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INTRODUCTION (Welcome to the Real World, Neo!)

We all rely on the input we were given since we were children. The information we’re being fed is
what shapes our world view and determines our perception of things.

But what if a substantial amount of the input and information we were being fed is wrong and
false?

What if some of that information even consists of downright lies?

What if we’re being purposely deceived by people and forces trying to manipulate us in order for
them to take advantage of us, control us and use us?

Although this may sound like a very bleak scenario to some, if one walks through life with open
eyes and ears, eventually they will have to confront the fact that this scenario is our reality, and
that one of our greatest challenges in life is to find and uncover the truth that has been buried
beneath the large pile of lies that makes up the Matrix of our supposed reality.

Perhaps the most effective tool for that purpose, and the most powerful weapon at our disposal in
our combat against a sea of lies is – as unbelievable as it may sound to some – the Bible.
Needless to say, this is also one reason why the Bible has become a principal target of the NWO
propaganda machine.
Not only that, but many of the institutions run by professing followers of the Bible (aka churches)
have been infiltrated and manipulated to such a degree that Christendom per se has become a
not very desirable ideology in the eyes of most clear thinkers.

All these factors make the task of discovering the foundation of truth in our journey through life an
ever increasing challenge.
What happens is that we underestimate our Enemy and the extent to which he would lie to us. In
fact, most of us are not even aware of the fact that there is an unseen enemy at work against us.

Unfortunately the Bible tells us that due to man’s own choices, our world is presently being
controlled by the Enemy of our souls, who is posing as “the god of this world” as a usurper, setting
the stage for a world totally controlled by him in every way: economically, politically and
ideologically – a scenario which has been advertised during the past decades as the approaching
“New World Order,” a world government which will eventually be headed by one man who will
ultimately represent the personification of the Devil, just as Jesus represented God to believers.

The coming and revelation of this “man of sin” or “son of perdition,” as the Bible calls him, is
precisely what is necessary and missing for the rightful King and Ruler of the world to return and
free and save us from the grip of the usurper.
The supernatural 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ (or Yashua the Messiah), anticipated by millions of
believers around the world, will constitute “the end of the world as we know it” for some, and yet
for others only a new beginning of the way mankind had originally been intended to live by its
Creator.

The one thing required for anyone to make sure that the Kingdom of God for them will be not the
end, but a new beginning, is to accept the gift God gave to mankind in offering His Son Jesus ( =
“Savior”) as the lamb of sacrifice that would pay the price for our sins. Recognizing and admitting
that we are sinners and that in order to be cleansed and redeemed from our guilt we are in need
of a divine Savior, all we have to do is confess to Jesus that we need Him and ask Him to come
into our lives along with His unmeasurable love and forgiveness, which will then transform our
lives into truly meaningful, spiritual and in fact, eternal ones.

Originally, life was not intended to end. The only reason we die is because of our sins. The
purpose for Jesus’ first Coming was to take that load from off our backs if we only receive Him.
With His Second Coming, He will manifest that same redeeming power on a universal scale and
deliver us from evil, just as He taught us to pray: “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth,
… and deliver us from evil…”

Those who are tired of evil can find liberation from it in childlike simplicity by simply accepting
Jesus and saying to Him, “Yes, Lord, I accept You as my Savior. Please, come into my life,
forgive me for my sins and fill me with Your Spirit. In the name of Jesus I pray, Amen.”

Personals (Published December 2004 on DaveMendoza.com)

Q.: “What nationality are you, Dave? What country are you exactly from?”

A.: I subscribe to neither national identity, but consider myself a citizen of the Kingdom of God,
regardless of place of birth or passport. I have personally witnessed the evils that nationalism
brings about in many countries, have seen it start wars & transform happy people into haters of
their fellowman & thus I have come to detest any display of nationalism & patriotism.
Jesus told His disciples that they were “not of this world”, & that’s how I have always felt.
Naturally, earthbound people who are satisfied with the materialistic System resent those who
don’t let themselves be pressed into any flag-waving mold or drawer. Sorry, if all I can say to
those people is, “Tough luck!”
Earthly empires have come & gone, and the Bible predicts a time when they will disappear for
good to be replaced by an everlasting Kingdom of Love. If you want to know which nationality I
adhere to: THAT’S the one.

Q.: “So, obviously, you’re some kind of religious freak, Dave! So, tell us, which church or
denomination do you belong to?”

A.: In order to tell you which church I belong to, let us take a look at the origin of the meaning of
the word "church”: Nowadays, we associate “church” with a pompous building in which confessing
Christians meet during one hour a week (on Sundays) to listen to a man talk & sing a few songs &
monotonously repeated prayers & ceremonies. But the original of the word comes from the greek
word “ecclesia”, which means “the called out ones”. God, throughout the ages, has always had a
small body of true believers who were conveying His message for the time, & who were doing
their best to obey His commandments.
The Bible says that “the most High dwells not in temples made with hands”, so, you won’t find that
group in any church building.
The Bible also says that “all who will live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution”. So, all you
need to do to find out which group of believers I belong to, is to investigate which single Christian
group of believers has suffered the most persecution during the past 2 decades, & I’m not talking
about those in China or muslim
countries. (Or check out www.thefamily.org)
Note that as it was in Jesus’ day, it is often the established religious powers who instigate those
persecutions. Those who “think they do God service” by hounding their brethren.
Depending on how much you've been brainwashed by the media, you might not like what you’ll
find. Unless you’re prepared for a truly radical God Who is the opposite of all you’ve ever learned.

Q.: “You scare me. So, you really believe that God interacts with people & stuff? Don’t you think
one has to get a good education, a job &, you know... make an effort to ‘fit in’?”

A.: As I said, the true believers are “called out” of the Systems of this World, and Jesus said, “He
that forsakes not all that he has, cannot be My disciple”. I believe that this is still as true & applies
as much today as it did then. True believers must “forsake”, renounce, give up & leave their
earthly possessions behind (like I did
when I was 17 & I’m ready to do again, at His beck & call, anytime) in order to share them with
their brethren, the way it’s described in the Book of Acts: “All that believed were together & had all
things in common...” Wanna know where Marx & those who paid him stole the idea of
“communism” from? – That’s
it! Acts 2:44,45. Only that this, true communism, only works if empowered by the love of God,
which is ready to “lay down his life for his friends”, not to establish another tyranny of the kind we
have seen in Russia or China. Do I believe that God interacts with His chosen people? You bet I
do. Look how active the Devil is. You
think Gid is sleeping all the while?

Q.: “C’mON, Dave! You really mean to tell us you believe in the Devil? Every kid knows that’s a
fairy-tale to make little children cry.”

A.: Oh yeah? Well, not according to the Bible. Granted, by today’s widely recognized views the
Bible itself isn’t much more than an ancient conglomeration of fairy-tales, but that just shows how
successful the Devil has in been in preaching his gospel. For thousands of years people have
accepted for fact that the world was created.
Only in the past hundred years have we all come to accept that the world & intelligent life
“evolved” from lifeless matter – a violation of the laws of nature & common sense.
Everything the Bible has foretold about the history & future of the World has come to pass or is
happening before our eyes, so, I also believe what it says about the Devil, namely that he is – at
this time - the god of this World, into whose hands the kingdoms & riches of the world have been
given – soon to be restored to their rightful Owner.

Q.: “Dave, for thousands of years, people believed that the Earth was flat. Are you one of those?”

A.: People always ascribe this narrowminded, “Don’t-confuse-me-with-the-facts” attitude to

Christians, and,
unfortunately, only too often, they’re right. The established religious powers are always too busy
maintaining their power to hear what their own God has to say (the Bible described the Earth as a
ball way before Galileo or Columbus), & thus, as mentioned before, prefer to persecute the true
believers to being open to revolutionary new revelations God might have in store for them. Why
do you think the Bible continuously blasts those who claim to be God’s people? “This people
praises Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. ‘For your sake My name is mocked
among the heathen’, says the Lord...”
It’s because they have preferred to serve the materialistic world & Mammon & thus live in the
same
3-dimensional world as the unbeliever.
Just like people used to believe the Earth was flat, most people today are also “flatlanders”, who
don’t believe in anything beyond that which they see & perceive with their physical senses. True
believers, now as much as then – know that the world is not limited to 2, 3 or 4 dimensions. In
fact, they’re quite in touch with the 5th,
6th or 7th...

Q.: “So, you’re one of those esoteric weirdos who believe in ghosts & spirits & stuff?”

A.: The Bible says, “God is a Spirit” (Jn.4:24) & it has a lot to say about angels & spirits. Yet, just
because
Satanists, witches or New Agers believe in spirits, too, most Christians close themselves & block
off anything that has to do with spirits, & thus, unfortunately also often lock out the Holy Spirit, as
well.
The Bible has many “gifts of the Spirit” to offer, like prophecy, for example, which means, hearing
from God & receiving His personal instructions, personally. Most people are inclined to believe
that God doesn’t talk
anymore since 2000 years. I have experienced the opposite to be true.

Q.: “So, you mean to tell us, you’re actually hearing from God & He talks to you?”

A.: Well, as General Patton answered when he was asked whether it was true that he read the
Bible: Yes Sir, I do.
“Every God-damned day!”
You can even hear God talking to you straight in many of the songs He’s given me. Sometimes I
retrospectively realize that a song I wrote years ago has a much deeper meaning & greater
significance than I
originally perceived. Some of my song lyrics are straight prophecy, like “Just Give me A Chance”
or "Standard Of Love”. The first person speaking in those songs isn’t me speaking, it’s the Lord.

Q.: “I’m speechless.”

A.: When you don’t know what to say, it is a good time to remain silent.

Q.: “Sounds familiar. The Bible? No, wait. Hollywood?”

A.: “The King And I” – Yul Brynner.

Q.: “Any more words of wisdom like that?”

A.: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin’ at all!”

Q.: “That sounds like... like...”

A.: “Bambi”.

Q.: “So, how many movies have you got memorized?”

A.: None at all. But I believe that God can use a lot of things to speak through, not just the Bible,
a preacher...

Q.: “...Or your songs?”

A.: Right. In fact, He sometimes even uses songs that were written by people who don’t even
believe in Him to
convey His message. And so He also uses movies... like everything else He created or allowed
man to create, to make His point....”

Q.: “How’s that?”

A.: He just speaks & it is there. “In the beginning was the Word & the Word was God... All thing
were made by Him.” He just says, “Let there be light!” And the result is, “And there WAS light”.

Q.: “Just like that?”

A.: Just like that.

Q.: “But... HOW?”

A.: This you’re going to have to ask Him, not me. Q.: "So, Dave... there's
evidently no hope for you... you seem so far gone... I'm sure you don't have any other hobbies &
interests, besides reading the Bible and... oh, yeah, music?"

A.: No, I sit & pray & meditate 20 hours a day, then eat a handful of rice & drink a cup of water,
sleep for a few hours &....
Rubbish, of course, I've got hobbies & other interests. I used to be a fanatic lover of animals & of
nature as a kid, & have found out in the meantime that people are even more interesting. They're
not entirely uncomplicated, but I like to learn what I can about them & how to get along... "People"
also specially includes "young people", & since I have 6 kids myself, raising & dealing with young
people is definitely one of my fields of interest.
I love swimming in natural waters, lakes & rivers, like hiking in the woods & hills & I have recently
discovered a passion in me for debunking the so-called theory of Evolution, but that's a whole
nuther subject...
I like cooking (although I must admit I'm usually too lazy) and... hey, I love to write, as you can tell.
Besides that, I love to listen to good music, of course, as well as write & record songs... and like
most other people on the planet, I've got an ardent interest in members of the opposite sex...
My Credo: (Published 2004 on DaveMendoza.com)

I believe that everyone who knows the Truth: that the Earth did NOT evolve by
itself, as commonly taught, but was created by the all-powerful Spirit of Love,
also referred to as God, Who loved this World & its inhabitants so much that
He sent Jesus, His Son, (Who was with Him from the Beginning) to Earth to
die for us, and all those who know that this World at this time is given into the
hands of God’s opponent, commonly referred to as the Devil, whose goal it is
to deceive mankind into following him instead of Jesus,
everyone who can agree with this, is like Neo & his friends in the movie “The
Matrix”:
Though inside the System, not really part of the System but rather active
agents against the gas of deceit that’s keeping followers of the Matrix
contented with a state much closer to hell than the heaven on Earth that this
life could & should be.
For someone to be “unplugged” from the Matrix, all they have to do is accept
& receive Jesus, God’s gift of love & forgiveness to us. How you do that: You
simply pray (talk to God or Jesus), asking for forgiveness of all your faults &
for Jesus to come into your life.
Although this is generally a very happy experience after which one feels very
relieved & joyous, it is sometimes followed by a painful awakening to the fake
of “reality” one has lived in up to this point, similar to the way Neo in “The
Matrix” initially refuses to embrace what he had just learned about the Matrix.
Sometimes this causes people to take a distance from their newly found faith,
& only those brave enough to face the consequences go on. (Parable of the
Sower)
Unlike the story of the film, however, this World is not ruled by Machines but
by Satan & his demons, who momentarily appearing to be more powerful than
us, are really no match for the power given to us by the Creator of the
universe, if we learn to apply these powers, again, like Neo. Remember, “there
IS no spoon!”, & any obstacles, problems and even seeming catastrophes in
your life can be overcome through the weapons we’ve been equipped with:
faith, prayer, trust, the power to rise above, the Keys of the Kingdom &
staying in close communication and a loving interactive relationship with our
Commander through the gift of prophecy (receiving personal words of
instruction from Him either directly or through one of His countless
messengers, angels & spirits of deceased humans who are fighting on our
side). Beware of attempts of interference from the enemy side, though, due to
which it is wise not to subject yourself to any unnecessary exposure to
elements of the Matrix. That steak may taste good, but don’t sell your soul or
birthright for it!
For physically obtainable instruction, refer to the ancient manual, the Bible, or
countless writings of His modern-day prophets (We especially recommend a
magazine called “Activated!” to newcomers), any of which we are more than
happy to supply you with at your request and some of which you will find
posted here as time allows.
Feel free to share any of this with anyone you might consider a genuine
seeker of the truth. In all you do, though, “Follow the white rabbit!” or, the
leadings of the Holy Spirit! (Pro.3:5,6)

(The abbreviations & numbers in brackets are references of passages in The Bible,
where you will find related issues to what has just been said. Example: “Pro” =
abbreviation for “The Book Of Proverbs” in the Old Testament, followed by the
number of the chapter and after : the number of the verse(s) referred to.)

Pt.II "Manifestations Of The Matrix"

(Cold Beer & Remote Control)

Of course, I don’t believe that our planet was taken over by machines in the future (but
then again, who knows? – Ha, just kidding!). However, the Bible – the one Book which
might deserve the title “The Anti-Matrix” already stated 2000 years ago that this world is
being governed by “rulers of darkness”, “spiritual wickedness in high places”, “the god of
this world” who “appears as an angel of light” to deceive its inhabitants. In fact, the god of
this world was the very bearer of the light of God before pride caused him to fall, &,
according to the Bible, one third of God’s sons, the angels, followed him & they have been
given temporary rulership over this earth, ever since mankind decided to believe their lies,
rather than God’s truth. (Eph. 6:12; 2.Cor.4:4 & 11:14; Rev.12:4; Luk.4:5,6)

This is manifested ever so clearly in popular lies which men have embraced as
cornerstones of their science, such as Darwin’s theory of Evolution. How absurd this
theory is, & yet firmly believed by the majority of the world’s “educated elite” is a subject
which would fill books (such as James Perloff’s “Tornado In A Junkyard”), but let it suffice
it here to say that, if the Earth & all its species would have really “evolved” over millions of
years, this world would exceed its present population billions of times, we would be up to
our necks in fossils of fishes with legs & countless other “missing links” of transitional
creatures inbetween developing stages of species & we would all be toast, because at the
rate the sun is shrinking it would have been so big a million years ago that no life at all
would have ever come into being on an extremely hot planet Earth… Another manifestation
of the mind control of the rulers of the darkness of this world’s mind control over our
fellowmen is evidenced in people’s rejection of the One Who could free them from their
misery: Having been conditioned to accept wealthy, successful, strong & force-displaying
characters as their rulers, people reject the idea of having a poor, persecuted & crucified
carpenter for their leader, especially in the “light” of the fact that His “followers” are some
of the most corrupt & hypocritical bunch this world has ever seen. “Infiltration” has been
the name of the game for the “lightbearer” & his followers from the beginning, according to
their motto “If you can’t lick’em, join’em!”. And, inhabiting the wealthiest elements of
society, the necessary “small change” has never been lacking to make sure that feeble
followers of Christ would all too easily abandon radical Christian teaching & action, but
rather settle for an easy & comfortable life within the Matrix, thus incessantly conveying
the message to the world that “you can be a follower of jesus Christ & still be a slave of the
System”. No wonder that Jesus Himself announced that He would “spue out” of His mouth
those kind of pretending “followers” of His (and if the word “spue” doesn’t ring a bell, how
about its modern counterpart, “puke”). (Rev.3:16)

Accordingly, the 3rd manifeston of the Matrix is the fact that Christ’s true believers &
followers have always, like Himself, remained a small, persecuted & slandered minority,
from the early days of Rome until today, and you can bet your behind that today’s most
dedicated true followers are labeled a “dangerous sect”, possibly so dangerous that
attempts are made to completely ban & outlaw it in those countries which have been under
the controlers tightest rule for centuries.

One last manifestation of the Matrix I will mention here – though, again, we could fill books
writing about them, as its makers & others have – is the grande façade of what’s
happening on the stage of world politics. Having artificially created 2 or more opposing
sides for their little game of sports called politics, calling the competing teams names like
“communists” and “fascists” (or hundreds of other names), all following agendae they (the
creators of the game) themselves have provided them with, people are way too distracted
to even consider looking behind the scenes, quite similar to the way people are absorbed
by a football game on a tv screen. All that interests them is the guys chasing the ball, not
the machinery behind the screen which creates the image… As long as the viewer has a
can of beer in one & a remote control in the other hand, he is perfectly satisfied & doesn’t
really care whether it’s an illusion or whether there are people starving somewhere else. In
fact, I dare claim that these are probably the 2 single most powerful weapons of the Matrix’
creators to keep their slaves satisfied: COLD BEER & REMOTE CONTROL !

The Majority (Always Right?)

Jesus wrapped up His view on the ‘majority‘, when he said in Matthew 7:12 & 13: “Wide is the
gate, & broad is the way, that leads to destruction, & many there be which go in thereat; because
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, & few there be that find it.”
Throughout the Old Testament we find indications of God’s not very complimentary view of the
masses:
Gideon sent home 32.000 soldiers to win a battle with 300 chosen; Noah & his 7 family members
were the sole survivors of a worldwide flood; and the survivors of the destruction of Sodom &
Gomorrah were only Lot & his daughters. It takes strong faith in such a God to be willing to be
counted to a minority in our democracy-oriented age, which implicates that ‘the majority is always
right’.
I personally belong to a tiny minority of people in the country I’m living in, who don’t believe nor
follow the belief pattern of the majority, which states that we all came from an explosion in Space
billions of years ago, which produced the stars & planets, and by pure chance, through chemical
processes, on some planets life evolved into thousands of different living species, including the
intelligent, thinking & organised human race.
Opposed to this common view, I’m an outsider. I belong to a dispised & ridiculed group of
Christian believers called “Creationists”.
Now, if you perform a google search on the word “creationist” in my country, you’ll come up with a
lot of controversy, and the adjectives accompanying the word in the results range from “evil” &
“fanatic” to “ridiculous”. To be more specific, I’m a “Young Earth Creationist”, one of those, who,
contrary to the accepted belief that the Earth is billions of years old, chooses to credit the given
age of mankind and the Earth as derived from the amount of years given in the Bible, which
amounts to a bit over 6.000.
In fact, this belief was held by the vast majority of people who had any ideas about the Earth’s age
for the longest time. And just because it has been drilled into people’s minds for the past hundred
years or so that ‘It ain’t so, but...’, and the fact that this ‘but’ has been backed up by most
scientists of the century, who have been working hard on spending tax payers’ money around the
globe to provide evidence for it, for me, is not sufficient reason to join the majority in their belief.
I haven’t always been this ‘foolish’, as I was a firm believer in the theory of Evolution as a child,
and had to choose in my teens whether I was going to continue believing in this theory which had
been ingrained in my mind or the Bible. To be honest, this has caused me a lot of conflict over the
past 2 ½ decades. Recently, though, I have found that I’m not alone in my unconventional stand
of faith, and that not only supposed ‘lunatics’ like myself preferred the Bible’s version of our origins
to the commonly accepted version, but even highly educated scientists around the world share my
very – howbeit apparently obtruse belief in a World created by God in 6 days. In fact, evidence is
emerging from scientific ranks, which poses definite problems to the widely accepted theory of
‘Natural Selection’. Books are being written about the inaccuracy & unreliability of data provided
by the methods of carbon- & radiation dating, which supposedly determine the age of rock strata
& fossils. Books are being written about the violation of the laws of nature & physics, which
evolutionists demand of their followers to accept. Books are being written about new possibilities
& theories regarding time and the speed of light, which indicate that even though we can see stars
that are billions of lightyears away, this doesn’t mean those stars are actually billions of years old.
And what about the fact that matter cannot create information (of which an awful lot is needed, as
scientists are finding out, even for a single cell, which turned out to be a conglomeration of
complicated chemical factories)?
The fossils which Darwin was already wishing & hoping for in his own book, namely those of
intermediary forms between two species, are still missing. More & more information about highly
complicated natural processes in even the tiniest particles of creation, like one single cell, is
emerging, which pose mathematical problems for the probability for even the most primitive of
living things to have evolved by chance, much less entire races. The so-called ‘ancestors’ of man
are being concocted of fractions of bones in the minds of ambitious ‘scientists’ who get a lot of
money for their ‘work’, only for us to find out years later that that theory was another mistake or
fraud. While the original ‘discovery’ is widely publicised by every magazine on the globe, the
rebuttal only being found out by those who care enough to inform themselves.
The amount of people living today, had the first human couple really lived a million years ago is a
matematical monstrosity, which seems to be deliberately ignored by any maths teacher. The size
of the sun at the rate of its loss of energy would have posed serious problems for any life to come
into being on Earth a billion years ago. But whenever we turn on the tv and let our children watch
a nature documentary, whenever we open a school book on Biology, History or geography, we’re
being bombarded with ‘matter-of-fact’ statements about events which were supposed to have
happened billions of years ago, as if the narrator or writer had seen them with their own eyes,
leaving not the slightest hint of a doubt whether these things were really so.
Why? Who is so interested in having everybody believe a theory about our origins, that even its
own initiator died in shame about having brought it up in the first place? Why is this belief so
widely accepted by both, communists, fascists, AND of course, our good, average citizen of
modern democracy? Well, for one thing, it’s the perfect legitimate excuse for each of us to ‘do our
own thing’. If we’re all nothing more but an ‘accident in Space’, result of ‘pure coincidence’, Big
Bang – side-effects, no God, no Creator, no rules needed, nobody Who made us, so, nobody to
judge us for anything we might ever do wrong hereafter, we can all pretty much do what we want
without our consience bugging us about it. Maybe that has something to do with our ever growing
crime rates?
Believing that everything came forth from life-less matter gives us the freedom to not make any
difference between the material and the spiritual.
In other words, I can choose to put money or things on the same level with God, or let them
replace Him altogether. (Is it really the God of Love they're supposedly trusting in on the Dollar
bill?)
Furthermore, it gives us permission to kill unborn babies with a 'perfectly clean concsience' by
means of abortion. It is interesting to note that our 'ancestors', those who lived before the flood,
according to the Bible, worshipped the god Moloch (which some scholars identify with 'Mammon',
the god of wealth, mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6) and honoured him by sacrificing their
newborns. (Still wonder why God would have allowed the flood?) Looks like our habits haven't
changed all that much, we just give them different names.
As the well-famed English writer C.S.Lewis stated (see quotes below), Evolution is the religion of
materialism.
Let’s face it, most of us modern men & women, we wanna be our own gods. We don’t want some
big old bearded guy on a throne telling us what to do & what not to, right? We don’t mind the guy
we elected doing it (or the one we didn’t elect, but the majority did), at least not that much, why,
we cringe a little with every raise of the percentage of our money we have to pay him in taxes,
after all, some more ‘evidence’ needs to be found to support our religion..., I mean, theory of
Evolution, our armies need to be fed & armed to deliver us from hottentots who believe differently
from the way we do & threaten our ‘freedom’. I mean, we are the people, right? We’re the ones
with the money, with the machines, with the best political system, so, we’ve got to defend
ourselves from those maniacs, right? After all, here you’re free to believe whatever you want to
believe: Believe in aliens as responsible for our origins, if you want, why, that’s a very popular
one.
Something smells fishy, though, and it’s not because of remains of premordial soup, either. In a
controversial tome of notes taken during a supposed meeting of powerful people over a century
ago, somebody predicted about the times in which we are now living: “The intellectuals ... will puff
themselves up with their knowledge and without any logical verification of them will put into effect
all the information available from science, which our agentur specialists have cunningly pieced
together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want. Do not suppose for a
moment that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for
Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzscheism. To us, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a
disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the masses.”

THE ILLUSION OF MONEY

A Study & Comment By McDozer

“We the people have given the power to create money to a banking cartel that annually collects
billions of dollars in interest on assets it created out of thin air. It uses this money creating
monopoly to suck up most of the real wealth (resources etc.) of the planet.” (Henry Makow)

“Why would people place their hard earned savings into government currencies, which are in
reality only pieces of paper that a government can create or destroy at will? Governments have
virtually no assets and produce no income. Why are we told (and most people believe) that
government bonds are the most secure investment available? Why do we believe that our loans to
an entity with no assets or income is secure?... with the world on the verge of financial collapse,
why do most people feel that gold is a poor investment? With Keynsian economics being based
on flawed logic, why do most people believe that governments can control the economy based on
this false theory?
The only conclusion that I can formulate is that most people have lost the ability to critically
analyze information, and are subject to government mind control programs. While most people
choose to ignore reality, the world is now facing the most severe financial contraction in history.”
(John Kutyn – Financial Analyst)

The Green Paper Pig - (D.Berg)

“The most ancient & the longest lasting of any economic system is the economic system of
tribalism – ancient socialism.”
“ War calls for an increase of factory output (weapons, etc.), factory increase means more workers
being hired & paid. This means more people have more money to buy products of all other
industries. This increase in jobs and spending is a “Boom”. Now, the businessman, of course, is
making profits from all this buying & selling. He makes billions of paper dollars, but these paper
dollars have lost some of their value because of their great circulation. People value them less,
spend more & are willing to pay higher prices, so the dollars buy less. The loss in value comes
from the fact that the sellers of commodities can ask higher prices for their things because they
know that with all this money around, some sucker is going to buy their wares. -–This is
INFLATION: More money for less product. The merchant with his billions of dollars from the
“Boom” knows that each one of those dollars would be worth more if less people had money to
spend. So he lowers the circulation of paper money by calling up the King, (president or
congress), who in turn calls up the Captain of War & tells him to stop fighting. The Captain of War
has no more use for rockets, planes, bombs, tanks, jeeps, army clothes, boats, bullets, 3.2 beer &
all the multitude of things necessary to fight a war. The merchant stops his assembly lines & the
slaves are sent home & the paychecks stop. The other industries that don’t make war equipment
soon stop producing because the slaves have no paychecks. Everyone is broke, but the merchant
is happy,because the value of his paper dollars is increasing because they become so scarce &
buy more at lower prices. People will give up their cars & houses just to get their hands on a litlle
money. This is a “Bust”, recession, or depression. People sell their possessions for a little money,
and the Big Merchant ends up with everything (Gen.47:20).. Of course, there is always a chance
of a slaves’ revolt at this point (Revolution). So the merchant takes a few straws off the camel’s
back by giving them a few crumbs. But the quickest way out of depression is, of course, to start
another war... So Big Business continues to produce war toys, well lubricated with the blood of
human sacrifices, as usual.... cannon fodder of the DEATH CULT’S genocidal “economy”.
(s.a. Rev.17:7; 18:4,23,24; Jer.32:35; Ezek.16:20,21; 23:39)
The power of the Death Triangle (War, Business, Politics) is of spiritual origin (Rev.6:3-8; 16:13:
18:3,24),
and it must be fought on a spiritual level (2.Cor.10:4; Eph.6:12; Heb.4:12; 1.John 3:8; 1.Tim.1:18;
Rev.1:3).”
“The dollar became nothing but a piece of paper which is worth as much as people are willing to
believe it’s worth... only backed by faith. The dollar will find its own level at whatever they think it is
worth... The money for war comes from taxes on the people, but the government borrows the
money in bonds... so people buy bonds to loan the government money...suddenly we’re beginning
to wake up & find that billions & billions of dollars have been thrown away in the most wasetful
thing you can possibly do: making war!”
“Presidents use war as a remedy for a Depression. Hitler blamed all the problems of Germany on
the radicals & Communists & Jews (“terrorists”?) & Germany began to prosper because of the
tremendous amount of money being spent on war materials...industry boomed, & the Germans
began to take over the countries of Europe. The rich are always thinking that somehow their god
mammon will protect them if they feed him enough of their children or other people’s children for
cannon fodder...”
“Western economy, capitalist economy can only thrive on war. No ungodly leader can solve the
problem of having both peace & plenty without war. As long as a nation demands more than they
need they have to rob the poor to get it, & to rob the poor to get it they have to wage war. Even
non-war industries are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations. Say I have
certain things you need. But I want the lion’s share, live in luxury & the most of everything. So I
charge you unreasonably high prices & I refuse to pay more than rock-bottom prices for yours.
This is commercial war: in order to get my luxuries I’m starving you to death.”
“The capitalistic financiers of Europe are like a bunch of pimps They’ve got a whole lot invested in
this Whore, & they don’t want to lose it. She thinks she’s their owner, but they’re her owner, and
they’re trying to save their own investments. It’s totally artificial for them to support the dollar. If
they’d just let the dollar sink where it belongs, Amerika would sink. But they each own too much of
a share in the Whore, & they don’t want to lose their investments. So the European money pimps
support her worthless dollars... they’ll go broke, -- very broke!(see Revelation 14, 16 – 19).”
“The Arabs control most of the world’s oil, through which they are fast getting a hold of most of its
money. Without Arab oil, the industries of the western world could be slowed virtually to a
standstill. It’s the rich West that worries about oil and has got to control that Arab oil, or Arab oil
will soon control the West...”
“The dollar only exists if you believe in it, and is going to evaporate when people lose faith in it, it
will be gone. It gobbles everybody up that believes in it, & tramples everybody in the mud that
thinks it exists. But for those who know it’s just a monster of imagination, it vanishes! – It’s
nothing! Someone is manipulating the dollar & using it as a weapon to destroy their enemies, and
if you believe in it, it will destroy you, but if you refuse to believe that it even exists, it has no power
over you at all! It only exists if you believe it exists, the god of America, the idol they worship. It
has no power over you unless you’re one of its worshippers. The money-makers are its high
priests & its priesthood, & it was created in their temples & they control it & manipulate it to their
own advantage against their enemies. The dollar is a money-makers’ creation. It’ll devour you if
you trust in it. It doesn’t exist except according to men’s faith in it & their imagination, like Puff, the
Magic Dragon. It is the figment of their imagination, but they use it to their own advantage. When
exposed to the light of day, the truth of God, it turns to dead grey ashes! It will be burnt out &
destroyed when the fire of the faith of men in it is gone! It pollutes the hearts & minds of men &
captures theire bodies & destroys their souls. There was no such thing as the dollar until it was
dreamed up by Washington. Their final idol is an idol of paper! – The money-makers’ joke on the
world! Deceived & destroyed by their own creation & deception.
Paper money is a fairly new thing in World history, which our clever capitalistic governments
quickly latched on to as a much more convenient means of exchange than metal coins, & a far
easier & cheaper way to manufacture worthless money & cheat the people! The dollar is really
worthless & without any intrinsic value whatsoever with no backing or redeemability of actual
value. It is actually only worth what others are willing to give you for it. When the paper money
loses ist power over the minds of men & they lose their faith in its value as a mere medium of
monetary exchange, its value goes down to the nothing from whence it came, because it was
worth
Nothing in the first place, no more than the paper on which it was printed! It was only made to be
thought worth something by the faith of man in his paper god.
The powers which control the valuable, needed materials of the world, such as oil, raw materials &
foodstuffs, etc. will wield the government of the world. The time will come when money is no
longer used as a medium of exchange, & the people of the world will be ruled by a one-world
government who will control them by the material power it wields & its control of goods & services.
The money medium will be replaced by a very remarkable credit system in which every person in
the world who belongs to the system will bear a credit number, a number which will be given him
permanently, without any possibility of counterfeit or manipulation, because it will be branded on
each person (Rev.13:16,17).”
“The monetary system is the money-god of Mammon, which the world worships! Money, in a way,
is the “image of the beast” of this world, reflection of his power – the entangling demon idol the
people worship... ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’ (1.Tim.6:10).”
“The total downfall of America could be the collapse of the economic system, worldwide confusion
brought on by energy shortage, the upheavals in the Mid-East, or atomic war.”
“Economic collapse could bring down our whole highly industrialised modern civilisation as we
know it!”
“The System is headed for a crash! If even one link, like oil, breaks in the chain of their economic
system, it can cause a sudden collapse of the whole System! Values are really dependent on
people’s faith in somebody’s word! Their faith crashes & things dwindle down to nothing!”
“An inflation that’s so bad that it finally just absolutely explodes & collapses the whole monetary
system will literally blow the whole world banking system, its financial system, to absolute bits! It’ll
be a total world collapse of the monetary system!” (David Berg in “Who Are The Rebels”, “War,
Boom Bust” [1970], “The Dollar” , “Nitler” [1971], “The Amerikan Way”, “Amerika The Whore!”,
“Gaddhafi’s Magic Lamp”, “The Green Paper Pig”, “Oplexicon”, “The Christmas Monster”, “The
Comet Comes”, “The Crash”, “The Money Explodes!” [1973] )
"There IS No Spoon!" - McDozer

Remember the scene in the movie “The Matrix” where Neo & Trinity are clinging to the cable of a
crashing elevator, being pulled up, & Neo says, “There IS no spoon!”, remembering the secret of a
little boy’s ability to make a spoon bend by the power of his mind by the simple knowledge that
their whole world wasn’t real?
Well, that crashing elevator was the world’s economic system. Just as unreal as the make-belief
world of the Matrix, (in fact if there is anything the Matrix truly symbolises, it’s our money), as the
above quotes have stated, only those who hold on to the saving rope or the magic Wand of the
truth as found in God’s Word, will be able to rise up when the money will come down. Insiders
know that it’s merely a question of time (and not a lot left of it) until the creators of this grand
illusion will allow the bubble to burst, leaving us in a scenario that will make the Stock Market
Crash of Black Monday in October 1929, which caused wealthy businessmen to lose everything
they had & jump out of their sky-scraper windows, look like a picnic by comparison.
The political situation in the Mid-East, the US’ determination to attack Iraq under a president that
makes Richard Nixon look like Bambi, create a scenario into which David Berg’s predictions of the
70s fit more appropriately than ever.
In Matthew 24:35 Jesus said, “Heaven & earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass
away! If you take that statement literally, this would mean: It’s only a matter of time until our world
is history, and the only thing that will endure is the Rock of His truth. And anyone who stands on it,
clings to it, builds their house or life on it: in other words, listens to & obeys His Words by
absorbing & applying them, will rise above the created illusion of our temporary System. The
“sands of time” will wash away, but you won’t! Funny thing, they say, “Time is money!” So, if
money isn’t real, but an illusion created by the “Rulers of the darkness of this world” to enslave
mankind, and time IS money, we must assume that, as James Taylor sang,
“The thing about time is that time isn’t really real...”
One thing is for sure, and that’s that it won’t last forever. For the Bible predicts, “time shall be no
more” (Rev.10:6). And just like money one day will cease to have power over the inhabitants of
the world, so shall time. Take God’s Word for it!

Stairway To Heaven ? - “NO CREDIT CARD NEEDED!”

Why do people believe in Bible prophecy? Well, there are a few points about Bible prophecy that are very
hard to “explain away”, the way scientists love to explain away the miracles of the Bible or the miracle
of creation, for that matter, by very shaky, but “scientific” explanations (like the theory of Evolution....).
For example, how come a book, which has been allegedly in existence for thousands of years (-and even if
one would doubt that: a book which definitely & as a matter of fact has existed for at least centuries-),
how can such a book describe events, situations & conditions which have only been possible &
imaginable for the past 100 years? Take for example this astounding verse in the Book Of Revelation,
written by Jesus’ own apostle John (also author of the gospel & the epistles of John), when he was 90
years old, living in Roman exile on the island of Patmos in what is now Turkey, in A.D. 97: In the 18th
verse of the 11th chapter of that book we find this amazing statement:” And the nations were angry,
and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that hey should be judged, and that thou shouldest
give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and
great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”
You see, 2000 years ago, or even 200 years ago, that statement did not make any sense. Because nobody
was able to even begin to try to destroy the Earth. All the weapons of war invented until the beginning &
even through most of the first half of the 20th century would have only been a joke, trying to inflict serious
damage to our planet. This has radically changed since the invention of the atomic bomb. Not only that, but
since then, man has increased his amount of pollution, emission of heat and the amount of deforestation
and his exploitation of the Earth in general, to such an extent, that he is literally not only threatening to
destroy the Earth, but actually doing so. And yet, only 100 years ago, this would have been utterly
inconceivable.
There is another amazing section in the Book Of Revelation, which is talking about something which hasn’t
happened yet, but which scientists, and entire companies of electronic experts are currently working on: In
Revelation 13:16 & 17, this ancient book, the Bible, foretells a man who, “causeth all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.....”. It’s
this particular prediction I would like to zoom in on. We have here the prediction of what many visionaries
have dreamed of since money exists: the cashless society - Buy or sell with nothing but a small, perhaps
invisible mark in your right hand or forehead, not even a credit card needed. Isn’t that a common internet
slogan: “NO CREDIT CARD NEEDED!” – No credit card, no cash, no cheque, only a number apparently,
implanted into your right hand or forehead. Cool, huh!?
Well, not so cool in the light of the previous verse, stating that this same fellow will kill all those who refuse
to worship some strange talking, “image of the Beast”... that sounds a bit suspicious to me, if you ask me.
But let’s first expound on this cashless society. As a person who has personally experienced not only the
comings & going of zeros behind the values of existing currencies, such a the Dinar of Yugoslavia in the
seventies, but also the abolition & replacement of whole currencies within months, such as the Argentinean
peso, first by new pesos & later by currencies with completely different names, like the “Austral”, I have
experienced that money, when it comes down to it, is just paper with a few numbers & images on it, worth
as much as people determine or claim or believe it to be worth. Here today, gone tomorrow. Not in any way
comparable to currencies of former centuries, like silver & gold...(although someone might ask, who its to
say which metal is worth more than another, just because one is more rare than the other... But still:) paper
can be produced & replaced any old time, as long as there are still a few trees left in this world.

Then there are historic events, like the Global financial depression, beginning in October 1929 & stretching
through the early 1930s, giving rise to great power to men like Adolph Hitler & a few of his contemporaries.
I have actually not only seen, but had in possession money bills from that time, which had incredible
numbers on them, like “1 Billion Reichsmark”. (That’s 1.000.000.000.000!) And yet, allegedly, people would
need wheelbarrows full of those to buy a loaf of bread in those days. This may be slightly exaggerated, but
is to show how fragile the value of paper money really is.
And those things still happen today, as in Argentina, for example. You can cut off as many zeros as you
like, convert a 1000 pesos to 1 peso, but you’ll have to repeat that procedure next month. I’ve seen that
happen, as I’m sure, so have the residents of other countries.
Even the value of the US Dollar has changed incredibly during my 4 decades on this planet. In 1984, the
US Dollar bought more than 3,50 Deutschmarks. Then, a year later, there appeared a gigantic, whole page
ad in one of the leading financial newspapers of Frankfurt, the economical Mecca or “Wall Street” of
Germany, stating something like this, “Gentlemen, this is it! Unless the US Dollar will be reduced to a
maximum value of 1,58 Deutschmarks, the entire global economy will collapse...”. And believe it or not,
less than a year later, the dollar was down to 1,58 DM. I may be slightly off on the exact dates & values
here, but that's the way I remember it. And then the Yen took a nose-dive sometime in the late 80s,
wreaking havoc in Asia.
The latest, interesting stunt performed with money on an international scale, was the introduction of the
Euro in 2002, replacing the main gist of all former European currencies, including the Deutsch Mark & the
French Franc, actually, pretty much all except for the British Pound. Switzerland is not a member of the EC,
so, the Swiss Franc also still exists.
The funny thing is, the Euro has a different value in each of its countries, as it buys more of certain things
in Greece than in Paris or in Berlin. The not-so-funny thing is, that although the Euro was supposed to
have resembled the value of the former currency in some way, for example, upon it's introduction, the Euro
was roughly worth 2 Deutsch Marks, in reality, many items that used to cost 2 DMs now cost 2 Euros (in
other words 4 DMs)!
For some, this has meant greater gain, for most, greater loss. As one can observe on a global scale, the
rich are getting richer all the time, while the poor are getting more numerous & poorer all the time, & there
are plenty of statistics available on that statement I don't wanna bore you to death with.

What's all that have to do with the "cashless society" & the "mark of the Beast" anyway? Well, the
technology to replace money by an electronic chip implant is already available. All that stands between us
& it's implementation is another global economical crises of the kind the world experienced in the 1930s,
giving rise, perhaps, to another friendly chap, like Hitler, who will this time not only "solve the problems" of
a single nation with promises of another "golden millenium" (Hitler claimed he was ushering in an empire
to last 1000 years, "das tausendjährige Reich"), but this time of the whole world, maybe even by abolishing
cash (& a few other needless things, like religion, freedom, you name it), once & for all & introducing the
wonderful, new, safe, cashless system! "Get marked today! & All your blues will melt away..." Sounds all
very utopic & unreal to you right? After all, why should people accept this, as long as they can get down to
the store on the corner & for a few bills buy whatever they want ?
Well, but what if the money doesn't buy ? What if "the stores are all closed"? Buy "a stairway to heaven"?
what if people will get so hungry, so desperate, they 're willing to do ANYTHING for a loaf of bread?
Wouldn't you receive a mark or a tattoo or a computer chip that enables you to buy food again? - Oh, but -
don't forget to say "Thank You" to our wonderful new leader & pay respect to the "image" - whatever that is
going to be.....
But as unfathomable as TVs, PCs & wireless phones were at the beginning of the 20th century, we've all
got one now. So, I'm sure it will be only a matter of time until technology presents us the "most desirable
object of all times in all the universe” (remember "Time Bandits" ?): Some kind of multimedia device,
permanently linked to a new & improved internet, enabling us to purchase or sell with our handy new
tattoos & even making obsolete the former scourge of mankind: RELIGION.

"As recently as 2003, fanatical Christian fundamentalist politicians, like the infamous last American
president George W. Bush, used to threaten world peace..." A line from the history book of the New World
Order?

“So, what's the big deal then? Why does the Bible say all that? Is the Mark good or bad? I don't dig it! And
what's the alternative? Is there any?” Well, the alternative may be a little harder to accept than a tattoo for
bread when you are starving. But the alternative once described itself as "the bread of life". Or "the light of
the world", the "way, the truth & the life", "The Good Shepherd, who lays down his life for his sheep". "The
Door to eternal life", "The Beginning & the End", "The Word of God", "which was made flesh & dwelt
among us" as a carpenter's son, not a pompous politician. It says "He came unto his own, & his own
received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name: "Yeshua, the Messiah, aka Jesus the Christ.
He came, willing to look like a loser, someone who claimed that God was his REAL father, for which
statement he was betrayed into the hands of the authorities by the religious establishment of his day,
tortured & executed. But the Bible says that He died innocent to pay for your sins & if you accept that, He
can even feed & protect you through the times to come without having to accept the Mark of the Beast
(about which it also says that those who receive it are cursed, Rev. 14:9-11). He fed thousands from a few
loafs & fishes in the wilderness & promised his followers of then & today, that they would do greater works
than he did. All one has to do is to accept his sacrifice for their sins on the cross & ask him into your heart.
Everyone is here to make a choice. A choice between the Beast, and the “Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world” (Rev.13:8). God had shown throughout history, from Cain & Abel, through Abraham & Isaac,
on to Moses & the first Passover lambs in Egypt, up until the prophets what He was going to do: Cast our
sins on Him, that through Him we might live - even through the toughest time in all of world history.

“Only Idiots Get Bored”

According to Richard Rohr, one of my favorite writers, the word "idiot," originating in the
Greek language, defines someone so wrapped up in himself that they're oblivious to all
that's going on around them. Everything revolves around themselves... Sounds a lot
like folks you and I have met, and maybe have been, at times, doesn't it?
But to associate boredom with idiocy is a school of thought from one of the most beautiful
heads to ever have adorned a movie screen. A few years ago, when I was still watching
TV, I caught Salma Hayes (the gorgeous Latin actress featured in "Fools Rush In" and
others flicks...) on Oprah. And she proudly proclaimed there before the whole world that
her mother always taught her that only idiots get bored.
That was a philosophy worthy of adopting for my own, because I could only
wholeheartedly agree.
It's so true because there's so much to do if one only looks around, that one really has to
be an idiot, stuck on himself & oblivious of the world around them, in order to get bored.
The sad thing is that there are a lot of things folks won't "feel like" doing, & they get bored
because they limit the options to only things that minister to their own egos, preferably
some fun activity requiring the least effort of their own, something to consume... gimme,
gimme, gimme!
Sounds familiar? You've probably seen or experienced what I'm talking about.
Now, how do you change that? How do you teach yourself or someone else not to be a
disgusting, spoiled, pampered & selfish brat, and to look out at the world instead, to behold
the multitudes of things you could possibly do - not necessarily for yourself, but for
someone else?
One thing I found out that helps is to first of all reduce the input that only feeds the selfish
glutton in us even more. For example, stop watching and imitating selfish idiots on TV! I
stopped watching TV 4 months after 9/11 (2001), because that's when I realized you
couldn't even believe the news anymore, so why keep torturing myself & zapping myself
into a coma until 4 A.M.?
It's been 2 1/2 years since then, and I've gradually come back to life again. Also, take my
advice, folks, if you want to stop feeling bad about not getting anything rigged up, stop
smoking weed. The art is not committing yourself into any artificially induced stupor and
still not get bored!
So, once you have managed to change your focus - away from those zombies on TV,
away from yourself, and you start looking around for things you can do, either just because
they ought to get done, or because you know someone else will be happy about it, you'll
see that boredom will be a thing of the past.
You'll just have to determine you're going to stop being a pampered little "king," "queen,"
"prince" or "princess" & learn a little from the King of kings, Who gave the perfect example
of how to be really great by serving others. Right. Not being a bored idiot also includes
putting your pride on the backburner. To some people, who haven't yet caught the drift,
pride is still some kind of virtue, but if pride is a virtue, it's about as useful as a brain
tumor... But that's a whole nuther subject I might perhaps expound on some other time...
In the meantime, take it to heart, people, ban the line, "I'm bored" from your vocabulary, or
at least be honest enough to openly label yourself "idiot." If you don't take it from me, take
it from one of the most gorgeous women on the planet. Salma, you tops!

(Published December 12, 2005 on http://mcdozer.blog.com/)

YES!

The question "Would you like to ask Jesus to come into your heart?" is a magical combination of words,
which - regardless of whether the one being asked the question understands the meaning of it or not - will
determine (by the corresponding reply to it) where the addressee will spend eternity - or at least some part
of it. Those who are children of God - ordained & chosen to be thus before the foundations of the world -
will invariably respond "yes" to this question when asked, even if for no apparent conscious reason, even in
the absence of any sense that it might make to them.
Those whose response will be "no," will always reveal by the course of their actions, behavior and whole
being in the years to follow, that they have chosen another path, not the heavenly. Some people are given
repeated chances to reply to this probably most fateful of all questions, and if they hadn't chosen to say
"yes," and pray to receive Jesus as their Savior the first time around, they might do so the second, third or
final time. Some have even answered "yes" repeatedly & "done it" a few times, perhaps just to be on the
safe side, or simply because they didn't think much of it the first time around. Sometimes the result isn't any
visible change, and there are people who will doubt whether such a person has been genuinely saved.
While I personally am inclined to believe that anyone is saved "who confesses with their mouth the Lord
Jesus and believes in their heart" (Rom.10:9,10) in the original sense of the word "believing" as "drinking
in, receiving" (see also John 1:12), even if only for that one brief moment in their life, some may argue
about this. But it seems to be undeniably clear that those who reject the offer to receive Jesus will always
prove by their lives that in choosing not to receive Christ, they have chosen the other side.
When I was asked "Would you like to pray with us to receive Jesus in your heart" (the 2nd time around),
those words didn't make any sense to me, but something inside me made me say "yes," for no explicable
reason, other than that my heart knew that I wanted to become a child of God, and must somehow have
been one already.
Those who asked me, joyfully responded, "Oh, would you like to pray for Jesus to come into your heart
right now?" And I did. Sometimes, ever since that day in 1976 (I was 13 then) I fell back into ungodly
behavior, and it was definitely not as if all my problems were solved on that day or I had suddenly become
perfect. But ever since then, every fall & every mistake I made seems to have been a fall upward, one step
closer toward the Throne of God's Grace. A short while later, my sister Barbara also prayed the same
prayer, and although it seemed to have some immediate effect on her, negative experiences that followed
in her life later (and the choices she made accordingly), didn't allow her to continue to cherish the joy of her
Salvation, and she eventually turned into what I would call a "mental unbeliever." She doesn't allow her
mind to believe in God because she cannot explain some of the experiences she's had - but she's basically
what you might call a "good" person.
A few years later my half-sister, Ariane was born, and although her mother believed in God, Ariane
seemed to be cut of a different type of wood. When my eldest daughter was around 4 or 5 years old, she
asked Ariane (who was still a child of about 10 back then) whether she would like to pray to receive Jesus
in her heart, Ariane's reply was a very determined, almost disgusted "NO!" It was obvious she didn't want
to. As the years went by, she has proven by her actions and her entire vile being & anti-social behavior, on
which side she was standing all along; and while there is still hope that she might yet get saved, at the
point in time I am writing this, it is obvious that she has not yet chosen to become a child of God, & one
would almost be surprised to see her change her mind.
Some people believe that a visible change & "metanoya" has to take place before someone gets saved. I
personally believe in John 1:12, "As many as received Him (Jesus), to them gave He power to become
sons of God," and it is the act of receiving Jesus that will result in a metanoya, or change, although one
has to be willing to pray for the forgiveness of their sins as they pray the Salvation prayer. But it is the
prayer that triggers the metanoya. It's like the seed of Salvation that is sown into the heart of the one who
opens their door to Jesus, and it might only sprout & grow into a new life years later, sometimes not at all in
this life, but I do believe in the Lord's mercy and saving grace to the extent that no matter what a person
may have done who sincerely prayed this prayer, they will go to Heaven when they die.
When the Family started receiving messages from famous deceased people, I personally was very
surprised that among the many messages from prominent dead people in Heaven, there was also a
message from Richard Nixon, who had always been perceived as an extremely vile person by our
community, and had even been compared to Hitler during our earlier years by our founder. Yet Nixon
explained in his message from beyond that the single best thing he had done during his earthly life was to
pray to receive Jesus in his heart during a Sunday school class in his childhood, and that was the one thing
that got him into Heaven.
I personally believe that message. Otherwise there wouldn't be much sense in Jesus asking us over and
over again to win souls for Him. If it wouldn't be easy enough for a child to receive Salvation, as He Himself
states in the gospels (Mt.18:3), and if getting saved would be some complicated process, then it would
make no sense, and much of our labor would be totally in vain. Our labor in winning souls is based on the
simplicity of the gospel, and the simple fact that any child can receive Salvation. Some believe that children
are "already saved" & somehow lose their innocence at a certain age. I prefer to believe the Bible, that
we're "born in sin," and that we must be "born again" in order to "see the Kingdom of Heaven," as Jesus
explained to Nicodemus in John 3. This is a simplicity that often eludes the learned, and is way past their
comprehension and beyond the grasp of their complex minds, but not beyond a little child's faith, just big
enough to answer "yes" to the question, "would you like to receive Jesus in your heart?"
Bible Verses Most Christians Choose To Ignore

There are in the Bible a certain number of verses, which have been dismissed by the majority of
Christians throughout centuries as "outdated," "not relevant" or "not possible or practicable"
anymore, because those only applied to Jesus and His immediate followers, and were only
relevant for His day.
But since 1969, those voices have been proven as wrong, because that year a movement came
into being that was so dedicated to the cause of Christ that they could do no other but prove that
every bit of Jesus' instructions that He gave to His disciples of all ages were just as applicable
today as ever. It's just that the majority of Christians wouldn't even be willing to consider to do so.

Jesus' Job for every Christian

In Mark 16:15 Jesus gives His disciples (= followers of the teaching) His great commission, the
task which every sincere Christian should feel called to fulfill: "Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature." Now, it's true that this commission has been obeyed and followed
by a great number of men and women throughout the centuries. We call those men and women
missionaries or evangelists. I wouldn't consider most preachers & church pastors to fall into that
category, because they're not obeying the part about "going into all the world" in order to preach
the gospel to every creature. All they do - as far as I can tell - is to preach to the same
congregation one hour per week for a looong time. I wouldn't consider that doing a job.
How much would anyone expect to be paid for a job he only shows up one hour a week to do?

Forsaking All
Of course, it couldn't be expected of poor pastors & preachers to have to be leaving their towns,
homes and congregations in order to "preach the gospel to every creature in all the world," could
it? That would mean, he would have to leave everything behind. He couldn't take his house, his
family (if he isn't catholic and has one) along with him, his furniture, his car, his possessions...
that's impossible.
Perhaps that's precisely why Jesus said in Luke 14:33, "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that
forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple." In other words, anyone who has not left
behind everything he owns in order to fulfill Jesus' commission is not His disciple. He may claim to
be one, he may pretend to be one, he may even be paid to be one, but by the definition of Jesus
Himself - and I would consider that a higher authority than the Pope himself, he simply is not.
In Matthew 19:29 Jesus expounds on that point a little more, when He says, "And every one that
hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for
my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." Here he gives us
a list of not only things He would expect us to forsake in order to follow Him and be His disciple,
but even people, relatives, yes, even children He expects us to leave behind. And just to make
sure we know He's really serious about it, in Matthew 10:27 He says, "He that loveth father or
mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not
worthy of Me."
In Matthew 8:22 we find another of those "most unpopular and politically incorrect of Christ's
teachings" where he denies a man who wants to follow Him his wish to first bury his father:
"Follow Me; and let the dead bury their dead."
In the light of the fact that Jesus' public ministry only lasted 3 years, it becomes plain that He
didn't have an awful lot of time to spread His message, nor to wait for this man to bury his father
(who perhaps hadn't even died yet.) But let's be honest: how many of us give similar excuses for
not doing our job & following Christ's commission? What Jesus does, though, with His Words is
disarm us, He takes any excuses from us: Let the dead bury the dead. If you're one of the live
ones, one of those called and chosen to bring eternal life to a world of death and darkness, then
do it, no matter what, but don't pretend you're something you're not!

God's Financial Plan

One of the most popular arguments why people shouldn't or couldn't possibly be expected to "live
like that" nowadays, is "because it wouldn't work." Yes, it does! We see from the Book of Acts (in
the Bible, right after the 4 Gospels) that it worked for the Early Christians, and since 1969, it has
also worked for thousands of members of the Family International.
Some say that Karl Marx even stole his idea of Communism from the pattern after which Jesus'
early followers lived, as described in Acts 2:44,45: "And all that believed were together, and had
all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every
man had need." Here we find something which Jesus had already said earlier in the gospels, to a
certain rich young man, who wanted to find out what good thing he was still lacking, since he was
already so good, but obviously still not happy. Jesus told him, "if you want a treasure in heaven,
sell everything you have, give it to the poor, & follow Me." Unfortunately, the young man didn't
have it within him to do that, but in Acts we read of at least 8000 people who did. Just in order to
avoid any misunderstanding about the Early church living in a way any Communist could only
dream about, the pattern is confirmed once again in Acts 4:32-35, and the seriousness about it
clearly illustrated in the story of Ananias & Sapphira following.
There have been other true, sincere and fully dedicated followers of Christ throughout the
centuries who got the point that it was part of true Christianity to give up physical possessions in
order to serve Christ, such as St.Francis of Assissi, who stripped completely bare before the
Bishop and the entire city to illustrate what he considered to be a true follower of Christ, contrary
to the common concept of "Christianity" of his day.
After all, Jesus had made it quite clear in His sermon of the mount, where He said in Matthew
6:24,25 "Ye cannot serve God and mammon (wealth). Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought
for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is
not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" A few verses later He explains that if we
just make God's affairs our priority, then He would doubtlessly care for our needs (see verse 33).
Paul, in his epistles to the Romans, chapter 9, verse 14 makes it clear that Preaching the gospel
was not only the job every follower of Christ was given to do, but that this job would also pay for
itself: "Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the
gospel."
The life-style of the Family International has schown for nearly 40 years that "living of the gospel"
and living communally, the way the Early Christians did, is quite possible, even in this day and
age.

Persecution
Unfortunately, whenever there has been someone exposing the hypocrisy of phoney believers or
religionists by their sincerity, it has evoked jealousy and brought the wrath of the hypocrites upon
the true believers, from Cain & Abel over Jesus and the Pharisees until today. After all, what was
written for the believers of the past must also be valid for those of today, even if it's something as
shocking as 2.Timothy 3:12: "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution."
In other words, any group of Christians not suffering persecution must not be doing the job! Jesus
confirms this in His sermont of the mount, which was actually not - as traditionally shown in the
movies - given to a large multitude of people, but only to His disciples (see Mt.5:1), where He says
in Matthew 5:10-12, "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall
say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great
is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."
Luke even goes as far as quoting Jesus in his version of the same sermon as having said, "Woe
when all men speak well of you." In other words, popularity is not really a proof of being on the job
for God.

Hot or Cold?
Popular theories were not really Jesus' thing. Whenever something is really popular, you can
almost be sure there's something fishy aboout it. Bestseller-Writer Dan Brown has the audacoty to
base his theory that Jesus was married on the ridiculously weak argument that it was the "proper
thing to do" for a Jewish man of Jesus' times to be married. He obviously missed the entire point
about Jesus, His message, His life & purpose, and what He as all about.
Jesus wasn't into doing the proper thing. Instead of starting His own little family like everybody
else, He might have been accused of breaking up other people's families. We know for certain
from the Gospels that Peter was married, so there's one family Jesus undoubtedly "broke up."
And we know of at least 11 other sons whom He "stole" from their families, as some might put it,
one of which tragically took his own life.
But it's not just my own interpretation of Jesus' life-style, but His own Words that "outed" Him as
an incorrigibly controversial iconoclast and non-conformist. In a Old Testament prophecy about
Jesus, He is called the "Prince of Peace," and in John's Gospel Jesus tells us that He would give
His disciples His peace, but He was not talking about any kind of peaceful co-existence with the
evils of this world, which He makes quite plain in Matthew 10:34,35: "Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother,
and the daughter in law against her mother in law."
In later passages of the Bible we find more references to the sword Jesus brought, the sword of
His Word, which would determine between right and wrong and make manifest our true
motivations (see Hebrews 4:12), and Paul lists further parts of our spiritual armor in Ephesians
6:10-18, which we need as "soldiers for Christ" to fight our "spiritual warfare."
This reminds us of the "Lord of Hosts," one of the names for God in the Old Testament, and we
find Him again in Revelation 19:14, namely Jesus, leading the armies of heaven in the Battle of
Armaggeddon, in which He will destroy the Antichrist with the sword of His mouth. So, Jesus,
unlike common perception of Him, is not necessarily a pacifist. He's a radical, white-hot
Revolutionary and fighter for the truth against the flood of lies we encounter in our System. The
question is whether we'll put ourselves on His side and allow Him to destroy our on false concepts
or not. Often we try to retain a little comfortable piece of the lie in our life-style, along with the truth
we find in the gospel, but this type of compromise is vehemently condemned by Him.
In Revelation 3:15,15 we find Him dealing with the compromising church of Laodicea: "I know thy
works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."

What is Truth?
In the gospels we find Jesus warning us repeatedly of "the leaven of the Scribes & Pharisees,"
apparently parts of their doctrine that are not according to the truth as He perceived it.
Unfortunately, that kind of "leaven" or compromise has crept into the Christian church from its
beginnings.
One of the most blatant violations of the new, free and radical life of Early Christianity as the world
had seen it for the first 2 centuries (not without having the church pay the price of incessant
persecution and thousands of martyrs), was obviously committed when the Christian faith was
finally officially embraced by the Roman government in the 3rd century, and formerly Pagan
temples were converted to Christian "churches."
The word church originally comes from the Greek "Ecclesia," meaning, "the called out ones,"
whereas from now on, a "church" was nothing more than what it means to most of us today: a
building. In one of the most fiery sermons the world ever heard, resulting in its author's immediate
death as a martyr by the hands of his audience, Stephen said, "Howbeit the most High dwelleth
not in temples made with hands" (Acts 7:48).
The house God wants to build is one of living stones, as Paul confirms (1.Cor.3:16), consisting of
His followers. Yet instead, we are the ones who try to pack Him up inside some kind of a building,
as if we were able to put Him in a box. We want to make God our possession, instead of allowing
ourselves to be His possessions and do with us what He likes. Our job is to go into all the world
and preach His gospel, not to wait inside some building for anyone to come in who might want to
be preached at!
There are other false doctrines which have crept into the churches.

(Published May 2006 on http://mcdozer.blog.com/)

God Stopped Talking?
For those of you who may have read my "Personals" page & may wonder, "So, you claim you're talking to God, dude,
and He's talking to you... So, what does He tell you?" I'd like to expound on that a little bit.
Maybe you've seen the excellent 80s movie "Oh God, Part II" with George Burns, in which he plays God recruiting a
little girl to start an advertisement campaign for Him. She even winds up being expelled from school for having the
audacity to claim that God actually talks to her, but manages to persuade her fellow-students to join her in a world-
wide "Think God!" campaign...

Well, it's a little bit like that, although perhaps not always quite as Hollywoodish (in fact, it's been a common theme for
the Lord, during our convertations, to expound on how much better real life is than Hollywood).
He does talk a lot about getting His message across to the world, which, after all, is supposedly a Christian's (or let's
say true believer's) full-time job, and I've got tons of pages of instructions from Him on how to do a better job at that, a
lot of which you'll find reflected in my songs (for more on getting the job done for God, see my treatize on "Bible
verses most Christians ignore").

But then He also tells me to do crazy little things, like earlier this year, when He told me that I should let my wife drive
more often, rather than always insisting on driving myself & getting upset & impatient with other drivers on the road.
He said it's good for my humility level (which - by the way, did you know - is synonymous with love?), and the level of
trust in our relationship, not to mention the way it has reduced the amount of inappropriate language coming from my
lips!

One thing I want to clarify is that the reason why I'm telling the world (= you) that God talks to me is not to show off
what a spiritual dude I am, but to encourage you to let Him to talk to you, too! It's wonderfully beneficial, and a whole
new way of life once you fulfill life's purpose by living according to the tune of your very Creator.
I must give credit where credit is due, though, and admit here that it was by no means my own idea that I should do
that, but it's just an important part of our Family's way of life and practices, (as so wonderfully described by Gary
Shepherd, who has been studying our group among others), which had been stressed by our late founder, David Berg
(or "Dad," for short) for decades before I ever got the point. He said, "The most important thing each new generation
has to learn is to hear from God, personally, for themselves, and get His instructions directly from Him, daily...." Well,
something to that extent, anyway. And I've got to thank his wife and current leader of our Family, Maria, for making
this "hearing from God" a part of our daily reality by stressing it as one of the most important habits in our lives,
comparable to the importance of eating, brushing your teeth or taking a shower...

Another thing He (the Lord) has been stressing, and urging me to pass on to others is the fact that He needs you.
Often I forget the things He tells me, so I've made it a habit to condense my converstations with Him, have the condos
printed out and go over them, which recently led me across a heavenly message from about a year ago, resulting in
the song "God Needs You," which I'll hopefully be able to record soon & post in my songs folder for you to download.
This message was slightly touched on in the movie "Oh God, Pt.2" as well, but the fact can't be stressed enough that
God actually needs us. He needs us to love Him (which means to first allow Him to love us), and that includes just
about all the things you do with a flesh & blood person you love: you talk to Him, listen to Him, you think of Him, you
tell others about Him...
It all depends on how real you believe He is. Most people have no problems talking to Him (which they call prayer),
but as Dad used to say, "Prayer is not just speaking your piece, but letting God speak His, too."
Unfortunately, the churches (and the teaching of Evolution) have made God look so distant from us, that not
everybody has the faith for an intimate, personal relationship with Him. By referring to "Him", by the way, I'm mostly
referring to Jesus, the "mediator between God and men" as the Bible says (1.Timothy 2:5), and you can get about just
as intimate with Him, as you like, because, after all, He calls those who believe in Him His bride... (See Matthew 25:6;
Revelation 18:23, 21:9 & 22:17).

Oh, and one other thing: He can talk to you through just about anyone or anything! He can talk to you through another
person (even one you hardly know, or don't like, and it doesn't have to be the Pope, either), through a song, through a
movie, through a book, you've just got to be open enough. After all, the Devil screams at us all day, through hundreds
of different outlets, why not give God a chance to speak His piece to you as well, so you can decide which is the
better voice to follow?
The safest place to find His voice, naturally, is His Word, the Bible, but don't let anybody kid you that He stopped
talking 2000 years ago. Have a listen & find out what He's got to say to you today. Do me and Him, and especially
yourself the favor!
The Snake on the Pole: Remember the Culprit!
Recently, through my communications with "the Man on the Top," I got a little revelation about the
symbolism of the snake on a pole, which God commanded Moses to make for the people of Israel
to get healed of their snake bites (Numbers 21:8,9), since God had sent a plague of snakes into
their camp as a punishment for their murmuring about manna.
It had never made sense to me before, why, of all things, God used a serpent as an image of
healing. Why were they supposed to look at a serpent, a symbol of he very cause of their
suffering?
I was familiar with the scripture John 3:14, where Jesus says, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up," referring to and prophesying His
crucifixion. Was that supposed to make the serpent look holy, like Jesus, or something? Maybe
that's why that symbol is still a pharmaceutical symbol today...

Recently, the Lord solved some personal problems in my life by exposing the weaknesses that
caused it, and He drove home the point that exposing the Devil's tactic, or the sin he was using as
an inroad into our life, was a key to find the solution to the problem.
There is also great power in addressing demons and other evils by name, as we find out from the
Gospels and the Book of Acts, where we find Jesus and the apostles demanding from demons to
tell them their names.
The Lord repeatedly was referring to exposing the Enemy's scheme, saying "you've got his
number," & that was a secret to getting the victory over the particular battle in our lives.

Back to Moses' snake: the snake stands for sin, evil, and the Devil himself; so how could anyone
obtain healing by looking at a snake symbol? Well, my guess is, by remembering who's behind it
all, making him responsible for it, and remembering that God is much greater than he, & can
handle anything the Devil tries to pull on us.
One of the great advantages of the Devil is camouflage, to work under "shady cloaks of lies," as
one of my songs will tell you, and he doesn't like it at all to be exposed! (The same applies, by the
way, to his earthly followers, whose secret of success has been their secrecy).
So, pulling away the cloak & calling the problem, the sin, the evil by name, is an important first
step of healing: one of the few requirements of finding Salvation is to know we're sinners & need a
Savior. Even so, in order to be healed of either physical or spiritual diseases, we need to realize
we're sick and need a doctor. That's why Jesus said, "the healthy don't need a doctor, only the
sick. I have come to call sinners to repentance." In reality, there are only sick people, or those who
need spiritual healing, but there are those who think they don't need it.
In fact, since modern man thinks he's more clever , more "developed" and sophisticated than
ever, it's even harder for him to see his need for healing or Salvation - at least this applies to those
who fall for the facade.
Others can look beyond it & call the problems by names, and these are the spiritually healthy
people I've met.

The first step in order to get healed of any disease is to receive a diagnose from a doctor. Once
you know what you've got, there are chances you can be healed. And that's the way it is important
to find the cause for our other problems as well. The difficulty nowadays is, many of the sources of
our problems are so well hidden, it's hard to find out what's causing them. First of all, the Devil has
managed to trick many people into believing that he doesn't even exist (which someone has
attributed to be one of his greatest feats), and accordingly, there are no such things as demons or
spiritual sources of problems or evil in the world.
Well, my personal interpretation of Moses' snake on the pole is this: the message is, "Remember
the culprit!" Evil didn't come into this world by itself, not by chance, as the Bible says, " As the bird
by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come" (Prov. 26:2).

Some time ago, I found out on the Internet that there is such a thing as a first and second "Book of
Adam & Eve." Out of curiosity (because who wouldn't want to know more about Adam & Eve?), I
read them. I can't say whether they're authentic, but personally, I'd say they're just as authentic as
"The Book Of Enoch," which evidently was still considered holy scripture during the first centuries,
since we find it quoted by Jude (see Jude 14,15), and I'd say there is a possibility that they were
written by Enoch as well. Regardless of their origins, though, these books show to what lengths
the Devil goes in order to deceive the children of men! He comes up with all kinds of schemes,
disguises and deceits to fool poor Adam, and the first steps toward improvement finally take place
once Adam realizes who's behind all the weird things that happen to him.
Now, I'm not one in favor of given the Devil overdue credit. But I know that if there's something
bad happening in your life, then there's a cause and a reason for it. So, in order to find a solution,
it sure helps to find the cause, otherwise you may just temporarily cure the symptoms, but keep
running into the same problems over & over.
In the "Books Of Adam & Eve" it was the Lord Himself Who revealed to Adam who was behind his
troubles, and I found out that He is willing to do the same for any of us today.
If you've got some trouble or something bad in your life, ask God to show you both, the cause and
the solution, and He will. You'll get smarter by the day once you know how the Enemy of your soul
operates in order to fool you, and before you know it, you won't fall into the same traps & won't be
making those same mistakes again!

I thought I was finished, but there's more. One of the main type of problems we are having to
tackle on a daily basis, are the problems we're having with others: from the person closest to us,
our spouse or children, who can annoy us with any silly but innocent quirk or remark, the
neighbors, the other drivers on the streets to the declared enemies of our nations, whoever it
happens to be that our government is siding against.
If we just accept our anger, our hatred, our aggressions as "part of ourselves," then there's
probably not much hope we'll ever find an end to our bickerings, quarrels, fights, arguments and
wars. But could it be that those aggressions are instigated & artificially hyped up by a third party
who would greatly profit from that disunity with our loved ones, or - on a political level - that war
with our enemies? You bet!
"Divide & conquer" has always been the Devil's own slogan, and until you realize that your
aggressiveness and anger are the problem, and not that particular quirk that's getting you so
upset, you'll be caught in a perpetual treadmill. I've learned something very valuable today, from
something I read in one of our Family's publications, and that is that you can choose not to be
bothered by it!
You can choose to fight the real culprits, namely either the demonic forces who are blowing your
fellowmen's flaws up way out of proportion in your view, or the hidden human forces who are
arming both sides of your governments wars to the teeth, highly profiting from your confrontation,
as they have for centuries!
You can choose to say, "no, I'm not going to allow this to get me angry!" You can choose to
believe in the fact instead, that God knew what He was doing when he made that other person (or
culture) you can't seem to get along with, and praise and thank Him for their positive qualities!
What it all boils down to again is love, the most important thing & only thing that matters. Part of
that love is forgiveness, which I've lately come to realize as something far more important than I
previously thought, and that's where Jesus on the cross comes in again: What does Jesus on the
cross stand for in one word? Forgiveness! Look at the cross and know you're forgiven,
unconditionally. The price for your sins has been paid if you will only accept this gift.
And then remember that this same gift of forgiveness applies to your neighbor - or whoever you
have a quarrel with, too.
Look at the serpent on the pole in order to remember there's a culprit: the very sin in your own
heart, which the Enemy of your soul will work hard to make fester and flourish, like weeds in your
garden or a malignant tumor.
Then look at Jesus on the cross and see the solution: salvation, healing and forgiveness for both,
yourself and anyone else who will receive it.
(Published May 12, 2006 on http://mcdozer.blog.com/)
The Evolution Matrix
I've recently mentioned how God uses all kinds of people and things to communicate with us,
including movies.
Movies are one of my favorite subjects, because I've really learned a lot of lessons in my life out of
a few good ones, or got some real kicks out of some, which either encouraged my in my beliefs or
opened my eyes to a different angle of seeing things.
Probably one of the movies with the greatest impact on my life was the "Matrix." I'll explain to you
why. I believe there is more to the plot of that movie in relation to our reality than even the makers
of the trilogy were aware of.
I believe that we, the human race are being fed a certain program, which is based on a lie,
creating for each of us a view of the world that is in many ways false, thus altering each of our
behavior to a certain extent - with some more than others, until we choose to become
"unpluggged" from it.
Bluntly, you might say, we're being brainwashed. We're being manipulated to see things in a way
they really aren't. But why and by whom, you wonder. No, not the machines, although they're
being very useful in the process, and without them, it wouldn't have been nearly as easy.
The basis of the Big Lie, or the Matrix we're being fed - from the time you're old enough to watch
TV, which strongly alters and influences the way we perceive the world and everything around us,
is the paradigm of Evolution. I'm not talking about the process of micro-evolution, which Darwin
discovered with his finches on Galapagos, the adaptations & changes within species, but the
paradigm which evolved out of it, namely that everything is supposed to have developed from
nothing through that process.
Everyday we're being told in the media (and our kids in their schools, kindergartens and science
books) that Evolution is a proven fact, when nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the
only basis on which the not-even-a-theory (for theories are conclusions drawn from actual
observations) of Evolution is the sheer amounts of money pumped into the brainwashing program
and the repetitious way it's being drilled into our heads.
No matter how big a lie is, if you repeat it often enough, state often enough that it's a fact, and
present fake "evidence" for it often enough, after time, the majority of people will believe it.
But what's supposed to be so bad about Evolution, you wonder? After all, millions of people live
happily believing in it, so what's the paranoia all about? Are they?
The Evolutionary paradigm indicates that we all stem from an accidental explosion ("Big Bang"),
which happened billions of years ago, and by an innumerable series of inexplicable miraculous
coincidences brought forth the perfectly working universe, our solar system, along with our planet
and all life on it. There is no need for a designer or God, and even if you insist on having one, He
is as distant from us a the billions of years since which He is supposed to have initiated that
process. If there is a God Who started the process of Evolution, His message is: "You are nothing
and nobody, just a random side product of a process I happened to initiate billions of years ago."
The result of using this view of our origins is largely that it doesn't really matter who I am, nor what
I do. If I happen to be born into a family of higher status, then of course I will keep the rules of the
game in order to preserve my status, but if I am not, I might as well kill, steal, or commit any other
crime in order to get what the others have. "The survival of the fittest" is the name of the game,
and "God," or whichever force of nature which initiated this game favors those who know how to
defend themselves, especially those smart enough to enrich themselves on behalf of the less
fortunate, since I - (as a member of the favored race or species) - can just grab their natural
resources away from them at the barrel of a gun. My mental picture of justice is: the stronger one
is always in the right. The more weapons I have, the righter I am. Thus I'll be creating victims all
around me, but such is the course of evolution, the stronger thriving on the dead bodies of the
"unselected."
But what if, instead of the earth and all of us on it being a side-product of billions of years of
evolution, the Biblical account of creation is actually true, namely that God, not more than 6.200
years ago created the heavens (space and our atmosphere) and the earth (as His future Head
Quarters - see Revelation chapter 21), and the rest of the stars & planets 3 days later? In other
words, the origin of all things, including you and me, could be traced back to a precise moment in
time, not at all so very long ago? Wouldn't this up your chances that God actually cares about you,
& that He is personally involved a lot more closely with everything that's going on down here, on
this relatively young earth (compared to what we've been told), and that indeed, there might be a
divine plan in all this apparent chaos of wars, crimes and injustice?
But if that's true, then who are the forces who are making sure that we believe the Lie, and why do
they insist on keeping telling us that lie over and over again? What's in it for them?
Well, as you may have noticed, and the biblical account of our origins confirms, God has allowed
evil to enter our world in the form of one of His fallen angels, who dragged a whole bunch of fallen
angels with him, and one of his favorite pastimes is deceiving and fooling people. He also wants
to be the boss and rule the world himself, and he's working on establishing his final and ultimate
kingdom on earth, in which he - incarnate in the body of a man (just like Jesus was God in human
flesh), and he has been using people to get a hang of it all along.
Satan - or Lucifer - has been worshiped by many cultures under different names, starting off with
the Egyptian culture, in which he starred as the sun god Ra, and many other "deities" (demons),
which, believe it or not, are still - often unknowingly - being worshiped by the rulers of today's
world and their subjects, and just as the Egyptians subdues the rest of the world as slaves, that's
what today's rulers would also like to make out of the rest of us (and have to a large extent
already achieved to do so).
And that's where the picture of the Matrix comes in again. Yes, ladies & gentlemen, you're all
slaves & "batteries" to feed the big machine of the kingdom of Satan on earth, unless you decide
to become "unplugged" and join the "resistance" and choose to actively fight against the
"guardians of the Matrix" in order to get others to choose the "red pill" of truth and become
"unplugged" ("drop out" of the System).
You may have never heard of the possibility to "drop out" of the System, just as Neo or others in
the Matrix weren't aware the possibility to become "unplugged," until they were presented with the
choice. Remember, when he was finally shown by Morpheus what the Matrix really was, namely
nothing but a big lie and deception, he actually became so sick physically that he had to throw up,
and at first he refused to believe it. That's the way I felt the first time I read the Book Of
Revelation. But after a while he knew he had no other choice but to fight for the truth.
The neat thing about our reality, which isn't shown in the "Matrix" trilogy, is that there's actually a
greater layer of God's reality or "Big Picture" around the matrix, and that He's ultimately in total
control. He is the Source of all life and strength, including the supernatural strength you need in
order to fight against the agents of the Matrix.
It's another case of little Davids fighting a whole mob of gigantic goliaths, but guess who's going to
win?
Because "the survival of the fittest" is not God's scheme, He actually delights in debunking such
ridiculous hogwash originating from the "father of lies" (John 8:44), and often rigging things up for
the weaker ones to win.
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth!" Not the dinosaurs, nor the Pharaohs of
Egypt, nor the Cesars of Rome, nor the financial titans of today inherit the earth, but the meek
followers of a humble son of a carpenter who sacrificed Himself in order to save the world. Which
version of the story do you choose? Which pill will you take? "Remember, all I can offer you is the
truth!"

P.S.: For those of you who don't feel exactly called and cut out for a life as a resistance fighter
against the Matrix Neo-style, but still would prefer to believe the truth, be comforted to know that
there were also those who were actively helping the Resistance from inside the Matrix. The most
important thing you can do is to receive Jesus, & He'll show you what you can do to help further
His cause on earth, and His Holy Spirit, Who will guide you into all truth (John 16:13). The
greatest power on earth is not obtained by robbing others of their resources or lives, nor by
acquiring worldly riches and power, but by simply humbling yourself into the position of a little
child and asking for it!
Dan Brown

(Note: Maybe my personal opinion on Dan Brown at this time was a bit harsh & possibly off. As everything I write, one
must take this one also with a grain of salt)

Tue 16 May 2006 06:46 PM CEST

While reading "Breaking The Da Vinci Code" (Darrell L. Bock), which provides one with enough
info about the Dan Brown novel without having to read it (or watch the movie), in which the author
tries to prove why Jesus wasn't married, a few more reasons came to my mind, why Jesus
wouldn't have married, which are not in the book:

First of all, He knew that His main purpose was to die for the sins of mankind. His crucifixion
wasn't just a matter of bad luck he fell upon, nor a result of His failure as some have put it, nor a
defeat at all, but, as He said Himself: "for this hour I came into the world," it was His greatest
victory. He also told His disciples repeatedly that He was going to die, even indicating in which
manner ("If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto Me"), and that He would rise again
after 3 days. He also announced that this would happen when He would be going to Jerusalem.
That for me is one of the biggest reasons why He wouldn't have chosen a wife, to either leave
behind as a widow, or, after His resurrection and ascension, the mother of a child whom she
would have to tell, "your Daddy flew away to Heaven..."

Besides, and that's reason no.2 I came up with, we ARE His wife - or Bride - as the Bible puts it.
The church IS the Bride of Christ. Just like Jesus wasn't just a normal, average guy (as Dan
Brown and his likes would have us believe), He wasn't just looking for a normal average bride. But
since He was the universal Savior, Price & Son of God & Bridegroom, He also needed a universal
Bride, consisting of each & every one of His believers, not just one special, single one of them,
however special I'm sure Mary Magdalene may have been.

Coincidentally, according to Fritz Springmeyer, it happens to be long standing Illuminati doctrine

that Jesus was married and produced offspring, resulting in the "royal bloodline" of which certain
European nobles would like to make themselves believe to be descended.

Coincidentally, Dan Brown also wrote the book "Illuminati," which makes the "enlightened ones"
look just like another myth and fairy-tale. One recognizes the pattern: create new "facts" to feed
and brainwash the masses with out of totally obscure myths (like Evolution, & now "Jesus was
married & had kids"), and twist truths & facts we're not supposed to know into myths.

Looks like some people have learned a lot from their master, the father of lies.

There's also this tendency since years, to cast a shroud of secrecy over all of Christianity, as if
Christians were the true conspirators responsible for the evils of the world, and "there are many
things they haven't told you!" But in reality, Jesus made it clear that: "I spoke openly to the world;
and in secret I have said nothing" (John 18:20).

So, it seems to me that this whole attack is just another clever attempt of the Devil to accuse his
enemies of the very things he himself is the most guilty of. Looks like when the "accuser of the
saints" runs out of actual sins to accuse us of, he just makes some up or "borrows" from his own
pack.

Anyway, that's my take on Dan Brown.

P.S.: Check out this article on the Da Vinci Code hype:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2003/nov7.html
My Friend Jonah
I have a soft spot for Jonah, the biblical prophet who, upon being sent by God to the Assyrian
Capital of Ninevah to preach its doom, boarded a ship in the opposite direction instead, was - on
his own urge - thrown overboard in a storm, swallowed by a large sea creature (presumably a
sperm whale) & spewed out by the same 3 days later to finally fulfill his God-given mission in
Ninevah.
Maybe one reason I like him is because according to Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert, Jonah is
the biblical "patron saint" of the Enneagram personality type NINE, the type I can personally
identify myself with best.
My "better half," Sparkles talked to someone about Jonah today, and she said she's always
amazed about how little people actually know about him (as well as the rest of the Bible).
Even Ebert & Rohr seem to dismiss Jonah's story as a fable in the foot notes to their book, but a
little bit of research would render such an attitude as ignorant, to say the least. I suppose church
Christians simply have to "unlearn" too much stuff they were taught in their cementaries - er,
seminaries - about how and why all the miracles in the Bible didn't really happen...
If you type in the word "Ninevah" in Google, probably the first place you'll wind up will be
Wikipedia, an excellent online encyclopaedia created by Internet users around the world & a
sheer endless source of information. You'll even be given the exact geographical coordinates
there, which will zoom you right into a satellite shot of the archaologic site of that ancient city, next
to the city of Mosul, in the province of Ninawa in Iraq, a place where Iraqui insurgents moved after
the infamous Battle of Fallujah in 2004.
Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, one of which is called Nabī Yūnus, which
means "Prophet Jonah," and on which a muslim shrine in honor of the Jewish prophet stands. (If
you think that's ridiculous, you should read the Quran, which revers many Hebrew characters,
including Jesus, Abraham, Isaac, and of course Ishmael, etc.)
You'll even find reports of Christians in the region who observe an old traditional fast, based on
the fast and repentance of Jonah's Ninevites, which led to their redemption. God simply changed
His mind & decided not to destroy them (- yet! -), much to Jonah's dismay, as you can find in the
Bible. - Or accounts of an ancient Babylonian historian/priest named Berosus who wrote of a
mythical creature named Oannes who was to have emerged from the sea to give divine wisdom to
men. "Oannes" being one possible way to spell "Jonah" in the ancient Greek Berosus used.
There is even an extensive treatize on Jonah's Whale, mentioning 2 other occasions in the 18th
century in which men are recorded to have survived being swallowed by a whale.
Finally, you get to the sad truth about what's happening at this historically significant site right
now, with the remainders of the archaeological evidence of the Biblical accounts of Ninevah's king
Sennacherib (as found in 2.Kings chapter 18 & 19) being carried off by looters & thieves, thanks
to the chaos the "almighty" U.S. of A. are wreaking in that misfortunate country, along with the
United Nations.
Probably all this evidence for the accuracy of the Bible must have really been a thorn in the flesh
of the New World Order.
If there's one thing we learn from history, it's that we never learn from it, Toynbee said, and thus
we see yesterday's Davids turn into today's Goliaths, and modern world empires heinously steal
the last remains of former ones, only to meet the same doom as the former.
David Berg and his Children of God predicted the destruction of America in a "40 Days" warning in
1973, but nothing happened. I believe that God was as merciful to the Americans as He had been
to the Ninevites 2700 years earlier. But eventually, Ninevah was destroyed. Another prophet,
Nahum, was sent, and in 612 B.C. the Babylonians and Medes raked that great city to the ground.
In the light of what I know about what's going on in the U.S.A. today I can only assume that the
later Ninevites must have deserved the judgments just as today's corrupt leaders will.

(Published May 24, 2006 at http://mcdozer.blog.com/)

Friday | June 09, 2006 http://mcdozer.blog.com/

Gettin' In Tune: Look Again!

I believe in a personal God. And I mean real personal. As personal as you can get! Everything He has
created in the physical realm is a symbol, a typification and illustration of some greater spiritual truth
behind it, (as David Berg taught). He has created parents to illustrate His parenthood toward us, His
beloved (however wayward) children, and He has even created the intimate loving realtionship betwen a
woman and a man - marriage - to illustrate the ideal realtionship between Christ and His Bride.

What does that mean? Basically: No secrets! There is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed, as it is
written, anyway, so why kid yourself & pretend you can hide anything from Him? And if you realize you
can't, or that it's senseless to try, you might as well communicate with Him about the innermost matters of
your heart.

I wouldn't be wasting my breath & any potential reader's time going on about this forever if I hadn't found
out first hand that this really works, just as I found out that tiger balm works to prevent sore throats or
artichoke to prevent liver trouble. Comunication with God prevents soul trouble, & it can prevent a whole lot
of other trouble as well, & there's an endless amount of things you can learn in the course of your
conversations with Him.

One of the latest prescriptions I got from "Dr. J." was along the lines of intensified communication within a
marriage relationship. Did you know that you can "tune in" to a person? The Rock band "The Who" sang
about it on their best ever album "Who's Next" from '71, "Gettin' In Tune."

I grew up on that album, which had been my dad's, & I always wondered what it was about that song that
got me. 30 years later my Creator tells me that it's because it talks about a concept that really works. You
can get in tune with a person close to you, similar to the way you can get in tune with God & His Holy
Spirit. The only difference being that God's Spirit will always be ready & willing to respond positively to your
CQs & attempts to make a connection with Him (or Her? - We'll get into that some other time...), but
another human may not always... not even your wife.

Basically, it's much the same as praying for someone, except that it's not you coming with a specific
petition for that person, but it's more like meditative prayer, sort of like the boy whom the pastor overheard
citing the alphabet on his knees. When asked what he was doing, the boy responded, he didn't know what
to pray & figured God was able to put the letters together Himself.

