Satanism Just a Distraction

Posted on October 22, 2022 by ehurst

The real problem with the world is not Satanism, but the lack of Covenant.

There has been a lot of noise about Satanism in the alternative media. This obsession has come around before; it runs in cycles. The last time it made so much noise was in the late 1980s (older folks can recall the cult child kidnapping scare). Every time we run through this stuff, some of the weirdest people come crawling out from under the rocks to profit from claiming to have inside information as former Satanists. (Anyone remember Mike Warke?)

The real problem is the obsession itself, not Satanism. This whole brouhaha stands on a very false assumption that most of what goes on in this world is good and godly, and that Satanism is an aberration.

Satanism is not an aberration. Insofar as it actually exists, it is merely the darkest edge of the darkness that is our human norm. The only way we can have anything good and godly is under the Covenant. As long as the world rejects the Covenant of Noah (which is assumed under the Covenant of Christ), then Satan already rules everything. The deception is that Satan’s power is restricted to special efforts, and that he does not routinely rule all the world. This is part of the doctrine that denies the Fall.

The human race is fallen. Without Biblical Law, all we have is the complex interactions of race, culture and living conditions whether we ever display anything that superficially resembles human goodness. Whatever people imagine “human goodness” to mean, it falls far short of the Creator’s requirements. A lot of “good people” are going to Hell. Unless you walk in His Covenant, you cannot have peace with Him.

Thus, all of human life is just a random mess. There is nothing to save, nothing worth preserving about American life. The noise about Satanism means nothing. People who reject the Covenant cannot do anything that pleases God. Satan doesn’t need people to worship him in order to retain full control over government and society.

Democracy is not a blessing by any means. The American mythology of a constitutional republic was sponsored by Satan. The whole thing is already run by demons because it is built on the foundation of rejecting God’s revelation. Biblical Law demands tribal feudal government as the prerequisite for any further discussion of His blessings.

Satanism functions as a distraction, a bugbear to scare fools.

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All Too Soon

Posted on October 20, 2022 by ehurst

If survival is your god, your prime directive, you will be disappointed to find that it is a powerless god whose blessings are altogether random. Survival in itself has no meaning. If your prime directive is the glory of our Creator, and survival is demoted to a mere variable, then your survival becomes meaningful only because it serves a divine purpose.

And when that purpose is complete, it’s time to go Home. You should be rejoicing about it when that day arrives. Over and over again: Human life is not precious simply because someone is alive. It becomes precious when God has a use for it. Otherwise it’s just a futile waste. When your life is lived outside of Biblical Law, it has no value.

Do you understand this? Do you realize that this world is slated for destruction, and that nothing mankind has accomplished will matter? When Christ returns to this earth, He will wipe away everything mankind has done to the earth, and restore it to what it was before Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit.

The only thing God is going to remember is what you did for His glory.

Right now, human life is just about as cheap as it ever has been in the eyes of TPTB. We have already entered an apocalypse. There is a symbolic conqueror running roughshod over the human race, and this conquering power has already released man-made diseases and man-made economic collapse. The slaughter has begun, and the blood will run high as a horse’s bridle. Perhaps not literally, but you get the picture.

As if these troubles are not enough, in about the next 25 years, nature itself is going to wipe out most of the human race. The sun is building up to a micro-nova. (Details can be found here.) Yes, humans will survive, but only a minority. That’s because this is not The End.

I’m not the only one who has already pointed out that certain things are missing for this to be The End of Time. The main ingredient lacking is the specific persecution of faith. The current globalist ruling regime doesn’t much care about faith; it’s just one of many hindrances to their plans, and it will be treated as such. When The End comes, human governments will ally together very specifically to crush faith. Their hatred for the gospel message will the only thing that brings them together. Right now, that’s not really much of an issue with our ruling class.

Thus, we need to give our thoughts to how we can keep the gospel alive such that, those who survive the disasters and the ice age that follows will have something they can cling to, something more than mere survival. They need to know the Word, not just in their heads, but in their hearts. We need to reintroduce the heart-led way.

Seeing that Our Lord is going to snuff out Western Civilization, in part for its many inherent sins, this is a good time to get out of it as best you can. Become the kind of person who does not depend on what Western Civ has accomplished. Step away from it. Use it, but be ready to throw it away when the time comes. Civilization is simply a very poor substitute for Biblical Law in the first place. The whole point of humans trying to build a civilization is to survive while ignoring God’s moral truth.

There’s not much time left.

