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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Repost from TuckerCarlson.com: The Vladimir Putin Interview

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Remove not the landmarks which the fathers have set

Saint Mary of the Assumption Parish (Springboro, Ohio) - stained-glass, Adoration by the Shepherds detail 2

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.

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - The Return of the Prodigal Son

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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The Question Might Arise ….

Brooklyn Museum - The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La nativité de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ) - James Tissot - overall

The question might arise if God’s purposes have changed between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

The Apostle Paul, whose many letters to the churches are contained in the New Testament, talks about children; there can’t be children without a father and mother. In Paul’s day things like in vitro fertilization did not exist.

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

 

So when it comes to the transgender, homosexual, and LBGTQ+ issue, Paul had this to say:

Romans 1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

 

In another place Paul says to go back to the Old Testament to learn life lessons.  At that time, the New Testament had not yet been written.  We now have both the New Testament and Old Testament.

I Corinthians 10:10 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

 

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

 

As a good Pharisee-in-training before he was converted, Paul would have read the first five books of the Bible which included the account of Noah and the Flood.  At that time, there was genetic manipulation between mankind and fallen angels which is why God had to wipe out the bad genetic seed in order to preserve a pure genetic line through which could come Jesus the Christ.  The whole Old Testament follows the story of Abraham and his descendants, the children of Israel, through whom Christ came.  Those genealogies are listed  in the  Matthew and Luke (starting in verse 23, which extends back to Adam).  And even though Joseph was the adoptive father, as Jesus came through the virgin birth, in order to be free from the sin nature passed on since Adam, so that Jesus could become the Saviour through his birth, life, death, and resurrection, the genealogy is listed to show that Jesus fulfilled prophecy of being of the house and lineage of David.

Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 65 (Canto XXXI - The Titans)

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

 

The point is, the message of the Old Testament is fulfilled in the New Testament.  Both point to Jesus who is called the Word made flesh.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

 

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

 

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

 

 

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Repost from Infowars re: Tucker Carlson Interviewing Putin

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He formed it to be inhabited

Timeline evolution of life (German)

 

The bottomline “vain thing” from which all other societal ills emerge is the question of evolution versus creation.  If man evolved from a blob, then life is meaningless and there is no future and there is no moral compass by which to live.

Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

 

Michael Angelo (God creating Adam) 2013-10-23 18-59

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003.Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden

If man devolved through disobedience and rebellion (known as the Fall in the Garden of Eden) after being created by God, (and history records the effects of the Fall as well as God’s attempt to reclaim mankind from the rule of satan through Jesus Christ), then this is true.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

 

Beyond the secular atheist lie of evolution (they still haven’t found the missing link and the links they have “found” have been debunked) another secular push is that the world needs to be depopulated.  This agenda was behind the toxic jab and also behind transgenderism which makes it impossible for children to later have children (unless there is a miraculous intervention by the Lord Jesus Christ).  Any agenda to decrease the population is contrary to God’s original command to mankind, which has never been removed or abrogated.

Interestingly, one of the formal definitions of abrogated is “formal to suppress or prevent (a biological function or process and especially an immune response)”   Where have we seen the suppression or prevention of a biological function?  through transgender operations?  through toxic jabs or “vaccines“?

 

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

 

Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

 

Leviticus 26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

 

Deuteronomy 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

 

Isaiah 45:For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

 

Psalm 115:6 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

[not to the trees or to the earth]

 

 

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Repost from ZeroHedge re: AI

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Wisdom

She is right. If it weren’t for the United States, the Ukranian War would not be happening. The US and NATO forced Russia into defending their borders. As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and it is us (US).” We have an occupier-in-chief administration. If the duly-elected President, from whom the election was stolen, had been in office, this  war would never had happen. There has been so much anti-Russia propaganda, in politics, and in prophecy, that it has set the stage to condition the minds of the people to let this occur.

And her wisdom is correct. If the world is the boat and it overturns in a WW III, then all the jockeying for position and power won’t matter one whit. Too few people are aware of what is going on and/or too many are either clueless or intellectually dishonest and willing to go along to get along hoping they will emerge unscathed without having to pay any kind of a price to see these things corrected.

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Repost: Adam, Not Apes | Dr. Brian Thomas, Ph.D.

Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

 

The evolution vs creation question is at the crux of every law created by man to “break the bands” of the laws of God.  If man evolved from the slime then he answers to no one and it becomes the survival of the most brutal and most treacherous and most lawless that win over mankind.  We see that happening today.  If man was created by God (which he was) then all of mankind is answerable to the laws of God.

This is why the evolution vs creation question matters.  It may seem like an moot, unimportant word game or argument, but all of the ills of society rest on the answer to that question and up until now, the wrong answer has prevailed.  This is why all thinking people should simply follow this man’s example; if you can’t articulate the discussion yourself, simply send a video link and let him do the talking.

As he says, you don’t have to be the Ph.D.  Simply send a video link or post it on your Facebook page and let the video do the talking.

Psalm 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

 

It does not take every member of the body of Christ doing the research of answering any particular question.  What is important is that the “company” gets the information out.  All can participate in that either in person or through social media.

 

 

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All Scripture

Sefer Torah (CBL Heb 777)

The Apostle Paul spoke of the importance of learning, including from the Old Testament

II Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

I Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

 

The Bible covers all topics that concern mankind. If the answers have been given, and they have, “the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.”

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

 

Some like to say that the law no longer applies.  What Jesus brought is a higher application of the law, but basics are still in effect.  In other words, if you love your neighbor, you will not steal from him, lie about him, or commit adultery with his wife (all of those being part of the Ten Commandments).  Jesus did not die for people to keep on  in sin and lifestyles contrary to the scriptures.

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

 

One of the areas in the Old Testament where it is important to “take heed” or pay attention is that of tithing.  Perhaps it was because Paul ministered primarily to Gentiles, who had no history or background in the tithes and offering system of the Jews, that he talked about “giving” instead of “tithing” in order to make himself culturally relevant.  Maybe that is true, maybe it is not.  In any case, he did say to go back to the Old Testament to learn things.  Tithing is in the Old Testament.

Abraham tithed to Melchisedek. They both lived before Moses (through whom came the law). So those who say that tithing is a part of the law are actually not correct; tithing precedes the law.

Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

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.

13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

 

The reason I mention this topic is because I saw a post with a reprint of something nearly 100 years. In it, Philippians 4:19 was mentioned.

In my opinion, Philippians 4:19 needs to be mentioned in context. Paul wrote that to a giving church.

Again, IMO, I think that unless a person is tithing and giving offerings according to the will of the Lord, that person may not see the fullness of Philippians 4:19. I personally don’t think that you can separate Philippians 4:19 from the commands to tithe and give.

We live in an entitlement world where there is an expectation in the world to get benefits out without putting anything that is constructive in to create those blessings. God is not a welfare office or a lottery or a slot machine where one can throw in a little or even nothing and expect the blessings to flow.

In my opinion, I believe God blesses as much as he is able in any situation, but there are many things that can block blessings or open someone to the curse because the wages of sin is (still) death.  Overall, there is a tendency to over-emphasize God’s responsibility while under-rating personal responsiibility.  Personal responsibility may in some way as part of an answer, even if that responsibility is simply to pray and ask.  But personal responsibility can involve other things as well.

James 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

 

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