I had a Dream last night.

I don’t know what it means.

I woke up this morning about 4:30 am after a dream, and for some reason I had to write it down in a little journal.  Which is odd, considering that I am not a “journaler” or diary writer.  Usually, I forget dreams after waking up, but writing this one down kept it fresh.

It’s probably not important, but since resolving to pay more attention to such things, and since it seems to concern events that have happened or will happen, it’s written down here in this blog as well.  Maybe someone who reads this will recognize it.

The dream was in black and white and gray, and in the style of a movie from the early 1950s.  That was evident from the way people dressed and spoke.  The people involved were all under 30, mostly in the teens and early twenties.  It takes place in a hotel, or other semi-public venue, mostly in a large room with high ceilings and many windows, old style “house” type windows that you unlock and raise, with multiple small panes of glass.

Though no one is in uniform, all of the young people are either in the military or the sons and daughters of military men.  It’s an informal gathering, with young people, male and female, mingling, talking and enjoying refreshments.  One young man is annoying and harassing a young woman, to the point she seems to be nearly in tears.  A soldier steps up to aid the woman and ejects the man harassing her.

By their subsequent conversation (though I can’t for the life of me remember the exact words, so no quotes), the soldier revels that the man he ejected from the gathering is the son of a general who has a reputation for troublemaking.  He never seems to get in trouble for his actions because his father protects him.  The soldier is glad that he is a “short timer” and will soon be out of the situation of confronting the general’s son, as it seems that is a continuous issue between the two of them for some reason.  The feeling is the soldier is some kind of chaperone and is there in a semi-official capacity to “keep an eye on things”.  He seems to be older than the rest, not really that much, but at least more mature.

After this conversation with the young woman, while still standing next to her, the soldier suddenly shouts out in pain, and falls to the floor with a gaping wound in his right calf.   This causes most of the people gathered there to “run-away” though the young woman attempts to aid the soldier into the hallway, where he dies from the wound.

This caused a great scandal and controversy because the general’s son is accused of murdering the soldier.

I don’t know the rest of the story from there because this is where I woke.

So I honestly have NO idea of when, or where, or even if this occurred.  But the impression is that the events are somewhere on the east coast of the USA, in a city near the ocean sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s.  It is something that is still unresolved, and may be a painful memory for someone.

Angels, Demons, Nephilim, Visions, Dreams and Prophecy: The way God Talks to Mankind

What are Angels?
or: “Mama, who is the big guy swinging the sword over there?”

Angel with a sword

You are sitting at a desk, touching it. Knock on it and you can hear your fist rapping the solid wood.  Your hand will not pass through it without breaking it or your hand.  Yet a physicist will tell you it is made up of tiny particles with a great deal of space between them.  It is NOT solid but made up of mostly empty space.

We live in a world that has been created by a being so powerful, that He has to do is speak to create an entire universe of billions of stars like our sun and even greater.  So vast that a beam of light would take untold eons to travel across.  A being SO powerful and mighty as that we would be literally smaller than the smallest of sub-atomic particles in your desk comparatively.  Yet as far as we know, humankind is the sole purpose for that creation.

I won’t limit God to my understanding, there might well be billions of worlds such as ours.  The bible doesn’t say either way.  But conscious little beings like us, with eternal souls are the reason why the entire universe was made.

Genisis 1:1 says “In the beginning, God…” we can assume by that there was a whole other mode of existence BEFORE the beginning. Since God Himself is eternal and the “beginning” talked about in Genisis is the beginning of our universe and not the beginning of God.  A more solid, eternal realm.

Angels are inhabitants of that more solid realm.  Created at the same time we were.  When we were purposefully created, God knew that we would create an uncrossable gulf between Him and us.  Uncrossable for us only, of course, but the very sight of the Holy God would destroy us utterly, so he created these beings we call “Angels” to cross it and communicate with us.

Angels are extremely powerful beings of high intelligence.  Capable of independent thought and action and with free will.  Their true form, as spiritual beings, is indescribable for us as flesh and blood humans, and attempts to describe them by Prophets such as Ezekiel and John who saw them are vague at best.  However, they can and do appear to humans in any form, including that of a human being.  Most often the form they choose is that of a large strong young man, sometimes armed with a sword and armored like a warrior.

