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Presumption
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Presumption is connected to “audacity” which is “bold … disregard of normal restraints”.
Presume means “to undertake without … clear justification”.
In layman’s terms, it might be called assuming one can beat the odds ….
It is assuming one can run a tight schedule, leave at a precise time with no buffer zone, and still arrive on time without hitting any snags or delay points.
It is assuming in school that one can skip the daily discipline of class and study and then attempt at the last minute to cram for a test in order to come up with a passing grade.
It is assuming that one can show up once or twice during the course of a year at either the gym or church and have the same results as those who attend regularly and apply discipline on a regular basis.
Presumption appeals to the desire for comfort more than the daily grind of discipline, but it won’t yield the same results.
Presumption can be very destructive. Sleeping until the last minute, hitting the alarm off, rushing out the door, and running a yellow or red light (don’t do it) in the presumptive hope of getting somewhere on time may lead to an accident or death.
The Bible talks about the whole counsel of God as being necessary for success.
When any instruction is followed, whether the ordinary ordered steps of a recipe or the time taken to go through a pre-flight check list, it is important to determine that all required steps are correctly followed for the desired result to be obtained.
It would not expected, for example, for a cake to turn out correctly if the flour and oil are omitted. But then again, neither should life be expected to operate at full potential if instructions in the Word of God or directives by the Holy Spirit are omitted.
The Bible warns against presumption.
One form of presumption is assuming that God will pour out financial blessings without obedience to financial laws set out in the Word of God.
Here are some.
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
Haggai 2:2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.
3 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.
9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
It is not the whole counsel of God to quote “my God shall supply all my needs” without obedience to the tithe or the laws of sowing and reaping that are throughout the Bible.
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
There are requirements.
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
The tithe should be the first thing given out of any paycheck or income. It should not be an afterthought or “if you have enough”. Chances are you will never have enough if you put it last because it will be devoured if it is not given first.
If you tithe first one of the blessings may be that you make better financial decisions and don’t waste money and substance and/or don’t have certain crises that cost unexpected money.
Without obedience, a person comes out from under the umbrella of protection; the finances operate under the curse and are devoured.
It is presumption to expect prosperity without obedience.
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Pretending to be wise
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
There is a saying, “he played the fool“. One of the definitions is “He’s made his name acting the fool.”
The definition of foolishis “unwise, stupid, not showing good judgment”.
The administrative state, the occupier-in-chief administration, has not shown good judgment in bringing the world to the brink of WWIII.
How did this happen?
In insurance, there is something called a rider. An insurance policy is a basic policy and a rider modifies the basic policy; it “rides” the basic policy.
For a long time there has been a “Russia, Russia, Russia” bogeyman narrative. In politics, it extended from the Cold War. In prophecy, it came from a view that Russia would invade Israel. No matter the roots, people were conditioned to accept a “Russia, Russia, Russia” bogeyman interpretation without a whole lot of questioning.
To the left, “perception” is everything.
A parallel rider type of “bait and switch” occurred with the Covid plandemic. Those who took over the whole health care system and narrative rode in on the back of decades of health that attempted to operate through the Hippocratic Oath. When it was perceived that tares had been sown among the wheat, and that something else was going on, the reason general public perception finally changed was due to the reality of the cost of multiple deaths, individuals maimed, miscarriages, careers ended, small businesses destroyed, oligarchs enriched, and a general upending of society. The Covid narrative rode in on an assumption that those who in the health community wouldn’t do anything “bad” because they have historically been perceived as wanting to aid mankind, not hurt it, due to the Hippocratic Oath. But other agendas snuck in unperceived on that historical foundation, and other people snuck who were not bona fide doctors who actually cared for their patients.
But back to Russia … so because of historical narratives and an administrative state that cries “Russia, Russia, Russia” that fed into historical narrative perspectives, there was a certain going along with it.
The recent interview between Tucker Carlson and President Putin explains the historical roots of the problem. The West/NATO/US has been involved in covenant breaking and has forced Russia to protect its land, people, and traditions. The two-hour interview is available online. Russia would have made peace, but the West has refused.
So because the West/NATO/US “rode in” on perceived “Russia, Russia, Russia” narratives and not facts, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been murdered in a proxy war on behalf of the military industrial complex and the industry that makes money through destruction. This whole narrative threatens the world.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man
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Neighbor or Employee?
Because of the Christian heritage of the United States, there is fuzzy thinking about how to treat the government. Is it our neighbor or our employee?
The answer to that question determines how one acts towards the government.
The United States is a Constitutional Republic. “Democracy” is thrown around a lot in political speech, but the Founding Fathers did not want to create a democracy as a democracy dies a violent death.
