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“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
- Smith Wigglesworth

• Temptation and deception, entitlement and sin have ripened modern society for rack and ruin. Such judgments hardly need to be Divine, given global specters of violence and war, abuse and slavery, immorality and abortion, poverty and economic inequality, climate change and nuclear holocaust present current and future threats. As do viral pandemic and artificial intelligence, cyber tech and bioterrorism issues. Many reseting the 2020 Doomsday Clock of Atomic Scientists to 100 seconds to midnight. Closer than ever before. Closer than ever before.

• Far from immune, modern Christianity is compliant with, if not guilty of, much of the above. And more, given our Scriptural mandate to be society's salt, and the light of the world. Carrying out such a Great Commission requires more than words, particularly the wrong words. According to the Gospels, Book of Acts and Epistles, power evangelism and discipleship are essential. Sadly, the genuine gifts of the Spirit are clearly in short supply. Up to and including miraculously healing the sick in reliable and demonstrable ways. Yet Scripture identifies miraculous healing and deliverance as "the children's bread," a trademark of Biblical Christianity.

2. Powerlessness: For obvious and opposite reasons, the dishonest doctrine on both sides of the aisle not only justifies each side's errors, but results in pandemic powerlessness. A anemic condition all the more acute given such entrenched positioning all but guarantees the vast majority of both cessationists and charismatics failure to even recognize and admit, much less with brokenness and confession repent of, our nearly universal and continual grieving of the Holy Spirit. In this and a myriad of other vital matters.

3. Prophetic Christians: An honest appraisal of the shameful stalemate described above leaves little hope. Interestingly, David Wilkerson is attributed by Dr. Mike Evans with an 1986 prophecy reminiscent of the current C-19 crises:

• “I see a plague coming on the world, and the bars, churches and government will shut down. The plague will hit New York City and shake it like it has never been shaken. The plague is going to force prayerless believers into radical prayer and into their Bibles, and repentance will be the cry from the man of God in the pulpit. And out of it will come a third Great Awakening that will sweep America and the world."

• “If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.”

• "And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 NIV

• " I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power." 1 Corinthians 2:3-5 NIV

• "There’s going to be no renewal, no revival, no awakening until we’re willing to let Him once again break us. Folk’s it’s getting late and it’s getting serious."

• "Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." Luke 13:1-5 NIV

• "Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can’t believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I’ll do it. That’s how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I’ll do." John 14:12-14 MSG

• "Then he said, “Go into the world. Go everywhere and announce the Message of God’s good news to one and all. Whoever believes and is baptized is saved; whoever refuses to believe is damned. These are some of the signs that will accompany believers: They will throw out demons in my name, they will speak in new tongues, they will take snakes in their hands, they will drink poison and not be hurt, they will lay hands on the sick and make them well." Mark 16:15-18 MSG

• "As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, "but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work." John 9:1-4 NIV

• "For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power." 1 Corinthians 4:19-21 NIV

• "Everyone’s after the dishonest dollar, little people and big people alike. Prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth. My people are broken—shattered!—and they put on Band-Aids, Saying, ‘It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine.’ But things are not ‘just fine’! Do you suppose they are embarrassed over this outrage? No, they have no shame. They don’t even know how to blush. There’s no hope for them. They’ve hit bottom and there’s no getting up. As far as I’m concerned, they’re finished.” God has spoken." Jeremiah 6:13-15 MSG

• "The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament."

• “These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock. But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards.” Matthew 7:24-27 MSG

Fresno County California
Fresno County population = 1,000,000
Population over 65 years old = 120,000
Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases = 1,288
Number of deaths under 65 = 0
Number of deaths over 65 = 17
Chances of contracting COVID-19 in Fresno County = 1.5 of 1/10th of 1%
Chances of dying from COVID-19 if under 65 = 0%
Chances of dying from COVID-19 if over 65 = 1.4 of 1/100th of 1%

As of November 17, 2020 sadly 460 Fresno County residents had died from COVID-19 since tracking began. With a population just over 1 million, the death toll was only 4.6 people in every 10,000. While regrettable and concerning, a literal mortality rare of a fraction of a percent of a percent of a percent hardly justifies unprecedented economic and institutional shutdowns and restrictions:

At the same time, after lowering some restrictions, as of November 17, 2020 Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a "Tier 1 Purple Lockdown" for 28 CA counties. For the first time in history, citizens were prohibited from conducting normal Thanksgiving gatherings with various exceptions. RedState reported on what is considered by many a continued escalation of a dystopian nightmare:

The recent guidelines for “gatherings” the state announced, as covered by our Jennifer Van Laar, are ridiculous enough – allowing for a wedding, but not for a reception, among others. Now, enter California’s new Thanksgiving COVID restrictions per Newsweek.

You also must wear a mask and stay six feet away from everyone while you eat Thanksgiving dinner.

And just in case you thought it couldn’t get any more absurd, Newsom also wants you to know that playing wind instruments and singing are “strongly discouraged.”

