Monday, August 7, 2023

Escaping the Serpent's Call

 In Serpent Wisdom, Destiny Achieved!

Destruction... Both snakes died! One from asphyxiation and the other from venom.

Insane! Right? But consider how we have followed the example of these snakes. 

Aren't we equally insane to have placed our faith in a policy of, "Mutually Assured Destruction?"  

If you have read the first few chapters of the bible you know how a serpent tempted Eve with a promise that she could, "become like God" if she chose a path of independent disobedience. But he didn't say where this path would lead?

This same serpent creature was called Satan when he tempted Jesus and is called, "The Destroyer," in the book of Revelation because of the terrible destruction he brings.

But my current focus is more on the destructive trends of this century. 

Our first escalation, "toward global destruction," was during World War I. It was waged between, (1914-1918). As our first war in the industrial era, it displayed our great increase in destructive ability. 

So much so that, WWI was labeled, 
"The War to End All Wars." 

But instead of bringing peace. This failed solution set the stage for the escalation and limited nuclear destruction of World War II waged between (1938-1945).

And since 1945, our war-making technology and war-making industry has literally exploded!

Today, our  thermonuclear weapons are thousands of times stronger than the WWII models. Their fallout so great, they could affect entire continental regions for decades. 

This would have been unimaginable in the past!

And today's hypersonic delivery systems, along with drone and space based weaponry systems leave most modern populations virtually defenseless! 

So our policy to prevent, the carnage of nuclear warfare, has actually escalated our human destructive potential. 

Rather than diminishing  loss, we have assured a more complete and devastating loss than ever could have been imagined. 

Our attempts at peacekeeping through, "Mutually Assured Destruction, (M.A.D.)" are both inadequate and misdirected. More like the deadly Fentanyl flooding our streets. 

M.A.D. is not wise medicine. It demonstrates our false wisdom and fallen nature. But by our nature, we are stuck.

By placing our hope in M.A.D. we have moved much closer to total destruction than ever before! And to date, we have not found a way to change course.

Will thermonuclear destruction occur during this generation? Will it be the summation of our existence? 

Depends on who's plan we follow! 

If you didn't attend school in the 60's, you probably didn't do the, under the desk drills, and may not be emotionally aware of this startling reality. 
Topics like this are difficult. 

As modern people, we pride ourselves in our sense of control through our knowledge and scientific discovery and many feats of modern engineering.

Rarely do we admit that our innate human preference is to rely on our power to do harm. But history shows that human consistently impose the will of the strongest, no matter what the cost! 

It comes so naturally, that, unless we look carefully we may not even notice our common pattern of spiraling toward intentional chaos. 

Similar chaos can happen in our personal lives as well. Even among people with deeply held religious beliefs. Even pastors and leaders can struggle with destructive thoughts, some even ponder suicide.

In the series of videos below, Pastor Brunson shares how his faith crashed. How it was replaced with a more functional form of faith.

His crisis occurred during his persecution, and imprisonment under Turkish law, in a Turkish jail.

Hear his full testimony in the (8) 15 minute videos below.

Prepare to Stand Session 1 - Recognize the Danger



Prepare to Stand Session 2 - Overcoming Fear


Prepare to Stand Session 3 - Guarding Against the Offended Heart



Prepare to Stand Session 5 - Building Perseverance

Prepare to Stand Session 6 - Avoiding Deception


Prepare to Stand Session 7 - Some Benefits of Persecution


Prepare to Stand Session 8 - A Conversation Between Andrew and his Wife Norine

As you can see, our shallow thinking and failure to examine our beliefs can leave our faith weak and inconsistent. 

These inconsistencies can also extend across other areas of our lives and even into the fabric of our culture resulting in terrible consequences for us and those who rely on us. 

Consider how so many, "Christians," are committed politically to maintaining the current murderous peril. Not only in the extremes of international conflict and warfare like M.A.D. 

But also when it comes to, "helping," those trying to immigrate across our southern border through cartel controlled cities and regions.

