Christ Disowns It

Posted on March 12, 2024 by ehurst

I feel led to reopen a can of worms that has been unsealed for quite some time. This cannot be sufficiently addressed in a single post, simply because my answers are woven into my writing over many years. I’m hardly afraid to touch controversial topics and I start with a blanket condemnation of American culture in particular, and western thinking in general. The mainstream opinion is sewage in the first place.

But it is the mainstream, so we are obliged to deal with it as the path to biblical truth leads through it. This is infowar, and their info is lies. It’s our duty to point out the lies in whole and in detail, when possible. And one of the first things you might notice is that there are two mainstreams drawn from the same nasty basis. There’s the one that dominates the media and government, and another one that actually resonates with the population. Both are equally foolish, just in different ways.

Because the one that owns the press is total fantasy, the other side reacts in various ways to recover some semblance of reality. They still miss, but we need to understand it. It’s not a question of the various elements of the competing viewpoints, but that both are rooted in the same pagan background. And both are deeply and fundamentally committed to changing this fallen existence, as if God made some big mistake. They fight over the best way to save the world. I will not debate this: The Bible is all about escaping this world by embracing another world while we are here.

Jesus said we should take up our crosses and follow Him. You cannot skip that part about what happens when you arrive at Golgotha. This is a flat renunciation of human life itself. You cannot follow Him without committing yourself to a rejection of this world in the first place. I don’t know how people read that in Scripture and then proceed to work towards a political and cultural conquest of other people. The Kingdom of Heaven, whose head is Christ, is expressed in hearts, not human political arrangements.

Yes, the Kingdom of Hearts does manifest in changed human behavior. There’s no argument there among those who claim the Bible as their guide. But the issue is the focus, the motivation, and the expectations of what God will do. We change our behavior precisely to call attention to the Unseen Realm everyone else wants to ignore. For it is the Unseen Realm that is real, while this existence is a lie. And our mission is not simply to commit suicide and leave quickly, but to work our way through this life with a mission to destroy it. That work is mandatory, and your departure from this world is a promotion. What our flesh complains about in terms of sorrow is the mark of high privilege from Above.

There’s no virtue in sorrow itself, but virtue is defined as taking up Christ’s sorrows.

So the entire realm of Christian Nationalism is a fantasy of lies. Not for the reasons offered by the mainstream, because they are even more wicked. The concept of Christian Nationalism does at least get the necessity of changing our mental structures and our behavior. That’s a part of the battle against sin and evil. But it’s not enough by itself. If that commitment is rooted in staying here and making this world a better place, then it still belongs to Satan. The Devil will not be displaced or removed from authority over the fallen world. That is not God’s plan. Rather, this fallen mortal existence will run out of time and the Devil will then be condemned to eternity in the Lake of Fire.

This existence is the Devil’s turf, his private property. God delivered it into his hands for reasons, most of which escape our comprehension. But the imagery offered in Scripture includes the concept that it is his for as long as it exists. If you commit yourself to working for anything that belongs to this world, you remain under Satan’s authority. More to the point, all your ambitions will be among those Satan offers to keep us trapped here.

Christian Nationalism is not Christian. It is not following Christ; it is dodging the Cross. It is nationalism with a false Jesus face painted on the outside. It is still an obsession with building something that Satan will most certainly control. It is believing the lie that this world matters.

And because it is so, the proponents of Christian Nationalism will get everything wrong. Not entirely wrong, mind you, but sadly will promote a diabolical half-truth that leaves you trapped in the cares and anxieties of this world. It offers a false dichotomy. To reject the mainstream does not mean you are somehow part of Christian Nationalism, nor should you be.

Christ Himself disowns Christian Nationalism.

There’s more…

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Your Prince in Heaven

Posted on March 11, 2024 by ehurst

Someone asked me: “What happened to Michael?”

You may recall that Daniel, in one of his visions, spoke with an angel who mentioned Michael as “the prince of your people”. Thus, Michael was not an “archangel” but a member of the Elohim Council who had responsibility for the nation of Israel.