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Ride Photos 17

Posted on October 19, 2022 by ehurst

This past Monday was cool enough to ride off into the bushes without the risk of being consumed by insects. I rode out to Draper Lake resolved to visit the most remote points, 14-16. The trail takes you right out to the end of Point 16, but it’s a couple of miles through the woods. This image shows the eastern side of Point 16, looking back north along the shore. The whole point is to show what it looks like at the current very low lake level.

There is only one island out in the waters of Lake Stanley Draper, and it’s topographically an extension of Point 16. Not only was I able to walk way out onto the point, but the island is clearly more exposed than usual. There’s really nothing out there; it’s mostly bird habitat because predators can’t get there and humans mostly don’t bother.

Under normal conditions, Point 16 is a lovely sandy beach with a bit of rock outcropping. At low water, it becomes a very large expanse of sand and rock. I’ve left my bicycle in the picture to give it perspective. It’s easily one of the most attractive places on the lake, but it’s also the most inaccessible. You either endure a couple of miles of rocky and sandy trail, or you have to arrive by boat.

Off to one side of Point 16 is the rocky projection that is rarely seen, but has been scraped by boats in times past. Low water like this exposes all the hidden shallow spots. The water is clear enough to see threats to watercraft, but you won’t see them until you are on top of them. We have too many silly boaters who don’t pay much attention. That little island is popular with that type of boater, so there are lots of scrape marks. Unfortunately, they don’t show up too well on camera.

Farther around the shore at Point 15, the normally hidden rock formations are even larger. I’m standing out on the far end near the water, aiming the camera back toward the shore. Again, this narrow neck of exposed rock sports a significant number of boat scrapes. This is the best time to get a look at what is normally obscured by water. I was able to ride most of the way around from Point 16, as the sand is rather tightly packed near the waterline.

I couldn’t resist capturing these exposed sandbars. You could just about walk on them, but your feet would definitely get wet in the process. Wading is more or less permitted, so nobody cares, and you would be surprised how far out you could get at this spot. What you cannot see in the image is that this sandbar stretches quite some distance out into the water.

This is Point 14. Normally 14 and 15 are rather difficult to access without going back through the trails, and those leading out on these two points are usually even more thickly covered by brush and grass. At low water, it’s very easy to just wander around along the shore. Here we see the same hidden rock exposure with boat scrape marks. Honestly, the majority of visitors to these three remote points come by boat. The trails show very little evidence of human traffic, and yet the points themselves have plenty of footprints and such.

So far as I have found, there are just two of these “eye” formations around Draper Lake. It’s completely natural; somehow the sandstone gets deposited in an eye shape, leaving a depression in the center. This one is exposed by weathering, but the other one is set deep into the ground atop a stony hill with just a thin layer of soil growing grass.

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How Satan Rules

Posted on October 18, 2022 by ehurst

I suppose I need to clarify some of the question of who is doing what.

As with Catacomb Resident, I say that Jewish people are not the real problem. If Jews were wiped out, Satan would simply raise up a new Jewish nation, just as he did with the Khazars, who converted to Judaism to replace the fading Hebrew population. Today’s Jews aren’t even Hebrew; the Palestinians are. Satan’s mission from God includes controlling all human political and cultural activities for as long as, and to the degree that, people and nations reject the Covenant. A primary tool Satan uses in this age is Judaism. Not so much as a religion, but Judaism as an ethnic aspiration to rule the world. It’s the vestiges of the False Messianic Expectations: (1) ownership of all human wealth, (2) political dominance of all humanity, and (3) social dominance (the Gentiles would willingly serve them as slaves).

Let me remind you that Israel got off track very early in her history. She was commissioned to convey divine revelation to the world. Their real distinction was God giving them His revelation as insiders. The basic promises of the Covenant of Moses (“shalom”) included (1) reasonable prosperity, (2) safety from natural and human threats, and (3) social stability via living within the Covenant boundaries. See how that got off track? That got perverted rather quickly. While Moses flatly said in Deuteronomy 30 that this covenant was essentially a matter of obeying God from the heart, that it all pointed to a mystical communion with God as a Person, Israel’s leadership quickly forgot that part and pushed hard for worldly outcomes. They completely lost focus on the business of being a kingdom of priests who would guide the world into the divine revelation of how humanity was to live in this fallen world.

By the time of Jesus, it was no longer the Covenant of Moses, but Judaism that ruled the nation. If you don’t see the difference between the two, you simply aren’t paying attention. Almost everything Jesus taught in public was pointing out that distinction, that Judaism was not Moses. So at some point all the focus of Jewish thinking was on their claim that God owed them their False Messianic Expectations, and anyone claiming a different destiny was a blasphemer. They had redefined God according to their hedonistic lusts (Lust of the Flesh, Lust of the Eyes and Boastful Pride). That’s the proximate cause Jesus being nailed to the Cross.