Tuning in to the one you love is having meditative prayer for them. You use God's Spirit to help you find a
common "ground" or wavelength for you and that person you care for: you draw them closer to your heart
in the spirit, closer to God's heart, and thus you draw closer to them, obtain a greater understanding of
them, better able to relate to them, and do what Paul (in the Bible) called "becoming one." He wrote, in his
first epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 9, verses 19-22, that he became "unto the Jews as unto a Jew,... to
the weak...as weak" and "all things to all men" so that he could get them saved. In modern English we call
this relating to someone and we've been doing it, some to greater extent than others. "Walk A Mile In My
Shoes" is a song we often sing, and another terminology we can use for it. But what I've been learning this
week, is that we can even take this further, if we're interested enough, & really delve into a person's soul
(and much more effectively so with the help of God's Spirit than most psychiatrists with their heady
analyzes & money-oriented motivations) & get to know them better & better & better.

In other words, even if you think you got stuck in some kind of dead end street with your relationship or
marriage, don't throw in the towel prematurely, because God has promised to make a way where there is
no way.

Recently I found out that the origins of the word "respect" come from the latin "respicere," which means to
look again. Often we think we have a person we're familiar with all figured out & there's nothing new and
exciting to find out about them. Well, I found out that God may often tell us, "look again!" To really respect a
person, means to look again, to have a closer look & give them a 2nd chance before you tuck them deeply
into your mental drawer labeled "boring" or "unattractive," "too old," "undesirable" or "know all about them
there is to know."

People are what life is all about, & when Jesus said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God," (Mt.6:38), He was
talking about people, because that's what the Kingdom of God consists of. So, I'm trying to make people
my business these days, even - or especially the ones I'm closest to. It's not an entirely easy thing to do
when you've been drilled all your life to be chasing after money & worrying about all those incredibly
important things one has got to do, but I'd say it's definitely worth a try.

Distraction
Fri 09 Jun 2006 07:38 PM CEST

While approximately 80% of the "first world's" population are being thoroughly
distracted by 23 men on lawn, devoting their entire attention and passion to a single
leather ball for the next 90 minutes, we can't help but wonder whether this happens
to be mere coincidence (if there ever was such a thing in the first place), or not
rather part of some diabolical plot to deviate the masses' attention from issues that
really matter.
I've come to realize that distraction is one of the Devil's favorite games, & I'd be
thoroughly shocked if it should turn out in the end that he wasn't involved at all in
this disciplinarian master-feat, to have untold millions glued to their tubes
simultaneously.
One tends to wonder, "What's happening in the meantime?" "What's the old sucker
up to?" Well, I have an eery feeling we might not have to wait too long to find out.
In the meantime, I'll say to those 22 most-observed ball-chasers in the world (at
least for the next hour-and-a-half) & their "man in black:" HAVE FUN, BOYS!

Friendly Lies July 1st 5:30 A.M.

What's a fellow to believe these days? I mean, nearly everyone on the globe should have gotten
wind of some rumor revolving around 9-11 & that there was something fishy about it by now. But
then everybody acts as if it was alright & the official story was true. After all, didn't the President
admonish us to not give heed to wild conspiracy theories?
That's what everybody's scared of these days: conspiracy theories. Christians have joined the
camp of the conspiracy theory-hunters, -exposers & -finger pointers by calling the plot in the "Da
Vinci Code" a conspiracy theory. Fact of the matter is, the Merovingean bloodline is and has been
more than a theory for those behind the scenes who laugh about the confusion they're creating
with all this artificially manipulated media-hype.
Dan Brown is singing a different tune now tha when he first advertized his book & staunchly
defended his views.
Now he's back to, "Oh, it was all just fiction, that's all... & by the way, I'm a Christian."
Yeah, right. First confuse millions & have'em believe Jesus & Mary Magdalene were Rome &
Juliet, & then say, "Nah, I was just kidding." Funny, Dan! And by the way, you're looking so
friendly on the internet photos now, who wouldn't believe you? We all believe you, and we believe
the president & actually all of the friendly lies you're all brainwashing us with: "The President is a
sincere Christian (and Dan Brown, too!); the official story of 9/11 may be disputed, but hey, who
cares? Let's watch some soccer! And by the way, isn't this flag-waving patriotism becoming just
about the coolest & hippest thing around? C'mon, let me tattoo the German flag across your
boobs & then post your pic on the web! And if you're a Christian, why, you don't even have to
believe in Evolution anymore [providing you're living in Kansas] - (it's still a fact, but you don't have
to believe it, if you don't want to."
Oh, we're living in a beautiful world, aren't we? Everything's so open, so friendly, so honky-dory,
I'm nearly tickled pink with bliss. Oh, no, there's one of those gospel bums again, what does the
sign say he's holding? (C'mon, buddy, get with the "Christian-get-rich-quick" groove!) Oh, it's
some Bible verse... What's it sayin'?
"For when they shall say 'peace & safety' then sudden destruction..." -- Darn it, some people
really know how to ruin a perfect day.

July 05, 2006

If We Only Knew How Little We Know

If we only knew how little we know. I think a lot of damage is being done in our times by people conveying
to each other (and usually their weaker, more gullible brethren, like children) what they consider to be
knowledge, but, which I am personally convinced will turn out to have been foolish fallacies at best, and
dangerous & wicked deceit at worst.

Teachers are such people, but I think what applies to them is what Jesus said on the cross about the
Roman soldiers who crucified Him: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." teachers don't
know any better than to pass on in their "chain of command" that which has been sold to them as
"knowledge" or "science." Whether what they think to be fact is indeed so, or has anything to do with the
truth is another matter.

Some of the things they pass on to our children, such as the teachings of Evolution, are already highly
disputed by a growing number of people, and I have already said enough about that subject.

But it doesn't stop there. Currently, there is someone challenging the very basis of what today is called
science, starting at Newton and not stopping short of Einstein, saying basically - from what I have
understood so far - that Newton & Einstei may have made observations which were may have been valid
or signs of "progress" for their time, but those observations, such as the discovery of the "law of gravity"
were only part of a much greater whole, and thus they were often misnomers, since, according to the
author, Mark McCutcheon, gravity is merely one part or manifestation of a much greater, universal force.

It reminds me of the story of the 7 blind men coming across an elephant: One gets ahold of the tail &
describes the elephant as a rope, one feels the trunk & says, "no, it's like a snake," the next touches a leg
& says, "like a tree," another touches the elephants side & describes him as a wall; one grabs an ear &
says, "no, he's like a big leaf," and the final one gets ahold of one of the tusks & says, "the elephant is like
a spear." They're all right from their individual point of view, yet from the point of view of a seeing man,
they're all quite mistaken, since the elephant is all those things together & more.

I think we are a lot like those 7 blind men, and God is the One Who sees things as they really are. Jesus
talked a lot about "blind leaders of the blind," & said to the Pharisees (who were responsible for His
crucifixion) once, "If you would admit that you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty. But because you say 'we
can see,' your guilt remains." (See John 9:39-41 and Matthew 15:14).

I'm convinced that someday soon a lot of what we call "knowledge" or "science" today will be discarded in
the same way that German schools aren't teaching their pupils anymore that the "Fuehrer" is their
benevolent leader into a more prosperous future, which was the case 60 or 70 years ago.

Which leads me to another category of mental "wealth" that is being passed on to the younger generations
today, namely our moral values. Again, this reminds me of something Jesus said about the Pharisees:
"What they tell you, do, but don't do as they do." Many things our kids are being taught in school may
sound alright morally, but when it comes down to what is behind the "preaching," the visible example of
how one is supposed to live their life, I personally see a different picture: I see a picture of people acting
out of necessity, instead of true inner calling. In order to survive, they teach what they are being taught,
regardless of whether these things be so or not. They believe what they're being fed without questioning,
even if it's a whole fat bunch of lies. The majority wins. If enough people say it, it must be right, even if it
makes no friggin' sense at all. That's also contrary to Jesus' teachings, who said that the majority was on
the road to destruction (Matthew 7:13,14), and it doesn't resemble love for the truth, nor true open-
mindedness or an incentive to search, investigate & find out the way things truly happen to be. I suppose
that kind of people will always be the minority as long as the "god of this world" will be the Enemy of the
truth (see 2. Corinthians 4:4).

Modern education is solely there for one purpose: to train the little batteries to share their part of the
workload, to get the dough rolling in so the machine can keep functioning. There is only one moral law that
runs through our entire System: "Thou shalt become a taxpayer!" (And nuthin' else matters!) As long as the
little batteries behave, everything's alright, & otherwise they will be expelled, sent out with the rest of the
scum on the fringes of society, where they will be dealt with in due time... the next "Fuehrer" will know how
to.

July 19, 2006

WINE, WOMEN AND...

We just watched "Alfie" the other day, a comedy with Jude Law playing some kind of
British gigolo in Manhattan. Actually, we only saw the first half of it, since the DVD was
scratched, & it's not as if I had been extraordinarily impressed by that half-a-movie to
waste my breath on it, but something he (Jude/"Alfie") said in the movie only hit home
roughly 24 hrs later.
During one of his typical monologues during which he seeks to impart his macho wisdom
to the audience, he mentions that the most important things in life to him are "Wine,
Women and..." then he pauses & says, "Well, that's it: wine & women." It only dawned on
me today that the omitted third item on the list would have been "... and song." The one
thing he could easily live without - as I'm sure many of his generation can, is music.
Oddly enough, there has never been more music around, nor a greater offer of music than
today. And maybe that's precisely one reason why music has become so dispensable to
some - to many folks.
Personally, I have my own little "conspiracy theory" (again) about what's behind people's
dying love for music. It's the music itself. I believe that a musical prophecy uttered in Don
McLean's song from 1971, "Bye Bye Miss American Pie" has been fulfilled, about "the day
the music died."
Now, my audience has heard me joke many times when announcing this song (which I
only play upon request), that the day the music died was the day Madonna recorded that
song. This is supposed to be a joke, but there may be some truth to it. If you look at the
nature of Madonna's recording of that classic: no more "living" acoustic guitar, piano,
drums & bass rendering a song that was critical of the society in which it was born, and
certainly way ahead of its time as far as the lyrics were concerned, let alone a voice like
Don McLean's, which already inspired another songwriter to come down with "Killing Me
Softly With His Song" in the 70s, but a sterile, monotonous beat, created in the same
artificial manner as the rest of the "instruments," accompanying the sterile voice of a
woman who has always been much more of a businessman than a musician.
People were "forced" to like it and to consume it because it was played on the radios until
its lifeless beat was drilled into every head, fulfilling the very prophecy those words, now
rendered in a non-chalant, meaningless way: "the day the music died."
Yes, ladies & gentlemen, music has been wiped off the list of the 3 essential things in life a
man needs because it is dead, it has died, or rather, it has been killed, murdered, finished
off.... drowned, strangled, suffocated, shot & stabbed.
At least on the surface, it has, and as far as the superficial "Alfie" types care to look. In
reality, you and I know that it hasn't really died, just like they can't kill love off completely in
spite of all their efforts to commercialize, industrialize & fake it. But compared to the
importance it used to have in people's lives for millenia before Madonna, it's true: it's dead
by comparison.
But there's an underground movement, very similar to a strange little Jewish sect in
Palestine 2000 years ago, whose members were awaiting the resurrection of their publicly
executed Leader. We, the true believers, know that music will live again, and it will live
forever, just like true Christians know that one day their True King will reign, once He will
have kicked out the usurper. I believe that in that process He will also kick out all those
false "kings & queens of Pop," who are usurping the charts these days, and replace them
with real, alive music again, such as people have known for thousands of years, when it
still held a rank of importance, right beside "wine & women."

PERFECT LOVE
Tue 18 Jul 2006

Some folks could argue that I tend to display a very negative viewpoint in my opinions
which I'm making so public here. And you're probably right that I should work on my level
of sarcasm and tendency to look down on the way people tend to fall so easily for what I
call "the Devil's lies." After all, I've fallen for his lies plenty enough times in my life myself,
so, I don't have any reason to be self-righteous, and I sincerely apologize if I come across
as critical or judgmental or conceited at times.
The reason I'm stating my views here is not to show off how much smarter or more
enlightened I may think I am, nor to add to the amount of negativity that is already there.
My incentive is to show that there's a difference between true and false values. I may be
negatively inclined toward things that a large majority would consider positive, or harmless
at least. Yet I believe that I have a very positive attitude toward things which are largely
ignored by the majority of people or even viewed as negative by some, yet which I
consider the most important and essential things. I'm talking about faith, God, love, things I
consider eternal values, values that one could compare in value to the lasting value of
gold, as opposed to the fragile consistency of paper money.
Take for example the subject of death, which a lot of people consider to be extremely
negative, yet I recently came to the conclusion that death is probably one of the best
things in life. So, just because I have a positive attitude about something you may consider
negative, you could say I have a negative attitude. In reality, I'm just considering life so
positive that I even consider death a positive part of it, and thanks to my faith I know that
all things work together for good to those who love God, even our death. I even view death
as something positive because it's nothing more than a transition to something even better
than this life. ("Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints" Ps.116:15).
Death is a journey we'll all have to embark on, & yet hardly anybody ever prepares for this
trip simply because they deem it too negative to even think about it.
So, this may be one of those terribly different from the norm points of view that Christians
are so notorious for.
I'm trying to get you turned on to my standard and system of values, and forgive me if in
my attempt to do so I sometimes act a little condescendlingly toward the currently popular
& accepted system standard. All I'm saying is, "look, you can tell that the world isn't really
going the right way with all its problems, and you can tell because you know deep inside
that you're not truly happy with the way things are. But ignoring the wrong things isn't the
way to deal with it. We've all been fooled big time & on a large scale about what really
counts in life, and hey, I found out that there's something that works better than money to
buy you happiness, and that's God's love. You get it by giving it away!"
Maybe it's a little bit of an automatic self-defense if I tend to be a little sarcastic or critical in
my attempts to convince people to try out what I found, since I know that many are
probably going to be highly critical & probably sarcastic about what I've got to say & offer,
too.
So, I'm still learning myself, in no way perfect, as no one else on this earth is. But I've
found the perfect answer. I may not have developed a perfect skill yet at passing it on, and
I may even come across as perfectly conceited with my claims or my ways of going about
my advertizing, but nevertheless I'm perfectly convinced that it's my duty to try, even if I do
so quite imperfectly except for making a perfect fool of myself.
All I can hope is that someone out there might be able to - by some divine miracle of God's
grace - look beyond the imperfections in my approach, & dig what I'm trying to say &
almost in spite of myself, stumble across this perfect love I'm talking about.

August 01, 2006

TRY SOME TRUTH!

I'm in the truth business. I'm dealing in truth. Interested? That's the problem. Hardly anyone is. As scarce
as it is, the supply is much greater than the demand. In fact, most people nowadays don't even believe
there even is such a thing as truth. Everything's cool, all is good, your truth is yours and my truth is mine.
Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Satan... whatever gets you through the night.
But that's where it comes in handy to know the truth (yes, that thing nobody believes in anymore): to help
you distinguish the lies. You realize that's baloney. The truth is that there's a whole bunch of lies out there,
you're being spoonfed them daily, and in fact, they're so many, you're virtually drowning in them.
You've been programmed to believe that you're a product of chance, of some random chain reaction that
started billions of years ago, without any purpose; that the complicated machine of your body came into
being basically by itself, through chemical & biological processes, and a whole bunch of lies about other
things: history, politics, economics, religion... just turn on your TV.
Why? Who or what is supposed to be telling those lies anyway? Somebody who you've been told doesn't
exist, which is one of the biggest tricks & lies he ever pulled on mankind. Jesus called him "the father of
lies" (John 8), and let me tell you, he's got a lot of children. Look at George Bush. Listen to the news.
"There are no secret foreign prisons" & blah blah blah.
No wonder people aren't interested in the truth. In this world of lies, the truth has become an absurdity.
So, I guess you're still not interested, huh? This is too depressing, you say. I must be paranoid, one of
those conspiracy freaks. Actually, I'm not paranoid. The neat thing is, once you've really discovered the
truth, you're not nearly as scared anymore of anything that they used to intimidate & bully you into with
their lies. You have discovered that the Father of truth is infinitely more powerful than the father of lies, and
that if you're on His side, none of those split-tongued nincompops can even phase you.
How arrogant, conceited, biased, narrow-minded, intolerant & bigoted of me, you say, to claim that I've got
the truth and you're all living a lie, you say? Well, it's not like I've never been fooled before, or that I'm
immune to the lies. In fact, I keep discovering baloney they used to feed me as truth, keep discovering
false & wrong ways in my past thinking, I keep uncovering the true foundation everything is based on & the
way things really are, and I probably have only begun to scratch the surface. And it's not like I'm showing
off with something I've got that you can't have. In fact, I'm offering it to you. It won't even cost you a thing.
Just give Jesus a chance. If you have a Bible, wipe the dust off of it & can all the baloney you've been
brainwashed with about it for the past decades, that it has been manipulated, falsified, tampered with,
misinterpreted, whatever, and read it. Read what Jesus had to say & see for yourself whether it makes any
sense or not. Or if you can't read, watch the movie, "The Gospel Of John." Or best of all, ask Him yourself,
what He has to say to you personally. It is a lie that He wouldn't speak to you personally. It's a lie that He's
too busy. You see, He's not bound by time. It's a little hard to imagine how that works, but C.S.Lewis
explained it this way in "Mere Christianity:" "If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could
not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe— no more than the architect of a house could
actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house."
He's not part of the creation, nor bound to its rules and limits, since He's the creator. It's just that we're
trying to squeeze Him into the narrow box of our own finite imagination and perception, which, as I
indicated before, has been very heavily shaped and influenced by lies.
"Forget what you know" is a good slogan to go by, if what you're looking for is the truth. The Bible has a lot
to say about the difference between what the world considers knowledge and true knowledge or wisdom
(see 1.Corinthians 1, for example.) It doesn't have a lot of compliments for those folks who deem
themselves so smart & think they know it all. When it all comes down to it: What do we really know at all?
I for one, will stick to the Source that has been tried and proven reliable in my own life for 30 years now,
and for millions of others for millennia before us: the Word of God, and not to the baloney some wise guys
write about it.
Most of them just write their crap because they get a lot of money paid for it to keep the masses as far
away from enlightenment & truth as possible, or simply because they're too scared of the truth themselves
or simply hate it.
It's tough having to cowtow to a Head Honcho Who knows it all better than yourself - if you insist on being
the head honcho yourself. I leave that to all those big somebodies out there, the innumerable little Hitlers,
Stalins, Napoleons, Cesars & whatnots out there & will perfectly contentedly continue being a nobody.
I know, I'm a lousy salesman. I could try it like the churches & tele-evangelists & sell you the cross with
flashy neon-lights, pomp & big ado about it. Nah, I don't need all that suff. Just give me the raw, naked
truth, & I'll be satisfied with that. It may not look like a lot in this lie-oriented world, but it's the only thing that
will last. Long after all that make-believe paper money will have ceased to exist, God's good gold will still
buy you anything you need. So, how about a little investment in a 100% crisis-proof currency? Because
that's what the truth is. In fact, it's the only currency that will get you anywhere on that journey we'll all have
to embark on one of these days: the journey into the other world, when we'll have to leave our mortal
bodies behind. The place where you'll find out that the notion that "when you're dead, you're gone" was just
another lie.
I can't force you into it, nor persuade you to take it, but I'd highly recommend it. Try some TRUTH today,
you won't regret it!

The God Code

Sun 20 Aug 2006 02:26 AM CEST

Sir Isaac Newton became most famous for his discovery of what he called the "law of gravity," a milestone in what we
call science. And certainly he does deserve credit for his initiative & vision to put into words or a formula what he
observed when he watched that apple plummet to the ground, as untold thousands doubtlessly had before him, yet
without ever questioning why it was so.
What few people know, though, is the fact that while a lot of modern science is based on Newton's theory about an
attracting force originating from the center of not only our own planet, but likewise from the center of every other astral
body, like our moon & sun, there are fundamental questions about this theory which remain unsanswered;
inexplicable irregularities and uneplained holes in the theory of gravity, which are examined at length in Mark
McCutcheon's daring book "The Final Theory." So much on what we think we know.
But I don't wish to expound here on physical phenomena, but rather a spiritual one, one which had already intrigued
Sir Isaac Newton as well, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if - when all is said & doe - he will have turned out to be
more right on about this one than gravity.
Isaac Newton believed in the existence of a hidden code in the Bible - a code he wasn't able to crack in his day for the
lack of one of our present day commodities: computers. Various books have been written about the "Bible Code,"
which is certainly an interesting subject, although I daresay that while their authors have doubtlessly made an
amazing discovery in cracking the Bible code, I'm afraid they are distracting from a much larger, and yet much simpler
"code" -- God's code, His coded message to us in everything.
We find encoded information in everything, even in the tiniest life form, the single cell; and since I believe everything
in the physical world to be an illustration of some greater spiritual truth, I started thinking about the purpose of God's
code in everything.
Evidently, His message to us - so obviously plain & simple to understand for many of us, simply by observing His
creation - is encoded, because it obviously eludes that grasp of others. They simply don't get it. They don't hear, see
or perceive His message, but instead honor the great mysterious force of chance, coincidence or accident as the
originator of all things, & since chance is obviously not a very eloquent author of information, its believers are thus
nearly oblivious to any "messages" or information being conveyed to us by our Creator.
While Sir Isaac Newton may have been wrong about some details concerning gravity, he thankfully was not as deaf,
blind & willingly ignorant as a good many of those who fail to perceive God's message, His code, which Isaac Newton
in inspired foresight rightly suspected to exist, way before the word "code" was even developed & used to the extent
we do today.
It seems like God's "code" renders His messages to us invisible and inaudible to certain people - those referred to as
materialists, since they believe that everything - all intelligent life - came into being from nothing, which - quite
inexplicably - was changed - by itself - into lifeless matter upon which happened to fall a mathematically utterly
preposterous amout of luck in order to bring forth a universe which functions better than any other device ever
planned or constructed.
It seems there are two separate major "codes" circulating and at work, used by two opposing forces: the code or
language God uses in order to communicate with those who pertain & subscribe to His "system" (who are also
referred to as His "children" or simply "His people"), and the "information" (or should we rather call it mis-information?)
which leads people to totally ignore the first, leaving them absolutely incapable of perceiving it in any form.
A person initiated & familiar with God's code will look at a flower or a blue sky & will perceive in it a message of a
deep love from a loving Father, while the materialist will at best merely marvel at the feats than chance or coincidence
happened to have landed there in rolling the chemical dice & bringing about that plant or atmosphere...
Why did God have to encode His message then and hide His meaning, His purpose, His very existence from some
people? Jesus - certainly the highest authority on "God's Code," said, "There are none so blind as those who will not
see." In other words, they don't want to understand. They don't wish to hear God's message, nor what He has to say,
& thus are open only to the other source of "information." The Bible refers to the difference between the two codes in
the terms "truth" and "lie."
The code of God, or the code of truth, in this case, is also very closely related to another code, which we refer to as
moral code, or also, our code of conduct. C. S. Lewis refers to this "moral law" brilliantly and at length in his classic
"Mere Christianity" & states that while we all expect a certain standard from others, and a certain minimum ability for
them to abide by our moral code, yet we utterly fail every day to uphold that same standard ourselves.
Probably we don't manage to apply the code successfully because we don't familiarize ourselves with it sufficiently.
Without doubt, the purest Source & greatest concentration of God's Code is found in what is traditionally referred to as
His Word, which, for one, is found in the Bible.
The problem with the Bible lies not - a so often assumed - with the Bible itself, but rather with the information which
we have been fed about the Bible, along with all that other "information" about where we come from (= nowhere) or
where we're going (= nowhere?)...
Once we are willing to lay all that "information" aside, we'll find in it a true source of wisdom way beyond our
imagination and more. For not only is the Bible a Source of unlimited knowledge & wisdom in itself , but it opens up a
direct line of communication with its divine Author, which allows us to tap into the knowledge & wisdom on anything
we may want to know. (The materialist & sceptic will argue here that people, not God authored the Bible, but those
savvy to God's code the Bible was written in will understand that God just happens to use anything - including people
- to convey His message).
Once we have accepted God's code, He constantly delivers new and fresh revelations & bits of information to us,
open and decrypted (decoded), clearly understandable to us, the "user."
It's almost like two major software comapanies constantly competing with each other, each one "selling" to its users
their version of their latest "operating system," which we refer to as "reality."
Since I have been using God's "Operating System" successfully and efficiently for the past 3 decades, not without
having made my own experiences with the competition's "software," I most vehemently recommend God's system, of
course: it's cheaper (for free), much more accurate, reliable & it simply works fabulously & keeps your machine
running and running and a joy to behold. Why other users would prefer to purchase & subscribe to the other system is
nearly incomprehensible to me, except that I undersand that using the other system more or less grants its user
somewhat more independence. One can be their own "god" using the other system - and for those who settle for that
kind of a religion or belief system, I guess that's their choice.
Personally, quality ranks higher in priority on my list than self-adoration, and in addition to that, I have found much
greater pleasure & fulfillment at the hand of exterior sources, other than my own little ego.
This, if we want to give a name to the other code, competing with God's, invented by His adversary, one could call it
the "I-code," "me-code" or the "code of ego," since both, the inventor of that code and system and its subscribers and
users obviously are having a problem with recognizing any higher spiritual authority than their own.
The "I-code" system does not allow its users to operate any software from the Competition, which leaves the "I-code"
user blind and oblivious to the God-Code. It actually leaves them ignorant of the existence of any other system, code,
program or possibility. On the other hand, every "God-user" has had their experience with "I-code" and even regularly
keeps slipping back into "I-mode," just in order to learn to fully appreciate the advantages of God's far superior
system. "God-users" are fully aware of the weakness of the "I-system," whereas "I-users" are oblivious even to the
existence of the other.
Still, it makes me wonder why God would have made it so difficult for I-users to even be able to perceive His code.
Codes are usually used for secrecy, privacy and security. What would God have to be afraid of? This sounds so un-
like God's nature to me. Why would God have secrets?
The only thing that occurs to me is that He possibly may have wanted to protect His system from forgery. The Devil is
a sly imitator, and in many aspects it seems like he copies God's code. In fact, when Jesus said to His disciples that
the time would come that those who would kill them would think they were doing service to God in persecuting His
true disciples, He seemed to indicate that there were going to be some I-users around eventually who were posing as
God-users, only in order to try to destroy God's system, so to speak, from within.
Which would explain why there are so may Christians in the world today that make open-minded observers and
otherwise open-hearted for the truth run the other way & think, "no way. This can't be it." Some high-ranking politician
could, for example, pose as a Christian or God-user, but act totally contrary to God's actual moral code & code of
conduct and instead of fulfilling the great universal law of "thou shalt love," kill instead, and wage war against poor
countries. He could use righteous-sounding mottos and reasons for his actions as a camouflage, but simply because
he would pose as Christian or God-user, millions would vote for him and not see through his deception. I wonder if
anything like this might actually be happening on this planet right now! (Now, kids, this is something for you to find out
for yourselves as homework: look around for some politician you know and see whether this description might fit.)
So, it does seem, after all, necessary for God to have encoded His message to us, otherwise there would probably be
so many fakes and imposters running around, we'd drown in confusion. In fact, He seems to have used just the right
amount of security-grade in His encryption for still enough of us to get His point & message and for not too many
hooligans & phoneys to steal & imitate His code so that we would still have hope to find our way out of the sea of
counterfeit-Christians out there...
Actually, the more familiar one becomes with God's code, the easier it will become for him to detect, recognize and
expose a forger & counterfeit user.
While these are just a few simple observations I'm allowed to make on a phenomenon I stumbled upon, possibly
similar to the way Newton first stumbled upon gravity or the existence of a Bible code, just as in Newton's case, I'm
afraid we've only begun to scratch the surface. I have often compared this life with a school, but in some ways -
especially when it comes to these mysteries of God - it feels more like kindergarten. Who knows? Maybe I just put
another toy block on the foundation someone else started, inspiring you to find the next one & put it on top of mine?
Maybe our entire childish construction will collapse at one point & will have to give way to a better, stronger & surer
one...
What message is God trying to convey to you today? Are you in the possession of His decoding device? If not, or if
you're not certain, make sure you're running on His Operating System by downloading His Master Software, the
program of God's forgiveness through Jesus. Just ask Him to delete all your former errors & to reformat your Hard
Drive & give you a new start, clean-slated & install Jesus on the machine of your heart for a system that won't ever
crash. Then you will also be able to obtain - for free, just like all the other stuff - the decoding software, the Holy Spirit,
which will help you understand God's code, all He has to say to you personally through His Word, through His
creation, through anything, if you listen carefully enough, and there will be no end to the things you will yet discover
that will downright thrill you to pieces.
Take this advice from a more than satisfied customer. You'll still have problems, alright, and you'll continue to
experience virus attacks and other malicious code trying to damage your system. Just make sure you regularly
update your software, your spiritual firewall & virus-checker, or use the 24/7 customer service. God's company is the
one you can surely trust. Just stay tuned to His code!

August 25, 2006

ALL ABOARD SERENITY!

The Message Behind "Serenity"

It wasn't the obvious type one would catch at first glance. But one statement in the
otherwise quite action packed & entertaining movie was too true to be just
entertainment. The part in which we get to know the 'Serenity' crew and they talk
about how survival is being made tougher & tougher for independent little guys like
them - 500 years into the future - so similarly to the way it is for folks like us here &
now, independent little artists & movie makers. There had to be something else
beside that. And then it dawned on me: "Pax," (latin for Peace), the gas that the
government, "the alliance" (New World Order?) had added to the atmosphere of the
planet Miranda in order to free the population from its aggressions had made 90%
of the population so "peaceful" that they not only stopped fighting, but eventually
everything else, too, including eating and breathing, so they just died, while it
converted the other 10% into ravenous & hideous cannibals, attacking everything
that moved in order to eat them alive...
Sounds just like the wonderful "Peace" programs the New World Order so all-
knowingly imposes on us, its victims, 24/7 via the poisonous gases of deceit it
dispels into our ether in form of the constant propaganda that's lulling the majority
into a peaceful sleep, do-nothing attitude and spiritual death, while forcing the
minority who won't swallow that stuff into positions of total antagonism and
opposition without limits, also known as terrorism.
In other words, just as the "Alliance" was creating the cannibalistic "Reavers," (if
that's the spelling... I didn't read the subtitles), so the New World Order is really
creating terrorism and the anti-western and anti-American antagonism that's making
the poorer minorities cry out for Jihad, a holy war against all that New World Order
tummyrot.
The demons those wise guys on top are creating are literally eating the population
of the world alive, because, as usual, they were too smart to think they had to
include God in their program, and as they say in Germany, "they made their bill
without the keeper of the inn."
So, "XLNT!" is my personal rating for "Serenity" on second thought. From what I
gather, (as an outsider, since I never heard of the "Firefly" TV show until I saw the
specials on the DVD), the makers of this movie were a little bit in the same fix that a
lot of bright minds find themselves in who are just too bright to be dimmed by the
mainstream hogwash: the fate of being met with a lot of resistance & cold
shoulders. But then there are always those who still appreciate good work when
they see it. True Art fans of the world unite & hop aboard the "Serenity"!

Simply Ask For It!

Sat 26 Aug 2006

There is an entire category & field of teachings on which the average Christian ignores most of what the
Bible truly has to say, and that's the very fundamental topic of Salvation. Most Christians only know a
single verse about Salvation, and that's the one where Paul says, "Work out your own salvation in fear and
trembling" (Phil.2:12). They interpret it to mean, "You see? You can lose your salvation if you don't watch
out, if you don't stop sinning, and if you don't come to our church regularly."
But is that really what it means? Does Salvation only work - in other words, did Jesus' death on the cross
only do the trick for you if you successfully manage to stop sinning during your life-time and you faithfully
go to mass? Doubtlessly, many people attend church regularly in hopes that the latter is true; that they will
escape hellfire by their weekly one-hour sacrifice, but how many people would actually be in heaven, if the
former were true - if only those are saved who have stopped sinning?
Some folks seem to be scared that there's not room enough in heaven, if they "allowed" too many people
in, and that their churches would be too empty if it were too easy to get saved. Now, while the latter would
obviously be a tragedy, let's have a closer look at what else the Bible has to say on Salvation and what one
has to do to be saved, to have eternal life, as Jesus said, and in other words, to go to heaven:

In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, the apostle John describes how Jesus was more than an ordinary
man, namely that He was actually the "Logos," the very Word of God, the One through Whom and by
Whom the World was made, and that actually He was God. Not God the Father, but God the Son, Whom
the Father had sent to become flesh for us and to die for our sins (see Jn.3:16). John also describes how
the majority of the people back in those days did not receive Him, but that they rejected Him as the
darkness rejects the light, but in verse 12 he says, "But as many as received Him, to them gave He
power to become the sons of God."
Now, a lot of people don't take the Bible literally, since that would mean that the earth had been created
within 6 days, a little more than 6000 years ago, which totally contradicts what they have been
brainwashed with all their lives (which I have expounded on in greater detail in former blogs, as have
others). Let me suffice it to say that those, whose God is not great enough to have made the world in 6
days, obviously won't have the faith that He could have saved you from your sins without your feverishly
striving to become perfect on your own.
But for the rest of us, let's have a look at that verse: "As many as received Him (Jesus), to them gave He
power to become the sons of God." That seems to indicate that all you have to do in order to become one
of God's children (and we're not all God's children from birth, as most would claim: we're all God's
creatures, but obviously not all of the same Father spiritually, see John 8:44), is to receive Jesus and His
coming, the purpose of which was to pay the price for your sins on the cross, as predicted in Jewish and
pre-Jewish symbolisms throughout millennia beforehand, from Abel's first sacrifice (of a lamb) to the
Passover.
Now, once you are a child of God, can you lose your status as "child of God" again, let's say, by doubting
or by sinning? Can one "un-become" a child of God again, according to behavior? In other words,
"yesterday I was a child of God, because I was behaving well, but today I'm not, because I happened to
come across the image of a scarcely clad woman on a billboard sign, and it made me have unclean
thoughts"? Well, if God made physical families to illustrate His spiritual Family, then let's use our brains:
you may have a son or daughter who may have strayed from the straight & narrow, who may have become
a thief, a prostitue or even a murderer, but by law, they're still your child, right? Even though some may
say, "you're not my son or daughter anymore," the law says something different. Likewise, God is bound by
His law, which is His Word, and that seems to say: once His child, forever His child, no matter what you do!
We become and remain God's children not because of what we do (except the act of receiving and
accepting Christ), but in order to learn and become able to act the way God would like us to. He gives us
the power to not only be, but also behave like His children, eventually, simply by the act of receiving Him.
Of course, in order to learn to act like a child of God, and to become a fully mature son or daughter, we
must continue receiving Him (through His Word and Spirit) every day. But even if we don't, and don't ever
behave like one (as unfortunate as that may be), we still remain His children. There can be no uncertainty
about that (although there is, sadly, among the majority of people).

But we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what the Bible has to say on this topic. In Chapter
3:36 John writes: "He that believeth the Son hath everlasting life," and later, in his first epistle, again:
"he that hath the Son hath life" (5:12). Note that it doesn't say, "providing he stops sinning forever and
keeps going to church every Sunday."
The scripture that changed Martin Luther's life from one of a self-castigating monk, living in the usual,
catholic eternal insecurity and into that of "the most important religious figure of the last thousand years"
who brought to life the reformation and thus the protestant church, is another one which most "salvation by
works" adherents simply choose to ignore (it's too easy for them that one should only have to receive the
gift of salvation without having to do something to earn it): In Ehphesians 2 verse 8 & 9 Paul wrote, "For
by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not of works,
lest any man should boast." What good work can you possibly do that would merit Christ's sacrifice for
you on the cross? Isn't it a little preposterous to assume that anything you could do could ever live up to
"deserve" that, no matter how hard you try?
It's understood that God would prefer that we should start behaving better. But He does not make His gift
of salvation depend on anything we do (no, not even church attendance). Besides, He has His own little
ways of making us behave. What does a human father do in order to teach his child how to behave (well,
at least fathers used to): discipline or correct the child. If you're God's child, He won't let you get away with
living the wrong way without allowing you to pay the consequences for it. God disciplines us, His children
(see Hebrews 12:6). But He doesn't say: "for this you don't deserve to be My child any longer."
Jesus said, "Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out." Or in modern English: "If someone
comes to Me, I won't kick him out!" (John 6:37).
So, what did Paul mean then, when he said, "Work out your own salvation in fear and trembling"?
Especially if the very next verse says something to the opposite extent again: "For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." How can you "work out your own salvation" when it's a
gift of God, and it's God Who performs both, the desire in us to do His will, as well as the enacting of it?
Well, obviously, in the light of all the other Scritpures (and there are more, but this is only a blog, not a
book), Pillipians 2:19 cannot be referring to our eternal salvation or that which we would be referring to as
Heaven, since that is a gift, and that's settled. But as far as the physical manifestations of that salvation in
this earthly life are concerned, we're going to have to work at it. And since we have a powerful spiritual
adversary who tries his darndest to get us to forsake God's way, who tries to stop us from doing good, and
tempts us to do evil instead, and commit any little sin he can think of, it requires some healthy fear of God
and serious effort to win that fight.
In other words, if you don't only want to be a child of God, but also want to act and behave like one, you're
going to have to do more than go to church and say "I'm a Christian." Church Christians are really making it
easy on themselves when they say, "Well, I'm fulfilling my part of the deal: I counteract my eternal
insecurity by faithfully attending church every Sunday. So, my salvation is a little bit more guaranteed than
yours, if you don't go to church." In reality, to really act worthy of the gift of salvation, we ought to be
ashamed of ourselves for even thinking that one hour a week would make up for that. Jesus gave His all
for us on the cross, and all we give Him in return is an hour a week? If that's what being saved or being a
Christian means, then it's no wonder the churches are getting emptier and the world is becoming more and
more appalled by "Christianity."
To wind up this discussion on eternal Salvation by grace, I want to quote another of my favorite scriptures
on the subject from the Gospel of Mark: "Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little
child, he shall not enter therein" (10:15). How can we receive the Kingdom of God in the same way a
little child would receive anything? By working hard for it and feverishly striving to attain some state of
sinless perfection in order to be found worthy and deserving? Having 6 children of my own, I would say that
should be a rather exceptional child. And Jesus specifially mentioned a "little child." Now, I don't know
about you, but the way most children I know get anything they want is to simply ask for it. Jesus is saying
that there is no other way to enter the Kingdom of God, to be saved, to go to Heaven and receive His
Salvation and gift of eternal life, than to simply ask for it. Which leads us to the conclusion that all we have
to do in order to be saved is to pray (and it's a prayer we only need to pray once), to ask God for it: "Can I
please go to heaven?" Or, if it's in receiving Jesus that we are saved, I can imagine a child asking, "Jesus,
can I have You?" Or, as we've prayed ourselves, and have prayed with many others since: "Jesus, come
into my heart!"
Too simple, you say? Well, obviously not for God. "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall
be saved" (Acts 2:21).

P.S.: One of the biggest struggles St.Paul had with a large part of the early church was with those who
thought they had to "help" God to keep them saved by keeping parts of the old Jewish traditions, such as
the circumcision, or sticking only to "clean" or "kosher" foods, etc. Galatians chapter 3 is one of those
examples of writings he dediated to those who thought they had to complete God's spiritual work of
salvation by their own carnal contributions.
Similarly, millions of Christians today believe they have to observe certain rituals (the most popular of
which being the Sunday morning ritual) in order to "stay" saved or be saved at all. It's no wonder that
Christians at large don't feel anywhere near capable of complying with Jesus' instruction to all of His
disciples to "preach the gospel" and tell others about Him. If it's so difficult to be saved that most even don't
know for sure themselves whether they are saved or not, then, what's the use in telling anyone else about
it? Blessed are they of childlike faith, who have received the Kingdom as a child and have found out that it
simply works, and that it must thus work for others, too.
It's not only easy to get saved yourself, but it's also easy to get others saved, too. It's called "winning
souls." All you need to do is get someone to pray with you to receive Jesus. It's as simple as that. Let all
the other "why-make-it-easy-whe-you-can-make-it-complicated" types struggle up their self-made "stairway
to heaven," but "beware lest ye be led astray from the simplicity of Christ" (see Col.2:8, 2.Cor.11:3).
While not every aspect of the Christian faith is necessarily simple, this fundamental one of salvation is. So
simple, in fact, that any little child could grasp or receive it.

September 16, 2006

WHY?
Why I deliberately choose to remain a member of an ill-reputed religious group.

It's nice to have friends. One of the the biggest pains in life is connected with losing friends. While
some of the friends I've lost in my life were probably shooed away by my quirks, temper or some other
sin or fault I committed, there have also been those who simply chose not to associate with us
anymore because we're part of the Family Intl.

Of course, it hurts, when someone chooses not to be acquainted with you anymore because of your
religion, faith or belief, or group you belong to, and the question might arise, "how many more
friendships are you willing to risk over your religion?" Or, "why can't you join a proper church or
something?"
Or, once the decision has been made to remain in the group, one wonders whether it wouldn't be
smarter to hide our association with such a highly controversial outfit, take the link off the website & lay
low for a while...

So, what is it that makes me seemingly defy reason, or at least ignore the opinion of reasonable
people who ought to have some good reasons for choosing not to associate with me anymore
because of my membership of The Family?

The history of this stubbornness, as some would probably call it, goes back to when I was 13, or even
a little earlier. I had declared war on God around the age of 10 due to the absence & total lack of love
in the catholic church I had thus far attended, and henceforth became a stout atheist. Well, not all too
stout, since the Jehovah's Witnesses managed to convince me of the existence of God about 2 years
later, and I started becoming familiar with the Bible.

When I met the Family, I was directly introduced to the Author of that Book, and the New Testament I
was given became my constant companion anywhere I went. I read it. I probably read it a few times.
And what I read there, prepared me for what was going to happen later on in my life. I learned there
that Jesus also lost friends. Not only that, but He taught His disciples that in His eyes, it was more
fortunate to be persecuted, maligned and lied about than to be popular. Not only did He prepare them
for the event of future persecution by letting them know the obvious, that if the religious establishment
persecuted Him, they would also persecute His followers, but He even went on to say that people
would think they were doing service to God by doing so.

Paul even went as far as to say that no one could live piously as a Christian, if they didn't ever suffer
persecution... (2Tim.3:12)

I knew that everybody else believed that that was valid 2000 years ago, but didn't apply today.
Everybody else, except the Family.

That's why, when I came home one afternoon and my stepmother waved a whole bunch of glossy
magazines in my face, full of articles about the in-flagranti exposure of Moses David and his sex cult,
the Children of God, and when the Police raided the local residence of the Family in my home town,
detaining me for questioning, I wasn't all too shocked, really. It fit the picture of what I had been
reading in the Gospels all along, perfectly.

I don't believe that Moses David, as he was called during the 70s, was perfect or infallible. I know he
made mistakes. So do I. But the good he did, and the fruit of it that resulted in my life and the lives of
others I have known excedes the bad he might have caused by his mistakes. Even though he was
wrong about a few things, I still believe he was a genuine prophet of God. I understand there are folks
who strongly differ with me on this point.

To most church Christians it's just about as presumptuous to call someone a prophet as it was for the
Pharisees that Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. And to most church Christians it was just as
atrocious to hear about our sexual freedom as it was for the Pharisees to deal with the liberty Jesus
and His disciples had...

If you have an unbiased look at where all that doctrine came from that gave sex, or even extra-marital
sex the image of being something sinful ("fornication," "adultery," etc.), you might eventually grant me
the right to my own belief concerning these matters, because you might be just as wrong about yours
as you think that I am, if you weigh the Scriptures against each other.

The reason I prefer to believe the Family what they've got to say on these matters is because they
also obey all the other parts of the Bible, that church Christians say don't apply anymore. And besides,
I've always liked sex, and have always been comfortable with the idea of having sex with more than
one single person in your life.
 Recently I got in touch with a former member of the Family, who wants to get back in touch with us,
because although he had his doubts about the Family, what he found out there in the great big world
didn't seem to be all that hot, either. He argued, "somebody must have done something to all those
people and angry ex-members (like Ricky Rodrigues, who killed another former member and
committed suicide in order to draw attention to the alleged atrocities committed in the Family), to make
them so mad, and to react so violently..." Something to that extent.

My reply to this reasoning was that they probably could have said the same thing about Jesus, too:
What Jesus was doing wasn't exactly the "family-friendly" thing to do: he ripped at least 12 young men
we know of from their families and jobs in order to pursue a highly questionable career as some kind
of "Gospel bums," except that the word "Gospel" hadn't even been yet invented. They must have
looked and sounded just as weird back then as we do nowadays. Someone could argue, "What made
Judas react so vehemently, and caused him to betray Jesus and commit suicide? Someone must
have done something to him in order for him to react that way..."

Personally, I believe that the Family cannot be blamed for Ricky Rodriguez' actions any more than
Jesus could be blamed for Judas Iscariot's actions. What most people don't realize - because they
refuse to & are often too scared to do so - is that there is a spiritual factor they overlook: that there is
an evil force working quite feverishly against the forces of good, and in fact, according to Jesus, Paul
and John, that force is the ruling force of the world right now, and it reacts in an extremely hostile
manner to any attempts of good to infiltrate the kingdom it is usurping.

Those who choose to ignore that spiritual factor will never understand folks like me. They will always
come up with legitimate reasons and excuses why it's better not to be associated with lunatics like us,
because they purposely blind themselves to the fact that there is a spiritual force at work trying to
make cowards out of a lot of people. They will refuse to ever try to see us objectively because they
don't want to believe that they're being lied to as extensively as they are. What matters to them is not
whether something is true or false, but whether it's what the majority believes. However, Jesus was
and is the Leader of a minority.

I don't blame anyone for not having the guts to be associated with us. I know, I have chosen a path
that's pretty hard to swallow, to cope with, and to understand. I'm only thankful for those who
somehow seem to sense that if they will even just give us a cup of cold water because we're Jesus'
disciples, that they will somehow, somewhere be richly rewarded for it. I'm looking forward to the day
when those who may be ashamed of us right now, will be proud to have known us, when the truth will
be revealed & the cards will all be laid on the table, and everything and everyone will be clearly seen
for what it is and what they are and have been.

There'll be surprises. Probably for everyone.

Behind The Scenes
Sun 17 Sep 2006

I'm convinced that we'll find out someday that God was a whole lot more involved in our lives - in history
per se - than we imagined or noticed. Just because we don't see His interventions, simply because He
might prefer to have them remain unseen, doesn't mean they're not there. On the other hand, they are
perceivable to the eyes of faith, just as His sign language is all throughout creation, everywhere and every
second of the day.

Sometimes we might not intervene because of our lack of faith, or simply because what we would like Him
to do is not according to His will. we may think that He's on our side (as both parties in a war usually are),
but then the question is: are we on His side?

Yet at the same time, I don't think He's just watching as the Devil plays one foul after another. He just gives
him enough leeway to let him dwell in the illusion that he actually stands the slightest chance of winning.
Unfortunately, people are very gullible to Satan’s premature rants of victory, and are siding with him or
surrendering to him all too quickly. Which, again, is in God's interest, because He doesn't need fair-weather
friends, those who'll side with the one who promises to be the winner or greater advantage for themselves.

In order to truly be on God's side, one must be willing to temporarily look like the loser, since that's what
God has obviously chosen to do Himself, and Jesus is the best example of that.

Changing The World?

Wed 20 Sep 2006 05:00 PM

Trying to change the world is as tough a job as it ever was these days. Not so much because of the usual difficulties
with the folks you’re trying to change, but sometimes, unfortunately, also due to the ones you’re trying to do it with…
your friends and colleagues, “brothers in arms” who unfortunately don’t come across as very supportive at times, and
make you wonder at times whose side they’re really on.

They may be sitting at the very top of the Committee for World Improvement, but they only wound up there due to
some more or less fortunate circumstance (depending on whose view), and can often be quite jealous of the little folks
at the grass roots who are really ‘doin’ it,’ and they’ll try all in their power to make sure that whatever is going to
happen is going to happen over them, and not without their permission and approval, or they might even make it
mighty difficult for you.

They don’t care so much about the common cause or the job getting done as they care about that it’s done their way,
and that they get a big share of the glory in the accomplishment. “Remember, you couldn’t have done it without me!”
Whereas the true believers don’t care who gets the glory, as long as the job gets done, the help arrives where and
when it should, and the world is being changed – save the credits for later.

A classic example of this perpetual dilemma is seen in the movie “Molokai,” which tells the sad story of the catholic
church’s betrayal of one of their own saints, “leper priest” Father Damien, whose greatest cross on earth to carry was
not the burden of the leprosy around him he was trying to alleviate, nor even the leprosy in his own body he
contracted consequently, but the lack of love, honor and true righteousness among his own brethren and superiors.

But it happens in every group, no matter ho “different” we were when we started out. Even the formerly persecuted,
being so assured of the exclusive rightness of their cause can become blind to the possibility that they may actually
become guilty of the same sin that was once committed against them, and so we see before us a history unfold of
martyrs moving to the grandstands making new martyrs over and over and over again.

Yesterday’s Davids are today’s Sauls and may even become tomorrow’s Goliaths, waiting to collapse under their own
weight, slain by an insignificant lad they would have never stopped to give the time of day.

What’s the only thing we learn from history? That we never learn anything from history. And never before has there
been such a large amount of ignorant people thinking they knew so much as today.

What can we do about it? Give up? Fold in? Surrender to the Enemy? “Let the Devil take tomorrow,” as Kris
Kristofferson sang? No way! Sometimes I’m tempted to feel like that, I freely admit, but although I don’t know much
about the dude, I feel rather inclined to agree with John Paul Jones’ famous statement, “Surrender? Hell, no! We
haven’t even yet begun to fight!”

Nationalism Vs. Christianity! - Who do you serve, your country or your

Savior?
Sept.27, 2006

Who do you serve, your country or your Savior?

Most American Christians I have known are primarily Americans, and secondarily Christians. Their foremost
loyalty and allegiance is to the American flag, their nation, that "great country" that they seem to believe has
given them everything they have and has given them the opportunity to enjoy all they've got, and their
"freedom."

When Jesus preached to the Jews about freedom (see John 8), they said, "we've never been anyone's
servant...." They didn't see the need for any liberation, because they thought they were already free. But Jesus
said, "I am telling you the truth: whoever commits a sin is a servant of sin."

The sad thing is that a lot of Christians merely use their religion as a cloak for their sin; a cloak to hide it,
especially from themselves. The rest of the world isn't that easily fooled, because most of us can tell real
righteousness from hypocrisy, true faith and saintliness from mere disguised selfishness and self-adulation.

It's what C.S. Lewis called the universal moral law, which Paul also described in his epistles, as doing those
things which are lawful, even when we don't know the law, while others, claiming to keep the "law" are often its
greatest violators.

Now let's expose that sin of nationalism. What's so bad about being a patriot and at the same time claiming to
be a true Christian? If Christians would read their Bibles a little more, instead of just listen to the pre-chewed
versions of what the Bible supposedly says, from their TV-evangelists and preachers, they would know. First of
all, Jesus said to His disciples, His followers, those who adhere to His teachings: "You are not from this world."
(John 15:19). John takes this further in his epistles and says, "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is
not in him" (1Jn 2:17), and James even says, "friendship with the world is enmity with God" (James 4:4).

So, since your country is evidently a very visible and tangible part of the world (and not only that, but in most
patriot's mind, also the best in the world, and "champion of the world,") you're going to have to make a decision
whom you're going to serve, and who is your master, since Jesus said you can't serve both.

Most American Christians justify any criminal action of their nation against another by the mere fact that if
they're a Christian nation, so that whatever they do, whichever nation they fall into and breathe slaughter
against, it can't be wrong. But that attitude is in itself very wrong and is based on the grossest of collective self-
deception that human history has probably ever seen.

A true Christian and a true believer is one of those described in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, where we find a
list of all those great pilgrims & strangers who refused to call this world (and any nation in it) their home,
because they were seeking for a better Place, Whose Builder and Maker is God.

So, when it comes down to it, I strongly disagree with anyone who says that they can be a devout patriot and a
true believer, a real Christian, at the same time, but I will even call every flag-waving patriot pretending to be a
Christian a hypocrite and a traitor.

There were a lot of Christians in the 3rd Reich under Hitler, who swallowed the baloney that Adolf was
supposed to have been a Christian & this figured that God was on their side and whatever Hitler did couldn't be
wrong. Some people have pointed out the striking similarity between Germany toward the beginning stages of
the 3rd Reich and the Bush administration, and I think they're right, though Bush wasn't the first American
president whom some compared to Hitler (- a little insider quiz on the side: Who was "Nitler?").

But only few Christians in Hitlers Germany, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, did not betray their genuine Christian
convictions for the sake of the collective fake religion that was handed them, and thus it is again today. Those
flagwaving collaborators with the injustices committed against the poor in the world of today will be found just as
guilty in the history books of the future as the cowards & hypocrites of yesterday. There will be no claims of "but
we didn't know" that will evoke anyone's sympathies. If you're calling yourself a true Christian, then follow your
Master's teachings and not the lies of the gods of this world!

Advantages of Being a Nobody October 14, 2006

The advantages of being a nobody are - from a believer's point of view - not to be underestimated, although they don't
make any sense, nor do they present any value to the agnostic mind or merely logical thinker.
The rewards of becoming "somebody" are obvious: fame, money, "success," the ability to pat yourself on the back &
say, "yeah, I've made it!" The rewards of remaining a nobody are much more subtle instead, yet not any less real to
the one who is able to recognize and perceive them at all: Lack of fame keeps you humble and able to keep the Lord
in the No.1 position, instead of yourself. Lack of money keeps you dependent on Him, trusting in Him, instead of your
wealth. Success becomes something else to you than as what it is commonly conceived: instead of being
synonymous with acquiring the preceding commodities, success instead can be measured by the way you managed
to love someone today or the way you made it through the day without worrying, fussing or cussing, and appreciated
the little things and people around you instead... And as far as not being able to pat yourself on the back for your own
accomplishment goes, you're clearly able to give honor to Whom it is due for whatever did get accomplished.
Being a musician, it can be even tougher to observe others ascend to fame and fortune while you yourself seem to be
passed and ignored by "Lady Luck," but then... Did you ever notice how a lot of bands or songwriters seem to lose
that magic about their songs as soon as they made it to the top? The examples I could list of this phenomenon in
secular music that come to my mind are more than I could number here. You're a fan of a certain singer or songwriter
and think "they're the greatest," but along comes album no. 7 or 5, 3, or even 2, and you're disappointed. It's gone.
The stress of fame has choked out the magic that got them there in the first place...
When it comes to Christian artists, they sometimes seem to be able to preserve that spark of genuine inspiration a bit
longer than their secular counterparts, depending on the "realness" of their faith & relationship with Jesus, I guess.
My absolute heroes for a long time were Shane (Barnard) & Shane (Everett), and their earlier albums have certainly
been a great enrichment & obviously an influence on my own songwriting since... ("Breath Of God" or "May The
Words" are classics that really lit up our musical landscape!) I'm really happy for the guys being so busy and booked
out, but sometimes that "busy-ness" comes through in the music one creates & replaces that sweet humble touch of
the Holy Ghost that was there originally.
Caedmon's Call were the next candidates to make my day, musically speaking, and songs like "Walk With Me" or
"Shifting Sand" have a magic to them that doesn't seem to cease. As far as their later productions are concerned, one
can also tell that fame and popularity have claimed their dues in that original simplicity and inspiration, although I take
my hat off to the guts ... had in singing "I Repent." (Thank you for saying what you did in that song! Where's the
studio version?)
Next came Watermark with that voice that puts mega stars like Shania Twain to shame, and the live (?) version of
"Knees To The Earth" is a classic that I can imagine still being sung years from now... More of that simplicity would
have done it for me!
Jeremy Camp is definitely one of my musical heroes, and I loved his Unplugged DVD/CD with the sweet & simple
performance of his wife, coming on stage barefoot... One could definitely tell that those guys' faith is real on that
show. There probably is a way to "walk by faith" even when you're incredibly talented and blessed with goods, & I
congratulate anyone who gets there. I only wish there would be a little more focus on the lost sheep out there, some
of that "missionary" approach, not just singing over and over again to the 99 who are already safely in the fold, but
follow the Master out into the dark & cold wilderness to find that one lost sheep...
Finally, Bethany Dillon, aka "Da Fu-chah," or at least a big hope of the future for some, including myself. She has
touched my heart more than any of the above with her songs, & it must be that conviction that comes from the heart
of such a young person, truly dedicated to God... What I like about her is that she even talks about Bible passages
she reads on her Web Log, and to me that shows that she really lives in the Word, which is the secret of faith. I only
pray that she stays true to that devotion & won't allow the cares of this life to choke that seed.
Recently I came across some stuff by Natasha Bedingfield, who apparently has a Christian background, but doesn't
allow all too much of those (former?) convictions to shine through in her present stuff, like "Single." I don't want to
misjudge the lady, nor begrudge her her fame, (even if it may come across like that), but to me it looks like a typical
example of someone for whom fame and popularity have become more important than their faith. According to
secular reasoning that may make perfect sense, but who was it that said that faith isn't what it should be unless it's all
you've got, or something to that extent? Anyways, that's the kind of faith I'm seeking, and I'm grateful that I haven't
been "blessed" with too many distractions on my way there...
It's good to be a nobody. It's almost a bit like being invisible. While all the somebodies are trying so hard to look good
for all the people staring at them, nobodies have time to look and see and observe for themselves... and see things
many others cannot ... and hear things, too!
Our Father November 7, 2006
Having been raised to atheism in a catholic church, where everyone monotonously mumbled the Lord's prayer as if it
were a punishment in itself, for many years, even since becoming a Christian, I didn't feel comfortable praying the
Lord's prayer. For one thing, I didn't dig it or understand what it was supposed to be all about.
Although there are many mystic and esoteric attempts to de-mystify this actually rather simple prayer (after all, it's the
only piece of liturgy - apart from the last supper - the Lord ever asked us, His disciples, to observe, so there had to be
some deeper meaning to it), I couldn't quite find one I was able to happily live with myself, until last night, when the
last holes in the puzzle were filled in for me (amazingly, after watching an issue of Star Trek's "Deep Space9"), and
I'm finally ready to let the world in on my own interpretation of the Lord's prayer - for whatever it's worth (if you've got
a better one, feel free to let me know.)

Our Father, Who art in Heaven

- God is our Father, our Creator, and although, like some say, and in a way it is right, that He is everywhere, His
abode - the place where He primarily resides, is not right here with us, on earth, but a better place: heaven. (A
circumstance which, according to Revelations 21 will change someday.)

Hallowed be Thy name

"There is no other name under heaven given by which we can be saved. I and the Father are one. Whatsoever ye
shall ask in My name will be done... (Acts 4:12, Matth.10:30, John 14:13,14). As far as we'rec oncerned, the name of
our Father, is Jesus (s.a. Isa.9:6, Phil.2:9-11). (Shortly before His crucifixion, Jesus said, "Father, glorify Thy name."
And an audible voice from heaven answered "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again," as if to say, "in You - Jesus -
it is glorified" - see John 12:27-31. "Jehovah" or "Jah" means "Iam" or "I am that I am." In John 8:58 Jesus makes it
clear that He was - and is that "I am." See also John 1:1-14.)

Thy Kingdom come

The Kingdom of Heaven isn't here yet, we've got to ask for it to come, invite it, prepare for it & make room for it. We
must allow Him and ask Him to introduce His program to replace the "matrix" of the Devil.

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven

It's already being done in heaven, but not yet down here on earth. We've got to pray for that - and put feet to those
prayers by being the first to obey Him and implement His will.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our tresspasses

While most of us are very concerned with the first half of that phrase (and our God is not too busy, too great or too
important to take care of our physical needs), it's interesting to note that Jesus seems to be putting the second half on
the same level of importance. In other words, we need forgiveness of our sins as badly as we need our daily food.

... as we forgive those who trespass against us

...and in order to obtain that vital forgiveness, we must forgive others also.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the
glory forever.

For many of us, the temptation that the evil one is trying to bring into our lives daily is to give ourselves the glory for
whatever we have done, and we should not yield to that evil temptation, but give the glory & credit to Whom it is due,
Whose accomplishments are not temporal, like ours, but eternal. Our world may crumble and fade, as does our
strength, but His stands forever, and only in Him can we live forever, too. Sometimes we act as if this present world
were "the Kingdom"around which everything revolves. After all, we've built it in our own strength (or so we think), and
we indulge in our own power and glory. True believers recognize that our own power is futile, even non-existent, that
in truth, all power - everything - comes from God, and He's the One Who deserves the glory for it.

Amen

That's the way it's got to be. And it shall.

Summary:
1.) Our big heavenly "Daddy" - although He lives in Heaven - can hear us, otherwise there'd be not point in this
prayer. He has chosen a name, a code word or key by which we can approach and reach Him anytime: Jesus (s.a.
1Tim2:5).
2.) We must make room & prepare for His program to be happening in our lives. It's already running successfully in
the 5th dimension.
3.) He supplies our needs, both spiritual & physical (and they're equally important) and one of the major pointers for
staying healthy is: forgiveness.
4.) Let's stay on guard not to fall into the temptation of giving ourselves the credit for anything, but always give honor
to Whom it is due: He's the Eternal One, and we can only partake in His divinity by accepting that.
You better believe it.

Did God Make Man, Or Did Man Make Him Up?

I've briefly written about this before, when I first caught this drift, but there are people who think
that the whole concept of the God of the Bible, including the Gospel story about Jesus & Mary, in
other words, the entire Jewish and Christian faiths (along with other religions) are a concoction of
the Illuminati, the secret planners and makers behind the scenes in the body of politics, in order to
mentally enslave mankind.

They argue that the story of Jesus & Mary is just another version of the ancient Babylonian
goddess Semiramis and her son, who is sent to have been to earth on December 25th, which is
why some straight-liner, fundamentlist Christians don't believe in celebrating Christmas, since they
believe that it's just an ancient heathen celebration camouflaged as a Christian ceremony. While
those Christians might have a point, in that December 25th most likely was not really Jesus' actual
birthday (after all, if they didn't even get the year right, how much less likely is it they got the
month or the day right?), those afore-mentionen conspiracy freaks, like David Icke and friends like
Brian Desborough claim that the whole thing, the Bible in its entirety, and thus all belief in our one
God, is a fabrication of evil "reptilians" who have enslaved mankind since the beginning.

I think the Illuminati must either be very thankful for guys like David Icke, or paying him a lot of
money, for creating an even greater confusion around their mystery than there already is. In
reality, Illuminists are a lot more realistic, down-to-earth & everyday type of people than mystery
cracks like Icke want to make us believe, and while some or most of them may be working for the
side of what we Christians call "the Enemy," and may be subjected to his spirits and direction,
many of them are probably doing so totally unbeknownst to them, and with a lot of "good"
intentions. Although it's also quite probably that they invented this whole scheme of claiming that
Christianity, Judaism and monotheism per se is just one of their inventions.

After all, the Devil claims the credit for a lot of things he's not really responsible for, like sex (since
he obviously got many to believe that it's something evil, and thus coming from him), and there
were days when he got many church Christians to believe that musical instruments were his
invention, just because they were being used in worldly entertainment establishments like
saloons, etc.

The only thing I give the Devil credit for is being the greatest liar there is, and the only reason he
manages to cheat everybody bigtime and have a lot of people totally deluded and blinded is
because he's a fairly decent imitator, and if he sees God doing anything decent, he tries to copy it.
By comparison to the real thing, his copies are lousy, but they're still good enough to impress us
dumb folks living in the material world.

Probably the majority of Christians would call me a heretic, but thankfully, some have open
enough hearts, minds and channels of communication with God to realize that Heaven is not a
joint run by 3 dudes, as in guys or masculine personages, as commonly perceived: "Uncle God,
Uncle Holy Ghost and Uncle Jesus," but since God has made physical things to be an illustration
of spiritual truths, and earthly families thankfully (usually!) don't consist of two papas and a child,
but a mother and a father, etc., and since it says right in the first chapter of the Bible, "In his own
image created He them,... male and female," (Gen.1:27), it is quite reasonable to believe that the
Holy Ghost is actually not a "He," but a "She."
We may not have known that, but I'm pretty sure the Devil has known that all along, and thus
created his little counterfeit "trinity" in his Babylonian and Egyptian counterfeit religions (which
again, he claims now that Christianity is just another version of - true to his motto, "if ya tell a lie,
tell a biiig one!").

One should not give the old punk that much credit for anything too quickly. After all, he's nothing
much but an imitator, a copy cat. Pretty soon, he's even going to send his own "son" to earth, his
imitation "christ", whom the Bible calls the Antichrist. The Bible even says that the true Christ
would not return until his diabolical imitation had been around (see 2.Thessalonians 2:1-12),
pretending to be God. After all, He wouldn't want to miss out on the final showdown to expose the
fake & show the world Who really is the Real Thing, plus, to put an end to his ptiful reign and
attempt at Utopia personally (2.Thes.2:8) at that event the Bible calls the Battle of Armageddon
(Rev.16:12-14, 16-21, 17:14, 19:11-21).

Giving the Devil and his ilk too much credit is like living in the "Matrix" (as in the epic with Keanu
Reeves), without seeing the Greater Picture (as in BIG) around it (ever wonder how Neo ever got
his supernatural powers even outside the Matrix, in the real world in the sequels?). Don't limit your
focus and vision to the puny, finite concoction of Lucifer's plan for the world, however impressive
they may be (after all, the Bible calls him "the god of this world (2.Cor.4:4), but look beyond, at the
Big Picture, that's engulfing the Devil's matrix and everything, way beyond what we may now call
history or the world... The "End of the world as we know it" will only be The Beginning.

Did God make man, or did man make God up? As far as the Bible, and myself are concerned, if
you've got any brains at all, the answer is evident (Ps.14:1). Try to figure out the probability of all
the miracles needed to keep you alive with every breath you take & every beat of your heart to
just be happening by accident. Try to seriously figure it out, without cheating, and you won't have
any doubts anymore about Who made who, either.

November 26, 2006

IT WAS NOTHING, REALLY! December 11, 2006

When I was a young teenager, I came across a book by Science Fiction author Theodore
Sturgeon, "Sturgeon is alive and well," a collection of some pretty far-out sci-fi stories - not the
space travel kind, but fairly down-to-earth ones, such as the story about an inventor who
discovers the power of nothing while sitting on the toilet, entitled, "It was nothing, really." The
inventor in the story develops a powerful force field out of the very substance of nothing, which
sounds very much like what the new physics tells us: We used to think all the energy was in the
particles of the atom; now it seems that the energy is, in fact, in the space between the particles!

I used to think that air was pretty much like nothing: I took it for granted, since I couldn't really
touch it or see it or feel it, and I'm sure many of us are not really aware of the miracle that's
happening with every breath we take. Yet, when a space craft re-enters the atmosphere, the
astronauts encounter the fact that air isn't nothing at all, but fairly solid, compared to the
nothingness they just came from, in outer space. It starts to dawn on one then, why, when God
created the sky, He called it firmament (Genesis 1:6,7), indicating that the stuff He made it of was
firm and relatively solid, compared to all the nothing, that empty space between the planets, the
'particles' of the universe...

Some bright guys, like Mark McCutcheon (I mentioned him before), are finding out that maybe the
forces we knew in physics aren't really separate forces at all... maybe there's more to all that
nothing, all that empty space between the particles of the atoms and the universe, than we
know.... Maybe it hasn't even dawned on us yet how little, how nothing we know...
One of the best Christians songs ever written, from a time way before Christian music ever
became as huge as it is now, is "Oxygen" by Richard Page, in which he describes the Lord as
being our oxygen. How fitting and appropriate, because with every breath we take, God proves
His love for us, or, as Richard Rohr puts it in "Everything Belongs" (a book I can whole-heartedly
recommend to any truth seeker, which has not only triggered the inspiration for this blog, but also
quite a few of my forth-coming songs): "We're already totally in the presence of God. What's
absent is awareness. Little do we realize that God is maintaining us in existence with every breath
we take. As we take another it means that God is choosing us now and now and now..."

He also says that God is hiding in the physical world, which is something David Berg, founder of
The Family International, also taught, and I was able to confirm by personal experience many
times. I personally suspect that the place God chooses to hide specially - perhaps His favorite
'hiding place,' is nothingness, that empty space between the particles, where all the energy lies,
just as He chooses the little, humble and 'invisible' people, the 'nothings' and 'nobodies' in this
world to do the great works that nobody else wants to do.

I don't know who said it first, David Berg or Eric Idle, or yet another inspired thinker: "God made
the world out of nothing and He hung it on nothing. Hangs pretty good, doesn't it?" So, nothing
seems to be a pretty trustworthy substance, because God seems to be in it. After all, if everything
is made from nothing, and nothing is our origin, than maybe there's more to nothing than we've
been able to fathom thus far...

The Christmas-Pentecost Connection December 21, 2006

I just read a quote in the December edition of the "Link," one of the magazines our Family
produces, which triggered a train of thought about the connection between Christmas and
Pentecost. Christmas is the first incident we celebrate related to Christ's coming to earth, and
Pentecost is the last. In other words, Pentecost is in a sense the end of the story that Christmas
begins to tell:

At Christmas we have a handful of rather poor people, a carpenter from Nazareth with his
pregnant wife (whom he almost didn't marry because it wasn't his child she was bearing, had God
personally not encouraged him to go ahead), a handful of shepherds, and a bunch of animals.
Okay, there were the 3 kings, but they came later, and all in all, it was a bit of a motley crew
gathered in that stable there in Palestine.

Pentecost - well, since some folks can't really pin down what exactly Pentecost is or was in the
first place - was traditionally the Jewish feast of the harvest, which happened to be the occasion at
which the Holy Spirit was poured out among the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem after His
resurrection. The result of that outpouring was the beginning of the Christian church: 3000 new
souls won on that day, and 5000 more a few days later (Acts 2:41, 4:4). In other words, the seed
which God had sown by sending down that little baby on the first Christmas in that shaggy stable
was blossoming forth into it's first bloom, and exploding with fruit, on the day of Pentecost.

The day of Pentecost also resulted in the greatest and purest form of Communism ever known to
man, which Karl Marx pitifully tried to imitate in his idea, and we've seen the results of that. If you
don't believe it, read Acts 2:44,45 yourself. This distribution of wealth, over time, also brought the
transition for many people from lack, want and poverty to abundance, apart from the spiritual
riches which were poured out (you can find the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1.Corinthians 12, and the
13th chapter dedicated to the greatest of them alone, and the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22,
23).
Most people aren't even aware of the gifts of the Spirit nowadays, nor of the spiritual riches that
have been poured on us through Christ's coming, but instead we're extremely preoccupied with
the physical abundance God has blessed us with (or at least the ability to obtain some of that
abundance via loans & credit), heaping on our children and loved ones such an abundance of
material things, that there's hardly ever time for them to ponder or grasp the spiritual meaning of
Christmas.

As far as I can see it, the material and physical appearance of Jesus in Bethlehem points, 34
years later very clearly in the direction God wanted to lead us through Jesus: to the Spirit. Jesus
said during His lifetime: "The flesh is good for nothing, it's the Spirit that gives life" (John 6:63).
And isn't that the very lesson that God is trying to teach us throughout the Bible, from Moses and
the Pharaoh, Joshua and Jericho, over David and Goliath, on to the greatest victory ever through
a seeming defeat on the cross?

Yet some people don't seem to get the point. The wall that today desecrates Jesus' birth place we
so fondly commemorate during this season, is one silent, terrifying testimony to that fact.

Credit to Whom Credit Is Due

December 29, 2006

Let's face it: a lot of people are pretty confused, and don't really have a clue what their lives are supposed to be all
about. In my opinion, that's not only because a lot of them refuse to acknowledge the One Who put them here in the
first place and has promised to guide us with His eyes (providing we'd ever care to look in His direction - see Psalm
32:8), but also because they fail to recognize their enemy in this battle of life.

- A very subtle & smart enemy, certainly, whose greatest trick and surest tactic of victory was to convince most of us
that he doesn't even exist. With those he did not manage to get them to swallow that, he uses a different tactic: he
claims the credit over practically everything God created:

He has claimed the credit for sex, having people believe that it's a sin, although it's evident that sex is an institution
created by God Himself, since it was God, not the Devil, Who spoke when He gave His first commandment to man
ever: "Be fruitful and multiply!"

He has claimed the credit for the stars, as if it was he who made them, instead of God, at least one should think so,
by the way most Christians are scared stiff of astrology. It's true, we're not supposed to worship the stars, but do you
know anybody who does? What most people don't know, is that even the star signs have a godly origin, dating -
according to the Jewish historian Josephus - all the way back to Adam or Enoch, and they tell the wonderful story of
the gospel ever since mankind began, in every language of every culture (see Ps.19:1-4).

The devil has claimed the credit for the entire invisible, spiritual realm, which is also called the spirit world, although
God Himself is a Spirit and the Father of spirits, his angels are supposedly innumerable, and yet most Christians
picture Heaven to be some vast empty space run by 3 guys commandeering a few angels, vastly outnumbered by all
the evil spirits and demons that make up most of that evil place called the "spirit world." If they would read their Bibles
a little more faithfully, they'd find out an entirely different description. What do you think happens to a saved person
when they die? What do you think happened to all the millions of saints who have passed on? Are they all sleeping or
floating around on a private cloud, playing their harps quietly? Or could it be that God would give them the desires of
their hearts to continue to be of service to Him in the eternal Realm, helping Him to win this great battle over the souls
of man?

Our souls have gone lost, because we have allowed the devil to cheat us out of them with his lies. We're even afraid
of ourselves. In reality, we belong to God, He has called us by our names, and He knows who we are, and He's the
One Who can tell us who we are. He can tell us which way to go, and He can tell us a lot about ourselves and our
fellow humans, and He has made lots of help available for us, yes, even from that oh so dreaded spirit world! And
there's nothing He loves to do more than to make us happy by letting us enjoy the beauty of His creation, including
the multiplying business, that some people so self-righteously denounce as something nasty, only to be caught
somewhere with their pants down in the company of someone they are certainly not married to, as has happened to
some...
Why do we do all that to ourselves? Why don't we give credit to Whom credit is due? Why don't we give the credit to
God, along with a whole bunch of thanks, for all the great things He made for us, to help us go through life's battles
with a little greater ease, and much more joy and happiness than we sometimes grant ourselves? When are we going
to stop giving the devil the credit for everything God has created? When are we going to wake up to what he's really
up to? Yes, we're supposed to be sober and vigilant, but most people don't have a clue about the way the enemy of
their souls is working. They don't have a clue about how he tries to trick us out of using all the help that God would so
willingly give us.

Most Christians don't even believe that God talks anymore. "We've got the Bible now, that says all there is to say."
They put out brochures that say that God doesn't talk to people through dreams anymore, because now we've got the
Bible. In other words, from the moment St.John put down his pen and wrote the last word of the book of revelation,
God shut up and every single dream people have had since has been inspired by the devil.

What baloney.

Well, if that's your religion, if that's the kind of regimentation you need in order to find the kind of love Jesus asked us,
no, commanded us to have for God and each other, it's your choice...

I'll be most gladly, happily, vibrantly and ecstatically enjoying a living - real live, talking, moving, acting - interacting,
and yes, even - blasphemy of all blasphemies - sexy God. I'll see you in heaven & would be glad to help you make up
for all you missed out on in this life!

NO NEWS! January 21st, 2007

Reading the news is like listening to pop radio: every once in a while you’ll read an article that
really hits home. But if you decide to “hear” more from the author, you’ll often be disappointed,
similarly to when you buy an album by a band just because you liked one of their songs you
heard.

If, for example, you’ll read this article by Joseph Farah, you might agree with me & say “right on,
Dude!” But if you hop on WorldNetDaily in hopes of finding more such refreshing food for the soul,
you might easily be disappointed, if not downright slapped in the face by such stupid headers as:
“I ♥ AMERICA': Make Valentine's Day a patriotic holiday!”

In other words: according to WorldNetDaily, the world still consists, primarily, of America. If I were
to write any article about what’s really poisonous for our kids, it would be first of all such a
blatantly narcistic attitude: “Only what’s from my country, is good! (Forget about the rest of them
Hottentots out there!)”

As long as Americans (even half-way serious news writers & would-be journalists) keep acting as
if the rest of the world were just some kind of audience to the grand stage of America (the only
place where it’s really happenin’), how can they expect to be taken serious by the rest of the
world? Of course, they don’t (the rest of the world is just supposed to clap & yell for more, or move
to the ranks of the Enemy by failing to do so).

Probably the greater evil let loose on the world than even the pseudo-scientific indoctrinations our
kids have to nod to in school in order to get good marks (if you’re smart, you’ll laugh with them
about it when they get home) is that “We are the greatest” attitude that’s coming through in
virtually every American movie production, TV show, pop song and, alas, news article. With 6
Billion folks on the planet all figuring that they alone are what counts, not even the Antichrist could
make matters much worse, as far as our spiritual state goes. In fact, maybe he’s even going to
wake some of us up from our self-enchantment & kick some red-white & blue (or whatever other
insanely nationalistic & patriotic) butt.

P.S.: And apparently one can tell it as it is, even without all the obligatory flag-waving! Check out
this dude:
Just a Little Reminder Jan.26, 2007
In "Mere Christianity," C. S. Lewis said, "Really great moral teachers never introduce new
moralities: 'People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.' The real job
of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles
which we are all so anxious not to see..."

Even so, I'm finding out that the gist of the lessons the Great Master Teacher has been trying to
bring home to me for the past months, if not years, was in essence laid down already 2000 years
ago. For once, there's the ever returning them of "Without Me ye can do nothing," (John 15:5),
and then there is the equally important truth that whatever we do or may think to be
accomplishing, without love, it's worth nothing (see 1Corinthians 13).

What makes these old doctrines sound strange is, of course, the sad fact that so few have ever
really managed to live them, and it gives religious groups some strange, weird, esoteric or "New
Age" slant to be claiming that these ancient values are very well to be expected of us to be put
into practice. What's odd to most people about it, is that it's something they cannot achieve by any
efforts of their own, but rather, the total "anti-effort:" a letting go of all personal effort (excepting the
one to obey), ambition and ulterior motives, and just "let go and let God" do through us what we
humanly can't.

Availing ourselves of the same, supernatural power through which every true man or woman of
God in both, the Old and New testaments did whatever they accomplished for God, sounds so
strange, so weird, so sectarian to us rational thinkers in the age of the peak of man's glorious
achievement, where we've constructed machines to do practically every human task for us
(except eating, sleeping, making love and going to the toilet... but they're probably working on it),
without having relieved one ounce of the suffering humanity has known since its early fall.

It sounds preposterous in modern man's ears that God would be expecting of us to believe in the
same child-like simple way that out forefathers did. They had the Holy Spirit, we have television,
tanks and cars. They had miracles, we get Pat Robertson and George Bush... aaand, of course,
the almighty (?) dollar.

That seems to be the accepted fate of 21st century humanity, and anyone saying, "You keep your
trinkets, your politicians & TV-religion and your money, just give me those good old lasting values
from the Bible," strikes the vast majority as outrageous, blasphemous and treacherous. Although it
could hardly be deemed so, especially since no one wishing to return to the standard of biblical
faith would be blaspheming the true God, only the established religious System, which are as far
apart as the Rockefeller church in New York and John the Baptist's coat. And as to who is truly
being treacherous, I suppose only time will tell.

Nor can it be said that our modern "do-it-yourself" type of religion has anything really new about it,
since it originated with Cain, and has been observed by tower-of-Babel constructors, golden-calf
carvers and temple vendors ever since. The old way of truth just sounds so weird and so
damnable to us because it still goes against our same old greedy and selfish grind. The Devil
doesn't like Jesus any better than he did 2000 years ago, nor do the followers of the one get along
any better with the followers of the other.

What has improved, though, is the art of disguise. It's more difficult than ever to tell who's really a
real follower of Christ. In fact, without the supernatural gift of the Holy Spirit called discernment,
it's hopeless.
That's one more reason why we need that supernatural help from above that make us sound so
strange, so weird, so esoteric. If you want to look up what other gifts or weapons God equipped
His people with in order to combat the Enemy's forces in this world, even back in St. Paul's day,
read the 12th chapter of 1Corinthians. It will lead you right to the most powerful weapon of all,
described in a chapter all on its own, and we're right back where we started from: All you need is
love, and it's the only thing that matters,and trying to do anything without Love, which is God, is
useless... (see,once again, John 15:5).

So, just a little reminder - not as much for anyone out there as for myself - of one of the major
lessons the school of life is all about. For without becoming good learners in the first place, we'll
never manage to be good teachers...

Of Kids and Kings Feb.7, 2007 (Unpublished)

Kids – what makes them tic nowadays? What’s going through their heads? Why are they acting so weird?
Well, this is going to be a hard one to swallow for some, but if you’re wondering why any person between the age of
10 and 20 (sometimes older, depending on the level of maturity, which seems to be setting in a bit later with each
passing decade), doesn’t show any remote sign of even vague interest in you, your person, or anybody of your age
group for that matter, it is most likely so that, indeed, he’s not interested.
In fact, one might go as far as to say that for him you barely count as another human being. (Unless perhaps, you’re
his parent, and his weekly allowance or permission to go to a rock concert depend on you – there are exceptions,
thank God!)
While probably less than a century ago, the value of a human being was estimated by their experience, their
achievements in life, and thus, honor was bestowed upon the aged (since they had experienced and achieved more
than the average 10 year old), things have shifted to where your only 2 qualifications for being a bonafide member of
society, worthy of any attention from youth at all, are your age (above 20 you’re old, above 30 you’re dead), or money.
Anything goes, if you’re stinking rich.
In my opinion, there’s a reason for this phenomenon, of young people categorically tossing adults into their mental
trash can or “extinct” drawer, and it’s probably one of the most outrageous conspiracy theories you’ll ever hear (you
may call it the “dino-theory”, if you wish).
What is it that kids have in common? They all like the same stuff: basically anything they sling at you on TV
commericals, music television channels, or anything that’s being pushed as “hip” among their own circles, be it via the
internet or face-to-face.
Usually, that includes a lot of things that adults don’t like, since they tend to be a little more stubborn when it comes to
developing personal taste (no matter how many times they see Madonna dancing around on TV to one of her tunes,
they may still think it’s plain ugly, what they’re seeing. But of course, Madonna gives a shoot, because she knows it’s
not you who’s buying her song, it’s junior.)
Now, in olden times, the establishment would have encouraged for our kids to change that sort of “me first” attitude
and revert to the original mode of respect & “honor to whom honor’s due” (then again, with some of the geezers
running our countries, you can’t blame’em for not respecting them, either). But the 21st century has done away with
stuff like those old morals, because the only thing that is of interest to those who make the rules, is money (at least
our kids like their peers as well), and since they know that most grown-ups aren’t going to buy any old trash they sell
(at least not forever), they target the kids, and thus, they have become the KINGS, according to the business proverb,
“the customer is king.”
“Wait a minute,” you’ll say, “what’s this garbage about ‘those who make the rules…?’ It’s us who make the rules! After
all, we live in a democratic society!”
Yeah, right.
You can call it whatever you like, but if Adolf Hitler would have had the same power over the German youth that the
Neocons, what Michael Moore calls Corporate America (and I’d call Corporate World) and George Bush Senior called
the New World Order, then he’d have won the war. It’s not the name (“democracy”) that counts, it’s what actually is
happening, being put into effect, and the power “it” exerts over the masses.
Nowadays, they’re not killing Jews, but for this they’ll keep you apart for being different in any form or shape at all.
You either play the game, or you’re a loser. By the time this generation will have woken up to that fact, it will probably
be too late again, just as it was for Nazi Germany.

Lonely World Feb.12, 2007

I'm finding myself lately having to break out of a box, a mental pattern of perception, which, I'm
afraid, quite a lot of us are prone to. Especially when we're younger, we tend to only seek to
impress a certain group of people, usually the age group that is the same as ours (or slightly
above, when we were young teens), and later in life it becomes the prestigeous, those who, we
figure, might have something to offer to us, people whose acquaintance we benefit from.
Sometimes it's as if that group, our mental "target group," is the only one that even exists for us.
There may be other humans, like our parents, teachers, etc., but they're either necessary evils or
a downright nuisance and pain in the behind.

I dare say that in this day & age, where the media have mass-hypnotized us into thinking what is
acceptable and what is not in a manner that would have let Hitler grow pale with envy, it is a rare
youngster who doesn't care at all whether the person they talk to is "hip," in the accepted age
group, or at least somewhere near the accepted range.

What is really shocking for me, though, is, how old I've had to become in order to even let it dawn
on me just how much this kind of group think had affected me, and to realize just how sickening it
was.

On the other hand, I'm grateful, because I probably wouldn't have been mature enough to handle
the shock at a younger age, the shock that you get when you realize just how wide-spread this
game has become.

We used to think that only snobs or racists would act in discriminating ways toward their slightly
different fellowmen, but - gosh, that was in the 70s, maybe the 80s.

Waking up in the 21st century means that all of a sudden those who were discriminated and
looked down on in the past have developed their own snobbishness, their own class-
consciousness, their own Nazi-ism, and just about every group tends to discriminate every other
group.

You must give the Devil credit for being one hell of a smart b…… to have achieved this feat!
Especially, because he managed to make this very game most popular among God's own people
- or those who deem themselves such.

The end result of all this is, that the world is becoming a lonier place by the hour, as there are ever
more little groups developing who will discriminate all the other ones, but especially those who
don't belong to any of them, those who would just like to be themselves, & give a damn about
clichés & cliques.

May God have mercy and turn our hearts of stone into real ones of flesh & blood, so that we may
once again be able to hear our neighbor's heartcry and be able to look him in the eye and see a
living soul there, instead of trying to analyze: "Which group do you belong to? Are you
acceptable? Hip or uncool? Can I take the risk to be seen associating myself with you or not?..."
Or, "Is s/he a potential customer or going to benefit me in some other way?"

I'm sure grateful for those I have come across in my life who have accepted me for the totally
unhip and uncool dude that I am, and I'm looking forward to returning that favor to many a poor
lost soul who doesn't know where the heck they belong in this lost & lonely world...

(More on) Popularity Feb.12, 2007

Throughout the ages, there have been those who betrayed the church - like Judas, for which body
of true believers didn't have a few of their own? But there were also those whom the church
betrayed. Paul, for example, was a classical case, of an outcast of the very early church - the one
we deem the purest - who, because of his different way, doubtlessly his former hostility, never
really was full accepted by the original early church in Jerusalem, in spite of the fact (or was it
even because of it?) that he was the first to truly fulfill Jesus' call and commandment to go into all
the world (not just Judea and surroundings), prach the gospel to every creature (not just the Jews)
and make disciples of all nations.

Of course, the list would become endless if we were to follow up throughout history and count
those who were betrayed and forsaken by their own church for various reasons, because they
wouldn't fit in. Some, like Luther, simply started their own movement, outside of the confines of the
old. Others, like Father Damien, the leper priest of Hawaii, lived with their fate (and their church)
until they died - some martyrs at the hands of their own brothers and sisters, cursed in their
lifetimes and declared saints post-mortum.

How is it that most of the true prophets, like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Moses, David and even the
Messiah Himself, had to suffer persecution, disdain and contempt from their own people, their
own brethren?

It must be that popularity - in God's eyes, even popularity among His own people, must really not
be where it's at. It must really be so, as Paul said, that "All who would live godly (piously) in Christ
Jesus must suffer persecution," and that, quite often, at the hands of their very own people.

Some had their temporary bouts and phases of popularity, but when the final crunch came, they
were either thrown in dungeons, chased out of town, or crucified.

Amazingly, we observe this shocking lack of acceptance of genius not only in the field of religion,
but in the arts as well, if you look at the lives of such great composers as Mozart or Haendel.

Haendel, as a German in England, got hell from the established church of his day for his attempts
to put the gospel to music and make it accessible for the common people. He lived most of his life
on the verge of poverty and had to go to Ireland for his works to be heard.

