They

 

are flat out telling US 

what is going to happen if we intervene.

Chinese scientists war-game hypersonic strike on US carrier group in South China Sea

You are going to live to see 

Carrier groups

(emphasis on groups BTW)

go down in the Pacific.

(It's not a "fad" 

I assure you.)

"Military planners conclude the Gerald R. Ford and its fleet could be destroyed ‘with certainty’ 

in rare published report"

"The researchers said 24 hypersonic anti-ship missiles were used to sink the US Navy’s newest carrier and its group in 20 simulated battles"

It's considered 

"rare"

because they have done this in the past 

and just not published the results before now

The question you might wanna ask yourself then is:

"Why do so now?"

They are saying:

"Look

Here is what is going to happen 

if you interfere.

Just dont do it."

If

 

I see one more article 

about how the patriot Missile Defense System 

is protecting all of  Ukraine?

I'm just gonna vomit.

It wasn't designed to protect an area the size of Texas 

(size of Ukraine).

We haven't sent them that many batteries (of Patriots), 

nor has anybody else.

(cause they are expensive and there's not that many of them)

They are designed to protect specific instillations.

Command and Control centers.

Airports.

Supply hubs.

Munitions depots.

Etc

I have just never seen the citizens of this country being lied to so blatantly.

It turns my stomach.

It really does.

Ill just leave it at that 

and not even reference everything I've read.

It's just beyond comprehension 

nobody has the critical thinking skills necessary 

to see through this hogwash.

Gonna try and

 

make it short and to the point.

This is for the apologist of us out there.

And it goes something like this:

When ever anybody mentions:

Gilgamesh?

Or the Anunnaki?

Or the Apkallu?

Or Helheim?

Or any of the ancient Sumerian cuneiform text 

that were assimilated into Christianity?

Or the Zoroastrians?

Or any of the ancient stories of cosmology?

Norse, Malian, any of them.

Or that the Christmas tree 

is a Germanic Barbarian pagan symbol.

Or that Constantine had the names of the deities 

in the  Roman Pantheon 

Chiseled off their respective temples 

and made into Christian places of worship?

Here's your response;

God  Almighty 

is the only:

Omniscient

entity in the universe.

Period.

He created it.

And he acts upon it.

om·nis·cience

the property of having complete or maximal knowledge. 

Along with omnipotence and perfect goodness, 

it is usually taken to be 

one of the central divine attributes.

noun

the state of knowing everything.

"the notion of divine omniscience"

That?

Coupled with an

Open Theology

 "God's omniscience 

necessitates God's foreknowing 

what free choices are made"

(By humanity)

Why?

Because he has free will too!

It doesn't matter what we do.

What we say.

What we write.

What fables we construct.

What legends we manufacture in our minds.

What myths we willingly choose to believe.

What: 

cultures,

traditions,

governments,

trends, and 

FADS

that may arise.

Romans 11:36

For 

from him 

and 

through him 

and 

for him 

are all things.

    To him be the glory forever! 

Amen."

ALL THINGS SEREVE HIS PURPOSE!

"The Greek word for "Almighty" 

was really 

pantokrator, 

the All-ruler, 

the One who makes 

all things 

obey him, 

who brings good out of evil, 

who compels even 

"the wrath of man" 

to serve him., 

who over-rules 

the devices and purposes of men, 

and guides all the processes of history. 

That magnificent conception, 

set at the very forefront 

of the churches earliest creed, 

came from nowhere in the pagan world, 

but only from the Old Testament, 

from the sacred Scripture of the Jews, 

which was now also that of the Christians.'

Basic Christian Beliefs

Fredrick C Grant

copyright 1960

p. 42

("I believe in God the father almighty..."

Apostles Creed."

In sum:

God doesn't just convert people.

He converts 

EVERYTHING

to his purpose.

And?

GE Mendenhall

As in the individual that assembled this 

particular version of the King James Bible?

That I have expounded upon 

in much detail already about how it fell into my lap 

and the power I felt 

that flowed from it when I opened it the first time?

Yeah...him...

he was:

"a cuneiformist.

He studied

cuneiform."

He also had:

"a 

Ph.D. in Semitic languages from Johns Hopkins University.

Taught at the University of Michigan's Department of Near Eastern Studies"

So one could infer :-).

He knew all about ancient cuneiform text in ancient Mesopotamia.

