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The Satanic Roots of Ideological Subversion

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The Satanic Roots of Ideological Subversion: How Demoralization Plays Right Into Total Depravity

Folks, if you’ve been paying attention to the world around us, you’ve probably noticed how everything seems upside down these days. Truth gets twisted, right is called wrong, and wrong gets paraded as some kind of victim. Yuri Bezmenov, that former KGB defector, nailed it back in the 80s when he spilled the beans on how the Soviets planned to take down societies like ours without firing a shot. He called it “ideological subversion,” and the first step, demoralization, sounds an awful lot like the Devil’s playbook. As a Christian who’s spent years digging into God’s Word, I see this not just as sneaky politics, but as a straight-up satanic attack that exploits the sin-enslaved nature of the lost. The doctrine of Total Depravity explains how this works. Let’s break it down, because if we don’t call this out with biblical truth, we’re just playing into the enemy’s hands.

Bezmenov laid it out plain: Demoralization takes 15-20 years to brainwash a generation through schools, media, and even churches. He said it’s about eroding moral standards so people can’t tell right from wrong anymore. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information,” he warned in his lectures. Facts, proofs, even pictures—none of it sinks in. In law and order, it’s especially nasty: Criminals get painted as poor victims of society, while cops and real victims are treated like the bad guys. “A criminal is not a criminal, actually. He’s a defendant… Nice fellow,” Bezmenov quipped. Meanwhile, the justice system gets mocked as oppressive.

His KGB buddies like Anatoliy Golitsyn, Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Stanislav Levchenko backed this up with their own stories. Golitsyn talked about long-term deceptions to make the West doubt its own foundations. Pacepa exposed how they used “disinformation” to frame the innocent and hype up the guilty, stirring up chaos in the name of liberation. Levchenko showed how they infiltrated media to divide people, turning protectors into villains. It’s all connected, a calculated inversion of morality that leaves societies ripe for collapse.

We can see the media doing this. They’ve been at it for a long time now. We can see the corrupt leftist Prosecutors punishing 70 year old grandmothers for praying outside of abortion clinics while letting thugs kill grandmothers in the streets. We can see the media glorifying the criminal, and demonizing the victims. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “How can this be? How can anyone see this as good, and just? This is madness!” Here is the answer. It is intentional. The satanic left uses communism to increase human death, and suffering. They are anti-human, because they are anti-Christ. If you can get under this idea, and grab onto it, you can finally open your eyes to the evil that is corrupting our world.

Now, let’s get into the Bible here. This isn’t just human cunning; it’s satanic to the core because it preys on total depravity. Romans 3:10-18 spells it out: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” We’re all corrupted mind, heart, and sin-enslaved from the start. Demoralization doesn’t invent that; it fans the flames, making us even more blind to God’s truth. Jeremiah 17:9 calls the heart “deceitful above all things, and desperately sick.” Without the Holy Spirit opening our eyes, we’re suckers for these lies.

Satan’s the master inverter. Jesus pegged him in John 8:44 as “a liar and the father of lies,” with zero truth in him. He flips God’s order: Isaiah 5:20 woes those who “call evil good and good evil.” Sound familiar? Not prosecuting criminals while treating victims like suspects? That’s perverting justice, which Deuteronomy 16:19 flat-out forbids. Proverbs 17:15 says justifying the wicked and condemning the righteous is “an abomination to the Lord.” This fake mercy Bezmenov described sympathizing with crooks while slamming the law, it’s void of any real goodness. It’s demonic, straight from the “prince of the power of the air” in Ephesians 2:2, working through “sons of disobedience.”

I’ve seen this play out in my own life and in the church. Back when I was younger, I bought into some cultural lies until the Word of God me straight. Just like Bezmenov’s “useful idiots” who help their own downfall, we Christians can get duped if we’re not vigilant. History shows it too. Think of how false prophets like Joseph Smith twisted truth, as I’ve written before. The early Church fathers like Augustine warned against letting sin slide, tying back to God’s command in Genesis to be fruitful, not fearful.

