See the Forest 05

Posted on September 16, 2021 by ehurst

The trees in a forest think of themselves as a community.

We’ve hashed this out before: Spiritual birth is entirely on God’s initiative. It is totally a miracle. It is tangential to what we do, but it is never a goal. The goal is to bring people under the Covenant of Christ. Our evangelism is the business of persuading people to move their conscious awareness into their hearts, and to commit to Christ as the Lord of the Covenant.

Then we teach them what the Word says about this fallen world, and how there’s no point in trying to fix any part of it. There are things we can do to mitigate the sorrows, and it boils down to understanding with the heart what the Law Covenants had to say about God and this fallen reality. We need to escape this world, but the path of escape is Biblical Law. We have to do things the way the Bible says we have to do them. We have to understand that Biblical Law is not a restriction, but a divine privilege in this world, the mark of Eternity.

We tend to avoid using phrases like “getting people saved” because that term has been loaded with baggage that didn’t come from God. What must people do to be saved? Well, we first have to explain that being “saved” means a commitment to living by Biblical Law, the reign of Christ in this world. He is our Law. We have to explain that “faith” is not a body of belief, nor a collection of simply doing and not-doing, but a personal commitment to the person of Christ as your feudal tribal covenant Lord.

For the better part of 2000 years people in churches have been denied the privileges of shalom. Do you know how heart-breaking that is? It makes me weep every time I think about it. It’s not as if all the people in churches are His people, but a lot of His people are there, and churches have kept them from their shalom. And a lot of His people aren’t in churches, so we have to find them, too.

Some of you will be led to seek the lost sheep of Christ outside the churches. I’m called to seek them from the churches. I’m limited by the circumstances; the Lord makes that clear to me. This is not a crusade to correct churches, nor waste time condemning the leadership. It’s a long waiting game for God to shake His people loose from those lies.

This is the one burden that eats up most of my prayer time. It’s front and center of the things that occupy my soul. “Lord, shake them loose from that false way of life! Cause them to doubt the system.” It really will have to be the hand of God. He’ll have to do something that causes people to question if they are actually following Him. Clearly, at least some of them are not. The grace we have is not meant for us alone. Maybe it’s not for everyone, but the fire in my soul says it’s meant to bless a lot more than have found it so far.

So for those of you who are with me, I’m also praying that we are ready to receive those whom the Lord will shake loose from the current system of mainstream religion. This is something we’ll have to do offline; it requires getting personally involved. This is where the prayer for signs and wonders comes into the picture. Not just the usual things that people associate with the term “signs and wonders,” but the ability to open people’s spiritual eyes, to deliver them from the grip of deception. This is our Spiritual Warfare.

Do you see the forest standing here? That’s the end of the series unless someone has critical questions to ask.

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See the Forest 04

Posted on September 15, 2021 by ehurst

Get to know the landscape of this fallen reality.

Paul’s admonition to “rightly divide” the Old Testament means that you and I have a duty to examine what it says. We need to know what it said to the people who are the primary subject of the narrative. God is the Author of the story, if not the writing itself.

We have a duty to discover the Living Word standing behind the narrative. Built into that narrative is the understanding that there is some flexibility in the Law; there are priorities. So the Sabbath Law was flexible, but the prohibition on adultery was not. However, did you know that it was up to the aggrieved party of adultery to decide whether to bring a case? If they chose to forgive and work toward restoration and redemption, the Lord would honor that.

Thus, Jesus offered that quote about how compassion and mercy mattered more than ritual sacrifices. Execution of adulterers was a form of sacrifice, of shedding blood to cleanse the land.

No two victims of adultery would be the same. Each had to search their own hearts on the matter. So it is with the New Testament interpretation of the Law of Moses. We all have our tendencies in how we see things. It’s rather like the tendency of folks in the same household to see things in pretty much the same light. God’s Laws assume we are going to seek out folks who think like we do on enough different subjects that we can live with each other.

That’s what churches are supposed to be. Since that business of family household unity is only a tendency, and not universal, it’s better to seek out folks with the same spiritual DNA. A church is meant to be a covenant family, not necessarily a literal family. At some point, you’ll have kids who grow up and want to leave. You can’t control all the influences in their lives these days, and it gets harder with each generation.