Well, when the Jews rejected their Messiah, the name “Israel” went with Our Lord. The Jews lost the rights to that name. It now refers to His Covenant Kingdom, AKA Christians or “New Israel”. Michael is the Prince of the Church, as it were. No, you don’t pray to him; he is not a deity. That’s the mistake the other Council members made, tricking their nations into treating them as deities. That’s the primary flaw of pagan idolatry, elevating lesser beings to God’s place.

And that is the primary sin of the Devil, trying seize some of God’s glory for himself. He persuaded the majority of the Elohim Council to joining him in this sin.

So far as we know, Michael is the only elohim given a recognizable name, and the only one that we know who voluntarily works with Jehovah on His agenda. To the best of our knowledge, all the rest of the Divine Council are allies of the Devil to varying degrees.

So far as we know from Scripture, there’s no particular interaction between us and Michael. He does his thing in Heaven and we do our thing here with the Holy Spirit. As Daniel tells us, his primary role is helping us unclog the Devil’s bureaucratic obfuscation that hinders our prayers being answered. The blessings of the Covenant include miracles and revelations.

These things belong to the Covenant, not to individuals. They are manifested often enough in individuals, but they belong to the Covenant. If nothing else, Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians gives us a solid clue about the single biggest hindrance to prayer: loving each other as Christ loves us. Don’t tie Michael’s hands by giving the Devil too much power over your life.

Covenant people, Michael is your divine administrator in Heaven.

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Why and How of Evil

Posted on March 10, 2024 by ehurst

We all agree that what Israel is doing in Gaza is evil. The question is, Why is it evil?

Keep in mind that, in the Bible, “evil” is defined in terms of context and outcomes. The word as used in the Hebrew language does not refer to absolute qualities. It refers to a result as defined from the limited perspective of the person speaking. It was always understood that way. Thus, what is evil for one person might not be evil for another. Evil was never some kind of thing that defiled the cosmos; it was just a very unpleasant situation for the person speaking.

The ANE in general, and Hebrews in particular, never dreamed of themselves or their situation as touching eternity; they didn’t take themselves that seriously. If things were evil for some individual, it wasn’t necessarily a problem for everyone in the rest of the world. It was not their concern. And in a broader sense, what was bad for Israel might not be bad for the world. Only a divine being could say what was bad for the cosmos, and it was simply not the kind of thing God ever said one way or another. That crazy binary absolutism is a western idiocy that didn’t infest Hebrew thinking in general, nor biblical thinking in particular.

God alone could speak for any entity larger than a specific community of people, and no Hebrew ever imagined that God would define things on a cosmic scale in human language. They were utterly certain He would not. When God identified something as “evil”, His declaration was limited to the context of His intended audience alone. If it were possible for something to be universally evil, no human could comprehend it in the first place. It was excluded by the status of being mortal.

Let’s get the scale of things first: The actions of the modern State of Israel are evil for Israel and for the Palestinians, but not for the whole world. The idea that Palestinian deaths harm us is not biblical. It harms only Palestinians, and for reasons I’ll clarify, it harms Israel. In a very limited sense, it’s a loss to Islam as a whole, and to Judaism.

The reason it’s evil for Israel is because it perpetuates a huge freaking lie that the modern State of Israel has a moral justification for being in that land in the first place. The question is stained with the lie that Jews have a special status among humans. Regardless how you define “Jew” — whether an ethnic or a religious identity — they are not unique in God’s eyes. They lost any hope of that when they rejected the Messiah. They are now unique in Satan’s eyes only.

The real problem is that, no matter what Jews do, they do it for Satan. They are uniquely the Devil’s lackeys in this world. No other human identity is so deeply committed to Satan’s lies as the Jews — by their mere existence as an identity group. God declared it dissolved on the Cross; to keep it going is purely satanic.

Thus, everything Israel/Jews do as a group is inherently evil. They are constitutionally unable to do good until they disband and all individually renounce the Jewish identity.

As for all the whining about the fate of Palestinian people, I can assure you that you would not want them in large numbers anywhere near your lives in the West. They are part of the human pestilence attached to Islam. Do you understand that Islam absorbed from Judaism that sense of entitlement that makes them so impossible to live with?