Regions so dangerous, the local police don't even attempt to enter. 

Instead of investing to provide safe transportation and structured opportunities here in America, we feign, "welcoming kindness," and look the other way. 

We close our eyes to the scarce peasant resources that are diverted to enrich and strengthen the criminals cartels. Cartels that terrorize and corrupt their civil justice system, and undermine the civil governments in their countries of origin

We close our eyes to the perilous risks of the journey, focusing only the hinderances created by our, "border policy," and politely ignore the rapes, drug and sexual enslavement and even public executions done by the coyote cartel workers to intimidate and control those being illegally transported?

Did you know that approximately 30% of the millions of women  smuggled across our southern border were raped? And thousands had their children taken to be trafficked, often to pay for the debt incurred by their transport? 

But we the people, close our eyes to this lawless smuggling,  enslavement, terror and murder to accuse each other and argue about our feelings over what city they will be accommodated in after they arrive. 

We ignore, the changes this has brought to America as she has changed to become the largest consumer of fentanyl and trafficked children in the world! An accomplishment achieved by border policies that enrich and empower the Cartels. 

Could this also be why we now accept the grooming of our children through sexually explicit nightclub behaviors at our local, Library Story Hours

I recently viewed the film. "Sound of Freedom," that highlighted many aspects of this tragedy in Central America.


'The Miracles Are Insane': Tim Ballard Tells Real-Life Stories That Inspired 'Sound of Freedom'

And speaking of enslavement. Did you know that...

1619 was a drop in the bucket compared with today. Today there are more enslaved laborers on planet earth, than at any time in history. 

The largest groups are repressed religious minorities, then victims of sexual prejudice and then those vulnerable due to age, with the young often being taken for organ harvesting. 

 A quick look on line presented this article ...

Report on Uyghur Forced Labor 

The latest report titled “Uyghurs For Sale”, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, reveals a vast network of companies complicit in the mass detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic people. ASPI stated that it had found “27 factories in 9 Chinese provinces that are using Uyghur labor transferred from Xinjiang since 2017. Those factories claim to be part of the supply chain of 83 well-known global brands.”

Here are some brands connected to factories using forced labor. 

  • Abercrombie & Fitch, 
  • Acer
  • Adidas
  • Alstom
  • BAIC Motor
  • BMW
  • Bombardier
  • Bosch 
  • BYD
  • Calvin Klein 
  • Candy Carter’s
  • Cerruti 1881
  • Changan Automobile
  • Cisco
  • CRRC
  • Electrolux
  • Fila, Founder Group
  • GAC Group (automobiles)
  • Gap
  • Geely Auto
  • General Motors
  • Goertek
  • H&M
  • Haier
  • Hart Schaffner Marx
  • Jack & Jones
  • Jaguar
  • Japan Display Inc.
  • L.L.Bean
  • Lacoste
  • Land Rover
  • Li-Ning Mayor
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • MG
  • Mitsubishi
  • Nike
  • The North Face
  • Polo Ralph Lauren
  • Puma
  • Roewe
  • SAIC Motor
  • Skechers
  • SGMW
  • Tommy Hilfiger
  • Uniqlo
  • Victoria’s Secret
  • Volkswagen
  • Zara
  • Zegna
See full article at 

How can we be guiltless when much of their forced labor was created to earn a return on our Western investments and provide Western consumers with cheap pleasures and luxury, (and even organs for transplant?)

Recently, the Black Lives Matter Movement made it fashionable to have large protests against, "systemic," inequity in the major cities of most Western nations. 

These protests frequently evolved into destructive riots, terrorizing and destroying the very communities they were claiming to help. 

During these riots our leaders conveniently ignored the pandemic risks and threat of disease transmission even as worker in surrounding factories and hospitals were being terminated from employment for failing to vaccinate. 

We also ignored the lawless destruction. The social intimidation and the new rampant normalization of theft. We ignored the destruction of our communities with their long established businesses and the escalation of poverty and joblessness that followed. 

