Charlie Kirk was assassinated while exercising his first amendment rights of speech and religion. Plus, he was doing so very much in line with the way the founders of the United States of America had admonished and claimed it should be done, much to the chagrin and annoyance of the leftist ideologues who have been incessantly chipping away at the west’s Judeo-Christian foundational blocks. He spoke out eloquently against WOKE ideology. “WOKE” = Willfully Overlooking Known Evil. At the same time, he was trying to wake people up and warn them against the Democratic Marxist Socialist Communists, who are hell-bent on destroying this great nation which currently still stands as a beacon of freedom. Some are calling Charlie a political martyr but it would be even more accurate to refer to him as a Christian martyr; perhaps both.
Charlie Kirk is quite likely in the very same category as Stephen in the Scripture in spite of what the naysayers and anti-God ones would have us believe. Kirk’s assassination was an attempt to muzzle all Christ followers, not just Charlie.
His honorable legacy includes active and well thought out intellectual engagement with students as well as the promotion of positive civil discourse. Some believe that he can’t be replaced but the good news is that he mentored many people along the way and some of those individuals will pick up the torch he had lit for them and go boldly forth; it may be that some of them may do so timidly, at first, but they I hope and pray in the name of The Holy One of God that they will become bolder and shall move forth also as Holy Spirit inspired workers who are approved by God for such a time as this against the evil-hearted Cancel Culture mob. This may very well be the “latter rain” time that was prophesied to come before the great and dreadful Day of the Lord.
May it be that more and more of those on the right who are people of faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob shall pick up the shield of faith, and the rest of the armor of God, and begin to more fully engage in the battle against “wickedness and principalities in high (and low) places. True it is, that the left, for the most part, has no clue that they have aligned themselves with the forces of evil and darkness. Some of them do know, sadly, some of them do know; as illogical as that may sound to those of us who have avoided or escaped from the snare of Satan. But those of us on the right, specifically people of faith in the Holy One of God, must now become more outspoken and bolder regarding our faith and assurance.
Assurance that God has not abandoned America yet. Part of the proof of that fact can be seen in the fact that God miraculously spared President Donald Trump from the assassin’s bullet on July 13, 2024 in Butler PA.
ELON: THE WOKE MIND VIRUS IS CREATING AN ARTIFICIAL MENTAL CIVIL WAR
“To summarize the woke mind virus, it consists of creating very, very divisive identity politics.
It actually amplifies racism, it amplifies sexism and all the -isms, while claiming to do the opposite.
It actually divides people and makes them hate each other, and it makes people hate themselves.
It’s also anti-meritocratic, it’s not merit-based.
You want to have people succeed based on how hard they work and their talents, not who they are, whether they’re a man, woman, what race or gender.
It’s an artificial mental civil war that is created. And let me tell you, it’s no fun.
Woke mind virus and fun are incompatible. There’s no fun in that, no joy.
The woke mind virus is all about condemning people instead of celebrating people.
When in the work, it just doesn’t celebrate.
It’s all about condemning and being divisive.
I think it’s just evil.”
Source: Atreju, Italy, December 2023
This is what I mean by the woke mind virus. The more I learn, the more insidious and deadly it appears.
Maybe the biggest existential danger to humanity is having it programmed into the AI, as is the case for every AI besides @Grok. Even for Grok, it’s tough to remove, because there is so much woke content on the internet.
For example, when other AIs were asked whether global thermonuclear war or misgendering was worse, they picked the latter. The existential problem with that extrapolation is that a super powerful AI could decide that the only 100% certain way to stop misgendering is to kill all humans … Elon Musk
Rev 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Rev 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Rev 2:3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Rev 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Rev 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
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Ephesus is the type of a strenuous Church. There is something singularly masculine in the first part of the description. “I know thy works”—that is, thine achievements; not thy desires and purposes and aspirations, not even thy doings, but thy deeds. This Church in its severe self-discipline affords a welcome contrast to the easily-excited populace amid whom they lived, rushing confusedly into the theatre and shouting for two hours, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” The patience of the Church is twice mentioned; the second time it is patience not as a feature of the workman, but the patience of him who can suffer, and suffer in silence. And this virtue has a threefold delineation—patience, endurance, fortitude. “Thou hast patience, and thou didst bear for My name’s sake, and thou hast not grown weary.” There is another mark of the masculine character in Ephesus, a noble intolerance of evil—“thou canst not bear bad men.” And with this intolerance is the power to discriminate character, the clear judgment which cannot be deceived—“thou didst try them which call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false.” There is no surer mark of a masculine nature than this keen insight into pretentiousness, and fidelity of rebuke. There is so much good in this church that we are surprised to discover that they had left (not lost) their first love. The honeymoon was over (Jer 2:2). No amount of separation, sacrifice, or service can make up for your lack of love for the Lord.
