Telling the Story Again, Part 5

Posted on August 30, 2024 by ehurst

As a sort of coda, I need to add one more warning: Libertarian theory is heavily influenced by Jews, as well. Bits and pieces of it work okay, but the current teaching is deeply Jewish. That is, it’s what Jews want westerners to do if they can’t be herded into globalism or Zionism. Jews hate westerners and Christians. While they tend to lump that all together, there will come a time when they will recognize and target genuine covenant believers. Until, their whole game is destroying whites. Libertarian theory uses some of the worst impulses of white western culture.

Currently, a major element of the libertarian agenda is open borders and individualism. They promote ignoring race, which means they promote only whites doing so. All other races are encouraged to be racist and supremacist. Libertarian theory promotes removing all economic restrictions, which means that covenant shepherds are not allowed to protect their domains from economic rape. That rape inevitably means being open to Jewish economic sabotage and plunder. And on and on it goes. It all serves only one purpose: to weaken the West for a Jewish takeover. They are Satan’s Chosen now, not God’s.

They want us to forget Election, a biblical doctrine. It does not make sense on a human level, but it makes sense to God. He has His Elect, and then there are some other folks in the mix while we live in this fallen realm.

What is the most redemptive thing we can do for the non-elect? Is there a clear mindset that we can adopt that answers the mission of Christ for those who will never be among the Chosen? On the one hand, it’s obvious that we should pretend everyone we encounter could turn out to be Elect. We should maintain that same basic appeal that can only be recognized by those with a spiritual awakening. At the same time, there is Biblical Law for those who struggle with the Holy Spirit.

It’s not as if we have nothing to offer those who have only this life. That was the whole point of a covenant law code that the brain can grasp without spiritual awareness. Remember, the heart can function in moral awareness without the Spirit of God. It’s the one gift God gave all humanity, the Law and a heart to obey it. We might struggle to sell that idea to those who live in the flesh, but it’s the best we have for them.

Right off the bat, we must remind everyone that God’s Law is inherently tribal, among other things. Jews are slowly succeeding at shredding the West and white people using the evil magic of demons to prevail. It’s a magic of binding minds in darkness. The best antidote to this is simply stating the truth about Jews, and about whites while we are at it. Whites who aren’t chosen for eternity need to know that God has provided them with a collective interest.

Jews have provoked all the non-whites to poke at whites; this isn’t something native to any non-white culture. It’s hatred they were taught as a social weapon, same as racist whites wielded. They are all serving the Jewish agenda without realizing how it destroys them at the same time. They all need to cling to the very same sense of ethnic identity that Jews want to keep only for themselves. None of them have the Holy Spirit to give them the more powerful spiritual identity. Race is all that’s left to them, and it is required for them to live in this fallen world.

All the false substitutes for white ethnic identity were designed to degrade the one thing that gave whites the capability to resist Jewish takeover. Whites should have the same advantage as everyone else, but not greater. God knows that human warfare cannot be ended, ever. That’s why God’s Law makes so much of how to do war, not demanding that it end. In Christ there’s no place for that, but outside of Christ, it’s a dire necessity. The law code is all they have to bless their lives.

This was part of the lesson at the Tower of Babel. God will simply not allow humans to unify under a multi-racial central government. Thus, all empires will end in destruction. Decentralization is His will, period. The best humans can hope for, outside of Christ, is to build a tribal identity from the flesh. No, we don’t encourage racial strife. We do encourage racial identity. We fully expect strife to come for any number of reasons; we seek only to keep it within the boundaries of covenant law code. Racial harmony for flesh requires not mixing.

The issue here is standing up for God’s revelation. That business of “blessed are the peacemakers” refers to making peace with God. That’s what Jesus meant by it. Peace among humans is utterly impossible without the Holy Spirit. He alone drives us to peace, and it’s largely automatic when He’s present in the soul. In Christ, we know to reach across all human barriers; His Word teaches us how.

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Telling the Story Again, Part 4

Posted on August 29, 2024 by ehurst

Political confusion is part of the wider deception of Satan.

It’s very easy to get confused about how the competing agendas of the globalists, Zionists, neocon, revisionists, and other Jewish political groups serve the broader Jewish agenda while arguing over how to go about it. The confusion is part of the Devil’s game. Jews were never monolithic in any normal sense that we would easily recognize. It’s self-deceiving to talk as if every Jew was on the same sheet of music politically.

The varied political agendas were never the point. All of them are demonic and defiled because all of them reject the Covenant. Any plan of human organization that ignores the Covenant is blasphemous and doomed. But it’s not that all of them are blatantly wicked and evil. Rather, all them are variations on the half-truth theme that keeps humanity in chains. They all have an element that calls out to one human or another, keeping us divided over the wrong things.