Angels are servants and messengers of God.  They are “Holy”, but only because of and contingent on their service to the Most High.  They are “solid” beings, not disembodied spirits, in that they have a body, a mind and free will.  Their bodies were created for the more solid spiritual realm, and do not pass into corruption like ours.  They are eternal, cannot be killed, and do not die naturally.  They do not breed, there was a set number of them created for the specific purpose they have been given, and since they never die, they don’t need to be replaced.

Angels cannot interbreed with humans.  There are no and have never been any “angel/human hybrids”.  Angels do not have sex.  There are no male and female Angels.  They are fundamentally different to human beings.  They are made of a different “substance” altogether and the idea of an Angel breeding with a human being makes about as much sense as a ROCK breeding with a HORSE.  

Less, actually, since a rock has an actual “physical” substance in the world of mankind, and an Angel is more solid than a rock could ever be.

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Proto-Prophets: Seekers, Seers, Conspiracy Theorists and Other Busybodies

Liars, Falsehoods, Misdirection and “Misinformation”
or: “Are they Politicians, or Psychotic Sociopaths?”

Politician Lying

Everybody has had that skin crawling, butterfly in the stomach, dizzy feeling one time or another.  The one where someone you know has told you something that you think is fishy.  You don’t KNOW because there isn’t any OBVIOUS proof, but no matter how plausible it might seem you do know it’s off somehow.   “Gaslighting” is a real thing and can even be used by people the closest to you.

Police, politicians, “Mainstream Media”, “Intelligence” Services and (other) criminals and criminal organizations regard it as a high art form.  

Christians will tend to reason that they should honor and obey people with authority over them.  This is all well and good, and truly biblical; the people who Jesus told you to honor and obey are your father and mother, your teachers and your pastor.  People who have Godly authority over you, who deal with you righteously, with your best interests in mind and with a goal toward salvation, furtherance of the Gospel and the Kingdom of God.

NOT – someone who lies to you in order to get incriminating evidence.
NOT – someone who uses OR misuses authority over you granted by worldly law in order to imprison you or deprive you of God given rights.
NOT – someone who would lie to you to gain a position, achieve a political agenda or win an election.
NOT – an organization of any kind, that uses manipulation, lies, half-truths, misdirection, theft, murder and/or kidnapping to achieve ANY goal of ANY sort.

You owe them nothing.
Not even the slightest respect.

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The difference between the Holy Spirit Gift of Prophecy, and the Office of Prophet

“Hey, don’t tell ME how to run my life!”
or: The Caring or the Karen

Before I go any further with that, you need to realize that “prophet” and “prophecy” cannot be used to excuse bad behavior.  Telling someone off because they annoy you, is NOT a prophetic word.

The Office of “Prophet” is a very uncomfortable place to be in a modern church, or anywhere else for that matter.

Have a seat.
Have a seat, the Pastor will be with you in a moment.

Most of the time prophecy will get them in trouble.
Also “prophet” is as much a personality type as it is a ministerial office, if you are a “prophet” you cannot help but to “prophesy”, rightly or wrongly.  It takes some wisdom to know WHEN it is the right time to prophesy, and The Holy Spirit to prophesy truly.  The bad part of that is you don’t have to have the Holy Spirit to have that personality.  You don’t even have to be Christian.

Balaam was an actual prophet (Numbers 24:2-9) and was very well regarded as a seer and a wiseman by the Moabites.  He had the inclination to prophesy, and he drew from the “spiritual realm” (divination) to make accurate (mostly) predictions.  It wasn’t from the spirit of God, however, and when God actually spoke to him, he failed even though he saw the results (Numbers 20:26-34).

Many people can be recognized as a “prophetic” personality by the fact that they just cannot shut up about a perceived wrong or danger to the point of obsessiveness.  Sometimes a prophet can predict enough right to gain some respect from their peers, but without the Spirit of God to guide them they fall into the same trap as Balaam.  Blinded by materialism and the love of wealth or using false spiritualism.
Even FALSE prophets ARE prophets.  
Like any of the many gifts God has given to mankind, the gift of being a “prophet” can be turned by Satan into something unholy and false.

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Of Prophets, Prophesies, Heresies and what the Five-Fold Ministry is

What the Five-Fold Ministry is:
or “just how do I fit in this mess?”

