Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Appointed time

I give a few verses with minimal comment to demonstrate that these points are Biblical, but they are also inferential. If you don’t want to receive it that is fine.
  1. It is very likely that the rapture will be on an appointed day
  2. It is likely that the appointed day will be a full moon
  3. It is unlikely that this appointed day would be one of the appointed feasts in Leviticus.
  4. It is likely that the official religious calendars will be wrong.
  5. Not only so but it is likely the official calendars will be giving dates that are too early, rather than too late.
There is a time appointed for everything

Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under heaven—

Psalm 102:13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion, For it is time to be gracious and show favor to her; Yes, the appointed time [the moment designated] has come.

Jeremiah 5:24 ‘They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear and worship the Lord our God [with profound awe and reverence], Who gives rain in its season, Both the autumn and the spring rain, Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest.”

Daniel 8:19 He said, “Behold, I am going to let you know what will happen during the final time of the indignation and wrath [of God upon the ungodly], for it concerns the appointed time of the end.

Daniel 11:27 And as for both of these kings, their hearts will be set on doing evil; they will speak lies over the same table, but it will not succeed, for the end is yet to come at the appointed time.

Habakkuk 2:3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed [future] time It hurries toward the goal [of fulfillment]; it will not fail. Even though it delays, wait [patiently] for it, Because it will certainly come; it will not delay.

Many are examining the appointed days to see when the rapture is. There is an appointed time for everything and as these verses demonstrate that certainly applies to the end of the age.

Appointed Day = Full Moon

Proverbs 7:18 “Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us console and delight ourselves with love. 19 “For my husband is not at home. He has gone on a long journey; 20 He has taken a bag of money with him, And he will come home on the appointed day.”

The word translated as “the appointed day” literally means Full Moon. Many, but not all of the festival days took place on a full moon. Many use this verse as a reference to the Lord’s return at the end of the age.

Rapture will involve weeping and gnashing of teeth for the hypocrites

Matthew 24:50 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, 51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Luke 12:45 But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful.

Compare these verses with the verse in Proverbs depicting a hypocrite that is caught cheating at the Lord’s return. We are told that the Lord will return on a full moon, and even the cheater knows this, but it isn’t the day that they expect. Does He return a month earlier than expected? No, it says the servant thinks “My Lord delayeth His coming”, so He comes a month later than expected.

Judgement is done on an appointed Day

Matthew 8:29 And they screamed out, “What business do we have [in common] with each other, Son of God? Have You come to torment us before the appointed time [of judgment]?”

Acts 12:21 On an appointed day Herod dressed himself in his royal robes, sat on his throne (tribunal, rostrum) and began delivering a speech to the people.

Acts 17:31 because He has set a day when He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed and destined for that task, and He has provided credible proof to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

1Corinthians 4:5 So do not go on passing judgment before the appointed time, but wait until the Lord comes, for He will both bring to light the [secret] things that are hidden in darkness and disclose the motives of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.

The rapture is a judgement. If you win a gold medal at the Olympics that is a judgement. If you are disqualified for cheating that also is a judgement. The rapture is not just the firstfruits being caught up to God but also Satan and His angels being judged and cast out of heaven. That takes place on an appointed time of judgement.

The word is made known and revealed at an appointed time

Titus 1:3 and at the appointed time has made known His word and revealed it as His message, through preaching, which was entrusted to me according to the command of God our Savior

Genesis 18:14 Is anything too difficult or too wonderful for the Lord? At the appointed time, when the season [for her delivery] comes, I will return to you and Sarah will have a son.”

We should not be surprised that things that were not revealed to previous generations is now being revealed, this is according to God’s word and is the fulfillment of prophecy.

Leviticus gives us the appointed times of the Lord

Leviticus 23:37 ‘These are the appointed times (established feasts) of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and a grain offering, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day.

Because of this people have examined the feasts in Leviticus for the appointed time for the rapture. However, we are told clearly those are the appointed times of the Lord. We are also told that the Lord would come at a time the hypocrites would not expect, and surely the hypocrites would expect one of these feast days. We are also told that no one knows the day or the hour and yet everyone knows these appointed times. It may be that the rapture of Israel as a nation does take place at one of these times, and if it does then I would say Trumpets is my best guess as Passover and Shavuot have already been fulfilled for Israel and what they are really focused on is the coming of the King to set up the messianic kingdom.