In some settings leading up to the collapse of a civilization, your assumptions about how God is going to work in your covenant fellowship will be different from the expectations you hold after a new civilization is born, and yet another set of expectations in the middle of its lifespan.

The Laws of God are flexible for the most part. They point to deeper principles of understanding this fallen existence. That’s what we are obliged to see when we “rightly divide the Word.” And no two churches are likely to hold exactly the same ideas about it. It’s very much in the Law of Moses to divide into groups of fifty — which is more or less the same as ten households, the minimum number for a synagogue to form.

The church is the New Testament analog of the synagogue. Once you get past a certain point in numbers, you have to develop the formal procedures typical of synagogues. That means women sit in the back with the children. Boys roughly 12 and up sit with the men down front. The division is so that men can more easily converse with the teachers about things of the Law and ritual. The deeper spiritual meanings are supposed to be covered in the sermons. It’s not a question of being closer to God, but a question of establishing a way to live in this fallen realm. By God’s Law, men are in charge of that. By God’s Law, women have to work alongside their men to implement what the Law indicates is the right way to do things in a covenant life.

And we don’t get there by man’s reasoning and logic, as the Pharisees did. We get there by a deeply mystical approach through heart wisdom as the ancient Hebrews did. We get there by holy cynicism about fallen human nature, and a distrust of fleshly comforts. We get there by realizing that Satan has been granted a certain amount of authority over the situation even when we are compliant with the Law. The Devil is the “Prince of the Power of the Air” — a fancy phrase meaning that he rules wherever mortal humans are breathing. Your resurrection body won’t require human breath, but the breath of God. But this is the Devil’s realm; he’s the warden of this prison existence.

There are limits on his power, but those limits aren’t concrete so that human reason can discern them. They are contextual like the Word itself. A lot depends on what God grants to either party at the time. A big fat majority of all we do in Christian living is praying; that makes us a party to the ongoing courtroom drama in Heaven. And it behooves us to cultivate a heart-led posture so that we can hear the proceedings with our spirits, because the flesh is never a party in God’s Presence.

One more coming in this series.

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Minor Prophets Revision Ready for Printing

Posted on September 14, 2021 by ehurst

AT-Minproph is now ready for printing. We are chugging along….

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See the Forest 03

Posted on September 14, 2021 by ehurst

Cutting down one tree doesn’t change the forest.

If you can understand how Judaism is a big lie against God’s Word as revealed by Moses, then you are ready to learn what Moses actually said.

Take a look at things from the wide view. In terms of the Spirit Realm, there is no difference between male and female, Jew and Gentile, white or black, etc. However, the Law says that in terms of how we live in this fallen world, there will be some differences. The Law and Ritual remind us that we are in a fallen, mortal realm.

So, in the Law, men had to worry about being ritually clean before they come into the Temple. Women didn’t have so much to worry about that, but then they didn’t come all the way into the Temple. It’s not that they weren’t welcome in the Lord’s Presence. He could be found in the Court of Women and the Court of Gentiles, and on other mountains across the whole world. He wants people to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. The issue with the Temple and rituals was accountability before the Lord for the burdens He chose to put on each.

Men are accountable to God for things women are not. That’s before the Fall. However, after the Fall, this becomes a matter of substantial ritual differences.

First of all, we have to understand that the pre-Fall accountability issue assumes the family household before the Lord. If you find yourself orphaned out into this world, that’s one thing. But God assumes human life is tribal and feudal with or without the Fall. Being a single individual is the exception. Do you see how the Western viewpoint perverts this? Everything in the law of the land tilts toward what God says is the exception, the anomaly. It insists on equality before the law, and the “rule of law” as the false god men must worship. The Bible says it is the other way around, that the Person of God is the Living Law.

Facing God’s Law for this fallen world, men and women are different. Insider and outsider to the Covenant are treated differently. And the Law of God says you shall not be inclusive and diverse. You shall be clannish and tribal and exclude folks who don’t see the world the way you do.

