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Executive Order Advances Biotech-Transhumanist Agenda
I predicted this 'no testing required' formula would spread beyond COVID shots, and according to the executive order Biden just signed, that's exactly what's about to happen.
Dr. Joseph Mercola
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
September 12, 2022, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe and Secure American Bioeconomy”
Specified in that order is the development of genetic engineering technologies and techniques “to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers,” as well as genetic technologies to “unlock the power of biological data” using “computing tools and artificial intelligence”
This executive order establishes a fast-tracked pipeline of mRNA shots and other gene therapies that will further the transhumanist agenda to create augmented humans and bring us into a post-human world
Drug makers have clearly expected this free-for-all as they have loads of mRNA candidates in their pipelines. September 14, 2022, Pfizer initiated a Phase 3 study that will test a quadrivalent mRNA-based flu shot on 25,000 American adults
Moderna began its Phase 3 mRNA flu jab trial in early June 2022. Ultimately, Moderna wants to create an annual mRNA shot that covers all of the top 10 viruses that result in hospitalizations each year
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September 12, 2022, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe and Secure American Bioeconomy.”1
Specified in that order is the development of genetic engineering technologies and techniques “to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers,” as well as genetic technologies to “unlock the power of biological data” using “computing tools and artificial intelligence.”
Additionally, “obstacles for commercialization” will be reduced “so that innovative technologies and products can reach markets faster." What we have here is, in a nutshell, the creation of a fast-tracked mRNA pipeline.
When, in June 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration quietly implemented a “Future Framework” scheme2 to deliver reformulated COVID boosters without additional testing, I predicted that this “no testing required” formula would spread beyond COVID shots. And, according to this executive order, that’s exactly what’s about to happen.
In early September 2022, the FDA also put out medically false and misleading COVID booster campaign messages that prove we’ve officially entered the era of transhumanism:
“It’s time to install that update! #UpdateYourAntibodies with a new #COVID19 booster.”3 “Don’t be shocked! You can now #RechargeYourImmunity with an updated #COVID19 booster.”4
recharge your immunity
Is This the Death Knell to Allopathic Medicine?
Historically, gene therapies have had to jump through extra hoops, which is why so few exist on the market. As of 2021, there were 20 gene therapies commercially available.5 The world’s first gene therapy trial didn’t begin until 1990, so this is still a very new field.
The entire gene therapy field actually collapsed overnight in 1999, when a teenage trial participant died from side effects. An FDA investigation concluded research had moved too fast and that safety “had not been put first.”6 Progress, thanks to increased caution, slowed from there on.
Such caution is now being thrown to the wind, and it’s not difficult to predict there will be disastrous ramifications. Millions will die from poorly tested gene therapies and, eventually, medical research and allopathic medicine will both cease to exist, as survivors vow to have nothing to do with that murderous cabal ever again.
The only way they might be able to keep going is if they are in control of people’s brain function and/or able to force drugs under threat of death, or worse — neither of which is impossible at this point, shockingly enough. In the meantime, we’re looking at a cornucopia of mRNA shots coming our way.
mRNA Flu Shots Are in the Works
Not surprisingly, mRNA flu shots are in the works.7 While we probably won’t see mRNA flu shots during the 2022/2023 winter season, there’s every reason to expect they’ll be rolled out next year.
September 14, 2022, Pfizer initiated a Phase 3 study, which will test a quadrivalent mRNA-based flu shot on 25,000 American adults.8 Pfizer is also exploring mRNA technology that uses self-amplifying RNA (saRNA), for potential use in the future.9
Moderna began its Phase 3 mRNA flu jab trial in early June 2022.10 It’s also working on mRNA shots for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is in the herpes family, as well as a SARS-CoV-2-influenza combination shot. Ultimately, Moderna wants to create an annual mRNA shot that covers all of the top 10 viruses that result in hospitalizations each year.11
Its current flu jab candidate, mRNA-1010, encodes for the hemagglutinin (HA) glycoproteins of four different influenza strains, including influenza A/H1N1, A/H3N2, influenza B/Yamagata and B/Victoria. According to Moderna:12
“HA is a major influenza surface glycoprotein that is considered an important target to generate broad protection against influenza and is the primary target of currently available influenza vaccines.”
