Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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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 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 were suspended or 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 Twitter's users. You have to be very arrogant to think you can kick 50% of your customers out. Look at the big box stores who kicked 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. They lied about Hunter Biden's laptop and suppressed all stories about it prior to 2020 election and CBS waited until after the 2022 election to admit it was really his laptop. That is the definition of gaslighting.
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 (globalists seeking one world government) 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. At the moment they have been treated like fools but you can be sure after the rapture this will bubble back up and there will be nothing to hold them back from attacking all Christians.
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.
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 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 were suspended or 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 Twitter's users. You have to be very arrogant to think you can kick 50% of your customers out. Look at the big box stores who kicked 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. They lied about Hunter Biden's laptop and suppressed all stories about it prior to 2020 election and CBS waited until after the 2022 election to admit it was really his laptop. That is the definition of gaslighting.
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 (globalists seeking one world government) 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. At the moment they have been treated like fools but you can be sure after the rapture this will bubble back up and there will be nothing to hold them back from attacking all Christians.
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.
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 was 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 trivial characters who have been prosecuted or kept in solitary confinement for almost a year. Lord we know you detest both these things so we pray according to your word that you would judge, condemn the guilty and acquit the innocent.
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 acted like fools. Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook. They had 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. Facebook has been crushed in the stock market, going the way of MySpace. Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk, 75% of the employees have been laid off, fired or quit. Amazon.com has also lost a tremendous amount of money in their stock price and is laying off many people. The tricks that google and Apple play have also been exposed and you are seeing an impact on their business model.
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. All ready we are seeing many bad earnings reports from companies like Walmart, Kohl's and Bed Bath and Beyond. It was so foolish, I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of Walmart shoppers support Mike Lindell. Why would you do something that would alienate 80% of your customers?
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 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. There was a shooting at a gay bar yesterday in which 5 people were killed and 25 were injured. They want to blame this on people who have stood up to "groomers" who are doing things in the public school to set little kids up to be taken advantage of. This is a perverse tongue, they won't prosper.
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. We now know that Biden has sold out the US for money.
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.
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 was 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 trivial characters who have been prosecuted or kept in solitary confinement for almost a year. Lord we know you detest both these things so we pray according to your word that you would judge, condemn the guilty and acquit the innocent.
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 acted like fools. Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook. They had 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. Facebook has been crushed in the stock market, going the way of MySpace. Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk, 75% of the employees have been laid off, fired or quit. Amazon.com has also lost a tremendous amount of money in their stock price and is laying off many people. The tricks that google and Apple play have also been exposed and you are seeing an impact on their business model.
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. All ready we are seeing many bad earnings reports from companies like Walmart, Kohl's and Bed Bath and Beyond. It was so foolish, I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of Walmart shoppers support Mike Lindell. Why would you do something that would alienate 80% of your customers?
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 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. There was a shooting at a gay bar yesterday in which 5 people were killed and 25 were injured. They want to blame this on people who have stood up to "groomers" who are doing things in the public school to set little kids up to be taken advantage of. This is a perverse tongue, they won't prosper.
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. We now know that Biden has sold out the US for money.
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.
The way Satan gets what he wants is he creates a crisis where the solution is what he wanted all along. He wants one world government under his control. How do you get the US and China to agree? You crash the world's economy so that the US and China face bankruptcy and a great depression. This is the spirit if Nero, the way you get people to sell the land where their house is to you is you burn down their house, then they will sell. If you have been paying attention you know they have intentionally been shutting down the world's economy over this man made virus.
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Timeline of the Last Days 11/22/2022
Timeline of the Last Days 11/22/2022
A new angle on an old prophecy
2Thessalonians 2:6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: [f]only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord [g]Jesus shall [h]slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his [i]coming;
The fundamental understanding of the one that restrains which we know is the Holy Spirit. We also see that this phrase "until he be taken out of the way" or "until he steps aside" indicates the rapture of those saints who are filled with the Spirit and like Antipas are against all and restrain evil on this earth.
