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Psalm 102

This is a siege prayer. Whether the occasion is a literal siege matters not; there are many contexts that feel just the same — there is no where to turn for escape from the sorrow, and nothing to occupy the … Continue reading

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The Beast

I honestly believe that the standard bureaucratic hive-mind is the single best manifestation of the Beast in John’s Apocalypse. It works best if you envision the bureaucratic hive-mind as a beast, not a person. There are people involved, but no … Continue reading

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Meta: Second Edition of Study in Revelation

Finally got my butt in gear and finished rewriting the Bible study guide for John’s Revelation. You can read it at this link: Ancient Truth: Revelation (2nd ed) As with everything else, you are free to save it and keep … Continue reading

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Rewrite: Revelation 18

As I’m working through my study in Revelation, I realized I left out an awful lot. Here is a sample of the revised material. My whole idea is that you climb out of moral distraction and find the peace God … Continue reading

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Eyes of the Heart

“You’re just seeing things!” How often have you heard that? We understand the fundamental question addressed here: Most people react to their perceptions in fairly simplistic ways. If you see an obstacle in your path, you would normally step around … Continue reading

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Crushed by Glory

Over the years since my formal conscious departure from social convention, I’ve often found myself still dragging the weight of false conditioning. My mental reflexes are still wrong in so many ways. That in itself was a source of great … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Forgiveness

I suppose for some folks it’s just not obvious enough. We are all born in sin. If you try to reason about culpability, you’ll never understand. Rather, you start from the understanding that your human nature is broken — for … Continue reading

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Psalm 67

David specifies that this psalm is best with stringed instruments. It’s easy to miss the profound thoughts carried in so few words. We should examine the contextual meaning of the phrases here. Even if Israel failed often as a nation … Continue reading

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Latest Edition of the Tower of Babel

I’ve noted often that if you evaluate Western Civilization by Western values, it’s hard to notice the flaws. There are different kinds and levels of systems, but Western Civilization as a system is devoted to proving the system is right. … Continue reading

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The Cult, Part 1

There is a secretive cabal committed to enslaving humanity to their agenda. Try to understand that my use of the term “cult” here does not signal a discrete organization as we might typically expect from our cultural mythology. In fact, … Continue reading

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