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Clausewipf On War by Other Means: "Thou Shalt Not Kill: Blessed are the Peacemakers: I Have Hewed Them by the Prophets"
"War is politics by other means"--Clausewitz
--Every soldier is no more than a politician in uniform
--Every politician is no more than a soldier in civil dress
--The State is the sum total of the sword--no more, no less. It is pure violence ("the things that are Caesar's") . What ("the things that are God's") is not violence clings to it accidentally--that is, it would stand on its own without the State ("in the World, but not of it").
see also at shamblesheep.substack.com
11-19-25
The Jerusalem Post: Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?
"Anyone who has read Christian Bible will no doubt be alarmed by the demonization of the Jewish people" (Jerusalem Post)
Is Jesus "demonizing" Jews when He calls them "children of the Devil" (John 8:44) and John calls them "the Synagogue of Satan?" (Rev. 3:9).
Is Jesus "demonizing" the Jews when he calls them worse than "Sodom and Gomorrah?" (Mt. 11), and John condemns their rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah as "spiritual sodomy," defiling Jerusalem (Rev. 11:8).
Is Paul "demonizing" the Jews when he condemns them for "contradicting and blaspheming," rendering themselves "unworthy of eternal life?" "When the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles" (Acts 13).
Is John "demonizing" Jews when he calls those who deny that Jesus is the Messiah: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist (1 Jn. 2). Only the Jews did this. The rest of the world couldn't care less, because all their gods were human/divine. For instance, the gods Castor and Pollux (Acts 28:11) were Helen of Troy's brothers.
But this is a wrong interpretation, Congresswoman and Senator Cruz would say. There are bad apples in every group (note how easily a few Nazis hijacked Germany). The harsh language of Jesus, John and Paul was directed only at a few radicals like Paul who demanded the death penalty for the apostate followers of Jesus. But such Jews were few and far between. The rest were god-fearing humble types like modern day Settlers now terrorizing the West Bank, too busy making ends meet to pay much attention to the latest "wind of doctrine" blowing through the streets of Jerusalem. Why would any seasoned Jew, with the weight of 2000 years of history, the Temple, a vast sea of learned rabbis, and the Books of Moses behind him, abandon the faith of his fathers to follow a teacher with a motlly band of low class followers? John the Baptist himself saw Jesus as highly underwhelming and wondered if His low profile met Messianic standards. But the majority of Jews were of the Old Testament god-fearing types, awaiting the deliverance (from Rome) which the Messiah would bring. Jesus' mystical notions of freedom in the face of Roman oppression, his spiritualizing of the Jew's 2000 year history, customs and tradition rang hollow for such Jews, who could hardly be asked to downgrade their status as God's Chosen people and reduce to what basically amounts to becoming "sinners of the Gentiles." For when Jews got saved they were no longer called Jews but "Messianics." that is Christians. They were made to trade their earthly Choseness in History, for the most distant category of Election, in which they were together with the rest of mankind. Paul addresses the problem head on when he ask "what then was the point of all that--that, 2000 years of Chosenness, the Temple, the Law, etc.?
"So what advantage was there to being a Jew for 2000 years, if in the end we're not better off than the Gentiles who lived it up in their fleshpots, while we did all the heavy lifting serving God" (Ro. 3). And we're made to leave all this behind to be saved? Why would Chosen People need to be saved in the first place? These were the objections of god-fearing Jews in Jesus and Paul's day who decided to stay with what they had and not forsake the religion of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They were God's Chosen People, and they possessed the Land of Canaan as an eternal possession. Why would they give this up to follow someone who railed against the spiritual leadership, befriended the conquering Romans, carelessly spoke of the Temple as a pile of rubble, and had a ho-hum attitude toward the Sabbath and tithe. This is how Evangelical see Jews in Jesus' time. They were God's Chosen People, and they had one mission in life, retake the Land as in the days of Joshua to honor the promise to Abraham. And here was someone with global ambition ("go ye into all the world") willing to destroy Israel as a platform to launch a world religion. Again, just to frame the question of "what profit to being a Jew" in those terms is to commit racial suicide. Jews would disappear. Is that what God wants? How is losing the Land and Choseness "Good News." For a god-fearing Jew it was a death sentence. How could you "demonize" ordinary god-fearing Jews like this, when all they want is to serve God in the Land like modern day Settlers? Hence, "the demonizing anti-Semitic" texts speak only to very small majority of bad apples who "called themselves Jews but were not." But the majority, Evangelicals say, "worshipped the same God as Christians," with the exception that they stayed with the Old Bible, while Christians went with the Christian Bible. Are you saying that the Old Bible is not true, or that you could not go to heaven with the Old Bible, because Jews go to heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, while Christians are not under the Law, which is in the Jewish Bible.
11-17-25
Heathens and Papists in the Evangelical White House while the NY Times Prints the Five Second Evangelical Formula of Salvation for all the World to See
Vice President Vance confesses to marrying a heathen whom he hopes to convert to Popery (The NY Times)
"Melania Trump is Catholic, she confirms after Vatican visit" (Boston Globe). Vice President Vance and the Pope, following Catholic doctrine hold that Trump is living in adultery because he remains married to his wife Marla Maples. His marriage to divorcee Ivanna Trump was likewise adulterous, making Tiffany his only legitimate issue and heir (Heb. 12:8).
"Mr. Trump’s latest talk," the Times intones breezily, "misses the point. His framing of the question belies the belief of many Christians that entry into heaven depends primarily on a profession of faith in Christ as their Lord and Savior, not on a simple scorecard of good deeds versus bad deeds."
Missing In Action: Evangelicals. A nationwide Crusade with ICE acting the part of the Puritan Sabbath morning beadle to round up backsliding sinners is what's called for here. From here on out you will need a certificate of salvation stating that you have been administered the Luther/Calvin "Profession of Faith" (see NY Times above) to cast a vote in a Jew-Christian nation. Refuseniks will have a big H (for heathens) stamped on their passport in huge bold red letters and forced to vacate to New York City to be tormented by the arch-heathen Mamttila the Hun.
11-16-25
How to get to Heaven from Maga-Laga and how Bill Clinton got Saved
Mr. Trump is a transactional man. His son Eric Trump told the podcaster Benny Johnson that the president may be “too humble to say” that he is going to heaven, but his work to end wars will get him there. “He stopped the death and destruction around the world,” Eric Trump said. “I’ve personally witnessed him stop wars.” He added, “And that in itself will get my father into heaven” (NY Times)
A British writer, listening in, let forth a long and dreadful curse: "---------------------------", he howled, "and to think that this man is the leader of the Evangelical world."
The New York Times is left scratching their heads. Because everyone in the world (except the most powerful man in the world it seems) knows the Evangelical "formula of godliness, while denying the power thereof" by now.
"Mr. Trump’s latest talk," the Times intones breezily, "misses the point. His framing of the question belies the belief of many Christians that entry into heaven depends primarily on a profession of faith in Christ as their Lord and Savior, not on a simple scorecard of good deeds versus bad deeds." And there endeth this day's Sabbath School lesson. Imagine reading this in the NY Times.
A Muslim gets to heaven by professing "God is one, and Mohammad is his prophet." Wrong profession, Evangelicals sniff. It's the wrong formula, which is idolatry. "Life with us is no better than with the Papist," Luther said. "But we have the right doctrine." The right two second formula that is. Two seconds is all it would take to get Trump saved. And the NY Times could show him what the exact words are. And the son, you ask, does he get to benefit from ending wars? Congress has its own chaplain. Shouldn't the Oval office have its own too, devoted specifically to coaching the President (and his family) on the right American religion so he can devote his time to real crises and not stress over soul matters? Any Evangelical could get him "saved" in five seconds simply by administering the universally known formula. The same goes for Vance's wife whom he wants to convert from heathenism.
The Times continues quoting a formula preacher, "I know that he has heard the gospel message since he was a boy listening to Billy Graham that our salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ and not by our works,."
Yet Trump keeps filling frontpages worldwide with ramblings that he doesn't think he's done enough good works yet to to be allowed into heaven. Keep in mind, that MAGA is now the face of the Evangelical church, which is still the face of the Church worldwide.
The son, on the other hand, would have pagans know that stopping wars meets the requirement to get into heaven. The Rev Balaam Graham not withstanding. A high bar, forsooth, but a bar nonetheless. It removes the anxiety of wondering if just one more good deed would have gotten you over the top, or, as he watches his consort praying her beads, what if she comes up one bead short on the Day of Judgment? On the other hand, as General Sherman implies, wars are of necessity of limited supply, and the rosary is but a reincarnation of the Wheel, round and round, over and over---.
Freudian psycho-babbler Dobson was certain that Trump's favorite priestess, the Rev Paula-in-between-divorces-White administered the formula to him. Clinton was much easier in that respect, in that he never pretended to be anything but a consummate lecherer prone to "backsliding," in need of frequent recommitment, who got saved, but never "took up discipleship." Because you get saved first, and "make a commitment" later when you get convicted of certain sins (this is what the NY Times means by a "profession of faith"). Trump thinks Evangelicals are the world's greatest cons, and he harbors the mutual loathing that all cons have toward one another. If Bill Clinton is saved, he reasons, then he doesn't need to be saved. In other words, he thinks Pence, the Rabbi Hucksterbee (he hasn't told the world yet if he has had himself circumcised, but you see him constantly surrounded by "the peeping wizards" of anti-Christ at the Wailing Wall), and Vance are sanctimonious frauds.
Vance tells the world that he wants his wife to convert from heathenism to Christianity, and Evangelicals know that he's not trying to get her to mouth the Billy Graham formula, because Old Line Evangelicals would not consider Vance to be "saved." But now, we are up against the same wall. Vance is a Papist like Trump's consort--she is not his wife according to Vance and the Pope because Rome teaches that both she and Trump live in "a perpetual state of adultery." The "formula of godliness" people are the old line Evangelicals who used to rule America, but are now increasingly marginalized and forced to cling to Jews in a last attempt to jumpstart Armageddon before Mamdani Syndrome pulls the plug on the Jew Project of which Old Line Evangelicals are the last sponsors. These are the Jew-Marys who hope to get into heaven by making common cause with "God's Chosen People"--in essence riding into heaven on the back of the Anti-Christ like Mafia gangsters clinging to Mary, whom they adopted after finding the Straitgait of the Son much to narrow for their liking, and "the narrow way" much too strait.
The younger vainjanglers (the hipsters) are embarrassed by the outmoded date-setting of their forebears--which was supposed to provide an off-ramp before American Manifest Destiny reached the end of its shelf life--and are increasingly nailing their colors to the more mundane masts of anxious tech-bros who hope to escape their banality by resurrecting empire, aristocracy, oligarchy, and even royalty. Putin and Orban are the blueprint in that respect--think Red Square parades, glittering gowns, resplendent churchmen, embassy balls, heel-clicking bows, and of course, the dazzling entrance of the royal entourage to the sound of trumpets. In short, Christian, that is, Western Civilization (think Gothic churches--cold and empty). Without that, Sir Musk remains a lowborn plebe, regardless of the number of zeros in his portfolio. That is, a nobody. Bill Gates is the biggest farmer in America. But under present circumstances all his billions cannot buy him the title of Duke Gates, Earl Gates, Prince Gates. Musk would reduce to a millions dollars if given the title of His Excellency--that's one rank below His Imperial Majesty. Compare that to Elon.
Hence the attraction of religion. The crowning of Napoleon would have been a coarse affair without deafening choirs and soaring cathedrals. The Russian Patriarch's magnificent robes demonstrate the power of a counter effect. The more resplendent the fawning prelate, the more elevated the plain figure beside him, the benign father figure whom God has appointed to lead his dear children and protect Holy Moscow. The effect is greater than that of a gilded earthly court competing with the heavenly. In contrast, Musk is left counting his trillions--a junkman at best, a miser at worst. This is what's driving the billionaire Thiel to what (the Bible) he hopes might provide a path out of the coming nightmare, when mankind will have surpassed its highest expectations only to find itself staring into an ever expanding void, an endless reincarnation of nothingness without an increased capacity to understand any of it. "Knowledge," as Thiel notes, "will increase." But not understanding. Mental bloat with no venting mechanism. Munch's Scream. Musk's quest for Mars, Thiel says, is an attempt to break out. An idle boast. Isaac Newton tried and ended up in superstition and alchemy.