The Jews are able to establish for themselves appointed times

Esther 9:27 the Jews established and made it a custom for themselves and for their descendants and for all who joined them, so that they would not fail to celebrate these two days as it was written and at the appointed time annually.

Although there are many appointed days given to us in Leviticus, other appointed days were also made in the Bible.
 

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Lamentations 5:1-22 Be a man!

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

My prayer is that the believers would remember the word of the Lord. There is nothing that has come upon us that is worse than what came upon the Lord Jesus and the apostles. This word has been fully tested by reproach. Paul said that they were the offscouring of all things.

2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

My prayer is that the believers would stop loving the world and all that is in it. Jesus Christ is our inheritance and is kept in the heavens for us where thieves cannot break into or steal. Our house is the house of God, the church, it will not be given to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless;
Our mothers are as widows.

My prayer is that you would see that all the brothers and sisters in the church are your brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers.

4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Come buy water without money, stop gathering water into broken cisterns.

5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Turn to the Lord, be filled with His word, there is a blessing that two will chase ten thousand.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

The Lord was bruised because of our iniquity, focus on the crucified Christ who was scourged and crucified and you will be healed by his stripes. Add the cross to your bitter water and it will be made sweet.

8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Stop being a wimp, be a man, you are here because you were always trusting in someone else to deliver you, it is time for you to stand and having done all to stand. Embrace the Lord and you will learn that the Lord is with you to deliver.

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

We have been dealing with criminals in the streets through all generations.

10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

There is a famine for the word of God. It is real and it is not some phony spiritual famine. If you look at the history of men of faith everything begins with the word of God, they can survive incredible deprivations like what we saw with the Pilgrims or at Valley Forge, etc. You begin with the word of God and then you can learn exactly how little you can survive on and how much you can help and depend on one another.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Are you talking about Drag Queens doing story hour to preschoolers? Are you talking about these men who identify as women walking around naked in women’s locker rooms? Where did you think all this was heading? Surely you didn’t think that handing out condoms to fifth graders was “cute”?

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Once again, lift up Jesus on the cross, look at Him, they spit on Him, they gave him vinegar to drink, they mocked Him, put a crown of thorns on Him.

13 The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.

Having elders in the gate and music for young men is the fruit of the labor of your fathers and mothers. You despised them, you ignored the stories about the great depression, so now is your turn to do the hard work, but thank God you have a vision of the society you want to bring in.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

You forsook the God of your salvation, return to Him, He will lift you up and then you will surely be able to rejoice and dance and sing.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Stop being a wimp, you have been knocked down, get back up.

17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

The mountain of Zion is desolate because all those who were there have been raptured and gathered to the Lord. Now it is your turn to ascend that mountain.

19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

There you go, that is the revelation that you need, the God of the previous generation is also the God of this generation. He saved them, He’ll save you. Stop thinking that no one else has ever suffered like you.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

“So long time?” Really? If you are left behind after the rapture at most you have 3 ½ years of tribulation. That is a momentary lightness of affliction when compared to the eternal weight of glory.

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.

My goodness, what a bunch of wimps. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes on Him should not perish. How do you say that He has “utterly rejected” you? He told you that you must take up your cross and follow Him, you rejected that word.
 

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When Washington Became president he consecrated this country to God saying if we honored this consecration we would blessed but if we broke it we would be cursed. The ground of consecration was the same place where Washington was inaugurated, a small church in downtown Manhattan. When the twin towers came down all the building around were damaged except for that small church. A sycamore tree protected the church from being destroyed. That was a harbinger, a warning to us to return to God. This country has not returned to God they have become more belligerent, more arrogant, more obstinate than ever. Since then there have been very many warnings, no longer for this country to turn back but more for any that fear the Lord to stand back so that when the judgement of God falls they do not perish with the wicked.

 

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Hebrews 2 -- How shall we escape?

1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.


