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Posted on 09/17/2021 6:52:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
The world will never again be what it was. Those of us who love and cherish our heritage of freedom and liberty will be better prepared to deal with the new world order that demands and struggles to enforce conformity.
Authoritarianism is on the ascendancy. Freedom of thought and acts of conscience will be thoroughly suppressed. This is an age in which anyone who differs will be declared the enemy and pursued relentlessly.
Free elections will no longer be held between political parties with differing versions of how to seek the betterment of America. We will no longer have a succession of leaders of opposing views. Those now in power will never release their iron grasp willingly. You will never again have a ballot that determines the outcome of an election.
From now on, everything will be absolutely orchestrated as much as a drama you might once have seen on Broadway. The actors will never deviate from the script. There will be no ad-libs. There may be Freudian slips but those will be covered up immediately.
Who is the master playwright who has set this real-life stage play in motion? It is he who told Adam and Eve that they would not surely die if they disobeyed God’s command not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is he who tempted Jesus Christ in the wilderness for 40 days. It is the father of lies. It is the fallen angel Lucifer, Satan, the Devil. If you’ve been taught that only wacko Christian fundamentalists would believe such a literal translation, just watch what is coming in the world very soon.
If scripture scares you, it should. Unless you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.
Matthew 24
3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, `I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains. 9 Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.“
Does it sound like some contemporary author wrote those words about our present society? They were written by one of the disciples of Jesus who was with him daily for the three years of his earthly ministry nearly 2,000 years ago. There have been many dark epochs in human history. But, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, you cannot honestly deny what a close fit our present-day is to that prophecy.
We live in a world where good is punished and evil is rewarded. You see it happening around you all the time. God is not causing this. It is the result of that wrong decision made by Adam and Eve. They believed the devil’s lie rather than God’s Truth. So God let all of us who are their descendants find out for ourselves the consequences of trying to elevate our mortal finite minds as the ultimate authority.
John 3
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
This is neither a sermon nor an abstract lesson in theology. Let’s think of this in terms of what we are experiencing right now. When you write a thoughtful counterpoint to an authoritarian government edict, you are accused of disrespect, disloyalty, disobedience, impertinence, and obvious stupidity for failing to see the inherent superiority of government officials. What you will never see is a thoughtful substantive point-by-point response to your concerns. You are not considered worthy to have an answer. They are right and you are wrong. They don’t have to explain themselves, they can do what they do because they have the power to do it. You don’t deserve to be treated as an equal. Perhaps your parents told you when you were a little child, “because I told you so”. When you elect someone to a political office, they are not a surrogate for your mother and father.
The dilemma today for people who still consider all sides of an issue to make an informed decision is where to obtain reliable trustworthy information, input and feedback. I guarantee you that it will never emanate from the mainstream media. Nor will it ever leak from the ivory towers of power in Washington DC, the 50 state capitals or many city halls in America. Deceit, greed and corruption are what got these people where they are. Don’t be a Pollyanna who trusts them to do the right thing. They never will and the longer you delay taking responsibility for your own life, the more difficult it will be down the road.
Most of us just want to be left alone to live our own lives. But, that will never happen again. Not in America. Nowhere. The worst thing we can do is to allow ourselves to be co-opted into surrendering our integrity. They will inflict death by 1,000 cuts.
Today they will require you to take a potentially fatal vaccine contrary to your better judgment. Then they will tell you to take an endless succession of boosters indefinitely. They will continue to move back the goalposts. Don’t be the rabbit chasing the carrot on a stick because you will never, never get it. They say, just do this and then that will be enough. Then they add on one additional mandate after another.
Today here in Hawaii, you cannot eat in a restaurant, exercise in the gym or study in a library unless you are one of the vaccinated. My question is, do we put on the yellow star today or does that come later. I do realize this is Yom Kippur. This is not equivalent to the Holocaust. But, once they categorize you as a dangerous segment of society based upon their paranoia and prejudice, once they encourage others to become vigilantes, once they declare that you have no rights independent of what they temporarily deign to give you, you are already on the slippery slope to perdition.
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States of America, realized that the government does not grant our liberties, rather the government must recognize and respect that we have these liberties as a gift of Almighty God. We won’t hear eloquent words of wisdom like these from the current occupant of the Oval Office. Instead, he will tell us it’s not about liberty or freedom, just get the d*mn vaccination because I told you to.