In the end, this demoralization is satanic because it rejects God’s absolute standards for a mushy relativism where everyone does “what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). But praise God, there’s hope in the Gospel. Though we’re totally depraved, Christ regenerates us (John 3:3), giving us power to resist. Put on that armor of God from Ephesians 6:11, folks. Discern the lies, proclaim biblical justice, and repent if you’ve been swayed. Trust Him over the world’s schemes—because in Christ, the light crushes the darkness every time.

What do you think? Spotting this in today’s headlines? Drop a comment and let’s discuss. And if this hits home, share it—time to wake up the Church.

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Christian Procreation

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Fruitful Obedience: Why Christian Couples Should Welcome as Many Children as God Permits

I want to talk plainly today about a conviction that’s rooted in Scripture, and the early Church. It’s this: Christian couples should joyfully embrace as many children as God permits, not out of legalism, but as faithful gratitude for His design and gifts.

Why Children Are Blessings (Not Burdens)

Go back to Genesis 1:28, God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” That wasn’t a cultural suggestion—it came straight from the Maker of heaven and earth. Children aren’t a burden. They are blessings, wrapped in promise.

And again, Psalm 127:3–5: “Children are a heritage from the Lord… blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.” David saw children as spiritual arrows—heirs of the faith, contributors to God’s mission. That’s how we ought to view them.

Jesus said in Matthew 6 not to worry over daily needs. Our calling to obey, trust, and walk by faith comes first. Stewardship is biblical—but faith in God’s provision must shape our decisions.

What the Early Church Told Us

The early Christians didn’t think twice about rejecting contraception, abortion, and the like. They believed marriage existed to produce life.

  • Athenagoras, writing around 177 AD, bluntly rejected birth control methods and argued Christians “marry only to produce children.”
  • The Didache (c. 1st/2nd century) commands: “You shall not kill the child by abortion, nor kill that which is born.” It underlines sanctity, conviction, and openness to life.
  • Clement of Alexandria warns against marrying merely for pleasure, apart from procreation.

These voices remind us that early Church letters saw procreation as inseparable from Christian marriage—not optional, not incidental, and not merely biological.

Augustine: Children, Marriage, and the Gospel

Augustine (354–430 AD) is crystal clear: in De Bono Coniugali, he holds up three goods of marriage—offspring, fidelity, and sacrament. Yet “offspring” is first among equals. Marriage without openness to life, he argued, is a distortion.

He wrote in On Marriage and Concupiscence: “Intercourse even with a lawful wife is unlawful… where the conception of the offspring is prevented.” Augustine isn’t just talking biology—he’s affirming childbearing as divine involvement, vocation, and gospel stewardship.

Raising children isn’t optional. It’s participatory discipleship—shaping souls in the faith, training them in the Lord (Ephesians 6:4), and building up the City of God.

John Calvin: Covenant, Providence, and Children

Jump forward to the Reformation. Calvin picks up these themes—in his Genesis Commentary, he reiterates that God intended marriage as the means to multiply humankind.

In Institutes 2.8.41, he offers a pointed critique: those who “refuse to receive the children that God gives them” are smothering grace, resisting providence, and placing self above God’s wisdom. For Calvin, rejecting children is often rooted in fear, pride, or comfort—not trust in God.

He frames children covenantally. God’s promise to Abraham—“I will be your God, and the God of your descendants” (Genesis 17:7)—is foundational. To refuse children is, in a sense, to shrink back from the continuation of God’s promise and blessing.

On Trust, Not Obligation

Some might say: “But what about modern concerns—world overpopulation, financial strain, or environmental issues?” In many ways the world is different, but in the most important ways, it is still the same. Truth is true, whether we like it or not. The world doesn’t need less people. It needs more! The principle holds: God calls us to fruitfulness, and then to trust His provision.

Perhaps you struggle with infertility—that grief is real. Maybe your health, age, or resources are limited. I’m not saying Christian couples owe the world a big family at all costs, but if God opens the door, we shouldn’t slam it shut out of fear, pride, or a desire for personal comfort.