The Transhumanist Agenda
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Over the past three years, I’ve written several articles exploring the transhumanist agenda, which all these mRNA shots and genetic technologies are part and parcel of. Basically, the goal of the transhumanist movement is to transcend biology through technology, and to meld human biology with technology and artificial intelligence.
In September 2020, I posted a video with Dr. Carrie Madej (above), in which she suggested we were standing at the crossroads of transhumanism, thanks to the fast approaching release of mRNA COVID-19 shots.
“One reason why it’s important to know whether synthetic RNA creates permanent changes in the genome is because synthetic genes are patented. If they cause permanent changes, humans will contain patented genes, and that brings up very serious questions, seeing how patents have owners, and owners have patent rights.”
Since these shots are designed to manipulate your biology, they have the potential to also alter the biology of the entire human race. Nearly two years later, we still don’t know the extent to which they might be doing that, yet more fast-tracked and untested gene therapies are on the way.
One reason why it’s important to know for certain whether synthetic RNA ends up creating permanent changes in the genome is because synthetic genes are patented. If they cause permanent changes, humans will contain patented genes, and that brings up very serious questions, seeing how patents have owners, and owners have patent rights.
US Defense Department Aims to Create Human Cyborgs
The hydrogel used to preserve the mRNA can also contain nanobots to create a bioelectric interface capable of connecting to a smartphone or other interface. Novel technologies that measure biological data, such as blood sugar, are based on this. Such technologies will, of course, have immediate ramifications for our privacy.
Who will collect and have access to all this data? Who will be responsible for protecting it? How will it be used? Also, if your cellphone can receive information from your body, what information can your body receive from it, or other sources? Could transmissions affect your mood? Your behavior? Your physical function? Your thoughts or memories?
So far, it doesn’t appear as though the COVID shots have these kinds of capabilities built in, but we do know for a fact that militaries around the world are exploring and working toward such capabilities. In fact, it’s an arms race in its own right.
In his September 14, 2022, Substack article,13 “Human Cyborgs Are Just the Beginning,” Dr. Robert Malone reviewed several of those plans. Certain report titles alone tell the story, such as the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Biotechnologies for Health and Human Performance Council’s report,14 “Cyborg Soldier 2050: Human/Machine Fusion and the Implications for the Future of the DOD.” It doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination, does it? According to the assessment abstract:
“The primary objective of this effort was to forecast and evaluate the military implications of machines that are physically integrated with the human body to augment and enhance human performance over the next 30 years.
This report summarizes this assessment and findings; identifies four potential military-use cases for new technologies in this area; and assesses their impact upon the DOD organizational structure, warfighter doctrine and tactics, and interoperability with U.S. allies and civil society.”
Human augmentation technologies deemed technically feasible by 2050 at the latest include ocular enhancements to improve sight and situational awareness, optogenetic bodysuit to restore or improve muscular strength and control, auditory enhancements, and neural enhancement of the brain for two-way data transfers and brain-to-brain communication.
Changing What It Means To Be Human
In “The Plan to Turn You Into a Genetically Edited Cyborg,” I covered another shockingly dystopian report by the U.K. Ministry of Defense and the German Bundeswehr Office for Defense Planning, published in May 2021.