Vance's religion is a Catholic version of Putinism and Orbanism--that is retro-vision and refuge in religious relics. The attraction for Evangelicals is their talk of God, country, family. How do you get to heaven according to Putin, Orban and Vance? By participating in the brand: Orthodoxy, Popery. The ship itself is 90 percent of what will carry you through the portals of Heaven, following the rules with a moderate effort will do the rest. With Trump, the 10 percent becomes 100 percent, because he doesn't cling to religion, and he sees Evangelical formulas as worthless, as demonstrated by Bill Clinton. Because Bill Clinton is not "trying" to get into heaven. He's a "sinner saved by grace" who continues to make mistakes-----. "Unsaved" Trump doesn't see himself worse off than "once saved, always saved" Clinton. Besides, he can always make a profession 5 minutes before he dies. Most people get at least five minutes even if they experience a heart attack.
His consort had her rosary beads blessed by Pope Francis. The current pope doesn't consider her to be married. All par for the course if you think God wants to save Western civilization.
11-16-25
The Jew-Mary Crutch and how Jesus, as the "SEED" in the Abrahamic Promise, Cursed "God's Chosen People" Calling them Satanists and Worse than Sodomites
"Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida!...And thou, Capernaum....shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee (Mt 11).
To say "Woe" is to inflict a curse, which according to Congresswoman Foxx and Senator Cruz, makes Christ Himself cursed under "the curse of Abraham." When John calls Christ-rejecting Jews "spiritual Sodomites" (their presence in Jerusalem makes it the filthiest place on earth, for nothing is filthier than Sodom), he does no more than repeat what he heard Jesus preach (Rev. 11:8). If Jesus was caught preaching that in New York City today, Congresswoman Foxx and Senator Cruz would call in the Jewstapo and have him deported for bringing the Abrahamic curses down upon Jew-Christian America.
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him" (John 8:44). Again when John calls Jews Satan worshippers and their assembly "the synagogue of Satan" (Rev. 11:8), he was only repeating what he heard Jesus preach.
But according to the divorced heretics Scofield and Ryrie (Scofield added wife swapping adultery to his transgressions), these texts apply only to a few bad eggs among the Jews--just as a few bad apples hijacked Germany under the Nazi regime. Run of the mill Evangelicals like Congresswoman Foxx and Senator Cruz following wife swapper Scofield and his divorced heir, preach that the majority of Jews in Jesus time were like the god-fearing Settlers now terrorizing Arabs on the West bank, simple believers of the Old Testament who decided to stick with the religion of Abraham as Cod's Chosen People, and refused to embrace the cheap formulas which Jesus and Paul had to resort to to attract "sinners of the Gentiles" whom they could never dream of turning into obedient keepers of the Law of Moses. To each his own. Both Jesus and Paul, Jews say, chafed under strict Law keeping, leading to Jesus being accused of "gluttony and wine-bibbing" (Mt. 11:19), and Paul feeling trapped in a moral straitjacket, gnashing himself internally, "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do" (Ro. 7:19). And the rest, as they say, is the history of cheap grace. Converts become "temples of God," Gentiles become "inward Jews," "praise" is accepted if you can't be bothered to spend good money for "sacrifice" (Heb. 13:15), and worse, the two thousand years where Jews bore the "heat of the day" while wicked Gentiles were enjoying themselves in their fleshpot--all that is put on the same scale as the simple profession of faith by the religious freeloader; "A half shekel" for both rich and poor (Ex. 30:15) is one thing, but how do you not rob an honest man when you pay the derelict who shows up at the eleventh hour, the same as those who "bore the heat of the day" (Mt. 20). And why would God change horses in the middle of the race? 2000 years and now this! God fearing Jews were now supposed to take their place in the pew next to the mixed rabble of "sinners of the Gentiles" who couldn't tell the difference between a moth and a beam, and couldn't be bothered to strain a defiling gnat to relieve a holy vessel from its wicked burden. But even worse: God's Chosen People were now to prostrate themselves alongside unclean "sinners of the Gentiles" and declare themselves (wait for it) "sinners." But why would God's Chosen people need to be "saved" in the first place? That's for Gentiles who can't keep the Law of Moses, because as Congresswoman Foxx will remind you, Jews go to heaven by keeping the Law. Because Jews go by the Old Bible. They don't go by the New Bible. Although they don't call it the Old Bible. Non-Jews go by the New Bible.
Finally, Jews brought the ultimate curse of God upon themselves when they crucified the Messiah, for "cursed is everyone who hangeth on a tree" Gal. 3:13). "His blood be upon us and upon our children" (that is, if He's innocent, Mt. 27:25). There is no greater curse than crucifixion, and here Jews confess to inflicting the ultimate curse on "the seed of Abraham" (which Paul says "is Christ").
11-15-25
Abimelech Syndrome: Trump's Deepening Ditch. NY Times Hints that Epstein was an Israeli Pedo-Ring to Blackmail World Leaders. Are Third Temple Evangelicals Covering Up an Israeli Pedo-Ring?
"Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also" (2 Sam. 11:21)
“If they take a deeper dive here, but they uncover evidence which implicates the president — or people close to the president — are they going to be instructed to ignore it?” (NY Times)
"But then the great question remains: Why doesn’t Trump want more disclosure?
It’s possible that he just doesn’t like the embarrassment of having everyone reminded that he was one of the rich creeps in the Epstein circle. Or it’s possible that there’s something truly sensitive related to Epstein and intelligence that has yet to be revealed. There’s evidence that Epstein used his connections to assist Israel intelligence on various projects.
Or it’s possible that there is some thread remaining here, and not necessarily the obvious one, that the president really, really doesn’t want to see get pulled." (NY Times).
"Israeli Prime Minster Barak is known to have been one of Epstein’s closest associates, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that he visited the financier’s estates in Florida and New York more than 30 times between 2013 and 2017, years after Epstein had been convicted for soliciting a minor for prostitution. Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent victims, who died earlier this year, alleged in her posthumous memoir that a figure, described only as “the Prime Minister,” but widely believed to be Barak, violently raped her on Epstein’s private Caribbean island when she was 18. In past court filings, Giuffre accused Barak of sexually assaulting her. Barak has categorically denied those allegations and said he was unaware of Epstein’s activities with minors during the time of their friendship. "
This could explain Evangelical loss of interest in the Global-Elite Pedo Ring. Because Israel is too big to fail. Because Israel is Prophecy, and Prophecy cannot be allowed to fail. What these writings are hinting at here is that the Epstein Files contain the latest conspiracy of the Protocols of the Elders. They could end up derailing the Third Temple, and thwart Prophecy itself. This is probably why Speaker Johnson cannot allow what's in the files to be exposed. Because high profile Jews are the major players in them, and they read like the latest installment of the Protocols of the Elders of Sodom (Christ rejecting Jews are called "spiritual Sodomites" in Revelation 11:8) And Israel is too big to fail. Prophecy is at stake here. And Speaker Johnson will defend Prophecy at all hazards. If Israel falls now, it will set Prophecy back hundreds of years before it gets in position to rebuild the Temple again. But what is it that Speaker Johnson dare not reveal. My guess is that it has less to do with Trump than with the Jews, because the Epstein files are like a Who's Who of high profile Jewry worldwide. To reveal what's in the files could be highly damaging to the Jews, and in Evangelical jargon constitute "cursing the Jews," because as Congresswoman Foxx says "Preacherman used to say if you curse the Jews God will curse you." It's in the Old Bible, because Jews don't go by the New Bible, and they decided to to stay with the Old Bible because they didn't want to give up being God's Chosen People which is what happens when Jews become Christians. Why downgrade? Evangelicals don't call Christians God's Chosen People because they don't want to offend the Jews. That belongs to the Jews. If a Bible believing church sprang up in Jerusalem and showed signs of revival, Evangelicals would have it bombed. Because you can't have preachers "turn the world upside down" in Jerusalem, when the Jews are on the cusp of seizing the Temple Mount, which is the next item on God's calendar. Get a Jew saved, and he ceases to be a Jew. But Prophecy calls for Israel to filled with non-Christian Jews. Because even Congresswoman Foxx doesn't consider saved Jews as God's Chosen People, because they cease to be Jews when they become Christian. Why downgrade, when you already have the original? As Balaam Graham used to remind his followers, "Don't worry about the Jews, God takes care of the Jews." They have their own Program, because Jews are saved by keeping the Law. Which is why they need to rebuild the Temple, because since Titus, there has been no atonement for Jewish sins. That's two thousand years of sin on modern Jews. And if not now when Evangelicals have the monopoly of violence, then when? And the Pedo Files on Speaker Johnson's desk threaten all. They could end up rewriting the very End. It's enough to make David's fixer, Joab, turn over in his grave. Talk about too big to fail. "He that covereth his sin shall not prosper." But what if it's for the right cause. David felt threatened by Bathsheba's secret. And Joab could not see Israel without David at the helm. He knew what was demanded of him. He could have showed Uriah's death warrant to David's "mighty men" and demanded due process for Uriah. That would have been messy. Unthinkable.
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Joab's mandate (delivered by the victim himself to his murderer) was to stage the death of the husband of his mistress. But Joab was no fool. Uriah was surrounded by the world's top warriors, and Joab had to thread carefully lest his treachery boomerang on him. He needed cover, lest he introduce something among the espirit de corps which might prove fatal. He could not just single out Uriah for a suicide mission. He had to expose the whole elite cohort around Uriah, and it wasn't until he saw Uriah fall that he sounded a hasty a retreat. In the meantime, his reckless assault caused the lives of Abimelech and others. Closer, closer, boys, all the way up to the wall where women will kill Israel's mightiest men with rocks. You can see from Joab's later dispatch that he knew that he had exceeded his mandate. The death of one mighty man was one thing, but now David was left to pore over a casualty list. But he didn't order Abimelech and the others murdered. That would be on Joab's head. There was no love lost between David and Joab (his nephew), and on his deathbed David settled scores by ordering Solomon to assassinate him (his cousin).
David did not order the murder of Abimelech and the others. It was Joab who dug the ditch deeper. But it wouldn't have mattered if Joab had lost ten thousand. The ten thousand would have become but a historical footnote to the murder of one man: Uriah. Once you cross the threshold of shedding one man's blood, your conscience will cease to function. Draco had the same penalty for stealing an apple as for murder: death. Why? he was asked. "The little crimes deserve that," he replied. Stealing an apple deserved the death penalty, and it wasn't his fault that he couldn't invent more severe punishments for murder.
And David may have told himself that the murder of Abimelech and his companions was on Job's head. An investigation of Abimelech's death would have proved this. He had clearly exceeded his mandate and disobeyed orders. "But if he comes after me," Job would have said, "I'll produce Uriah's death warrant. and we'll both end up in the ditch."
But how did the world's most elite warriors get themselves killed by rock-throwing women? Imagine the uproar and calls for Joab's head. But David would have to punt, and sit on the Abimelech files. Because the Abimelech files were the Uriah files. Joab would have had some explaining to do to the rest of his army. All their prowess was no match for rock throwing women. But Joab could not retreat until he saw Uriah fall, because his troops would not fall for the same stunt twice. "Fool me once..." the mighty men would have muttered in the ranks. The next time they would have turned on the DeepState in self defense. David had the same sword hanging over him as Gentile kings. He ruled over fickle masses who were always ready for "a chicken in every pot." All it would take is someone like Absalom to hint about a DeepState. "Let me see your paperwork," he would say outside the courtroom. "Your case is bulletproof," he would tut--"but good luck getting justice with this bunch. The system is rigged. Now if we get the right people in there, like my brilliant friend Ahitophel--." "This is how Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel" (2 Sam. 15:6). To such an extent that "the conspiracy was strong."
Note the NY Times: "If they take a deeper dive here....." Because "a whore is a deep ditch."
