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Protect Your Children
You need to be aware of the forces coming after your children through entertainment, iphones, schools, libraries, and social interaction. They need to be protected through education, limited as to what kinds of entertainment they have, and have content blockers on phones (and why do kids have phones anyway?).
A winning strategy is to take them to church, teach them about the Lord, teach them to read their Bibles, teach them to pray, pray for them, pray as a family. You need to teach them to put on the full armor of God. You need to teach them that God created male and female … only. Don’t ignore the teaching in the Old Testament because that is where God explains to mankind that God created them male and female.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Matt Walsh created “What is a woman?” which Elon Musk permit to be aired on Twitter after the movie was banned elsewhere.
At the time of this writing, it is currently available through a link on this post In case you missed it although I don’t know how long it will continue to be available as it was only supposed to be available for 24 hours.
C.S. Lewis was ahead of his time in recognizing this same problem when he wrote, The Abolition of Man.
Is truth objective, biological, measurable, knowable, biblical? Or is it anyone’s feeling? Feelings can be manipulated by psychological warfare and satan.
This whole discussion of transgenderism is rooted in rebellion against God and the truth of Creation as explained in Genesis. How do I know the Bible is true? The author of the Word of God, called the Bible, died for mankind and rose from the dead as his signature brand. That cannot be contested. Like any argument a progressive does not want to have, they avoid the discussion, call names, lie, or do anything but face the facts.
There is only one honest scientist I heard once, as I have heard more than one of these discussions. Basically, he said that I believe that Jesus is who he says he is, but I don’t like what he teaches. That is at least an honest answer. Following the teachings of Jesus ends murder, pedophilia, child exploitation in any fashion; it ends organ harvesting, drugs, alcoholism, war for profit, pharmaceutical and medical malpractice for profit. It ends people worshipping mammon and satan who says that “if thou wilt fall down and worship me, all shall be thine.” It ends government corruption, bribery, pornography and the works of the world, the flesh and the devil for profit. That’s really why people don’t want to acknowledge Jesus. It is not that they don’t believe that he is God. They like their investments in the world, the flesh, and the devil. But if they resist long enough, this happens.
II Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The bottomline issue is “what is truth”. Is there an objective truth?
Yes. God created mankind and truth is the Word of God, the written and living Word of God, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
God created man and woman, male and female. That is the answer. That is the truth.
From Mel Gibson’s, The Passion of the Christ, watch on YouTube.
In the book of Isaiah, in talking about the Medes who overcame the Babylon that existed at that time, there are these verses.
Isaiah 13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Perhaps this shows us a key. Isn’t that what is required in this time to overcome the corruption? Satan/ mammon says “fall down and worship me and all shall be thine.” Politicians are sent to D.C. by their constituents who have hopes for change, but “it’s the money, honey,” where the politicians fail. Lobbyists get to them. We need people who “shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.” These people are able to resist the bribery and simply get the job done.
The Medes were more interested in extending their kingdom than in the silver and gold. Those who are of the kingdom of heaven need to be more interested in extending the kingdom of heaven than in accumulating silver and gold.
Why the preaching of the gospel? Without a change of heart that comes through the gospel, without the new birth into the kingdom of heaven, satan will continue to lead mankind down worse and worse pathways.
Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
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.
9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
A blog post can only introduce a topic but not cover it in depth. For more study on various topics, click here for links to various Christian ministries.
Depending on the ministry, there may be online church services, YouTube videos, podcasts, radio programs, books, teaching, or more. You have to seek out what they have.
“The Concept of Man”
The Atlantic wrote an article with the phrase “concept of man”. I didn’t read the whole article. I didn’t need to.
Proverbs 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
This phrase, “concept of man”, needs to be addressed as just one more evil fruit grown from the fable of the root of evolution.
Jesus was born and came as a light into the darkness. Darkness, among other meanings, is imagery for ignorance.
Matthew 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
The statement, “concept of man” is a concept of ignorance.
“Concept of man” could be called an AI perspective. The globalists seem to want to merge man and machine and so they are shifting…fluidly…from biological definitions of men and women to transgenderism and from there it seems they hope to merge men and machine.
“Man” is not a mental construct. “Man” is not a perspective.
The left is preoccupied with definitions and perspectives. To them, the perspective is important, not reality, not facts.
This is a fact, a historical fact.
The Lord God created a physical man, and physical woman, in the earth.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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.
Man was created.
Man was created by a Creator.
The Creator gave mankind, through the inspiration of the prophets of old, divine direction on how to live and what to choose. That direction has been recorded in the Holy Bible in the Old Testament, and later, the New Testament.
Man is a spirit, has a soul, and lives in a body.
Man’s thoughts are not simply a series of chemical or electrical reactions.
Man’s mind, his mental capacity, can be influenced for good or evil.
Man has a conscience.
A “concept” does not have a conscience.
Jesus, after his resurrection, appeared in a resurrected body that the disciples could touch. Jesus ate food. This is not a “concept” but a physical reality in the earth.
Luke 24:34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
It is necessary to point out over and over that these words, these woke words, that the left flings out so freely in the media, have no basis in reality.
Why do they do it?
If the globalist, progressive, woke left can control your mind, it can control your actions, it can control your future. It gives them power over you. Globalist dictators can take away your freedom, and put your wealth in their pockets.
That is the end game, the end result, of these woke agendas.
Ultimately, they are satanically inspired.
No football game was ever won playing defense. It is necessary to actively resist these woke forces in society (as well as through prayer) and point out when they are speaking ignorance in order to extend their mind control over the masses.