Humans must be divided and decentralized, but over the right things. Our differences should reflect a difference in location, climate, ethnic background, inherited traits, etc. We are supposed to be tribal. It’s not that we cannot mix, but that we simply must ditch the lie of cosmopolitan mixing. The simple truth is that some portion of humanity are not Elect and could never possibly live by spiritual principles. You cannot rise above ethnicities without the Holy Spirit. It is not a valid human goal. Without the power of the Spirit, it’s a lie from Hell.

Our problem is that no organized church will ever be restricted to Spirit-led Elect. Any assumption that such a thing could exist is blasphemous. Yet, even if it could exist, there would remain human divisions, and this is not from sin in the individuals themselves. Rather, it is from our situation in a mortal existence. God will not lead us to the kind of unity people imagine as “righteous”. Our unity is spiritual, not fleshly. By no means does the gospel require theological and practical unity. Christ transcends all of that.

When Jesus condemned His disciples for their petty dispute over what positions they would hold in the Messianic Kingdom, it was a problem on multiple levels. First was their obsession with a political outcome, asserting the dominance of the Jewish nation. They should not have even wanted that, since it could only come from Satan. But at the same time, He was castigating them for thinking that their human differences mattered. The whole point of having a child sit on His lap in that one scene was to call for us to focus on the Father so much that we didn’t pay much attention to everyone’s petty ambitions. We should be thrilled at being allowed to come along for the ride.

The whole point of the Covenant Law of love is learning how to live in the disunity that no human or group can overcome. Once we embrace this as normal, right and just in our mortal existence, we learn how to look past such things to fellowship with each other and make the most of what we do have in common. Do you see how the Jewish deception regarding ritual unity turns this on its head? They get a functional unity that ties them to this world. Nothing they have helps them to escape the flesh.

When you stop thinking that political unity is important, then you are in a better position to step back and assess the highly varied political agendas that Jews influence among Gentiles. If globalists think about Jews at all, it’s with some distaste. However, they often ignore the existence of the Jewish agenda and press their own. They’ll take any money and power they can get from any source.

Globalists are under the delusion that Jews don’t really care that much about their own ethnic heritage because all the Jews they deal with pretend they don’t care. We know that Jews would never tolerate uncontrolled mixing with other races, yet Jews have promoted immigration of Third World peoples into the West for centuries.

That’s because Jews hate whites, who are the crux of Western Civilization. All the problems Jews have had taking over the world in recent centuries have been with European nations recognizing the Jewish threat and organizing to stop it. Eventually Jews figured out how to harness the whites to destroy their own heritage by moralistic nagging about things Jews would never tolerate for themselves. Jews insinuated the whole range of Lockean assumptions, leftism, progressive agendas into portions of the West. They sold the image of global government and technocratic efficiency and communism, etc., to westerners. Thus, feminism, wokism, Green religion, socialist control policies, all come from Jews who would hate it for themselves, but love it for us.

But some Jews didn’t like grubbing around in the leftist stuff, so they migrated to the right and seized control, becoming what we call neocons. They still want to destroy America, but they know they have to play down their totally different moral orientation and pretend to be conservative. Remember, Jewish leadership sees nothing wrong with moral depravity of the flesh (it’s part of their ritual magic), so long as they keep the rituals in some legalistic fashion — legalism is the magical power. However, many neocons aren’t very religious in the first place. Many of them are followers of the secretive Leo Strauss; it’s hard to know their agenda except as a function of their visible actions.

Zionists are pretty obvious: It’s all about the State of Israel. But a very large branch of Zionism is called “revisionist” (revising the map) because they want to seize the maximum territory that anyone might have imagined was once controlled by Israel. Their notion of “Greater Israel” is a chunk of Egypt, most of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, maybe Cyprus, etc. These folks appear quite insane with their egregiously fraudulent demands, a rather blatant Jewish supremacy movement.

Some of these folks are in the Israeli government. This is people like Netanyahu who genuinely want to start WW3, and they aren’t the least bit troubled by nuclear war, even if it kills their own people. It seems like a form of madness, but he’s not alone. Zelensky is cast from the same mold. It’s a class of Jewish leadership that is actually secularist, but committed to destroying the West at all costs, while pretending to care about westerners. They are pulling out all stops to drag the West into war. Netanyahu and Zelensky both are carrying a hefty dose of personal criminal corruption. This is still part of the matrix of Jewish identity, and part of how Satan uses them to foment chaos and destruction.

By the way, this is the Jewish leadership who are delighted at the most inhuman torment of prisoners, won’t hesitate to shoot their own citizens to prevent kidnapping, don’t bat an eye at massive slaughter of Gentiles, etc. Do you see the imprint of dark forces in their actions, the unimaginable rage and hatred for humanity? Yet, they are protected by the foul magic of the Nephilim whom they serve.

