from scratch with very little in the way of supporting traditions, so not many folks are going to see with moral clarity. That’s not our department. Ours is to claim the promises Israel has abandoned and live in the power of God that shines His glory through Satan’s lies.

That’s how you defeat Israel.

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That Big, Stinking Perversion

Posted on March 21, 2017 by ehurst

This is the story I tell; it works for me.

If Satan can get us to chase anything at all except our personal commitment to Jesus Christ, he wins. If he can twist our thinking about who Jesus is and what it means to follow Him, that’s all it takes to keep us away from our divine heritage. Our ultimate best interest is the glory of Christ. I know that following Him means not worrying too much about what other folks do so long as I can see the light of glory shining for me.

At the same time, it requires me to keep track of what others do so that I can discern how to stay on the path. We have to understand how Satan deceives and remain watchful for his tricks. We need a discerning heart. We have to make our minds familiar with the pains and failures of those who stepped off the path, because that speaks to us of our own weaknesses. We have to seek the discernment that offers a cold assessment of our own failures and stay humble. The second we start thinking we have it under control is the second we are on the wrong path.

Here’s what I dread: Israel will destroy the US. She’ll destroy a lot of other countries, too, but there’s little I can do for them except to pray. And all I can do for Americans is pray, as well, but I’m called to sound the warning to them.

Review what I said about The Cult; that’s what drives Israel. The business about a Jewish identity is just a cover story. It’s a billowing curtain that is nothing precisely, just a vague shadowy mixture of Judaism and ethnic traditions and absolutely nothing of substance from the original Covenant of Moses. It’s an excuse to keep maneuvering themselves into the center of world attention. In fact, admiration is the last thing her leaders want. They’ll take it, but only long enough to turn it into a big platform of condemning the whole world. Global guilt is the whole point; it justifies whatever it is Israel decides to do.

The existence of Israel the State isn’t even the goal, just a tool to keep everyone riled up. They never wanted it to work out. The original Zionists knew it was an impossible demand, that all the power and might in this world could not make it work. They knew this thing would create interminable chaos, and that’s exactly the purpose it serves. No matter how much any great military and political power grants them, their demands will not be satisfied. They’ll just come up with some new outrage, some new impossible burden laid on the backs of humanity.

Turning the world into a living Hell is the only way they can get what they are really after — control. That’s it. There is no particular purpose, no golden dreams of what control will grant them; it’s just about control itself. Whatever it is they might have once claimed to want, it has drifted to the place where all they really want is to create Hell. Israel is the ultimate terror state. That’s their image of Paradise; themselves reigning over endless torment. In other words, they serve Satan directly. He is their true national deity.

Let that sink in for a moment.

This explains why the Israelis cannot be honest with anyone, not even each other. This is why they cannot keep any promise to anyone. This why she demands there be something like a UN only so she can flout it’s pronouncements. This is why she torments the Palestinians instead of simply driving them into the sea or into Jordan. This is why the government representatives keep chumming with other governments only to switch sides next week. When the mouthpiece for Israel says anything at all, you can bet he doesn’t believe it himself, that it’s just another game of manipulation.

Getting rid of Israel is impossible. Kill all the Jews and Satan will raise up another nation just like it. The answer is to never take Israel seriously about anything. Do recognize that Israel is quite pleased with the idea of another global war, with nukes and everything. Even if it meant destroying the current Israeli infrastructure, the leadership cannot avoid provoking trouble. It’s who they are; it’s the core of their existence. It’s The Cult; it’s Satan. It’s not about individual people, but the powerful influence aimed at keeping humans bound under the Fall. In these days, Israel is the Devil’s single biggest distraction from pursuing holiness and the blessings of God.

Israel is a manifestation of God’s wrath. If you get hung up on Israel, Satan owns you and will drain your life. Watch what she does, because her actions will surely affect your mission. Be prepared to avoid that next thrust of evil, that next attack on your sanity and commitment to Christ. All you have to do is keep your flesh conquered; Israel is the fallen flesh personified. Israel is the antithesis of shalom.

This is how I stay sane and stay within blessings of God.

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