THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

A Collaboration by Keith and Raelynn Gilman

 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not and lie not against the truth.  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.                   James 3:13-15

        In part 1 of the OPENING THE EYES OF THE BLIND series, The Bigger Picture, we attempted to pull back the veil and expose things going on in the world around us that many were unaware even existed.  We introduced the Blueprint for a happy and successful life: the plan established by the Creator of mankind, Father God, in which His creation could live in harmony to the full potential for which he was created.  And we showed how mankind was reduced to a lesser animal version of himself when this Blueprint was not followed, as he instead chose selfishness, self-worship and created a system whereby he could use and defraud others for his own gain. This set the foundation, or groundwork whereby we can understand the world we live in today.

                                

          In part 2 of the series, The World We Live In, we will be looking at all the issues that affect our everyday lives: The Economy, Health Care, Politics, Immigration, Religion, Gun Control, the LGBT Movement, Women’s Rights, Racism, and Terrorism among others. We will show how the concepts presented in The Bigger Picture control every aspect of our everyday lives in the here and now.

       We, the authors of this work, believe we have a solemn, God-given duty to help Open the Eyes of the Blind in the world among us. We accomplish this by first showing them that there is more at work in our world than they may be presently aware of through the writings of The Bigger Picture.  Next, we show them how these once-hidden motives and machinations are the actual nuts and bolts that current policies, programs and issues are comprised of that enable them to function the way they do in our society today.  We do this through the articles of The World We Live In.  The final part of our series, Free At Last, will empower us to take the necessary steps toward making our world the place it was always intended to be, taking responsibility for the detours that have derailed us and getting our lives, our society and our world back on track.  It can be done.  It must be done, if we have any hope of preserving….

The World We Live In.

RECOGNIZING THE SATANIC

          Ask any Satanist and he will tell you he is not a Devil worshipper.  Genuine Satanism evolved from Atheism (the belief that there is no God), into the belief that there is no external God and that each Satanist is his or her own god, and worships no one but himself.  Selfishness is a hallmark of the Satanic.

          We see an example of this with the wizards of the dark ages.  Merlin was actually a scientist who discovered that if he mixed sulfur, carbon and salt-peter, he could create a fireball out of thin air.  Those watching in awe around him assumed him to be magic when, in truth, he was using God-given knowledge in a clever way to elevate himself and to deceive others into believing that he was more powerful than they and therefore superior to them. It was of more benefit to him to let them continue to believe as they did.

          Alternatively, Merlin could have shared his knowledge with those around him saying, “Look, fellow-citizens, what I discovered.  We can use this for the good of us all.  I can show you how to do it, so you can benefit too.”  He had a choice how to use the knowledge and talents he possessed.  He could become a giver to humanity and share his gifts, or he could horde them to exalt himself and use them for his own gain.  Those who share are those walking in the light of God and following the principles of His Blueprint.  Hoarders are by definition, Satanic.

          Within each human being lie two components: the soul made in the image of God (which is the light) and the body which is the human animal.  Satanists say “Embrace the animal.  Be the animal.  This is your true nature.”  The Creator would tell us to feed our souls by following the Blueprint and becoming free in the light.  Living in the world, living for oneself is Satanic.  Some people do this unknowingly and some do it intentionally.

          The Church of Satan will tell you, “We are human animals.  We know this.  We embrace this.”  The problem is, absent of the soul, or the knowledge of God, ours becomes a very selfish world.  It becomes dog-eat-dog, the survival of the fittest.  Which means, for example:  If I am out in the world and I am proudly Satanic, and I’m stronger than you and can take all your stuff, I deserve it.  I can knock you down and take the wallet out of your pocket and I can be proud that I was able to conquer you because I was stronger and you were not worthy to keep the things you had because of your weakness.  If you were not strong enough to outfit yourself against me, I’ve earned the spoils and you deserve what you got.  That is Satanism. And it fuels all the violence in our world today.

     When we look at our business world, we can see that it is built on a completely Satanic system.  The competition in our world today has no compassion, no humility and it is built on a dog-eat-dog, step on whomever you need to in order to reach the top mentality. 

          Another hallmark of the Satanic is slavery.  Just as a farmer would feel no qualms about enslaving an ox to plow a field for him (because he is more intelligent than the animal, he feels he deserves to use that ox for his benefit), the Supremacists who sit atop the Satanic pyramid (remember this from The Bigger Picture?) believe that they are entitled to enslave and use the labor of the lesser people beneath them who they believe have been bred for the sole purpose of being used for their own benefit. The difference here is that the farmer has been given dominion over animals by God.  God does not grant dominion over people to other people. Satanists grant this dominion to themselves as they consider themselves gods.

            

         Now that you can recognize the Satanic, take a look at the world around you.  You will see it everywhere. Selfishness, supremacy, slavery and violence reign supreme.  It’s no coincidence that the Bible calls Satan the god of this world.  Which God will you choose to serve – God, and his son Jesus Christ, or self and ultimately Satan?  Which component of your make-up will you choose to embrace – body or soul?  Will you follow the Blueprint or the ways of the world?  There is no neutral.  In denying one, we choose the other by default.  We will be part of the problem or part of the solution.  If we don’t choose to be Godly, we ourselves become Satanic.

TWISTED

           

     It’s a common misconception that good and evil are opposites and that it’s very easy to tell them apart.  However, it is a Satanic ploy to take something that is good and holy and change it just enough to serve their purposes while still appearing to be wholesome.  It becomes a matter of intent.  If you are doing something with a selfless intention, it is good and holy.  If you take the exact same act and do it for selfish gain, it looks exactly the same on the outside, but has become sin and therefore, Satanic.

     The Greek word for sin is Harmantano, and it means to miss the mark; to just be off a little bit; to be twisted.  The act of taking something good and holy and twisting it just a little bit, making a small compromise, or bending the rules slightly to appease, turns that good and holy thing into sin.  Many people are willing to compromise their values and beliefs in order to keep the peace.  They go along to get along and end up corrupting themselves.  Even the word “compromise” has been twisted to mean something good in our society.

     In our everyday lives, there are examples of twisted versions of good and holy things that are being sold to us as being good but no longer are.  One of the major ones is that it is ok to be proud.  “I’m proud of you.”  “I’m proud of myself.”    Pride is the sin that got Lucifer kicked out of heaven.  He boasted that he would ascend above the heavens and would be like the Most High God. Pride is the linchpin of sins.  All others hang upon it. Pride goes before sudden destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall, the Bible tells us.  The Godly version is to be pleased.  “I’m pleased with you.”  “I’m pleased with this.”  This is the word God used when describing Jesus.  “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”  Another example is greed.  In our society, greed is seen as good.  Go for the gusto!  Go out and get everything you can out of life. It’s the American dream.  How can that be bad?

  

     We also see something being twisted or changed just a little for the purposes of deception in the minting of our coins.  Our coins were once made of pure silver which is what gave them their value.  Over time, copper and nickel were added and now there is no silver in our coins whatsoever.  But what makes it deceptive is that they still look the same.  They are the same size, the same color, the same markings, with the same value stamped upon them.  Why? So you will think nothing has changed, when in truth, everything has changed.

     Religion is a twisted version of faith.  A sincere belief in and relationship with our Creator and Savior is the essence of following the Blueprint for a happy and successful life. It is life and that more abundantly.  But when we apply man-made rules and rituals to that belief and relationship, it becomes legalistic religion which is corrupted and no longer pleasing to God.  In a similar way, even the Word of God has become twisted from its original form.  Newer versions of the Bible leave out parts of Scripture that refer to the deity of Christ, and even omit some verses entirely.  This is by design to make something powerful of less effect. It’s still called the Holy Bible, still a leather-bound book with gilt pages so it appears to be the genuine article, but in so many cases has been changed for a purpose. 

      Not coincidentally, another name in the Bible for Satan is Leviathan, which means twisted.  It was the serpent (Leviathan) that caused the original sin in the Garden of Eden, by twisting God’s words and deceiving Eve, and it is the Leviathan spirit that is running rampant in our world today twisting and corrupting the good and holy and making them anything but.  Evil is not the opposite of good.  It’s just a twisted version of it.  Don’t compromise and don’t allow yourself to be deceived.  Motive matters.

DISCRIMINATION

     In today’s society, discrimination is a bad thing – in some cases, punishable by law.  Did you know that discrimination was originally meant to be a good thing – a tool to help us survive in a deceitful world?  It is one more thing that has been twisted to become something it was never intended to be.

     Webster’s defines discrimination as “the ability to recognize the difference between things that are of good quality and those that are not”. To be able to discern, to discriminate, to use your intellect to be able to identify when you are being coerced, manipulated or used is a valuable gift from God for use in a deceitful world.  It’s part of the Blueprint.  It exposes the enemy of our souls and his plans, so it only stands to reason that it would come under attack.  And he’s done a good job of it.  In some cases, discrimination is illegal and is punishable by law.

     The opposite, then, being indiscriminate, means to openly accept everything that comes down the pike. If you are not discriminating, you are open to corruption. So this idea that we should not discriminate is actually a very dangerous concept.  I believe the enemy of our souls and ruler of this world has purposely twisted the tool of discrimination so that it can no longer be used in our society, leaving the populace susceptible to his deception. Taking away one’s ability to discriminate should be identified, then, as Satanic.

     Am I saying that hatred against a race or class of people and treating them unfairly is ok and to be condoned?  Absolutely not!  But it’s not discrimination. It’s judgment.  Webster’s defines the transitive verb “to judge” as to determine or pronounce after inquiry and deliberation.  To judge is to pass sentence on, and the Blueprint advises against it.  Matthew 7:1 says, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” There is only One who can pass sentence and that is God, the Creator of mankind.

     Some will argue that I am splitting hairs here – that it doesn’t matter if you call it discrimination or judgment, it is still wrong.  I beg to differ.  Being discriminatory is vital to our survival; it keeps us from being corrupted.  Once we’ve discriminated between right and wrong, good and bad, however, we are not to use that knowledge to pass judgment on anyone.  It’s for internal use only. 

     Don’t allow the deliberate twisting of the meaning of words to deceive you.  Openly discriminate; refuse to judge.  In discriminating more, we will find we judge less.

FIRM FOUNDATION

“Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the wind blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”                                                  Matthew 7:24, 25

          Any builder will tell you the importance of a firm foundation.  Without it, at the first sign of adversity, the building collapses.  But buildings aren’t the only things in need of a firm foundation.  People need a firm foundation for their beliefs, ideals, morals, choices, and decisions.  Without that, they are easily manipulated, and they, too, collapse.

          Politicians have known this for a long time.  In fact, it’s a technique they employ to get people to vote for them.  They use Cognitive Dissonance.  Webster’s defines this as: Psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.  Simply put, you present two things in direct opposition to each other as true. As the hearer’s mind wrestles with trying to reconcile what they’ve heard, the mind becomes confused and temporarily shuts down, leaving him vulnerable and very susceptible.  The hearer then has a choice: he can admit he’s confused and doesn’t understand and ask for an explanation, or (as the politicians, and others, like interrogators, slick salesmen, and cult leaders count on) too proud to admit they don’t understand, they will just push the “I believe” button.    

          We see this with religion all the time.  A minister stands up and claims to know all about God, to know the very mind of Christ, and the hearer has a choice. He can search the Scriptures to see if the things he’s being told are true (forming a foundation on which to build his beliefs), or he can push the “I believe” button because this guy has gone to Seminary, he’s smarter than me, so he must know. In the last days, false Christs and false prophets will abound and there will be many that blindly follow these Pied Pipers because they have no foundation for opposition, and their convictions will collapse.

          That’s why Millennials so easily jump on the bandwagon of whatever is popular thought.  They lack the experience that would give them a firm foundation on which to base their decisions.  I have a friend who’s 20 years old.  She was told that Donald Trump is racist, and that the Republican Party has always been against

African-Americans.  The truth is that Donald Trump has made some insensitive remarks that could be considered racist if one looked at only those statements and did not consider all his actions to the contrary, and that the Republican Party started out as a group of Abolitionists opposing the Democrat slave-owners.  Not having this foundation, my friend just chose to believe what she was told, and is convinced she should vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election, because she’s the champion of the minorities. (See our articles entitled, Fools Rush In and Equal Opportunity Oppression).