The war in Gaza is, in one sense, nothing more than two demonically entitled groups. The world would be a better place, for that matter, if both were gone. It won’t matter if “gone” means genocide or simply a change of heart. If you want a cosmic explanation, Islam was created by the false gods of the Middle Eastern peoples (AKA, members of the Elohim Council) as a weapon that mimics the power of Judaism for evil. It’s a case of two competing evils. Thus, I will not say that Mohammad was insane so much as he was led by what we call demonic powers in the Unseen Realm. Islam was created as a moral weapon against Christianity. That it often is in conflict with Judaism/Zionism is simply a feature, part of the design, the means to harming the gospel message.

And because these two beasts are sponsored by the Devil and his allies on the Divine Council, there is nothing we can do about them. That is, all we can do is trust the Lord to help us respond according to His glory. That’s the only thing that matters for us. So, pray always about what to do in your personal life, but don’t you dare waste time praying about the situation between nations and tribes fighting in this world. Pray only that believers will know what to do about it, not to change the situation itself. God is taking care of that and does not need our advice. It’s all far above the human level; there is no human solution.

You can take action to defend your domain as granted by God, but you cannot change the situation in the rest of the world. You should not care about it, except to notice how it will shape your opportunities to bless the Lord’s name. The same goes when I talk about American politics — there is nothing you can do that will affect the outcomes for others. All you can do is uphold your moral covering wherever it reaches. That is a solid Hebraic and biblical perspective on the madness around us.

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NT Doctrine — Ephesians 4

Posted on March 9, 2024 by ehurst

The primary doctrine in this chapter remains consistent with the rest of the whole letter. Once again, Paul paints an image of Christian unity borrowing from bits and pieces of what his readers had experienced in human politics.

First is the very subtle paradox of his position as a prisoner of Roman justice. On the one hand, Rome recognized by treaty the limited jurisdiction of various conquered kingdoms over their own people, wherever those people were throughout the Roman Empire. Rome was not yet willing to entertain a fresh treaty recognizing Christ’s jurisdiction over His people, since the same people were already claimed by other treaty partners. This conflicting claim of jurisdiction was why Paul was under house arrest in Rome; Paul had promoted a competing claim over some Judeans.

Whether or not Rome was willing to play ball was not the point. Paul had spread the gospel of a new identity that transcended human ethnic and national identities. The claims of Christ did not wait for human governments to play along; they were in force regardless because they rested on the authority of the Creator of all things. The Elohim Council couldn’t argue about it, either.

So, Paul calls for his readers to act according to the laws and justice of the Covenant realm of Christ: humble, merciful to the downtrodden, patiently putting up with those who hadn’t yet figured it out. This is your family, your true spiritual inheritance. We do not have the trouble most human kingdoms have with competing heirs trying to claim the throne. There is only one: Christ. He is our feudal Lord; there is no Jewish Messiah separate from the Gentile Christ.

And then we come to a passage that has stirred an awful lot of debate, about whether Paul refers to some alleged time Christ spent in Hell while His body lay in the grave. I’ve always taken the position that this is a bogus concept rooted in Greek mythology and read back into the New Testament, not in ancient Hebrew teaching. Paul halfway quotes from Psalm 68:18 but apparently modifies the image just a little so that it better matches the contemporary Roman parades when some general returns to the imperial capital with plunder and captives (the quintessential Roman civic ritual). These triumphal parades often heavily changed the local economy in the city because of the influx of plundered wealth.

Christ also rode home to His Father as a conquering hero, dragging behind Him the plunder He seized from the Devil’s domain. But His plundered wealth was not stuff, but people. Christ gave to His own domain souls rescued from slavery. Thus, says Paul, we now have excellent leaders from all backgrounds, not just Jews, but Gentiles, too. And they have all been given for one purpose: to help us come together and love each other as one nation under Him.

The Devil cannot play head games any more. We have our own bright souls to help us understand the divine truth. The whole image of growing up to be mature rests on one thing: loving each other the way mature people do within their community. The Jews should be eager to welcome the Gentiles home from their wandering in foreign places among pagan idols and sin. The people who messed around with that stuff are all dead; the people in the church are new creatures. The chapter ends with a lot of non-doctrinal advice and encouragement to do the one and only job church has: become a single family.