And so, since Jews completely gutted the Covenant, and rejected the translation and renewal of the Covenant Jesus brought with Him, they were no longer God’s People. But they clung tightly to their vision of world domination, so Satan stepped up to be their new patron deity. Thus, they are referred to as the Synagogue of Satan; they weren’t clinging to God’s Word but represented their own perverted version of it.

But this national ethnic destiny to which they cling is fairly complex in how they seek to implement it. On the one hand, we can make generalizations. On the other hand, it’s never as simple as words can convey. I’ve already talked a lot about The Cult that rules from behind the scenes. The whole point of that booklet was to clarify the attitudes, the moral-spiritual nature of how Satan manipulates some into knowingly serving him. But when that starts to get implemented in humans who still imagine they are serving a good God, it means an awful lot of deceptions fitted to the frame of reference of the people involved, so that the same plan seems to include conflicting agendas. It only appears to be conflicts because Satan gladly tells whatever lies are needed to get people where he wants them.

And the Jewish leadership have learned from that. They have layers of leadership starting up in The Cult levels and descending downward through various groups. What holds them together is the infernal purpose we can discern from a distance, and sometimes we can pick out how this prime directive is implemented in different branches.

I said in my previous post that some elements of US government would not hesitate to provoke a nuclear destruction of the US. That’s a reference to The Cult and some neocons who are based in Israel. That’s the ultimate leadership of Judaism. The neocons can simply go home when they see it coming, or hunker down in those massive underground bunkers, and then return to safe areas when it’s over to continue their reign.

Biden and friends aren’t so eager for a nuclear exchange. They are lower down the chain of command and don’t share all the commitments of the Jewish leadership. These lower level of lackeys are the ones who belong to the international globalist collective, and of which Putin was once a member. The war in Ukraine is thus a kind of internal dispute between them, as Putin was given promises, and then betrayed. Putin is still one of them in terms of his motives and agenda, but they have decided to remove him and he’s not going quietly.

Thus, it depends on who gets their wishes. The neocons won’t hesitate to provoke a nuclear exchange. But the globalists believe they can set one off as a false flag and avoid a wider exchange. It depends on too many variables to say which end is most likely.

By the way, a very large portion of neocons left the Republican Party when Trump was elected. These neocons are now working through the Democrats, and it has completely changed some of the party’s policies. Portions of what Obama accomplished are now being dismantled because of neocon influence. Previous strong positions of the Democrats have changed since then. It’s hard to keep track of the changes.

But a large part of what we see happening in Ukraine has to do with a rising neocon influence, as it seems their patience has worn thin. It’s the neocons who hate Putin the most, eager to throw him under the bus. He has offended too many Jews and is now their enemy, so they have influenced the globalists against him, when he was previously their boy. Human nature being what it is, there is a slow and ponderous response to the neocon pushing. It could, in theory, result in a nuclear exchange. However, the globalists and their self-interest is causing a drag. The globalists hope to finesse this thing without going over the brink. They still have too much power and resources at stake here in the US, whereas the neocons see it all as disposable.

Again, the problem is not Jews. Those who promote that kind of talk are also fools for Satan’s lies. The problem is Judaism as a religious belief in an ethnic agenda. To confuse it further, today’s Judaism is represented by what was once Khazars. Should the future solar catastrophes wipe out most of them, watch to see how the Devil raises up in a surviving world yet another tribe of people to become the Synagogue of Satan. It’s simply a matter of how he operates in carrying out his assigned mission as Prince of This Fallen World.

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NT Doctrine — John 18:28-19:16

Posted on October 15, 2022 by ehurst

This particular part of the narrative is very difficult to harmonize across the Four Gospels. Parallel passages: Matthew 27:15-32; Mark 15:6-24 and Luke 23:6-25.

The Sanhedrin had ordered Jesus to be turned over to Pilate for trial. His residence was attached to the Roman garrison on the northern end of the Temple Plaza. It was regarded as the private home of a Gentile. Entering even his open courtyard would make a Jew ritually defiled, and there was no compelling reason to suffer that so close to the Passover. By long tradition, the Roman officials knew they would have to meet the Sanhedrin halfway, coming out onto the street to talk to them. It was a nuisance for Pilate to have to walk back and forth, but it was how things got done.

