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I've often referred to this time in history as being a redo of the movie The Matrix, where everything is just illusion - life imitating art.

Lately, though, I think it feels more and more like being stuck in a fly-by-night roving carnival. Everything in the center looks lit up, exciting and colorful, even as everything behind the scenes is dismal and all too real.

The carnies bark their persuasions to "Come win a prize!" to the passersby even as they know the odds are definitely against those who are willing to give up their money to try to get a bullseye in a moving target or land a ring around a stick. They all know it's just a game. 

Here in carnie world, there is no topic or news so serious, even life altering, that cannot be interrupted by a commercial or a plea for funding. Example: the serious talking head reports a horrific school shooting, then the same voice shifts to a lighter tone to talk about a new product that will make your life so much easier.

Online sites offer information then either interrupt with a pop up window to ask you to subscribe to the site. "If you appreciate this work, donate today!" "We cannot keep doing this important mission without your help!" "My work is completely sponsor supported!"  

For me, the worst of the worst, are those who have turned Christianity into a lucrative business. Crazy me, somehow I do not think that is what Christ had in mind when He told the wealthy man to give up all he owned and follow Him.  Matthew 19:16-30

I have a lifelong memory from my youth of being with my mother as she ironed my father's dress shirts. I was occupied drawing, as I usually did, and she was listening to a broadcast on the radio. It was a preacher she liked, Brother Lester Roloff, who seemed to be a good man, at least in his down to earth preaching and missions.

On that day, however, he spent the entire 30 minutes weeping and begging for donations. He pleaded that he would be taken off the air if he did not raise a specific amount of money. 

As the sermon ended, without looking up I said, "If he preached about Jesus he wouldn't have to beg for money."  

After a long pause, I felt a sensation that my mother had stopped ironing so I glanced up to see her stunned expression looking down at me. Then she said, almost under her breath, "Out of the mouths of babes." I had no idea what that meant, at the time. 

Of course, as I grew up and read the words in Scripture, the moment was etched in my memory as it all came together. I think it established a boundary for me. Whenever I see humans, declaring themselves to be champions and bearers of the Gospel, even as they pause their mission to sell their products, books, CDs and art, as they amass great wealth in the process, I have to wonder what Jesus thinks. 

So, what brought all this to mind? 

I receive emails, multiple times a day, from all sorts of people whose words and thoughts I am interested in. Some are political, some are religious, most are doing what they do as their livelihoods. I guess I get that they solicit me for donations, on average, sometimes more than they give me information. Like all other citizens of the Matrix and visitor to the carnival, I find I am immune to the common phrases used to entice me to give up some of my money, which is a big tell in and of itself.

Recently I read a lengthy report recalling multiple miracles of Divine Intervention in an American Native Reservation due to the fervent prayers of several simple women. Fires, tornadoes out of nowhere, lightening strikes, all destroying properties of drug cartels, thus answering their prayers for God to “Command the works of the enemy to be destroyed.”

At the end of the collection of stories, the author concluded with  his plea for support of his ministry. Apparently they were $40,000 short of their 'goal'.

Talk about a buzz kill.

I could not help but recall that day I said a few words that struck my mother so profoundly, that caused her to see a tough truth as well as plant in me the seeds of critical discernment.

I wondered if the man who wrote the article about all those inexplicable miracles had not thought to get those women to pray for funding as well, would he have needed to beg for money from strangers?

I know that God wants His own to participate, to step up and be willing to put even our lives on the line for Him, but where is the line drawn between praying for His intervention, support and protection and turning the mission into a profitable business?

Since I cannot answer that, I can only ask that God guide me to to know the difference between His missions and man's missions. 

For Him,

Meema

Handbasket Meet Hell

 Two unrelated but somehow scarily correlated images came up yesterday. One looked like a replay of a 1938 celebration of the Third Reich. The other confirmed that the war with dark principalities is no longer a vague spiritual concept.

Though I don't wish to be a Debbie Downer, but I have to warn anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear we have reached a critical point where evil isn't hiding in the shadows anymore. Whereas evil adores itself and cannot resist hiding in plain sight with cryptic symbolism,  it seems a door has opened enough to allow the dark imagery and smarmy messaging of minions of satan to gleefully announce their agenda.

How many ways and times can I say, the day does come? Evil has officially risen to a peak of desperate all out push to overcome and erase God's creation. And, I might add, for the record, God is allowing it, for His purpose. 