11-13-25
HAMAS, JEW-MARYS AND THE SETTING SUN OF JAPHETH: PEDOPHILES, EPSTEIN FILES, AND THE TRUMP DEFILES
"A whore is a deep ditch" (Pr.23:27)
"Be sure your sin will find you out" (Nu. 32:23)
Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after" (1 Tim. 5)
The Evangelical DeepState: Speaker Johnson as Trump's Joab--A Tale of Adultery, Treason, Murder, and (now ongoing) Blackmail of a Sitting US President
"Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell Being Pampered in Prison?" NY Times
Why? Because the most powerful man in the world is being blackmailed from prison by the world's most notorious pedophile (the Epstein pedo-woman), and the bloodhounds of sin are at full bay. "His sin has found him out," and the Epstein woman thinks she conceals secrets which could pull the most powerful man in the world into a deep ditch, because "a whore is a deep ditch." This is why Trump removed her from a squalid cell into a villa with Five Star perks that would make the Great Gender Worker of Revelation drool. He's back to his livelong dodge of cheating the hangman, and the Epstein woman's noises from prison are as ominous as the piercing howls beneath Jezebel's bedroom window. The "pampering", as everyone knows, is a quid pro quo to buy her silence, because she knows where all the bodies are. But surely, you say, then she knows of crime that threatens the wellbeing of the State. Joab knew secrets that threatened the well being of the State. That is, David and Joab created a state within the State when they used the State apparatus to murder their own citizens and fellow officers. Uriah assumed that he was the State because he carried the insignia and mark of the State. He never dreamed that the best State in the world could be hijacked to the extent that he was made do deliver his own death warrant to his executioner. The Epstein woman that now stalks the White House has nothing to do with official State business. The claims of the State are satisfied by her punishment. But her silencing is being conducted at the highest State level through secret channels, not to further the interests of the State, but to subvert the normal processes of the State. David knew perfectly well the processes of Israel's Constitution, and the severe punishments that underwrote it. Nathan would have told him, "No exceptions, even for kings." The time to stop digging was when he found himself in the ditch. But dig he did, and aside from a few irregularities of a bizarre military tactic, his adultery and murder would likely have gone to the grave with him. But God keeps even heathen kings on a tight leash, and when He ordered Ahab to kill Benhadad and he didn't, He ordained Hazael who did. God has politicians on a leash (2 Thess. 2) to keep "the mystery of iniquity in check." Exposing David brought great damage on Israel. But "judgment must begin at the house of God," and David was not too big to fail. Because Evangelicals are "all in here" in this deep ditch of deception, because they say Trump is too big to fail. Western Civilization was at stake. But God aborted the invasion of Canaan when one man coveted a babylonish garment and a wedge of gold.
No one understands how the world's most notorious pedophile went from barren cell to the lap of luxury. But everyone understands that strings were pulled, arms twisted, records adjusted, etc. David could order a hit on his best soldier using his top general and not leave a trace. Trump, and his enablers, Evangelicals, have become the DeepState, and Speaker Johnson has become his executioner.
But she wants out. She has power over the President only as long as he has something to lose: the Presidency which lasts until 2028, after which her hold on the President will become marginal. If he frees her then, the quid pro qo will become obvious and mar his legacy, This is the metric here. There are no friends here, only interests. She knows this. Under a Democratic administration, she could even end up back on bard time. He can neither free her now, nor ignore her while the powder keg is on such a short fuse. Her hook in the President has a shelf life only as long as he's in office. But there are multiple Catch-22's here. He cannot spring her free now without fatally incriminating himself, and the minute she "tells all" she loses her blackmail gold and could easily end her days wearing out the clock. The answer to the question is obvious to the whole world. Why would the world's most powerful man allow himself to be taken hostage by the world's most notorious pedophile reaching into the Oval from behind prison bars?
"Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. to Thwart Epstein Vote" NY Times
"Trump says he will direct attorney general to investigate Epstein's involvement with Bill Clinton, Democratic donors and banks" (Guardian)
Congress could just give the Epstein woman full immunity to expose the entire globalist pedo-ring. But such an inferno would engulf all the capitals of Western Civilization including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Taiwan and Ukraine are small money compared to what's shaking the Western world. Clinton's life of blasphemy against the 7th Commandment may finally catch up with him. The landscape is already littered with former untouchables who thought elite vice pits are unassailable. War has finally broken out at the very top, and there remain no channels left to de-escalate. Trump had to go full nuclear to save himself, threatening MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). If the Left doesn't blink, he'll have no choice but to burn the whole edifice to the ground. But Trumpian vice is the Left's only path back to power, even if it means opening up elitist vice pits to the mockery of the world and deliver their own to the angry masses.
Joab (Speaker Johnson that is) needs your help (you know you're the DeepState when you can get your victims--like Uriah--to deliver their own death warrants). Because Trump is too big to fail. Attila the Hun (Mamdani that is) is at the gates, and no less than the survival of Western Civilization (Christianity that is) is at stake here. If Trump falls, brothers Putin and Orban will be hard put to hold the line against the advancing horde.
"Mr. Wolff advised inaction, suggesting that Mr. Trump might try to deny a close association with Mr. Epstein. 'I think you should let him hang himself,' he wrote of Mr. Trump. 'If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency' that could be used to 'hang him' later or 'save him, generating a debt.'” (Debt as in blackmailing a sitting US President, which is what the Epstein woman is now doing from prison) NY Times.
All his life Trump outran his pursuers. But can he beat the odds against sin? For "Be sure, your sin will find you out." Joab had to put the State (and his Army) in great danger to shield his master because the bloodhounds of sin were closing in fast. He had to add treason and murder to adultery. He would have served his king best by telling him to slam on the brakes and call in Nathan the Prophet before the bloodhounds appear on the horizon and start baying at the palace gates. Coverup is the quickest path to ruin, for "he that covereth his sin shall not prosper" (Pr. 28:13). Speaker Johnson has been running at full speed for months now. But the Democrats smell blood, and are desperate for a path back to power by any means possible, even if it means littering the halls of power with their own. For "the conspiracy is strong" and threatens the highest reaches of "spiritual wickedness in high places"--from the Mossad to Mountbatten to Manhattan.
The lust for political power drives people insane. Jehu no sooner got a taste of it but he lashed his angry stiles with all the restless fury of a raging maniac in pursuit of the world's ultimate prize. But even at his most "furious," he could not outrun the aforetold hounds of Jezebel awaiting him impatiently to be served their gruesome dinner. Because her "sin had found her out." The greatest threats to Trump's Presidency are 1) Vice (the reeking stench of the Epstein Defiles), and 2) Violence (the reeking stench of the Jews, their industrial scale violence in Gaza and the West Bank, where the Rev Hucksterbee is hexing Jewish terrorists to go all in to solve their Arab Problem once and for all and cleanse (what he calls) Judea and Samaria (contrary to US policy calling it the West Bank--but the Rev is not there to serve US--but religious--interests) in a desperate act of an apocalyptic inferno as foretold by Judea-Christian prophecy. The latter sank Biden, and created the nightmare of a non-Christian ruler over the rarest plum of Judeo-Christian America: Mammon's Mecca, New York City. So ominous are the portents of this alien spectre, which appeared on the horizon out of nowhere with the lightening speed of the Alexander goat in Daniel, that over 1100 rabbis issued a bloodcurdling fatwa declaring Mamdani "the enemy of the Jews" like Amalek. The last time this happened a lone wolf Jewish zealot took the que and assassinated Yitzhak Rabin. All fair game under the Old Covenant, which according to Evangelicals is still in force to the last jot an tittle for anti-Christian Jews. They don't consider him to be an American. The last time an Arab ruled the Jews was at Christ's First Coming. He built the Herodian Temple. And he already owns the real estate for the Third. He threatens to put the rich (that is Jews) to the tribute. They will wear their chains more easily if he funnels the tithe toward Herodian architecture.
The world's most notorious pedophile continues to draw his bedfellows into the deep ditch where they are cut to pieces by wagging tongues. If a "whore is a deep ditch," MAGA is a bottomless pit, and Trump is the biggest fish in the Epstein sewer. Democrats, knowing full well that opening the Epstein pit will devour many of their own, interpret the strange MAGA noises surrounding the files to mean that there are things in there that make MAGA's hair stand on end. Because David feared wagging tongues in Jerusalem more than the enemy spears that killed Uriah and Israel's most elite warriors, killed by their Commander in Chief and his top general's treachery. Bill Gates' wife ditched him, not because of crime, but because of his prowling too casually among vice, for "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion." In the UK, the Epstein sewer threatened to bring down the monarchy, and sent the king's brother into exile. The greatest fear of rulers (and the rich) is bad press, and they dread wagging tongues more than the sword of Damocles. David had nothing to fear for murdering Uriah and those of his unit who fell by his side when sent to their deaths by co-conspirator Joab. But Bathsheba informed him that they had a secret, and she was subject to stoning if found out, which only a hurried visit from Uriah, or a quick marriage to David would prevent. First he tried deceit (a king's banquet with the wife at home) but the new convert only wanted to talk about the Ark (the Gospel, which an adulterer dreads like the plague), then debo0uchery (drunkenness--an all night orgy to which the Prophet Nathan would not have been invited), and finally, treachery and murder. And, as Abraham and Isaac told their wives, kings can make you marriageable widows at the drop of a hat. David had a thousand options at his disposal to make his adultness eligible for marriage.
But tongues, as Nathan told David, were wagging: the Commander in Chief was debouching at home with his soldier's wives while they were defending "the ark". "The enemies of God were gloating." The coverup was the worst kept secret in Jerusalem and beyond, and the best political system in the world always dangles from a spider's web: David was later driven from the Capital because "the conspiracy was strong" (the fickle masses were ready to throw the best ruler in the world to the wolves) , and had not God intervened, Jerusalem would have had a new king. This is what drove David to murder to cover his sin. Because Caesar must himself remain above suspicion in the eyes of the village wags. It is what forces Speaker Johnson into such contortions to keep the Epstein files hidden. He's not worried about the pedophiles in the Epstein files, but the potential tongue wagging of the Trump Defiles in the Epstein files, because for two decades Trump was the closest bedfellow of this monster of debauchery, the world's most notorious pedophile. You could hardly open a newspaper in the eighties and nineties without being confronted with Trump's high-handed blasphemy against the 7th Commandment. "Epstein," he crowed, "loves (readers universally substitute "lust" for "love" to understand what is being blasphemed here) defiling beautiful women as much as I do, only he (wink, wink) likes them on the young side." His Halloween Great Gatsby debouch was so "decadent (hookers, strippers, and naked girls)," Jon Stewart crowed, "that it would have made the world's most notorious pedophile (Epstein) blush." MAGA's Who's Who were all in attendance, although there was no picture of Speaker Johnson among the lecherers leering at the naked dancing girls. "If a whore is a deep ditch," Maga is a bottomless pit, and Trump is the biggest fish in the sewer. And because Maga is now the face of the Church, the vice reeking from it has become the greatest obstacle to the preaching of the Gospel. The other is Evangelical cheerleading the slaughter in Gaza.
David was not just another king who could live as he pleased. He was the face of the Gospel, and his vice "made the cross of Christ of none effect." His sin had to be addressed "beforehand." "His sin had to be found out" because it threatened the kingdom of God. David was there when God lashed out and killed Uzzah for trying to save the Ark from falling (2 Sam. 6), which David considered an unnecessary overreaction to an honest mistake. The murder of Uriah was not an honest mistake, and the enemies of the Gospel were having a heyday. But even David could not have guessed the severity of Nathan's gloomy message. Forgiveness yes, but God will make an example of him for future generations, lest others be tempted to make "honest mistakes." This is what Maga is confronted with now. Will their sin find them out? For with the vice of Trump and the violence of Gaza they have covered the Ark of the Covenant with blasphemy. This is blasphemy with a high hand, encouraged by the fact that Trump has never been brought to account. His sin has never found him out. Or, they say, he's too big to fail--he's too important in the quest to save Western Civilization. None has ever been bigger than David. Nathan left him moaning on the floor. There are no great men in the kingdom of God.