          Our education system understands the importance of a firm foundation.  You can’t do advanced mathematics if you can’t add and subtract.  Today, our education system is being purposely destroyed for that very reason (see our articles entitled Indoctrination and Higher Education in The Bigger Picture).  Foundations are the first part of a building to be built.  To keep a foundation from being solid, or even being built in the first place, you have to start at the beginning – with our young people. 

          To use this form of manipulation and control, it is absolutely essential to remove the underlying foundation so there is no basis of understanding and people will believe what they are told.  They won’t have the knowledge from which to contradict with confidence the conflicting statements made to them. This is where pride comes in.  If the person who is being manipulated would just admit they don’t understand and ask for an explanation, the manipulator would back-pedal.  He’d be exposed. This is the meaning of “the truth will make you free”.  More often than not, however, a panicked look comes into the hearer’s eyes as he realizes, “I’m trapped.  I don’t know what he’s talking about, so I’ll just nod and agree”.

          A firm foundation is essential for understanding and for being confident in what one knows.  The Bigger Picture is the foundation for The World We Live In.

Without the knowledge of the Blueprint and usury, we would have no basis for understanding how our world presently operates.  The Old Testament in the Bible is the foundation for understanding the New Testament.  You have to know about the law and prophets in the Old Testament to understand how Christ fulfilled them all in the New.  A nation’s history is the foundation for understanding its current political climate. As in the example of my friend, you have to have knowledge of the past, to avoid making similar mistakes in the present.

          There is no greater confidence than standing with one’s feet planted firmly on a rock, knowing that whatever is thrown at you, you will remain standing because your foundation is sure.  That rock is Jesus Christ.  The Old Testament prophesied it in Isaiah 28:16 : “Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.”  And we see its fulfillment in the New Testament in I Corinthians 3:11: “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Christ Jesus.”  He is truth.  When presented with misdirection, we can recognize it and confidently oppose it if we are in Christ.  He is humility. With Jesus as our foundation, we don’t have to walk in pride and can avoid the pitfalls of usury, supremacy, and Progressivism.  On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

          It’s our choice: We can push the “I believe” button and accept everything that comes down the pike, or we can have a firm foundation from which we can confidently choose what we will believe and what actions we will take.  We can build our house upon a rock, or upon the sand – it’s entirely up to us.  But our choice will determine what will happen when the storms come.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OPPRESSION

    

     Slavery – it’s not just for blacks, any more.  In our Satanic society, there is enough oppression to go around for everyone.  We live in a world designed to create perpetual victims.

      Lyndon Johnson was a racist.  He hated black people, but there came a time when he realized that he needed their votes.  He cunningly created The Civil Rights Act. Although good would come through this legislation, it was never his motive for introducing it.  With it, he was saying, “Look at me, I’m your friend.  I’m going to help you out and give you stuff.  So vote for me.”  The Republicans on the other hand, said, “We want you to be equal and equally responsible.  We aren’t going to give you things.  We want you to be like everyone else, but we are not favoring you.”  This is when the majority of blacks became democrats.  When people are down, they will vote for their savior.  Do people like Johnson ever try to lift the disadvantaged out of the ghetto?  No.  He needs them to be victims forever so he can be their continual savior and people will continue to vote for him. If he actually betters their position, they no longer need a savior and he will no longer get their vote.  So the poor and downtrodden of every race turn for help to those with the hand-out in exchange for their loyalty at the polls.  The oppression increases so the people will continue to need hand-outs, continue to vote for those oppressing them, and when they win the election, create more programs to ensure the continual enslavement of the people.

     If you look at the political demographics of any city, you’ll see an interesting phenomenon.  All of the inner-cities are predominantly Democrat and only the rural areas are Republican.  Why is that? The self-sufficiency of an agrarian (farming) society where they value independence is still present in our rural communities (the same principle instituted in the Garden and in the Blueprint).

It’s not a coincidence that the United Nations has a master plan to make all rural areas into national parks, forcing everyone to move into the cities. (This is Agenda 21.  We talk more about it in the article entitled Borderless in The Bigger Picture.)

Once in the cities, the people are no longer self-sufficient and become part of the system that keeps them enslaved.  The only way for a one-world government to be successful is to take away the people’s independence, abolish the Blueprint for a happy and successful life and make them dependent upon the government for their every- day needs.

     The apparent inability of our government to secure our nation’s borders is actually another scheme toward the enslavement of a nation.  The globalist elite that are pushing for a one-world government actually want Mexican nationals working in our country and they want them to be there illegally.  It fosters dependency.  When you are illegal, you will work for less and will not go to the authorities if you are being mistreated.  You don’t file OSHA claims, take sick days or vacation time.  Out of fear of being fired and deported, you take what you can get and are careful not to bite the hand that feeds you.  Illegals don’t make good employees; they make good slaves.  Corporate America would like to see a return to the British Empire feudal system, where they are the land lords and the peasants below them operate at their mercy, without exerting their rights and receiving benefits.  They can play out this scenario when they hire illegals.

      The hiring of illegal immigrants also causes a dependency among the American citizens who would otherwise have had those jobs.  Some can’t find work and go on unemployment.  Others don’t make what they otherwise could have and have to use food stamps and Medicare to supplement their income as they become the working poor.

     Even the intentional breakdown of marriage and the family plays a part in creating perpetual victims dependent upon the government as we will see in our article entitled Arrested Development.  

     The globalist elite will not be happy until the entire nation of America is enslaved to a government that is too big, too powerful and operating not “for the people” but for their own agenda of a one-world government.  Our government is not racist.  They are equal opportunity oppressors.

PIGS AND ELEPHANTS

 “The only way for a one-world government to be successful is to take away the people’s independence, abolish the Blueprint for a happy and successful life and make them dependent upon the government for their every- day needs.”

                                       Excerpt from our article, Equal Opportunity Oppression

         How does a government enslave an entire nation of people?  Patiently, over much time with tried and true techniques – the same techniques used in catching a wild pig and controlling an elephant.

     So how do you catch a wild pig?  The wild pig is fiercely independent and fends for himself.  He spends most of his day hunting for food and is cautious and aware of potential danger around him.  So one day, he sees a pile of corn in the middle of a field.  After working all day for a couple of bites of food, he sees a whole pile of it sitting right there in front of him.  At first, he’s very wary.  Something seems a bit off.  He’s never seen a pile of food so readily available before.  He looks around for danger, and seeing none, takes a small taste.  The food tastes ok, so he nervously and cautiously eats the food and immediately leaves.  After a few days, out of curiosity he returns to the same spot.  He sees another pile of food there.  But this time, he hasn’t had to spend all day hunting for food.  He starts to realize that instead of having to work hard to get his food, he could just come to this spot and have it waiting instead of expending all the time and energy necessary to hunt and gather it.  He can eat for free.  He’s still a little cautious, because this is still a bit unusual, but he eats the food and leaves.  The next time he comes back, there is again a pile of food waiting for him, but this time he looks up and sees something different.  Between two trees a little ways off, there is a fence. He stands back and  looks.  Something’s not right.  That’s not supposed to be there.  But if I don’t take the free food, he thinks, I’ll have to go back out to the forest and find it myself.  He decides that one little fence is not too intimidating, so keeping one eye on it, he goes ahead and eats the food. Then he leaves.  By this time, he’s actually forgotten what it means to go out and hunt for his own food and the work it entails, so to put up with some of these strange things is worth it.  A couple of days later, he comes back to another pile of food and notices another section of fence between two more trees. He’s a little nervous, but the food is still there.  Does he want to turn around and go back into the forest to try to search for his own food?  It doesn’t seem too dangerous as there is no one else around, so he goes ahead and eats the food.  Each time he comes back, there is another section of fence up.  Each time, he decides it’s easier to eat the food there instead of hunting for it himself.  In fact, he’s not even sure he remembers the skills required to get his own food any more. So he figures he needs to eat the food now or he’s not going to get any at all so he will put up with the discomfort the presence of the fences is causing.  The last time he comes, he’s eating the food and the last piece of fence goes up behind him.  Now he’s trapped.  He wants to leave and go back to his home, but he can’t.  He’s worried, but there’s free food here.  As long as the food keeps showing up inside this fence, he has everything he needs.  Why does he need to go home?  This is ok.  Eventually, the pig calms down and gets comfortable and the fenced field becomes his new home.  He decides it’s a pretty good home.  He doesn’t have to work for his food; all his needs are being met. This is how you catch a wild pig.  As he keeps being fed, the pig becomes more domesticated and he begins to get used to seeing the person who supplies the food outside the fence.  He’s not concerned about that anymore.  One day, the supplier decides he doesn’t need the pig anymore and he quits putting the corn in.

     This is a metaphor for our welfare system.  The corn is food stamps, Medicare, and unemployment benefits.  It’s a tool that our government has been using for almost 100 years.  How effective is it?  Consider the following article:

From CNSNews.com:  The 109,631,000 living in households taking federal welfare benefits as of the end of 2012, according to the Census Bureau, equaled 35.4 percent of all 309,467,000 people living in the United States at that time. When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.

82,679,000 of the welfare-takers lived in households where people were on Medicaid, said the Census Bureau. 51,471,000 were in households on food stamps. 22,526,000 were in the Women, Infants and Children program. 20,355,000 were in household on Supplemental Security Income. 13,267,000 lived in public housing or got housing subsidies. 5,442,000 got Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. 4,517,000 received other forms of federal cash assistance.

Medicaid enrollment is set to only increase as Obamacare forces more people into the program. Also, these numbers do not include those receiving Obamacare subsidies, which can be received by anyone making 400% of the poverty level.

It is clearly not sustainable to have a country where more than half of the country is receiving benefits from the government.

     It does no good to have a fenced field full of formerly wild pigs, unless you are able to use them for your purposes.  To do this, you must be able to control them. Another technique is employed that we could call, “How to Control an Elephant”.

     Wild African elephants stand 10–13 feet and weigh 8,800–15,400 lbs.  At birth, they already weigh 200 pounds.  There is not much you can construct that will hold a wild elephant.  It’s all about controlling their mind and breaking their will.  This must be done while the elephant is young and easily manipulated.  (Do you see the correlation to the function of a strong family unit protecting the minds of impressionable children until they are able to better comprehend the world around them?  We will explore this more in our article entitled Arrested Development.)  So to control a wild elephant, you take them as a baby and put a big, heavy chain around their ankle and stake it to the ground.  He doesn’t like being controlled, and he will pull and fight against the chain until he wears himself out.  Eventually, he gives up.  He realizes that when he feels this tug on his ankle, it means he is stuck and he can’t go anywhere.  He’s trapped.  When the elephant becomes a 5-ton adult, he can easily snap the chain, but a chain is no longer needed.  Now he is staked to the ground with a tiny little rope. When he feels the tug on his ankle, he quits trying because he’s been conditioned to believe that no matter what he does to get away, he won’t succeed.

     This is what the inner-city is all about.  The ghetto environment is the fenced field, but there is no need for a fence.  The minds of those who have grown up there have been imprisoned.  They’ve seen their parents struggle with poverty, living on government assistance, in unlivable conditions, with crime abounding around them and they feel hopeless, like there is no way out and no use struggling against it.  Their will has been broken, because it’s always been this way and they believe it always will be. 

     The combination of having everything provided for you without having to work for it with government programs (catch a wild pig), and having your mind arrested so that you don’t believe it’s possible to do anything else so why even try (controlling an elephant) is what enables a government to successfully enslave an entire nation of people.

       2Thessalonians 3:10 says that if a man will not work, neither should he eat. This is the wisdom that keeps us from being caught like a wild pig.  God also said in Nahum 1:13, “For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.”  He does this through the renewing of our minds. (Romans 12:2).

We’ve been created in the image of God.  It’s time we follow His Blueprint and quit allowing ourselves to be treated like pigs and elephants.

BROKEN ECONOMY

          Webster’s defines economy as: the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region; careful use of money, resources, etc.; something that makes it possible for you to spend less money.  In the United States of America today, only the first definition still applies.  It is common knowledge that our economy is broken. The questions remain:  How did it get this way?  And can we fix it?

          The economy of the United States of America was originally designed to be a free enterprise system.  This meant that anyone could use their skills and labor and start a small business for profit without government regulation or taxation .  You could start a business baking pies and you determined how many, what kind, when to bake and what to charge.  The money you made in excess of what you spent to make the pies would be your profit and from that you would make a living.  The government was not involved in any way in the livelihood of its citizens. Each had the right to make his own way through his own gifts, talents, labor and ingenuity.

