Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

2Samuel 15:1-24 -- Using “white fragility” to seize power

1 In the course of time, Absalom provided himself with a chariot and horses and with fifty men to run ahead of him.

Narcissists are very concerned with their image.

2 He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, “What town are you from?” He would answer, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.” 3 Then Absalom would say to him, “Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you.” 4 And Absalom would add, “If only I were appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that they receive justice.”

The siren song of tyrants. Making promises that they will not keep. “Your claims are valid” based on what? He is encouraging anyone to make a claim whether valid or false. We have seen a strong encouragement for blacks to claim they have been oppressed or a victim of a hate crime. Jussie Smollett is one sad example. Another is a girl who was going to Smith college. In 2018 she claimed she was a victim of a racist attack. Four employees at Smith college were fired over the incident and then were vilified and even received death threats. So what is it that they did? A custodian saw this girl in a house that was locked up for the summer and asked her what she was doing there. However, rather than explain or apologize she claimed this was a racist attack because she is black. As a result this man and three other employees who were not involved got slandered, fired, or else felt they needed to leave. This behavior is now encouraged by Joe Biden who has said people should turn in their neighbors, coworkers and family members. Perhaps the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is the best example, a 17 year old kid accused of being a white supremacist who went to a BLM rally to shoot blacks. First the only people he shot were white, second video tape evidence corroborated eye witness accounts that he was running for his life from a mob screaming to kill him. He shot people in self defense. Then they threatened the judge and the jury to get them to convict.

5 Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him. 6 Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the people of Israel.

Narcissists love people who show them honor. Anyone who is thinking rationally would see right through Abasalom, unfortunately most people only hear what they want to hear. The communists learned that giving people titles would gather all the narcissists to them. The "party members" represents 1% of the country and yet they are able to keep the 99% terrorized.

7 At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, “Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the Lord. 8 While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow: ‘If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the Lord in Hebron.’” 9 The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he went to Hebron. 10 Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron.’” 11 Two hundred men from Jerusalem had accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and went quite innocently, knowing nothing about the matter. 12 While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from Giloh, his hometown. And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept on increasing.

This is a stolen election. Again, most reasonable people would not pay any attention to this person, but in his mind being king is simply about sitting in the palace in Jerusalem. As long as he has the army to seize control of the palace he can accomplish that. We saw this with the media declaring certain states for Biden way before it made sense while refusing to call other states for Trump long after it was very obvious.

13 A messenger came and told David, “The hearts of the people of Israel are with Absalom.”

This is a kingdom, it isn’t even a democracy and yet David realizes how significant is popular opinion. Sadly for Abasalom he doesn’t really understand this. He sends the lie that “the hearts of the people are with him” but that is simply a lie. He doesn’t realize that when he tries to rule this will come back to haunt him. Where are the hearts of Americans today? All those media outlets that proclaimed Biden's victory have seen catastrophic drop in ratings. Americans think Biden has done a terrible job with the border, they are not happy with his handling of the economy. Not only so but they are now referring to the "Biden crime wave". F Joe Biden and "Let's Go Brandon" chants ring out spontaneously at large events. It is safe to say that less than 30% of the people still support Biden. It seems you can't find a single democrat that wants Joe Biden to campaign for him or even for Joe to run again. He claimed that 81 million people voted for him, but no one knows where those people are. I have found that some people will confess to having voted for Biden but regret it now.

14 Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.”

This is what a real king is concerned about. He is concerned about the people of the city and those who are with him. Sitting in the palace is trivial by comparison. This is also ironic because in the event with Bathsheba it said that it was the season when kings go out to war and yet he stayed in his palace. If he had had the same attitude then this wouldn’t have happened. We now know that the US military captured the entire election steal (the traffic between the US and China changing the votes) yet Trump chose to leave the Capital. China probably thought he would stay and trigger a civil war and chaos. By leaving the US has had a chance to realize the election was stolen and Biden is a crook.

15 The king’s officials answered him, “Your servants are ready to do whatever our lord the king chooses.”

What we are seeing right now in the US is the same as this. Biden and Harris have seized control of the “palace” and Trump has had to flee with his servants. Many have claimed that Trump had to leave otherwise these leftists would have destroyed the country claiming the pandemic required a continued lockdown. After the election they changed the protocol for testing causing the number of false positives to drop dramatically. Many, many other lies have also dripped out and one by one people are realizing they were deceived and lied to.

16 The king set out, with his entire household following him; but he left ten concubines to take care of the palace. 17 So the king set out, with all the people following him, and they halted at the edge of the city. 18 All his men marched past him, along with all the Kerethites and Pelethites; and all the six hundred Gittites who had accompanied him from Gath marched before the king. 19 The king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland. 20 You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your people with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness.” 21 But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be.” 22 David said to Ittai, “Go ahead, march on.” So Ittai the Gittite marched on with all his men and the families that were with him. 23 The whole countryside wept aloud as all the people passed by. The king also crossed the Kidron Valley, and all the people moved on toward the wilderness.