As a result a standard doctrine of eschatology is that the antichrist is not revealed until after the rapture.
However, we still have a problem. The Antichrist is the ruler of the new world order and he is out of Europe. What about the US and China?
So then let's consider a little more about who it is right now that is restraining lawlessness?
1. The police, obviously. We have noticed an illogical attempt to remove the police in this country out of the way. We have also seen in history that many tyrants have done the same.
2. Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. These are under attack because they restrain evil and lawlessness.
So if the lawless ones had been successful in removing the police, releasing prisoners, opening the border, censoring speech and taking away the guns in America we could have a bloodless coup.
3. But let's take a look at the whole forest. Who is the "policeman to the whole world"? I would say up until Afghanistan withdrawal it was clearly the US.
4. Who is the one who stands for freedom of speech to the whole world? I would say prior to the pandemic it was clearly the US.
If the lawless one is going to seize power and be revealed then the one who is restraining the lawless one must be removed. Yes it is the Holy Spirit, yes it is the Spirit filled church and the Spirit filled saints, but it is also the US. I think this prophecy is telling us that the US will be removed as a power to set the stage for the AntiChrist to take power.
But what about China.
Two things, imagine the US is so totally crippled that they can no longer buy anything from China. That would be devastating to China's economy, catastrophic. Also, imagine that in the attack on the US China sees an opportunity to seize Taiwan and in response Taiwan blows up the 3 Gorges dam along with other major hydroelectric dams. This would be devastating to the Yangtze river basin, the heartland of China's industrial base. These two things would be absolutely devastating to China as a superpower.
2Thessalonians 2:6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: [f]only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord [g]Jesus shall [h]slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his [i]coming;
The fundamental understanding of the one that restrains which we know is the Holy Spirit. We also see that this phrase "until he be taken out of the way" or "until he steps aside" indicates the rapture of those saints who are filled with the Spirit and like Antipas are against all and restrain evil on this earth.
As a result a standard doctrine of eschatology is that the antichrist is not revealed until after the rapture.
However, we still have a problem. The Antichrist is the ruler of the new world order and he is out of Europe. What about the US and China?
So then let's consider a little more about who it is right now that is restraining lawlessness?
1. The police, obviously. We have noticed an illogical attempt to remove the police in this country out of the way. We have also seen in history that many tyrants have done the same.
2. Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. These are under attack because they restrain evil and lawlessness.
So if the lawless ones had been successful in removing the police, releasing prisoners, opening the border, censoring speech and taking away the guns in America we could have a bloodless coup.
3. But let's take a look at the whole forest. Who is the "policeman to the whole world"? I would say up until Afghanistan withdrawal it was clearly the US.
4. Who is the one who stands for freedom of speech to the whole world? I would say prior to the pandemic it was clearly the US.
If the lawless one is going to seize power and be revealed then the one who is restraining the lawless one must be removed. Yes it is the Holy Spirit, yes it is the Spirit filled church and the Spirit filled saints, but it is also the US. I think this prophecy is telling us that the US will be removed as a power to set the stage for the AntiChrist to take power.
But what about China.
Two things, imagine the US is so totally crippled that they can no longer buy anything from China. That would be devastating to China's economy, catastrophic. Also, imagine that in the attack on the US China sees an opportunity to seize Taiwan and in response Taiwan blows up the 3 Gorges dam along with other major hydroelectric dams. This would be devastating to the Yangtze river basin, the heartland of China's industrial base. These two things would be absolutely devastating to China as a superpower.
He shall put down three kings
Daniel 7:24 And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
It is also interesting that if someone from Europe were to become the Antichrist and rule the world they would need to put down three kings. The US, China and Russia. How could a European leader like Macron do that? First of all you are a little kingdom, a "little horn" that no one needs to worry about. Second you instigate a war between these three countries so that they destroy each other. Third you need strategic alliances. Remember, Hitler was a "little horn" with less than 3% of the popular vote when he was made chancellor as a compromise.
