Weed = tares -- weeds sown among the wheat, and left until the harvest to be burned. The tares are burned first. Mt. 12:34-43. It is best not to be a tare. DB Cooper may have got millions in his sky heist of NW Airlines but what good did it do him? When Mt. St. Helens blew, some of the money washed downstream.
N. California is full of left wingers and overage hippies who probably grow their own...weed.
Country life is closer to that of the original Jewish herdsmen who raised animals, sacrificed them and saw blood and the consequences of sin. Farmers see life and death, blood, gore and pain involving animals and while city dwellers tend think of meat as coming in a plastic-wrapped styrofoam tray and or from McDonald's labeled, "Have it your way." Those are very different worldview. In Bible days people understood that sheep were to follow the shepherd, but today sheep and cattle are rounded-up by dogs and don't know the Shepherd. He who chases the sheep instead of leading them is the butcher. Today as JBTs round-up Christians, starting at the edges of the herd with the McGuckins and the Christines, we can be certain that truth is fallen in the street:
Isa 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
For those who hold the truth in unrighteousness and love the things of the world, there is a train wreck coming. The formerly Christian nation has given birth to those who know not God. Whether country people or city people, too many have given their minds to the globalist worldview pumped 24/7 from television, movies and the media. That media is controlled by the globalist power elite have melded the worldviews of country people and city people until people who pretty much do what they are told.
The churches in Grants Pass displayed their fruits of ungodliness when they failed to help the Christines in their hour of need and therefore betrayed them and manifested themselves as the unfruitful works of darkness, despisers of them that are good and pretty much the whole 2 Tim 3 list of a form of godliness."Ah consensus … the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?" — Margaret Thatcher
I am a great respecter of volcanoes and don't want to be close or downwind when one goes off. Mt. St. Helens sent a cloud around the world and others in history have darkened the skies and changed the weather for months.2 Timothy 3:1-7 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
A man had a dream in which he was in a tall building in downtown Portland, OR in an office strange to him, at an unfamiliar desk and seeing both Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens erupting at the same time. He thought the dream was silly until later when he got a new job and sat down at his desk and recognized the office and the view from his window of both Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens, exactly as he saw in the dream. He said he knew it would happening. Anyone watching the NEIC Earthquake List regularly will see the Pacific plate is rattling like a pot on the stove which was left on High and frequently there are quakes on opposite sides of the lid. As we see all these birth pangs come on the world, it is a good day to repent.
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.