Besides, there had been some preliminary planning between Pilate’s staff and that of the Sanhedrin. When Jesus was brought to him, Pilate realized quickly that this prisoner was guilty only of embarrassing the Jewish leadership, but otherwise had done nothing of concern to Rome.

Luke alone tells us (Luke 23:6-12) that when Pilate caught the reference to Jesus as a Galilean, he arranged to send Him before the Jewish ruler of that province. Let’s remind ourselves that Herod’s Jewish kingdom had been divided between his sons when he died. The one over the Province of Judea had been removed, but the one over Galilee was still in power. Pilate was the Roman representative over the whole kingdom, but ruled Judea directly, as well, wearing two hats.

Jesus was technically under the jurisdiction of Herod Antipas. The latter normally holed up in his own palaces, either in Caesarea or Machaerus Fortress in Perea. He was in town only to maintain the pretense of being Jewish, like his father did. The only proper residence for Antipas was the Herodian royal palace on the west side of Jerusalem.

So Pilate ordered Jesus marched across town to the royal palace to see what Antipas would make of Him. Antipas had never actually seen Him, and so was intrigued over His fame. The Jewish leaders made their case. The ruler asked a lot of questions, but Jesus never answered. After awhile, Antipas and his royal bodyguard began mocking Him. Based on the meaning of the term “Messiah” implying a king from the royal line of David, Herod had one of the fancy robes from the palace closets placed on Him. After a little more mockery, He was sent back to Pilate. While Antipas had nothing to add to the Sanhedrin’s case, this whole exchange did provoke Antipas to reconcile with Pilate, removing previous tensions between them.

Jesus was once more standing in the paved courtyard of the Roman residence. Pilate went out to the Jewish leaders again. He resisted their demands, but they kept pressing him. So he went back inside and interviewed Jesus again. He learned that this Jesus had no intention of hindering Roman rule, and that He really had no plans to get involved in politics at all. He was a mystic whose alleged kingdom was not of this world.

There was a bit of philosophical discussion, but it only convinced Pilate further that nothing about Jesus fell under his purview. Worse, at some point during this whole business, his wife warned him not to get involved based on some portents in a dream, and it was clear Pilate was moved by this. Going back out to the street entrance to his residence, he tried again to get the Jewish leaders to have Jesus punished within the limits of their own laws. They started getting noisy about this.

Pilate decided it was time to gauge the sentiments of the growing crowd of onlookers. Had Jesus managed to gain traction with the common folks? Pilate addressed the issue of another custom, in which the Roman government released some prisoner back to the people as a sign of good will. He mentioned another Jesus, son of Abbaiah (“bar-Abbas”), a real thug who had made serious trouble for the Jewish government. But the Sanhedrin had planted provocateurs in the crowd, and as soon as Pilate suggested releasing this very real threat back to them, the crowd chanted in favor of him over Jesus of Nazareth.

At this point, Pilate tried one more ploy. He went back into his residence and ordered the guards to remove the royal robe and to flog Jesus using Roman methods. This involved a cat-o-nine-tails, and the beating stopped just before the victim was dead. He was barely able to stand when they threw the fancy robe over His bleeding body. They mocked Him, as if announcing Him as “King of the Jews” while their salutes were made so close to Him that their hands “accidentally” slapped Him. Instead of the laurel wreath that heroes wore, they strung together some local thorn vines and placed it as His crown.

Then Pilate announced he was finished with this business and had Jesus brought out. He pointed to Him, hoping this pitiful sight would shame them just a little. The uproar from the crowd was instantaneous. The Jewish leaders began chanting to have Him crucified, and the crowd began to echo it on cue. One of the Sanhedrin leaned close enough to Pilate to be heard over the crowd, saying that the real issue was that Jesus said He was the Son of their God, and that for this He simply must die.

At this Pilate felt sick. So, he had Jesus brought back inside the gate and asked Him where He was from. Jesus didn’t answer, and Pilate warned Him that His life was at stake here. Jesus quietly responded that Pilate had been appointed for this task as an unwitting agent. He was not to blame for this awful mess, but the guilt fell on the Jewish leaders. Once more, Pilate went outside the gate and tried to get the Sanhedrin to back down, but they began chanting again. The representative warned Pilate that if he didn’t carry through with the deal they made and order Jesus executed, they would send a petition to Caesar that Pilate was not serving him well.