This sounds like the “Stop the Steal” rallies where tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands of people gathered to weep aloud. There are many things about David that violated God's law, Urriah the Hittite, Bathsheba, etc. His sins were transparent to the country, but he was a strong leader that kept the country in a good order. Yes we condemn sin, but it is hypocrisy for people to accuse and condemn others for the very things they are doing. We have seen this time and time again with this administration, projecting onto others their own sins.

24 Zadok was there, too, and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the city.

What many people may not know is that the Stop the Steal rally was composed of two groups, one concerned with election fraud and the other concerned with God’s will called “Jericho March”. There were many Christians who were in these marches and a number of them were strangers to America and only came recently having seen the events that were taking place. It is not just a political move but even more people of faith carrying the Lord's testimony.

and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

The Strong's Hebrew number for this word mountains is 2022, kind of interesting coincidence. This chapter surely seems to describe the plight of the Jews since the time of Ezekiel. However, pattern is prophecy, and we can see a very clear pattern of the tribulation that takes place at the end of the age.

4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

I really wanted to focus on this expression "and ye shall know that I am the Lord". If someone drops a nuke on Hiroshima you will have dead bodies, dead carcases strewn around. But that doesn't mean that anyone is going to say "Jesus is Lord". However, if you do this to God's people on the 9th of Av, that is different. This word "and ye shall know that I am the Lord' is to me a very specific word that says whatever catastrophe comes will be very specific so that backslidden Christians and Jews who have rejected the Messiah will know that Jesus is Lord. This is why the 9th of Av is so significant. It is the one day when calamity strikes the people of God that the Jews will know it was God who did it. So then during the tribulation I expect something similar to happen to the world that happened to the Jews. The Jews crucified Jesus, one third of the Godhead and as a result one third of the Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Likewise, I expect during the tribulation that one third of the world will be killed. As you have done it will be done unto you. I also expect this first strike to be on the "Christian nation", the US.

8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

After the rapture there will be many Christians who are left behind because they had worshipped idols, left the Lord, and committed abominations. However, after the rapture they will know that Jesus is Lord and that He has fulfilled His word which He promised and they can return to Him.

11 Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

This is the three horses of the apocalypse. The fourth horse, the "white horse", phony savior, that was the idol they were worshipping.

12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. 14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

The way in which this is accomplished is important so that all those who are left behind can know that this is the Lord and repent.

2Samuel 16 -- The Equality act and Ahithophel’s advice

1 When David had gone a short distance beyond the summit, there was Ziba, the steward of Mephibosheth, waiting to meet him. He had a string of donkeys saddled and loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs and a skin of wine. 2 The king asked Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.” 3 The king then asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” Ziba said to him, “He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, ‘Today the Israelites will restore to me my grandfather’s kingdom.’” 4 Then the king said to Ziba, “All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” “I humbly bow,” Ziba said. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”

We have seen something similar to this recently in our political arena, right after Trump left office high ranking republicans abandoned him. There were people who never would have been elected had Trump not helped and yet the minute he is gone they are flipping to the other side supporting his being impeached, censored, etc. They are called RINOs (Republican in Name Only).

5 As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the same clan as Saul’s family came out from there. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he cursed as he came out. 6 He pelted David and all the king’s officials with stones, though all the troops and the special guard were on David’s right and left. 7 As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel! 8 The Lord has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The Lord has given the kingdom into the hands of your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a murderer!”

We have seen this as well. The accusations that the January 6 riot was insurrection and that Trump and the Stop the Steal rally was guilty of insurrection and murder. Pelosi, Schumer and AOC would be our current version of Shimei. There are a lot of people on social media saying pretty much the same thing about Trump.

9 Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head.” 10 But the king said, “What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why do you do this?’” 11 David then said to Abishai and all his officials, “My son, my own flesh and blood, is trying to kill me. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the Lord has told him to. 12 It may be that the Lord will look upon my misery and restore to me his covenant blessing instead of his curse today.”

Many people will tell you about all of Trump’s sins. It may be that all of this that we are seeing happen is in part due to that. My understanding is that he has recently had a conversion experience. He doesn’t talk about it because he doesn’t want that to be another thing for the pundits to attack. But he seems very interested in talking to Mike Lindell about his faith and it sounded to me the way a seeker talks. Was he a sinner? Definitely, no doubt about that. Has he turned to the Lord? Don’t know, only the Lord knows that. What we do know for a fact is he has embraced many Evangelicals and stood up for things we think are right despite the political cost.

13 So David and his men continued along the road while Shimei was going along the hillside opposite him, cursing as he went and throwing stones at him and showering him with dirt. 14 The king and all the people with him arrived at their destination exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.

I like this picture. If you are taking a stand to put a stop to election fraud, or pro choice, or this equality act you will be showered with stones and dirt.