David's secret was safe with Joab, himself implicated by his treasonous act of killing Israel's best soldiers to hide David's crime of defiling Uriah's wife. David was not subject to the law of stoning for adultery. And the matter could have been handled with options at a king's disposal--note how easy it was for him to make the system deal with the Uriah problem--legally. Abraham and Isaac knew this when they asked their wives to pose as unmarried women. Their wives would have been safe back in Ur, as Egyptian wives were safe in Egypt, and Lot's women were safe in Sodom--the familiar arrangement of gangster turf which they could not join without paying the price of admission (which Lot did). The systems of Pharaoh and Abimelech would have made short shrift of their husbands using legal channels. A ruthless fixer like Joab will find a way. Uriah perished in the fog of war. Kill one, Stalin smirked, and you make the six o' clock news for murder. But the death of ten thousand is but a statistic for the history books. Tsk, tsk, David wrote his co-murderer--"let's look to our strategy, my boy, and keep our fingers crossed--too bad about Uriah and the rest--war is--well you know what Sherman said--stiffen your lines, etc., etc.,--not the end of the world--all in a day's work running a country--there will be losses and difficult decisions--mistakes will be make--who's to say---?" Back to business as usual. "Divinely ordained ministers of God," Abraham and Isaac told their wives, "are murderers and rapists." Their descendant proved them right here. Elisha ordained Hazael knowing he would become the most extreme abortionist in history (2 Ki. 8). "It is necessary that offences come, but woe to the man by whom they come." "God uses the wrath of man to praise Him" and ordains one monster to destroy another to keep them from disturbing the sheep of His pasture (Melchizedek and Abraham found out about Tidal's "illegal" invasion when it was over). Hazael became minister of God by assassinating the existing minister of God. "God ordains political leaders in His anger, and destroys them in his wrath" (Hos. 13). All politics are but the seat of Cain, and are never more than the monopoly of violence, of which the Mark of Cain is the symbol. The Mark protected Cain only incidentally by guaranteeing certain death to his killer. His descendant Lamech, harking back to the original, magnified the Mark to claim absolute immunity, from sevenfold to "seventy and sevenfold." From the beginning, all nations have had flags, oaths of office, uniforms, all different manifestations of the Mark of Cain: the Monopoly of Violence.
"Old Jack," Stonewall Jackson's soldiers used to say, "will execute his own soldiers at the drop of a hat."
"The king's wrath is death," Henry VIII's officials whispered to one another. They were all killed (even his wives) given the full process of English law.
Israel had the best Constitution the world has ever seen (The Law of Moses). But in the wrong hands (an adulterer and his fellow gangster Joab), Israel's most loyal citizens (Uriah, Abimelech--likely a Philistine convert--and those who were murdered with them) had more to fear from it than from the spears of Israel's enemies. Because the Law of Moses underwrote the political acts of David and Joab and guaranteed the rights of Israel's citizens. It is what makes citizens drop their guard and obey in good faith, trusting that their leaders are not their worst enemies. Imagine what you can do if you can order a state-funded hit on your adversaries--like David. Democrats went after Trump using tax-funded legal channels. Now Trump is going after Democrats using the US Department of Justice as his personal law firm. He's bankrupting his enemies without spending a dime. In fact, he's even asking for Federal compensation, because those same enemies pursued him as Federal agents when they possessed the Mark of Cain. Adoni-bezek once entertained his guests by having 70 thumb/toeless former kings fight for crumbs under his table (Judges 1). Then he lost the Mark of Cain and suffered the same fate. "Beware," I warned the New York Times when they gloated at having their bear in a cage. "He could once again become the most powerful man in the world, and his rage (and reach) will be bottomless." And he's only just getting started. All legal, and funded by the Treasury.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men," Cardinal Richelieu used to crow, "I will find something in them which will hang him."
Legally, that is. Because the Rev was a man of the cloth. On his deathbed he was asked, "Father, would you not like to forgive your enemies before you die (because he disappeared men by the thousands)?" "I have no enemies but the enemies of the State," he rasped. Who are, of course, equally the enemies of God--he had but done the work of God. Jezebel killed Naboth using due process. Jesus was condemned both under the Law of Moses and Roman law. "A lot of fog up here," David smirked at Joab. "It's never cut and dried with the sword, you can't start losing sleep over it or you'll never sleep a wink. Like I said, stiffen your lines and let's hope for a better day." And this under the Law of Moses. David did not bother to consult the Prophet Nathan. Trump is now defunding and bankrupting his enemies. The next Monopolist will escalate with prison terms, and worse---all legal. The Law of Moses and a great Prophet did not save Uriah when the Mark of Cain fell into the wrong hands.
Since Constantine, attempts have been made to carve out a special dispensation for "Christian politics" from this damning indictment of Scripture, which lumps all leaders of earthly governments with Cain and the Anti-Christ. Cain was the first priest/politician, the Anti-Christ will be the last, except that he will dispense with priestcraft by proclaiming himself to be God (2 Th. 2).
But here David is carrying on in the familiar pattern of the monopolist of violence. That is to say, the lawlessness of the sword bearer. Elsewhere, God ordains one monster to destroy another. Here he sent the "hewing" prophet to check the monster. David understood his office perfectly, and assumed that all his acts were law. When Alexzander the Great speared his trusted friend (who saved his life) Cleitus in a drunken rage, he afterwards became suicidal. Until a sophist convinced him that all the acts of a sovereign are lawful, that a king cannot break the law, because a king is the law. This is the essence of Cain-Caesar, and David was now in Cain-Caesar's seat which underwrites all kingdoms of the world.
There may have been a few raised eyebrows within the palace. But "harem talk" was dealt with as treason. What went on in the harem (everyone knew it was a brothel) stayed within palace walls. Imagine walking through a crowd naked with nothing but a crown on your head and hearing people ooh and aah on the style and cut of your fashionable threads. Palace talk is off-limits because palaces are vice pits. When Vashti the Queen of Persia refused to be ogled by the king's lecherers, his wise men counseled draconian measures to ward of bad press by village gossips. This is what is felling the titans who were Epstein's bedfellows: they are seen as being too willing to swim in the Epstein sewer. They fell, and yet none has been convicted of a crime. So strong is the coverup of "wickedness in high places." Yet the stench reeks beyond the grave. For two decades Trump was the biggest fish in the Epstein sewer, and filled the front pages of leading magazines with smirking blasphemy against the 7th Commandment. Speaker Johnson is sitting on the Epstein files, not because he wants to shield pedophiles, but because they must be saturated with the unsavory details of Trump's life of defiles: "Epstein," he chortled "loves defiling beautiful women as much as I do, only he likes them (wink, wink) on the young side."
HOW RULERS ARE BLACKMAILED BY THEIR VICES TO COMMIT TREASON
"Speaking to reporters, Trump said: “I’m allowed to do it (pardoning the Epstein woman pedophile), but it’s something I haven’t thought about” (Telegraph)
This is strange language from the leader of the fre world. Why would he even talk about pardoning the world's most notorious pedophile. For the same reason he moved her to a "resort" prison: she's blackmailing him. As soon as she began making noises, Trump sent his political fixer from the Department of Justice to "INTERVIEW" here. Right after the "INTEVIEW" she got the Fie Star treatment (wink, wink, this is the best we can do for now because this is nuclear hand grenade that will have to be managed day by day flying by the seat of our pants). But now she's making noises again. And why does she seem to have a back door into the White House? Because she knows everything, and such is the anger toward elites like UK King's brother that Trump cannot exposed as having been the biggest fish in the Epstein sewer for two decades.
Which is why David went into overdrive as soon as Bathsheba alerted him that the clock was ticking. When deception didn't work (getting Uriah drunk so he would go home to give Bathsheba cover), he resorted to treason, using his political office to damage the state to cover a crime. Abraham wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. Samuel warned them that a king would be another Pharaoh, a law unto himself. God gave them Cain-Caesar in His anger, and took him away in His wrath. "The mystery of iniquity" inhabits the "the kingdoms of the world and their glory," and when Israel demanded a king, they became "like the nations."
David was a good king presiding over the system of Cain. Now imagine the System falling into the hands of Jezebel. A few legal tricks and poor Naboth's doom was sealed. Like Uriah, he was killed legally.
And now Trump is trampling the System with the System. A strange paradox. The Left was so close to a globalist Nirvana that the End of History was in sight. Religion, in the traditional sense does no exist on the Left, because Cain, a priest before he became a politician, did not become just another Noddite (Nod means fugitive). "He went ot from the presence of the Lord" (Gen. 4) to join the outlaws who had removed themselves from the presence of God and became "those that are without" (1 Th. 4). His genius was to turn the tables on God and make those who remained "in the presence of God" as an oddball remnant who were left to endure "the hard speeches of ungodly sinners." That remnant consisted of "8 souls" at the time of the Flood. But "the mystery of iniquity" came back with a vengeance in Nimrod's Babylon in Shinar. Such was their vigour and ambition that God is left to say: "If we don't stop them now--------------!!!!!! In other words, if God had not put them in a straitjacket, Esau would have been able to trade his birthright for an iPhone. "He that hinders now, will hinder until he be taken out of the way." Before God "hindered" by "striving with man." Now he becomes the "author of confusion," and consequently, of ignorance because they lost the ability to "understand" each other.
This was a severe retardation of Cain's program of civilization which was always intended as a substitute for "the presence of God." Mt. Rushmore is a monument and the world is full of great cities. But here God put his foot down with a vengeance. Why, because Babylon is the Anti-Bride of Satan? For no sooner is the Whore scattered, but Moses begins the story of Abraham. Babylon is the flagship of all the cities on earth, and typifies the Anti-City, the substitute for the New Jerusalem, the City of God, which is the Bride of Christ
10-29-25
HIS SIN WILL FIND HIM OUT: THE PEDO RING OF THE WORLD'S ELITES AND WHO IS IN THE PEDO FILES
"Be sure your sin will find you out: (Nu. 32:23)
Here's The German Spiegel:
"Jeffrey Epstein showed that a man who surrounds himself with presidents, princes and Nobel laureates has nothing to fear for a long, long time – no matter what he does.
The questions raised by this case continue to be explosive enough to shake America’s political sphere to the core.
Who knew about his sex ring? Who took part in it? Who helped cover it up? Who simply didn’t care because they wanted to maintain access to his circle and to his money?
The fact that the riddles surrounding his death continue to swirl is partly due to Donald Trump. The man who – reluctantly – promised during the campaign to publicly release the Epstein files. And the man who went back on his word.
Why? It is a question that has dogged the president for months. Why has he behaved so strangely? Might it be because he is mired more deeply into the case than initially thought?"
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Trump rode into the Oval on the back of QAnon conspiracy theories, of which the most potent was the Pizzagate theory that the Deep State was covering up a globalist Pedo Ring made up of decrepit elites who ruled the world and carried out unspeakable debauchery in the secret dens of "spiritual wickedness in high places."
Until Epstein, the conspiracy bubbled without restraint in the fevered minds of the rabble who connected all the dots quicker than Sampson tied his foxes, "tail to tail," when he introduced his new politics to slumbering Philistines.
Evangelicals could not get enough of it, so much that DeSantis' crackdown on Disney Groomerism became a QAnon rallying cry and make him a serious Presidential contender.
Than Epstein, the High Priest of the industrial scale Pedo Ring to the world's elites, was found hanged in his cell. Murder, the QAnonists cried, to shield the dark an sinister forces whom he served.
But then the Trump Administration turned an abrupt bout face: "It's all a Democratic Hoax, Trump said, fake news of demoralized Democrats desperate to regain lost political power."
Now, it is the Democrats who accuse MAGA of being the Deep State, and of using the power of the Government to make the globalist Pedo Ring disappear.
Epstein's jailed fixer suddenly began making noises from her cell calling for release. Quickly, the US Department of Justice made a quick visit
to this obscure person, and within days she gets transferred to a Five Star facility reserved for White Collar crime. None of it made sense. "I could free her," Trump told journalists. But such a quid pro qou would would have been to dangerous for the President. She made noises to get his attention. In other words, "Free me, or I tell all." But he quickly did the most allowed by this political hand grenade: Five Star digs for now, and wink wink full pardon at the end of his term. This is what The Reich thinks happened.