Feeling wholly trapped, Pilate had his servants set things up outside his residence. There was an elevated bit of pavement with some open space Roman officials used for this occasion, though we have no idea today where it stood. The official Roman throne of authority was placed and Pilate took a seat. Before the Jewish leaders, he washed his hands, an ancient ritual that constituted an oath that he had nothing to do with this sentence, that it was only at the behest of the Jewish leaders. The leadership responded by claiming they would gladly take the blame — “His blood be upon us and our children!”

Then he ordered the other Jesus released, and had this one condemned to crucifixion.

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War Dogs Howling

Posted on October 13, 2022 by ehurst

It’s not a secret that I live very close to a major military facility. Tinker AFB is one of the premier military aircraft maintenance facilities in the world, not just the US. If the Russians and/or China have any kind of target list, it would surely include Tinker, just a couple of miles from where I live. A nuke dropped on Tinker would take my life without any doubt.

I am most certainly not eager to die for this government. The US is ruled by outsiders, non-Americans who have no loyalty at all to the people. Whether you recognize it or not, the US was conquered some time ago by invading forces who slipped in unnoticed over a long period of time. Some of them were here from the start, already planning how they would hijack the whole thing. They won; they have seized control of the government institutions. They are still at war with the people, though. They want us enslaved or dead.

Like so very many other things they have used against us, the US government has telegraphed that it is trying to rig up a scenario for yet another false flag operation. The US government is highly likely to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, or some other symbolic location, and blame it on Russia. It will then become an excuse to engage NATO forces directly against the Russian troops in Ukraine. Worse, it could become an excuse to initiate a nuclear exchange.

Yes, I am utterly convinced that our government is that crazy. Stop and think about how very hard the globalists in our government have been working to provoke Russia to war. It’s more important to them that their enemies are vanquished than to defend the US. Our rulers would not hesitate to see the US peppered with Russian nukes if it sates their lust for global domination, however much of the world is left. Whether they imagine that America would survive such a thing is not the point; they could care less about America. They seek control over the world, and America is just a stepping stone. Russia is independent of their control. If they can destroy Russia, losing America would be a reasonable trade in their agenda. Then again, I have seen evidence to indicate some of them arrogantly suppose they would win a nuclear exchange with Russia.

Knowing all this, I remain convinced that my Lord wants me to reside where I am. Either He plans on protecting me somehow, or He is getting ready to bring me Home. It’s not for me to decide. My convictions say not to worry about it either way. I intend to stand before Him with a clear conscience, being faithful to my commission. The saints of God will tribulate.

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More Random Ride Photos

Posted on October 9, 2022 by ehurst

I hadn’t seen Lake Overholser in several months. It hasn’t changed, but I couldn’t resist this shot showing the flow channel (foreground) alongside the lake itself (background). The whole point is that water that the city draws from the lake has a long rest so the silt precipitates. Meanwhile, the channel can flow independently toward a separate gate on the dam. The channel is often a different color from the clearer lake water.

This is a bikeway overpass under construction near Wilshire on the Northwest Expressway. For several months, the bridge itself was being assembled in the center median (just visible as a frame on the ground). At long last, when it was ready, crews began pouring concrete for the ramps on both sides. The bridge will be dropped into place after some of the matching fixtures have been added. The path originally ran through some parking lots and cyclists had to get into the traffic queue to cross at the light. The diversion to this new crossing has already been laid, but it will take close to, or into, the new calendar year before this thing is finished and ready to use.

This is just a nicely kept pasture up on Westminster Road north of Britton Road. This is the same pasture that has the cedar limbs used to stabilize the fence cables. Everyone I see around the property is Hispanic, which may help to explain why the place looks so very different from all the other properties up in this part of the county. There are very few Latinos in these parts.

The primary crop in this picture is cotton. However, you can tell it’s some kind of “Round-up Ready” crop because of the Amaranth growing in it as weeds. Amaranth (AKA “pigweed”) is one of the first native plants to build a resistance to Round-Up, so they are the most visible “weed” in any crop. By the way, the entire Amaranth plant is edible, but you won’t see much of it in the grocery stores. That’s another story.

Up on a high ridge near Draper Lake I spotted this purple wild flower. This is by far the finest example of that particular plant. They grow all over the place, but nothing I’ve seen elsewhere was quite this full and tall. I came back a week later and it was nowhere to be seen. There was no evidence of disturbance, so I assume it burst into glory and then died on its own.

In all the years I’ve been visiting Draper Lake, I’ve never seen it this low. Normally the water would be at my feet and about knee deep. Here’s it several meters out from the shore. I don’t know if this drought has been so long and harsh, but Oklahoma City is sucking down the water more than I’ve ever seen. It’s been down low for so long that big stretches of exposed flat shore areas now have a fresh growth of pioneer plants covering them in places. This part remains clear largely because it’s mostly rock, but also because it’s in the lee of the prevailing winds, and there are trees growing on a low bluff shoreline. The wind-borne seeds pass over this area.