“Drift away”. You have to carefully tie up your boat to the dock or to the mooring, otherwise it will “drift away”. Sometimes we are wide awake at the helm sailing our boat, but other times we are asleep and at those times we need to pay careful attention that we don’t “drift away”.

2 For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.


How shall we escape? Our great salvation includes everything in the old creation perishing and being rolled up like an old garment. It also includes the enemies of Jesus Christ being made into a beautiful foot stool. Our gospel includes this, that the end of the age will see these things take place. So then, how do we escape? The rapture is referred to as our escape. The greek word actually means to be snatched away right before destruction. You would use this word to describe snatching someone out of the way of an oncoming train. So then, how exactly do we escape? Do we invest in gold? Do we get a rifle and learn to hunt? I have heard messages where they go from discussing the end of the age to the need to invest in gold and silver! That is what it means to “ignore so great a salvation”.

4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

It is miraculous to think we will be saved by this “rapture”. However, God has testified to us that this is the case. The Lord’s resurrection is referred to as “the firstfruits” and the rapture is referred to as “the harvest”. Crossing the Red Sea is a miracle showing that God can snatch up the entire nation of Israel from the clutches of the Egyptian army. That is how Israel escaped Egypt. The book of Esther also describes how Israel escaped the clutches of the evil Haman. If you look and pay attention you will find God testifying again and again concerning how we shall escape. Don’t ignore this testimony.

5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.


We are going to be kings and priests to God in this world to come. That is why we cannot ignore this salvation, if we do we won’t be ready, we won’t be prepared.

6 But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? 7 You made them a little lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor 8 and put everything under their feet.”


Isn’t that amazing? Right now there are tens of millions of Americans concerned about the election fraud. But it seems like the “powers that be” are doing everything they can to ignore them. Mainstream media won’t cover them, the Tech giants are censoring them, and the politicians are mouthing the words but not walking the walk. The lesson here is that everything is under our feet, not theirs. Would the “Tech giants” be giants if 70 million Americans ceased to use their services? Would the mainstream media continue to be the “mainstream” media if 70 million Americans ceased to listen to them? Could the US government continue to stand if 70 million Americans ignored these politicians the way they are ignoring them? “A house divided cannot stand”.

In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.

That is nice talk but we don’t see it. Of course if we look back at our history with the revolutionary war we can see it. We can see a rag tag group of settlers who were made lower than the superpower of the day, and yet everything was under their feet. They had to stand by faith, but they did. We saw this with Gandhi as well. We saw this with the church in the age of the apostles.

9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.


Oh yeah, we also see Jesus. This was just one man objecting to the unrighteousness of the times. He was made lower than all those kings and rulers. And yet, we are still here two thousand years later looking at Jesus while all those other “rulers” have become dust and gone into the ash heap of history.

10 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.

Can we please pay attention to this verse? Our great salvation includes us being brought into the glory of the Son of God. Yes He was resurrected, but He was also crucified and that crucifixion didn’t condemn Him, it condemned those that crucified Him. That is a path that Jesus pioneered for us. That is how our salvation is made perfect. That is how everything is put under our feet even though we are made lower than all these rulers and leaders.

11 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.


When we are raptured it is not in shame, in defeat. The Lord’s resurrection was victory over death, victory over the grave. We are going to share that glory, we will be part of the same family.

12 He says, “I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises.”


We will be the family of the resurrected ones, the family of the victorious ones.

13 And again, “I will put my trust in him.”


We will be the family of those who trust in God.

And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.”


We will be the Lord’s family.

14 Since the children have flesh and blood,he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

The only power these ones have over us is the power of death. If we are the family of the resurrected ones, the ones who have conquered death and the grave, then what power do they have over us?

16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 17 For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

So, once again we come back to this question, “how shall we escape?” The same way Jesus did. He is with us to help us take up our cross and follow Him on this path He has pioneered.
 

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Exposing the lies

A year ago saying the Vaccinated can spread COVID was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying the Vaccinated are susceptible to new variants and reinfection was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying the Vaccine can cause blood clots was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying there would be a third and fourth shot was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying there would be new shots every year/half year was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying there would be shots for young people was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying there would be a total segregation of the society was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying there would be camps for the unvaccinated was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying the unvaccinated would be unable to work was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying there would be harder access of medical care for the unvaccinated was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.