That report, “Human Augmentation — The Dawn of a New Paradigm, a Strategic Implications Project,”15 reviews the scientific goals of the U.K. and German defense ministries, and they basically mirror that of the U.S. DOD. On page 12 of the report, the concept of the human body as a platform is described, and how various parts of the human platform can be augmented. For example:
Physical performance such as strength, dexterity, speed and endurance can be enhanced, as well as physical senses. One example given is gene editing for enhanced sight
Psychological performance such as cognition, emotion and motivation can be influenced to activate and direct desired behavior. Examples of cognitive augmentation include improving memory, attention, alertness, creativity, understanding, decision-making, intelligence and vigilance
Social performance — “The ability to perceive oneself as part of a group and the readiness to act as part of the team” — can be influenced. Communication skills, collaboration and trust are also included here
They list several different ways to influence the physical, psychological and social performance of the “human platform,” including genetics (germ line and somatic modification), synthetic biology, invasive (internal) and noninvasive (external) brain interfaces, passive and powered exoskeletons, drugs and nano technology, neurostimulation, augmented reality technologies such as external holograms or glasses with built-in artificial intelligence, and sensory augmentation technologies such as external sensors or implants.
As noted in this report, “Human augmentation has the potential to ... change the meaning of what it means to be a human.” This is precisely what Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has stated is the goal of The Fourth Industrial Revolution.16
WEF has been at the center of global affairs for more than 40 years, and if you take the time to dive into WEF’s Fourth Industrial Revolution material, you realize that it’s all about transhumanism. It’s about the merger of man and machine.
This is a dystopian future that WEF and its global allies are actively trying to implement, whether humanity at large agrees with it or not. Importantly, the “Human Augmentation” report readily admits that human augmentation can “directly enhance behavior.”
And, if you think these reports are just brain fodder for geeks in uniforms, think again. The U.K. Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) is currently, right now, accepting proposals for human augmentation technologies such as those listed above.17 Grants of 70,000 euros ($74,000), will be given to proposals that can provide proof of concept.
We’re Already Being Programmed to Accept Transhumanism
Both the DOD’s “Cyborg Soldier” report and the British/German “Human Augmentation” reports discuss the fact that human augmentation will inevitably widen already existing disparities, inequalities and inequities, and therefore, “efforts should be undertaken to reverse negative cultural narratives of enhancement technologies.”18
In other words, don’t let people come to the conclusion that human cyborgs are a bad idea, because at worst that might prevent their development, and at best, it’ll pitch regular people against the augmented elite, making their efforts to rule the plebs more difficult.
As noted by Malone, “Once again, we are being played before we even know what the playing field looks like.”19
Disturbingly, considering how nontransparent governments have been so far, it’s not inconceivable that technologies capable of influencing thoughts and behaviors would be used on populations without informing anyone, which makes the list of potential risks one takes with each new mRNA injection even longer than it already is.
But we don’t need to be genetically reengineered or have nanobots introduced into our brains to be at risk of outside manipulation. That’s already happening through noninvasive means.
Control Capabilities Go Far Beyond Orwell’s ‘1984’ Vision
In a November 2019 interview with CNN,20 history professor Yuval Noah Harari, a Klaus Schwab disciple, stated that humans are already “hackable,” meaning the technology exists by which a company or government can know you better than you know yourself, and this knowledge can be used for both good and ill.
According to Harari, the available capabilities already go far beyond Orwell’s “1984” authoritarian vision, and it’s only going to become more powerful from here.
He predicted that algorithms will increasingly be used to make decisions that historically have been made by humans, either yourself or someone else, including whether or not you’ll be hired for a particular job, whether you’ll be granted a loan, what scholastic curriculum you will follow and even whom you will marry.
To learn more about the larger issues of transhumanism and the race to merge man with machine and artificial intelligence, check out the Truthstream Media video below.
For example, there are even ongoing attempts to upload the human mind into the cloud, ultimately creating a form of “digital hive mind” where everyone communicates via “Wi-Fi telepathy.” This, despite the fact we still do not fully understand what “the mind” actually is, or where it’s located.