15 Meanwhile, Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. 16 Then Hushai the Arkite, David’s confidant, went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!” 17 Absalom said to Hushai, “So this is the love you show your friend? If he’s your friend, why didn’t you go with him?” 18 Hushai said to Absalom, “No, the one chosen by the Lord, by these people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and I will remain with him. 19 Furthermore, whom should I serve? Should I not serve the son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you.”

Absalom is a narcissist. If you compliment a narcissist, tell them all Israel supports you, that is something they cannot resist.

20 Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your advice. What should we do?” 21 Ahithophel answered, “Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be more resolute.” 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

This is the “Equality Act”. This act makes it the law to allow anyone who identifies as a woman to share the woman’s bathroom, the locker room, to compete on their teams, etc. It is exempt from any religious exemption, so this will apply to churches and church schools. Someone told me that a boy in high school is not going to join the girls basketball team just so he could be the star. So ask yourself, you are a good basketball player, not good enough to get a scholarship to Duke, but still quite good. However, if you “identified as a girl” you could be a star on the girls basketball team and get a full scholarship to a number of universities, the scholarship could be worth $300,000. Would some boys do that? Also suppose there was a college team, their girls’ team makes millions of dollars a year in revenue. Would they be tempted to visit some kid and tell him if he identified as a woman they would give him a full scholarship? There are people who look to make money by suing people. With this law if you were to go into a church building and they refused to let you use the women’s bathroom you could sue them. If the school refused to let you go to the all girls school you could sue them. This law also pays for abortions with tax dollars so every tax payer will now be funding this murder. I heard some people disliked Trump because he didn’t pardon a man on death row who was then executed. They are against the death penalty for a murderer but support the death penalty for sixty million babies and are even going to pay to have those babies killed. Biden’s stance on abortion was crystal clear before the election, the distinction between the two candidates could not have been any clearer. Trump named three pro life judges. If you voted for Biden you voted for this. This is one example of the kinds of laws Biden and the Democrats are passing to utterly humiliate the Christians in this country. The equality act is the modern equivalent of Absalom sleeping with David's concubines.

23 Now in those days the advice Ahithophel gave was like that of one who inquires of God. That was how both David and Absalom regarded all of Ahithophel’s advice.

Sun Tzu, don’t disrespect your opponent. These people got a man who had dementia elected, that is no small feat. If you want to be the champion you have to defeat the champion. Right now we are going up against very shrewd, very wise (in a wicked and evil way) counselors. Just know that they are not wiser than Jesus. He put Satan to an open shame when He was crucified, He did it once, He’ll do it again. Only this time we will be participants in this battle and in this victory.

Luke 12:1-15 -- True Wealth
12 In the mean time,

Sounds like today. In the middle of March, 2020 the city I live in was shut down and we have basically been practicing social distancing since that time. That’s more than 2 years, I feel like we are “in the mean time”; a gap in time between the previous age which is coming to an end, and what is about to happen. There is nice saying going around "normal isn't coming back, Jesus is".

when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together,

Today, in this “mean time”, we have thousands of people gathered together on social media. Not only so but the rallies and protests continue to grow and grow. Thousands, tens of thousands gathering in Europe, Australia and the US protesting vaccine mandates, etc.

insomuch that they trod one upon another,

No doubt. On social media we have people stepping on each other every single day. That is after all what a viral video of a “Karen” is all about. This is what Cancel culture is all about. This is what the car in Wakeusha and the deaths at the Christmas parade are all about.

he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Oh yes, a warning about Fake news. Hopefully by now we are all aware that much of what you read on the internet is fake and is intended to stir people up to outrage. Whether it is Russia, or China, or White Supremacists, or Antifa, etc. Every single group has an agenda. These messages, stories and videos are just like leaven. The way leaven works is that it bubbles, these bubbles cause the bread to become airy. A video going viral is like a bubble. Many of these protests look like the people are frothy.

2 But there is nothing covered up, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. 3 Wherefore whatsoever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

What a wonderful prophecy. It must have seemed impossible 2,000 years ago. In the 70s when I heard this prophecy I assumed He was talking about the Judgement seat of Christ. But now we have video cameras everywhere and police arresting a suspect in Minneapolis will be videotaped, uploaded to Youtube, shared on Facebook and viewed 100 million times by people all over the world. We are now in the fulfillment of this prophecy. In 1970 if you told me that a suspect in a counterfeit scheme died while being apprehended by the cops I wouldn’t have thought twice. But you see the George Floyd death and you get a very different perspective. Fauci tried to cover up his involvement in creating the pandemic, but that is all coming out. Hunter Biden's laptop is a treasure trove of secrets being brought to light. Recently we learned a very high ranking Chinese spy master defected to the US with a terabyte of secrets he handed over. Everything will be proclaimed from the housetops. The FBI orchestrating Jan 6, China stealing the election, it is all coming out.