Daniel 7:24 And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
It is also interesting that if someone from Europe were to become the Antichrist and rule the world they would need to put down three kings. The US, China and Russia. How could a European leader like Macron do that? First of all you are a little kingdom, a "little horn" that no one needs to worry about. Second you instigate a war between these three countries so that they destroy each other. Third you need strategic alliances. Remember, Hitler was a "little horn" with less than 3% of the popular vote when he was made chancellor as a compromise.
Where do wars come from?
4 Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
This is an amazing analogy. James is comparing the world with all the various nations to your body with all its various members. You could also carry this same analogy to every "body", for example a church or even a corporation. Paul describes this battle in our body between the mind which knows that he wants to be righteous and not sin and the flesh which has its own desires. Paul explains that if you feed the fleshly desires they will become stronger and the war more intense. On the other hand if you starve the fleshly desires and feed your spirit then the Spirit will dominate your life and hold the sinful impulses in check.
Where is this war over CRT and pornography in schools coming from with these insane school activities grooming kids for pedophilia? That is the result of the fleshly desires being fed and no longer being restrained by the Spirit.
Who in their right mind would want to defund police and let criminals out of prison? Criminals of course. This is the result of organized crime and cartels and drug dealers getting "fed" and becoming strong enough to be a political force.
Compromising with sin is simply feeding the flesh and letting it grow and ultimately go to war with you.
Interestingly, when these criminal organizations kill people it is almost always another criminal organization. They fight for control. So instead of thinking there are "good guys and bad guys" think there are two different cartels going to war with each other. Russia vs Ukraine doesn't require one to be the good guy. They can both be criminal organizations. Notice this verse says that "your pleasures that war in your members".
Why is it that the vast majority of people do not want war and yet we seem to always be at war? These are the pleasures waring in your members.
4 Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
This is an amazing analogy. James is comparing the world with all the various nations to your body with all its various members. You could also carry this same analogy to every "body", for example a church or even a corporation. Paul describes this battle in our body between the mind which knows that he wants to be righteous and not sin and the flesh which has its own desires. Paul explains that if you feed the fleshly desires they will become stronger and the war more intense. On the other hand if you starve the fleshly desires and feed your spirit then the Spirit will dominate your life and hold the sinful impulses in check.
Where is this war over CRT and pornography in schools coming from with these insane school activities grooming kids for pedophilia? That is the result of the fleshly desires being fed and no longer being restrained by the Spirit.
Who in their right mind would want to defund police and let criminals out of prison? Criminals of course. This is the result of organized crime and cartels and drug dealers getting "fed" and becoming strong enough to be a political force.
Compromising with sin is simply feeding the flesh and letting it grow and ultimately go to war with you.
Interestingly, when these criminal organizations kill people it is almost always another criminal organization. They fight for control. So instead of thinking there are "good guys and bad guys" think there are two different cartels going to war with each other. Russia vs Ukraine doesn't require one to be the good guy. They can both be criminal organizations. Notice this verse says that "your pleasures that war in your members".
Why is it that the vast majority of people do not want war and yet we seem to always be at war? These are the pleasures waring in your members.