Final Thoughts
I don’t know what it will take to prevent the dystopian post-human world envisioned by Schwab and his technocratic minions, but I suspect education would be a cornerstone of such an endeavor. In order for there to be a resistance, enough people need to be aware of what the plan is, and where we’re actually being led with all these novel therapies and inventions.
In the shorter term, it’s crucial to realize that the fast-tracking of “genetic engineering technologies and techniques to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers” means they’re going to cut corners. Loads of them.
Testing is basically going to be done on the population at large, just as they’ve done with the COVID jabs. The results of such experimentation are relatively predictable. People will be seriously injured and many will die. So, think long and hard before you agree to take any of these forthcoming gene therapies.
Though ALL Science Fiction has it's root in the denial of God; His existence and His son Jesus Christ -- though being a lover of SciFi for as long as I can remember -- this was a satisfying (albeit flawed) series.
The world is changing so much and so fast. If you don't see it, there's a good chance you don't understand the significance of what you're NOT seeing. And it's a fair assumption you're not prepared for what's coming... for WHO is coming. It's not Sidney Poitier (if you even get the allusion) but the social mores are eerily similar. Educate yourself. Except the MAN WHO IS coming for dinner. HE's your only hope.
Is there anything funnier than politicians hypocritically walking out of a session because they're worried about voting rights? Who cares if the state has "blue" laws!?
This short video does a tremendous job of demonstrating the accuracy of scripture. But when I hear arguments like this I also hear untold hundreds (if not thousands) mocking the veracity of hard-boiled evidence, like the Mexican authorities from the film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ... 'Badges!? We don't need no stinkin' badges!' And it's true, they don't. They have already made up their minds.
The link: https://gsradio.net/shows/ted_broer/
Ted & Austin Radio Show Highlights for March 29 2021
Show Highlights:
- Ok, best show in weeks. Must listen.
- Ted goes into detail on bio-electric fields and how they control us.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4.
- Be careful who you associate with.
- What is frequency resonance?
- Is Merkel being mind controlled?
- Austin discusses Niki and arrested judge.
- Thousands dead, hundreds of thousands injured.
- Plus much more.
- This is a politically incorrect truth barrage.
I don't like that they don't, or specifically allow/offer a link to a stand-alone audio ... one that's separate from every other one on the page. Thus... Look for the date. This show is pretty frakkin freaky... Freaky, as in: NO ONE else wIll tell you this stuff
The Art of Deception
Despite what you may believe, there have always only been two forces at work in the world. Good and Evil. You don't need a first class education to see this. Though I had seen it before and even wrote here about it, I was still struck, again, at how evil 'He who controls this world' truly is. And reminded, likewise, how Good the Father is. Despite the blinding corruption of Evil in the world it cannot extinguish the Light.
I was struck again by the appearance of Noah on the SYFY channel this morning - but I shouldn't have (as a wound bleeds though the bandage, so does Sin into all facets of Life. Even more so now. The more blood that seeps into the bandage the more apparent the seriousness of the wound). Nine generations earlier the Lie began; questioning the veracity of God. 1600 years later came the Flood. The character of the world had changed so dramatically it had to be wiped clean of the filth born of that lie. [you don't need reminding of this, yet for purposes of laying out my thesis I begin here]
As with all things Hollywood, if you watched this movie, you saw a great lie. Personally, I find it hard to imagine the world then so rich with lush verdancy. 1600 years is a lot of time to transpire. And with child-bearing increased, it was literally teaming with life. And due to the depravity of Mankind, it was wicked and full of wanton violence. What began with innocence ended in wickedness.
A few of the falsehood you saw? the fallen angels were not rock creatures. In reality they were (are) beautiful; having been created by God; Noah, according to the Bible, didn't desire the end of all mankind on earth (which would have fulfilled the desire of Satan himself); We aren't told he had a crisis of faith, or misunderstood God's purpose in bringing the Flood; Noah did not want to kill his own grandchildren; Nor was there a stowaway on board... but for "dramatic license" this is what we were shown.