4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

The gospel of Luke is talking about social revolution. You can’t go down this road if you are afraid of death. It is very natural to be afraid of death, so instead you have to get a vision of what you really need to be afraid of: the judgement seat of Christ. Everyone is going to die, some live for 80 years, some live less. Jesus died in his 30s, and yet for 2,000 years we are still poring over every word He ever spoke. He squeezed more life, more word, into those 30+ years than anyone ever did in 80. There have been many martyrs in these last 2,000 years. We don’t control when we die, the only thing we have control over is today, make the most of today.

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. 7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows. 8 And I say unto you, Every one who shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9 but he that denieth me in the presence of men shall be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

Once you are truly fearful of that coming judgement your question should be “what do I do?” Confess Jesus Christ before men and repent for every time you denied Jesus in the presence of men.

10 And every one who shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

Everyone says dumb things at some point in their life. Confess, repent, move on. But if you set yourself to be one with Satan in opposing the move of the Lord to the extent you are claiming He is casting out demons by Beelezebul, well, I told you “it is on”. You need to back that up. You will discover that you are now fighting against God. You have just said that people are forgiven and healed by Beelezebul, you have chosen a side that has no forgiveness and no healing. We see it all the time, those on this atheistic, nihilistic, cancel culture side have no forgiveness, they tear each other apart. Think about this Democrat representative who saw a video of a car drive through the barriers and plow into a parade of dancing girls and dancing grandmas and say "it looks like self defense". He has chosen a side in which there is no forgiveness.

11 And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: 12 for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what ye ought to say.

This is another wonderful promise, take it by faith.

13 And one out of the multitude said unto him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. 14 But he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

The whole Black Lives Matter movement gets caught up in so many dead ends. This whole push for reparations is just one example. This age is all about overcoming the evil worldly system and bringing in the kingdom in which righteousness dwells. There is a price to pay. If you get your reward in this age you forfeit your reward in the age that is to come.

15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

I used to be fascinated by these big houses, fancy cars, etc. But then watching what that really means to those that have them you realize it is just a fancy prison. They are like birds caught in a cage. To have a word of life that you can speak in season, at just the right time, that is true wealth.

The sky was very weird tonight. I was out in farmland at 11pm, it was completely overcast and very dark. When you looked west or south it was what you would expect at 11pm out in the country, but when I looked East North East the sky was light as though the sun were just setting beneath those clouds. The problem of course is that the sun sets in the west, not the east, and it set several hours earlier around 7:30pm.

My view on Covid19

I got Covid19 in March of 2020 the same weekend NYC was shut down. I am a high school science teacher so I am familiar with basic understanding of plagues and vaccines but am by no means an expert. Therefore I paid very close attention to all that was said figuring I'd have to explain this to the kids.

There was no vaccine in March of 2020 but an urgent rush to make one had begun. From what I understood about history I thought far too much is being made of some future vaccine. No pandemic in history ended by giving people a vaccine, it died out of its own accord. A virus will replicate rapidly, it is the perfect example of "survival of the fittest". Corona viruses are especially prone to mutations, so my thought was that social distancing and good hygiene and health practices would eliminate this. If people who show symptoms quarantine themselves you create an environment that favors the least virulent strains. I had lived in Taiwan for years and this was a typical measure to take the temperature of people outside buildings. You can't enter with a temperature. It would have been very inexpensive and "least disruptive" approach. Businesses and schools could have stayed open.

But they didn't do that, they shut everything down, so I assumed they knew something I didn't know. Shutting everything down is contrary to the science. People obviously missed this point in science class so let's go over it again. You want people taking the bus and the subway and going to school and going to work. Half of the way social distancing works is you keep all the ones with symptoms out of the population, isolated, but at the same time you want everyone else going about their business. What will happen is there will be much less virulent strains that people will be exposed to and they will act to develop herd immunity. This is how you rapidly get herd immunity. These less virulent strains will strengthen your immune system to the more virulent strains. All the experts understand this, that is why many were happy with Omicron seeing it as a natural booster to the immune system.

Yes, in human history we have had complete shutdowns, but not of countries, not of economies, just of cities. If a cities health care system is completely overwhelmed then sure, do a complete shutdown till you can get it back under control, but there is no reason to impose a shutdown that the Bronx needs on the whole country. This draconian approach made me think they must know something I don't because from everything I could find that had been made public it was contrary to any response I would have considered.

They then began to vilify and castigate anyone who disagreed with the official narrative. Trump suggested using HCQ and was mocked mercilessly . Desantis refused to comply with the shutdowns and was also vilified and compared to a mass murderer. This alarmed me, two people who would have been privy to information they were not sharing with the public would have been the president of the US and the governor of the third most populous state in the Union. So I looked at HCQ something that anyone can buy, or make, and that has a 50 year history of being safely used. The response to that, suggesting it was "bleach" was absurd. Yes, if you were to take a concentration about ten thousand times that which is necessary it would act as a bleach. But if you took ten thousand Tylenol you'd be dead. It was a patently absurd complaint. This was when I realized the media could not be trusted to give reliable information on this.