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Expect Exposure

Posted on March 9, 2024 by ehurst

I was hoping I could have posted this yesterday, but I was waiting for some other pieces to fall into place. Here’s what I have for now…

The Lord is going to expose, to strip away the lies of those who imagine themselves to be the elite rulers of this world. This is right in line with the theme of the book Catacomb Resident is reviewing on that blog. The issue we face in serving the Lord is a boatload of false assumptions, and Satan is a primary proponent of some of those bogus ideas. So, the Lord is terrorizing His enemies by exposing this nonsense as a critical element in pouring out His wrath on sin. We should play our part in this.

Do you understand that “free speech” is not on God’s agenda? It’s not a part of the gospel. The whole concept of free speech is part of the false notion that people should be free to govern themselves. This is abhorrent to the Bible. God has established a plan for human government, and so-called democracy (“government by the people”) is a pagan idol. We’ve covered that here ad nauseum. If that sounds elitist to you, complain to God.

Following Jesus is feudal, and very much against democracy.

The problem with human government in the Bible has always been the wrong people in charge, or the right people doing the wrong things. The corrective is praying and trusting God, and taking limited action on those rare occasions when He directs through conviction. When a bunch of people gather together and call out to Him for relief, He hears and acts. It may not be the action they expect, but that’s their problem. God hears and acts in accordance with His Word.

Some of the recent revelations of evil include a Rasmussen polling study that reveals there really is a separate society of ruling snobs who are radically different from us, and they hate us. They love government, they are thoroughly socialist in thinking, and very spitefully eager to oppress. They go to certain schools and seize sinecure jobs that pay too much for nothing productive or even useful, and typically is actively harmful.

Another is that it is government working so very hard to keep us from communicating freely with each other over the Net. Among others, the CIA has been using their expertise to silence the truth, in part by cluttering the Net with nonsense. A great many very popular sources are run by the CIA as controlled opposition. They only pretend to represent us. This is actively promoted by the Republicans, by the way. That party has never been anything more than controlled opposition, a false front designed to capture those who feel the sting of the leftist lash. Get this: The Republicans will never do anything that matters. They are paid to pretend, deeply committed to the task of silencing any real dissent and rebellion against leftist government.

The problem is not that this is anti-democratic. The problem is that this is anti-Christian. If all the Democrats did was oppress Republican voters, I’d be okay with that. But they are attacking those who promote the gospel of Jesus Christ. The attack is quite uniform, but the excuses vary across multiple agencies.

We have a mandate from God to point out the evil they do. Our biggest problem is recognizing what God calls evil, not what the secular Enlightenment philosophy says is evil. It’s not as if our rulers actually embrace the Enlightenment, but they know that most Americans do, and they are using various tactics based on manipulating that commitment. We should not be a part of that. The US Constitution is inherently anti-Christian. Ditch that false idol and you will go a long way toward the freedom of the gospel message.

By the way, the tables have suddenly turned in politics, and I’m betting a lot of people aren’t even aware. If you understand that the Zionist agenda rules America, then you should know that the Democrats cannot bring a unified support for Zionism. Democrats aren’t actually true leftists; they just try to keep leftists under their control. So Biden makes noises about restraining Israel. But just the other day Trump signaled he gives carte blanche to the Israeli government war-making. A Trump administration would support Israel unreservedly, to include slaughtering the folks in Gaza and the West Bank, and in Lebanon, and Iran and any other people the Zionists don’t like. And in doing so, Trump promises to bring a far higher portion of the US population along with him, compared to some others who claim to support Israel.

Watch and see where the political influence money flows starting this coming week. Pay attention to whether the Zionist controlled media changes their tune somewhat. They may still have some complaints about Trump and it will mean nothing, but let’s watch and see. God is going to expose the lies.

What matters is that no one in politics today represents the His Word.

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It’s All Scripted

Posted on March 7, 2024 by ehurst

The Cult has more than one target for destruction.

It’s already been pointed out with generous evidence that The Cult always intended to destroy the West, the culture and people of white northern European background. They’ve accomplished enough of this that it can’t be turned back now. But I’m sure no one has forgotten they also intend to destroy Muslims. Have you noticed that neocons don’t complain about China’s oppression of Uyghurs?