Being cosmopolitan works only in the Spirit Realm. It’s an abomination to God in this fallen realm of existence.

Have you begun to see the pattern here? In the West, the first group in politics is feminist; it’s based on the fallen female outlook. The second group is based on the fallen male outlook. Both of them assume that whatever Paradise means, it will be here on this earth. Thus, it is anathema in fallen thinking to separate things into the fleshly versus spiritual. They force things into this world that cannot belong to this world.

The fallen female outlook insists on mothering all humanity. This is the source of the pernicious notion that men are just oversized children. Only mothers can be deities. And the fallen male outlook bears that evil cynicism that consigns most males under the female thumb, while the secretive leadership takes an entirely different path for themselves. You can bet that the true leaders are spiteful toward women. You can see the roots of it in the Jewish male prayer, thanking their god for not making them female.

The Cult insists on bringing Heaven down to Earth. They demand that their god recreate Eden in this fallen realm.

We’ve got a little more in this series.

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See the Forest 02

Posted on September 13, 2021 by ehurst

Don’t get lost dancing around one tree, so that you don’t see the forest.

Jesus taught the Law of Moses. The Beatitudes come from Moses. The otherworldly outlook was the core of the Covenant. The reason you don’t hear that much in church is because the church was long ago hijacked by the Pharisees, which is the same as Judaism. The Judaizers won organizationally; the churches were subverted. John prophesied of this in Revelation. All we have today is this lie that the Law was somehow quite different from what it actually says in the Bible.

We have been kicked out of Eden. The ground grows for us thorns and thistles; life outside of Eden is supposed to suck. At its best, it’s very difficult, and you should be longing for what comes after this life. The Sermon on the Mount starts off with a pointed rejection of the false doctrine of the Pharisees that says: Wealth is the mark of God’s favor, and poverty is the mark of God’s disfavor. The first line Jesus said was that poverty is actually the mark of God’s favor.

And He goes on to emphasize how the world built by the Pharisees was a rejection of what Moses actually said. This system of unrighteous oppression was rigged up in favor of the rich and powerful, to keep them rich and powerful. It was rigged against God’s people, because the rich and powerful were convinced that they alone were God’s true people, and anyone poor was accursed. You have to read the Sermon on the Mount in that context.

I noted in the weekly Bible lesson that Jesus never told His wealthy supporters to dump their wealth. They were already in the process of doing that. They had decided to support His ministry. His work and His teaching were what really mattered to them, so their wealth was not that important. It was only a tool for God’s glory. That’s the proper perspective on material wealth.

And this whole teaching of God’s blessing on poverty extends into the issue of political power. How blessed are those who reject political power! How blessed are those who see it only as a tool to glorify the Lord. And glorifying the Lord means despairing of this life and it’s fallen systems so that we can return to Eden.

You are supposed to hate this life, not the people in it. Sure, the vast majority of those you encounter are cattle herded by demons, and so they shall remain. But at any given moment, in any given context, there will be a few who somehow come within reach of your gospel message, and they will be ready to receive the Word. That Word is rejection of this life, first and foremost.

Yep, there’s more.

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See the Forest 01

Posted on September 12, 2021 by ehurst

See the broad sweep of things, the mega-trends. See the trees as part of the forest, so that you understand the forest itself.

The West is dying, with the US as the crown jewel that will die the hardest. It’s going to be ugly, because the very character of what made the US so powerful is also what makes it so deadly to itself.

Real humans will divide into dozens of tribes. The current division in the US into two groups is wholly artificial; it’s a prison for the mind. They are many labels and it doesn’t matter which you want to apply.

The one group insists that there is no human soul; it’s just a metaphor. There is no morality and no limits to what those in power can and should do for their convenience. They worship themselves because they are certain that they are gods. They don’t hide, but are eager to use naked force to exert power.

The other group believes there is a soul, but that it’s not important for anyone but the leaders. They have a divine destiny to rule, and it’s perfectly fine to create a mythology for the people to become obedient to the chosen. They rule almost wholly by deception.