At the same time Fauci said that to question him was to question science. That was it for me, I immediately knew he was a liar. In my science class I always teach about Galileo being excommunicated because he taught the Earth revolved around the Sun. I also talk about how a scientific theory that contradicted the accepted narrative when I was in high school was mocked and ridiculed. Some "creationist" put forth this theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor. This was attacked mercilessly until there was enough evidence that everyone accepted it and then it was like, oh yeah, everyone knows that. Questioning the official narrative is science.

This was the point at which I needed to broaden my search to find out what is going on. Dr. Malone invented mRNA vaccines and so I listened to him. Dr. Zelensky treated Trump quite successfully along with about 10,000 others so I listened to him. Dr. Wolf was looking at the Pfizer documents of their studies of the vaccine so listened to what she discovered. Steve Bannon was bringing on these and other experts who also provided evidence that the virus originated in the Wuhan bioweapons lab. At this point I would not say that they have absolutely and conclusively proved it began as a lab leak in Wuhan, there are other possible scenarios (CIA could have done this to place blame on the Chinese). But what was clear was there was no "evidence" for the wet market theory and certainly no evidence for the bat cave theory. Yet there were all those scientists who wrote a letter to Lancet saying all the evidence pointed to the bat cave and none of the evidence pointed to the bioweapons lab. That was clearly and undeniably false. No one has found any evidence that points to the bat cave and there is clear and convincing evidence that this is a man made virus from a bioweapons lab.

So at this point I knew that the advice they were giving us was bad, I knew that saying Cuomo was the gold star in how to deal with the virus while Desantis was a mass murderer was a vile and despicable lie. I knew that Fauci couldn't be trusted and the Main Stream Media couldn't be trusted. I also knew that Trump who speaks with a 5th grade vocabulary and is a real estate mogul/reality TV star was not someone I would trust my healthcare decisions to. But I decided that Dr. Malone was trustworthy, he was being attacked, his reputation smeared, his career ruined to take his stand and yet his resume tells you he is clearly an expert on the topic. I decided Dr. Zelensky was trustworthy, after all he more than anyone else on the planet was having great success treating Covid. He should have been lifted up by the Media, not shunned and attacked. I also decided that everything I knew about viruses, pandemics and vaccines prior to this could be trusted.

I also trusted the Bible. In the Bible I am told that Satan is a liar, a thief and a murderer. He only comes to kill and destroy. I knew who the liars were, I could see who the thieves were, and so as studies came out saying they were murderers it did not seem to be a wild conspiracy theory. I lived in NY and evidence came out that 10,000 people died because of Cuomo's actions.

This was when DeBlasio mandated the vaccine and they were not going to consider natural immunity. Every expert knows that the vaccine could be particularly dangerous to those with natural immunity to Covid after getting it and yet they would ignore that? No way I am going to let this buffoon stuffing french fries in his mouth convince me to take the vaccine.

This video does several things I don't particularly like, a lot of numbers "mumbo jumbo" and references to Obama.

However, you can't deny how prophetic the song "Bye bye Miss American pie" is when tied to all the prophecies I have recently put up on this blog about the rapture and America.

Also, I think the evidence that Obama is going to play a significant role in the unveiling of the AntiChrist is overwhelming. I don't know what that role is, but I think Steve and others have put enough evidence out there that he does have a role that it cannot be ignored.

As for the numbers mumbo jumbo do with it as you wish. What cannot be denied is that the numbers are very important to Satanic cults. I believe they give these numbers significance because it bolsters their claim of fulfilling prophecy. It is very clear from the Koran that the AntiChrist will be presented as a Messiah who fulfills prophecy.

https://rumble.com/v1f3iip-devils-playbook-dream-7-24-22-to-8-6-22.html

I am posting this before I have had a chance to listen because the time is short. I have a meeting to go to and am concerned that this would be posted in the event that the rapture and the attack on the US takes place. I will say that for the last two weeks I have been checking her site repeatedly every day because I have expected the Lord to release another key word from her prior to the rapture.

Luke 12:57-59 This is your last chance to repent

Obadiah tells us when the day of the Lord is near.

Mortgage crisis -- “too big to fail”, put that on the tombstone of the banks. Just like the boast concerning the Titanic, “the ship that even God could not sink”.

God will bring them down, He will rob them. He describes it saying “they will drink, and drink, and drink”. Because of the Covid crisis law courts are closed and there is a moratorium on evictions. Businesses aren’t paying rent, and people aren’t paying rent, so landlords aren’t paying mortgages. There is a saying “if you owe the banks $1 million you have a problem, if you owe them $1 billion the banks have a problem”. You think the Lord is going to sit by while they openly robbed widows of their houses and then the government bailed out the crooks? Well right now we have a $300 billion dollar problem with the banks in China!