Ye lust and have not
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and [a]covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
So then what are these world rulers lusting after that they have not? They want to have complete power. Why do they censor and fight against freedom of speech? They want complete power and don't want anyone to second guess them. Why are they fighting against the right to bear arms? They want power and want to remove anyone who can stand up to them. Why does Ukraine want to join NATO? They don't want Russia to have power over them. Why do they want to have vaccine passports? They want power. Why are they going to roll out the mark of the beast? They want absolute power. We now know that the pandemic and the vaccine are man made bioweapons that they are using to kill so that they could get absolute power. In the Godfather they talk about "an offer you can't refuse". That is what they are doing, the Antichrist will be an offer you can't refuse. Create chaos, war, famine and disease and in that situation a strong world leader looks like the better option. Do they ask God to solve their problems? No.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
It is the old "have your cake and eat it to". If you ask God then these problems can easily be solved but it means that the rich and the elites will not be able to have their cake and eat it to. They are not interested in that solution. For a hundred years we have been hearing that human population is growing exponentially and that is not sustainable and must stop. Now for 95% of us the solution is to choose to have fewer kids. But for the 1% of us the solution is to kill off the "useless eaters". Stalin, Mao, Hitler, they have all used this solution to fix their problems. People are complaining and protesting about your government, what should you do? Well for tyrants the solution is simple, arrest them and execute them. In Nazi Germany they would even have summary executions right in the street, streamlining the whole process. That sent a powerful statement, don't complain. The 1% are not thinking "what is the best way to manage this world so that everyone will be best served", no, they would think that is funny. They are simply thinking what is the best way to manage this world so that my interests would be best served. I used to wonder why a CEO who drove a company into bankruptcy would immediately be hired to be the CEO of another company. Well, suppose all my friends are the 1% and I tell my friends that I will bankrupt this company. They can all short the stock and make a killing as I run it into the ground. These people all "love" me and they are the only ones who are on the board of directors of other companies where they decide who the next CEO will be. Generally the board of directors own a significant portion of the company which is why they get to be the board of directors. We assume they have the companies interests at heart. But think about it. Many of these mutual funds own a significant portion of many companies. So the fund managers are on the board of directors. These fund managers can manage several funds. So even though I could lose a billion dollars if this stock goes to 0, in another fund I can make a billion. So for me it is a wash. But by tipping off all my buddies they in turn will owe me a favor. So my net loss could be 0 while at the same time down the road I'll get all kinds of tips that will greatly help me make money on 100 other investments.
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and [a]covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
So then what are these world rulers lusting after that they have not? They want to have complete power. Why do they censor and fight against freedom of speech? They want complete power and don't want anyone to second guess them. Why are they fighting against the right to bear arms? They want power and want to remove anyone who can stand up to them. Why does Ukraine want to join NATO? They don't want Russia to have power over them. Why do they want to have vaccine passports? They want power. Why are they going to roll out the mark of the beast? They want absolute power. We now know that the pandemic and the vaccine are man made bioweapons that they are using to kill so that they could get absolute power. In the Godfather they talk about "an offer you can't refuse". That is what they are doing, the Antichrist will be an offer you can't refuse. Create chaos, war, famine and disease and in that situation a strong world leader looks like the better option. Do they ask God to solve their problems? No.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
It is the old "have your cake and eat it to". If you ask God then these problems can easily be solved but it means that the rich and the elites will not be able to have their cake and eat it to. They are not interested in that solution. For a hundred years we have been hearing that human population is growing exponentially and that is not sustainable and must stop. Now for 95% of us the solution is to choose to have fewer kids. But for the 1% of us the solution is to kill off the "useless eaters". Stalin, Mao, Hitler, they have all used this solution to fix their problems. People are complaining and protesting about your government, what should you do? Well for tyrants the solution is simple, arrest them and execute them. In Nazi Germany they would even have summary executions right in the street, streamlining the whole process. That sent a powerful statement, don't complain. The 1% are not thinking "what is the best way to manage this world so that everyone will be best served", no, they would think that is funny. They are simply thinking what is the best way to manage this world so that my interests would be best served. I used to wonder why a CEO who drove a company into bankruptcy would immediately be hired to be the CEO of another company. Well, suppose all my friends are the 1% and I tell my friends that I will bankrupt this company. They can all short the stock and make a killing as I run it into the ground. These people all "love" me and they are the only ones who are on the board of directors of other companies where they decide who the next CEO will be. Generally the board of directors own a significant portion of the company which is why they get to be the board of directors. We assume they have the companies interests at heart. But think about it. Many of these mutual funds own a significant portion of many companies. So the fund managers are on the board of directors. These fund managers can manage several funds. So even though I could lose a billion dollars if this stock goes to 0, in another fund I can make a billion. So for me it is a wash. But by tipping off all my buddies they in turn will owe me a favor. So my net loss could be 0 while at the same time down the road I'll get all kinds of tips that will greatly help me make money on 100 other investments.