Licentiousness: the dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure; that's all Hollywood is. A distraction that pours upon the viewer sensual pleasures. This is where we are today. A profligate race given to recklessness, wildly extravagant and wasteful; in a word - Licentious. Never in the History of man have we been this "profligate" in our every desire. Every era of history had its dictators, despots, 'Breads and Circuses,' lightly sprinkled with a few Godly men. Every era had its wanton destructiveness; its prudish hatred, and through it all, those which spoke against the profligations, and a return to the True Source of Godly wisdom. One would think that a message so universally hated would have been stamped out by now.
But God...
Everything we know today is built upon the knowledge of yesterday. For those of us who never learned how to make fire ourselves, hunt, or even grow food, we believe this marks our superiority. We've become elevated in Man's wisdom, but not in the wisdom of survival. When the power goes out and the gas no longer flows - neither to stove nor car - where does that leave us with OUR 'survival skills'? A few will sit pretty for a time, until the masses reflect on all the things they do not know by killing each other off and taking what they need and more. We are a wantful people. We always have been.
The Bible describes the downfall of Man starkly, if rather obliquely. It provides only Saliency; those things that really stick out, like a root that's bound to trip nearly everyone that passes by. Few ever think that root MUST be there if the trees are so large. The fall of Damascus, for example, is a salient fact - so says Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49. It is not YET a ruinous heap, though many could argue there is indeed much ruinous and heaping within Damascus. Yet still it stands. For roughly 2400 hundred years Israel had not been a nation, until May of 1948. How many people thought that the Bible could not be true because Jerusalem was controlled by Ottoman Turks? That the Bible described Israel as a nation 'Flowering' (Isaiah 35:2, for one)? These are but TWO small prophecies of the end times, and yet, they are true.
Clarence Larkin, author of "Dispensational Truth," wrote shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, about Israel being in her land again. Having never seen this, Larkin, perhaps hearing of the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, 1897, saw this and something pricked his prophetic spirit... perhaps. There were just as many and more signs indicating the prophecies were little more than chance happenings, the way "The Simpsons" seem to routinely 'predict' trends and happenings. After so many years they're bound to get a few things right. Right?
Despite what you may believe there was not always Good and Evil. "In the beginning God ... saw that it was Good." Evil didn't creep in until after the creation. Here, we get a glimpse of a Chiasm of sorts: Evil creeps in AFTER the creation and is allowed to stay Vs Evil tries to creep into BEFORE the Marriage Feast begins and is cast into outer darkness.
In this time, we are all faced with the stark reality that Evil does indeed exist (though you may not see it as such) and, by necessity, God must also exist. What God allows in one age, He doesn't suffer in others. What's 'acceptable' in one age is not accepted in another. Sin will not always interfere. The devil will not always reign.
I realize many of you may not see this, let alone accept it, yet it's true nonetheless. Nothing happening now is inconsistent with the Bible. Which, while giving a plethora of descriptors for the events it calls the End Times, you must realize that things just don't happen overnight, in an instant, with the snapping of ones' fingers - like a root tripping everyone who walk by. Unless the Bible gives it this property, the build up to these things will be gradual or, as in this day and time, with great swiftness. We tend to think (I know I did) that the events described in Revelation, specifically, would be stunning - and many will be - but a few, like the building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem will happen suddenly. The preparations have already been made, and approval of such building has already tacitly been given the green-light of approval from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Who would have ever thought that was possible just four years ago?
That's on them! What about ME?
What can any rational thinker, then, do? He MUST do one of two things, and one of two things only. He must either accept or deny the Truth. And what is truth? Let's ask Pontius Pilate...
In John 18:37, standing before Pilate, Jesus said,
"Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the Truth."
What was Pilate's response?
"What is Truth?"