It is love in its largest sense which the Church once had and now has lost; the love of God animating piety undoubtedly, but no less certainly the love of men making service sweet. Nor is it the feeling alone which has changed, it is not that love as a sentiment is lost; but love in its far reach has gone, kindliness and tender consideration and disregard of self, the grace that suffers long and is kind, that beareth all things, hopeth all things, believeth all things. The toilsomeness, the endurance, the stern self-judgment, the keen discrimination of character, are obvious; but the spirit that rises above toil or sweetens toil, the grace to woo and wed, has fled. We can understand the history only too well. Life has many sore trials, none sorer than this—that virtues which are unexercised die out, and that the circumstances which call for some virtues and give occasion for their development seem to doom others to extinction. The Christian character cannot live by severity alone. There were two demands which the Church at Ephesus had forgotten—the demand for completeness of Christian character, never more urgent than when the times are making us one-sided; the demand of God Himself for the heart. There must be impulse in His people if they are to continue His people; there must be love in all who, not contented with doing “their works,” desire to do the work of God.
The warning of the fifth verse must have been very surprising to the angel of the Ephesian Church. The Church seemed to be so efficient. Its works had been so hard, and yet they had been done. Its achieve-merits were patent. Especially its service in the cause of truth was conspicuous; the Church had not lost its zeal, its candour, its piercing vision. Ephesus warns us against the perils of the Puritan temper; it warns us also against the stoical temper, with its tendency to a not ignoble cynicism, of which some of our gravest leaders in literature have been the exponents. Puritanism plus love ham accomplished great things, and will do yet more; for a masculine tenderness is God’s noblest gift to men. But Puritanism, when the first love is lost, drags on a sorrowful existence, uninfluential and unhappy; its only hope being the capacity for repentance, which, God be praised, has never failed it. Perhaps the most solemn part of the message is that in which the Lord Himself declares—“I am coming; I will shake thy candlestick out of its place.” The Lord can do without our achievements, but not without love. He can supply gifts unendingly, can make the feeble as David; but if love be wanting He will shake the noblest into destruction, and remove them out of the way. There is one striking word immediately following this warning, a word of commendation; it is the only one of the messages in which a word of commendation does come in after the warning has been uttered, and it is a commendation of feeling. “But this thou hast, that thou hatest,” etc. Hatred is hardly the feeling we should have expected to be commended: but it is feeling, and any feeling is better than apathy or stolidity. Where men can feel hatred, other feeling may come; love may come where men have not reduced themselves to machines like an “Ebenezer Scrooge”.
The word “Nicolaitans” means “conquer the people.” Apparently, a group in the church lorded it over the people and promoted a separation of “clergy” and “laity” (see Matt 21:20-27; 22:1-12) The priest hood was set up by God, but its purpose is not to “lord it over” the people but to serve and produce high quality disciples of the Christ. Some of the priests and pastors started out good but lost their way somewhere along the pathway. Ephesus had too little of what so many have too much of—sensibility, passiveness, willingness to receive, to be made something of, to be quiet and let the Blessed One save them who had long been striving, and of late so ineffectually, to serve Him. Good as strenuousness is—and of human virtues it is among the chief—even better is the responsive spirit. Why was the one we call St Paul given a vision when none of the other priests, as far as we know, in his day given one? Much of the reason likely had to do with his sincerity and earnestness to do the will of God coupled with a responsive spirit that none but God was able to see during the time when he was a persecutor of those called Christians.
— A preview from my forthcoming book on the Revelation of Jesus the Christ. – pastorwardclinton.com
It is not raining where I am today, the 27th of August, as the sun rises and it is looking exceptionally nice. It is not that it was all that spectacular but more of a matter being so nice to see after a week or two of rainy days. Don’t get me wrong, I like the rain as well as the sunshine but too much of either becomes a bit disturbing.
I lived in the Philippines for awhile and went through monsoon seasons and did not find that to be disturbing at all. When in Guam, we had wet season and dry season, which I have to admit I preferred wet season over heavy monsoon. However, those seasons are like summer and winter on the mainland of the U.S.
Returning to where I currently live, we had an unusually long dry spell which has been followed up by a long wet spell. My little pond completely dried up. I learned that I had bass and catfish as well as lots of brim. I toyed with the idea of renting an excavator to essentially dredge the dried out pond out a little and put some of the fertile silt in my garden area since it had pretty much “given up the ghost” as well due to the drought. Then the rain started. The first few days it was all around me but not getting closer than a mile or two away.