Killing all of them together would not hinder the forces of Darkness. This a time of deep darkness, even if this isn’t the End Times. The Nephilim have been released by God as agents for a portion of His wrath on sin. The Covenant is your only hope.

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Telling the Story Again, Part 3

Posted on August 28, 2024 by ehurst

The first two parts summarize the foundation of how I understand what Jews are doing today, and the wider political currents.

It’s very easy to miss the point that Israel did have a mandate from God as declared in the Old Testament, but surrendered it in favor of a very shallow self-worship. They rejected the deep and mystical truth for worldly advantage. They rejected the God of revelation and defiled themselves, via their worldly desires. Their religion is very worldly, and they are vehement in rejecting the otherworldly viewpoint. Even the Kabbalism they cooked up turns out to be esoteric worldliness.

Individual Jews range over the whole spectrum from the esoteric nonsense all the way down to simple secularism. Some have walked away from their heritage, among them writers like Ron Unz and Israel Shahak. They are the exceptions that prove the rule: Jews as a whole serve Satan, not the God who made them. I saw quite clearly their adoption by Satan long before I ever knew Heiser existed. This adoption should be obvious to anyone, yet American church religion is dominated by various flavors of Zionism. Experientially, I saw the tail end of the process of Zionism hijacking American churches during my youth. It took me a while to realize what I was seeing, but I rejected the Dispensationalist lie long ago.

Basic truth: Satan will offer anything at all to keep us away from the gospel. That includes an awful lot of half-truth, just enough to sound like the Bible, but leaving out the essence of embracing the Covenant of Christ and testifying effectively for God’s claims.

Notice something about the Wilderness Temptations: Satan offered things he could not give. Not that he couldn’t actually provide some semblance of what he promised, but that none of it mattered. He offered economic plenty and physical comfort, but making that your goal is deadly, no matter what flavor you prefer. He offered political stability, but it would have been artificial and wholly outside of God’s revelation. It was a distraction from the real thing. He also offered to feed our heads while letting our hearts die. We would imagine that we could understand reality, but would be kept far away from Eternity.

Jesus rejected this offer, but the Jewish people accepted it. They swore allegiance to a false covenant offered by Satan. They became his special nation, something God had not given him in the allotment at the Tower of Babel. Their flesh belongs to him; that’s all he got. He uses their worldly presence to keep the rest of mankind in the flesh and away from the privileges of the Covenant of Christ.

The fundamental truth of Jewish identity is their commitment to their tribe and the false covenant. The level and kind of commitment they hold determines the worldly benefit they receive, though it’s far more complicated than the mind can imagine. They don’t all share the same political commitments, but the key to their unity is not political or anything else most outsiders would expect. At the core, their unity is purely a matter of ritual and the dark magic on which it is based. The rituals vaguely resemble those commanded via Moses, but have been perverted in the whole so that they now serve Satan.

Did you imagine that the Talmud was purely a matter of intellect? No, it invokes dark powers. It didn’t start out that way, but it developed over the centuries after the New Testament period. The Nephilim spirits (demons) live among them, when Israel once was the nation God raised up to kill the Nephilim. Jewish experts have confessed that what holds them together is the ritual lifestyle, regardless of any intellectual perception of what the rituals mean. Theology is not the point. They worship side by side under any number of varying illusions, but revel in their ritual unity.

Any lingering Jewish loyalty among those who convert to Christian religion is a mark of that dark power still at work. This is part of the reason we teach that humans must renounce their ethnic identity to become part of the Covenant. It’s one thing to be aware of ethnic background intellectually; it’s another to maintain some allegiance or commitment to those who share our fleshly identity. That is the key Satanic influence that keeps us weak in the Covenant.

Keep in mind: The dark magic defiles and fouls your spiritual life. It’s important to keep track of the signature of the dark power of the Nephilim spirits. It’s of somewhat lesser importance to keep track of who maintains a Jewish identity because of the high probability they will serve Satan’s agenda. Jews will get involved in plenty of things that don’t matter in order to hide their real commitments, but as long as they think of themselves as Jews, there is a defiling presence in all they touch. You need to become sensitive to this according to the gifts and talents God has given you.

The whole point of the gospel message is to seek a spiritual identity that transcends flesh.

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Telling the Story Again, Part 2

Posted on August 27, 2024 by ehurst

Let’s review what we gain from Heiser’s thesis.