Paul said, “God will supply your every need according to His riches in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). Obedience is rarely convenient, but more often, it is faithful.

How This Plays Out in Marriage

To live this out is to shift mindset:

  • Children cease being inconveniences, becoming arrows in your quiver.
  • Every baby is a covenant heir—a soul to nurture in Christ.
  • Your marriage rejoices in faith over fear, depending on God more than calculators.

This isn’t a glib “more is always better” bumper sticker. It is a gospel call to trust Him, take Him at His Word, and see children as gifts, not burdens.

Final Word

So church-families, listen up: from Genesis, through Athenagoras, Clement, Augustine, and Calvin, the tradition is clear. Openness to life is part of loving God, trusting His plan, and obeying His Word. Children are not obstacles. They are opportunities.

If God grants you life, welcome it. If God has withheld, trust His sovereignty. And if you’re struggling in that in-between, know the Lord sees, hears, and cares.

May Christian marriages, energized by the gospel, be marked by joyful fruitfulness. May our quivers be full. May our trust be firm. And may our families echo His faithfulness, generation after generation.

Key Biblical Anchors

  • Genesis 1:28; Psalm 127:3–5; Matthew 6:25–33; Ephesians 6:4

Early Church Witness

  • Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians (~177 AD); Didache 2:2; Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus

Augustine

  • De Bono Coniugali; On Marriage and Concupiscence

John Calvin

  • Commentary on Genesis; Institutes 2.8.41

abortion · cultural · environment · gospel · government

It Should be Blatantly Obvious Now. This is Good, Versus Evil.

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few decades you are aware of the moral decline in America, and the rest of the world. It should be blatantly obvious to everyone at this point. The Democrats are the party of baby murder, every type of sexual immorality, lawlessness, animosity towards Christ, and His people, worship of the creation/creature instead of the Creator, genital mutilation of children, mind altering drugs, money laundering, proxy wars, corruption and coverups, lies, coercion, blackmail, weaponization of corrupt law enforcement agencies, and so on. The Libertarian party is the party of, “Do as thou wilt.” Which is the only commandment of the satan worshippers. Then we have traitors promoting communism, and socialism, in those parties. Both of those ideologies are satanic, and rob the human being of his dignity being made in the image of God, and on a more important issue, are blasphemously attempting to impugn God’s character.

I’m not saying that Republicans are the answer. There are far too many RINOs who have been bought, and paid for. Blackmailed, or coerced into doing the bidding of the demonic globalists. We can see their influence in every local election. We get the word out, “Don’t vote for that guy! He’s a RINO.” Then big money comes in from out of state to smear the honest to goodness Christian candidate, and what do you know? The RINO wins somehow. I’m not encouraging people to give up on politics, but I am encouraging people to SHARE THE GOSPEL!!! If people become born again, and repent of their sins, their minds will be changed by God. He will put them in right order. They will, by accord with their new natures, begin to abhor evil in the world, and love righteousness. God will give us the leaders we deserve. You can see that by the things the other parties call their, “platform.” Which is really as platform of satanic ideologies.

It isn’t a matter of Californians, or New Yorkers, moving to your state. Your own public schools are brainwashing your children to hate themselves, their parents, their country, their skin color, Christianity, their gender, and their history. You have homegrown enemies that the state has formed in the image of satan. Homeschool your kids! Put them in a Christian co-op! Put them in a charter school, or classical academy! Do whatever it takes to get them out of public schools. Get on the school board! Fire the perverts!

We’ve all seen the unhinged, apoplectic, lunatic, ravings, of the pro-abortion crowd. They see baby murder as a right. They lose their minds when baby murder is made illegal. The seething, and frothing at the mouths of these exceedingly wicked people is grotesque, and disturbing. It should awaken in anyone with a conscience, the fact that these people are in deed, and purpose, satan’s slaves. They love the murder of infants. It is a unholy, blasphemous sacrament of theirs, that they communally take part, and pleasure in.