A year ago saying there were secret contracts between Pfizer and the governments was called a hoax, today we know it is truth.
 

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Proverbs 17:1-5 Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.[1] It may evoke changes in them such as cognitive dissonance or low self-esteem, rendering the victim additionally dependent on the gaslighter for emotional support and validation. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's beliefs.

Instances can range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents occurred, to belittling the victim's emotions and feelings, to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim. The goal of gaslighting is to gradually undermine the victim's confidence in their own ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or reality from delusion, thereby rendering the individual or group pathologically dependent on the gaslighter for their thinking and feelings.

Signs and methods[edit]
As described by Patricia Evans, seven "warning signs" of gaslighting are the observed abuser's:[25]

  1. Withholding information from the victim;
  2. Countering information to fit the abuser's perspective;
  3. Discounting information;
  4. Using verbal abuse, usually in the form of jokes;
  5. Blocking and diverting the victim's attention from outside sources;
  6. Trivializing ("minimising") the victim's worth; and,
  7. Undermining the victim by gradually weakening them and their thought processes.
1 Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.

This is the fork in the road, this is your choice in the election. You can have a dry crust of bread with peace and quiet or you can have a house full of feasting with strife. However, they will withhold the information about the strife and make the choice “dry crust of bread or house full of feasting”. When the more prudent and wise point out the risk of strife they will discount that. We had the perfect example in this last election. Salaries will go up, everyone gets free medical care, we’ll get rid of the pandemic and the rich will pay for everything. You were promised a house full of feasting. But when you arrive to celebrate this new regime what do you see? A total lockdown of the city, 25,000 troops stationed in Washington DC, fences and barbed wire. The border is thrown open with a crisis down there. They bust the budget with $6 trillion in spending and they are just getting started. You were told you would get $2,000 on day one, then you were told that this included the $600 you already got, and then you learned that many people were exempt (it is now April and I have not received anything). Meanwhile they are already pushing the biggest tax hike in US history.

2 A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

Wisdom and prudence will trump your birthright. The US has a birthright, but if you behave disgracefully you can be replaced by those countries who are currently your “servant” because they are prudent and wise.

3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

How many times have I heard that “the Lord is in control”. Yes, the Lord is in control of the furnace and He is testing your heart. Are you going to behave disgracefully, are you going to allow yourself to be gaslit?

4 A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

I talked to a con man once and this was his strategy. Wicked people listen to deceitful lips. He wanted wicked people as his clients because once they had been conned they wouldn’t sue him. If you reel them in with a temptation to do something wicked, in order to testify against you in court they will have to reveal this.

5 Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.

Again, go back to what gaslighting is. They verbally abuse the victims. You were a victim due to your own stupidity, not due to their corruption and evil intent. Many who were conned during the mortgage meltdown blamed themselves, their own stupidity. That is true, they did make a mistake, but it doesn’t absolve the lawyers and bankers who violated their fiduciary responsibility. Why does Clinton call the Trump supporters “deplorable” why does Biden call them “chumps”. They are mocking them. Clinton said they were “irredeemable”. She is showing contempt for their maker. They gloated over the riot at the capitol because it gave them an excuse to blame these people appealing for justice while at the same time denying them justice. They will not go unpunished.
 

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Proverbs 17:6-13 Gaslighting, continued.

6 Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.


A peace treaty with Israel, a successful economy, a successful trade agreement, better border security and three pro life judges. These are the “children” of the last administration. It is their crown. The people who showed pride in Trump were accused of being cultic. Again, it was gaslighting because what were Biden’s children? He put forth the crime bill, worst bill for the inner city ever by a wide margin. He was against integration of the schools. He gave the eulogy at the most prominent KKK member in the US senate. Kamala Harris is the direct descendant of a slave holder.

7 Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler!