          In the beginning, the Federal government was tiny.  It ran off tariffs.  That was their only income.  If foreign countries wanted to pedal their products in our country and sell to our citizens, they would pay a portion to allow them to do so.  There was no internal revenue.  There was never meant to be. The citizens of the nation were never meant to fund their government. The change came when our government got involved in the regulation of the commerce of the people.

            In the beginning, our economy was based upon the Blueprint. (You can read about the Blueprint in our series of articles entitled The Bigger Picture.)  Wealth was produced through physical labor.  If a man didn’t work, he didn’t eat.¹

It was the amount of labor that went into producing a product that determined its value.  Fruit and vegetables got their value from the time and effort required to plant, grow and harvest them.  That’s how they got the name “produce”.  Gold, silver, iron, copper, and other minerals got their value from the time and effort spent to dig them out of the ground, separate and refine them. The same goes for oil and petroleum.  Real estate got its value from the effort involved in improving the land to make it livable.  These commodities have intrinsic value because of the labor involved to make them usable.

         

           The economy of the United States began as a barter system.  If you grew apples and you wanted oranges, you would trade your “produce” for the “produce” of another.  If you grew apples and you wanted iron, you would have to trade many apples for a smaller amount of iron because the labor needed to produce the iron was more than the labor needed to produce the apples, making it more valuable. It soon became evident though, that this bartering system was not durable.  Apples rot. So a system was devised to exchange commodities that would spoil for those that would not, like gold and silver. The tricky part was determining the value of gold and silver so as to have a fair exchange.

          To assist with this, the Federal government got involved.  They created a Department of Weights and Measures.  They provided a service whereby an assayer would determine the value of metals by its color, weight and size, and would stamp the value on a coin of silver or gold. In the beginning, the government never issued this money.  It belonged to the miner and the assayer merely provided a service to regulate value. This service had to be paid for, however.  So a portion of that coin went to the assayer, as a fee, or tax.  Here, then, is the beginning of internal revenue which opened a door for corruption.  The Blueprint repeatedly warned against false weights and false measures² as a means of defrauding those at the mercy of the assayer, but alas, to no avail.

          In 1972, President Nixon took our country off the gold standard.  No longer was it required that our labor be exchanged for gold, or even that there be enough gold kept in Fort Knox to back the Federal Reserve notes  (which were actually just receipts for confiscated gold) that the government was printing as “legal tender” in exchange for our labor. No longer did “money” belong to the miner who produced it, but the government began producing paper “money” in their stead.  This paper, which had no intrinsic value because there was no labor required to produce it, was stamped with “values” which were not values at all.  A $1 bill took the same amount of labor to produce as a $100 bill.

          The flooding of the market with this valueless paper money created an environment of inflation.  The price of an object is determined by supply and demand.  If I have a lot of apples, and not very many people wanting to buy those apples, I will charge less money in order to get rid of the apples.  On the flip side, if I have one apple and 100 people wanting that apple, I can charge a lot more for that apple - whatever someone is willing to pay to get it.  When there is more money than product in a market, prices go up.  The cost or value of the item doesn’t go up.  It still costs the same labor to produce it.  Only the price goes up.  That is inflation. 

          Inflation is the hallmark of a broken economy. Labor is the true wealth, not the fake money that is being poured into the system.  Once you debauch the currency, inflation will run out of control and the system will begin to break down.  At that point there are two options: scrap the broken economic system and start over, or put Band-Aids on it to keep the system going as long as possible.  So far, though everyone knows our economy is broken, no one has had the courage to scrap the system and start over.  We opted for Band-Aids instead. 

^{1 2Thessalonians 3:10, The Holy Bible}

^{2 Proverbs 11:1, 20:23, The Holy Bible}

MUMMIES AND VAMPIRES

          Americans have chosen to live with a broken economic system.  Everyone knows it’s broken, but no one chooses to fix it.  Those benefitting from the broken system have convinced the masses that it is not fixable, and the masses have been conditioned like captive elephants to believe that they are powerless to effect any change. Instead of fixing our economy, we place Band-Aid upon Band-Aid upon it until our economy resembles a mummy. And while it might resemble a mummy, it has actually become a vampire that is sucking the lifeblood from its citizens and will continue to do so until they’ve been sucked dry.

            Once the Federal government began regulating commerce, it began receiving income through internal revenue.  The American people have been taxed, taxed, and taxed again. Federal taxes start at 10 percent on the first $7,000 of income, and income above that is taxed at increasingly higher rates.  Medicare and Social Security are required deductions by the federal government. 4.2 percent of a person’s paycheck is deducted to go toward Social Security. They also deduct 1.45 percent for Medicare. In addition to federal taxes and other federal withholding, according to "Forbes" magazine, 43 states collect income tax from their residents, and the average rate is 6.5 percent.  Not to mention property taxes, luxury taxes, and other use taxes.  Citizens have now reached a point where they are rebelling against further taxation, yet the government continues to grow out of control and requires more and more funding to sustain itself.  The answer is found in the hidden tax of inflation.  Inflation is one of the Band-Aids put on our broken economy to keep it functioning.

              Inflation, you will recall, is the raising of prices through the devaluation or overabundance of currency.   There are tools along the way that hide the system of inflation to keep it from being exposed to the people.  If I bought a 12 oz. can of corn this year for $1 and next year the same can cost $2 and the year after, $4, the inflation would be obvious and the people would rebel.  If however, I bought a 12 oz. can of corn this year for $1 and next year it still cost $1 but the can was now 10 oz., the inflation would be less obvious.  Some may not notice the difference at all, allowing a greater portion of the people’s wealth to be stripped from them and funneled to the top.  The government is being funded through the hidden tax of inflation, hiding the destruction of our economy.

          Another Band-Aid on the mummy of our economy is that of illegal immigration.  If we rounded up everyone who is currently working illegally in our country for less than minimum wage and didn’t allow them to work anymore, those jobs would have to be replaced with Americans that would demand a fair wage for their labor.  The idea that Americans won’t do manual labor is ludicrous. It’s been fostered to allow cheap illegal labor to continue.  Americans are willing to work; they just know the value of their labor and want to be compensated for it.

When these Americans are given the fair wage for their labor, the prices of the product must go up because the cost of producing it goes up through the labor.  Economists then cry, “See, by removing illegal immigration, you are ruining the economy by raising the prices.”  The truth is, the economy is already ruined and  illegal immigrant labor simply masks it.  When a fair wage is paid, the true state of the economy is exposed for the mess that it is.  That’s why there is such a fight against the removal of illegal immigrants from our country.  If we let it go away, we expose the destruction of our economy.  We have to keep bringing in cheaper and cheaper labor to keep the prices down, to keep the economy from collapsing.  If things were done the way they should be, our economy should have collapsed a long time ago through the destruction of our currency which in turn destroys our economy.

          Another Band-Aid on our mummy is that of the Federal minimum wage. The Progressives will tell you that raising the minimum wage doesn’t hurt anything.  They say it just takes some of the money that has gone to large corporations and gives it back to the people.  That simply isn’t true.  When wages go up, costs go up.  The more you raise the wages, the deeper the inflation.  The raising of the Federal minimum wage is meant to appease the people and fool them into thinking they are making more money, when in fact it funnels more money from them through more inflation.

          One of the most deceptive Band-Aids on the mummy of our economy is that of the stock market.  With this one, the population’s own vices of greed and sloth are used against them to convince them that their money can earn more money without them having to work for it. This money is not “invested”.  There is no guarantee of return.  It is funneled away to the corporations that become rich off those who have deceived themselves into believing they can get something for nothing.  When we get something for nothing, we are actually confiscating someone else’s wealth. The money you put in the stock market does not go up in value, it goes up in price.  I “invest” $10,000 and in 30 years, I have $100,000.  I

believe my money has grown, when in truth, what I could buy with the $10,000 30 years ago now costs $100,000.  I haven’t made money, because inflation has confiscated the increase.  Money can’t make money.  Labor makes money. The stock market is only a tool to keep a broken economy on life-support.

          It is vital that everyone understand the destruction of our economy and the hidden system of inflation by which they are being abused. Only then can we start making steps against it and start to destroy the evil system in place.  A vampire needs your blood and will suck you dry in order to live. A broken economy does the same thing.  Mummies and vampires are the subjects of nightmares.  We rob them of their power to harm us when we wake up. 

TRY, TRY AGAIN

        If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.  Our government here in the United States of America has been miss-run for a long, long time.  It’s no secret. Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the Supreme Court (1939-1962), said: “The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” In a letter to an associate dated November 21, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote, “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”  Most people don’t even realize, though, that the people of the United States have been fighting back, trying to regain their country for decades.  We see it over and over again at election time.  Every four years, we try, try again.

       In every election, we see the candidate for the establishment; the one chosen by the invisible rulers operating behind the scenes, and we see a disrupter; an out-sider chosen by the people to come in and break up the status-quo and make the government once again by the people and for the people.  Some of these disrupters had (R)’s behind their names and some had (D)’s.  As we’ve seen in our article, Just Letters in the Alphabet, it wasn’t these designations that set them apart.  It was who they stood for and what they were attempting to do.

        John F. Kennedy was a champion of the people, and he was a (D).  Was it a coincidence that when Kennedy was assassinated, the establishment got their man, Lyndon Johnson, in office?  Many don’t believe it was.  Our country turned dramatically down a dark path when these events took place.  The people needed another champion, another disrupter.  They needed to try again.

       One such disrupter was Ronald Reagan.  He was an outsider, fought by the Republican Party establishment.  The establishment’s candidate was George Herbert Walker Bush.  To their chagrin, Ronald Reagan defeated all of the establishment’s preferred candidates in the primary.  The outsider came in and messed up the good thing they had going.  But they fixed that.  A few months into the office, he got shot.  He was going to be the destroyer that went into Washington and destroyed the corrupt system in place to establish a better one. The would-be destroyer got a wake-up call when he caught the bullet that was intended to kill him, so that George Herbert Walker would become President in his stead.  Ronald Reagan was a champion of the people until the bullet made him realize that his only chance for self-preservation was to do as he was told.  He, understanding the forces at work, became, then, a very different President, becoming involved with the Iran-Contra Affair and other globalist endeavors.  The people’s hope failed, so they had to try again.

     People thought that Barak Obama was the next champion for the people.  He was an outsider because he was not a career politician.  Also, the common perception of Washington is that they are all old white guys, so by the nature of the color of his skin, he would be a disrupter and would break up that established power. On election night, people were crying with joy.  They believed that finally someone was elected who could right our government and once again represent the actual people of the nation.  Obama wasn’t in power long before the majority of the people realized they’d been duped and he wasn’t in it for them at all. 

     In the 2016 Presidential election, we see another disrupter in the running.  Donald Trump is hated by both the Republican and Democratic establishments.  Many people believe he is the last hope for the people of this nation to reclaim control of their government.  He doesn’t need the money of the financial element that currently controls our government and he doesn’t cave in easily to intimidation.  Many believe there will never be a better candidate for the people, and if he is unable to break up the powers that be, nobody can.

     It’s time for the people of the United States of America to reclaim their nation.  We’ve tried and tried again. This time we need to succeed, or our nation may very well die trying.

FOOLS RUSH IN

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”  Alexander Pope, 1711.

          What is the difference between progress and Progressivism?  Webster’s defines progress as a move forward toward something; the process of improving or developing something over time.  Progressivism could be best described as “progress with arrogance”.  It’s the difference between improving or developing something over time and fools rushing in.

          One of the greatest leaps in Progressivism in our country was through Woodrow Wilson.  He was the President of Princeton University right before he became President of the United States.  In his first month in office, Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to have the legislative branch act on “the New Freedom,” his reform package. His entire reform package, including tariff, banking, labor and tax-related issues, passed in Congress by the end of his first year in office. Wilson’s Progressive reforms included creating the Federal Reserve Bank, putting in place the Federal Trade Commission and establishing the 8 hour day, as well as instituting the first income tax.  Like other Progressives, he thought he was doing good, but in his arrogance picked a path forward and just pushed ahead, not realizing the unintended consequences that wouldn’t manifest until many years down the road. You can read about some of these consequences in our article entitled Pyramid Scheme in The Bigger Picture.

