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HOLOCAUST DESIGNED BY BIG PHARMA AND CHEM COMPANIES

2012-02-20T16:49:00.000-08:00

Here is a story at my journal just posted. It covers the holocaust in motion now, a holocaust approved by the US Government and promoted by your Congressman and the media.

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WHO IS LISTENING?

2012-02-18T11:15:00.000-08:00

Seventy two private companies around the USA comprise "Fusion". They collect virtually EVERY bit of information they can gather on YOU and ME and every person on earth. The data is saved for analysis later when the US Government, a political party, the President of Bangladesh, another company in Singapore, or virtually any entity on earth wants the information.

Add to this the massive information gathering forces of the US Government. They try to grab all data they can access legally or illegally. The pretext is making America safe.

Fusion and other private companies (though funded by the US Government) do not have to tell you what they have gathered on you. They also, because they are private and allegedly businesses, can sell the information to any entity on earth.

Every move you make, where a camera is present, is stored and bought by someone. Everything you write in email or on Facebook is stored. If you think Google and AOL are not giving, willfully or by attack on them, all the information you post on their sites, you are an abject idiot.

The ability of computers to sniff data in transit, as well as to store massive amounts of data at the speed of light, have made it possible to grab all data in transit worldwide 24/7. There is no way to know how deep Fusion can go into your life. There are tools in place today to watch and listen to you and analyze your facial expressions on street cams, and this can be combined with your comments at the same time to determine your emotional state.

Is this mass of data necessary? Absolutely not. It is not the nature of humanity to be as dangerous as the US Government would want us to think. Are there those out there wanting to do evil? Yes, and one cannot blame the Feds and law enforcement for wanting to catch it before it happens. The problem is, you lost all your right to privacy in the process, and also the Federal employees are exposed to such a mass of wickedness in the process that they get to believe their own press.

What is the ultimate motive of our Government and world governments in the big picture? Terrorist attacks are always followed by tightened security. The 9/11 attack was a demolition. I have watched demolitions, and I know very well how a successful demolition is done, and what the destroyed site will look like. The 9/11 event had ALL the marks of demolition. I don't really care who is responsible for the buildings being dropped. I do know that all such events, most of which are arranged by people in power, are designed to make you believe there is a reason to go to war and a reason to watch YOU better.

The ideal situation by those craving control is to make you totally distrust all the people in your life, and they would like you to distrust you. This is right out of the Communist revolution book and conquest. Joseph Staling used it, as did Mao Tse Tung. Also, Adolph Hitler used this method of bringing Germany to its knees in total terror of each other.

I watched it happen in about three days flat when we were on hand during the Marxist Revolution in Ethiopia in 1974. The normally talkative people of Ethiopia ALL stopped talking. It was morbidly horrible to see a whole nation sent into mind control in three days. The USA is doing it by suckering YOU into believing every American is terribly dangerous. Look here, when a man in a uniform stops you and grabs your balls in the name of Red White and Blue patriotism, something is VERY wrong. Either the agent is a faggot, or he is a mindless animal who will do anything he is told to make a living. Stop trying to make sense of this. It is madness.

Let me just talk to you Christians. You are supposed to have some higher sense of what makes humanity tick. Suppose I came up to you and told you Jesus told me to grab your balls. What would you do, submit? If so, I will stay clear of your church, friend,

So, what is different about Homeland Security?

Everyone is a potential enemy. World War II caused the American public to go bananas in terror of espionage agents and spies. Cities all the way to Kansas were getting ready for their city to be bombed.

After WW II, the terror was continued by the cold war with Russia and all the spying Russia did in the USA, and visa verse. Our spies were heroes of course, if you are that desperate for a hero.

Today we are on our way to Armageddon, so the whole world is suspect. Add to this all the information gathering done by business to gather data on markets and build mailing list to fill our trash cans every three days.

So, understand that the more you believe that propaganda that terrorism, whether underwear bombers or secret agents, the more you become mentally controlled by someone far from you. Fear causes people to react by suspecting their neighbors.

Here is a video done in 1964 by the US Government. It is not a training film. It is a propaganda film designed to keep the masses wide eyed and in awe of Big Nanny. The line then is exactly the same line now-- be fearful, and be thankful, because Big Nanny government is watching over you. Submit to be public property of every nation on earth.

I am 100% convinced that these private information gathering companies will one day sell your soul and their own for money. The day may come when the most deadly enemy in the USA will be the US Government as they try to get at least one piece of information on every American with which they can blackmail us all into submission.

I have made a covenant with myself and on your behalf-- If anyone tells me they have confidential information on me, or on you, I will tell them to go to Hell-- "Dump it all your jerk-- see if I care." If someone tells me confidential things about you, I will tell you at once and tell you who started it. The power to use deadly data is fear-- fear of being exposed. EXPOSE YOURSELF AT ONCE WHEN YOU ARE THREATENED. The scum will understand that they cannot intimidate you. If your friends do not understand and show mercy, they are lousy friends in the first place. Throw them under the bus.

I suppose the bottom line is ATTITUDE. An attitude that is in the face of these creeps will destroy their tools of control. That is good. Do it.

LAST THOUGHT: Do not go looking for trouble. Do not invite confrontation. But, when a confrontation develops, give them back more than they give you. If a creep from on high is attacking you with information, start a disinformation. Make a private arrangement with a trusted friend, and they call one another and start talking about the representative of Big Nanny who is attacking you. Talk in a sincere and concerned way about some fabricated violation of the law by the agent. Or, talk about how they have joined the Militia and express concern that they may make trouble for themselves. This will all be recorded on a cell phone or land line or email.

If you are a Bible believer, you know the language. You could tell how the agent came to church to case out your fellowship. Tell how he stayed to pray, and he is now starting a Bible study course and talking about going to Bob Jones University. Tell how he may divorce his second wife and try to get back with his first wife. Tell what he said about Phelps at God Hates Fags, the perverted preacher in Kansas. From time to time talk about the progress he is making and how he asked the preacher and you to not talk too much about his conversion since his Government agency would not be happy about it. In other words, load damning date into Fusion. This could also be used on any other nag or nanny from on high who torments you.

CAUTION: Make sure the person being targeted is REALLY guilty of clearly evil activity. It would be very evil to set up a person for trouble and find out later they were not worthy of it-- in other words, innocent. But, keep this in mind-- the US Congress and President have recently passed a law under the Patriot Act that you can now be arrested by the US Military without a warrant and constitutional rights. You can be tried by a Military tribunal without counsel, and you can be shipped off the Gitmo for life and allowed to rot without recourse. The US Government has set the rules. Use their rules as your rules.

OBAMA GESTAPO CRANKS UPWHAT SHALL WE DO?

2012-02-14T10:52:00.000-08:00

Obama ghost from the past:

Read the latest for 2012.

And, the Truth Squad. This is an escalation of the Obama Fourth Reich to just short of a full SS or Gestapo, combined with the finking methods of the USSR and Mao Tse Tung's cell groups. How long until be are all put in a cell and told to confess our mad attitudes of go to Gitmo?

http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_030909.html

What does this mean? Watch and learn

This bill passed the House and Senate. It has not been implemented. Why?

You see, Obama has something up his sleeve that he got from Ronald Reagan. The Executive Powers Act, which Republicans do not like to talk about, was the brain child of conservative Republicans and former President Reagan. This act gives the President the power to suspend all law, political process, and formal authority in the USA in the event of a national emergency. The President has the SOLE power to make that decision, and when he declares the Executive Powers Act, he instantly becomes absolute dictator.

Now, a nice guy like Reagan would probably limit his power to only defense, but the Act does not limit the extent to which the President can take over control, even absolute total control.

Now, combine the national youth and civilian corps discussed above, and you have the possibility that President Obama, or the any future President, could make himself absolute monarch, and then enact the draft of all youth. The 49th amendment of the bill above would also allow the President to limit all free speech and put all public servants and congressmen and law enforcement under threat of arrest if they speak out in any way in descent.

It is ALL in place.

Add the recent bill giving the US Military the power to arrest any American without a warrant and try them before a Military tribunal if the are "belligerent," and the way if open to grab any of us and cause us to completely disappear.

Lastly, there are reports that prisoners in Federal Prisons are being given paramilitary training. The idea is to send them to the streets for enforce something-- something no one cares to define. The notion is to give prisoners a chance to do good. Given the huge majority of Federal prisoners are Black Americans, we can see the very ominous nature of this to the White and Hispanic peoples of America. A race war is very useful if managed properly from above.