Let’s remind ourselves that the primary purpose of Zionism has always been to raise up a huge distraction, at least from Satan’s perspective. It’s not a question of whether Zionists are true believers in their proclaimed cause, but The Cult has always been ready to throw them under the bus. The Zionist project is just an expendable tool.

I’m quite sure The Cult always planned to see the Zionist dream destroyed in a conflagration against Muslims. It seems quite likely the current conflict in Gaza is aimed at provoking this final conflict. Netanyahu is in it for himself; he’s not a true Zionist. But he’ll use various elements of the broad Zionist agenda to get what he wants. Right now, his major concern is keeping things going in the current direction to prevent being taken down by the justice system in Israel. As long as it’s war, he believes he is safe.

Thus, there is no boundary too far for him. After Gaza runs out of steam, it will be the West Bank. And somewhere in all of this, he will likely seize the Temple Mount. It’s not that he is the least bit hesitant about demolishing the mosques there, but he needs to drag this out for as long as possible. He’s using the broad political support of the Zionist sympathizers outside Israel to hold his internal government enemies at bay. He’s calling in all the IOUs of those who are committed to Israel being squeezed into the false image of Dispensationalism.

It may all break down; only God knows. My point is that things are headed in that direction because the Devil is behind it. Do we forget that Dispensationalism is Satan’s doctrine? He invented it because he plans to implement just that vision of things as the means to drowning out a true gospel witness. Except, it can’t work out as envisioned. It’s a fantasy, his lie told to distract God’s children.

Since it cannot possibly work, we need not fear the kind of apocalyptic tribulation associated with that false doctrine. There’s plenty of trouble revealed in the actual teaching of the Bible, but it’s not the doom foretold by Dispensationalists. But humans thoroughly misled by that false doctrine will try to make it all come true. We don’t need to work out who is going to play what part in this drama; the parts themselves are the thing. If it’s not Netanyahu this year, it will be someone else next year.

The only reason you need to keep an eye on Dispensational heresy is so you’ll know the events and the likely sequence that they will attempt to bring about. If the actions of the Israeli government stay on the current track, Gaza will be dragged out just a little longer before they find an excuse to do the same in the West Bank. They will keep an eye on the momentum of political support for the action and add the next thing on the list when it starts to slow down. I believe seizing full control of the Temple Mount and closing the mosques is somewhere down that list, but they’ll jump on it if necessary to keep things going.

And that means they have already made plans to handle the inevitable Muslim backlash. Who can say if their plans are up to the task? Probably not, but there remains room for some surprises. If the Zionist Gentile support wanes too quickly, they may have to shelve things for another round later. Still, I believe Netanyahu and his friends are determined to push through to the bitter end. Expect them to try, even if it’s impossible.

In terms of Satan’s plans for the human race, the conflict in Gaza is bigger than our political troubles here in the US. Our time has passed; there is no way to stop this trainwreck. Events in Palestine will not change that, but those events will flavor our country’s collapse. The specifics are variable, but the overall progression is fixed.

By the way, NATO has boots on the ground in both Ukraine and Israel. Don’t let the government lie to you; American blood is already crying out from the soil in both places. There’s no turning back.

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Vindication

Posted on March 6, 2024 by ehurst

During the previous presidential election, I predicted the Trump would win in the courts. I was humanly mistaken about when that would happen; I thought it would be during that election cycle. But I never doubted that he would win in the courts, one way or another, while it still mattered on a human level. I’ve never lost that conviction.

So finally it comes true this week. Wrong election cycle, but an accurate conviction.

I’ve been burned and I have learned my lesson. Without dragging out all the elaborate details and conditions, the Lord has confirmed that among my gifts and ministries is prophecy. I’ll be cautious, but I will not be silent.

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Meeting the Demand

Posted on March 6, 2024 by ehurst

Many years ago, when the manosphere was a hot topic, I wrote several different times about how the best way to get the attention of lovey ladies was to not give them yours. At my age this is no longer very interesting, though it has been amusing to see that it still works to some degree on women who are at least middle-aged. I can’t imagine why a pretty young thing these days would notice me; the generation gap is quite substantial. The younger ones don’t act like women used to, and I am quite sure they look at the world quite differently.

Still, I’ve been asked to explain the logic. Why does it work this way with those closer to my age?