The details are here: https://www.christianforums.com/blogs/obadiah-how-do-we-know-when-the-day-of-the-lord-is-near.62721/

57 And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

I have come to the conclusion that state legislatures, governors, election officials, judges, federal legislators and even the Supreme court were given one last chance to judge what is right. But they persisted in the lies, deceit and abuse. I think all of us have been given a second chance. We are seeing many, many things that should have caused us to confess our sins and repent, return to the Lord. The last 18 months were like watching someone take the wheel and head straight off a cliff. Is this really the way you want to go?

58 For as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him; lest haply he drag thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer shall cast thee into prison. 59 I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the very last mite.

Don’t wait till you are dragged before the judge. Go to Jesus now, “I was wrong, have mercy on me Lord!” This is what the Festival of Trumpets is all about. “Prepare to meet thy God”. Now is the time to repent, not at the judgment seat of Christ. I believe the 2017 Revelation 12 sign that took place at the time of the festival of Trumpets kicked off this period of time where many believers have been blowing the trumpet "prepare to meet thy God".

Everyone is sure that Trump and this election is not just dead, but really, really dead. Not good enough that they certified the election, not good enough that Trump conceded, no they also wanted to impeach him and declare him unfit for office. It almost reminds me of Elijah pouring water from 12 pitchers onto the wood he had arranged. The only thing missing is fire falling from heaven. Now if fire does fall from heaven and the people praying for justice are raised like Lazarus from the dead (type of the rapture) that would be different. Then I would agree that it was indeed like the story with Elijah.

A divine dream of DJT being restored.

https://rumble.com/v1f6qlb-good-news-good-news-good-news-08082022.html

The Restoration of all things

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

We get to rebuild from the ground up but this time we have the wisdom that comes from experience. The US started the experiment with a public school education for everyone in the country through high school, the rest of the world was not doing that. We have seen the benefits of educating the entire populace, but we have also seen the pitfalls and these pitfalls are "trying our faith". But you need patience to do a perfect work. We are learning about our school system having major flaws which must be fixed.

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

I was a public school teacher, High School science in Brooklyn. My goal was that the kids could walk into my class at the beginning of the year being at the bottom of NYC's metrics (our kids were scoring in the bottom 25% of NYC) and at the end of the year they could compete with any kid in the city. You would think this is every teacher's goal, but the answer is no and I will explain why.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

First of all, 80% of the teachers will score in the bottom 80% on these exams. (Teacher's are measured by how their kids do on various standardized exams). My first year in Brooklyn my kids scored in the bottom 25% on the end of year exam. So the first step is to admit you lack wisdom and pray. But that is not what most do, instead you hear that "we don't need to teach to the test". This is how those with poor scores condemn those with high scores. For most teachers (this is my observation) teaching is a popularity contest. But consider this, the kid comes to school tries his best and scores in the bottom 25% on the exams. What does the kid think? He blames himself and thinks he is stupid and that will stick with him his whole life. On the other hand if he comes in and tries his best and scores a 97 on the exam, now he realizes he can compete with anyone.

34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

This was a stupefying drink to make the crucifixion less painful. Many of the professional developments for the teachers were just this, a stupefying drink to make your failure less painful.

I had a governing vision. When I was a kid around 12 years old I was on a Pee Wee football team. I had no previous experience playing football, and these teams have an age limit and weight limit, so you never play against kids who are older or younger than you, or bigger or smaller. Yet our team went undefeated two years in a row, winning national championships both years (we flew to Florida and Texas from NY for our bowl games). Every kid on the team knew our success was completely due to our coach. To impress us even further with this point we then went to the high school team which had a losing record every year. My point is that we were just like any other 12 year olds, but our coach did an extraordinary job of training us. To me, that is what I felt the teacher could do as well.

Now to take this path was like sailing into the wind. There is a proverb, if you do what everyone else does you will get the results that everyone else gets. I realized I could not blindly follow the advice of the principal. The professional development that is given to teachers does not focus on excellence in performance, rather it focuses on keeping kids happy so that there are no disruptions to the school. I read this one book by a teacher who was incredibly entertaining, it was as though he was putting on mini performances in his class. The kids loved his classes, he was voted teacher of the year, a very popular teacher. He was a history teacher and he described being observed by a number of professionals as his kids spent the class doing origami. One of the observers condemned the class. In his book he was equally condemning of that observer explaining the benefit of what he was doing. It was the perfect example of where education is going with a great many teachers focused on being popular and entertaining while performance takes a back seat. I was stunned that a guy who was named "teacher of the year" would have students whose performance on the exam was average at best.

By the time I left that school in Brooklyn our kids would come into the school scoring around the 50% level on average on the 8th grade exam. Based on the demographics (rate of poverty, etc) all the other schools in our demographic group would wind up in bottom 25% of the city's performance (NYC). However, my kids scored in the top 6% of the city. They scored alongside kids who were going to schools ranked as the best high schools in the country (there are a number of high schools in NYC that you have to take a test to get accepted to). When you looked at improvement no school was even close to what we were doing over two years (Living Environment in 9th grade would move them up to the top 25%, and then Earth Science in the 10th grade would move them up to around the top 5%). The schools at the very top showed little to no improvement from 8th grade. Not only so but we had done this three years running and when you compared us to all the other schools in our demographic group the results were even more stark.

