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The Nasty Gifts that Surround Us

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Symbol of Christianity, white version.

Symbol of Christianity, white version. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I wake at 3am.  My truck is parked near the back of a Home Depot.  What do my ears hear?  I hear music coming from the back of the store.   They left the music on all night.  I guess they do that all year long.

I don’t listen to music anymore.  It’s too much of a distraction for the essential thoughts regarding the war between the flesh and the Spirit.  I don’t say that to cause anyone else to do it also.  I stopped listening to music a couple years ago.  Oh I listen to a song now and then.   But I listen to the lyrics more than the melody.  It was the lyrics that caused me to turn away from music in the first place.  Even some Christian songs often get theology a bit askew.   So I turned to pondering the truth of God in my mind more than listening to what everybody is forced to endure in their ears all the time.  Now that is the point of this entry.

Think about something with me, if you dare.  I find it curious that at the beginning of the end of all creation man is being forced to endure distractions on a scale never before seen.  Televisions are on all day long.   Radios blast music in men’s ears constantly.   Cell phones are pressed against the head, threatening to leave an indelible mark.  Fingers are busy typing text even to the point of causing accidents while driving.   I even heard of a woman getting hurt while walking because she was texting.  I don’t know of a store you can walk into that isn’t playing some music.  Billboards announce everything saleable to us as we travel from point A to B.  Information surrounds us like water to fish.

All this becomes utter distraction.  Has anyone asked why?  I have said that the modern world is like a nation of kings.  Only kings enjoyed music like this.  They were the only ones rich enough to retain minstrels on a regular basis.  And their servants constantly brought news about their kingdom.  But even kings desired silence once in a while.  So we have passed from enjoying their riches to a slavery to noise.  And exceedingly few ask why.

We know that there is a force which is trying to get mankind to ignore the call of God.  And, in my humble opinion, he is actually doing a pretty good job.   While people think they are receiving something precious, they are actually being kept from the very precious gift of introspection and reflection on what is pure and good.  They are taught all day long that sex is more important than virtue.  You think that is too harsh?  Listen to the lyrics of the majority of songs.  Listen close and think about it.  We are being taught that the body is far more important than the spirit.  Yet which one will outlast the other?  Where do you think that message might come from?

If I listen to the radio talk shows (which I do quite often), I turn it off when the commercials come on.  All I heard was money, bodily health, and liberal appeals for giving to institutions.  And now that the liberals are in charge of our lives through government, we are told how to eat, walk, run, sit, speak, listen, and think.  It is a sick merry-go-round when it comes to commercials.  So I jumped off while it was still spinning slowly.

I appeal to all who read this to consider what you are being assaulted by all day long.  Where is the moment of silence?  Where did it go?  Where is that “hour of prayer”?  Someone stole it from you.  Even Christian music becomes a distraction from what is true.  You’re being herded into a pen like an animal.   Commercialized music is saying, “Think this.”  And like narrow minded sheep you simply let someone lead you where they want you to go.

To top it all off, have you heard of how the information network is coming under the control of the government?  What was the switch to digital television all about?   Just a couple days ago, the President sent out a request to brainstorm for the sake of an executive order to allow him to take over the internet during a crisis.  How long until all we see on television, billboards, hear on the radio, and see posters everywhere displaying the president’s voice and face?  Propaganda is the instrument of seduction today.  And the masses are silently being embraced by it.  The net is laid.  And someone is about to pull the rope tight.  And who notices?

This isn’t a call to arms because we are being taken over.  It’s already happened folks.  Now it’s just a matter of them moving into our physical lives.  Oh wait, that’s already happening.  Isn’t it?

Break free from it all while you still can.  Just turn off the noise for 4 hours a day.  See how it makes you think.  Give it a try and see if I’m crazy.

P. S. I wasn’t going to post this.  Then I opened my email and found my brother Peter’s post:  http://theagetocome.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/the-fathers-heart/

Conspiracy

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Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I drive at night.  And just to stay awake I often listen to the am radio talk shows.  I’ve found I can’t listen long anymore.  The things they talk about are so amazingly incomplete.

There is a show that comes on quite late called “Coast to Coast”.  The format is anything having to do with paranormal.  One time the host was asked for calls from people who had stories of paranormal activity.  He took a call from a Christian woman who talked about the relationship between Jesus and His people.  The host said that he was looking for “paranormal” stories and that Jesus was not paranormal.  I laughed and shut him off.  What he was looking for was demon activity.  He had no interest in God.

But last night I turned it on for a while to get something to think about.  There was a man talking about a movie about mars.  I confess I didn’t care about what he was talking about so much as to get something to rant about as I drove through the night.  He was spouting something about conspiracy.  And something occurred to me that he would not really appreciate.

Let’s say he discovered a conspiracy of weapons or energy that was being used against mankind.  What then?  Let’s say he chased his discovery to the end and had those arrested who were plotting against us all.  What then?  40,000 others would move into the vacuum left by those arrested.  So he is wasting his entire life chasing after something futile.  He might claim that he saved mankind from some terrible problem.  But he hasn’t done a single thing to curb the onslaught of wickedness.

And this is what I came away with last night.  If such men, as those who search after weird little thoughts, would concern themselves with a certain conspiracy they would go a lot farther in helping man.   There is a conspiracy that does warrant attention.  And this conspiracy gets horribly little attention.  There is a conspiracy of rebellion in the world.  It is first a rebellion against the God who made us all.  We naturally hate His rule among us.  And for the second point,  this rebellion is destroying the entire world.   Billions have already received their eternal sentence of separation from the Living God.  And the tide of death is not stemmed yet.   Now, if he spent his entire life chasing and exposing that rebellion, he would really be doing something worth while.

 

Repent or Die.

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Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hanity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levine, and all the other “minor” pundants are all wrong.  While the “Left” thrives on lies, the pundants of the “Right” thrive on half truths.  So which is better if both are not complete?

God has established that man’s ways of sin will lead to a certain place.  In the end it will be called Armageddon.  But while in transit, man’s will is bound to appear in predictable fashion.  You men holler from your perches.  You scream and dance for the world.  You think you are telling the truth as you point out what is wrong with the world today.  You think you can predict where the world is headed.  But you are not telling the people that God has ordained that man should endure the fruit of his sin and rebellion.  You are not saying what is true.  You are simply pointing out what’s wrong.

Then I hear you mention a possible remedy to our plight.  You say that if we all band together we can stop this “train wreck” from derailing America.  You do no one favors by saying these things.  Not one man can correct the direction of mankind.  Man is headed for a deadly encounter with the Most High God.  And all you are saying is that we’re going that way because we didn’t try to stop it from happening.  In this you speak a particle of truth.  For each man is responsible for his own knees of humility.  But you will not stop or avoid the clash of man against the Lord Most High.

What is the completion of the message you will never spout?  “Repent or die”.  This you will not tell the people.  And so you will continue to dribble your partial truth.  While millions will devour your words as if they were candy.  And so the world will continue to spin right into the battlefield.  Here it comes!  It’s not far from every man.  But there is a place where God will make that “final stand”.  Since you will not say it, I will voice the words:  “REPENT OR DIE”.

By His Grace.