The godless have been lying to our kids, and people. They tell them that they can be whatever gender they want, and that it is not tied to the biological reality of sex. They pervert their minds, and corrupt them, young and old. They are grooming them to be their children, as they can not propagate their perverse pleasures by natural copulation alone. They reproduce in the spirit of the mind by damning lies! All of their works lead to the suffering, and death of people who were made in the image of God. These people seethe in waves of emotional duress, while lecturing us on how our words are violence! They commit actual violence! They murder our youth in the schools! The homosexual, “trans people,” pedophiles, and those who are practicing bestiality, are being normalized. It is only a mater of time before necrophilia, and cannibalism are normalized. Mark my words. I told people this was going to happen thirty years ago, if we didn’t repent, and here we are.

They encourage people to use drugs. They hate humanity. They love to see people addicted, dying in the streets, homeless, and dirty. It makes them feel superior, and virtuous simultaneously. They say, “Look how loving we are. We won’t put you in prison for using drugs. We love you.” All the while, sitting back drinking their fancy coffee drink, and watching people literally kill themselves, and others, while on the streets, using drugs. I retired from Corrections as an Officer after 26 years. I can tell you, over the years, many inmates told me prison saved their lives. I currently work part-time at a rehab. We lost a client who finished the program. After a month of being out, he overdosed. If he had been sent to prison, he would have lived. He wouldn’t be on the streets. He would have 3 hots, and a cot. He’d have health care, mental health care, chapel, training to become an electrician, plumber, cad-cam, sign shop, construction tech, and more. I ask you, who is more loving? Who cares more for the imago dei, Christians, or godless leftists?

They have convinced the kids to worship animals, plants, and the planet. They tell them not to have children because we are killing the planet. They convince them that animals are on the same level of being as humans. We are made in the image of God, and given dominion over the planet to subdue for the encouragement of human flourishing, and the reduction of human suffering. The godless cannot have this. They love human death, and suffering. God will uphold this creation until His purposes with it are completed. Then He will burn it up with fire. Don’t believe the lies. Worship God the Creator, not the creation!

The only way out, is the only way, Jesus Christ! He is the way, and the truth! No man comes to the Father, except by Him! He is our King! His word is our pleasure, and duty! We worship the God of the living! We begin truly living the life eternal upon our true birth! Repent of your sins, and trust the Savior! Communism makes everyone equally subject by force. Who are they subject to? The centralized, governing of tyrants! Someone has to be more than equal to subject others to a false equality! God makes man equally man. Communist can’t have that. They attempt to rid their society of any god who would wield supreme authority. They are satanic usurpers, and murderers! Better dead, than red, the saying used to go. Don’t fall for the lies of the evil one. The only way you can fight evil is to be born again. Otherwise, you will fight against true goodness, and think you are doing good.

It is blatant to me. It is becoming blatant to many in this hour. My hope is that you will all wake up to the fact that the world is spiritually dead, and enslaved to sin. If you are not in Christ, you are part of that. You think you are good, but you are not. You are in love with demonic thinking. You only seek to please your own fleshly desires. Even your mercy is cruelty. Your good deeds, are for your own feelings of pseudo-piety. Repent, and trust Jesus for your justification to God. Only then will your works pleas Him.

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We Are All Perverts.

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***This article deals with adult subject matter, and is not suitable for minors.***

Part of the problem is that there are Christians who are quick to point out the perversions of others, while not recognizing their own. We aren’t very good at explaining that we don’t see ourselves as better than the other perverts we see. Some of you might argue that you are not a pervert. That is part of the problem I’m talking about. A pervert is someone who has a sexual appetite that is not pure. That can take the form of a person who likes to be treated a little more rough, a person who likes to read suggestive literature, someone who likes some part of marital relations unduly, or in excess, a person who likes to use profanity, or hear profanity during, a person who uses pornography, and so on. These things may seem vanilla lite to you, but to God, they are not pure.