As always, it’s not simply his thesis; he brought together a vast body of scholarly work and presented it to church folks who rarely hear anything about it. The huge gulf in scholarship between biblical studies versus divinity studies has been a very big problem for centuries. Church folks never get to hear much from biblical studies, and so anything that bleeds across that solid wall always causes a ruckus. An awful lot of church leaders condemn the biblical studies folks like Heiser when they dare to share their material publicly.

Heiser points out the Three Rebellions. There’s the one in the Garden where the Devil suckers humans into taking sides with him, and thus pulling them under his authority. There is the second rebellion where some of God’s divine staff came down to get more directly involved in human affairs — on Satan’s behalf — and raised up Nephilim. The Nephilim were nasty creatures, sort of demigods who sought to lead humans deeper into a more purposeful rebellion against God. The third rebellion was at the Tower of Babel. God divided the existing nations among the senior staff, which we call the Elohim Council or Divine Council, while He proposed to raise up a nation uniquely His starting from scratch. The council members wasted no time in leading their nations away from divine revelation and into idolatry of themselves.

God raised up Abraham and the line of his firstborn descendants that we call the Nation of Israel. He took them through various experiences, to include the process of revelation at Mount Sinai and the Covenant. God Himself said they were easily the worst people He could have chosen for this mission, but that in itself was part of His argument against Satan and the rebel members of His staff.

At any rate, they quickly perverted His Covenant into self-centered demands. They presumed upon their status as the Chosen and insisted that God had designated them as the only real humans on the planet; all the other nations were just animals that looked like humans. This is a half-truth blown out of proportion, the same kind of mistake Satan made as God’s Chief Bodyguard.

In other words, as a nation, Israel consistently chose the Devil’s agenda over God’s, and kept taking sides with the rebellion. Satan took advantage of his authority, even in its restrictions, and wholly confined himself faithfully to the those restrictions, yet still managed to seduce Israel away from serving God.

God has always kept a faithful remnant within the Hebrew peoples. They are the exceptions that prove the rule. If God had not intervened, the gospel we have today would have remained invisible. The gospel has always been present in the written record of God’s revelation, but has often been missed because it demands humans transcend their mortality. The gospel requires undoing the Fall, and we cannot do it on our own.

This is why the Bible talks about divine election, that God must initiate the redemption process, because humans are incapable of even wanting it, much less understanding it. What makes election so hard to understand is that it’s a divine moral truth that exceeds the constraints of time and space. It includes factors of human choice, yet rests entirely on God’s initiative and authority. It’s the ultimate paradox. The whole point is our dependence on God; Satan wants us to believe in our independence from God.

God decided that, at some point in the process of Israel being hijacked by the Devil, He should intervene to make the gospel as clear as possible without violating His own nature and while keeping to the original purpose of the Covenant. The Covenant offers only so much — it reverses the Fall. Neither the Fall nor the Covenant can change our eternal nature; they are external to Eternity in a certain sense. Nothing in this world can change Eternity. Eternity shapes this world; it’s one way.

God was determined to have a people who lived by His revelation, people who would worship Him alone, in part to prove His point about glory belonging to Him alone. He was not going to do without a people to testify on His behalf. However, He kept secret from Satan and his allies just how He planned to do that. On the one hand, He clearly revealed through prophesies that His covenant would be opened to all humanity, not just Israel. On the other hand, He kept secret His claim on a large portion of humanity as His Elect before all of this drama got started.

His plan was to insert into all nations a body of people who were Elect, who would defy the rebellion and keep the witness of God’s justice alive on the earth. That body of Elect were within Israel, too. While the rebellion focused on seducing nations, God focused on saving individuals to form an empire that ignored human identities. Thus, when Christ died to end the national covenant of Israel, He opened a spiritual covenant to all the Elect hidden throughout the nations.

Heiser notes that a part of the Wilderness Temptations was Satan trying to get Jesus to reveal this secret. Satan could smell something was up, but was ignorant of how it would work. So, he tried to persuade Jesus to keep the old covenant alive and cater to the worldly desires of the Jews. That failed, but it still wasn’t clear to him what God was planning to do.

This is all noted in the New Testament, but most people miss it. They keep reading their human reasoning back into the Scripture. God sprung His surprise on the whole divine staff; Satan and his allies are left scrambling to keep their claim on humanity as deserving oblivion. Their case rests on some things we cannot comprehend, but part of it is keeping people blind to what God is all about.

Don’t get lost chasing the wrong issues. The question is not our place in Eternity; it’s not about what we can or cannot do to be a part of Eternity. The Doctrine of Election is not about us; it’s about God and His agenda. The question for us is what we can do to stay at peace with God, taking His side in the dispute here and now, which means being at war with Satan and his allies.