It gets even crazier when you realize that the second group more or less built the first as a foil. This second group keeps control of technology and encourages the first group to be ignorant of how it can be used. That’s how they stay on top, though they don’t want anyone to realize how it works. The division itself is a part of their wider deceptive agenda. Everything the first group does is closely monitored and guided by the second.

We little people are just the cannon fodder in this false war. They consider us little more than a teeming mass to be herded for their use. They don’t really want us dead because our labor is the source of their comforts. However, they certainly don’t worry when their choices cause a mass slaughter; there’s always more to breed and grow into yet another facile mass.

But keep in mind that this whole image is simply the result of the first group having steered humanity into Western Civilization. That civilization is about to end, and it will require the first group to come up with another plan. There is a broad sense in which the western white races will fade away into history, and eastern whites will simply take up a secondary role on the world scene. The future belongs to brown people. If the Lord tarries, perhaps the next cycle after that will see black people dominating the earth. And it won’t matter.

There is no saving the white race, and certainly no saving America. The organized church was the agent for building the West, but it was a church long after it left behind the gospel message. God created only one culture, and that was Hebrew. Anything man has done since then is from the Devil. The West is inherently Satanic, and America is the pinnacle of the West.

I’ve told the story before: When Jews decided to abandon their Covenant, which meant abandoning their God, they gave themselves to another deity — Satan. The Devil is the power behind all false idols. As Christ said so poignantly, the Jewish god could be called Mammon. The whole point of this shift was to crystallize the Fall into a religion. All future civilizations will arise from this false religion. The early churches were hijacked and placed under a hierarchy by the Jews, who worked behind the scenes during the entire Church History.

Even now, Satan is moving in their sage leadership (The Cult), working on hijacking the brown races, and creating yet another false civilization. Who knows what it will look like? So our message is the gospel, and the gospel has always called people back to what the Hebrew culture was supposed to bring about in human living.

Oh, there’s more on this.

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New Testament Doctrine — Matthew 5:1-12

Posted on September 11, 2021 by ehurst

Jesus had declared that the Law of Moses was meant to be flexible on some things, including Sabbath observance. There were priorities, and there was no need to protect the Sabbath from people, but that the Sabbath protected the people from the powerful and those who obsessed over serving fleshly interests. In other words, the Sabbath was meant to give folks a break from the likes of the oppressive Pharisees. So it was that the Pharisees finally had a reason to make peace with the Herodian Party in agreeing they needed to get rid of Jesus.

During this growing consultation between Pharisees and Herodians, Jesus began hanging around the shore of Galilee much more closely. Indeed, He instructed His disciples to keep a boat close to Him at all times, because the crowds might drive Him into the water. And what massive crowds they were! People from all over the Jewish lands, including the Edomite territory, were hounding Him day and night, pressing in on Him so that they might be healed of ailments or demons.

After a while like this, He slipped out one evening to the mountains to pray. He stayed there all night long. Very early in the morning, He called His disciples away with Him. The group of those who were faithful followers, not just desperately in need, had grown quite large. From this bunch, He picked out twelve to be His full-time assistants. He ordained them with the authority to preach and heal, as He did.

We know their names: Simon Peter and Andrew, James and John (“Sons of Thunder”), Nathaniel Bartholomew and Philip, Matthew Levi, Thomas, James the Less, Simon the Zealot, Jude Thaddeus, and Judas Iscariot. There’s a whole church mythology about these men, most of it wholly unwarranted. As previously noted, there’s reason to believe as many as five of them were cousins of Jesus. Nepotism is a virtue in the Bible, just another name for tribal feudalism, a fundamental element of Biblical Law.

Instead of a banquet to celebrate their ordination, He called them up onto some hilltop for a special teaching session, now called Sermon on the Mount. There’s no doubt the crowd followed them, but He addressed Himself to the Twelve. If we collate this message as it appears in Matthew with a similar message in Luke (6:20-26), we end up with a different spin on things. See if you can follow along.