By this time Pilate was probably tired of all the religious 'Jew-stuff.' He could see that Jesus was a just man and in no way deserving the judgment the priests had in mind, but what did he do? In Matthew 27:19, Pilate's wife warned him "...Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." Even warned by his wife, he took the easy way out of all the Jew-stuff - all the folderol. He washed his hands instead: publicly, symbolically; as if to say, You want him dead? "Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him."
So, What IS Truth? The Gospel accounts are undoubtedly true. One Need only read Lee Strobel's work, "The Case For Christ" to see there could have been no tampering with the account of Jesus' death and burial, and the Gospel of John is quite clear on what Truth is... "Thy word is Truth" [17:17].
In Greek, the word for "Word" is Logos. John chapter one is replete with the word Logos, in context of the identification of Jesus, THE Logos; the Word. One needn't be a Biblical exegete, to understand what's being said here. Common sense, and a spoonful of sugar, will do nicely. If Jesus is the Word, and the Word is Jesus, it stands to logical reason then that Jesus is Truth personified. The religious leaders of the day (the Pharisee and Sadducee) were, in essence, killing Truth. Pilate, by tacit approval of the crime, is equally guilty of killing TRUTH. Isn't that where we are today? Isn't this the same modus operandi as was used in the Garden of Eden? 'Yea, hath God said?' The Same Lie? Let me ask you, then... Is it more dangerous to believe the Truth? Or a LIE?
Hearkening back to the 'stark realities' we are presently facing, I put before you a choice: You can get the vaccine, a precursor to the Mark of the Beast as described in the Book of Revelation; you can continue wearing your mask, an historic obeisance by silence; standing six-feet apart, removing any communal contact with others (you can't plan your escape if you're not allowed to huddle, now can you?), or you can deny them their desired outcome in this whole "Cattle Through the Chutes" thing.
When you stand before a judge who asks you: Do you "understand" the charges levied against you? What do you say? I'll tell exactly what you'll say. With your lawyers' "advice," you'll inexorably accept the truth of their charge(s), by "standing under" the Judge, thereby agreeing you are indeed their subject and accept their charge against you. In effect, you assent to their owning you and their power to do what they will, within the construct and strictures of their Law. The same Law you've been living under all your life. This Law has no power over you in regard to God, nor the freedoms He has innately given you.
In the film, Kingdom of Heaven, when Balian meets King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem for the first time, the King makes this very profound description of a man's duty to God, king and himself...
"A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say, ‘But I was told by others to do this,’ or ‘that virtue was not convenient at the time.’ This will not suffice. Remember that.”
I am imploring you to "Remember that." The End in coming to each of us. No man will answer for what YOU chose to do. Only you Alone. Other's will pay for their influence of you, but the decision was yours the whole time, and never anyone else's. We - mankind - either believe this is the only life there will ever be. Or, assuming there is more, that EVERYONE gets an opportunity to walk in the eternal sunlight of Heaven. But I remind you again of the devils' modus operandi.
Almost everything you see, know, hear, believe is a Lie-tainted Truth. You've been lied to all your life; by your parents (witting or unwittingly); your teachers, your friends, your pastors and priests or shaman or cultist; witting or unwittingly have all lied to you.
"The answers are so simple, and we all know where to look. But it's easier just to avoid the question" ~ 'On the Other Side," Kansas, Monolith.
That's what the Pharisee and Sadducee did. It's what Pilate did. It's what untold millions have done down through the centuries. It's what many more will undoubtedly do before it's all over for them. I beg you to turn around before it's too late. After all, that's all repent means: to Turn Around; have a change of heart.
