Housekeeping Note: I (PGF) will be offline next week. No posts from me. Be back soon. Herschel will probably dock my pay of course.

Chuck Baldwin Dates Revelation, including a solid refutation of historicism and identifying “the Beast.” Touches on Chapters 11 and 17. Dr. Baldwin continues to suggest that there may be an early fulfillment in part and a later (sometimes referred to as “now, not yet) fulfillment of Revelation, if that’s what he means. We remain interested in his reasoning behind this and hope that a future message will explain.

And Dr. Ken Gentry, in two short posts, Part One and Part Two dates Revelation.

Plus an explanation of the temple in Revelation 11.

If there is no God, there is no baseline of fact from which right and wrong are delineated and defined. You end up with 300 plus million definitions of good and evil, each according to a sin-filled human and their self-righteousness. Under this humanism, peace among men will never be achieved.

The central assumption of leftist thought is that if you control the society, you can also control the character and conduct of every person who has been raised in it. Every leftist policy flows from this idea. Government becomes god and can, given political omnipotence, give us utopia.

All we have to do is give up our individuality, our rights, and our faith in anything else.

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The problem of evil is an old one. It can come from many directions. But our society is particularly vulnerable because its elites can no longer even grapple with the concept.

They’ve created a society in which evil thrives because they are incapable of recognizing it.

Source: Borrowed

Part One  Part Two

There are perhaps two judgments in the remaining verses of Psalm 107. Both are of a national type. They may lend one into the other as that would not break from a general pattern of prophecy and judgments in Scripture. First verses 33-38, then the last.

“33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.”

The earth, from the day of the first sin, has been dying; sin takes once bountiful rivers of plenty and makes them desolate. There’s no going back to the Garden; that route is kept secure by a flaming sword and Cherubims (Genesis 3:24). God removes access to raw resources when you won’t use them for His resplendence. You can point to a hundred vectors for the current and ongoing destruction of Western Civilization, but there is only one cause; you hate Christ, for if you loved Him, you would keep His commandments (John 14:15).

Noah, a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), warned them that they were the problem for one hundred years. The prophets of old warned and warned that our Lord was tiring of their turning that which is good and holy unto the Lord into evil, and they would not hear.

“Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?” – Malachi 2:17

For wickedness and disbelief, the Almighty will turn a fruitful land into salted barren earth, for the sin, not of Klaus Schwab, but of those that dwell in the land. The WEF is merely a symptom of corruption caused by sin. When the people sin, they get ungodly rulers.

As did those souls who would not or could not hear the prophets’ warnings and of Jesus Christ; Americans, Christians, cannot get it through their heads down into their hearts that they are the problem, they are not keeping all that Christ commands. They live the high life, recreating themselves to death with endless busyness, willfully destroying all the blessings that the Lord would bestow by laying up the fruit of righteousness before the altar of Heaven. For this, best as we can tell, benefits are turned into curses of barrenness by our Lord. He does this out of lovingkindness. Americans will cry out to Him. They will know that He is Lord; it’s simply a matter of what it will take to get their attention.

Verses 35 and 36 seem encouraging, but the Almighty may take our mantle and give it to another, turning wilderness to fruitful land and dry ground into waterspings. These verses do not say that He gives these things back. In most Scripture about national judgment, there is no sense that those who are judged are those same that later see the blessings of God. It’s most often another generation or separate people that God will raise up to be His. There God takes the hungry, those hungry for Him, those desiring nothing more than that He be glorified above all else; there, the Holy One builds them a city, an exceptional habitation, where He may rule and reign.

American Christians are so settled on the heavenly city that they are of little use in the Kingdom of God. They must think that forgiveness from sin and salvation from death and hell are given to them because they are special. Christ’s people are supposed to be peculiar, not fruitless, useless; why wouldn’t God take their food and other resources?

You can make your own personal, family, or Church application to this if you like, but this judgment is not about the individual; it’s national. Moses and that generation died, and then Joshua and Caleb, the only two just men, Joshua leading the next generation, went into the land. God didn’t need them; they needed Him! Know this, Christ will have a people, and He doesn’t need you at all; you need Him. You serve at His good pleasure, and where you won’t do His works, how does the Almighty derive His pleasure and glory? Why wouldn’t He take America’s blessings from them to bring a new, worthy generation before His throne to worship Him with fear?

Here we see what happens; God brings them low through oppression.

“39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.”

Americans have no clue what affliction and sorrow are. They are oblivious to what’s coming, and the local Churches are not warning them, and where they may be warning them, they won’t or can’t tell the congregation that it’s their fault. It’s as though they read the Holy Bible and only remotely understand it with vague acknowledgments that God will be God and have no other above Him.

Armchair disciples, knowing every word and deed that Christ did, extraordinarily detailed knowledge both about the bible and what’s inside it, doing absolutely none of it, not a lick, they are disciples of Jesus Christ nowhere but the vain imaginings of their mind.

But fear not, God will find a poor people, needful of Him, thankful for His small blessings, that will honor Him and give Him the glory He is worthy to receive.

Verse 42 should be the desire of every believer on earth; the righteous shall see the workings of God and rejoice, even and perhaps, especially in judgments. And what a better picture; do you not long for the day; all iniquity shall stop her mouth. Want to know how to have that, be salt and light and righteousness doing the work of a disciple of Jesus by keeping His commandments, preaching the Gospel to every creature, and teaching all nations that which Christ commanded from the beginning.

Fear not, the princes of this world will get what’s coming, and if they are not careful, they’ll get it in this life.

Vengeance is the Lord’s. Read Deuteronomy 32:35-43.

And we’ll leave it with these verses.