Given the serious problem with materialism among Jewish leaders and teachers, Jesus declared that being a pauper was actually a major asset in this life. If all your treasures are moral in nature, then you clearly could focus on the business of the Spirit Realm. You’ll notice that Jesus proposed giving up worldly wealth only to those who made the mistake of thinking it was the mark of God’s favor. Actually, poverty might be a sign of divine favor. Jesus had several wealthy donors, and they kept their wealth, primarily so they could keep His ministry afloat. They understood the reason God grants some people wealth, and that one’s greatest investment is in people.

So, if someone could see the moral perversion in this world, and mourn at how this all ignores revelation, they were on the list invited to an eternal celebration when this is all over.

It is a real blessing when you don’t take yourself too seriously. There needs to be a part of you that pulls away from the fleshly nature and keeps an eye on things that really matter to the Creator. Don’t defend your reputation, but His. In the end, you’ll always sense just how much you are in control of things He has placed in your hands.

Thus, your whole ambition is the glory of God’s name. All that really matters is His justice in your life. With that kind of orientation, you can bet He will supply everything you could possibly need.

If you love what God loves, He’ll certainly love you. The greatest super-power anyone could ask for is the ability to sacrifice the fleshly self in favor of divine compassion, because your greatest enemy is part of you.

Purge yourself of fleshly desires. When you find out what your appetites are supposed to do, and how God provides for all your needs, it’s a whole lot easier see the character of the Father in every situation. You’ll know how to make His nature visible.

The people who give themselves to shalom are the happiest people on earth. Don’t be afraid of human conflict; that’s part of a mortal existence. Rather, find a path through our natural differences to peace with God.

Naturally, peace with God puts you at odds with the world. The worldly system is intolerant of the otherworldly commitment. You belong to the Kingdom of Heaven, and they can’t bear that. So when you face persecution from worldly people, it’s a sure sign that you are what God intended for you to be. It means you are in the same company as all the prophets of old.

All of this is in the Covenant of Moses.

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Odds and Ends 10

Posted on September 11, 2021 by ehurst

1. For something like three months, I would get up to go to work on the night shift. Show time varied during the week from midnight to four in the morning. For about an hour before I left, I would get dressed and wander the sidewalks of my neighborhood (Capitol Hill in OKC) and pray out loud in the solitude of empty streets.

That was 35 years ago, and I felt the call to missions. At that time, I knew my mission field — the military. It was just a matter of praying so that the military would take me back for a second tour of duty. It took a few months, but they did. I went off to wherever the military wanted me to go and it was a very powerful time in my life, something like 6 years. It came to an end when my knees went bad. The military wanted to keep me, but I knew it was over. More importantly, the mission had run its course. The people who were open to my ministry had rotated out, and the new crowd had little interest in such things.

That door is now completely closed; the military has no use for me at all. And to be honest, I was quite willing to make my local area the mission field. So I began praying toward that in all sincerity, using the same basic prayer methods. I get out on the sidewalks before dawn and stroll slowly, praying out loud for the Lord’s Presence to come and fill the place.

So now I’m getting visions of traveling to another place. These visions aren’t coming from inside my own head. But there is no sense of who is the mission field, and certainly not where. Most of all, there is no sense of who would sponsor this mission, no sense of an ostensible cover for it. So now I have to pray in more generic ways about this until the Lord sees fit to add some definition.

2. I’d rather we don’t use that “Mark of the Beast” language for the vaccines. Yes, it’s oppression and tribulation, but it’s not that kind of oppression. I know that whatever is actually in those injections is something that kills a few quickly, and a few more somewhat slowly. The vast majority will suffer long term debilitating effects that won’t manifest for years, but will certainly shorten their lives. A few will show no effects at all, and some very few will be protected by divine intervention. And the more jabs people take, the worse the effects will be. That is reason enough to resist.

It doesn’t qualify as the Mark of the Beast because it’s not an outright moral evil to take the shots. It’s not a question of breaking the Covenant, which is what the symbol means in the Bible. There is no particular idolatrous allegiance involved. It may sound good to some folks to sell that imagery for propaganda purposes, but that’s not a good reason to resist. It’s just a health threat with economic strings attached.