You are Free in a 'Land OF the Free,' but you are only Brave if you demand what God has so freely given you, from the Courts and Police alike. The Home of the Brave no longer exists. America is the Home of the Cowed. Yet this true not of just America. Whether your governing documents describe where you live as the Land of the Free, makes no difference whatsoever. You are FREE because God made you so. You had no say in being here at all. But now that you are, according to the King of Jerusalem's movie-quote: When
you stand before God, you cannot say, ‘But I was told by others to do
this,’ or ‘that virtue was not convenient at the time’
You can continue doing what you're doing. Continue believing what you do. Continue being herded through the chutes by your so-called masters. Or we can say, in essence, 'No, I do NOT under stand.'" I do not believe you have the right to ask this or that of me. I am Free, and because I am Free, I will be BRAVE. Brave enough to reject the lie you insist I buy into, knowing all to well the price ~ my immortal soul ~ moving headlong, inexorably to the end appointed to us all.
Come now... Let us reason together
Anyone who has ever went to a concert, unless they sat safely in their assigned seat, can tell you how chaotic and hot the press of fans are the closer one gets to the stage. And how near impossible it is to pull back, get a breath of relatively fresh air, and pile back in and return to where you were. It's ugly. It's exhilarating. Some leave the concert convinced they had a good time, while soaked with sweat and a funk even the Waffle House waitress can identify through the smell of bacon, eggs, burnt toast and coffee. Looking back, yeah, I had a great time. Looking a little deeper back, what did I achieve beside a 'fond' memory of foolishness, and songs I cannot now remember? I have the memory of KNOWING I was there, the impressions it left, but what else?
Imagine now, being unable to escape the press... what would you do for just a glass of water?
Again, imagine if you can a man so thoroughly beaten by men accustomed to the art of torture; who had learned after a couple hundred years experience, the proper methods to employ - just the right place... here, not there; this nerve, not that one - in order to keep a man alive for days. That would be torture indeed! Iraq used(s) torture, as does Iran and nearly every nation on earth - including America. Are any of these nations as brutal as was Rome? Jesus was a strong, healthy man, so what about the brutality of what was done to Him allowed Jesus to survive the scouring, His apparent lucidity as he hung on the cross, His surprising lack - all things considered - of blood-loss, and His extremely unusual death mere hours after He was crucified? Especially when so experienced of men (Roman soldiers certainly were) had perfected the art of torture.
Comparing the two experiences: the Concert's press, and the Crucifixion of Christ... the two are hardly comparable. But again, imagine being unable to escape the press; never a drop of water, nor cool breeze, nor any escape whatsoever from the overwhelming oppression. That's the choice you have in these waning days of your life. It's not about the waning days of the world, it's about YOUR LIFE in it - and whether you'll have any part in the next.
When you were born, your feet were set inexorably on a path only you could follow. Yes, other's share your path and a few actually share the larger road, but they do not walk in your shoes. They do not experience what you do. They say things like, Remember when we? ... Remember when I? ... You loved that! ... I loved it too! When we say things like this, we're sharing experience, but not sharing shoes. Your experiences are YOURS. Their experiences are THEIRS. You may share the experience, but never do you or they answer for each other when you both get to the front of the line. When you're standing before God.
"But I was told to do this ... that was not convenient at the time"
Each of us will give an account for what we do in our bodies... everything: every sin, every time we mocked Jesus, every time we praised Him. Even those times we tried to pull others off the narrow path that leads to life everlasting and onto the path that leads to destruction. Everything.
Were it only a matter of doing what's right... well, who's judging us? Shouldn't we be more concerned about what HE thinks is right and wrong? rather than our own perceptions?
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
~ Proverb 16:25
I know full well that I am not perfect. NO sir! I get things wrong every hour by hour. But I have an advocate awaiting me in the courtroom. The sentence is sure... I WILL be condemned... were it not for Jesus, my lawyer.
Every moment, every day prior is recorded, and the tally keeps building, worsening the debt for which I'll have to eventually answer - neither you nor I can ever hope to stop building upon this debt! What was it the penitent thief asked Jesus while suffering his last moments on the cross next door?