The United States is based on representative government. The government is delegated a certain amount of authority by the people to function within certain limited defined limits. The government is paid for by the people through taxes. And if the government is out-of-line and not doing what it was told to do by the people, it is up to “we the people” to use lawful means to change that:
- voting and making sure the elections are clean and lawful
- showing up at school board meetings
- contacting representatives and senators
- exposing corruption
- using legal means to remove those who have failed to uphold their oath of office
Sometimes a focus is placed on simply doing what government says. “Just do what Caesar says and don’t think about it.” But that ignores civic responsibility and citizens actually do have responsibilities, not just rights. If a government has gone rogue, if a government has illegally gotten into power through a coup, through a stolen election … it is up to We the People to correct that.
The government is not a neighbor that we go the second mile with, or give the benefit of the doubt. Government has to respond the the will of the governed in accordance with the law, and if government does not, it has ceased to be a legal functioning government because it is in rebellion itself to the Constitution of the nation.
This was the whole premise of the Declaration of Independence.
If We the People are not willing to take their Constitutional responsibilities seriously, and keep government in line, then they have no one to blame but themselves.
Again, the fuzzy thinking is that we should simply “give them a pass” when they break the law because … why? … because we are supposed to be “nice people”? … because we turn the other cheek or go the second mile? No. Don’t confuse “neighbor” with “employee”. We are the employers of government, government answers to We the People. The government is not our neighbor, but our employee.
If you have a son that you give a job to, such as to take out the trash, and the boy drags the trash bag along, and the bag tears, and trash flies into the neighbors’ yards, do you give the boy a pass? Or do you sit him down, explain to him what you want, tell him to pick up all the trash and to not let it happen again?
And what if instead of trash more dangerous things fly out … open border invasions of military-aged young men and criminals who want to steal, kill and destroy within the nation; fentanyl; transgenderism; war to feed the military industrial complex stocks in industries of destruction; pedophilia; the destruction of the family; the destruction of the Bill of Rights; the destruction of the historic advancements of mankind … do you simply let it happen? Do you give it a pass?
Or do you say, I delegated the authority, and I will have to maintain a position of making sure the ones I delegated that authority stay in line with my requests?
Collectively, We the People, are responsible to make sure the govenment stays in line with the law and what it has been placed in office to do.
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The Land Vomits Out Its Inhabitants
Leviticus 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
One of the curses on a nation for disobedience to the Lord God is exile from the land, “the land vomiteth out her inhabitants”.
So how does that work nowadays?
I did a little bit of word study, using an online Strong’s Concordance and other online references … which send you back to multiple root meanings just as an English dictionary might do … as well as thinking about it, and these are my conclusions. You may not agree, and that’s fine.
1. One way to “vomit” people out of a nation is through war or plague; they die off and are “vomited out”. People can be sent off to war from one nation to another to fight, and when they are removed from the country, killed off.
2. “disgorging” riches … the economy is in a downward trajectory
3. “Fit together, fabricate artificially” … the invasion of multi-nationals who have no historical connection to the United States is an artificial fabrication and “fitting together”. Even though the United States used to have a process of legal immigration which was beneficial to the nation whereby people from other nations legally became citizens, what is currently happening is not that.
It reminds me of Daniel’s vision where the iron and the clay did not cleave together. The illegals are not cleaving to the Constitutional Republic. I know there are those who use this scripture in other considerations, but I have said before that my prophetical trajectory is different than mainstream, and you are welcome to reject my conclusions.
Daniel 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Here are some related points.
1. The redemption of Jesus Christ must be received personally.
2. At the forming of the nation of the United States, covenants were made with God. Actually, one of the suggestions for the national seal by Benjamin Franklin was the passing of the children of Israel through the Red Sea. Since individuals are redeemed, and not nations, we are experiencing nationally the consequences of the curse and the broken covenants with the Lord. The whole is the sum of the parts, of many individuals within the nation.
3. If we want better results nationally, the nation needs to be full of individuals who individually serve the Lord.
4. Economically, we are under a curse since the majority of people, including many Christians, do not tithe. Tithing was not part of the law that was eliminated by Jesus Christ. Abraham tithed and Abraham was before Moses who received the law. The law of sacrifices of bulls and sheep and goats was eliminated as Jesus was the Last Lamb slain and Jesus’s blood cleanses from all unrighteousness, rather than making a temporary covering as Old Testament sacrifices did. But other principles in the Old Testament are still in effect. Jesus said of tithing, these ye ought to have done and not to leave the other undone. And while there are two commandments, love God and love your neighbor, if you love your neighbor you will not be breaking the Ten Commandments in regard to your neighbor.
