The Sunday after

 I haven't posted this weekend.  The smaller part of this involves an incident between me and a trash dumpster that left my back "questionable" all weekend, so no walks.

The bigger part is the absolute grief I have about my nation and the world over the "joyous reactions" people had to Charlie Kirk's murder.  If you don't believe in Heaven and Hell, angels and demons, listening to these "people" should have convinced you.

One local pastor hit it on the head: "Remember, a person is not your enemy.  People are not your enemy.  The Bible tells you who your enemy is."

Charlie Kirk was murdered for speaking this country and our God.  And now, those who got fired for posting their "joy" on social media are crying, "Where's my free speech?"  Guess what? You shot it.

My son came over for our typical "beer and sports" night Friday, and the first thing he said was, "Before we get started, can we pray about Charlie Kirk?"  He went on to to tell me he had already had to delete 3 FB friends who celebrated his murder.  He was broken hearted, and I was never so proud of him.

All of these haters have one thing in common: they never spent five minutes actually HEARING what Charlie said, or figuring out what he stood for.  They just take as gospel whatever the left media tells them- and when the left media spends all it's time calling us fascists, Hitlers, racist, that's what you get.

Every one who uses the word Fascist on another human being should be required to spend a weekend back in time in 1944 Auschwitz.  Or spend a day with Dietrich Bonhoffer in 1937.  See what the face of fascism really was-

-and then go run their political opinions past the mirror.

Arguably the most "third world" cities in the United States are Cleveland, Detroit, and Baltimore.  Now, name the three cities whose NFL teams did not have a Charlie Kirk Tribute this weekend.  I am far from surprised.  But see, that IS freedom of speech.  They didn't have to, and they didn't.

People who may well end up in Hell dancing and singing, "Rest in Hell"?  Yep, them too.  But guess what? It comes with consequences.  If you project badly on your workplace, you might well be fired.  If you are an educator or military or medical, you SHOULD be fired.  And if you lose the respect of decent, caring human beings?  You chose it.  Go dance with your demons.

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There is a part of me that is struggling with forgiveness.  I forgive people, not monsters.  I understand being deceived, but not reveling in it.  Unlike my son, I've pretty much shed any "friends" that would have celebrated already over Trump and Israel.  But for him, for all the stories I've seen the last 3 days, my heart is broken. Psa 30:4  Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. 

Psa 30:5  For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. 

Tell it to them

 Okay, so here we have a man who did nothing but try to engage thinking people to think.  To try to explain the truth behind what he believes.  A Christian, a family man.  Always treated those he disagreed with with respect.  And someone, some leftist coward, shot him from a window 200 yards away.  Mixed reports; he may already be dead. (Confirmed as I type, leaving behind a wife and two little ones.)

This was done by the kind of person who lets a 14-time violent criminal out of jail so he can murder an innocent woman, a woman trusting in America to be a better place,lets him out because he shared the same race.  Oh, and apparently owns a counselling business he was supposed to report to.

This was done by the kind of person who would go to a Children's church service and shoot the place up, because he was full of self-loathing from the fact that his mother thought transitioning from a man to a woman was a good thing.

This was done by the kind of person that says, "We don't need the National Guard to help our police with crime," safe in his luxury mansion while poor people get killed by gangs and thugs on an hourly basdis in his city.

This was done by the kind of person who thinks communism is a great step forward.

This was done by the kind of person that thinks allowing Jews and Christians to be harrassed in our streets, and in our universities and schools is "free speech", and thus should continue on the government dole, AKA "My paycheck".

This was done by the kind of person who holds up a sign at a "political rally" that reads, "Hey (candidate I oppose), if trans can't share your bathroom, you (implication bering the candidate I oppose is black) can't share my water fountain".

Well, this person is sick of all of your hate based, race based, absolutely evil things you support.  

Rom 1:28  And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 

Rom 1:29  They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 

Rom 1:30  slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 

Rom 1:31  foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 

Rom 1:32  Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. 

So the next time you want an unbiased, look at both sides of an issue stance from me, Here's my answer:

"Tell it to them."

Wednesday Bible Study: The Millenium

 

What is 'the Millenium?" After the horrors of the Tribulation, Jesus Christ will come and reign on the remade earth for a thousand years.  What kind of earth will this be?  Let's look into it.

