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An Intervention

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There is an expression nowadays called “intervention“. It is when friends or family of someone intervene or show up in someone’s life to help change the course of some destructive behavior. That can be drugs or alcohol, but it is not limited to that.  Sometimes several people may agree to meet together to talk to or try to help someone.  In this case, four friends intervened in a man’s life to help get him to Jesus so he could be healed.  Jesus saw “their faith”.

Mark 2:1 (KJV) And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.

2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.

4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

6 But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.

 

 


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Repost: The Heresy of Cessationism 5 (The Gift of Healing) | Daniel Kolenda: Off The Record


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Stepping Stones on the Way to a Miracle

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II Kings 5:5 (KJV) Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.

5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.

7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.

16 But he said, As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord.

18 In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing.

19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.

 

This history about Naaman is instructive, because it shows various places he could have missed his miracle.  If there had been failure at any of these points, the miracle would not have happened or it may have had to take a detour and come another way.  This is instructive to us as to the importance of obedience to the Word of God and the Holy Spirit as part of the process to receiving answers to prayer.

    • What if the servant girl had been a servant in someone else’s household?
    • What if the servant girl said nothing?
    • What if the message had not gotten to the King of Syria by “one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel”?
    • What if the King of Syria had not given Naaman time off?
    • What if the King of Israel had gone to war by misinterpreting the gifts?
    • What if the King of Israel did not listen to Elisha and did not let Naaman come to visit?
    • What if Naaman in his anger never did what Elisha said?
    • What if Naaman’s servants weren’t able to talk Naaman into obeying?
    • What if Naaman only dipped five times, or three times, or six times, instead of seven times?

 

But Naaman obeyed and was healed, Naaman received his miracle.

II Kings 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

 

 


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A Good Samaritan – His (Her) Brother’s (Sister’s) Keeper

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Luke 10:29 (KJV) But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,

34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

 

Genesis 4:9 … Am I my brother’s keeper?

 

 


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Vote by State – Check With Your State for Voting Dates

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Duty is ours, results are God’s.  John Quincy Adams

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1982 – Dr. Francis Schaeffer

 


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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote

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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

 


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Why You Need a non-AI Pastor or Teacher or Church

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I was doing a little research and happened to notice this incorrect fact.

It might be one of those AI things.  From time-to-time I’ve mentioned the problem with relying on AI information.

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The link above states that there are 15 or 16 different authors of the New Testament.  This is incorrect.

The New Testament consists of the four gospels, the book of Acts, the epistles, and the book of Revelation.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote the four gospels.  4 authors

Luke also wrote the book of Acts.

The Epistles were written by Paul (the majority of the epistles), John (several, John also wrote the gospel of John and the book of Revelation), Peter (two) James (one) and Jude (one).   Since John wrote one of the gospels and the book of Revelation and is already mentioned, that makes 4 additional authors.

4 + 4 = 8.

How did the system come up with 15 or 16?

Here’s a guess.   Perhaps it assumed that the “named” epistles were written by the “named” individuals, however, they were also written by Paul.

Philemon, Timothy, Titus (3 “named individual” epistles, however also written by Paul)  8 + 3 = 11

The book of Hebrews people say is an unknown author, but many, myself included, believe Paul wrote it.  It has his literary signature.  11 + 1 = 12

It’s anyone’s guess where the other 3 – 4 come from, unless I, II, and III (1st, 2nd and 3rd) John were counted as three different authors.  They are not.  They were written by one author, the same one who wrote the gospel of John and the book of Revelation.

The point is, unless you have a human teacher, you don’t know whether what you are reading is correct or incorrect unless someone who had a human teacher can see the error.    And if this is one simple error, how many other errors are within the document?

AIs just pull information, dump it together, and come up with an article.  Whether the article is accurate or not is another question.

In actuality, articles written by AIs need to be edited by humans for accuracy (whether they are or not, or are sufficiently edited, is another question). Incidentally, this is why at the end of some articles you might see some disclaimer to the effect that “if you notice an inaccuracy, let us know”.  In other words, you become the unpaid beta reader.

Beware of AI schooling.  It may have inaccuracies and you will never know unless it is a subject with which you already have sufficient familiarity to notice.  And even then, those facts that are new to you might be inaccurate and you might miss a beat simply because you don’t know enough about the new information.

This is why you need to find human instructors and professionals that you trust for the information that you need.

Beware of AIs.


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Repost: The Heresy of Cessationism 3 (Has Prophecy Ceased?) | Daniel Kolenda: Off The Record


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Russia Is Not The Problem

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This is such a difficult topic to tackle. Cognitive dissonance makes it even more difficult.

What is cognitive dissonance?  The term is as it sounds to be.

When new information is presented, information that is at variance with what is commonly believed,  creates “dissonance”; it takes a person out of the comfort zone.   Only enough education will move someone from cognitive dissonance to being able to understand new information.

We see how cognitive dissonance has operated in politics. For a long time there have been those who have warned of a Nineteen Eighty-Four  Big Bro | Big Brother | One World |New World Order | Globalist attempt at taking over the levers of power in governments.  Those who have warned of these things have been called conspiracy theorists, tin foil hat conspiracy theorists, radicals, purveyors of  disinformation and other names.  The name calling worked for a while … until it didn’t.  Now it is apparent that the many voices that warned of the globalist | AI | banking |international cabal takeover were not conspiracy theorists but were / are aware of an actual attempted takeover.