We all know that Mozart never lived to enjoy his popularity.

So, then, the price of real anointing seems to be that you hardly ever get to enjoy the credit for it in
this life... Maybe that is what ensures that what you've got will also remain true anointing? Maybe
it is to make sure that the credit goes to the One Who gives the anointing in the first place...

In any case, it seems - contrary to all we ever thought and wished to think - that popularity isn't
necessarily any proof for quality nor genuine talent or spirituality. It rather seems like the opposite.

Spirit Feb.17, ‘07

We're all trying to find our way Home. At least the seekers among us are, those who've always
known this wasn't home. Any clue where it might be, our real Home?

Let's see; if it's not of this, physical world, and if the Head and Principal Character of our true
Home World is a Spirit (John 4:24), might it be very daring to assume that our Home lies in the
Spirit? What some call the Spirit World?

Just because we can't see spirit, we assume that it's somehow inferior to what we've presently
got. But that is just as silly as assuming that US Dollars are worth more than British Pounds, just
because you've never seen a Pound. Or better, that your dollars are worth more than diamonds,
just because you've never seen any.
Just the fact that we can't see the Spirit World, doesn't make it inferior to ours at all. In fact, There,
they can see both worlds and move from one to the other.

Doubtlessly, our dimension is the inferior one. To assume anything else would be as ridiculous as
a declaration of war by Liechtenstein on the United States.

We just keep treating it as inferior, because that's the way we treat anything we don't understand
and that is strange to us. That's why we treated God's very Son that way, and all His emissaries
He ever sent, from the very first prophet, even until now.

It says about Jesus, that "He came into His own," (in fact, John had just finished describing how
the world had been made by Him), "but His own received Him not" (John 1:10, 11).

The fact of the matter is, the physical world is a product of the Spiritual World, since He that made
it, is a Spirit Himself, and dwells primarily in the Spirit World. The Bible says, there will come a
time when He will come to live with us, along with His heavenly City, down here, on a newly
formed and re-created earth, so, sooner or later, the veil that now parts the physical from the
spiritual will be done away with. In other words, we might as well stop sooner to treat the Spirit
World, its inhabitants, and those communicating with them and its emissaries to our realm as if
we're never going to have anything to do with it, just because right now we can't see it. We might
as well get used to the fact, that that's where we're going. We might as well get ready for it, get
ready for the Spirit.

It's really not that strange, since we're already spending one third of our time there, namely when
we're dreaming. And as far as the dark side of the story is concerned, the bad spirits, we don't
have to be afraid of them, either, if we're a child of God, which we can become very easily by
accepting Jesus as our Savior. In fact, if you look around, it seems like they're rapidly taking over
this place, anyhow, & pretty soon they're going to have taken over this world.

John says that he saw the Devil and his angels being cast down to the earth, and that it would
become a short, but very woeful time. I'd say, that's another reason to make sure you're on the
right side, and in tune with the "Man Upstairs," the Boss & Master of this whole game,and apply
for some help from His side in order to make it through that coming dark period.

In any case, the Spirit World is nothing to be afraid of, since its our true Home, or true Origin, and
our destination, the place we're all inevitably going. Might as well get used to it. You don't have to
be scared of it, because God already rules there. He may not have yet fully taken charge over our
world yet, since He wants to teach all mankind (and the entire universe, for that matter) a lesson
we won't forget, but in the Spirit World, He's already the undoubted Master, and has always been.

So, you're in good hands, and you're being well protected by your Maker, His angels, and all your
brothers & sisters on the other side... no reason to be afraid of them. In fact, if you're still afraid,
you need to ask yourself, where that fear comes from, and why it is there. It could be that the
Devil is trying to stop you from something very important.

God is a Spirit. Yet you can trust Him, right? That's what's most important. You don't have to be
afraid of spirits, because God is the greatest of all spirits, and if you've got Him on your side (by
putting yourself on His), then, what is there to be afraid of? God is also Love, and perfect love
casts out fear. It also says that "God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and
of a sound mind." (2.Tim.1:7) So, if you're driven by a spirit of fear, then that spirit is not of Him,
and you should seek to be filled by His Spirit of power (what greater power is there than His?), of
love (which casts out fear) and of a sound mind (get rid of all the fog the Enemy of your soul is
trying to create with his fears, worries and doubts!)...
Like myself, you might be surprised to find all that you've been looking for in your life, the
happiness, the love, the fulfilment your inwardly seeking, in a place where you never expected it
to be: flesh can satisfy flesh, the carnal can satisfy the carnal, but only spirit can satisfy spirit, that
aching, yearning void inside the depths of our souls, which God created and reserved for Himself.
"There's a God-shaped hole in all of us," as a song says, and since God is a Spirit, it's a hole that
can only be filled by Spirit. Nothing else will be able to fill it.

Let that inner you, that dwells inside your body, find its way Home, where it belongs, and where
the Father awaits you like the prodigal son, with arms wide open!

Pre-Tribulation Rapture? Feb.22, ‘07

Most of our Christian friends believe in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture*; in other words, they're
convinced that Jesus is going to pick them up (to Heaven) before the 3 ½ year period of the
Antichrist's reign after having broken the "Holy Covenant," the peace treaty among the world's
leading religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity), the quarrels among which are presently the
greatest remaining threat to world peace. *(Rapture: also referred to as The 2nd Coming of Christ.)

One friend told me on the phone yesterday, "I don't need all that persecution & stuff." She simply
chose to believe the easy-way-out myth in spite of the hard in-the-face evidence from the Bible
(which most obviously prefer to skip in their readings).

What a bunch of wishful thinkers mainstream Christians are. I think it shows that our friend was
wrong: If there's anything Christians need, it IS the great Tribulation, and the Bible tells us why:

In the first description of the 3 ½ year period of the Great Tribulation, given to us by the prophet
Daniel in Daniel 12, we find one of God's purposes for this, doubtlessly most troublesome time of
world history: "Many shall be purified and made white, and tried" (Dan.12:10).

I believe the church still needs to be purged thoroughly from its lukewarmness, its infatuation with
materialism and the world (as in: the System) per se.)

Mentioning and quoting from the book of Daniel Jesus, in Matthew 24:29-31 makes it totally plain
that "immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days shall ... appear the sign of the Son of man
(Jesus) in heaven. And ... His angels... shall gather together His elect (chosen ones)..."

Some Pre-Tribbers claim that He was referring here to the Battle of Armageddon, but if this is not
a clear description of the Rapture, I don't know what is.

Incidentally, we have Him mention here (verse 31) the "great sound of the trumpet," which we find
again in three other references to the Rapture: In his first description of the Rapture, Paul tells us,
in 1.Corinthians 15:52-53: "I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be
changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."

In his first letter to the Thessalonians (chapter 4:16, 17) Paul writes about this terrific incident,
which marks the end of the world as we know it: "For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven
with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with Him in
the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."

In the Book of Revelation we find out what Paul was referring to as the "last trump" in 1Cor.15:53."
When the Lamb of God (Jesus) opens the 7 seals of the future in John's visions, upon opening the
7th seal, 7 angels appear with trumpets, each heralding another cataclysmic Endtime event (see
Rev.5-10). When finally the 7th angel sounds his trumpet, we read: "In the days of the 7 th angel,
when he shall begin to sound, they mystery of God should be finsihed, as He hath declared to His
servants, the prophets" (Rev.10:7).

Finito. In other words, there won't be another 3 ½ years of world history left to go, but it'll be all
over now, baby blue! All that awaits earth then is the wrath of God, followed by the Battle of
Armageddon, initiating the tousand years of Christ's reign on Earth.

But there are two more indications of why Jesus won't come back before the Tribulation:

In 2Thessalonians 2:1-11 Paul cautions us not to believe the fairy tale that Jesus could come back
any moment (which most Preachers will tell you, while telling you of their new 10 year building
project of their new church in the next breath), but that Christ could not return unless there should
have been a great falling away from the faith first, and the "son of perdition" (the antichrist) should
be revealed, sitting in the temple, proclaiming to be God. We know that the AC (antichrist) will only
sit in the temple after breaking the Holy Covenant (see Daniel 11:30,31). But Paul even goes as
far to explain why many Christians choose to believe the easy-way-out fairy-tale, in verses 10 and
11: "Because they received not the love of the truth...God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie."

Some folks are simply not that fond of the truth, and rather settle for the much easier to believe
lies the Enemy is handing us.

Finally, we find the church (church= "ecclesia"= the called-out ones) of Christ in Revelation 12, not
being lifted entirely out of this world during the 1260 days or 42 months of the Tribulation, but
merely brought to a safe hiding place in the wilderness. We also find the two faithful witnesses in
chapter 11 prophesying for the full length of the Tribulation.

Seems to me like there's no easy way out, folks! It's natural not to want to go through such a time,
it's natural to be scared, but that's why we've got supernatural means to acquire a supernatural
faith to rise above our natural tendencies to be cowards and wishful thinkers...

In my opinion, with all this evidence pointing toward a Post-Tribulation Rapture, it would sound a
lot wiser to be prepared for it, as our good old Dad always used to say: "Better have it and not
need it, than need it and not have it." Better get some faith today and not be making in your pants
tomorrow when you might find the Antichrist at your door and Jesus refusing to come any earlier
than He always said He would.

What's "The Lust of the Flesh" Anyways? March 9, ‘07

Some churches don't realize what damage they're inflicting on people with their sanctimonious hypocrisy, and they
don't realize the damage they're inflicting on God's image.

We have friends who are having to deal with the matter of sexuality in their churches, and the outcome is usually
pitiful. If a woman has been married once, their church forbids them to marry again. Condemned to a life in solitude.
By whose authority?

It's true that St. Paul recommends for women who leave their husbands, not to get married again (1 Cor.7:11), but
what if the husband leaves her or doesn't accept the teachings of Christ? And what about some of the other
recommendations Paul makes, that are so blatantly ignored by church people? Like "Let no man seek his own, but
every man another's wealth" or his reminder of Jesus' admonition not to judge others (1 Cor.10:24, Mt.7:1, Rom.2:1-
3)? If we stubbornly want to stick to every recommendation Paul every made, women are going to have to cover their
heads while praying, as well: Don't forget your hat when you go to church! Otherwise,shave your heads! That's what
Paul also says (1 Cor. 11:5,6)! So, why is everybody so picky about making sure that other people keep all the things
Paul said about sex, but ignore all the other things at the same time? It's so easy to make sex the culprit for
everything and the epitome of sin in order to divert from the real problems of the church.

If a woman expresses any type of sexual desire, she's being frowned upon and told she needs to get rid of her
demons. Where's all this hogwash coming from? No. It's not from the Bible!

If those ultra-pious, holier-than-thou-and-everyone-else, too-scared-to-be- touched Christians would pause long

enough in their hellfire and brimstone platitudes to really read their Bibles, they would find a truly different God indeed.
A God Who, instead of being accused of being opposed to sexuality, in fact not only created it, but also made it clear
and plain over and over again, that He intended mankind to use it as well.
What was the first commandment He ever gave to man? "Be fruitful and multiply!" (Genesis 1:28). And He didn't only
tell Adam and Eve, before they sinned (and that sin didn't have anything to do with sex as much as with pseudo-
intellectual head-stuffing), but He repeated it to Noah and his sons, to Abraham, to Jacob.

I challenge any anti-sex pulpit preacher (before he's going to get caught in public with another male prositute) to have
a look at the language God uses in the description of His relation to His church, for instance, in the 16th chapter of
Ezekiel! Doesn't sound like the prudish God to me there, that they're trying to sell their congregations in order to exert
power and control over them!

Let's have a look at the real sin, shall we? The word "Lust" that's being used in the New Testament (for the Old
Testament doesn't bear any resemblence to todays religious anti-sex bigotry in Christianity, with God telling one of
His prophets to marry a whore, another to walk around naked, allowing His kings and leaders to have multiple wives,
etc. Read the Song of Solomon, if you don't believe me, or the book of Ruth of Esther!) comes from the Greek word
for "desire, longing." Now, that's traditionally, automatically being slanted to give it a sexual connotation. But sexual
desire is not the only sin or desire that's giving God a hard time. It's probably the least of all evils that men - especially
supposedly pious men - let loose on mankind. As one theologian so aptly put it, there's total strictness when it comes
to "thou shalt not commit adultery," but we have found ways around the commandment "thou shalt not kill" in manifold
ways. Just look at the cheap excuses George W. is giving for his holocaust in Iraq! And if you let him, he'll march into
Iran like Hitler into Poland! It seems that some people's lust is for power! Another much greater evil than sex seems to
be greed and avarice! Others fall prey to the need to deceive themselves as others, simply because they don't care
much about the truth. Fear lets us live out of the pursuit of safety and caring for that outer shell of ours, neglecting our
souls, failing to trust God for all things. Yet others constantly avoid confronting life's dark sides, they can't take things
seriously, because they're addicted to fun & pleasure, or palin too lazy to deal with things. And how about that pride
(as in attention junkies and popularity hunters), self-righteousness, that need, that untamed addiction to always put
yourself above other people? "Oh, no, I'm not like those filthy, sinning unbelievers! (I'm getting my job done in the
dark!")

One can plainly see that "the flesh" consists of far more than that one part that made to be the culprit by the prudish
party. What was it the Mothers of Invention sang? "What's the ugliest part of your body?... I think it's your mind!" (See
Romans 8:7).

It wasn't the sinners, the adulterers, the publicans, wine-bibbers and harlots who sold Jesus out to the Romans to be
nailed on the cross, but the self-righteous, hypocritical religious authorities of His day, just as the same Pharisaical
types crucify their own flocks to this very day in order to be able to fleece them!

If you really want to know where all that sickening prudery is coming from, read this compilation of resources on the
subject of Christianity and Sex. The "Sex is sin" mantra is another political master stroke of the Devil, right next to the
"theory" of Evolution, only that it's a bit older yet.

There was nothing wrong with Adam and Eve's nakedness until after they had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil (they had already known good), which evidently changed their perception drastically.

It's not sex that is the result of sin, it's your warped perception of things! Your sickening, self-righteous extensions of
your own holier-than-thou egos which you try to sell to your flocks as "God," just so you can enslave them, exert
control over them and have them come back every Sunday to make sure they won't lose their Salvation - withholding
from them the truth that they can't ever lose their Salvation in the first place! Thus giving them eternal insecurity,
instead of peace and trust!

The sad thing about it is that you're making the rest of the world - those who are too smart to swallow your lies -sick of
a God Who would be so cruel to equip mankind with sexual organs, only to forbid them to ever use them. It doesn't
compute with intelligent people. That's why Christianity is about to meet its demise. At least that hollow, tainted shell
you dare to call by His name is, and Jesus isn't going to come and pick you up before it's going to happen, either!
The rest of the world has dug long ago that what you're trying to sell them is baloney! They listen to their bodies! They
look at nature - including their bodies - and see that it is "good," not evil, as you try to have them believe! It may not
be "very good" as in the beginning, before the knowledge of evil warped our minds, but it's still, basically "good," and
no worries, He's going to fix it again and make it "very good" in time.

I'm not saying that the major token of our manlihood has never gotten us in trouble. But I daresay it would even be
half as important to all of us, and only a fraction as dangerous, if you religious, pious and prudish ignorants of the true
God hadn't made it such a big no-no to begin with!
And it's by far not the greatest evil around. Not nearly as bad as what your politicians are pulling off every night on the
news. Not nearly as bad as the stench of all that hyprocrisy! When are you going to give the world a break? Probably
never, voluntarily.
I reckon the price is just too high. Giving up all that power and pride. It's humbling to bare yourself before another, and
get down to the nitty-gritty of what God commanded us to do in Genesis 1:28. Probably too humbling for some. But
don't legislate self-righteousness! You're causing way more damage than you're aware of!

"Christ is become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace" (Galatians
4:7).

American Fractions March 21, ‘07

According to newsclips from today, about one fifth of Americans is practically illiterate.

In return, they saw to it that one fifth of Iraquis have lost their homes or lives, and American
soldiers rape one third of their female comrades.

Add all that up and you get nine tenth of Americans so proud of their country, they’d just about
eliminate five quarters of every god-d…… s.o.b. who’d dare to differ from their point of view (that
America is the god-d…… greatest country there ever was on this god-d…… planet).

There WILL Be an Answer April 9, ‘07

Once again, we were watching "Interstate 60" last night, an outstanding little movie about an
imaginary but legendary character, sometimes named O.W.Grant, (he's got a few other names
besides), whose job in life it is, to grant one wish to those he comes across, most of which - to his
amusement - are quite foolish and often selfish, resulting in the usual "leanness to our souls" that
the fulfilment of such requests bring. All until he comes across a different kind of young man who
instead of the usual selfish ambitions only has one wish: to find an answer!

His quest takes him down a bizarre road of events and encounters which first of all seem to open
his eyes to where the answer is not found: Those who seek it in selfish pleasure, intoxication,
clichés, in fact, anywhere else but in the truth, inevitably will be disappointed.

But by refusing to compromise and yield to the ever-present temptations in life, he not only finds
the answers to life's riddles he's been seeking, but also the love of his life.

Sounds like a dream - which, in a way, it is - but it's also that very same day-to-day's reality-
turned-to-dream that we live once we have found the Answer-Man, Jesus, Who supplies us with
the answers to everyday's riddles that life presents us.

As long as we go through life seeking anything else but answers, or even refuse to recognize the
question marks, I reckon, we're not even really living. But for those who truly wish to see and
know and don't settle for any fake, there will be an answer!
The cynics laugh at such starry-eyed naiveté, but they can laugh all they want: it's inevitable --

There will be an answer!

The Discovery of Meaning April 18, ‘07

We've seen the 1962 movie "The Miracle Worker" the other day, about the early life and
conversion of Helen Keller, the girl who was blind and deaf from the time she was 19 months old,
and who was destined to see what many seeing people could not see, and still can't.

The secret all lay in the discovery of MEANING: that every thing – everything - has a meaning, a
name. Before that, her life was a meaningless existence, a simple grabbing whatever she could in
order to feed and still her hunger without any sense or purpose, just darkness and ignorance. Just
like the countless lives of seeing and hearing people today who are totally oblivious to the fact that
there is such a thing as a meaning and a purpose to their existence, other than feeding and
dressing their bodies, the outer shells of who they really are, or moving that shell from A to B in
the most elegant manner or vehicle.

Oddly enough, this confrontation with meaning sparked the fuse of my own meaning and purpose
of existence, which from this moment on will be to help others become aware of the existence of
meaning. Just like Ann Sullivan, the formerly blind teacher who painstakingly managed to convey
the meaning of Helen Keller's world by spelling out the words into her hand time and time again in
an alphabet for the deaf and blind, consisting of hand signs, I am determined to make it my goal to
bring awareness of the fact that there is such a thing as a meaning and a purpose to this life to the
spiritually blind and deaf I am surrounded by on this planet, fully aware of the fact that I will be met
with even much stronger resistance than Ann Sullivan by the initially stubborn and furious Helen
Keller (especially by those who already think they see - as Jesus experienced in the 9th chapter of
the Gospel of John).

In fact, my own life will be meaningless unless I manage to convey to someone, anyone out there
the concept of meaning, the awesome but true notion, that in fact, our life - and everything in it -
does have a meaning.

Drilled and brainwashed into believing that as results of innumerable random "coincidents" in
Space, zillions of years ago, there is nosuch thing as "meaning" to all of us insignificant
"accidents," conveying the concept of meaning to people will certainly be a tough job, but the only
worthy cause I can think of. How could I join the masses in their endless game of routinely
feeding, dressing and spoiling merely the empty shells of their true beings, when I have once
been blind myself, void of the knowledge that there was a light, oblivious to the concept of a
meaning to anything, much less my own existence?

It was a medicine I didn't want to swallow at first, a truth I initially refused to hear, the one that
eventually healed me of my spiritual blindness, deafness and inability to truly communicate. I was
just as reluctant to accept and embrace the Teacher as Helen, kicking and slapping His face over
and over again, only to finally succumb into the arms that assured me of their everlasting,
unconditional love.

Yes, there is a purpose to life, ladies and gentlemen, including every oh so seemingly
meaningless thing, event and paradox in it, and thus there has to be One Who puposed it,
planned it. And what other, simpler meaning could there be in life, than discovering that Maker,
and finding out from Him, personally, what exactly it is He destined and purposed us to do?
If you don't know who you are or what you're on this planet for, or you refuse to believe that a
superficial existence is all there is to it, I can personally promise you that - as unbelievable as it
may sound - you can and will find the answers to all those question marks in your search of God,
Who, by the way, is very eager to be found by you! He knows you can't make it without Him,
anyway, at least not truly successfully, and definitely not happily, and He's just waiting for you to
wake up to the fact that He's there. He's been there all the time. With the answers to all your
questions, the key to every door, and a meaning, a name and a purpose to every little thing you
have thus far been clueless about. If you don't believe me, ask Him!

A New Covenant May 14, ‘07

I'm coming to the conclusion - not without the usual, probably considered highly heretical input
from above - that another monumental change is happening in our era, similar to when Christ
walked on earth 2000 years ago in order to establish a new covenant between God and men.

The old covenant (testament) had been between Him and the physical descendants of one man,
Abraham, more specifically, the branch of the descendants of his son Isaac, also called the Jews.
That covenant also roughly lasted 2000 years, until that race proved to be unworthy of the right to
the title "the people of God," or His exclusive representatives.
After Christ died - simultaneously with the passover lambs that were being prepared by every
pious Jew around the world, and embodying the very symbolism of each one of them, yet without
most of them recognizing this fact, and the temple veil was supernatural rent in two to reveal to
the world that the arc of the covenant wasn't there anymore (by the way, you can stop looking for
it; the Bible tells us where it is in Rev.), the old covenant was dead. In order to become a child of
God from henceforth, all one had to do was not just have the luck to be born of a special, chosen
race, but to accept the sacrifice God made in offering up Jesus, His "Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world" (Rev.13:8).

So, for 2000 years, the people of God had a new name. They called themselves Christians. I'm
coming to the point, though, where I see that the new people of God, the Christians, are erring just
as much from the true basis of their faith, and are straying just as much from God, no matter how
vehemently they claim to be God's people nominally, as their ancient predecessors did, and God
must be looking around for anybody, from any faith or religion, to do the job the Christians refuse
to do, and be living samples of the truth the Christians refuse - to either accept, or to live and
obey. One of those men of God, for instance was the Hindu Mahatma Gandhi, who probably lived
a better and truer sample of what a Christian was supposed to be like than each and every other
Christian on earth during his life-time, put together.

That doesn't mean I'm promoting Hinduism. It just means that God can use anyone, even a Hindu,
to promote the true meaning and essence of Christianity, if He can't get any of the Christians to do
it. I'm coming to the conclusion that Christ is exclusively for the Christians no more than He was
exclusively for the Jews.

Of course, most Christians will probably want to stone me now, just as the Jews stoned Stephen,
one of the early Christians - from the time when a Christian was still a follower of Christ, not
Mammon - who proved that the rug of God's anointing had been pulled out from under Jewish feet
and given to true believers in Christ.

Back then, it cost something to be a believer in Christ: you had to pay the price of persecution for
it, of being an outcast. A Christian was a member of a minority group, a small, perecuted and
highly controversial sect. Those Christians have long since moved from the arenas of the Roman
colosseums into the grandstands. They're no longer martyrs, but they make martyrs of others:
fellow Christians, Muslims, Hindus, whoever stands in their way.
No wonder most honest people in the world are disgusted by the term "Christian." It has become a
term that stands for anything but what Christ stood for: exploitation and supression of the poor,
domination of anybody too weak to defend themselves by the "Christian," Western "civilization."

Those dear Christian brethren simply haven't realized that they've been infiltrated and taken over
by the other side, and the spiritual stench of their house has become so bad that God had to
move out, run and hide elsewhere, anywhere He would find shelter among humans, in the hearts
of the humble, whether Christan or not, the true People of God.

The People of God are the People of Love (see John 13:35). If they don't happen to call
themselves Christians, I won't blame them. Can you?

God's mind on the matter:

Coming Home May17, ‘07

There's a beautiful scene in the movie "Antwone Fisher," which describes death for a believer, or
coming Home to Heaven better than anything else I've ever seen, and is all the more touching
when you realize that the film is a true story. Antwone Fisher is one of those beautiful people still
walking on this earth who never had a true home on this earth during his early years, having been
raised in orphanages & foster homes accompanied by traumatic childhood experiences.

His Navy Psychiatrist (one of Denzel Washington's best characters ever) encourages him to go
and find his real family in order to get at the root of his problems with aggression & feelings of
worthlessness. And so, when he finally does find the family of his deceased father, there comes
the most beautiful scene in the whole movie, where he enters his aunt's house and meets all the
relatives he never even knew he had, everybody eagerly welcoming him, introducing themselves
briefly to him with excitement, until finally his aunt gives the signal to open a double door to the
dining room, where the old members of Antwone's family sit awaiting him at a richly decked table,
very similar to a dream he had at the start of the movie.

An old lady (presumably Antwone's grandmother), obiously too weak to even speak, knocks on
the table in an effort to demand attention and beckons Antwone to come to her with outstretched
hands. Gazing into his eyes, hands in his, and recognizing her long lost son in this, newly found
grandson, she finally utters one heartfelt "Welcome," and in this moment you feel like, if you'll ever
make it to Heaven, this will be the only word you'll want to here.

So many of us are wandering through life like Antwone Fisher, like Orphans, oblivious to the large
family that awaits us when we'll finally come Home from this life's search and journey. We
sometimes feel abandoned, too, worthless, often not even due to any wrong we've done, but
simply because we figure that there is nobody who loves us enough to have stuck it out with us.

And yet, I am convinced that every person has a huge family awaiting them in eager anticipation,
like Antwone Fisher, consisting of ancestors we may never even have heard about. We may not
know them, but they know us alright.

Some folks may not be all too keen on being confronted by no high and mighty angels when they
get to Heaven, perhaps confronting them with all the wrong they possible might have done. But
everybody, I'm sure, can be looking forward to coming Home to their true family, the ones of
whom you'll know, "that's where I belong. These are my people," and I bet that's one event
making Heaven a worthwhile Place to look forward to and hope we'll eventually wind up there.
Maybe it will take some of us a longer detour to get there than others, but I have a notion that
sooner or later we all will. We all will (John 1:9).

The Disappearance of Truth from the Web June 12, ‘07

Is it just happening to me, or is the good stuff slowly disappearing from the web, and only the crap
remains? Videos that gave some real valid information on the NWO and were still available until
recently from Google videos or even YouTube have disappeared and what remains is some sad
tales of former vampires & dweebs who ascribe God Himself to the geniuses of the Illuminati,
including the Bible and everything in it.

Of course, that's not a new tactic, to make God and His people look like the culprits, but it always
leaves a little bit of a sober bytaste, every time you realise that yet another little bit of truth is
disappearing.

Get ready for the Great Confusion...

Tribute to Yusuf Islam

June 23
A few days ago I came across a Google video documentary on Yusuf Islam, the 70s Pop Star Cat
Stevens, who was doubtlessly one of the major musical influences in my life, next to people like
James Taylor, the Beatles or Stevie Wonder, etc.

What was so very special about the path Yusuf Islam has chosen, however, is the fact that he left
his worldy career of fame and glory for a spiritual one, and for very much the same reasons that
prevented me from ever seriously taking necessary steps conducive to a life of fame and fortune
in the first place.

What was all the more amazing to me, though, was that Yusuf, just as I noted earlier about
Gandhi - although his spiritual path was one that according to outward appearance seems to be in
opposition or competition of sorts to the Christian path I chose- seems to be doing a much better
job at being a true "Christian" than so many others of my fellow-Christians (not excluding myself).

I asked the Lord about this phenomenon of those outstanding members of other religions like
Gandhi and Yusuf Islam, who seem to be doing a better job at following in His footsteps than the
large majority of Chistians I have seen in my days, and He answered:

"Many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness"
(Matth.8:11,12). It is just so that the children of the Kingdom often take the Kingdom for granted
and despise it, while those who yearn for it from afar treasure it.

I have some outstanding children even among those who are not "official" part of what is
considered to be My kingdom.

Just as the "children of the kingdom" persecuted Me and had Me killed, many of the "children of
the kingdom" of today never knew Me, and I never knew them. While many from the east and west,
from other religions and cultures, readily receive Me.
Just as "He is not a Jew who is one outwardly," so he is not a Christian that is one outwardly only,
and not as he should be, inwardly, worshiping in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh such to
worship Him.

Just as Gandhi could not receive Christianity as the truth for lack of a true sample of My teachings
among those who called themselves Christians, so it is with this one. Yet they both were familiar
with My teachings and lived the truth in them better than many of those who claimed to be Mine.
That doesn't mean that you have to become a Muslim or Hindu in order to find My truth. But it
means that it doesn't matter what you call yourself: you better don't despise My Words, or I may
choose a Hindu or a Muslim to take your crown, because they have lived and practiced My
teachings before you did.

My Bride has gone astray. Can you blame them for not wanting to be part of that stray bride?
They'd rather show their allegiance and adoration for the Bridegroom by showing Him reverence
from afar. They don't want to risk the mockery of the "bride," the old church, who has always
mocked and persecuted the new one.

What really makes the difference is not in what you claim, but actually do, and where your heart is,
while you do it. Who are you really doing it for? Is it just to boost your own ego and to make you
feel better about yourself?

This man has overcome the temptations of the ego and has given the world a monumental example
of a brave and valiant step to take, away from the superficialty and ego-worship of this world to true
and humble and meek spirituality. As I have said of the non-Jewish woman in My day, I must say of
him: "I have not found such faith in all My house!" Nor such dedication, nor such hunger or thirst
for the truth.

the large gist of those who call themselves My people are continuing to lead the world astray into
the worship of Mammon, the ways of self, the glory of the flesh and the worship of the things they
create with their own hands...

My Spirit and My grace, and the Father's love are a lot more all-embracing and all-encompassing
than many Christians would give Him credit for. Their philosophy remains one of separation and
shutting others out, while My call has always been, 'Come!' Whoever is athirst, let him come and
drink of the waters of life freely!

Many of those who claim to have the truth and act as exclusive representatives of Mine, or of God
or His truth will have quite a few surprises waiting for them. That's why it's important that you stay
on the humble path of the seeker and the learner. Keep a 'beginner's mind,' always aware of the fact
that there's so much more to learn than what you think you know already."

Try - Just a Little Bit Harder June 27, ‘07

I've been raving a lot against evolutionists in my rantings. But I've just come to realize that they're
not really all that much to blame. They just don't know any better. I was sitting here munching
some cherries, marveling at their perfection and shaking my head at the blatant defiance of
reason for anyone to assume that the perfection of the earth's natural fruits and their wonderful
variety should have come about by coincidence. "It's a slap in God's face," or something to that
extent I thought.

But then it dawned on me that you really can't blame a lot of people for their choice to reject God,
most of all because of the lack of human samples of what God is really like. Those who call
themselves His representatives on earth are so often so very un-God-like.

It's up to us to give the world a sample of what God is really like, and that's a fight of life and
death, a fight to the teeth, because the Enemy of our souls will do everything in his power to
prevent us from ever getting anywhere in the range of resembling the love of our Creator toward
our fellow humans. It's tough. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. "Try just a little bit harder,"
Janis Joplin probably would have to comment on this.

Yes Ma'am! Let's try – just a little bit harder.

Trapped in Pan's Labyrinth July 5th ‘07

This was the second time we fell for some totally screwed up movie rating from Christianity Today's movie
section. The first time was a while back, when we went out of our way to get "Millions," CT's "most redeeming" of
2004 or 2005 or whatever, which turned out to be about as "redeeming" as "George of the Jungle."

But to give "Pan's Labyrinth" a 4-star (highest possible) rating was downright sick.

The only thing it did for me was to give me a speck of greater understanding of Revelations 12:15-17: "And the
serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the
flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the
dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of
her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."

It doesn't matter what sort of vomit the Devil spews out, earthly-minded and carnal minded people will always swallow
it, even if they call themselves "Christians." I never understood why this was supposed to be all that much of a help
for the true church, though, until last night. The "help" consists of that one and only painful lesson: you can't trust them
for anything. Not even their movie tastes and recommendations of what's good or bad. You can only rely on the Lord.

The people the Devil hates and tries to destroy are those who "have the testimony of Jesus Christ," and in a later
verse in Revelation we find what exactly that means: "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy" (Rev.19:10).

The Devil couldn't care less about pseudo-intellectual pseudo-Christians who swallow his crap, because he knows
he's already got them in his pocket. In fact, his legions of demons are riding on their backs in their war against the true
believers, as depicted in Rick Joyner's visions in "The Final Quest."

Such people only lead others astray, they think they're doing God service, but are in fact fighting for the other side,
they don't gather with the Lord, but scatter abroad, deceiving themselves and others. The ones who pose any threat
and challenge to the Devil are those who have the testimony of Jesus: the spirit of prophecy, those who use the gifts
of the Spirit (instead of their own misled and misleading carnal reasoning) and are being led and guided by God's
Spirit of truth and accordingly show forth the fruits thereof.

The total lack of any trace of God's Spirit, of discernment, and instead, their pseudo-intelligent babble, finally only
serves to help us realize that you can't rely on such people's judgment at all. They swallow the Devil's lukewarm puke,
hook, line and sinker, and go, "Yummy! Moooore!" They are those whom the Lord will spew out of His mouth,
because they are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm, spiritually wretched and don't even know it (see Rev.3:15-17).

It's because their God isn't really the true God, the God of truth, and the God of love. The only reason any so-called
Christian ("because my daddy was a Christian, and the USA are a Christian nation"?) could give a top-rating to a
ghoulish and hellish nightmare concocted by some demoniac, such as "Pan's Labyrinth" is because he finally found a
movie featuring his true god: Pan himself, the demonic principality of the mind, the god of (pseudo-)intellectualism and
carnal reasoning per se, worshiped by millions of Satanists and occultists throughout the world, and recognized,
fought and resisted unto blood only by a few who have the testimony of Jesus Christ, the spirit of prophecy and the
other gifts of the Spirit, such as discernment.

Any true Christian or true believer in the true God, or even a sane non-religious person with a half-way properly
working mind wouldn't have given that movie more than half a star, because it is anything but edifying. It only glorifies
murder, cruelty, bloodshed and Satan's wickedness, and only a spiritually totally deaf and blind person would have
fallen for the thinnest layer of sugar coating the Devil ever had to apply to any of his deceitful devices: the worn out
line about preferring to shed one's own blood to shedding the blood of the innocent. Now, what a revelation!

And such wisdom coming from Pan's mouth in the movie probably means that he must be a "good" spirit, right?
If Pan be your god, then keep on, dude, and serve him, but me and my house, we shall serve the living God of truth,
Whom you know not, probably have never known, and which is probably why He will say to you, "I have never known
you" (Mt.7:23; 25:12).

Thanks for opening my eyes yet another bit more about where Christians and Christianity today truly stand: certainly
not on God's side. So, get out of our way, and stop wasting our time! We have a war to win!

"Ye Shall Be As Gods..." Aug. 9 ‘07

"Ye shall be as gods." A promise that would change the course of history of mankind drastically, and affect each
man, woman and child's life ever since the very beginning. One simple choice - perhaps carelessly made on a whim -
turned creation from a heavenly state into something a lot more like hell for most of us, while enabling some to create
their own, artificial little "heaven on earth," where they would be able to play god themselves.

Are you one of them? Let's find out. In what way does Satan's temptation, offer and promise to us mortals, "Ye shall
be as god's," manifest itself in our lives? In more ways than one, and a lot closer to home than some dare think.

First of all, one aspect in which probably most of us have fallen prey to it, is the urge to provide for ourselves, instead
of letting God be the Provider. Before the Fall, man did have to work and look after the garden, name the animals,
etc., but it was obvious that everything around him was a gift from his heavenly Creator. Only after the Fall was man
doomed to till the ground in order to bring forth from it his own sustenance, and we've all been plodding away at that
doom ever since. And that in spite of the fact that Jesus came to liberate us from that slavery to the treadmill of
existing merely for our own survival, in fact, challenging us that we would not be able to serve God and the false god
of wealth at the same time, but that He would supply all our needs, if we were determined to put His cause first in our
lives and serve Him. How many Christians doyou know who really believe that?

Next, being "gods" has enabled us to create our own "reality." Before the Fall, man already had the knowledge of that
which was good. Thus, when he chose to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the added factor was, in
fact, the knowledge of evil, the stuff he didn't know before, and that made him so curious & fascinated them to a point
where they would disobey God. The first piece of "knowledge" (or let's call it perception) that Satan gave them, apart
from the fact that God was a liar ("ye shall not surely die") and the divine status (ye shall be as gods") that was
awaiting them in exchange for the forbidden snack, was that it was wrong to be naked. While God obviously didn't see
anything wrong with it, but even told them to have sex when He uttered His first commandment, "Be fruitful and
multiply," the Devil obviously didn't agree (so, contrary to what we tend to think, the Devil hates sex, and he sure
hates us producing offspring!), and helped Adam and Eve to see things his way, which made them ashamed of their
nudity and gave them the urge to hide and cover up. "Welcome to your new reality, folks!"

Of course, this was a sad, but one of the more harmless lies that have pervaded our perception of things ever since,
compared to the notion that it's perfectly alright to kill in order to further our own interests, all the way to our more
recent dogmas putting us on one level with our "relatives," the monkeys and reducing us from our former, more
glorious position of potential "gods" to mere "monkey-gods."

This also touches on a third aspect in which our "god-hood" influences us every day, because what enables us to kill
and annihilate entire nations, races or peoples, is the ability to judge. We judge others and look down on them
because they are different than we are, thus putting ourselves above them ("gods," after all), and thus condemning
them, as the ruling and reigning authority over them, to the loss of their freedoms, their homes, their limbs, their lives,
whatever we can get away with.

We have also become the masters of creation, doing the same kind of stuff we do to our fellow-humans to our lesser
brethren, the animals, the trees, the rivers, the sky, the earth.

What else do gods do? Oh, yeah, they celebrate - mostly themselves, with wine, women and song, and that's
certainly one thing we're great at: celebrating our own greatness and drowning ourselves in any kind of excess while
we're at it.

Maybe I'm forgetting some aspect of our fake divinity, and if you happen to know another, feel free to let me know, or
just add a comment to this train of thought.

One thing we must not forget, though, is the contrast true divinity constitutes to our momentary enjoyment of our
status as the "masters of the universe." If God were like us, He would probably hate us and despise us for being so
dumb, so short-sighted and superficial, to fall into any kind of trap the Devil puts before us. Thankfully, He's different,
and although in some senses like us (since we were made in His image), yet highly superior. We may not think so,
because in our superficial judgment we figure He must be kind of dumb to let us get away with all this, but what we
mistake for dumbness is in reality an ability to love and pardon that is as superior to our limited capacities to do
anything but wreak havoc and be proud of it, as is the vastness of the universe to the fake space we watch on Star
Trek.

He cannot quit half-way through the show, though, before the end has been revealed and the lesson is obvious, of
where all of this will lead. There is one final chapter yet to be written and added to this epos of "the god called man,"
one which Papa Bush already eagerly announced in the late 80s as the "New World Order" (and others of his likes did
before him), and which will reveal the perfection of man's "divinity" and all he's really capable of without God. Now
we're all curious to find out how that's going to end, aren't we? I give you a clue, though: Don't put your expectations
and hopes up too high. Chances are, you will be disappointed. Just have a look at history. Is there anything we learn
from history apart from the fact that we never learn from history?

In the end, it will turn out that we simply failed to read the small print in the deal: that little word "as" makes all the
difference in the world. While the true God promises true divinity for those who hear Him, all you really get from ol'
Lucy is a fake. All you did was swap the God of truth and love for the god of lies and hate. For the mere "advantage"
of not having to recognize your Creator's authority, you'll get an appearance of freedom, but will always be bound to
the slavery of the flesh, sin, and the head honcho of the same old "new world order" scheme that has been in charge
ever since Adam and Eve let him...

When it all comes down to it, the only One Who can guarantee a happy ending for this mess we've gotten ourselves
into, is the One we should have listened to in the first place.

Six Days and 23 Hours – Or: Why Are the Churches So Screwed Up? Aug.19 ‘07

Anybody who has ever read the Bible and cared about what it meant can tell that there's
something seriously and fundamentally wrong with established religion. The blatant gap between
"Love your enemies" or "You cannot serve God and Mammon" and the actually practiced cult of
violence and greed that has the audacity to officially call itself "Christianity" is too obvious for
properly functioning minds to overlook, as rare as such may have become in our times.

What many people don't actually know, though, is why it is so. Why are the churches so screwed up - so many light
years away from the practice of the teachings of the Man and the Book they so hypocritically claim to follow?

What is it about church that can turn 10-year-olds into atheists (as was my own experience)?

Well, you know the old saying, "If you can't lick'em, join'em," and that's precisely what the Devil did a long time ago,
when it comes to Christianity. Somewhere along the line he realized he simply couldn't wipe those early Christians
out, but that the more they were being persecuted, the faster they spread. No wonder St. Paul wrote that you can't
really be a true Christian without ever suffering persecution. Truly living your faith as a Christian and consequently
experiencing persecution go hand in hand (See 1Tim.3:12).

So, ol' Satan pulled out the peace pipe and realized that by stuffing it with the right blend of lukewarm compromise, he
was able to do a lot more damage to the church (= "the ecclesia" = the "called out ones" from the Devil's matrix, since
he's the one who temporarily runs things down here) than through opposition, namely from the inside.

So, one of the first "improvements" on Christianity the Devil instigated upon joining the church, was to persuade his
fellow-"Christians" to ignore the apostles' and prophets' amonition that "the Most High" does NOT live in temples
made with hands," and suggested, "Hey, now that Rome is an officially Christian empire, why don't we just convert all
them heathen temples into Christian temples, er, churches? After all, we don't have to hide underground in the
catacombs anymore, we can openly strut to our "services" on Sunday & show off our clothes. Why, we can even keep
some of the old idols, errrr... statues of our old pagan gods and goddesses and rename them 'Mary, Jesus, St.
Joseph, St. John,' and so on..."

Never before was being a Christian that comfortable.

Before long, Christianity had moved from the arenas of Rome's colosseums into the grandstands, as they turned from
the persecuted into the persecutors.
No wonder Mohammed was so sick of what he saw in Christianity that he felt urged by God to initiate a new religion
dedicated to wiping out this farce of Christianity-turned-into-idolatry.

Everything went honky-dory for centuries, and some of the heads of the church, supposed followers of Peter, the
disciple of Jesus, who like nearly all the others of the original 12 had given his life for his faith, turned out so diabolical
that there are still groups of believers nowadays who firmly believe that the antichrist is the pope.

Not that I subscribe to that, but just to demonstrate how anti-Christ Christianity has become over the centuries.

But then along came Luther. He just couldn't keep from reading that darned Book, the Bible, and while sitting on the
toilet one day, one simple verse in it struck him like a lightning, and the divine revelation that the commercial system
of selling forgiveness for money, as the Catholic church was practicing (until the early 20th century, in fact), was NOT
Christianity at all, since it said right there that "by GRACE are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is
the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8,9).

In other words, we can't go to Heaven by our works. It's a gift. One can only receive it (see also John 1:12, 3:16, 3:36,
etc.). One simply had to believe it. In order to be able to believe it, the people had to know that God said it, so they
needed Bibles. That was the beginning of the end of the superstition the world had come to know as "Christianity" for
over a millennium...

A millennium which the catholic church officially believed to have been Christ's reign on earth, while for the rest of the
world it pretty much resembled the Dark Ages.

But ol' Lucy didn't give up so quickly quite yet. After all, he had managed to deceive and delude and distract them
Christians once - nah, countless times - before, and he was going to manage to do so again.

He had - and still has - various tactics to do so. After all, he has legions of fallen angels to help him sow division
among believers, tell them lies or tempt them with greed. And if all that didn't do the trick, he could let them fall into
the trap of self-righteousness and have them believe they were better than everybody else.

But on May 1st 1776, he inspired the German Jewish mind of the former Jesuit Adam Weishaupt on behalf of the
heads of the Rothschild family in Frankfurt to call into life an organization, which was going to successfully infiltrate
pretty much all of the established religions available in the world's supermarket of faiths - as well as most of the
world's governments, of course.

If Jesus had His church, His called-out ones of followers, then Lucifer was certainly going to have that, too. Only he
wouldn't choose any bedraggled fishermen from some backwood, God-forsaken province of the deceased Roman
empire. He was going to use the kings and queens of the world, the richest of the rich, those who were worthy of him
and to be called his, the Enlightened Ones.

Apart from enlightening the benighted rest of the world, it was part of the Illiminati's job to make sure that the churches
would stay "enlightened" as well, and not start practicing what that Son-of-a-carpenter Leader of theirs once said.
Luckily, Christians turned out to be much more fond of ceremonies and rituals, and colored windows, organs and
pulpits and paying off their preacher to keep them at peace for serving Mammon, instead of God, for 6 days and 23
hours a week... except for a few stubborn ones who insisted on becoming missionaries - but apparently there always
must be a few fanatics around.

After all, they had been into this type of churchianity for centuries now, and like the chained eagle running back into
the rut he had worn around the stake in the ground even after the chain had been taken off - Christians flip-flopped
right back into their rut of churchianity, and pretty much didn't care too much about all that stuff Jesus had said about
loving everyone and forsaking material possessions in order to follow Him... After all, that was 2000 years ago, and
we had evolved into something much smarter than those apemen back then, right?

Right. That's why you'll find a statue of Charles Darwin right along those of the other "great" philosophers (like Jesus)
in Rockefeller's Riverside Church in New York. Now that's a family that knows how to keep their fellow humans
enlightened about what is politically correct to believe and what not, even if you must insist on calling yourself a
Christian. And it helps to have the money, too, to make sure that the preacher will preach exactly that, to keep all
those "Christians" as nice, obedient slaves to the Matrix 6 days and 23 hours, 52 weeks a year.

They also have enough money to finance the National Geographic society to make sure that some archeologist
periodically finds another "proof" that we all come from the monkeys. And for those who insist on believing the other
version (God made the world, and He could have done it in 6 seconds but chose to use 6 days for it), just put a lunatic
in the White House who claims to believe that same stuff, and that will cure the half-way properly thinking rest of the
world from such fanaticsim.

It's interesting to note that the spreading of Christian fundamentalism was part of the "Majesty 12" agenda for bringing
about the New World Order. Have some people who claim to believe what the Bible says and preach it incessantly
while at the same time behaving like Adolf Hitler, and that will cure the world of Christianity for good.

So, what's wrong with Christianity today? The same that has been wrong with it for nearly 1700 years. But you're not
going to believe any of it, anyway, because you're smarter than to believe that the Devil actually exists, right?

Or, if he does, that you, a Christian, could actually have been so dumb to have fallen for his deceptions all this time,
right?

Right...

"He that thinketh he standeth, let him take heed, lest he fall."

Our Idea of Heaven Sept.18 ‘07

One of the outstanding (some probably say outlandish) factors about the belief in the 6 day creation of the world
as described in Genesis, is that God created the earth before all the other stars and planets. What an utterly
preposterous statement to make in the light of all that we "know" today about Evolution... or all that we think we know.

Who is man to think that his tiny little planet should be the first ever created? Certainly one could easily agree that
behind all this stuff in Genesis wasn't much more than wishful thinking... merely one of the steps in the human mind's
process of creating God: a child-like attempt to figure out how a God Whom we just invented, created us.

One would think.

UNLESS there's something we're missing. A few details about our future, and why our crummy little planet (compared
to some of those huge monsters out there) should have been No.1, at least according to the Creator's timetable.

If one is to believe in the Bible at all, without interpreting every verse as "symbolic" or mataphorical, then we find at
the other end of the Book, namely the final 2 chapters, Revelation 21 and 21, that there's a greater purpose in store
for the earth than just to serve as a garbage heap for present day industrialists: As unbelievable as it may sound,
according to Revelation 21:3,4, this puny planet, howbeit in a wonderfully restored form without seas (rendering quite
a bit more living space for its populace), is going to be the Home of the vast Heavenly City, New Jerusalem. In other
words, God has chosen this little, not-so-old planet for His future Headquarters, and it doesn't sound as if He were
planning to move elswhere anytime soon after that.

So, if God has chosen the Earth to be His eternal HQ, it puts His making of that thing called earth in a slightly different
light, doesn't it? All of a sudden, this place wouldn't just be one more insignificant spec of dust in a haystack of
galaxies anymore, but quite something special...

Providing you have the childlike faith to believe all that, of course.

Maybe Earth is and was always meant to be only the beginning, the place from which the rest of the physical universe
is going to be populated... I'm saying physical, because there's already a lot going on in the other, what we'd call non-
physical dimension, a.k.a the Spirit World, the place where God momentarily abides, that we don't know of. Talkin'
'bout aliens! Even in the Bible, as old as that Book may be, you'll find aliens and U.F.O.s gallore, as described in
chapters like Ezekiel 1 or Revelation 4...

So, Heaven is going to be pretty down-to-earth someday. It's definitely not going to be anything much like the way
most people imagine it, floating around on fluffy white clouds. Nor can I imagine that folks in that Heaven on Earth are
going to walk about dressed in suits, the way we see them depicted in "Watchtower."

Our idea of Heaven is somewhat different...

Thou Shalt Love Oct.13 ‘07

In my treatize on "Bible Verses Most Christians Choose to Ignore" I've brought out some of the
advantages and reasons that make me stick to my Family, even after 27 years of ups and downs,
constant spiritual revolution and the accompanying controversy that's bound to appear as a side
affect...

But I think I left out one - probably the most important factor.

Nearly every church or congregation has a verse that they choose as their dogma, their highest commandment: for
the 7th Day Adventists, it's the commandment to keep the Sabbath. For the Pentecostals, it's the gift of tongues. For
most Catholics it's probably just being catholic. For Baptists, as for Mormons, it's the water. And then there are those
red-white & blue flag waving patriots and warmongers who still seem to be clinging to the Old Testament dogma of
"an eye for an eye..." (Not to mention those cunning politicians and leaders who pose as Christians, when in reality
subscribing to the god of this world. You can recognize them by a very devout dedication to the 10 commandments:
"Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not covet; thou shalt not lie, etc., except that they always omit the word "not" from each
phrase.)

Now, the highest, greatest, and yes, even only commandment the Family adheres to, above all, and which has been
the gist of our message from the very beginning, is the very same one which Jesus Himself described as the fulfilment
of all the laws and the prophets (Matthew 22:37-40), namely, to love God and our fellowman.

As our leader and shepherdess wrote, "The only thing that matters is love."

In other words, our religion is love, and as one nature-born sucker for love, I can only say that that's the only religion,
in my opinion, ever worthy of subscribing to.

For most Christians, love is probably not enough. They need buildings, rituals, certain amounts of physically visible
success as manifested in the abundance of the things they possess, but you can keep all that, if it makes you happy.

As for me, I'll choose love any day above that. After all, if God IS love, as the Bible tells us clearly, then what higher
thing could there ever be to strive for?

When love becomes your religion, it becomes more than that. Most Christians keep their religion tucked away well
hidden from everybody else, in some neat little corner in their lives they reserve for God: that hour on Sunday
mornings, or that brief devotional reading or prayer sometime during the day, which I don't want to minimize or put
down.

But when you truly seek to adhere to the first and great Commandment of Love, it becomes part of every facet of your
life. And I think that's precisely what Jesus was trying to teach us. He was precisely trying to convey to us the
opposite of the "separation of religion and state" of our minds and affairs. He was saying, if it's the Real Thing, you
can't keep it separate. After all, re-legio(n) is about putting things together, not taking them apart.

So, anything less than love is not enough (true) religion for me. Anything else is at best a cheap imitation.

How does your faith manifest itself in your life? How does your religion come across in your interaction with others
every day? How much do you express your love for God and others on a daily basis? How real is what you believe
in?

Dr. Pious & Mr. Cool

Oct.26 ‘07
I've been listening to a bunch of Christian artists from the Acoustic Praise Café on Word of Truth Webradio, and
noticed how a little bit of variety in the lyrics would really be refreshing, since it seems that a lot of them have a very
limited vocabulary in which they have thus far learned to express their love, affection and devotion to God.
I've also been trying to imagine how they would talk in every day language, and about the probably vast difference
between the way they sing and then actually talk, since they probably aren't very likely to address their friends in
Shakespearean English: "Thy countenance dearly pleaseth me this day, beloved friend..."

It kind of strikes me as some kind of double-life, and it's one that I'm personally all too familiar with. We think we've
got to tuck our religion away, keep it safely within the confines of our church or allotted time-slot of worship and
praise, and then put on our "just-like-everybody-else" act again, as soon as we step out of our sacred halls into real
life again, lest someone should get offended or think we're nuts.

Contrary to that, King David wrote, "I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall be continually in my mouth."
Again, the people I know who come closest to that, are The Family, although I must admit that our habits to praise the
Lord continually have died down somewhat in recent years.

But if you'll visit any Family Home, you're probably very likely to hear the terms "praise the Lord" or "Thank You,
Jesus" a lot more than anywhere else in the world.

If the "Most High dwelleth among the praises of His people," then we should make an effort to make Him feel at home
with us.

It's also a matter of deciding, instead of "being conformed to this world," to "be transformed by the renewing of our
minds." According to the ways of the world, we consider things we like, to be "cool" or "great," or "awesome," which is
okay, but why not give credit to the One Who made'em that way? And that means, not just praising the Lord in church
or whenever we sing our songs of praise and worship, but, as the Bible says, continually and "giving thanks always"?

If you've read Merlin Carothers' "Prison to Praise," you'll know what a powerful weapon it is, and how it can change
lives. So what if others might think you're some kind of a religious fanatic or freak? Who are we trying to please? God
or man?

Even if we don't have the faith to be praising God in front of unbelievers, at least our own Homes should always be
filled with praise, and our friends and spouses should be used to hearing us praise, instead of resorting to the lingo
we inevitably pick up from the movies...

Otherwise it's like some Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde syndrome, where we put on one face and personality on one occasion,
and the other one on others, "Dr. Christian and Mr. Normal," or "Dr. Pious and Mr. Cool," etc.

We can develop the guts to just be ourselves, instead of what all our peers around us dictate is cool and accepted
and what's not. Have you ever noticed how kids are being drilled into uniformity these days by the media? If Hitler
would have had those sort of tools, he would have conquered the world. And as I always say, the next "Fuehrer" is
going to come for sure...

Are we going to be mature enough Christians next time, to have the guts to dare to be different?

The Corporation Nov.9 ‘07

Last night we watched "The Corporation," and it confirmed just about everything I often voice so
vehemently, that I later find myself having to apopogize for it, such as in a reaction to an email
from my sister about a book about how Islam is supposed to be the great evil menace of world
peace.

You can wrap up just about any old b***sh*t and sell it to people as truth, if you just make the wrapping appealing
enough. After all, it's so much more comfortable to believe that those bloody Arabs & Muslims are to blame for
everything, instead of those liars who are running our everyday lives, enslaving us by promising us freedom.

It's much more comfortable, especially for people who are easily frightened, than all those uncomfortable movies &
books by people such as are featured in "The Corporation."

For weirdos like me, it's so comforting to find out I'm not the only lunatic who doesn't swallow all that crap they're
trying to shove down our throats, who sees the connection between the 3rd Reich and today, and who refuses to
watch another minute of the mass-manipulation they're spouting out through television.
I even believe that "The Corporation" disproves the paradigm of Evolution. See, according to today's level of
"education," evil is a thing of the past.

That was back in the stone ages with that Australian dude, Hittler, or something, and his cavemen. But since then
we've evolved into good people, and all them wars and stuff that Mom and Dad sometimes watch on the tube, you
know, the "Nooz," or something, they're just necessary, because there are still a few backwards folks around, like
them dudes with terbuns and stuff, that haven't evolved yet as much as we have, so that's good.

Well, according to my beliefs, and "The Corporation" has wonderfully - though sadly - confirmed that, evil has all else
but disappeared. In fact, it's more sophisticated, more cunning, and more omni-present than ever, to an extent that all
those remote control junkies out there couldn't even begin to fathom...

In other words, we haven't evolved at all, but to the contrary, if anything, we have devolved & gone further down the
drain & the flow of the path the slimy old serpent started us off on 6000 years ago. His people are getting better at it
all the time, and more skilled at making ever dumber and more ignorant zombies out of the rest of the masses, who
couldn't care less what's going on, as long as they've got their entertainment & their fast food...

They're even so smart that they make the only solution & way out of this whole mess, namely Jesus and His dropout
and anti-System message, look like part of the game by having all those duped, lukewarm, flag-waving patriots pose
as "Christians," and making the rest of the world sick of "Christianity."

Time for God's genuine Endtime Army to get movin'!

Hold on, Baby, we're coming!

The Leaven of the Pharisees posted Dec.1, 2007

If you type "leaven of the Pharisees" in your google bar, you'll come up with nearly as many
results and definitions of the term, as there are denominations and churches. For the
fundamentalist hardliners, the Pharisees of today are represented by the catholic church, whose
members, again, have their own definitions.

I find the leaven of the Scribes and Pharisees to be much closer to home than the other side, the
other denomination. The leaven of the Pharisees is a sin we have all committed, especially the
most righteous among us. It is the sin that nailed our Savior to the cross: Self-righteousness.

It's the audacity of thinking we have the right to judge another, blatantly defing Jesus' own
commandment He gave us to "judge not that ye be not judged" (Matth.7:1). But we go ahead and
do it anyway. We go around and call others "fornicators" and "adulterers" because they live
together "in sin" without a marriage license.

We go around and tell others the Satanic lie that they can lose their Salvation if they don't watch
out and stop sinning, quoting the only verse most Christians ever memorize on Salvation
(Phil.2:12): "Work out thine own Salvation in fear and trembling" (Ahhh, it feels so good to cause
others to feeeaaaar and trrrremmmmble, doesn't it? - So who's the pervert here?).... Of course,
totally ignoring the dozens of Scriptures that make it quite plain that Salvation is a gift of grace,
only to be obtained through faith, and without works whatseoever. What Paul was referring to in
the verse above, is what we make out of our Salvation in this life, and what kind of a life we build
on the foundation of the new life in Christ. But our eternal Salvation is a gift of God (Ephesians
2:8,9), and if God is Love (1John 4:8), then He won't jerk that gift away from His child everytime
he sins.

Besides, sinning is something we all do a lot more often than we like to admit. Those self-
righteous Scribes and Pharisees of today are just trying to make it easier on themselves by re-
defining sin: you are a sinner because you're not married, and I'm not, because I go to church on
Sundays and have a marriage license. According to Jesus, everyone who even so much as looks
at a woman and desires her in his heart, has already committed adultery (Mt.5:28). Now, the only
sort of (male) people I know of who can withstand that natural urge God built into a healthy man's
system, are homosexuals.

Selected Scriptures About the Pharisees:

Mt.5:20 You've got to be better than those who are think they are good, if you want to go to
Heaven.

Mt.12:14 (It was the Pharisees who were responsible for Jesus' death, not the Romans, nor the
publicans and sinners, prostitutes and adulterers!);

Mt.12:34 When the Pharisees accuse Jesus of casting out demons through the Devil's power, He
winds up calling them a "generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?"

Mt.12:39 He also calls them an "evil and adulterous generation." Funny, because it was usually
the Pharisees that point their fingers at adulterers (as they still do!). What is Jesus trying to tell
these people? Perhaps the same thing Paul was trying to tell them in Romans 2:1, that they
become guilty of the same things they judge others of? Maybe the spiritual adultery they commit
with the gods of this world (materialism, power and prestige) and with the spirits of the Devil
(pride, self-righteousness, etc.) are much worse in God's eyes than the mere "sins" of the flesh?

Mt.15:3 Here Jesus replies to their accusation of having broken one of the formalities of Jewish
law by asking them, "Why do you break the law of God by your tradition?" What IS the law of
God? In Mt.22:36-40 Jesus makes it plain that the law of God is LOVE, and all the other little laws
are fulfilled in that one. In other words, the traditions of both Scribes and Pharisees of yesterday
and of their self-righteous followers of today are breaking God's true law!

Mt.15:5 He goes on to say that they are making the law of God of none effect by their traditions.
Why is it that you find anything but love in those churches? (John 13:35).

Mt.15:8 They're always praising God with their lips in their church services, but then treat their
fellow humans with the very self-righteousness of the Devil, oblivious to the fact that they are
putting God at the same distance from their heart to which they exiled that sinner they judge.

Mt.15:9 Such worship is empty and vain in God's eyes. They're replacing God's law of Love with
their own man-made rules: "Thou shalt not this and thou shalt not that, and thou shalt not the
other," instead of "Thou shalt love!"

Mt.15:14 They're blind guides (thinking they see - John 9:41), destined for a hard landing.

Mt.16:6 Beware of the leaven of Self-righteousness!

Mt.21:23-46 Jesus responds to their questioning His authority by a parable in which he exposes
their plan to kill Him and announces that the Kingdom will be torn away from them and given to a
nation that would bring forth the fruits of the Kingdom. Instead of self-righteously judging lonely
people, they ought to win their souls to Christ and bring forth fruit for the Kingdom, instead of
chasing them in the other direction!

Mt.23 - A whole chapter full of advice from Jesus to both His disciples and the multitudes about
the Pharisees, which He probably knew were going to be around for as long as the Devil himself:

verse 3: You can listen to their sermons, but don't follow their sample! They don't practice what
they preach!
Verse 4: they burden you with rules that they wouldn't even think of keeping themselves.

Verse 13: Woe unto you Pharisees! You won't allow others to go to Heaven, and you won't go
there yourselves!

Verse 14-16: Woe! Woe! Woe!

Verse 23: Woe unto you: Keeping your little traditions, you have omitted the weightier things of the
law: (true) judgment, mercy and faith!

Verse 25: Woe unto the hypocrites! All clean on the outside (pretence) and all filthy on the inside
(in God's eyes)!

Verse 28: Appearing righteous, they're really full of hypocrisy and sin.

Verse 33: Doesn't look like they're going where we're going.

Verse 34: The Pharisees ceased to exist after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, only 40
years after Jesus said this. So, who is He talking to? Who are the prophets and wise men and
wiriters they keep persecuting?

John 8:15-59 Probably the most remarkable conversation between Jesus and the Pharisees
recorded in the Bible, during which He plainly tells them, "Ye are of your father, the Devil," which
causes them to try to stone him.

John 9 - A chapter describing the pitiful dilemma with the Pharisees: no matter what good you will
do, they will never recognize it unless you play the game according to their rules, the only
standard they accept is their own, and the only world they see is their own. According to Jesus,
they see nothing at all.

John 11:53 They kill the love, they kill God's gift of love, they kill...

Acts 7:51-58 ... and kill again. The story continues.

Nowadays they may not kill the prophets physically (they probably would, if they could, as the
inquisitors and other Christian rulers have done for centuries), but they still spread death through
their false doctrines of "eternal insecurity" and fear, that one might lose their Salvation, if they're
not good enough.

And, of course, they can legally exterminate tens of thousands of people who dare to believe
otherwise through their practical little instrument called war. Just elect a warmonger for president,
and you'll have those God-darn heathen taken care of big-time.

"Here I am, an empty hallway

Broken windows, rainy nights
I am 1962 and I am ready for a fight
People crying 'Hallelujah!'
while the bullet leaves the gun
People falling, falling, falling
and I don't know where they're falling from."
(Jann Arden, "Unloved")
The Infiltration of the Church - "Many Shall Cleave to Them With Flatteries" (Dan.11:34)
Dec.18, ‘07
Recently we saw a movie I didn't particularly like, nor would I recommend for anyone to undergo
the agony of viewing it, since it wasn't exactly edifying, but nevertheless, it kept me thinking for
some reason. The plot: An Irish Mafia boss raises a kid to become his spy with the local police
force, while at the same time his gang of criminals is being infiltrated by a less than lucky cop. In
other words: a bad guy pretending to be a good guy who spies on them and betrays them, vs. a
good guy pretending to be a bad guy. Both get killed in the end, and you feel like the one
deserved it, but the other didn't.

It kept haunting me, though, and naiv as I am, I just can't help not believing in coincidence...

My personal - howbeit deceased - "guru" once wrote: "It's funny we never hear much about Judas
in the churches, when they're so full of people just like him." I know, that hurts. No, this isn't going
to be another attempt at writing my first politically correct blog, either.

But as it is, religious people have a a notorious history for rejecting the good guys who come to
them and tell them the truth, while they usually receive with open arms the false prophets with
their gospels of peace. False prophets were always more popular than the real ones, although it
was usually the real ones who were labeled "false prophets" by the majority during their lifetimes.
But history told the tale. There were hundreds of prophets prophesying peace and safety during
the days of Jeremiah, the solitary voice proclaiming the downfall of Israel, who was tossed in the
dungeon for his "heresies," but when he was pulled out of the hole, his "heresies" had been
fulfilled.

One such modern day heretic was the former witch and Illuminist John Todd, who, during the 70s,
claimed that the church was being heavily infiltrated by witches. Not many believed him. And I
doubt many people will pay attention to my saying "I believe he was right."

You see, I just don't believe in coincidence. Why did I see that bloody movie around the same
time I come across the voice of Rebecca St. James on some web radio station, inviting people to
join her on the "Presidential Prayer Team"?

Now, I know that many folks sincerely believe that the president - Lord, bless his soul - is a
genuine Christian. But then, not many folks are into using the gifts of the Spirit these days, such
as the gift of discernment. Nor are they into Scriptures like "He that liveth by the sword shall also
die by the sword," or "love your enemies." All they know is, "The Bible says, 'God bless America!'"

They're also not into "Insider" information (what they term "conspiracy theories") about Skull &
Bones, the Illuminati & the guys who really run and ruin their country, in efforts to establish Papa
Bush's long awaited wonderful New World Order.

So, they may all wholehartedly join Rebecca St.James - a Christian singer, - judging by her accent
- probably from a country where she wouldn't have aspired anywhere near such heights as "the
Presidential Prayer Team" with Christian music - in their prayers for their "Christian" president and
his troupes that he's sending to slaughter the "wicked" Muslims. After all, didn't God command the
Israelites in the Old Testament to wipe out all the Canaanites?

True. But a lot has happened since then. For example, God - the great I Am, Who created the
earth, became flesh - a human being, and "dwelt among us," and preached a new gospel, namely
that we were to love our enemies and convert them, instead of slaughtering them.
The problem is that people who are into power don't appreciate that kind of message. And that's
why they reject Him. Then and today. Whenever He sends a messenger that gives them the
Words of God for today, they do the same to him, as Jesus prophesied.

While the false prophets are being hailed and honored and treated like superstars. Has God all of
a sudden become the God of the mighty, the powerful, the gun slingers and warmongers? Since
when? Did I miss something?

Or did you miss something? - Namely the part of the Bible that's called The New Testament?

There's a new deal up, folks, and it's not "an eye for an eye" anymore, much less "ten thousand
eyes for an eye," but it's the much less popular gospel of "love thy neighbor as thyself," and "love
your enemies."

Apparently the history of the infiltration of the "good guys" by the bad guys goes back a long way:
the popes who sent their crusaders off to slaughter the early Muslims probably also had their
"Presidential Prayer Teams." And the Inquisition had their own "War on Terror" and "Patriot Act"
and "Homeland Security" going on all along.

It's just that we thought we weren't living in the Dark Ages anymore.

That's really what we thought.

Inconvenient Truths Dec.22, ‘07

Last night, under the motto, "better late than never," we watched Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient
Truth." A bit late, since I have developed a natural distrust toward politicians in general, but during
the course of the film I couldn't help but imagining what a different place this world might be right
now, if Al Gore would have won the presidential elections in 2000...
Being a creationist, it may sound odd for me to say that I would have preferred a president who
believes in Evolution to one who even passed a bill in favor of creationism in parts of his country,
but I kept saying, "This man is intelligent." I mean, he's actually capable of formulating entire
grammatically correct phrases in a row without problems. Not to mention the actual sincere
concern not only for his own country, but the entire planet, which one can tell is real by a look into
his eyes, and not some permanent hideous smirk of one who knows he's only in power because
of nasty trickeries, deceptions and frauds.
It confirms what I've been saying throughout this blog, such as in my articles about Gandhi or
Yusuf Islam, better known as the former pop star Cat Stevens: It doesn't matter what somebody
claims to believe, actions speak louder than words.
Or what I've said about the Pharisees: the religious leaders of Jesus' day basically believed or
professed to believe the same things Jesus did, they read the same Scriptures and called the
same God their Father.
But Jesus corrected them, and told them, that's what they thought, but in reality they were children
of the Devil.
It doesn't matter if one believes or claims to believe all the right things in their heads. If their heart
isn't right, it's of no avail. "By their fruits ye shall know them" (Mt.7:20).
I recently discovered a wonderful web preacher, who pretty much happens to defend the same
point as I, that many people who call themselves Christians, but in reality give ear to doctrines that
"tickle the ear" are simply sincerely deceived, and subject to the spirit of witchcraft, and that they
may have another thing coming...It's kind of encouraging to know that I'm not the only lunatic on
the web preaching such things, although my degree of lunacy probably goes a few degrees
further than that of Monica Dennington.
So, the gist is, even if George Bush really believed what he claims to believe in, (which I
personally doubt, but even if he did,) I believe the world would have been better off with Al Gore
for president. But I suppose, this world isn't destined for any genuine and lasting improvement or
salvation brought by our own hands, because the point God is precisely trying to make is that no
matter how many good intentions there may be, we're just going to make a mess of things without
Him. In fact, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions,"
"and many there be which go in thereat" (Mt.7:13,14), (not to mention those with less than good
intentions).

On the other hand - being the skeptic I am, especially when it comes to politicians - perhaps the
whole things is just part of the plan of making Christians - and especially Creationists - look so
stupid that it won't be hard to convince the rest of the world that they'd all be better off without
them.

Wonderful Counselor 12/22/07

What many people don't know about the Bible is that it contains hundreds of ancient prophecies,
written hundreds of years before they were being fulfilled. Of course, there are those who claim
that the entire Bible is a fraud, just like they would have us believe that God is an invention of
man, instead of the other way around, but I covered that earlier.
One of the ancient prophecies I'm referring to, is the one by the prophet Isaiah from around 700
B.C., which we also included in our Christmas card, shown in our Christmas post below:
"For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His
shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6).
In this, one of the most beautiful prophecies about Jesus' birth, Isaiah describes a child that would
be born, although at the same time it would be "The mighty God, The everlasting Father," etc.
Most Christians refer to Jesus also as "Wonderful," and some, thankfully, still consider Him the
Prince of Peace (not the champion of warmongers), but the one thing I'm particularly thankful for
this morning, which unfortunately is the one attribute that is not so avidly recognized by most of
His believers, is that Jesus is also the most perfect Counselor one could possibly have.
I personally love communicating. Especially about spiritual and heavenly things. And the neat
thing is, so does the Lord. But it seems that in most cases, He needs to trick us into accepting,
receiving, or even becoming aware of most of His attempted communications with us.
Still, the majority of believers consider prayer to be their monologue directed at God. "After all,"
they figure, "He said His piece, and whatever He had to say, in the Bible." And then He quit talking
ever since...

A mute God, instead of a Counselor. There are even some catholics who are smarter than that.
One of them is Richard Rohr, the Franciscan who puts it so wonderfully in his book "Radical
Grace:" "Unless we can presume that the Lord is speaking right now, how can we believer that He
ever spoke? To have an attitude of faith is to hear the Lord speaking everywhere and all the time,
in the concrete and ordinary circumstances of our lives."

There are many Promises in the Bible in which God tells us that He would counsel us, if we care
to listen. God's phone number, Jeremiah 33:3, for instance, says, "Call unto Me, and I will show
thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
In the Psalms He promises, "I will guide the with Mine Eye," or elsewhere, "thou shalt hear a word
behind thee, saying, 'This is the way...'" or "Knock and it shall be opened unto you," "Acknowledge
Him and He shall direct thy paths."
In other words, if you have a little time on hand, but no cash to spend on therapists or counselors
who will "lead thee in the paths" of Nietzsche and Freud, try the best Counselor of all times. In
fact, He's so good at it, advertisement for His services was already written 700 years before He
was born.
Try a little hearing from Heaven, and see what it can do for you!

Happy Christmas to Y'all!

Happy Birthday, Wonderful Counselor!

Preaching At Home Syndrome 1/7/08

I know I'm repeating myself, but it just seems to be a fact that comes slinging back in my face over
and over again: "The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history" (A.
Toynbee).

One particular thing I'm referring to that we don't seem to learn from history, is what I'd call
overcoming the "preaching at home" syndrom: It took the Early Church years, if not actual
decades, until they finally realized and remembered (or at least cared to pay attention to the fact)
that Jesus had bid them to "go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature" (Mark
16:15), and not just to the Jews back home in the "Promised Land."

It took a former enemy of the church, the persecutor Saul turned missionary no.1 Paul, to lead the
way and show that the Gospel was destined for the World, and not just for fellow Jews at home.

Why am I saying that this keeps happening? Well, look at the church today: Who are they
preaching to? When you listen to those big star preachers like Joyce Meyer or a song from one of
the many Christian bands and superstars from the U.S., whom are they addressing? Almost
exclusively fellow Christians. The attitude is similar to that which must have been that of the Early
Church stuck back home: "We like our own kind. As far as them hottentots out there, well, let'em
go to hell: we wouldn't want them around in heaven, anyway."

Not only did the Early Christians initially fail to obey their Lord's bidding to spread out the message
into the whole world, but they even gave the only fellow who actually did the job a hard time, by
criticizing him and his ways of doing it and criticizing his flock ("Your pagan converts need to be
circumcized and eat only kosher food, if they want to be saved," etc.). They most definitely failed
to support him, initially.

It seems that the only thing that finally got them to change their minds on the issue was what God
usually has to use in order to get his people out of their comfy-cozy ruts: persecution. That was a
lesson the Early Church Jews had failed to learn from their ancestors in Egypt.

They'd been having such a great time there in the fertile Nile delta, the land of Goshen, which had
been given to Joseph (son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham - as a reminder) for saving the
world from starvation, that the furthest thing on their mind was getting outta there for some
"Promised Land." It took the rise of some really mean Pharaoh, who was having them kill their
own male babies and use the Jews as a slave work force, that very slowly mananged to change
their minds.

Now, over a thousand years later, the first Christians didn't want to hear anything about that
promise of "I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance." And it took incessant persecution
to finally shake'em up and follow the footsteps of that suspiscious Paul dude...

What will it take for today's Christians to turn their focus outward, toward the lost sheep, instead of
singing and preaching to each other over and over again? Especially those in a certain country
which seems to almost resemble another "Promised Land," which - in the opinion of others - is
slowly turning into a spiritual Egypt?

I guess we'll have to wait and see what God is going to have to pull out of His sleeve this time to
get His people to join the frowned upon few who are already in the fields, tediously raking in the
harvest.

Turns Out... 1/29/08

Turns out that those who have been suspicious about the sincerity of Bush's supposed piety are
being vindicated before Judgment Day. At least the London Times is giving us a wee glimpse of
that "I knew it all along" feeling.
As far as the rest of them goes: no, we'll be good & won't say, "How could you have been so
dumb all along?!"

Also turns out that ordinary dirt appears to be more than ordinary. A fistful of it contains billions of
living organisms necessary to keep things on this planet growing, and consequently, us fed.
The bad news is, it's disappearing. Like so many other things that didn't seem good to us & we
took for granted...
You just can't beat God at anything. Not even at making plain old dirt.

Turns out ... once again, we're not quite as smart as we all would like to think, are we?

Oh, and it also turns out that an even greater pollution factor than transportation (as in cars and
exhaust fumes), as well as occupant of 30% of the earth's ice-free land is the production of the
burgers we stuff down: meat.
No wonder the "Enlightened ones" want us to become vegetarians. After reading this article, one
might even consider becoming one.

Wouldn't be a bit surprised if that's going to be on the NWO's "menu for the masses:" "Repent of
the evil we have tempted you to commit all along!"

Well, I don't mind, as long as I don't have to take that silly mark in my hand or forehead. You can
keep that for your cattle. I promise I won't touch'em. Just don't make us your new cattle.

Turns out that President Sarkozy of France is following in the footsteps of Napoleon and pretty
much dancing to the New World Order beat. But this time I'm not surprised.

Finally, it turns out that, no, this doesn't seem to be quite the end of our beloved paper money as
we know it, before the Big Boys blow out the candle on us, and "the lights in New York will go out
for the last time," although - as we have not dared to hope otherwise, there are darker days
ahead.

You wouldn't have believed us, if we'd have told you that 30 years ago, would ya?
Parallel Worlds?

2/11/08

The fact that there are people who have had to go through extraordinary hardships, and yet testify
that if they had to do it all over again, they wouldn't have it any different, leads one to wonder:

If God's is really in charge, and He's really putting an effort into making this whole stage-play of
world history come out with the best results possible, then who needs parallel worlds? I mean, if
God is omni-scient and can foresee the future, and like Nicolas Cage in the movie "Next," foresee
all the other options, then there would be no need to play them all out in an endless amount of
alternative versions and destinies, each in their own parallel universe, as some claim ought to be
the case, right?

No, that doesn't mean that everything is preset and predestined, either. We still make our choices.
But God does His best to help us make the right ones, and when we don't, to make the best out of
that, too. It's a real, live work of art & Master piece in the making, the Big Picture; and I don't think
it's just one of a gazillion just like it. This is it. The Real Thing.

If life - as bad as it sometimes or even often may seem to us - is the best it possibly can be
(especially for those who try to make the right choices because they love God - see Romans
8:28), then it's really another reason to trust God fully for what He's doing right here and right now
- or, even if He's not doing it all Himself - for what He's allowing to happen.

If we are convinced that in the final analysis, the outcome of our story is going to be the best
possible, a universal lesson on good and evil never to be forgotten by men & angels, then we can
fully embrace everything that's happening, even if it may not look all that desirable to us.

Of course, some things are still left up to us. What's really hard for us to believe and fully realize is
that one of the most significant things we can do in order to influence things and really have an
impact on the course of things is to pray. We prefer to make more physical contributions to the
flow and rhythm of all things and show off how strong we are, instead of availing ourselves of
some invisible Power we're not always quite sure of.

But if we were, then we could certainly trust the universe (and the Power that both created and
maintains it) around us more, instead of deeming it only one of innumerable options that are
happening simultaneously. If God already knew all the other options and possible outcomes, then
this is it. You don't need to look or wait for anything better, nor passively resign to the great
meaninglessness of everyting, but you can put your whole heart into making the best out of the
here and now, fully confident of the fact that you've got very competent help and support.

As usual, this option will sound way too naiv and simple for most people to choose, who live by
the rule, "Why make it easy, when you can make it complicated?" But if you're ever tired of the
confusion and apparent senselessness of it all under your current mindset, try simple and childlike
trust. Yes, in spite of the circumstances and their gross and scary looks.
P.S.: One more thought on the idea of a nearly identical parallel universe. If you look at creation,
you’ll inevitably spot God’s sense for variety. If He doesn’t create one snowflake or egg exactly
the same as the other, it’s not very likely that He’d create another universe exactly like ours, much
less a whole bunch of’em.

Besides, there are whole different dimensions to explore yet already, that we know very little
about. So who needs another world just like this one, with only a few details changed? Not me.

Babylon the Whore

3/1/08

I've been watching the first 7 issues of Chuck Missler's Revelation video series on Google Video
last week, and while I am thankful for the elaborate background information Missler gives on the
deeper significance that lies in the Letters to the 7 Churches, there are also points in which I
personally feel he's totally off the track, such as the erroneous Pre-Tribulation Rapture, of course,
but also his identifying Babylon the Whore as literal ancient Babylon in Iraq. I've also read portions
of Dave Hunt's book "A Woman Rides The Beast," which Chuck Missler repeatedly recommends,
to see whether I would be able to reconcile with the tought that Babylon the great Whore as
described in Revelations 17 and 18 could perhaps be Rome, but also in this case, I must acredit
those two Americans' interpretation of those Scriptures to the same - typical for Americans -
wishful thinking that misleads millions of Christians to belief in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture.

While it is certainly true that Rome and the Catholic Church are guilty of the blood of innocent
millions, and it's certainly true that the remnant of what used to be true Christianity that they are
presenting to the world as such is blasphemous and certainly good reason for God's indignation, it
takes Americans to fail to recognize that the slaughter, rape of the truth and untold bloodshed
perpetrated by their own country over the past centuries makes even Rome look innocent and
saintly by comparison.

Of course, recognizing this fact takes a willingness to face the truth and to see beyond the
"America the Beautiful" image that most Americans and part of the rest of the world (still) are
enchanted with, and a look beyond the official version of history; a look behind the curtains as to
who really financed and instigated the first two world wars, the Russian Revolution, and literally
every other war during the past few centuries of our world's history.

The bloody tracks lead to another "great and mighty city" that "sitteth upon many waters" and
plays the tunes to which all nations really dance, be it financially, culturally or polictically. A city, so
great and mighty, in fact, that modern day Rome looks like a little village in comparison, the
skyline of which you see daily on TVs, billboads and web pages or in movie theatres all over the
world

There is even a town called "Babylon" on Long Island, New York. As (not only) Insiders know, the
Statue of Liberty is in reality an idol representing the Babylonian goddess Semiramis, watching
over her favored child.
Just read for yourself the verses about "Babylon the Great Whore" which shall be destroyed in
one hour, and make up your mind, whether this is most applicable to the Italian city of Rome, the -
howbeit rebuilt - ruins of ancient Babylon in Iraq, or the City which not only houses the United
Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, but also the financers behind it all, including the very
material they're forcing on our kids in school as "truth" every day: Rockefellers & Co.

If you're in touch with reality at all, and you're bold enough to face the ugly truth about your
beloved and oh so great country, you'll see that the other 2 alternatives are pitifully erroneous
wishful thinking cooked up by people whose loyalty is rather to the flag of their country than the
cross, when Jesus told His disciples clearly that they were not of this world, just as He wasn't.

America, it's time to open up your eyes that the rest of the world is seeing through your
camouflage of "democracy." You've just become another big bully world empire, dictating your
views on the rest of the world, you're the greatest oppressor of the poor and innocent this world
has ever seen in its pitiful history, and you're going to reap what you've sown. God promises it,
and there won't be any "Pre-Tribulation Rapture," either, to save you out of it! Oh, and did I
mention it? Your President is a mass murderer, - and he's not the first in line - going down in
history as another infamous villain like Hitler and Stalin, who were ultimately brought into power by
your money in the first place, too.

What you may not know is, that the Beast you're riding on, that wonderful and glorious "New
World Order" your head honchos like Bush Sr., are so eagerly promoting, will turn against you,
rend you in pieces and devour your flesh. Read Revelations 17 and 18 for what they are! Read
and weep!

Google Almighty

Published March 10, 2008

The god of this world has a new name: Google Almighty. If there is any way I can imagine the
antichrist coming into power, it's going to be the same way Google did: Offering quick and easy
solutions for everyone under a facade of "the nice guys from next door," while slowly growing into
a power that - woe if it turns against you.

We all fell for it, that irresistible offer of "X gigabyte and growing" of space in your mailbox, when
Gmail first came out: even in spite of the warnings of our friends, who said, "Did you ever read
their privacy policy?" We shrugged it off & said, "So what? What can they do to us, that would
justify not grabbing such a generous offer?" during a time when Yahoo still held the crown of "the
world's best web-based email," annoying us with its glitches and flashy advertizements...

Oh, and we all went for blogger, when it came up with all it's wonderful new features, and posted
our opinions, thinking that those "nice guys from next door" wouldn't mind if they were going to be
a little bit politically incorrect. That's what you get for thinking.

We posted our videos on google video, uploaded our photos to our google accounts by the
hundreds, and thought, "Oh, well, nothing happened so far, so all our private information must be
safely in their hands."

All until they pulled the plug on you. At first you thought, "Could it be? Google down?!" But then
you find out via the - mind you, infinitely inferior - counterparts, such as yahoo search or dogpile
(ever tried to find a decent site to help you, for instance, download a display driver for a Tecra
8000 via those engines? All the internet demons will come laughing at you, "Thou fool! How can
you even try to achieve this without our god, Google Almighty!?"), that no, Google is not down, it's
just a small "local" problem with their blacklisting system which automatically bars undesirable
users from any of their services. Somehow you fell from grace. Maybe you typed in a slightly
illigitimate query into your google search bar, or accidentally downloaded some trojan that went
"tattling" on you.
Maybe Google Almighty just figured that now might be the right time to give you a glimpse of the
meaning of the word "almighty" out there, in Cyberspace.
(Reminds you of the lunatic in "Dreamscape:" "Down here, I am god, baby!").

It's probably a foreshadowing of the day when the Illuminati are going to pull the plug on us, and
will let us know just how much we'll get accomplished without electricity. You'll wish you had a fire
stove and some candles stacked away, then! (Oh, and plenty of bottled water, since that won't
come running out of your tabs anymore, either...)

I'm slowly looking around for alternatives to Google: I'm going to update my older, perhaps slightly
humbler blogs with less features, & see whether they'll also be barred from Google Search ("F__k
the tags!"). Guess I'll have to look around for a more reliable webmail service, too, or run back to
my Yahoo account (if Google hasn't bought Yahoo already by the time I'm done writing this ...)

One should have known it. Power corrupts. No matter how nice the image. Once you're part of the
Corporate World, you'll dance and play according to their tune, and often it's the young, "open-
minded" and dynamic success junkies who'll become the most viciously loyal slaves of the System
in their do or die quest to become "No.1."

So, how does it feel up there, "Google Almighty?"

So you think the Internet's going to last forever, and there's nothing that could shake you and kick
you off your thrown, do you? Well, I've got news for you: God's wonderful new System is coming
up, one without electro smog and cyber tyrants; most probably (at least if I'll have any say in it)
even without money, and no more machines ruling our lives!

"You may say, I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one..."

Who knows? Maybe there's more to the message of "The Matrix" than even I have fathomed thus
far (being one of the greatest fans of the series I know)... Perhaps there's really something to it:
the war between men and machines, and I have a notion that it won't end in a peaceful truce, like
the fictional trilogy did.
The ancient book of Enoch, which is quoted in the epistle of Jude in the Bible as sacred Scripture,
states that it was the descended (fallen?) angels who taught man all sorts of things they weren't
really supposed to know, such as the art of war, and who knows what else they have taught and
shown us since, perhaps unbeknownst to us? We think of ourselves as so advanced, so smart, so
"evolved," but what if a lot of those inventions man made - both good or bad - were based on
inspiration in the true sense of the word, namely "given by spirits"?
We may claim the credit, but in the end, the Bible says, "What hast though that thou didst not
receive?"
To what extent were spirits involved in the development of our machinery? And if they were
involved in their development, to what extent are they involved in their usage? Whose music are
we dancing to?
Freedom?

March 16, 2008

In what is probably one of the currently most popular and widespread political blog entries on the web,
Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, sheds a little light on what
he calls “Bush’s Freedom Delusion.”

While - as a believer in the afterlife - I don’t necessarily agree with him that “Dead people cannot
experience freedom,…” I do agree that that’s probably not the kind of freedom the Iraqi people were hoping
for. It reminds one of the joke about the preacher in the Wild West who asked his crowd who wanted to go
to Heaven, and everybody raised his hand. Then a drunk gun slinger stands up and says, “You’re not
asking that question the right way, Preacher!” – pulls his guns, and asks, “Now, who wants to go to
Heaven?!”

I guess Bush’s idea of “Heaven” or “Freedom” differs somewhat from that of most clear thinking folk, as
does that of those “religious broadcasters,” who can give a standing ovation and shout “Amens” to such a
farce.

If that’s freedom, then who wants it? If that’s the kind of people we’ll meet in Heaven, then who wants to
got there?