Now, if you have read much at my web journal or at other blogs, you may be wondering if I have joined the panic club. Not at all. I would suggest something very different than the advice offered by the web sites above, as follows:

Co-operate. Keep your mouth shut. Submit. If you are not pointedly ordered to deny your faith in Jesus Christ, do not fight this. Jesus did not die on the cross to save America. Jesus died to save people, one by one. America is doomed for its murders of the unborn and for its perpetual wars for oil. If your pastor calls you to defend America, get out of that church fast. He may, in fact, be an agent of the system to identify trouble makers.

We were in Ethiopia when Marxists killed the Emperor, Heile Salassie, and took over the country. They put up road blocks everywhere. When we passed through the road blocks, we were benign and helpful. What did we think? Obviously, we were sick, and we knew that Ethiopia was in for bad times.

When (not if) Obama becomes dictator for life, having cancelled all elections indefinitely for security reasons blah blah blah, you cannot fight it. It will crash. The economy will become rubble overnight as other world nations run in terror from the USA. There will be much blood shed. But THE REGIME WILL NOT LAST. None of the Communist regimes stay as they were in the early days of their rule. They soon see that the nations is sinking into chaos and poverty. Revenue dries up, so the government cannot pay itself. In case you think it will take 70 years, as in the USSR, consider-- The Marxist regime we witnessed in Ethiopia lasted 12 years and collapsed. Life is back to pretty much normal, and the cities or safe and prospering.

They moderate, as the USSR, China, and Cuba have. How long that takes depends on the silent rulers in the shadows. You may be sure this process we are seeing is NOT Obama's idea. The Hidden Hand is coaching him. If he does anything to anger them, Obama will be toast.

Also, if you really believe the King James Bible, you will recall that there is NO mention of the USA in the End Times. Some prophecy teachers stretch certain passages to include the USA in the Last Days, but they are quacks. They think the USA will go out with a big flash. I do not see that anywhere in the Bible. The USA will soon sink into chaos economically, and we may even be attacked by nuclear attack, or some attack on our marketing system by BRICS etc. (BRICS is the new competitive economic consortium made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)

So, what on earth do you think you can do to stop this?

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Proverbs 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Proverbs 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Am I wimping out? No, I am simply agreeing with Solomon.

THREE MINUTES TO LIVE- HOW TO SPEND THEM

2012-02-05T18:53:00.000-08:00

This video simply underscores what every Bible believer OUGHT TO see as a way of life:

Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

THE LAST GREAT BATTLE, ARMAGEDDON, AND STRONG DELUSION

2012-01-29T12:13:00.000-08:00

Here is a five part presentation on Strong Delusion that God is sending to the godless elite of the world at this time. These articles should help you understand what is happening in the present stress.

STRONG DELUSION IS NOW IN PROGRESS
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This is a discussion of God's entering into the world and giving delusion to humanity so that they believe the lies of the wicked and Satan in the end Times. If you do not read all the articles below in order, and if you skip one, you will end up confused. If you are depressed or recovering from shell shock from bad company, take this is small doses please.

STRONG DELUSION DISCUSSION- PART ONE
Strong Delusion-- God Wants Wicked Men Deluded
The Bible tells us that humanity would be made delusional by God so that they believe lies in the End Times..... It is happening as I write. Suggestion: Take this medicine in several doses. It is strong stuff, so bookmark it to find it again. Do not attempt to watch this and then go to bed please.

STRONG DELUSION DISCUSSION- PART TWO
Eugenics, Evolution, Genetics, and You
After reading Part One about the Strong Delusion God is now sending to men we need to see that God has a very urgent reason to trash the schemes of godless men in high places. They intend to reinvent God's creation, and God? is not amused.

STRONG DELUSION DISCUSSION- PART THREE
Strong Delusion and the Coming Banking Crash
After reading Part One and Two about the pervasive nature of world delusion, imposed on godless men by God, we all have the banking crisis on our minds these days. Deluded men, thinking they are doing? well, will destroy the whole world's banking and commerce.

STRONG DELUSION DISCUSSION- PART FOUR
How to Survive Eugenics and the Coming Holocaust
So, after reading Part One through Three of this discussion, you will now want to know if God has provided a way of escape for his children. God never judges the wicked and his saints at the same time. He insists on a clear distinction so that the wicked know what the stakes are.

STRONG DELUSION DISCUSSIONS- PART FIVE
World War III and the Reduction of the USA
This is a discussion added to the overall thoughts in Parts One through Four. We need to learn about the last great war, and we want to see if our present obsessions with war making coincide with these prophecies. We will learn that the United States of America is at the top of God's hit list to be emasculated before the Battle of Armageddon.

If you have comments, please leave them below. If you want to contact me, use the comment box, and include your email address please.

NUCLEAR WAR POSSIBLE AGAIN

2012-01-28T19:16:00.000-08:00

But, this time it is we the USA who may start it. The Keystone cops at the Pentagon are just absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt, to be sure...... sure...... that they have covered that risk. Problem, no one can seem to find the plan to not start a nuclear was in the file cabinet.

READ THE ARTICLE

So, back to 1955 and get your plan for a nuclear war in order. Kelp, iodine, a way to stay in your home, or at the office, for 12 days. Do not look at bright flashes.

It is getting a bit old my friend. This is terrorism by the US Military, terrorism of YOU and ME.

BE ADVISED AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS

2012-01-23T12:24:00.000-08:00

You ARE being listened to, virtually every call you make, your email is stored, and the fact that you are reading here now is on record forever, as it were.

READ THIS AND DEAL ACCORDINGLY PLEASE

YOU ARE A SUSPECT AT THE US MILITARY

2012-01-20T09:08:00.000-08:00

There is no other conclusion. It is not enough that Fusion is eavesdropping and trolling for everything you do, but, and say. Now the US Military wants to know what you think, indeed your core emotions.

Special Forces Get Social in New Psychological Operation Plan

Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’

The US Constitution guarantees freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.

The US Constitution also states that the US Military is to defend America against foreign threat.

It is not enough that Homeland Security violates our privacy in trolling operations without a proven suspicion. Now, our great defenders in BDUs are chatting and cozying up to us in social venues to see if we think nasty thoughts.

With the ability of the snoops to turn on and listen to our cell phones without a warrant, the Military is now going to listen in. This all tells us the US Military has been given a mission to spy on Americans as well as the traditional foreign enemies.

So, YOU are the enemy just as much as Ahmadinejad.

Your cell phone is being tracked by 72 Fusion private companies under contract to the US Government. They are not subject to the Information Act because they are private. How clever. So, you have NO way to find out what they know about you, or if their information may have been given to them by your enemies and is false. They collect ANY and ALL information of ALL Americans that is going around.

Other government agencies can turn on your cell phone and listen to your conversation. So can private companies and trouble makers. As finking becomes more common, ordinary citizens will troll for "suspicious" people (in their perverted minds) and report them to Government agencies, possibly also selling hot items to private blackmail criminals.

By the way, NEVER give out credit card information or Social Security numbers over a cell phone.

So, you have been told to pull the battery from your phone when you want to be private with friends. That will turn off the phone and tell the snoops you disappeared for a while. If a pattern of this develops, their systems will put on a red light, and someone somewhere will start doing a detailed study of you as a suspect. This may result in you being tailed by technology more seriously.

SOLUTION: Leave the cell phone on, but put it outside the door or in the far end of the house. Do not put it into a metal box-- this acts as a Faraday Cage and kills the signal. You may want to set your cell phone, and that of your visiting friends, in front of a radio playing music in another room to cover your voices. This way, you will not disappear from the snoops.

Proverbs 3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

LAW OF THE LAND

2012-01-12T13:13:00.000-08:00

There is no record in the Bible of Jesus breaking Roman law.

He violated the rules of the religious Pharisees in his day, and I suspect he would break the Fundamental Baptist Standards and Amish regulations today if he were to return and walk among us. I can see Jesus nailing an orange sign on an Amish buggy.

In these last days of the Church Age, many saints are talking about how to beak the law, whether in regard to gun laws, or in paying taxes..... it matters not what the law is. If a given law does not prevent you from worshiping God and preaching the Gospel, obey it.

Franking, I have considered attaching a big orange triangle to the back of my van because of the maniacs in Austin, Texas. Sigh.

Read about the Amish rebels below. They may not call themselves persecuted.

ARTICLE

IT TAKES NERVE AND A SENSE OF THE MOMENT

2012-01-07T20:08:00.000-08:00

Some opportunities come once in a lifetime. The choir director could have picked a more politically correct piece to sing in a public place, but he and his choir went straight to the message needed.

Quote from the video post on YouTube

It took all of us by surprise while waiting on a maintenence check to be performed on the aircraft. Best surprise ever!! I'm bless and glad to be there live to see this. OMG! ::: Thanks to Indiana Wesleyan University Chorale and by the way I love Indy and their people. By the way Happy Birthday Todd Guy.