Gaslighting is the equivalent of lying lips to a ruler. In order to gaslight you have to be in charge. You have to be able to withhold information, counter information, discount information, speak abusively and derisively. Damage their self esteem, mock the victims, trivialize what happened, etc. For example Schwarzneggar likened to the riot at the Capitol to the night of broken glass. The night of broken glass was when the Nazi government falsely accused a “common man” of a crime that they themselves had perpetrated and then used that excuse to go on a rampage against Jewish businesses, breaking their storefront windows. In this analogy the leaders of the US government who were “outraged” at what took place would be equivalent to the Nazi’s and their use of this as an excuse to go after all those appealing for justice would be equivalent to the Nazi’s going after the Jews. The night of broken glass was an example of gaslighting. Was Schwarznegger trying to tip us off to this without getting attacked by those in power, or was it a false comparison? Hard to say.

8 A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it; they think success will come at every turn.


The Tech giants provided hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to swing the election. They were like snake charmers thinking they could create an alternate reality. Gaslighting may be done by those in charge but it is paid for with bribes. However, look at how arrogant they are. They think they can cancel their biggest and best accounts. Without a doubt Trump and the thousands of accounts that have been suspended or permanently removed from Twitter and Facebook were the most active. They involve a hundred million subscribers who actively viewed and retweeted the posts. That is 50% of Twitters users. You have to be very arrogant to think you can kick 50% of your customers out. Look at the big box stores who are kicking Mike Lindell’s pillows out of their stores. These companies are on the brink of collapse with the pandemic and people avoiding malls. They will now, on top of everything else, incur a loss of 50% of their customers. This is just idiotic. AOC calls people to cancel Goya and the next month Goya names her the #1 salesperson.

9 Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.

We have watched this for many years now. The reporting of the “news” is no longer a fair accounting of all the news that’s fit to print. No, now it is all the stories that can “separate close friends”. Stories are pretend with innuendo, and design so that people would believe the worst and assume the worst. For three months we heard that Trump would use the military to prevent Biden from taking office. It was horrific. He incited violence by telling people to peacefully make their voices heard. He was in the oval office plotting insurrection. Now that this has been shown to be completely false do they apologize, do they hold the people who had an agenda to stir up the American people with these stories accountable? Nope.

10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person more than a hundred lashes a fool.


What is happening in this country is a rebuke to the Christians. We allowed this. It didn’t happen overnight. We slept while this crept in.

11 Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death will be sent against them.

Make no mistake, what is going on is rebellion against God. It is not about Trump, it is not about Republicans. This is all about people who are pro life, pro Bible, pro God, pro worship, pro Church. The messenger of death was sent to Pharaoh at the Passover. Today the Pandemic is the "messenger of death". The evidence is coming in that this pandemic was created in a bioweapons lab in Wuhan with one overarching goal in mind: give the crooks power. By destroying the world's economy it was the only way they would defeat Trump during the election. Creating a pandemic passport will increase their ability to track every person on this planet. They may have already had this power but it couldn't be used in court, the passport can.

12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.


Listen to the Left after their “election victory”. Openly proclaiming the need for blacklists, to make sure no one who supported the other candidate ever works again, doxing people, calling for re education camps, censorship and book burning. These are fools bent on folly.

13 Evil will never leave the house of one who pays back evil for good.


I think the whole country realizes this second impeachment is just despicable and in their heart they know that doing this is not the end, it is the beginning. Evil will never leave the house after this.
 

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Proverbs 17:14-26 Gaslighting part 3

14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.

What do we mean “pay back evil for good”. Biden was confirmed despite lots of evidence and lots of appeals for an audit of the election. All the appeals were ignored and denied. This was like a dam full of offenses, yet the people were orderly, respectful and law abiding. But you don’t stop there, you now want to remove Trump from office on January 25th? He left office five days ago? You are accusing him of inciting a riot on January 6th by his speech even though the evidence is overwhelming that the people who breached the capitol arrived before Trump began speaking and that they had planned this for the previous five days. Yet you want to start a quarrel with the impeachment? You are like an idiot dynamiting a dam.

15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent—the Lord detests them both.