Rightly, Hornberger questions, “If freedom and democracy really was the be-all and end-all for President
Bush, would he really have spent the last several years funneling millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer aid to
his close friend and partner Pervez Musharraf, the unelected brutal military dictator of Pakistan? The
reason that Bush has never supported democracy in Pakistan is because it might produce a regime
that isn’t favorable to the U.S. government.”

It made me wonder. What is it, then, that makes us, in the West, worthy of the luxury of democracy, while
other people are having paid dictators to keep them enslaved? What quality is it that makes us bona fide
candidates for that oh, so glorious golden and shiny bluebird of happiness, Democracy?

You’re not going to like my conclusion.

It’s the fact that we’re already brainwashed. They managed to make us believe their hogwash ever since
we were kids in school, and they ensure that we stay brainwashed by bombarding us with the same old
tunes over and over and over again: when you pick up a magazine at the dentist’s, when you turn on the
tube or the radio, when you go to church, work, or school… They don’t have to worry about us anymore.

It’s like the old story about black Sam, who was a slave on some cotton farm in the South before the Civil
War. One day his master asked him, “Sam, how come you’re a Christian, and yet you seem to be having
so many problems? I don’t even believe in God & don’t have nearly as many troubles as you.” Sam had to
think about that for a while before he was ready to answer. But a few days later, they went on a duck hunt,
and there Sam’s master told him to collect the wounded ducks and leave the dead ones lay. Sam came
back with a big grin to his master after the hunt & said, “I now have the answer to your question, Boss! You
see, I’m a live one. The Devil’s trying to get me bagged, and that’s why he’s giving me so many troubles.
You’re a dead duck! He’s already got you in his bag, that’s why he’s leavin’ you alone.”

Most of us who enjoy democracy only have that privilege because the Devil’s already got us in his bag. We
think we’re free, and take the freedom to give that same freedom to other helpless nations at the point of a
gun, or at least we pay our corrupt leaders to do it, or give standing ovations to speeches he actually made
us believe that he believed their content himself.

Apparently even Hornberger seems to believe that. Well, that’s one more point I disagree with him on.
Guess one day we’ll know.
In any case, now we know – or at least I know what makes us liable for democracy: a propaganda machine
that operates so well that it can keep the masses perfectly enslaved without them even noticing it. We even
applaud our oppressors.

If this is freedom, it makes me wonder if the Iraqis aren’t truly the luckier ones in this deal…

Give Peace a Chance

March 21, 2008

While browsing for a more reliable source of recommendations for edifying movies than Christianity Today
last night (any site rating “Pan’s Labyrinth” higher than “Amazing Grace” must be about as “Christian” as
George Bush, any we all ought to know by now how far his “Christianity” really goes), I finally came upon
“Crosswalk,” a site not free of the hyper-patriotic and warmongering mindset of US-Insanity Today, either,
but at least not as mind-warped & pseudo-intellectually twisted. So, if you’re looking for edifying movies,
that’s the site, we’d presently recommend, rather than CT.

Before we found Crosswalk, there were a few other sites, recommending what they considered the “best”
movies, say, of 2006, and one recommendation that caught my eye was “Shut Up and Sing,” the
documentary with and about the Dixie Chicks, and particularly what happened after their statement in
London in 2003, that they were ashamed of Bush being from Texas.

Being a big-mouth-afflicted artist myself, who has refused to go the way of all flesh for the sake of
popularity, naturally my heart went out for the girls, and we thoroughly enjoyed watching their
metamorphosis from “merely a Country band” into a “furious voice for the truth.”

Even though it becomes clear during the course of the film that the Chicks are not promoting Christian
values or view points, it’s almost as if God winked an eye and anointed them to a somewhat prophetic
voice against the insanity and hypocrisy that so many people have the audacity to actually call
“Christianity.”

Of course, the whole incident reminds one of the episode with John Lennon and the Beatles in the 60s,
after John’s prognosis that Christianity would vanish, and, after all, they were more famous than Jesus.

I ran a Google check recently, ”Beatles” vs. “Jesus,” and while the Beatles yielded a whopping 54.000.000
results, Jesus took the cake with 180.000.000. So, this just shows how fleeting fame and popularity are in
this world. You may be more famous than Jesus one day, but then, never underestimate immortality: it’s
got something that’s going to catch up with you sooner or later.

So, in the long run, John was wrong about that one. Nevertheless, he was right about a lot of other things
he said. For instance, that New York is like the Rome of today. Or “All You Need Is Love” (providing you
truly believe that God IS love, and that He’s capable of supplying all your needs, that is). Or “Give peace a
chance!” (Remember, it was the time of the Vietnam war, a situation very similar to the present rape of
Iraq).

We Christians have a saying, “There is no peace without the Prince of Peace,” but I also believe that it
works the other way around: “Where there’s no peace, there the Prince of Peace isn’t, either,” no matter
how ardently one may profess to believe in Him, or claim to have exclusive rights as His representatives on
earth.

What people don’t realize is that He Himself prophesied that there would be many speaking and acting in
His name, whom He would not recognize as His, but whom He will tell at the end of the world, “Depart from
Me; I never knew you!”
Personally, I can’t blame folks for not buying into the kind of “Christianity” most people are selling as such,
and I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if what Jesus said comes true, and there will be many from the East and
the West, who will enter into His Kingdom before those who call themselves the children of the Kingdom.

As far as I’m concerned, I’d much rather see the Dixie Chicks there than pseudo-pious mass murderers.

I don’t know about you…

Public School Makes Kids Stupid

March 27, 2008
It’s official now, as far as I’m concerned – and what hundreds of thousands of parents of homeschoolers have already
known for decades, I’ve recently found confirmed by serious book authors, such as John Taylor Gatto and Charlotte
T. Iserbyt: Public Schools make kids stupid.

If you want to know the exact reasons for this statement, you can read this paper by Kent Daniel Bentkowski, since
I’m not just writing this blog to confirm what you’ve probably known all along, but I’m aiming at something else.

I’m aiming at a point I just discovered during the past 24 hours, and that is that the public school system is there for a
special – less than benign – purpose. If life itself is a school, and God our great Teacher, then the school system is
what the Devil cooked up in order to distract kids from what God is trying to teach us through everything, to
indoctrinate us and inoculate us against His truth, so clearly visible everywhere in His creation.

When we are children, we still see it, but then the brainwashing starts, and all you see afterwards is confusion.

It’s not wonder that Rick Joyner saw school teachers among the guards and wardens of the “prison of life” in his
vision in “The Call.” Along with other official defenders of the System, they’re one group of “guardians of the Matrix,”
and if they dare to excel above their duty of making sure the kids stay dumb, they will probably run into the same
frustrations J.T. Gatto describes in his books, “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling,“
and “The Underground History of American Education.“

I must give our faith-community, The Family International, credit for having recognized that fact from the beginning
(our founder compared public schools to the ancient pagan deity Moloch, to whom newborns were sacrificed), and
being on the forefront of Christian homeschoolers, when it comes to international movements, and for making home-
schooling the undisputed choice of preference for children of full-time members.

Unfortunately, in some countries, such as Germany, public school is really compulsory, as in “you go to jail or lose
custody if you don’t do it.” Bearing the only advantage that by the time you’ve had 6 children go through the treadmill
of a public school system intricately designed to produce idiots, you can only whole-heartedly agree with the above
authors. Too bad “freedom” doesn’t go all that far, in some so-called democracies, but we already covered that
topic…

The longer one lives in this world and actually sees what’s going on, the more aspects one finds in which the System
is just a pitiful counterfeit of the Real Thing, God’s original plan for us: the health care system, the economic system,
certainly the political system, the church system, and the educational system. All designed beautifully to bring about
the desired result: total failure.

As the author of one article about the health care situation in the US wrote some time ago, “If you want to stay
healthy, keep away from hospitals!” I would paraphrase that and say, “If you want your kids to be smart, keep them
away from public schools!” IF you can, that is. If you love your child and the country you live in grants that liberty, use
it!

No wonder, Jesus said one would have to forsake “all that he hath” in order to be His disciple. You won’t want
anything this world has to offer. You just can’t have two masters. If you’re already being brainwashed by those poor
underpaid and overworked teachers in public school and their dictated curriculum of “no sense, no purpose & no
idea,” then it’ll be hard to concentrate on anything the Great Teacher is trying to tell you. You either let them convert
you into a System-junkie, or you become a freedom-fighter for the truth.
Let It Happen!

April 3, 2008
God’s greatest, if not single commandment to all of us, is to love. “Thou shalt love!” The problem is, in the times in
which we are living, about which Jesus Himself said, “And because evil will increase, the love of many shall grow
cold,” that is sometimes easier said than done.

How do you love? How do you do it?

I’d say, primarily, it’s something that you’ve got to allow to happen. It’s an effort you make, but it’s primarily an effort of
receiving, of accepting. You let it happen, before you can make it happen.

You accept that loving is just the thing to do, and you allow that law of love to rule your life and adjust your behavior
accordingly. You’ve got to have it in, first, before you can give it out…

What makes it hard to put that into practice is our natural urge to be doing something, achieving or creating something
ourselves, with our own two hands; something we can pat ourselves on the back for. Too often we find ourselves
among those the prophet Jeremiah mentioned, who “worshipped the works of their own hands” (Jer.1:16).

We just can’t sit still long enough to really listen to God and find out how He wants things done in the first place. We
like to take our destiny into our own hands and make a name for ourselves. All else we consider too “boring.”

That is, in my opinion, precisely why we’re falling so short and doing such a lousy job at fulfilling the great
Commandment. We think we’re so smart and so good at it, but are we? If we’re so good at it, and such fine, obedient
Christians, then why are there 10.000 people starving every day while we stuff our bellies with fast food? Why are we
praying for and applauding guys who are gang-raping 15 year old Muslim girls in the name of democracy and
Christendom, driving them into suicide? Why do we silently stand by while another Hitler is threatening to take over
the world, fulfilling his daddy’s ambitions to create a “New World Order”? Are we really Christians, or are we nuts?

Could it be that the thing we’re “making happen” is not exactly what we ought to let happen, if we were just so kind
and let God take over the reins? Are we really on the right track? I mean, are we really, even if we may be 100%
convinced that we are, but are we, according to God’s Word?

Or could it be that we’re missing something, lacking something? Hope to God that the description of the Laodicean
church doesn’t fit us: “Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not
that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…” (Rev.3:17).

Just because God seems to be “blessing” us with an abundance of money and wealth, can we be so dead sure that
this is really a sign of His blessing for obeying His commandments of love? Can we really be sure that the reason for
our wealth is not the exploitation of our poorer fellowman and neighbor, whom we’re supposed to love “as ourselves?”

How would we feel, if we were at the other end; say, as the father of the 15 year old girl who committed suicide after
her encounter with the American soldiers who so gleefully boast of their heroic deed? How would we think about
“Christianity” if we were in their shoes?

Can we really continue kidding ourselves into believing that everything’s the way it’s supposed to be with this world,
our governments, our way of practicing our faith? Are we really doing all we can, or should we rather do less of what
we’re doing, and make sure we’re really doing the right thing first?

I’m personally finding myself falling short in many aspects of my daily life, and have started to realize that it’s mainly
because I’m still relying way too much on my own wits and strength, instead of making dead sure I’m getting ahold of
God’s power to do whatever it is I do. And I have a feeling I’m not the only one.

United States of Alzheimer (Or: How Could They Forget Vietnam?)

April 25, 2008

While a small minority of still clear-thinking Americans, scholars & hobby-psychologists is trying to figure out what evil
schemes are being put to work in order to hypnotize the vast majority of the American public and keep them in the
indifferent stupor that not only enables them to tolerate what's happening with their country, but to even give standing
ovations to the 500th repetition of Bush's "Anti-Terror" spiel and "We did this to protect our country" garbage, the
answer was being revealed to me the other night while watching a movie called "Away From Her."

Now, while this was not exactly your average action-packed Rambo-type of thriller and I wouldn't necessarily
recommend it, sometimes just one little line in a movie can unveil a mystery that keeps puzzling thousands. In the
movie we see an aged Julie Christie (big star in the 70s) suffering from Alzheimer, and as her sickness progresses,
she finally insists on her husband taking her to a special foster Home for Alzheimer patients. He does so reluctantly,
and for a while comes to visit her every day, spending a lot of time at the institution.

In one particular scene they're sitting in the TV-lounge and, while watching news clips from the Iraq war, Julie, during
one of her clear moments speaks the words, "How could they forget Vietnam?" And then it hit me! It's obvious!
They've all got Alzheimer! Maybe the government has found a secret way of infecting nearly the entire population with
the disease, and now the President can get away with nearly anything: they'll just stand up and clap non-stop for 25
minutes whatever he says or does, because they wouldn't even remember what to do if they would dare stop
clapping.

While this is not your run-off-the-mill movie review, let me add that the movie does end with a surprising little twist,
and if you're not the Rambo type, you might consider it well worth watching. And, hey, at least you won't be one of
those desperate losers anymore trying to figure out what the hell went wrong with America! Now you know.

FLDS – What Did You Expect?

May 9, 2008

While I deeply feel for the members of the Fundamental Latter Day Saints community who have recently had the
State of Texas take nearly 500 of their children into custody in typical self-righteous red-neck furor instigated by some
mysterious phone call by a young woman obviously posing as someone else, and I whole-heartedly agree with every
public outcry in the media for justice and sanity & pray that the FLDS’ lawyers will have the skill to drive sufficient
sense into the presiding judge(s) to have those children returned to their parents, I also have to ask this question:

What did you expect? What did you expect from a State in which less than half a decade ago people were semi-
publicly being tortured to death for the mere crime of having a darker skin color than their tormentors and by-standing
authorities?

What did you expect from a state in which little more than 1 decade ago the FBI burned to death a whole compound
full of men, women and children in a town called Waco?

What did you expect from the government of a country that spends more on killing innocent people in far-away lands
than it does on anything else?

What did you expect from a government that has declared war on its own people under the guise of “Homeland
Security” in response to a “terrorist act” the official version of which is being doubted and disputed not only by
conspiracy theorists, and that you may never find out the truth about until so much more misery will have happened
you won’t care anymore, just like with all the other crimes it covered up that are coming to light decades later?

Maybe you really swallowed all that baloney about “land of the free,” or thought the book of Revelation was just a
weird allegory put in the Bible to confuse people, and the term “Endtime” was a product of fear-mongers trying to
pressure folks to join their cults. Maybe you haven’t discerned the signs of the times, as Jesus advised people to do…

Maybe you’ve ignored the talk of “New World Order” by the Bush dynasty for too long, and the possible effects that
oh-so-wonderful New World Order might have on your freedom.

I don’t blame you. If there’s trouble on the horizon, I’m the first one hoping it’ll just up and go away. Unfortunately, it
doesn’t always happen that way. Prayer also helps. But sometimes I’m afraid we just reap the results of our own
blindness, our own refusal to see what’s going on, and our own unwillingness to cope with the truth.

We all want to feel at home in this world and believe it’s not so bad, after all. But that’s not what Jesus said. He made
it clear that He and His followers were not of this world, and if they persecuted and hated Him, they would do it to His
followers also (John 15:18-20).

Today it may be the weird little sects that the mainstream Christians wrinkle their noses at. Tomorrow it may be the
little bit less mainstream ones whose freedom will be taken away. But sooner or later, under that glorious New World
Order, I can pretty much guarantee that if you’re any kind of a true Christian at all, you will suffer persecution, too, and
you had better prepare for it while you can.

Prepare for it by realizing that that’s normal for true believers in this world. If you believe the Bible, why don’t you also
believe the part where it promises that? (2Tim.3:12)

Prepare for it by realizing that no, this world is not your Home, if you can really say of yourself that you’re a follower of
Jesus, and by believing what His Word says about our world we’re living in and who’s running it, and stop kidding
yourself into believing that everything is going to be alright just because you live in “free,” “democratic” and oh-so-
Christian America.

Let’s face it, if you were the Devil, and you were running this joint, what people would you try to get rid of and
eliminate as “undesirable elements” of your oh-so-clever society? First, just like he did it 2000 years ago, you’d
probably stir up the fat, lukewarm, deaf & blind religious establishment to wipe out the small radical cults who really do
something for their faith, only to sweep up the big birds on your triumphant march back home. (The Jewish
establishment in Jesus’ day may have been triumphant over Him and some of His early followers, but only to be
stamped out by Rome 40 years later.)

Sooner or later we need to realize who this “War on Terror” is really designed against. Today it may be the Muslims &
radical little sects, but sooner or later the Devil will have everyone persuaded that the single greatest threat to world
peace (as if he ever cared for it) is those religious nut cakes like me and you, be they Muslim, Jew or Christian, and
with another “Christian” in the White House killing and declaring war on everything in sight, it’ll be a piece of cake.

We’d all better prepare for it, because what we are seeing in Texas is only the beginning of sorrows. It’s just a little
test run for the greatest religious persecution the world has ever seen that will make the Holocaust look tame in
comparison.

If you don’t believe me, you’re not really aware of what’s happening, nor of what the Bible says is yet going to happen.
You’ve probably been mislead by false prophets and Bible teachers who interpret the Endtime events in such a way
that you will be anything but prepared for them.

The bitter truth is, no one will come to whisk you out of trouble before it happens. Nor will being American protect you.
The evil that we’re indifferently watching our governments perpetrate on its victims will come back on us. It’s the law
of cause and effect which the Bible also teaches. If we sow the wind, we’ll reap the whirlwind, and if you live in Texas,
you may not yet feel it, but from where I stand, Baby, I can feel a cold wind blowing.
The Trouble With the Truth

May 14, 2008

As much as we all long for the ability to enjoy life, there are certain things that make it tough and a bit of a pain
sometimes.

One of the things that make it hardest for me to enjoy life is the pitiful state an alarmingly growing number of my
fellowmen is falling into, and a certain quality that seems to be ever increasing, which is an appalling lack of interest in
the truth.

No matter whether it’s about Evolution or 9/11 or any other subject on which it would require a little bit of courage to
embrace the truth instead of the broadband input of lies coming at us from the powers that be and their cronies, the
media, people not only seem to prefer the more comfortable lie over the shocking truth, but they even vehemently
defend it.

Never before was the proverb as true as today, “No matter how rare the truth, the supply has always been in excess
of the demand.” It’s almost as if people worship the lie, and man’s philosophy in the 21 st century – with few exceptions
– has become a philosophy of lies, a fake reality, very much as described in “The Matrix.”

People are increasingly, as the Bible says “willingly ignorant,” or, as Kent Hovind put it, “dumb on purpose.”

The attitude is, “Don’t bother us with the truth! Entertain us!”

Okay, granted, it would probably make it a bit easier if those who are a “furious voice for the truth” would have all the
details straight, and if there wouldn’t be all those variations. Some things we simply don’t know yet. But instead of
looking at the overwhelming evidence in favour of the truth, defenders of the lie nitpick at the little details we don’t
have straight.

But basically, the truth is still the truth, and the lie is still a lie. The truth that just as behind every shred of information
ever given there had to be an author, so must there also be an Author behind the immense amount of information in
every living cell is still overwhelming in the face of the probability of it all having happened by chance, no matter how
many more people choose to believe the latter, just as most people seem to still choose to believe and defend the
official version of 9/11, no matter how ridiculous it is, or the reasons for the Iraq war.

No wonder some people consider their fellowmen dumb sheep.

Jesus never said it was wrong to get smart. He said “Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”

Nonetheless, when you’re “dealing in truth,” it’s a bit frustrating when so few are interested in your merchandize or
what you have to offer, even if it’s for free. On the other hand, it does make you appreciate the few friends you do
have, and you know they don’t love you for any false reasons. You know they don’t love you because you’re so
popular or successful.

What scares me a little about folks like Alex Jones is that they apparently sincerely believe that they can stop the New
World Order from happening, and that’s where they seem to lose the Big Picture that the New World Order must
come to pass in order for the truth and the forces of good to ultimately prevail.

What they also seem to fail to realize is that there’s some bigger evil at work here than just the Bush administration,
and they seem to figure, “Just change the president and everything will be fine.” Or, “If we can just get enough people
together, we will win.”

They fail to see the spiritual forces behind what’s happening, and you can’t lick the devil with axes and daggers.

The only Revolution that’s ever going to prevail against the tide of evil that’s rising is the Revolution that started 2000
years ago, which wasn’t a physical one, but a spiritual one. True that most of today’s “followers” of that Revolutionary
seem anything but revolutionary, and I wish to God I knew one minister of God with the guts, conviction and initiative
of a fellow like Alex Jones.
But I guess it’s always easier to believe that the answer lies in our flesh, in the physical, in our numbers and our own
strength.

Perhaps that’s precisely one reason why the NWO must happen, and there’ll be no other way out than God’s way, no
other power to save us than His, and we’ll finally recognize that if anything is going to save us, it’s certainly not going
to be our own arm.

And as far as the defenders of the unpopular truth not having all the details of their story straight yet, it’s still better to
have a skeleton & rough foundation of truth, than a big fat carefully designed and constructed fair-tale, as much as we
may all tend to prefer the latter.

The challenge is, how can you get people interested in what’s real instead of the shiny fake? How can you get a kid to
choose a carrot over a candy bar? There’s probably no advertising campaign in the world that’s every going to
successfully persuade the world to buy the healthier, wholesome option.

I guess the only thing that’s going to do the trick on a large scale is going to be the hard & painful road of experience
& finding out where it’s not at.

In the meantime, could I perhaps get you interested in a carrot?

The Beginning and the End

May 14, 2008

The first and the last two chapters of the Bible are very much connected, and they both go totally against the grind of
the matrix considered fact and reality by the vast majority of today’s intelligentsia. In the first chapter of Genesis we
find the outrageous statements that not only was God supposed to have created earth, the universe and all that goes
with it in mere 6 days, a statement so preposterous that even most Christians are ashamed of it, but He also is
supposed to have created the earth first, before the sun and all the rest of the stars…

That, of course, is the one that’s hardest to swallow & just about breaks the camel’s back, since every child in the 21 st
century “knows” (because it’s damn well made sure to know by its public educators) that the earth is just one
infinitesimal spec of dust spun off the incredibly fast revolving matter that brought everything else into being during the
“Big Bang” (a story which I personally find just as hard to believe, and yet it’s being told as if each and every science
teacher on the globe was present when it happened).

But according to the last two chapters of the Bible, earth is anything but insignificant, and in fact here we find the
reason why God took such special care in creating this little gem first of all, before all the other stuff. Because in
Revelation chapters 21 and 22 we find God’s ultimate plan for earth unfolding: He has actually chosen this place for
His future Headquarters from which to rule the rest of the universe, and for eternity, that is.

So, if you were going to create a place you were planning to make your home forever and ever, and especially if you
were the Boss of everything, you’d probably also bestow some special care on it, and lay the foundation first, before
you’d take care of the lighting and surroundings, right?

Of course, for the sceptics and scoffers, this ending of the story is just as unbelievable as the beginning, but for
anyone who deems the Bible to be any kind of authority at all, this should make them think. Revelation chapters 21
and 22 describe in quite some detail how the Heavenly City, New Jerusalem, the actual City of God, will descend
down to earth, which will have received a new surface with – remarkably – no more sea (5 times as much space,
yippee!).

Some people interpret “a new heaven and a new earth” to mean that God will have created a whole new universe. But
that’s not what it says, or means, nor what it takes in order to create new atmospheric heavens and a new surface for
the earth. Besides, it would contradict Scriptures in the Old Testament which predict that (also contrary to scientists’
speculations) the earth and sun will remain forever (see Ecc.1:4, Ps.72:5, 17).

So, if you ever wondered how God could ever be so dumb to defy the combined opinions of 99% of today’s scientists
and create the earth 3 full days before the rest of the universe, (or how some people could be so dumb to believe
that), just think about what you would do if you were to build yourself a place where you were planning to stay for a
while: would you first build the house, or plant the garden?
Mercy, Not Sacrifice

May 18, 2008

Last week I came across the astounding video of Southern Baptist missionary Paul Washer’s sermon
before a congregation of young people, and I immediately became a fan. Early that week I had written that
I wish I knew one minister of God with the guts, conviction and initiative of someone like conspiracy hunter
Alex Jones, and it seemed as though here I had found one.
I was deeply moved by Washer’s conviction during the speech, and wholeheartedly agreed with everything
he said about the pitiful condition of Western Christianity, and also loved his television interview one can
find on Youtube.

However, there was one thing that kept haunting me in a negative way about his sermons, and that was
that he seriously seemed to question people’s Salvation, and his way of mocking the way most of us have
learned to win souls, namely by asking them to pray with us to receive Jesus as their Savior.

While it is true that we should make sure we are saved, and that we make our Salvation work out for us in
this life with “fear and trembling,” and it may also be true that Jesus never asked anyone, “Would you like
to receive Me in your heart?” and that repentance is way more than that, at the same time it also remains
true that “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” (Acts 2:21), no matter what Paul
Washer, Roy Comfort or anyone else may tell us!

It also remains a fact that “Whosoever believeth on the Son hath eternal life” (John 3:36), and that “as
many as received Him to them gave He power to become sons (children) of God” (John 1:12) and that He
even stands at the doors of the hearts of the lukewarm church and knocks, and “if any man hear My voice,
I will come in to him and sup with him and he with Me” (Rev.3:20).

And there is no amount of “godly zeal” that could ever destroy the universal truth of John 3:16, that “God so
loved the World (yes, the whole world, including not only lukewarm Western Christians and Jews, but even
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists and the whole shebang) that whosoever believeth in Him should have
eternal life.”

I have also spent some years on Latin American mission field and have had to cope with the vast
difference between the fire and fervor among Christians there and the blatant lack of it in the West. Things
quite simply never were the same. It took me years to get over it.

But I don’t find any use whatsoever in raising doubts over anyone being saved or not, or in speculating
over the percentage of Christians in the West that are actually saved or not. We should remain focused on
getting those saved who pretty much are sure they’re not.

As far as the “sinner’s prayer” is concerned, brother Paul, it definitely did work for Me, when I was 13,
although I didn’t immediately turn out to be an overnight wonder, and although I probably couldn’t get you
to keep doubting my salvation until the end of our lives.

All I know is that before I was blind, and now I see. Before I was deaf, and now I hear. Before, there was
emptiness, and now there is Jesus. And I won’t let anyone’s words, may they be ever so eloquent or
“anointed,” take that away from me, and I would seriously issue a warning to anyone attempting to do that
to anyone else. Unfortunately it is often those endowed with the greatest amount of truth that will cause the
greatest harm to God’s work, as evident in the sad example of the Pharisees in Jesus’ time and the
incessant persecution of believers by the established churches for centuries.

In my opinion, “being saved” is not always something plainly evident, since it can take years for that seed
of having received Jesus in our hearts to sprout and surface. We will be rewarded according to our works
(without which our faith is dead,) but we are never saved by them (Eph.2:8,9, see also 1Cor.3:11-15).

People who go around repeating how they doubt the Salvation of others must either be paranoid that there
won’t be enough room in Heaven for everyone, or the prospects of so many less deserving than they
winding up in the same place anyhow makes them feel less “special.”

There are hundreds of verses in the Bible about the vastness of God’s mercy, but we don’t seem to grant
our lesser brethren that mercy. Perhaps that’s why Jesus told those among us with a tendency toward self-
righteousness, “Go and learn what this means: ‘I will have mercy, not sacrifice’” (Mt.9:13)

It also reminds me of the parable of the workers who volunteered to work in the Husband’s vineyard but
didn’t go, while those who said they weren’t going to, actually wound up doing the work. You never know
who’s going to pick up the plough you left in the field when you got overwhelmed by your frustration and
bitterness.

Of course, one factor that probably influences the “No, you’re not saved” attitude of some is the false belief
in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture. I whole-heartedly agree that most of today’s Christians would not “deserve”
just being whisked out of this world before the great purification of the church the Antichrist and the
Tribulation are purposely destined by God to bring about.
But that’s not what the Scriptures say anyway, if you care to read them properly.

Huge Surprises

May 20, 2008

There is a series of online videos out from Lionandlamb ministries, stating that the Pharisees in Jesus’ Day
were all members of a secret society which today is called Cabala. While at first glance this seems to be a
convincing argument (and the author of the videos states it with an effort to make it come across as fact,
rather than a theory), and it does seem to make sense in the light of such dreaded Scriptures as John 8:44,
where Jesus tells them openly, “Ye are of your father, the devil…,” or many others where He blasts the
Pharisees, about which many theologians argue that Jesus couldn’t have possibly said or meant that…

After all, He was talking to Jews, and the Jews are God’s people, right?

While I don’t doubt that members of occult secret societies may had infiltrated the governing body of
Jewish religious establishment of those days, just as they have allegedly (and obviously) infiltrated today’s
established religion, I see a few problems with that theory.

First of all, we have members of the Sanhedrin, Pharisees, who believed in Jesus, even if they had to do
so secretly¸ like Nicodemus, who came to Jesus by night in John 3, or Gamaliel, who defended the
disciples before the Sanhedrin in Acts. Certainly they weren’t Satanists.

Secondly, labeling the Pharisees as members of a secret satanic society creates a comfortable gap
between them and us. After all, we don’t belong to a satanic society, so we’ve got nothing to do with those
satanic people who were responsible for Jesus’ death. No, we’re the good ones, and they were the bad
ones.

I’m afraid that won’t do.

In my own personal experience, today’s established religionists are a lot more like the Pharisees than they
would like to believe.

Let’s have a look from the Pharisees’ point of view in the days of the apostles: here was this strange, new,
dangerous sect emerging, with scary new doctrines that threatened to overthrow all their good old
traditions, and the way they had believed and practiced religion for so long.

How many people attending church do you know who would react differently to that kind of threat,
nowadays, than the Pharisees did to Jesus and the Early Christians?

It’s easy to say, “Well, they were of the Devil and belonged to a satanic sect,” now, 2000 years after it
happened and there’s no proof whatsoever to back up that theory.
It’s a lot harder to say, “Hmmm, looks like the Pharisees had a definite problem with self-righteousness,
and they were quite stuck in their old religious rut, they thought they knew better than God as to who and
what kind of people He would use.” Because that sounds a lot more familiar and closer to home, doesn’t it?

The theory also takes any guilt from the general Jewish population of that day, by creating a separation
between them and their “satanic” rulers. But you can’t tell me that it was just a few members of a secret
society yelling “Crucify Him!” and “Free Barabbas!” before Pilate (see also Mt.27:25).

Many people seem to forget that God has made a new Covenant with man, a covenant of the spirit, not of
flesh, and that “He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly” (carnally, physically), “but he who is one
inwardly…in the spirit” (Romans 2:28, 29).

“By their fruits ye shall know them.”

Maybe a whole lot more people than we think are going to turn out to have believed the wrong things, no
matter how convinced they may be that they are in the right, just like the Pharisees were, and maybe a
whole lot more of us will turn out to have sided with the wrong guys, opposing and oppressing those who
look a lot more like little David with his slingshot confronting Goliath than the guys we’re siding with.

Not all Palestinians are terrorists, nor are all Muslims terrorists. In fact, there used to be more Christians
among the Palestinian population than among the rest of the population of Israel, and there probably still
are, except that we never hear much of their side of the story these days. Not much of anything gets
through that wall the Israelis have built in order to keep out the undesired elements.

I really wonder how God would look on all these things.

And from the way I know Him, I think many of us are in for some huge surprises.

The truth, ladies & gentlemen, is and has always been terribly unpopular in a world run by the father of lies,
even – or should I say, especially – in the circles of established religion.

Sin is a lot closer to home than many of us have the guts to admit to ourselves.

It doesn’t take a secret satanic society to oppose the true Messiah and His strange new sect.

All it takes is some damn clever lies of the Devil, and from what I can tell, those are more abundant than
they ever were.

Who God Is NOT

May 29, 2008

There’s a lot of people out there doing a lot of things in the name of God, which I firmly believe the God-
Who-is-Love and God, Who He really is, does not have anything to do with, nor would He want to be
associated with them, much less held responsible for them.
Sometimes, in order to discover Who God really is, we first have to clear away the rubble of the images we
have made ourselves of Him, and define what God is not:

God is not a harsh dictator or cruel, merciless tyrant Who judges the innocent.

He is not the cruel Father as which some would depict Him, Who gives us the greatest gift ever given to
man, namely Salvation through the blood of His Son, only to take it away from us again if we don’t behave.

God is not partial. He does not side with the rich and powerful, even if they claim to be His children, as long
as those “children” of His use their power and wealth to exploit their poor and weaker brethren.
“Love thy neighbor as thyself” still goes hand in hand with “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.” We cannot
love God, Whom we have not seen, if we cannot love our brethren, whom we have seen, and from the way
some treat their neighbors and brethren, it becomes obvious that their supposed love for God is a farce
(Mt.22:37-40, 1Jn.4:20).

God is not exclusively the God of the rich and powerful. “The meek shall inherit the earth. He filleth the
hungry with goods, but the rich He hath sent empty away” (Mt.5:5, Lk.1:53, Jam.5:1-3).

God is not mute. It’s not true that He has stopped speaking 2000 years ago. He still says, “Call unto Me,
and I will show you great and mighty things which thou knowest not” (Jer.33:3).

God is not responsible for the countless people who starve each year when it’s within our financial power
to save them from starvation (Jam.4:17).

God is not blind to the circumstances which have brought an unbeliever into His current state. If someone
refuses to believe in Him or His goodness because of the sheer lack of any of His qualities in His earthly
representatives, then He will not hold the unbeliever responsible, but those who claimed to represent Him.

God is, quite simply, not like us. He lacks each and every one of our negative human qualities which
influence our way of seeing things: He is not stingy. He is not self-righteous. He is not a liar. He doesn’t
side with the strong and powerful to get an advantage out of that acquaintance. He quite simply doesn’t
need their help. He prefers to side with those who need His (Is.55:8-9; Num.23:19).
He is also not the prudish God as which some portray Him, since He Himself is the One Who equipped us
with our means of procreation, a task apparently so important to Him that it was the first commandment He
ever uttered to man (Gen.1:28).
God is not a fool. You may be able to fool most of the people most of the time, but you can’t fool Him
(Gal.6:7).

God is not a conservative, stale, brittle preserver of the old, much less of any man-made status quo, but
says, “Behold (look!), I make all things new!” (Rev.21:5).

God is not a respecter of persons, including their rank, status or achievement, which may only make us
more accountable in His eyes, whereas He calls the children His own, and that “of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven” (Acts 10:34, Jam. 3:1, Mk.10:14, Mt.18:1-6).

God does not run a One-Man-Show, nor a 3-Man-Show, merely assisted and applauded by the angels, but
His theme has always been Family and teamwork, and He gratefully takes all the help He can get (even
yours, if you will). If you don’t believe it, just have a look at creation, which describes the way He is
(Rom.1:20). God seems to be constantly recruiting workers for His harvest, obviously due to the lack of
them, and sometimes it’s those one would least expect to, who wind up doing the work (Mt.9:37, 20:1,
21:28-31).

Finally, God is not nearly as fond of pompous buildings as we may think He is. In fact, He quite simply does
not live there (Acts 7:48-49). You can’t put Him in a box, no matter how pretty you try to make it.

What's Our Problem?

June 5, 2008
Our problem is that we think we're so smart and know anything, when we haven't really got a clue.

Our sin is our presumption to claim that we can actually see, when we are totally blind to what's right in front of our
noses.

Our sin is our unbelievable pride.

We discover the miracles of life with our electronic microscopes and say, "Nah, that's nuthin'. Anybody could have
made that, in fact, it probably

made itself."

We close ourselves off to true information that's all around us; messages from our Creator that constantly shout,
"Look around: I'm right here!"

But we willingly choose to ignore Him. We choose to be blind. And as He said Himself, "None are so blind as those
who refuse to see."

The complexity of the structure and modus operandi of a single cell and its integrated communication system that
makes all life possible are the greatest known single source of information and intelligence in the known universe, but
we just assume, "Aw, that's just a little blob of chemicals that came to life once when struck by a lightning."

I personally never saw anything drastically improve from non-life to life by being struck by a lightning, but I guess
scientists who are paid for upholding a wobbly theory like Evolution are forced to live in a different reality.

It's our arrogance that blinds us. Its our indifference toward our Maker that deprives us of the privilege to live life to the
full, the way it ought to have been lived. But we don't even know how to live, because we constantly choose the path
that seems right in our own eyes but turns out to be the ways of death.

We congratulate ourselves for our "progress" and technical advances, when most of what those "advances" result in
is more death, more suffering for others, ever greater pollution and the impending destruction of our planet, because
with the same indifference and contempt we treat out Maker we naturally also treat our fellowman and our
environment. The art of war is still what we're best at, and what our governments spend most of our money on. Wow,
yeah, seems like we really have learned something.

Knowing what we were going to be up to, the Bible promised 2000 years ago that "He will destroy those that destroy
the earth," when we were far from being capable of doing so.

Those smart alecs who are so dead sure they're smarter than everybody else, including God are taking us all along
for a ride on their highway to hell, and most of us don't even notice it, and what's worse, most of us don't seem to
mind. As long as we've got our fancy gimmicks to distract us, we won't say a word, no, won't even so much as raise
an eyebrow. After all, our TVs, our Gameboys, our I-pods, our Big Macs and our BMWs are proof enough to us that
the System is working. Who the hell cares about 10.000 people in other countries starving each day, or a bunch of
Arabs killed by our guns? They're all terrorists anyway, right? Or, as one Abu Graib “war hero” put it, "Anything that
wears a turban is guilty."

Yes, people, we're really enlightened. It only looks to me like most of us are going to get a big shock when God turns
on the light for real, and we get a look at the way He sees things, namely the way they really are, and not the pitiful
concoction of our imagination we currently call reality...

When I say, “we,” I’m definitely including myself. I frequently find myself afflicted with the same blindness to His views
and REAL-ity, so I’m not just pointing a finger at everybody else. Like Jonah I frequently find myself inside the
darkness of the belly of the whale due to my own stubbornness and insistence on running the opposite direction God
tells me. But like Jonah I also have found out time and again that it’s true, that “Salvation is of the Lord.” When we call
on Him when we don’t know what’s happening, or our own way of seeing things has driven us against a stone wall
and we need Someone to pick up and mend the pieces, He always comes through.

People don’t believe me when I say “God talks to me.” They just figure talking isn’t included in God’s repertoire. That
He’s incapable of communicating. That’s the arrogance I’m talking about.

How can we be so presumptuous to say that the divine Author of the entire, unfathomable sum of information that lies
embedded in His creation, the One Who has brought forth the universe by means of mere utterance of His Words,
should be incapable of communicating?

“Why should He bother with someone like you?” Because He loves me. Just as He loves you, and He would really like
to surprise you pleasantly by filling you in on some essential details concerning life, if you’d just be willing to open
your ears to His voice, your eyes to His views, and your heart to His loving vibes and give Him a chance…

(Excerpts from the chapter “What’s Up?” in the free eBook “The Deeper Meaning of Everything.”)
The Discrimination of the Invisibles

June 8, 2008
Humans definitely tend to being narrow-minded, stuck-on-themselves creatures. We always have to discriminate
someone. Whether it's folks of a different race, belief system, opinion, outward appearance or from another country
than ours, another soccer team, age-group, or whatever, we tend to reject and antagonize them.

Whoever or whatever's not like us isn't cool.

One species or party we specially discriminate against is the invisibles.

It's probably the one thing we hold most against God: "It's His own fault if we don't believe in Him. Why can't He make
Himself visible, like everybody else?"

That's not what we actually say or think consciously with those words, but that's the way we act.

"Why should I give any marbles to God when I can't even see Him?" "Why should I be interested in His strange,
invisible Kingdom, when all that interests me right now is what I can see, touch and feel and caters to my physical
cravings?" "Why the heck should I be interested in anything that doesn't live up to those qualities?"

Especially members of the younger generation, who have had impulses from the media cater to them basically non-
stop since the moment they were born, find the invisible realm to be extremely "boring," to say the least. Well, y'all
know what I think about boredom...

What I mean is, it's pretty tough trying to get folks interested in the Spirit World these days. At least the good side of it.
But is it really God's fault that we seem to be more interested in His opponent and find whatever he has to offer a lot
more intriguing? Is God really that boring? Or is something wrong with our appetite?

Probably a lot stems from wrong concepts, too. Our classical concept of God includes the notion, for instance, that He
doesn't like or approve of some of the most fun and delightful things in life. We consider that we have to be "bad" if we
really want to have some fun.

There's a lot of jokes going around about "no place to meet old friends like hell," and that that's supposed to be the
place where most of the fun is happening.

Well, not in my opinion, nor my idea of Heaven, which, as far from the norm as it may be, is only a fraction of a
shadow of what it really is and is going on there... Whereas some of the reports I hear about hell tend to be rather
disappointing, to say the least.

So, what's the score with God's invisibility trip, and why can't He just make it easy on us and show Himself? Like
Phillip, one of the disciples said, "Just show us the Father, Lord, and it's enough!" In other words, "Show me God,
dude, and then I'll believe for real! All doubts finally eliminated."

Sure enough! But that would be a wee bit too easy! We'd all be so intimidated, surely you couldn't speak about "free
will" anymore. We'd all know that "Woe is us" if we didn't behave & follow E.T.'s advice to "be good!"

So, God made some rules to this game called life, and in order to be a winner in this game, you just can't be as dumb
as to only believe in what you see.

The way to score is by means of a magical, mysterious ingredient called faith. It's by faith that we can skip that
bummer called death, for instance. Faith is also what makes God like us. So much, in fact, that He'll adopt us when
we've got it and calls us His own children. Whereas without it, it is impossible to please Him (Hebrews 11:6).

Faith is like a secret super weapon in this game of life, comparable to some of those computer games where you can
pick up certain super powers in hidden corners that will enable you to kill like 10.000 monsters at a time, instead of
just one or instead of you being eaten by them...
It is described as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Actually, the word "substance"
here comes from the original Greek word "hupostasis" which means title deed. You own the thing you hope for, if you
have the faith for it! And Luther translated the word "evidence" as "not doubting." You don't doubt the existence of the
Invisibles, including their Head Honcho.

Well, the good news is - that whole shebang called Spirit World isn't going to stay invisible forever. Sooner or later
we're going to see it. The only question is, how surprised or shocked are you going to be? How strange & alien will it
all feel to you? Or are you going to feel right at home?

So, one mindset that's going to help you prepare a little bit, is to get rid of that discriminating attitude against invisible
folks. They're really not that bad. And boring? Man, you have no idea what you're talking about! In fact, you have no
idea what fun really is, compared to what's happening out there!

Computer games & Action thrillers are only cheap counterfeits of the Real Thing that's going down all around us in the
invisible Realm. The problem is that just because it's invisible, we figure it's not real, when in fact it's a lot more real
than our finite, temporal world, and the problem isn't with them, it's with us. We just can't see'em. But you will, if you
start believing... and, well, even if you don't. It just might take you a bit longer.

Dog See Dog (Or: Jesus' Example Vs. Current I, Me, Mine Mindsets)

July 9, 2008
Most people - and I'm talking about those who call themselves Christians - don't seem to agree with Paul of Tarsus,
the great evangelist without whom Christianity may never have seen the light of day, when he wrote, "I know that in
me - that is, in my flesh - dwelleth no good thing" (Romans 7:18).

Most people nowadays seem to think that whatever comes out of their flesh automatically has to be good.

Be it because they're Christians, Americans, or just their wonderful selves.

They automatically figure that whatever is "theirs," their country, their religion, their family, age group, etc., has to be
best for the simply reason that it's "theirs."

Totally oblivious to the fact that Jesus of Nazareth had quite a different attitude. When He was surrounded by a large
crowd of people and His mother and brothers couldn't get through to see Him, He didn't say, "Excuse Me, folks, but
I've got to go and say 'Hi' to My family." He asked, "Who is My family? Who are My brothers and My mother?"
(Matthew 12:48).

If people would care to read up on the recorded Words and opinions of the Man they claim to "follow," they'd find out
that He didn't have a lot of positive things to say about His own nation's leaders - religious or political - either.

In contrast to that, most Christians nowadays would blindly follow "their" President into WWIII and to the annihilation
of every living thing, just because he happens to be the leader of the country they happen to have been born in, even
if he were the Devil himself, as long as he keeps claiming, "Yeah, I'm a Christian."

Only faintly, like an echo from a different world, rings Jesus' admonition in most believers' ears, "By their fruits ye shall
know them." All the "fruit" and evidence necessary to convince most folks these days is that their candidate holds a
passport of their same nationality and that they have the right flag waving behind them. "Everyone else is guilty," as
far as they're concerned and is thus deprived of even the most basic human rights.

I'm not writing this because I want to be nitpicking or a pain in anyone's butt. But I believe the time will come when
those that are sowing the wind right now will reap a whildwind of proportions that will make Katrina look cute by
comparison, and I'm sure there will be a lot of folks then who'll have the nerve to ask, "But why? What did we do to
deserve this?"

Well, for one thing, you didn't care very much about the truth.

That's why you swallowed innumerable lies from your leaders & still said, "Yeah, that's okay, after all, he's ours."
Even when those leaders sent your sons off to unjust wars to violate every commandment of God ever gave you.

Just going to church was supposed to make up for it all. But I'm sorry, I can't find that anywhere in the Bible. In fact,
the only thing I find on that subject is that God doesn't live in any type of temple, church or building, at all, not even if
it's "your" church (Acts 7:48,49)!

When it all comes down to it and you'll have to stand before Him, what will count won't be whether you were a
Southern Baptist from Ohio or a Catholic from Naples, but only how you treated the "least of His brothers" (Matthew
25:40). Let's all hope that we had what it took to discern who it is that He considers "His brothers" and that we then
had the heart to be nice to the least and the lowest of them... Even if they weren't a member of "our" club.

Some folks might argue, “But it’s natural to stick to one’s own kind.” Sure, animals do it, too. But perhaps in this case
Jesus gave us a sample of how to do things in a super-natural way, one different from the “norm“ or “natural.” (Didn’t
Paul also say, “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God”? – 1Cor.2:14)

Jesus was a Jew in His mid-thirties when He gave us a living example of extraordinary acceptance of non-Jews and
other age-groups than His own. He healed and ministered to Romans and Samaritans, both generally rejected by
Jews of His day, and He reprimanded His disciples for refusing children to come to Him, and He showed equal favour
to the elderly. If we claim to be His disciples, why don’t we start walking in His footsteps for once?

Dreams of Stardom (Or: News from the Live-Circuit)

July 12, 2008

There was a time I used to play anything that sounded nice, just to impress myself and tickle people's ears.

I think my final break with any ideas and aspirations of possible future stardom set in after I saw one of my favorite
bands I used to cover a lot, Del Amitri from Scotland, live in a little town in Switzerland called Herisau. It turned out
that a substantial part of the audience had shown up for the opening act, some Swiss TV sopa opera star who now
tried to become a pop star, too. As soon as Justin Currie (front man of Del Amitir and one of my heroes at that time)
got on stage with his band and their antequated gear (the Swiss opening act had all the latest hi-tech gimmicks),
some of the teenies in the first row actually turned around, away from the stage. They gave the band their backs.
They couldn't handle any real music.

I was thankful that a little while later a halfway sufficient amount of decent music started coming out from the Christian
Alternative and Independent scene to quench my appetite for new music, like Shane Barnard, Jeremy Camp,
Caedmon's Call, etc., and I sold my entire CD collection on eBay.

I've reached a point where I don't see why I should be wasting my time listening to music that may sound very
appealing to my personal taste but renders virtually zero nourishing value for my soul. I've come to appreciate my
time as something too valuable for that. And the amazing thing is, there seems to be a certain percentage of the
general public getting on the same wavelength.

While the vast majority may still be mainly interested in the art of busting brain cells in record time, a surprising
amount want more out of live-music these days than mere entertainment. They're finding out that there is such a thing
as quality music that feeds your soul, and they're thankful when there's an occasional musician or act around and
available who can deliver that.

A certain brand of people are simply becoming tired of listening to nice music that has got virtually nothing to say, or
advocates witchcraft or utters permanent laments about not-so-hot relationships. People are becoming aware that
there's something fishy about this world and its current System, after all, like Jesus said, and they don't want to be
caught with their pants down when the curtain hits the ground. And I believe that that's one reason why we're still in
the business while other live artists in our region have disappeared and vanished.

With fuel prices that make you wonder whether you should take the bike to the mall, instead of the car, not
everybody's in the mood for hiring a live act for their event, and if they do, they simply prefer to offer their guests
something decent, instead of the usual humdrum.
Anyway, that's the news from the circuit, as I can see it. If you're dreaming about becoming a rock-star, I'm afraid
you've picked the wrong time to be born, because I personally would be very surprised if things will keep going the
way they are, substantially longer. And if you do decide to try and make a living off playing music, earnestly pursue to
give people more than just hollow entertainment. In tough times, a little ray of hope and a comforting voice are much
appreciated. Who knows, eventually the rest of those who don't have a clue what's going on might even wake up, too,
and come and listen to you as well.

The world doesn't need another star, or - as I wrote in a recent song, "another pair of feet of clay," but they might
slowly be getting ready for a new "furious voice for the truth"...

Oh, and if you have any choice between merely tickling people’s ears with nice music and popular songs, and actually
giving them something to feed their soul, then I’d highly recommend avoid that tempting path of the least resistance. It
may be a tougher road to really deliver something you have to say, especially when it comes to the truth about society
at large, but as folks are finding out (and even I did), what really defines who you are and brings out the best in you is
a little bit of struggle and some swimming against the current. Show the world who you really are, and don’t just settle
for being another ear tickler. Take it from someone who found out the hard way.

For actual news about our concerts, recordings and other things we're up to, check our gig schedule or our News
page.

No Business Like Blow Business

July 16, 2008

No, this is not some obscene post advertising blow-jobs. I'm talking about the evidently most lucrative business in the
world, of blowing things like houses, towns and people to bits. "Want more business? Do War-Business!"

Disappointed? Thought so.

I don't know who originally came up with the slogan, "Make love, not war!" (probably some hippie in the 60s), but the
Devil's slogan must definitely be the exact opposite: "Make war, not love!" - It's so much more lucrative!

Strangely enough, some of his staunchest disciples are professing to be Christians.

You wouldn't believe how many of the big, well-known corporations tie into the war-business. I wouldn't have believed
it, if I hadn't read this article, & apparently there's more bad news where that came from.

The more I find out about politics, and especially about the politics of one nation boasting to be the most powerful on
earth (for how much longer?) in particular, the more I find confirmation therein of things I have believed to be true for
decades. Not because I was smart enough to come up with them by myself, but because I was told, or rather, I read
them, in small, A5 pamphlets called “MO-Letters,” written by the deceased founder of the movement I subscribe to
since I found Jesus there at the age of 13.

Everything he ever said about the country he was from seemed an exaggeration back then. It doesn’t anymore now.
Everything he said about the church system he had come out of in disgust is something that slowly other Christians
around the world are waking up to.

One such Christian in particular, my wife recently had the pleasure to meet, since God saw to it to send him into our
remote corners of the utmost boonies and backwoods of Southern Germany.
I’m currently reading his book “So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore,“ which could be described as a gentler
drug rehabilitation therapy for church junkies than anything I have so far slapped in the world’s face, since it’s
administered by someone who’s an ex-junkie himself.

Since I personally had any possibly existing illusions about where church is at devastated by the age of ten, Wayne
Jacobsen is certainly the man to bring it home in a gentler way, encouraging believers around the world who are
seeking refuge outside of the “box” of the church system, that God loves them anyway, and more than they can ever
fathom.

I haven’t finished reading the book yet, but so far, at chapter six, it has driven home the point that what God does
matters infinitely more than whatever efforts we can come up with ourselves better than any other book I know of that
you can download for free on the Internet.

In fact, even what God does in allowing our illusions about the world we live in to be shattered, He is doing more for
us than we could ever begin to see right now, while we’re still in the middle of it.

It seems as if God is waking up people around the world. He’s using a gentler method with some than with others, but
let’s just hope and pray that it won’t be too late for most of us to pull the plug on our passive participation, or at least
on our silent approval of “blow-business!”

The Gospel of Acquisition

August 1, 2008
The other night, after having read 2 recent articles on American warmongerism by Charley Reese from Antiwar.com, I
wrote a rap about Babylon the Great, consisting mainly of verses from Revelation 17 and 18. And it got me into
wondering, what exactly is the "wine of her fornication" that she makes the nations of the world drunk with? It's
obvious that the globe is being affected by a bug, and most churches seem to have the tendency to blame it all on sex
and make people's natural sex drive the true culprit. After all, "fornication" does sound as if it's supposed to have
sexual implications.

But if the Lord is our Husband, and we're not supposed to have any other gods before Him, or other lovers, I'd say
that sexuality - as much as it may be promoted in the media - is not the bigger culprit, but materialism is. After all,
what's supposedly the one thing that makes everybody happy - even those who are not the least bit interested in sex,
and if they are, what can get them any amount of it they like? Money.

The primary Gospel of the American media since its beginnings has been the gospel of acquisition, prosperity, gain,
financial success, affluenza, as some have started to call it, in short: MONEY.

After all, Jesus never said, "You cannot be a slave to God and your own penis at the same time," (sorry for once
again being so terribly blunt here, but, after all, let's not forget, it's just a body part He created, knowing fully well what
He was doing, like with all the rest of them), nor does the Bible refer to that as the "root of all evil," as much as some
preachers make it sound like that. But what the Bible does refer to as the root of all evil is the love of money, and
Jesus did say, "You cannot serve God and Mammon (the god of wealth)."

And yet that is what millions of people try or pretend to do, and probably one of the reasons why the Devil has just
been contentedly standing by, watching the growth of American churches over the past decades. As long as they
preach the Gospel of Affluence, it doesn't matter to him if they sneak in a bit of the Jesus stuff. After all, as long as
Jesus is just one of the "products" they're trying to sell, their god is still money.

Incidentally, the One everybody tends to leave out of the equation doesn't seem to be all too thrilled about this
development, and as it so happens, the plug is being pulled. - Quietly, in the background, since the real crisis going
on right now is the one neither one of the two presidential candidates would dream of addressing, and the god in
whom Americans really trust, the once almighty dollar, is going down, like that old song by the 70s pop band Status
Quo I never particularly liked, "Down, down, deeper and down..."

If you still don't have a clue what I'm talking about, maybe here's an illustration you can relate to: During our recent
movie night we watched "Singing In the Rain" as a feature to watch with our daughter (partly exposing the deceit
Hollywood has made a business of, and yet at the same time being another parade example of it), and afterwards we
saw "Freedom Land," a somewhat depressing, yet ultimately much more realistic show of the real America, as
millions of not-so-blessed real people know it. There's a definite, deep contrast between what we're made to believe
and reality.

The nations of the earth are drunk with the desire to have the pretty fake world that's being portrayed to them in
American TV shows from Timbuktu to Moose Jaw.

The "wine of fornication" that makes God really sick (when we swallow it) is the stuff we've been brainwashed with for
so long that it's extremely hard to get out of our system. The god of wine is having a heyday, because he's getting us
addicted to more things than we and our children have ever had to get addicted to. The wine of fornication is making a
junkie out of you, even if you live in a slum in India or in a beduin tent in a desert somewhere, as long as you have a
satellite dish and an i-pod. And it doesn't have as much to do with your natural sex drive (although, admittedly, people
can get addicted to sex, too), as it does with making sure you take your part in the machine to keep the show rolling.

As for Charley Reese's call for "pulling the plug on the war state", I hate to be the one busting such idealistic illusions,
and breaking the news to such fine patriots, but I'm afraid this isn't going to happen on behalf of any of the inmates of
the greatest rehab camp on earth (most of whom haven't even grasped yet that they're addicted and need help), but
the "pulling of the plug" is going to have to be done by the one to whom it is given to do the dirty work, aided by the
ten mysterious kings described in Revelation and elsewhere who "hate the whore" and are tired of her selfish and
destructive ways of getting what she wants and sucking the life out of the rest of the planet in the process. We may
not be quite there yet, but as long as American leadership keeps following its current course, we're headed in that
direction, and when it's going to happen, it's going to happen very quickly. In 60 minutes, to be precise. One hour
(Rev.18:10, 17, 19).

And down with her will go her pimps: the preachers of a christ who'll buy you affluence in return for your tithes, and
the very god everybody's been worshiping all along, as cash will be replaced by the mark in your right hand or
forehead that will enable you to buy or sell from then on, eliminating the root of all evil... or not?

We'll see. In the meantime, if anyone has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches and get ready for
one heck of a withdrawal period on the horizon...

The Quest for Intelligent Life...on the Web

August 6, 2008
In search of intelligent life on the web I came across a forum thread entitled, "Can Intelligent People
Believe in God?" A truly intelligent question would have been, "Can intelligent people not believe in God?"
And the cortrect answer would be, "ONLY intelligent people believe in God."
And that isn|t just on my own puny authority, but on the authority of the Book revered by millions as the
divinely inspired Word of God... In the book of Psalms, the greatest leader the nation of Israel ever had
wrote, "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'
We know that every bit of information in the world, every letter, every email, every postcard, poem,
telegram, phone call or drawing in a cave by a so-called "cave man" must have an author.
Thus, only a moron can seriously assume that the immense amount of information contained in one single
cell, which, if we'd stick it in books would form a tower to the moon and back, would have come about by
itself, or the great supposed father & mother of us all: coincidence.
Just because the existence of God eludes the capacities of their finite reasoning & ratio (or ration?) of their
rationale, they confine reality to the scope of their own minds, by which they are so awed that they couldn't
possibly allow for anything greater and more wonderful in the universe to exist.

Since my query only yielded a handful of halfway satisfactory results, & even Google Almighty couldn't help
me out, I remembered something Kent Hovind once said about how scientists keep searching for intelligent
life in outer space when he hadn't found much of it on this, our own planet yet. I like Kent Hovind. I share
his opinion on many issues, especially golfers. Every time I ride my bike past the local golf court I pray,
"Jesus, protect me from those morons!" (One of them nearly killed us once.)
So I change my query to "Kent Hovind" for the latest news on the man & find blogs of perplexed Christians
who don't understand how a man of God could possibly wind up in prison. Shows how much they read their
Bible.
Nor do they seem to care much about the plight & lives of countless believers who have shared similar
fates. They just figure, a good Christian ought to be a tax paying patriot who doesn't get in trouble (even in
a country where taxing the people is against its own constitution, & the guys who pocket their cash have
anything but patriotic, much less Christian intentions).

So, just as anywhere else, quality is rare on the web.

And as for intelligent life, perhaps I should just continue studying the inner life of microbes for now... It
seems to be more promising at present.

Why "Babylon" Can't be Rome

August 7, 2008
In reply to Frank's comment on my blog entry "Babylon the Whore," I'd like to get into the details a little deeper, of why
I disagree, and can't believe that the Roman Catholic church is supposed to be "Babylon" of Revelations 17 & 18. I
already brought out some of these points in my recent entry about "The Gospel of Acquisition," but I just read a
wonderful book review, confirming my beliefs once more, but also helping me realize that the materialism is only one
side of the coin, and the lesser of 2 evils. Certainly the Catholice Church is just as guilty of materialism as anyone,
there's no doubt about that. But there are a few descriptions of the entity Babylon that simply couldn't be ascribed to
either Rome, nor ancient Babylon somehow myseriously revived (especially in the light of that country - Iraq - having
been wrecked & devastated for at least the next century), which I'd like to point out, that seem to point at some bigger
culprit than the two combined, however piously innocent she's trying to come across.

One of the principal reasons why Rome couldn't possibly be synonymous with with the "fallen lady" of Revelation is
that it's commonly accepted by Bible scholars that "the 10 horns which...shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate
" (Rev.17:16) represent the 10 leading European nations, of which Italy is obviously one, so, it's impossible for Rome to represent
both, the Whore and the capital of the 10 horns.

As I already brought out in my study of Rev.-17 & 18, we're talking about "that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth"
(17:18). While that may have been the case with Rome during the time John wrote this, and he may even have believed that he
was writing about Rome at the time, when we look at the present (for which those prophecies and revelations obviously given,
since we are living in the times that see the Endtime events unfolding before us), then Rome hardly has a say in a lot of countries.
Let me list some of the most outstanding ones for you: 1) Roman Catholicism is completely irrelevant to Russia, since they have
their own, orthodox version of Catholiscism, which has nothing to do with the Roman version, nor does the Vatican have any say
over it, much less does it "reign" over any secular areas of Russian life. 2) China, which by some is already hailed the "next
superpower" and the greatest stronghold of socialism presently on earth, may definitely be infected with the Western bug of
capitalism and materialism and somewhat intimidated by not so much the American government as the United Nations, but
certainly it would be absurd to indicate that Rome exerts any power over China. Subtract Russia and China, and you've already got
2 of the biggest, most powerful and most populated countries on earth which definitely don't fall into the group of countries that
Rome exerts power over. The same goes for smaller countries like Korea, Myanmar, Malaysia and virtually all Muslim countries,
along with countries like India, which may have a few Catholic missions here or there, but saying that Rome "reigns" over them
would be sheer exaggeration.
The only city that comes close to fulfilling the criteria of "reigning" over those countries is the seat of the United Nations. - However,
the real power is not found within the walls of the U.N., but in the buidling across the street, where world policies and wars for
tomorrow are being planned and cooked up today, the CFR, some of whose key members also reside in that great city which
makes Rome look like a pueblito (little village) in comparison.

We can argue about the scope of influence that the Catholic Church is exerting over the nations on international levels, compared
to the American Mass media. We can also argue over the amount of damage being done by either. At least the Catholic Church is
still somewhat devoted to spreading somewhat Christian virtues, but you couldn't possibly say that about Mickey Mouse or Rambo.

Then we've got the "Blood of prophets, saints, and all that were slain upon the earth" found in her. That may have been the case
with Rome 2000 years ago, but if you're familar with the history of the past 200 years, Rome looks like an innocent choir boy,
compared to your average G.I. raping Iraqi teenagers...

Let's say, if I had a choice between a ticket to Rome and one to N.Y.C. at the time of judgment, I'd prefer Rome any day, although I
hate big cities per se.

Besides, it wouldn't take a whole hour to destroy Rome. It might not take an hour to destroy N.Y., either, but I'm still not sure
whether I believe that the destruction and judgment will be limited to that city alone.

In my opinion, the refusal to see America's guilt and the interpretation that Rome is the big culprit is just another pitiful case of
wishful thinking and self-deception.

There was a time when I tended to see the Babylon of Revelation as a solely spiritual entity, which is the current doctrine of my
own faith community (so please, don't blame them for my anti-U.S. rantings), although nearly 40 years ago our founder taught
without hesitation that Babylon was America. That was during the Vietnam era, and our group's nickname for Nixon was "Nitler."
Well, we all know now that indeed a lot worse could befall the world than Nixon and Watergate. You'll definitely find more parallels
drawn by Americans between Hitler and Bush.
But you can't really destroy a spiritual entity with fire, and not within 60 minutes. You can't see the smoke of a spiritual entity
burning and sailors standing from afar bewailing it. It must be a physical place that Revelation 17 and 18 is talking about. And I
simply believe that there is a greater sin to be judged here than the sins of the Catholic Church. A sin which has finally been
publicly addressed in a book by one courageous Christian writer who must have found one other courageous publisher, unless he
published it himself.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me humbly present to you my hero of the day, Lawrence M. Vance, in his own historic words from his
excellent book I honestly urge you to buy, (because if you don't, who will?):

"Christians who condone the warfare state and its nebulous crusades against 'evil' have been duped. There is nothing
'Christian' about the state's aggressive militarism, its senseless wars, its interventions into the affairs of other
countries, and its expanding empire.

'The chief wonder is that Christians, followers of the Prince of Peace, should have concurred in this mad idolatry of
strife, and thus been inconsistent not only with themselves, but with the very genius of their system.'

The fact that a government claims a war is just is irrelevant, for American history is replete with examples of American
presidents who have exaggerated, misinformed, misrepresented, and lied to deceive the American people into
supporting wars that they would not have supported if they had known the facts.

Many supporters of the senseless war in Iraq are high on religion. Add a religious element to a war and the faithful will
come out in droves in support of it. In the case of the current war in Iraq this is easy to do. Because the United States
is supposedly a 'Christian nation,' the war can be turned into a modern-day crusade since Iraq is a 'Muslim' nation.

"Christian warmongers … would rather be associated with Bush and the war than with people whom they and others
have deemed undesirable. In actuality, however, they are choosing to be associated with a war criminal and murder
than with the truth just because some people who are usually wrong happen to be right on this particular issue.

Rather than receiving a proclamation of liberty, what many people in foreign countries receive instead are threats,
bombs, and bullets.

From a Christian perspective there is only one way to describe U.S. foreign policy: It is evil. It was evil before the
United States invaded Iraq, and it would still be evil if the United States withdrew all of its forces from Iraq tomorrow. It
is because of our foreign policy that the U.S. military has become—through its wars, interventions, and occupations—
the greatest force for evil in the world. U.S. foreign policy sows discord among nations, stirs up strife where none
existed, intensifies the hatred that many foreigners around the world have for Americans and each other, and creates
terrorists faster than we can kill them.
Is asking God to bless and protect the troops as they shoot, bomb, maim, mine, destroy, 'interrogate,' and kill for a
rogue state with an evil foreign policy consistent with the Christianity you find in the New Testament?"

Sample THIS!

August 8, 2008
If I were a preacher, I'd tell my congregation at every opportunity that just coming to listen to me and whatever I'd
have to tell them would be no substitute for finding out what God has to tell them personally through His Word, both
recorded and living. Let's be honest, how many people think that they don't have to read the Bible on their own, as
long as they attend church on Sundays? And that's why you've got all those millions of Christians believing the false
doctrines of "eternal insecurity" (that you can lose your Salvation at any moment you sin), the "Pre-Tribulation
Rapture" (that Jesus will come to take them to Heaven before the Great Tribulation), and supporting political leaders
in mass murder, pledging their allegiance to an earthly nation, instead of finding out personally how God really thinks
about these things. They're putting their faith in the words of men, instead of the Words of God.

I'd tell them that their personal relationship with God is more important than going to church. Faith in God comes
through hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17), and if you want faith - the only thing that can save us by His Grace
- then you'd better listen to what God has to say, and not anybody else, unless you can be 100% certain that what
they're saying is inspired by God, and there is no way you can be 100% certain of that unless you personally know the
Word of God, and know how and where to find the gifts of the Spirit, such as the gift of discernment.

In fact, if I were a preacher, I'd probably quit preaching, and rather tune in on one person or a handful of individuals at
a time, instead of delighting in the sound of my own voice as it rang through the halls of my church, because neither
Jesus, nor any of His closest followers were ever "preachers" nor into mass evangelism, if you carefully read the
Bible. The so-called "Sermon on the Mount" wasn't a sermon at all. Jesus left the multitude behind, went into a
mountain (not a hill!) and only His disciples came to Him to hear what He had to say. The "Sermon on the Mount" was
a revolutionary instruction talk given by the greatest Revolutionary of all times to His closest followers only, and
thankfully, one of them - Matthew - formerly of the utterly despised occupation of collecting taxes from the Jews for
the Roman invaders - had the skill and brains to write it down!

There are a few occasions in the Book of Acts where Peter or Paul address a larger crowd of people, but those are
exceptional. Most of the time they were too busy hiding from the authorities, because true believers were persecuted
for 300 years before the Roman empire "converted" and "legalized" Christianity according to the motto, "If you can't
lick'em, join'em!" The result was the death of Christianity and the birth of Churchianity, and God is calling His true
believers today out of that mock-up, to get ready for the Real Thing. Most Christians today probably don't know that
the only places where early Christians worshiped for 300 years - before they converted the pagan temples into
Christian "churches" - were the houses of believers and the catacombs beneath Rome, and - weather permitting - the
great wide open.

Most Christians probably don't even know the true meaning of the word "church" itself, coming from the Greek
"ecclesia," meaning "the called out ones."

God is calling His believers to step out of the false religious Systems of their day, to trade in the Big Lie for the truth,
and that simply doesn't (usually) happen in large scale "revivals" and "awakenings" which most preachers in the U.S.
dream of happening. What they call revivals are usually short bouts of electric shocks infused into the dead body of
the church, making it look alive for a few moments before it sinks back into its sepulchre, worse off than before.
I'd really make an effort to be more politically correct, just like your average preacher, if I thought there was enough
time for that. But I don't. The Devil is rapidly taking over, and his flood of lies in which the vast majority is drowning
certainly seems overwhelming, compared to the relatively few voices of truth out there. The neat thing is, that God
doesn't rely on numbers. If one of His voices can chase a thousand of enemy forces, then 2 can chase ten thousand,
His Word says, and He is not limited to save by many or by few.

See, there's really a lot of wonderful stuff the Bible has to say that you might not even beware of, because you're
relying too much on what somebody else has to say about what God has to say.

If I were a preacher, I'd tell you today, tomorrow and everyday: "For God's sake, don't listen to me! Listen to God!"
Perhaps I'd give each member of my congregation a Bible in their hands and tell them, "Read!" And perhaps after a
while they could share with everyone what they discovered... That's what I'd call "church." A group of people obeying
God's call to come out of the box of conventional worship and trying to find out what He has to say to each of them.
And there'd be no way of stopping there, of course, until we had put into practice what He'd just shown us...

But, as I say, these sort of things usually don't happen on a large scale. We can be happy if they happen at all. Even if
once in a single life-time.

If I were a preacher, I'd ask you to tell me to "Shut up and let's get down to business getting the real job done for
Jesus & win those who don't want to go to church because what they need in their life is not a sermon but a sample of
the real thing." - Just give'em Jesus & tell'em to "Sample this!"

The Year of the Dead

Some self-proclaimed "debunkers of Christendom" letting themselves loose on the web with their 5-minute renditions
on Youtube, supposedly "debunking" Christian classics such as C.S.Lewis' "Mere Christianity," while drooling their
wisdom into their web cams, are having a hard time with the lack of "rationality" contained in some of the stuff I'm
putting out. No wonder. Faith is something you just can't fit into the box of rational reasoning. On the other hand, if
you truly reason properly, you'll inevitably wind up with faith.

I admit, at first glance the whole idea of Christianity may seem like a major cop-out. All the professional "debunker"
sees is a bunch of lunatics who've cooked up this "God-idea," and to top it off, they come up with the ultimate
superhero to save them from the one thing everyone is most scared of, since it's the one thing they can't possibly
avoid: kicking the bucket.

Well, it didn't work that way with me. My conversion was much more of a big surprise - both for myself, and my atheist
friends who never forgave me - than the result of a search for an emergency exit or way around that one fateful event
at the end of our road.

To this very day, death doesn't represent a threat to me or anything I'd dread necessarily. Maybe I've seen too much
misery. And I'm not the only one. Friends, acquaintances & relatives around us are dying away like flies, as if they all
got tired of the charade presented to them daily on the silver platter of "reality," brought to you by the corporate media
machinery.

The proof of God's existence stamped all over His creation is too overwhleming for anyone to ignore but idiots, we've
covered that. But IF there is a God, then it stands to reason that this present life isn't the best He could possibly come
up with. And if one bothers to look up what the greatest known and most widely recognized authority on God's views
and views has to say on the matter, they will find confirmation there. All the great heroes of faith, the Good Book
claims, were in it for something better than this mess - and it's doubtful that theirs was as big as ours. So what was
good for them, certainly will do for me - even though our generation must admittedly be the most spoiled of all times.

No one's ever had is as easy as we do - we, the ones in the winner's hemisphere of the New World Order, that is, &
yet never have we felt so miserable at the same time.

"Blessed are the dead," the Bible says at one point. And all the faithful say, "Amen."
No, escaping death is definitely no incentive to embrace all that defies our debunkers' rationale and become a
Christian.

8/15/08

Helping the Blind to See

8/18/08

Jesus called the Scribes & Pharisees "blind guides of the blind," and I've covered that subject a-plenty. But what
exactly was it that they were blind to? What is it that they couldn't see, that others, more healthy personalities can
see? You say, "The truth." Yes, but what particular aspect of it? What exactly was it that made them so mad about
Jesus that it made them want to kill Him?

The shocking truth - as far as I'm concerned - has been the latest revelation that set me off on a journey comparable
to Amundsen's trip to the pole, although it will not only take us into the distant past, but right to the core of probably
the greatest spiritual and social disease of all times, and especially of our times.

What is the one thing nobody wants to see, nobody wants to be confronted with, nobody wants to be made aware of,
and yet, if we only would, it would make all the difference in the world? What is it we dread so much that we don't ever
talk about, and not even think about because it depresses us more than our favorite football team losing a game?

Our mistakes.

We're scared to death of making them, causing some people to be so spiritually paralized that they practically don't do
anything - anything that would ever make a difference or would pose a risk, that is. And if we were bold enough to
make them, then we're usually way too scared to talk about them openly, and we even hate to admit them to
ourselves and rather flush down the whole issue with a six-pack or distract ourselves in whichever possible way. We
do a lot of good works to make up and cover up for them, so that we can pat ourselves on the back again, creating a
huge and solid carpet to hide those most hideous and dreadful of all existing things from our sight, and anyone else's.

Of course, the only One we can't hide them from is God, and I suppose that's why they hated Jesus. He just knew all
about'em and was looking right through them.

I'm the type of guy who has made more mistakes in his life than there are hairs on the body of a fully grown gorilla,
and yet when confronting myself with the question, "Can you name one mistake you ever made?" I had to recruit the
help of my journal. I was actually going to ask someone else that question but then realized I'd first have to see how
well I'd be able to answer it myself. And it was harder than I thought, even with the amount of mistakes I undoubtedly
made, which is probably way above average, but I couldn't pinpoint them all that easily, and not without the help from
hundreds of pages of written conversations with my Maker... (And I'm only half-way through with that project, since
the word "mistake" seems to be one of the most frequent).

Of course, there are the crass and obvious ones we don't ever forget, like when we overlook a stop light and cause an
accident. That sticks. And those are easy to remember. After all, that was an innocent little blunder that can happen to
anyone, even though the consequences were tough to deal with. You had to do without your car for a few days while
it was in the repair shop, and your insurance rate went up.

But most of our mistakes we make are innumerable small ones that add up and suddenly emerge from the ground
under which they were hidden and show their ugly collective face in form of a divorce or some other disaster that
happened in our life without our ever being able to explain how they came about.

Somebody once said, "You can never be too bad for Jesus, only too good." How true. Only folks who are aware of the
fact that they're making mistakes aplenty need help, let alone a Savior, whereas those who are oblivious to the
remote possibility that they might even be capable of any such thing as making a mistake, they're so good, they're
better off without One. Because all He'll ever do is remind them of the one fact that they simply refuse to see: that
beneath that thin veneer of goodness and self-righteousness lies the same kind of sinful heart that beats in all of our
chests. It's just that sin manifests itself differently with each type of personality. And the obvious ones are much easier
to deal with and overcome than the well-hidden ones.
So, needless to say, mistakes are a whole new territory to explore in itself. Especially our own mistakes, that is, along
with the hidden fears that prevent us from ever admitting to them, being able to see and recognize them, and thus
learning from them faster than we could from any other source of information or tutorship.

In fact, that is most likely what this whole life is all about, in fact, all of world history, which - once it will be over with,
I'm sure we'll all refer to as The Big Picture, Volume 1. We're being given the golden opportunity to make countless
mistakes in this life, the first one being the famous one committed by Adam & Eve. Even in the perfect environment
with perfect circumstances, they weren't perfectly happy, or at least not enough to resist one silly temptation.

I daresay that we're probably presented with equally significant temptations on a daily basis, only that we cave in to
them so easily that we don't even notice it anymore. Just in case any of us thought they were better than Adam &
Eve. We're supposed to have gotten smarter than they were, but did we?

I doubt it. One huge requirement would be learning from our mistakes, the way I'm sure they did. The drastic
repercussions made it so obvious they'd blown it. In our world, the changes are happening a little more slowly. What
was once still pretty close to paradise is turning into hell so smoothly that we hardly notice it, and by the time Satan
will have assumed his throne and rulership over this planet for good, most people will probably have gotten used to it.

We're becoming so used to ignoring mistakes being made and any type of evil, most of us won't even recognize it
when the personification of evil (including self-righteousness, I'm sure) himself will stare us in the face from our TV
screens.

Well, we'll have a long time to learn from and teach our children about the mistakes we made, after that episode will
be over, and we'll see whether anyone will have learned anything out of it sooner or later.

As for me, I'm starting right now, and keeping my eyes open for any precious lessons to be gained out of my nearly-
constant blowing it, and I can recommend it as the No.1 therapy for keeping your feet on the ground and learning to
deal with life as it really is. It's exciting and not nearly as terrible at all as we always thought it would be. In fact, our
mistakes are something we should thank God for. They're probably the main purpose we're here in the first place.

Apocalypse Now?

8/18/08

Not many of us have the guts to see things the way they really are. Not many folks in the world are brave enough to
really call a spade a spade. Thus, not many people are aware of the amount of darkness that surrounds us, and of the
flood of lies the world is drowning in.

I thought I was in the "truth" business for decades, but I'm only beginning to learn the ropes now, of how rare, and
thus, how valuable, the truth really is.

Nearly on a daily basis I discover more areas of every day life that the public - all of us - are being (and have been for
decades) told lies about. It seems as if every single "War on something" the U.S. government ever concocted was
and has been the exact opposite of what it professes to be, just like the Federal reserve Bank is just the exact
opposite of "federal" and "reserve." The more blatant the lie, the more effective it is.

The "War on Terror," or course, as at least some people seem to begin to realize, is nothing but a war OF terror,
perpetrated against the peoples of this world in order to usher in Big Brother's New World Order, giving him full power
to spy on your every move, and in the process get rid of some ethnic and religious impurities in the perfect society of
tomorrow, thus helping to reach the desired goal of diminishing the world population.

The "War on drugs," I'm sure, is just another farce and big cover up of the war OF drugs destined to reach those
same goals, or at least, if nothing else, help further the desired goal of diminishing the world population - oh, and of
course, - as applies to all "war on somethings," rake in some extra cash to ensure that they, the rulers of today, will
also remain the rulers of tomorrow. Money rules.
One other "war" the "War on..." morons have cooked up decades ago and I'm only now beginning to be made aware
of, is the so-called "war on cancer." And if one is to believe half of what this man, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, has to say in
his enlightening documentary, then it is no exception, and just another big means to reach the same NWO goals, and
has been, in effect, no more than another war on the peoples of this world.

Probably tomorrow's news will flash the new slogan "War on hunger" in your face, and you'll know what that will
mean. It will mean, "We have rigged up everything according to our magnificent ways in such a manner, that soon you
and your families won't have anything left to eat. So, starve, you bastards."

Again, I apologize for my detrimental lack of political correctness, but I always tend to get a little beside myself when
confronted with the aspect of unprecedented dimensions of genocide.

Of course it doesn't exactly help that the supposedly "enlightened" people of the world, those who profess to have
found the Way, the Truth and the Life and the Light of this world in Jesus Christ only add to the confusion by
proclaiming that the wonderful system they're living in is actually not darkness, but light, that there are actually no lies
being told, but that the government is telling the truth (cough, choke!).

Recently we saw the 70s movie "A Hiding Place" about the Dutch Ten Boom family, hiding Jewish refugees in their
house during WW2 and paying dearly for it with their freedom (and some family members with their lives.) Their own
pastor was repeating the same old humdrum of "The Bible says to obey the government." But old Papa Ten Boom
wisely answered, "There comes a time when we must decide to obey God, rather than men." How true, because that
is even brought out repeatedly and more explicity in the Bible than the one place where Paul says we're to submit to
the powers that be.

And even though we're supposed to submit and not cause a physical, violent rebellion, that doesn't mean we're
supposed to swallow everything they say.

Especially in the light of the fact that governments have been notorious for doing nothing but lie in order to keep the
powers that be in power.

So, by nodding their consent to a corrupt and downright wicked government's activities, those so-called Christians,
the false church and Laodecian Whore of the Apocalypse, becomes just as guilty as the very perpetrators of evil,
because they contribute heavily to keeping the vast majority deluded.

They say, "There IS no darkness, folks! What are you getting so uptight about?" The only "darkness" their sheep are
supposed to accept and see is that of the officially condoned political enemies of the state, falling into the categories
mentioned above, of "ethnic and religious impurities in the perfect society of tomorrow."

Former Illuminati member of the high ranking council of 13, John Todd, already stated in the 70s that churches (i.e.
their pastors) were being bribed massively. I suppose one day we'll know the amount of the billions that must have
exchanged hands in order for preachers to deceive millions of Christians into believing that slaughtering Muslims is
actually a "Christian" thing to do...

That's what I like about lone voices of truth in the wilderness like Lawrence M. Vance. He calls a spade a spade. He
calls the darkness darkness, and the totally un-Christian habit of slaughtering innocent people of different beliefs just
that. - Especially when it turns out that the real motives behind the slaughter were multi-billion dollar oil deals,
pipelines, and of course, the usual NWO agenda of diminishing the world population.

I used to get physically sick when I read the Book of Revelation, kind of like Neo when he found out what the Matrix
was. Coming to grips with the reality of the Matrix of lies we're living in right now, is pretty sickening, too, if you have
the guts to believe it. It's almost as if the Apocalypse were upon us.
Doctors of Doom

8/21/08

Are prophets of doom all long-haired weirdoes like me, who play guitar and post wild and controversial
blogs? "You bet," you say.
Well, you lose that one, I say. I just read the third article within a few short weeks about a serious,
sophisticated, cream of the crop, well-to-do and respected economic advisor predicting some big, heavy
sh... I mean crisis, happening as early as later on this year:

"Former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff said on Tuesday," (that's 2 days ago) that "The worst of the
global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world's
biggest economy hits further troubles."

The second article was "Dr. Doom" about economics professor at New York University Nouriel Roubini who
warned the IMF back in 2006 of the financial dilemma the US and it's pitiful allies are currently finding
themselves in. People laughed at him back then. They're not laughing anymore.

Then there was the "global stock and credit crash alert" issued bu the Royal Bank of Scotland (allegedly a
Rothschild Bank?) in June...

Well, it's easy to "forecast your devices" (see Daniel 11:24, 25, KJV) when you're the one devicing them...

Anyway, folks, I thought I'd just let you know that I'm not the only loonie saying that there's something
tough & ugly comin' 'round the bend, and maybe sooner than you'd like it, so we'd all better pull up our
pants & be as prepared as we can for what's comin'... And Lord have mercy 'pon our souls.

Of course, I'll be just as happy as anyone of this turns out to be just another false alarm. But it won't hurt to
have a few extra cans of Grandma's Homemade Chicken Stew tucked away in your basement, just in case
you'll truly find the supermarket on the corner - along with your bank and virtually everything else "closed
until further notice."
By Their Fruits (and Veggies) You Will Know Them

8/22/08

One of the pre-eminent ways which shows to what extent the Devil has turned this world upside down, and our
twisted perception of things, is that the majority of people actually believe that just because mankind was allowed to
have some technological breakthroughs over the past few centuries, that they have "evolved" and developed into
something better than their forefathers. Of course, it's easy to believe that if you've been brainwashed to believe that
your forefathers resembled gorillas.

If you have a look at the biblical portrait of our forefathers, however, you'll find - among the many mistakes we all
make - more nobility, character and true values there than in any society or nation presently on earth. Even if our
knowledge may have increased, it is what you do with that knowledge what matters, and if "by their fruits ye shall
know them," then for all the misery and pain our knowledge has resulted in, I wonder if we're truly better off than our
predecessors, or if perhaps in some aspects, "ignorance is bliss" after all.

A good illustration of this is our modern fruits and vegetables: They may look good on the outside, artificially beefed
up and genetically enhanced to look like their plastic counterparts in furniture stores, but did you know that our
modern, "evolved" fruits and vegetables have actually lost some of their original nutrition value? When it comes to
nutritives, minerals, vitamins and all those things that really count, more than mere looks, our modern and
technologically enhanced produce doesn't cut the cake.

How true that is of people. You can buy yourself a new nose, a whole new face, or a different color of skin, a whole
new set of teeth, have the fat in your butts sucked off and re-injected into your lips, so that even a 75-year old can still
resemble a flawless barbie, but you cannot possibly inject real happiness (or moral values) into their souls. The
glimpse into the mirror that thankfully lies at you and hides your true age may give you a temporary shot of
satisfaction, compared to a shot of whishy or heroin, but you can't buy true happiness with lies.

True, our forefathers may have looked not quite as glamorous, and neither did their veggies and fruits, and they may
have had to do a lot of manual work and not have been able to enjoy the crowning achievent of technological
evolution in fingering a remote control, but I defy anyone who tries to tell me that we are happier today than they
were. And our modern, "evolved" suicide rates prove it.

Let's face it: life sucks when you constantly kid yourself into thinking that you're the cream of the crop, when in reality
you can't even hold a candle to one single, honest, hard-working 19th century coal miner, much less one of the Early
Christians who suffered severe persecution for the first 3 centuries of Christendom, or some of the earlier patriarchs.

The only human quality that has truly evolved into unprecedented proportions is pride, which has been inflated just
like our modern paper currencies. Coming to think of it: this whole System is just one huge, colorful, pretty-on-the-
outside balloon with nothing on the inside but hot air, and utterly unprepared for its first rendez-vous with a sharp
rock...

Freedom's Just Another Word for...

8/31/08

There's a seemingly insignificant line in an old song written by Kris Kristofferson, made popular by the Sixties Legend
Janis Joplin, that has turned out to be a revelation of truth, proven time and again: "Freedom's just another word for
'nothing left to lose'" sings the chorus of "Bobby McGee."

Since we get to play for a lot of well-to-do people, and sometimes for the extremely wealthy, it has been our
observation that if what Kristofferson wrote there is true, that the free people must live somewhere else.
Last night we observed another confirmation of Bobby McGee's profound truth, as we played in the luxurious home of
a prestigious artist, towering over a spectacular view of the probably most beautiful part of the lake of Constance with
a garage full of century old cars, each of which worth a multiple sum of all our meager possessions put together.

It's funny, though, that once you get to know enough of this sort of extravaganza, it pitifully ceases and fails to impress
at some point, especially when it becomes apparent that the essence of what really constitutes a rich and fulfilled life
is missing from the picture of such abundance.

Most rich people we've had the pleasure to play for so far, usually made an effort to at least try to create an air of
equality between themselves and their staff, or any other human beings from strata of society less materially blessed,
but that effort was being purposely avoided in this situation, apparently with the intention to impress the laden guests
all the more, which gave the unbiased observer the slight impression that perhaps slavery has not been abolished yet
down here in the south of Germany.

It gets one thinking. Where is the point where people start building walls of separation between themselves and other
humans that set them apart from them, as something - exclusively in their own minds - "better" than their fellowman?
What is the sum that one needs to own that entitles them to the claim of being on a higher level than those other,
"mere mortals?" - Because it's obvious that such semi-gods deem themselves immortal, or at least they behave in
such a way that they would never expect having to stand before their Creator at any point, Who, as it is written, is no
respecter of persons, and does not have any preferences based on material criteria.

Maybe "the love of money is the root of all evil" because it's the primary building material for the pride of life that
erects those walls around us. After all, it's usually rich people who send their subjects off to kill their fellowman in
other countries, and - as it usually turns out - not at all for the noble reasons they claimed their war was necessary
for...

It's not that it's wrong or a sin to be rich, but what matters is what your money makes you become, and whether one
has the maturity to keep in mind that no amount of possessions will make a difference between themselves and
others that will last. Obviously, it takes some folks less to get to the point where they think themselves better than
others and separate themselves from "the rest of the mob," or elevate themselves to some self-erected mental shrine
of some sacred state above the crowd, and I find it helpful to regularly remind myself of Kris Kristofferson's little piece
of wisdom and ask myself, how free am I today? What have I got to lose today?

There's an old German fairy-tale called "Hans im Glueck" (roughly translated "Lucky Jack" or "Hans in Luck"), about a
boy who finds out that the more he possesses, the more miserable he becomes, and that the way to happiness is
giving it all away. Of course, like most people, I detested that story as a kid. Before I learned the lesson from "Bobby
McGee," that is, which happened rather recently.