SO, WHO NEEDS BOOKS?

2012-01-07T12:15:00.000-08:00

Watch the video please. If you find this video totally boring, you are in deep trouble.

WATCH VIDEO

So, what did you learn?

If you took a few notes, I predict a great future for you.

Books are the key to survival, and I suggest you start with the Bible.

GOING OUT IN STYLE

2011-12-30T19:42:00.000-08:00

Does your wife look like a dumpy bag lady? Is it because you spend all your extra cash on preparedness?

You have a stash of ammo, enough guns to start a small war, tons of dehydrated food, AND your kids look like dumpster divers who have not found a crust of bread in a month, and they are starving.

Do you know what the One Worlders' mental image of a survivor and Bible believer is? They think you bought all your clothes from a yard sale by the Branch Davidians in Waco just before the BATF blew them away.

Stop going out looking trashy. That is the trend of losers, and you need to show the Hidden Hand and their slaves that you dress well. I am not talking about throwing money around. I am talking about dressing up with a shirt and tie to go out to eat EVERY TIME. I am talking about burning that stupid baseball cap and finding a good western hat or a fedora. I am talking about seeing to it that your wife and daughters have the resources to get their hair done nicely and often.

Do your kids wear trashy clothes, and is your son having to grab his britches all the time because the jack ass bought a waist size four sizes too big ON PURPOSE? And, you are the jerk who let him do it?

What do you think you are anyway? If God might have mercy on America (or your country somewhere else in the world), then God will not want you dressing in the style of the heathen and the One World Satanists.

Style? Yes, but the style of decency and smart neatness. You cannot demand attention and make a statement in the market place if you look like a baboon with a two day drunk on.

Do you have a beard? Fine, but trim it up neat with some character. The mountain man look is NOT going to get you a hearing with 99% of Americans. Let Alabama sing about the mountain men, but I promise you, if you really look the part you will be thought of as a hick burp.

I usually wear an ordinary shirt and a western straw hat when I go to town. I wear huaraches which are a woven Mexican dress shoe. This keeps the masses guessing what I am about. I DO NOT want to look like a preacher, but I do want to cause people to feel I have dressed up a bit just for them. They have a mental preconception for "preachers in uniform" and that is why you preachers get all those sacral fake sweet responses from religious wannabes. Leave me out on that one.

When we go out to eat ANYWHERE, I wear a modest long sleeve western shirt and Levies like ranch people wear and a bolo tie from Mexico. We ALWAYS get better service. If you dress well for people, people will treat you better than the fugitive from a Halloween party in front of you in the Budweiser tee shirt. If you live in an area in rebellion against order, dress up anyway. The rebels will tremble when you walk in the door.

Now, go spend some of that alleged survival cash load buying off the One Worlders' audience with class and good manners. Speak with authority because people cannot avoid you. The acre you take charge of may get someone saved, and it may stop some One Worlder from taking that acre for the devil and the dirty dozen on high.

Ronald Reagan had one thing right-- he knew the value of bearing and presence. He knew that a President who looks and sounds regal is respected. His humor was an oasis in chaos that even his enemies looked forward to.

Clean up you speech, and learn to talk with authority. READ READ READ, but read the Bible and information sources that are trustworthy. Read writers like Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, and Alistair Cooke who mastered the English language. You don't even have to agree with these men, but you need to teach your family to read and talk three levels above the masses and asses. You need to learn to be polite, pert, and potent when you speak your opinion. And, you need to fire the imaginations of people around you. Make them think thoughts they avoid, thoughts that Big Nanny discourages.

I can tell a man who does not read books. He is dull and has only three four letter adjectives.

AND, please, HAVE AN OPINION. The world today is obsessed with fairness, niceness, and politically correct blather and bull. If you have an opinion on something, speak with such authority that other people are jealous of your zeal. If someone disagrees with you, but they show a narrow minded conviction, tell them you do not agree, but you will fight to the death for their right to have an attitude.

Attitude.... what an endangered species!!

Now, go do the right thing..... and, do it in public without worrying if someone will be offended.

James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

TANK

2011-12-23T11:04:00.000-08:00

There must be a reaction for every action.

Americans, personally, as government, in banking, and intelligentsia want more and more for nothing but an IOU. Well, the fat lady is in her closing aria, and the house will collapse soon.

Fear gains nothing for a survivor. Thinking outside of the box is the key to survival.

This video is useful, but in a limited way.

The problem with the pundits today is that they are talking about the Mayan dooms day end of the world in 2012. No one talks about the prophecies in the Bible. Why? Answer: God will NOT tell you the day nor the hour of anything. That makes futurists mad. They want God to tell them the day and hour so they can sell stock and run to the Amazon rain forest and hide. Until then, they want to play with their own destiny.

Here is Jesus Christ talking about the destiny of Israel in the near future. If you think that you can sit in Kansas and watch without feeling the fear and physical terror of the moment, you are dead wrong. The whole world will spiral into terror and turmoil.

There is the hope of the Lord's Church being removed at some point, but as the Hebrews in Egypt, the righteous will experience the plagues of the early era of the coming trouble before Christ takes them out.

Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

The USA will enter this scene with great aspirations of making a fat profit our of war making and oil. The total lack of mention of the USA in Bible prophecy tells me that the USA is totally broken and trashed by this ongoing process. Indeed, the USA may become a banana republic long before the above prophecy by Jesus.

So, the present economic malaise, and our leaders' total inability to act to reverse the crisis, means that we are very likely coming to the final act for the USA. God is done with the USA, and you cannot convince him to change his mind. He will have justice for all the death by war, abortion, bad medical care that kills more than it helps, and for the suicidal death wish Americans have for themselves spiritually.

Prepare to meet thy God, saint. It will be a very good day indeed.

WORSHIPING THE GOLDEN CALF ON WALL STREET

2011-12-19T20:19:00.000-08:00

This is a group of paganized christiansettes making asses of themselves.

The Young Turk is a left leaning agnostic, but he gets it all right. How sad that Christians cannot see what fools they are.

NOW, here is Larry Vance on the Golden Calf of American Christians. This calf is the US Military, and you better read this. You are probably one of those making a pompous ass of himself in the name of Christian truth. Vance is spot on this time:

READ LARRY VANCE'S ITEM

FOX NEWS AND CNN COOK THE NEWS FOR THE US STATE DEPARTMENT

2011-12-18T10:27:00.000-08:00

Sounds unbelievable, right?

You need to GO HERE at my other blog and read about it.

MUSIC FOR THAT SLUGGISH FEELING

2011-12-17T20:32:00.000-08:00

This will get you up and jumping, I promise......................

CARJACKING WARNING

2011-12-14T13:34:00.000-08:00

Warning..!!!! Warning..!!!! Warning..!!!!

THIS APPLIES TO BOTH WOMEN AND MEN

Heads up everyone! Please, keep this circulating....You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside. You start the engine and shift into reverse.

When you look into the rearview mirror to back out of your parking space, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window. So, you shift into Park, unlock your doors, and jump out of your car to remove that paper (or whatever it is) that is obstructing your view. When you reach the back of your car that is, when the carjackers appear out of nowhere, jump into your car and take off. They practically mow you down as they speed off in your car.

And guess what, ladies? I bet your purse is still in the car.

So now the carjacker has your car, your home address, maybe credit cards, your money, and your keys. Your home and your whole identity are now compromised!

BEWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED.

If you see a piece of paper stuck to your back window, just drive away. Remove the paper later. And be thankful that you read this e-mail. I hope you will forward this to friends and family, especially to women. A purse contains all kinds of personal information and identification documents, and you certainly do NOT want this to fall into the wrong hands.

Report from a friend:
Just last weekend on Friday night we parked in a public parking area. As we drove away I noticed a sticker on the rear window of the car. When I took it off after I got home, it was a receipt for gas… Luckily my friend told me not to stop as it could be someone waiting for me to get out of the car… Then we received this email yesterday.

Steve suggests:
I had to give the creeps ideas, but I assume they will also tie a tin can on the rear or front bumper to clang along as you start to back up. Men especially will panic, jump out to see what is wrong, and the car will be carjacked. This is a time to drive on down the road, make sure you are not followed, and stop after a few blocks to see what is happening. If a can is tied under the car, get back in fast, and drive to the nearest police station. Do not touch the can. The cops may decide to fingerprint it.

This world is very ugly. So, we all must think criminal at times to be prepared for the wicked.

In Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, or anywhere with a "castle domain law," take the gun in your car as you exit, loaded, cocked, and ready as you go in the house etc.

NANNY RECRUITS FINKS

2011-12-14T08:14:00.000-08:00

READ THE ITEM FOR THIS POST FIRST PLEASE

Here is the page where Obama asks you to attack Republicans if you want to see it.