OK first of all, I don’t want to bump into people’s egos or preconceptions.
This is something that can scrape against a lot of denominational doctrines, but it is NOT meant to raise hackles.  Just as a definition of terms.

“Five-Fold Ministry” is a term coined by modern evangelical ministries.  It comes from Ephesians 4:11-16
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”

The phrase itself does not occur in the bible, but is a simplification of basic church hierarchy:
Apostles go out and establish individual churches and ministries, raise up and anoint pastors and teachers, organize everything, then leave to the next place.
Prophets are guides, agents of correction, leaders in times of trouble, speakers of God’s voice for warning or comfort or both.  They often go from church to church where needed and are not always welcomed.  Because if a prophet comes, it usually means some kind of change and upheaval.

These two ministries usually follow behind:
Evangelists who go from place to place preaching the gospel of repentance.  They make converts, baptize them, teach them some basics, then move on.  It is a ministry that all Christians are called to at some level, but some are called to specialize in it.  An example, and highest modern standard would be Billy Graham.

Which comes to the basic pillars of the church:
Pastors who are the shepherds of individual churches and
Teachers who are the ones teaching sound doctrine and the Bible.
These two ministries go hand in hand for a strong well-balanced church.  Where apostles, prophets and evangelists come and go, a pastor is there for your lifetime, ideally.  He is there for births, deaths, marriages, counseling, exhorting, preaching to and aiding the individuals in his church.  The teacher is there in Sunday School, sometimes K-12 school and beyond as well depending on the church, passing on knowledge to children and adults.  You may have a teacher teaching your grandchildren who taught you as a child.

These five are specifically JOBS, that are LEADERSHIP POSITIONS in the church and are distinct from “spiritual gifts”.  For example: a prophet will prophesy, but you may prophesy but not hold the “office” of “prophet”.

All 5 are also analogues of leadership positions in the secular world.
An Apostle is an entrepreneur of churches.
A Prophet is an innovator or provocateur.
An Evangelist is a recruiter and a salesman.
A Pastor is a shepherd, or a business owner, or a father, or all of them.
A Teacher is…well, a teacher, an integrator, or an editor.
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Full disclosure: Prophecy, Callings, the “End Times” … and context

First of all, Context:

Oh, to be trapped on an island, thousands of miles from the “mainland”.  Run by people who hate you and want to kill you and take your stuff!  Such fun!
Lahaina Wild fire Aug. 8. 2023
No alarms warn you, even with the world’s most elaborate siren warning system.  Water is straight up DENIED to firefighters by the unelected government goon in charge of such things for HOURS.  The police block all exits, roads, etc. going out of the fire area and turn people back into the fire rather than helping them to escape.  Food, water and medicine relief actively blocked.  Federal government employees sent there to “help” put up in luxury resort hotels for thousands of dollars a day while people who have lost everything “allowed” a pittance onetime payment most of them can’t even get.  The governor of said island, in his “wisdom” and clairvoyant far sightedness declaring a “state of emergency” three weeks prior to the fire giving emergency powers to another unelected government goon over building permits and environmental laws to BYPASS them as needed.  Then two days after the fire declaring his intention to “buy” up generationally owned properties and (I guess) “Build Back Better”.

You getting where I am going here?

This is not an article about Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. There are plenty of people who are there and can report far better on it than I can.  They are TRYING to, and you need to PAY ATTENTION.
HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) / X (twitter.com)
lahaina fire coverup – YouTube
Brush Junkie – YouTube

No, this is an illustration.  A reflection.  A warning.

The “government” (Federal, State, Local) is not your friend.
The “police” are not your ally or friend.
They do not want to “help” you.
They are not there to “protect” you.
“Justice”, “right and wrong”, “morality” and “lawful conduct” are just words they use ON you.
“Governments” exist to tax, count, “oversee” and control you, ultimately to the point of killing you and taking your stuff.

The SOLE purpose of the “police” is to facilitate that by using force, finding ways to arrest (legally kidnap) you, and “gathering evidence” to convict you of a “crime”.  As a happy consequence of that, almost coincidentally, their presence tends to cut down, slightly, on actual criminals doing actual crimes like murder, rape, robbery and such.