10-24-25
MANDAMI, ENEMY OF THE JEWS: GAY JERUSALEM, THE GREAT GENDER WORKER, AND MAGA'S PEDO-FILES
"the street of the great city (Jerusalem), which spiritually is called Gay" (Rev. 11:8)-- TNETBT, The New Evangelical Trump Bible Translation)
"the judgment of The Great Gender Worker" (Rev. 17:1--TNETBT, The New Evangelical Trump Bible Translation)
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"I love the gays," Trump crowed, "because they pay the most for the weddings" (New York Times). It's the only statement on record of Trump quoting the Bible accurately. No one pays like Sodom: "Give me the people," the king said, "keep the goods for thyself" (Ge. 14) The collective wealth of five kingdoms which lured the heavyweights of the Fertile Crescent. The New York Times is glad to point out that Trump has surrounded himself with Sodomites, and that they frequent the same high class old fashioned clubs as the rest of the Republicans, most of whom call themselves Evangelicals. "Don't ask, don't tell"--wink,wink--is back, just like in the old days. But Evangelicals have larger fish to fry, because Ishmael is threatening to put Mammon (that is the Jews) to the tribute in New York City, and Evangelicals are calling on Trump to deport him, not because he's bad for NY City, but because he presents an existential danger to a foreign nation: Israel. Jews are hysterical, and a 1000 rabbis signed a letter calling him an "enemy of the Jews," like Amalek a din rodef. The last time they issued a rabbinical fatwa of this kind resulted in the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a sleeper zealot. Any Torah Jew is obligated to root out Amalek where he finds him, just as they have a mandate to retake the West Bank with fire and sword. Evangelicals will commit blasphemy if they condemn his assassin for doing what the Old Covenant calls on him to do. And the Old Covenant, every jot and tittle of it, remains in effect for Jews according to Evangelical doctrine. They'll blame Mandami for bringing it on himself. Mordechai was the dagger of God in Persia. When Settlers recently killed an American citizen on the West Bank, Trump made the Rev Hucksterbee commit blasphemy by renouncing his murderers as terrorists. But to the Rev Hucksterbee, these murderers are no more terrorists than the great patriot Barabbas, whose only crime was to fulfill his Biblical mandate to protect Israel from the enemies of God, the defiling Romans. But under ordinary circumstances (according to the Evangelical creed) to condemn what God ordained Jews to do would be deemed "cursing the Jews." The Rev Hucksterbee complied through gritted teeth, because Evangelicals consider all Palestinians who do not submit to the yoke of the Jews as terrorists. The Rev Hucksterbee keeps telling Israel to do what they are commanded to do: "seize Judea and Samaria" (which US foreign policy doctrine calls the West Bank) with fire and sword. But he's not there to represent the US, but the interests of a foreign nation. Trump put him there as a sop to his Evangelical base, as when he chose Pence, whom he considers a conman of the same stripe as Hucksterbee. He made Pence commit spiritual suicide when he forced him to celebrate Black Mass by administering the oath of office to a Sodomite and his Christian husband--on a Bible on the world stage.
Trump keeps bringing up his own eternal destiny. His mother, he thinks made it into heaven. He doubts that his father did, or that he himself will. After solving the 3000 year Jewish-Arab conflict with the stroke of a pen, he was asked again on the way back, if his peace trophy will get him in. "I'm afraid not," he replied.
"__________________________," a British reporter burst out with a fearful curse, "and this man is the head of the Evangelicals." What was the reporter getting at? Here was the head of Evangelical Protestants bean counting to see if his good works outweighed his transgressions, and stressing over the tipping point: the straw that breaks the camel's back, or rather barring the camel from passing through the "stair and narrow" eye of the needle. Why don't Evangelicals just get him "saved"? Instead he keeps rambling like a Catholic shaving the odds of does and don't that would "get him in." And that without Purgatory, the Backstop of Hell which at least offers the hope of limit punishment--after billions and billions of years in the fire. "At least, it will end," they chant in their revels.
But Evangelicals are silent. He thinks they're the world's greatest cons with their formulas and cupidity, "having a formula (or a thousand) of godliness, while denying the power thereof." They descended on Washington en masse with him, as lobbyists (bribers) and arms contractors (gun runners), and they all frequent the same old style clubs as the Sodomites. "Christ or Chaos," chants wife-swapping Army head Hegseth. The leader of his church celebrates Jeff Davis and Robert E Lee Day, in Moscow, Idaho, where he hopes to revive the nation to the standards of the Confederacy ("the last true representation of a true Christian Society"), a White Utopia. "Once saved, always saved," "by faith alone," "born again,"--all while drowning in violence, wife-swapping, and government lobbying covetousness.
The Huckster and Pence would make short shrift of Trump's spiritual fears: Just repeat after me the sinner's prayer.
"Do I have to repent?" he asks.
"Let's get you saved first," they say, "and then we can talk about sanctification, because repentance belongs to sanctification, which comes after salvation. God will convict you after you get saved, if He wants you to do this or that."
"So I can be saved without repenting?"
"Like we said, good works come after, and repentance is a good work."
"So I just say a formula, and I'm ok?
"That's all we did."
"But I always thought I would have to repent...."
"You can repent afterward, if you want more...."
"I don't really want more, I just want to get in...or rather, stay out of the bad place..."
"Well, just repent off as much as you need to get in..."
"But now I'm right back to square one, How much is enough...."
"That's where Once Saved Always Saved comes in."
"The head of the Southern Baptists said Bill Clinton is Once Saved Always Saved. Does he get in?"
"If he said the sinner's prayer the best he knew how, he was saved at that moment."
"Is he still saved, because he...."
"No one is perfect, all have sinned and continue to sin...all have come short...."
"What if I don't feel saved..."
"Bill Clinton doesn't feel saved? I never heard that. He doesn't seem worried."
"So what's the difference between Bill Clinton and the Mob"?
"The Mob is Catholic. They don't believe in Born Again."
"Is Clinton Born again?"
"That's just another formula for being saved."
"Do I have to change"?
"No, because that belongs to Sanctification."
"Does Bill Clinton practice sanctification?"
"Sanctification has nothing to do with Salvation."
"And he still gets in?"
"He'll suffer loss...fewer crowns, etc., etc."
"He seems quite happy with that, besides who wants to be weighed down forever with heavy crowns...."
"That's what we mean. Why worry about Sanctification when just Salvation will get you everything you need."
"So I can be saved and enjoy life like Bill Clinton--wine, women, song?"
"Like we said, He may suffer loss--fewer crowns, rewards, etc., etc.....
Trump prefers honest Sodomites (they are honest enough to stay out of churches) to these groveling formula frauds.
So much for "the gay agenda," which Evangelicals thundered in the 80's, would bring the wrath of God down on America. But notwithstanding the purge on pornounism, old-line sodomy is now cheek and jowl with mainstream Evangelism. So pronounced in fact that the most fervent expositor of the Bible at home and abroad is the sodomite billionaire Peter Thiel, preaching about the katechon which keeps the Anti-Christ from appearing. Aside from Congresswoman Foxx who unleashed the Jewstapo on US campuses because Preacher Man used to say if you curse the Jews God will curse you, and Palestinian protesting the slaughter of their relatives were in essence cursing the Jews and stood to bring the curse of God down on America, Peter Thiel is the only other person of note to quote the Bible. The Europeans, especially, are scratching their heads. "Europe," they sniffed during the Schmerkle era, "is now post-Christian. Deal with it." Europe outgrew the Bible--myths, fables, hallucinations, opium for the masses. In their view, as in anyone else's, no serious person would invoke ancient religious texts for modern day ills, especially those that foretold future events, unless he accepted them as divine revelation. That one of the great captains of the Tech Age should do this must be absolutely terrifying for Europe's post-Christians. But he preaches 2 Thessalonians as if he believes it to be true. Trump wouldn't give anything Pence and Hucksterbee say a second thought because he sees then as pandering conmen, selling their souls for a mess of political pottage in order to reap the rewards of divinity. But why would a sodomite hold forth on prophecy in the halls of the world's most renowned Universities, obviously, without being "preachy." He most certainly does not preach morality. But the Schmerkles rejected the Bible because of its outdated morality. He says his friend Musk's quest for Mars is an attempt to escape the reign of Antichrist. That is until one of the AI titans sneered: "we'll follow you there."
“The term used in Israel was that he (Trump) works for us,” Reuven Hazan, a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said of Mr. Trump. “Everybody thought that Trump was mouthing words that Bibi wrote for him” (NY Times).
Memorizing the Scripture
"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Psalm 119:11)
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5) Scriptural Exercises
To summarize: You need to find a way to keep whatever you're memorizing uploaded in your mind. Most people use only about 10 percent of their brain throughout life, which leaves a lot of brain space available. The "blessed man" (Ps. 1) "prospers in whatsoever he doeth", because be "meditates" as he works. Start by finding a place to land anywhere in Genesis. You should have three or four chapters that you can always go back to in a pinch. For instance, faith (15), the sacrifice of Isaac/atonement (22). prayer/wrestling (32), Joseph sold (37). Whatever you choose, you must rehearse them until they become embedded anchors, always there to fall back to in a pinch. Try creating four or five grids that will give you precise chapters. You could create a grid on money this way: the big money is in #20. So think 20 dollar bills to anchor chapter 20. You know that Abraham and Jacob bought real estate in 23 and 33--here you note the number 3 to keep them joined. Joseph is sold for 20 in 37. Then you have the 300 Benjamins which Joseph gives to his brother in 45. The point is not to learn economics, but merely to know where the money is. Once you get these 5 chapters fixed, you can meander around to see why the money is there, without having to worry about what comes before or after, because these five chapters become embedded. The death chapter grid runs in 5's: 5, 25, 35, and 50 (Jacob is buried in 50, but dies one verse before). So let's say you land in 35. As you feel your way back back, you can land in 33 (money) where Jacob buys real estate and builds a house, a sure sign of trouble. Immediately, Dinah comes to mind and the massacre of Simeon and Levi which gives you 34. From here you can create a grid of five of Leah's children: Dinah, Simeon, Levi (34), Ruben (35), Judah (38). Make a grid of the lesser actors: 16 (Ishmael), 26 (Abimelech plugging the wells of salvation), 36 (a whole chapter to Esau, and Job's kin--note Anah's donkeys). You string the first three together with the number 6, and remember 38 as the last chapter before Egypt. Now you have a whole chapter devoted to Judah/Tamar (38) where Judah (like Simeon and Levi in 34) wants to engage in honor killing. Joseph was sold in 37 when Jacob was 108, 12 years before Isaac's death in 35 when Jacob is 120. The numbers grid is the most helpful. Joseph's death at 110 is the last precise date going back to Adam. From here you calculate 400 years in Egypt, and 400 years of judge-rule to get to the dates of Israel's kings which can be indexed to pagan literature. You can use the number 30 to organize the numbers. Jacob stands before Pharaoh at at age 30, 9 years after Joseph stands before him aged 30. Subtract Joseph's age from Jacob's and you land in chapter 3o, where Joseph is born when Jacob is 91, just before he enters a sic year contract for Laban's cattle. Which puts his arrival in Syria at age 77 when Isaac is 137 years old, 14 years after Ishmael's death at 137 (25:17) when Jacob is 63. Note how Moses records Ishmael's death at 137 (25:17), before moving on to Jacob's birth when Ishmael is only 74 years old. Are these numbers real and historical you say? Depends if Darwin's apes are in hot pursuit. Evangelicals throw the NY Times of their trail by chirping that the numbers are, like Adam, more than mythical. Trying printing money and telling your bank that it's "more than counterfeit." Evangelicals have a "don't ask don't tell" rule here. They're all apeists, and when pushed howl that if Spurgeon could be an apeist and still call himself a Christian, then why not they? When Spurgeon read Darwin, he jumped like a pea on a hot shovel, because he was a respected member of the king's chapel and apery was latest of the doctrines of devil on Broadway, where he hawked his wares to keep himself in fine wines and expensive cigars. Even Isaac Newton took the numbers for real. It was not until the prophet Darwin, that Christ was exposed as a fraud for not detecting the greatest fraud of all time: the con artist who wrote under the pen name Moses. Between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, Spurgeon and his fellow apemen created a 13.8 billion year gap to account for all of Darwin's apes. This, along with Spurgeon's hedonist lifestyle, was hidden from the common people. But now, that they've all become apeists, they appeal to him as an example that you can be both a Darwinist and Christian.