A blog post can only introduce a topic but not cover it in depth. For more study on various topics, click here for links to various Christian ministries.
Depending on the ministry, there may be online church services, YouTube videos, podcasts, radio programs, books, teaching, or more. You have to seek out what they have.
God and Government
Phillip Medhurst, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From the beginning, in the garden of Eden, satan, having been thrown out of heaven, sought to take over the rulership of the world. Satan deceived Eve and Adam, they succumbed to temptation, and lost the dominion that the Lord God had given them.
Adam was created by God as to have dominion over the earth. Dominion involves the government of God.
When the word “Adam” is used, it is not slighting Eve. The Lord God considered them one.
Genesis 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
They had a joint purpose under God as one.
The feminist, progressive, modernist movement would try to say that man has one purpose, and woman another, and that they are in competition. From the beginning it was not so.
God intended marriage to be a equal yoke, an equal purpose for each family, with one overall direction where everyone is “all in” to the same purpose, not going different directions and “hooking up” occasionally.
Satan came along and deceived Adam and Eve into disobeying God and Adam lost dominion. Satan became the “god of this world”. That led to governments that are atheistic such as communism and dictatorships. These are governments that kill opposition in order to stay in power. Socialism leads to communism.
The goal has been to take back the governing of the world from satan and place it back under God. The beginning history of the United States was people who formed a nation under God.
Freedom is the freedom to serve God, to do good, not to do evil.
Freedom is the freedom to serve God, not serve iniquity.
Freedom is the freedom to serve God, not serve sin.
Freedom is the freedom to obey God, not serve the law of sin and death.
A blog post can only introduce a topic but not cover it in depth. For more study on various topics, click here for links to various Christian ministries.
Depending on the ministry, there may be online church services, YouTube videos, podcasts, radio programs, books, teaching, or more. You have to seek out what they have.
David Served God in His Generation
Acts 13:36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
Judges 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
Generation after generation things change, “social mores” and customs change. They are changed by progressives. There is a saying in war, the victor rewrites history and our history books have been rewritten.
Societal change by the left, called “progressive” change, is based on the atheistic idea that man evolved from an ape. If man evolved from an ape, then there is no God to answer to, and the thought is eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
I Corinthians 15:32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Why worry about an afterlife and heaven or hell if you are a mere animal? It is not spelled out that way, but that is the undercurrent of an atheistic society and all that stems from it: education, history, literature, advertising, “truth” in journalism|propaganda, GMO foods, medicine, science, bribery, blackmail, etc., … down to what day of the week sports games are played.
So much of what has been happening has to be viewed through the long range view of history.
This nation was founded as a Christian nation. Like the nation of Israel, it has backslid. Like the nation of Israel, when a nation leaves God, it is chastening that drives the nation back to God.
This is true of a prodigal son. It is true of a prodigal nation.
The danger of losing sight of generational understanding is that when a generation dies off and has not properly taught the younger generation, if it has not been properly taught history, the younger generation can be hoodwinked by sly freemasons and communists who infiltrate churches and theological seminaries, producing theological interpretations contrary to the Word of God, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, and in some cases, there is not even a form of godliness.
I was just listening to Ken Paxton, Attorney General in Texas. He makes a bottom line point. If a murderer won’t obey the law to not murder, the murderer is not going to obey the law to not own a gun.
I would add that if a murderer will shoot his own grandmother in defiance of “honor thy father and thy mother”, a murderer is not going to obey any gun laws.
The Founding Fathers understood that the freedoms offered in the Word of God sometimes had to be backed up with physical enforcement. Otherwise, you are expecting wolves in government to act as sheep.
There has been a divide in the church as to the understanding of the necessity for and right to self defense. Self defense is a doctrine in the Catholic church. I don’t know that it has been encapsulated that way in other denomination.
If there is never a need for enforcement against criminals, why is there a military at all? Why is there a police department at all? Why was WW II fought?
At some point, there has to be a proactive, offensive (used in relation to the idea of offense/defense) on-this-earth dealing with criminals and murderers and thieves.
A theme that is revisited more than once on this blog is that the secular idea that “what will be, will be” is an ungodly idea.
It is not correct theology.
To sit back and say “whatever”, is not Christian.
Parents have the obligation to train and take care of and protect their children. If that means going to school boards and making sure that there is armed protection in the schools, if that means making sure that there is one secured opening to the school that is locked unless the person knocking is permitted entry after being vetted, if that means using school funds for high tech equipment that can sense weaponry entering the school, whatever the best and brightest minds in self defense can lay out as a suitable course of action, then that takes the engagement of parents and school boards and whatever it takes to make that happen. And if all the individual in school boards and government are progressives who proclaim gun control while living behind privacy walled neighborhoods and having armed guards themselves, if they are the only people you have in local government, or school board, or Department of Education, then maybe if you want protection for your children you might have to run yourself. Or find a worthy candidate.
It’s too easy, and slothful, which is another word for lazy or complacent, to say, “whatever the Lord wants” while ignoring our own responsibilities.
Do I think that ultimately the answer is people coming to the Lord and having a change of heart and being born again? Yes, of course, that is the ultimate answer.
But until then, are you going to let criminals run rampart saying, “what will be, will be”?
A blog post can only introduce a topic but not cover it in depth. For more study on various topics, click here for links to various Christian ministries.
Depending on the ministry, there may be online church services, YouTube videos, podcasts, radio programs, books, teaching, or more. You have to seek out what they have.