We have seen both. The best example is the first impeachment. Why did they impeach Trump? He called the Ukraine about investigating possible corruption by the company that Hunter Biden served on the Board. According to the law the president is obligated to do this since they were the recipients of foreign aid from the US. The trial proved he was innocent. However, at the time of the trial the FBI had a laptop belonging to Hunter that proved he was guilty of corruption. Has the FBI been brought to justice? No. Hunter Biden is being acquitted by the media and Trump was condemned. We see the same thing with the January 6th investigation, we have video evidence of a central figure instigating the attack on the Capital who is still not in custody meanwhile we have grandmothers and other trivila characters who have been prosecuted or kept in solitary confinement for almost a year.

16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?


There are five tech giants who have acted like fools. Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook. They have money, lots of it, yet they have completely acted like fools and will cause their own demise. Why? This is just what Caleb said, “these giants are our food”. Their foolishness opens the door for competitors like Parler and Rumble to take their place. As they go bankrupt they’ll have to sell off assets at a significant discount, again “our food”. Don't forget, the definition of a fool is someone who does not fear God. Only a fool would think they could act with impunity and their customers serve them and not the other way around.

17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.


I have seen Mike Lindell attacked by this cancel culture and people around the country respond, like his brother, born for adversity. As they cut off his ability to sell in stores they have gone to the internet and swamped him with orders. His business will thrive while all those companies that kicked him out will ultimately go bankrupt. Then Mike Lindell will replace “Bed Bath and Beyond” with “My Pillow”. They are his food.

18 One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor.


Get rid of the legal protection of the tech giants from liability. You have no sense allowing Iran, ISIS and pedophiles to post on these platforms and the companies have no liability. They can censor whatever they want and they have no liability. The only option is to smash these companies into tiny pieces.

19 Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin; whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.


It is stunning to me the provocative things that are said to invite a quarrel. Generally an outrageous comment that we might have expected once a year from some radical nut job, now we get them every day from elected officials. They liken 75 million Americans that voted for the Republican presidential candidate to “ISIS”? They call them “domestic terrorists”. This can only mean they love a quarrel. The tech giants have built a high gate trying to destroy any business other than their little club. They are inviting destruction. The entire world sees what they are doing and is trying to get out of their prison. At exactly the same time the rest of the multinational corporations are coming to appreciate the world market these companies are displaying to the rest of the world that they cannot be trusted.

20 One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper; one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.


Twitter has recently been sued for violating laws about child pornography. I read the lawsuit today and it shows a company that is corrupt and perverse. CNN has had two top level producers charged with pedophilia. We have the perverseness of their lips on tape.

21 To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.


Imagine you were an investor in one of these tech giants, perhaps a fund manager or a pension manager. As you watch their downfall it will bring you grief. There is no joy in watching their self destruction.

22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. 23 The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.


Facebook paid $400 million in bribes to election officials to pervert the course of justice during the election. We have just learned that this pandemic along with the failed response is a result of bribes from the wicked.

24 A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.


Stay focused on the key issues. The first and second amendments are key issues, the constitution is a key issue. Donald Trump is not a key issue, that is a distraction. A shaman with horns in the capitol building is not the key issue, that is a distraction. Why did Pelosi put 25,000 troops in Washington DC and lock down the city? That is a key issue. Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy was seen with a flyer about insurrection, that is a distraction. Trump is plotting insurrection. Really? He left office close to a year ago, how long will you allow them to distract you with lies?

25 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.


Everything this chapter talks about is referring to a “foolish son” of the republic. They are bringing grief to the Father’s of this nation. They are bitterness to the American people. Biden made 11 major lies when talking about his orders to infringe on the rights of Americans to bear arms. This is a critical battlefield because you cannot protect the first amendment if you don't have the second amendment. Everyone who voted for Biden and defended Biden during the campaign now has to bear the grief and bitterness this godless fool has brought.

26 If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good, surely to flog honest officials is not right.


We see this as well. Honest officials who stood up for righteousness, and now they want them removed from office, they threaten their families, they “flog them on the Main Stream media”. CNN recently posted a video attempting to smear Governor Desantis. They edited out key portions of the video to make him look bad. But think of who is suffering. Two of CNN's producers have had to resign due to charges of pedophilia, their number 1 anchor has had to resign due to ethics violation, and Brian Stelter isn't even able to crack the top 200 cable TV shows. His ratings are below reruns of cartoons.
 