Read this quote from Obama's donation begging site. Please notice the second paragraph. The suggestion is to attack a Republican by using spite. This clearly designed, not to be helpful to freedom of choice, but to turn Americans against one another.

Who inspires you to give?

This holiday season, we're giving you a chance to have a little fun at the expense of a Republican in your life by letting them know they inspired you to make a donation to the Obama campaign.

Simply enter their name and email address below. Then, we'll send them a message letting them know they inspired you to donate.

Thank you for supporting this campaign, and happy holidays.

Now, you may question my headline as extreme. I think not.

You see, when fascists take over a democracy, they need to recruit their allies within the system. That would be die hard Democrats who would vote for a yeller dog (or an illegal alien from Kenya) if the Dems ran him.

After big nanny has a designated group of faithful finkers from the email trick, they can then go on to ask those finks to turn in anyone who is conservative and dangerous. "Dangerous" will be left up to the finks to define. And, a computer model can also to run to see which finks turned in the conservatives that are genuine threats to the glorious coming fascist regime.

If you think Obama is not willing to do this, you are a fool. Some of you Conservatives cannot remember the shame we all felt when President Richard Nixon tried to make the Oval Office into a fascist bunker. I remember all too well. And, the virus is spreading farther and farther in Washington DC.

Now, what does this mean to you and me? It means that we can do two things:

1. Tell our conservative friends that whoever big nanny attacks is the best candidate to win in 2012. Whoever big nanny seems to ignore or speak well of is likely to lose against Obama.

2. Send in email addresses to the big nanny campaign that will skew their results badly. Be creative. Send the addresses of foreign entities, preferably world and national leaders in Kenya and other African nations. Send email addresses of the Vatican and monasteries in Greece. Also, get into Chinese secondary schools, and send their email addresses. Be creative. They will get insane return emails to sort through. Send email addresses of US bureaucrats who may be unsure of themselves to turn them against Obama for meddling. If they have an automated system, you can have even more fun. The system will unlikely sort out any addresses. These are greedy people. They are stupid people. Send them to ordering email sites for pizza and Chinese junk, especially those sites in China promoting products. Forward the email address to Mrs. Agnes Machumba in Nigeria who wants to send you $40 million left to her by her dear deceased husband.

Is this unfair? I think it meets the need, for Obama's trick in collecting email addresses is a stealth attack which is also designed to turn American against American. The nation is already inundated with hate and division that is unlike anything in our history. We need to turn this attempt to stampede us into turmoil by sending the attack right back where it came from-- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Finally, have a little heart to heart chat with your Democrat friend. I know from being there, that when fascists and Communists take over a nation, those who help them up front are the first to be machine gunned after everything settles down. The new regime knows they will do evil for personal gain, so they eliminate them. This also applies to co-operation with Republicans who are doing similar stealth operations. They are just as wicked as Obama and his goons.

Proverbs 25:9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

It is wicked to help the ruler attack your neighbor. If you think he is wrong in some way, like who he should vote for, tell him yourself, OR SHUT UP, you jerk. That applies to Democrats, Republicans, and anyone else.

If you want to be a gatekeeper for a ruler, give the Gospel to a sinner on behalf of King Jesus. Otherwise, mind your own business.

Proverbs 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Proverbs 16:29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

Proverbs 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

Proverbs 3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

To Barak Obama every American is his to use in order to trash the system and exalt himself. Are Republicans the same? Absolutely, the only difference is in the degree of arrogance each politician has for us all.

By the way, how is this harvesting of email addresses any different than collecting email addresses and selling them to a spammer. THIS IS SPAM IF THERE EVER WAS SPAM.

GOOGLE-- 2084

2011-12-12T09:53:00.000-08:00

One day, long after I know as I am known by my Lord, you young groupies may be dealing with a "brave new world" that takes the ultimate bravery to survive and stay sane.

To whit--

To the list in the graphic, you may one day, by political anarchy after a fascist regime rules the USA, be able to demand the following:
[ Click graphic for an enlarged view ]

Your Senator's brain
Your teacher's brain
The Attorney General's brain
The President's brain
Corporate profit and loss sheet
Jesse Ventura's brain
The Martian President's brain
Brain of the Worshipful Master's brain

Of course, when surfing the brains of the elite, you will want to be sure that the "safe selection" is "on" if your kids are at the computer.

The future will depend on whether the masses and asses prevail, or the Nicolaitans (ruling elite) prevail.

Meanwhile, let us all live in such a way that, after we have gone to our reward, no one in high places misses us, and we are not on a list for extermination.

Happy landings.

PROVIDENCE IS A WONDERFUL COMFORT

2011-12-09T11:22:00.000-08:00

A king who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in all circumstances would always say “my king, do not be discouraged, because everything God does is perfect. He makes no mistakes!” One day they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked the king. His slave managed to kill the animal, but could not prevent his majesty from losing a finger. Furious and showing no his gratitude for being saved, the nobleman asked "Is God good? If He was good, I would not have been attacked and lost my finger."

The slave replied: "My king, despite all these things, I can only tell you that God is good, and he knows why these things happened. What God does is perfect. He is never wrong!" Outraged by the response, the king ordered the arrest of his slave.

Later, the King left for another hunt, this time alone. He was captured by savages who engaged in human sacrifices. On the altar and ready to sacrifice the nobleman, the savages discovered that their victim did
not have one of his fingers. According to them, only a whole person with all his parts intact could be offered to the gods. The King without a finger was deemed an abominable sacrifice for their gods. So they released him.

Upon his return to the palace, the King called for the release of his slave. He received the slave affectionately. He asked his slave, "My dear, God was really good to me! I was almost killed by the wild men, but for lack of a single finger, I was let go! But I have a question: if God is so good, why did he allow me to put you in jail?"

The slave answered, "My King, if I had gone with you on this hunt, I would have been sacrificed instead because I have no missing finger. Remember everything God does is perfect. He is never wrong. He made you keep me in jail so I would not be with you on the hunt."

Often we complain about life, and negative things that happen to us, forgetting that nothing is random and that everything has a purpose. Every morning, offer your day to God, don't be in a rush. And do not be afraid. God is never wrong!
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Whatever is coming, and in spite of mindless leaders who trample down the masses, God has his own plan. It is a plan that is good for us all.

Unless...... You simply do not believe in God and his providence. Then, you are on your own, and every trial and tribulation will enrage you, for the world is never fair for the godless.

THE USA WILL BE DRAGGED OVER THE EDGE BY EUROPE

2011-12-06T10:55:00.000-08:00

Europe is not fixing the funds. So, they are begging for a bail out, hat in hand, from the International Monetary Fund.

READ ABOUT IT HERE

Thus, Britain (one of the beggars), along with the USA, are the two biggest funders of the IMF. So, guess who shells out the lion's share of this bail out? The USA Treasury.

So, how is that done? We are flat broke and in big debt already. Thus, we have to do a big dose of Quantitative Easing. Which, being interpreted, means we devalue the dollar to save Europe.

That will make China mad, for that means the value they were supposed to receive, when we paid up on Treasury Notes China bought long ago, will be below what they invested.

Now, who will finance the printing of new QE money? Well, we will need to go to our old sucker friends, China.

China loses two ways-- They lose value on their investments of the past, AND they have to bail out the US again.

Do you see something wrong with this?

Now, if you think Chinese officials are simply stupid shills who pay for our lust for more and more, then China may buy our devalued paper. But, if the Chinese have any brain at all, they may say NO. Thus, we print money that is worthless because there is nothing to back it.

No more money in the bank.

This will do nothing but devalue the EU cash pile. It would be better if the EU went to the Third World and borrowed Piasters, Pennies, or Potatoes.

Let me illustrate this better:

You want to loan your uncle $40,000. So, you go to the bank, and you ask for a loan. The loan agent says you are already deep in debt, so why do you think you will be able to pay off your present debt AND the added $40,000? You then tell the banker that you will borrow more money from him some day to pay off the whole debt.

Now, do you understand that we have the most stupid governing officials and banana republic ever suffered under? This thing is terminal. This shuffling of debts and bad money will sooner or later blow up in our faces. When it does, we will go into the deepest depression the world has ever seen.

Picture this:
A circle of twenty row boats in the lake side by side. Each boat is leaking badly. But, they only have five buckets between them. So, they all beg each other to loan them the bucket for a while to bail. This works for a while, but the occupants of one of the row boats finally refuses for fear of sinking. At that point, all the rest of the five bucket holders refuse to loan their bucket again. Boats start sinking.

When some nation refuses to loan or borrow further, banks will crash all over the world, and most US banks will crash.