According to Zechariah 14, most of what we would call Israel (" ...from Geba to Rimnon south of Jerusalem...") will be a level plain- no more 'songs of ascent'?  Not quite, because that same verse says, "But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. "  Jerusalem will be situated on the highest mountain in the area- Of course, because the very throne of God will be there.

And this will not be a Jerusalem like any we have known!  This is the famous-in-eschatology "Foursquare city".  It will be an enormous cube 1,500 miles length, width, and height.  How does this work?  I have no idea, and it is just one of many marvels I'll say that about.  It will be twelve-gated, for the 12 tribes, and a wall with twelve foundations having the names of the 12 Apostles.  The wall itself will be built from what John described as Jasper.  This is a stone that comes in many colors- the most valuable being green- and opaque.  The city within is gold, but not gold as we know it, but like clear glass.  Each foundation is "adorned" with a different gemstone, and each gate is made of a single pearl (another "impossible with man, possible with God" moment).

The earth itself will be different.  The very skies will be different; the oceans will be gone, and it will be constant day.  Why?  The 'first heaven' was rent when Christ came with His legions to end Armageddon. The oceans, which were this earth's great purifier- and great divider- will no longer be needed for either purpose.  And Christ Himself will be the light all over the world.

The city will have no Temple; because the Temple was merely a symbol of being in the presence of God; and now Jesus is God With Us.

So, how will this world work? There will be nations, though what kind of structure they will have is unclear.  Isaiah tells us that two of these nations will be Egypt and Assyria:

Isa 19:24  In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 

Isa 19:25  whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.” 

In Daniel 11, he is told that "Edom, Moab, and the prominent men of the Ammonites" will escape destruction; at this point, the only close corrolary to these nations is Jordan.  All of these nations were judged and destroyed in the past, so the "political" future of this earth will be very interesting indeed.

One more thing about these nations- These Gentile survivors of the last war wil be required to keep the Feast of Tabernacles every year.  And if they do not- being still normal humans, they still have a choice- they will face famine.  Egypt is singled out for this; apparently this new Egypt will be naughty at some point.

Finally, the teaser for next week:  "Normal humans?  What does he mean by that?"  Well, there will be three "kinds" of people on this new earth, and that is where we'll start next time.

Bum Steer 4

 By Martin...

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Pictures

 So let's start with a two-walk Labor Day- and a morning trip to Shoaff Park:

Here we go!

Thinking it might not be long before it's time to switch to the hoodie ensemble

Steam off the pond

Looking for froggies

Bubblies!

Lots of doggies

A little Dorothy lost her ruby sandals

River so low, Misty took one step and boom, off the shelf and belly deep

So low the land side of the fishing pier is mud

A varmint fleeing

A baby blue jay hanging out

Into the ravine

"Daddy, this wasn't a very good idea"

Then, tha afternoon- in an attempt to let mommy rest before working...

On to the Duck Pond

No ducks, no pond

Time to go swimming

What we have to clamber back up

Daddy finds a big shell

Now we know where the rap music was coming from

"Let's go!"

From the peak of Big Hill.

About this time, Laurie called in tears over a kidney stone, so it all ended on a down note.  We move on to the 3rd...

I thought the rain wasn't coming till tonight...

Getting set for the big cross country meet.  One way to keep them on course, I guess...

Yeah... time to cut it short

Almost game time? Good luck with that.

Yesterday is next...

Hardly anyone out and about...

Old boy getting set to open cricket season

Mushroom Ridge getting a trim

See what happens when you mark the cross country course to soon and it rains? You get to do it again

Seconds before: "The woods is dead today!  No squirrels, no runners, no discers." Now: Squirrel runs up a tree, two runners go by.

And when we got home, it was time to assemble Laurie's latest find: Combo entertainment center and doggie cage.

Today:

Again with the 'no signs of life'

Oh, there we go: Cross country just getting set up

And Mr Goldfinch

Trekking up to base camp near the woods

Since doggies beat us to the main trail...

We went up south ridge

In the ravine, I spot a deer's butt

This was a second deer.  Camera decided to get stupid, and the 'butt' deer snorted and took off.  Scared the nibs off a black squirrel, too!

CC Base camp

Th-th-th-that's all folks!

(Except for the part that as we walked home through the addition, a car we passed told us, "Hi.  You are being recorded.")