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Proverbs 17:27-28 Words of restraint and understanding

27 The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.

So these ones who are not restrained, they apparently do not have knowledge. Likening the protestors on January 6 to Nazi’s, likening Republican voters to ISIS. There is no restraint in that speech. They are trying to create an alternate reality, but this will now collapse. They are in power, they control the legislative and executive branches of government. They will own everything that they do and those who chose a house full of feasting with strife, they will regret what they have chosen.

But what about us? Use words of restraint, don't get riled up and accuse others of all kinds of things. They may just be asleep, occupied with other things, and not paying attention. Know this, Facebook is well connected to the Biden administration and they definitely want to round up people and punish them for disagreeing with them. One man posted something on Facebook where he disagreed with something AOC said and the police came and knocked on his door to question him. Georgia passed election integrity laws that will make it harder to steal the next election, they punished them by pulling the All Star game, that could easily cost them $100 million in lost business. The goal is to open people's eyes without giving an excuse for those who are foaming at the mouth to bite you.

28 Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.


Be careful what you post online. Be prudent, be wise, but don’t be a coward. Don’t be disgraceful. Don’t be spineless. Walk the narrow path that leads to life.
 

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Isaiah 1 The Vision of Isaiah

1 The vision of [the prophet] Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning [the kingdom of] Judah and [its capital] Jerusalem, which he saw [as revealed by God] during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth; For the Lord has spoken: “I have reared and brought up sons, But they have rebelled against Me and have broken away. 3 “The ox [instinctively] knows its owner, And the donkey its master’s feeding trough, But Israel does not know [Me as Lord], My people do not understand.” 4 Ah, sinful nation, A people loaded down with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing], Offspring of evildoers, Sons who behave corruptly! They have abandoned (rejected) the Lord, They have despised the Holy One of Israel [provoking Him to anger], They have turned away from Him.

Do you see this vision? God’s people have rebelled against Him, He is being blamed all over the world for the abuses of His people. Imagine that the US and Israel consider themselves to be the people of God and yet they are conducting all kinds of evil, perhaps the CIA is known as the Cocaine Importing Agency among these third world nations, or perhaps they know that their media is censored, their government is a puppet and if a leader tries to defy them then they will get assassinated. Imagine they go to war with these countries for contrived reasons, accusing them of weapons that are not there or crimes they didn’t commit, but the real reason is to seize their oil and natural resources. These people all over the world are raising their voices to God concerning these people who bear His name.

5 Why should you be stricken and punished again [since no change results from it]?


Now imagine that this same country like the US had previously been severely punished for their crimes and abuses of slavery. That Civil War was the most grievous punishment, you would have thought that would have been enough. But they were also severely punished for their financial crimes with the Great depression. At some point these punishments are just not getting the message across.

You [only] continue to rebel. The whole head is sick And the whole heart is faint and sick. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head There is nothing healthy in the nation’s body, Only bruises, welts, and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged, Nor softened with oil [as a remedy].

We like to think of the US as being wealthy and a superpower. Yet our inner cities are a crying shame. We often will cite that our public school system is ranked 28th in the world, but that is a gross mischaracterization because public schools in the suburbs are significantly better, probably ranking in the top ten. So if you look specifically at the public schools in the inner city they are much, much worse than 28th. In most countries the public schools perform at about the same level throughout the country but not in the US. You have suburban schools that rank very high, almost as good as any schools in the world, likewise with the private schools that the elite send their kids to, meanwhile the inner city schools are extremely poor, often as poor as some poverty stricken third world nations.

7 Your land lies desolate [because of your disobedience], Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your very presence; It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

If you couldn’t see it before surely you can see it now. The people responsible for this know that they can never win another election without fraud, so they have thrown the border open to millions of people and they will take care of them with tax dollars (your money) in exchange for them to vote for those who are paying them. In short “strangers are devouring your cities in your very presence”. What an insult.

8 The Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) is left like a [deserted] shelter in a vineyard,
Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city [isolated, surrounded by devastation].