Since they are not pure, they are sexual immorality. Sexual immorality is sin. It doesn’t matter if you agree with me or not. I know it is true. I know that everyone is a sinner, and everyone is sexually immoral to some degree. Even if you are the most pure human being ever, you still have had sexually immoral lusts, and thoughts. Ergo, you are sexually immoral. When we see the so called trans person who has mutilated themselves, we know it is sexual immorality because it is blatantly obvious to those who are not under demonic influence, or control. Let me make a little proviso here. When I write about demons, I’m not doing so from a superstitious, or pentecostal position. Demons are spiritual beings. A person’s spirit, is that of them that God created, is the way that individual person reasons. It isn’t some ghostly apparition that mystically motivates them. There are many among the Christian denominations that make much of demonic possession. They blame demons for everything they themselves have done, sort of a, “The devil made me do it” cope/copout. We are living in a demonic world. The lost think in accord with the spirit of this world. They can’t accept what God says is perversion because it goes against every part of their person. The only way for them to be free, and to be put in their right minds is to be born again.

This is why we must preach the gospel of Jesus to them. It is almost impossible to do at a pervert rally/parade/riot. You will be spit on, assaulted, and chased around. I’m not telling you to stay home, but I am telling you that many times the better way to reach them is one on one, with the gospel, including yourself as a pervert when you talk with them. This is why I love the Way of the Master method of evangelism. It gives them the mirror of God’s moral law, so that you are not accusing them, but God’s law is. It circumvents the sociocultural elephant in the room, while getting to the heart of the issue. What do you do with your blasphemies, thefts, adulteries, fornications, lies, and hate? How will you answer back to God on judgment day? If we can see ourselves the way the Apostle Paul saw himself, as the chief of sinners, and if we can do as he did, and consider others better than ourselves, we can reach even the most depraved, purple haired, face pierced, tattooed, perverts we encounter. Because we see ourselves as even worse. If you knew the depths of my sins, and I knew yours, we couldn’t look eachother in the eyes. Demonstrate grace, and mercy, one on one. It is very difficult to do when you are being attacked by a group. If you are mature enough in your faith to do so, carry on. Many people are not. If you need to see the Way of the Master method of evangelism employed, you can watch many encounters on Ray Comfort’s Youtube channel.

Here is a specific video where Ray witnesses to a so called trans person. He stopped them from committing suicide by giving them hope in Christ.

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The values of a culture determine the value of that culture.

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We can see this when we compare some cultures. For instance, let’s compare Christian culture, thug culture, Islamic culture, and secular culture. Of course, Christianity gave us the Renaissance, and all of the modern human flourishing we’ve ever experienced. It gave us the truths that founded our civilization, and made us greater than any other civilization that has been, all to extol the glory of God. You can argue against that, but if you do, it is because you live in a fantasy land, and have no firm foundation, or ability to perceive, and recognize truth, as you are lost, and dead in your sins.

Thug culture’s values are drug abuse, selling drugs, sexual immorality, assaults, murders, rapes, and on, and on. Pretty much the opposite of godly living. They don’t seek the glory of the one true God, nor His will, or holiness. No, they seek their own glory, and satisfaction of all their fleshly lusts.

Islamic culture seeks the death of everyone who will not convert to Islam. For those who do convert, it is a totalitarian system of, “do, and do not.” There is no mercy, or grace from Allah. It is a religion of hate, and revenge. All you need to do to see this, is objectively look around the world at the islamic nations. I don’t care to argue with you. Go back to your desert god whose prophet was a child molester, rapist, and murderer. Jesus is none of those things.

Not to be left out is secularism, which may be more pernicious than all the others. Since secularism denies deity entirely, they have no solid basis for moral good, or evil. Everything is permissible to them, except anyone who tells them they are wrong. They will promote the murder of babies in the womb, out of the womb, the murder of someone who is very ill, the murder of someone with situational depression, the murder of the elderly, and on, and on. They hate humanity, and love human suffering, and death, because they are of the father satan. They value every sin known to mankind. Every perversion is a virtue to them. Again, you can argue, but you are wrong. You’ve been given over to a debased mind, and your reasoning is debased, and foolishness.