When America has fallen so far from our origins, we will never regain our heritage. Do not expect an empire in decline to ever restore its glory. Ironically, they used to call the United States flag “Old Glory”! Now they just stomp on it and call it a dangerous, racist, unconscionable symbol.
I cannot help but use reason and logic. That is my education, my training, my nature. But that simply will not fly in today’s society. An articulate framing of the issues will be met by ignorance, being ignored and eventual hostility when they cannot defend the indefensible, when they have no answers to serious questions.
There will always be a remnant of individuals who think for themselves and who essay to do what is right because it is right. But, this will be in a milieu of a brainwashed mass of humanity who simply submit and do as they are told. When they can’t handle the message, their only resort is to attack the messenger.
This is not an easy time to be such a messenger. Jesus said that when the message of His Gospel (Good News) is preached in all the world, then He will return to set things straight. He came the first time as a Lamb Who did not overthrow the Roman Empire. But when He comes back, He will come as a Lion. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
It’s easy to compose words in a secular context. But when it comes to the spiritual, somebody is sure to take offense. Today I’m not writing to the powers-that-be. They have already sealed their own fate. I’m just trying to help fulfill the Great Commission to share the love of Jesus Christ with a world which has no other hope.
When you can’t trust your President, your Governor, your Mayor or even your neighbor, perhaps not even your own children, you realize that there is only One Creator Who loved us so much that He came into the world in human form to pay the penalty for our sins, taking the punishment we deserve, to suffer an agonizing death on a cruel cross, to resurrect and ascend back to Heaven that we might have life eternal.
Whether you spend four or even five score years here on earth, what will it have been worth if you forfeit your soul? That’s why I believe it is a blessing rather than a curse to live in this day and age. It’s no longer possible to be apathetic and lulled into a sense of complacency. The words of the Bible are no longer just written on parchment and translated into every dialect on earth, they are unfolding where we live and breathe and have our being at this very moment.
I have always been a person who loves history and is nostalgic for the bygone era. That is gone. That which is to come is even better yet. No athletic contest is rewarding if your opponent just concedes. But if you fight the good fight and you prevail, you realize that the pain and the struggle were worth the trophy.
Salvation is not earned. It is a free gift of God. But unless we persevere to the end against all odds, we will fall by the wayside. Unlike today’s human leaders, God does not keep moving the goalposts. If you are still with me at this point, you realize that earthly satisfaction is but a placebo.
Rather than being distracted by wars, rumors of wars and the deprivation of our liberties, let us realize this ephemeral struggle is not worthy to be compared to the ultimate victory which was sealed when Jesus overcame evil and death. If you lived in any other age in the history of the world, you would be assured that one day your mortal body would die. We are nearing the conclusion of the 70th week of Daniel. The human drama has reached its final act. The curtain will soon fall.
Revelation 21
3b “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
No one here is surrendering to Satan.
BS. I read the post and thats exactly what he is suggesting. That is if you think Biden and the dems are evil, that they’re doing the work of Satan, thus you’re surrendering to them, to Satan. So claim you’re not but all of you who agree with that post are surrendering to Satan. Period, end of story.
bttt
2 Cor 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
Were the Puritans surrendering to Satan when they risked all and came here?
Surrendering to Satan is when you attack your friends because you are so consumed with hatred for your enemies.
Yes. That is exactly what Jehovah demands. The rewards of the Faithful are not in this life, but in the next.
That statement is going to piss a few people off, but it’s true.
Me? I’m a heathen. I’d rather be out giving Communists one-way helicopter rides. But all the “love they neighbor” types have made that exceedingly difficult. Even talking about such 1776 options here on FR are highly frowned upon, completely aside from OpSec/PerSec concerns.
Tyranny is HERE. It’s either fight, literally, or submit. There can be no truce with Evil.
Christians need to reach back and find their inner Crusaders or we’re all done for. The rest of us just don’t have the numbers to match the Communists.
“The world will never again be what it was. Those of us who love and cherish our heritage of freedom and liberty will be better prepared to deal with the new world order that demands and struggles to enforce conformity.”
Yet another article disguised as ‘religion’ telling people to just sit back and take it instead of fighting.