You need to prepare for a slide back to life as it was as long ago as 1900. If you do not know what that means, Google for a few hours some day when you have free time, and see what you need to do to survive.

Start by buying a portable out house.

The actors in the video were ALL AMERICANS. Can't happen again? You are a fool if you think that. Neither God nor the rest of humanity owe you a thing. Prosperity is NOT a right. The PURSUIT of prosperity is a right.

Those who will survive are getting ready as I write this.

So is God.....

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

Bible prophecy indicates that delusion sets in at the end of this age. God SENDS delusion so that people will believe lies. Our leaders are now being deluded by God on purpose. God wants them to destroy the nations they rule, and he wants a one world one man leader to rule under Satanic power. This will bring in total rebellion of humanity as all people become deluded.

Once the world is reduced to abject poverty, God will send Jesus Christ to reign and rule for one thousand years. Why would God do something so violent? Answer: If Jesus came back now, the world rulers would crucify him again because they will NOT submit to his holy way of ruling. The only cure is to destroy all rebels, about two thirds of the world's population.

Your only hope is to get out and old black backed King James Bible and find your hope by faith in Jesus Christ. If you don't, you will follow on with the masses of the deluded into destruction.

Every time you laugh off a warning by a Bible believer like me, you further seal your fate to be one of those who worship Satan one day. You will laugh your way to hell.

OLD TIMERS AND NEW TIMERS

2011-11-29T18:50:00.000-08:00

What can we learn from those that roughed long ago AND now?

So, how are YOU getting prepared? We are facing total collapse by the end of 2014. You have one pretty good year in 2012. In 2013, if we elect a rational President, he will cut spending fiercely, and he will disengage the Federal Government from much of its Big Nanny role in the states. If we elect a mad man, he will go mad with frenzy and trash the nation totally. We may have our first dictator.

You may well become a lot more free when the central government is flat broke, but YOU WILL END UP HAVING TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. Are you able to do that? When all the goodies you think you are entitled to are gone, then what?

Remember, you saw those old timers in Bakersfield, California in a pretty upbeat mood. They were obviously survivors. If you have no skills or will to take care of yourself, I suggest you go find some really old folks to tell you how they did it. You just might learn something.

How can you tell you are NOT ready for hard times? Answer: If you could not finish the video on the tent city, my friend, you are NOT ready to face your destiny.

What will you do when it is just you and Jesus?

MIND CONTROL

2011-11-24T20:05:00.000-08:00

You are being targeted for mind control if you live in the world and move about at all.

WATCH THIS BLUNT VIDEO

The video is very abbreviated, but you will start to see ways in which you cannot avoid being targeted.

So, how do we resist being changed from what God wants us to be? How can we catch the wicked tricks and avert or avoid them?

This may seem explicit, but you need to see how advertising, which is all around us daily, can change our thinking patterns if we are not in a warfare mind set against it:

Regardless of how you explain this, people are doing it, or at least they think they are. So, if these sort of people can play games with subliminal communication, what do you think the US Federal Government might try to do with your mind?

Again, there is controversy here, but the ad content is NOT by the US GOVERNMENT-- it is the stuff we see all around us daily:

Walt Disney has been at it for a long time:

EXAMPLE

EXAMPLE

Now, here is one from long ago used by Disney-- a cute innocent song from a Disney movie. You have to be in your 50s or older to remember this. This proves that Disney never got over his drug obsessions. He was indicted on drug charges during WW II, and he plea bargained by offering to make training movies for the US Army. Here is his song with deadly lyrics:

A SPOON FULL OF SUGAR

The song came our with the movie in 1964. That was smack dab in the middle of the LSD era, and that drug was dosed by putting a drop of LSD on a sugar cube. The druggies got the message.

Much mockery was made of anyone who questioned the lyrics of Pull the Magic Dragon, but the parallel to drug lingo in the 1960s, when the song came out, cannot escape inspection.

"Puff the magic dragon (drag in, as in smoking)"
"Lives by the sea (or "C" as in cocaine)"
"And frolics in the autumn mists in a land called Hanna Lee (a space drug community in Hawaii_"
"Little Jackie Paper (as in paper jacket, or reefer paper)"
"Loved that rascal puff...."

Coincidental? Not a chance in the overpowering drug culture of nearly all drug music in the 60s. The fact that the song is defended by producers, while it is a theme song of put heads from that era, is damning.

The mind is taken in. The kids sing it. Daddy wonders, but he decides not to make a fool of himself. And, the devil takes another acre.

And, at this merry time of the year, the devil also puts on his red pajamas, and Daddy again comes along limp and obediently, though Daddy wonders.................

WE DO NOT WONDER-- WE ATTACK AND DESTROY WITHOUT MERCY

If you cannot take the heat, get out of the kitchen, and get out of here.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

SURVIVAL THINKING IN BAD TIMES..... PART TWO

2011-11-18T09:12:00.001-08:00

Well, Part One of this series was the basics in how we ought to think. I will next start wandering through the woods of reality and application:

1. ESCAPE
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.

This usually is a bad idea. You are most prepared to survive and thrive right where you live. But, if you really are threatened by either lawlessness nearby or big nanny government threats of prison or punishment, or worse, removing your kids from your home, then you may need to flee.

Understand this about fleeing: It is not unpatriotic. Furthermore; many people have suffered horribly because they thought they should somehow stay and suffer to prove something. The Mennonites of the 1500s in Europe fled from Switzerland to The Netherlands when the Calvinists and Lutherans did violence to them. Later, they fled to England and New England, where they are well known to this day.

If you have no religious zeal, the most convincing alibi in history is not available to you. It is too late to invent a religion just for your selfish purposes. No genuine motivated religious group will want you. You are nothing but an opportunist and fake. So, you must find other ways to define your flight.

The government usually shows some restraint when people use a higher power, God and the Bible, as the standard for their actions. So, pastors and church leaders need to define when their people must flee, and this must be put in writing NOW. This will then be a grandfathered issue when action is needed.

If you are in a church or Christian group where the pastors are intensely possessive, such as 90% of all Fundamental Baptist churches, you need to move on to another denomination that allows the fathers of the homes to defend their families, and church leaders will help and defend them. This was the manner of the Mennonites long ago.

Where to go..... The shorter the trip the better. If you live in New Hampshire, what is life like in Maine? Your culture will mostly be in tact this way. To move at once from New Hampshire to Bangladesh would be horribly traumatic, not because Bangladesh is terribly inhospitable, but because you are in no way ready to hit the street in Bangladesh.

Once you are in Maine, define when you must leave there. What trigger signals you to move on? This was another practice of the Mennonites in old Europe. Send someone, if possible, to the next point to reconnoiter. Learn all you can about the next destination. Meanwhile, make yourself as valuable as possible to local citizens and officials so that they will be motivated to defend you. Again, I learned this from the Mennonites. They were fantastic farmers, and the king of Holland refused to turn them over to the Swiss authorities. Later, Queen Catherine of Russia protected them because the tamed the wild steppes of south Russia and made them produce wheat.

And the "uttermost parts"? For me, I feel safest thinking about places I have lived, or where I have close friends. That is a given. Never go off into oblivion unless you are absolutely desperate. I would be best received in Australia, then Kenya, and I have associates in Singapore, India, and South Africa who might at least help me survive until I can justify my existence there. I would use my piano tuning skills to survive, and trust God for the rest.

Your situation will be very different than mine, but most of you reading can come up with a plan. Once you have a plan, set a trigger point of when you must make your first move. The trigger will be something ominous that threatens you whole family. Once you have this all tentatively planned, get passports, and if you intend to leave your home country, send money ahead via either investments in ETFs in the target nation, or into a bank account in that nation. Get a credit card with international use.

Contact your friends at your target destination BY SNAIL MAIL [ e-mail etc can be sniffed, telling authorities what you are doing]. Once you anticipate really acting on this, send one of two kids ahead if possible, either accompanied by friends, or alone if they are older. This makes it look like you are not really leaving.

2. HUNKER DOWN
This is the most desirable choice of course. If you choose this plan, you must try to become as self-sufficient as possible. You may be deprived of employment and freedoms as a form of religious persecution.

Do not associate with ANY militia, tax rebels, or rabble. Stay away from protesters. Your job is first and foremost to care for your family, so you do not need to respond to those who agitate and talk of anarchy. Keep all laws that do not violate the Word of God. God does NOT tell you to defend democracy, freedom, or the US Constitution.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Samuel Johnson

The problem is, rational leaders and local law enforcement officials know that patriotism, and mongrel conservative Christianity is often claimed by trouble makers who are simply lawless.

Don't shoot guns carelessly, and don't indulge in tough talk. BE tough, and be gentle until you need to be tough. After all; this is always perceived as manly by the world anyway.