“17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” – Luke 4:17-21

As at the time Christ spoke these words, the High Churches today are at the feet of the ruling class. The Pharisees of our time are indistinguishable from the American Church to Washington DC, filled with error, the blind leading the blind, but Christ will have a people. He sets up nations and brings them to naught, judging empires into the dustbin of history.

Reread verse 43. If you don’t learn these truths, you won’t understand God’s purposes in judgment, grace, and for instruction in righteousness.

His answer was the same thing I said not too many months ago if you recall.  Although I have to say that the idea of unreliability of semi-automatic firearms is very dated and incorrect now with shotguns like Beretta makes.  I’d prefer a semi-auto shotgun to a pump action for a number of reasons, including recoil management and the breakage of sight picture to work the pump.

But I do like the idea of reliance on a wheel gun.

Via The Gun Feed:

Uvalde Schools Implemented Extensive Security Measures Including School Resource Officers.

Texas police are now saying that the armed school officer who was first reported to have engaged the gunman in a firefight was not on campus when the shooting started.

That’s convenient. So is the timing; end of school year, don’t need the building for a while. Joe “Gun Free Zone” Biden says to raze the building.

Uvalde Schools Security Plan PDF.

Joe  Biden doesn’t want “hardened” schools.

Jean Pierre: "There's been conversation about hardening schools, that is not something that [Joe Biden] believes in."

Joe Biden doesn’t believe in making schools more secure? pic.twitter.com/gPBxXO4UEx

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 31, 2022

Borrowed:

“Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”- James 2:17

It’s not a point of pride to be called by the Father; it’s somewhat terrifying. Many ask, after the initial glow or during a time of testing, why me? But the answer is clear, to serve through Christ, bringing glory to the Father. Those that are Christs have no idea what they are doing. That’s because there is no reason by human understanding and most certainly not logic that those known of God are those He has drawn to Himself. Sons of God of varying callings and ordinations to bear fruit and genuine men of God try to exude confidence to those around them in a plan or works that God has for them, but they can do nothing except that Christ wills it. They don’t instruct you in righteousness to elevate themselves as sadly some perceive; usually, it breaks their heart to have to do it. Pray for your leadership that they would be faithful servants of God to feed the flock with truth, even facts from a friend.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” – Romans 12:2

Not knowing where to start serving God, Christians should try everything; prove His will by searching out the many ministries and callings to find which one(s) God has chosen for you. The object is not to find the one you like—this is a significant problem with the New Religion. The idea is to call upon the Father as you seek and knock on the many doors to find His will; it won’t be long before instruction arrives from the throne room of the Almighty as to what direction you are to take. We implore you, regardless of how crazy the thing sounds or ill-equipped and fearful you are of that first effort; do it, do that something! You won’t regret it.

Five years later, you’ll find yourself in the perfect will of the Father, building His kingdom by the power of the Holy Spirit come alive within you, the favor and blessings of Christ upon you, in the middle of a war you never knew existed, a real spiritual battle, being carried out through people.

Walking by faith is doing the one little thing that God puts in front of you. After months or years of doing the next little thing, it becomes apparent in hindsight by what means and manner God has chosen you to fulfill the works of His desire. This is why many won’t work. They expect to be told the 3-point plan with specific milestones and end goals. That’s not faith; that’s corporatism devoid of God’s ever-present guidance.

“For we walk by faith, not by sight” – 1 Corinthians 5:7

You don’t know what God will do until after you do the first thing to which He is compelling you, drawing you, calling, and willing you to attempt. But, He’s God, so you know that it will be good if you trust in Him above your own understanding. Then you must do the following little something the next day and the next, ever learning to hear and obey the voice of the Shepard. God equips the called; He doesn’t call the equipped. He derives maximum glory through raising the unequipped into a mature soldier of Jesus Christ.

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” – 1 Corinthians 2:9

Those marked by the Father are under continuous gentle and loving pressure, but its pressure nonetheless to do more and more in service of Him. You will be rewarded by degrees as you serve, and far better is the reward in Heaven. Having heard His voice, walking in trust by faith alone, workers in the Kingdom of God most often only know in hindsight where God has been leading them.

Luke 12:41-48 relates the growth of the calling(s) that the Father has put upon you, and those that returned fivefold interest over the charge given while the Master is in the far country are rewarded five kingdoms to rule (Matthew 25:14-30). Yes, that’s a reward and manifold more responsibility with the attendant work, all while trying to bring even more glory to the Father that the name of Jesus Christ may go throughout all the earth. Behold, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

After you start, God will provide; if you serve, God will give you time to act, not before but after. If you do, then God will teach you and raise you in the ability to perform. Next, God will provide you with the resources to operate if, first, you step out in faith to serve. You must start all endeavors by faith, and God will bring the increase. God doesn’t call disciples to wait for the rapture! The more you serve, the more you learn of God. Having faith unto salvation is not the end; it’s not only salvation; we are saved unto good works; those made His don’t get saved and do nothing. “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”- James 2:17. I fear for those souls and their eternal state.

The fullness of service to the Almighty is unknown until we are in the midst, and even then, we continue to grow, and our service may change. And the fullness of the fruit is not known in this life. It’s by faith that a man is saved and continues in faith to follow after in service. God first draws unto salvation, then saves, then draws anew unto works, but only after you step into the breech by faith does God qualify you to the avocation.

So too, as a son serves his Father by doing as He commands while seeking His will, the son learns more and more about the Father, who He is, and what pleases Him. And as the son grows through walking by faith into the mercies and instruction in righteousness that the Father brings all His sons, thereby does the son glory that he knows God. Take that first small and tentative step of faith to do the works of God, ever drawing nigh to the Father that made you and gave you the heart of love to serve Him.