Jesus put it like this: "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." Or in modern
English: "Your life does not consist of the bunch of things you own." In fact, a life that consists exlusively of the value
of the material things one possesses always turns out to be an empty life, an "empty shell, groomed and fed so
well..."

One would think that we, the enlightened society of the 21st century would have grasped such basics of life by now,
but since that's obviously not the case, I'm afraid it only proves just how enlightened we really are...

"What would it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Jesus asked 2000 years ago. The answer
is, obviously: nothing. The same amount that would have ensured your happiness during your life-time. So, it all
comes back around to nothing. The only difference is whether you'll fall for the illusion of "something" or even "a
whole lot," or not.
All That Glitters Is Not Gold

9/9/08

Can you blame anyone for refusing to subscribe to Christianity these days? With some of the
biggest culprits & perpetrators of evil posing as Christians, including some of the greatest dorks
this world has ever seen running entire superpowers, and the majority of believers falling for their
scheme & voting for them... I can't.

On the other hand, what are you really buying into when you join an average Christian church,
these days? Does it even remotely resemble the life-style of Christendom's Founder and His
original followers, or is it just some artificial mock-up of the real thing, just as you get a made-in-
America mock-up of nearly everything else on the planet?

No, I'm not blasting Christianity, I'm just trying to make you aware that there is a counterfeit
version of the Real Thing around that everyone's buying into, that's poisonous. Not all that glitters
is gold.

I've written before about how I perceive some outstanding Muslims or Hindus to have been
greater saints or even better "Christians" than the majority of their officially pious & cross-flaunting
counterparts, but I'm coming across more and more situations in real life that seem to confirm my
theory that God doesn't judge you by your tag.

Of course, we Christians have the excuse that the Devil's on our trail and works a lot harder at
stopping us from being good than perhaps the average Joe who has no reputation or standard to
defend. But then it seems like an awful lot of us Christian soldiers aren't very much of a bunch of
fighters. We have big mouths & think we're the greatest, sort of like the U.S. Army in little tiny 3rd
World countries. But when it comes to really fighting a real foe we turn chicken & run, deserting
our friends who bought into our "We'll defend you from the bad guys" lines, when all we were
interested in was their resources & 30 pieces of silver.

No wonder the Chinese are laughing at the elections in America, just as they're probably laughing
at the Western plastic version of Christianity. They've seen real Christians refusing to deny their
faith for decades in their own prisons, and they can tell the difference between real fighters and a
bunch of big-mouthed pussies (in the sense of little kittens - no offense!)...

As long as Christians in the world are at large more selfish and materialistic than their Hindu
counterparts, more idolatrous in the worship of the things made or bought by their own hands than
any Muslim, and greater opponents and obstacles to peace than the Buddhist population of the
world, faith in Christ will never be an attractive alternative to members of other religions.
As long as Christians, in their actions are living a lie that brings death to the world, we'll have a
hard time convincing them that Jesus is indeed the "Way, the truth and the life."
He Is Not a Jew
I've written quite a few things about why I think that the official, institutional version of Christianity is a fake, poor,
plastic counterfeit of the real thing, and I never failed to make myself more unpopular with each one of those posts.
But what I just discovered today is going to be even more controversial and unpopular for repeating it, and that is that
what we call Judaism, or for that matter, the "Jewish Race" is just as much of a fake.

According to a former Zionist who changed his name from Friedman to Freedman, 90% of the people who call
themselves "Jews" (a term, he insists, was coined in the late 18th century) are descendants of a war-mongering Finn-
Turko tribe that populated a large area of modern day Russia, called the Khazars, who in the same fashion that
Roman emperor Constantine adopted Christianity as the official state religion for Rome, adopted Judaism - or
actually, Talmudism, which it ought to be termed more accurately, according to Freedman - as their religion of choice
in the 700s, and just as the Roman alphabet was adopted by many European nations to put their language into
writing, they adopted the Hebrew alphabet, thus creating the origins of the Yiddish language, which is apparently as
different from Hebrew as Spanish from Swedish, and according to Freedman, you won't find a single Hebrew word in
it.

According to Freedman, this makes the present occupants of the country currently called Israel only as legitimate and
only as much "God's chosen people" as Christian clergy are drilled into brainwashing their flocks that they are.

Lately I've been contemplating for the first time what a dear Russian friend and brother told me a few years ago, that
Putin could possibly the Antichrist. Back then I figured, "No way, dude." For one thing, the Bible describes the final
world ruler before Christ's return as "a king of fierce countenance" (Daniel 8:23), and I always perceived Putin's face
as a little too jolly to fit that description. But recently I read an article about Putin putting on "a grim face" when
addressing his audience in England (I think), and "grim face" would pretty much be the modern translation of "fierce
countenance."

But then I thought, hey, but he'd have to be a Jew, in order for the Jews to hail him as their Messiah, reinstitute their
daily worship in the rebuilt temple, etc. (see John 5:43)...

But in the light of the facts that Benjamin Freedman revealed, namely that "Jew" is a coined phrase, similar to the
coined term for artificial silk, which is "rayon," the concoction of which the author received a 25.000$ bonus for, I'd
say, to hell with whether he's a "Jew" or not, and they - whoever "they" are in the first place, (if "they" are anything at
all), probably might figure the same thing, as long as he gets them what they want - only to take it away from the 3 1/2
years later, that is...

It sort of gives a new, deeper meaning to what Jesus says in the Book of Revelation: "I know the blasphemy of them
which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan" (Rev.2:9) - the original word for "Jews" then
having been "Judeans," obviously. Or to what Paul meant when he said, "He is not a Jew which is one outwardly;
...But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly..." (Romans 2:28, 29), even though the Khazars weren't around then yet.
Maybe he had a prophetic inkling. After all, he was pretty right on about what was going to befall the church...
(2Timothy 4:3,4)

Freedman also gives a few examples from the Talmud, which is the magna carta that defines the belief of those who
call themselves Jews, and if there is one quality about it in that it definitely surpasses any of the other major world
religions, it would be the one one would term "anti-Christ."

Have you ever wondered why - if the "Jews" are supposedly a Semitic "race," meaning, descendants of Noah's son
Shem (that's where the word Semitic comes from), like the Arabic and some Asian nations, probably including
American Natives, most of them don't look the least bit like it, but are as white as Mr. and Mrs. Jones? Well, here's the
answer: they're not. Most people who call themselves Jews today are not actual descendants of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob (descendants of Shem, and thus legitimate Semites by race), but descendants of the Eastern European tribe
named Khazars (descendants of Noah's son Japheth, like all other Europeans), whose king one fine day simply chose
to convert to the religion of the Judeans.

This makes the Palestinians' claim to Palestine more legitimate than that of its present occupants, because they -
unlike most of their invaders - are at least descendants of Abraham, and legitimate Semites.

But all that doesn't really matter. If you choose the god of this world for your boss, he'll take good care of you and he'll
supply you with all that which Jesus refused when he tempted Him, namely this world's riches, and money speaks
louder than blood. If you've got the dough and you're on the right side, you can be anything you like to be.
So, if Putin one day decides, "What the heck, I'm going to be the friggin' Antichrist," all he'd have to do would be to
convert to Judaism, since it's common knowledge now that there isn't really largely any such thing as a legitimate
"Jew" by race anyway, and he could give'em their temple, their worship, and still manage to somehow make things
right for the Palestinians and Muslims somehow - for a change...

Another biblical description of the Antichrist is that he's "a little horn (king)... more stout than his fellows." I originally
thought in order to be "stout" you'd have to be tall and tough. But you can be relatively small and tough and still be
"stout," and I think that's precisely what Putin is: Definitely more "stout" than his predecessors since "We will bury
you" Khrushchev, and certainly more so than any of his string-for-a-backbone peers in the current political scenario.

As far as acting in an Antichrist manner, Putin has already made clear what he thinks of Christianity of any other kind
than that of the Russian Orthodox church by his tough restrictions on missionary activities in Russia, practically
banning all other faiths, perhaps giving his countrymen a little foretaste of the future "war on the saints"?

Finally, here's another little wild theory: If "Babylon the Great," of Revelations 17 and 18, the great city that in one
hour will be destroyed, is in fact - as I believe - the U.S., or at least its spiritual capital, New York (according to
Freedman the world capital not only of Captialism, but also of Zionism), then it would be a curious symbolic repeat
performance of the present day "dual kingdom" of Medvedev and Putin's Russia, symbolized by a bear, just like the
dual kingdom of Medo-Persia, to conquer modern day Babylon in similar fashion as its ancient counterpart.

It seems to be giving greater weight to the symbolism and deeper meaning behind destroying Babylon the Prostitute
that in doing so, it will be the wiping out of not just one fake religion, but two. Two spiritual prostitutes under one roof,
claiming to be the brides of the true God, when in reality worshiping Mammon all along...

The Medo-Persians conquered Babylon by stealth and wit, not by sheer "We are the champions" type of brawn and
muscle power. They entered the Babylonian capital via its sewage systems and caught the partying Babylonian king
by surprise. From all I can tell right now, it should be a piece of cake for someone like Putin to outwit the probably
dumbest nation on earth and put an end to the party they're having at the expense of the rest of the world.

The current U.S. threats and touting of manhood size reminds me of the scene in "Little Big Man," one of my favorite
movies of all times, in which Custer asks Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman in his best role ever) whether he should go
down to his "last stand" and fight the Indians. He was going to do the opposite of whatever the known traitor was
going to tell him. And he answered something to the extent of, "You go down there and there's going to be Inidans
down there you wish you hadn't messed with, not just women and children..." (like the kind it's easy to shoot from
Iraqui roof tops) "...and you're going to get your butt kicked!"

Personally, I can't wait for history to repeat itself.

So, give the fake Jews their fake messiah who's going to turn on them and kick theirs, too. As far as I can see it, if
McCain wins the coming election, this whole show is going to go down within a few short years.
Flatlander's Folly

Sept.30, 2008
In his article "A Nation of Flatlanders," Newsweek's Michael Hirsh correctly addresses a condition, which, I'm afraid,
has been ailing his country for a little while longer than since the Bush administration.

While I thoroughly enjoyed the article (- myself having been aware of the "Flatland" concept since I was a wee lad of
13 - thanks to a spin-off on Edwin Abbot's "Romance of Many Dimensions" published in the 70s by David Berg -) to
merely call the current hoodlum in Iraq someone's "folly," in my opinion is as blatantly failing to do the subject justice,
as would be calling the Holocaust a "mishap" or "Hitler's blunder," and such a statement could only come from an
American (who values foreign lives infinitely less than their fellow patriots'), and from someone who, although
addressing a problem or spiritual disease, is himself currently a victim of the same, howbeit one of the exceptional
kind who at least recognize the problem.

Last night we saw Peter Berg's "The Kingdom," probably one of the best portrayals ever, of the deeply rooted hatred
between Americans and Muslims, and from the rational, "Flatlander's" point of view, one would reach the conclusion
that religion is probably the most idiotic thing there is (right next to patriotism, but that's not the message the movie
makers wanted to bring across). Only someone looking a little deeper, beyond the limits of their own finite dimensions
of what is to be believed and accepted as "real" or not, can see the hands in the dark pulling the threads of
manipulation, playing one party skillfully against another, creating what the Germans call a "Feindbild," an artificial
image of your enemy in your mind, and in this case, achieving that the majority of rational people in the world will
believe exactly that: Religion is the Enemy.

While the two opposing (artificially created) forces of communism and capitalism were ensuring the necessary tension
and strife to cater to the unseen manipulators' agenda for half a century, the new culprit is religion, the last enemy to
be overcome in order to achieve world peace within the glorious New World Order.

Without being aware of a plan that's unfolding in world history and recognizing that the "New World Order" was more
than just a neat line Bush Sr. came up with (- probably long before Mr. Hirsh had his job with Newsweek -), what Bush
Jr. and his potential successor are committing is merely a "folly."

In my opinion, it is a much larger folly to be as naive to assume such a thing.

It isn't just folly or plain stupidity to be pouring billions into a sinking ship called "The Economy," deemed "unsinkable"
for decades, (despite the repetitive outcries of the prophets of doom since the 70s), because just like the future
abolition of religion, Mr. Hirsh, it is the New World Order's cleverly devised plan and intention - not merely some poor
dupe's "folly" - to abolish the other thing, even more important to (most) people than their religion: Cash!

The arquitects of the New World Order know that the only way the masses are going to relinquish their beloved
churches (temples, Mosques, etc.) and paper money, is by proving to the entire world that both only create problems,
and are a nuisance - a relic of the past, soon to be abolished.
Of course, they'll have a neat alternative handy and ready for each man, woman and child: a personal chip just for
your right hand or forehead, as prophesied 2000 years ago, to get you what you want at the mall, plus, a taylor-made
new world ideology to replace all pestering religions, including its own messiah, mahdi, savior or superman...
whatever you wish to call him.

It's understood that no one voluntarily wants to face such a bleak outlook, if that's supposed to be the "guiding force"
behind history and the glorious "extra-height" (as Abbot put it), or additional dimension, if that's all there is to it. The
good news is that above and around the matrix of evil, there's yet another layer of truly divine and - for a change -
benign purpose for mankind, and that's God's plan, "Matrix" or Kingdom, whatever you want to call it, which engulfs
and only uses all lesser dimensions within it to teach the universe a lasting lesson with a happy ending.

You may be abolish religion, and with most of it, you'd probably be doing the world a favor. But you can't abolish God.
And there IS One, you can bet your cash on it!

Love Reign Over Us

Oct.5, 2008

Last night we watched "Reign Over Me," the probably first serious movie with Adam Sandler in existence, or at least
the first one I saw, and apart from being a wonderful character study (especially for those familar with the
Enneagram), the movie addresses a few interesting points in regards to 9/11, some of which may even say more than
the movie makers originally intended. Or perhaps that's just my interpretation of it, but as with everything in the world,
I think it's up to each one of us and our individual perception, what we make of it, and learn from it, and I have made it
clear elsewhere that I believe that the Almighty has placed more lessons all around us than most of us are willing to
notice, even availing Himself of the creativity of our fellowmen to drive home points that they may not even have
intended to (and that is nowhere as much as a reality as in the art of movie-making).

Sandler plays Charlie, a former dentist in New York who lost his wife and 3 children during the 9/11 so-called
"attacks," which by a growing number of people around the world, and even Americans, are rather referred to as an
"inside job." Charlie refuses to deal with his loss and ( - in the manner of the Enneagram's personality type SEVEN,
whose driving force is defined by Enneagram authors Rohr and Ebert as "The Need to Avoid Pain," taken to the
extreme), he refuses to remember what happened, and that he had a family at all, and reacts very aggressively to any
third party attempts (such as those of his in-laws) to confront him with what happened.
The friendship of his former college room mate - with the help of a too-cute-to-be-real therapist (Liv Tyler) - very
gradually pulls him out of this, and we watch how beautifully friendship and communication can change people's lives
for the better.

The point which the blessed creators of this movie may not have intended to bring across, but nevertheless insists on
jumping in my face (as I'm sure some readers would), is how Sandler's role portrays the refusal of the majority of the
American public (as well as a substantial percentage of the rest of the Western populace) to deal with the realities
behind 9/11. Although evidence abounds that the official version of 9/11 is as likely to have happened as the Twin
Towers having been erected by an army of ants, in the typical fashion of pain-avoiding hedonists, most Americans
refuse to face the facts of just how rotten to the core their government really is and how astray they're being led,
willingly manipulated into one war after another and never-ending bloodshed, reacting quite aggressively to those who
would try to confront them with the truth.

If there was any intention from the side of the movie's makers to bring across that sort of message at all, then the
message would read on: "Give us time to deal with all of this in our own fashion!" The sad part of the real story is,
time's running out! If time is money, as they always say, then it's definitely running out, and whether people want it or
not, the truth is going to come crashing in on them, and already is, as things turn out to be never the same again on
Wall Street and elsewhere around the world.
Today, little Mr. and Mrs. Jones may be pointing their fingers at the greedy stock brokers and shake their heads at
them, "Tsk tsk, those greedy, naughty boys." But in a year from now the repercussions of what really happened here
will have affected their lives to such an extent that there will be nobody there to shake their heads at, similar to the
way it happened in 1930, a year after the first global stock market crash, which, it seems, is finally finding its match in
the events unfolding before us right now.

Of course, way over 90% of the population vehemently refuse to acknowledge what's going on. They're choosing the
blue pill (as in "The Matrix") every day: "Put me back to sleep and let me know none of all this!"

Well, just as dear Charlie in our movie eventually had to sit down and face the truth and reality of what happened,
sooner or later that will have to be the case with everyone else. The only question is when and where; whether it will
be in this life, or the next.

As far as I'm concerned, an integral and indispensable ingredient of love is truth, and without it, I wonder how real any
of all that love is that people would like to reign over them, or if it's perhaps not just a bunch of good intentions paving
their road to hell. If you want love to be real, you've got to have truth in it, and when that's the case, I'll agree: Let that
love reign over all of us!

P.S.: Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like we don’t all do it. After all, what makes us watch movies by the dozens in the first place? We
all like to get a break from reality, and it’s not like I can’t wait for all the gory stuff to happen, that’s awaiting the world, according to
the Book of Revelation. I remember the first time I read it, I actually felt physically sick, the way Neo in the Matrix did, when he
found out the truth about what the Matrix was, and what his life thus far had been…

But there’s a difference between being optimistic or positive and being naïve. It’s obvious, that basically we’re all wonderful and
often can’t really be held to blame, because we simply don’t know any better. But there also comes the point when we should know
better, because we have been told the truth, and it’s up to us to either accept or reject it, and I’m afraid that a lot of stuff is coming
up around the bend that is going to test our love for how real it is, and I’d just advise anyone to fasten their seat belts.

Wine of Fornication

Oct.9, 2008

Having been to the U.S. changed my life forever, because it was the first step I took toward the full realization that the
only place that the "Great Country" as which the United States of America is always depicted actually exists, is in its
movies. Of course, most people don't experience the same I did when they travel there, possibly because their
brainwashing started earlier than mine. Trying to figure out to which circumstance I can ascribe my ability to discern
something real from a fake (- apart from some supernatural gift the Bible calls discernment -) I can only come up with
the fact that my parents didn't allow a TV in our house until I was around six years old. And even then I wasn't allowed
to watch everything.

I ascribe to this circumstance - and I wouldn't call it lucky as much as the direct miraculous intervention of God - that I
am one of the apparently rare breed of humans who are still able to distinguish whether what any high-ranking
politician is saying actually makes any sense or not. Most people - my guesstimate, probably more than 99.5% of the
Western population - hear a speech, say, by the President of the United States, and they automatically figure that
because he is the leader of the great Nation that is home to Hollywood, it must make some sense somehow, and
there must be goodness and truth in it. They need no further verification. Their inner "bullshit" detector - originally
installed in humans by their Maker in ancient times, also referred to as "common sense," is left dysfunctional and
obsolete, of course, driving the 0.5% of the population whose sense for right and wrong is still intact to the edge of
insanity everytime the President opens his mouth and his audience responds by applause, instead of doing what
would be the appropriate reaction, namely to tar and feather or strangle him.

My personal guess is that this worldwide immunization to total nonsense by nearly non-stop exposure to Corporate
propaganda both via the media, press and public school curricula is what the Book of Revelation is referring to as "the
wine of the wrath of her fornication" by which the mysterious Whore "Babylon" has made drunk the nations of the
earth. This may sound like total lunacy to you, but I'm convinced it will be taught as fact in your grand-children's
history books.
Now, 7 years after 9/11 you wouldn't get me back to that country except by abduction. "1984" has become reality 24
years behind schedule, but everybody is so perfectly brainwashed, they perceive it as perfectly normal, probably the
same way German citizens 70 years ago used to think it was normal for undesirable elements of their society to be
shipped off to special camps...

Let’s analyze a little bit that strange concoction termed in the Bible, “The wine of the wrath of her fornication.” Some
still contend that the description of Babylon fits the Roman Catholic Church, but I’ve already disputed the notion that
there would be any such weapon in the hands of the Catholic Church that would exert such power of all nations. If
anything, - having been raised a catholic – the power of the church always struck me as something extremely
sobering, not at all intoxicating.

Whereas there isn’t a nation on earth that hasn’t tasted from the wine of entertainment running from the presses of
the U.S. movie industry, not a single country whose population wouldn’t at least in part be “high” on that rush of
reality-altering intoxication, the gas of the benefits of capitalism, silently and voluntarily unleashed upon each family
by themselves via their satellite dishes and TV sets.

“What’s wrong with a little bit of entertainment?” Nothing, if all it wants to do is “entertain us” and distract us from our
usually quite different reality a little bit, and get us away from thinking. It’s another story, though, if we’re lured into a
different kind of thinking altogether, and being manipulated so we’ll act in a certain way that will cater to the goals of a
certain powerful group of people.

Let’s have a look at the stuff they’re pushing on our bewildered, passive brains:

1. First of all: Money Rules! – Happiness equals money. You’re a winner if you’ve got it, you’re a loser if you
don’t. In stark contrast to what Jesus had to say about the issue…

2. Fun rules. Even if you don’t have loads of money, it is still your “right” to have fun, and to get it whichever
way. After all: you’re all just mutated little monkeys, right? So what other purpose could there be in life other
than that?

3. Youth rules. Adults are ogres, kids are innocent, charming little princes and princesses, and if you want to
avoid being labeled a total a..h..e, you’d better spend the rest of your life bending over backwards to cater to
every single wish of your little ones. (After all, it’s your own fault if you were dumb enough to have any in the
first place…)

4. Truth rules – NOT! It’s perfectly legitimate to lie and deceive in order to get what you want. That’s what their
god has been doing from the beginning and what he’s best at, so how could his gospel ever preach anything
else?

5. Thou shalt kill! If you want to solve problems, a gun is the best and quickest way to do it. Whether it’s your girl
cheating on you, or the stupid Christian kids in your school, the best thing you can do for the New World
Order is steal your papa’s gun, mow them all down, so that we can finally convince the rest of the world how
dangerous it is to have people able to defend themselves & alter gun laws to take them all away from you.
(Following the old scheme of first tempting to commit evil in order to accuse afterwards.)

6. America rules! It is beyond a shadow of a doubt that America is the greatest country ever* to have existed on
the face of the earth, and any creature daring to insinuate otherwise is a terrorist and ought to be tortured to
death.

7. Oh yeah, did we mention it? Torture is legitimate! After all, you want to extract the necessary information from
the “evildoers” so that we can eliminate them and liberate the rest of the world, ummm from their evil ways, of
course, hehe.

8. Discipline and order suck! If you don’t want to be an absolute moron, hated and spitted upon by the rest of the
world, then for Ch…’s sakes, leave the rest of the world be and do whatever they damn please to (except for
them America-hating terrorists, of course), but especially them young ones. After all, all they want is have a
little fun, and … remember rule no.2: there is no other purpose in life.

9. Jesus Christ is a bad word. You utter it whenever something dreadfully bad happens, you’re terribly upset, or
you want to kill someone.

10. Anyone who adheres to these moral codes and swallows this stuff is “good,” anyone who won’t isn’t and will
wind up on the blacklist of all the superheroes in the world combined: Spiderman, Batman, the Incredible
 Hulk, Superman, George Bush… they’re all gonna come and get ya, and you gonna wish you hadn’t a
messed wit dem!

How do I know all these things? Simple. I’ve watched enough movies. These, of course are only the top ten of
hundreds of rules you learn to keep if you keep swallowing the wine of wrath & (Cali)fornication (as some have
termed it). The attractive thing about them is that they’re not just some somber, stiff rules that make you go through
life all dry and sober like a piece of sackcloth, but drunk as a skunk. The only disadvantage is the hangover the next
morning, and the crude awakening to the dude waving the bill under your nose, demanding you pay the fiddler.

* (Which may have even been true, before its inhabitants allowed corrupt leaders and national pride to cheat them out
of their integrity)

What Jesus Has to Say

Whether it's going to take another 10 years or twenty - and I seriously doubt that it should take another 30 years -
before Jesus will deliver this place from the usurper, insiders ought to make themselves savvy of what the future
Ruler of earth has to say. The problem right now being that very few people actually care about what He has to say,
whether in the Gospels, or in real-time..

There are 2 ways of finding out what Jesus has to say: you either read what He had to say 2000 years ago, which in
its unaltered form is still good today and will even be when heaven and earth pass away, and one can tune in to His
latest news via the gift of prophecy, which is a fully legit means of finding out what He has to tell you right here and
now, offered in the Bible as one of the 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit. Another problem being that the only gifts most
Christians are interested in are small papers with pictures of dead dudes and round numbers on them, like "10," "20,"
"50," or "!00," etc., you read me.

Another, 3rd way of finding out what He has to say is having someone else tell you or interpret if for you, which seems
to be people's favorite means, but it's also a bit risky, because whatever Jesus may have to say through somebody
else might always be tainted by their own views and opinions (and oh, they are many...), so my recommendation
would be to cut the detour and find out from Him personally.

In this case, what I would have to say to you would spell: "Don't listen to what I've got to say! Find out what Jesus has
to say!"

In order to do that, I'm going to do you the favor and give you the opportunity by shutting up right now. If you
absolutely have no clue about Jesus and His recorded words, start with the Gospel of John, (don't like reading?
Watch the movie!), and if you're up for the latest, grab something to write and ask Him to give you some news on your
situation, the world, whatever, and I promise, you may well wind up surprised by the results. Alternatively, you could
subscribe to Activated magazine in which you'll find portions of news and views from the future Boss of the world on
all sorts of topics.

God in a Box

0ct.24, 2008
People often interpret the term "all-powerful" to indicate that God does it all: everything is predestined; He created the
Devil to be bad, and predestined Judas to betray Him, and everything is pre-programmed, anyway, so what difference
does it make, anyway, what choices I'm going to make today?
That's why we put the blame for practicallyanything that goes wrong on God. We hiss a sarcastic "thanks a lot!" in His
direction when something doesn't go our way, because we figure He did it to tease us. After all, He's all-powerful, so
He does it all, or doesn't He?

No, He does not. Just because Jesus knew that Judas was going to betray Him, doesn't mean He made him do it.
The same applies to the fall of Satan, or the Fall of Man with Adam & Eve. He didn't make'em do it. Nor does He
make any of us do the stupid things we do, nor is He the one causing all our troubles.

As James put it in his epistle: "Let no man say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God.' Because God cannot be
tempted by evil, nor does Hed tempt anyone." (James 1:13).

Everybody has their own specific job in the Big Picture, and the Devil has chosen (God didn't make him do it) to take
on the role of the tempter. That's his job (with the help of his cohorts, that is, both flesh & blood and spiritual). It's our
Savior's job to save us out of the mess we allow ourselves to get into when we fall for the Enemy of our soul's
temptations by choosing to say "yes" to them, instead of no, like a foolish kid who simply doesn't have the strength of
character to refuse his first cigarette or drug. (Been there! - Repeatedly!)

On one hand we refuse to give credit to our Maker for all the good things He does; we even refuse to give Him credit
for His very creation, preferring to believe the total nonsense that it has somehow come about by itself. On the other,
we blame everything bad that ever happened on Him: "How could He allow that?" Well, allowing things to happen is
what free choice is all about, but it still isn't the same as making them happen, or making us do it.

We have to realize that God is the good Guy, waiting there at the other end of the tunnel to take us Home again, the
One Who sent His Son to become like us in order to save us, because He loves us. That means, He's our Friend, not
our Enemy.

Even people who believe in Him since decades can get upset at God and blame everything that goes wrong on Him (I
know what I'm talking about). It's because we swallow the deception of His enemy, which is very clever indeed: Satan
projects his own profile and personality on God, so that what we see or imagine when we think of God is actually the
tyrant, the big head honcho who wants to run the whole show and accuse and condemn us as soon as we make a
mistake.

But that's not Who God is. God prefers to remain in the background, He doesn't run the whole show the way His
opponent is getting ready to do, with all his pompous ado. Look at Jesus, His Son: He wasn't a super star, no big
politician or even a religious head honcho. According to His own words, He didn't even have a bed. He was a lowly
and humble carpenter's son, and for 3 years He pursued a public ministry of healing and teaching, never once
seeking fame in any of what He did, never trying to be the "cool guy," just doing what needed to be done, saying what
needed to be said, and then getting out of the way to let His followers pick up where He left of. He even promised
them, "You will do greater things than I did!"

So, next time we tend to get upset with God (and I'm preaching to myself here, more than anyone else), let's try to
remember Who and what God really is. He's not the bad guy that the Devil is trying to make Him out to be. He's the
good Guy Who's going to save us out of this mess.

Alright then, sometimes we think He could or ought to be doing that a little sooner than He actually does, and we get
impatient with Him for not saving us immediately at the onset of the slightest pain or trial. But maybe it's because we
haven't called Him for help yet. After all, we're trying to do everything else in our own strength, so that we can pat
ourselves on the back for the hard workers we are, so why should He barge in on us unsolicited? Or do you know
anybody who is actually trusting in God for their daily bread, instead of their own arm of the flesh? I'm not saying
those people don't exist, but they're a rare breed, and certainly not your average church attendant or preacher.

God is not the liar, the thief, the culprit, nor the one trying to cheat us out of our happiness, and the sooner we realize
that, the greater favor we'll be doing ourselves.

Our false concept & picture of God (perhaps that's why one of His commandments was not to make an image of Him,
because no matter how hard we try, it'll always fall short of the Real Thing?) is probably what makes us want to keep
Him locked up in the box we have built Him for a home: the church building. Nicely and safely locked up for 6 days
and 23 hours a week (with few exceptions), and only let loose upon our spirits to torment us for that one dreadful hour
on Sunday mornings... Well, thankfully, that Pollyanna type of churchiantity has waned over the past decades
(otherwise no one would be going to church anymore at all), but most people I know want to keep God out of their
private lives, and when they want to have fun, they don't want to think about Him. "You're the bad Guy, You go back
inside Your box!"
Personally, if God is Love, and love is what I happen to enjoy most, I'd like to have Him around and enjoy Him as
much as possible. After all, if He's cool enough to have created all of the things & people I like best, then who knows
what other fun stuff He might possibly be up to? So, I think I'm going to pull God out of my "grump corner" (I don't
have a church building to stick Him in, so that had to do for now), and invite Him to tug along next time I'm going out
to have some fun. Maybe I'll live to tell y'all how it went.

Most people obviously think they're better off and doing just fine without Him, but I guess people's idea of fun varies a
lot, and can differ as drastically as my personal music taste from my daughter's. But I'd still recommend the idea of
giving God a chance to be your friend. Who knows? Maybe it'll turn out that He's the best you ever had!

What is a Prophet?
What is a prophet?

A prophet usually isn't invited to hold a speech by the prestigeous, nor to hold a sermon in front of your
Southern Baptist congregation on Sunday morning (as much as one or the other preacher may think of
himself as such).

A prophet doesn't hold "improve your life" seminars or fancy workshops.

A prophet is never popular. Otherwise Jesus would have lied, when He said, "The servant is not above the
master. If they have hated Me, they will hate you also."

A prophet is the one guy out of 400 others that you don't want to hear. There were 400 false prophets
during Jeremiah's day who foretold that Jerusalem wasn't going to fall into Babylonian hands. Only
Jeremiah preached otherwise, and was thrown in the dungeon. Only Jeremiah was right, though, and was
pulled out on the dungeon on behalf of the conquering Babylonians.

A prophet is never a pop star, and a pop star is never a prophet.

A prophet doesn't reap much applause. What does applause mean, from a world that crucifies its saviors,
persecutes its prophets and applauds, nay, worships people that make Nero and Caligula look like Bambi
and Flower in comparison?

People don't like prophets. True prophets, that is. In fact, they hate'em. They're a thorn in their side.
They're the epitome of embarrassment and worse.

They're spots on the sparkling clean vesture of the Great Society, because they're pointing at the blood
beneath that cloak, and forecast that society's doom. Who wants to hear about doom when we're having so
much fun? Who wants to believe that the world could possibly be as bad as they say, when we've got
movies that can make us laugh and cry, and we can get ice cream and custard in any possible flavor you
can imagine? When there are people around as wonderful as Oprah?

Who wants to hear about 10.000 starving a day, about Iraqui victims of an unjust war, aborted children, or
unjustifiable justifications for torture when things are going this good?

A prophet is the one guy that has the guts to say, "God damn America" while all the rednecks stop their
ears and scream with all their might, "No, no, no! God BLESS America!" When that's the one thing even
the Almighty simply can't do anymore.
A prophet is the one who weeps while everybody else is still drunk with laughter. He sits in sackcloth and
ashes while the rest of the world parties, mesmerized and totally in love with themselves.

A prophet is an idol smasher. He has the audacity to crush that picture of a fake reality, that idol, that
image people worship instead of the one true God, and could never be less appreciated for his deed.

He does and says what is the only right thing to do and say, even if no one wants to hear it or insists it's the
wrong thing to do or say.
He doesn't go by the status quo. He goes by a different standard. God's.

He does so because he has the audacity to say that God still speaks today, to anyone who'll listen, young
or old, because He is not a God of the dead, but of the living.

A prophet is all you wouldn't want to be if your hopes, dreams, ambitions and treasures lie in this world,
and something one can only even consider becoming if he sees and knows that all this world has to offer is
husks and like ashes between your teeth compared to what the World of tomorrow has to offer.

A prophet isn't moved by the scoffers. Trying to please them would be like betrayal and a slap in his God's
face. He considers their opinions but dung that needs to go down into the ground in order to help bring
about new life from the ashes of the old.
While everybody else roars the national anthem of the champions, he quietly hums the tune of God.

He is weird. Strange. Different. Disliked. Derided and despised. But never a coward.

Let the pack of the rest of them band together against him, the wolves gnash their teeth and the howls of a
million demons threaten him, he still knows that he alone with God is a majority, for "more are they that be
with us than they that be with them." (2.Kings 6:16)

A prophet is one who will pray for you to be able to see it (2Kings 6:17).

Come Together!

Oct.30, 2008
I've written a few things about all the weird (and not-so-weird) ways God chooses to communicate with us, in fact, I'm
writing a whole book about it.

In the movie "Proof," the daughter of a deceased mathematical genius who unfortunately seems to have been rather
demented for the latter part of his life, grants a young student of her father access to his belongings. Among them he
finds a scrapbook with a mathematical proof in it that presents some sort of breakthrough for the world of science and
mathematics. To his total shock and bewilderment, the daughter tells him that she wrote it. As we watch the
subsequent conflict between the student's disbelief and the daughter's hurt feelings evolve, we're slowly guided
through the actual events, and the circumstances under which the daughter wrote the proof.

The professor had actually been quite demented during that time, and while he was feverishly working on some
"great" and "important" project, which turns out to have been mere lunacy and rubbish he was scribbling down. One
evening, he rants on and on, uttering nothing but incomprehensible garble, while his daughter, as if being dictated,
writes the actual proof.

Weird, 'ey? But see, that's a lot how God sometimes communicates with us, too. One man's gibberish is another's
enlightenment. Take the song "Come Together" by John Lennon (and the Beatles), for instance. While each verse is
a bunch of gibberish that only either the highly initiated or highly stoned on LSD could understand, yet the chorus
reveals a very deep and important, universal and cosmic truth in 4 simple words: "Come together right now! - Over
me!"
If you know God, or more explicitly, Jesus, then you know that's how He actually works: He brings everything and
everyone together over Himself. In fact, He is the Mediator that re-connects us with God the Father. But He is also the
central Heardquarters of exchange for communication when it comes to really digging our fellow members of the
human species. At least as far as I'm concerned.

The more I get to know people, and the more people I get to know, the more I see how everyone seems to be on a
different wavelength. There are certain mediums that can bring people together onto the same length temporarily, like
the phenomenon of 22 guys chasing a soccer ball, politicians making promises they'll never keep, or Marilyn Manson
tearing up a Bible on stage, vowing to destroy Christianity, but I wouldn't exactly call that the right wavelength,
however vehemently you wish to differ with me on that one.

But I'm firmly convinced that while currently we all may be living under the illusion of being separate entities, at least
those who are called to His wavelength will eventually wind up being together, joined as one in every sense. He's like
the light, drawing all the little moths or planets that we are toward Him, calling us to become one with Him, and in
doing so, we finally understand and fully comprehend each other; and perhaps, even more importantly: love each
other.

This may all sound like a bunch of weird and senseless gibberish to you, but I'm convinced that some day soon you'll
see the living proof that I'm telling the truth, if you just follow His call. Can you hear it? "Come together! ... Over Me!"

Tribute to the King

Oct.31, 2008
All throughout history, men of notice have come before their kings to pay their tribute. After all, authority is
impressive, and we all want to be on good terms with the head honcho, right? Every now and then
(especially more now, than then, it seems), one or the other of those kings turns out to have been of less
than noble ambitions, which has never deterred the worshipers, though.

Authority still rules, even if it sucks.

One problem about those boot lickers is: nobody ever hears of them again. After the demise of the former
"German Democratic Republic," not many of those artists and celebrities that had been loyal to the socialist
regime were still able to butter their breads with their trade, to give one recent historic example.

Yet those solitary few who have dared to stand up against the tyrants of their day are forever honored in
our history books.
From Moses before Egypt's Pharaoh over Jeremiah the prophet before the king of Judea, and on down to
Sophie Scholl and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, they are remembered, while the man-pleasers have gone down into
oblivion. They are the Salieris of their time, popular, celebrated and successful for a season while the
Mozarts go down in flames, but forever forgotten.

And what is the only thing we learn from history? Right. That we never learn anything from history. Even
so, the vast majority of the populace stands behind their - more or less - elected kings, even if they tear
them down to the abyss with them. Strangely enough, a lot of people don't even notice they're falling (they
apparently think they're still flying) - presumably until they hit the ground.

One of the lone voices speaking out against Nixon during his time once said, "Nearly the Devil's entire
power is in fear."

Seems to be pretty effective.

Maybe that's why the explicit order not to be afraid is mentioned a couple hundred times throughout the
Bible. As Irish Folk singer Frances Black once put it: "Fear is the enemy of love." What eliminates fear is
faith in the God of Love, the REAL head honcho, Who, by the way, can help anyone interested to discern
whether what your current local head honcho is up to, is any good, so you don't have to go down the fools'
road along with the rest of the silent majority.

Of course, it would also help to learn something from the misery you've seen in the past, say 8 years, and
try as hard as you can to keep the same mistakes from happening. And if nothing else, pray like a house
on fire. Your world and your country needs it more than you may know.

Welcome to the Dawn of the New World Order

Nov.5, 2008
This week the world will know whether America has made any serious progress in overcoming its racism or
not, and whether the first black man will take the helm of that country, or yet another warmonger who just
can't wait to "Bomb, bomb, bomb; bomb bomb Iran."
In the meantime, the architects of the New World Order seem to be getting set for their final stage by
feriociously strangling the remainder of the economy to death, distributing the people's money to their own
cohorts, like J.P.Morgan's bank, (who has been in on the plot since the beginning of the 20th century) who
are already boasting that they will use the money to buy off the rest of the few little independent banks that
remain. Hallelujah!
It can't be long now before the situation is going to be so desperate that the world will readily receive a
superman to pull them out of this mess, be he god or devil, even if he's going to replace their beloved cash
with a cashless monetary system that will require them to take a chip under their skin instead. No more
economic crises, no more tumbling currencies, but no more freedom, either, but total control and
enslavement. Welcome to the dawn of the New World Order.

Of course, Christians around the world deem themselves safe, since most of them believe that Jesus is
going to pick them up out of this mess before it even starts, even though He Himself explicitly said that He
wouldn't do that, but that He would only return afterwards. And it's not that I want to argue about it, it's just
that I want to prepare any reader for what's coming, whether they want to believe it or not. It's a matter of
what is truth, and what is not, and - contrary to many of my contemporaries, I don't share the politically
correct worldview that truth is merely a matter of personal opinion. That worldview is probably solely
responsible for the mess we're in; the fulfillment of Satan's promise to man: "Ye shall be as gods." What is
a "god" but an arquitect of his own, private "truth?" Welcome to earth! Home to 7 billion freely walking,
talking, roamning and shooting "deities!"

Nor do I wish to argue about whether Babylon the harlot of Revelation 17 and 18 is only a spiritual entity or
an actual, physical place that can be "burned with fire in one hour" seen and bewailed and mourned by the
merchants and seafaring folk of the earth. I just want to help prepare people for what I believe is going to
happen, since other prophets (though far outnumbered by the popular preachers of peace and plenty
forever) are sharing the belief in that truth (though, arguably it remains to be seen whether we're right
about that one or not. Nevertheless, that's not the issue, but that people ought to brace themselves for the
worst. If it won't happen... hallelujah!).
Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe not, that there's a town called Babylon in N.Y. state, but I have a notion
that whoever named that place was on the right track concerning their neighborhood.

It's also not a matter of arguing that I want to re-emphasize that I believe what Jesus has said remains truth
forever, and that "He who believes in Him has eternal life," (John 3:36 and an oddle of other Scritptures), a
gift that cannot be taken away from anyone who is saved, contrary to a growing number of sincere
believers who wish to argue that "Hell's Best Kept Secret" is the fact that you can lose your Salvation any
old time you sin again. What kind of a salvation or gift would that be, if it's going to be taken away from us
again every time we sin? That would mean - in most cases, like a couple times a day? Are you kidding?
Are you really serious?

It's like tossing a drowning man a life saver and asking him, "But do you really deserve this?" And after he
says, "Yes," with his last, desperate dying breath you pull him into the boat, but as soon as he does
something wrong, you toss him back into the water, saying, "No, you don't deserve it after all, that I saved
you!"
Jesus said, if we, being evil, know how to give good gifts to our children, how much more will the Father
give us, His children, good gifts. Likewise, if we know how to treat our fellow humans decently, isn't He
going to do the same? If we can save our fellowmen from fires, from drowning or other disasters, isn't God
going to save us for real, too, instead of playing a cruel, torturous game of "now I save you, now I don't"
with us?
Wake up, people! Your own goodness can never save you! That's the religion of Cain and of the
Pharisees. That's not a matter of arguing, it's just a matter of speaking up against a wicked lie that
preachers tell you just to make sure you're coming back next Sunday morning, and be assured, they're
being paid lots of money for it, by the same people whose goal it is to replace your shakey faith in a not-so-
saving God with the worship of their new head honcho coming up, a messiah that won't be rejected,
because he's going to bring them tangible salvation from starvation on a silver platter. Well, on a silver
micro chip, to be exact.

Whether he's really going to be all that great and wonderful will only turn out after seven years, the latter
half of which are not exactly going to be a piece of cake for those who will reject that beastly solution to the
world's problems. And if you seriously plan on making it through there somehow, you'd better make sure
you've got true faith in a God that's truly capable of saving you from your sins, not just "providing you stay a
good boy or girl," and capable of saving and keeping you through any mess for that matter, even the Great
Tribulation.

Sleep On

Nov.27, 2008
Probably one of my most often recited quotes is "The one thing we learn from history, is that we never
learn from history." Probably because it's one of the blatant truths of our time, and has never been as
obvious - to those who discern the signs of the times, that is. The rest just fall into the same old trap as
usual.

People who believe that the Muslims or Islam are the big culprit of our times are just as deaf, dumb and
blind as those who believed Roman emperor Nero's hogwash about the Christians having put fire to Rome,
or Hitler's hype against the Jews. They're going to find out the long and hard way that the true enemy
wasn't the Muslims, after all, just as the Jews weren't of the Germans, nor the Christians were, of the
Romans, but rather, their own stupidity and lack of discernment when it came to the degree of corruption
and evil within their own leadership.

One of the few Christians who didn't fall for the "Jews are evil" mantra during the 3rd Reich was Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, who was imprisoned for his alliance with the Resistance, and before his execution wrote in
prison: "Stupidity is actually a more dangerous enemy of good than downright evil."

He must have known what he was talking about. He must have seen it all around him. All those idiots
falling for the lies and atrocious distortions and violations of truth and all that is right by that madman at the
helm and his croonies, sort of the way a substantial part of people who maintained their ability to think
clearly have been feeling about the Bush administration...

And again, never has a statement been proven so obviously true as the above cited Bonhoeffer quote has,
in our present times. Never before has there been as large a group of dumb people who thought
themselves to be so smart. You don't have to take my word for it. Just read this article about the "smug
generation" of our children - the ones who, with a little bit of bad luck, are very likely to hail the antichrist as
the new "Fuehrer" of us all...

But just as parents can often be totally blind to any faults and weaknesses of their own children ("My child
doesn't lie, steal, cheat..." etc.), so it seems that same type of people can also be absolutely blind to their
own leader's faults or crimes, the error of the ways their whole nation may be taking, and in fact, to any
fault or blame on the behalf of anything that is "their own," period.
There's never anything wrong with their own side, their own religion, their own opinion, always with the
other. How immature. What a bunch of kids we are!

How far away we've strayed from the teachings of the One we as Christians call our Leader, about loving
our enemies, not rendering evil for evil, doing good to them that hate us and loving the least of His
brethren...

And yet, just because we have "advanced" to the pinnacle of evolution, as the remote controls and steering
wheels in our hands doubtlessly prove, we think we really are smarter than any one else who ever lived
before...

Since, according to the Bible, things in this present world have been promised to become worse all the
time (contrary to the theory of evolution), I can hardly imagine what kind of a shock it's going to take this
time around to wake people up... But then again, some people never woke up after the shock of the
skeletons in the closet of the 3rd Reich being revealed, either...

And the blind guides of the blind are still humming the same old tunes as ever... "Sleep on, sleep on..."

Thoughts of Bono & Mammon...

Jan.8, 2009
Apart from the short line in my song "Donut" about Bono's desire to bring an end to world poverty, which was based
on a piece of Yahoo news that had caught my eye around the time I wrote the song, I never really did waste another
thought on the vocal frontman of the 80s band U2.

Of course, I have done my obligatory U2 covers in my time, even though I was never much of a U2 fan myself. I was
surprised when in the early 90s an English friend told me that U2 was supposedly a Christian band. Never noticed.
After that, whenever I saw Bono on MTV with his larger than life and blacker than death sunglasses, looking a bit like
a man-sized insect, I just thought, "Christian, huh!"

Oh, and I read the Rolling Stone article in which he claimed to read the Bible every day, sort of like General Patton.

To be honest, for the longest time, I didn't know what to think. Good guy, bad guy?

He definitely outed himself for me, as far as "Christian" goes, with his live performance of "Sympathy for the Devil,"
strutting across the stage like someone with the same type of inflated-ego problems that you'd expect Lucifer himself
to have. You just can't sing that song the way he did and afterwards run to Jesus, telling Him you're His friend.

But then, we've all had our compromises.

Some Christians view Bono and U2 among the avant guarde of Christian song writing. In an Interview with Christianity
Today, Bethany Dillon quoted Bono on one of his secrets of writing smash hits (I guess the secret lies in camouflaging
the message to an extent that even Stalin wouldn't have considered it "politically incorrect").

I don't deny that U2 have had a few big hits in their day.

Like the one, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," in which the singer practically tells the Lord, that he
believes that He bore the cross of his shame and all, but - so what? "I still haven't found what I'm looking for." In other
words, "Jesus, you may be sort of cool & all, but you don't really cut the cake..."

If you haven't found what you were looking for in Jesus, then what the hell are you looking for? Or perhaps it's safer to
put it this way: If you haven't found yet what you're looking for, I doubt that you've really found Jesus! Unless what
you're really looking for is the same old temporal counterfeit thrills & satisfactions that everyone else is chasing...

There's an adjective for that type of Christianity in the Bible, from Jesus' own mouth: "Lukewarm." The same type of
Christianity that's being observed by the majority of Christians, by the way, who basically live their lives in the feverish
attempt to prove Jesus wrong when He said, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."

Well, the news about Mammon is, that his days are just about up. What you see unfolding in the economy right now is
just the beginning of sorrows, and when the tale is told, and our "economy" is reduced to the value of what it's actually
based on - paper - then there will only be one other alternative left, besides serving God, and if you're not going to feel
too comfortable with that one, you'll wish you'll have found what you've been looking for by then.

"Left," "Right," - Where Should a True Christian Stand, Politically?

Jan.9, 2009
As a Christian, (as in follower of Christ's teachings) who chooses not to ignore what my true Commander-
in-Chief has to say and who won't allow any man-made, government puppet to usurp that position of
leadership and souverignty over my life, either, I cannot subscribe to the political choice of most of my
supposed fellow-Christians, who presently seem to believe that problems are solved with guns and
granades, and think a weekly hour of pew-warming will do to hide the fact that the gods they're worshiping
in reality are Mammon (god of wealth) and Mars (the god of war).

I'm speaking of the political right, as in Bush-ites or McCainians, the kind who would love to put a bullet into
the man they call the "antichrist," just because he has a different color of skin than they do, and because
he doesn't bend over backwards to kiss their flag-waving and pew-warming butts as much as his
predecessor did for no other reason than convenience, because he didn't want to make the same mistake
his daddy made earlier by failing to please the Bible belt during a time when most of the colored U.S.
population wouldn't have cared to drag themselves to a voting booth, because they rightly figured it
wouldn't have much of a difference, anyhow.

On the other hand, I can't subscribe to anyone advocating the mass-murder of innocent, howbeit unborn
babies, nor to the notion that man is smart enough to solve his own problems without any help from God,
not even if I'm as smart as Barack Obama...

I won't deny that I consider Obama the lesser of two evils, but that doesn't mean I subscribe to his politics.
I'm happy for the Afro-American population to have for once received a chance to be liberated from the
yoke of stupid white men, but I'm afraid their relief will only be temporary.

Call me a conspiracy freak, but I believe that the true powers that be (howbeit well hidden from public view
by having bought the media and thus making sure they'll stay out of them) have always mastered the art of
creating two opposing forces - be it fascism or communism in the thirties, or liberalism and conservatives in
the nineties - that the broad masses are led to choose sides from, in order to create the illusion of
democracy and freedom.

In reality, G.W.Bush has only fulfilled his part in the advance of the New World Order by making the world
yet sicker of his supposed type of government and religion, and prepared his country for Obama, who will
take it yet another step further toward the goal of replacing religion with the NWO'S universal ideology.

Those who call Obama the antichrist are the same type of wishful thinkers who believe that Jesus will
whisk them into the sky before the coming leader of the New World Order ever reveals his true face.
Barack Obama is a puppie compared to what the Antichrist will be, and he sure as heck won't be
American, either.
America is a world power in its decline that's turning out a whole lot less smart than it managed to make
the rest of the world believe for some time. The Antichrist will emerge from the resurrected parts of an
empire the world presumed dead and will "liberate" the world from the show that the clowns in Washington
and their stooges in Europe are putting on.

So, where should a true Christian stand, politically? Left or right? Well, if you listen to what Jesus had to
say, you won't really fall for that whole left-or-right charade in the first place. He made it clear that just as
He wasn't from this world, so His disciples wouldn't be, either. While we're supposed to subject ourselves
to the powers that be as long as they don't interfere with the commandments God gave us to keep, that
doesn't mean that there will never come a time when we will have to prove that we are to obey God rather
than men and show on whose side we really stand.

Politicians are always bigshots and popularity hunters, and Jesus certainly wasn't a politician. While there
may have been a time that a true Christian could also be a politician, if you look around, those days are
pretty much over. Those in politics who call themselves Christians are like the guys who dressed up like
Indians in the Boston Tea Party scam in order to get into war with England. They may even think they're
doing whatever they do for a just cause, but so did the Nazis who were condemned at Nuremberg.

When the people of Israel in the Old Testament were asking for a king, they weren't doing themselves a
favor, and God even warned them of this. It's because people - and especially politicians, it seems - are
bound to disappoint you. They simply don't have the same qualities that our Maker does.

I'd vote for Him Who gave His own life for us any day before I'd put my money on any government-paid
mass murderers, be their victims either innocent Iraquis or innocent unborn children.

We Haven't Even Yet Begun

One of the biggest killers of progress and moving forward is the notion to have arrived. People who think they already
know don't seek any further knowledge, their hunger to learn is stifled. They stop absorbing, soaking up the new, and
so they stagnate and stop growing.

This applies to so many aspects of our lives:

We think we've already seen it all, and so we stop looking for new things, for new possibilties.

We let the TV do its job and fill our craving for new visual input, and close the door to the possibility of whole new
worlds in existence that we might yet discover, would we only lay aside the remote control long enough, or the joystick
or computer mouse, for that matter.

We think we've already heard it all and trust the radio and blaring noises & Satan's sirens to fill our vacuum for new
audio input, and have unlearned the art of listening to our hearts and the whispers of our Maker.

We think we already know it all, and trust the institutions of education and the mass media to supply us with whatever
they think we ought to "know," and have perhaps come further away from true knowledge than mankind has ever
been.

We think we already give so much, when we will not be judged by how much we give, but by how much we still have
left, and how much more we could have given. (Remember the lesson from "Schindler's List.")

Indeed, our self-image is an utterly deceptive one. We say, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of
nothing," and know not that we are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" (Rev.3:17). We behave
like spiritual primadonnas and "sit like a queen," convinced that we "shall see no sorrow" (Rev.18:7).

That's why Jesus said you can't fill new wine into old wine skins.

Someone special once compared faith to a vacuum of the sort that a baby creates in its mouth in order to suck the
milk from its mother's breast (if you take any offense in that idea, get real, dude!).

So, what is it that hinders our growth? A lack of vacuum, a lack of desire, of yearning, of a need for more, new
spiritual food.

What's causing the lack of desire? The abundant supply of junk-food we're not only being offered, but virtually flooded
with from all sides.
We haven't learned the art of saying "no" to the wrong kind of voices, the wrong kind of input, the wrong kind of
spiritual drugs. But before we learn that, we'll never be able to say truly "yes" to our Creator, the only One Who can
truly satisfy us and fill our needs.

So, next time you feel tempted to say, "I've seen it all," or "I've heard that," or "I know all that," be still and listen to the
knock and the whisper at your heart, which may tell you just the opposite: "You ain't seen nuthin' yet!"

We may feel pretty much defeated by the circumstances of life and surrender to our fate & say, "That's just the way it
is," or we can say - as John Paul Jones is supposed to have said when it looked as if he was defeated - "We haven't
even yet begun to fight."

We haven't even yet begun to love, to live, to give, to see, to know...

We haven't even yet begun.

Some Things Will Never Change

Jan.17, 2009
If there are two peoples in history who show that the only thing we learn from history is that we never learn
from it, it's the Germans and the Jews.

Not many people seem to share my personal sentiments toward the soon to be relieved from office
President of the United States George Bush. At least not many seem to have the guts to openly admit it,
except for, perhaps, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, for which he will always have my admiration,
a few Canadians, and the guys from Counterpunch, bless their hearts.

Of course there are millions of Arabs whose sentiments toward G.W. are even far less benign than mine,
including those of the Iraqi population, even if they are not in a position in which they can freely admit so.

Then there are the Germans, thousands, probably tens of thousands of whom are quite daring to share
their sentiments about the probably worst dictator the United States ever had, anonymously somewhere on
Youtube or elsewhere when they've had a beer or two to many, but one thing hasn't changed about the
Germans since the Hitler regime: they're still a bunch of cowards. Maybe rightly so, since cowards tend to
live longer... But what sort of a life?

And cowards seem to breed ever more cowards.

That's why there isn't much to be seen or heard from the German public about what's happening in
Palestine right now. Just as their ancestors did 75 or 80 years ago, they prefer to watch and say nothing.
They neatly swallow the government propaganda of today the same as it was then. "The Palestinians have
brought this upon themselves, just as much as the Jews brought the 3rd Reich Holocaust upon
themselves."

It's the great indifference that is killing the innocent, now, as it did then.

The Davids of the past have become today's Goliaths, the persecuted of yesterday have become the
persecutors, and the one thing that hasn't changed at all is the indifferent stupor of the masses that just
stands by and watches the slaughter.
Worst and most sickening of all, some Christian outfits think they need to publicly sympathize with the
Israelis, perhaps in order to rectify some guilt of the past. They didn't learn anything at all. They just
swallow the same propaganda their parents or grandparents did, only from different sources.

No wonder Jesus vowed that he would vomit some of His supposed followers out of His mouth because of
their lukewarmness...

As for those who claim to be the heirs of Abraham, the day will reveal all that is being concealed.

Feb..2, 2009
The Giant Clockwork of Chronos

The New Testament teaches us that currently this world is under the rule of Satan, the "god of this world (or age),"
along with his "rulers of the darkness of this world."

What is it that rulers do? They determine by what laws and standards their realm will be governed.

Two of those standards by which the "powers that be" have determined to rule this present world are time and money.
Both will apparently come to an end, in contrast to the values that God wants to convey to those who are governed by
His standards, and consider their Home His eternal Kingdom, where His rules and standards are what count.

The big disadvantage - as far as we're concerned - about God's standards and values is that we can't see them nor
touch them. They require faith in order to be perceived, which is one of the rules He established for the members of
His club, those who want to play the game according to His rules, and on His side. Some people are simply incapable
of that, or at least not willing to adhere to that rule of faith. They totally and exclusively rely on the visible and tangible
stuff around them.

Now it so happens that God has placed enough information in the visible things He made all around us, so that we
can still perceive the fingerprints and evidence of His existence in His creation, but those who deny the existence of
the invisible also refuse to acknowledge that evidence. In order to successfully convince themselves and others of
their dogma of denial, they come up with concoctions of their own imagination such as the widely taught theory of
Evolution, which, coincidentally, is being fed, nourished and upheld by nothing else but those same two major values
that distinguish the rule and government of this present world: time and money.

According to the theory of Evolution, the one factor that makes it possible for the innumerable miracles to have
happened that brought forth every species from nothing via mutation is an unfathomable amount of time: "billions of
years." And the one factor that makes millions, if not billions of people acknowledge that teaching as fact, is an
unfathomable amount of money that flows into the science apparatus in order to create more "evidence" from virtually
nothing: a jawbone here, and thighbone there, and lots of elaborate words and articles in National Geographic or Der
Spiegel, along with the televised versions of the same for an increasingly illiterate public; and a whole new reality has
been created, a mental conditioning with its own set of laws of "the survival of the fittest" that has been governing
most of our globe for the past century and a half, consequently showering it with unprecedented amounts of suffering
and violence.

The giant clockwork of Chronos is keeping the enslaved massed in check and dancing according to its tune:
"Welcome to the Machine!"

For those who don't feel as comfortable or at home with that construct as evidently a large part of Civilization does,
there is, thankfully, an alternative. You see, time and money haven't always been the yardstick that measures
everything. There was - and still is, in the presently unseen world which envelops our physical realm - a time in which
people would not have to rush through their lives chasing after paper money. In fact, some people on this planet still
manage to live by that time in spite of the rat race going on around them.

God's time, the stuff of which Eternity is made, is a different scope than the clock-ticking pace and rhythm that the
slaves of Mammon dance to.

And there's that other shred of news about this whole issue:

According to the Book of Revelation, the time we're currently living under is going to come to an end.
Oh, and so will money, by the way, most unfortunately for some.

Like all fairy-tales, illusions, or faulty operating systems, the gospel of time and money must also come to an end.

Only the Real Thing is going to last.

Feb.3, 2009
Would You like to Receive Jesus in Your Heart?

I've been ranting and raving a lot about and against a lot of evils in this world for the past few years, and I have sort of
felt that it was my God-given duty to do so, and maybe it was.

But the Lord recently reminded me that when it all comes down to it, all the exposes of the Devil's workings in the
world won't make as much of a difference, nor pose as much of a threat to Satan's kingdom and the establishment of
his final world order as one single soul saved.

We can rant and rave on and on about this scheme of the enemy to take over the world, or that one, or how he has
managed to deceive this fraction of the world population with this scheme, and another with that one, but in the end,
nothing is ever going to cause as much loss to his cause as the simple, childlike question, "Would you like to receive
Jesus in your heart?"

After all, hearing that question at the age of 13 was the miracle that changed my life, and the spark that would ignite a
fire in my life that still hasn't gone out.

Even more miraculous in some ways was my own answer to that question, since it didn't make any sense to that thing
between my ears when I heard it. But it came from a deeper spot within me, crawling up from within the core of my
heart into my mouth and inexplicably causing me to utter the word "yes" for no other reason than that's what I was
meant to do.

So, if you really want to help change the world for good and make a difference for the better, would you like to receive
Jesus in your heart?

And if you have, would you like to ask someone else that question, in fact, anyone else? Anyone you come across on
the path of your journey through life?

Don't be afraid to do it. Some of them - those who were meant to become God's children - will answer "yes" for no
particular reason than the fact that that's what they will fell they were meant to say, often perfectly contrary to what
their rational mind may tell them.

Receiving Jesus is what makes the difference. Anyone receiving Jesus is what the Devil's really scared of, and if you
really want to lick the old punk, that's what you've got to do: receive Jesus and help others do the same.

It's a simple, childlike prayer that changed my life and that of millions of others, and it has the power to change yours,
and those of the people you come across, too:

Jesus, please come into my heart!

Forgive me for all the wrongs I've committed.

Thank You for Your sacrifice on the cross

and Your gift of eternal life!

Fill me with Your holy Spirit of love

so that I may share Your love with others, too,

in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

Verses on Salvation: Rev.3:20, John 1:12, 3:16, Eph.2:8,9

Salvation Songs:

Feb.7, 2009
What About Yin and Yang?

One philosophy that certainly seems to become more popular than the "We make ya dead" type of Christianity that
has given the Cause of Christ a bitter by-taste ever since the crusades, and turned out specially bad latest since the
Bush administration, is the Zen-Buddhist philosophy of Yin and Yang.

The symbol of Yin and Yang is rapidly becoming more popular than the cross, especially among young people.

After all, Buddhists aren't known for having caused a fraction of the damage "Christians" are still perpetrating
worldwide every day.

So, who can blame them? Who can blame them for believing that good and evil must be equally strong, and that evil
must necessarily stick around forever in order to keep the "proper balance" in nature and all things?

After all, it's plainly evident by looking all around us that there are 2 sides to nearly everything.

There is a good and a bad side to even all apparently bad things, as well as to seemingly purely good things.

Everything seems to have a shadow side to it, a dark side. Even sunshine: you get too much of it, and it can ruin
crops, or your health, and cause whole lakes to evaporate...

Even water, as necessary as it is to make all life possible, can also drown you and bring death.

Too much air can pop the balloon or - in the form of a storm - tear down your house.

Even trees can fall over and kill you...

So, what's up with all that Yin and Yang, good and evil stuff, Jesus? Looks like You're pretty speechless now, huh?
Could it be that we just ruined Your show and exposed Your dark little secret that evil is just as strong as You are, and
that it's going to hang around forever?

Well, it may seem that way, because we've never seen anything else and never experienced anything different.
But according to the Bible, there was a couple of folks who did. And coincidentally, they introduced this whole good
and evil stuff.

When God created Adam and Eve (a fairy tale, you say? Well, we'll see, won't we?), and the whole caboodle of
creation was done, He saw that it was good! In fact, very good. Nothing evil or bad about it. Yet.

But wouldn't you know it? As much as we're always craving for something new to consume and try out, even the two
happiest and most perfect folks who ever lived turned out not to be perfectly happy with what they had, even though it
was perfectly good.

That's what advertisement will do to you. Some legged serpent came strutting along, obviously possessed by the
greatest advertiser of all times, and broke the news to Eve that there was a product around that she hadn't consumed
yet: the notorious fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil! The price: one tiny little disobedience, since God
had made one single little rule in order to keep happiness in Eden afloat: No munching off that one tree!

The reason - retrospectively - becomes obvious: If you already know good, and it's perfectly perfect and good, who
the heck would want to know evil?

Well, Eve did. And so we all probably would have. After all, who's ever been able to resist advertisement?

It had a fairly attractive slogan, too: Promises of godhood ("Ye shall be as gods,") and - cunningly effective - the spicy
ingredient of suspicion by making God sound like a liar: "Hath God said...? Not really so! Ye shall not surely die!"

Well, they probably wished they had, after they ate that darn piece of forbidden fruit (which by the way was NOT an
apple)! But that wasn't God plan. Adam and Eve were still supposed to become Mama and Papa and Grandma and
Gramps of us all.

But life wasn't half the fun it used to be before the knowledge of good and evil had entered the land! The knowledge of
good had perfectly sufficed, as far as happiness goes, but then, God had a little lesson to teach the universe, and it
wouldn't last billions of years, either. Just - roughly - 7,000.

And thus were born - roughly around the same time as Cain and Abel, coincidentally - the twin bros Yin and Yang,
who have been wreaking havoc around this place ever since. But - and that's where some folks are mistaken - not
forever!

Just as life was perfectly possible and enjoyable without evil, so it will be again, and next time without any
interruptions (except for a minor hiccup a little further on in history, but that's another story)!

While the current laws of nature and the dog eat dog scenario of the "survival of the fittest" may seem to tell a
different story, and even lead us to believe that man isn't much more than a slightly overly mutated animal himself, it
takes a little bit of faith in a shred of information from outside the Yin and Yang matrix (namely the Word of God), to
reveal to us that circumstances haven't been and won't be always the same.

There have been "changes in the Matrix" before, introducing the Yin and Yang program (aka Good and Evil), after the
first human couple rejected the original "All Is Good" System, bringing into our reality all the deficiencies riding along
on evil's coattail, such as death, suffering, wars, etc.

But God (- the Architect with better intentions than the one we know from the "Matrix" trilogy -) has promised to push
the "reset" button in the near future, which will restore the original operating system, which will make evil - once again
-obsolete.

Because mankind will have (believe it or not!) learned its lesson from evil, which is, life's much more fun without it,
and thus we will also be able to wave a cheerful farewell to the Yang Bros., and add, only faintly audible, (the same
way most of us would to the former US president:) "Please don't come 'round again!"
Feb.7, 2009
The Genesis of Advertisement
My mind still keeps rattling on the theme of my last thoughts on the "beginnings of advertisement" that I stumbled
across via Yin & Yang (even though I should actually get to work...)

The first product ever advertised in history was, basically, evil.

It sort of reminds you of the scene in "Time Bandits" where the bandits arrive at the Castle of Perpetual Darkness and
its evil tenant puts on this show and offers them "the most fabulous object in the world..." and they all wind up trapped
in a cage hanging from the ceiling and swinging above everlasting darkness...

Isn't that what advertisement is? You're being offered something you didn't know you ever needed or wanted, but
advertisement paints it so pretty that you simply can't resist it.

Well, that's what Satan did to Eve when he advertised the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil (adding the
ingredient of evil to an already existing world in which all was good, thus creating the Yin/Yang system of duality I
expounded on earlier...): nobody needed it. Nobody knew how much they were going to regret buying that crap.
Nobody knew what it was supposed to be good for, but they did it anyway, just in order to have it.

Sounds just like any old regular afternoon at the mall...

No wonder I never liked advertisement. It has all the qualities of the first hoax in history that resulted in every
catastrophe that ever happened since... Clothes. Lies. Murder... the shebang.

The difference between Satan's products and God's is that God doesn't need any advertisement for His:

Everybody knows you only get good stuff from Him. And best of all, it's always free, no strings attached.

Nobody ever asked for a re-reimbursement for the air they just inhaled because it wasn't their favorite flavor.

You get hungry and you eat the food that comes to your fridge via good ol' mother earth.

(Did you ever realize that with all the fancy stuff man created, they haven't managed to successfully reproduce food
synthetically, I mean, starting from scratch with no ingredients from the Maker? After all, you can't eat plastic yet, and
even that is based on a natural resource...)

So, next time you feel that urge to bust your credit card due to some 256 commercials you just watched while ironing
your shirts: think again!

Or before you allow your kids' lives to become a non-stop repetition of the darkest hour of the Garden of Eden!

The Bible has something to say about greed: "Let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with
such things as ye have" (Heb.13:5).

If Adam and Eve had known that, they would have saved themselves - and us - millennia worth of trouble.

The secret is just being happy with what we have, instead of ever craving what the Jones' have got.

Especially in the light of the fact that 10.000 people still starve each and every day because they haven't got anything,
not even the barest of necessities...

So much on the beginnings of consumerism. It seemed good enough at first, but the end of it was wailing and
gnashing of teeth that we haven't seen and heard the end of yet...

And if you really want to be happy, why not try to make somebody else happy and make a donation instead of buying
yet another item you don't really need? Let's get back to the Garden!
Feb.15, 2009
The Last Heroes?

On our way to our gig last night we were listening to some of Don McLean's old stuff, which I had recently dug out,
and I was touched by the beauty of his art of expression, and most particularly in his anti-war songs like "The Grave,"
or "Everybody Loves Me, Baby" etc.

It made me realize how drastically things have changed since the early 70s. People just don't write lyrics like that
anymore. The vast majority have come to accept war as a commodity of life to preserve the Western status quo, or
the American Way of life, or whatever.

Instead of rebelling against their governments' falling into nations that they have no business dropping bombs on, they
accept the media hogwash and propaganda of "the enemy" and give their silent consent to the daily mass murder
that's happening on behalf of their tax money.

And that in spite of the lesson we ought to have learned from fairly recent history of what guilt people can collectively
heap upon themselves by silently consenting to the evils committed by their governments.

How many church visits will it take to clear a conscience of that burden, that's mostly not even recognized? How many
donations or tithes will it take to buy forgiveness for the silent tolerance of the slaughter perpetrated in the name of us,
"the people?"

The closest thing in recent times that I heard to some of the anti-war protest songs from a time when at least a
substantial amount of the world population honestly admitted that war was evil and that the U.S. had no business
wreaking havoc in Vietnam are songs like Pink's "Dear Mr.President," (although the song does not mention anything
about American foreign policies, but only deals with domestic issues) and, of course, we've got Pearl Jam's rendition
of Dylan's "Masters of War." - Oh, and perhaps some of the Dixie Chicks' Anti-Bush rantings, for which they'll always
have my respect. Oh, and of course, good ol' Neil Young's "Impeach the President," bless his soul!

Pretty much everyone else that I know of dances to the modern drums of war, or rather, to the tune of "let's ignore
what our country is doing in other countries," unless another bunch of flag-wrapped coffins arrive at home, that is.

The trademark of the 21st century, thus far: the (cultural) voices of truth have become (nearly) silent. The nations
cower in fear of their leaders and follow them like sheep to the slaughter of the innocents.

The problem with that is the universal law of cause and effect as laid down by many spiritual teachers, including
Jesus' follower St. Paul, when he said, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." There's a cold wind
blowin', and we're beginning to see the first fruits of our "harvest" in a crumbling economy and a crisis which now has
officially exceeded the rank of severity of that of the Great Depression, (along with forecasts of food shortages coming
upon us as early as this year, which many of us may find themselves unable to deal with).
Even the young staff of the joint we played in last night acknowledged in a conversation I overheard while packing up
our gear, that we're still going to chew on the repercussions of the current crisis for the next 5, 10 or 15 years, and
that even though Europe hasn't seen the worst of it.

Unfortunately, it will probably take more than a financial crisis for people to wake up and tell their government, "Mr.
Obama, don't follow in the footsteps of your predecessor, and please, stop killing people in Pakistan or Afghanistan."
Or to their most strongly supported ally, Israel, for that matter, "Please stop killing innocent Palestinian children!"

Even more unfortunately, if history continues repeating itself (- and that in such a drastic manner that some people
have started to doubt whether history is really real -), then this current crisis, like the one in the 30s, will only lead to
more and greater war, greater need for some "culprit" to blame and make pay for the domestic dilemma, greater cries
and thirst for blood, and who will be the next people that will answer with a shattering unanimous, roaring "YES!" to
the question, "Do you want total war?"

Younger people nowadays speak critically of the hippie movement. But you've got to give the hippies credit for having
had the guts to stand up for their love for peace, for being willing to acknowledge (unlike many supposed "Christians")
the Biblical reality that war is evil, and for being willing to oppose their authorities for their stance against war.
They may be looked upon with ridicule by today's silent consenters and smug cogs in the machine that have learned
to shut up and do as they're told, but maybe a wiser future generation will look back at those rebels of the 60s and
early 70s as the true heroes of the 20th century, and perhaps even as the last of their kind in history as we know it
altogether.

In my experiences with abundant acquaintances I've come to realize the fact that some people simply refuse to
acknowledge the existence and reality of their mistakes, thus depriving themselves of the possibility to ever learn from
them, but thus to remain "willingly ignorant," as the Bible puts it, which Kent Hovind appropriately translated into
modern English as "dumb on purpose."

What if an entire nation or generation chooses to be willingly ignorant, or "dumb on purpose?"

It reminds me of one of those relics from the 60s which may have even sounded a little naive back then, but in the
face of the reality of the past 4 decades, acquires a bitter by-taste: "When will they ever learn? - -

When will they ever learn?"

If "there is no peace, saith my God, for the wicked," then I dare to re-define "the wicked" as "those who want no
peace."

Feb.18, 2009
Hour of Temptation

A friend of mine lent me the book "The Shadows of Power" by James Perloff (the same guy who wrote "Tornado in a
Junkyard"), and it put a few more pieces of the puzzle of the Endtime scenario together in my head, giving me a
slightly clearer vision of how everything fits together.

For one thing, I had always been wondering how come the Whore in Revelation (which I believe symbolizes America
as the ultimate embodiment of the stray Church) is riding on the back of a beast that seems to resemble every world
empire.

But when one reads how the plans for the New World Order, the final and 7th world empire (from a biblical point of
view) that is to rule the world before Christ's return were basically all made in New York (namely at the Council on
Foreign Relations), and usually turned into profit for those same bankers who brought the CFR into being in the first
place (including the virtual creation of Communism in Russia, China and Cuba, plus just about every single war in the
20th century), then it becomes obvious how the Whore would emerge fat and rich from the exploits of the NWO Beast
she is riding so pompously on.

Perloff's Book was written in 1988, only shortly before the collapse of the Sowjet Union, and thus, the foothold of
Communism in Europe, consequently leading to China becoming more open for "the wine of her fornication" and the
"delicacies" of capitalism as well, and one almost wonders if there's a connection between the fact that too many
people were being made aware of what the CFR were up to (like the John Birch Society, or Gary Allen, who had
written "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" over a decade earlier), and perhaps caused them to change plans and create
a new "Enemy" to replace Communism.

It becomes obvious through the book that "the Establishment" (as Perloff politely refers to the CFR) used the threat of
Communism and their supposed efforts to "stop" it (while in reality furthering it wherever they could) in order to pull
wool over the public's eyes, enabling them to wage "police actions" in Korea, later Vietnam, etc., the same way the
new culprit has enabled the Bush administration to unleash their unholy "War on Terror," terror basically standing for
"Islam."

Apparently unable to stop Christianity from flourishing, or perhaps even having fostered the growth of the wrong kind
of Christianity (the kind that interprets "Love your enemies" as "put them out of their misery"), creating a new, turban-
wearing and carpet-knives swinging "Enemy" that looked even more dangerous than the reds, was a welcome
change in the scenario that made exposers of the NWO/CFR clique look as if they'd been barking up the wrong tree:

"You see? You told everyone that we were going to use Communism to rule the world, and now it's dead,
nyananya..."

Another thing I gleaned from reading this book, even though there wasn't anything obvious written in it to indicate that,
was that the architects of the NWO aren't in any kind of a hurry, and if they have to change plans, they'll change'em.

Fundamental Christians often seem to see the final signs of the End, and the Coming of Christ being fulfilled in front
of their eyes and unfolding in the News they're currently watching on TV: "Oh yeah, Bush must be the Antichrist!" Or,
"No, it must be Obama!"

As much as I wish for all this madness to come to an end as swiftly as anyone would, I'm coming to the conclusion
that it's probably still going to take a little while before we'll see those final events unfold: a final New World Order
established by 10 "kings" of both totalitarian and democratic territories (see Daniel 2:41), which will ultimately be
spearheaded by one last, final and ultimate world dictator.

The stage isn't quite ready for that yet.

Which doesn't mean, though, that there isn't plenty of trouble brewing. The economy is going down, and will continue
to go down, all in order to bring the rulers of the darkness of this world closer to their goal: a merging of currencies,
eventually to be abolished and replaced by the Mark of the Beast.

Food prices are not only going to soar, but explode, and whatever price it will cost the nations of this world in order to
save their skin, they will pay it, even if it's their "sovereignty" or other freedoms. If you've been in the habit of "laboring
for the meat which perisheth," as Jesus warned us all not to do, then you're also going to find out why He warned us
not to do so. He knew what dangerous position this was eventually going to bring mankind into: "the hour of
temptation which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth" (Rev.3:10).

Feb,19, 2009
The Best Employer
According to this Daily Telegraph article, Christians in Britain (as I'm sure elsewhere around the globe) are finding it
harder to keep their jobs and positions in society. Maybe they're beginning to get a little taste of what true believers
have had to endure since the onset of Christendom, before their martyrs moved from the arenas into the grandstands
in the 4th century.

During the first 3 centuries of Christianity's existence, believers had very similar problems: each trade within the
Roman empire had their own guild, and without being a member of such, one could not practice the trade. One
membership requirement was the annual offering up of incense to a Pagan deity, and if a Christian refused to offer
incense, he would be expelled from the guild and thus find himself unable to practice his craft.

Perhaps one reason why God sometimes allows such difficulties to arise is for His children to put their trust in Him,
instead of the System, and if we truly consider ourselves Christians, perhaps to consider doing the job that Christ
gave each of His followers to do: "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15).
I know, that sounds outrageously fanatical. "You mean, we're all supposed to become missionaries, huh!"

Well, I didn't say that. All I know is what Jesus said: "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon," (Matth.6:24), one of my
favorites among my list of Bible Verses Most Christians Choose to Ignore.

In the minds of present day Christians, God seems to be capable of everything but taking care of them.

We profess the Gospel of "Professionalism" as if it were the professions and jobs that are eternal, and not God's
Word, and as if there never was any such thing as an economic crisis.

Well, let's talk again in a year from now.

Eventually, folks, it's going to come to that: you're just going to have to trust the Lord!

Mammon is a pretty fickle god, in whom I wouldn't put my trust any further than I can toss my Toyota. - Excuse me,
my wife's Toyota.

It doesn't really matter what you do, as long as you don't put your trust in Mammon or money, but "in the living God
Who giveth us richly all things to enjoy" (1Tim.6:17).

And if it really becomes difficult or impossible for you to do your job in whatever profession you've learned, perhaps
you should consider doing the job God gave each of us to do, and do whatever you can to prove that you seek first
the Kingdom of God by taking care of His flock, especially the lost sheep out there, who are not yet in the fold.

There are so many ways to do that nowadays. Most of all by becoming living samples of a living faith in a living God,
Who is not unable to care for us, even if we'll never get another job in this life!

Take it from someone who hasn't had another employer for 29 years. God is the best!

Feb.28, 2009
God Vs. B3

When it all comes down to it, the problem with the world is largely its indifference and its blatant lack of interest in its
Creator.

Guess I had it already basically pinned down when I wrote that song, "Indifference."

The problem is that everybody thinks that they are so much more interesting than God, and whatever they've got to
say is so much more important.

Back in the 60s and 70s people were still willing to listen to what songwriters like Bob Dylan, James Taylor or
Donovan had to say.

Today's generation is more interested in boobs wiggling to the monotonous stomp-beat of the umpteenth re-make of
some song of the 80s that most teens haven't heard yet, and in putting their own voices to the karaoke soundtrack of
that re-make, and wiggle their own butts & boobs (henceforth referred to as "B&Bs"), the way they've learned it from
Britney & co.

It's not that I'm opposed to B&Bs. But I am opposed to stupidity, (not referring to stupidity as lack of knowledge, but
rather the tendency to continue to make the wrong choices, due to setting false priorities) which is probably our 2nd
biggest Enemy, right after our indifference. Or maybe it's our stupidity that causes us to be so indifferent...

Okay, so, our job as Christians or believers in God is to arouse people's interest in Him and make them reconsider,
“What on earth makes you so sure that you're that much more interesting than the Creator of the Universe?”

Our job is to remind the creation that it's not No.1, after all.

As I say, it was easier to use music back in the days when folks would listen to the lyrics, and the lyrics actually
meant something.

Back then, it was even possible to win a few souls by wiggling B&Bs to the tune of a Gospel song. Nowadays you'd
just get lost in a sea of'em...

It's hard to keep the vision of the Great Commission the Lord has given us to spread His Good News everywhere and
preach the Gospel to every creature when every creature seems to be too infatuated with themselves to give the
Good News of Creator's love the time of day.

Certainly writing just another despairing blog isn't going to do the trick... But it usually helps me to think & crystallize
my thoughts, & perhaps come up with a good idea. I think God needs that. He needs a few more people with good
ideas, but who are willing to use those good ideas to win souls, and not just make a big buck.

Not that I'm opposed to big bucks, either. But I am opposed to greed.

It's probably our 3rd biggest enemy, right after our stupidity and indifference...

And let's face it, folks: one reason why a substantial amount of people is becoming sicker of "Christianity" by the hour
is because of its promoters' passion for shuffling dough and building big fancy buildings while 10.000 people are
starving every day, and that number is bound to increase this year, due to the things our greed has done to this planet
and our global agriculture.

Maybe what's going to get people interested in God (- and I'm not talking about the kind of "interest" where God &
Jesus are hip because over half of the population goes to one of the churches on every block -) is going to be the
consequences of where our lack of interest in Him is going to lead us.

Maybe what it's going to take is a crisis. Maybe trouble is actually good for us, and is going to do more for our souls'
welfare than all the wiggling and shaking of B&B's in the world put together...

And maybe our job is just to be there when the time arrives, to remind people that there is a God and He loves them,
even if they wouldn't have given a hoot about Him before the trouble came...

If that's the case, let it be, and "bring on the night," if that's what it takes to wake us up.

Some of us seem to be awake, but paralyzed at the same time, unable to do anything to wake up anyone else.

Maybe that's going to change soon. As soon as the repercussions of the current crisis will have hit the more sheltered
regions of the world, and those parts of town where business still goes on as usual.

"Business as usual" doesn't seem to be good for our relationship with our Creator. "Because they have no changes,
therefore they fear not God." "Business as usual" creates indifference, stupidity and greed, because who was ever
satisfied with what they have in the business of raking in ever more?

If that's the case, let's have some change, and not just wait for it to happen. Changing the world - if anybody's still
interested in that endeavor - starts with us, and it behooves us to change and adapt our attitudes, methods and
whatever it takes to remind ourselves and others that there is yet something or Someone more important than the 3
Bs (boobs, butts & bucks).
Let's see if we can't convince a substantial amount of folks that God is actually capable of topping those. (After all,
He's the Inventor of at least the first 2 Bs, and maybe there's more where that came from...)

Remember that 80s movie with George Burns, "Oh God, II" in which God recruits a little girl to start an advertisement
campaign for Him? We need something like that... A slogan like "Think God!" or "God first" or ... "God beats boobs,
butts & bucks"...

C'mon, help me out here!

Of course, it's natural that people want admiration, attention and recognition, and I'm not advocating depriving
anybody of that. Long live the marvels of God's creation! But all I'm saying is, first thing's still first, and we ought to
give credit where it's due, & not exclude the Creator from His creation, as they have pretty much done over here in
Europe for the past 150 years, and proud of it and celebrating the event, as if the ascent of homo sapiens was
something we could pat ourselves on the back for.

What it all boils down to is that love (being God) beats sex, the Creator is actually more worthy of our attention and
worship than His creation, and yes, there is even something more marvelous and magnificent to adore than our wee
little selves, and that's the One Who made us & loves us even more than we could ever love ourselves (and that in
spite of all He knows about us.)

March 4, 2009
The Heavens Declare
One drift that is currently or since a few years going around on the web is the notion that since there are so many
similarities between ancient deities and religions and the story of Jesus, Christianity and its whole story must be a
fabrication, and some go as far to claim that religion altogether seems to be a plot cooked up by the Illuminati to
enslave mankind.

Certainly these people must be doing the Illuminati or whatever forces intend to enslave mankind a great favor by
spreading their erroneous idea.

While it may be reasonable to conclude that similarities, such as the resemblance between the Babylonian "son of
god" Tammuz and Jesus must be more than a coincidence, just as much as it was reasonable for Darwin to conclude
from his observation of finches on Galapagos that changes are happening within creatures that help them to adapt to
their environment, when that same train of thought and "reason" is spun further to an extreme, total nonsense comes
out of it.

You've got to know when to tell your own mind to "stop! Thus far and no further!"

What the great conspiracy theory heroes like the producer of the movie "Zeitgeist," and other similar Youtube
productions, or Reptilians-Specialist David Icke fail to see is the very legitimate reason for the similarities between the
Gospel story and the tales of previous religions of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece and Rome: These ancient
religions were all based on astrology. And while millions of Christians around the world pee in their pants at the mere
utterance of the world "astrology" because they know that it's one of the corner stones of witchcraft and paganism,
their sin of fear is depriving the world of some very valuable and ancient knowledge, which tends to become forgotten,
but does not have to be.

The secret is that God had written the Gospel story in the stars, way before we ever saw it unfold, exactly like it is said
in the Psalms:

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun."
(Psalm 19:1-4)
We all know that passage and love it because it sounds so mystically poetic, but few people really know what it means. Thankfully,
some people do, and have overcome their fears of what fellow Christians might think of them if they would write a book about
naughty, naughty astrology, and if enough people cared about the truth, we could all relax in the knowledge that it was God, not
the Devil, who created not only the stars "for signs and for seasons" (Genesis 1:14), but also the zodiac.

According to William D. Banks and his book "The Heavens Declare," the origins of the zodiac dates back to Enoch (yes, the guy
who walked with God, and "wasn't found," and from whom we've got the word "inch," coincidentally). The word zodiac having its
true origins in Hebrew ("the path" - coincidentally the name Early Christians gave their new faith among believers), and
prophetically telling the story of Jesus, the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev.13:8), - depicted in the star sign
Aries, the ram, or lamb - beginning with the virgin Mary (Virgo), telling about the price He would pay (Libra) to free us from the grip
of the Enemy (Scorpio) by pointing the arrow of His truth at his heart (Sagittarius), being the Scapegoat for our sins (Capricorn),
pouring forth the waters of His Word (Aquarius), gathering His church [called-out ones] (Pisces) to be a Coming Ruler (Taurus),
representing both God and man, King and servant, Savior and sufferer in one (Gemini), to gather His flock into His fold (Cancer)
upon His Return as the rightful Heir, King and Ruler over all (Leo), to give the gist of the story in a nutshell.

The names of the stars in these signs have in all "speeches and languages," as Psalm 19 says, told the Story of "the One that was
to come" for millennia before His actual birth, and since the stars were a major source of information to the scholars and wise men
of the ancient empires, it's no wonder that their religion sounded so similar to what Christianity would become.

To conclude that the similarities between them are a result of man concocting His own idea of God is comparable to Darwin's
conclusion that creation "concocted" itself - the only tolerable explanation for those who refuse to make room for God in their lives,
regardless of the fact that life could never have created itself without information or intelligence, which always - undeniably and
without exceptions - has an Author.

Conspiracy authors and filmmakers are thus unwittingly contributing to the cause of the very forces they try to expose, by tossing
the only solution and hope of freedom for mankind into the same pot, confining humanity to the mental prison of an existence for
no particular reason or purpose which already has created more misery than any other dogma in the past century.

The only hope they offer is that one day mankind will become enlightened enough to save itself from its own stupor, which
generally is the same basis of all false religions and philosophies from Cain to Marx, based on the self-righteous assumption that
one kind of people - for whatever reason - is better than the other, and thus deserves the position of power and authority over
them. If that doesn't sound like NWO-Philosophy, what else does?

The dilemma with the world is that nobody ever realizes that the attitude that they know better than God is precisely the
predicament that has landed them in the mess they're in.

March 18, 2009

Den of Thieves

Someone called me up some time ago and said, "You're the only dude on the Internet who's giving his music away for
free."