          If you take a look at pharmaceutical companies, they fall into this Progressive (progress with arrogance) mentality.  They take on the role of gods.  They don’t fully understand the unintended consequences of what they are doing.  They think, “We’re fixing people.  We’re curing people.  We’re doing good.”  Their arrogance causes them to think they are heroes or saviors, and it blinds them from slowing down enough to try to see what kind of damage their drugs could cause.  They believe they are brilliant and have all the answers so they can’t admit that there could be very dangerous side effects and consequences to their actions, and that they might be doing something wrong in their haste.

          Progress with arrogance is like moving 120 mph. down the highway with a blindfold on. They’re getting somewhere, but they could end up in a fiery crash. They don’t even know it, and they are leaving a wake of destruction in their path.

They are flying headlong into the future, wrecking things along the way, holding on to the steering wheel for dear life and the bridge is out, but they are going too fast to see the sign.  This is what Progressivism does in our society. 

          Even worse, their arrogance does not even allow them to acknowledge the destruction they’ve caused, because then they would have to admit that they were wrong in the first place.  So, instead of admitting that the course of action they took was wrong and going back and fixing it, they now have to put a Band-Aid on the destruction.

          We see this with Progressivism in Health Care.  Making everyone have access to health care can’t be a bad thing, right?  Certainly the intention is good.  We would all agree that everyone has the right to affordable health care. One of the blinders put up by Progressivism is the lie that the only way you can have access to quality health care is through health insurance. Our government broke the system a long time ago by allowing health insurance companies to go to Washington and lobby the politicians to draw artificial lines across which one could not purchase health insurance. These give-aways to the big corporations forced the little companies out of the market, limiting the competition and driving up the cost of insurance, making it unaffordable.  So now Washington has to put a Band-Aid on the thing they broke in the first place. They “fix” the problem by forcing everyone to buy the product from the same companies they restricted competition on that originally caused the insurance cost to rise. First, they made health insurance unaffordable by give-aways to the big corporations, then they had to create an Affordable Care Act to fix the unaffordability they created in the first place.  Only, for a large percentage of the people, it didn’t – another unintended consequence.

          A hallmark of Progressivism is lengthy legislation.  When the Affordable Care Act was proposed, no one read the actual act.  They couldn’t - the actual wording of the law is a whopping 2,700 pages long and the 10,000 - 20,000 pages of regulations related to the act stacks 8-foot tall.  Nancy Pelosi made the statement, “We’re going to have to vote it in, just to be able to see what’s in it.”  This was by design.  No one said, “Hold on, slow down, let’s not vote on this thing until we get a chance to fully understand it and know what we are actually voting for.”  The legislation gets pushed through without anyone even knowing what it says or what the consequences could be. Progressivism just keeps pushing forward without slowing down enough to see what the implications are. It’s a broken accelerator pedal. 

JUST LETTERS IN THE ALPHABET

          There was a time when being a Republican (R) or Democrat (D) meant something.  A person knew what each party stood for and believed in and they agreed with the way their chosen party thought the nation should be governed.  That time is long gone.  Today, (R) and (D) are just letters in the alphabet.

           The Democratic-Republican Party was formed by Thomas Jefferson and others who believed in an agrarian-based, decentralized, democratic government. Both the Republican and Democrat Parties sprang from this entity, with the Republicans taking the more conservative view on issues (comes from the word “conservation” meaning to protect from deterioration , to preserve the original intent), and the Democrats taking the more liberal view on issues (from the word “liberty” meaning to protect hard-won freedoms).

          The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party) began in a little schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854. A small group of dedicated abolitionists gathered to fight the expansion of slavery, and they gave birth to a Party dedicated to freedom and equal opportunity. The name “Republican” was chosen, alluding to Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party and conveying a commitment to the “republic for which we stand”.  The Party was formally organized in July 1854 by thousands of anti-slavery activists at a convention in Jackson, Michigan. And it was no accident that two years later, in 1856, the first Republican National Convention took place in Philadelphia, where the Constitution was written.

                                         

          The Democratic Party traces its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, and the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828, making it the world's oldest active party. The Democrats' worldview was classical liberalism. In the 1890s, under the influence of its three-time defeated presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan and the Populist Party, the party moved to the left from an economic point of view and, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, it has promoted a social-liberal platform.

          In its inception, each party had noble, godly intentions for governing their new nation.  But, as we discussed in our article, Twisted, any good and holy thing that is done from a self-serving motive becomes corrupted.  Once it became apparent that people would become loyal to one party or another, the party system became a tool of exploitation. Candidates would switch parties to the one which had a better chance of getting them elected. Ronald Reagan was originally a Democrat and a New Deal supporter, who became a union leader while in Hollywood. He switched parties officially in 1962 and gave a famous quote: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”  Likewise, in 1964, a very young Hillary Rodham Clinton was one of the Goldwater Girls who campaigned for the Arizona Republican. She officially became a Democrat later in the 1960s after she attended the 1968 GOP convention.

     Then there are those who don’t switch parties, but try to have the best of both worlds.  They are referred to as RINOs (Republicans in name only).  These use the (R) next to their name to get elected, but their policies are very liberal, often lining up identically to those of the Democrats.

     Another tool of political party exploitation is the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Council on Foreign Relations was incorporated as the American branch of the Institute of International Affairs in New York on July 29, 1921. Founding members included J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Otto Kahn, and Jacob Schiff. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the financial powers behind it has been promoting the New World Order for over seventy years.  

In the 2008 election, several members of the Council on Foreign Relations entered the Presidential race from both sides of the aisle: John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani .  According to C. Wright Mills’ book The Power Elite, Candidates do not advertise their CFR membership to the public. They pose as "Liberals" and "Conservatives" to control all aspects of the debate. They dupe an unwitting public with the illusion of choice and political diversity in a fraudulent left-right paradigm, so that their covert agenda can continue to roll forward, without any interference, regardless of who is elected president.

          With candidates fence-hopping to whichever party will better serve their needs, others who won’t commit to a side by being “in name only”  and the CFR putting forth candidates loyal only to them and their global elitist agenda of a one-world government, political party designations have become meaningless.  Take the 2016 presidential election, for example.  Never before has there been a presidential candidate who is hated and opposed by both parties equally as Donald Trump.  Why is that?  Because the opposing sides in this election are “We the people” who would preserve the sovereignty of the United States of America and the establishment that’s promoting globalism.  It’s no longer Republican vs. Democrat.

          Americans would be very wise to research each candidate running for any office before making a decision in the polls.  Gone is the day that one can vote for a Republican or Democrat solely based on party because I know what that means and what he stands for. That candidate could have been a member of the opposing party prior to the election, affiliated with his party in name only, or a candidate put forth by the CFR.  Don’t be taken in by the letter behind the name.  (R) and (D) are just letters in the alphabet.

TRIBUTE, TAX, TITHE

     “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”  2Corinthians 9:7

     Tribute, tax and tithe – what do they all have in common?  All are paid or given, depending upon your mindset.   We pay when we owe.  We are obligated to pay.  We give when we choose.  Giving is always done freely or it is merely payment in disguise.

      Webster’s defines tax as “a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government; a strain or heavy demand.”  Taxes, then, are always paid.  If something is compulsory or levied, it is demanded and not given freely.  Taxes come in many forms: property tax, income tax, sales tax, luxury tax, and hotels even have bed taxes.  There are federal taxes, county taxes, state taxes, city taxes and there are hidden taxes.  Inflation is a type of hidden tax.  Prices always go up and wages go up – but not proportionately.  Prices always go up more than wages do.  That difference between the increase in prices and the increase in wages is something people are forced to pay.  It is a hidden tax.

     Webster’s defines tribute as “a gift intended to show gratitude; payment made periodically to a ruler, especially as a sign of dependence.”  By this definition, tribute can be given or paid.  Kings gave offerings (tribute) to the emperors over them as a promise that they still had their allegiance. In the case that a benevolent ruler rescued the populace from a tyrannical ruler and took his place, the tribute would be freely given as a sign of gratitude.  More often, however, the ruler demanded tribute as evidence that those beneath them were dependent upon them and were proof that the ruler had control of even their finances.  If they didn’t pay the tribute, there would be war. When tribute went from being given, to being paid, it became a tax. Likewise today, if people refuse to pay taxes, their government declares war upon them.

     Tithe is a word used mostly in religious circles.  Webster’s defines tithe as “one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the church and clergy.”  The Hebrew origin of the word “tithe” actually means “tenth”.  As with tribute, a tithe can be given or paid.  In certain religions, the paying of tithes is an obligation (a type of tax) enforced to support the church and its clergy. In many Christian churches, tithe is an opportunity to return a portion of the bounty that was freely given in gratitude for all the blessings that had been bestowed upon the individual giving it. They believe that all wealth is God’s and He gives it to individuals to manage for Him. They give 10% back to help others as they have been helped. It is freely given out of love, and if at some point it is not given for some reason, there are no repercussions.

     Throughout the writings of The Bigger Picture and The World We Live In,

we refer to the Blueprint as the Creator’s instructions for how to live a happy and prosperous life here on this earth.  It might surprise some to know that the Blueprint encourages us to not pay taxes, but to give them to whom they are due. When asking Jesus about whether they should pay the enforced tribute to Caesar, His disciples were told to “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s”.¹   The word “render” used there means “to give”.

     What do tribute, taxes and tithe have in common?  They can all be tools of manipulation and control or they can all be opportunities to show gratitude for what we’ve been given.  Whether we choose to pay them or give them is entirely up to us.

1 Matthew 22:21, The Holy Bible 

IMMUTABLE, MUTATED, MUTE

     The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution's first three words—We the People—affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens. For over two centuries the Constitution has remained in force because its framers wisely separated and balanced governmental powers to safeguard the interests of majority rule and minority rights, of liberty and equality, and of the federal and state governments.  Although the base beliefs and core values of the Constitution were meant to be immutable (unable to be changed), since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended twenty-seven times to meet the changing needs of a nation now profoundly different from the eighteenth-century world in which its creators lived.¹ A system for amending the Constitution of the United States was created to ensure that the majority of the nation was in agreement before any of the base beliefs and laws could be changed.  It was intended to be a pillar, a firm foundation, upon which the nation could depend.  When times were turbulent, the Constitution of the United States would be unwavering.  When all else was being tossed about, the Constitution would stand.

     What was intended to be immutable has become mutated.  In recent years, laws have been enacted to deny citizens their constitutional rights without going through the process of amendment.  This is unconstitutional, and the first time it happened, it set a dangerous precedent that allows further abuses of our Constitution.  Today, laws are in effect that say if you are a convicted felon you cannot own a firearm.  While I agree that it’s probably not a good idea for a felon to have firearms, this law is not constitutional.  The Second Amendment does not prohibit felons from owning firearms – if the nation wants that, they have to amend the Constitution to that effect. But they didn’t do that.  They just passed a law denying certain persons their constitutional rights.  Now that it was “ok” to make a “common sense” law prohibiting felons from owning firearms, we can use it as a precedent to say that people involved in domestic violence shouldn’t be allowed to own guns.  From there, it’s a short leap to prohibiting mentally ill people from owning firearms.  Huge sections of the nation’s populace can now be denied their constitutional rights without an amendment ever being passed!

     If we’ve set the precedent that says that under certain conditions we can restrict certain constitutional rights, then the door has been opened to any of them being restricted.  A case in point is the Federal No Fly List.  This list, created and maintained by the United States federal government's Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), contains names of people who are prohibited from boarding a commercial aircraft for travel in or out of the United States. The list has also been used to divert aircraft away from U.S. airspace that is not flying to or from the U.S. The number of people on the list rises and falls according to threat and intelligence reporting. There were 10,000 names on the list in 2011, 21,000 in 2012, and 47,000 in 2013. The list—along with the Secondary Security Screening Selection, which tags would-be passengers for extra inspection—was created after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The No Fly List, the Selectee List and the Terrorist Watch List were created by the administration of George W. Bush and retained by the administration of Barack Obama.²

      The problem is that there was no due process of law; no one went to court to prove that any of the people on the No Fly List were terrorists or threats to our nation.  Names are arbitrarily put on the list and suddenly that person has lost his constitutional right to travel freely to, from, and within the United States of America. In August 2004, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) told a Senate Judiciary Committee discussing the No Fly List that he had appeared on the list and had been repeatedly delayed at airports.  He said it had taken him three weeks of appeals directly to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to have him removed from the list. Kennedy said he was eventually told that the name "T Kennedy" was added to the list because it was once used as an alias of a suspected terrorist. There are an estimated 7,000 American men whose legal names correspond to "T Kennedy". (Senator Kennedy, whose first name was Edward and for whom "Ted" was only a nickname, would not have been one of them.) Recognizing that as a U.S. Senator he was in a privileged position of being able to contact Ridge, Kennedy said of "ordinary citizens": "How are they going to be able to get to be treated fairly and not have their rights abused?"