If you want to have a valuable culture again, change your culture, by repenting of your sins, and trusting in Christ’s atoning work on the cross to justify you to God. There is no other way! Salvation is found solely in Jesus Christ! If you read His word, and believe it, your mind will become conformed to it. Your thinking in your spirit, will begin to walk it, and live it out! Your values will become conformed to what God says is valuable. This is the way, not all the pragmatic, worldly posturing, and virtue signaling! Repent, and believe!!!

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The Original Snow White Fairy Tale.

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The dwarfs find Snow White asleep

In the Grimm’s Snow White fairy tale, she is taken out to the forest at 7 years old. The huntsman has mercy on her, and lets her go. He kills a wild pig, and brings it’s heart back as proof to the queen/stepmother/witch. She has it salted, and cooked, and eats it, believing it to be the heart of Snow White… That’s one sick woman. Anyhow, after three attempts on her life, she finally gets her with the poison apple. Some years have passed. The prince doesn’t awaken her with a kiss.

He sees her, asks the dwarfs for her because he can’t go on without seeing her beauty everyday. Keep in mind, she is supposed to be dead, and perfectly preserved in a glass coffin at this point. He has his men carry the coffin back to his kingdom. On the way they stumble, and the poison bit of apple is dislodged from her throat, and she wakes up wondering where she is, and what is happening. The prince explains, proclaims his love, and they get married. They invite the stepmother/queen/witch to the wedding. They confront her. They have a pair of iron shoes heated in a fire until they are glowing hot, put them on her, and make her dance at their wedding until she drops down dead. Happy ending kids!!! Instead of this, Disney made the classic that was watered down. Now they want to make one that is a feminazi dream, that includes all types of perversion. They keep digging their hole deeper. Who still watches their movies?

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My Suggestion for Christians on Halloween.

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Before you get too worked up, I’m not a legalist who has elevated October 31st to the level of a Primary Article of the Faith. Hopefully that puts to bed some suspicions of where I’m headed with this. Consequentially, all the legalists are now mad, and proclaiming that I am going to hell. You all can quit reading, and go back to slandering me online.

Here is a screenshot I took of my search results for, “Reformation Day kids costumes.” This is to prove, that theoretically, people do dress their kids up for this day. I know some of you think this is ludicrous, and that Christian parents should just let their kids dress up like scary demons from hell.

When I was a kid, way back in the 70’s and 80’s, the costumes were pretty tame. Most of us either wore a plastic super hero mask held to your head with a little elastic string, or our mom’s put make-up on us to turn us into hobos, mustached villains, or some other low-budget production. We could never afford masks. That was for the rich kids. So, we went as hobos, or cowboys. I contrast those days with our time, and how kids come to my door dressed in elaborate costumes that appear to be pretty expensive, and time demanding. I also compare our costumes themes, to the ones I see today. Nobody was scared by our costumes. Even the teenagers with the skeleton suites weren’t scary. Now I see kids, with their parents, come to my door wearing masks that rival Hollywood make-up before all the CGI animation. I’ve seen deformed monstrous faces, demons, blood drenched werewolves, zombies with gore hanging out of their mouths, all the while hearing little voices from inside the hideous masks echoing the nostalgic high pitched ultimatum of youth, “Trick, or treat!”

Don’t get me wrong, there are still plenty of princesses, cowboys, superheroes, and sheet-clad ghosts. Even in the scariest of visages, there is still the innocent desire for treats. (I’m not calling the little sinners innocent. Calm down Felicia.) Considering what I’ve just shared, I want you to think about an alternative to celebrating traditional Halloween. It is a traditional holiday on the same day as Halloween. It is called, “Reformation Day.” You can still dress your kids up. They can still get treats. Instead of celebrating scary demonic looking candy extortion, we can celebrate the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. This was a good thing, unless you are Roman Catholic. Then, well… You pretty much would rather people celebrate scary looking gargoyle statues on Churches, or something. That is one thing I never really got. Let’s put these scary sculptures on our Churches to keep the baddies away… I thought by the nature of God being Who He is, and the Church being His bride, we wouldn’t need scary sculptures… Back on topic! You could have your kids dress up like Monks, or maidens. You could do a Reformation Day celebration at your Church. We have soups, and breads. You could still hand out candy at your door, but also provide some gospel tracts. I like the ones from Living Waters. Here is one of their Halloween tracts. You could put a Bluetooth speaker outside, and have it stream a reading of Luther’s 95 Thesis in English. You could put a TV in the window, and have the audio on the outdoor speaker, while looping the, “Are you a good person?” cartoon gospel presentation. You can teach your kids about why the Reformation was so important in world, and Church history. This is also a good way to contrast how the world views Halloween, and how we view the world. Your kids will see the scary costumes. You have them dressed in costumes, but they are not demonic looking. You can show them the difference between worldviews. Teach them the virtues in the Christian worldview. They are old enough to understand more than you give them credit. You all are a pretty creative bunch. You can come up with some good ways to celebrate the day, and teach your kids good things, while not making them blind to how the world is.