Well, maybe so. But I've got it from Someone Who I consider a greater and more reliable authority on happiness than
those John Denver referred to as "them money-hungry fools."

You never read about Jesus charging an entrance fee for His sermon on the mount, nor did He charge for a single
one of His fish sandwiches (although I'm sure He could have raked in a fortune). It just wasn't in Him.

His credo was, "Freely ye have received, freely give," and in my opinion one of the greatest disgraces about
Christendom is the machine of commerce that it has been for more than 16 centuries, with no improvement in sight
anywhere (at least not voluntarily).

Thank God the Antichrist is going to appear some time to put an end to all of that with his "mark of the Beast," which
will divide the wheat from the chaff, anyway.

Jesus made it pretty plain what he thought of that commercialized hybrid of religion or spirituality when He chased the
vendors out of the temple. Imagine Him coming to the Vatican or your average drive-in church nowadays, or the
mega-temples of the star evangelists. He probably knows why he chose to appear 2000 years before things would get
really sick.
Of course, nobody ever believes all that stuff He had to say about not being able to serve God and Mammon (the god
of riches), and about the birds in the air and the lilies of the field, and that the heavenly father would supply all our
needs, just as He does theirs, if we would only seek first His Kingdom.

"Seeking first" the Kingdom would mean that that's what you'd invest the majority of your time and efforts in, instead of
raking in all the cash you can.

If you dedicate your time to serving Him and making sure that folks get His message (without having to pay a fortune
for it), then, He says, He will also take care of your needs.

If you preach the Gospel and spread the Good News, then He'll make sure that you can also live off the Gospel. Of
course, if you only preach to those who've heard the Gospel a thousand times or more, and they're willing to pay a
fortune for your sedating sermons that will assure them they'll escape the wrath of God for our collective selfishness
and greed, then you'll have good cards as far as the god of this world is concerned, and the game that he's playing,
but God may think differently about that kingdom you have built for yourself.

It's called "modesty," a trait long forgotten and forlorn, and it has an even more recent hero than Jesus and His early
followers, namely the Italian monk St. Francis, who bucked the tide of the religious supermarket of his day and decide
to be content with little for a change.

He saw a lot of misery, but I also believe that he knew more true happiness than most other folks in his day.

One of the secrets of life is the art of not falling for every single temptation the Devil offers us along the way; it's the
art of saying "No, thank you!" every once in a while, "I already have enough."

I guess some people are starting to reap the first repercussion of the "never enough" attitude that has been prevailing
in our modern, enlightened Western society for the past decades. But will we really have learned the lesson when and
IF the economy recovers?

March 19, 2009

Perfect People
The Devil was actually right when he promised Adam and Eve, "Ye shall be as gods," if they would eat of that
forbidden fruit of knowledge of good and evil.

It was a necessary process to really learn the difference between good and evil. I mean, a "god" who wouldn't know
right from wrong would be like a grown up man who doesn't know where left and right is, right?

Of course, what he didn't tell them was the ugly detour it was going to take to get there. Ugly for some, that is, namely
those who weren't interested in just the temporary counterfeit achievement of acting like a little "god" right here on
earth...

The Abels of history have continued to suffer at the hand of the Cains until this very day, and all they have in this life
is the promise that "we shall be like Him" (1John3:2). That will be the only way we're ever truly going to be God-like.

Instead of swallowing the Devil's propaganda and advertisements, we'll listen to what the real Boss has to say, and
thereby qualify for genuine divinity (see Ps.82:6, Isa.41:23 and John 10:34, 35).

It's alright to want to be perfect, I suppose. One just has to come to grips with the fact that it will never happen in this
life, and the only way to get there is His way, and not every other neon-lights flashing broadway that seemeth right
unto man, but the end thereof is hoodlum.

It's true that our imperfection sucks. Big time. But I have it on good authority that Perfection is not the absence of
imperfection, but the ability to integrate imperfection.

If God uses our imperfection to perfect His Big Picture according to His idea (and after all, He's the Master Artist), and
by integrating us in His great work of art having some of His perfection rub off on us, who are we to criticize Him?

After all, we may be gods, but not God.

April 1, 2009
Monkey See, Monkey Do

Coming to grips with the fact that we're probably closer to the end of the world than most of us are willing to admit,
always keeps drawing my thoughts back to its beginnings.

Life is a constant choice between positive or good and valid input and information, and its negative, non-valid, bad
counterpart.

Only discernment and experience teach us to know the difference.

We're all basically standing at the same tree as did Adam and Eve.

The only difference is, all around us are billions of people who have already tasted the fruit of the knowledge of evil (=
bad information), and they're all telling us, "It's good! C'mon, take a bite! I've done it, too! It's the only way!"

We don't only have the Devil to deal with in our struggle to resist temptation, but also his favorite weapon of the
century: peer pressure.

What once used to require cunning persuasion on his part now merely takes an appeal to our basest herd instincts:
"Monkey see, monkey do."

There's a lot of "input" out there, and it's pretty tough to know which of it is good and which is bad. It's not easy to
make an estimate, but I'd say probably 90% of what bombards us is mostly negative.

The difficult thing is, that the Enemy is smart enough not to hand us 100% pure evil information, but what makes it all
the more dangerous and deceptive is that he always mixes it with some truth.

Nothing has changed about that since his first sales talk. After all, it was true that they weren't going to die physically
at the time they ate of the fruit, and we already expounded on that it was true in a sense that they became like gods, if
even God Himself calls them thus later on in His Word...

So, I guess the conclusion is that nothing saves us from bad info, except the experience of what happened once we
swallowed and accepted it...

It builds us up in a wrong way.

It feeds your ego, but not your soul.

It may fill your head with "knowledge" but doesn't make you one bit wiser.

It may lead you to the conclusion that "there is no God," and that you and your own kind are the only masters and
heroes of the universe, and yet leave you utterly ignorant of the fact that in God's dictionary, you thus become the
perfect definition of a fool.

It may make you feel hip and cool, but on God's thermometer you may merely amount to the status of "lukewarm."

You may think you're "hot 'n' heavy," not realizing that you've been weighed in the scales of the Creator of the
universe, and found wanting.

What it all boils down to when all the dross and muck has up and gone into smoke and vapor is the truth: coming to
face yourself for what you really are, namely not much, if anything at all, without a connection with the One Who put
you on the planet, and the single Authority on why.

But that's a great place to start, because it begins the process of your willingness to absorb the other stuff, that
formerly totally unattractive type of input you would have sneered at when you still thought you were the king of the
hill.
It may not immediately make sense to you... But slowly, as you keep immersing your soul and parched spirit in it,
eventually it begins to make sense, and you begin to derive so much information out of even one formerly seemingly
meaningless phrase, such as, "In the beginning was the Word..." (John 1:1)

It all began with information... the right kind of input, and... yeah, you want more of it! Lots more!

Big Picture Vol.1-3

Of all good things there are three.

Three versions of God: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Yet One.

Three atoms to every water molecule. Yet they form one entity.

There are three editions of what I like to call "The Big Picture."

One is here and has probably always been.

The second one is here and has come forth from the first.

The third will be, and will consist of both previous ones. And it will stay forever.

The first edition of "The Big Picture" is the Spirit World -dwelling place of God and His Holy Family, expanding to
probably countless of His sons and daughters, both, faithful and fallen. While it would probably take an eternity to
catch up on the information that presently eludes us concerning this part of the Big Picture, it probably is also the one
that is the least attractive or interesting to most of us.

The 2nd version or part of the Big Picture is the physical realm, what we call the universe, including the time line of its
history, and is so to speak a product of the former, since it was information uttered by God that brought it into being
(see Hebrews 11:3).

It's the one that usually intrigues us the most. Partly because it's "ours,"

at least for the time being. It's probably not incorrect to say that this part of the Picture is in a somewhat imperfect
state.

The 3rd and final stage of the Big Picture is the combination of BP1 and 2:

the Spirit World and the physical realm united and merged into one.

This event is forecast and described in such places as the Book of Revelation, when it talks about the Abode of God
coming down from Heaven to dwell on (a new) earth forever (Rev.21:1-5).

The final and ultimate version of the Big Picture will be this one, the 3rd, and it will probably shed more light on both
previous ones for its inhabitants, if such a thing as "previous" will be of any relevance.

But I do think so, since God isn't known to easily discard origins or dishonor his chosen patriarchs.
While man has presently contented himself with the confidence that his heritage is that of tree-climbing mammals,
God has never been thus cruel to us, to deprive us of a slightly nobler past and heritage, even if it begins with nothing
more than 2 perfect, naked humans in a perfect place, unfortunately not perfectly happy with it.

What we consider fairy-tales, God calls our history, and when history will be done, then I guess we will know what will
have been fairy tales, and what the reality.

The reality of God, as announced in BP3, will be greater than any fairy tale man could have ever cooked up.

April 9, 2009
Google: Big Brother's Favorite Tool

Despite all attempts of presenting itself in the light of a youthful, innovative and user-friendly Corporation with best
interests for you, the end user, the way Google has been developing lately, especially with their most recent moves,
reveals clearly who they are really working for.

By investing their energies and resources in technologies that serve not only to hunt down those guilty of minor
copyright infringements in their releases on Google Video, (which, by the way, will soon stop its upload service), but in
the near future will also enable authorities (or anyone who does or does not like you, for that matter) to locate you
anywhere at any given time on God's (or Google's?) earth, the multi-billion dollar machine has proven that what it
really is concerned about is not the flow of information that goes out to the people, but the flow of information about
the people to the Orwellian "Big Brother" complex, whose interest lies primarily in controlling, manipulating and
exploiting the masses to the last drop.

First of all, if you were interested in the spreading of information into all directions, (not just from the bottom to the
top), it would be plain stupidity to delete a video just because it contains part of a song that some record company
holds the rights to, especially if it's a song that hardly anybody knows.

If you had two cents worth of brain in your skull, as an entrepreneur you should be happy if anyone advertises your
product for free. If your product is any good, and people will get a taste of it, they might like it and find out where they
can purchase it.

By banning any and all copyrighted content, you can rest assured that the product will remain unknown throughout
most of the world. Congratulations, you losers!

But then again, for those of us familiar with what a slop wash "show-business" really is, it's no big secret that the
record companies are not necessarily interested in promoting artists with Christian, edifying or politically provocative
messages, but rather, keeping a lid on them, so that they can keep pouring out their preferred "art" on the market, that
will further enhance the growth of mass stupidity, materialism, violence in all sorts of public places, (especially
schools), and the reduction of the world's surplus population by driving as many of us as they can to the edge of
suicide.

The masters of the New World Order aren't as interested in your hearing Nicole McMullen or other innocent artists as
much as they want your kids to go berserk to the tunes of Rammstein and Marilyn Manson, so that they can come in
and save you from the mess they themselves created.

As with politics and other branches of big business, a certain product or new trend may look promising, such as the
current, 21st century version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in D.C., but the reality of the final outcome and end result may
be hard to swallow a little further down the road.

Except perhaps for those familiar enough with Bible prophecy to know that we all should be prepared for unpleasant
surprises.

While current articles about Google's latest endeavor to enable users to be tracked down anywhere, anytime in the
world make it sound like just another communication-friendly and cute "sociable" device, in the light of the fact of what
brand of people are running this whole show with their New World Order mantra (on whose band wagon Google must
have undoubtedly jumped a while ago), it makes "1984" sound more prophetically accurate than ever.
Only that the real nightmare began with a much more "family-friendly" air about it, that sounded almost too good to be
true, so that only the most suspicious and paranoid wouldn't fall for it.

Thanks to the "new boss" (same as the old boss) and his bills that are keeping the exact opposite of what he originally
promised, and collaborators like Google, the internet as we know it, as a reliable source of alternative information to
the mainstream media slop is probably going to be history very soon.

After all, the number of those on the U.S. government's "terrorist" list is growing daily, and it consists of anything but
terrorists, but of 5-year-olds and anyone who has a different opinion than that which is the official mantra from the
opinion makers running the media, and Google wants to have a piece of the pie when the new "Führer" climbs the
international throne, and thus won't give a voice to dissenters much longer.

The temporary free flow of information in both directions was probably good for the NWO clan to find out where we're
all at, and now that they've got our name and number, plus Google's newly developed tracking device, the "clean up"
is going to go a lot quicker than it took in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia or Mao's China.

The color of skin, the nationalities and the faces of the players may have changed, but the general tactics remain the
same, although over time they may have gotten a little more sophisticated.

How did Bruce Hornsby put it?

"That's just the way it is;

some thing will never change..."

April 26, 2009

The War On Christ

One of the trademarks of the infamous Antichrist as foretold in the Bible, is that he will wage war against "the saints*."

In the language of our times that spells persecution. Persecution of all those that God deems righteous.

The only qualification to meet that criteria is having accepted the sacrifice of the Righteous One, Whom the Western
World refers to as Jesus the Christ, and whom His original Mideastern followers have called Yashua, the Messiah.

If the Devil is a reality (and if you look around, you can't deny the evidence), and all that is written about him in the
Scripture is a reality, then those Scriptures that prophesy his incarnation in one final world ruler at the end of the world
as we know it must also be a reality.

All that I have observed over the past 4 decades has gradually built up a perception of that reality, which by now - as
unfortunately as it may be considered by some - has become unshakable.

The "war against the saints" has begun a while ago, even if it may have been duped different things.

If there was ever a period in which it seemed as if all those Bible prophecies were false, and Christianity was actually
becoming more and more popular and recognized by society, I think that period has just about come to an end.

Satan's had his heroes in his war against Christ since the beginning of time, and probably some of his greatest
progress in the past decade has been achieved by the Bush administration. Just the fact that this most un-popular of
all presidencies posed as "Christian," (and by now there has emerged sufficient evidence that it was not genuinely
so), was a genius strategic act of the anti-christ forces that have cost Christendom at least 8 points on a popularity
scale from 1 to 10 (and it wasn't at 10 when the count started).

It's not as if the tactic was entirely new. After all, kingdoms and empires and those who ruled them - nowadays we call
them politicians - have often posed as "Christians" while pursuing their true goals of power by means of eliminating
the other side (not seldom the true believers), which is what Jesus referred to when He prophesied, "The time
cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service" (John 16:22). Some of them must have
genuinely thought that they fought on the right side, but they were genuinely and sincerely wrong.

As James Taylor sang, "You just can't kill for Jesus."

Now with Obama"in power" (or at least filling the puppet post of pretense of power) the rest of the world is heaving a
sigh of relief that America has come back to her senses, away from all that Christian fanaticism that surely must have
been the root of all evils and woes in this world.

A new age of reason has been ushered in, soon to enlighten those who wish to be "enlightened" and to eliminate
those who refuse to be.

You can make your own guess on which side of that war your government is fighting, your country's school system or
the scientific community, the mainstream media, or such day-to-day conveniences as Google, for that matter.

And while you're at it... your employers?... Yourself?

Unfortunately, many of those supposedly fighting for the side of Christ in this battle aren't actively participating,
because they believe that Christ will whisk them away from the battle field before the battle even starts. The battle will
come over them unexpectedly and virtually catch them with their pants down, unprepared, unexperienced in wielding
the spiritual weaponry of faith and the Word of God, and weakened by countless temptations and distractions brought
on them by the gods in whose temples they actually spent most of their time: Mammon (god of wealth), Mars (god of
war), Bacchus (god of addictions) and the likes.

Instead of helping to strengthen and arm their brothers and sisters around the world, a lot of supposed "soldiers of the
cross" seek to enrich themselves by fleecing the sheep instead of feeding them, as Ezekiel prophesied.

What would Jesus do if He came into the modern temples of today? Would He act any differently than He did when
He chased out those who had made a market hall of His Father's house?

So, where are the true shepherds, Whom the Lord will find feeding His sheep when He comes?

May God have mercy and replace the love of money in our hearts with love for the lost.

No physical wall you will have erected around yourself will protect you from the war on the saints when it will break
loose, only real faith. It's the only currency that will survive the purging fires that are going to sweep across the world.

*Scriptures on "The War Against the Saints": Dan.7:21, Dan.8:24, 25; Rev.13:7, 17:12-14, 19:19
May 9, 2009
Great Depression Vol.2 - Where've Ya Been?

Religious lunatics all have certain qualities in common: they drive you insane, irritate you, make you hate them, want
to wipe them off the face of the earth, strangle them, persecute them, exterminate them...

But the deadliest of all their qualities is that sometimes they just happen to be so painfully right about some of their
predictions.

When the Jewish prophet Jeremiah predicted that his country was going to be conquered by the Babylonians, his
distinguished colleagues dared to differ by the hundreds. So vehemently in fact, that they threw him in some hole in
the ground. But it was shortly thereafter that Jeremiah was pulled out of the hole on behalf of the Babylonians who
had conquered Judea regardless of contrary predictions of peace and prosperity made by hundreds of false, though
respected, prophets.

Three days before His crucifixion, Jesus announced - when His disciples marveled at the architectural structure of the
Jewish temple in Jerusalem - that it was going to be destroyed. In fact, that not one stone was going to be left upon
the other.

The Jews - as usual - dared to differ, and continued to rebel against Rome until Jerusalem was besieged in 70.A.D.,
precisely 40 years after Jesus' prediction. When the citizens of Jerusalem barricaded themselves inside the temple,
the Romans set fire to it, causing the gold in the temple to melt. In order to get a hold of it, the Romans virtually pulled
every brick off another.

No wonder Jesus still doesn't have many friends in the Mideast - regardless of how much money Christians keep
pouring into it. (After all, they want to be on good terms with the "chosen people." Except that they missed some
details about why Jesus had to die in the first place.)

The truth simply isn't very popular. Nor were the predictions made by David Berg in the 70s about impending doom
and destruction for America, whom he identified with "Babylon, the Great Whore" in the Book of Revelation, chapters
17 and 18, whose riches - so says the Bible - would come to naught within one hour.

Most American Christians like to interpret those chapters differently, just like they do the rest of the Bible, and the
culprit "Babylon," in their version, is the city of Rome, the capital of poor old Italy in Europe... But that's another story
I'm not going to get off on again.

Mr. Berg (also known as "Moses David" during the 70s), also predicted that an economic crash would precede the
apocalyptic destruction the Bible heralded, an economic crisis, similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s, only
much worse, which would usher in a New World Order, eventually spear headed by the notorious Antichrist, who
would solve the World's financial woes by a new cashless monetary system, in which cash would be replaced by a
"mark," - a computer chip or digital imprint - in each world citizen's head or forehead, as also predicted by St. John the
Revelator.

While it yet remains to be told whether our current crisis is indeed that dreaded one which is to usher in the End of the
World as we know it, the number of those who draw the connection between now and the Great Depression increases
daily, and not just among religious freaks.

And whether it will result in the introduction of the Antichrist and his "mark of the Beast" also remains to be seen, but
what we have got already is Henry Kissinger telling the American public on television that Barrack Obama would be
the man to seize the golden opportunity within that crisis, to sell the world the New World Order.

I have stated before why I don't believe that the Antichrist will be American, and I, like everyone else, would hope like
everyone else, that we all still live many happy years in a prosperous world. IF I hadn't seen what excessive
prosperity and ease can do to people...

I also wouldn't want to come across as some wise guy who rejoices in the plight and ill fate of others just so he can
say "Told you so." But I also know from experience and the things we never learn from history, that time will do the
talkin' about who were the "lunatics" and who were the false prophets.

It took the Great Depression about 5 years until it finally hit the last wealthy family in Suburbia. Years that gave rise to
a man in whom many see the epitome of Antichrist.

Mrs. Angela Merkel recently said that "the worst is already over." I will be as bold to label her one of the false
prophets of our time.
(After all, no leader of government could ever earn my respect by hauling away a 15 year old from her home with 16
cops for being home-schooled.)

I will be so bold as to proclaim that if you think Hitler and the Great Depression were bad, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.

I hate to be another party-pooper and religious lunatic. Of course, I'd much prefer to be popular, like everyone else
does. I'd love to close my eyes to any impending evil and say, "Hey, but we don't deserve this! We've all been good
boys and girls." I would, if I'd stand a chance in a million that my face would not turn tomato red and my nose wouldn't
sprout twigs and leaves like Pinocchio's, after saying so.

May 11, 2009

Christianity Now and in 30 A.D. - The Differences!

I've expounded before on the tragic abyss between what Christianity has become and once used to be, and in my
opinion ought to be, due to the fact that fundamental teachings of Christ Himself and His early spokesmen are
purposely being ignored by His modern supposed followers, resulting in the constant discomfort of having to
apologize for the rest of the world for pertaining to a group of people, which, originally, truly was a ray of hope for
anyone who believed in the depth of his heart that there had to be something else besides the usual games people
play, with their rules of acquisition of power, fame, fortune and temporal glory.

As a Christian, I see it as part of my duty to rectify that the crimes Christianity has been found guilty of for the past 16
centuries (and unfortunately, during the current one more than ever), were not at all in its Founder's intention.

Somewhere around the 4th century, after having failed to wipe out the church (meaning "ecclesia," Greek for "the
called out ones") through persecution, Satan finally changed his attitude toward Christianity into "If you can't lick'em,
join'em." The result is the sad picture of what Christendom has become since.

But what was it like before that? What were the differences, and which was the way the early followers of Christ lived
that are such a stark contrast to what may be labeled "Christianity" today, but really, only amounts to not much more
than Churchianity?

One blatant contrast that jumps in my face time and time again, is the materialistic attitude that has taken hold of
probably the vast part of Christendom throughout the past millennium and a half, as totally opposed to what Jesus
Himself, and His most ardent representative of the 1st century, the apostle Paul of Tarsus (aka St. Paul) had to say
on such subjects as money, wealth, and one's dedication to the acquisition of such.

Most Christians are apparently totally oblivious to the fact that the Early Christians lived in a totally unique style which
could perhaps be termed "total, holy Communism." In fact, it was the prototype of communism, and the only type that
ever worked, since it's impossible to achieve it by leaving out the main Factor, which happens to be God and His
supernatural love.

The reason most people are totally ignorant of this, is because they either simply don't read their Bibles, or they only
read and remember the parts they like.

Apparently none of those Sunday morning assemblers who proudly present their attire and vehicles in those pompous
palaces they named after the assembly of those who died as martyrs in Christ's footsteps, after having lived their lives
in modesty, has ever seriously pondered the statements we find in the Book of Acts on how Christians lived back
then.

It doesn't say there, "And all that believed assembled once a week in the temple to sing, pray and listen to the
preacher for an hour, and then drove home, each in their car and to their own houses, spending the rest of the week
in the pursuit of their happiness, aka financial stability."

What it does say, is, "And all that believed were together and had all things common. And sold their possessions and
goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. ...Neither said any of them that any of the things which
he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." (Acts 2:44, 45, 4:32).

You can only imagine the average Christian's head-shaking attitude toward such a radical life-style, of people living
together and sharing all things...

When it boils down to it, neither Jesus, nor Paul, John or James had much good to say about money, or rich people.

The next vast gap between Christianity now and then - which I have repeatedly addressed in my blogs, because i just
can't do the subject justice - is the current "Christian" attitude towards war, their silent consent to their nations'
government sending their own sons (and daughters) off to foreign countries under often more than shady and
questionable pretexts, to kill and maim their often totally innocent citizens by the hundreds of thousands.

It is unthinkable that Christians during the first 3 centuries would have given their consent, had the Romans called
upon them to join the empire in one of its military actions against other countries.

Of course, all that changed with the crusades. But whether you can rectify having the audacity of calling that
"Christianity," you have to decide for yourself, especially in the light of all Jesus had to say on the subject.

Christians in the first 3 centuries were a persecuted minority, not - as has been the case since fake Christendom
became a world power - a persecuting majority and ruthless authority. It is really no wonder that some people think
that the world would be better off without the scourge of Christianity falsely so-called, and if you ask me, that's where
the future of "Christendom" is headed: elimination by the same tactics it has applied on the inhabitants of much of the
world for centuries. Luckily, this will separate the true sheep from the goats and expose who was really "in it" for the
right and wrong reasons...

In the final analysis, it seems that Christianity was certainly better off in its original state, and from the looks of it, we're
going to have to face the fact that that's where Christianity is headed again: back to the ranks of the persecuted
minorities, instead of those of the ruthless oppressors, even if it will be the latter that will bring the persecution upon
themselves, (and even if most of them probably won't see the writing on the wall before it's too late).

What Christians worldwide ought to do is get "Back to the Basics," "trim the fat" and return to its humble origins,
instead of trying to play the rulers in a world that is currently run by Christ's enemies. They'd do a whole lot better to
heed the Words of their Founder, instead of the false prophets' tales of peace when there is no peace, and of
prosperity gained by the exploitation of the poor of the world, which God simply cannot bless.

As long as Christians chime, "God bless America, no matter what," they show that they put themselves above the
very laws of God, and thus become an abomination to Him, and will only reap the consequences accordingly.

They should seek their God for the kind of courage that their spiritual forefathers many centuries ago had, who were
willing to be despised and persecuted as members of that obscure sect that followed a Leader Who had challenged
all the existing values of the world.
Unfortunately, not many of us seem to be nearly as strong as Jesus was when the Devil tempts us with the riches of
this world. Most of us give him a warm welcome, throw our arm around his neck and say to Jesus, "See ya on
Sunday!"

May 20, 2009

What Do We Really Know At All? (Or: The Evolution of Politics)

One more aspect in which we seem to be living in a scenario comparable to the one portrayed in the Matrix movie
trilogy, turns out to be history, and especially our recent history, if one happens to stumble across issues as those
revolving around the controversial British historian David Irving.

It's pretty obvious that some of the claims made by the Soviets at the Nuremberg trials were false, and yet there
seems to be no area in our present scope of political thought where light shed on potential facts which might alter our
current view and knowledge on these things is more ardently and vehemently resisted.

While scientists, journalists and educators may lose their jobs for even lending an ear to alternative views of the
ancient history of our planet (as in what exactly happened "billions of years ago," instead of the gazillions of beneficial
mutations that are supposed to have brought forth the human race, whales crawling out on land and back into the
water, etc.), such as the number of scientists who developed the school of thought of "Intelligent Design" had the
nerve to do; and while guesswork and theories on physics are the only goodies teachers can sell their pupils in
schools for facts, far from an ultimate theory that explains it all, without one law of nature contradicting another; when
it comes to history, it becomes even more prickly, since people who are interested in finding out what really happened
as recently as 60-some years ago, might not only risk their jobs, or their students' enthusiasm, but their very freedom,
health or lives.

It seems that our oh-so-enlightened Western democracies aren't that much of a Wonderland of the Free, after all, as
which our modern politicians try to sell us our current system. Speaking of which. According to God's views, as laid
down in His much disputed account of such (nevertheless found to be absolutely reliable by those who have the guts
to believe it), the Bible, the evolution of politics over the past 2500 years isn't quite as flattering as we may see our
own current state.

The prophet Daniel (in an interpretation of the king of Babylon's dream, given to him by God) pictures the world's
empires from Babylon to Rome as deteriorating. While Babylon is symbolized by a head of gold, the subsequent
empire, Medo-Persia, becomes silver, Alexander the Great and his Grecian empire turn out with a bronze medal, and
Rome is devaluated to mere iron, only to wind up in a useless mixture of clay and iron good for nothing but to be
replaced by God's eternal kingdom toward the end end of the world as we know it.

So, while we look back at ancient rulers and systems as primitive, from our high and lofty democratic pedestal, God,
evidently, has a perfectly different view of things.

We don't even have to go as far back as Babylon or Rome to note drastic differences.

While we know by now that neither Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, FDR or even JFK were flawless, yet they
all seem to have had a residue of nobility and honor that perfectly eludes our 21st century statesmen.

And while some of us may still live in the illusion that the current administration is an improvement on the stock,
compared to the former, as shocking as it may be for all of us, judging by the Wall-Street nature of that administration,
it would be a very big surprise indeed, if that illusion will not turn out to be just such.

20th century statesmen at least attempted to speak the truth every now and then, and when they made promises,
they made somewhat of an effort to keep them, which is more than you can expect from the puppet position that a
presidency has become in Century 21.

"You never know when the sky will fall. What do we really know at all?" the "Rembrandts" from California once sang,
and they must have been on to something.

What do we really know at all?

What of all that which we call "knowledge" could really be called such? Isn't it much more often simply faith in the
portrayal of the picture by a certain group of people, the "winners," those who have the money and the propaganda
machinery?

So, why not be honest and reduce the preposterous claim of "knowledge" to that which it really is, namely faith?

After all, it has served true believers good and well for thousands of years, all throughout history, where empires and
emperors have come and gone.

Maybe St. John was really on to something when he claimed that our faith is the victory that would overcome the
world.

Maybe we know something they don't. Maybe we really know something. Even if it's just a fact as simple as the one
that says "There is a God, and He loves you," along with His Promises that someday soon He'll save us out of the
mess all those big shots are getting us into in the name of illumination.

Oh, and along with the promise that we'll know then, even as we are known.

You really want to know what happened? Just hang on a little longer.

May 27, 2009

Let's Get Physical

Smart people can be really dumb sometimes.

I've been doing some catching up on the current state of physics lately, since the subject had utterly failed to grasp
my interest in school, and I was pleased to see that folks seem to be getting a little bit closer to the real thing, as far
as my gut feeling tells me. At least they're now almost ready to accept other, additional dimensions, aside from the
ones they can see and perceive with their physical senses.

It's not as if they would have done it voluntarily, but they were practically forced to broaden their scope in order for
their equations to make sense and get General Relativity to match with Quantum Mechanics.

So, they're coming up with all sorts of fancy, big names for their fancy, big theories of the origin of everything: The
"Final Theory," "Super-String Theory," "M-Theory," about which no one can tell you what the "M" is supposed to stand
for, but one possible interpretation was "Matrix" theory, which I, of course, particularly like. So, they're practically
ready to accept that there's a "matrix" of some sort, but then go to such lengths and painstaking efforts, spending
decades of their lives and trillions of dollars (as long as they're still worth anything) on equipment and tests that are
supposed to come with proof for a theory that's going to make sense of everything, feverishly making sure that if they
ever find it, it will still make sense leaving out the most important and always remaining (whether they like it or not)
Factor: God. As in, the Dude Who constructed the matrix.

The only way they get around Him, of course, is by proposing that in order to get the jack pot universe we live in that
provides just all the necessary fine-tuned settings to make life possible at all, there are (possibly) countless other
universes, most of which, by sheer mathematical probability, didn't turn out as lucky. That is, of course, where I - and,
thankfully, other believers - dare to differ, since you don't have to come up with such ridiculous hypotheses once
you're willing to accept that just as behind every other shred of information that ever came into being there was an
author, so it also happens to be the case with that giga machine we call the universe, and the infinite amount of
information, planning and intelligence it requires to function.

Although God created us in our image, He's not a crazy scientist that needs endless trial & error runs to see if His
"experiment" is going to work out. Unlike our earthly, human scientists, He knows what He's doing, thank God! We're
in good hands. As long as we don't try to make the bill without Him and insist on locking Him out of His own game;
because He cannot save us from our own stupidity as long as we refuse to be saved.
So, it all boils back down to the theme of my previous post: faith. It's either faith in, and acceptance of the fact that
there is, of course, an Author behind the slew of information and genius that slapped the universe (= literally: "single
spoken sentence") together, or in the one gross exception, the mysterious "singularity," which claims that contrary to
everything we ever have observed, and in defiance of all the voices in creation that constantly scream the opposite,
from the tiniest cell to the most complex galaxy, it all simply "happened" by itself.

Back to the additional dimensions. The fathers of M-Theory have come up with the number 10 (plus time), otherwise
their equations wouldn't figure. What a "coincidence" that the structure of the universe should be based on the same
system that has been tried and proven down on yer-ol'-blue-planet (including its own solars system and the outer
extremities of its prominent inhabitants, etc.)!

What a coincidence that everything might just consist of tiny, either open-ended or looped "strings," (1s and 0s?), as if
Somebody was trying to get everybody's attention: "Hello!? Anybody listening?"

Then on the other hand we've got fundamental Christians who refuse to accept the possibility of 10+1 dimensions,
because they're not mentioned in the Bible. Well, neither are telephones or microwave ovens, but they probably use
them anyway.

So, on one hand we've got the believers who claim that God stopped communicating and passing on any additional
information to His crowning creation 2000 years ago, and on the other, scientists who refuse to accept the image of
such an astute-but-mute God, and it's almost like, "Well, can you blame'em?"

I get kicks out of imagining the surprises either might get upon their arrival in that extra dimension to which our spirit
inevitably passes the moment our physical bodies cease to function (a dimension of which the Bible has spoken for
millennia, by the way): "Oh, so You DO exist, after all, do Ya!?" And the other guys, "Y...Y...You m...m...mean, You
can actually t...t...talk??? And I thought...."

Well, that's what ya get for thinking.

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that believing is in many ways better than thinking.

Just have the guts to believe what everybody else says is impossible: There IS a God, He loves you, and He's got
something to say! - To YOU!

May 28, 2009

Divine Physics
There are basically only three kinds of people when it comes to exploring the mysteries of our origins: those who
believe that the Clock-Maker made the clockwork, those who believe that a coincidental explosion made the clock-
work, and those who are not sure which of the other two are right.

The difference between the first two is that Coincidental Explosion (CE) proponents are the guys with all the money,
the support and the time to elaborate so extensively on their studies of how exactly coincidence exploded into such a
brilliant clock-work, that the few who dare to defy them and insist that behind the clock-work of the universe has to be
a Maker just the same way as it was with any Rolex, look rather ridiculous in comparison, and a substantial amount of
the third group join in the laughter of the CE proponents, even if they may not have the faintest clue what they're
laughing about.

They see the other, big, rich and mean guys laugh, and so they laugh along. Call it peer pressure, monkey-see-
monkey-do, copy-cat-ism, you get the point.

Far from being the lunatics, religious fanatics and scum of the earth the CE media make their counterparts out to be,
some of the Clock-Worker's defenders actually do have a brain, well-functioning ones at that, and are even -
occasionally - blessed with time to investigate the possible veracity of the blueprint of our origins the Clock-Maker left
us.

From the CE side of the fence, the claim that the first chapter of the Bible may have anything to say about where the
universe came from sounds totally ridiculous. After all: you see the universe expanding, press the "reverse" button
and you get the picture of the Big Bang. Only idiots would deny that.
Possibly. At first glance, perhaps.

But then all the decades and gazillions of dollars poured into a substantial proof for "how it happened" only got the CE
camp close to the ever-elusive break-through, always near the edge, but never quite there.

If only a fraction of the funds and efforts would have gone into investigating whether possibly something might be true
about the creation account in Genesis, I personally believe, we'd all know a lot more by now.

One of the brave few who has wracked his brain in such a comparatively lone attempt, is D.Russell Humphreys,
Ph.D., author of the 1994 book "Starlight and Time - Solving the Puzzle of Distant Starlight in a Young Universe"
which to my shame I must admit I only took off my shelf now, after 2 years or so of buying it.

While Humphreys may not have it all figured out to a tee (and I'm not familiar with any updates on his theories), he
makes at least as much sense to me as the much appraised Stephen Hawking and his distinguished colleagues from
the "Anything-but-the-Clock-Maker-Tale" camp. I may be Bible-biased, but in the same manner, they are definitely
coincidence-biased, and since coincidence has proven to be a rather poor clock-maker in real life, I stick to my
conviction that you must be a fool if you persistently refuse to see that fact.

What's really nice about Humphreys is that he has the guts to take the Bible literally literal. Even more so than the
average creationist, which is already the standard of downright lunacy as far the hounds of the CE Gestapo are
concerned. In other words, more literal than I did. While most creationists traditionally contend that the "expansion"
Genesis describes as the "firmament" or "heaven" that separated the waters on earth from waters above it that were
supposed to have soaked the earth during Noah's flood, the literal description of that expansion would actually make it
the stellar universe.

I had heard that claim once during the 80s and quickly dismissed it, but Humphreys' argumentation gives me new
reasons to have the guts to take the Bible as literally as he does.

It turns out that the supposed "knowledge" the CE crew came up with and bombards us with daily has had a stronger
impact on all of us than we sometimes realize, even if we know that all that really upholds it is the money poured into
it, and even if some of them are honest enough to declare that they are not able to make cosmological models without
some admixture of ideology.

Some people are just fine without ever finding out how our planet and its neighborhood came into being. I personally
am more inclined to be the more curious type, and I'd like to be able to tell people that what my camp has to say on
the issue is potentially just as valid as the mainstream, anti-God efforts.

So, I'm profoundly grateful to Russell Humphreys for his work, even if it may not be quite the perfect explanation of
everything yet, but merely a theory, but we can't even say more than that about some of Einstein's work, either.

If one really is bold enough to accept the Bible for what it is and says, it drives home the point that God must be even
more awesomely greater than we previously tried to fathom, and also, that size and distance are perfectly irrelevant to
Him.

If everything in our physical home world is an illustration of a greater truth concerning the world we don't know (which
I strongly believe), then take the atom for example:

If the atom's core were the size of a marble, then the radius in which the electrons spin around it would be two miles.

According to Humphreys, the vast universe we perceive through our increasingly powerful telescopes is only an
expansion within a larger heaven, which the Bible calls "Heaven of heavens," and even that's not yet the end of it,
since it also talks about a third heaven.

So, as vast as the universe may be, and as tiny as we may be in comparison to the rest of it, it's not our size that
matters to God, evidently. He seems to be at least just as concerned about us as some of those scientists are about
subatomic particles.

Or, as I have put it in the much simpler terms of one of my songs: "He's greater than everything, but small enough to
fit inside your heart..."

It's probably impossible to figure that out with our current brain capacity, but things still make more sense accepting it.
June 10, 2009
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

A lot of people are dying these days, and there have been quite a handful of deaths of people
we’ve known recently. It’s almost as if they’re sensing that times are going to be harder, and they
want to be spared from having to go through that. Or even, if they weren’t aware of what’s coming,
God in His mercy spared them from the worst…

Having to deal with death brings up certain questions, because it inevitably causes confrontation
between the differing attitudes toward death of believers and unbelievers. Those who don’t
believe in a life after death or in a just God of love Who simply knows best when it’s time for a
person to go, become bitter toward Him (no matter how vehemently they claim not to believe in
Him), and they cling to their own (self-)righteousness and oppose those who claim that God is fair
and just and knows what He’s doing.

It explains why in the world Jesus could have ever have said something as outrageously politically
incorrect as “Let the dead bury their dead, and come thou, follow Me.” He didn’t have anything to
do with their rituals and games, nor their temporal little positions of individual power in a temprary
little life that culminates in a bunch of people standing and sobbing around a coffin’ singing “It’s all
over now.”

He was working for a Cause precisely destined to put an end to that type of game, namely to free
people from the fear of death, and to pluck out that sting of death, that seems so threatening, but
becomes ridiculous in the Presence of the Son of God Who is the resurrection and the life, and
whoever believes in Him will never die.

Now, either Jesus was a lunatic for ever having said such a thing, or it was the truth. And if it was
the truth, then why do we mourn? Except, of course, for our own momentary loss of that person’s
physical presence. But if we really believe, then why not act on it and show that we can’t be fooled
into thinking that this life is all there ever was and will be.

Of course, some Christians don’t make it exactly easy on others to believe in a life after death,
either. They preach “eternal insecurity,” where you’re saved only for so long as you remain a
sinless saint, which is probably the most perverted variety of the Christian faith the Devil ever
concocted. Because if it were possible to either get or remain saved by our own behavior and
actions, then Jesus could have saved Himself His trip to Golgatha and just stayed on His throne,
applauding all those incredible heroes of goodness.

So, if you’re not sure whether your loved one’s in Heaven or Hell, go on and mourn about your
own insecurity, or get some security by reading the Bible.

According to Jesus, if you really believe, you can even determine yourself where that person is
going, and the best thing you can do for them is pray, not weep.

So, why did Jesus have to say that dreadful thing: "Let the dead bury their dead"?

Because people who believe that this life is all there is, and all they ever work for is their
momentary position of power and wealth in this temporary life, are as good as dead, as far as the
aspects of Eternity - His aspects - are concerned. If you live for the here and now, and it all just
culminates in your burial, buddy, then you've been dead all along, and what it should say on your
gravestone is "Died at 30, buried at 70."
Those who follow and trust the living God, however, are living in the land of the living, and are so
convinced of the truth in Jesus' words that "Whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die,"
that death is really only a promotion to second grade that shouldn't be mourned but celebrated, no
matter how many hellfire-and-brimstone preachers try to make you believe that "Hell's Best Kept
Secret" is that Jesus was only kidding when He said that.

Other dreadful things Jesus said: Matt.10:34-37, 12:48-50, 18:6

June 20, 2009

No, My Wife Is NOT a Prostitute (and I'm NOT a Pimp)!

When googling for "the Family International," (which happens to be the faith community I'm a member of
since 30 years) one comes across a great variety of pages from all sorts of sources and different corners of
the market of New Religious Movements, along with opinions and statements aplenty, both from our
brothers and sisters around the world presenting their window to the world via the web, as well as
disgruntled ex-members, and a bunch of "experts" who will define our community for you in their own
particular way, based on whatever input they have gleaned about us from their sources.
Some remain factual, while others tend to gravely exaggerate. Unfortunately, whenever the media scrape
together information, they prefer the exaggerations over the factual report: After all, their job is to divert the
public's attention from the fact that their economy is history, and that they'll soon have bigger problems
than they ever before would have imagined, and there's nothing like a nice juicy scandal in order to make
people feel better about themselves and their System, especially a scandal about the most hated and
despised groups of people of all: the "SEX CULTS."
According to them, my wife is a prostitute, and I'm a pimp who sends her out to get money whenever we're
broke. That's just the way we do things in the Family - according to the media. And that's pretty much as
certain as the fact that we descended from the monkeys or that a bunch of carpet-knife swinging Muslim
extremists perpetrated 9/11, and the list of "facts" goes on and on, that makes up the modern Western
world view of our society in the 21st century.
Unless you happen to pay a closer look at the details, instead of just swallowing whatever gossip you hear,
or whatever mantras you're being fed from the mainstream machinery of propaganda.
Facts, for example, like the one that it is an excommunicable offense for full-time Family members to have
any sexual contact with outsiders since around 1986. The problem is, how can you practice prostitution if
you're not allowed physical contact with anyone outside the narrow circle of the full-time membership of
your congregation?

Granted, the beliefs of the Family are generally a little more open-minded and permissive than the average
church's, some of which even deny their members the right to re-marry once they've been divorced. And
there have been times we went a little wild on some of our liberties. But those days are long gone.
It's also true that we have some "weird" beliefs other churches don't share, like spirit helpers, etc., and we
vehemently refuse to believe that God stopped speaking and revealing things to His people 2000 years
ago when John the Disciple finished writing the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible.
But that still doesn't make us a New Age cult, just because we might believe in some similar things some
New Agers do. In fact our faith is probably more fundamentally based on the Bible than that of the average
members of modern congregations and churches, including the Catholic Church.

While far from perfect, in my opinion, the Family is the closest thing in existence to the Early Church, the
followers of Christ during the first 3 centuries before Christianity became an established religion: a time
during which Christians were labeled a sect, suffered relentless persecution, lived communally, did not
worship in any temples or church buildings, and basically taught as Jesus taught them, that in order to be a
disciple, one had to renounce his earthly possessions and become a messenger for the Cause of Christ -
pretty much all attributes that also apply to (full-time membership of) the Family.

Jesus said in His famous and often-cited so-called "sermon" on the mount (which wasn't really a sermon,
since it was only directed at His 12 disciples, having left the multitude behind), "Blessed are ye, when men
shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake"
(Matth.5:11).
When was the last time you or your church experienced the "blessing" of persecution and of people saying
all sorts of things about you that weren't true? When was the last time you lived a godly life in Christ Jesus
the only way Paul said this was possible - by suffering persecution?
When was the last time you were in the arena along with the rest of the true believers, facing the lions,
instead of up in the grandstands, along with the mob?

Let me give you a little lesson from something we usually never learn from: history.

The religious authorities who persecuted Jesus suffered a similar fate as the one they had imposed on Him
40 years after they had crucified Him at the hands of the Romans when Jerusalem was besieged and the
temple destroyed.
The kind of persecution and slander you're perpetrating against us today is only a little foretaste of what
you will experience yourselves in due time when the world will be so tired of the hypocrisy that Christianity
today stands for, that it will practically demand of its coming leader to "wage war against the saints" during
the greatest Tribulation this world has ever known (and no, the "saints" it talks about here are not the Jews,
since the only way a person can become a "saint" is through the blood of Jesus Christ; and no, Jesus will
not come before that Tribulation!).

Maybe we're strange, weird, and definitely a little different than you. But try to imagine how the Early
Church must have looked to the by-standers on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit first fell on them,
and they all started speaking in different languages, languages they had never learned! That certainly must
have had a "New Age" slant to it!
Communal living in a more radical form than any Communists ever achieved! No wonder the authorities felt
like they had to stamp out that dangerous sect, and tried to do so for 300 years.
Would you have been among the persecuted, or the persecutors?

That choice is up to you, today, and depends on who you're going to believe. Just remember Jesus' advice
not to judge, because by the same standard with which you will measure others, you will also be weighed.

Time will do the talking, as to whether we're the Real Thing or just another bunch of weirdoes that will sink
into oblivion like so many others before.
But before you're going to believe any lies about us (and alas, there are many), get your own picture.
Don't worry. We're not going to try to seduce you or lure you or hypnotize you. We've got our own problems
and challenges to deal with and don't really need any more.
But we've also found the Answer how to deal with those problems and challenges in Jesus, and that's the
one Thing we can share, just as it was for the Early Church.
Jesus is just as alive and kicking as He was in the Book of Acts. He hasn't stopped talking. The Holy Spirit
is not on vacation. And if you've had extra-marital sex in your life, cheer up! There's hope! That's doesn't
necessarily mean you're going to hell, contrary to what many others will try to make us believe.
On the other hand, if it's the loaves and fishes you're looking for, that some claim we're offering, you might
be a little disappointed. We're not the Sex Cult we're made out to be, just another bunch of radical, sold-out
Jesus Freaks, much to the chagrin of the god of this world, whose time is going to be up soon.
We don't have a nice big church to offer, with comfortable pews and big entertainment, just the truth: God
is alive and still doing the same miracles He did before, and greater ones to come.

June 26, 2009

Idolatry in the 21st Century?

One of the apparent differences between what Christianity during the first centuries of its existence had to
deal with and the problems it faces in the twenty-first century is that during its beginnings, Christians were
surrounded by a large majority of people who sincerely thought that practicing a religion was perfectly
legitimately done by offering incense and sacrifices to carved images of what we now call Pagan deities,
be it their Greek versions of Zeus, Apollos, Aphrodite, etc., or their Roman or Babylonian counterparts.
One of the debates that kept St. Paul and his brethren busy, for example, was whether it was alright to eat
food that had been offered to idols, maybe similar to the way we would wonder whether we should allow
our teenage son or daughter to attend a rock concert of a questionable act that has been known to
promote sodomy or witchcraft...

While the carved images of bygone days have long been history, only to be found in museums, I can't help
but wonder sometimes whether we really made that hurdle to overcome idolatry the way we may think we
did...

Christianity wasn't always as enlightened as it is today. When Mohamed came along, he was so disgusted
by Christians bowing down to their statues of Mary and the saints, he swore to wipe that bunch of idolaters
from the face of the earth.
Centuries later Martin Luther felt much like he had to do the same thing, and that Christendom was
anything but a compliment to its Founder, but was content to reform the church, instead of starting a
revolution.

Half a millennium later the majority of practicing Christians seems to have gotten the point that we don't
need any visible, carved images of God or any of His earlier followers in order to worship Him, and idolatry
finally seems to be a problem of the past.

Or at least we got the point that it's pretty dull to worship stuff hewn out of rock.
No, we've become a lot more versatile than that.
Much more innovative.

We figure, we've really got the scoop on the ancient Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, who worshiped
sun, moon and stars, or statues of made-up gods and goddesses, and look down on them for being so
dumb and Pagan...

In a world of talking images remotely controlled by buttons on a magic little tablet in our right, some holy
grail filled with Budweiser or our favorite drink in the other, idols have become a lot more sophisticated and
entertaining than statues hewn out of rock from a time when that's just what a lot of folks earned their living
with (no wonder they called it the "Stone Age"?).
We've got dancing pop stars, athletes, movie demigods and politicians dishing out promises that sound as
glorious as the Promises of God Himself; and if we're not into standing on the sidelines of some other
sucker's parade, we've got a moving, roaring idol in the garage that we spend our weekends polishing, or
some other great achievement and fruit of the sweat of our brow.

Of course, then there are the more pious ones among us, who would never attend a Rolling Stones
concert, not even care for Taylor Swift, but devote our time to listening to the Christian versions of Pop or
Rock music, or attend mass happenings with star preachers pacing from one end of the stage to the other
with the same type of headsets we already adored on Madonna or the Jackson offspring, only in this case
to chime in the Hallelujahs and Amens from the tens of thousands around us at the event... something we
usually don't say when we're at the mall or in school or at work.
After all, there is a time and a place for everything, and the time and place to worship the Lord is Sunday
mornings, or at that other big organized event, but we don't want to trouble our neighbors with our belief
and love for the Lord. It probably wouldn't be the Christian thing to do. In the 21st century.

But sometimes - just sometimes, I'm tempted to wonder how Jesus would fit in to one of those mega
churches with tens of thousands making all that racket about Him, the Good Shepherd Who left the 99 in
the fold in order to find the one lost sheep...
Him, Who didn't have a church to attend, only an occasional synagogue or temple He got kicked out of,
threatened to be stoned to death by His brethren.
Him, Who didn't have a place to lay His head, considering the foxes and birds more blessed in this aspect
than Himself.
Him, Who urged His followers to forsake all their possessions if they wanted to be His disciples and to
become fishers of men.

But you don't become a fisher of men by assembling in huge gatherings to sing songs and listen to
sermons in order to make yourself feel good.
The lost sheep are found on the highways and hedges of this world, and just like Mohamed of old, they're
not very impressed by people worshiping their own "Christian" versions of the very same things the world
around them worships...
They may not be able to tell what the Real Thing is, but they sure know when it ain't.

No, we don't worship stony, graven images anymore, Hallelujah! But are we free from idolatry in this, our
enlightened 21st century? You tell me!

Age of Temptation

July 1, 2009
They used to say that the hardest words to say in any language were "I'm sorry," and that was certainly
true during a time when relationships still played a more significant role in our society, and for a lot of
people it may still be so.

But from the increasing incapability I'm observing in my fellowmen to hold or conduct a relationship
successfully, or, in many cases to even show a glimpse of interest in having one, I'm beginning to suspect
that the hardest words in this new age of Temptation, where the acquisition of possessions, position and
diversion seem to play a much superior role than other human beings to deal with, perhaps the hardest
words to say right now are: "No, thank you!"

We figure that we have to take anything that life offers us.

After all, coincidence has become our god, along with luck, since our whole existence is based on the
theory that we're one lucky shot in an innumerable amount of universes where life happened to find all its
necessary ingredients, and so, if luck happens to hand us an opportunity, we tend to grab it without giving
the consequences much thought.

Maybe it's different in your part of the world, but that's what I'm observing life to be like for much of the
younger generation in Germany at the onset of the 21st century.
Of course, there are always those who seem to be a bit more mature and responsible than the majority of
their peers, but I even observe it with some of us more mature ones, who ought to know better:

There seems to be that in-built mechanism in us that makes us tend to accept a tempting offer, rather than
to decline, even if whatever it is we're getting to enjoy may not all be that good for us in the long run, or the
nature of the opportunity may turn out to be questionable.

Prudence has gone down the drain in this, our age, in which a large deal of our supposed enlightenment
consists of advertisement. After all, you must be enlightened if you can come up with such sophisticated
commercials full of high-tech trickery worth millions of dollars, as we do, just in order to sell other people
our goods!

Well, I've already shared my thoughts on the difference between advertisement and genuine
enlightenment, I think.

But it always seem to get back around to it.

We're being offered so many things from so many different sides, we just about accept it our god-given
duty to accept at least some of them.

That probably shows one difference in strategies between the original advertizer and the Guy he's trying to
imitate: the Original Creator. While God's slogan is, "Quality, not quantity" (as in "many are called, but the
chosen are few,") His opponent goes by the opposite credo. He figures the more garbage he can dish out,
the more of it we're bound to swallow, ruining our taste for quality and rendering whatever discernment we
once might have had for what's the real thing and another cheap fake useless once and for all.
That's because he's getting ready to present us with the ultimate temptation of all, the greatest fake of all
times, his plastic utopia and wonderful new world order, including its new, cashless economic order that all
the bigshots are crying for right now, with himself at the top, and a system definitely too perfect to be real,
and from the looks of it, a lot of people are going to fall for it the way Eve did when he pulled his first stunt
6000 years ago...

We may not have evolved, but adverisement and propaganda have, and all for a good reason. We're all
being prepared for the hour of temptation, "which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon
the earth" (Revelation 3:10), and blessed will be those who have learned to say these hardest of all words,
"No, thank you!"

Come On Down!

July 11, 2009

I vehemently defend God. Because I've had to learn the hard way myself that He indeed knows
better.

Indeed, we deem ourselves extremely sophisticated, highly intellectual and more educated than at
any other time before in history.

Our television sets are the well functioning proof of it right before our eyes; our computers, cars,
airplanes, the achievements of technology...

We invest millions in the scientific explanations of how we got here all by ourselves and billions in
eradicating the less fortunate specimen that weren't evolving quite rapidly enough to make it up to
our economic pinnacle.

Oh, yes, we're smart.

So smart.

A lot of knowledge.

But mostly knowledge that leads to our own personal gain and advantage over others, but never
to happiness.
Knowledge that may lead to money, but never to happiness.

So, if you're satisfied with that, man, go on and have it your way.

And if you think you've got to explain God away in order to soothe your conscience and lull it back
to sleep and keep it in the daydream and illusion that there is no higher power or mind than your
own, well... er... good for you... perhaps.

But when it comes to spreading that type of gospel and militantly waging your war in the name of
your religion of ego, materialism and greed, then I will vehemently defend my God before anyone
to the death.

It may make make perfect sense to all those atheist mini-gods that the mind ought to be the only
thing worthy of worshiping (intellectual narcism?), but when it comes to their imposing that religion
on me and my children and forcing us to bow down to their ugly fake idols, I must vehemently
proclaim "No, thanks!" no matter what rewards they may promise me.
The rewards of success, because you'll finally have joined the mainstream of the way everybody
does it. The reward of acceptance. Of the peace and quiet of finally being left alone because they
don't have to convert me anymore to their religion of self.

But then, I've been down that road, sort of like the Prodigal Son, and I must honestly say, I'm sick
and tired of that pig feed. If you think you must wallow in it, go ahead, but I will refuse, even if I
have to crawl all the way Home on my hands and knees.

I congratulate all those self-infatuated ego-junkies and wish them a happy marriage with their own
mental images of whatever loveliness they perceive themselves to be, but I'd rather have the ugly
reality that Someone Else is the Ruler and Holder of my heart.
Ultimately, that's what all those apparent "independent" "free-thinkers" will also find out, when the
come to the end of the road, for the price of playing god in this life is that the originator of the
"Let's play god" game will be in charge of them, and again, the road they have walked will turn out
to have given them a sense of pride, self-esteem and some sort of satisfaction of that lust for
power, but never happiness.

And if you're really honest, all you relentless ego-worshipers, that's what you really hate the most
about us who dare to take on a different faith: the fact that we're happy, and you, despite all your
feverish efforts and achievements, deep down in your heart know that you're not.

It's not that you couldn't be, if you'd let go of that false, plastic image of yourselves that you
worship, and of the pride and arrogance based on all that you may think you know.

The difference between the knowledge of good and evil is the definition of even such simple
words as "happiness" and "knowledge." The way you define them, they become a hollow shell,
just like all the artifacts that prove to you your "divinity:" your buildings, your vehicles, your multi-
media gimmicks.
In God's dictionary, what you consider "knowledge" would rather spell, "something you may think
you know," and that which you call "happiness" is truly misery, for what greater misery is there
than fake happiness?

But there is such a thing as truth, and the true definition of things, you've just got to come on down
and walk on the ground of a Reality that's greater and deeper than what the human mind can
concoct and fathom, if you have the guts...
Heaven

July 15, 2009

Probably one of the reasons why not many people take the idea of Heaven as their future Home and
destination for the bulk of eternity very seriously is that not an awful lot of information is available abut it,
currently.
After John the Revelator's astounding two final chapters in the Bible that give us some daring information
about the eternal Home of those pilgrims and strangers on earth that the epistle to the Hebrews tells us
every true believer should be, so daring in fact that most of those same believers would not dare to take it
literally, almost two millennia of silence on the subject have left most Christians keeping their feet on the
ground and their minds on earthly matters, rather than looking for that Better Place to come.

There were a few lone voices throughout time, some describing supernatual experiences they've had, and
artists, inspired by the thought of the unfathomable beauty to come, have tried to visualize what expects
the believer in the afterlife.
During the 1980s, the founder of the Family International, David Berg, recruited some of the artists within
his movement to try to put on paper his ideas of the world to come, which were generally more daring than
the contemporary versions of the Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists and the likes, but still - though far from
the actual perfection that expects us, I'm sure - the more accurate illustrations of Heaven that I personally
subscribe to.

I cannot imagine the prudish Heaven that so many conservative Christians seem to settle for in their minds,
that make our unbelieving friends and acquaintances joke, perhaps not altogether unjustifiably, that
"Heaven's okay, but for meeting old friends, there's no place like hell," and similar jokes we've probably all
heard...

No wonder so many Christians occupy themselves with overwhelmingly earthly matters, and when
aproached about the idea of Heaven, often react a bit scared, as if they had no intention of going there any
time soon. After all, down here is where all the action and fun is... isn't it?

Personally, I don't think so. Personally, most of what people consider fun down here, compared to the Real
Thing, is probably comparable to the husks that the Prodigal Son stuffed himself with when herding swine
for a living, compared with the abundance of food he used to enjoy at his father's table...

I actually have a hard time understanding why most of my fellow-believers seem to be so gaga about this
world, and don't seem to want to waste a second thought on Heaven.
Heaven seems to be okay for old people, or for those who know they're soon going to die, but it hardly
seems to be the Goal that most of my brethren have set for their journey, unless they're keeping it a big
secret.

That's why I'd like to make Heaven a little more palatable and real by whatever humble means available to
me for the time being, most of which are restricted to words, for now, since I'm not a gifted artist, nor a
wealthy film-producer, rendering my own personal version of "Heaven Can Wait" or "Made In Heaven" or
similar previous attempts to give us a glimpse of the bright side of the afterlife.

Of course, there's that other place, too, but others have taken it upon themselves to scare us into Heaven
by scaring the hell out of us with their tales of Hell, so, I'd rather keep on the sunny side of things for now.
After all, it seems there is more preaching about Hell than Heaven.
If we can't make Heaven sound desirable enough for people to want to go there, I guess all we've got left is
the attempt to scare them with stories about the other place that will make them not want to go there.

But I'd like to create a vision of Heaven that varies a little from the vague, conservative and prudish version
that seems to fail so utterly to incite anyone's interest and desire to ever want to go there. Let's face it, our
generation, and probably even more so the one after us, is probably the biggest bunch of hedonists and
fun-junkies to ever have walked this globe, and I can only assume that the Devil is pulling out all his big
guns and best "Pleasure Island" features he can in order to make God look like the loser - at least in the
minds of those who don't know any better and have never had a taste of Heaven, nor a glimpse of what
Heaven is really like.

For starters, let's begin with a statement that most people will probably find shocking. If there's one
attribute that Heaven has not been described as to the degree that in my opinion it should have, apart from
all the usual ones, such as "wonderful," beautiful," etc, it would be sexy. Not in any nasty, dirty, sinful or
pornographic way, much less associated to any sort of the manifold perversions that have attached
themselves to the entire theme of sex these days, but nonetheless, undescribably, sincerely, purely and
authentically sexy.

If this begins to bust your former concepts of Heaven, then I'm succeeding, although I admit, it must
probably be hard for you to fight the fear that I'm trying to lead you up some wicked, sinful path here,
because we've all been drilled to the point of insanity that sex and sin are practically one and the same
thing, which I have dared to challenge formerly, as did the aforementioned David Berg...

If God's first commandment ever uttered to man was not "Thou shalt be good," or "Pray and be holy," but
"Be fruitful and multiply," in other words, "make love," and there was nothing whatsoever wrong with nudity
until the serpent made its debut in paradise to introduce his advertisement for his idea of "fun," then we
must assume that God is not prudish, but indeed, - and I'm perfectly aware of how many people will hate
me for saying this - a sexy God.
And His Habitat will look accordingly, quite different from the usual Jehovah's Witnesses' portrayals of
people roaming Heaven clad in 20th century business apparel.

I'm not saying that all people ever do in Heaven is have sex, although I would boldly defend the statement -
contrary to some - that what they won't do is never have any, but to say the least, interaction between the
sexes in Heaven is infinitely more pleasant than it is currently down here, with all the usual
misunderstandings and misconceptions about each other gone for good.
Jesus said that nothing is hid that shall not be revealed, and I believe there is total openness and honesty
in Heaven with no need to cover up and nothing to hide. Probably also retrospectively, and in regard to
incidents of the past. It's my personal conviction that our current history from Eden to Armageddon will
serve as invaluable source of education for future citizens of God's Kingdom, and not only will we be able
to explore Napoleon and Mussolini's moments of glory or lack thereof, but perhaps we might even gain a
little more insight into some of the more intricate, perhaps even delicate bits of not-so-well-know history,
according to each one's personal scope of interest.
Some, for instance, might get a real kick and inspiration out of re-living the scene of Janet Soskice's
conversion under the shower as a philosophy student in the 70s in 3D, with the esteemed philosopher's
consent, naturally...
Or to view on Heaven-TV what it was like for the first, most perfect (and not ape-like at all) couple in Eden,
before Satan convinced them that it certainly would be more appropriate to wear clothes...

But "sexy" isn't the only unusual attribute I'd give Heaven, that would make the future citizens of Hell turn
red with envy - especially since the boss in that place doesn't seem to be fond of God's original
commandment, at all, and many who are looking forward to a party in hell will probably experience the
disappointment of their (after-)lives.

"Adventurous" is another one that probably wouldn't fit many people's current concept of God's Capital. But
that's probably because God Himself is only reduced to the few fractions of imagination and knowledge
they have about Him based on the meager interest they have shown Him throughout their busy lives.

Maybe some just want to be surprised, as I'm sure they will.

Anything we enjoy on earth is merely a shadow and a poor counterfeit version of the Real Thing waiting for
believers There.

"Treckies" will probably finally be able to experience the Real Thing and explore the galaxies that the
Creator certainly did not only create to leave us all puzzled...
After all, the first description of a U.F.O. or "space ship" in history is found in the Old Testament's book of
Ezekiel...

And, of course, man's oldest dream, that he has finally learned to realize during the last century, of flying, is
finally enjoyed without any technical and costly gimmicks nor any risks involved. After all, we have this
much solid information from John: "There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain" (Rev.21:4), which already sounds like all the reasons in the world I need for
wanting to go there, since I was never the masochistic, melancholic nor death-loving type.

Another tidbit about our Future Home from St. John is the promise that we'll be like Jesus - in other words,
perfect, and that will be quite a welcome change, indeed, from the "perfection" we've enjoyed so far...

But if God is only twice as merciful as some of the fire and brimstone preachers portray Him - perhaps for
fear that there won't be room enough for them in Heaven if they'd let too many people in - we might even
meet some old sinners like ourselves who made it there by His grace, and in spite of their earthly
imperfections, and among them many of the famous people whose work we appreciated during our life-
time, not to mention all the really greats that we never even heard of that will blow our minds.
And there won't just be tons of cool - or rather, hot people - but also angels and other heavenly beings that
the Bible describes here and there...

Those who love sports will probably be able to enjoy a large new variety of acrobatics possible with their
new immortal bodies...

The philosophically inclined will be able to benefit from a wealth of resources unfathomable by our earthly
standards...

Just a few ideas to whet your appetite and make you reconsider if you thought that Heaven was going to
be boring. As one of the prettiest women alive once said, "Only idiots get bored," and I'm just about 100%
certain that there won't be anymore of those in that wonderful Tomorrow...
Inflation of Life

July 21, 2009

A life isn't worth much these days. A Muslim life, that is. I, as a Christian, may - and perhaps must- say
that.

While the stabbing to death of a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German courtroom by one of the millions of
Stalin's souvenirs that are waiting to let loose their version of "Helter Skelter" on the European population
evoked a minuscule fraction of coverage in the German press that a Jewish or "Christian," or simply non-
Muslim victim would have eked out, American war heroes make a sport of bombing Afghan weddings and
paying relatives of the victims 2000 bucks for each victimized child, the "most moral army" in the world
seated in the Promised Land explains to the world why it's totally legitimate to kill Palestinian civilians in
order not to risk the life of an Israeli soldier.

Relatives of American victims of war receive a fifty-fold sum of what Afghan (or Pakistani) relatives of
victims are paid off with, by the way.

Slavery may have been abolished (although I seriously doubt it when I watch the masses trot to their
working places and back every day), but the value system of human life is till intact.

On the slave market of the 21st century, the price tag on an American reads "100.000$ (delivered in oak)."

An Afghan or Pakistani child: "2000$ (plighwood)."

An Egyptian woman and her unborn child: "3 lines on page 5."

A homosexual American pop star and child abuser: Front page coverage and more pages and pages on
every Western tabloid, magazine and online news service for weeks in a row.

An Israeli soldier: "1000 Palestinean pairs of eyes and sets of teeth, just to make sure one of ours won't
lose his."

Ah, it's great to live in such an enlightened, modern and democratic society, isn't it? It makes my chest
swell with pride, the way we proclaim freedom from shore to shore in our own special, little, Western way.

After all, it must be pride, or simply unfathomable arrogance that enables so-called "evolved" human
beings with half a brain to come up with such an intricate system of values.

It's true, I have my own issues with Muslims. Since they have become the epitome of "Terror" under the
Bush administration (or was any non-Muslim ever attacked during that glorious "War on Terror?") they've
had to go on the defensive.
They've started reading the Koran in order to find out what they're being haunted for, and unlike the
hundreds of thousands of lukewarm Christians lulling themselves to sleep on their pews, they have some
fire and devotion for their religion. That is, of course, very bothersome and aggravating for our society of
pew warmers.
I would also prefer to see them all converted to my own Christian faith, (although I'd hate to see another
billion of pew warmers, to be honest).
But at the current rate, I'm afraid our method of enlightenment isn't cutting the cake.

In fact, if I were a Muslim, I wouldn't trust a Christian any further than I could throw my 40 year old pick up
truck, not to mention members of other Western "enlightened" religions currently on the market.

I guess if you would fall into my country, kill a million of my people, and then hold a gun to my head and
say, "Join our wonderful, enlightened Western society that is bringing freedom and democracy to your
country and your whole bunch of backward pagans," I would reply, "In the name of Allah, shoot!"
But that's just me. The millions around me in my country couldn't care less about what's going on around
them, much less in a far away desert or even in a Berlin courtroom. Maybe that's why I don't really feel at
home in this world, nor am able to eke out the remotest resemblance of patriotic feelings for the life of me.

Which is why my own life probably isn't worth a dime, either, according to the current slave market rates.
I've never been a very good slave, I admit. At least not to Mammon.

But thus is the inflation of life...

None of us knows what they'll be worth tomorrow, or how much they'll be willing to pay for us next year.
I suppose what really matters is not to be found wanting when God pulls out the scales to measure what
our life was really worth, according to His standard, not ours...

Dear Martians!

July 25, 2009

Dear Martians, errr... Aliens... Hail... whatever.

Greetings from us earthlings, yes, the people on planet earth. We've been looking for signs of your
existence for decades and are seeking contact with you, and I just wanted to send you this message, in
case you're out there, because I want at least someone to be honest with you and let you know that we
may not be just as wonderful as we portray ourselves to be.

You see, I find it a bit hypocritical of us to be seeking contact with you, some possibly existing higher
intelligence & more developed or "evolved" species, and pretend how nice we are, when communications
are pretty lousy here, among ourselves.

Our favorite means of communications, and the one we invest most of our resources in, in fact, what we
call the best and most "booming business", is weapons. It all started with clubs and sticks thousands of
years ago, then swords and catapults to hurl rocks at each other's castles, but we've become way more
sophisticated in our modern means of "communications" since then.

Nowadays, if we don't like someone, or say, a whole country, we don't even have to go there ourselves
anymore to eliminate them, but we can send them our greetings and messages via remote controled
drones (small airplanes, which are like toy versions of your space ships). The "message" usually consists
of some bombs or missiles that are being shot at "suspicious" gatherings of people, such as weddings (a
human mating ritual), etc.

The leaders of our nations then pay 2000 Dollars for every child they sent their greetings to, which
basically says, "Be removed from this earth" to their relatives, the ones who didn't get a message yet.
Dollars are pieces of paper with numbers on. They are our second favorite means of communication. We
give them to each other in exchange for things, like weapons (our favorite means of communication as I
explained earlier), food, houses, cars (a primitive means of transportation), but also airplanes, TVs (a one-
way communication device our leaders use to keep us happy and tranquilized), along with things that will
makes us stay happy and content, like alcohol and drugs, or even physical affection from other humans.

Of course, we also have other means of communication that we use for exchange of words, but usually
they're not really used to communicate anything essential or important, just to keep us busy chatting and
ignoring certain things, like the decreasing value of our dollars, or the wedding message drones, or the fact
that we only sell food to special people.
The others have to die a slow, cruel death of starvation, even though there would be plenty of dollars to
feed them.
But the people with all the dollars and wedding message drones think that if we feed them, there won't be
enough left for themselves.

So, dear aliens, this is just to let you know that I don't think that our planet earth would be a very safe place
for you to come right now.

If we're already being this mean to each other, you can only imagine what we might do to you, unless, of
course, you would turn out to be way stronger than us...

If we should have aroused your curiosity, though, maybe you could pay us a visit in secret, and we can tell
you some more about our strange race.
I also have a few pretty cool friends who wouldn't turn you in or sell you over to the weapons and dollars
people.

There once used to live a Man on our planet Who was quite different from the way most people are today,
and instead of messages that said "Be removed from this earth," He gave a message of love, and allowed
Himself to be removed for us. His name was Jesus. He said He would come back some day to pick us all
up to a better Home, a City in the sky that's quite big.

Anyway, maybe you can come visit us when Jesus is back, in our new heavenly Home, and when the earth
will be all cleaned up from weapons and dollars and stuff, and there will be no more wedding drone
messages, and all the people will be given enough food.

In the meantime, I wish you all the best in your endeavor of exploring the more primitive species in the
universe like us, and hope for all of us that Jesus is going to come back soon so that we're going to be a
nicer people to meet, when you'll finally get to know us.

"God bless you," as some people say down here, that means, may the Creator of the universe be good to
you, and may He keep you from bad people and wedding message drones, dollars and starvation.

Hope to see you soon.

Sincerely,

yours,

Dave
August 2, 2009
The Proper Way?
I believe that one of the main lessons mankind will learn from history (unfortunately most likely in
retrospect) is that they underestimated the extent to which they're being manipulated by God's
Enemy.
People usually tend to overestimate their own capacities and wisdom, and thus we fail to
recognize early enough how easily we're allowing ourselves to be fooled by the Devil.

One favorite device of the enemy of our souls is that he likes to trick us into seeing things
differently than God does.
For example, in God's eyes it was perfectly alright for Adam and Eve to be walking around stark
naked in the Garden of Eden. Along came Lucy with his old attitude of, "I'll show'em the way thing
ought to be run around this place" and changed their minds about that, to the extent that they
even figured it would make sense to hide from God...

If we're really kidding ourselves into thinking we have "evolved" into something brighter during the
past 6000 years since that event, it just goes to show another classic example of what's stated
above.

Take for example the way we view different life-styles than our own, established, Western, widely
recognized status quo, like that of polygamist faith communities such as the Fundamental Latter
Day Saints who made headlines a while ago, or - much closer to my own home: the life-style of
the Family International.
The general image that is being conveyed about the life-style of such faith communities is so odd,
so grossly different from the average, that one can't help but look down on "such people" with a
frown, patting themselves on the shoulder for doing things "the proper way."

One quote I specially like from the Family's founder David Berg is from his epistle, "Did God Make
a Mistake?" - "To hell with the proper way!"

(Of course, how well a radical non-conformist and iconoclast like Berg would be received in
today's version of the movement he began, is another question, but I suppose it's one of those
mysteries in history how it seems to be reserved for some that membership of the outfit they
birthed would have been possible exclusively as its founder...)

The problem with what we call the "proper way," the way that the vast majority has chosen, the
great and wide broadway we trot down once we have chosen to enter in through the wide gate our
leaders train us to pursue, is that it may seem right to us, but the end of it spells out death and
destruction for millions of victims who happened to stand in our way, be it the "Amerikan Way," the
"American Dream" or the "Western life-style" or simply the way we think it ought to be done.

The question is, how does God see things? And what will the history books of the future say about
those who followed the "Führer" down the "proper way," as opposed to the strange little sects that
dared to buck the tide?
And where will you have stood? Will you have been one of the collaborators that will largely have
to be ashamed of their conduct ("We simply followed orders") or will you be proud to have been
one of the few that supported the Resistance?

Perhaps the citizens of the final World Empire, namely God's Kingdom, will find out to their shock
and awe that those weird communal life-styles of those weird sects and cults we all looked and
frowned upon and thanked God every day that we weren't like them, turns out to be much closer
to the way God had actually intended for people to live than the "each his own," "dog eat dog" life-
style that we've come to consider "normal" in our pseudo-enlightened modern society...

I was just talking to another "veteran from the 80s" last night, about how different things were back
then. Nowadays, hardly any young folks move into communes anymore, because they're so used
to having their own quarters with their own TV and their privacy, they're simply not capable of
living socially anymore, the way people had to or simply chose to less than 3 decades ago.
Maybe it's still different in your part of the world, but the trend, generally, is downhill, as far as
"social" goes.

People who live in communes are weird, period. Is the new consensus.

"It's wicked to be naked."

Does something ring a bell?

August 14, 2009

Not of this World

There is a fine but clear distinction between what the New Testament refers to as the “world” in
some places, such as John 3:16 (”For God so loved the World… etc.”), and in others, such as
John 15:19, 1John 2:15-17 and James 4:4.

The first refers to humanity at large, and we are told that God loves it.
The second refers to what some people like to call “the System,” the establishment, or – some
movie freaks like myself – as “the Matrix,” and we are told not to love it, or else we may become
God’s enemy!

What most Christians seem to refer to as “the World” in that second sense, is non-believers.
A favorite group to be included in that category these days are Muslims, for example. Strangely
enough, not the Jews, even if for the sole reason that their Holy Book makes up the first two thirds
of the Christian Bible.

Some atheists are also included in that group of the common Christian concept of “the World,” (if
a believer is willing to admit that Jesus, James and John must have referred so any sort of people
at all in those above mentioned Scriptures), although – in the case of Christians in the U.S. this
doesn’t apply to American atheists.
Jews and Americans enjoy a special status and are somehow exempt from the mystery group of
people that might possibly constitute “the World” that Jesus and His disciples admonished us to
stay away from.
However, taking a closer look at Jesus’ life and the Early Church history, we may discover quite a
different picture than that common concept of “them Hottentots down yonder” as referring to “the
world.”
If we take that dusty Bible off the shelf and actually start reading the Gospels instead of settling for
that weekly sermon with a few Bible verses tossed in, we begin to see that the sort of people
Jesus was actually having the most trouble with were not the Romans (pagans and foreigners),
but the religious community of His own people!

Gulp!

He said to His disciples, “He that receives you, receives Me, and he that receives Me receives
Him that sent Me.”

In other words, those He referred to in John 15:19 must have included or consisted of those who
received Him not.

Was Jesus in fact referring to the religious establishment – among others? Folks living in our own
country, that we adore every night on TV? Could it be possible that they might be part of “the
world” that His true disciples are not supposed to be part of?

After all, it’s hardly a temptation to fall head over heels for the Hottentots we have nothing in
common with.

It must have been tough for Jesus and His disciples to be rejected by the very ones they were
supposed to have the most in common with (same God, same religion, same background and
culture, and yet worlds apart).
It was still tough for them half a century later when Christians were banned from any synagogue in
the world.

And that was before Paul got soft and gave it one last shot at converting his own “chosen” people,
& went back to Jerusalem against the explicit warning from the Lord that this was going to be his
death, and it was, eventually.

So, perhaps Jesus wasn’t talking about the Hottentots and pagans, after all, when He was talking
about “the World.” (But maybe they’re included in “the World” that God loves, in John 3:16, and
we’re supposed to love them likewise?)…

“The World” that neither Jesus nor His true followers have never been a part of is the large
majority of those who will simply always, throughout history refuse to receive those whom He has
truly sent.
It may be hard to recognize His true disciples sometimes, because they may have broken some of
the establishment’s rules, similar to the way Jesus and His original disciples did in disrespecting
the Sabbath and associating with prostitutes and other outcasts.
They will even make mistakes and commit sins, the way God’s people have throughout history,
since claims of “infallibility” are reserved for the untouchables and merchants of forgiveness of the
established false religionists, and the world will come out to point their fingers at them, only to find
themselves poking their finger right in God’s eye, and hear Him repeat, “He that is without sin
among you, let him cast the first stone!”

Maybe what Jesus referred to as “the World” isn’t defined as much by anyone’s “religion,” as
one’s reception of His true emissaries and ambassadors.

As far as I can see, the established religious System still rejects, refuses and even persecutes the
true disciples of Christ just as they have always done.
I guess it’s something difficult to relate to unless one has made that type of experience himself.

August 21, 2009

Days of Cairos
Obviously, creationists don't believe in macroevolution, the process that is supposed to have
created created every single species from one little cell, and less than that, primordial soup, with
nothing as its aid but billions of years.
There is, however, something about micro evolution, the process by which are derived the
manifold variations of a species or kind, such as we find in horses, cats or dogs, etc., that give us
a clue about the process or development of creation, namely that changes and adaptations in the
matrix of creation do take place, such as the change from herbivorous pre-flood animals into
carnivorous ones, equipped with the claws and fangs to become hunters, instead of the
peaceable vegetarians they once used to be, according to the Bible.

I'm speculating that another, perhaps invisible but nonetheless tangible change took place in
creation, presumably during the moment of the Fall of Man, when Adam and Eve changed pretty
much everything through their introduction of (the knowledge of good and) evil into the world, as I
have expounded on repeatedly.

It's really only a speculation and a guess, but at least I'm democratic enough about it not to insist
on teaching it to your kids every morning in school, and on every single nature documentary they'll
ever watch, unlike the colleagues from the evolution department...

My guess is that something happened to time on that eventful day when the first human couple
chose to disobey God.
For one thing, there is no physical means to define a "day" during the first days of creation, since
the dry land only appeared on Day Three, the stars (including the sun that our planet supposedly
revolves around) on Day Four, and unless we assume that God simply called a "day" one
revolution of the empty and dark void that the earth represented in its rough, watery stages
around some fictive axis, there isn't much else to go by.
It's not really hewn in rock that one day must have consisted of the same 24 hours back then that
it does today.

If Prof. Dr. Werner Gitt from Braunschweig, Germany is correct and there are really two different
types of time, namely Chronos, our current time frame, and Cairos, the eternal "time" scope of
God (the kind where one day is like a thousand years and thousand years like one day), then it
might explain how Adam accomplished naming all the animals on Day 6 and still came up with the
necessary energy for the first date in history, presuming that his clock or schedule was still tuned
to Cairos, and Chronos, which will come to an end at the time of the Second Coming of Christ, by
the way, was only installed after the fateful bite from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil...

If you're one of the 99.9% of the world's population who couldn't care less about these things,
never mind; it's not as if such matters were as vital to your information as algebra, Latin or
Nintendo, but it might be interesting to know that not only there once was a time without stress
and anxiety, but we're also going toward a new, in fact, eternal period of Cairos, the time scape of
God's eternal Now.

You may not have time right now to occupy your mind with such trivial matters, but you will then.
Plenty.
August 28, 2009
Zeitgeist Refuted
I've already written some things before on the topic of why people like the makers of the "Zeitgeist" movie
are off about throwing Jesus into one pot with all the ancient religions
and depicting Christianity or religion per se as one of the great evils the Illuminati are using to enslave
mankind.

What they don't realize is that all the ancient religions and mythologies of the Egyptians, Assyrians,
Babylonians, Greeks and Romans were largely based on Astrology, and what the stars were telling them
since the beginning of time, and that was a message that clearly pointed to a Savior Who was to come.
The difference is, while the ancient religions only picked up on that story told in the stars, it actually
happened and was fulfilled in Jesus.

Perhaps that's what John meant when he said wrote, "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God" (1John 4:2).

All the other religions worshiped similar deities, based on the information they had gotten from the stars
(see Psalm 19), but Jesus made the difference by putting flesh to that story.

I can only urge believers to overcome their fright of astrology and buy themselves the book "The Heavens
Declare the Glory of God," which explains how the Gospel was truly written in the stars in every
perceivable language, long before it was fulfilled in Jesus, which would give them much greater
understanding of the orgins of the Pagan religions that were only foreshadowing the story of Jesus, which
again would help them to debunk all the countless Zeitgeist disciples on the Internet claiming they know
something because they've seen "Zeitgeist."

The Devil never gives you any truth without getting you to swallow a big lie along with it, and while the
information in Zeitgeist about the NWO hierarchy may be accurate, the makers' stance on religion is totally
off because they're ignorant of this one simple fact.

Of course, it doesn't exactly help that Christians are so scared stiff of astrology that they don't even want to
hear what their own book has to say about it.
It doesn't help either, that they're still killing their enemies by the millions, instead of loving them, as Jesus
told them to.

But one wrong doesn't make another right, and one lie doesn't make another one right, either. Christians
may be off on a lot of things, including who the good guys and the bad guys are in the mideast (which
doesn't exactly help the onlooking seeker, either, to find out what on earth is the truth), but so are the
Zeitgeist makers, and in their case, it seems as if their mind is simply made up with a theory that comes in
very hand for all the millions of people who don't really welcome the idea of having to deal with the
Presence of an Almighty Creator in their conscience, either, along with the Evolution hogwash.

They may know that there are culprits who want to enslave them, but at the same time they let the same
culprits fool them into believing that the only Guy Who could ever save them out of this mess was a fraud
that they cooked up...

People always underestimate the Enemy of their souls, and the extent to which he can lie the blue out of
the sky and make up stories just in order to fool and confuse us.

Now, how do I know that the Devil is such a talented liar? From Jesus. See, contrary to the gruesome
Zeitgeist fairy-tale of "there is no good whatsoever, except perhaps in ourselves, and nothing and no one is
going to come and save us," there IS a God, and He loves us, and there IS a Way, a Truth and a Life apart
from the Matrix the Devil has been cooking up for us.

All you need is to want that Way Out.

P.S.:
Upon closer inspection of Zeitgeist and the ideology behind it, with the aid of the fairly good answer to it,
"Zeitgeist Refuted," it turns out that its makers appear to be less than just innocently erratic, but actually
from the camp of the "enlightened ones" themselves, trying to turn up their blinding light a bit more in order
to stop anyone from seeing anything, much less the truth, even if they had to admit to a few facts about
themselves that are already widely known and available on the web, anyway...

It all goes back to making Christianity the culprit, and Jesus and His follwers the bad guys and
conspirators, one of the oldest tricks of the Devil, accusing his enemies of his own crimes... Which is also
something Keith Truth says in his video exposing the New Age movement.
One thing about the Christian Zeitgeist debunkers, though: they shoudn't be too early to dismiss the
comparisons between Christ and the sun, since God evidently created certain physical things to illustrate
spiritual truths (a point I'm trying to make in my eBook project "The Deeper Meaning of Everything"). There
are many Scriptures that would back up that comparison, about the Lord God being a "Sun and shield,"
and "Unto you that fear My name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings."

There is nothing wrong with the sun, or its representing to an extent what God is like to us. Of course, a
whole different story is worshiping the creation rather than the Creator...
Why not just enjoy the creation and thank our Creator for it? If we as Christians had done that, allowing our
fellow-humans to do the same, a whole lot less people might be upset at us and bent on destryoing
Christianity altogether...

Besides that, the Antichrist has got to come as predicted and wage his war on the saints, and Christians
ought to get ready for it, instead of always being scared of the truth...

Related Links:

http://forum.conspiracycentral.net/lofiversion/index.php/t24047.html

http://www.nicenetruth.com/home/2008/10/my-critique-of.html

http://www.savethemales.ca/zeitgeist_movie_illuminati_exp.html

August 31, 2009

The Spirit of Antichrist

I used to read that passage about "the spirit of antichrist" in 1John and wonder, "Hmm, doesn't make much
sense to me. Who would in their right minds dispute that Jesus was actually a historical figure, and that He
lived as a real man of flesh and blood?" Well evidently there ARE people who do, and they're actively
working on spreading their doctrine and spirit of antichrist, which they term "Zeitgeist," the spirit of our time.

Well, as opponents of the spirit of antichrist and militant adherents to the Spirit of God, we're supposed to
resist and fight that move and counter their flood of lies with the truth.
I'm afraid, though, that the usual attempts of denying the similarities between Jesus and the pagan deities,
which apparently give the zeitgeist or antichrist movement its momentum won't do.

Christians will have to pull themselves together and realize once and for all that God is stronger than the
Devil and face their ridiculous fear of astrology and the stars, as if it had been Satan who put them in the
sky to tease Christians with them: "Don't get too close, or they'll bite you!"
If we're going to combat the spirit of antichrist in the zeitgeist movement efficiently, we're going to have to
face the fact that it was God, not the Devil, Who created the stars, and created them for a purpose.
We're going to have to face the fact, that it was also God Who created the star signs, and that the word
"zodiac" is not evil or witchcraft, but actually originally appears in its Hebrew form, "Mazzaroth," in the
Bible, namely in the book of Job, and means nothing else than "the path."
Furthermore can we not deny the fact that God created certain things in the physical in order to illustrate
spiritual truths, and the sun and its relation to the stars are one of them. Sexual intercourse, by the way, is
another one of them, and not the epitome of evil, as some Christians still seem to believe.
We have to realize that our God is not a wimp who created all these things in order for us to let the Devil
run off with them and rake in all the credit for them.
I've even read websites of Christians who teach that candles are evil.
Well, what are you going to do when the lights go off in New York for the last time, brother? Sit in darkness
because you're scared to light a candle?

Of course, these people are scared stiff of any kind of symbolism, whether it be to depict Jesus as a lion,
as in the movie "The Lion, the With and the Wardrobe," and the star signs? Oh my God, they must have
crept right outta hell. When in reality, nothing could be further from the truth, and if they'd just read their
own Book, they'd find out.
Just because there are a few Scriptures in which it warns of the pagan astrologers and soothsayers, or the
sort of people who are trying to figure out if you're going to be lucky at the races tomorrow by your
horoscope doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bath water.
Of course, I'm not as naive to believe that I'm going to change that sort of people's minds. But there may
be others for whom there is hope, and who manage to ignore the "Thou shalt be scared stiff" dogma drilled
into them for long enough to recognize God as the Big Thing in and around it all, the One Who created it all
for His glory, and then develop the guts to grab what was rightfully ours to begin with and knock the Devil
and his slimy cohorts for a lop with it.
We're not too scared to kill of innocent muslims by the millions, but when it comes to facing our real foe, all
of a sudden we're not that brave anymore, are we?
Well, it's always easier to hate and kill a foe far away in a foreign country that you didn't know much about
and you never cared for much in the first place, than facing that treacherous foe who talks and looks like
you right in your own country, waving the same flag, only that the stuff he's saying is going to be the New
World Order credo of tomorrow, and while we ignore and even sympathize with those friendly attempts of
these traitors to poison us with their doctrine, destroying the faith of millions around us, we consentingly
keep paying our taxes in order for more muslims to be killed.
At least the Muslims believe that Jesus was a real person, and they even believe that He's going to come
back.
But that's not what's going to be taught in the public schools of tomorrow, if tomorrow isn't already today.
It's definitely not what kids are being taught via the tube in our oh-so "Christian" nations, nor the books we
buy them by the dozens.
As long as they don't talk about star signs, they must be okay... Get real!