     One could argue that flying may not be a constitutionally guaranteed right, but in Congress right now is a proposal that anyone on the No Fly List should also be on a No Buy List, which would prohibit them from buying firearms. We are talking about taking a random list of names that has not been subjected to due process of law, not passed before a judge, on which no one has been found guilty of anything and are considering denying their Second Amendment rights.

      If the Second amendment right can be denied, what keeps any other amendment rights from also being denied?  Once our First amendment right has been taken away, we no longer have freedom of speech; we’ve lost our voice.  We’ve taken the Constitution from immutable to mutated to mute. The United States’ Declaration of Independence states that we’ve been “endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights”.  Man didn’t give us these rights.  We cannot allow man to take them away.  Citizens of the United States need to wise up and speak up for their Constitutional rights, before that right to speak is also legislated away.

^{1,2  Wikipedia}

WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER…

     “What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” Mark 10:9

     This scripture was spoken in the context of uniting a man and woman in the bonds of Holy matrimony.  I believe it can also be applied to the institutions of Church (the world-wide body of those who follow Christ) and State (government).

     Never has a phrase been so misused and taken out of context as “separation of church and state”.  Contrary to popular belief, this phrase is not even found in the United States Constitution.  The process of drafting the First Amendment made the intent of the Founders abundantly clear; for before they approved the final wording, the First Amendment went through nearly a dozen different iterations and extensive discussions.

     Those discussions—recorded in the Congressional Records from June 7 through September 25 of 1789—make clear their intent for the First Amendment. By it, the Founders were saying: "We do not want in America what we had in Great Britain: we don’t want one denomination running the nation. We will not all be Catholics, or Anglicans, or any other single denomination. We do want God’s principles, but we don’t want one denomination running the nation."

     In 1801, the Danbury Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut, heard a rumor that the Congregationalist denomination was about to be made the national denomination. That rumor distressed the Danbury Baptists, as it should have. Consequently, they fired off a letter to President Thomas Jefferson voicing their concern. On January 1, 1802, Jefferson wrote the Danbury Baptists, assuring them that "the First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state." (This is where the phrase originated.)

     His letter explained that they need not fear the establishment of a national denomination—and that while the wall of the First Amendment would protect the church from government control—there always would be open and free religious expression of all orthodox religious practices, for true religious duties would never threaten the purpose of government.

     Today, all that is heard of Jefferson’s letter is the phrase, "a wall of separation between church and state," without either the context, or the explanation given in the letter, or its application by earlier courts.  For example, in 1853, a group petitioned Congress to separate Christian principles from government. They desired a so-called "separation of church and state" with chaplains being turned out of the congress, the military, etc. Their petition was referred to the House and the Senate Judiciary Committees, which investigated for almost a year to see if it would be possible to separate Christian principles from government.  Two months later, the Judiciary Committee made this strong declaration: "The great, vital, and conservative element in our system [the thing that holds our system together] is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."  The Committees explained that they would not separate these principles, for it was these principles and activities which had made us so successful—they had been our foundation, our basis.

     Nevertheless, the Court continued to talk about separation until June 25th, 1962, when, in the case Engle v. Vitale, the Court delivered the first ever ruling which completely separated Christian principles from education.  With that case, a whole new trend was established and secular humanism became the religion of America. In 1992 the Supreme Court stated the unthinkable. "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” In 1997, 40 prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars wrote a position paper entitled, "We Hold These Truths," in which they stated, "This is the very antithesis of the ordered liberty affirmed by the Founders. Liberty in this debased sense is utterly disengaged from the concept of responsibility and community and is pitted against the ‘laws of nature and the laws of nature’s God. Such liberty degenerates into license and throws into question the very possibility of the rule of law itself.¹

     In Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, the former president made this famous quote:

“…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”  “State” is government.  “Church” is people – specifically the world-wide body of followers of Christ.  There is no separating a government of the people, by the people and for the people from the people.  It can’t be done.  Legislate what they will, what God has joined together, no man can put asunder.

                                                     

^{1Separation of Church and State, NOT SEPARATION OF GOD FROM STATE by Fr. Bill McCarthy, MSA}

CORRUPTED FAITH

     Try to define religion and you will get a variety of answers.  Webster’s defines religion as an organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules used to worship a god or a group of gods.  Wikipedia defines it as a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and societal organization that relate humanity to what an anthropologist has called "an order of existence".  I believe both definitions accurately describe religion and I would go one step further:  I would define religion as corrupted faith.

     As we saw in our article entitled Try, Try Again, when a government becomes corrupt, people eventually throw it off and begin again. We did it 240 years ago when the colonists gained independence from England and we’ve been trying to do it since.  Every time you throw off the corrupt and begin again, that which is born again is pure. But immediately that Satanic influence (see our article entitled Defining The Satanic) wants to come in and take it over again.  You can resist it for a time, but slowly through compromise and little justifications it begins to seep back in and begins to corrupt more and more.  The same thing that happens with governments happens with religion.

     I’ve been asked many times, “If there is one God and one Bible, why do we have so many different religions?”  My answer is: They were all born out of one true faith that was given to Abraham by the Creator of the world.  If you look closely at Eastern religions you will see that they are variations of this same faith, but for this article, we are going to be looking at the Western religions. 

     When the Jews were taken captive to Babylon, their faith became corrupted.  It became intermingled with pagan ideals and practices and idolatry.  This is the “religion” that returned to the Promised Land with them that they continued to practice after their return.  This corrupted faith was overthrown by Jesus Christ, and the church of Jesus Christ began pure and holy. Before long, the “Holy” Roman Empire adopted Christianity and it became corrupted with man-made rules and rituals and became the Catholic religion. When Martin Luther came along, he threw off the corrupted Catholic religion and Protestantism (named so because it was a protest against the corruption of Catholicism) was born.  There now were two systems of belief: Catholicism and everything else that protested Catholicism, Protestantism.

     Every other Western religion has its root in Protestantism.  Each denomination in Protestantism is protesting the corruption of the religion before them as they throw it off and begin again.  With each attempt to throw off corruption, the people cling to the bit of truth or remaining bit of purity within the corruption and use that as an anchor to hold on to.  The Baptists created their faith holding on to the truth of the water baptism of John the Baptist. The Pentecostals clung to the power that was unleashed as the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost.  This is how all the different religions and denominations came to be. In their onset, each    including Catholicism and Judaism was a pure attempt to reject corruption and follow the Blueprint handed to mankind by their Creator.  All religion is corrupted faith.

     Today there is a war on religion – as there should be.  We should always fight against corruption.  I’d like to leave you two pearls of wisdom from the Creator’s Blueprint for your consideration: “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death”¹ and “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”²   My advice?  Overthrow religion – Keep the faith.

^{1 Proverbs 16:25, The Holy Bible}

^{2 James 1:27, The Holy Bible}

THE SLEEPING GIANT

          Whenever someone refers to me as “religious” I cringe.  I prefer to be called “a person of faith”.  What’s the difference?  In our article entitled Corrupted Faith, we discovered that religion is the result of man’s pure relationship with his Creator becoming corrupted.  How can you tell if a person is religious or faithful? The hallmark of religion is ritual.

          When Jesus Christ was eating dinner with his disciples for the very last time before He would be taken from them, He instituted a very intimate way for them to remain in communion with Him after He’d gone.  It’s since been given many different names: Holy Communion, the Eucharist, Sacrament, Lord’s Supper.  In this act, the disciples were instructed to eat bread that represented their Lord’s body that would be broken for them and to drink the fruit of the vine which was to represent His blood that would be poured out for their salvation.  They were to do this thoughtfully, considering the import of the sacrifice that was being made on their behalf.  They were to repent of sins and make right any issues between themselves and their brethren before doing so, coming with a pure heart and mind to partake of the elements. In this way, they would be linked spiritually with their Savior though He no longer walked among them. It was done in remembrance of Him and the great sacrifice He would make for mankind.  Today, this observance still takes place in most Christian churches but, sadly, bears little resemblance to that first gathering of Christ with His disciples and what it was intended to be.  No longer an intimate means of communing with one’s Lord, this precious act has in most cases become ritual; something done as part of a church service, because we were instructed to do so.   We mechanically eat the wafer and drink the juice or wine as it is passed to us and in doing so, feel holy even though our minds may be on the football scores or what we are doing after church.  We don’t give any thought to the meaning of our actions; we don’t examine ourselves for motive, or repent before partaking.  What was once personal and meaningful has in many cases become ritualized and is now nothing more than religion.

          Another precious gift that has been given to us that has since been ritualized is that of meditation.  Psalm 1:2 encourages us to meditate on the Word of God day and night.  Phillipians 4:8 tells us to meditate on the things that are virtuous and worthy of praise.  David pled with God to let the meditations of his heart be acceptable in God’s sight (Psalm 19:14).

These are examples of Biblical meditation.  It means to think on, ponder, carefully consider, and when we do, it transforms our mind.  It is the filling of our minds with the good things of God and being transformed into the image of His Son.      Ritualistic meditation involves emptying our minds and chanting mantras (which are often the names of demonic gods), and allowing free access of our minds to spirit guides (demons) who will lead us to enlightenment (the belief that we, ourselves, are gods). Biblical meditation is an act of faith. Ritualistic meditation is an act of eastern and new-age religion.

      Karl Marx referred to religion as the “opium of the people”.  I think it’s an accurate description.  Like the sedative and tranquilizing properties of opium, ritual has caused the Church (the congregate of Jesus Christ’s followers world-wide) to become sleep-walking masses mechanically going through the motions of once-meaningful activities out of obligation or a desire to appear righteous.  For many, church attendance is compulsory or a day of obligation instead of an opportunity to commune with and worship their Creator and Savior.  Ritual and religion have lulled the followers of Christ into a state where they no longer engage their hearts, minds and souls in communion with God, but pick up their Bibles when they are told to, automatically say “grace” before they eat and put in their time on Sunday morning before rushing off to do what they’d rather be doing.  The Church has become a sleeping giant.

      The Bible speaks about a one-world government and a one-world religion.  Such things would never be accepted by true followers of Jesus Christ, as those who wish to bring them about are well aware. But if that faith could be replaced by mindless religion, they would be well on their way to their ultimate goal.  It’s time for the sleeping giant to rise.  Don’t be content to sleep walk through your relationship with your God. Repent of becoming religious, re-establish personal connection and become faithful once more. The Church is a giant and can be the powerful force it was intended to be if it will be roused from its religious stupor. The alarm is being sounded.  It’s time to wake up!

OF NONE EFFECT

     “Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”                 Mark 7:13, The Holy Bible

     Americans have dodged a bullet.  By failing to elect Hillary Clinton as President of the United States they have bought a reprieve – a space of time in which to curry the favor of the God of the Universe, and reverse the policies and practices in our nation that has virtually made the Word of God of none effect.  “Righteousness exalteth a nation”, the Bible tells us in Proverbs, “but sin is a reproach to any people.”¹ When that sin is not only condoned, but proudly flouted and legislated, it sends a very clear message:  We do not want, need or acknowledge God and we will make sure He doesn’t interfere with our plans.  This is exactly what would have happened had the election on November 8, 2016 gone the other way. We would no longer be “one nation, under God”, but one world without God.