NO THANKS!!!
I plant to fight!
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That’s very funny! That’s how I think....
My realistic self tells me we lost our country almost fifty years ago when our 'Supreme Court' authorized the killing of our unborn citizens. Everything after that is a slow decline to our final destruction. If only we had taken the actions our black communities took at the death of a lawless drug head for every ten murdered innocents; I don't believe we would be facing our nation's destruction.
I believe we are "Mystery Babylon," prophecied in both the Old and New bibles. If we are, and the characteristics are unmistakable, our coming destruction will be swift, brutal, and forever.
I wish we could change our inevitable downfall by asking God to forgive our horrendous atrocities, repent, and turn back to him. Maybe he then would, as the scriptures say. And if you believe in a 'living bible,' as I do, God may even unseal more of the scriptures to reveal our new future.
To turn this around:
Step one would be turning back to God. America, conceived and built by virtuous pioneers with the help of the Almighty, was the first self-government since the Israelites asked for and received their first king. The Constitution contrived around Godly principles is suitable only for moral people.
Step two would be to empty the current 'House of Prostitutes,' bought and paid for by the monied elite, by whatever means necessary. And replace these so-called 'Representatives' of the people with actual Representatives from every County and Parish in these fifty United States. Instead of about 450 representatives, most of whom are entrenched and bought off, there would be approximately 3,500 who would more naturally represent the desires and wishes of those in their local communities.
Step three would be figuring out how to make this happen through much thought and coordination.
Step four would be a call to action, implementing an actual plan to take back our government through a majority of states serving as the authority over the federal government to do so, as granted in the Constitution.
Step five is for those who win the argument to set everything right morally, legally, and historically.
Then, may God have mercy on America.
I believe we are “Mystery Babylon,” prophecied in both the Old and New bibles.
***Mystery Babylon is a RELIGION, not a country. The root word of Mystery is Knowledge Concealed. The root word of Babylon is from the Tower of Babel which was the Tower of Knowledge. The root word of science is Knowledge, and tecKNOWledgy as well. The worldwide RELIGION at the end times will be SCIENTISM — I believe.
Maybe some other time/thread we can compare notes on the subject. :)
Well, that may be true or it may not, but I for one no longer believe a lot of you, whom call yourselves Christians, are Patriots or the friends of Patriots anymore so I would say in this case your point is moot.
The problem with all this religion stuff is that the organized churches are doing the bidding of Satan now. Pope Francis, are you kidding me, he is Satan and yet so many Catholics just march right along in lock step with him.
Cool enough. Let me know, I can start the thread...
Would you want it to be a Caucus thread [caucus might be pre-trib dispensationalist or sumthin similar] under the religion moderator’s guidelines, or more of an [open] thread?
Religion and faith do a LOT of good for a people and their Culture.
It can also be twisted to some serious evil. Jim Jones comes to mind as an obvious example.
I don’t have the answer to this. All I know is we see outright evil all around us, by almost anyone’s metrics, and we are doing NOTHING about it but praying and hoping things get better.
History shows that the Founders were Christians and Deists. They did NOT sit around praying that the British would just let them be or trying to figure out how to hide their activities from their British masters...
Spot on.
“History shows that the Founders were Christians and Deists. They did NOT sit around praying that the British would just let them be or trying to figure out how to hide their activities from their British masters...”
Well, most of them did sit around and do their share of praying but yes, that’s mostly true. The founders though, were very judicious as to how they made their decision to go to war; how they made the case for Independence to the American people; also very judicious as to the timing of the decision to go to war. And even with all that it was still a third of the people were loyalists meaning they backed the British; another third didn’t committ either way and just waited to see who won; and the other third were the Patriots who fought and won the Revolution.
Remember, it was the British that made the first overt acts of war against the American People at Lexington and Concord.
So lets see, in WWI the Germans made the first overt acts of war; in WWII the Germans and Japanese made the first overt acts of war; in the Civil War the Confederacy made the first overt acts of war; in the Revolutionary War the British made the first overt acts of war. What do they all have in common, they all lost. Why, because they lost the moral high ground. It is very important that the enemies of the Constitution, the progressive socialist democrats make the first overt act of war, then we unquestionably have the moral high ground and its always best to occupy all of the high ground, moral or other, in any conflict.
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