Who is your husband, Jesus or Uncle Sam?
4 Ye [b]adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
This is the point! The big error of US diplomacy is to try and become friends of the world.
For example, think of the public school system. Originally we had the one room schoolhouse that was in the church building. It was very successful. We had great readers that were based on Bible stories. But then the unbelievers wanted to take this successful model and expand it to everyone. It sounded good. We'll pay for this with government money. But what is "government money"? It is your money. All they really are doing is taking your money out of your pocket and deciding how to spend it. But hold it, if everyone is paying for this doesn't it spread the burden out among more people? Not really because the school is now going to be teaching everyone. So by switching to a public school system you took the power from all the local churches and gave the money and oversight of these schools to government officials who are not Christians. Once they did this everyone is being taxed by the government so if you decide their school system is no good it doesn't matter, you must pay for it as well as whatever school you want to send your kid to. So you are trapped, especially since young families rarely have the spare money to pay for private school. From this point on it is a creeping cancer. They replace your excellent readers with these garbage "Dick and Jane" books. They outlaw prayer in school. They remove the Bible from school. Soon they bring in pornography and CRT into the schools.
So the real question is who is your husband? Is it Jesus or is it the US government? When you give the US government authority over teaching your kids you are acting like an adulteress to your husband, Jesus.
4 Ye [b]adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
This is the point! The big error of US diplomacy is to try and become friends of the world.
For example, think of the public school system. Originally we had the one room schoolhouse that was in the church building. It was very successful. We had great readers that were based on Bible stories. But then the unbelievers wanted to take this successful model and expand it to everyone. It sounded good. We'll pay for this with government money. But what is "government money"? It is your money. All they really are doing is taking your money out of your pocket and deciding how to spend it. But hold it, if everyone is paying for this doesn't it spread the burden out among more people? Not really because the school is now going to be teaching everyone. So by switching to a public school system you took the power from all the local churches and gave the money and oversight of these schools to government officials who are not Christians. Once they did this everyone is being taxed by the government so if you decide their school system is no good it doesn't matter, you must pay for it as well as whatever school you want to send your kid to. So you are trapped, especially since young families rarely have the spare money to pay for private school. From this point on it is a creeping cancer. They replace your excellent readers with these garbage "Dick and Jane" books. They outlaw prayer in school. They remove the Bible from school. Soon they bring in pornography and CRT into the schools.
So the real question is who is your husband? Is it Jesus or is it the US government? When you give the US government authority over teaching your kids you are acting like an adulteress to your husband, Jesus.
Do you think the scripture speaks in vain?
5 Or think ye that the scripture [c]speaketh in vain?
What does the Bible say? It says that God created man in His image and after His likeness so that we would have dominion. Do you think that word is vanity? The Bible says there are seven blessings to Abraham for following God and that includes being a blessing to the whole world. Do you think that word is vanity? If not then why are you not willing to exercise dominion over the school system and be a blessing to the whole world?