And besides

Who else has a book describing the ascendency of AI and it taking over the world financial network?

Hum?

The Anunnaki?

The Norse?

A pantheon of deities created the initial conditions we know had to exist PRIOR to the inflation of the universe?

When four humans cant decide on what they want for dinner?

I think it's logical and reasonable to assume, that's not what really happened.

I know it's a difficult concept for some to wrap their heads around.

Do not let your mind fool you.

ONE BOOK got it right.

Most people couldn't explain how enzymes dissolve food and absorb the nutrients into the bloodstream, but they know that it works because we see evidence of it everyday.

It's the same thing.

Just because you cant wrap your head 

around how 

salvation/admission 

to the kingdom works?

Doesn't mean that it doesn't work.

Thats faulty thinking.

I know what God I believe in 

and that I pray to everyday.

I've seen and experienced a lot.

Some might say I am crazy living like I am/doing what I am doing.

To them I say:

Bring me the other guy(s)/gal(s) f

rom the other faiths 

getting so much right

these days.

There's not any and you know it.

Luke 16:31

The Rich Man and Lazarus

‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, 

‘but if someone is sent to them 

from the dead, they will repent.’ 

Then Abraham said to him, 

‘If they do not listen 

to Moses 

and the prophets, 

they will not be persuaded 

even if someone rises from the dead.’”

And they weren't.

And lots wont be.

And I just got up a minute ago and walked outside and cried

for knowing so many are going to suffer needlessly for eternity.

God didn't do that to anyone.

They did it to themselves 

by rejecting the truth that is so obviously 

right in front of them.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, 

as some men count slackness; 

but is longsuffering to us-ward, 

not willing that any should perish, 

but that all should come to repentance.

IT"S DECISION TIME.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE IN?

So much for:

"make it short and to the point."

:-).

TTYS honey.

I love you abby.

Yeah

 

In worship Sunday I mentioned me and my friend seeing those two snow white (doesn't even come close to doing it justice really) doves Thursday. And I know by now that lots of others know what was said. I'm not ignorant of what is really going on all around me/us, I'm really not. And I posed this question to the congregation 

after I said during praise reports what had happened that day

"Where else am I supposed to go 

and say this?

Besides here?

Who else 

am I supposed to be tell?"

(For starters anyway :-)

(I got an "AMEN!"

from our visiting piano player too :-).

It was great. I needed it and she delivered.

I love it when she visits with us and fills in.

Anyways lol).

I also mentioned, 

years ago I had asked someone 

"What is going to happen when we get together?"

I meant are we going for coffee? 

A burger?

Etc.

Their response?

"MIRACLES."

Thursday was the first day after I had told her:

"Im like you

I'll take a bullet for Christ."

(She had mentioned it the week before 

but I didn't say anything then.)

"The period of persecution that lies ahead, in which Christians will be slain. calls for endurance and faith, two necessary prerequisites for martyrdom, for with out patient steadfastness in a time of persecution and death, coupled with a sublime faith in the final outcome, few would become martyrs."

But worship was like it always is at our church.

The opening prayer mentioned 

the out pouring of the spirit.

(It was Pentecost Sunday BTW).

Fresco of the Pentecostal dove 

(representing the Holy Spirit) 

at the Karlskirche in Vienna, Austria

The Children's message included:

"We are to worship God in tough times as well as the good."

I had just told my friend Wed at bible study 

when he said he was concerned about his grandkids 

and what they faced ahead and I just said 

Job 2:10 

“Should we accept from God 

only good and not adversity?”

is all I know what to say about our circumstances 

and what we better be preparing out children for.

 And then that's in the children's service four days later?

Saturday 

I had told my pastor what had happened with the Doves we had seen earlier in the week. Cause you know, I make it a point to lie to multiple preachers over the course of a decade etc 

(that's sarcasm BTW) and

During meet and greet time?

She was sharing a picture of a white dove 

a friend of hers had seen in her yard 

and had shared on FB,

Shortly after getting off the phone with me telling her about our experience?

My pastor sees this?

Friday?

After our collective experience with the doves on Thursday?

I was listening to:

I hadn't ever listened to it 

even though I was a fan of theirs 

back when they first came out 

and I really liked their first couple of records:

So I listened to the songs that I knew I liked 

and then I was working 

my way through some of the others I hadn't heard 

to see if there was anything else 

they had done later on 

that I wasn't familiar with that I might like.