Before you leave, you may want to arrange for someone to either own or occupy your home or property. If you are leaving for good, don't leave your possessions to be trashed. There may be someone who is not on the bull's eye who would love a place to live and would take care of it. You may want to come home one day. In fact, the majority of fugitives from persecution in recent years have gone home after the regime changed.

3. SCATTER
This has the disadvantage of breaking up the family. It has the advantage of being the most sudden way to flee, and the authorities have several trails to follow instead of just one. Small children must not be sent off alone to live with even the most loving friends if at all possible.

If you do this, be sure everyone understands that all communication must be by snail mail or traveling friends.

By now, this discussion must be sounding a bit morbid to some readers. If all is well where you are, and local authorities are friendly and supportive of you, fleeing sounds wicked. Well, it is. But, all over the world are people who are on the fine edge of severe suffering and persecution, and I have been where this was in progress. I would be derelict if I did not pass on my observations. I hope you understand.

4. PLANNING FOR THE MIDDLE ERA OF CRISIS
We are assuming you are not going anywhere. You plan to prepare for the future and survive the best you can. The question is, what will the middle of a collapse era be like, and how can I make the best of it?

The first thing I must say to you is that you should become moderately entangled in either law enforcement, local government, or social agencies. If you are a military veteran, join the American Legion or the VFW. Of course if they are nothing but a drinking club, don't bother. Although, drunk Veterans sometimes let the cat out of the bad on government policy. Hmmmmmmm

As to survival, you need to change some things now, not later when the trouble starts.

a. But extra. The economy is NOW tanking slowly. Later, it may crash, or at least head down sharply. When that happens, run away inflation will start, OR rapid devaluation of the dollar. This is because the government will finally realize they will never pay off the national debt with the present cash flow from taxes. The rest of the world will also figure it out, and the dollar will tank

So, what you buy at present prices will cost a lot less then in one of two years. Again, buy extra, and store it.

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5. PLANNING FOR THE DISTANT ERA OF CRISIS

6. ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER SURVIVORS

7. HOW TO THRIVE INSTEAD OF JUST EXIST

SURVIVAL THINKING IN BAD TIMES..... PART ONE

2011-11-17T16:34:00.000-08:00

The following is not conventional wisdom. I will not give many details about survival, but I intend to inspire you to get your mind and soul moving along in such a way that you are a survivor mentally. You will be able to then fill in the details for your particular situation.

My experiences growing up in Africa, and later as a missionary there and in Ethiopia in the bush, as well as my days as a small church pastor in rural areas, have given me a larger view, I think, than the average survival guru.

By the grace of God, I have been able to survive and thrive, but no dandy from the financial world will ever call me a success. If that bothers you, consider this: The most wealthy and powerful men before the 1929 stock market crash became helpless beggars after the crash. This is because they had soft hands and heads full of vanity. They simply lacked any survival skills that had to do with daily life. They were fed, clothed, and escorted by servants 24/7, and when the servants went back to Tuscaloosa, they starved.

Here then are some survival principles. They are not in the exact order that you may need to apply them, and the first principle will show you why:

1. CATCH UP
Everything must be tied to biblical prophecy AND past history. This means that where you are now, and what you need to do to survive, will not follow exactly the order of life of the Dustbowl farmers or the Great Depression victims. But, pay attention, your options will turn out to be very much like theirs in principle. How well you survive the present stress will depend greatly on whether you have a forward look that is in line with God defined coming destiny for humanity, and a backward look AND KNOWLEDGE of past disasters in the USA and the world.

I venture to guess that you are woefully ignorant of the past. Ninety percent of Americans alive today have been subjected to little of no real history of the past. The public school system has laundered history into oblivion. What history you ever got is all revisionist propaganda. If you depend on pundits, talking heads, and gurus of economics today, most of whom never saw hard times worse than the Arab gas price hikes of the 1970s, you are working with less than half a load. CATCH UP. The Internet is loaded with videos and articles telling what life was like during past crises.

My son works in technology in very high end medical company. He tells me that when he talks about reading the news online to his co-workers, or when he suggests they look up some issue of life on Google, many of them look at him cross eyed. They seem to use the Internet only for amusements like movies and music, and to stick their face in public view on Facebook. It is amazing to me. With four techy sons and sons-in-law, I have to really be careful when I toss out a fact here or there. Someone is invariably punching the topic into Google and setting me straight. Being in Texas, and willing to "stretch the blanket" once in a while, is dangerous IF you have friends who know how to use Google.

Ecclesiastes 6:10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

In case you are not familiar with it, here is the gate keeper of the world. I jest of course :-)

2. IMPROVISE
You cannot get ready for everything.

You must get ready by setting priorities for you, your family, and neighbors based on your immediate circumstances. Air, water, food, security, companionship, income, and status in the community. All of these must be ever bathed in prayer in the recognition that God is at work in you, and you ought to be a blessing while you survive.

But, you will miss something. This is because new factors will enter which were not in past history and which are not answered by prophetic teachings from the Word of God. So, what will you do? For now, stop throwing away everything that seems outdated and old. It may come in handy later. The old computer still works. The software loaded on it will be hard to find. It will always connect to the web. The old car is probably nearly worthless as to street value. But, it runs, it will get to the store and back when your new whiz machine blows and engine and you just lost your job, and your old beater will look great to someone near you who went bankrupt and lost everything.

I am building a green house right now. I bought much of the materials needed, but I am going to the woods for mulch, and I will cut cedar saplings to put under the buckets so critters cannot get into them. Buckets? A piano tuning customer maintains swimming pools and has lots of 6 gallon plastic buckets made of food grade plastic (very important). I am planting in buckets because water can be scarce in Texas. So, I can greatly reduce the amount of water needed for the plants. The potting soil will come from a Texas "tank" (tanka in Spanish), which is a stock pond on the property. It has badly silted in, and when I dredge if for the silt, I have more water in the tank and I will have exceptional free potting soil.

That story was the result of spending my life HAVING TO improvise. The details are unique to me, but past history and biblical prophetic expectations helped greatly as I built the green house. What biblical expectations, you may ask. Answer: Soon the world will have famine. The USA is nowhere in world prophecy. We are doomed to become a disaster zone as Europe, the Middle East, and Asia prevail. God is not an American. He does not have to save this nation for my benefit. But, he graciously told me what I need to get ready for, and what I cannot deal with, he will.

Better yet, when famine or financial disaster comes, I will not only have food for my family, I will have a great place to go and sit in the sun in mid-winter and drink a cup of tea and inhale high oxygen air. If I am prepared well, famine may end up driving me to contentment. That statement will drive some of you mad. Read it several times..... you might catch on eventually.

Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

What should you be doing now to provide a smoother ride in the future when the USA tanks?

3. MAKE THE WORLD COME TO YOU
You see the AdSense ads on this blog, right. There are three other blogs. They all produce a small cash flow. I have only scratched the surface in tricks that can be used to make this work better. I don't get much from it now, but when I have idle time, I can turn it into better cash flow. The world comes to me, though only in a small way with this example.

Here are the thoughts of Quince Forrest, a trial drive cowboy foreman from 1889. He and his crew drove a herd of longhorns from Matamoros, Mexico, across from Brownseville in Texas, all the way to an Indian Reservation in Montana. This must be one of the longest trial drive in world history. After the cattle were delivered, the guys were laying around the camp fire on the trip home to Texas.

Quince said, "In don't know how you fellows feel about it, but I bade those cows god-by on their beds to-night without a regret or a tear. The novelty of night-herding loses its charm with me when it's drawn out over five months. I might be fool enough to make another such trip, but I'd rather be the Indian and let the other fellow drive the cows to me-- there's a heap more comfort in it." [ Taken from The Log of A Cowboy by Andy Adams ]

Drive the world to yourself. By barter, friendship, stealth, and by simply making sure you are at the right time and place when the parade goes by. When I was in college we went to see the Rose Parade in Pasadena a couple of times. We went the night before and set up chairs right along the curb. We posted a guard to make sure the chairs were not claimed by strangers. We wandered around and handed out Gospel tracts, and when the parade finally went by the next morning, we had from row seats. Think!

Now, it can get both sinister and practical. Suppose a fascist regime takes over the USA (or, has it done so already?). You can hunker down and get ready to fight it out, flee the country, or you can let the regime come to you. Your landlord in Ethiopia was very rich, and he was a savvy and wise man. He was also very loyal and personable to anyone he liked. When the Marxist took over Ethiopia our landlord hid while other government officials and business men were being machine gunned every day at dawn. We had to hear that every morning when we woke up. Finally, the Marxist national counsel came to a frightening conclusion-- they had killed off all the brains of Ethiopia. No one even knew where the tar was to repair the roads. So, they reversed and scoured the nation for all the businessmen who had not left Ethiopia, and ironically they invited them to join the Marxist national counsel in great pomp and dignity. Our landlord let the creeps find him, he was exalted to the counsel, and he played the game. One day, he was gone, probably to Sweden or Great Britain.