By the way, ladies… We need to talk. You should never wear immodest costumes while escorting your little toddlers around the neighborhood on their quest for a sugar high. I’ve seen way too much, of way too many women who live in these parts. No naughty nurse costumes. No lady vampire costumes. No witch costumes. You all ought to be ashamed of yourselves! I know the Christian moms are not doing this. You Christian moms need to tell your friends this is not a good thing for them to be doing.

Now, to the dads. You should not be walking your kids around the neighborhood with a beer attached to your finger in frat boy style. I’m not against having a beer, but you are supposed to be protecting your children on their quest, not simply tolerating the experience, and needing to self-medicate. Be present, and enjoy the time you have with them before they reach 12 and decide they hate you.

Alrighty then, rant over. Go out, and share the gospel of Jesus. Enjoy your life in Him. Enjoy your family.

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Race-baiting, and Hatred.

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I have a confession to make, and I think many of you could also confess likewise. The desired effect of all this race-baiting is to stir up hatred, and animosity. I feel it working. I see the black on white violence, and the anti-white-ism. It is engendering more knee-jerk hateful emotional responses from me. I want to call the people engrossed in the opposing sub-culture, all of the racist slurs. I want to round them up, and execute them for their lawlessness. If the mainstream media, can emotionally manipulate a Christian to sin this way, imagine what it is doing to the lost. I take responsibility for my sins. It isn’t entirely the M.S.M.s fault when I choose to hate someone. They are complicit, but my hatred is only misplaced for a second in time. God convicts me by His Spirit, and His Word. I repent, and move on. What does the rest of the world do when they fall to hatred? I think they continue in it, and build upon it. Murder in the heart can too quickly become actual murder. Let this serve as a warning, do not be fooled by the world.

Isaiah 55:6-7
6 Seek Yahweh while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to Yahweh,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

As in the days of Noah?
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As in the days of Noah?

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When I was a Pentecostal, I heard and believed, a lot of heterodox teachings. Whenever some immoral scandal was talked about on television, I remember my in-laws would always say, “As in the days of Noah!” I’d ask them what they meant, and they explained how wicked it was then, and how things are going to be wicked like that, and that is a sign of the times. Now, if I had just heard it from them, I might have doubted it more, but I even heard it at Church. When we were going to a Nazarene Church I heard it from many people. I was younger, and figured they knew what they were talking about. I even heard T.V. preachers say it.

Of course now, I know better. I can’t believe it took so long for God to bring me out of those, “wacky” ways. I say, “wacky” because looking back, I think I must have been extremely biblically ignorant to go along with the insanity. Pentecostals told me I should be speaking in tongues. They taught to be slain in the Spirit. They taught us to engage in what they called, “spiritual warfare.” They taught us to speak directly to satan, and to bind him up, gouge out his eyes, stuff up his ears, and that we could send him away. Looking back, why would anyone pray to satan? That’s what speaking to him is you know. Why would a person do any of that? If you thought that was what Christianity was, and you wanted to be Christian so you wouldn’t go to hell, you might do those things like I did.