Basic biblical truth: Women are wired to seek a strong male covering. Even when they aren’t aware of it, something inside of them drives them to notice men who are strong internally, even if not morally. American women have been subjected to an overwhelming cult of lies. They don’t even know themselves, for the most part. They know when they like something, but often could not begin to give an honest answer why.

So, most of them like to gussy up and make the most of their looks. They’ve been taught to use their beauty as power over others. Most men, when they see a gal who looks pretty good, they tend to simp. That means they all but throw up their hands in surrender to whatever she demands. Women have been taught that they want this. But they really don’t. Once they get what they are told they want, they aren’t satisfied at all. They aren’t interested in men who simp over them. Those men are weak; they have no internal strength and can’t answer that semi-conscious call in her soul for a real manly man.

But then there are just a few men around who, either instinctively know or have been well taught, and they barely pay any attention to the beauties they encounter. Unless this fellow is just downright repulsive, at least a few of those beauties are going to notice that he’s not a simp. They’ll be drawn just a little, and will want to make sure. They get the feeling he is stronger than they are, and it triggers something inside. She needs that kind of strength and guidance; she can’t resist it.

So, she’ll try a more direct way to get his attention. If he plays a little hard to get, she will likely keep trying until she decides he’s out of reach. It varies from woman to woman, but the basic trend is obvious. Whenever I encounter a significant number of women in one place, in a setting where talking to each other is a normal activity (church, potluck gathering, a bar, etc.), it never seems to fail that if I am rather aloof, I get attention from at least a few.

My wife notices it before I do. It has become a game for us. I’m trying not to notice, so she’ll tell me when someone is moving close enough to pass by to see if I’ll pay any attention. I don’t. I may glance, but not follow her with my eyes. Instead, I’ll turn and say something to my wife that only she can hear. I’ll act very relaxed and very much the VIP. I’ve been trained to jump up and take charge, and so far as I know, it shows. And the efforts to get my attention typically continue.

A man’s physical appearance does matter, but not nearly as much as his sense of frame, his command of his own domain. The single best indicator is your confidence, your appearance of self-control, your comfort with demanding situations. But this is what men should be like in the first place, simply as a measure of glorifying God. How it affects others is our witness.

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Mission in Context

Posted on March 5, 2024 by ehurst

To understand what God requires of us, I believe it’s important to think bigger than is common. On the one hand, we are nearing another exercise in God’s wrath on the scale of Noah’s Flood, but not a flood this time. On the other hand, it’s quite typical in terms of biblical prophecy that such destruction comes at a crescendo of human sin. Broadly, humanity is rapidly getting farther and farther from what God can tolerate.

It could be the End, but I don’t believe so. I believe it is our duty to prepare for what is on the other side of the coming series of catastrophes, man-made and natural.

An awful lot of people are jabbering on the Net about trends and expectations. It’s not that I would dispute the trends, but that these commentators have a typical tendency to see only one part of the bigger picture. I’m no smarter than they are, so I’m going to jabber about my own vision of what I see coming, but I would claim to see a bigger picture.

Yes, it starts with a cosmology that largely agrees with Michael S. Heiser in The Unseen Realm and his other related books. The whole point is seeking a biblical cosmology, and thus a biblical expectation. What would an ancient Hebrew mind make of current events?

The one we call “Satan” does have dominion over mortal humans. It’s limited; his dominion is subject to God’s limitations. Further, Satan is working with an alliance of members of God’s heavenly council. They have all been granted a measure of independence, and God is tolerating things because He’s trying to make a point that exceeds our comprehension. There’s a cosmic dispute and God is handling it with patience and grace, same as He does with us. We are the pawns, and we need to accept that.

Satan has his favorite nation on this earth, but by no means is he as kind and gracious as his Lord. That’s not his job, nor his inclination, from what we’ve been told. He has organized his friends in the divine courts to help him make a huge mess of humanity. They all have power to influence human behavior at large and individually. The only mitigation against this manipulation is to embrace the Covenant of Christ. Christ outranks all of them, but we are stuck here on Satan’s turf. And Satan is lying to his captives, leading them to destruction.