This is another aspect that Christians have been totally deceived about: next to the dogmas that sex is sin,
war is okay, God blesses the rich, God stopped talking 2000 years ago and Jesus will come back before
the Great Tribulation, here's another one: Star signs are of the Devil! And it turns out there is a good
reason why the Devil wants you to believe that! Because if you wouldn't, he wouldn't have a chance to
make people believe that Jesus never lived as an actual person, because you'd know that all those
similarities between Him and all those ancient pagan "deities" are only because the deities were based on
what the ancients had read in the stars!

I can only assume that one principal reason so many Christians don't want to know better about these
things is because if they'd have to admit that God is actually in all those aspects of life that they'd prefer to
exclude Him from, it would mean they'd have to let Him play a far more significant role in their lives than
they presently are willing to allow Him.

So many things are actually not the Devil's fault, but ours, because we let him.
If the spirit of antichrist takes over the world, then it's probably going to be just because too many
Christians were plain too scared of the truth.

Did you know that fear is a sin? God commands us several hundred times throughout the Bible not to be
afraid, but to trust in Him. So, if we're not supposed to fear the Devil himself, nor our enemies, then how
much less should we be scared of parts of God's creation that He would actually like us to use for His
glory?
The Devil’s Motto: World Conquest Through Stupidity

September 1, 2009

A few years ago I bought a second hand edition of “Widerstand und Ergebung,” a book Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, (a Christian minister during the 3rd Reich in Germany who was part of the Resistance
and was sentenced to death by Hilter himself a few weeks before the war ended), consisting of
letters he wrote in prison, where he was awaiting his execution.

I soon came upon the statement, “Stupidity is a greater threat to good than evil itself.” That struck
me as something strange for a Christian to say. After all, aren’t we all supposed be nice and
politically correct with each other and our fellowman?

But the more I live to see and learn in this world, the more I realize just how right he was.

Obviously, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was referring to the way the majority of the German people
unquestioningly obeyed orders and tolerated and collaborated with what became known as some
of the grossest atrocities in history.

Unfortunately, due to the often cited fact that we never learn from history, history also has a
tendency to keep repeating itself.
Apart from the ever increasing deliberate dumbing down of not only America, but pretty much also
the rest of the so-called illuminated world I’ve addressed repeatedly, I’m just saying: Galileo.

What in the world did the church (as in Christendom) ever learn from that episode of having to
apologize centuries later for having been so dumb?

Apparently exactly the same amount that we always learn from such incidents.

Exactly.

Nothing.

It’s not that knowledge or wisdom wouldn’t be available. In fact, they’re both in the list of the 9 gifts
of the Holy Spirit (gifts as in, available for the asking), which Christendom at large has determined
were only for those of God’s children who happened to live during the first century. Perhaps St.
James was also exclusively addressing first century believers when he wrote that if anyone should
lack wisdom, they should ask God for it.
But then, if God is supposed to have stopped talking altogether around that same time, I guess it’s
easiest to just repeat and believe and “know” whatever we’re being told to accept.

If knowledge and wisdom (along with 7 other pretty useful gifts) are weapons that God has
equipped us with in our battle against evil, I’m afraid we’re losing the war because the vast
majority of “Christian soldiers” don’t even know that they exist, much less know how to use them.
(Coming to think of it, most of them aren’t even aware that there’s a war going on, much less
fighting for the right side).

So, we’re just standing by and watch as the Devil, along with his spirit of antichrist (aka “Zeitgeist”)
conquers the world by telling them that Jesus was nothing but a myth, largely because we fail to
arm ourselves with sufficient knowledge that could easily debunk such diabolical claims.
But then, most Christians also believe their preachers’ fairy-tales that they’re going to be whisked
out of this world before any of that evil stuff might ever happen, so why put unnecessary strain on
the brain when we still need that thing to enjoy the football game?

The only problem is that the Bible itself predicts that the Antichrist will wage war on the saints (no,
not the Jews, since they refused the deal that would have them sanctified), and is already
marshaling his forces, so, how is that going to happen if all the saints have gone marchin’ in
already?

I’m afraid there are just too many things Christians don’t want to know. “Ignorance is bliss” is the
current motto of the game, “So stick me back in the Matrix and give me my steak to enjoy and let
me forget all about this dreadful thing here called reality!”

Unfortunately, that attitude just about drives home perfectly the point of how right on Bonhoeffer
was in the above statement.

The history books of a future under God’s reign may one day prompt their teachers to ask their
students, “What was the most effective weapon Satan used in order to establish his kingdom on
earth before the Lord’s Return?” And the unanimous, though chilling answer will be chorusing,
“Stupidity!!!”

On which side of this war of stupidity against mankind do you stand?

Don’t Underestimate Your Enemy! (Or: How the Saints Lost the War Against
Antichrist and Were Overcome)

September 15, 2009

The first lie we let our enemy tell us was that he didn’t even exist.

Then we allowed him to make us believe that we were really smart, while ever so subtly dumbing
us down via loads of invalid information. We underestimated the deadliest weapon he ever used
against mankind: stupidity.

He hurled at us an irresistible flood of distractions that kept us entertained and busy thinking about
anything but the Cause and Purpose for which God had put us here, in fact, he kept us busy most
of the time doing anything but think at all…
His representatives posed as the type of people we looked up to: the successful, the strong, the
powerful.
We trusted them even when all they did was lie to us.

We underestimated the lengths to which our enemy would go in order to deceive us.
We underestimated his skill at that which he does best: tell lies.

We believed the “evidence” our “scientists” had come up with to prove that we all were mere
results of billions of years of “Evolution,” to the point that we ridiculed anyone who held on to the
original account of Creation, thus strongly limiting the credibility and authority of the tome of
instructions the Creator had left us since the days of old, allowing the gap between ourselves and
Him to widen with each of those “billions of years.”

We truly thought the majority must be right; that so many people could not be wrong about the
same thing – ignoring the advice of the One who came to save us and bring us truth, that we
should not follow the way the majority chooses.
We listened to our enemies’ propaganda and gospel of material gain that not only seemed to
justify our selfish life-style and allowing tens of thousands to starve to death each day in the face
of our oppulence, but also let them trick us into killing millions of innocents whom they labeled
“terrorists,” when in the end they really turned out to be our allies in the Holy War for the one true
God.

We believed the Enemy and his emissaries when they told us that we did not need a Savior but
that we could save ourselves, only to find out that this was the most bitter and poisonous of all
their lies yet.

He came in peacably and with flatteries, by his false peace destroying many. From the beginning
he had us believe that there was no such thing as a (spiritual) war going on, and that he was
going to be friendly, until he turned around, broke the covenant of peace, and fell upon us like a
ravenous lion.

We stood idly by, as his ministers of propaganda and priests of the New World Ideology explained
to the world that our Savior was only a myth, one among many others, and that the usurper was
the true Christ or Messiah that was to come; and because he had brought peace and prosperity
when the world was in chaos, many of us believed him.
And, of course, if we, who should have know better, fell prey to their lies, how much more readily
did the vast unbelieving majority swallow their delusion. When they were told that it was religious
people like us who were to blame for all the crises in the world, and that we were the culprits and
terrorists, they readily joined the man-hunt and persecution of unprecedented scale that ensued.

We allowed the Enemy of our souls to fool us; and accordingly, he overcame us. The battle was
lost, and the whole war would have been lost, had it not been for Him, Who had been destined to
be Victor over all from before the beginning of time, and Who, upon His return, put an end to the
schemings of the deceiver with but one breath from His lips.
Not only did He save us from our deserved punishment for giving in to the Deceiver time and time
again, but He also saved the world from the destruction that had been in the Enemy’s heart to
unleash upon the earth from the beginning.

None of us can say, “Our own arm has saved us.” Only the grace and mercy of our Creator was
great enough to accomplish that. To Him be all glory and praise forever.
Once Upon a Time There Was… Respect

September 18, 2009 by mcdozer

It’s pretty much an open secret that the so-called “terrorist attacks” on the World Trade Center buildings in
New York on September 11, 2001, were staged for various reasons, ranging from economical to political.

One of the primary points on the agenda of the New World Order architects sitting on the Council on
Foreign Relations, is to get rid of cultures that still have well-functioning family structures.

If you don’t believe me that the powers behind the scenes have been working on destroying families on a
massive scale for decades, read up about it on Henry Makow’s websites.

Just as dumb people are much easier to manipulate than smart people (or even better: dumb people who
think they’re smart because their brains are stuffed with a bunch of invalid information), which is the reason
why the Western public school system is such an outrageous mess, and the slime spewed out from the media
such increasingly intolerable garbage, broken families are easier to manipulate than intact ones. “Divide and
conquer” has been the Devil’s slogan from Day One.

So, while we, the “enlightened” and “advanced” Western cultures not only arrogantly look down on other
cultures in which the family structure is still intact, but even spend billions on destroying and killing them
legally under the pretext that they’re all “terrorists” who need our “enlightenment,” the rest of the world –
those parts where the father of the family is actually still the head of the house, laugh their heads off about
us Western wimps who are the living fulfillment of one of the most powerful prophecies in the Old
Testament about the Last Days before Christ’s return:

“As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people, they which
lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths (Isaiah 3:12)”.

Respect is something that has practically gotten lost in the Western, me-first culture, where everyone has
become little ego-worshipers and anyone else only plays second role at best. “First comes me, then the next-
best person promising to cater to my own personal advance and advantage, and then somewhere those folks
who are simply necessary to keep me alive, like my parents and stuff… And forget about the rest of the
world.”

Selfishness and egotism have really become the ruling mindsets and ideologies of this culture, basically
because people have become so alienated from the life, Word and truth of God, that the false “truth” of the
Enemy has taken the place of God’s law in their lives, ruling and ruining them and the entire culture at the
same time.

Nobody wants to be as politically incorrect to speak up against the youth of today. They are the stars of the
show, the rulers of this modern, Western culture, to which the real rulers behind the scenes are trying to get
the “gap nations” to bend.

They strongly resent those cultures in which the parents, and especially the fathers still have the say in the
house, and they’re looking down on them as “backwards” and “underdeveloped,” when the fact is that they
simply haven’t veered as far off from the path God had originally ordained for mankind as those who claim
to be His people.

It’s only since the 20th century and the development of the media, along with the public school system, that
the Devil has found a way to finally enter just about every single household and subvert the weakest link in
the chain, and through them obtain control through the rest of the family.

He undermines the role of the father while at the same time ever boosting the egos of the children, and
stirring up a sense of responsibility and loyalty in the mothers toward the child, rather than her husband.
After all, the husband is nothing but the dumb old pervert who wants to have sex all the time…

It’s our kids who determine what we, their parents, are going to buy, so they have long been the primary
target audience of the mass hypnotists pulling the strings in this 21st century version of “Pinocchio.”

It’s not as if the kids were to blame, since they’re just the victims of the flood of poison unleashed on their
brains via the media and the NWO school curriculum. If you tell a kid often enough that he’s the invincible
master of the universe, he’s going to believe it and act like it.

And since authority is “out,” it would never occur to any of us parents to actually fight for our God-given
position as the head of the family.

You may laugh all you want about Muslims and their “backward” ways, but they’re quite right in returning
the courtesy and laughing about us, too. They may not have the Bible, but at least they’re sticking to what
their holy book says, and refuse to let a bunch of greedy rich men fool them out of their fundamental rights.

It’s true that a lot of abuse has occurred in macho cultures in which women always get the raw end of the
deal. But it’s nothing compared to the abuse, the violence and virtual rape of our entire culture and family
structure that has come to pass by our so-called enlightened Western thinking.

A few days ago in Germany a man was kicked to death by a group of juvenile “masters of the universe”
because he had dared to defend a group of children that was being harassed by them. The people who stood
by did nothing.

Ask any Turk, Albanian, Iraqi, Iranian, Pakistani or Arab you know whether they think that any such
occurrence would even be thinkable in their country.

And then feel free to keep laughing about their underdeveloped culture and keep watching TV!

____

“Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers
have made.

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD
alone shall be exalted in that day.

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is
lifted up; and he shall be brought low

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for
the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it
not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people, they which lead
thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that
put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the Law of the LORD of
hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.”

(Isaiah 2:8, 10-12, 19, 3:9, 12, 5:20, 21, 24)

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

These also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men.”

(2Timothy 3:1-9)

What If?
September 30, 2009

If you were God – the Master, Creator and Ruler of the universe, and you were looking for a handful of a
chosen few from among your creations truly worthy of the privilege to give you a hand at Your ever
increasing job, and if you had a treasure to give to them that was so precious, so rare, that really only a few
could ever obtain it, where would you hide it?

What would you do in order not to make it too obvious and to avoid having masses of people running after
it in pursuit of their own glory and elevation, of even the sheer joy and happiness they knew this prize
would bring?

Wouldn’t you hide it in the most despicable place, among the most ill-reputed of all people, just to make
sure that only those who really meant business were going to find it?

Would you hide it in a mega-church with millions of members and attendees?

Would you hide it in the Vatican?

Would you hide it among the glamor and glitz of the tele-evangelists, or anywhere among organized
religion at all?
Or would you seek out a little group of people with no reputation at all, maligned and slandered, persecuted
and despised, but obedient to your word, yes even those parts of your words that none of the other big
pretenders dared to put into practice because they said that just couldn’t be done in their day and age?

Perhaps you would even hand it to some who weren’t really looking for it, wouldn’t even know what to
think of it, and perhaps wouldn’t always appreciate it as they should, thus sometimes walking and behaving
in a manner a little less than worthy of their unrecognized privilege, just to make sure you wouldn’t attract
any “fans” who were in it for the loaves and fishes?

What if you knew all about people’s hearts, and that they have a tendency to fall for any juicy lie ever since
the beginning, and thus you only made your special, priceless privilege available to those who had an
undying love for the truth and nothing but the truth?

A love so great, in fact, that they were willing to give up anything and everything else for it – their
ambitions, their possessions, their positions, even their “responsibilities” according to what people would
expect of them; and they would be as radical to follow your call in spite of all that and let the dead bury
their dead in order to obtain that pearl of great price…

If you knew that everybody would be going by outward appearance, would you hide your treasure among
the beautiful, or among the ugly?

If you knew that everybody would follow sweet, enticing sounds, would you hide your treasure there, or in a
place where words were said that made people shake their heads and reply, “This is a hard saying, who can
bear it?”

If you knew that everybody’s taste was perverted by the usurper and all they craved was the sweet stuff he
heaped on them all day long, would you make the taste of your most precious vintage sweet as well?

If you had a rare privilege to give away, and you wanted to make dead sure you were going to find the right
few worthy of it, how obvious would you make it where that privilege was going to be found? How easy
would you make it?

Which would be your criteria? What sort of clues would you give them? Where would you be hiding? –
Among the pompous, the glamorous and glorious? Or among the downtrodden, despised and looked-down
upon?

What sort of skills would they have to develop in order to hear your voice? And what would they have to let
go of, in order to acquire them?

What would you do if you had to choose a special few from among billions?

Perhaps God might actually not be doing anything dumber than you would.

What if?
Nothing but the Truth
October 2, 2009 by mcdozer

If there is one valid parallel between the 1999 movie “Matrix” and our reality as those who claim and
attempt to be genuine and authentic followers of “the One,” then it’s the scene in which Morpheus tells Neo,
“Remember, all I’m offering is the truth.”

That’s all Jesus ever had to offer, too, and blessed Peter was the first one to realize and proclaim it, after the
bulk of the 70 that used to follow Jesus left Him as a result of His appalling “Cannibal” sermon in John
Chapter Six, and Jesus turns toward the twelve He had chosen and asks them, “Do you also want to leave?”

Peter was usually one of the more impulsive of Jesus’ disciples who sometimes seemed to speak before he
would think, but at this precise moment it must have been the Holy Spirit getting a hold of him when he
said, “Lord, where should we go? You alone have words of eternal life.”

In other words: “This may be a lousy life here in the real world and in the Resistance against the machines:
the food is bad, and most of our friends don’t really believe that You are the One, and it looks like we’re
fighting for a hopeless cause sometimes, totally outnumbered; and not everything seems to make sense all
the time. But all we know is that You’ve got the truth, and that’s worth it all for us, and worthy enough a
Cause to give our lives for and follow You to the death for.”

But just as it was in 30 A.D., such folks are rare. Most of us have much higher demands of life than merely
something as impractical as the truth. We want it comfortably presented with a huge entertainment program,
preferably along with a barbecue or at least with a hot band playing. Or at least we don’t want to lose face
with our community, but look like respectable members of society, which after all, most of us are, in our
nice, big, respectable churches.
Not like those weird cults who are going overboard in their religious zeal and insist on trying to convert
everyone else to their cause all the time. I mean, Jesus never said anything about having to be a religious
fanatic, right? In fact, aren’t they even a reproach to the Cause of Christ?
I mean, look at them: they have no money, they have no reputation… Who would want to join them?

Right. Who would?

I guess it’s still only those who are in it for the truth and nothing but the truth, against all odds.

Folks aren’t always as friendly in the Resistance movement, compared to the folks visiting the churches in
the Matrix.
They might not like you. They might even resist you. And if you look at the ones fighting on your left and
on your right, you’re sometimes tempted to wonder if this could be really IT…
They don’t make it easy on you, and they don’t insist on you being around, fighting along with them, unless
perhaps you really mean business, and are willing to give it your all for this Cause, no matter how hopeless
it seems, without murmuring and complaining. Everybody already knows that it’s tough, so what’s the use
in complaining?
Or perhaps they’re just here because that’s where they happened to wind up or be born without knowing
anything else…

You look at all those “happy” folks in the Matrix who seems to have the best of both worlds: have their
steak, and eat it, too. They may have heard about the One or that there is such a thing as the Real Word
somewhere out there, but basically, their ignorance about the Resistance movement is their bliss: they don’t
have to endure the hardships; they enjoy the protection of the Agents and the blessing of the Architect as
long as they stay safely put right where they are, and don’t think about dropping out of the game and
becoming unplugged from the nice illusion they know as “life.”
Yeah, life is tough in the Resistance. And if you thought Cypher was tough, in the real Resistance, we’ve
had dozens of his kind who have sold us out to the Agents and are bent on destroying us.
Basically, all hell is breaking loose around our ears, because, after all, it’s us they’re fighting, and we are
their enemies, not the make-belief “people of God” in sleepy-land, the artificially created world by the
machines to keep potential resistance fighters asleep, dreaming and content.

If there is one factor that is not a parallel between the “Matrix” trilogy and the lives of those who claim to
be true followers of Him Whom we know to be the One, it is that there will never be a truce between us and
the machines.
There will only be an ultimate showdown; and as outnumbered as we may seem right now, and as
overwhelmingly superior as the enemy forces may seem, and despite all the odds against us, we know and
believe that in the end, He will win. No truce, no ceasefire, only undeniable victory, and we will see then
what right now we may only be able to take

Church Sucks! – But Jesus Doesn’t!

October 4, 2009

The Real Thing Vs. the Conventional Fake

We were invited to attend a multi-denominational open air “worship service,” as they like to call it, this
afternoon, by some very dear friends of ours, and we attended.
What it did for us, was make us realize that church simply is not our thing. It may be good and okay for a lot
of people, but then there are a lot of people who also like to crowd together in big stadiums to watch 23
people chase a leather ball, or rattle their heads to the sound of bands like AC/CD or Nine Inch Nails.

As far as the music goes, we have heard better, and we have definitely seen more fire – at least I have, and
as far as the ideology behind so-called church services goes, my conviction has reached its peak today that
the one thing the world doesn’t need is another sermon.

What the world doesn’t need is bunches of Christians rotting together and singing lukewarm songs to God
and calling that “service” to God while the world is going to pot around our ears. Maybe there are people
who need that sort of religion, just like other people need opium, whiskey or cocaine, but I don’t.

I guess perhaps God put us here for the handful of people on this globe who may come to share our view
that church sucks, but Jesus doesn’t.

Jesus is totally and absolutely the Real Thing as far as I am concerned, but the way most people claim to be
“serving” Him falls light-years short of getting anywhere near cutting the cake.
What the world needs is something different, something other than “church services.”
What the world needs to see is a true Christianity based on the principle of being living samples of
obedience to God, and not another bunch of spiritual cowards comforting each other over the fact that
they’re going to go to Heaven despite the fact that they’re not really obeying God, since they feverishly try
to ignore the things He said that don’t agree with their lukewarm and selfish life-style.

I’m not writing this in order to purposely aggravate anyone, but because I’m upset and determined that I’ve
attended “church” for the last time in my life today, hopefully.
It just doesn’t cut it. It’s miles and miles away from what “ecclesia” (the original meaning of “church”) is
really supposed to be.

Maybe it’s your thing. Good for you. And maybe you think you should get as many people to participate in
that sort of “service.”
Personally, I’d rather stay on the lookout for something more innovative, something more original,
something more like the Real Thing, even if totally unconventional and unheard of, possibly even maligned
and persecuted and rejected, like the Early Church, the original Christians and full-time followers of Christ
as described in the Book of Acts…
Or the bedraggled band of followers of St.Francis…

Give me any type of radical, alive and white-hot form of Christianity, but not that conventional humdrum
they call “church.”

Sorry if that means another bunch of friends running out the door and in the opposite direction…

But I’d rather go out and find myself some new friends then, who agree with me that church sucks, and – if
they don’t know it yet – prove to them that Jesus doesn’t.
Probably a lot of people think Jesus sucks because of the way He’s portrayed in the churches, or simply
because they’ve had the same feeling we did when they attended church…

Maybe it’s simply a matter of taste, the way some people like the music of Britney Spears or Madonna and
others say, “No, thanks!”
Maybe the “pop culture” version of Christianity simply isn’t the Real Thing as far as some folks are
concerned…
And maybe the world is just waiting for them to show them an alternative…

Maybe they’re just waiting for a handful of believers with a little bit of genuine discernment to detect that
there must be something fishy, something wrong about the conventional way, that would confirm the way
they feel about it: “You must be kidding! This is supposed to be IT? That’s the way the followers of the
greatest Revolutionary of all times are supposed to act? – No way, dude!”

No wonder a lot of people don’t want to know much about Jesus, if He’s anything similar to the bulk of His
supposed followers.
No offense, folks, but I think there’s lots of room for improvement, and while you’re at it, next time, make
it a revolution, and not another mere reformation.

You can count me in…

What I Think About “The Shack”
October 5, 2009

Some Christian communities or “authorities” of whatever kind decry “The Shack” by William P. Young as
some sort of heretical New Age teaching, so when I came across a copy myself, I did not expect anything of
it. Of course, it was a bit comforting for me to know that Wayne Jacobsen had been involved in it, since I
trust him, loved his book “So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore,” and even though I may not
agree with every little jot and tittle of his doctrine, I believe he’s more right on than by far the vast majority
of Christians I’ve known; and it’s no wonder they decry him as a heretic, because the more people listen to
what he has to say, the more pulpit preachers are going to be out of a job.

Well, they better get ready for that position in God’s Kingdom, anyway.

So, back to “The Shack:” I love it. There may be some minuscule theological details I would dare to
disagree with or question (like the statement that God the Father is supposed to be sexless, male and female
in one, which differs from the doctrine I adhere to, that the female part of the “Trinity” is the Holy Spirit),
but in general, the spirit of the book is fabulous, and confirms very much my own experiences in my
personal walk and talks with the Lord.

The Jesus speaking in this book is the very same I have spoken to and known, and while the idea of God the
Father or “Papa” being represented here as a “large black woman” may not have been exactly my idea of
“Papa,” either, perhaps it was the ideal “camouflage” for us to prevent to make ourselves any other false
images of God in our minds, since that seems to be exactly what a lot of us do. (Remember that it doesn’t
say that God is that colored lady, but simply chose to appear as such for Mack – the main character’s sake,
since he had a “father issue.”)

What matters is the message that was conveyed, and I consider 99% of it kosher, to say the least, if not
thrilling, edifying and redeeming.

The spirit of what’s happening in the “shack” is love, and the author has grasped that spirit better than
probably any other Christian author I’ve known, except perhaps for Wayne Jacobsen, and definitely better
than the authors of the last 2 Christian books I’ve purchased, which I could not recommend.

One of the nice factors about this book is also that it was not aimed at a Christian audience, in other words,
not mimicking what Christians pitifully do over and over and over again, namely endlessly preaching at
each other instead of those who haven’t heard the message yet, but it is aimed at a wider audience, namely
one consisting of readers who may not necessarily consider themselves “in the fold” yet, sometimes
understandably so.

It’s good to know that there are people concerned about people getting to know God who don’t know Him
yet, instead of getting another “convert” to add to their “flock” as a statistic or potential source of income.

What was fabulous was the sense of humor coming across in the book, a quality that you’d think God is
downright denied by some of His more fundamentalist and zealous representatives.

People who adhere to the teachings of “The Shack” will probably be more likely to wind up in God’s true
ecclesia than some of the dogmatic hardliners who are trying to get souls saved by getting them scared stiff
of hellfire and brimstone and wouldn’t light a candle because it could attract demons…

One of the beautiful mysteries of God that the Shack reveals is explained in the conversations about the
“limitations” which God (mostly in His Son) took or takes upon Himself for our sakes, in order to be closer
to us, and out of love and respect for us. The idea of God becoming like us that Paul already hinted here and
there 2000 years ago is brought out beautifully here, and much easier to understand than we can by reading
Paul’s epistles.

As far as I’m concerned, here’s another proof that God by far hasn’t stopped talking 2000 years ago, as the
conservatives claim.

God is not only alive and kicking, but – according to this book, and I believe it – also occasionally laughing
His head off, shedding tears over our pain, and doling out hugs and kisses through whatever manifestation
He can get a hold of.
God is not only alive, but He’s talking, humming, dancing (listening to Funk and Cockburn, among others)
and enjoying life the way He wished we all would.

This book is probably also one of God’s best answers to the faces of God’s enemies who are bombarding all
of us (and especially our kids) with their New Age doctrines that they brainwash us with through their
innumerable books, movies and songs in the media, into believing that our striving for independence from
God is supposed to be so important and desirable, when it’s actually our single most insane quality.

Opinions Are Like…

October 27, 2009

An old acquaintance of mine was once quoted as saying, “Opinions are like assh*les: everybody’s got one.”
That was at a time when he was just beginning to ascend the ladder of leadership in our relatively small but
notorious faith community.

While my friend probably never would have imagined that his humorous comment might yet haunt him a
quarter of a a century later, it goes to show just how far reaching our words can be.

- Providing you’re one of those climbing the ladder of authority and position in this world, yes, even if
you’re part of a group that’s totally out of this world…

What he was indicating back then was that opinions – especially those of every little Tom, Dick and Harry –
make life harder for those trying to keep their grip firmly on the rail of the ladder.
It’s hard having to listen to all that the folks at grass-root level have to say while you’re struggling to
ascend.

The problem about that attitude, though, is that every now and then some nincompoop comes along whose
opinion is actually more than your average Joe’s comment on whatever occurrence life may offer you an
opportunity to add your personal rap about.

Certainly the leaders of the Roman Catholic church weren’t thrilled about the opinions of some Italian wise
guy named Galileo Galilei in February 1610, and accordingly denounced him – only to graciously pardon
him nearly 5 centuries later, since it had long been proven by then that he had been right all along.

Nor were they tickled pink about the notions of those like Luther who thought it was the right of every
believer to be able to enjoy hearing or reading the Word of God in their own language, and not just Latin,
which most of them didn’t understand…
Most of us would certainly agree with Martin nowadays, and dare to differ with the “Latin only” crowd…

Lord only knows how many “heretics” were burned at the stake for voicing uncomfortable opinions which
today might be considered tried and proven truths.
So, if I were ever to set out on some venturous ascent of some shaky, lofty ladder, I would bear that lesson
from history in mind.

Opinions may be like those most uncomely parts of our bodies which everyone possesses, but those parts
are still quite necessary, even if a lot of waste gets flushed out in the process.

Probably my friend has discovered by now that things aren’t all that easy anymore nowadays, and opinions
not all that easily dismissed.
The world has become a lot more demanding on leadership during the past two decades, and people who
know how to use their ears are treasured and wanted (- although they still may be somewhat rare up on the
ladder).
Even your average teenager will get offended if you won’t spend at least an hour daily listening to their tales
of how Jimmy in school said the most uncool thing to Jill “…and it like so totally sucked…” etc., etc., etc.

Of course, the most notorious opinion-bearer of all times didn’t exactly thrill the authorities of His day with
His stuff about the Kingdom of Heaven belonging to children, and the greatest among us having to become
servant of all, according to His rulebook.
That’s probably why most of His supposed followers (especially those in higher ranking positions) still
don’t give a lot of marbles to His opinions, but rather stick to their own.

The truth is, though, that in the end, those sitting at the top of the ladder in His joint (although it’s probably
going to be anything but a ladder) will be those who will have treated even the least among our brethren the
way they would have treated Him; and perhaps the act of lending a listening ear – instead of prematurely
dismissing their opinions – may have just been what will have helped you score the necessary points to get
there.

But alas, this is but another humble opinion from just another nobody and least of all brethren…

But I guess it’s folks like us that blogs are for…

The God Who Wouldn’t

October 28, 2009

Science is supposedly something based on observation: we explain how things work that we actually see
happening in nature. That’s one of the flaws of the theory of Evolution: it is not based on things we actually
observe, but blatantly defies some of our observations. For example, never has there been known any force
or process to bring about information from lifeless matter without an intelligent author, and yet the
evolutionists expect us to believe that all the heaps of information in every little cell were supposed to have
come about by itself.

According to the theory of Evolution, we’re also supposed to be “evolving” and progressing, improving,
and thus become more intelligent, but one honest look around will only confirm the opposite actually taking
place.

Evolution is faith, quite similar to the faith we place in paper currencies. An American tourist may believe
that the paper god in his wallet in which he trusts, is almighty, but may experience shock when confronted
with the actual purchasing power of his once so powerful currency in, let’s say Europe.

We may believe certain things to be fact and we may “think” we know something, when what we are
actually dealing with is a case of gross inflation: our heads and egos are inflated by a strong confidence in
information and values that, when put to the fiery test, actually turn out to be invalid and worthless.

That’s why the Lord told Isaiah that His thoughts were as high above ours as the heavens were above earth.
We may be absolutely sure that we know something, and then He comes along and blows on our “facts” and
shows us just how ridiculous it was for us to assume we were so smart.

Some of our self-fabricated dogmas, mindsets and “facts” can even become so outrageous as to make Him
laugh (see Psalm 2:1-4).

We do it because we want to be the boss. We want to determine what’s true or false, what’s goood or bad,
instead of letting Him decide for us. Well, perhaps He – like any good parent – also wants us to make our
own experiences along those lines.

The more convinced we are that we know certain things, the harder it can become for Him to persuade us
otherwise.

The religious Jewish authorities during Jesus’ times were pretty sure of their ideas as to what the Messiah
was suposed to look or act like.

He was going to be their Savior and liberator from the physical chains of Roman opression. Just like Moses
had led them out of the bondage and opression of the first world empire, the Messiah was to liberate them
from the oppressors of this one, which they figured was to be the last.

But it turned out that the Messiah Whom God deemed fit to send along was going to liberate them from
something they didn’t even want to know that they had been subjects, servants and slaves to, namely their
own sins. They didn’t even know they needed liberation from that. Who needs liberation from sin, when
you’re the cream of the crop of God’s chosen people?

They expected a Savior that was going to bring about changes by a display of physical strength that was
going to make the heathen tremble.

Instead, this meek Messiah chose to sacrifice Himself for the darn heathen and anyone who wanted to
become God’s child from then on.

What sort of an unorthodox God was at work here? He doesn’t seem to be operating much according to our
own ideas…

Likewise, not a lot of people today are interested in that sort of salvation, either. God is okay for supplying
material needs and physical health, but when it comes to spiritual things, let’s keep it on the entertaining
side of things. And woe if He dares to let us down. We’ll be quick to change camps.
Woe if He allows anything bad happen to us, or even allows someone we love to die – the epitome of all
evils!

- But is it?

Or isn’t it rather so that one of the main reasons He came was to liberate us from the slavery of one of our
worst sins, namely our fear of death?

If He came to deliver “them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage,”
(Heb.2:15), then why are we still so scared of it, and why do we still get so upset whenever He takes
someone Home that we love?

We would like God to do things differently than they actually happen: kill all the bad people, and let all the
good people live. Make us rich and healthy and the other ones poor and sick.

Then we can believe. Then we’ll attend church and sing “How great Thou art!” – No wonder. It’s easy then,
isn’t it?

But what if death isn’t the epitome of evil at all? What if He really wasn’t kidding when He said, “He that
heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (Jn.5:24)?

And what if being rich and successful isn’t necessarily the epitome of bliss and happiness, for each and
every one of us, personally, either?

What if He in fact knows best, after all, what’s good for us, and what isn’t?

What if He’s really the One calling the shots, and won’t be blackmailed, either, by our, “If You’re good to
me, I’ll believe in You, and if You’re not, I won’t” type of faith?

What if the God Who wouldn’t do things according to our plans has a few of His own?

Then why not grant Him the same type of freedom that He grants us?

But no, the minute His ideas dare to deviate from ours, we scientifically declare that He doesn’t exist, or no,
that He’s not the Messiah, not the right kind, not what we expected, no way, crucify that one!

Probably the only thing about us that has really evolved, and that to outlandish proportions – is our
arrogance.

It’s sort of ridiculous that true believers must implore their fellowmen to show just a little bit of tolerance
and openness toward an Almighty Creator. Just because He wouldn’t do things the way they would if they
were in charge, they grab a gun, kill a bunch of people, or live their lives accordingly, slowly but surely
converting this place that once was paradise into hell on earth… Forcing my child to believe that he’s a
monkey… Brainwashing him day and night with their dogma of over-population (“So feel free to relieve the
problem and commit suicide”?)… Of why we have to go and kill other people in the name of our own
justice…

Thank God He’s not one of us! I think we’d be in really rotten shape then!
My Perception of Alex Jones (Flesh Or Spirit?)
November 3, 2009

I must say I do appreciate the work Alex Jones did on his latest two films, “The Obama Deception” and
“The Fall of the Republic.” While there are certain elements in those films I would dare to disagree with, the
content of valid information in them, in other words, the “truth factor” outweighs the flaws, such as his
sometimes slightly overwhelming patriotism that is so common among Americans and seems to indicate
that they truly believe that every American is at least ten times better than any citizen of any other country.
It’s hard to credibly condemn presidents and the powers behind the New World Order for sending American
soldiers off to war, when you’re a victim of one of the principal mindsets yourself that fuels those wars,
namely that sort of patriotism and nationalism.
If your country’s that great, why, it practically gives you a license to barge into any other country on earth
with a gun in the effort to make that Hottentot backwards country similar in greatness to yours, and let some
of its greatness rub off on it…

Without realizing it, they’re victims of the same media hogwash they rightly say the vast majority has been
duped by, although to a lesser extent.

But as I say, the information he does put out is significant, and the truth factor does in my opinion outweigh
the patriotic hype factors.
Without those two films, I’d probably still live under the illusion that Obama was actually an improvement
since the Bush administration. By now I know without a doubt that it really doesn’t matter whose
administration it is, and things, like the Bible says, are only bound to get worse.

As a believer, it felt reassuring to hear Alex give God the credit in his latest film, even if only for the
exuberant greatness of his country.
At least he does believe in God, unlike other professional exposers of the NWO like David Icke, who seems
to subscribe to the doctrines of his pal Brian Desborough, who claims that all religions and the Almighty
Himself are an invention of the Illuminati, designed to enslave mankind through religion, a very popular
notion that is also embraced by the Zeitgeist movement I wrote about recently. The infiltration of the truth
movement by such people is probably the smartest move the Devil could have made, since they’re
automatically robbing themselves of the only way out of the mess into which he’s steering the world.

That’s probably one factor Alex Jones fails to recognize, too, and just because he seems to believe in God, it
would probably be an exaggeration to call him a spiritual man.
By failing to see the spiritual background of all these things, though, such as the rise of the NWO, I’m afraid
one fails to see a substantial part of the picture.

For one thing, while the planned abolition of borders between countries may in terms of industrial
independence and political sovereignty be a nightmare for patriotic Americans like Alex Jones, for believers
who are aware that the New World Order is only going to be the last, necessary stop before God’s Kingdom
will be established, the abolition of borders and national sovereignty has a less significant impact.

True Christians believe and know that the coming New World Order will ultimately be headed by the
Antichrist, a man, who for the last 3 1/2 years of his life and reign will be completely possessed and
controlled by Satan himself, and since Satan is only an imitator and counterfeiter of God, his kingdom will
only be a sorry counterfeit of God’s Coming Kingdom, in which borders and national boundaries will be
history, and a sad part of it, as well.
I’m sorry to disappoint Alex and perhaps millions of others, but I’m fairly convinced that there won’t be
anymore red-white-and-blue flag waving folks around in God’s Kingdom, nor patriots of any other kind
than those loyal to the Kingdom that has always been not of this present world, of a very different kind, and
the difference certainly includes its stance on earthly patriotism (see Hebrews 11).
The same applies to the abolition of cash. While the New World Order’s plans to replace paper money with
the cashless system the Bible terms “the mark of the Beast” (“the Beast” being a term for the Antichrist)
certainly will be truly diabolical, and we strongly advise anyone to refuse to take that mark, it is on the other
hand, only yet another way in which the Devil will try to imitate God’s Kingdom, because you can bet your
bottom dollar that there won’t be any folks left chasing paper money, and what the Bible calls “filthy lucre”
in the Kingdom of God!

Ignoring the spiritual factors behind the New World Order and only seeing the people involved in it, is very
short-sighted, indeed.
The problem is, a lot of the good folks speaking in Alex’ films are of the opinion that if the American
people would unite and stand up and rise up against the NWO, then the world could be saved from its fate,
but there is unfortunately no way around this darkest chapter of history. That display of blind patriotism will
be just as futile as that of the people of Israel during the time of the prophet of Jeremiah, who warned them
to submit to the yoke of the king of Babylon (in some ways a proto-type of the Antichrist, since the Bible
refers to both as “the king of the north,” although the king of Babylon, Nebucchadnezzar, did in the end turn
out to be a good man, which won’t be the case with the AC).
Jeremiah was thrown into a dungeon because of his heretical treason, but it changed nothing about the fact
that he turned out to be right, after all.

Some people who don’t trust Alex Jones accuse him of fulfilling a purpose in the plan of the New World
Order cronies: that he will be instrumental in evoking an uprising and violent resistence against the NWO
that will give the rulers an excuse to clamp down on them with force, and although I doubt that this would
be Alex Jones’ intention, the danger that this is going to happen is quite real.

Physical, armed resistance against the NWO will be just as futile as the efforts of Jewish zealots during the
Roman occupation of Judea, which was totally crushed.
As I wrote in my last entry, one of the reasons the Jews rejected Jesus was because they had been hoping for
a messiah that was going to liberate them from Roman occupation. But Jesus actually extended His
compassion to Romans as well, as well as Samaritans, which were despised by the Jews, and it seemed that
He was announcing that God was going to extend His pact to any heathen that would accept His sacrifice,
which is in effect what happened.

The problem is that if you think that you and your country or people are so good you’re just about perfect,
and the only liberation you need is from the physical oppression of those who are making you pay taxes,
then you wind up shouting “crucify Him!” at the one who indicates that you have a bigger problem, which
you need to get rid off first.
Jesus clearly stated that the yoke of sin that even the seemingly perfect Jewish people were under was
something much more serious and warranted greater attention than liberation from the Romans. He would
deal with the Roman empire later, just as He will with the upcoming New World Order, be assured, but
what you need to be liberated from first of all, is your sins. You need to avail yourself of the only exit and
way out of this present matrix by accepting the blood of Jesus Christ as remission from the one thing that
will hold you captive in a stronger grip than any physical oppressor could. Why?
Because as good as you may think you are, there is no guarantee on God’s earth that you would do any
better if you were in charge, unless you heart has been supernaturally changed by the grace of God, and you
have allowed Him to replace your own sinful, selfish and carnal nature by the new creature Christ can and
will make out of you, if you let Him.

One of the major issues about this present life, as far as God is concerned, is the issue of flesh versus spirit.
What will you place your bet on? Which will you put your money on? Will you put your hopes in your own
arm of the flesh (and remember, your brain is just another chunk of that flesh, and your own smartness
won’t save you, either)? Or do you recognize that there is something Greater at work, even if invisibly,
behind the scenes, that is going to empower you to truly rise above all the evils in this world, just as It- or
He – empowered all the martyrs throughout history?
Do you think that the worst that could possibly happen to you is your physical death, and the end of your
fleshly existence is going to be The End, period?

Think again!

It all depends on which you’ll choose to put your trust in: God’s Promises of eternal life in a better world
than even your oh-so-beloved America, or your own wit and strength to save you.
I guess it’s always harder for those who have got it all going for them in the flesh, to choose the humble and
submissive option of yielding to God and letting Him do it through you, rather than the do-it-yourself
option. I guess we’ll meet at the finishing line and see who will have made it there first. But let me give you
this little piece of advice from Aesop, the citizen of a country and culture which at one time in history
deemed itself to be the most glorious and the peek of civilization, just as quite a few others before and since:

“The hare never made it, but the tortoise did.”

Or, as Morpheus put it to Neo in the Matrix scene in which he teaches him to fight properly (relying on
spirit, rather than flesh):

“Do you think that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? — You
think that’s air you’re breathing now?”

The Bleak Picture (Or: The End of the Tale)

November 6, 2009

The difference between the world view of the “truth movement” people and the picture the Bible portrays of
the world we’re living in, is that the adherents to the truth movement have more optimistic expectations
concerning the capabilities and supposed inherent “goodness” of people. They think that if we just get rid of
the bad people, that’ll do, and everything will be honky-dory. They call all the “good” people to rise up
against the “bad” people, and then we’ll have democracy and peace and freedom and live happily ever after.
Unfortunately, the Bible tells a more realistic tale about ourselves, of which many say, “This is an hard
saying; who can bear it?“

The problem is that “bad” people often started out as “good people,” and “good people,” no matter how
good, stand every chance to become “bad” once they’re in power, because power inevitably corrupts.

One classic example of this is the Jewish king David, considered by far the best king the Jews ever had,
who of all people really should have known better: having been persecuted and haunted by his predecessor
Saul for half his life, having to seek refuge in caves and with the enemies of his people, what does he do
once he becomes king?

Falls in love with his neighbor and sees to it that her husband is killed in battle.

And that was the best that “God’s people” ever came up with, so, you can only imagine how rotten the rest
of the world is, and contrary to the fable of evolution, I have news for you: we’re not getting better all the
time!

If the Bible is any sort of authority on the human psyche at all, it certainly paints a more sinister picture:

“The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth,” (Genesis 8:21), “He that trusteth in his own heart
is a fool” (Proverbs 28:26), “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know
it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) and “There is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:12).

Incidentally, even Jesus refused to let anyone call Him “good,” (Mark 10:18), and if anyone on earth ever
should have been able to deserve that attribute, it certainly ought to have been the Son of God…

So much on the goodness of the “good” from the highest possible Authority.

And as far as the immediate future of our world is concerned, the Bible does not predict that an army of
“good” people will rise up to stand up against the Antichrist before he comes to power or force him off his
throne.

First of all, the one sin that folks like Alex Jones and his friends seem to underestimate is the ever present
fear in the hearts of the majority of the people.

(As illustrated by the large majority still writing off any suspicions about the official version of the 9/11
incidents as “Conspiracy theories,” or the masses that are thronging to get their swine flu vaccination…)

What they also seem to underestimate is people’s love for darkness, as opposed to the truth (see John
3:19). They’re a lot more willing to accept an attractive and comfortable lie than the ugly truth.

Which is also what explains the Endtime scenario that the Bible depicts: Evidently there will be a resistance
movement against the Antichrist, and there will obviously be survivors of his “war against the saints”
(otherwise there’d be no one left for Jesus to pick up in the Rapture, which will not happen before the
Tribulation).

But the weapons the members of that movement will avail themselves of will most certainly not be guns or
bombs or Molotow cocktails.

In Revelation chapter 11 we find the account of two outstanding members of the Antichrist-Resistance, and
we find here that the weapons they will wield will be supernatural (see 11:5, 6).

But it’s not like they will be members of some huge and massive movement the type that Alex Jones and
friends seem to dream of. In fact, when those two will finally be killed, it says that the citizens of the world
will celebrate their execution as if it were a new version of Christmas (verses 9, 10).
The picture of events when “the shit hits the fan” as portrayed by Alex is more that of the innocent masses
of citizens having to defend themselves from the bad NWO cops.

I’m afraid that those citizens won’t be all that innocent anymore once Helter Skelter is being let loose, and
the supermarkets will already have been robbed clean.

If they mow down their fellow humans already not, during peace times, I don’t want to know what it’s
going to be like then, when the average Joe is going to have to show just how good he is at “dog eat dog.”

And I doubt that people around the globe are going to behave like all them fine Christian folk in Texas.

After all, the great Tribulation is not called “Tribulation” for nothing. It’s not going to be your average
Hollywood type of adventure where the good ones are going around dodging bullets while all the bad
people fall left and right. It’s going to be hell on earth. If you think it’s bad now, cheer up, it could be worse,
and it’s going to be.

There is going to be an insurgence against the Antichrist, from what I understand, at the battle of
Armageddon, where 200 million horsemen, presumably from the East (Rev. 16:12) will march toward
Jerusalem, but they’re not going to be your local American truth lovers and self-made Rambos. They’re
most likely going to be those we generally label “terrorists” today, the large part of the Muslim world that
will refuse to bow down to the image erected to the Antichrist, because idolatry was already what they hated
about Christianity, and why their religion got started in the first place.

But even they wouldn’t stand a chance without the supernatural intervention of Him Who was sent into this
world for the one purpose: to save it. The very name He chose for His earthly existence means “Savior,” and
the first time around He came to save us from ourselves. The second time He will come to save us from the
one who was the culprit to begin with, and created the need for us to be saved…

A fairy tale?

Okay, so you go ahead and believe in your fairy tale, that all intelligent life sprang forth from life-less
matter and keeps evolving into better and better “good” people all the time, and I believe mine.

The fundamental difference lies with the authors. And I guess only the end of the tale will tell which of the
two will have told the truth.

God Is a Verb
November 9, 2009

The revelation that God is a verb, as laid out in the 14th chapter of “The Shack,” and evidently based on a
quote by Buckminster Fuller, lends new meaning to the famous opening phrase of the Gospel of John, “In
the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1). Incidentally, in the Spanish version, the phrase uses the term
“Verbo,” as in “verb,” instead of the more modern word, “palabra,” (and I remember frowning on that years
ago, because of its implication that God was a Verb, instead of a Noun).

But it makes sense in the light of the reference to God’s old and Hebrew name (Jehova, Jahwe or Jah)
meaning “I am,” (“I am that I am,” or “I will be,” etc.). which in many languages is simply the verb of
“being” in the first form or person… (i.e. “soy,” Spanish for “I am,” “sono,” Italian…)

Naturally, as the book points out, we humans are more fascinated by nouns, and more specifically, things
we chase after all our lives in our pursuit of (the nouns) happiness, money, fame… you name it.
Most of the 10 things the Ten Commandments forbid or tell us we shouldn’t do, are things that we do in
pursuit of those nouns (things) we think will make us happy: We steal, kill, lie, covet our neighbor’s goods
and wife and then make idols out of them and worship them, (by spending an infinitely greater amount of
time on their pursuit than in our relationship with our Maker), instead of the One Who alone deserves to be
worshiped, (taking His name in vain whenever we don’t get enough of them), and since we hardly ever stop
voluntarily in our perpetual pursuit of those nouns, God slapped the commandment to keep the Sabbath in
there, to make sure that we’ll give it a break at least one day per week…

It also lends all the more sense to why Jesus told His disciples, “I give you a new commandment: to love
one another.” In other words, “If you keep that one, you won’t need all the other “don’ts” anymore…

If you just do the right thing, the thing that God by nature does all the time (God is love – another Verb),
then you’ll be alright.

Perhaps He had to show us first how to do it by His own life, before we would ever understand it, (hence
first the 10 “don’ts”), and if there’s one thing we can gather from Jesus’ earthly life, it is the fact that it was
most certainly not a life lived in pursuit of things (or nouns) at all.

All He did was do and say things that would evoke processes and actions (verbs) in our lives that would
cause us to revolute, turn around and live and love and even die happily ever after, because the way He did
and does all those things are simply divine.

(I just hope that none of the disciples of Richard Dawkins are going to find this blog entry, or I’ll be
swamped by insulting comments about the lack of sense I’m making as far as they’re concerned…
But as some insignificant little songwriter once put it: “Love doesn’t care what people say…”)

Maybe that’s the reason why so many people who claim to be Christians or believers lack all the evidence
of their discipleship in their sample: they don’t do God. They lack the doing part of God. They may think
they have God wrapped up in a neat little package like one of those Christmas presents under their trees, and
the concept of God all figured out in the cube on top of their necks, and keep Him tightly locked up inside
that big house they built for Him for 25.000.000 bucks, but the rest of the world still refuses to believe one
word they’re saying when they open their mouths and talk about God, because talking seems to be the only
action and verb in their religion…

They don’t do or practice the verb that God is.

They haven’t even yet begun to love.

I – as a person whose principal and arch enemy is the sin of laziness – must admit that it isn’t necessarily
always easy to do God.

Likewise, our other human core weaknesses – our anger, pride, our tendencies to lie, our envy, avarice,
fears, hedonistic streaks and desire for power – these all strive in us to stop us from doing the God-thing, the
verb, the action that is God.

Our natural inclinations are to do the things that are good for ourselves, that give us big bellies, stuffed
pockets, lots of zeroes behind the digits on our bank accounts, friends on MySpace or whatever, but the
action of doing God and what God does is sort of alien to most of us, and it’s almost as if we have to lose
our own selfish lives first before we can find life the way Love intended…

Besides, doing God is so dreadfully unpopular in our world…

Anything else in our world may be popular, except that one single activity.
Doing God comes across as corny, if not totally uncool or downright outrageous to most of our fellowmen
who follow the examples of our Hollywood icons that we tend to shape our lives after, rather than the sad
figure hanging on the cross in the building we visit on Sundays.

Well, perhaps that’s precisely one of the points the author(s) of “The Shack” wanted to bring across, and
what some of their publications refer to as thinking outside the box:

God is not something you can stick in a box and say, “It’s MINE!” It’s something you either do or… forget
it!

It’s what determines whether our lives are a foretaste of Heaven, or a selfish, Sisyphus-like existence of hell
on earth.
God is the Action that’s making everything happen, even if He may temporarily do most of it hidden from
our view and from behind the scenes, letting us live under the impression that we’re the ones doing
everything – only until the curtain will be removed and it shall be revealed just how much the Great
Director and His staff were actually involved in the making of this Big Picture…

Coincidentally, even the original meaning of the word “church” (ecclesia) is based on a verb. God is calling
all of us out and away from our materialistic, greedy ways of thinking, to a new world, where His happy
children dance around in a huge circle, calling out to anyone who will hear: “C’mon, let’s do some God
together!”

The Infiltration of the Truth Movement

November 15, 2009

The infiltration of the Truth Movement by the henchmen (and -women) of the very same forces it tries to
expose began long before Zeitgeist.
Some years ago (shortly after 9/11) Henry Makow wrote me about a guy called Brian Desborough whose
book apparently labels every thinkable religious movement as “Illuminati.”
Upon googling him up I found an article of his (which he since seems to have withdrawn, probably since it
exposed too obviously what side he is working for), in which he basically stated that the Bible including its
God were cooked up by the Illuminati, basing his statement on such grounds as that he knew for a fact that
there were no camels in the regions of the Old Testament during that period of time. Wow! Shattering
evidence!

It sort of resembles the pitiful argumentation of Acharya S and Peter Joseph, the minds behind “Zeitgeist” in
their recent attempt to refute their debunkers. Not much more than a lot of ho-hums and whining over the
fabricated “fact” that the naughty Christians destroyed all their evidence…

I guess you can recognize these people by the tactics which they copy from their god, the father of lies, and
one must never underestimate their boldness in stretching the truth to the most gruesomely thinkable extent.

Brian Desborough also appears to be one of David Icke’s sources, which perhaps explains why he seems to
have gone totally bonkers, and has become one of those who make “conspiracy theorists” look like a bunch
of loonies, which is precisely what the NWO-clique intends by planting their cuckoo’s eggs into the nests of
the various branches of the Truth Movement.

If they can discredit the voices of truth trying to expose their shenanigans, the public is going to stay in their
trance until they’re past the ever speedily approaching point of no return…
I could imagine that David Icke may have started off as a sincere seeker for the truth. But the quest for truth
is a tricky little thing on which one has to stay determined to focus on accepting the truth and nothing but
the truth, no matter how many shiny and scandalous temptations mark the path.

Personally, I am even leery of such supposed geniuses as Noam Chomsky, because no matter how much
truth they bring out about “the other side,” by their public stance against God they’re implicating that man is
the solution to his own problems, which is the same lie the NWO-camp has been telling ever since Cain and
Abel (even though you must remember that that’s just another one of their staunchest lies, since they are the
ones preparing the perfect solution for you, buddy!), and the Bible simply and unmistakably states that “the
fool has said in his heart, there is no God,” no matter how “wise” whatever amount of groupies deem him.

When it comes to infiltration, people should not underestimate the Enemy of their souls. If he has done it
with God’s very own people (both versions 1 and 2), then he’s also going to do it with the Truth Movement.
“If you can’t lick’em, join’em” has been the Devil’s slogan latest since the 4th century.

What sort of hope and way out of the NWO dead end are people like Brian Desborough, Jordan Maxwell,
Acharya S, Peter Joseph, David Icke and Noam Chomsky offering to the world? Especially those who decry
Jesus as a fake, and claim that once the church and religion will have been wiped out, everything will be
honky-dory?
- A miraculous rising up of all the good people in the world against all the bad people in the world, and they
lived happily ever after?

Hello!!!

Have we learned anything from history at all?

Lenin? Stalin? Mao? – And who will guarantee that the next head honcho is going to be that much better?

In fact, I can prophesy to you right now that he’s going to be the worst this world has seen yet, and that
wonderful New Age you think you’re ushering in will turn on you as the worst nightmare of history!

“Imagine there’s no Heaven” sounded kind of cool in the 70s, but John Lennon knows better now.

Nobody’s saying that established religion has done any better than the big dictators from history. Yes, by
and large, Christianity has been a disappointment.

But just use your brains for a second: Never in all of the history of mankind has there ever been any known
process or force that would have produced one single shred of information from lifeless matter – no, not
even billions of years of lucky coincidences could do that, if you study the carefully calculated odds.

So, what makes you think that the Gigabytes of information in every single one of the billions of cells your
body consists of, (information that has been not only been encoded, but is being decoded by devices
specially placed there in that tiny galaxy called a living cell for that purpose), all came about without an
Author?

No wonder the Bible says you’d have to be an idiot not to believe in God.

And just the fact that we all think we would have been so much smarter and done it so much better than He
doesn’t actually make us smarter.

If you could just put aside your self-righteous grudge against God long enough to be able to think clearly,
things would actually begin to make some real sense!
But I guess many simply don’t want to believe it until they get to the end of their rope.
And that’s precisely where we’re headed.
Let’s see Who’s going to be standing at the other end to catch you when we get there…

Ten Years After: Matrix

I remember the first time I saw the Matrix pretty much exactly 10 years ago, I knew I had seen something
very special. I had watched films before that had had a touch of the supernatural, almost like a message
form God, like Zeffirelli’s “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” and a few others, but this was special, and there
have been very few movies since, that got anywhere near the deep spiritual significance of the Matrix, as far
as I’m concerned.

Don’t get me wrong, I know all about the way the powers that be use Hollywood and all that goes with it to
manipulate the masses.

But I believe that there is a greater Matrix that envelopes the smaller matrix of the NWO schemers and their
god: the bigger Picture of God, that happens to include the picture of our present reality including its evils,
and that when it comes down to it, the Devil is just playing a part if God’s plan, whether he wants or not.

Which doesn’t mean I’m a fatalist, either; nor can I say exactly to what extent free choice effects destiny or
vice versa.

As much as we hate it: we have to leave some of the facts and details up to God & trust we’ll find them out
in His good time…

Some people didn’t understand all the rave and ado about it. They didn’t get it then and they don’t get it
now. They figured, “Cool effects,” but they prefer “Lord of the Rings” or “Star Wars.” I guess it’s like
musical taste: some liked the Beatles, some liked the Stones, or some like Britney…

Matrix was a movie you’ve had to watch it a few times until you really got all the details.

Back then I was still with one foot in the System and one on a banana peel.

But with all that has happened since then, you might say I’m definitely unplugged now (as in living by
faith).
Back then, I may have known the way in theory, but I hadn’t really begun to walk in it yet.

I had some rough thoughts and ideas about how the dark forces are manipulating us from behind the scenes,
but I wasn’t aware to what extent.

I was affiliated with what you might call “The Resistance,” but I wasn’t nearly as active a part in it as now.

Not until 9/11.

In a way, having seen the Matrix was perfect preparation for not falling for the lies they told us since 9/11.

While the towers were still burning, Rumsfeld spoke of “retaliation.” And I knew that what I was watching
was propaganda. – The machines at work.

Six months later we watched television for the last time in our home.

We unplugged ourselves from the current of the mainstream media brainwash and started getting plugged in
to the line of communication with the “Top,” call it Zion, call it Heaven…

…Call it Jesus. I guess if Neo represents any one thing it’s Jesus, but also what Jesus can do through each
one of us if we dare to let go of the lie they have told us all our lives and believe that “There is no spoon.”

– The knowledge of the Matrix being a fake enables you to do things that most people in the Matrix can’t
do.

I’ve often wondered if that’s what perhaps empowered Jesus to walk on water, etc.: the knowledge that
there is no spoon. If our physical world was just a bunch of encoded information (and they’re finding out
that there are gigabytes worth of information in every living cell… who knows what we’ll yet find out about
the make-up of our universe…), and He knew the code (since He had obviously written it: “In the beginning
was the Word = logos = information…”) then the program He had written was subject to Him, and it was
not that He was – as we are – subject to or victim of the circumstances. – An idea that drives home the level
to which His crucifixion was an absolutely voluntary sacrifice.

Similarly to the way Neo had to decide to risk (and give) his own life for his friend Morpheus, I have also
learned since, how much truth there is in not thinking it’s you, or that we have to do it ourselves, but
sometimes we just have to be there for someone else, and like Jesus said, be willing to lay down our lives
for someone else, and that’s when all of a sudden you find yourself “in the way,” actually walking in it, not
just merely talking about it or dreaming about it.

The big surprise at the end is that not even death can stop that kind of love, but it totally overcomes the
Matrix and its agents. No wonder, if you keep in mind that God is love…

After a while of living in the consciousness of the extent of the Lie, the fake steak of the Matrix becomes
meaningless to you, and money – since you know it’s just part of the lie – becomes almost irrelevant, and in
its present form on its way to history, anyway.

Since Obama, the powers that are working on introducing the new global economic order have shifted to
turbo, and it’s not as if Revelation 13 was like Sci-Fi in some distant future anymore.

Other people apart from us “loonies” can actually see it happening somewhere in the not too distant future –
the cashless society.

It’s exciting.

That’s another thing that has changed: I’m not scared anymore.
It’s like you just know everything is going to be okay, even if they kill you.

Similar to the plots of the sequels to the Matrix, the Resistance isn’t actually always as united as it should
be, and many don’t believe in “the One,” or in anything supernatural, for that matter, and the enemy forces
are sheer overwhelming in numbers; but that’s all the more reason why you can pretty much take for
granted that this war isn’t going to be won by sheer power of force, nor with physical weapons.

The fact that Neo had to take the last steps of his way blind illustrated that it’s only by faith and not by sight
that the final battle is going to be won, and that’s what many people just don’t want to see, because they
think their own arm is strong enough, while their faith isn’t…

Regardless of whether the NWO mind-manipulators had their hands in the making of this trilogy, it
wouldn’t be the first time that God used something the Devil would like to take the credit for.

Some people give the Devil too much credit and are too scared that God is some kind of weakling…
They’re scared of the stars, scared of candles, scared of sex, scared of the wrong kind of music…

But we’re not going to win this war by being scared.

Sometimes the battle looks so hopeless, even the Enemy asks us,” why do you keep fighting?” Neo’s
answer to Agent Smith, “Because I choose to” was not appreciated by everyone, but it’s our choice not to
give in that is going to see anyone through in the end.

You simply have to choose to keep fighting the Enemy. What other choice have you got? Quit? Surrender?

The message was, “Hell, no, we haven’t even yet begun to fight,” even if not with those words…

The one thing I didn’t like was the ending of the trilogy. A cop-out. A truce between the Resistance and the
machines, which in the Matrix scenario may have been the only realistic solution, but it won’t be in the real
battle.

Some people hold a grudge against God because of the bloodshed depicted in the book of Revelation or
Ezekiel, and hate the God Who would allow any such thing to happen.

They would prefer for good and evil to coexist peacefully together in some sort of lukewarm truce. But I
sometimes wonder if they ever dig anything at all of what life is teaching us.

I remember reading Revelation as a teen, and I felt very much like Neo did in the scene of movie when he
finds out just what the Matrix is, and the first thing he does is throw up.

It’s a toughie, facing the reality of our world as God sees it, also, or especially in regard to its impending
future (preceding the happy ending) as He foretells it (see Revelation 19-21). And not many people have the
guts to face that reality.

But the only way we’re ever going to have peace and any type of victory is if we have enough guts to hate
evil, and if nothing else in this world will ever teach us to do that, I’m afraid the coming years most
certainly will.
Uppercase Truth

November 17, 2009

There used to be a time when I never thought I could have learned anything from a Catholic.

Perhaps due to the fact that the sample of “Christianity” I had witnessed in my hometown Catholic church
drove me into atheism by the age of 10.

But then (quite a few years after having discovered the real Jesus), I came across the writings of the
Franciscan Richard Rohr, and found out that God seems to have made exceptions to every rule, and that you
can even learn something from a Catholic.

Likewise, I was not expecting any mind-blowing experiences to come out of the atheist camp since my
latest experiences with countless comments of the defenders of disbelief on our Youtube channels, or
having read what some of their supposedly brightest lights like Richard Dawkins or the Zeitgeist people
have to say.

But then again, you never know when God knocks on your door with a surprise, ready to push over all your
carefully construed clichés and mental drawers we keep our fellow humans in.

I have found an atheist who is probably a better Christian than I.

And very much unlike most of his fellow unbelievers, he comes forward as a defender of those from the
other side or camp of the opposition and writes a book called, “An Atheist Defends Religion: Why
Humanity is Better Off with Religion Than Without It.”

If I ever would have had and lost anything like it, I would have said “Bruce Sheiman has restored my faith
in humanity.” But since I have long ago decided to place my trust in Someone more trustworthy than my
own kind, at least I can say, Bruce, thanks for making my day! – And for reminding me of how a real
Christian is supposed to act, seeing the good in the folks on the “other side” and coming forward to put in a
good word for them, which is probably a closer version of “loving your enemies” than what the majority of
Christendom is coming up with nowadays.

In his book, Bruce Sheiman reminds his readers that while Christianity may not have a snow-white record
(as we’re constantly being reminded by those who would love to blast Christianity to hell for its crusades
and other crimes of history both past and present), there are nonetheless a lot of decent Christian (or
otherwise religious) folks who are doing a lot of good to make this world a better place (and if you ever
tried your hand at it, you may know just how tough that attempt can be, especially in the light of the fact
that most folks will never give you the credit for it, no matter what you do – just because you’re a believer).

Regardless of those culprits and fakes who have abused religion as a cloak for their less than noble purposes
(including in very recent history, such as the previous US administration – without saying the present is any
better), as a sum, the impact of (true) religion on the world was a good one, even if many folks may not
realize it.

“Historians cannot identify any other cultural force as robust as religion that could have carried civilization
along.”

Mostly, though, he points out something that strikes me as purely divine genius, namely that in our drive to
discover what he terms “lowercase truth”–facts and knowledge–we have sacrificed “uppercase truth”–
meaning and purpose.
In other words, figuring out all the scientific little details about how the universe works may be all fine and
good, but not really replace our need for a higher purpose in life than your usual “survival of the fittest”
scheme that’s slowly turning our carefully analyzed and dissected planet into living hell for more and more
people each day.

He observes that our minds are called to something more than a relative truth…and if moral imperatives do
not depend on God then they are not absolute and remain relative. – In other words, we’re not really good at
kidding ourselves into accepting any counterfeit, fake “goodness” or standard we’re supposed to live by or
strive for. The human souls is desperate to find, and unready to settle for anything less than the Real Thing
in the long run.

Pointing out some of the moral advantages of those Christians and believers who actually did get the point
of what their religion’s founder had intended, including their quality to respect humans as created in the
image of God instead of just another hoard of highly mutated two-legged mammals who must constantly
prove to each other who is the strongest, he contends that the world is actually not any worse off because of
religion.

One might argue in favor of atheists as civilized and courteous as Mr. Sheiman, that in the light of Jesus’
recommendation to judge a tree by its fruits, the criteria by which He would truly consider a person to be
following in His footsteps and worthy of His commendation, regardless of which camp they may profess to
belong to (since we live in a world of pretenders, after all), and one way to find out who truly is a
“Christian” or a “good person,” we would simply have to look at the way they treat their fellowmen.

And in this aspect, Bruce Sheiman has proven himself worthy of a higher commendation than I would be
able to presently grant the majority of my fellow believers, and awakens in me the desire that there were
more folks like him around, regardless of whether they share my belief or not.

Atheists who don’t persecute me for my faith make for a truly refreshing change, including from those
fellow-believers who persecute me for the differences between my belief system and theirs.

Folks capable of seeing the good in people, even in those from the opposing camp, and even capable of
defending them before the world, in my opinion are a greater sample of the kind of love Christ intended for
us to live and practice than the attempt to press every- or anyone into our same molds.

I’ve said before that maybe Gandhi, being a Hindu, proved himself a better Christian by His actions than
probably most Christians during his life-time. Perhaps Mr. Sheiman, being an atheist (though allegedly
considering himself an “aspiring theist”), by his gesture, is putting forth a better Christian example than
many of those who claim that label for themselves.

We’ve all heard the line “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” Well, with “enemies” like him, we
would all soon have a lot more friends.

I have certainly learned something from him, and have been reminded of the fact that the One I look up to
as my personal Guide and Master also stood out by bridging the gap between enemy camps (such as Jews
and Romans), and it makes me long for that quality that His early followers stood out for, which ultimately
enabled them to conquer the Roman empire with meekness and love.

I’m only afraid that Bruce might encounter the same type of rejection from the hardliners of his own camp
that Jesus had to face from the religious hardliners of His day for showing sympathy to the Romans and
preaching “Love your enemies.”

Perhaps the statement “Blessed are they who are being persecuted for righteousness’ sake” can also apply to
atheists. The truth is the truth, no matter who preaches it. And in this case, the truth award of the day goes to
Bruce…
 The Mindset of Insignificance

Sometimes a person struggling in the fight of being a furious voice for the truth against an army, nay a
deluge, of lies and lie-blarers can wake up discouraged, wondering, “What the hell am I doing here anyway?
What difference on earth am I going to make anyway?”

I call it the “mindset of insignificance” that probably overtakes all of us sometimes.

After all, it’s being scientifically drilled into us. They even have a scientific name for it and called in the
“Copernican principle” or “principle of mediocrity,” a scientific “fact,” (as far as its religious devotees are
concerned), closely related to the “fact” of Evolution, which is to remind us all daily, and many times
throughout every day of our lives of our devastating insignificance in this universe:

After all, each of us represents nothing more than an insignificant conglomeration of chemicals and matter
on an equally insignificant spec of dust among hundreds of billions of others in one galaxy among yet
hundreds of billions… so they say.

Except that some scientists who refuse to adhere to the dictatorial brainwash of the mainstream scientific
community are coming up with arguments that the odds of other “insignificant specs of dust” like our planet
to exist in our galaxy aren’t as high as the prophets of the Copernican principle like Carl Sagan made them
sound to be.

Turns out that our “insignificant spec of dust” holds a few privileges we shouldn’t take for granted.

And as far as the tiny, lonely voice for truth against vast majorities is concerned, it wouldn’t be the first time
that God shows that one man with Him can suffice to defeat he entire opposing army: from Moses to
Gideon and David, who hurled the decisive rock against the giant’s head that would bring his country’s
intimidated army back to life, and further on down the line to Elijah, Elisha, Jeremiah and Paul, St. Francis,
Luther and Gandhi… little, seemingly insignificant people who won decisive battles against armies of
empires that vastly outnumbered them; and it stands to reason that if God did it that way before, who’s to
tell Him that He can’t do it again?

Of course, the ever growing vast majority of modern day Philistines will joke about our God even more
profanely nowadays, since they cooked up a literal flood of “scientific” arguments to disprove His existence
– a flood that would require an arc to stay afloat and rising above it – and to discourage any insane Don
Quixote from any noble ambitions real fast, unless he remains steadfastly ignoring their ceaseless deafening
rants….

If the Evolutionists seem to be right about one thing, it’s that we do appear to be herd animals, and not many
of us are carved out to be sole fighters against an overwhelming majority.
We want our own army on our side and behind us. God alone, due to His unforgivable handicap of
invisibility, doesn’t seem to be enough for any of us most of the time.

Even folks who have no problems admitting that there is a spirit world with wicked entities in it that
manipulate our realm don’t have it in them to believe or even accept the idea that perhaps if those wicked
and demonic entities exist, there might also be a “good Guy” in that realm somewhere, because that would
be religious, and no, they’re not religiously inclined.

Demons? Yes. God? No.

No, they also want to see an army of “great awakers” rise behind them to save them and all of mankind out
of their own mess. The only way, they seem to reason, we’re ever going to overcome the curse of our
insignificance, is by amassing so many of us that we’re also going to be a flood of “good” people, rising up
against the bad people…

Well, I wish to God they were right, and the “Great Awakening” should really happen.
But then what? “Meet the new boss – the same as the old boss?” I think we’ve heard that tune before…

I think the only “Boss” Who’s ever going to make a real and lasting difference is the One Who is trying to
prove that a seemingly insignificant spec of dust doesn’t necessarily have to be all that insignificant by
putting it in its unique position in the first place and by dying for each so seemingly insignificant soul on
this planet as if to show that for Him there is no such thing as insignificant.

If you’re out for quantity and size, then maybe that’s your thing, but the invisible Maker behind the scenes
of the universe seems to have a knack for little things and seemingly insignificant details.

We may be dust alright, but when blown and carried into the right position within the light, even a tiny spec
of dust can sparkle and shine like a diamond.

Let’s see what insignificant piece of rock is going to land our present day Goliaths on their nose while the
by-standing armies are going to wonder “Hey, why didn’t I sling that thing?…” – Or what unconventional
methods God is going to use to prove to us one again that it’s “not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,
saith the Lord” (Zec.4:6)
 Politics of Universal Significance

Not the center of the universe? - Perhaps not for us, but for its Maker?

It takes faith sometimes, not to give in to the overwhelming evidence of our insignificance when not only
we are one single, imperfect person among billions of others, but we also know that we live on one tiny
planet among hundreds of billions in one galaxy of yet billions…

It certainly defies the odds of a God who loves you, - yes you, the way that He only loves you, and so much
so, that He would have given His Son for you even if you would have been the only one…

And not only that, but there are other odds that speak as blaring testimonies against God’s love, wisdom, if
not His very existence, and act as the extended index finger of Satan, the accuser of God and saints alike,
waving in His face:

“What about handicapped people? What about all the natural disasters that kill millions? You can blame
wars and starvation, perhaps even some diseases, on humans, but what about that?“

Personally, I have stopped viewing handicapped people as necessarily inferior to myself ever since one
stressful afternoon when I came upon a handicapped young person with an expression of heavenly peace
and bliss on his face that I never possessed, after having been fuming and fretting my way through the
traffic on a German highway in order to get to my destination – me, the “enlightened,” “spiritual” man…

If nothing else, handicapped people are a perfect illustration of the spiritual state of many of us supposedly
so enlightened spiritual children of God.

They have often turned out to be more than a blessing and a life-changer (for the better) for those who have
had to take care of them, and perhaps have led the one or the other of us to the point where we stopped
arguing with God about our personal definitions of “good and evil.”

As far as the deaths caused by natural disasters, or even death itself in general, I’ve come to the point where
I’m not so sure at all anymore whether God hadn’t spoken the truth, after all, when He warned Adam and
Eve that on the day they would eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would
surely die.
Perhaps they didn’t die physically. But could it be that the life they lived hence (and the life we have
inherited from them since), in God’s eyes is actually more comparable to death, than what He calls life?

So, what if death, in that case, wouldn’t be the great, terrible evil we all dread so much, and thus, not a
curse for those victims of natural disasters, at all, but rather a blessing? (- Tough on those left behind, for
sure, but aren’t they going to join their loved ones sooner or later, too?)

I know, it sounds outrageous, but I am no more of a writer or theologian than Don Quixote was a knight.

I’m just saying “what if?”

What if God likes to play against the odds?

Some people hate the idea of God “using” anybody, but what if being used by God is actually the best thing
that cold ever happen to you? And well, if God doesn’t have any scruples about using us, let’s have a look at
the type of folks he chooses: Not the strong, not the wise, not the glamorous, but the foolish, despised,
seemingly weak before the world.

Perhaps all our analyzing and calculating and the sum of all our supposed wisdom here at the peak of
Evolution in the 21st century still amounts to nothing more than foolishness (= a joke) with God, and He
can still do better with a handful of fools and handicapped than all our heroes and geniuses put together.

Not that He would need to show off His superiority. It’s just that we doubt His capabilities altogether.

When we had the choice of “Who would you like to run this place? – God, or yourselves with the assistance
of your dear old friend, the Serpent,” we fell for the propaganda machine of the big empty promises of the
Devil (obviously being the better politician) and went for the “Me!!! — Meeee!!!!! — Meeeeee!!!!!!”
option without hesitation.

And if you’d cast votes again over that right now, which option do you think the majority of our 7 billion
would cast in their vote for?

Contrary to the masters of the coming New World Order, which is ultimately going to usher in the
“ultimate politician:” the Antichrist, who openly preach the eradication of two thirds of the planet’s
population, God seems to value and treasure every life, however seemingly insignificant it may be to us.

The label “politician” applies to Him as much as it would apply to oxygen: invisible, but infinitely more
useful and user-friendly.

So, needless to say, although vastly outnumbered, as ever, by a vast, perhaps democratic but thoroughly
brainwashed majority, I’ll cast in my vote for the politics of “Universal Significance,” as opposed to the
common mindset of “universal insignificance.”

What is there to enjoy, anyway, if one can no longer enjoy the little things?
Beginnings, Origins and Survival of the Fittest

December 2, 2009 by mcdozer

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, the light, the dry land, vegetation, and only then
(according to the biblical account) – as unbelievable to our evolution-framed minds as it may sound – the
rest of the matter in the universe: the stars and other planets and the moons, then the fishes and birds, land
animals, and finally, His crowning creation, man, took a rib from his side and made a woman from it. As
outrageously bizarre as all that may sound to us, when God saw it, He begged to differ and deemed it
“good.“

It was a spotless, you might say just about perfect world, bubbling with the knowledge of good, the sheer
evidence of a divine Creator as visible by His handiwork, truly deserving of this attribute: “good.”

Then along came the first lie, well presented by the mind of an obviously skilled debater and “debunker,”
mind you, and as innocent and perhaps gullible and naive as the first human couple was, they swallowed it –
hook line and sinker, introducing into that pure world the factor that would change everything – well, nearly
everything: evil.

However long or short their existence in a good and perfect world had been, the difference between what
had been and was now was as vast as night and day, as life and death itself. They may not have died
physically, but was this really life? Not when you’ve known the real thing…

***

In the beginning was the Word – the Word so unlike those empty, hollow, vain and idle sounds proceeding
from human mouths that may say one thing and mean another – the Word of truth, perhaps hard to believe
for those who prefer a lie; and as scarce as it always has been in this world, the supply of that truth was
always greater than the demand for it by a race that always seems to have had a greater knack for the
darkness than the light, the lie, rather than the truth.

Along came Charles Darwin with a proposition of an idea and theory he would have meant to be perhaps
carefully considered, but when people heard it, they immediately embraced it as their new truth: “This is
IT!” they exclaimed! “This is going to be our new truth! Let us banish the old one and teach this teaching as
the sole and principal foundation of all that shall be called knowledge from henceforth. From now on, our
children will grow up being taught the new truth!”
Great men arose, basing their lives’ philosophy on “The Origin of Species,” names that would change the
world as it had previously been known (similar to the way it had so drastically changed once before,
millennia ago), names like Lenin, Hitler, Stalin and Mao – only to name a few – who proved by their
unprecedented slaughter of millions that truly, this was a world of “the survival of the fittest.”

New sciences were created and billions and yet billions of dollars and other currencies were pumped into
new “evidence” that would support the new paradigm and the abolition of the old, (for there was no illusion
that enough money could not create and make it appear deceivingly real if it was being repeated often
enough), simultaneously increasing the machinery that would continuously support the survival and
domination of the fittest: ever more powerful weapons, capable of annihilating every breath that would dare
to rise up against them.

Soon, mankind would be ready for the arrival of the dawn of a New Age and World Order, headed by the
one in whom the mindset of liberation from the old truth would culminate, and who would fill mankind’s
atrocious need for a god by his own forceful assumption of that position: a time of triumph for some, and
one of greater sorrow than they had ever known for those who refused to embrace this final manifestation of
the “new truth.”

In order to make a final statement underlining the universal paradigm of “the survival of the fittest,” the new
world leader at last declared all-out war on those who refused to bow down to him, and on the One Himself
who dwells in the heavens, a time of great persecution, bloodshed and tribulation, culminating in one final
battle, which was won with one great shout and yet another outrageous act of defying all that humans would
have deemed possible or even thinkable, just as He had done it in the beginning.

***

In the new beginning, there was love. Love in the hearts of a people who had been saved from the darkness,
from the lies and from the evil they had brought upon themselves by ever welcoming these things and
preferring them to the light, to the truth, and over that which was good. Love that had been acquired from
the painful lesson of where all these lies, the evil and the accompanying sins would lead. Love for a God,
Who, in the End turned out to have known better than all the proclaimed wise men of ages past, and – as
outrageously unbelievable as it may sound once again – love, at long last, for one another.

Evolution by Numbers (Open Letter to an Atheist)

December 4, 2009
Dear Scott,

first of all I want to thank you for having replied to my recent comment in such a calm, kind and patient
manner. It has confirmed to me once again that atheists, as different in their world views from my own as
they may be, sometimes possess the very “Christian” attributes of kindness and patience, etc., that we, the
believers, aren’t exactly always famous for.

Probably a large part of the world doubts the existence of our God at least in part due to to our failure to
behave the way He would want us to.

But you have to see our dilemma: We’re up against a huge construct, the matrix of science, that has left very
little room for an excuse for living for our kind, the ones you refer to as those possessing “medieval” views.
While others may refer to religion as the matrix that holds certain people captive (and I strongly agree when
it comes to many of the dogmas of the established churches and religions), what bothers me is that a large
part of what is being conveyed as “facts” on behalf of the scientific community is in actuality a far cry from
the right to be referred to as thus, and is often only a theory at best (if it is based on observation) or (if not)
some paradigm based on yet another assumption that we are never told how vague it actually is.

In my opinion, the authority that a lot of our current science apparatus is based on, is raw power: man power
fueled by the gigantic flow of resources poured into the effort to uphold and elaborate on the philosophy and
theory that has become the only acceptable one in our society. In my opinion, it is comparable to the force
dictatorial regimes such as the Soviets under Stalin, the Nazis under Hitler or the Communists under Mao
have used, to only name a few, and coincidentally, the paradigm of Evolution is the one common factor
between those regimes and our supposedly free democratic world.

Thus you can perhaps understand how frustrating it may be to fend against your giant construct when all we,
the Creationists have, is one chapter of a Book that is supposed to give us the only alternative, which seems
totally absurd in the light of what the scientific community claims are the facts.

I want to thank you also for pointing out the one argument which in your opinion speaks in favor of the
existence of our God, and you’re doubtlessly right that without having personally experienced the Presence
and Power of such a God, I would not be wasting my time on writing this.

One thing however, you seem to have ignored completely about my previous comments, and that is the
issue of the discovery of information as a necessary ingredient for any formerly conceived as “simple” or
even simplest life form, and the fact that never in the history of mankind has any force or process been
observed that should have brought forth information from lifeless matter without an author.

It is here where the Bible gives us a clue that confirms this. It starts out with the same three words as that
infamous first chapter of the Bible that makes those who take the rest of the Book literally the laughing
stock of the scientific community, “In the beginning…,” but then continues with the thought, “…was the
Word.” A word (Greek: logos) is a means to transmit or convey information, and the German Creation
scientist Dr. Werner Gitt has elaborated on this further in his book “In the Beginning was Information.”

So, we – the community of believers in the Author of that Information – know that at the beginning of
creation (you may prefer to call it the universe) there was, evidently, Information. And I’m talking
information not of the kind that a bunch of chimpanzees could have randomly produced by hacking away on
typewriters for gazillions of years (very lousy argument, btw.), but specific information necessary to
produce a functioning universe with complex life, written in the specific language or code that the existing
receptors of that information were (and continue to be in every cell of your body) able to process. We’re not
talking Hamlet here, but something far more complex.

Now, you and your distinguished colleagues from the science community tell us that there is nothing that a
few billion or trillion years could not accomplish, along with a little bit of luck, and, well, perhaps the aid of
an infinite amount of parallel universes to keep trying their luck at this cosmic casino, which happened to
enable ours to hit the jackpot.

In other words, the difference between your Gospel and ours is, “In the beginning there was time.” Lots of
it. I mean really, lots and lots of it. So much time in fact, that it is totally impossible for us to comprehend it,
seeing that even the alleged 6000 years of world history the Bible comes up with seem like a dozen
eternities to us. So much time that it would sound utterly ridiculous to even start arguing against it.

The power of your argument then lies in, as I stated above, in the sheer power of numbers:

1. The astronomical sum of money that has been poured into keeping the evolutionary science apparatus
alive over more than a century (Apparently the Vatican isn’t the only entity dedicated to financing religious
beliefs). It would probably be no exaggeration and perhaps even modest to speculate that a dollar or ten or
even a hundred for every year that is supposed to have passed since the Big Bang may have been just what
kept that theory being drilled into every earth child’s head for the past 70 years.

2. The legions of employees of those resources: teachers, media personnel, professors, palaeontologists,
archaeologists, geologists and members of other sciences who only stand a chance to last in their profession
if they obediently allow their findings to confirm the existing paradigm (What happened to some of those
who didn’t can be seen in Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed!“

3. And, as mentioned before, the number of years it is supposed to have taken for “all of this” (= Evolution)
to have taken place. – A number, by the way, which seems to be subject to the same sort of inflation over
the decades as the currencies that keep the theory blasting in living rooms and class rooms alike.

Let’s be honest, Scott: We are very easily impressed by numbers. With numbers that you and your
colleagues come up with, it’s easy to stay calm. I’m having to struggle to even pay my rent, because nobody
wants to support a lunatic who seriously believes in the biblical account of Creation. It is definitely safer to
swim with the current of the mainstream of the evolutionary matrix. – Especially since I’m not part of the
machinery of the religious establishment matrix, either.

The only thing I’ve got going for me is a God Who couldn’t care less about numbers and all the odds
against Him and His Cause. He has always, throughout history (the history that you wouldn’t seriously grant
us, because you’ve read dozens of book that told you “It wasn’t really so…”) – well, throughout what we
believe to be history, in that case – won His battles with one or two or a handful of people against largely
superior armies.

If I’m wrong and you’re right, then the wielders of the sheer power of wealth, mass and numerical
superiority may have the world for good, and our brand of lunatics will disappear before long (especially
since it’s our brand of people that is coming dangerously close to be branded as the sort of “terrorists” that
are to blame for all the evils in this world, soon to justify a new, global kind of holocaust).

However, if – against all the astronomic odds – I and my brothers and sisters should turn out to be right,
after all, it shall be the meek, not the dinosaurs (the Tyrannosauruses of Wall Street et al), who will inherit
the earth.
 Chronicle Of A (Small) Financial Miracle

December 5, 2009

The problem I’m having with a God Who was just supposed to have kicked off some process of evolution
gazillions of years ago and then told His prophets to write down a story of creation only to be saying
afterwards, “I was just kiddin’ folks – I used Evolution to do it” is that He would most likely be gazillions
of miles away from me. If He was too busy to be involved in the creation of at least the first man (and
woman), the way the Bible said He was, but instead let man gradually evolve from a looooooong line of
monkeys and other mammals, reptiles and tadpoles, making who or whatever was capable of being called
the first man resemble a cross between Frankenstein and King Kong rather than the image of God Almighty,
then He would also be way too busy to count the hairs on our heads the way Jesus said He would, and make
that statement just another one of countless lies, exaggerations and “not-so’s” in the Bible.

Certainly He’d be to busy to be involved in my financial problems, and one of the first chapters I’d have to
rip out of my New Testament would be Matthew 6, in which Jesus admonishes His disciples not to live for
physical things, but promises that if they would seek first the Kingdom of God, all these things would be
added unto them.

Not that that chapter would have much actual relevance in the lives of probably 99% of existing Christians
in the 21st century. But it does to me. It has, ever since I met the Family International at the age of 13. I had
been reading the New Testament on my way to school and got so turned on about it that I got in trouble
even with the leaders of our local faith community because I told the parents of one of my school mates that
I took Matthew 6 literally (and they called up the community inquiring whether I was the only loony).

Many local community leaders later I still believe in it.

I remember the time in Argentina in 1984 when my future wife, another team member and I traveled 3000
km within 3 weeks for our radio show, having 50 Dollars in our pockets, and never having spent one dime
of them. Actually, we returned with more than what we had left with, and yet we had traveled in
comfortable buses, spent the nights in pensions or hotels and had 3 meals a day in different restaurants, all
donated. We held meetings for our listeners in half a dozen different towns in halls, hotel lobbies or similar
places without having to pay a dime for their usage.

I know what it means when God says “I have set before thee an open door that no man can shut.”
That’s why I get so upset when “Christians” call Him a liar and say, “No, He was just kidding in the Bible,
and we can scientifically prove it.”

Probably if I were a professor at some university teaching my students all the many reasons why Charles
Darwin makes more sense than all the prophets in the Bible put together, I’d have to believe my own b…
sh.t, too in order to be able to live with myself.

Perhaps fortunately for some and unfortunately for most, I don’t receive a big check at the end of the month
for pursuing any such activity.

One of the few things I have done for a living in order to help God a little bit keep that Promise about “all
these things shall be added unto you” has been to play a little bit of music every now and then. And the
older you get, the more you can relate to the old chieftain in “Little Big Man” in the “Good day to die”
scene where he performs the magic ritual in preparation for his entrance into the eternal hunting grounds:
“Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t.”

This past month was one of those months when “it doesn’t,” since we didn’t have a single gig, and the bills
kept coming anyway.

We have those months every once in a while, and so far, He has always done it and never let us down. Did I
mention that I faithfully give my tithe ever since I earned my first income at the age of 17 before I bid my
mom goodbye to follow Jesus?