When on the news, viewers see fires burning in the background, but it is termed a “mostly peaceful protest”; when there is an economy that is billed as being a good economy yet people cannot pay their  bills and become homeless; when wars are fought to secure the border of another nation while the border of the United States is wide open; when peaceful Jan 6 protestors are thrown into a DC gulag; when the FBI bang down the doors of the innocent but let the Hunter Biden laptop slide, or classified documents near a Corvette slide; when weather is manipulated by HAARP and chemtrails; when 9-11 buildings fall in a manner that defies physics; then maybe there is something to all that conspiracy stuff.  Oh, and let’s not forget the overturning of an election in the midnight hours and surges and events that defy common sense.

The only way someone cannot notice the difference between common sense reality and the facts fed by the mainstream media (aka “fake news”) is if someone is either asleep, drugged up, not paying attention, or unwilling to study the facts.  Ninety Eighty-Four (written by George Orwell) has arrived.

Therefore, there should be a questioning of the official narrative of the mainstream media as it repeats talking points.  Over and over, it becomes apparent that the official story does not prove to be the real one.

You’ve probably seen this before, but it is worth a reminder.

Here are related comments about “centralizing a political message”:

This is all background to the question at hand about Russia.  The point is, question the narrative.

There are several streams of prophetic views of the end-times.  One view links Ezekiel 38 & 39 with Russia. That may or may not be true.

Regardless, it is important to understand this. The CIA, the intelligence agencies, and those who want to capture civilizations and use them for their own purposes, operate by cultural intelligence (understanding the prevailing “mind think” and customs of the culture and how to relate to it) and psychological warfare. They understand the workings of the mind and how to use it to their advantage. There are those who have gone into these kinds of discussions in depth, so it will only be mentioned here that this exists.  Of course, besides modern day voices, it was pointed out in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

The point is, there is an awareness of the major prophetic stream held in the United States by forces that want to use that knowledge to their own advantage.

It is worth considering whether knowing how people are pre-conditioned by their beliefs to either permit or not permit certain political actions, how much that is taken into consideration in how news and events are manipulated and perceived.  How much does this create a blind spot or a “shrugging off” of what otherwise in yesteryear would have been looked on in horror.

For example, for years youth have been playing video games of blood and destruction.  So now when people die in war, do they care?  Are they capable of separating a video game from reality?  Does it make them immune to caring what is happening with their neighbor?  Or do they riot and want more blood lust killings?

Why are Ukrainians dying? Why? Why is the United States in a war with Russia via Ukraine? Only Congress has power to declare war and the way things have evolved is that Ukrainians are being sent to the front lines instead of Americans. This started in 2014 and prior when the United States, NATO, and the West did not honor its covenant with Russia, broke covenant, and finally forced Russia to protect their borders.

The same forces called the Swamp are linked to the forces in Ukraine fighting Russia. Those forces want to take over Russia and Russia is rightly resisting. The Ukrainians are caught in the middle.

This is a war for the military industrial complex. The only ones who make money are those who are in the industries of war and destruction. Peacetime manufacturing has been sent overseas and so a certain amount of the economy is based on industries of death and destruction.  And when the wars are over, those same forces that destroy go in and pick up the pieces and real estate at rock bottom prices and rebuild “bigger and better”. Look at Hawaii, how quickly the vultures appeared to buy land (at a discount of course) from the homeowners whose homes had been destroyed.   That was not a normal fire.

The same forces that were able to fund a war against Russia in Ukraine, now want to draw Russia into war in Israel.

The problem with both wars is that there is not honesty about everything that is really happening.

Consider the stolen election(s) … truth, after almost three years … is percolating to the top, and it becomes more and more apparent that the early cries of “foul” as to the election were correct.

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus

There is a war going on and this war is more than a political battle or battle between nations.  Ultimately, it is between good and evil, between God and satan.

Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

 

There are things going on behind the scenes that we are not being told.  It is important not to jump on the first political bandwagon.

I personally oppose the United States involvement in Ukraine.  The Ukrainians have died for the greed of the United States military industrial complex and lies told on behalf of that military industrial complex that confused people who didn’t know any better since the controlled mainstream media had one narrative and did not give the whole picture.   Slandering Russia has gone on for a long time.

I personally don’t think there is enough moral courage within the United States to stand against the greed and blood lust of the military industrial complex industries of destruction and the tentacles it has on politicians and the economy.

I personally think it will take an international tribunal that is tired of the criminal breaking of the law that goes in the high halls of government in DC, whether by elected officials, unelected officials, the administrative state, known as the Deep State, the Swamp or by other terms.  This has affected more than the United States.  It has affected the world.

Because I believe there will be a renewed attempt to use Ukraine as cannon fodder, due to some of the reasons already written above, I am compelled to say I totally abhor and reject this attempt of the military industrial complex and related politicians who war in Ukraine on behalf of their own financial profits and power.

Russia. Is. Not. The. Problem.

These people who have manipulated events, historical, political and weather events, and who have manipulated laws, wars, and economies in order to bring about their own agenda need to be brought before an international tribunal in judgement.

I think it will take a rising up of many people around the world who call for justice as it may not happen within the United States without international protest.  Crimes and criminals within the United States government, and their connection with other shadowy forces in other nations of the world, need to be brought to justice.

 


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