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4) Scriptural Mechanics
"Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asian, and Bithynia" (1 Pet. 1:1). Looking at the map, you see that Peter starts from with Pontus (on the Black Sea next to modern Georgia), drops down to Galatia (Galatians are French/Germans who settled what is now Turkey's capital), eastward toward Syria, then all the way over to the churches of Revelation, then back up again to the south western rim of the Black Sea. Aha, I say, an odd shaped horseshoe, covering most of Turkey. But how to keep them all in order. I use PG (Proctor and Gamble) for the first two, then CAB for the other three. The horseshoe and PG CAB bring Peter's route and places to mind immediately--all there in PG CAB. So I have the route, the names, and the order in which they occur. You need to sort Scripture like this so they become imbedded in your mind.
Memorizing book content is as fruitful as memorizing whole chapters (every Christian should set time aside to memorize one chapter and the contents of one book of the Bible to prove it themselves). See if you can retell the story of Genesis chapter by chapter. University professors cannot do this, and if you can, you would find their ramblings stunted and shallow. If you have the contents of a book in your mind, you'll run circles around the literary critics. There are many ways to do this, and any method will work as long as you make it your own. For instance, PG CAB may seem silly, but it works every time. In Genesis you can start byu solving the 20 year Syria puzzle of Jacob's sojourn. The best way is to memorize the birthdays and deaths of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. Joseph stood before Pharaoh at age 30. 9 years later (after 2 years of famine), Jacob stands before Pharaoh aged 130. So now we have precise birth dates for both Jacob and Joseph, with Joseph born when Jacob was 91 in Syria. He was 20 years in Syria, the first 7 unmarried. Which leaves us with 13. Now it is only after Joseph was born, that Jacob threatens to leave Laban on the basis that he had served the 14 years to aquire both his wives. He now enters a commercial arrangement to "serve Laban for his cattle." "I served you 14 years for your daughters and 6 years for your cattle, during which you changed my contract 10 times." Since Joseph is the last to be born in Syria, it means that the children of all four wives were born in the second 7 year period, and none of them more than 13 years olf when Jacob returns to Isaac in 99. Because by indexing Jacob's birthdate with that of Joseph, we learn that Joseph as born in the fourteenth year of Jacob's sojourn, and that he arrived In Syria aged 77 when Isaac was 137, Ishmael having died 14 years earlier aged 137. Isaac was 157 when he first met Joseph aged 6. We now have only 11 years before he is taken to Egypt, 1/10th of Jacob's time in the land of his fathers. Joseph's age amounts to Jacob's time in Canaan, 110. Drop the zero, and you get Joseph's short time with his grandfather, 11 years. Isaac will live another 12 years to comfort Jacob, dying at age 180 when Jacob is 120 in chapter 35. And now things get very crowded, because we have only 10 years left before the family leaves for Egypt, and Judah, only 3 years older than Joseph, is old enough to be a grandfather when they meet. Isaac dies in #35 when Joseph is already 29. He is sold into slavery in #37 at age 17. Likewise, Abraham dies at the beginning of chapter 24 with Jacob being born later in the chapter. But Jacob knew Abraham 15 years--his grandmother dies 23 years before he was born, So as you grapple with the numbers, you see that Moses doesn't always relate events in chronological, but topical, order. In other words, I'll finish with Abraham, and move on....
To solve the Syrian puzzle, you will have to grapple with all the numbers throughout the book and the chapters where they occur. So the numbers game will give you half the book.
Alongside the numbers, you can create blocks that stand on their own. For instance, #5, #25, #35, and #50 are death chapters, with Jacob dying one verse short of chapter 50 (you can build rhythm with the 5's) Abraham and Ismael die in #25 and Rebecca's nurse, Rachel, and Isaac in #35. Joseph would likely be 7 years old when Rachel dies, and yet at the end of chapter he's been missing for 10 years. Use the death chapters as anchors both fore and aft. Another grid can be created by grouping the major topics and using their chapters as anchors: the Fall, the Flood, Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc. Most people already know chapter 22 as Mt. Moriah, and now you can fill in the blanks for 23 and 24 until you get to your #25 foothold. A bride for Isaac (24) obviously follows Sarah's death (23). Again, the money and real estate chapters, #20, #23, $30, #33, #37, #45, and #47 can serve as another grid. Abraham pays $400 for a burial cave (23), while his grandson buys a choice plot within city limits for only $200, Jacob's sons rise up to comfort him with 2 silver pieces jingling in their pockets. But the jackpot is in #20, the hush money of the lecherous politician Abimelech. When people talk about "the Benjamins," they mean 20 dollar bills. An easy way to remember #20, while in #45, Benjamin is given 300 silvers. Chapters 30 and 47 can be paired as economics, where Joseph does to the Egyptians what Jacob did to Laban: gain control of their assets, Joseph making the personal political. When done on the personal level, Jacob's method is called Capitalism, as a political tool it creates Communism by destroying the notion of private property, individualism becomes servitude. Was Joseph doing this in the interests of Egypt, or did he have his own agenda? He needed to keep the Israelites from loosing their Abrahamic identity by becoming a mixed rabble with Egyptians. The abolition of private property would prevent Jews from putting down roots, while their occupation would preserve them as second-class citizens. Note how carefully Joseph instructs his father to impress upon Pharaoh that Jews were shepherds: "abominations in the eyes of the Egyptians," This was his ticket for getting back to the Land of Promise in a coffin. He had no more regard for Egypt than Jacob for Laban. Both were means to and end.
Keep #35 as an anchor to create another grouping of 5 of Leah's children. Jacob ditches his tenth and builds a house in #33. Its one thing to pay for a grave (23) another to spend money on a house (33). Jacob become civilized, and his daughter goes out partying (34). Simeon and Judah use the religion of Abraham (circumcision) to take revenge which God punished by "scattering them in Israel." Then Ruben commits incest (35), then "they rise up to comfort their father" after showing him the grisly remains for Joseph's coat, with the Ishmaeli silver jingling in their pockets (37). then Judah commits incest with Tamar (38) Moses accounts for Esau by giving him a whole chapter (36) following his father's death (35)--just as he wraps up Ismael immediately after his father's death, and before moving on to Jacob, who was born 46 years before.
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3) Method
A) Perfection. This is the Gold Standard. If you don't account for every word, you'll never put it in the bank. You'll find an excuse to move on--you can always come back later--telling yourself you're only getting a head start on the next section. Soon you'll settle for just reading, again. Because memorizing Scripture is the hardest thing you'll ever do, the most monotonous, the most boring and (wait for it) the most unspiritual thing you ever do. Familiarity breeds contempt, and you will be tempted to wonder how words could be so dull, and the thought will occur, maybe its because they're become so hyped. Because soon your head will hurt, and "the dead letter of the Law" will take new meaning. But then as time goes on, as look forward to the time when your head hits the pillow and with no effort whatsoever, you upload a chapter or whole book and zip back and forth in a flash. Few people have memorized whole chapters of books, and those who have would not part with their hard-gotten gains for a million dollars. Because nothing you will ever do is as hard as memorizing Scripture. If life isn't going so well, take up memorizing a chapter of the Bible--life stops, your mind grows dull, and soon any escape will do. How could anything that unpleasant yield any spiritual benefit? But every Christian owes to themselves to put it to the test. It's in the bank when you can go backwards and forwards in your mind's eye, like the numbers 1 to 10. You may not be able to see all the way back to 1 from 10, but you can see at least 9 and 8, and from 8 you can see 6. This is what makes memorizing whole chapters and books so potent. If you return from a visit, people are not interested to hear the details of your visit from notes. They want if from the top of your head while it's fresh. You can give a short version and go back and fill in the details with no effort whatsoever.
B) Technique. Begin with a phase: "Blessed is the man", then go to the next, "that walketh not." Now tie the two together, until its in the bank. Then grab another phrase, and tie it to the first two. Thoughts are usually bunched together into verses, and once you master a verse, you can begin on the next, phrase by phrase. Once you have the second verse in the bank, go back and attach it to the first. and so on until you get to the p wh
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2) You will never memorize what you don't believe. This is true of the bedrock of Scripture, the first five chapters of both the Old and New Testaments. Any doubt here and "the foundations are destroyed." Luther and Calvin destroyed the Sermon on the Mount by pretending not to understand it, an obscure message that was understood by the Jews of Jesus's time, or meant for "the new heaven and new earth," but not for believers under grace. Because He talks about the Law, and "Christians are free from the Law." Calvin and Luther despaired of trying to make sense of it, unless with 1001 exceptions. Why? They coveted a seat at the king's table, and saw what Hitler and Churchill saw when they read the Gospels: doctrine that would turn soldiers into sheep. But since God had now established a Christian nations, this simple interpretation had to be false, and a deeper meaning would make the Gospels suitable for "the king's chapel." This means that the common people who read the Gospels plainly and thought they understood them were fed falsehood by Christ Himself. And so Christ is turned into a liar. If this is true, throw your Bible away. It is a fraud. You cannot believe what you know is untrue, and you will never memorize falsehood. "The common people heard Him gladly," because they thought he was speaking literally. This sleight of hand they took for "authority." The poor sheep never realized that they had the wool pulled over their eyes by a con man.
Which leads to the tyranny of numbers: What are the numbers of Matthew 5? Chiefly the millions upon millions of divorce/remarriages sanctioned by the Protestants since the days of Luther/Calvin. Recently, I spoke with a Reformed Christian some 100 miles from here, who sang the praises of his church. "Do you pray with murderers in your church?" I asked. He looked at me with horror. "What about with adulterers?" "Well no," he said hesitantly. "You excommunicate the divorced-remarried until they repent, then," I said. "Well no" he glared at me dully, "there are exceptions." "How many are there," I asked, "because since the days of Calvin, you have not excommunicated a single member for what used to be called divorce-remarried adultery." "No sin is unforgivable," he said. "And what is the sin here?" I asked. "So how are you not praying with adulterers." "Because we've all fallen short," he said. The unrepentant cannibal, pedophile, mass murderer, rapist--all have fallen short. Let him that is without sin cast the first stone. When Biden went snuffling around to see if Bob Jones University complied with Federal funding rules with regard to Sodomites, the University replied, "We respect the dignity of all people." Pedophiles, rapists, mass murderers, Hitler, cannibals all have "dignity." But this is what the king's chaplains are reduced to. Luther and Calvin coveted the trappings of power at the king's table, and were forced to 1) become Hell's feed salesmen to provide his cannon fodder, and 2) Christianize his bedroom with Herodias in it. LGBT is but the chickens come home to roost: the abscess on the cancer of Luther/Calvin remarried-adultery. How many exceptions for divorce-remarriage are there now? As many as have been divorced since these hucksters made room for the filth of their princes by tinkering with the doctrine of marriage. The sheer mass of these numbers is what will keep you from memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, James and Peter, if you pray with divorce-remarried adulterers. "If thy right eye offend thee, cut it out."
If you don't believe the numbers in Genesis 5, throw your Bible away. "Adam is more than a mythical figure," is what Evangelicals say now in seminaries. These are men who crave nothing more than a phone call from the NY Times asking their opinion on their line of expertise. "The church will become a small cult if it doesn't embrace Evolution," Hebrew man Bruce Waltke was caught saying on video. He's saying little more than Augustine/Luther/Calvin who saw the notion of the Church as a Remnant as conceding victory to the Devil, and excommunicating churches as cults. But you cannot sit at Caesar's table as a Bible-thumper. Adam did not have a father. The Earth is older than the most distant star, and covered with plants before the creation of the Sun. No record of civilization goes back further than 4500 years ago, the year of the Flood. Deny that and you cannot make a parentless couples the ancestors of the entire human race. Such humans would be as unscientific as they would unhistorical. "But," the seminaries want the NY Times to know, "Adam and Eve are more than mythical figures." In other words, something happened back there, we're just not sure what." "Does God exist?" "I can't say either way," says the Agnostic. This is what you have in billion dollar seminaries. Rank unbelief.