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Telling the Story Again, Part 1

Posted on August 26, 2024 by ehurst

As always, I can only declare what I see. I know for certain there are things I don’t see, but it’s my instinct to make the most of what I do see. The problem is that I can see a lot better than I can explain. Still, I share this vision with others because they keep asking for it. Several people have asked questions privately that indicate I should try to declare things again. I’m trying to take advantage of my training to offer the same basic ideas clothed in different mental approaches so that everyone can get the picture. In particular, the questions concern comments I’ve made about Jews, Israel and the broader context.

The broader context is the Unseen Realm, of course, but far more than is covered in Michael Heiser’s books. We cannot make sense of the world from inside our mortal fallen existence. Without divine revelation, I am convinced nothing makes sense at all. God reveals Himself in terms of an eastern potentate big enough to have an empire. That was His choice of imagery, not mine. An eastern emperor would have a massive staff of people who hold specialized knowledge and privileges. Thus, the idea of a whole class of higher beings, of which angels are but one small portion, is simply too obvious to ignore. We humans are truly insignificant on that scale, and the role we play is in some ways no more than a football in a long game.

Humanity is little more than the symbol of a much larger drama. Our eternal destiny is more significant, but our current existence is almost wholly symbolic. Our mortal fates as humans is simply not important. The high moral outlook of the Bible is not about placing a high value on human existence; quite the contrary. What really matters is expressing the character of God to all of Creation, which is considerably larger than humanity. We get lost by making humans the subject when we are simply the object. What’s important to us should never be us.

The real drama consists of all the figures we cannot see with our eyes. It is the whole range of authorities in Heaven that shape our human existence. From our perspective, what really matters is the rebellion of the Devil. Keep in mind that terms like Devil, Satan and even Lucifer are all titles, not personal names. Individual personal identity is a human obsession; in the Spirit Realm, roles and titles are everything. We cannot know the identity of the major figures; all we have is the roles they play.

The role of Satan is more subtle and complex than we will ever understand. He is at the same time a rebel and faithful servant. To understand his role requires grasping how context shifts and what his role demands within the varying context. God has revealed the role Satan plays in our existence, and hints at the wider context of that role. We are told that this figure’s original assignment was roughly equivalent to Chief Bodyguard for God. His role included passing glory to God, and the prophets reveal that he tried to embezzle some of that glory for himself. His fundamental failure was insisting that he was high enough up the chain of existence that he warranted some worship.

This is what the prophecies point out as his characteristic flaw. Apparently he had no trouble convincing some of the staff in Heaven to embrace the same mistake. It was a political movement, but not the kind of thing where God just destroyed them all. He valued something in this situation that called for allowing them to keep on living, but with constraints. And in the process, God conceived a need to explain Himself to some unknown audience — not us. In the process of executing His discipline on His staff, Satan was confined in a prison outside of the Spirit Realm.

That prison was connected to the Garden of Eden, where God had placed a rather insignificant hobby of His — humans as gardeners. We can only guess, but it appears part of Satan’s original complaint was that all of our fealty went to God, and he got none of it. In the midst of this dispute with God, Satan developed a vile hatred for us. We can only speculate, but perhaps it has to do with resentment that God gave us immortality within the purpose of keeping the Garden. Satan doesn’t seem to hate the Garden, only humans.

As part of this dispute, Satan convinced others to embrace his clamor for God to allow himself and others on the divine staff to receive worship. This was the fundamental nature of his temptation of humans, too. It’s as if his whole repertoire rests entirely on this one thing, to tempt others to seek godhood. It’s important to understand that he wants the powers and authority of a god, and the best way to do that is to sucker folks into worshiping him. He’s trying to build his kingdom. That he was banished to a prison means that he’s trying to provoke God to put others in that same prison where he will reign.

But it’s not just suckering us into our demise; he gets his jollies from tormenting. This is another primary signature of his work. Anyone who delights in tormenting others is most assuredly serving the Devil. Side note: The Bible differentiates between a grisly execution (aiming at reputational shame) versus tormenting while alive (debasing).

At any rate, from the Garden, we humans did not so much lose our immortality as suffer having it masked by confinement in a mortal condition. Even saying that much is merely interpretive, a parable. It depends on how you look at it; it’s contextual. The whole thing is revealed to us in parables because the truth transcends clinical language.

Further, it’s not simply a historical decision made by a couple of representative humans; there’s something fundamental to the ineffable context. To be human is to be vulnerable to the temptation Satan offered. We would all have done the same thing had we stood in place of Adam and Eve. It is characteristic of being human. Satan took advantage of our natures and the rules we could not possibly understand.

In the midst of this setting, several events figure large in the Bible narrative as a way of filtering out all the other stuff that happened in the human realm. The whole point was not to record human history, but rather a narrative of the interaction between the Unseen Realm and the mortal realm in which we live. The way in which God makes His case before that unknown audience includes all the things recorded in the Bible, at least from our human perspective.