We ignored the increased vulnerability of our youth to addiction and subsequent sexual enslavement, including those of the newly arrived immigrants as we facilitated an unrestricted increase in drug supply, for local distribution into our neighborhoods. 

We stripped drug enforcement from the police, including the goal of temporarily, "freeing," addicts from the slavery of, "use," that occurs during incarceration. 

Incarceration and lack of supply are historically the two greatest factors in motivating a move toward recovery from addiction. They create the motivation, key to the success of the Drug Court Model.

Since the BLM changes, our Drug Courts have virtually ceased, even as drug supply chains and use have expanded and flourished in our communities resulting in unprecedented numbers of overdose deaths.

How could we do all of these things? How could we come to this place! 

All of these circumstances display our utter hypocrisy and insanity!
Much like our casual acceptance of "Mutually Assured Destruction." 

We have become very casual about these destructive changes as daily we step over the trash, dirty needles, syringes and semi-conscious users under the tarps littering our sidewalks. 

So with all of these recent changes, what is capturing our concern now? What has displaced these once important priorities? 

Today, the crisis of Global Warming is
 presented more frequently and with much greater concern than global nuclear destruction or local attention to family, and neighborhood safety or even political stability. 

Today, Climate Catastrophes and the need for Carbon Credits and Green Technology are presented as our saviors and the keys to future human survival!

But do these efforts bring real and lasting improvements. Is their usefulness genuine? Or are they merely tools, useful for gaining political power and control and manipulating populations for profit and power through government edict? 

It appears that open society and even our ideas of democracy may be in dire jeopardy.  
But this should be no surprise.
According to the bible, 
Self deception has corrupted the very, "nature," of mankind.

And today humankind is redefining itself. 

Today, Western civilization has rejected her traditional role of, "bearing God's image," and, "faithfully managing His resources." 

Today, we have evolved to  become, "Planet Protectors," by virtue of our "Evolutionary Hierarchy." We have assigned ourselves with the  task of delivering planet Earth from the affects of our own human presence. 

But isn't that a bit illogical? It sounds suicidal? Much like the snakes in the picture? 

And wasn't devotion to our, "Evolutionary Hierarchy," the rationalization used to justify Hitler's horrendous racial atrocities in WWII? And didn't it inspire activist Margret Sanger's work to reduce the populations of the races she called, "human weeds?"
 
With today's technology and our A.I. ability to manipulate  information systems, we truly dance on the edge of a much higher precipice than any generation before us! 

And Today,  our World Order is being re-organized. 

Culturally through the progressive-woke cultural and climate change philosophies in our institutions. 

Financially through the rise of China and the formation of a new global currency being embraced by the growing number of BRICS nations that constitute most of the world's population. 

And militarily through these same nations along with Artificial Intelligence and other forms of technological advancement.

Did you know that, America recently sent American Reserves to the conflict in Ukraine? We have physically entered the War. Will this lead to a new Viet Nam like escalation, or a full fledged Armageddon?

How will it end? Perhaps the day described in the verses below is soon approaching.

Isaiah 34:4
All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; All their host shall fall down As the leaf falls from the vine, And as fruit falling from a fig tree.

Revelation 6:14
Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
 
But there is hope. Read on below.



As people, we should reject the self-destruction of, "serpent wisdom." 

And We should reject his call to, "become as Gods." 

We were created for much more. To seek Our Heavenly Father's wisdom and bear His image.

Paul the Apostle stated... if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!—-Galatians 5:15 NKJV

Destruction is not God's purpose. That's the serpents plan.

Instead of becoming self-actualized "Gods." Our Heavenly Father calls us to a new life as sons and daughters. New lives that can never be destroyed. New lives with new purposes and new goals.

But In this plan... He is God and we are not.

Who's plan are you going to follow? 
And what does it mean to be saved from our sins?

Click the link below for answers to these questions.

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