The new bikeway under construction along NE 4th between the river and the Katy Trail has gotten this far. This honestly isn’t that much better than when the crews had simply chiseled down the old concrete barriers. Still, it’s nice that they have left it open so that cyclists can easily pass through. The crews on this contract aren’t that numerous, and so they are constantly shifting to other parts of the project and leaving this stretch for weeks at a time. Meanwhile, it remains blocked to all motor traffic.

These paired photos show the same cove on Hefner Lake, another major water reservoir for Oklahoma City. Only Overholser has been spared this level of depletion. That’s because Overholser is right on the North Canadian River and wildlife depends on the water level. Overholser is actually a main feed for Hefner, as water runs through a canal between the two as needed. The dam that rings Hefner is massive, and the reservoir is very deep, but this cove is on the far shore opposite the dam.

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NT Doctrine — Matthew 27:1-14

Posted on October 8, 2022 by ehurst

The parallels are Mark 15:1-5 and Luke 23:1-5. We learn that the Sanhedrin, with the support of the priestly leadership and judges, waited until dawn so that it was just barely legitimate that they convene and declare Jesus worthy of death. The next step was to bring Him before Pilate for a matching Roman judgment.

It’s quite possible that Judas assumed Jesus and His disciples would rise up in divine power and crush the ruling regime. Or perhaps he expected that Jesus would face only a beating, perhaps. Instead, Jesus allowed Himself to be led away bound to Pilate. Matthew alone tells us that Judas was shaken by regret at this scene. He attempted to return the bribe, confessing that he had betrayed an innocent man. The people who paid him insisted that was his problem now.

So Judas threw the silver on the floor of the Temple near the collection box from which he was paid, then went somewhere and hanged himself. The representatives of the ruling council picked up the scattered silver coins, and piously noted that it was against their policy to receive blood money into the Temple treasury, so they used it for charity. They bought an empty lot near the city that had been used for the production of pottery in the past. It was designated a place to bury Gentiles who died in the city.

The story of how it was bought leaked out, and it gained the notorious nickname as the “Field of Blood”.

We note that Matthew quoted Zechariah 11 but references Jeremiah. This appears to be an obscure rabbinical tradition for referring to sections of the Scriptures by the name of the first book in the section. The passage in Zechariah prophesies that God, faced with the refusal of the ruling class of Israel to keep the intent of the Covenant, would be forced to declare the Covenant dissolved. Thus, this whole scene reeks of political maneuvering that completely ignores Covenant justice, yet appears to abide by the words of the Law. It was the problem Zechariah was addressing.

The passage in Zechariah includes a lot of symbolic acts that everyone knew was meant to convey a prophetic message. He took on the job of fattening some sheep for ritual slaughter, symbolizing how the nation’s leadership regarded their own people. He dismissed the hired shepherds, symbolizing God dismissing the people He blessed with ruling power. It included Zechariah getting paid 30 pieces of silver for watching this flock of sheep; it as the price of a slave. The Lord told him to take that “princely sum” (sarcasm) and give it to the potter. Zechariah’s response was dramatically tossing it on the floor of the Temple as a designated offering to pay for the pottery used in the rituals. It was the most mundane use imaginable, and duly symbolizes just how much the Jewish ruling class of both Zechariah’s and Jesus’ day valued their own nation as their divine inheritance.

The shepherds of the nation, the Sanhedrin, had valued Jesus as a cheap common criminal, and never bothered to address any part of His prophetic claims. They seemed to despise Him precisely because He cared about the common people. Instead of hearing out His claim to be the Messiah, of the royal House of David, they treated Him as a threat to their position.

Thus, they led Jesus before a Gentile magistrate who understood even less what it was all about than they themselves did. Again, it seems rather obvious that Pilate had been wheedled into going along with this plan to get rid of another terrorist, for this is precisely what he expected Jesus to be.

Pilate was in town precisely because Jewish festivals seemed to be when keeping the Pax Romana taxed him the hardest. He normally stayed in the Roman villa at Caesarea on the coast, but visited Jerusalem during high holy days so he could be on hand to respond more quickly to the increasingly common disturbances that came with those holidays, while at the same time pretending to honor the Jewish celebrations.