[d]Doth the spirit which [e]he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
The ten commandments give us a picture of who God is and who this Spirit dwelling in us is. The tenth commandment is very clear, God does not covet, He does not long unto envying. Again, let's look at the whole history of public school. I used to homeschool and let me explain for those of you who don't home school what this is really like. Your kids are in your house, you go to the library each week to get books, they share a computer, our church had classes for Karate and so that was their PE, they both got to be black belts. The church also has a music ministry so the kids played instruments in that. The church also puts on two plays a year so if your kids want to get involved in drama they can do that as well. However, on the way to church you pass these big, impressive school buildings. Everyday you see hundreds of kids streaming into them. In your mind they are so far ahead of you with more impressive resources and activities and teams that you can feel envy. Even though I knew the truth my kids didn't. They thought every day they were at home was one more day of them falling further behind. But it was motivational. One reason I homeschooled them was because they spoke Chinese, they didn't speak a word of English and I knew that would destroy any chance they would have in the school system. Three years later they both entered the local High schools. When they got to high school they discovered they were far better read than any of the students, they had read more than a hundred books over the last two years of homeschool. The first year we began with A is apple and B is bat, and in six months they were reading E. B. White. The next books they read were sixth grade level. By the end of the first year they were reading high school level books and they read one book a week for the next two years. Their reading comprehension was better than just about every other kid in their high school (they went to two different schools and both had about 2,000 kids each). However, my son took a special test to get into the best Science high schools in the country and he passed. So my daughter went to a school with 2,000 kids and my son went to a school where every kid passed a high school entrance exam putting them in the top 1% of students in the city. Both of them became valedictorians of their schools. The world puts on a show, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars because that way the politician in charge can take 10% for his campaign. But it is all for show and the quality of the education stinks. Don't fall for it. My kids went to high school in Queens and they were not bullied, they were both black belts when they got into the school.
6 But he giveth [f]more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, [g]God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
Homeschool is humble. Public school is proud. God resists the public school and He gives grace to the homeschool.
7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Do you think my homeschooling was popular? His mother threatened to sue. I knew it would take a couple of years for a lawsuit to wind its way through the courts so I figured even if she did sue I could still have enough time to properly train them.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Let me tell you something else. They came to the US in sixth grade. They spoke Chinese and didn't speak a word of English. In his senior year prior to the valedictorian ceremony my son met with the principal who was from China and he talked to her in Chinese. She was shocked that his accent was so good. She told me that most American Chinese have a bad accent. She had no idea that he was native Chinese and that he was what we call an ELL student (English as a second language)! My daughter also had a situation occur. She was going to be the valedictorian but she had never taken a foreign language (she had taken ten credits of Art). As a result she couldn't get an advanced regents diploma and that would be an embarrassment to the school. I asked if she could test out of the requirement and they said yes. So I said, OK, give her the Chinese language test. They were shocked, they had no idea she was fluent in Chinese. She took the test and got the advanced diploma.
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
All the people who were against me when I homeschooled changed their tune when they graduated as Valedictorians.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
5 Or think ye that the scripture [c]speaketh in vain?
What does the Bible say? It says that God created man in His image and after His likeness so that we would have dominion. Do you think that word is vanity? The Bible says there are seven blessings to Abraham for following God and that includes being a blessing to the whole world. Do you think that word is vanity? If not then why are you not willing to exercise dominion over the school system and be a blessing to the whole world?
[d]Doth the spirit which [e]he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
The ten commandments give us a picture of who God is and who this Spirit dwelling in us is. The tenth commandment is very clear, God does not covet, He does not long unto envying. Again, let's look at the whole history of public school. I used to homeschool and let me explain for those of you who don't home school what this is really like. Your kids are in your house, you go to the library each week to get books, they share a computer, our church had classes for Karate and so that was their PE, they both got to be black belts. The church also has a music ministry so the kids played instruments in that. The church also puts on two plays a year so if your kids want to get involved in drama they can do that as well. However, on the way to church you pass these big, impressive school buildings. Everyday you see hundreds of kids streaming into them. In your mind they are so far ahead of you with more impressive resources and activities and teams that you can feel envy. Even though I knew the truth my kids didn't. They thought every day they were at home was one more day of them falling further behind. But it was motivational. One reason I homeschooled them was because they spoke Chinese, they didn't speak a word of English and I knew that would destroy any chance they would have in the school system. Three years later they both entered the local High schools. When they got to high school they discovered they were far better read than any of the students, they had read more than a hundred books over the last two years of homeschool. The first year we began with A is apple and B is bat, and in six months they were reading E. B. White. The next books they read were sixth grade level. By the end of the first year they were reading high school level books and they read one book a week for the next two years. Their reading comprehension was better than just about every other kid in their high school (they went to two different schools and both had about 2,000 kids each). However, my son took a special test to get into the best Science high schools in the country and he passed. So my daughter went to a school with 2,000 kids and my son went to a school where every kid passed a high school entrance exam putting them in the top 1% of students in the city. Both of them became valedictorians of their schools. The world puts on a show, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars because that way the politician in charge can take 10% for his campaign. But it is all for show and the quality of the education stinks. Don't fall for it. My kids went to high school in Queens and they were not bullied, they were both black belts when they got into the school.