But the "wind" and the "waves" were completely against us all that time. Every year the science department was ridiculed and insulted by the principal. Our teachers were so upset one year I spent the entire weekend downloading the data (it is so massive it takes over an hour just to download to your computer and the file is so large it is very difficult to work with). I put it into very easy to read charts and graphs showing that the science department was statistically the best science department in NYC, no other science department had anything close to the improvement our kids had. I also did the same analysis for every other department at our school and without saying it, simply let the data show that no other department had half of the improvement the science department had. After that, no more complaints from the principal.

Here is the problem, teachers are rated every year. A bad rating can destroy your career. Your test scores play a major role, but so do the observations from the Administration. It is easy to get three good observations, simply do every thing the principal says, talk to them in detail about what they want to see and then do that. On the other hand the tests are a big gamble, you aren't taking the test the kids are. Also the tests will only really help you if you score in the top 20% and you know that 80% of teachers won't do that. The safe bet is to focus exclusively on doing what your principal wants. Your kids have average results but that is because "they are lazy" (I will address this common refrain in a few verses). So it makes sense for 80% of the teachers to focus on observations rather than performance. But also, just because you score in the top 20% one year doesn't mean you did it the previous year or will do it the next. I would expect that only half of those teachers would have the confidence to bet on the exam rather than observations. So you would think that one tenth of the teachers are focused on performance and 90% are focused on observations. But that is not true. In NY you only have 7 of these courses that end in a state wide exam, that represent 18 credits. But kids will have 48 credits when they graduate. This means only 40% of teachers are being graded on an exam they have any control over, so that would drop your number to 4% of teachers. 96% of teachers are focused on being average. You get rewarded for being average. No one is penalized for being average.

You can't have it both ways, you can't try to be average and also have excellent results. You are only observed three times a year, it seems that you could, but you can't. First you are not told in advance when you are being observed and second they want to see that you have set up good practices that the kids are familiar with. This means all the kids know at any given time what they are supposed to be doing. Performing for an administrator when they come in would only confuse the kid. So then if you want the US to score in the top 5% of the developed world you need to change the way teachers are rated. 40% should be on the kids score on the exam and 60% should be on the improvement over the last five years. You cannot guarantee that every year you will see improvement (when hurricane Sandy hit NY it was very disruptive). But the trend line over a five year period should be up. The principals need to stop trying to get everyone to fit into the same mold that they came out of, instead focus on performance and improvement. Also, the first five years of a teacher's career they are not on this system, they are simply being graded by their principal. Observations from principals can focus on the new teachers while seasoned teachers can help each other in their department.

Why the US public school system is ranked 28th

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

You want to know why the US public school system is ranked 28th, this is why.

Rich people do not want their kids to "be made low". They want them going from HS to an elite university and get a job that pays six figures. They are not competing against the rest of the world they are competing against those of low degree in the US. If you just look at the public school in wealthy suburban neighborhoods we are as good as any school system in the world. I went to public school in a wealthy town in Westchester, one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country at the time. For my senior year I went to a private school in England where the aristocracy and elites sent their kids. To my impression the quality of education in my school in NY was every bit as good if not better. The reason we are 28th is not because of the top 10% of our public schools it is because of the bottom 90%. Our inner city school system is far worse than 28th. Why is that? Because the system is rigged against those kids, they know it, and as a result there is no way for them to be exalted. In school the big motivator is to be exalted. I lived in Odessa Texas for a few years, they have the "Permian Panthers" a football team of "Friday Night Lights" fame. Football is very big in that town because if you are on that team you get exalted.

If we evened out the playing field then many inner city kids would be exalted by their performance in school and you would see a very big change in attitude. Right now the system is set up so that little rich white and Asian kids in the suburbs get all the "glory" and so naturally black and brown kids in the inner city will soon come to despise that.

We need to change the attitude. First, we need to let kids rejoice in being exalted in the inner city. At the beginning of the school year in 2019 I put up the graphs of our performance on the last year's exam. I showed the kids in the class how great the kids in the previous year had done on that exam, how we were scoring with the best high schools in the country and how our kids showed far more improvement than any other kids in all of NYC. I always start the year by going over some key graphing concepts, but this lesson killed three birds with one stone. It told the kids from day one, follow my instruction and you will be exalted. Second it told them that they should listen to and respect the upper class men. Third it taught them the key concepts of graphing in a way that made it practical and relevant.