We heard elitists like Don Lemon saying there was no big surge in violence because he didn’t see it when he went out to eat. Then they had a shooting at a baseball game where the CNN reporters were and they had a shooting in a wealthy neighborhood where CNN anchors were eating and all of a sudden they could see it. People living in the inner city have seen it for decades, yet those in charge ignored this as long as it didn’t affect their gated communities.

9 If the Lord of hosts Had not left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

That is right, Isaiah is the prophet that gives us a vision of what it is like prior to the first rapture. The rapture is likened to the days of Noah and to the days of Lot. The only thing that keeps the US from becoming Sodom and Gomorrah are a few "survivors". A survivor is one who has learned from experience to obey the Lord.
 

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Judgement is coming on NYC


Did NYC legalize abortion right up to the time of birth? Did they really celebrate this? Judgement is coming. These vaccine mandates are God giving the final warning to "come out of her my people".
 

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Isaiah 1:10- 17 God Has Had Enough

10 Hear the word of the Lord [rulers of Jerusalem], You rulers of [another] Sodom, Listen to the law and instruction of our God, You people of [another] Gomorrah. 11 “What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me [without your repentance]?” Says the Lord. “I have had enough of [your] burnt offerings of rams And the fat of well-fed cattle [without your obedience]; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls or lambs or goats [offered without repentance]. 12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who requires this of you, this trampling of My [temple] courts [by your sinful feet]? 13 “Do not bring worthless offerings again, [Your] incense is repulsive to Me; [Your] New Moon and Sabbath [observances], the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing] and [the squalor of] the festive assembly. 14 “I hate [the hypocrisy of] your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 “So when you spread out your hands [in prayer, pleading for My help], I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you offer many prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood! 16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Get your evil deeds out of My sight. Stop doing evil, 17 Learn to do good. Seek justice, Rebuke the ruthless, Defend the fatherless, Plead for the [rights of the] widow [in court].

This requires some explanation because it appears they are offering sacrifices to God, so why is this so noxious to God? Let me share what I saw while teaching in Brooklyn. The school was shut down because it was so dangerous with crime and violence and they then reopened it but broke it into five small schools. That was when I came to the school, it was the second year of this brand new school. Our kids were performing at the very bottom of the city, so among inner city schools which as a whole is performing very poor our particular school was at the very bottom of this. However, our principal had a vision, she hired very good teachers and little by little we climbed the mountain. Over about ten years we moved from the bottom 25% of NYC to the top 25%. Some of our classes were scoring in the top 10%. So just understand the picture, the school is seeking justice, rebuking the ruthless, defending the fatherless and pleading the rights of the widow. Then they gave the school about $500,000 in new furniture. Basically they took our desks that did not have any issue with them and replaced them with triangle desks. These desks are useless unless you put them together with other desks. So by doing this they forced every teacher in every class to put two kids together at a single desk or better yet four kids together. This is like having a very successful track team and they come in and require that from now on you run your races as a three legged team. Now why would they do this? One reason is that the company that sold the $500,000 worth of furniture got a huge contract. No doubt we were not the only school to get the furniture, for all I know the contract could have been worth $500,000,000 or more for the city. No one doubts this was payback to a donor that helped the new mayor get elected. But why target a school that was doing as well as ours? Once again that was almost certainly the reason we were targeted. The wealthy go to the suburbs so their kids get a “better” education than the inner city, if you are showing that this does not have to be the case, that the inner city can outperform the suburb on a smaller budget then that will upset many wealthy and influential people. Now you can understand why God says He won’t be listening to these fat cats making many prayers when their hands are full of blood. Every single election they tell you how they will improve the schools and how bad the schools are and how shameful it is and yet it is 100% because of them. When I saw what they did with this furniture I calculated how much it would have cost for us to really improve our school. $60,000 would have made a huge difference to our after school tutoring program. That is around 1/8th what they spent on the furniture which no one wanted and which almost certainly was a hindrance to the kids education. Now let’s consider how evil this is. During the next election the mayor will be touting how much money he was able to direct to the schools, a huge cash infusion, tax dollars that only made the city poorer while making his donors richer. They will spare no expense to make sure the inner city schools do not outperform the suburbs.