Seems to me that time has speeded up too - for the elect's sake? I always wondered what that meant - now I think I know - it means what was a slow sneaky slide is now an unstoppable all out rush to completion. 

So, seems like the day has also come to choose whom you will serve. 

For Him,

Meema

Disney goes full out satanism. Watch the trailer but also be sure to watch the second clip to see the performers revel in the chance to give paganism a place at the table. 

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/disney-embraces-satan-in-new-show-little-demon/

Even so, come Lord Jesus. 

The Dark War

 

On April 3, 1965 a Paul Harvey 'The Rest of The Story' segment was broadcast on ABC Radio titled If I Were The Devil. His clever presentation ,through the viewpoint of satan, gave us some eerily accurate prognostications.

First, imagine how different culture was 57 years ago, (excluding the evil things going on even then that we were too naive to envision). And yet Paul Harvey could see ahead to the unimaginable that is now our current reality.

In April 1965 I don't specifically recall hearing this broadcast when I was a month away from turning 18, but I'd have to guess I would have tucked it away rather than dismiss it altogether, given I have history with end days predictions, but still when you are 18 you want to move forward hoping for the best. 

However, as sobering as his words were, for all the things beyond conceivable in 1965, Paul Harvey could not have foreseen so much more that satan had planned. 

Like, for example, including but not limited to:

Men who claim to be women are celebrated and deemed acceptable to compete in women's sports and are permitted to walk about naked in showers and locker rooms in front of real women. Even as some men are arrested for indecent exposure. Classic modern hypocrisy; this is okay but this is not, even though it is the same.

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As bad as this is, even more unthinkable, those who dare to speak out about this insanity are threatened with jail time because it's against the law - or something. Apparently the term 'Hate Speech' can only be defined by certain privileged/woke members of modern society. Thus, if someone claims someone else has hurt his/her/its feelings, that offender ought to go to jail.  

I have to bet not even Paul Harvey saw that coming.

Though he did predict that the concept of marriage would be tossed aside he attributed that to the new societal preference for indiscriminate uncommitted sex. He couldn't forecast the underlying darker agenda for decimation of the family unit which has slowly evolved to ending human reproduction. The less people the better ...to save the earth..or something.  

It would have been a huge leap for him to predict that human fetuses, once considered to be the miracle of life, would be redefined as a clump of cells and therefore not human and more like an invasive tumor that should be removed for the sake of women's health. 

I also very much doubt he could have predicted that parents would allow their young children to be exposed to Drag Queen shows, and taught how to pole dance for dollars. 

Even as I fully recognize the dark agenda to promote the wholesale reordering and disassembling of the sanctity of life, I find it incomprehensible that medical professionals are eager and willing to mutilate young children in the name of gender identity.  

And, tell me how this is not considered child abuse? 

Harvey foretold that teaching 'feelings' over common sense would be adopted but could he have known that parents would be declared 'Domestic Terrorists' for daring to object to pornographic books allowed in school libraries or the teaching of controversial/political doctrines that undermine and seek to decimate the principles that founded this country?

It's not likely he could have known about the coming revolution in worldwide instant communication via the yet to be implemented Internet and cell phones and social media (the second beast in Revelation 13?) so it's not likely he could have foreseen the exponential rise in narcissism that is like a cancer destroying us with the religion of worship of the god of SELF.

So, how could he have known that it would take less than 60 years for:

• Everything to be interpreted by and through sex, as morality, decency and self-accountability is deemed old fashioned and thus abandoned

• Lies to be more readily believed than truth

• Illusion accepted as better than reality 

• Science redefined to explain the preferred illusion as unquestionable

• Definitions constantly changed to accommodate lies

• Mental illness/insanity embraced as 'diversity, inclusion and equity'

• Criminals excused and released without bail as their victims are ignored and/or vilified

• Rampant open use of lethal illegal drugs, promoted and provided by government even as billions of tax dollars have been spent on the 'War on Drugs'

• Corporations assuming political positions and therefore not caring that they alienate potential customers/clients so long as they are seen as virtuous by those in power

• The rise of a global dictatorship operating disguised as 'democracy' in keeping with the new world order of lies more acceptable than truth to a now sufficiently dumbed down population. 

How ironically predictive and sadly true that Paul Harvey's foresight and wisdom would never be allowed to be broadcast by any modern media today. He would be cancelled, banned by Facebook and Twitter as hate speech/disinformation and perhaps even jailed, never to be heard from again. 

And the devil smiles bigly - for now.

For Him,

Meema

Headlines from 2022 that would shock even Paul Harvey