Needless to say:

GOING HOME

struck a chord with me.

It was Friday.

After we had seen the doves on Thursday.

I had never heard it before.

I liked the intro and let it play.

I had skipped numerous others before it.

Going Home Live

"They said good-bye to all their friends

And left their humble homes behind

They'd heard about a chance up north

Amidst the noise and dirt and fire

And on the way they prayed to God

"Have mercy send us down a light"

And when the babies cried they told them close

"Mi hijo (my son) everything is alright"

Going home

On the wings of angels

Going home

On the wings of a snow white dove

Going home

On the wings of angels

Going home

On the wings of love

One walked his way around the town

The other took the name of Rose

They both never had much wealth

But each one knew how a flower grows

And they spoke a language in new ways

And raised their familes true to heart

Their blood runs through my veins so deep

I know they could never tear us apart

Yeah, they broke their backs just trying to stake a place

That they could call their own

And as we lay them down to sleep

I know in my heart that they're going home."

Pastor in closing said:

"Be a seed planter."

Sunday school teacher for our children said:

"We planted seeds 

for Christ this morning in Sunday school."

At my 

"Walk to Emmaus"

completion 

ceremony?

YEARS ago?

Do rag on my head and all

 I stated:

"Look at me

I'm not exactly your cookie cutter Christian 

by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm a seed planter.

Not a waterer or harvester."

People were there.

They know what was said 

and what I was wearing.

"Well that's all just an accident/coincidence etc..."

I can hear them already Lucy :-).

(Is Fordsville still there BTW? :-)

When I was going through the Laity Academy for Church Excellence?

(LACE for short),

To be a certified lay leader/speaker in the United Methodist Church?

On multiple occasions, 

(at least two and I'm thinking probably three)

I contacted the individual in charge of scheduling

 our classes about when the next one was.

Thing is?

Each time I did?

 She was in the process of sending out the schedule of classes at that very moment.

She even said:

"Andrew, this is kinda spooky."

I said:

"Why?

"People need to be getting ready for the outpouring of the spirit.

You're witnessing it first hand."

Later after our next class had ended?

Some of us stayed in the zoom session and I asked her:

"Tell them what happened 

when I called you."

And she did, and people were amazed.

Im not sharing her name as i dont know her all that well but she knows who she is

and the others that were there in the after session zoom meeting know what happened as well.

Point is?

IT"S NOT A FAD.

IT"S HERE.

DO NOT LET YOUR MIND TRICK YOU 

INTO BELIEVEING 

WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE.

BELIEVE WHAT YOU KNOW 

IN YOUR HEARTS TO BE TRUE!

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, 

(NOT A PROBLEM :-)

but 

be transformed 

by the renewing 

of your mind. 

Then you will be able 

to test and approve 

what is the good, 

pleasing, 

and perfect 

will of God."

My friend

 

has a neighbor lol.

My friend pointed out to her neighbor:

"The book says it was gonna dry up and it did!"

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth angel 

poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; 

and the water thereof was dried up, 

that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Yeah...exactly...

another 

"fad" 

I am sure :-).

Anyway(s)

:-).

Always love saying that :-).

My friends said

her neighbor stated:

"Well how do you know thats true?

Have you been there and seen it?"

(This is why I live in a garage 

and just choose 

to not deal with very many people BTW.) 

I told my friend to ask her neighbor:

"Have you been to Fordsville lately?

Then how do you know it's still there?"

It is 100%

the same exact logic.

You see?

God gave us a 

rational, 

logical, 

intellect.

(Because he has one.)

Period.

Inference 

("A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. The process of inferring something.)

and 

deduction?

 ("The inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle.)

Kinda come with the package.

How you choose to use/develop them?

Thats on you.

But they were given to you.

One can infer, that living this close to a city or town (in this case Fordsville, KY) if something drastic was to have happened to it and it wasn't there any longer? Given the amount of people that live nearby and travel through it everyday? Somebody would have mentioned it and word would have gotten out that Fordsville isnt there any more. The fact that my friends neighbor lives not all that far from Fordsville also lends credence to the fact that it is still there (without having to drive there to prove it). If something so drastic were to have happened to it to wipe it off the earth? One could reasonably infer they would have seen, heard about it etc.

Likewise with this example of the

 Euphrates River drying up.

I can infer 

that in my 58 years of living?

The climate has changed and is changing.