     The Johnson Amendment is a change in the U.S. tax code made in 1954 which prohibited certain tax-exempt organizations from endorsing and opposing political candidates.  It is commonly known as the 501(C)(3) tax-exempt status.  It prohibits tax-exempt entities, such as churches, from preaching or teaching about politics from their pulpit.  With this amendment in place, political candidates can be very vocal about their religious views, lack thereof, or plans to enact laws that affect churches and religious gatherings, but church leaders are not allowed to make their congregations aware of these or to endorse or speak out against them, or they risk losing their tax-exempt status, and could even face arrest as a law-breaker.   Lyndon B. Johnson, a very progressive liberal, knew that in tempting churches with tax-exempt status, under the guise of the church then having more money to use benevolently, he could remove opposition to religious legislation from the pulpit, thus rendering the church ineffective against their liberal progressive agenda.   President-elect Donald Trump wants to repeal the Johnson amendment, once again allowing ministers the freedom of speech to speak from the pulpit whatever God instructs them to say, whether it is in any way political or not.  Jesus Christ would agree, for He said, “Man cannot serve two masters.  He cannot serve both God and mammon (money).²

     During her political campaign, in an address at the Women in the World Summit, Hillary Clinton made this statement:

Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice—not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed. She also made the statement that there is nothing wrong with churches as long as they are social clubs and do not dictate to people how they should live their lives.  In other words, there is nothing wrong with having churches as long as they are of none-effect, and the religious beliefs of those that are effective, in Hillary’s view, must be changed.

       Had Hillary become President, the Blueprint (the Creator’s plan for a happy and successful life for mankind) would have been done away with altogether.  It was in the works.  When something becomes of none-effect there is nothing to be done for it but to cast it away.  That didn’t happen.  Our nation got a second chance to once again put the Blueprint into effect and to try to restore the righteousness that exalts a nation. Let’s not let this opportunity pass us by.  The tactics of the liberal progressives have been very effective to this point.  It’s time we made them of none-effect.

^{1 Proverbs 14:34, The Holy Bible}

2 Matthew 6:24, The Holy Bible 

POWER POSITION

          

     Women in leadership roles – it’s always been a controversial subject, and it’s a very timely one as we currently have a woman running for President of the United States of America in the 2016 election.  Feminists will tell you that women can and should do anything a man can do, and they will often do it better.  The Apostle Paul taught that a woman should not usurp authority over a man (1 Timothy 2:12).  Should a woman hold a position of power and authority, such as pastor of a church or President of a nation?  As a woman called of God to teach, it’s a subject I have struggled with on many occasions. 

     I have been in churches where I was not allowed to teach under any circumstances, because I am a woman.  I have been in churches where I could teach other women and children, but men were not to attend my classes or Bible studies.  And I have been in churches where I could teach anyone who chooses to attend as long as it is off-site and not before the entire congregation.  I long to use the gifts that God has given me in a way that will be pleasing to Him, and I found all these inconsistencies to be frustrating.  I called out to God, asking Him to show me the answer to the question: Should a woman hold a position of power or authority and why or why not?  I was humbled by the answer I received.

     The source of the debate is found in the Bible in 1Timothy 2:12-14, which says, But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in transgression. I believe the Bible to be God’s infallible word to mankind, and Truth itself, but I bristled every time I read this passage.  In my quest for understanding, I argued with God: “Yes, Eve was deceived and she ate the forbidden fruit, but she gave to Adam and he chose to eat as well.  Eve was deceived – it wasn’t her fault.  But Adam willingly chose to sin.  Isn’t that worse?  Why put all the blame on Eve and forbid her from positions of authority based on her being tricked when Adam chose to disobey?”

     “Who would be better suited for a position of authority”, the thought quietly spoke in my mind, “one who is easily deceived, or one who can choose to do right if only he will?”  The fact is, God created men and women differently. (See our article entitled Gender Bender.)  Women are the more emotional creature.  She was intentionally created this way in order to be the nurturer that would rear the next generation and bring them into responsible adulthood.  But in our fallen, broken world, women began to let their emotions lead, and make their decisions for them.  They often react before thinking, which leads to being easily deceived. "Women can be, and many are, greatly affected by hormone fluctuations. Sometimes it gets to the point of feeling totally overwhelmed - as if for a time they have lost control of their life," says Christiane Northrup, MD, author of The Wisdom of Menopause and Women's Bodies Women's Wisdom.  Men, being the less emotional creature, are less easily swayed by emotions and are not as easily deceived.  They can choose rationally to do right or to do wrong without emotion clouding the decision. 

     I began to see that it’s not a question of women being capable of leading.  I agree with the Feminists that women probably can do everything a man can do and sometimes better.  But I disagree that they always should.  Men and women were created with different temperaments uniquely designed for the role each was to play in society.  Men were called to be in positions of authority, to lead, to make unemotional, rational decisions.  They also will bear the greater responsibility for those who would follow their leading. Women were called to support the men in their role and to shape future generations by teaching children to be the adults they were designed to be.

     With this issue settled in my heart, I am now content to use my God-given gift of teaching to minister to any who will receive it without the need to usurp any man’s authority or be in a leadership position to do it.  I also see that it could be disastrous to have a woman President.  I don’t believe a woman was created for this role and with the tendency of hormones and emotions to lead and the potential for deception, an entire nation can be at risk.

     Can women hold leadership positions?  Can a woman be the President of the United States of America?  Absolutely.  Should she be?  Absolutely not.

PRICELESS

     “Who can find a virtuous woman?  For her price is far above rubies.”

                                                                                            Proverbs 31:10

          Almost since the beginning of time, women have felt like or have been made to feel like lesser beings than men.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  The woman’s role as God created it is extremely valuable to this world.  It is a position of honor and grave importance.  If women could truly understand and appreciate the role for which they’d been created, they would see that in God’s eyes, they are priceless. And they would quit trying so hard to be something they were never created to be.

          When God created man, he placed him in the garden and gave him a job.  “And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden to dress (work, to serve, to become enslaved to) it and to keep (protect) it.”  Genesis 2:15.  Men were created to work, serve, and protect.  But man, alone, was not sufficient to fulfill God’s plan for mankind so he created woman.  He did not give her a job. He gave her something much more valuable. He gave her a mission to fulfill. He created her to bring forth the future of mankind.  He entrusted her with motherhood.

          A mother is so much more than just the female parent.  The Hebrew word for “mother” used in Genesis 3:20 means “bond of the family”.  God created woman to conceive, bear (carry inside her own body, creating the bond between mother and child), give birth to and rear (bring to maturity and self-sufficiency through nurture and care) the next generation of humanity.  More than just a job, this was to be her passion and her mission in life.  She was given the grave responsibility for making sure the next generation became the people they were created and intended to be, and that ultimately, the world would become what it was created and intended to be through them.  This would take her lifetime to accomplish and was intended to be rewarding and fulfilling and all she would need (beside her role as wife to her husband), to complete her life.

          But at some point after expulsion from the Garden, woman bought into the lie that she was made for “so much more than this”, that she wasn’t just a “brood mare” or “baby factory”.  She started to believe that the great position and honor bestowed upon her by God wasn’t enough to fulfill her life and that it was somehow demeaning.  She needed more, she deserved more.  Filled with the same pride as Lucifer when he said, “I shall be like the Most High”, she said within herself, “I will be just like man”.  She traded her sacred calling for a job, and ever since has been striving to be “equal” to her male counterpart.

           Today we have career women who have no time for motherhood.  In fact, they take pills and implant devices in their wombs to ensure that the children they have no time for don’t get conceived unexpectedly.  If they accidentally do, there is a “morning after” pill or an operation to kill the child before it is born, so time won’t have to be taken away from the fulfilling job she’s been hired to do.  Other women try to “have it all”.  They want to work and be a mother.  But as Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other…”

          In either case, it is the next generation that suffers.  Instead of children being brought to maturity and self-sufficiency through nurture and care from their mother, we have a generation of latch-key children – children left alone for parts of the day while the parents work.  These often have to become little parents themselves, making their own dinner and looking after younger siblings.  They grow up feeling neglected and overburdened with responsibility and as if their childhoods have been stolen from them.  Having been forced to rear their own siblings, they grow up with no desire to have children of their own, fueling more of the same for the next generation.

          If only women realized that in striving to be equal to men, they only lowered themselves from the high and holy calling God created them for. The ability to mold and shape a child into an adult who can become something great is an honor and a privilege and an endeavor worthy of our time.  There is nothing greater or more fulfilling than raising a child to become a happy, healthy, successful adult.

          There are women today who are graciously fulfilling the role God has given them in this life; who know who they were created to be and appreciate the gift God has given them in motherhood. But they are rare. That’s why God asked in Proverbs 31:10, “Who can find a virtuous woman?”   That word “virtuous” means “strong, brave, a force”.  Who can find a woman today who is strong enough in her faith and convictions, brave enough to stand against the peer pressure of modern society, and a force for good in our day and age to take on the responsibility of securing our future through our children?  When you find her, cherish her.  Her price is far above rubies.  She’s rare; she’s priceless.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

     I have a friend, who through poor relationship choices, became a single mother.    Feeling that this was unfair to her child, she determined to be both father and mother to that child so the child wouldn’t suffer for her mistakes.  It wasn’t long before my friend realized that she was just not cut out physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually to do both jobs on a regular basis and she felt like she’d failed her child.  Out of guilt for not being a better parent, or rather, being unable to provide two parents for the child, she overcompensated and never denied her child anything. She always bought the newest gadgets, she never said “No”.  She constantly felt she owed the child.  And the child grew up feeling the same way.  She grew up with a sense of entitlement.

     If there is a word that describes today’s generation, it would be – Entitled.  What did these children do to earn or become entitled to everything they desire?  Nothing.  Everything has been handed to them out of guilt and they’ve now become unwilling to fend for themselves because they’ve never had to before, so why should they have to now?  These children never grow up to become the productive adults they were designed to be.  They exist in a state of arrested development; forever the child, always dependent, no matter how old they become.

      For the first time in history, we are seeing the total destruction of the family unit.  The family unit has existed for 6000 years and only in the last 50 (beginning in the 60’s) are we seeing its total demise.  This institution kept us rooted in morals and had all the components necessary for rearing children into successful and productive adults able to contribute to and better their society.  According to the US Census Bureau, the percentage of two-parent households was less than 69% as of 2012.  I’m sure that number is much lower today.  I believe the destruction of the family is intentional (see our article entitled, Focus on the Family).

     As we saw in our article entitled Pigs and Elephants, to control a generation you have to affect them while they are young.  To do this you’d have to remove all obstructing influences. First you would take the father out of the picture and remove the protection and guidance his presence provides, leaving a guilt-ridden, overcompensating mother to raise over-indulged, perpetually dependent children.  (You could replace that father with a gay or lesbian couple and get similar results, as we’ve shown in our article entitled Gender Bender.)  Then you’d have to get the child away for large quantities of time during which they can be taught how to think and act in a way that will work toward your end goal.  That was accomplished when public school was made mandatory.  When the Bible and prayer were removed from school, nothing hindered the ability of the administrators to teach our children whatever they desired.  Then, with the introduction of Common Core and APUSH (see our article entitled Indoctrination in The Bigger Picture) in the 21^st century, children are being taught nationalism and a skewed version of history that conditions them to put their trust in their government for their well-being. 

     As these children become adults, they have no ability or desire to provide for themselves and believe they deserve to be taken care of.  They’ve been taught that the government is their friend and have no issue allowing them to become their new “mommy”, using welfare and government programs to provide their living - in exchange for their vote, of course.  At election time these “perpetual children” will vote for whoever is taking care of them, not realizing, or even caring that they are being controlled and used to fulfill someone else’s agenda.

     What a bleak picture I’ve painted!  But look around you.  It’s happening today. Today’s generation is ruled by sloth.  Laziness prevails, everyone is looking for a hand-out and even businesses will take a bail-out from the government rather than make the tough decisions and pay-cuts that would make their businesses profitable again.  Where is it all leading?  To a one-world government with a populace sold out to do whatever they bid, indebted through all the “assistance” they’ve been receiving.

     Now that we’ve identified the problem and its causes, let’s identify the solution.  We need to recognize the importance of a one man + one woman marriage and fight to keep it predominant in our society.  Men need to be actively involved with their families and not absentee fathers overly absorbed in their work.  They need to exert the influence and provide the direction and protection they were designed to provide within their families.  Single mothers need to have the loving support of brothers, uncles, or close male friends who can help bring the balance and take some of the pressures of rearing a child alone off their shoulders.  Parents need to take an interest in their children’s education.  They need to know what they are learning and be able to offer guidance.  They need to teach them a work ethic and the satisfaction that comes with self-sufficiency and responsibility.  It’s time for parents to teach their children how to grow up.  Being arrested usually leads to imprisonment.

PARENTAL CONTROL

          When did parents quit being parents?  We have a nation of households where the children call the shots and run the household.  How did it get this way?  How did the parents lose control?