And as part of that process of revelation, we have the nation of Israel and the story of how God’s Chosen became Satan’s primary weapon against humanity.

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NT Doctrine — Hebrews 3

Posted on August 24, 2024 by ehurst

I’ll share here my previous commentary on this chapter.

The Exodus was the very foundation, the defining event of Israel. If the Exodus was a myth, so was Israel as a nation. While they pointed with some smugness to their specialness before the Lord some fourteen centuries later, they paid only lip service to the duty of expressing contrition for the nation flinging challenge after challenge into God’s face. The story of the Exodus is the sad tale of whining and bickering slaves who preferred their slavery to the freedom and identity as God’s Own People. The entire Exodus generation remained unfit for the Promised Land, conditioned as they were to bondage.

Our writer calls this to mind, charging that his readers are the same sort of people. When Christ came to fulfill the promises of Exodus, how very many of God’s Own People rejected Him! The Roman Jews were among those called into the Kingdom of Heaven, a far higher calling than the Kingdom of Israel. Christ, God Himself, called them. If Moses can be held up as the model of faithfulness, who was but a servant in the household of God, how much more Christ the Son? Christ formed a household as His inheritance; Christ built it.

And it was Christ who faithfully discharged all the duties of His Sonship. If He owned it all, He was the very definition of faithfulness. The first household was just an earthly temple. When its purpose was fulfilled in His death on the Cross, it was torn down. From the rubble were found a few stones still of use to God. He chose from among the Jews, but also from the rest of humanity, stones suitable for His house. He built up His household by His teaching and power, the means of trying the stones. These Roman Jews were a part of those passing the test. How then could they return to a house that no longer stands, except in the fallen imagination of mere men? Hold fast the confession of your faith in Christ! It is the only thing that is real.

The writer quotes Psalm 95:7-11. There David recalls testing of the Lord by Israel at Meribah (Rebellion) and Massah (Trial) in Exodus 17:2-7. This was rather early in the journey up from slavery, during the first shock of introduction to desert nomad living. Had they but called out to God in faith, the whole scene would have been remembered as a triumph. Instead, they gave Moses much grief and God took it personally. For the next forty years, Jehovah faithfully stood by them, led them and took care of their every need. Every step of the way, they whined and attacked God’s chosen servant. For the Roman Jews, Jesus was the new Servant, the actual Son of God. This Roman persecution was just the spiritual nomad boot camp. Bitterly wishing they had not come on this spiritual journey was to wish for slavery, granting Satan the victory. It was treason to side with the enemy.

As the Lord swore in His just wrath that the Exodus generation would die in the wilderness, so the Roman Jewish Christians risked losing all hope of finding the true Promised Land of Heaven. Those without Heaven in their souls cannot enter Heaven when they die. Allowing doubts to rise about whether serving Christ was worth it was silly. The word “today” is but the moment of testing and is quickly past. Today we should all face testing with joy and confidence. Were these readers among those who would die in the spiritual wilderness today? Or were they among those who clung to the revelation of Christ and would pass into the Promised Land to see God’s face?

No one can do it for you. God will carry you through, but you must accept His power to commit yourself to His plans. They won’t be like your plans, no more than the Exodus brought Israel to a place like Egypt. Their souls were at home in the swampy river bottom of slavery, not out in the rocky heights of freedom in Christ. All you have to do is hang onto Him.

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Mission for the Apocalypse

Posted on August 23, 2024 by ehurst

Human conflict will increasingly consume everything in sight. The nightmare has just begun.

Let’s review the knowns: Netanyahu is determined to provoke an apocalypse. It is plainly obvious from his actions and words that he desires deeply a global war centered on his country. He is desperately trying to drag the US into his petty conflict in hopes that our involvement will force the rest of the world to line up on one side or the other. It really doesn’t matter why he is so committed to this nightmare; what matters is that this is what he is consciously trying to do.

Zelensky holds a similar commitment for his country. He doesn’t give a damn about the people of Ukraine; it’s all about him and his war. For the time being, nobody is talking about whether Zelensky and Netanyahu are in direct competition or pretending to ignore each other. However, they do share a fundamental commitment to destroying the West. Their actions and their planning makes a lot more sense when you understand their hatred first and foremost for European people and all their derived countries.

These two men are Jews; both participate in this fundamental assumption that their kind are the only real humans on the planet, and all other races are cockroaches. Their people are divine, worthy of worship and honor. Because we fail to give that honor, they will seek to destroy us from within. They hate us so deeply that we cannot begin to comprehend it. They get all riled up when we dare to mention any of this. We are unworthy of even the knowledge, much less sharing it.