You do not have to LIKE the national and political and business establishment. But, can you make them NEED you? This applies even in good times. If they NEED you, they dare not attack you. Especially if we get to the point where working thinking people are fleeing the country, which is happening in small degree NOW. Here is Jesus Christ on this subject:

Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Conservative Bible teachers avoid that verse like a plague. It sound like Jesus is telling us to make friends with those who have the power and the money (mammon). And, that is exactly what he meant. When you fail, if you have been the friend of a powerful men in government of business, you have excellent counsel and a recommendation possible. You will need it. Jesus did NOT say to make friends of mammon. He is NOT suggesting becoming obsessed with getting rich and hording gold. He is saying that we need friend who know how the money survival game is played.

Drive them to you. Be a good friend to some people whom God can use to see you through the hard times. But, be a real friend. We are not talking about simply using people. The rich hate to be used. Most of them have no real friends because, from their wife and kids, to their lowliest customers, they are being hit for loans and favors financially. They know that if they had no wealth, they would be divorced and abandoned by society. You could be the only friend they have who cares about them, IF you care. When Jesus tells us to be a friend to someone, friendship must be defined HIS way, not ours.

4. CONTENTMENT
Are you satisfied with God's will? In what way has he failed to care for you? What seems like neglect on his part may be the result of slot on your part.

Now, getting stuff is a trap. It is essential that we find a vocation that will provide for our needs, but so often today, and in all history really, men are not satisfied with enough. It is the hallmark of American society that we never have enough, we always want more. Capitalism is wonderful in what it creates in toys and wealth. But it is a scourge in what it does to the every day capitalist. It makes him a raging covetous freak.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Desire! The ads and mailings invite us to desire things, and we crave gratification for our lusts. We are a nation overwhelmed with sodomy and fornication and adultery. It is normal to most people. An American will lie about anything if it gets him ahead. Truth is of little value really. All this is based in the national past time of getting more. One wife, one car, and one toy are not enough.

Micah 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

The coming Messianic Age will be marked by contentment and private ownership. So, what about YOU? Are you content with what you have, with what God has allowed you to get? The reason you feel so driven and pressed to keep a tight schedule is because you want more, more cash flow, more toys, and more power over other people.

On a practical note, when social and economic collapse comes, will you have all sorts of frustrations over what you can no longer do or get your hands on? If you have cultivated an ongoing spirit of contentment, you will only have to worry about your daily bread, literally. You may need to look for a job. You may need to keep watch over your property at night. But, you will not be sitting in the corner grousing about, "how it could have been if the blank blank Feds had not trashed the country."

Make time for coasting, for thinking, for being idle physically and socially so that you can dream dreams about something other than getting more stuff. God has a great world out there that invites your attention. Make a covenant to walk a mile a day in the country. If you live in the city, why? All over America and the world are rural settings where life is far more real and satisfying than downtown. You may take a cut in income, but you will most certainly live longer, and your family will prosper. Prosper? In Paduka Kentucky? Yes, prosper in the real life, the good life near the good earth God created.

God arranged for Adam and Eve's contentment. He would not give Adam misery and tell him it was good for him. So, how did God do that? He planted a garden east of Eden, The Garden of God, and he placed Adam and Eve in that garden to keep it and "subdue" it. The farther you are from the Garden of God, the more miserable you will be. So, if you are stuck in the city, find a way to have a little garden where you can be a keeper of things God made.

5. WHAT ARE YOU OVERLOOKING?
After air,water, food, work, electricity, heat, security, fellowship, etc, there are things you will easily overlook. Start by making a list of things you take for granted-- especially things you think you are entitled to. In a total collapse, according to the history of man from ancient times, people find out that they become desperate for want of one small thing.

What about Social Security? How about health care? Are you receiving these and other services as benefits of past faithfulness? Well, when the insurance company tanks, you will get no help from them. When the company sending you a pension, or the US Military, is busted, you will not get your pension or VA benefits.

Also, what medications and food supplies could you not do without, that is, they are not there in the market place? What is your plan to get ready? No plan will mean you will become an indigent as a bag lady in downtown Chicago after a collapse. You may feel very self-sufficient and confident in your provisions now, but many of them depend on your being employed and society and the government being intact.

What if gas stations closed. What if the power went down. Financial collapse is not the only thing that can maroon you in the modern world as if you were lost on a desert island. You flip the switch, and the lights are out..... for six months. You assume that if the Federal Government can muddle through, all will be well. This illustrates how utterly helpless and unsavvy you really are.

An X-16 solar flare could trash all the electronics, and especially the AC power lines, in a snap. This is an electromagnetic storm caused by the sun, and in 1889 the earth had a big one. It fried all the telegraph keys and some wires and electrocuted some telegraph operators in the process. There were no electric power lines then, and certainly no phones and computers. Imagine a world with no AC power, phone lines, and technology communications. Some computers that were not connected would survive, but the world of business would be gone for a long time. No one would die probably, and no damage could be seen to the naked eye. But, life would come to a dead stop. Your car might run, but gas stations would be gone.

So, I find it a great folly to try to imagine the actual way that a crisis could happen. Financial collapse for the USA is absolutely inevitable. The run away printing of fiat money has ALWAYS resulted historically in a financial collapse, as with the Weimer Republic in Germany and the John Law money scam in France.

So, whatever may be coming is not as urgent as whether you are prepared.

I would be happy to talk about survival in other nations in the world if readers send comments to that effect. I would have to research it a bit, but some principles never change, and many responses work in any setting with some minor details to change.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Does this mean you can do nothing prudent to prepare for possible issues? I think another Bible text makes it clear that we are talking about ongoing sane preparations for the future versus wide eyed panic based on talking heads and frantic pundits in the news.

Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Outdated advice? I think Solomon's admonition is very much in order today. In verse 11 you read that you could become as a man who travels. What does that mean? It is exactly the same today. When the Dustbowl and the Great Depression hit unprepared people, they traveled. Many went to California. Men became tramps and HoBoes. People were merciful in those days and helped them. But, if you could prepare for your family so that you did not have to go traveling, would you? Huh?

Go the ant..... learn her ways. No guide or nanny to tell her what to do, but she does the right thing, and we do have ants here yet, just as Solomon did 3000 years ago.

May you thrive under the mercy of God, no matter what may come your way.

Psalms 31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Psalms 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

BASICS OF SURVIVAL

2011-11-17T08:14:00.001-08:00

My experiences growing up in Africa, and later as a missionary there and in Ethiopia in the bush, as well as my days as a small church pastor in rural areas, have given me a larger view, I think, than the average survival guru.

By the grace of God, I have been able to survive and thrive, but no dandy from the financial world will ever call me a success. If that bothers you, consider this: The most wealthy and powerful men before the 1929 stock market crash became helpless beggars after the crash. This is because they had soft hands and heads full of vanity. They simply lacked any survival skills that had to do with daily life. They were fed, clothed, and escorted by servants 24/7, and when the servants went back to Tuscaloosa, they starved.

Here then are some survival principles. They are not in the exact order that you may need to apply them, and the first principle will show you why:

1. CATCH UP
Everything must be tied to biblical prophecy AND past history. This means that where you are now, and what you need to do to survive, will not follow exactly the order of life of the Dustbowl farmers or the Great Depression victims. But, pay attention, your options will turn out to be very much like theirs in principle. How well you survive the present stress will depend greatly on whether you have a forward look that is in line with God defined coming destiny for humanity, and a backward look AND KNOWLEDGE of past disasters in the USA and the world.

I venture to guess that you are woefully ignorant of the past. Ninety percent of Americans alive today have been subjected to little of no real history of the past. The public school system has laundered history into oblivion. What history you ever got is all revisionist propaganda. If you depend on pundits, talking heads, and gurus of economics today, most of whom never saw hard times worse than the Arab gas price hikes of the 1970s, you are working with less than half a load. CATCH UP. The Internet is loaded with videos and articles telling what life was like during past crises.

My son works in technology in very high end medical company. He tells me that when he talks about reading the news online to his co-workers, or when he suggests they look up some issue of life on Google, many of them look at him cross eyed. They seem to use the Internet only for amusements like movies and music, and to stick their face in public view on Facebook. It is amazing to me. With four techy sons and sons-in-law, I have to really be careful when I toss out a fact here or there. Someone is invariably punching the topic into Google and setting me straight. Being in Texas, and willing to "stretch the blanket" once in a while, is dangerous IF you have friends who know how to use Google.