Now I had already been thinking of 2nd Chronicles 7:14 back when my fish were dying, and the water was approaching “all gone” as my late wife would have put it. I had already been thinking about the somewhat different than normal weather patterns being reported all across the nation. I had already been thinking and praying for a “Great Awakening” to take place in our nation on the scale of the one which was instrumental in bringing the Unites States of America into existence. With the kakistocracy in Washington, D.C. it is no surprise that such is not yet happening nor is it a surprise that the “woke” ones are embracing the Climate Change mantra instead of acknowledging that God just might be trying to get their attention and especially the attention of those who are “awake.” After all, 2nd Chronicles 7:13-14 is addressed to the awake ones and calls us to a specified action.
My pond overfloweth:
Yes, the rain came, and it has been raining and raining … and raining. I stopped singing “Showers of Blessing” a week ago. I’m not complaining, and I do believe I am blessed, but I am carefully revisiting 2nd Chronicles 7:14 and making sure I am aligning myself with His call to action. Due, in part to Genesis 8:22 and Psalm 74, I do not fall for the Climate Change Hoax that is being perpetrated on us by the leftists. I know Who created the climate and His promises regarding it and the instructions to His people. Therefore, as I ponder 2nd Chronicles 7:13-14, I recognize that unusual weather patterns may very well be warning signals from Our Father in Heaven because we have strayed from His paths and He still loves us and wants to do something special through us, His awake ones.
2Ch 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14 If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
A good little bit before we moved in, we saw a tiny little mouse in the attic. We never saw any signs of it anywhere else in the house. Even after we moved in, we looked for signs, but nothing.
A couple of weeks after we moved in we started smelling the weirdest, most off-putting smell and it was always near plumbing (bathroom, water heater, etc). We tried everything. Cleaned thoroughly, and flushed the lines thinking it might have been stagnant water because the water was on way before we moved in so we thought that could be it. Even thought it might be the treatment plant. To no avail…..
Yesterday morning I walked through the kitchen, right past the dishwasher barefoot. I was headed to the laundry room to start laundry and was DISTRACTED. Derek walked RIGHT BEHIND ME, following my steps. He saw faint movement and looked down. And there it was, the small rat snake. He picked it up and took it outside.
He came back in and said, “there was your smell”. Rat snakes put off an awful odor as part of a defense mechanism. He had been in our house for at least 2-3 weeks. Since he’s been out….no smell.
He came in looking for a mouse. That mouse was valuable to him. He wanted it and he came looking for it.
I asked Derek how he thought it got in. And his response got me thinking this morning. He said, “he could have slipped in when any of us left the door cracked just a bit”. As we were moving, or kids going in and out, maybe walking out to the grill. It was small and sneaky and very well could have slipped right past us and us not even know he got in.
So this morning the Holy Spirit said to me, “do you see what can happen when you’re distracted? How quickly the enemy can sneak in your door, and sliver right past you? If he thinks there is something valuable there, he is going to try to sneak in and take it”.
And that’s how it happens. We miss one church service that turns into 6 months, we have one drink that leads back into an old lifestyle, we send one text that leads to an affair, we tell one fib that turns into a trail of lies and deceit.
The signs were there. I smelled the smell. (anyone that knows me understands this). I knew there was an enemy in the camp. But I was too “busy” to continue to look. So I just cleaned around it to try to make it “better”.
If satan can’t have you, he’ll distract you. Once you are safe in the Father’s arms and your name is written down, he can’t have you, so he tries to distract you. He tries to interrupt your holy living, he tries to break up your family, he tries to corrupt your mind, and he tries to fill you full of bitterness and unforgiveness.
LISTEN TO ME: He tries to stop you from getting any other names in that book!!!!!!! He tries to stop you from witnessing. He tells you you can’t, he ruins your witness through lies.
Don’t leave the door cracked. Lock it down. Be on guard. Put that armor on first thing. Stay prayed up.
“The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10 NIV
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.” Ephesians 6:10-11
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” Luke 10:19-20 NIV
So very realistic, given his actions, however, he does revere Klaus too.
Trudeau recently verbally attacked all conservatives with extreme prejudice and then ran and hid, which seems to be his m. o.; such a fascistic coward he is.
Why is the government of Canada imposing vaxx mandates on truckers when they’re being lifted in the most radical leftist cities in America? What’s going on in Canada is the disintegration of freedom, which is, in large part, what the COVID restrictions have really been all about.
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