His chosen nation has a well-established plan to take over the world. Their primary weapon is deception, of course. Some of it they’ve professed openly, but there’s plenty that we can only guess at. One thing we do know is that they have helped to shape the formation of Western Civilization, and have been trying to tweak it ever since. Their plan is to use it as a weapon to destroy everyone who is part of that civilization. The West is destroying itself.

We should naturally assume they plan to do the same to Russia and China later on down the road, otherwise they cannot move any closer to their goal of world rule. However, we have very little idea how they plan to go about it. What we do know is how they’ve been destroying the West, because the plans have leaked for as long as they have existed — hidden in plain sight. Meanwhile, we can also recognize that Satan is lying to them about what he will grant them in the end, because he actually hates his favorite nation, too. He wants to destroy the whole human race; he has the help of human minions who serve their own destruction.

That’s the context. Thus, we know that those minions of Satan currently run the US government, though mostly indirectly. They rule generally through lackeys, and the lies are layered. There’s the nonsense the officials tell the public; there’s also the nonsense they believe, as revealed in leaks. They aren’t very competent, but if they fail to be persistent and faithful, they get treated like Trump. But the self-imagined elite rulers behind the scenes are also deceived about the ultimate end of things.

Ukraine was chosen as the expendable bait to capture Russia, but also to destroy the West. I’m pretty sure the West will fall first, but Satan’s Chosen will then expect to have a foothold in Russia. Their leverage there is rather weak right now. Goading Russia into war with the West/NATO should open them up to a far greater infiltration. It would appear that they will try to use Taiwan against China the same way they are using Ukraine against Russia.

The West is itching to send troops into Ukraine, never mind what is announced in the MSM. Russia hasn’t used much of her air power yet, but with F-16s on the way to Ukraine, a serious air war could get started. The West would use this for cover to get more directly involved. I tend to believe weapons of mass destruction will be used somewhere in all of this mess. See this analysis.

Meanwhile, China will displace the US as the global economic hegemon. China is already stronger than the US, and you should watch as the various international corporate CEOs attempt to make a nest for themselves in China’s markets. If not visibly, they’ll do it financially behind the scenes. If they happen to move their factories to India or some other BRICS participant, that’s still not moving back to the West, and it’s not leaving China’s sphere of economic influence.

As Covenant people, if you see this coming, what do you suppose we might do to prepare for a world under Chinese economic domination? Don’t make a mistake here; the nature of China’s outlook on things does not include plans to actually rule over foreign lands, turning them into colonies. Rather, China wants economic control to benefit herself.

What does our gospel mission to humanity require of us in the face of these thing?

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The Least Painful

Posted on March 4, 2024 by ehurst

If you have been following Catacomb Resident’s series on Pageau’s The Language of Creation, and if you understood yesterday’s post here, then what follows should not surprise you.

Trump is an urbanite; he was a lefty Democrat right up until he ran for President on the Republican ticket. He did that because the Democrats wouldn’t let him run on their ticket. My assessment is that Trump actually isn’t left or right, per se, but is a narcissist, and perhaps lands somewhere on the psychopath scale. He doesn’t really care about ideology; he cares about running the show. He’s very talented at it, but don’t forget that he pushed the vaxx, and still supports it.

He is perfectly willing to use the rural right-wing vote to get what he wants. He will play to their sympathies; he’s very good at it. His only genuine policy is tweaking things so he can remain in power and wealth. He’s quite willing to reward those who support his policies. Everyone who remains close to him and still faithful are riding his coattails to power and wealth. They are cut from the same cloth, or they are blinded and still very useful.

All of his domestic and foreign policy proposals are aimed at giving him a better market position, regardless whomever else it helps or hurts.

All of which means he is a whole lot better in the Oval Office than any Democrat, and still better than most Republicans. The globalists hate him because he is not really one of them. The neocons are probably willing to use him, but he’s dangerous to them for the same reason he is to the globalists — he’s not a team player. There is a very strong probability he could destroy the whole system, to include bringing down some European governments, and he will surely destroy NATO.

His insufferable self-worship makes him the perfect president for our times. That’s because it would be utterly impossible for a genuine good guy to ever get close to that office. The current context is so utterly screwed up that there is no hope. Having Trump ride this dying horse into its grave will be less painful than almost every realistic alternative, and a whole lot more entertaining.

O, the glorious chaos he will bring!

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