Adam cannot be a historical figure because he didn't have parents. And you can't have the first man show up out of nowhere in a world that is already 13.8 billion years old, surrounded by apes who go back hundreds of millions of years.
Hence the cult of the numbers in Genesis 5. Think of all the interesting details the writer could have recorded about early man. Instead he fills up a chapter with statistics, as bullet proof as the 7 day week of Genesis, like the Gospels so simple that they have to be code for something much deeper. The account from Adam to Noah, the seminaries say since the day of Darwin, is a pictorial account of a complex process for the simpleminded, much like a church icon or stained glass window. But a man who fills up a chapter with numbers is either a historian or a fraud. On the one hand the earth is 6000 years old, on the other, it too Darwin to exposé the world's greatest liar. He even dates the first prayer meeting when "men began to call upon the name of the Lord" as 235 years after the creation of Adam. Jesus never mentions Adam, merely stating that "male and female, He created them." And all we know about the age of Abel is that he lived before Seth was born in the year 130. So we know the time in which Abel lived within 130 years. Was he also "more than a mythical figure?" And did Jesus think Abel was a "historical figure." Jesus not only mentions him by name but comments on his character and manner of life by calling him "righteous Abel" (Mt. 23:35). That all disappears if the numbers in Genesis 5 are bogus, fictional, a literary device, or "pious fraud"--that is, the author was exercising poetic license, to spice up his masterpiece after the fashion of the times. He was but a man of his times. But follow him closely, and you will find that he never drops his guard to let you know that he's engaging in "this is how it might have been": today, "an artists conception. Every attempt to make his account less than "historical" have failed. He doesn't even engage in religious numerology 7, 10, 3) except when it suits God's purpose as when he discusses Lamech who yearned for "rest": he lived 777 years, and dies 7 years before the Flood.
Otherwise, he plods on year after year like a weary scribe updating his books. Abraham, he wants you to know, rescued Lot with exactly 318 "young men." You would have settled for 320, or even 300. No, the correct figure is exactly 318. An odd, or very ordinary number, with no significance whatsoever, except as a dull cipher. So is 318 a historical (literally) figure? It is if he didn't make the whole thing up. Otherwise, he uses a non-descript number to give the appearance of fact. That is, he could have rounded, or used a well known "religious" number. But there were 318, and 318 is what he wrote. Jared the second oldest man to ever live (although Old Adam holds the record for being the oldest for the longest time--by far, as he held the title for 930 years), lived 962 years. the ordinary 2, no doubt, used to convey the notion of originality and exactness for those who will later accuse him of making it all up. Does anyone really believe that primitive man would waste time on such pedantry. Why not just say 960 or 965?
Does he expect to be taken literally, or scientifically? His numbers in Genesis have created more problems than Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Because they cannot be turned into anything but strict bookkeeping. Spurgeon despaired and sought refuge in the Gap Theory" God created the First Earth billions of years agon during which time the dinasoors shed drivers of blood. The he hucksters the 2 verse inthis wise: "Now the earth had become without form and void..." And then God created the Second Creation and Adam, and Genesis 5 begins the countdown from that time. No one who believes that will bother to memorize what is obviously the biggest fraud in history, because until Darwin, people marveled that such a believable account of the World could exist on a few pages. 318, people would say, why not round up to 320? Unless, he wants you to give him the benefit of the doubt here, while he pulls the wool over your eyes in Chapter 5. It's what drove Spurgeon to account for Darwin by inventing the Gap Theory between 1:1 and 1:2. Otherwise, the plain account of Genesis is that the world is 6000 years old, that there were plants before there were planets (the Earth became a planet on Wednesday), turnips before there were tides, etc. Now the real problems surface: Did the tree of Life have annular rings? Because any instrument maker will tell you the strength of wood depends on the wood grain. The furthest star is 29 billion light years away. Which means that God would have had to create the star light that reaches the earth when he created the stars. Modern instruments would have shown the furthest light to be 29 billion light years away on the first Wednesday. How else could God have created lights 29 billion light years away and have them shine on the same day? The rings on the Tree of Life likely numbered in the hundreds when it was created on Tuesday, and a chemical analysis would likely have showed significant age difference between Cain and Abel when their real age difference was hardly more than a year.
So what does all this do to science? That the earth "became" a planet on Wednesday 6000 years ago is a scientific fact. That the most distant star, 29 billion light years away, is younger than the Earth and only 6000 years old is a scientific fact, regardless human observation. That God destroyed the first Creation in Noah's Flood 4500 years ago is a scientific fact. No Christian can teach otherwise without blaspheming the Bible. A Christian can no more teach false science, than he can teach false religion.
This is after all, supposedly, written by Moses himself, the lawgiver, and author of the 9th Commandment: "Thou shalt not lie." But there he is, a world far too young, and his heroes far too long-lived.
1) Memorize whole chapters to get a sense of how the writer talks. If you memorize James and Peter at the same time, you'll soon realize that you're listening to two very different personalities. James is highly rhetorical and sharp-tongued, while Peter's sentences are heavily loaded and tightly wound. James tells you "to ask of God, if you lack wisdom, because he stands ready to give liberally." Just like that, what could be simpler? But your faith will have to be absolutely "unwavering," and not double-minded, otherwise, you not only lack wisdom, but are "unstable" as well. "You get nothing," he says. A huge carrot, f0llowed by the chastening rod. Later, he faults people for "lacking" simply because "they ask not." "Ask, and ye shall receive," Jesus said. That is, he hastens to add, if "you don't ask amiss." So now the problem of prayer, once again, is with you, and not God. But this is how he talks: he offers the carrot, then lays on the stick. What are you praying for? In this case, worldly pleasure to feed "your own lusts." So now he adds the lust of the flesh to double-mindedness and instability. In the end he sets the standard of prayer almost impossible high: "the effectual, fervent prayer of s righteous man, availeth much."
"Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you," he says. And, "Draw nigh to God, and He will draw night unto you." That sounds simple enough. What if that doesn't work? Then "cleanse your hands you sinners, and purify your hearts you double-minded." Here's the double-minded man again. James now throws in "pride," which God "resists. You feel resistance? That's the heavy hand of God pushing back. So here's the double-minded man trying to resist the Devil on the one hand, and having to deal with a heavy weight on the other: God pushing pride down.
Christians, throughout history, memorized the book of James because of these quotable one-liners, which the book is full off. "Elijah, (the greatest of prophets) was a man of like passions as we." "To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
James moves along quickly from subject to subject. But throughout, the same themes crop up: shallowness, ineffectual prayer, the brother of low decree, dead faith, double-mindedness, a quick tongue, temptation, etc. By memorizing the whole book, your mind will easily go back and forth to weave these threads together. The simplest person who has a book of the Bible "uploaded" in his mind, is light years ahead of anyone who spends years poring over written pages. That person will become an "authority."
Like Jesus, James is in no hurry to give quick formulas. Note Jesus' dealing with the rich ruler who sought eternal life. He addresses neither the forgiveness of sin (Atonement by "giving His life for many"), nor the New Birth (as with Nicodemus). The seeker flatters Jesus as "good," and himself as well within the Law. "You understand Isaiah 53" (substitutionary atonement), Jesus might have said? Instead, Jesus touches on his covetousness (which is idolatry) and his unwillingness to "take up the cross and fellow me." Today, he would be told, Let's get you saved first, then we'll worry about repentance later. God heh, heh, will convict you if they're something He doesn't like. But for now, heh, heh, the important thing is to get you an insurance policy. Now put the Publican in his place. The ruler wanted an add-on, a "good thing" to be done. The Publican was not looking for upgrades. The ruler had "a life" to live, the Publican needed Life. James has no time for sloganites trying to figure out what they can get away with and still have saving faith. The disciples saw the Canaanite woman as a loud and boisterous woman of familiar stereotype. She could not be shaken. True faith will always find its mark, and will not be satisficed with slogans. Slogans would not have satisfied the Publican. Note a few more examples of what made Luther/Calvin's hair stand on end.
"for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life" (1:12). Pure rubbish, according to Luther, because it bases salvation on works. But it only restates what Jesus said: "He that endureth to the end shall be saved."
" of his own will begat he us with the word of truth" (1:18) "Being born again by the word of God" (1 Pet. 1:23).
"receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your soul" (1:21).
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world" (1:27).
This is why Calvinists like Spurgeon say they hold to the Pauline Interpretation of Salvation. He doesn't mix faith and works like James and Peter. They sound like Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount to be sure, but the Sermon on the Mount is meant to be "an ideal' to be aimed at, and not to be taking as doctrine in a literal sense by non-Jewish Christians.. That is, He spoke against "easy divorce," and "unjustified" or non-legal impulsive killing, etc. But "under grace", such matters fall by the wayside. What's a simple-minded person to think when he hears "Pure religion is to visit..." How will he not think he can be saved by "visiting." Or that he will "receive the crown of life for enduring." But this is why Caesar's chaplains leapfrogged over the Sermon on the Mount and turned Paul into a latter Moses: Pharisees with Christian slogans. This is the Broadway crowd that will show up on the Last Day with their empty slogans. For men are saved by the Cross, and judged by the cross. The rich young ruler wanted the Cross without the cross. This is the essence of the Sermon on the Mount which Peter and James expound. To Luther and Calvin this is a denial of grace.
Peter is not as lyrical and conversational as James. His verses read almost like a telegram, where brevity is off the essence. "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied" (1 Pet. 1:2). Everything is there, just not sorted. In other words, as with James, people reading Peter would end up confusing Justification (Atonement of the Cross) and Sanctification (the New Birth and taking up the fruit-bearing cross). Luther preached that a person who wants to escape eternal punishment and assents to the truth of the Atonement will he saved. The Calvinists teach that "faith without works is dead," but by the time they're done writing their exceptions, what they call "works' is no more than the hypocrisy of the Pharisees: Jesus, they say, allowed killing, divorce, covetousness, as long as it's done legally. They see in Peter and James what "the builders rejected in the stone of stumbling," and set about smoothing it to make it suit "the king's chapel." Long before Thomas Jefferson cut up the New Testament, Luther and Calvin took the knife to it to whittle it down to Caesar's taste. And so they ripped the Holy Scripture out of the hands of the common people, and replaced it with the Dreck of their cursed systems. But even today, the common people read it plainly and understand it. In so doing they expose Luther and Calvin as liars and frauds, whose diabolical schemes make Christ into a liar. He. like the Pharisee, preached what couldn't be practiced.