Individuals, being what “individual” means, in government and police sometimes are good people, trying to do the “right thing”…”protect and serve”…<legalese weasel words>…blah blah blah (Please Don’t Shoot Me FBI?)…
But for the most part, people who seek out those positions are there for the power high.   This is something the founders of my country (USA USA USA) knew VERY well.  This is why they included the Bill of Rights into the constitution.
By the way (gruesome Newsome), anyone who seeks to “amend” ANY of those protected rights in ANY way is an enemy of liberty, and basically just wants to make it easier to kill you and take your stuff.  

Prophecy, Callings, the “End Times” …or, “What does this have to do with being a Christian and going to church and trying to walk with God?”

This article is directed mainly to American Christians who for the most part have completely screwed the pooch, dropped the ball, been deceived by good times and normalcy biases.  Thankfully some have begun to stir a little, rub their eyes, look around, and sleepily declare: “Wha…happen…huh?”
It only took a few years of degenerates rubbing their genitals in their children’s faces, the burning of our cities and businesses, the convergence and destruction of our institutions, the almost complete fall of western civilization and the potential threat of complete nuclear annihilation.
That’s all, no biggie.  Time for uppsies, sleepyheads. Continue reading Full disclosure: Prophecy, Callings, the “End Times” … and context

Samuel School of Prophets

We will be updating news for this exciting new school on this site. Right now, it is in the planning stages but it is a school of practical skills that would be needed to survive as a Christian during times you can’t just go to the store and buy what you need or want. Keep a look out for updates in the future, and please visit our GiveSendGo site.

ChatGPT, what the heck?

I’m not overly impressed.
Sorry, just not the world shattering, humanity ending terminator some people are making it out to be.

That being said, I am impressed.  It does seem to be a fair implementation of a text based conversational interface to a large computer system with a comprehensive database.  Something along the lines of the “computer” in various Star Trek series, just without the ability to respond to verbal commands and queries…well verbally, if that makes sense.  For the most part, any inquiries as to its “thoughts” or perceptions of any topic, elicits this response or similar:
“As an AI language model, I don’t have personal thoughts or opinions. However, I can provide information on the topic of…” followed by a detailed output of data on the topic at hand.  Both very well formatted and human readable I might add.

Surely this particular implementation is still “buggy as hell”, and needs a lot of work, and probably suffers from a surfeit of programmer personal prejudice.  It does take great pains to offer a balanced, fact-based response to any inquiries.  Well at least according to the information it has available.  But it is really quite remarkable for a “chatbot”.  I can see where groups of guys trying to make a living at call centers in India, would start to think this is “the end of the world as we know it”.  It’s certainly the beginning of the end for that world, and let’s face it, a much better implementation of the English Language as well.

Now I have friends who seem to think that this is “SkyNet” and the nukes are right behind it.  I am not really sure that it would be in our best interests to put weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Chatbot replacement for the Indian call center, either.  But…considering the massively dysfunctional dementia prone, stair tripping brainless boob who is carrying the “FOOTBALL” right now, well the call center bro ain’t looking too bad.
I hear he is needing a job soon….?

So, Ramblings of a Weird Hermit in the Desert

It has come to my attention that pretty much everything that I do is irrelevant. 

OK, well that seems like a statement of self-pity, and it probably is to some extent.  It’s certainly not an earth-shattering announcement, or some divine revelation.  It’s just a statement of fact.

So, since no one is paying the least amount of attention, I am going to post anyway, just for my own sake, my general observations and experience of life. 

I have noticed that people, in general, can do everything “right”, i.e. go to school, get good grades, work very hard, join all the right groups, etc.  In other words, all of the things we are taught growing up will make you a better person and successful.  Yet they never come close to achieving even a little portion of wealth or success.  It doesn’t matter how “intelligent” you are, how insightful you are, if you “conform” or submit to authority(ies), or rebel against.  Your inventions, thoughts, writings, songs are never good enough.  No matter if they are objectively good or not, genius and mediocrity are both subjected to the dustbin as trash.  Yet “people” seem to come out of nowhere, having done nothing of note, ever, suddenly getting millions of dollars for a book deal, or a huge contract as a “speaker” or “influencer” or “media personality”.  People who seem, as a general rule, to lack any sort of actual or perceived intelligence or any skills whatsoever.  People who are making literal millions doing things that any thinking person could do, possibly much, much better, for a tenth of the wage.