          God’s plan for child rearing is found in the Bible in Ephesians 6:4: And ye fathers, provoke not your children unto wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition (mild rebuke or warning) of the Lord. Further instruction regarding children is found in Deuteronomy 6:2,7: That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee, thou and thy son and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Parents were given a duty, a responsibility to teach children how they were to live; to give instruction and when needed, correction.  As every parent has discovered for themselves, this is often easier said than done.

          Parents, through their years of learning and experience, have more wisdom than their children.  Children, in their naivety, often don’t understand what they are asking for or are doing, or what the ramifications or consequences of their actions may be.  They live in this world, and all their friends are doing certain things that are not beneficial and could even be harmful.  The Godly parent should put his foot down and say, “This is not the right thing or a wise thing to do (admonition) and you will not do it” in order to protect his child, but the child’s naivety will object.  He will say, “But all my friends are doing it.”  He will not understand why he should be singled out, ostracized, punished, and be seen as a freak who will not conform to what everyone else is doing.  This is such a tug on a Godly man’s heart.  He doesn’t want his child to hurt and feel left out.  So how does he deal with that?    More often than not, he chooses to compromise.  He will sacrifice what he knows he should do in order to appease his child, and the child learns that he can gain some control if he tugs on his parent’s heartstrings.  If a parent does this often enough, in an effort to be the child’s friend, he abdicates his duty of admonition and the control subtly shifts to the child.

          Another way parents lose control of their children is by not exerting that control early enough in the child’s life. Godly parents should start instilling values in their children at a very young age, teaching them that there are things they should not conform to or want to be part of.  They should teach them that there will be others like them that abstain from these things that they can be friends with so they won’t feel singled out and alone. Unfortunately, most parents don’t get to the place in their convictions in life to impart these things until it’s already too late.  We have children raising children, and by the time these young parents get it all figured out and try to tell their children what they should do, they aren’t credible.  The children say, “When you were my age, you did the same things I want to do, so why should I listen to you?”  The parents then have no recourse but to reply, “Do as I say, not as I did”. This is usually met with rebellion, and again, loss of control.

        So what’s the answer?  How do parents regain control in their households and influence in the lives of their children? They have to allow the very thing they were commissioned to protect against.  They have to let the children experience the consequences of their actions.  The built-in instinct is to protect one’s children from all the difficult things in life, but in so doing we’ve created a coddled generation.  We have parents who never want their children to ever feel any pain, so they never learn any consequences of their actions and there is no motivation to do anything differently. Once the child sees that the actions he’s chosen despite his parent’s warning, were not good and carried painful consequences, he will begin to see the wisdom of submitting once again to his parent’s control.

          Parental control is not just a filter for cable TV.  It is a God-given duty and responsibility that should not be taken lightly.  We need to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  If we compromise this duty to save our child the pain of not fitting in, we will have to watch him endure the greater pain his consequences bring.  Let’s be the parents God intended us to be, and as His children also be willing to submit to His parental control.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY

          We are a nation of single-parent, foster-parent, and grandparent- raising- the- children households.  The destruction of the family unit is inarguable.  But how did this happen and why?  It was an organized plan of attack for a specific purpose.  From the day he was booted out of Heaven, Satan has wanted to get back at God.  He isn’t strong enough to do anything personally to Him, so he hurts Him by destroying His most beloved and holy institutions: marriage and family. It wasn’t long before the people who control the politicians rooted in our Satanic government system started to realize that they could use the breakdown of marriage and family to their advantage to control and enslave a people and move them toward a New World Order and started creating and fostering specific plans and agendas toward that end.  The result is a very unholy and destructive focus on the family – and it’s been highly successful.

     The share of children living in a two-parent household is at the lowest point in more than half a century: 69% are in this type of family arrangement today, compared with 73% in 2000 and 87% in 1960. And even children living with two parents are more likely to be experiencing a variety of family arrangements due to increases in divorce, remarriage and cohabitation. Today, 62% of children live with two married parents – an all-time low. Some 15% are living with parents in a remarriage and 7% are living with parents who are cohabiting.  Conversely, the share of children living with one parent stands at 26%, up from 22% in 2000 and just 9% in 1960.

     These changes have been driven in part by the fact that Americans today are exiting marriage at higher rates than in the past. Now, about two-thirds (67%) of people younger than 50 who had ever married are still in their first marriage. In comparison, that share was 83% in 1960, according to analyses of Census Bureau data.

     We will explore more fully how the actual breakdown of marriage and family happens and how our Satanic government system exploits this in our articles entitled Gender Bender and Arrested Development.  First, we must go back to the beginning and take a look at the groundwork that was laid that enabled the destruction to reach the point we see in our society today.

     In the beginning God created mankind and placed him in a Garden that was to provide his every need.  He created them male and female and enabled them to procreate and form a family. Mankind chose to serve self instead of God, sinned, and was kicked out of the Garden. God later gave mankind another chance by calling some to separate themselves and live according to His plan for a happy and successful life (we call it the Blueprint).  This Blueprint was handed down father-to-son in a Patriarchal system.  The father became the spiritual leader of his extended family or clan, and the clan became a community.  The people of these clans and communities would come to learn the Blueprint from those fathers who had been entrusted with it down through time, preserving the integrity of the message.

     To Satan, the plan was obvious.  Remove the Blueprint and the people will revert to their animal natures, operating in the interest of self, becoming in nature Satanic.  The easiest way to remove the Blueprint was to attack the one person responsible for its propagation – the head of the community or clan, the Patriarch, the father.  The plan worked.

     By and large, the spiritual focus of a family even today is dependent upon the father.  According to a recent survey, if a father does not go to church, no matter how faithful his wife’s devotions, only one child in 50 will become a regular worshiper. If a father does go regularly, regardless of the practice of the mother, between two-thirds and three-quarters of their children will become churchgoers (regular and irregular). If a father goes but irregularly to church, regardless of his wife’s devotion, between half and two-thirds of their offspring will attend church regularly or occasionally. A non-practicing mother with a regular father will see a minimum of two-thirds of her children ending up at church. In contrast, a non-practicing father with a regular mother will see two-thirds of his children not attending church. If his wife is similarly irregular that figure rises to 80 percent.

     An unrelated survey in the USA also found that if a child is the first person in a household to become a Christian, there is a 3.5% probability everyone else in the household will follow. If the mother is the first to become a Christian, there is a 17% probability everyone else in the household will follow. However, when the father is first, there is a 93% probability everyone else in the household will follow.

     Yes, there is a direct correlation to the spiritual condition of a family with the faithfulness of its father.  So what happens to a family’s spiritual condition when the father is absent?  The above statistics help us come to the obvious conclusion: destroy the family unit and you will ultimately destroy the entire nation’s relationship with their Creator.  Is this happening today?  Let’s look at a few statistics:  According to the Hartford Institute of Religion Research more than 80 percent of Americans are finding more fulfilling things to do on weekends than attending church.  And according to a new landmark study conducted by the Pew Research Center, more than one third of millennials now say that they are unaffiliated with any faith. But it’s not just millennials, Pew found. Whether married or single, rich or poor, young or old, living in the West or the Bible Belt, almost every demographic group has seen a significant drop in people who call themselves Christians.

     So what’s the answer to this alarming trend of our nation’s spiritual decline?   It’s simple.  We need to rebuild healthy two parent families with the fathers once again taking the role of the spiritual head of the household.  It’s time to focus on the family.

GENDER BENDER

“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him;

                                      male and female created He them.”        Genesis 1:27

     In his book, Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus, author John Gray points out that men and women are as different as beings from other planets.  Everyone who has ever tried to relate to a person of the opposite sex knows this is true.  Yet, God created us this way on purpose.  In this article, we are going to take a look at these differences and the important roles they play in the institutions of marriage and family.  We will try to see what God envisioned when creating these institutions and how we were uniquely created to make them work according to His plan.

     First, let’s take a look at some fundamental differences between men and women (besides the obvious physical ones).  Taken from John Gray’s book:

1.     Men love to have their abilities recognized and appreciated, and hate to have them scorned or ignored; women love to have their feelings recognized and appreciated, and hate to have them scorned or ignored. Men don't rate feelings highly as in their view they can result in hotly impassioned, wildly unstable behavior; women don't rate abilities highly as in their view they can result in coldly dispassionate, aggressively competitive behavior.

2.     Men value solutions, and view unsolicited assistance as undermining their effort to solve problems alone; women value assistance, and view unsolicited solutions as undermining their effort to proceed interactively. Men desire that their solutions will be appreciated; women desire that their assistance will be appreciated.

3.     A man's instinct is to look after himself, even if it means sacrificing others; a woman's instinct is to look after others, even if it means sacrificing herself.

4.     In a relationship, a man needs to feel that his attentions are needed, and a woman needs to feel that her needs are attended.

5.     Women give unconditionally, and proactively seek ways to help others, whereas men only give when they feel that their efforts will be fairly appreciated and rewarded, and often will not know how or what to give without being specifically asked. Men often quickly suspend giving when feeling pleased about having done something; women may only suspend giving when feeling displeased with their partners for doing nothing.

     There is a reason that marriage = 1 man + 1 woman.  We were uniquely created to give marriage and family relationships the balance they need to thrive.  Let’s take each point listed above, and insert 2 men or 2 women into the equation to see what the results would be.

1.      In a marriage of two men (where each would be highly rating abilities and less concerned about feelings), there is a high likelihood of aggressive competitive behavior, as each tries to assert his abilities, and frustration as neither gets the appreciation (concern for his feelings) he feels he deserves.  In a family with 2 fathers, children may feel they have to take sides with the competitive fathers and may not get the validation or compassion they need.  In a marriage of two women (where feelings would be highly rated and less emphasis is placed on ability), there may be a lot of asserted feelings from both with not much being done about them by either, making for volatile discussions.  In a family with 2 mothers, children may become frustrated as they are encouraged to share and express feelings they don’t fully understand or may not have yet developed. They may become overly emotional or overly stimulated from being immersed in an emotionally charged environment.

2.     In a marriage of two men (where they prefer to solve problems alone), each may attempt to solve one problem themselves, not wanting or valuing input from the other and arguments may ensue about how it should be done.  One may have to capitulate to get the problem solved, causing hard feelings.  In a family with 2 fathers, children may not be asked to help, causing them to feel unimportant or unneeded.  They may also feel they have to take sides between the 2 fathers each trying to solve the problem their own way.  In a marriage of two women (where each values assistance), they may each try to help the other and end up feeling the other doesn’t believe they can accomplish the task on their own, or doesn’t appreciate their contribution.  In a family with 2 mothers, children may never learn to do anything on their own as the moms are always trying to help them.

3.     In a marriage of two men, each may sacrifice the other in an attempt to look after himself and make sure his own needs are met.  In a family with 2 fathers, the children’s needs may be sacrificed as the fathers look out primarily for their own interests.  In a marriage of two women, relationship may become very co-dependent as each is sacrificing their own needs for the other, each may lose their own individual identity.  In a family with 2 mothers, children may become overly coddled, with every need, want and whim met and may be unable to fend for or tend to themselves in any capacity. Children may feel entitled and expect everything to be given to them and done for them and may not learn responsibility.

4.     In a marriage of two men, both will want to be the knight in shining armor and neither will feel in need of rescuing leaving both feeling frustrated.  In a family with 2 fathers, children may be constantly being rescued from situations and may never learn the consequences of their actions or have to take responsibility for them.  In a marriage of two women, each may be focused on whether her own needs are being attended to resulting in neither feeling that their own needs are being sufficiently met. In a family with 2 mothers, children may feel responsible for taking care of their mothers, and making sure they are kept happy.

5.     In a marriage of two men, instead of give and take, it will be mostly take and when they do give, they will expect to be rewarded for it.  Each may find the other to be selfish, because it will be true for the most part.  In a family with 2 fathers, children may feel unloved, forgotten and unimportant as birthdays or special occasions don’t get the attention they deserve.  Children may feel they are being given gifts because it’s expected, and not because the fathers want to give them.  In a marriage of two women, each may withhold time and affection to punish the other when displeased with their actions. They may expect each other to give equally and if one is less giving than the other, the one receiving less will feel less loved.  In a family with 2 mothers, children may play the one parent against the other to see who they can get the most from. They may equate who loves them more with who gives them more. Children may be punished by the withholding of affection, which teaches them that love is conditional upon behavior.