3. You should expect a rapid rise in madness, of outlandish behavior and statements. Demonic activity of that sort often takes time to develop and bear fruit. I saw it coming some years ago, and it’s only going to get worse. Recently was a big surge in my area. Some of it is simply people who have been doing evil for a long time have suddenly pushed their luck and got caught. Some of it is people just going off the deep end in the same direction they’ve been heading all along. This is how it works when the Lord’s wrath falls on a country like ours.

So you should expect a significant rise in hostility, of political hatred expressed in words and actions, and all kinds of inhumanity. There is no such thing as social restraint any more. Try to understand: External restraints are contextual. When the Lord’s wrath starts flowing in earnest, those collapse. At the same time, people seeking a clear conscience before the Lord will find more strength with internal restraints. The Lord’s Presence is polarizing that way.

4. Keep an eye on economics. Any day now, the just-in-time delivery system will break down. It won’t be all at once; it will be worse in some places. In your area it will cover different things compared to other areas. Already we are seeing locally a significant rise in some food prices. It becomes a matter of adjusting one’s diet and cooking habits.

But it’s the same all the way throughout the chain of supply, affecting the people who provide your food. For example, we have a lot of dairies around my area, but I expect the prices to shoot through the roof rather suddenly, especially for liquid milk. The weak link in the chain is the processing and packaging. That could simply disappear all at once. Try to imagine dairies scrambling to do direct sales because the centralized milk plants shut down. Bring your own containers out to meet the truck or horse-drawn wagon.

Anything highly centralized is vulnerable.

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Still Feeling My Way Along

Posted on September 10, 2021 by ehurst

I’m flawed; I’m a fallen creature subject to any number of failures. The Lord has a lot of work on His hands with me, and I often wonder why He chose to use me in the first place.

But He did. Deluded or not, I’m absolutely convinced that He has anointed me to serve His purpose in revelation. That revelation is the thing; all the rest is just a tool for that. That includes me. My life is just a resource for His revelation. Here in the US, we refer to that colloquially as “the gospel ministry.”

That’s the focus of my being. I have to clarify and spread the gospel message. That’s two different things, and they are done differently. I’ve already noted that I believe the Internet is the wrong place to try spreading the message, at least in terms of emphasis. Because of how God has appointed the propagation of the gospel to happen via personal encounters with real people, very few can be reached through the impersonal medium of the Internet.

But that leaves the question of clarification, and that most certainly can be done on the Internet. That’s a big chore, and it’s one that we need to do, because the human race has traveled far away from the time and place when Jesus walked on this earth.

Most of you who read this blog came to join our little online community because of the clarification you found, not because you didn’t have the gospel already. We still need that. I need it from you, too.

I need your prayers, as well. Over the past couple of months, the Lord has moved in ways that caught me off-guard. He’s caused me to eat some of the words I posted here. That’s why I try to make them easy to swallow; I try to leave room for you to doubt anything I write. That way you remain self-reliant in your faith. I keep saying that you shouldn’t buy into everything I say, because it may be changed somewhere down the road. Rather, let my writing be something that provokes your own introspection and prayer.

One of the things that has been refined in prayer is my understanding of where I need to go in the near term. I was ready to drop the whole computer and Internet thing, if the Lord required that of me. But He was trying to shake me loose from a false apprehension about certain things, and in His wisdom, He knew what it would take to get my attention. This is the “clue-by-four” some of us require now and then.

So there was a need for dividing my ministry into two domains. On the one hand, we need very much a renewal of face-to-face ministry, and lots of prayer behind it. We must break a thousand bad habits churches have accumulated over the centuries. We need a better way to share the gospel with people who don’t have it, or don’t have enough of it. On the other hand, this business of clarification has to keep going out into the lives of fellow believers.

It was a little confusing for me at first. I’ve had to take the time to absorb the message from the Lord about how to do these things. I confess the methods and means are still confusing to me in some measure. After all I’ve done to attack Google as an institution on this earth, I wasn’t prepared to hear the Lord tell me to commit a major portion of my work into Google’s care. But I can understand how sometimes the best way to face a huge enemy is to be too close and too small for them to swipe at you. I’m not trying to become a major figure on the Internet, just a little nobody slipping in and out.