Don’t get me wrong:  I am hardly the hard working, intelligent, good grade getting, go getting protagonist in a story of downtrodden woe.  Being a bit of a slacker, I have never really “worked hard”.  Digging ditches, doing construction, and laboring at a job doesn’t count in that context since it is “hard work” for wages, rather than “working hard” to achieve a “goal”.  Mostly not a joiner of clubs or social organizations because of being an introvert who prefers alone time with a book to partying with “friends”.  Also rather boring, for the most part, and I enjoy that lack of controversy and conflict.
I would personally not be averse to someone who would pull me out of my cave in the desert, clean me up and put me in a commentator’s spot at FOX news or CNN for millions of dollars.  I certainly wouldn’t do any worse at the job of reading lines from a teleprompter than most of the idiots we are forced to see in that position, and I am sure anyone else could do just as well.  If anyone bothers to read this and would like to have that conversation about the “skills” or “charisma” of media personalities, it would certainly be welcome.  Of note, some people are a general exception, such as Tucker Carlson for example.  But where is HE now?

So, why?

Why do idiots make millions, and hardworking, intelligent people make emails in a cubical for rice and beans?

Noah

“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”  – Matthew 24: 37-39

Did you know there were 9 generations between Adam and Noah?
People who lived for 800-1000 years.

I used to see the depictions in Sunday school like we all have, and old bearded man, a rickety wooden boat being filled with animals two by two (like how’d he keep the lions from eating all the cows?), and a rural, farmer setting with bronze age tools, etc.

Let’s say God made math and logic for a reason:
(Please check my math)
Adam and Eve were perfect when they were created.
Women can produce 400 or more eggs in their lifetime. That is the imperfect, degenerated, modern stock, not the ones a couple of generations from the beginning perfection.
Let’s say 1 couple makes 100 kids (after Seth, Eve probably made plenty of sons and daughters, not to mention Cain as he was only banished, not killed). That’s 50 couples give or take.
First generation, if every couple had 100 kids: 5000
Second generation: 250,000
Third generation: 12,500,000 the city of LA
Fourth generation: 625,000,000 that’s Russia and the USA
Fifth generation: 32 billion
Sixth generation: 1.5 trillion
Seventh generation: close to 80 trillion people born.
Eighth generation: 3 quadrillion people born.

Yikes.

Of course, this is only counting people born, and not how many died, or if people didn’t just stop at 20 or 30 kids each. But the population of the earth before the flood had to have been in the BILLIONS at least.

Consider that all of those people are not like the people you know now. They were only a few generations away from being perfect like Adam was.
Think of the most intelligent, healthy, vigorous and motivated people you know.
Now think that those people you just visualized would be pitiful, unhealthy, diseased and very, very stupid compared to pre-flood humanity. All with the same language, lineage and motivations, and all tainted and deceived by a Satan that was visible, tangible and powerful.
All except for a very few that is.

I am sure that by the fourth generation, they had a “great” civilization, and by Noah’s time they probably surpassed us in science and industry. We may have already found their dead decaying remains on the Moon and Mars, who knows?

Noah was not some old bronze age farmer that built a boat.

That story was written by a bronze age prophet with no point of reference to the heavily armored, high-tech vessel built to survive the complete and utter destruction of all living things and the total reshaping of the earth that was “The Flood”. My guess is that Noah was a scientist/industrialist and the “two by two” were embryos gestating in test tubes and cryogenics for several years while he worked to heal the earth, plant food and get things started again.  But that is just my guess.

Genesis was written to record the fact that God made the earth and all life, that He already destroyed it once, so now He is giving the children of Isaac the chance to do it right. The rest of the “Old Testament” is the story of how miserable a failure that was, but with the hope of redemption that came from Jesus.

What’s the point of this? It is just speculation, isn’t it?
Noah could well have been a farmer who built a wooden boat and shoved a buncha stinking animals into it (with no room for enough food for 40 hours let alone 40 days), and God could have used His power to keep them alive and safe.
But I know, through the Word and through history that God seldom uses His direct power over the earth. He prefers for us to listen, believe and act on that belief. To work, labor and learn His will. We are His children, in that very real sense, and the earth and universe are His classroom/nursery/apprenticeship for us to learn in.
…and the fact that God had no problem with wiping out a greater and vaster, more prolific and powerful civilization than our own, for merely being as evil as we are now.
There were probably many more people that followed God than just Noah and his family, but they didn’t make it to the boat. Think about that and be ready, eh?