This kind of background tension was precisely the reason the Sanhedrin claimed Jesus deserved execution. They presented Him as someone claiming to be the King of the Jews. Pilate asked Jesus if that was His claim. Jesus responded with a turn of phrase that meant roughly, “Sure, whatever you say.” This was not what Pilate agreed to, so he announced (Luke tells us) that he was not impressed with this accusation. If they couldn’t bring a more blatantly rebellious Jewish patriot, the deal was off. This guy was clearly just a patsy.

So, the ruling council lined up to list their accusations of how Jesus agitated for the overthrow of the Jewish and Roman governments. Jesus seemed to have no real interest in the whole show. He appeared to be someone resigned to His fate, and offered no objection when given the chance under Roman procedures. Pilate was very impressed with how Jesus just shrugged it off. It was obvious this was a big put on, and that whatever reason the Jewish leaders had for this big show, it was no concern of Rome.

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Biting the Hand

Posted on October 8, 2022 by ehurst

Yeah, what he said.

You cannot avoid resisting one way or another. The question is what your convictions demand of you in terms of general direction and specific measures and means.

Both Catacomb Resident and I have warned that, if you keep using the standard major services on the Internet, it’s not just the snooping, tracking and advertising you have to consider. There is the increasing probability that your participation will be censored. So, if you resist sin verbally on Facebook by calling sin what it is, you are likely to see your account locked sooner or later.

For the time being, most services don’t censor you until someone complains. And for the most part, only if a whiner reads your stuff do you worry about that. At least a few services will be slow to act for simple bureaucratic reasons, but if enough complaints of a certain kind roll in, they will eventually sanction your account. Thus, the issue is whether you are noticed by enough of the wrong people.

What does your sense of calling and mission say? Do you infiltrate and carefully approach the issue by working away at the unspoken assumptions, or do you wade right in and start attacking the obvious? Maybe some of both? Have you established a record? Do you simply remain resolute on things you’ve already addressed, as the wokie social regime tightens its grip?

I’ll be honest: I’m not opposed to censorship in principle. There are things I believe should be silenced because they come from the Devil. They are provocations to test your resolve to stay holy. What I’ll fight is censorship of the gospel message. Since this rests on a different principle than imaginary rights of free speech, it calls for a different strategy, and different tactics.

You won’t read me blathering about rights. Nothing in that subject area comes from Scripture. The Bible declares principles of feudal authority. While I take the time to become aware of my enemy’s strategy and tactics, that enemy works for Satan, and I won’t use the Devil’s stuff. Though all the world embraces his lies, I am duty bound to fight those lies using divine guidance and weapons. In the world, but not of it.

I still say that this is an information war for us. As long as the Internet can be used to declare the gospel, it should be so used. The Lord is preparing us for the day when that path will be closed, but for now, we spread the message as best we can.

Gospel or not, Google’s communication tools are still some of the best, and by far the cheapest we have. That they are also the most invasive and egregious advertisers on the planet isn’t much of a concern when your buying habits are rooted in the Kingdom of Heaven. That they track and snoop on my emails isn’t much of an issue (except if I’m doing something that requires anonymity). The issue isn’t how much I value Google’s provisions, but that Google is easily the most direct route to most of my message sharing on the Net. I’ll keep using it until that door is closed.

If things remain on the current path, that day will come. Because of the nature of my calling, I’ll call out the sins of Google and the sins Google intends to protect. I’ll keep using Google to declare the sins of Google and all her allies, including most notably the US government. My mission is to boldly confront their evil, mostly by calling it “evil”. The same goes for any other “free” service on the Internet that serves my mission.

I’m not a physical threat, but dissent itself is becoming forbidden. This is an information war, and God’s truth has its own power. But if you bite the hand that feeds you, don’t be surprised when that hand slaps you. I’m willing to face that. I cannot carry out my mission without being vulnerable to the wrath of sinners. But this is a decision you must make for yourself, and you should make it fully informed of the consequences.

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OPEC versus Globalists

Posted on October 6, 2022 by ehurst

It’s really hard to explain obscure economic theory to people who never studied economics much. It’s called “the dismal science” for a reason; it taps into the confused reality, not the common perception, of how people act on a large scale. The vast majority of the world’s people do not make decisions in their own best economic interests. This makes economists unhappy. They come up with all kinds of advice about how to optimize economic choices. But I argue with economists by asserting that people should not see only the economic consequences of their actions, but the moral implications come first, and then think about the economic fallout.

I’m still left with the problem that common folks are always surprised by how economic principles work.