No, not all Jews are this way. Only the leadership is like this — the master planners among neocons, Zionists, and in the background of every globalist agency. They are playing both sides against each other; every current political agenda and authority in the West is their creature. For the time being, they have managed to squelch the broad social response to any other political opinion. Anyone who dares refer to them remains far out on the fringes of public notice.

If you understand the grip they hold on all things here in the West, then you are in a better position to decide what God wants you to do about the problems we all face. We’ve said it often enough: Political/military action will accomplish nothing that matters. That is their home field; God has given this into their hands for His own inscrutable reasons. We can suss out some portions of the big picture, but it’s fundamentally out of our reach. Instead, we are granted parables and models that we can understand in order to motivate and guide our choices.

Jesus and His Apostles have all said that Jews as Jews are inherently evil. Jesus’ cousin John, both born as Jews themselves, called the Jewish leadership the Synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9 and 3:9). They are the children of Satan. Here’s the odd thing: The best way to understand God’s will for humanity is to embrace what Jews had abandoned, the Hebraic truth to which Jesus kept calling them back. The adamance of their refusal was symbolized in the crucifixion. Individually, any of them will be welcomed back into the Covenant, and they will even have certain advantages over Gentile believers, but as long as they remain under their own false covenant, they are damned.

The only warfare that works against Jews is flaunting in their faces the divine heritage they have abandoned. This is the biblical strategy for handling them. Their ascendancy in human terms is meaningless; it is what God is allowing for now. They can attack the flesh all they like, but what really matters is how things register in Heaven. This world is Satan’s home and he uses them as his chief servants. If you were to kill them all, he would simply grab someone else and they would believe and act the same way. As long as there are mortals in this world, someone is going to play that role. Hating them is exactly what the Devil wants us to do. Don’t play into his hands.

The only passion we need in all of this is a zeal for God’s truth to be clearly shown. Don’t lose track of this vision. This is our reality. None of it will make sense on a human level; don’t expect to lay a foundation that is reasonable and logical. The only use for reason and logic is to serve the divine truth and implement ways to manifest it.

For me, that is currently a mission of words. The keyboard is my sword. There will come a day when that door will close; I’ll know what to do when we get closer to that. For now, my mission is to write the truth as best I can understand it. Everything I have and do is organized for that message. I’m committed to sharing it. What is your mission for the apocalypse?

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How Will You?

Posted on August 22, 2024 by ehurst

We are not in the First Century Roman Empire, nor are any of us Mediterranean subjects of Rome. This is a different world, different culture, different times, etc.

Like many of you, I feel a deep sorrow over the evil men do. And it certainly seems to be getting worse by the day. It’s not as if God doesn’t notice, but He isn’t bound by our logic. His actions aren’t always obvious, and His frame of reference on time is far longer than ours. The whole point is that we obey regardless of the visible consequences, that we obey because it’s who we are. The outcomes will never be in our hands.

We believe that there’s no worldly purpose in engaging human political ambitions. No good thing can come from activism, if your intention is to make things better. That still leaves an awful lot of room for doing things that simply make a clear statement condemning sin. In other words, we will denounce the political system in words for sure, but maybe in the actions we take that might serve to disrupt the evil, and maybe even engage in open resistance.

We aren’t so much trying to stop it as to make it painfully obvious to all that our government is hopelessly and relentlessly evil, wicked, mean and nasty. Our government hates us and is at war with us. Oh, and to some degree, the same goes with every other human government on this planet. Not a one has embraced the Covenant of Noah as God requires, so all of them are invalid. The only issue is whether they make trouble for people in the Covenant of Christ. In the West, the rulers are determined to stamp out the gospel when they can’t pervert it to their own benefit.

I’ve already admitted that it’s conceivable I would use physical violence against agents of a US federal government that clearly hates us and is intent of destroying us. Millions of Americans have said it openly, so I’m in good company. However, it’s not as if I’m plotting any kind of armed revolt. I tend to de-emphasize that possibility in favor of my preferred form of combat: information warfare. It’s not a question of changing government, nor its actions, but of making lots of noise about what is good and evil as God has declared it. For now, that means mostly using the Internet as the way to conduct that warfare.

There was a time when Linux was just a hobby for me. I invested countless hours in learning a lot about it. Linux has become both less and far more than that. It has become one of the best weapons I have in the infowar. You probably don’t need Linux; that’s fine. But if you do, I’ll be glad to help you get it and use it without having to dig any deeper than you did into Windows. Indeed, given my recent experience with Windows 11, I’d say Kubuntu is far less complicated for the average user and offers a lot more choices.