We also need to change the attitude for the rich and elite in these wealthier school districts. It is better to know the truth than to live a lie. If your kid does not belong in Harvard you don't want him to go there. Appreciate your kid for who they are and let them shine in that. Kids hate it when their parents are cheating to get their grades higher. We have seen these recent SAT scandals as one example. This is a lesson we all need to learn and the earlier the better. If you live a lie it will eventually come out and when it does you will be shamed. Worst case scenario you get tossed in the fire. Learning that there are consequences for our actions or lack of actions is a critical lesson. I spent one year teaching in a suburb where the culture was all about cheating. It was everywhere, from the principal on down. This is how you destroy a people and a country.

What we want is a meritocracy. You live in the inner city, your mom is a single mother, you live in poverty, but if you fully give yourself to your studies in a few years you can walk out of that poverty. On the other hand you live in a wealthy neighborhood, your parents are lawyers and doctors. You don't take your studies seriously, you fully focused on being social, well in a few years all your friends go off to great universities and leave you behind. If this is the reality very quickly our school system will be ranked #1.

12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

This is what we want, those that will "hold the line" while everyone else runs away. You have to risk your career. If I had gotten a bad rating it would have crippled my ability to continue to pursue this. The administration steps in and micromanages your class and you are on parole, basically put on notice so they can fire you. My first year we did horribly, ranked about 25% in the city. The principal could have done this to me, but the other Earth Science teacher did just as bad and she didn't know anything about Earth Science and to be fair, the whole school was at this level. She had hoped for better, but we weren't any different from any other department. However, I had figured out my mistake and fixed it that summer. The next year we jumped up to around the 50% mark for the city. A huge jump and improvement. Also, although I had taught for a few years I did not have tenure, so technically that first year was my first year towards tenure. The priority for new teachers is classroom management over performance. But there were two Earth Science teachers, I chose to stay the course, the other one decided to go all in on doing everything the principal asked and suggested. She was diligent, hard working, and did wonderful lesson plans. She also did a lot of hands on assignments using arts and crafts so that the kids could visualize what they were learning. So I had a lot of respect for her as a professional. That said I observed many of her classes and never felt I should adopt anything she was doing. To my mind the classes reminded me of elementary school. This is a typical and widespread response. The kids do poorly on the exam, so the assumption is they didn't understand your lessons, you need to simplify. My thought was if I treat them like elementary school kids they will never be able to compete toe to toe with the top students in the city. But this was the temptation, assume the kids failed because their education has been deficient up to now, we have to make up for poor reading skills and all the rest. It is just another way for teachers to say it isn't my fault, it was someone else's fault (the teachers they had in elementary school and JHS).

I considered this hypothesis, however, in Earth science I knew all the new words for my students in my class are new words for students in the elite High Schools. Since I had gone to an elite high school I knew this from first hand experience. Also, on the exam english language skills were not an issue, all the short answer questions did not have to be in complete sentences, often one word or one number was all it took.

So what happened. That woman always got stellar reviews on her observations. However, her test scores were at best average. I think her last year at the school her kids did a little better than the city average. She told me she was very proud of that. However, her scores after the first year were always behind mine, often by 10 percentage points. I think they even started to stack her classes with the best kids from living environment to help her (I never did any kind of analysis on this but in the beginning of the year you always talk to the other teachers about your rosters since they taught the kids the previous year). Suffice it to say no one ever said I was getting the "pick of the litter".

The other thing I would say is I came to the conclusion that average is actually below average. Not every school has licensed Earth Science teachers, so some classes are taught by teachers out of license. Also in a school system as big as NYC you have to expect a couple of teachers took leave of absence for maternity leave. Two thirds of teachers are women. Most people only teach for 25 years and during that time will have around 2 kids. If you have 1600 Earth Science classes in the city, you can expect at least 1,000 of them will be taught by women. Even if these women are teaching four classes (unlikely) that still leaves 250 women teaching Earth Science. Basic math tells you that 50 of them will take maternity leave in any given year. Not only so but there is a disproportionate number of teachers who are in their first five years because many teachers quit after the first couple of years or never make tenure. In short I felt the bottom 20% of the scores should not be averaged into the average that licensed teachers are compared to. That means you need to score in the top 40% to be average. At best she came close to that. This convinced me that the advice being administered by the administration would never result in excellent performance. I don't believe I could have done a better job than she did at following their advice. Anyway, at this point in her career she became an assistant principal! All of my experience convinced me that the system in NY and with these big teacher unions rewards mediocrity. There is no penalty for being average.

This is how they lie to the public. If you ask them they will tell you that 40% of your rating is based on the test scores. They measure your performance based on an invisible algorithm that is supposed to measure improvement. If you get a top rating based on the exams you can't get a bad overall rating. I always got a top rating but never got the very highest rating. That didn't make sense because when I looked at the data myself our improvement on our Earth Science scores from the Living Environment scores were far and away the best in the entire city of 400+ schools. The highest rating was supposed to represent the top 5%. However, I didn't challenge this because I didn't want to be judged on improvement, I wanted our scores to be the best. Also the difference was somewhat trivial, it would mean fewer observations which I didn't care about and maybe become a trainer. I was interested in becoming a trainer but wanted to first have my kids be the top 1%.