Ecclesiastes 6:10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

In case you are not familiar with it, here is the gate keeper of the world.

2. IMPROVISE
You cannot get ready for everything. You must get ready by setting priorities for you, your family, and neighbors based on your immediate circumstances. Air, water, food, security, companionship, income, and status in the community. All of these must be ever bathed in prayer in the recognition that God is at work in you, and you ought to be a blessing while you survive.

But, you will miss something. This is because new factors will enter which were not in past history and which are not answered by prophetic teaching from the Word of God. So, what will you do? For now, stop throwing away everything that seems outdated and old. It may come in handy later. The old computer still works. The software loaded on it will be hard to find. It will always connect to the web. The old car is probably nearly worthless as to street value. But, it runs, it will get to the store and back, and it will look great to someone near you who went bankrupt and lost everything.

I am building a green house right now. I bought much of the materials needed, but I am going to the woods for mulch, and I will cut cedar saplings to put under the buckets so critters cannot get into them. Buckets? A piano tuning customer maintains swimming pools and has lots of 6 gallon plastic buckets of food grade plastic. I am planting in buckets because water can be scarce in Texas. So, I can greatly reduce the amount of water needed for the plants. The potting soil will come from a Texas "tank" (tanka in Spanish), which is a stock pond on the property. It has badly silted in, and when I dredge if for the silt, I have more water in the tank and exception free potting soil.

That story was the result of spending my life HAVING TO improvise. The details are unique to me, but past history and biblical prophetic expectations helped greatly as I built the green house. What biblical expectations, you may ask. Answer: Soon the world will have famine. The USA is nowhere in world prophecy. We are doomed to become a disaster zone as Europe, the Middle East, and Asia prevail. God is not an American. He does not have to save this nation for my benefit. But, he graciously told me what I need to get ready for, and what I cannot deal with, he will.

Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

What should you be doing now to provide a smoother ride in the future when the USA tanks?

3. MAKE THE WORLD COME TO YOU
You see the AdSense ads on this blog, right. There are three other blogs. They all produce a small cash flow. I have only scratched the surface in tricks that can be used to make this work better. I don't get much from it now, but when I have idle time, I can turn it into better cash flow. The world comes to me, though only in a small way with this example.

Here are the thoughts of Quince Forrest, a trial drive cowboy foreman from 1889. He and his crew drove a herd of longhorns from Matamoros, Mexico, across from Brownseville in Texas, all the way to an Indian Reservation in Montana. This must be one of the longest trial drive in world history. After the cattle were delivered, the guys were laying around the camp fire on the trip home to Texas.

Quince said, "In don't know how you fellows feel about it, but I bade those cows god-by on their beds to-night without a regret or a tear. The novelty of night-herding loses its charm with me when it's drawn out over five months. I might be fool enough to make another such trip, but I'd rather be the Indian and let the other fellow drive the cows to me-- there's a heap more comfort in it." [ Taken from The Log of A Cowboy by Andy Adams ]

Drive the world to yourself. By barter, friendship, stealth, and by simply making sure you are at the right time and place when the parade goes by. When I was in college we went to see the Rose Parade in Pasadena a couple of times. We went the night before and set up chairs right along the curb. We posted a guard to make sure the chairs were not claimed by strangers. We wandered around and handed out Gospel tracts, and when the parade finally went by the next morning, we had from row seats. Think!

Now, it can get both sinister and practical. Suppose a fascist regime takes over the USA (or, has it done so already?). You can hunker down and get ready to fight it out, flee the country, or you can let the regime come to you. Your landlord in Ethiopia was very rich, and he was a savvy and wise man. He was also very loyal and personable to anyone he liked. When the Marxist took over Ethiopia our landlord hid while other government officials and business men were being machine gunned every day at dawn. We had to hear that every morning when we woke up. Finally, the Marxist national counsel came to a frightening conclusion-- they had killed off all the brains of Ethiopia. No one even knew where the tar was to repair the roads. So, they reversed and scoured the nation for all the businessmen who had not left Ethiopia, and ironically they invited them to join the Marxist national counsel in great pomp and dignity. Our landlord let the creeps find him, he was exalted to the counsel, and he played the game. One day, he was gone, probably to Sweden or Great Britain.

You do not have to LIKE the national and political and business establishment. But, can you make them NEED you? This applies even in good times. If they NEED you, they dare not attack you. Especially if we get to the point where working thinking people are fleeing the country, which is happening in small degree NOW. Here is Jesus Christ on this subject:

Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Conservative Bible teachers avoid that verse like a plague. It sound like Jesus is telling us to make friends with those who have the power and the money (mammon). And, that is exactly what he meant. When you fail, if you have been the friend of a powerful men in government of business, you have excellent counsel and a recommendation possible. You will need it. Jesus did NOT say to make friends of mammon. He is NOT suggesting becoming obsessed with getting rich and hording gold. He is saying that we need friend who know how the money survival game is played.

Drive them to you. Be a good friend to some people whom God can use to see you through the hard times. But, be a real friend. We are not talking about simply using people. The rich hate to be used. Most of them have no real friends because, from their wife and kids, to their lowliest customers, they are being hit for loans and favors financially. They know that if they had no wealth, they would be divorced and abandoned by society. You could be the only friend they have who cares about them, IF you care. When Jesus tells us to be a friend to someone, friendship must be defined HIS way, not ours.

4. CONTENTMENT
Are you satisfied with God's will? In what way has he failed to care for you? What seems like neglect on his part may be the result of slot on your part.

Now, getting stuff is a trap. It is essential that we find a vocation that will provide for our needs, but so often today, and in all history really, men are not satisfied with enough. It is the hallmark of American society that we never have enough, we always want more. Capitalism is wonderful in what it creates in toys and wealth. But it is a scourge in what it does to the every day capitalist. It makes him a raging covetous freak.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Desire! The ads and mailings invite us to desire things, and we crave gratification for our lusts. We are a nation overwhelmed with sodomy and fornication and adultery. It is normal to most people. An American will lie about anything if it gets him ahead. Truth is of little value really. All this is based in the national past time of getting more. One wife, one car, and one toy are not enough.

Micah 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

The coming Messianic Age will be marked by contentment and private ownership. So, what about YOU? Are you content with what you have, with what God has allowed you to get? The reason you feel so driven and pressed to keep a tight schedule is because you want more, more cash flow, more toys, and more power over other people.

On a practical note, when social and economic collapse comes, will you have all sorts of frustrations over what you can no longer do or get your hands on? If you have cultivated an ongoing spirit of contentment, you will only have to worry about your daily bread, literally. You may need to look for a job. You may need to keep watch over your property at night. But, you will not be sitting in the corner grousing about, "how it could have been if the blank blank Feds had not trashed the country."

Make time for coasting, for thinking, for being idle physically and socially so that you can dream dreams about something other than getting more stuff. God has a great world out there that invites your attention. Make a covenant to walk a mile a day in the country. If you live in the city, why? All over America and the world are rural settings where life is far more real and satisfying than downtown. You may take a cut in income, but you will most certainly live longer, and your family will prosper. Prosper? In Paduka Kentucky? Yes, prosper in the real life, the good life near the good earth God created.

God arranged for Adam and Eve's contentment. He would not give Adam misery and tell him it was good for him. So, how did God do that? He planted a garden east of Eden, The Garden of God, and he placed Adam and Eve in that garden to keep it and "subdue" it. The farther you are from the Garden of God, the more miserable you will be. So, if you are stuck in the city, find a way to have a little garden where you can be a keeper of things God made.

LEAD ARTICLE FIRST POSTEDNov. 9, 2011

2011-11-09T19:28:00.000-08:00

This blog is here to become a gathering place for survivors who use the King James Bible, common sense, wisdom from folks who have survived well in the past, and newbies to the grand age of terror now upon us.

I happen to believe that we NEED each other. Much effort seems to be made lately to make us distrust one another and accept the role of suspects. Big Nanny is nagging us around the clock. Alerts are flashing, DRUDGE dumps the dirt 24/7, and virtually every politician who has the glorious answer is a money grubber who sounds like every other politician that ever lied to us.

Is there hope?

If you do not care for Bible based wisdom or the advice of folks who are down home experts..... If you get your rush from Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, and Gush Limbaugh, then rush on after your next rush. You dare not sit still and think..... it might spoil that sweet ominous terror in your soul, right? You will not care for the good hope here.

Of course, we are in hard times, and the worst hard times may be just ahead.

But, a good soldier endures:

2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

If that sounds useful to you, and if you have some experience surviving, please join us, and leave your own observations in the comment area. If you have a question, ask it, and I will try to run down an answer or alternative to the panic response now so popular.