I know God wasn’t kidding either about His Promise “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you
the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it”
(Malachi 3:10). Some say it’s “unscriptural” to tithe. Well, I’m not the right person to be taught that sort of
theology. I might just tell you in your face, “Man, why don’t you be honest and just admit that you’re
stingy?”

Once in Spain in 1980 I had to come up with my daily contribution to the rent of the local community I had
just joined and had to “pioneer” and open up new singing contacts in a town where I had just tried to do so a
few days earlier with a partner to no avail. I was pretty desperate. God likes us to get desperate sometimes.
So I prayed, and I received that verse. Sure enough, at the end of the night my pockets were bursting with
cash, and I had been blessed with 15 times the amount I needed.

He had not forsaken me.

The funny thing is, though, that no matter how often these miracles happen, you always tend to forget them,
and as soon as the due date for the rent is in sight and the cash is not around, nor any gig on the schedule
that promises to bring it in, one starts wondering and whining again, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken
Me?”

It’s like that film “50 First Dates,” in which a girl with extreme memory loss had to be wooed each day
anew by her lover.

So I decided to write down this month’s miracle while it’s happening, to make sure I won’t forget it next
time:

On Monday we somehow realized that we had the money for our utilities bill (water and electricity) and so
transferred that money, leaving us at zero: “Welcome to Rock Bottom Club!”

We still had to come up with our rent, though. This was a job for Super-God. But we knew we had to do our
part, too.
So we decided to follow up on some contacts and spent about an hour witnessing to the owner of a local
gravestone company, who seemed thankful that we brought a little light into his confusion. “Thanks,” he
said! “One never knows what to believe anymore these days.”

When we wanted to move on, we realized we weren’t going to get very far with our summer tires in the
snow, So we turned around, stopped by a junkyard in the nearby Swiss town of Schaffhausen, and the
owner donated 4 pretty decent winter tires, which Sparkles, my better half and also the better mechanic
between the two of us, mounted the next morning at a friend’s place who owns the local Toyota garage.

On that day we couldn’t go witnessing because I had a guitar pupil coming in and our daughter had school
theater rehearsals, meaning we had to stay with our dog, so our adventure continued on Wednesday.

We didn’t get very far that day before I felt like I needed a coffee as we walked through the closest larger
size town. So we stopped at a restaurant whose owner Sparkles knew and who might donate a coffee since
we were still broke…

We showed the owner lady our new Christmas CD and were going to leave it for her to listen to. But she
didn’t want to let us go without paying for it, and in the process also bought two more of our CDs for her
son.

We had just become richer by the sum of one sixth of our rent.

On our way home we passed by another restaurant Sparkles knew and the owner lady said she had just been
thinking about her. She also gladly took a Christmas CD and gave us a bottle of Uruguayan wine on top of
it…

On Thursdays we have a small prison ministry in a German town that’s about 40 km from our place where
we visit and sing for a group of 5 to 10 prisoners. On our way there we passed by a gas station belonging to
a very sweet couple who had called earlier this week saying that they would like to have our Christmas CD
(we had sent out an email on Monday attaching one of the best songs from it, something we’ll keep doing
until Christmas), and so they gave us another donation that brought us a bit closer to the full amount of our
due rent, along with a Swiss highway vignette (a yearly sticker you need on your car in order to be able to
use Swiss highways).

When we returned home later that evening, another person had bought our Christmas CD online, and we
were slooowly but surely getting toward about half our rent.

This morning, Sparkles went to visit a friend she sees regularly, and he just so happened to be inspired to
help us with another sixth of our rent, plus a new 4 GB USB stick smaller than a finger nail (he’s a shop
owner)…

Then in the afternoon some unexpected visitors came: a very sweet couple from a nearby Swiss division of
our faith community stormed in unannounced and said they wanted to leave us a gift, which turned out to be
yet another third of our rent. There is a God, and He loves us.

Finally, (after a break of about a year or so), Sparks and I grabbed our guitar and took it to some Restaurants
we had played in when we had hit previous dry spells. The last few times had been another example of
when the magic doesn’t work. But tonight it did.

The rent was in!

And when we got home we found out that another sweet couple from our Family had sent us another
generous donation in appreciation of our German albums which we’ve made available for free download,
and now we’re just about able to pay our upcoming health insurance bill, too.
Of course, we know people who have testimonies of how God supplied hundreds of thousands of Euros or
dollars for them, and these are probably easier to remember than those little miracles that keep us going and
prove to us over and over again that He loves us and won’t forsake us, in spite of the mess we are.

Perhaps that’s why I just can’t bring myself to believe that He’s just supposed to have flipped a switch to
turn on the evolutionary machinery and then headed for the highlands to leave us evolving and fending for
ourselves. Either God’s philosophy is “survival of the fittest,” or “The meek shall inherit the earth” – it can
hardly be both.

Well, if you would like to become part of the continuing miracle of our simple faith life, you’ll find the
“donate” button on our site, so feel free. Rest assured that every small gift will be genuinely appreciated.

And if you should not yet have experienced personally that God is not too far away or too busy to help you
make it through your financial dry periods, perhaps our little testimony managed to encourage you. If He
did it for us, there’s no doubt He’ll do it for you.

Power Corrupts!

December 12, 2009

If there is one conclusion that has to be drawn from not only my personal experiences, but also that of others
with different backgrounds, stories and faiths, it is that power inevitably, and seemingly without exception,
corrupts those who are ushered into it.

In some cases the corruption is manifested in the obvious ways of dictatorial and tyrannical behavior and
abuse of their position for their own personal benefit. With others, the corruption takes place in the far more
subtle way of compromise with the status quo of the silent majority in order to preserve the position: Former
convictions and beliefs are being compromised for the sake of personal security and preservation of position
and power.

While this may not be any great revelation, but simply an observation, there are implications related to this
phenomenon, concerning the history of Christendom or Christianity per se, that only occurred to me in that
shape last night: Another aspect of the vast difference between Christianity in the years ranging from 30
A.D. until 313, in which the Roman emperor Constantine declared it to be “okay” for anyone to be a
Christian, and its role in the history that followed.
Before Christianity became officially recognized, it was actually dangerous to be a Christian. Anyone
professing to be a Christian for the first 3 centuries of the existence of that faith was daily risking their lives
by adhering to the teachings of Jesus. They were members of an ill-reputed sect (Acts 28:22), and the
penalty for membership was often no less than a cruel public execution.
It was guaranteed back then, that anyone who would hold on to that faith until death, would also receive the
promised crown of life (Rev.2:10).

Paul even went as far as saying that one could not really be a Christian without suffering persecution
(2Tim.3:12).

And for nearly 3 centuries, the enemies of Christ tried to stomp out this new religion until Satan finally must
have realized that it was useless, and a new tactic occurred to him: “If you can’t lick’em, join’em!”

Within a few relatively short years, Christianity became something totally different, if not in some cases the
actual opposite of what it had been until then.

The formerly persecuted sect became the official state religion, and the greatest proof in history of that sad
fact and observation as stated above: power corrupts.

Religious minorities of often simply other variations of the Christian faith that didn’t adhere to all the
countless new dogmas and traditions of the Roman Catholic church that were not found in the original
teachings of Christ were persecuted with the same cruelty by their “brethren” that their predecessors had
experienced at the hands of the Romans.

To be a “Christian” from then on meant to be one of the in-crowd, part of the established majority, not a
sufferer of persecution for his faith, but often a persecutor of others of different faiths. To be a Christian
now meant something completely different than what it had meant for the original Christians of the first 3
centuries. To remain a believer until their dying day simply meant to be enjoying the privileges of power
and status of the rest of society’s hotshots, barely deserving the “crown of life” Jesus had promised to those
who were going to bear persecution and slander for His sake until their dying day.
Of course, there have been numerous exceptions of outstanding Christians who did not conform to the status
quo of the new officially recognized version of their faith, who left their home countries in order to fulfill
Christ’s commandment to “go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,” often to be
persecuted and martyred there by the very souls they were trying to save.
But as for the vast body of what was hence called “Christendom,” it went on to become the single greatest
reason why a large percentage of seeking, honest minds and good people refuse to believe in a God Who
would have fathered and initiated such a religion. The official representatives of Christianity became those
who defied the command – among many others – of Christ to “judge not that ye be not judged (Mt.7:1),”
and created the brand of religious bigotry Paul addresses in the 2nd chapter of Romans, summarized by the
verdict: “‘The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,’ as it is written” (Rom.2:24).

Of course, it’s natural to want to avoid persecution. It’s natural to want to blend in and be accepted,
accumulate recognition, to want to be popular. But it can also be dangerous, because if the sort of
convictions are being lost in the process that once made you stand out and apart from the “norm” and made
you the salt of the earth, then what did all the popularity in the world get you?

It’s normal and only human to want to reign in the here and now, as well as there and then. But is it
realistic? Aren’t those who are promised to reign with Him those who suffer with Him (2Tim.2:12)? Isn’t it
so that there’s no rose without a thorn, no crown without a cross?

Isn’t it still so that the path unto life is narrow, and few there be that find it (Mt.7:14)? That “there is no
restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few,” (1Sam.14:6) in other words, God still stubbornly refuses
to be impressed by numbers?
- And that the world is still waiting for people to really make a difference and resemble the way Jesus and
His disciples truly lived, and refuse to let power corrupt them?

…Just a few thoughts to take with you on your way up to the top of the hill…

Welcome to the New Dark Ages!

December 16, 2009

There are still furious voices for the truth around, Hallelujah! And one of them is Justin Raimondo of
Antiwar.com who just inspired this post with his piece on “The Taxi Driver Who Drove Us to War.”

Mind you, in our age of supposed enlightenment and nearly blinding illumination, up here on the peak of
Evolution in the 21st Century, some of what these voices for truth like Raimondo have to say isn’t always
exactly popular, and perhaps at times downright politically incorrect.

After all, he dares to insinuate at the end of his article that we are headed for a new set of Dark Ages,
instead of the long heralded New Age of blissful New World Order, enlightenment and peace and happiness
for everyone.

And now, isn’t that just the type of stuff we all dread to hear!

We want news of happiness and sunshine, of Nobel peace prize winning presidents and starlets turning
filthy rich over night, and tales of long lasting plenty and opulence for all.

After all, don’t we deserve it?

- For like having made it all the way to the frosty ol’ peak of Mt. Evolute?

Maybe so.

But maybe not so.

Well, I don’t have to tell you why I liked that article, since any of the handful of readers of this blog know
by now that my world view would rightly grant me the title “Mr. Bad News” (since “Dr. Doom” is already
taken), and when I look around, I can only confirm Mr. Raimondo’s observation:

Smells like Dark Ages.

Am I a pessimist?

Perhaps.

But then, if you know me, I’m also very optimistic when it comes to the ultimate destiny of our home
planet.
I know we’re in good hands.

The problem is, “Good Hands” also has a mouth, and His prognosis only confirms the Dark Ages forecast.

So, I’m not really as much of a pessimist as I’m simply a believer in a different Source of information than
all those false prophets of peace and fair-weather-happily-ever-after.

A much more reliable Source, as far as my personal experiences are concerned…

To put it bluntly: eventually, it seems as if sooner or later, at some point in time, some of us are probably
going to die. (This may come as a shock, but cheer up, here’s the good news:)

The good news is, that it may turn out to be not all too bad in case we should.

And here’s why:

According to Dinesh D’Souza, the evidence for a life after death is sufficient to enable him to safely make
the statement that it is both reasonable and “good for us” to believe in such.

Again, my personal Source of information has been confirming that statement and observation since just
about forever.

So, cheer up! Things could be worse. And they probably will be, but only in order to get a lot better.

What is there to be grumpy about when the worst thing that could possibly happen to you (as in “kicking the
bucket”) is simultaneously probably the best thing that could possibly happen to you? – Unless perhaps
you’re on the list of those who are working so feverishly on converting our former paradise into hell on
earth for a good lot of us…

And you can’t evade reaping what you’ve sown.

(But then you’re not exactly a likely candidate for reading this blog, either, so I don’t have to worry about
you.)

For the rest of us, it’s “Bring on the night!” – Because that’s what it will take in order to bring a New Dawn
for real.

Again, the bad news about our new Dark Age is: it’s real, and it’s going to be bad.

I mean really bad: the worst ever.

The good new is: it’s not going to be a very long “Dark Age” this time around, at all, because our Friend in
Charge promised He’s going to even shorten that time for us.

So, the proper term for what’s expecting us might be: A Super-Dark Mini-Age.

That doesn’t sound all that bad anymore, does it? So how’s that for an amateur optimist? Am I doing good,
or what?

And always keep your focus on what’s coming after it! It’s going to be well worth the pain in the behind
that our politicians are currently bestowing upon us.

Happy Ending guaranteed!

Just be sure you only pack the essential for the journey ahead. “Travel lite!” is the slogan of the hour:
Whether it’s Jesus or the Inquisition coming for you, you most likely won’t be able to take your furniture
with you!

Sunday Morning Truths

December 16, 2009

Contrary to popular religion, manifested in the same style as rock-festivals or sports events where masses
gather together in arenas to do things for a few hours that they wouldn’t be caught dead doing anywhere
else, like praise the Lord & shout Hallelujah, Jesus said that the path of truth wasn’t going to be a thing for
the masses, but rather that there were few who would even find it, and that many were called and few
chosen.

Nothing has changed about that, as far as I have experienced, because the vast majority actually chooses to
reject the truth when they hear it.

The truth, as in, how we are really supposed to serve God, namely by going out to find those who haven’t
found Him yet, instead of letting it all hang out in front of all our fellow believers on Sundays and show off
how saintly we are.

Why I’m still addressing this point?

Because I keep experiencing it: People coming to us, claiming that they’re looking for the truth, but when
they actually hear it, they go, “But what I want is a place where I can get together on Sundays and confess
my sins and sing a few songs… etc.”

So much for “looking for the truth”

The truth, as in actually acting out your faith 7 days a week, praising and worshiping the Lord anytime and
anywhere and helping others to do the same sounds much too unappealing for those who are comfortable
with the Sunday-mornings-religion-truth that was fabricated over the past 17 centuries.

Comfortable and delicious truths are much more elaborately produced than those slap-in-the-face sort of
truths that some Savior just comes around and slings around our ears, saying “Take it or leave it!”

Accepted and popular, politically correct truths go out of their way to make it easy for people: “You don’t
have to do all that hard stuff the Boss said to do: you don’t actually have to forsake your belongings to live
communally or tell anyone else what you believe. Why should you, when just singing some songs together
and listening to a sermon can be such a comfortable replacement?

You know, the world isn’t really that bad, and they don’t need Jesus all hat badly, and if they want Him,
they can come to our church. As for the rest of some of them, well, it’s not really our fault if they don’t
come… You know, there really isn’t room in Heaven for all of them, anyway… So, don’t worry…”
Zzzzzzzzz Zzzzzzzzz Zzzzzzz….

In my opinion, what the world doesn’t need is just one more religious outfit practicing their faith in the
conventional “let’s get together once a week” style.

Not as badly as it needs just a handful of people really meaning business for the Lord, who when they say
they “really want to do something” mean something other than just that: “Let’s form another group and get
together once a week.”

Imagine you were running for president and the folks you hired to lead your election campaign only got
together for an hour or two a week to talk about how they were going to get you elected, instead of taking to
the streets with posters and fliers and talking to folks to convince them of what a cool dude you are.

Well, that’s how Jesus must feel.

It seems to be so much easier to rally behind some politician who breaks his promises faster than he can
make them, than behind the only One Who actually keeps His Word.

The conclusion: Liars are more popular. And whatever is popular rules, right?

Errrr…. What was that stuff again about “few there be that find it…?”

Meet My New Friend Malcolm Muggeridge

December 29, 2009

The dead seem to be more alive than the living these days.

At least it seems to me that I’m finding more that I can wholeheartedly agree with among the writings of the
deceased than among the ceaseless, ever more superficial and pseudo-intelligent babble of the large bulk of
my contemporaries.

Well, as a person who never had a problem with life after death, and ever more evidence surging for it,
including some refreshing accounts of how the dead seem to be alive and kicking and joyously
communicating with those left behind on this side of the veil, I’m not too shocked. Although, who wouldn’t
wish he had a few more friends we can actually feel and see?
But then it’s hard to come across minds even remotely comparable to some of those who dared to make a
difference in the decades and centuries gone by – minds like that of Malcolm Muggeridge, whom I only
recently discovered and find out I’m having more in common with than most of my living acquaintances.

I doubt, for instance, if I would find among the living anyone able to put into words as appropriately and
eloquently my very own opinion on the topic of education as he did in his book “Jesus Rediscovered:”

“Education, the great mumbo-jumbo and fraud of the age, purports to equip us to live, and is prescribed as
a universal remedy for everything, from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. For the most part, it
only serves to enlarge stupidity, inflate conceit, enhance credulity and put those subjected to it, at the mercy
of brain-washers with printing presses, radio and television at their disposal.”

“The most powerful instrument of all in bringing about the erosion of our civilization was none other than
the public education system set up with such high hopes and at so great expense precisely to sustain it.”

– Or on the topic of science:

“We are perfectly capable of believing other things intrinsically as improbable as Christ’s incarnation.
Towards any kind of scientific mumbojumbo we display a credulity which must be the envy of African witch-
doctors. While we shy away with contumely from the account of the creation in the Book of Genesis, we are
probably ready to assent to any rigmarole by a Professor Hoyle about how matter came to be, provided it is
dished up in the requisite jargon and associated, however obliquely, with what we conceive to be ‘facts’.

I suppose every age has its own particular fantasy. Ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Pascal,
though himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should
suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the
authority of the Scriptures. With us it is the other way round.”

–Or organized religion (aka “Churchianity“):

“Professing Christians and ostensibly Christian societies and institutions have by no means been true to the
cross and what it signified, especially today when the nominally Christian part of the world is foremost in
worship of the Gross National Product—our Golden Calf—and in pursuit of happiness in the guise of
sensual pleasure. Yet there the cross still is, propounding its unmistakable denunciation of this world and of
the things of this world.”

The way I came across my new heavenly friend was by means of one of his quotes on evolution, to which,
of course, I also couldn’t agree more:

“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be
one of the great jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and
dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has. I think I spoke to you
before about this age as one of the most credulous in history, and I would include evolution as an
example.”

Since there are such wonderful aspects awaiting someone like me in the afterlife, of finally actually meeting
folks on the same weird wavelength as mine, I can only agree with his following statement as well:

“As I do not believe that earthly life can bring any lasting satisfaction, the prospect of

death holds no terrors.“

To round off this train of thoughts, I’ll end this with a quote from wee little me:
When even that which is considered the worst that can possibly happen to a person – death – turns out to
actually be the best that can possibly happen, then what is there to fear? What is there to lose? (April 20,
2008)

“That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Hebrews 2:14, 15).

Supernaturally Spiritual
December 29, 2009

“God is a Spirit,” Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well. That is something a lot of people have a
problem with: spirits. Just because it isn’t visible, it must be inferior (or scary). We only allow things we can
see to impress us, even if they’re totally unreal, like most of the special effects we see in the movies.

As long as it can be seen, it impresses us. Anything that’s not seen, immediately receives the label
“inferior,” if not “irrelevant.”

Perhaps if we exchange the word “spirit” for “supernatural,” though, we might get a little bit more attention.

Pretty much everyone is somewhat interested in the supernatural, even if they have no interest whatsoever in
spirits. Spirits are stuff for stories they used to scare kids with in the olden days. Supernatural is more like
“now you’re talking,” because the stuff they watch on TV deals a lot with those things.

In reality, “spiritual” and “supernatural” is one and the same thing. Everything that cannot be explained in
natural, physical terms stems from a realm that is beyond our natural realm we have thus far been able to
observe, which is the spirit realm, and everything supernatural stems from the spirit world – of course, both
sides, good and evil.

It’s just that by avoiding the term “spirits” we can avoid the biblical and conventional aspect of the
supernatural.

Just as he did with sex, astrology and a bunch of other things, the devil would like to claim the domain of
the supernatural exclusively for himself, which he unfortunately manages to a large extent because of
people’s (and particularly Christians’) fear of the supernatural.

C. S. Lewis wrote in his book “Miracles,” the following:

“Only Supernaturalists really see Nature. You must go a little away from her, and then turn round, and look
back. Then at last the true landscape will become visible. You must have tasted, however briefly, the pure
water from beyond the world before you can be distinctly conscious of the hot, salty tang of Nature’s
current. To treat her as God, or as Everything, is to lose the whole pith and pleasure of her. Come out, look
back, and then you will see…”

That’s in essence the point I’m trying to make with my ongoing eBook project “The Deeper Meaning of
Everything:” that there is something more to see in nature than meets the eye, the handwriting and footprint
of the supernatural, (that which we dare not call spiritual) … of God.

The Carpet Cutters that Killed Capitalism

December 30, 2009

Where would we be without the press to tell us (and remind us over and over again of) what we are to
believe?

In the Spiegel article What the World Can Learn from 10 Years of Excesses three diligent journalists
worked hard to save us all from the effort of using our own overcapacitated brains and wrapped up the past
decade for us in a nutshell, joining many other writers from probably every other major newspaper around
the world.

I suppose that in order to keep their job, a journalist in the 21st century must simply stick to the one great
commandment: “Thou shalt uphold the official version of 9/11,” since that is obviously what each of those
wrap-ups of the decade portray.

Only the Spiegel has given it a special little twist by saying that the carpet-cutter-wielding “radical
Islamists” who allegedly pulled 9/11 also brought down Capitalism per se.

Not only that, but the great 19th century German Jewish prophet Karl Marx even prophesied their heroic
deed.

I guess we’re really going to have to spank those naughty Muslim’s butts now that it’s becoming known that
not only did their envoys bring down the Twin Towers, but also the sacred cow of Capitalism herself.
Other people make resolutions for the new year on December 31st, we pick a specific Bible verse as a
guiding motif for the coming twelve months. Mine for 2010 will be Mark 12:2. “For there is nothing
covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.”

It just thrills me, that the Creator of Heaven and earth should have given us a Promise that some day –
whether near or far – we’re going to be told the truth for a change after all this never-ending hogwash from
an army of fairy-tale makers.

Since I don’t believe in coincidence, I’m beginning to wonder about a deeper significance to the name
“Spiegel” (=mirror) this reflector of “truth” has chosen as its trademark, and am immediately reminded of
Don Quixote’s battle with the knight of mirrors, who finally brought Quixote “back to his senses” with his
version of “reality,” heralding the sad ending of the story.

What’s the lesson to be learned from this? Don’t listen to the tales of the “Knight of Mirrors” if you want to
live a happy life, because what he may sell you as reality may turn out to be another – howbeit extremely
well written – fairytale spun on behalf of the darker powers that be.

Big Fakes Vs. The Real Thing

January 3, 2010

During the last few weeks I’ve been confronted extensively with the issue of Mormonism, since we’ve had
a frequent visitor who, although excommunicated from the official Mormon church, still considers himself a
Mormon.

It’s usually not my thing to blast any cults other than the big established ones, but all I’ve learned in the past
few days about Mormonism puts established Christianity in a different light for me, as I’ve had to realize
that there are apparently yet far greater evils and deceptions than the mainstream of organized religion.

Thus far I had considered Mormons to be fellow Christians with slightly different views and doctrines, but
after hours of research and investigation it turns out that it’s one big fake and counterfeit concoction of true
Christian beliefs, to the extent where I doubt that being a Mormon actually does not necessarily resemble a
true believer at all.
It’s sad when you realize that over 2 millions brothers and sisters you thought you had don’t belong to the
same family, after all, but then there’s a lot of sad things happening in the world as it is…

It’s always unbelievable to what lengths the Devil goes in order to deceive the children of men. It’s like that
infamous Hitler quote that has sometimes been used in connection with Evolution: “If you are going to tell a
lie, make it such a big one that people won’t dare to think you would have such a nerve…” or to that extent,
but it is, after all, what the Devil is best at: telling lies and concocting illusions.

Usually I try to look at the things I have in common with believers from other denominations or groups, but
in this case I’m finding out that there are opposing foundations, and that while I consider myself a definite
seeker of truth, Mormonism turns out to fall into the category of big time deception.

What’s interesting is that Mormons seem to have extraordinarily well working family lives to speak in favor
of their religion, while the Jesus of the Gospels prophesied that true followers of His would be “at variance”
with their Family members, and that “a man’s foes shall be they of his own household,” that children would
betray their parents to the authorities, and that His true Family were not necessarily His own flesh and blood
relatives…

The properly functioning world of the Mormons does not coincide with the often trying life of true Christian
disciples.

One might ask: Why should Christians or true believers have more troubles than those who have the god of
this temporal world on their side? Well, perhaps precisely because they don’t have the blessings of that very
“god” who offered Jesus all the riches and power in the world when he tempted him, but instead, have him
as their enemy, just like Jesus.

Where Satan would normally seek to cause division among true believers, he simply leaves those alone that
he knows secretly belong to him already.

A large part of the faith Mormons have in their religion seems to stem from the emotional, supernatural
(spiritual) experiences they have during their ceremonies, such as our friend also testifies of, being certain
that they could not just have been illusions.

But if one delves into the topic of mind control and has experienced how just about any well-made
Hollywood movie can bring about deep emotional experiences, and then peeks into the history of
Mormonism and finds the same organizations at their basis that finance the global mass deception and
manipulation that simply has been going on for the past century and a half, it becomes evident that the
greatest liar of all times just happens to have won a lot of recruits for his cause…

And if you can get prosperity and family peace along with it, then Mormonism seems to be just a good
religion to get for 10% of your income… unless, what you’re looking for, after all, is the real thing.

Now, I’m not going to try to sell anybody any church, organization or group of people living on this earth
right now as the sole, total and absolute real thing, but if you know the real Jesus from the New Testament,
and you know your Bible, then you know you’ve got the Real Thing.

And I’m afraid one way of finding out what the real things is, for many people involves finding out what it
ain’t, and when it comes to Mormonism, I agree with the colored lady who was asked by her preacher how
in the world she thought she could tell what the “unction” was and replied, “I may not know when it am, but
I sure know when it ain’t…”

The same applies to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, by the way, according to whose official teachings, Jesus is
merely the incarnation of the archangel Michael, and there is no life after death.
In Mormon mythology (theology would probably be the wrong term), Jesus is the brother of Lucifer, not the
“Beginning of the creation of God,” much less His “only begotten Son,” nor the One by Whom all things
were created.

According to Fritz Springmeier and David Icke, both (JW & LDS) were funded in their beginnings by
Illuminati families, and it seems as if the intention was to artificially create counterfeit versions of
Christianity in which the deity and thus divine authority of Jesus was undermined: hollow shells of some
resemblance of Christian spirituality without its real power.

In one, the letter of the law is prevalent, and spiritual experience totally rejected, in the other, the “proof” of
its “authenticity” is based on spiritual experiences of – such is the sad conclusion to which I’ve come
personally – deceptive, demonic origin.

Without the divinity of Jesus, there is no valid blood atonement, and thus, no salvation from sin (which is
the reason why multiple additional rules need to be kept in these self-made religions in order to ensure the
attainment of any hopes for the afterlife).

The result is, lo, another works religion in the fashion of Cain’s example, as opposed to the gift and grace
and love of God that in my opinion is the only faith worthy of passing on to anybody else: the relief of
burdens, instead of yet another burden in itself.

Man-made works-religions are not a solution, but merely part of the problem; and it’s good and important to
know which is which.

More video documentation on the topic

The God Journey

January 5, 2010

I think it’s about time for a post about the “God Journey,” in my opinion one of the hottest moves of God on
earth right now.
The way we got wind of it was in such a way that you just know that it couldn’t possibly have been
coincidence.
Geographically speaking, we’re pretty much situated right in the middle of the boonies. And the chances
that some American speaker on spirituality should seriously arouse our interest and at the same time visit
our neighborhood aren’t exactly high.

Yet about 2 years ago, some very close Christian friends of ours invited us to tug along to hear somebody
named Wayne Jacobsen speak, whom we had never heard of, but who was supposed to have written a book
that was going quite well.
I couldn’t go, but my better half did, and when she came back, she was pleasantly surprised about the fact
that this guy (Wayne) had actually been talking about getting out of the churches.

Curious, we checked out his website, downloaded his book and you can find the download link to that book
– one of the best I ever read – in the sidebar of this blog ever since.

Every now and then I check out TheGodJourney.com, a website on which Wayne Jacobsen presents regular
podcasts along with his friend Brad Cummings, and I listen to some of their stuff, and every time I go,
“awesome!”

Last week I listened to their podcast entitled, “It’s About Jesus” and once again, I thought “awesome!” and I
felt more inspired about what I had just heard than I had been for a while, so I decided to listen to some
more. In fact, I started downloading the whole caboodle of podcasts and to listen to them from the
beginning.

It’s not that I was looking for any new source of spirituality of soul food, but I felt as if God was drawing
me toward this.
Strangely enough, He had been doing similar things in my life previously and drawing my attention toward
comparatively awkward sources of inspiration, such as the Franciscan writer Richard Rohr (Can anything
good come out of the Catholic church?), or, as I mentioned recently, Malcolm Muggeridge, among others.

The neat thing is when you find truths that God has shown you confirmed by different sources: brothers and
sisters around the world; and you find that He’s doing and showing the very same things in the lives of
others that He’s doing in your own.
And one of the truths I find reflected in Wayne and Brad’s talks, for instance, is that it is Jesus building His
church, His Ecclesia, His living body of called-out ones from among all sorts of different areas and walks of
life, and not we ourselves. In other words, God’s part of the action is not only far greater than what we
sometimes give Him credit for, or than what some people would grant Him the permission for, not only
greater than anything we could ever possibly imagine, but it is, in fact, lo and behold, also greater than the
supposedly so important part that we are doing.

And that may come as quite a shock to some of us who perceive themselves as the greater doers.

It’s an old truth that in theory I’ve grown up with: “Let go and let God;” but which has taken me decades to
actually start putting into practice.

Some of the stuff they’re saying I’ve been taught for decades. But I guess it’s one of the jobs of the Holy
Spirit to bring “all these things to our remembrance” even if it is via unexpected sources sometimes…

“Coincidentally,” (if there ever was such a thing), the podcast I was listening to today was all about the
emotional hype that can be produced during religious happenings (in this case it was about the death of
Pope John Paul II a few years ago), and how that can sometimes be a good thing in some people’s lives, but
it can also be quite misleading, all of which sort of goes hand in hand with my recent lessons I learned from
my brush with Mormonism…

You’ll find a lot of similarities between some of the thoughts expressed in this blog over the years, and
those shared on the God Journey, like the idea of taking God out of the box we sometimes like to stick Him
in: our church, our group, our self-made confines for Him and His capabilities that we make up in our own
minds… As long as we think our box is IT, we actually fail to see Him, and we forget that all we really are
is little diamonds of dust, and that He is the light that makes us shine.

How long has it been since you’ve seen sunshine in your brother’s eyes?

Well, I’m afraid the only way we’re going to get back that shine is by focusing on the light, not by
feverishly trying to shine in our own strength.
For passing on a bit of their shine and light of the experience of what they’ve learned in their own lives and
on their jorney with God, I would like to thank Wayne and Brad…

Thanks guys, for being (part of) the Real Thing!

No Sympathy for the Devil

January 6, 2010

Some – or even most people, perhaps, are having a hard time believing that the Devil could be real. They
may even believe in God, or a god or some sort of divinity, but the Devil? – Naah!

With me, it’s the other way around. As far as I’m concerned, the existence of the Devil is so
overwhelmingly evident in his workings in the minds of mankind and the resulting actions, I cannot help but
believe in God and the biblical account of history, because it’s the only explanation of the senselessness all
around us that makes sense.

In order to understand what’s going on all around us, one needs to have an understanding of how the Devil
operates, and as Paul admonishes us, not be “ignorant of his devices.”

One thing we know about him is that he’s a liar, and if we don’t come to the realization that some of the
things we’re being told are downright and blatant lies, nothing makes sense.

We also know that he’s the imitator of God. If God wants us to voluntarily learn to acknowledge that we
depend on Him (just for trivial little things such as the air we breathe, every bite of food and sip of water,
etc.), then the Devil demands that we adhere to his system of dependence on him and his cronies, which is
manifested in his delightful theme of, “work, work, work, so you can pay bills, bills, bills.” (Who else but
the Devil could have ever cooked up such a stinking, boring little game?)

Everything God does, the Devil tries too, except that the way he does it sucks. Which is probably precisely
the reason why God will finally have to intervene after only 3 1/2 years of the Devil’s ultimate kingdom on
earth in order to save His creation from total destruction. The Devil is the absolute champion when it comes
to making a mess out of everything.

Accordingly, it is no wonder that the same happens visibly in areas of our daily life, such as the economy or
the environment, if you take a look at the bloaks who are in charge of it: They follow in their master’s
footsteps, in which lie and deceit are the primary order, and the result is the ever-present fruit of Satan’s
efforts since the beginning of time: hoodlum.

You can tell I’m no big friend of the Devil, nor do I manage to eke out an awful lot of sympathy for him.

As far as I’m concerned, the sooner he gets his long-needed kick in the behind, the better off we’re all going
to be.

But I’m afraid we’re going to have to wait a little longer in order to see the worst of him yet, because only
then will the lesson be completed that we’re supposed to draw from this act entitled “Ye shall be as gods.”

You can never appreciate the Real Thing until you’ve had a dose of the big fake, along with the billions of
little fakelets running around…
 In the Beginning, the Word. — In the End???
January 18, 2010

According to this article from England, alas, it is looking bleak for the future of the English language, or
perhaps, language per se…

If “in the beginning was the Word (Logos),” in other words, as the German Creation Scientist Werner Gitt
put it, “…Information,” then it looks as if once again, the theory of Evolution is turning out to be the biggest
pile of goose dump ever sold to humanity as fact, since what is actually happening is evidently the
opposite : the decline of communication and the very stuff that was necessary to get the ball of Creation
rolling: information.

It’s not that there isn’t any exchange of words happening, and to some degree, what one might still call
information of sorts, it’s just that the actual amount of valid information in what’s being said is rapidly
racing toward the zero mark, and the quality, as we have observed with so many other things in our times,
such as even our fruits and vegetables, and even the dirt in which they’re grown, is decreasing with
shocking speed.

No wonder scientists think they’re gods. Compared to the average IQ of the media-fabricated zombies all
around them, it must be frighteningly easy to fall for the temptation of deeming oneself omniscient…

I’m not denying that there are folks who don’t follow the trend and decline, but, ladies and gentlemen, tell
me, please, what’s it all worth if you’re as smart as Einstein, but the System has it all rigged up to create
blank minds in the future citizens of this globe?

And while we’re all so infatuated with our own cleverness, we idly stand by as our kids are being turned
into intellectual zeros…

After all, we kid ourselves, “Evolution’s going to take care of it!” It’s the undefeatable law of, “We’re all
going to get smarter, no matter what, because we’re all evolving, see?” (I wish Ricky Gervais would have
the guts and brains to take the piss out of his fellow evolutionists someday, the way he does with
creationists and believers of any type – it would sound magnificent to hear him say a phrase like that last
one before the parenthesis…)
I guess the Devil really must hate the concept of useful information being transferred from one place (like a
brain) to another, and so his goal must be the total stupification of mankind. I know I already addressed that
topic, but it never struck me like that:

Perhaps the end of the world will look like this: billions of morons staring skywards, unable to utter
anything remotely more sensible than “Awwwwwwww….” as the last few remaining folks still capable of
articulating entire phrases escape from this world in the only direction left to go…

It’s not that some people aren’t diabolically clever. It’s just that their diabolical cleverness isn’t doing
anybody any good. The fruits of it are becoming plain: absolute, total, terrifying, devastating and global
stupidity.

I know that may sound a bit mean, but you see, I have to take advantage of the golden opportunity to spell
out these words before the majority of our population are going to be left clueless as to their meaning…

I’m not saying that one has to be smart in order to be good. Not necessarily. One can be wise by being
simple. But they have to be wise enough to adhere to the proper type of input. And while everybody’s
feeding on input that’s supposed to make them believe that they’re smarter than anybody else who ever
walked this earth, their offspring and younger peers are slowly being transformed into beings that – if the
trend continues – will not be able to communicate properly with the oh-so-smart but unceasingly aging rest
of us. So, something has got to be wrong about our way of thinking: that fable of the ever-mutating super-
monkey.

Some say it’s all religion’s fault that folks are becoming so dumb. I agree. But it’s more likely the religion
of Evolution that is causing the problem. Because even the most devout Christian has been affected to some
degree by that bug of “automatic superiority” because of the underlying dogma that we’re supposedly
developing into something better, higher and smarter all the time.

You’ve got to be outrageously insane to actually take notice of the opposite happening.

We’re being constantly told and drilled to believe that the exact opposite is happening of what is actually
and in reality taking place, and the illusion is made perfect by ever increasing special effects in the movies,
ever fancier technological gimmicks, and an ever increasing perfection of the outward shell of our System,
along with the perfectly styled and surgically altered appearances of each individual.

When all the while something is rotting inside.

No wonder people are so much into horror movies these days. There’s some real bad voodoo going on, and
it’s turning everything into ever more beautiful somethings on the outside, while the inside is becoming
uglier by the minute, somewhat like Oscar Wilde’s character Dorian Gray.

Maybe Oscar was onto something…

 The Gospel of Mammon
February 1, 2010

Jesus didn’t have to be a loser. He could have been a millionaire. If he would have just had enough sense,
entrepreneurship, businessmanship, and a microscopical fraction of the greed that drives probably 99.9%
percent of His professing modern followers, and would have charged a dime for each fish sandwich He so
miraculously manufactured and doled out by the thousands, or if He would have had the brains to charge
just a tiny percentage of the gain from the sales of the fishes He helped others to catch, or a small fee for His
countless healing miracles.

But the Dude just didn’t have it in Him.

You wouldn’t call it ‘dumb,’ perhaps just a little ignorant.

After all, His kind – way back 2000 years ago hadn’t evolved yet into the highly sophisticated specimen that
know how to make a buck out of anything – even diminishing the population, instead of being so foolish as
to heal anyone and thus slow down the process of eliminating one more superfluous eater and breather…

Talking about the Evolution of Christendom: Jesus didn’t have a clue about the fact that you need a car you
paid at least a five digit amount in dollars, Euros or Swiss Francs for, in order to be a half-way decent
“sample” of His religion, or in order to be able to just stand to live with yourself, for that matter.

His policy of “freely ye have received, also freely give” was typically blue-eyed (and sickeningly idealistic)
for His slightly post-Neanderthal stage in the Evolution of mankind.
He may have gotten the stone of Christianity rolling, but certainly His 21st century followers are smarter
than to avail themselves of any of His suicidal tactics that just showed you were that sort of loser-streak
lands you: up on a hill of shame with the outcasts and the doom of financial and social bankruptcy.

In fact, it’s petty good He’s not around anymore, since His antics of the sort like kicking out the decent
folks with brains trying to properly market their religion from the temple would not really get us very far
with the spreading of our type of gospel, in the 21st century.

Let’s face it: Jesus didn’t know anything about PR, and when it comes down to market assessment, His
credentials equal near zero. I mean, the guy hung out with losers, when everybody knows that the rich are
the most Gospel-neglected stratum of society. Well, they were, up until about 4 decades ago, when we
stopped preaching to the poor and instead made it our vocation to bend over backwards to shove the gospel
of prosperity for the umpteenth time down the throats of those who are perhaps not wildly willing, but at
least able to pay for it what we demand in order to finance our 21st century Christian life-style.
Why preach to millions of strangers and foreigners who really need Jesus, when you can just drone on and
on to the same old neighborhood forever that you can be sure have what you need, right?

The parable of the lost sheep in the 21st century sounds a little bit like this:

Forget about the 99 who don’t have any money anyway and look for the one super rich dude who can really
help you spread our gospel the proper way: with the proper kind of cars, the proper kind of laptops and all
the ado that goes with preaching the gospel of our times, the gospel of the only true god the majority of
Westerners ever served.

No wonder God is a jealous God. Because pretty much all His chicks are totally gaga about this other dude:
the guy with the flashy Rolex, the perfect teeth and sparkling red Porsche, the sole and one true conqueror
of all the hearts of what has the audacity to call itself Christendom far and wide: all hail, glory, honor and
praise to our conquering hero, our one true lord and most sovereign ruler, Mammon!

How I can tell that that’s your dude? Very simply, because Jesus said, “Out of the fullness of the heart, the
mouth speaketh,” and since just about everything in your life seems to be revolving around little colored
papers with numbers on’em, and the acquisition of those little colored papers with numbers on’em, and all
that you would and could do if only you had more of those little colored papers with numbers on’em, why,
then you’d finally have the time to tell anybody about Jesus…

Maybe I’m exaggerating. But it should cause you to pause long enough to think if there’s even the remote
possibility that that’s the impression one of your fellow humans gets of you from hearing you talk.
It’s not that I mind you pursuing your passion. I used to be on the same trip for decades and wonder,
whenever I met anyone, “How can this person be of service to me? How can they help me advance and
further our ‘good cause’?” – imagining plush villas and mansions with swimming pools we would all live
happily ever after in until Jesus comes.

It’s just that I do mind your treating me as less than human for having betrayed our former common goals,
and for simply having stopped drooling at the sound of the word “Money!”
Hey, I can live with it, if that’s your big kick. The big question is, can you live with it, that it’s not mine?

I know I’m an embarrassment to you for driving onto your driveway in a 20 year old car that I scarcely had
to eke out a four digit amount for, and if there’s one thing in the world you don’t understand it’s how on
earth I can have the audacity to even survive in a crummy little house like ours.
And what weirds you out the most is: how come we actually have friends that like to come over and be with
us in that crummy little house?

Well, the secret is that same old five-letter name that you seem to have so grossly distorted in your mind:
Jesus.

I mean, the real Jesus, not the, “C’mon and I’ll show you how to get rich quick” Jesus made in Hollywood.

The One Who didn’t charge anyone for His sermons, His healings, not even His fish sandwiches.
The One who didn’t care about prestige or what the heck the rich, the fat and the pompous said.
The One Who was so real, so raw, so naked, that He didn’t even mind being nailed to a cross for you, full-
well knowing that You’d screw the other guy a million times behind His back.
The One Who was not ashamed of calling the poor, the outcasts, the little ones, the weirdos and losers His
friends, because He couldn’t have cared less about what the fancy hypocrites thought of Him…
The One Who can’t wait for you to come back to your senses and love Him and see Him for Who He really
is and has always been.
The One Who said, “In as much as you have done it unto the least (not the richest, fanciest, shiniest and
most prestigious) of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.” And of Whom it is written that He is not
a respecter of persons.
When He looks at you, He looks at who you really are, and not that hollow shell you’re artificially trying to
beef up like a Christmas tree.

May God have mercy and call us all back to the reality of Who He really is!

What If II (Or: Shut Up Already!)

February 1, 2010

I know, the politically correct thing in more than one aspect, would be to shut up. And I could imagine that
some of my brethren are praying that I would.
And I have a feeling that their prayers may soon be answered, and I’m just about through with what I’ve got
to say. But before I do, just a few more thoughts I’d like to throw out there:

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that God is Love, and that He loves each one of His children beyond
measure. But I also know, that part of that love includes a measure of His love that we do not always
appreciate: the measure of correction. “For whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom He receiveth” (Heb.12:6).
And judgment begins with the house of God.

All I’m saying (once again) is, “What if?” – What if – in spite of His never-ending mercy upon all of us
(and He knows that I need it more desperately than anyone), there is just too much wrong about the way we
do things, than He could allow us to get away with?

As loving and as merciful as He is, what if we, as Christians and thus His self-declared representatives, are
making ourselves guilty of sins and crimes that would be a lack of love and justice on His part – toward the
rest of the world, if He wouldn’t do anything about it?

What if we’re not really smarter at all than Adam and Eve? Let’s recall: What was their sin? The sin that got
us all into this mess and got us the Devil as temporary ruler, master and “god of this world,” was that they
believed a lie!
What if we haven’t learned anything from that incident, and haven’t gotten any smarter since?

What if we’re still allowing the serpent to tell us one fairy-tale after another, and we all go, “Yeah, let’s do
that!” like they did back then?

I’m thinking of one famous fairy-tale in particular, of 19 bearded “bad guys” with carpet-knives defying the
laws of physics and bringing down 3 buildings with 2 planes at free-fall speed, allegedly crashing into the
Pentagon with another passenger plane, leaving a hole scarcely big enough for a glider to have hit it, much
less any evidence or even so much as an actual photo of the aircraft…
A fairy-tale that has recently been repeated by every journalist with a job around the globe in their wrap-up
of the first decade of the millennium and has sent tens of thousands of “Christian” troops off to foreign
lands to kill millions, supported by the prayers of the brethren back home.

What if our God just so happens to love the Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis and Palestinians, too, that have been
killed on our behalf – and what if our reasons for killing them weren’t nearly as noble as we were told?
What if God is not just going to stand by and ignore our slaughter of the innocents, and say, “Tsk, tsk, how
clumsy, My dears! Now take better care next time, okay?”

What if our God is slowly becoming sick and tired of being made the laughing stock of the rest of the world
on our behalf, and there is really some actual modern relevance to that Scripture, “God’s name is
blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you” (Rom.2:24)?

What if we really cannot serve God and Mammon as Jesus said?

What if all those Scriptures we don’t like are just as valid as the ones we always pick and constantly repeat
because we like the way their sound tickles our ears?

What if all those dreadful Endtime scenarios of the Book of Revelation are going to be a well-deserved
reality, not only for unbelievers, but – let’s just assume for a moment those Scriptures really mean what they
say, the Antichrist is going to wage war on the saints – and obviously not talking about the Jews? What if
we’re going to actually reap what we have sown, and the Antichrist is going to be our just dessert, for
believing his father’s lies, just as it has been since the beginning?

What if we’re not anywhere as good as we think we are, just because we call ourselves Christians?

I know, God loves us, anyway, and He’ll forgive. But it also says that He chastens those He loves, and that
those who knew His will and did it not were going to be beaten with more stripes than those who knew it
not.
What if God actually means what He says? – Contrary to the dude whose lies we constantly swallow, which
he tells only in order to get us into trouble with God?
What if God did actually expect us to use the brains He gave us?

I’m not trying to pretend to be some kind of teacher here. I’m just a nobody asking a couple of
uncomfortable questions, because what I read in the Bible and what I see the supposed followers of that
Book actually do does not jibe, and it actually makes me feel very uncomfortable…

What if it’s really true that as wonderfully sweet, and loving as Jesus is, there are still those types of
Christians around that make Him so sick at His stomach that He fills like vomiting them out (see Rev.3:16)?
What if the Bible is actually right, and the world is not getting any better, but actually worse, including the
general quality of Christians and believers?

What if the lies the Devil told in the beginning were actually fairly decent, artistic concoctions of half-
truths, compared to the God-forsaken crap we swallow by the truck-loads nowadays?

Maybe we’re not nearly as ingenious as we think just because we know how to handle a remote control or
play computer games, or kill people with super-sophisticated weapons…

What if, in reality – contrary to all that we honestly believe and think – we’ve become more stupid than
ever?

I know that’s not exactly positive thinking here. I know I’ll never win the title, “The world’s greatest
optimist.” But from where I stand, I see tiny shrinking islands of honesty floating on a vast, growing sea of
lies, so my optimism is exclusively dedicated to my Savior and Maker, and not so much the bulk of my
fellow humans, from whence mine help surely not cometh…

So, it’s probably true: the best thing in the world I can do is to finally shut up. I just hope and pray that you
guys are right, and God is either totally tripping on acid, or blind and not anywhere near as pissed off about
what He’s seeing as some of your fellow humans are…
Because if He is, and He already said that Sodom and Gomorrah were going to look better on J-Day than
Jerusalem, I don’t want to know the fate of some of our present day Sodoms and Gomorrahs… If God is
real at all, folks, He certainly couldn’t be the kind of a pussy some of us seem to want to make Him, and I’m
afraid sooner or later He’s going to have to prove that to the world.

So, sorry, for having rocked your boat this one more time. I don’t know what else there is to say that could
possibly get me into more trouble. I just hope you’re all right and I’m wrong, and we can all blissfully sleep
on until our magic prince will awaken us in paradise. All I was saying is, “What if” not?

Spirituality Pushers
February 7, 2010

One of the factors that causes an increasing amount of people to shun organized religion of all shapes and
sizes is the same reason that causes some people to run away from relationships: Certain kinds of people
(and religiously organized folks have a strong tendency to fall into that category) seem to be driven by an
incessant urge to improve their fellow humans. No matter how happy you may be in your present situation,
if your life-style differs too strongly from theirs, they simply can’t live with it, but will endlessly persuade
you to join them in the way they’re doing things.

Their tolerance level towards people who do things differently than they is very low.

While on one hand their strong conviction about their beliefs and methods is commendable, on the other one
would wish for the moment that it might dawn on them that some people might actually be called to do
things differently.

It has been my observation that God is into awesome variety. – A variety that would probably strike some
people as outrageous. Yet, as Christians, it’s something we need to learn, if we plan to follow the Man Who
didn’t care what the established members of society said or thought about Him when He associated with
fallen women, the outcasts of society and constantly availed Himself of methods that had never ever been
heard of before.

Most of us act as if Jesus, when He said, “I will build My church (ecclesia),” was talking about a box, and
everyone who belonged in that box was supposed to act and look exactly the same. Probably we do that
because of the “boxiness” of our own finite minds. But let’s expand our horizons a little bit: What if He
wasn’t talking about identical cubicles when He said, “In My Father’s House there are many mansions”?

What if Jesus’ intention was to set His believers free, instead of locking them all up in one and the same
sheep pen? What if He would much rather have us delight in those green pastures beside the still waters
where He would lead us, instead of amassed together in a squashy fold, just waiting to be stripped of our
wool?

We all look down upon – and rightly so, perhaps – drug dealers, who sell their drugs to people, even
children, that get them addicted and dependent on their merchandise.

But isn’t that in some ways exactly what a lot of religious people do who get people dependent on their
system?

Instead of just being concerned about their flocks’ welfare and proving this by equipping them with the right
tools and weapons that will make them fit for the battle of life, they purposely seem to keep them as weak as
possible and dependent on their system, eternally insecure even about basic faith issues such as salvation,
which they might easily lose anytime they might stay away from their congregation for too long, or commit
comparable atrocious crimes…

Some people’s concept of love seems to be: “To love you love you means to try to make you just like me.”

But perhaps it’s supposed to be a lot more the way God – the One Who is Love, after all – did it: show that
He accepted and loved us by having His Own Son become One of us. The sheer act of such love made us all
– those of us who are into love at all, that is – flip so completely over Him, that we don’t have to be
persuaded to become like Him. We gladly will strive to do all we can to achieve that, anyway. No
persuasion needed. No constant, “Hey, Why don’t you do it this here way, the way we do it?” or “You really
should join our church and become more like us!”

If whatever you do is the Real Thing, people will automatically copy you, you won’t even have to tell them
much.

Otherwise it’s like the arrogant attitude of some high ranking US Navy Officer’s article I read on the
Homepage of the Council on Foreign Relations about two years before the Iraq war began, way before the
Bush administration ever invented the magic phrase “Weapons of Mass Destruction” that got the rest of the
Western World into the “Kill Saddam” frenzy.

The CFR members explained how it was the enlightened world’s duty to bring the “gap nations” such a Iraq
“in” to the great big corporate family of Coca Cola and McDonalds’ fast food consuming better part of the
World. Or the way Michael Moore put it in “Stupid White Men:” “We need to usher them into the New
World Order” gently.

Well, “gently” remaining entirely a matter of definition, of course… (Since reducing a country’s population
by 1.5 million might easily be questioned as, “Couldn’t we have done it a little more gently???”). But the
gist of the attitude of arrogance is the same.

We think we made the Iraqis infinitely happier with our gifts of radio-active shrapnel and raping their
daughters, but how do they see it?
Well, and that’s probably the same way a lot of people feel about organized religion… Especially since the
vast majority of that organized “opium of the people” couldn’t jump on the Muslim killing band wagon fast
enough. After all, the faster we get rid of those who are different, the quicker the job will be done to make
everyone exactly like ourselves, and isn’t that the goal?

We’ve seen it before: with the American Natives, or virtually any distinct ethnic group that Christianity has
sent their missionaries out to, often not so much to show them the love of Christ, but to assimilate and
absorb them into our belief system at gun point.

“Well, if we hadn’t done it, they would have eaten us!” is the response of some.

True. We wouldn’t have wanted to wind up like martyrs, like Jesus, His apostles and the Early Church for 3
centuries before we moved from the arenas into the grandstands…

We wanted to follow Him our own way. After all, haven’t we always known better than Him?

How Acceptable Is Workaholism?

I’ve said before that if time is money, then most people I know are dead poor.
A lot of them don’t have time for God, their wives, their children, much less their friends because the one
thing they love above them all is their work.
They say they do their work “with love,” but in reality, it is just that they love their work more than
anything else.
If they would love God, their families and friends more, believe me, they would make time for them,
because we always manage to find time for whatever we deem most important.
But since our work is what defines us, and “us” is what we love most, no matter how Christian we claim and
pretend to be, the thing we love second best – right after “us” – is our work.
Or work is what makes us proud of us, recognized and established members of society (aka “the System”)
and day by day, stone by stone, through our work, we build an image of ourselves that we can proudly fall
down before and worship: a god we don’t have to be ashamed of, because we know where it’s coming from:
we have erected it with our own blood, sweat and tears.

No wonder the one thing this type of people hate most is a bunch of hippies who come along to tell them
that Jesus said that you cannot serve God and Mammon, “Look at the lilies of the field, and the birds, etc…”
“Grrrr!!! Enough of that!!! Shut up already, or I’ll kill you!!!”

Of course, we do it, because we want to look “responsible.”

“It’s your duty as head of a family, to make sure that you provide for your family!”
Sure, but that’s the same gospel the heathen preach, Jesus said.
Anyone can do that!
You don’t have to call yourself a Christian in order to do that!
But, of course, you want to get the best of both worlds, the here and now, the worship of the flesh and ego,
and a big fat crown and reward in Heaven for everyone to see just what a good, responsible worker you
were…

After all, “What if everybody would preach the Gospel?” – “We can’t all live like you!” “We can’t all
forsake all and go into the world and follow Jesus…” “Our whole beautiful System would collapse!” –
“Everybody would laugh at us! – Especially the Devil!”

Well, I don’t think so. In fact, I think there’s nothing that Satan could possibly be more scared of than just 5
people on this globe pausing from their money-raking frenzy long enough to find out what God earnestly
would want them to do instead.
As long as everyone is feverishly puffing away the one thing they’ve been given in this life – their time – in
the ceaseless pursuit of little colored papers, he doesn’t have the faintest worry.
After all, as long as we do that, it’s certainly not his Enemy we’re worshiping, much less serving. In fact,
chances are, we might not even really know Him. And with a little bit of bad luck, we might even hear Him
tell us just that, some day.

More On Workaholism
February 11, 2010

What if He had just said, "Good job, boys! - Keep going!"?

I’ve recently tried to tackle the problem of workaholism, but I’m afraid there are a few more aspects to the
issue that I would like to expound on.

When I’m talking about the “problem” of workaholism, I am, of course, referring to the issue from what I
would consider to be a Christian aspect, referring thus to Christians, since it’s obvious that the majority of
the world’s population would not consider the issue a problem at all: Their work is what they live for; it is,
essentially, their life.
Especially men are notorious for defining their worth, in fact, themselves, by numbers: the numbers on their
bank account, the number of cubic centimeters of oil their car’s motor holds, or even more seemingly trivial
numbers, such as the inches that constitute the size of certain body parts…
If anything threatens to diminish those numbers, their lives are sometimes drastically reduced to nothing
(they feel), and – as the recent movie “Up In the Air” with George Clooney showed – some people consider
their lives as good as over when the worst conceivable thing happens to them and they lose their jobs.

But what about the Christian aspect on these things? Christian, as in, more than one hour a week
Christianity? What did or would Jesus (= Jesus Christ: founder of Christianity) have to say about it?
First of all, the word “workaholism” implies that we’re dealing with some form of addiction here. As a
Christian, you would certainly consider alcoholism a problem. – Or any addiction to any intoxicating
substance, for that matter. Workaholism, on the other hand, probably the biggest addiction of the last
century, has a much more politically correct slant to it in that it brings a family the sort of things modern
families have learned not to live without: all those gimmicks advertised to us just about non-stop
everywhere, on the tube, the internet, on billboards… you name it.
We figure, work equals money, and money equals our wives’ and children’s happiness and security.

I’m going to be honest with you and admit that probably the reason why I’m in any position at all to write as
weird a blog as this one is largely due to the fact that I have a partner whose happiness luckily is generally
not defined by any of the numbers mentioned above that usually define a man’s self-worth. – In addition to
the fact that I happen to belong to the group of personality types which simply lack the energy for the game
of numbers by which we impress our fellow humans, especially those of the other sex.

So, let’s have a look at what we could safely assume would be Jesus’ position on workaholism.
Was He into our macho game of “I’ll impress you by my capabilities as a solid provider for my family,”
etc.?

First of all, we can assume that if He would have considered a man’s highest duty to pursue his job until His
dying day, He would have saved Himself a lot of trouble by sticking to carpentry, instead of persuading at
least 12 male members of the working force that we know of to abandon their careers (and families) in order
to join Him on what might be considered some rather vague and hazy ambition of… errr… saving the world
from its erroneous ways. – And which erroneous ways, exactly? Could they possibly have been exactly
what we are talking about? – The Matrix? – The Machine?

We already covered a few things Jesus said that didn’t exactly coincide with the universal message of “Get
a Job!”, like the stuff that most working folks hate so much about Him: you know, the lilies of the field talk,
and that outrageous statement of not being able to serve God and Mammon simultaneously, in Matthew 6.
That was bad enough.
Then there was, “Labour not for the meat that perisheth.” In English, this would mean: Don’t work for food
that rots away. He said to work for a different sort of food. The type that would last forever. Of course, He
was talking about the distribution of His teachings in a sense, but some folks have gone and made a whole
industry out of that, too.
And with all the “spiritual food industry” has to offer, does it effectively equip folks with a living
relationship with God, an established means of communication with Him that’s also going to spill over on
others? – Not in the case of most Christians I know.

People are always quick to pull out the few verses that justify what they’re doing, such as the few that seem
to advocate the pursuit of their jobs: “He that shall not work shall not eat,” and of course, their all-time
favorite, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,” which is what the Lord told Adam as a result of the
curse he had brought upon us all by his disobedience, that we still seem to be haunted by… Unless we don’t
have a reason to doubt our Salvation, the one reason why Jesus came to redeem us in the first place: the
process that would (and should) reverse and annul the result of the curse in our lives.
But again, the reason most folks are insecure about their Salvation is because they are not familiar enough
with the Word of God which repeatedly assures them of it (if they believe in Jesus), and the reason they are
not familiar with it, is that they are too busy chasing after money. Instead of spending the time to find out
how much God really loves them, they settle for the industrial, fast-food version of spirituality: “Come back
next Sunday for your next fix!”

Unfortunately, the way the Christian establishment works nowadays is that they encourage their flock to
keep doing things exactly this way, since they need their members’ money in order to feed the machine they
have created, which has often become just another branch of the giant Matrix of Mammon.
Let’s be honest: The place of importance of the two commandments Jesus said were the top two, and
basically the essence of them all (namely, to love God and others) has been replaced in the lives of most of
us by the great commandment of Mammon: “Thou shalt earn money!”

And, since we are all so much into numbers, let’s prove it: How many hours a week do we spend loving
God and our fellowmen, compared to the amount of hours we spend labouring for the meat that perisheth?
Honestly? If we work 5 times 8 hours a week, how much time and energy do we have left for the two great
commandments? It would probably be a generous estimate to say that most of us might be able to eke out
perhaps an hour a day for God, and maybe 1 to 3 hours for our families and friends? That adds up to half of
what we dedicate to our work. In other words, we are twice as obedient to the great commandment of
Mammon than we are to the commandments of God. Of course, you won’t hear anybody in the churches
preach that…
And we all know that the above was a generous estimate. The people I’m really talking about usually work
10 to 12 hours a day, and spend maybe two or three hours maximally on their faith and with their families,
and much of that is due to the fact that they still have to eat sometime.

So, what would Jesus say about our modern System and the way most of us practice our religion nowadays?
Of course, we’re hoping He would understand. “You know, Lord: everybody does it that way! You can’t
just stop working! We can’t just all start following You and preaching the Gospel, the way You and Your
disciples did…”

No, of course not.

But maybe – just maybe – He might remind us of what the priorities are, according to His rules, and that by
and large, we’re failing to live up to that. Perhaps He might also prompt us to try to find a solution and a
slightly better balance in our lives between our jobs and that which He obviously considers more important.
And perhaps we’d find out that less is sometimes more: Less money does not always necessarily equal a
lesser quality of life, but – if you’re out for the Real Thing, at all – you might find out, as I have, less money
might actually help you appreciate more what you’ve already got and inspire you to spend more time
appreciating it, including our awesome God and the folks He has given us to tug along on our journey
through life.
Because, at the end of the day, all those numbers, completely regardless of their sum and the amount of their
digits, you can’t take them with you when it’s over.

“Well, but what if everybody would start working less? – The System would collapse! The Chinese would
take over!!!… The end of the world….” – I already hear them protest in my mind. Well, just for your
information: the System is already collapsing anyway, and it’s going to collapse sooner or later regardless of
any of your doings. Paper money is going to be history before long, and it’s not because you decided to
work only 6 or 7, instead of 10 or 12 hours.
The end of the world as we know it is going to come one way or the other, and whether it’s only going to
constitute a new and better beginning for you or a dreadful plunge into icy water will largely depend on the
amount of time you’re willing to invest today in the things that last, instead of merely the meat that
perisheth…

I guess, in the end, it all depends on where our faith, our hearts (and our treasure) really are: whether in this
world with all the things that money can buy, all the security it promises and the self-esteem it gives us, or
in the One Who called His out of this world, because they simply were not really part of it…
 Who Are the Terrorists?
February 11, 2010

There are some passages in the Bible that don’t make much sense to the average, main stream believer, and
only start making sense to you if you mean serious business about following God. As a result, as I’ve
brought out before, most Christians choose to ignore them.
The average church goer does not know what it is to be persecuted, maligned or slandered for their faith, nor
even of the division that Jesus has been known to bring to people, even among families. If, however, you
happen to belong to a small religious minority with somewhat controversial views, things may look quite
different.
If you’re used to newspapers, magazines, and TV hosts distributing lies and twisted half-truths about your
own community since decades, you become more aware of the actual degree of accuracy (or rather, the lack
thereof) in modern journalism, and one grows increasingly suspicious of “news” over alleged “terrorists.”
You somehow know from reading the Bible that the day may not be very far off when they’re going to start
calling you a terrorist, too.

Every now and then God is good to me and sends along some conformation of something I happen to
believe (as outlandish as some of it may be), and I come across an article by some established journalist or
writer stating exactly what I’ve been feeling all along.
In his article, “The Lynch Mob Mentality,” Glenn Greenwald voices exactly my sentiments on the
“terrorists” issue. It’s always encouraging when there’s another lone voice piping up somewhere that gives
you the kind of feeling on, “Right on, Bro!”
Just for someone out there who doesn’t swallow the propaganda that’s being spewed at us by the dragon of
the mass media that gives us – possibly the “terrorists” of tomorrow – a glimpse of hope, even if only a
glimpse…, as far as the level of awareness of our fellowmen is concerned (although we generally have
stopped daring to hinge our hopes on frail flesh and blood long ago…)

Another neat little confirmation of some of my utterings I came across recently was this article, in which
Pastor Jeff Vanderstelt is quoted as telling his fellow-clergy that “The job of pastors, teachers and apostles
is to equip the saints for works of ministry, not to do the ministry for the saints,” which is one of the points I
tried to make with my recent “NewLeaf” post on “Effective Evangelism.”

The key word here being “equip.”

If what we’re mainly interested in is equipping folks with the truth and the spiritual weaponry found therein
to counter evil without worrying who will get the credit or even the money for it, we’re probably a lot closer
to Jesus’ original idea of an apostle.
Unfortunately, being so outrageously different from the “established method” will inevitably put your group
or church in the camp of the outcasts, black-labeled and maligned, since something has just got to be wrong
with those who just want to give folks Jesus, His Word and Holy Spirit without insisting on stuffing them in
the box of the good old established church system and “the way we’ve always done it…”

In other words, if any Christian should decide to actually practice the “equipping of saints for works of
ministry” as preached above, he is very likely to discover one of those truths he may have thus far
considered outdated: “And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (2Tim.3:12). The
Devil doesn’t mind just one more preacher in a million, preaching to another congregation in a million that
will limit their faith life to listening to a sermon per week, but he will certainly hate your guts and fight you
tooth and nail once you really start doing the job God intended for us to do…

Let’s see how readily you will join the rest of the world in labeling others “terrorists,” “radicals,” “fanatics”
or “extremists” then.

Who Are the Terrorists? (Take 2)

February 17, 2010

We just watched “Avatar,” and against my expectations, based on Christian reviews and articles I had read
about it over the past weeks, I really liked it.

Basically, we just watched it for our daughter’s sake, with the usual, “for whatever it’s worth attitude,” but I
guess I’m too much of a nature freak myself to have disliked this movie, and I would like to express some
thoughts here about where I’m afraid Corporate Christendom is mistaken in most of its mainstream
interpretations of the film.

I’m not too naive to not see the obvious “Gaya” message here. But if wanting to save the Earth is “New
Age”, then I have shocking news for you: God is New Age, too:

“And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear
Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth” (Revelation 11:18).

God happens to love this blue ball, and He apparently does not like the kind of folks who destroy it,
regardless of whether they do it in the name of red-white-and-blue flag waving Churchianity or not.

Oh, so there was talk of spirits in the movie. Real scary. They’re alive! What a shocker!

The problem with Corporate Christianity is, they like to deep freeze everything: they like to deep freeze the
white-hot Spirit of God, if they can, to keep everyone cool and calm in the churches, lest anyone start any
revolutionary fires out there, that the Big Holy Corporation couldn’t control… They like to believe that the
minute you’re dead, you’re first going into a state of spiritual deep-freeze so you can’t spook around and
haunt anybody, but that’s not what we can glean from the Bible: We have accounts of the spirit of the
prophet Samuel, of Elias, Moses, and a cloud of witnesses alive and kicking from beyond the grave, and
God turning the hearts of the sons to their fathers. We have a Savior claiming to be the Resurrection and the
Life and that whoever believes in Him, would never die, and yet we’ve got all of His supposed “followers”
scared stiff of the mere utterance of the word “spirit.”

Sure, the “worship” scenes were a bit weird. But not any weirder than some Pentecostal worship scenes you
can watch on Youtube…
Then there are the painfully embarrassing parallels in the story of “Avatar” between the Na’vi (“Natives”?)
and not only the American Natives who suffered a similar fate (except for the happy ending), but every
native tribe on the face of God’s earth who simply had to be pressed into the same civilized molds they
reared us in, otherwise they were not allowed to continue to live: “Become like us, or die” seems to be the
interpretation of the Gospel since the birth of the Corporate and officially recognized and state-supported
version of Christianity roughly 1700 years ago.

And of course, the even more painful parallels between the victims in the movie and the real live victims of
21st century Christendom: “Whoever is sitting on something you want must become your enemy…” Ouch!
Better keep praying for our boys to help our generals haul all that Iraqi Oil on Home to Daddy, where it
belongs…

There was an article out a few weeks ago about young people being depressed after watching “Avatar”
because they would prefer to live in a world like “Pandora”…

Well, can you blame’em? Maybe they just got sick of gray! Maybe they prefer green to the color of
concrete. Maybe they’re sick and tired of the plastic world you’re handing them!

And apparently you haven’t managed to convince them yet that the Place the Christian God has in store for
His believers is actually real, or really where it’s happening. Perhaps, if they figure you’re going to be there,
walking around in your suit and singing those humdrum holier than thou songs, they couldn’t possibly
imagine they’re going to be happy there.

Personally, my own idea of my favorite spot in Heaven is a lot more like the Home of the Na’vi than a
church building. Chalk it up to my early “Tarzan” influences (since I devoured a bunch of antiquated Edgar
Rice Burroughs tomes in my childhood), but I always thought it would be cool to have a home in a gigantic
tree…

Maybe yours is all streets of gold lined with one church building next to another, just like in Tennessee…

But who says that Heaven has to look exactly the same everywhere? Last I heard, it’s a mighty big Place.

I also have no problem with the teaching that God is everywhere and in all living things. I think of Him as
being a lot more inclusive than that warmongering, genocidal, separatist version of Christianity that has
always preferred its own philosophy of “kill whatever is different” over its supposed Founder’s order,
“Love your enemies!”

- The argument, of course, being, “Well, who knows what would have happened, if we would have loved
our enemies, instead of killing them?”

I guess God knows. Maybe some day He’ll show all of us what might have happened if the American
Natives would have been allowed to continue their existence prior to their extermination, and what
Christians might have learned from some of them. Or what if one and a half million Iraqis wouldn’t have
been ransacked on grounds of some very shady excuses…

I know it’s tough, learning to love those who are different. We even resist our own children and their weird
inklings to want to watch weird movies like that… (Not to mention our wives’ sudden inspirations like
wanting to get a dog and open up a tattoo shop…)

We must preserve our own values.

Funny thing is that Jesus’ message was never about preservation, but much more about “Give it up!”

But that’s not something we’re willing to do. Not for Him, and certainly not for “mother earth.”
We insist on keeping driving our “the-fatter-the-better” cars, and we insist on being the champions of the
world.

We can’t grant “the others” the slightest chance of ever becoming a threat to us. We’ve got to make sure we
remain no.1 “for the sake of the gospel…”

Well, you know my opinion about that type of Gospel.

I suppose a lot of Christians would consider me a traitor the way Jake Sully, the character who tells the
Avatar story, was perceived as having betrayed “his own…”

Who would you rather fight for? – A bunch of corporate warmongers, or any peaceful, though perhaps
somewhat strange and foreign culture in touch with nature?

I know, you don’t think you could ever make it without all your high-tech toys and your fancy Western life-
style, but why not be honest about it and admit that you’re having a problem, and it’s not “the others”?
Maybe they only have a weird religion because in their eyes, yours is even weirder!

Maybe Mohammed wouldn’t have even had to cook up Islam, if Christians wouldn’t have been such a
pitiful bunch of idolaters at the time he came around…

Why not be honest and confess that it’s we who are sick, totally addicted and hooked on some shiny
temptation that looks almost exactly like the real thing, but on the inside is a far cry from it?

Maybe the enemies of Christianity wouldn’t have had to cook up their own New Age religion if Christians
wouldn’t always fall so badly for every shiny temptations their real Enemy comes up with… If we wouldn’t
fall for him time and time and time and time again…

(Coincidentally, maybe Adam Weishaupt never would have founded the Illuminati if the church had
allowed him to marry his deceased wife’s sister…)

Our credo remains, “We have declared terror on terror.” – Hmmm.

Who are the real terrorists, though?

I guess we’ll all know, someday. And a lot of people are going to be in for a shock, when the Dude in whose
name they did all that killing is going to pretend as if He never even knew them…

Maybe they never even knew Him. Maybe all they ever worshiped was an idea of Him that couldn’t have
been further from the truth.

Maybe the truth is somewhere a lot closer to the middle between those “tree-huggers” and the
“conquistadores” who want to fell every last tree in the name of progress and enlightenment than most of
our conservative brethren would ever have the guts or imagination to consider…

If you ask me, I’d rather be on the side of the victims than on that of the butchers. At least they know how to
fight for real, know how to die, and what they’re dying for.

Maybe our God is going to turn out being quite the totally “Other” than ourselves: A God Who not only
loves the “good,” the rich and the beautiful, but also the weird, the bad & the ugly, and that He would have
wanted us to walk a little more in His shoes, if we were already calling ourselves by His Son’s name, and
loved “the least of our brethren” a little more, instead of butchering them by the millions…

One really neat thing that was said in the movie was, “You can’t fill a vessel that’s already full.” — There’s
more wisdom in that, and more truth about the reality of Christendom than you’ll ever hear in a thousand
sermons. It’s basically the same thing Jesus said to the Pharisees: “If you knew you were blind, you
wouldn’t be to blame, but because you think you see….”

When we stop learning and all we want to do is convert everybody to our way of seeing things, something
terrible has begun to happen.

You start missing the very purpose for which you were born on this earth. You start seeing everybody
who’s different and doesn’t think and act exactly the same as you do as an enemy, instead of saying, “I see
you.”

Sure, it’s a terrible thing that a lot of our youth are seeing Gaya worship and New Age as a more attractive
alternative to your religion. But maybe it’s because they never really needed a religion as much as they
needed the truth, and we must all sincerely ask ourselves whether that’s really what we wanted and were
looking for and have found – or did we settle for half-truths mixed with convenient lies?

We wouldn’t have been the only ones.

It has always happened, since the beginning of time, even to people way more perfect than we ever were,
made straight in the image of God…

I agree that James Cameron is sincerely mistaken about a few of his views, such as stated in his “Lost Tomb
of Jesus” documentary, or in the apparent assumption that Arnold Schwarzenegger is or has ever been
anything like good actor (although his acting career definitely supersedes the political).

He’s probably going to get his surprises, too, at the end of life’s road…

But I can also see his point. If Jesus was anything like the majority of His followers portray Him, I’d have
changed over to the “Gaya” camp long ago, too.

I love my enemy enough to be able to learn from him. Unfortunately, sometimes I have the impression that
there’s more to learn from some of our enemies than we can from our supposed friends.

It wasn’t the Romans who were bent on crucifying Jesus, but His own religious leaders…

When will we ever learn?

 You Know You’re a Winner When…

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You know you’re a winner when…

…you don’t have time to answer your e-mails.
…your children start crying at the sight of you, “Mommy, I don’t like that man!”
…your psycho-analyst has become a millionaire, thanks to you.
…you can ruin a family’s life by their kid scratching your car (because they couldn’t possibly pay for the
repair in their lifetime).
… your vacations are the most stress-filled time of the year.
…you receive the Nobel Peace Prize while (officially) waging war in 3 countries and your country sells two
thirds of all weapons being sold worldwide.
…no matter what you tell folks, they’ll believe it, just because you said it.
…you’re being stalked and haunted day and night by journalists and paparazzi , hoping they’ll catch you
doing something dirty.
…millions of folks can’t watch your videos in many countries of the world because it is property of Sony.
…you earn millions by a single phone conversation with your stock broker (and lose billions by another
winner’s phone conversation with his).
…every day of your life costs more than most people will earn in their life-times.
…you have tons of friends, none of which sincerely like you.
…you can utter whichever atrocity you like, and people will still smile and applaud, thinking you’re
“gorgeous.”
…you sleep an average of five hours per night.
…your greatest nightmare is every good idea your competitor has.
… everyone in the restaurant starts drooling at the sight of your new girl-friend.
… the bill the waiter hands you exceeds the monthly wage you pay your housekeeper.
… your children and relatives start fighting over their inheritance while you’re still in your forties.
… you can afford to hire AC/DC for your birthday party, and at midnight they play your personal favorite
“Highway to Hell.”
…you stumble across this list and call your lawyer to sue me for publicizing personal information.
 Why Some Folks Prefer to Have a Monkey for a Grandfather

March 8, 2010

Furry Ancestors More Likable than Grumpy Christians?

The problem with much of the church is, that it causes much of the rest of mankind to prefer to seek not
only the company, but even relation with the animal world over stiff, self-righteous and dogmatic human
behavior, as is portrayed vividly by the statement of the evolutionist Joseph Hooker (one of Darwin’s
associates) during a scientific debate at Oxford University in 1860, regarding his opponent, Bishop Samuel
Wilberforce: “I would rather have a monkey for a grandfather than such a man as this!”

As long as Christians make the rest of the world run to the jungle for solace and the smallest trace of
kindness to be found, we will always have bad cards. The greatest tragedy about all this is the fact that Jesus
was actually leading the way into that jungle of the basic needs of humanity, but that over the centuries, His
followers largely preferred to walk in the footsteps of His enemies, the self-righteous religious Scribes and
Pharisees, who were ultimately responsible for His death (since the worldly Governor Pilate would have
gladly preferred to let Him go).

I’m not writing this in order to repeatedly wave my finger at the churches, but because I still catch myself
occasionally displaying Pharisaical behavior toward others with different views and opinions than my own,
and if it happens to me, as unorthodox, non-traditional, anti-ritual and marginalized a believer as I am, then I
can only figure that woe is us, if we all have such difficulties to really live the essence of what our God
stands for (namely love), and keep falling into the traps of the old school of self-righteous religiosity.

Much of the point I’m trying to make throughout this blog is that we, Christians, have to radically adapt our
act and behavior toward the rest of the world, if we want to stand a chance to survive what’s coming at us.

We need to learn to love our enemies, as Jesus said, instead of killing them.

Otherwise, history will expose the whole lot of us as hypocrites, which has already happened to a lot of our
“brethren” from all sorts of denominations throughout time…

We’ve got to become real and the Real Thing, and start developing a taste for the truth, instead of joining
the rest of the Corporate World climbing up its ladder in which each step is a lie that promises us another
advantage over our competitors.
We need to learn that Jesus wasn’t here to start a business. At least none in which we were supposed to try
to outsmart and out-finance each other. We are in a competition, alright, but for souls, not for money, and
the guy we’re supposedly competing against, is unfortunately sitting right in our living rooms most of the
time, instead of hiding out in the desert sand where we suspect him.

We’re not going to lick the Devil with his own weapons. A lie was never an efficient cure for another lie.

Lies are the weapons of our opponent that enable him to keep us all hanging in cages above a pitch black
bottomless abyss while dwelling in the illusion that we’re soaring into a blue sky of freedom with puffy
white clouds, birds a-chirping and Britney Spears singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in a school
uniform with an extra short skirt.

The only remedy we’ve got against the global pandemic addiction to Satan’s lies is the truth.

And unless we’re willing to change our diet from blue pills to red, we’re not seriously going to free anyone
else, either, but just offer them another cage, another little matrix based on lies with a little bit of truth
mixed in for sugar-coating.

Yes, that red pill is going to be bitter. It may even cause you to throw up in the process and shock the hell
out of you.

But it’s also the only real alternative to the abyss, the emptiness, and the label that is going to stick with us
to some extent possibly for the rest of eternity, if we don’t choose truth: “Hypocrite!”

9/11 – Old Hat or Crossroads in History?

March 14, 2010

Just how much of an issue 9/11 still really is, was shown by the recent incident on the website of the
Huffington Post, where the editor had asked former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to contribute an
article, but a few hours after having posted it, they took it off-line again. The title of the article: “What
Really Happened on September 11?”

Reason: It is against Huffington Post policy to publish “conspiracy theories.”

The question I have is, if everybody is only supposed to parrot the official fairy-tale, then why bother to
pretend to be any sort of alternative news source at all?

Ventura wasn’t just warming up old theories, but reporting of the latest developments in the 9/11 truth
movement, and the Huffington Post reaction is a classical example and proof that this whole issue is
anything but over yet.

Come on: everybody is going hyper as soon as the slightest “evidence” comes out that might indicate that
Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Christ may not have been crucified, but buried with his wife and
uncles in Jerusalem, or that He fathered dozens of kiddies instead…

If everybody is so gung ho to find out what exactly happened nearly 2000 years ago (since they obviously
don’t want to believe the “official” report on those incidents), then how come nobody could care less about
the real backgrounds of the greatest crime in modern history that took place not even 10 years ago?

It just shows that the one thing people like Arianna Huffington couldn’t care less about is the truth,
unfortunately reflecting the vast majority of her cowardly colleagues of the international press.
The sad and deceptive thing about it is that these people pretend to be sources of new information and
“uncovering” what’s going on in the world, when nothing could be further from the truth.

They don’t mind publishing “conspiracy theories” (formerly known as “inside information”) about the “War
on Drugs” (the forerunner of the current episode of the War-On Morons, the “War on Terror”), or about
who shot Kennedy, but to deny the official fairy-tale that would take away any and all justification for the
genocide in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and to some extent, Palestine, puts you into the same league as
“Holocaust Deniers.”

It’s okay for over a thousand architects and engineers to risk their reputation by demanding a new
investigation of 9/11, but obviously newspaper editors fall into a much higher and nobler category of folks
(at least in their own opinion).
Personally, it only confirms my own experiences of 3 1/2 decades with the press, and the reason why I don’t
have any respect for those people anymore at all.
It’s just good to know that the Huffington Post can be taken off my list of potentially alternative news
sources.

Who needs another episode of “Howling with the wolves?” – Not me!

If you want to sell me something you dare call news, then you’d better give me something better than that
average run-off-the-mill hogwash that thousands of journalists around the globe sold their soul for, in
exchange for the cheap mess of pottage of seeing their name under some article that says everything they’re
ever allowed to say in our Orwellian 21st century: absolutely nothing.

It’s better not having learned to read at all than to have to wade through such lukewarm hogwash.
The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back

March 15, 2010

I’ve been thinking a bit more about James Cameron and his apparently opposing stance toward Christianity,
as conveyed through his last two motion pictures, and – although I don’t know much about his ideological
background – thought I’d have to say a few more things in his defense and perhaps of others like him:

The keyword is Bush. What makes the whole matter of trying to save the face of Christianity a Sisyphus
task is the fact that George Bush claimed to be a Christian (whether he still does is irrelevant, since his
decisions do no longer determine the lives and deaths of millions)., and posed as one of Christianity’s most
stout defenders and protagonists.

I’m just wondering whether we, as Christians, should just willingly accept any type of famous personality
and figure of power to speak for all of us, when a little bit of healthy discernment might have easily alarmed
us that something about his actions did not jibe with his words (much as is the case with the current
President, but without all the embarrassing pseudo-religious ado about it).

Now, Christianity already had bad cards in the eyes of a largely brainwashed public who’s been hearing and
reading the same old stuff about the crusades, the inquisition, Catholic child abuse, weird Christian cults,
etc., etc. for decades, but George Bush was just about the straw that broke the camel’s back. (The camel
being Christianity’s image in the world).

Anybody with half a brain and enough wits to put two and two together could figure out that if Christianity
was the religion that someone like George Bush professed to be a champion of, then it had to be the epitome
of evil.

I mean, who wants to go to Heaven with the prospect of folks like that up there, right?

The other problem being that the vast majority of Christians worldwide swallowed the bait and believed all
the books that came out about how George Bush was the man who brought faith into the White House, etc.

But as I have stated before, Christians often make the grave mistake of underestimating their Enemy. It
would never occur to them to what lengths the Devil goes in order to fool them, not until it’s way too late.
The camouflage is so perfect, that some now even see him as the good guy, and Obama as the bad guy who
wrecked the country since he’s in office, when there is really no difference at all between Bush and Obama,
except that Obama can do without all the Pseudo-Christian ado…

God is not the author of confusion, but the other guy, who is the author of confusion, is doing a magnificent
job here. Though it doesn’t really take brains as much as sticking to what Jesus said and a little bit of the
Holy Ghost to be able to look through the facade. That again, is a price too high to pay for most believers.
And as long as that’s the case, there will always be folks like James Cameron who will come across a lot
more like the good guys than all those gun-totin’ “Christians.”

The problem is they haven’t recognized their real enemy, and while they’re staring into the high noon sun,
struttin’ out into the street to lay down their supposed opponent with one swift blow from the hip, their real
enemy is shooting them in the back from the roof… Having learned nothing from a century of Hollywood
tutoring…

Instead of spending trillions on blasting third world countries back to Kingdom come, they should have
invested a little more in the sort of weaponry that really makes a difference: the white-hot sword of the
Spirit, which is the Word of God, and some of those gifts of the Spirit like discernment, and some live
communication with their true Commander-In Chief, Who could have told them that the phony they’re
sacrificing their sons for is a fake…

By their fruits ye shall know them. And the sad testimony in all this is, that those who don’t share our faith
sometimes have greater discernment and a better sense to distinguish between good fruit and a rotter than
we do.

Here’s a link to an article from 2008 that paints a different picture than the icon of “St. George W.” we’re
all supposed to fall for:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article3255937.ece

Anybody can say they’re “saved.” – So did Charles Manson. What greater damage could a Satanist inflict
on the body of Christianity than to pretend that He loves Jesus?

Let’s face it: More than once in history has the Devil availed himself of “Christians”…

There are some friends you wouldn’t want to have. Even if they were the President of the United States of
America!
 Salute to the Younger Generation from Neanderthal

March 19, 2010

Some young folks seem to be wondering about us, the older generation of their parents, those survivors
from the 60s and 70s, how on earth we ever managed to get this old and make it this far around, I mean,
being such losers and all, with our loser hair-cuts, our loser clothes, and why, we didn’t even have cell
phones back then, no ipods or computer games.

To be honest, sometimes I wonder myself how on earth I managed to ever get this old. Especially since we
were lacking a few other things our younger generation touts, such as their undying self-confidence, not
doubting for a second that the world is theirs for the asking or less, a snap of the fingers, along with the
solid assurance that they have all the time in the world, and why, by the time they’re going to be really old,
like in their 30s, they might have even invented some stuff to enable them to live forever…

We didn’t have any of that, since we were always scared stiff that the inventions of our parents’ generation
were going to see to it that the world was going to come flying around our ears any day. The only dweebs
who thought that time was on their side in our generation were the Rolling Stones.

So, I guess the secret of our survival against all these odds was that we simply made do with what we had.
We were more or less happy for what each day brought, because, well, it may have well been our last, and
we didn’t miss any ipods or cell phones or gameboys because we never even knew you needed to have these
things in order to survive. As they say, sometimes ignorance is bliss.

I’m afraid we did have a few qualities, which, granted, may have been a little antiquated (since we were still
way back on the first few steps of evolution compared to that quantum leap of enlightenment we all
experienced during the first decade of the 21st century), such as that ancient thing called appreciation (I’m
sure it’s not even in the dictionary anymore), and oh, yes, that one was really a joke: we called it respect.

We didn’t even know what it meant back then, but when you looked at someone, you didn’t immediately
see the loser in them, but a howbeit primitive, but nonetheless human being, and we gave them the benefit
of the doubt. They may have been different from us – even older, but we somehow gave them a chance to
prove themselves to maybe not turn out to be a mega-loser, after all (although the evolution of the word
“mega-loser” only set in a decade later, or two, I must admit). In other words, me might have given them a
second glance, which, in essence is what re-spect means: “look again!”

Instead of Stalloneian invulnerability and Schwarzeneggerian immortality we had to do with an outdated

item called decency.

Somehow, though, the fact that we were missing out on all the qualities that make the new generation so
superior managed to perfectly elude us. We didn’t even realize.

We somehow managed to exist with only a fraction of the TV channels available to folks today, without all
the wonders of hi-tech communication and just resorted to the available, though primitive means of verbal
conversation, or even writing letters and such stuff.

Since we had a lot less things, those fewer things somehow meant more to us.

Even such tiny, seemingly irrelevant particles of our world as words still seemed to have a meaning to us –
back then, that was, before our politicians enlightened us to the delusion of our ways (since they obviously
proved the opposite to be true time and again, namely that words don’t really coincide with reality).

Yes, they were strange and bizarre times, and I guess the way most young folks nowadays relate to them
was the way that we looked back on the Stone Age.

So, here’s a salute to you, the younger generation of the onset of the 21st century, from one of those ancient
cavemen: May all your dreams come true, and not turn into nightmares (just as many of our nightmares
thankfully did not come true), and may you achieve all your goals. May those who lead you turn out to be
truer than those who led us, and may you, too, learn to appreciate what you have, and – perhaps the way we
did – despite all that wealth of new knowledge you accumulate, enjoy a little bit of the blissful ignorance
occasionally, of all the things future generations will wonder how you managed to survive without; and may
you – if possible – remember this one piece of advice from a 20th century Neanderthal man:

“It’s not having what you want, but wanting what you have” that counts.