If you want to say that Jesus is coming again so none of this matters, that Jesus will clear it all up, fine.
But I believe the Bible shows us that we are stewards of this earth and need to be using our gifts and talents in accordance with the will of God until Jesus returns.
Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
What each part of the body of Christ does or does not do affects the rest of the body of Christ. If one part of a natural body does not due its job due to some injury, say a sprained ankle, it puts more stress on the rest of the body. Every individual member of the body does need to work at full capacity in whatever position they are given by the Lord. When one suffers, they all suffer. Plus eyes don’t need to be hands. Livers don’t need to be kidneys. Hearts don’t need to be ears. The body works best when all parts work in their own capacity. And, cells that go rogue and try to be something they are not called to be are called cancerous.
If members go to a church but never give their tithes and offerings that puts tremendous pressure on the leadership of the church and hinders potentials of the church. In every other venue … going to a movie, going to watch the NFL series, working out a gym, attending a seminar to learn something, going on a vacation … people pay money. But they go to church week after week and don’t give tithes or give a fraction of the tithe.
So the curse comes, the economy becomes worse, and what was not given in tithe, is taken away some other way.
Malachi 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Waking Up
For those who have been paying attention to these things, it is evident that the globalists have been working to depopulate the world; toxic vaccines or jabs; biological warfare plagues; poisons in the food supply; agendas to eliminate the food supply altogether, weather catastrophes created by HAARP and chemtrails that create droughts, floods, other disasters that destroy crops; transgenderism which includes operating on children so they can’t have children themselves when they are adults (effectively creating the eunuchs of long-ago civilizations), dangers from AIs…all these multi-headed warfare operations are being simultaneously deployed against humanity. Ultimately, satan is influencing these agendas at the highest levels of power.
It looks like the latest agenda that they want to add is war. This war in Ukraine was billed as something that was supposedly to preserve democracy and for security. That has been debunked. Think. You don’t have to go to Ukraine to increase security for the United States. Just start at the southern border.
No, they want to progress this war to a new level, as a new part of the depopulation agenda. It has not been enough to murder Ukrainians needlessly. Now they want to add other young men and women. One of the representatives in Congress has a great idea. Send those Congressmen who vote for this to serve in the military themselves.
In WWII, the church passively let Hitler come to power. There were some, notably Bonhoeffer and Niemöller who realized things earlier than others, but by the time the church woke up, it was too late.
These people need to be prayed out and also taken out by legal means. And there need to be international tribunals for the crimes. These are crimes against humanity.
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Missing the Point
The commentators who seek to “figure out” Russia seem to miss the point.
The last statement Putin made in the interview with Tucker Carlson was this. “Why are the Ukrainian authorities dismantling the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? Because it brings together not only the territory, it brings together our souls. No one will be able to separate the soul.” Source
To put in it Biblical terms, the West is involved in a war for mammon.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Putin and Russia are seeking to eliminate neo-Nazism, which is an issue of the soul.
It seems the West avoids discussing that point.
The West no longer thinks in terms of matters of the soul. The West is about money and power and is willing to lose its collective soul to obtain what it wants. It has dismantled its Christian heritage in its lust for money, power and sexual lust of various forms.
Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
The day will come when there are two kinds of nations in the earth: sheep nations and goat nations. It is questionable at this time where the United States will land in that judgement.
Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
And if you would say that not everyone is like that, that may be true, but there has to be action taken against the corrupt leaders to remove them through prayer and political action.
This is a government …. of the people… by the people … and for the people …. so if the corrupt leaders remain in office without being challenged…it goes back to we the people who need to remove them.
Until Jesus comes, we need to actively work, pray, and vote.
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Remove not the landmarks which the fathers have set
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Questions exist around the arts in the preaching of the gospel. This question has arisen before in history.
Stained glass windows were “the bible of the poor” who could not read. The symbols and colors spoke a message for the illiterate. The message of the gospel was conveyed through art.
Similarly, halos conveyed a meaning of holiness or someone sent from God. Again, images and colors mattered in the oil paintings.
So while we of the twenty-first century looking backward might think these things quaint or unnecessary, they did convey the gospel message to people who were not able to read the Bible for themselves. This was a time of no TVs, no videos, no movies, no cell phones, no texts, no instant messaging, no technology. All they had to work with to convey messages were stained glass windows, paintings, statues, songs and large Bibles recopied by hand by monks in monasteries that only a few could read. They had to convey the message of the gospel in the mediums of the day.
Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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