     God created the sexes to curb and complement each other.  When you have two of the same sex together in a marriage, they have the same needs so that balance is missing. Each becomes focused on what they need from the relationship and whether their needs are being met, without as much concern as to whether they are meeting the needs of their partner. This makes for a very selfish relationship.  For this reason, same-sex marriages are statistically more violent and abusive than heterosexual marriages.

     Marriage was created and ordained by God to be a holy institution in which one man and one woman are knit together to become one. They were to use their created differences to make up what the other lacks and enhance the relationship, making it strong and enduring. They were intended to procreate and build families in which the children would be nurtured and protected, taught values and be given direction which would enable them to become responsible adults.  By redefining marriage as a civil union between any two consenting adults, regardless of gender, we are destroying the institution God created and what He intended it to be.  And we’ve seen that it just doesn’t work.  Gender bending in marriage is just one more weapon in Satan’s arsenal to destroy God’s institution of Holy Matrimony, resulting in the destruction of the family as well.

WOMB FOR ERROR

     The most polarizing issue that faces our society today is that of homosexuality.  Both schools of thought stand very firm on their convictions regarding this issue.  Fundamentalist Christians believe it is a lifestyle choice and sin.  Gays and Lesbians believe they are born this way.  Who is right?  Perhaps they both are.

     If mankind had grown up in the Garden, never made the choice to obey his own desires rather than God’s, and continued to live there until this day, this issue wouldn’t even exist.  “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.  And God blessed them, and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth…”  (Genesis 1:27, 28)  Mankind was created male and female with the purpose of multiplying and populating the earth.  They were created with all the working parts between the two of them to ensure this would happen.  No one was created by God to be homosexual.

     But mankind didn’t grow up in the Garden.  Gone is the idyllic self-sustaining  paradise of the Garden.  Our world has fallen into sin.  And when it fell, it broke. Mankind had to try to recreate outside the Garden everything that God had freely provided within.  He built cities, factories, cars, and trains.  He grew food “protected” with insecticide and added preservatives to make it last longer before consumption.  He fermented grains and manipulated plants to create drugs and alcohol that would allow him to forget for a time the mess he’s made of life outside the Garden and in doing all these things created a toxic environment.  It is this toxic environment in which he has been raising his children.  It is a fact that what a fetus is exposed to in the womb in this toxic environment affects how they develop.

    People give way too much credit to genetics.  The American Psychological Association stated, in its article titled "Sexual Orientation & Homosexuality," published on its website apa.org (accessed Mar. 12, 2015):

"There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors. Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles; most people experience little or no sense of choice about their sexual orientation."

     Nature and nurture – what does that mean?  Nature is creation; the moment of conception.  Nurture is what you’ve been taught or exposed to, and exposed to in the womb. Is it possible that God created everyone male or female at the moment of conception, but due to the toxic environment we live in, the fetus is exposed to chemicals, hormones and conditions in the womb which affects how they develop?  In the nine months after conception, the fetus is being changed and manipulated from its original creation.  What you are exposed to in the womb can affect how you are formed.  It has been discovered that there are hormonal differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals.  It’s because of what has happened in the womb after the point of conception.     

      Simon Copland, in a 2015 Guardian article, made the following statement: Sex hormones in prenatal life play a role. For example, girls born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which results in increased levels of male sex hormones, show relatively high rates of same-sex attractions as adults.  What Simon is describing here is a medical condition or aberration (birth defect?) that happened in the nine months following conception.  Could homosexuality then, be likened to any other medical aberration that occurs in the womb such as Spina Bifida?  If homosexuality was viewed in this way, our society would be much different.

     Do you know anyone who hates someone because they have Spina Bifida?  Are people with this condition denied the same rights as anyone who doesn’t have it?  On the flip side, are people with Spina Bifida proud of their condition?  Do they organize and march to convince people that their condition is right?  Rather, are they not interested in seeking a cure?  Does anyone want to be born with any kind of condition developed in the womb?

     So now let’s look at the opposing viewpoints from the stance that both could be true.  It would look like this:  Nobody was created by God to be homosexual.  It was the sin (missing the mark), and lifestyle choices of the parents that caused chemical and hormonal changes in the fetus in the womb that caused a man or woman to be born homosexual.  It was not something they chose.

     If society as a whole could come to this consensus, there would be less hate and homosexuals would be treated with the same respect every human being deserves.  They wouldn’t be promoting their condition and seeking special treatment because of it.  Parents would be more conscious of how their lifestyles could affect their pregnancy, and be responsible to protect their fetus as much as possible. Research could be funded to determine what factors in the womb cause the changes that determine homosexuality.  We could create a world in which there would be less womb for error.

THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH

          It might surprise you to learn that the leading cause of death in the world is the same in every country.  It’s the same today as it was centuries ago.  It’s not Cancer, heart disease, accidents, or old age, though these are indirect causes.  The leading cause of death in the world today is: the consequences of our choices.

          Germ phobia is at an all-time high in the United States of America.  Stores have anti-bacterial wipes for shopping cart handles, children are encouraged to carry small bottles of hand sanitizer in their school backpacks and desks, and public restrooms have arm handles on doors to avoid touching them with one’s hands.  It makes one wonder, if bacteria is such a bad thing, why was it created in the first place?  Bacteria exist for a reason. It lives in our gut to break down and digest our food.  When an apple falls from a tree and rots as it is being consumed by bacteria, it is being broken down to become fertilizer to allow more fruit to grow.  But bacteria was never meant to attack human flesh. 

          Bacteria consumes dying flesh.  Man was never intended to die. He was meant to live in the perfect environment of the Garden eternally. God told Adam and Eve that the day they ate of the fruit from the tree in the midst of the Garden, they would surely die. The serpent tempting Eve said, “Did God really say you’d die?”  When they ate the fruit and did not immediately fall down dead, they counted Satan as truthful and God as a liar. But at that point, true to God’s word, death was introduced into their systems and they went from eternal beings to being finite. Because bacteria eat dying flesh, mankind now became susceptible to bacteria.  Man was designed to live in the world with bacteria and never be touched by it. Our immune systems were built to protect us from all these things.  Our immune systems have been compromised by the choices we make.

          People want to pretend that they don’t know what causes Cancer.  If we are honest with ourselves, we know that Cancer is caused by the destruction and pollution of our planet.  All the chemicals and pollutants that we’ve put into our environment get into our bodies and harm us.  Every illness and disease in existence today is self-inflicted through our actions and choices.  If we had never deviated from the Blueprint, we’d be living the wholesome lifestyle that wouldn’t have introduced any of these things that cause damage to our bodies – we’d be naturally resistant to them. We have the cure to Cancer:  We have to stop living the way we are living.  We have to stop harming our planet.  We have to make choices that do not have harmful consequences.

          Now that we are affected by illness and disease, how do we combat it? Do we pump our bodies full of pills and chemicals to counteract the effects of bacteria and poisons in our bodies?  This is the answer being sold to us by those who make profit at the expense of others and fuel our corrupt monetary system.  That is not the answer.  The answer is simple: return to the Blueprint.  If we were consuming of the Garden, we’d have all the nutrients that would keep our bodies healthy and in the condition in which we were created. God has placed in nature everything that is healthy and life-sustaining.

          The Garden was created in a way that it would exist perpetually.  There was no waste; no destruction.  The unused apple that fell from the tree was broken down by bacteria to become fertilizer to grow more fruit. This is the cycle and recycling of everything.  It’s through sin that we create waste and destruction, and it is the waste that creates toxicity and disease. The unintended consequences of the lifestyles we’ve chosen; the things we’ve innovated and manufactured to make life more fun and convenient, to bring variety and entertainment into our lives is that we are slowly poisoning ourselves to death.

         Life is all about choices.  We know water is best for us, but prefer soda.  We’d rather eat fast food than vegetables.  We’d rather lie on the couch watching TV than go for a walk. Then we are shocked when the doctor tells us we have heart disease or diabetes.  It isn’t any of these diseases that kill us – it’s the consequences of the choices we made that gave them to us in the first place.

THE KEY TO EVERYTHING

    “Many never realize they always had the key in their pocket, so they die at the locked door, never reaching deep inside to pull it out.”             Anthony Liccione

     Our world is so broken, so damaged, so far from what it was intended to be that the average person can look around and know it’s true.  Instead of going back to where we got off track and doing it right, we put a Band-Aid on it, covering up our mistakes so we don’t have to look at them or can convince ourselves that it’s going to be alright now, without ever really fixing anything.  Many know what to do to fix our world, but it’s difficult.  It requires more from us than many are willing to give.  God has given us the key to everything, but we have to reach deep inside to use it and many will choose to die outside the locked door.

     Before we discuss the key, let’s first discuss the lock.  Imagine a door with a big, strong padlock on it.  Outside the door is a world full of greed, apathy, hatred, violence, poverty, supremacy, sloth and selfishness that controls everything that happens in that world.  There are 3 kinds of people in this world: those who made the world the way it is and is benefitting from it and see nothing wrong with it.  These would like to find the key to the padlock and destroy it ensuring that their world remains exactly as it is.  There are those who don’t like their world, but feel helpless to do anything about it.  It’s been rumored there is a key to the padlock and there might be a better world on the other side, but they’ve never seen the key, have no idea where to find it and aren’t sure it even exists, so they just get along the best they can in the world they find themselves in, not happy, but powerless to change their circumstances.  Then there are those who know where the key is.  They know what lies on the other side of the door, and they desperately want to get to the love, peace, joy, contentment waiting on the other side.  There are very few of these and their opposition is great.  First they must fight their way through the masses to get to the door, all the while being careful not to lose the key that others are seeking to wrest from their grasp and destroy.  When they reach the door, others will try to convince them not to open it – fearful of what lies on the other side or what they will have to give up in order to attain it.  The padlock is old and rusty and the key will not turn easily in it, and some having started to turn it will give up before the lock opens for fear of breaking the key off in it.  But there are a few – a remnant - that know that the lock must be opened at any cost and are slowly trudging against the masses toward the door.

     The lock on the door to the world we live in is Pride.  It is the sin that got Lucifer kicked out of Heaven, and got Adam and Eve thrown out of the Garden.  It is the root of everything Satanic and of the economic and monetary systems our nations are founded on.  Pride tells us that we can control our own lives and do it much better than the way the Creator devised for us in His Blueprint. Pride is the root of Supremacy and hatred and slavery.  It says, “I am better than you so I despise you for being less than I and therefore you deserve to serve me to further my goals.”  Pride is the root of Progressivism, liberalism, and globalism. It says, “I have all the answers, my way is the only way and I won’t be happy until the entire planet succumbs to it.”  Pride won’t let a person admit he’s made a mistake, so he’ll never go back to fix it but will rather cover it up and push on hoping no one notices, which only ends up compounding the problem.  Pride is at the bottom of every problem we face in our world today and it has a tight hold on its inhabitants.

     But there is a key.  The key to everything is Humility – the opposite of pride.  Humility says, “There is a God, and I’m not Him.  I don’t have all the answers and don’t always know the best way to run my life. I’m willing to submit to the One that does.”  Humility says, “I will share my gifts, talents and knowledge for the benefit of all.”  It says, “I am not perfect, so I’ll not expect others to be”.  Humility says, “I won’t get ahead at another’s expense.  They have the same rights as I do.”  Humility can recognize when one gets off track, admit fault and go back to do it over the right way.  Humility proceeds cautiously knowing that one can stumble and fail if in too big a rush.  Humility isn’t angry with and doesn’t hate ones that are trapped in a world locked up in pride.  It feels sorry for them and longs to help them find the key for themselves that they may be set free.

     Everyone has access to the key.  The Creator put it in a pocket deep inside every one of us.  We have to dig deep within to find it.  We have to realize its importance and we have to guard and protect it.  We have to wade through a sea of

Pride and go against the flow of popular thought and political correctness to reach the door with the padlock. It will take a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual toll on us to get there and then much courage to use the key. Humility is foreign to generations who have known nothing but the effects of pride.  It will be resisted and viewed as a threat to be neutralized. The lock is rusty and the tumblers will be difficult to turn, but freedom comes as the lock snaps open and the door to a whole new world swings wide.

     

     Now you know the key to everything.  You know where to find it.  Dig deep inside and pull it out of your pocket, guard it, protect it, and use it.  Don’t die outside the locked door while the key to everything lies right inside you waiting to be used.