By now, at least some folks are aware that the West is at war with Russia, and creeping into war with China. They understand that it’s economic war, not so much combat on the ground with troops. The globalist western governments, under the prodding of the global financiers and central bankers, have been carrying on a multi-generational policy of conquering in every country all the institutions that shape our human existence.

Yes, this is all about the Jews trying to enslave the Gentile world. At the top level, it’s The Cult, as I refer to it. It’s just a nickname for something with no official labels. They are using the Jews, and the Jews are using everyone else, like globalists and neocons, each of whom uses others. There are several layers of people and operations between the Cult and the people carrying out their plans, and the motives of those who are doing the work tend to morph quite a bit as we descend down the ranks. I’m trying to explain what’s happening at the lower levels of that mess and connect it back up the chain.

So the globalists are the primary actors here, while the neocons are cooperating in the background. This business of defending the Ukraine has the cover of being some kind of patriotic nonsense, using the propaganda term “defending democracy”. In this case, “democracy” is the code word for globalist control with wokie and Green policies. That’s just the current plan for seizing control of the world; there are other plans held in reserve in case the globalists fail. They have been trying to force Russia and China to convert to globalist religion, but the activist folks on the street level have no idea that it’s actually a cover for financial conquest.

The Cult’s program is to destroy Gentile existence so that we will all bow the knee and surrender as slaves to the Jewish masters. Jews are playing all sides off against each other by lying about where they are leading us. They pretend to be genuinely committed to the causes they get others to adopt. So the globalist activists are just cannon fodder for the globalist agenda of enriching the leadership, who in turn will get rich only by helping the Cult get into position to rule with an iron fist.

Neither the Cult nor the Jews are Green or wokie; they aren’t conservative (by the American definition), either. They are completely outside that system. It’s what they use to keep us Gentiles divided, western Gentiles in particular. Any time the Democrats and Republicans agree on some policy issue — like defending Ukraine — that is for sure a sign it’s a critical part of the Cult’s agenda. Russia is the current target of the Cult because it resists their plans. China is not far behind. The real generals of this war are western(-ized) bankers, who are herding the globalist political leaders.

So much for the political explanation. Most of you can get that. It’s the economics of their actions that need explaining. The bankers have been trying to get the whole world under debt. That’s how they have been moving ownership of all assets into their own hands. They have been trying to seduce those who rule certain assets, both static and consumable, or crush the resistance when those rulers cannot be bought.

OPEC represents a third party of economic and political power, and has become a thorn in the bankers’ side. The OPEC members were always a problem, but this is the first time in decades that the situation hands them actual power to decide some things. They have a solid position as a quasi-government and intend to keep it. What the bankers are doing with the Russian sanctions is cutting into that OPEC power, demanding that OPEC take one for team. OPEC is not a team player and has taken the position that petroleum prices will rise regardless of what the bankers do with their sanctions.

Lowering petroleum prices will make it more attractive for western suppliers to replace the cheap Russian natural gas used to heat and power most of what happens in Europe. Cutting off Russian petroleum sales to the West is supposed to drive prices down, because a major supplier — Russia — can’t enter the global market. OPEC has nothing to gain from this action, so they are refusing to play the role assigned to them by the bankers. Thus, OPEC flipped the bird to western governments in general and have cut production to drive up prices.

This is going to make Europe hurt far, far more than the bankers wanted. The bankers do want a depression, but they want the scale of things to remain under the influence of their various controls. If OPEC stays on the same path, the central banks will have no effective control. No matter what the bankers do, it will go wrong — inflation, recession, stagflation — all the choices are bad for the bankers. There’s a risk of popular revolt in the West, and we’ve already seen a few conservative governments elected to replace the globalists. The key to keeping globalists in power is for the price of petroleum to go down just a little. Notice that it’s not a matter of whether we will have economic trouble, but whether it remains under banker control. All the choices will simply serve to empower Russia and China on their path to creating an entirely separate economic system that the bankers do not own.

In other words, the Cult will have to start all over infiltrating a new system, with all the complications of how different it would be, just when they are on the cusp of seizing total global dominance by westernizing everyone. Since western culture is the easiest for the Jews to manipulate and control, they’ve been prodding the western folks to take over the world by spreading this damned stinking culture to everyone. Suddenly, over half the world seems to have a valid alternative, and their cultures are far less vulnerable. The drift into western culture is very actively and effectively resisted. As I said before, the Cult is not a collection of demigods, just plain old humans who think they are gods. I suspect they are going to lose this battle.

Still, that won’t stop them from engaging the most depraved and dehumanizing policies on those of us who live in the West. And that’s why God is destroying the West, primarily through decentralization. Babylon is going to fall.

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