"...we [are] indeed justly [condemned]; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this [Jesus] hath done nothing amiss! Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
That's all it took to be saved. 1) He accepted that he had sinned; 2) He recognized his need of a savior; 3) He recognized Jesus as that savior; and 4) He asked to be remembered [by Jesus] in that day. The 15th Chapter of 1 Corinthians, verses 1-4, puts it this way:
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS according to the scriptures; And that HE WAS BURIED, and that he ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY according to the scriptures..."
That's all you have to believe. Did the Thief on the cross next to Jesus DO anything other than believe? What could he do nailed to the cross next door? Yet other's, like the pharisees of our day, will surely say,
"Yes, that's all you have to do, but... you also need to believe this... don't do any work on Sunday... don't eat meat... do this and don't do that... read this... believe this new doctrine... Oi! And for heaven's sake! Stay away from them!
Did Jesus do any of those things? Why do you think He was crucified by the religious leaders of the day? They were more concerned with tradition, Moses and the Law and all their silly, onerous rules, which Jesus did not keep. Nor did He teach them to the people. What He did do was call them hypocrites when their hypocrisy showed, and honestly tried to make them see their error. He didn't hate them, He wanted to make them see HE was the reason for everything... NOT Moses. He was the 'reason for the season,' so to speak.
That is all I want you to see here. It's not what a certain preacher on TBN says. It's not what your friend at work says. It's not even what I say. It's what the Bible says. And the Bible says you're fast running out of time to make a choice. I genuinely hope you make the right choice. And I genuinely hope to see you There.
For the record, that choice MUST be Jesus. He is your only hope.
Aloha
This is not the kind of movie I typically watch, I'm usually neck deep in scifi and the weird. So Aloha is quite a departure for me., but the film is weird in one way... it purport to be one thing, a romantic comedy, but6 it actually is something completely different. Oh, it has romance it, but again that's not what it is, because Aloha is about a man discovering he has a daughter, and what makes this apparent is the love the director took in sculpting the final, before credits, scene...
She is one of several students, of differing ages, attending a hula class, in Hawaii. It's evening, and a man walks up to a plate glass window to watch. He is smiling; not the kind of smile that says I'm happy to see you, but a smile that is filled with joy, and hope, and he's watching these ladies, young and old alike, move with a unison of grace in the dance; all hands and gestures, and symbolism. She sees him and smiles (she would smile because she knows he has visited with her family and has accepted him as a friend of the family). She continues to dance with a wonder in her expression which says why are you here? She seems to ask... and he replies with a nodding assent, yes, I am your father. She continues to dance, thinking, while over her face comes this joyous look, which become tears, and outright sobbing. She leaves the group with a rush and goes out into the night. she embraces him , a moment later she enters the studio and finishes the dance. The last scene, as they pan in closer, is of her hands bobbing and rolling in a fluid, ocean-like dance.
This, to me, was the sole reason for Aloha. Everything was leading to this. One beautiful scene
A beautiful moment.
And the music was superbly chosen.
I hate the IRS. I'd like to think it a necessary evil, but I can't reconcile the word 'necessary' with the word 'evil'; they simply push against my sensibilities like two magnetic norths. It's repellant to me that our tax code is so complex that I am forced to pay someone, or some service to do my taxes for me. You'd think that the local IRS office would be in the business of helping people file their taxes, but their idea of help doesn't wander any further than the answering of ill-informed questions... how does one ask the right questions without a basic grasp of American tax code? Nancy Pelosi couldn't even tell us what was in the Obamacare bill without it first being passed into law, and we all see how that has turned out.
So it's a scheme. The IRS forces everyone to pay taxes, but it takes no responsibility for educating or guiding anyone through the actually process of filing. Which has become typical of modern American governance.
If He Believes It, It Must Be So | The Weekly Standard
Obama continues to be the worst president in recent U.S. history. His desire, seemingly, is to destroy as much of this nation for his own self aggrandizement in the eyes of his very small, proudly radical, coterie of social anarchists.
I'd like to think America can survive the Obama presidency, but I fear America is already dead... we're just waiting for the last nervous tremor to subside.
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