6 But he giveth [f]more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, [g]God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
Homeschool is humble. Public school is proud. God resists the public school and He gives grace to the homeschool.
7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Do you think my homeschooling was popular? His mother threatened to sue. I knew it would take a couple of years for a lawsuit to wind its way through the courts so I figured even if she did sue I could still have enough time to properly train them.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Let me tell you something else. They came to the US in sixth grade. They spoke Chinese and didn't speak a word of English. In his senior year prior to the valedictorian ceremony my son met with the principal who was from China and he talked to her in Chinese. She was shocked that his accent was so good. She told me that most American Chinese have a bad accent. She had no idea that he was native Chinese and that he was what we call an ELL student (English as a second language)! My daughter also had a situation occur. She was going to be the valedictorian but she had never taken a foreign language (she had taken ten credits of Art). As a result she couldn't get an advanced regents diploma and that would be an embarrassment to the school. I asked if she could test out of the requirement and they said yes. So I said, OK, give her the Chinese language test. They were shocked, they had no idea she was fluent in Chinese. She took the test and got the advanced diploma.
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
All the people who were against me when I homeschooled changed their tune when they graduated as Valedictorians.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
Here is the amazing thing, the biggest opponents to homeschooling are not people in the world, it is people in your own family.
I was in a tough situation, two kids who speak Chinese being thrust into a public school system that was not prepared to teach them. I'm a teacher, I am very familiar with what I am talking about. It is such hypocrisy. The principal will tell us to "differentiate" the lessons for kids who don't speak english. We would have a couple of teachers who specialize in teaching English as a second language and they would provide professional development once or twice a year. The whole thing is performative art. This is not how you would truly teach these kids. I taught ESL in Taiwan for years.
However, if you question the school they will show you two professional teachers who really know their stuff and they will tell you that they differentiate the lessons for the kids. Everything is designed to look excellent and intimidate those who are less educated into going along.
So what is the proper way to teach these kids?
You have to lay a good foundation, just like building any building. What they are trying to do is skip the foundation which is why this always fails and kids who don't speak english have a terrible track record of failure in the public school system.
What I did with my kids was start with the books you would read to a 3 year old. It was "insulting" and this is why their mother freaked out. A is for apple, B is for Bat, etc. But these books teach the kids to read, they teach the sounds, they teach vocabulary. After six months in the US I visited my brother and he said that he tried to talk to them and they couldn't respond. I told him I wasn't focused on speaking. That sounds terrible to people who don't understand. The foundation of any language is reading comprehension and listening comprehension. That is the foundation. I was focused on the foundation and would get to speaking and writing later. Schools think that focusing on speaking and writing will improve the kids skills, again the reason they are such a total failure is they don't lay a good foundation. Kids can't write because they haven't read.
My daughters valedictorian speech was as good as any speech I had heard from high school students at graduation. My son's valedictorian speech was one of the best speeches I ever heard, whether high school, college or adults.
I didn't teach them that, instead they read many books and they listened to many talks and you learn from others.