James on the Sermon on the Mount: Where Christianity is Tried
3-14-24 Against the Faith of Devils
"The devils also believe and tremble" (Ja. 2:19)
"Christianity, Christians should try it" (Pagans)
"We don't know if Christianity works, because it's never been tried" (Catholics/Protestants reveling in their cups)
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Augustine, Luther and Calvin (ALC) brought into the Church a threefold work of the Devil: War ("the way of Cain"), Divorce, and Covetousness ("the error of Balaam" who enriched himself by counseling whoredom). 1) Through the blasphemy of Just (Christian) War and the torture of Christians (the Inquisition), they brought the Satanic violence of Cain-Caesar into the church. The guilt of all the rivers of blood from the Crusades to the World Wars will be laid at their feet, for to this day, in 1500 years, the followers of these murderers have yet to meet a single war which they do not justify as "Christian", and for the last 500 years not one marriage which they could not sunder. They are Hell's feed salesmen to provide the sacrifices on the altars of Hell (cannon fodder--they are the sixth wing of the Pentagon to deceive soldiers that God will not hold them accountable for breaking the 6th Commandment), and between wars they serve the altars of lust as divorce-pimps to transgress the 7th Commandment. For they shed their wives as easily as they spill human blood. This is what Pagans point to. If you wish to know what Jesus taught, ask a Pagan. You didn't know about remarriage/adultery? You could have asked a Pagan. You listened to preachers who told you to kill in war? Pagans would mock you. You believe that the Bible teaches Evolution? Ask a Pagan. Pagans read the Bible like Hitler and Churchill who saw the non-violet teachings of Jesus as the fatal flaw in Western civilization. They see Augustine, Luther and Calvin as hucksters and frauds whose doctrines are no more than the old Pharisee in church dress: "an eye for any eye, a tooth for a tooth"; 2) Because they coveted a seat at the king's table (like Balaam), and "loved the rewards of unrighteousness", they were now forced to sanitize Herod's bedroom and the filthy habits of their politicians, and thus brought their violence into their marriages. "Why don't you just marry one of your many whores (all good Lutherans)," the sister of Luther's protector, Philip, sneered when he told Luther that he could not help committing adultery. Divorce-pimp Calvin would have done a brisk trade writing "exceptions" according to the theory of "Just Adultery." The divorce rate among Evangelicals is consistently the highest in the land. Sodomy is no more than an abscess on the back of Evangelical divorce-adultery, and now Evangelicals are resorting to Big Government to keep Groomers and Dragsters from preying on their children. But the Sodomite rode into the church on the back of divorce/adultery. The recent revival attained world renown until the NY Times interviewed the sodomites on stage and in the "preying" rooms off to the side. When the Christian Nationalists tried to oust a dragsters from the political bathrooms in Montana, the NY Times was ready for them. "The governor's son," they crooned, "uses pronouns." "Did you talk to your father (about dragsterism)?" they cooed when they interviewed THEM. "My father's a politician," THEY answered. What does that mean? It means, THEIR father has no conviction on the matter. He sold his soul on the altar of his political ambition. Like the Ashbury Revival, you have not heard from the governor since. This is what Pagans mean when they point to Jesus' teaching and say, "Christianity, Christians should try it." That and the Christian billionaires whose "He Gets Us" ad cost over a $billion; 3) Covetousness--"But woe to you who are rich" (Luke 6:24). Not anymore, because like violence and adultery, Jesus "gets" "the love of money." Augustine, Luther and Calvin coveted the trappings of power in the "King's Chapel," but the price was high: their marriages and the lives of their children. Can you name one Protectant martyr aside from Bonhoeffer whom Hitler hanged for attempted murder? Now count the millions devoured by the sword. ALC is political religion--the religion of Cain, who was a priest before he turned politician. It survives only under the sword of Cain-Caesar. But now any deviation from the Mainstream Media (the official Creed) must be treated as crime. Which is where Augustine's Inquisition comes in (which is what Luther and Calvin used to murder the Anabaptists). "Do not rich men oppress you?" asks James. But political religion is war on "the brother of low decree", "the poor rich in faith." How do these inferiors get to be "rich in faith"? Rest assured, not by listening to the banalities of what is served up in the "King's Chapel." For now, sitting at the king's table required shredding the Bible to account for Herod's bedroom and his violence. Which is why the followers of ALC do not read the Bible. Why? Because they see what Pagans, Hitler and Churchill saw: the simple teachings of Christ "made of non effect" (today we call this "rationalism") by the Pharisaical traditions of ALC. They need government sponsorship because what is left them is the poverty of the "dead faith of devils", which is nothing more than empty slogans. "The poor, rich in faith," are the "heirs of the kingdom." The political religion in "the king's chapel" is entirely of this world. Hitler and Churchill saw the teaching of Christ as treason because it was so contrary to the State. They were of the same mind as Augustine, Luther and Calvin, the king's chaplains, the dishonest hucksters who twisted the teachings of Christ to make them suitable for "the kingdoms of this world, and all their glory". Long before, the king's priester Amaziah accused the poor shepherd Amos of conspiracy against the king (Am. 7:10) for preaching against sin. Luther and Calvin had no choice but to follow Augustine in killing "the poor, rich in faith," because their message was such an offense to Cain-Caesar's statecraft: "a stone of stumbling" which had to be rejected because the greatest theologians in the world could not fit it into their systems. But neither "the way of Cain," nor "the error of Balaam" are the result of ignorance, but of "an evil heart of unbelief." Augustine, Luther and Calvin were not about to repeat the mistake of Abel. Or as the MAGA's now say, "Jesus turned the other cheek, and look where it got Him?"
But what is the faith ("belief") of devils which causes them to "tremble"? Do you believe 2+2=4? How could devils deny what they know to be true? Could devils not "believe" that "there is one God"? Could devils not believe that Jesus died as a substitute for man's sin? No more than they could believe that there is no Hell, or that they will not end up there. They "tremble" precisely because they "believe" everything the Bible teaches, and like Evangelicals would gladly embrace an insurance policy to forever put off "torment before the time." But what is the "belief" here? No more than mere head knowledge of indisputable facts. Unregenerate man can likewise "believe" everything the Bible teaches and perish. The slogan "belief" of Evangelicals is of this sort, no more than an attempt to buy the insurance denied to devils, for like devils, they are desperate to avoid eternal damnation. But unlike devils, they believe that mere assent to facts will save them. Devils have no such illusions. They are told that if they merely assent to the truth that "Jesus saves", they will be saved if they wish to have eternal life. But Evangelicals prefer "the good things" of "this present world," and seek salvation, not to be in the holy presence of God, but to avoid eternal punishment. The rich young ruler wanted "eternal life." It was denied him because for lack of "one thing": repentance. Which is why the teaching of the New Testament looks like a paradox here: saved by faith, but judged by works. For in the end the question is not if "you know the Lord," but whether "He knows you." For the multitudes (the "many") who peppered their conversations with empty "Lord, Lord" slogans are told "I never knew you." Their empty slogans were no more than the factual assent of devils, minus the regenerate heart that infallible bears the fruit by which they are known. "For by their fruit, ye shall know them (here)", and by their "non-fruit" the Judge shall "know" them (there). "For without works faith is dead."
Do devils want to be saved? Not to a holy life, for though they "tremble" because of their coming "torments," they prefer the filth of the pigsty to the presence of God: "we know who you are, the Holy One of God." But they wanted to escape "the wrath to come." Likewise, the rich young ruler wanted "eternal life," but not the holy life that accompanies it, for the gift of faith comes only with regenerating grace which manifests itself in a renewed life: repentance and good works. For "faith alone," says James, "is dead." being no more than the empty "Lord, Lord" slogans of the hypocrites. The vast majority of Evangelicals are of this nature. They want eternal life, but, like the rich young ruler, cannot part with their covetousness in this life--nor their violence and lust. Ask any of the "divorced" pillars in Evangelical churches if they are willing to go back to their divorced wife. They will spit in your face. Nor are they willing to remain unmarried, for like the sodomites, the gratification of the lusts is who they are, and "love is love," even if it is adultery. Karl Barth, the great Evangelical hero, kept a concubine in his house, justifying his adultery as a gift from God because it made him happy. His Mennonite student John Yoder became a serial rapist at Goshen College and Notre Dame. They did not "tremble" like the devils , because they told themselves that if salvation is free, then all they had to do is confess that salvation is free and that they wanted (like the devils) to avoid eternal torment. Devils are under no such illusions. Which is why they tremble.
So if salvation is free, why did Jesus reject the rich young ruler because of "one thing?" Because, while he wanted "eternal life," he would see earthly life as a follower of "the Holy One of God" as torment. He demanded the right to live "the good life." You can have both, the billionaires now say: "He Gets Us."
Is is enough then to "want to be saved"? The devils want to be saved from their "torments." Is it enough to want to ask Jesus for "eternal life"? The rich young ruler did. So if salvation is a free gift, why then did Jesus demand "one thing?" If grace is "unmerited favor" which God bestows "upon" the undeserving, why then did Jesus demand repentance which takes place "within" man. Again, you see here the paradox. Man is saved (entirely) by grace bestowed "upon" him (substitutionary atonement), but judged (entirely) by the fruit of the "begetting" grace of the enabling Holy Spirit within: the New Creation--he "begat us with the Word of Truth" (Ja. 1). "Such were some of you," Paul says. MAGA says, "Don't worry, He Gets Us." But they all "know the Lord." "They have a form of godliness (their endless slogans) but deny the power thereof," Paul says (2 Tim.3). "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him" (Titus 1). Saved by faith, and damned by lack of works. They all "know the Lord," regardless of their violence, wife-swapping, covetousness. Man is saved by "knowing the Lord," and damned by not being known by Him. For there is no such thing as Eternal Life without the New Life unto the End: :"For whosever shall endure to the End shall be saved." This was too much for the depraved and stunted little minds of Luther and Calvin. Their followers filled the world with endless bloodshed, century after century, while committing the foulest crimes in the history of mankind: slavery, apartheid, the Holocaust. Now they no longer even chant their empty slogans while they appeal unto Caesar to save them from the Groomers devouring their children. That is, MAGA.
Shambler's Law: My Comments in NY Times
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
This is not about Israel, but about US complicity in what Israel does. As such the world will tar and feather the US with the morals here, eroding US legitimacy on the word stage. Israel has the right to practice "Might makes Right"--on its own dime. But here it is using America to pursue its own interests, while exposing Americans to great danger. It has forced Biden/Blinken to go silent on "the rules based order," leaving the US to writhe helplessly under the withering criticism of world despots. Moreover, Israel's actions create enormous tension within America itself, and stand to accomplish what Putin could not: drive a wedge between the US and Europe.
Shamblesheep
(article on Woodcrest Bruderhof)
USPending Approval
A key word here is "alienation." Gadgets, lawyers, insurance, etc., allow people to create distance, rather than engage in soulcraft needed to navigate a deeper social fabric. The emphasis on patience, forbearance, humility does not easily translate into modern notions of freedom. But Western social fabric is miles long and paper thin. Belonging is a draft on individual freedom. But so is the notion of Law. The difference being, the latter is imposed, while the other is a choice. The notion that a person would be required to part with some freedom is jarring to the modern ear.
Shoffmensch
(this is of course "misinformation" so the frauds blocked it)
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
And not only in the US. Russia is constantly battling the "fake news" and "false information" that seeks to label "the special operation" as a war. But who gets to pick the censors? What the establishment once called heresy, "the common people" called Good News, the global effects of which are felt to this day. So Leftwing Orthodoxy has its work cut out for it if it hopes to avoid the fate of ancient Rome.
Shamblesheep
USPending Approval
"Americans Know Trump Will Be Re-Elected, but Many Worry What Comes Next"
"And it came to pass," the Bible says. This too shall pass.
Shamblesheep
USPending Approval
A colossal strategic policy blunder by Biden/Blinken. The war is Russia's to lose, with Europe in disarray. Without troops or long range missiles, the collapse of Ukraine is certain. Either will provoke nuclear war. Trump will pull the plug.
Shoffmensch
(The editors of the New York Times must be reading this site. My traffic logs show lots of log-ons from all across the globe. Nothing on Jewtopia or EUtopia Groomerism gets through--I say almost nothing here, but it causes them to shriek)
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
But why would the International Court single out Russia for what everyone knows are common occurrences in any Mideastern country every day? Except that the US is using the Court "as a weapon of war" while fist-bumping when it suits the purpose. But the story highlights the global Right's undermining of Ukraine, and its cheerleading of Orbanism as the latest Front of the Culture War to counter subversive "EU values".
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
This is just the beginning of turning the legal apparatus of Federal Government against the redoubts of the Left. All the grievances of censorship, media bias, militant Secular activism, anti-religion bias, etc., are grist for the Right's crusade against what it has long called a globalist ant-American elitist agenda. The rubber will hit the road when the Law is tweaked to allow monopoly institutions to be sued for perceived bias. Think the crippling damages against Fox. Laws, they used to say, should be kept to a minimum, for any Law you create today will be used against you in a decade. This is what is now happening.
Shamblesheep
USPending Approval
"Republicans have tried to capitalize on that dynamic for electoral advantage, hugging Mr. Netanyahu closer as Democrats repudiate him."
There goes the Jewish vote, which Biden needs as much as he needs his now alienated Civil Rights base. Evangelicals see Israel's response in Gaza not only as well within the bounds of Christian Just War doctrine, but actually fulfilling the never rescinded command given to Israel to "go, and possess the Land." There is not the least bit of sympathy for Palestinian women and children here, because God ordained them to destruction. The death of every Palestinian at Israel's hand would not result in the loss of one Republican vote. Conversely, every day the Gazan conflict makes Biden's polls sink lower. It's already too late to make amends with his Civil Rights base, so Biden hopes to at least retain his donors. But those donors are largely committed to Netanyahu's vision of One Israel, and Trump II is now the quickest way to get there.