And I’ve long known that my ministry is aimed at a very small audience. I’m called to help the nonconformists, the oddballs who don’t benefit much from the mainstream. The mainstream isn’t necessarily an enemy, except by accident at times, but they aren’t a target of anything I do. It’s just a matter of tactics, not strategy, when I address the ways they are different from me. I have to be careful sometimes to distinguish myself from them, so that the oddballs can pick me out as one of them.

Have you ever wondered about the paradox of being united in our variableness?

So here’s what you can expect: Once I finish with the revision of my books and committed them to print-on-demand, I’ll be through with Microsoft stuff. Future documents will be offered in either Open Document format (LibreOffice, et al) or Google Docs, or PDF for convenience’s sake. I have no doubt I’ll keep cranking out the verbiage in excessive amounts as I have in the past, but I’m changing the packaging. No more ebooks. I’m not sure why the Lord is telling me not use MS Office in the future, but that’s for Him to worry about. I’ll keep my copy of MS Office 2000 simply because I like the grammar tools, but the file format is off the table. The primary issue here is backing away from the current existing corporation and it’s products.

I suspect whatever future is left for the Internet includes Google winning some of the battles and Microsoft fading away. That’s not a word from God, just my current human impression of things.

I’ve converted my desktop machine to Linux Mint. It’s less hassle than anything else I might use, but that’s not meant to influence your choices. All our home LAN stuff is served up via SSH; I’ve installed FileZilla on my wife’s computers and made an account for her on my machine for file sharing. That way she can log in and I can keep it all quite secure compared to something like Samba. The folks who develop Samba have decided to make it as arcane and Byzantine as possible, so that only highly experienced systems admins can do anything with it. You have to read a book-length manual to use it, and it’s written so ordinary users cannot possibly comprehend. SSH is a simple matter of installing it, and it works fine by default, and it’s more secure.

I’m still trying to learn the Tao of Chromebooks. Eventually I’ll see what the Lord had in mind when He moved me to get one. When it comes time to spend the money, I’ll pay for a basic account with Google instead of Microsoft. The applicable email address for my Chromebook is jehurst at gmail.

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The Ultimate Conspiracy

Posted on September 9, 2021 by ehurst

I want to offer yet one more effort to explain the truth.

It’s the ultimate conspiracy: to silence the gospel message. And while there is plenty of hateful force involved from time to time, the real issue is blinding the people so they cannot see it. The ultimate deception is not a million hidden agendas held by those who claim to have power over the human race. Rather, the illusion of power is the biggest deception of all.

This world is a lie; it’s supposed to be psychotic and unpleasant. It cannot be made sane. Every thing you think brings you happiness is the very thing that entraps you in this world. Chasing human happiness requires you let go of what we lost in Eden.

So returning to Eden means ditching this world. At the very least, you stop taking this life seriously. The only reason we stick around is that this our one chance to seize the path back to Eden. That path is in this world, but not of this world.

That path is a total rejection of this world. It’s through the Covenant; it means embracing the privilege. The privilege means living in this false world by rules of the true world. We expose the lie by how we live for another realm. We walk in the Biblical Law of the Covenant to show how this world is false.

On the one hand, Biblical Law is how this world actually works. But you must understand that in the frame of not wanting this world in the first place. By embracing the revelation, we realize that this world doesn’t work very well at its best. If you could create an enclave of true Biblical Law obedience with a community of faith, it would still suck. That’s as good as it gets. So without Biblical Law, it’s unspeakably hideous.

So the Big Lie is that this world matters, and that humans can accomplish things that can make this world right. The problem is that humans cannot know what is right without rejecting this world.

And once more, for the record: “this world” is the orientation of mortal humans rejecting revelation. It is the futility of believing that man can accomplish anything that matters outside of divine revelation. That’s why this world is so crazy. It calls the Creator a liar.

So, despite our best efforts to publish the truth of things, humanity is blinded to the message. It seems to them something obscure, esoteric, almost secret. It’s not that they can’t understand, but they refuse to understand. This alienation from the truth is the real conspiracy, the best kept secret standing right out in broad daylight.

Live your life in this world by rejecting this world.

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