I’m not going to tackle all the heterodox teachings tonight. I’m just going to address the one that stems from Matthew 24:37. I’ll cite it here once, out of context so you can see the verse I’m talking about. Then, I’ll cite it with its surrounding context so you can follow along and see the true meaning for yourself. This way, if you are in the same error I was, you can repent, and come into fuller knowledge of the truth.

Matthew 24:37 LSB “For just as the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.”

Now, out of context, this could mean a lot of things. That’s how false teachers do what they do you know. They take some verses they like from all over the Bible, and rip them from their context, string them together, and pervert the word of God.

Here it is in context.

Matthew 24:29-51 LSB
The Coming of the Son of Man
“29 “But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the POWERS OF THE HEAVENS will be shaken. 30 And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. 31 And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His  elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
The Parable of the Fig Tree
32 “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; 33 so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. 37 For just as the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 Then there will be two in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left. 41 Two women will be grinding grain at the  mill; one will be taken and one will be left.
Be Ready for His Coming
42 “Therefore stay awake, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 43 But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.
45 “Who then is the faithful and prudent slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. 47 Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; 50 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, 51 and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

After reading all of that, hopefully you can see this is in regards to when Jesus will return. The comparison to the flood is to let us know that nobody knows when He is returning except God Himself. Just like the people who lived in the days of Noah, they didn’t know when the flood would occur. They kept on living their lives as if it was never going to happen. They even mocked Noah. Just like those days, people will keep living their lives. They won’t repent. They won’t trust Christ. They’ll go on as if there is no judgment to come. Like then, they will be swept away, and burnt up like the chaff, or the tares.

What should you take from all of this? Instead of worrying so much about end times lunacy (There are a lot of lunatics out there preaching crazy things.) Make sure you understand the gospel of Christ Jesus. Make sure you are preaching it to everyone you can. Make sure you are studying the Bible rightly, and that you are yielded to the Spirit, in obedience, and joy.

Acts 17:30-31 LSB “30 Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge  the world in righteousness through a Man whom He determined, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead.””

This isn’t a suggestion. Repent of your sins, and trust in Jesus alone for your justification, and everything that coincides with it. Do so now, before it is too late, and the judgment of God is poured out on the Earth. This time it will be a universal conflagration, and nobody will escape unless they have been purchased by the blood of Jesus, our Lord, and God. Just like the ark was the vessel God’s elect were brought through flood that was the God’s judgment against the unrepentant sinners of the world, Jesus is our ark to rescue us from the fiery flood of judgment to come.

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Switch to Gab.com! Facebook is the devil Bobby!!!

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I want you all to know, Gab.com is by far, the best, most free, social media platform in existence. It is far superior to Facebook, Twitter, Mewe, Gettr, Truth Social, and Parlor!!! Facebook restricts the reach of your posts if they don’t like what you post. Mewe is convoluted and difficult to use. It is not dedicated to free speech, and it is not owned by a Christian. Gettr, Truth Social, and Parlor have all conceded to the app store’s standards, and require them to censor their users. Gab however, has not conceded. This is why they are not allowed on the app stores. The mainstream media has waged a war against them. They have called them, “alt-right, racists, and bigots.” For sure there are people on Gab who fit those descriptions, but you don’t have to talk to them. (Don’t feed the trolls. There is a mute button, and a block button.) Since Gab is dedicated to free speech you will run into some knuckleheads, but it is a fair tradeoff because you can literally post anything you want, unless it is illegal, like threatening someone’s life, or inciting violence against a person, or group of people. I would love if you would all stop using facebook, and move to Gab.com already. I’m tired of having to start new profiles all the time because Facebook puts me in Facebook jail. Guess what, there is no such thing as Gab jail! They don’t even throttle your posts. Your reach is totally organic. If we would all leave Facebook, it would have no more power. It only has as much power over us that we allow it to have. Help me make you more free!!! Join Gab.com. I’ve been using it for a couple years, and it has really grown. Many of the bumps have been ironed out. Oh, and did I mention the news? Sick of seeing leftist, globalist, mainstream media satans fake news? Well, on Gab.com you do have to sort through actual news, and fake news, but they give you the freedom to decide for yourself! Go Gab.com!!!