Here is the amazing thing, the biggest opponents to homeschooling are not people in the world, it is people in your own family.
I was in a tough situation, two kids who speak Chinese being thrust into a public school system that was not prepared to teach them. I'm a teacher, I am very familiar with what I am talking about. It is such hypocrisy. The principal will tell us to "differentiate" the lessons for kids who don't speak english. We would have a couple of teachers who specialize in teaching English as a second language and they would provide professional development once or twice a year. The whole thing is performative art. This is not how you would truly teach these kids. I taught ESL in Taiwan for years.
However, if you question the school they will show you two professional teachers who really know their stuff and they will tell you that they differentiate the lessons for the kids. Everything is designed to look excellent and intimidate those who are less educated into going along.
So what is the proper way to teach these kids?
You have to lay a good foundation, just like building any building. What they are trying to do is skip the foundation which is why this always fails and kids who don't speak english have a terrible track record of failure in the public school system.
What I did with my kids was start with the books you would read to a 3 year old. It was "insulting" and this is why their mother freaked out. A is for apple, B is for Bat, etc. But these books teach the kids to read, they teach the sounds, they teach vocabulary. After six months in the US I visited my brother and he said that he tried to talk to them and they couldn't respond. I told him I wasn't focused on speaking. That sounds terrible to people who don't understand. The foundation of any language is reading comprehension and listening comprehension. That is the foundation. I was focused on the foundation and would get to speaking and writing later. Schools think that focusing on speaking and writing will improve the kids skills, again the reason they are such a total failure is they don't lay a good foundation. Kids can't write because they haven't read.
My daughters valedictorian speech was as good as any speech I had heard from high school students at graduation. My son's valedictorian speech was one of the best speeches I ever heard, whether high school, college or adults.
I didn't teach them that, instead they read many books and they listened to many talks and you learn from others.
If you know to do good and don't do it, that is sin
13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 [h]For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
Live for today. Now is the acceptable time. There is no better time to step out in faith and trust the Lord.
17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
There are a lot of people who just assume the thing to do is go to public school. They don't know there is an option. But if you do know there is an option then that is a different story. If you know that your kids don't speak english and the school will not be able to help kids who speak Chinese and yet you send them to that school, well that is a sin. The Bible charges parents to teach their kids. How could you do that to your kids, that is a shirking of your responsibility.
Today we see that they are using schools to indoctrinate kids and confuse them about gender and groom them for sexual deviancy. If you know this how could you send your kid to that school? Yes, you can go to school board meetings and complain about pornographic books in the library but that is like pulling weeds. Will you check the library every week? Will you monitor what all the teachers are teaching every week? The flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. As long as they don't allow the Bible or prayer in school the Spirit will always be overwhelmed by the flesh. Before you didn't know, so sending your kid to the school was not a sin. But now you do know and so sending your kid to be taught by fleshly people who deny God and do not have the love of the truth, that is sin.
13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 [h]For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
Live for today. Now is the acceptable time. There is no better time to step out in faith and trust the Lord.
17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
There are a lot of people who just assume the thing to do is go to public school. They don't know there is an option. But if you do know there is an option then that is a different story. If you know that your kids don't speak english and the school will not be able to help kids who speak Chinese and yet you send them to that school, well that is a sin. The Bible charges parents to teach their kids. How could you do that to your kids, that is a shirking of your responsibility.
Today we see that they are using schools to indoctrinate kids and confuse them about gender and groom them for sexual deviancy. If you know this how could you send your kid to that school? Yes, you can go to school board meetings and complain about pornographic books in the library but that is like pulling weeds. Will you check the library every week? Will you monitor what all the teachers are teaching every week? The flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. As long as they don't allow the Bible or prayer in school the Spirit will always be overwhelmed by the flesh. Before you didn't know, so sending your kid to the school was not a sin. But now you do know and so sending your kid to be taught by fleshly people who deny God and do not have the love of the truth, that is sin.