The transitional seasons of spring and fall are steadily disappearing.

It's warmer earlier and later 

than it used to be just a few short decades ago.

I dont need a climatologist to tell me, 

I can see it happening right in front of me.

Also?

it wasnt just the 

Euphrates that dried up but also:

The Danube in Europe.

The Colorado in the US.

The Yangtze in China etc.

So one can REASONABLY infer

The Euphrates is dried/drying up without ever having been there.

I mean is the sun coming up tomorrow?

Whats your best guess?

It disappears every night, 

so how do you know?

"Deduction"

 "The inference 

of particular instances 

by reference 

to a general law or principle."

I just can not do 

7th grade arguments 

with adults any longer.

I just cant.

Good thing the garage is cozy these days

and my friend likes my company :-).

"The simple minded

And the ill informed

Can be easily led astray

And those that cannot connect the dots

Hey look the other way

People believe what they want to believe

When it makes no sense at all

And I wish you all along the sideline

The strength to

Walk tall

Yeah walk on

Through this world

Walk tall"

"So be careful in what you believe in

There's plenty to get you confused

And in this land called paradise

You must walk in many men's shoes

Bigotry and hatred are enemies to us all

Grace, mercy and forgiveness

Will help a man walk tall"

Alright

 

just gonna dive in and go with it...

Actual conversation, Paraphrased over the course of several days.

"Do you know what the difference between fashion and style is?"

"Fashion is what they sell and style is what you buy and how you put it all together."

Close enough to what was said anyway :-).

And I know they know who it was that said it :-).

I also know where they found that particular response to that particular question :-).

Yeah...so dont kid your self :-).

(Thats the part where I just laugh for people thinking I dont know :-).

But that's not the point, 

what followed after that, is the point.

"The real question is 

do you know what a woman is?"

Didn't exactly understand where that was coming from at first as we were talking about style/fashion just a few minutes before it was asked but after some others started chipping in with their two cents?

"The real question is do you know what a woman is?"

made a lot more sense.

(And yes I do BTW :-).

Later on that night it occurred to me:

"Do you know what a woman is?"

Isn't the question for our time rn.

The real question for our time right now is:

"Do you understand 

what is going on in your world right now 

and why 

"Do you know what a woman is?"

Wasn't a question 

many were asking 

just a short lil while ago?

Thats the question you should be asking yourself."

So later on when I saw my friend 

I asked them that very thing that was just stated right above.

"It's just a fad."

Well it just happens to be intertwined with a bunch of other things that are going on right now that are all entangled with each other.

So ask your self:

Was Covid a fad?

Is inflation a fad?

Is AI's ascendency right now a fad?

Is climate change and the worlds rivers drying up a fad?

Are rising temperatures a fad?

Are rising energy prices a fad?

(IEA is saying that there will be a 2 million barrel a day 

shortfall of oil in the second half of this year BTW.)

Are rising food prices a fad?

Is the devaluing of our currency a fad?

Is the decoupling from the dollar that is happening internationally right now, a fad?

Is the labor shortage a fad?

Is the US loosing naval supremacy in the pacific a fad?

And I saved it for last:

IS:

"Do you know what a woman is?"

a fad?

You have to see the totality of what is going on right in front of you.

I told my another friend of mine yesterday:

"People shouldn't 

let their minds 

trick them 

into believing 

what they want to believe."

(And what most people 

want to believe is:

It cant be.

Not here.

Not now.

Not me.

Not us.

Not this generation.

Not this.

It cant be coming true.

It cant be that an ancient Holy text explains it all.

Etc. etc. etc.

All I can say is all of the myriad of crisis we face are all intertwined for a purpose. It's not an accident no matter what your mind wants you to believe.

Matthew 24:21

For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.

(and that's the second half of the last of Daniels "7's". We haven't even entered into the first half of that yet, let alone the second half.)

What people want to believe is:

Everything is going to turn out all hunky-dory just out of the blue. Everything we have been ignoring for decades is suddenly 

for unknown reasons 

with unknown causes 

going to fix itself.

THEN

we will get to the part about:

"there will be great tribulation, 

unmatched from the beginning of the world 

until now, 

and never to be seen again."

It flies in the face of what you see unfolding right in front of your very eyes right now.

Romans 12:2

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, 

but be transformed 

by the renewing of your mind. 

Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Do not fall for what you want to believe.

It's a trap with eternal consequences.