And best of all, using something like Kubuntu makes it a whole lot harder for government or its lackeys in Big Tech to mess with your private life. If you choose to learn a bit about Linux, it becomes a weapon they cannot easily target for suppression. If you own a system running Linux, it really is totally yours; there are no secret codes held by super users at Microsoft or anyone to whom they choose to sell keys to your system. It’s fully your computer.

One more thing: All of those Win10 systems that cannot run Win11? Most of them will have no trouble running Kubuntu, or something similar, for many years to come. Indeed, some of your Win7 machines will probably work just fine.

Nor is this some campaign for free speech or any other human rights. I assert the divine mandate to speak His truth any time, any place, any way I can. I will not be silent. That said, you must decide for yourself what role you play in this apocalypse. How will you manifest His glory?

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Kubuntu 24.04 on Dell Latitude 3540

Posted on August 21, 2024 by ehurst

Everything works out of the box, though it does require some effort to configure a couple of things. The biggest item: I got my laptop to hibernate on Kubuntu 24.04. A few years ago I wrote a long blog post about making it work on earlier versions of the Ubuntu/Mint family of distros, but it has gotten more complicated. It’s not the distro’s fault; it’s because of changes in things like SystemD and other upstream modifications.

First, let me point you to my primary source on the more recent procedure: How to Enable Hibernate Function in Ubuntu 24.04 & 22.04 LTS by Ji M. This is the best, most complete single reference I’ve seen.

Note: You must go into the BIOS and turn off secure boot. It’s a notorious old lie calling it “secure boot”. The only thing it secures is Microsofts’s control over your system. In actual practice, it makes the system less secure, because it’s an attack vector for some malware. Turn it off; you’ll never miss it. UEFI itself is not a problem. And on some laptops (like Dells) you’ll also need to switch the harddrive from RAID mode to ACPI in order to install Linux. Most other BIOS settings should be okay.

Ji does mention making sure you have swap working, but misses something I ran into: Having too small of a swap space. By default, Kubuntu and friends will choose a swap file instead of a swap partition. Unfortunately, it also makes one too small for hibernation. So, I’ll say your first step is to get that fixed, and I recommend this guide, which offers plenty of hand-holding to get you through it. No reboot required.

On my laptop, Kubuntu gave me a 512MB (half-GB) which is woefully inadequate for hibernation. I bumped it up to 8GB simply because my system has 16GB of RAM. While Linux loves to spread itself all across most of that, when compacting down for hibernation, it has so far fit well inside my new larger swap file.

After you get that fixed, then proceed with the detailed fix Ji lays out at the handbook site. I note that, instead of using UUID to identify the resume instructions in the GRUB line, he recommends using the “/dev/nvme????????” tag. I set mine up that way.

One more note: Kubuntu tends to act a little odd unless you properly identify your laptop keyboard. Under settings, look for “Input Devices” and under keyboard, don’t accept the generic 104 key setting. Check to see if there’s something more accurate. In my case, there was a setting for Dell Latitude laptops, which works fine. Without that, some keyboard and mouse functions for me were not yielding the expected behavior.

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Interesting Times

Posted on August 20, 2024 by ehurst

I have come to believe that the elections, now just over 2 months away, simply aren’t that important. Yes, they will certainly affect us. Whichever bunch wins will have a lot to do with the flavor of our apocalypse, but it will be an apocalypse either way. As such, any comments about the election are speculative and are of small consequence.

Did Trump actually die after all? Did the bullet that clipped his ear manage to somehow take his soul, leaving the shell of the man? If you have been watching Trump lately, you might get the impression he was already dead. It’s not just the MSM propaganda; right, alt-right and independent sources have suggested that he is not himself. Trump always knew how to manipulate the press, so if he wants to be in the news, he knows how to do that.

Someone got to him, and it looks like he’s throwing the match. Not in the sense of bought off, but I believe he’s been boxed in by the Deep State and Zionists. He’s just a figurehead now and he hates it. What we are seeing is due to instability and in-fighting among those who actually rule America in the first place. The Zionists are not united, and the neocons are following their own agenda. Their conflicts result in the situation you see.

I’ve already said that I’m not getting any word from God on these things. All I can do is try to sense the moral currents of this world. Right now it feels like things have shifted since last month. Trump may miss the window; he has failed to seize the opportunity so far. It is slipping through his fingers. It seems to me that God offered him a chance to play the role but Trump doesn’t like what comes with it.

Given the current trends, he will not make it into office. He must turn this around very soon or it will be too late. Then again, it could be that we are about to experience something so shocking that the whole question will fade into insignificance. Still, it seems for now that we face the obvious threat of a Harris presidency (if we have an election). That will be nightmare enough. At this point, we should prepare for the globalist flavor.

We live in interesting times.

Addenda: If you have the time, this article outlines the conflict behind the scenes between Zionists and neocons.

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