At the time of Governor Gavin Newsom's increased restrictions, 18,299 Californians had died from COVID-19. With an estimated population of 39.78 million, the death toll was again only 4.6 people in every 10,000. While any and all deaths are tragic, again, a mortality rate of a fraction of a percent of a percent of a percent hardly justifies unprecedented draconian measures. Many of which literally make the cure worse than the disease:

Viewed another way, by the end of June 27, 2020, the provisional death tolls stratified by week and age seem to reveal that once the U.S. stopped forcing nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients, the death toll numbers fell drastically. Which is where 0 to 44-year-olds had always been throughout the entire timeline (as represented in the bottom 3 age groups in the graph below).



A comparison of global flu and COVID-19 statistics is also interesting. On August 11, 2020 news sources everywhere announced that COVID-19 had exceeded 20 million cases worldwide. What the vast majority of the medial failed to note was that the flu averages 1 billion cases annually.


Presented side by side, clearly 20 million C-19 cases pales in comparisons to 1,000 million flu cases. Even should annual incidents of C-19 increase ten fold, the total would represent only 20% that of the flu. And there has never been global or even regional testing for the flu. Particularly of asymptomatic cases among the general populace. Furthermore, while it may be argued that the death rate of C-19 exceeds that of flu, there are many medial and research experts that dispute the direct correlation of such findings. For a variety of reasons.

As of the end of September 2020 C-19 cases continue to rise in the U.S. and around the world. This is largely due to vastly increased testing. It is also apparent that much of the skyrocketing death toll can be attributed to mismanagement of pandemic by most of the developed world, along with the inclusion of a massive number of cases where C-19 was present at death but not the leading cause. As of August 31,  CDC mortality data was updated to show that only 6% of deaths related to COVID-19 occurred without other preexisting conditions. In 94% of cases, those who have died with COVID-19 had between two and three preexisting conditions on average. See sample article.

A 11/26/20 article from AIER entitled, "New Study Highlights Alleged Accounting Error Regarding Covid Deaths" reported that after adjusting for the U.S. average death toll over the last 6 years, as extrapolated from CDC data and adjusted for factors such as a larger population, "COVID-19 has not lead to any significant increase in deaths."



The AIER article explains:

• A new study (link removed or site crashed but now available at Archive.org) published by Dr. Genevieve Briand at Johns Hopkins University notes some critical accounting errors done at the national level. The study – which is still being vetted – simply examines the raw data that should have been questioned months ago. The overall conclusion is that Covid-19, at least according to collected data, is not the killer disease that it is currently hyped up to be. AIER is not endorsing the study as is without further study, but we are interested in the argument being examined and discussed.

• Essentially, there is an average number of deaths every year due to a variety of causes that for the most part have remained constant through the years. This includes morbidities such as heart disease, which has long been the leading cause of death, and cancer, which has long plagued our existence. For Covid-19 to be a serious cause of alarm, it would need to significantly increase the number of average deaths."

• However, according to the study, “These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.”

• What is even more interesting if not more alarming is that the spike in recorded Covid-19 deaths seen in 2020 has coincided with a proportional decrease in death from other diseases. Yanni Gu writes “This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19.” 

• Deaths have remained relatively constant, yet reported deaths due to deadly conditions such as heart disease have fallen while reported Covid deaths have risen. This suggests that the current Covid death count is in some capacity relabeled deaths due to other ailments. According to the graph, reported Covid deaths even overtook heart disease as the main cause of death at one point, which should raise suspicion.

• This aligns with many other well-established facts about the virus, such as those with comorbidities are the most at risk. According to the CDC, about 94% of Covid deaths occur with comorbidities. This suggests that it could be possible that a large number of deaths could have been mainly due to more serious ailments such as heart disease but categorized as a Covid-19 death, a far less lethal disease.

The AIER article continues:

• "According to this graph provided by the study, deaths labeled under Covid-19 increased while deaths labeled under others decreased. It is important to note that this sample only applies to the month of April as the author notes these were the weeks with the highest reported deaths. Gu writes, “The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths. Even patients dying from other underlying diseases but are infected with COVID-19 count as COVID-19 deaths. This is likely the main explanation as to why COVID-19 deaths drastically increased while deaths by all other diseases experienced a significant decrease…

• “If [the COVID-19 death toll] was not misleading at all, what we should have observed is an increased number of heart attacks and increased COVID-19 numbers. But a decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn’t give us a choice but to point to some misclassification,” Briand replied.”

Collateral damage from overly restrictive economic, institutional lockdowns and shelter in place mandates may take years to manifest. The full global impact on the quality and length of life of billions may never be fully known.

Case in point, in October, 2,153 Japanese people committed suicide, a number that exceeds the country’s total Covid-19 toll which stood at 2,087 for the entire year to date. TRTWORLD reported,

• "Although suicide is a major societal issue in Japan, restrictions on social interaction have left people isolated, and many have lost their jobs due to the pandemic’s economic fallout. Mass unemployment, anxiety, and social isolation are suspected to be the main drivers for the surge of suicides in Japan, though also largely triggered by the pandemic."

• "We didn't even have a lockdown, and the impact of Covid is very minimal compared to other countries ... but still we see this big increase in the number of suicides," Michiko Ueda, associate professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, told CNN. That suggests other countries might see a similar or even bigger increase in the number of suicides in the future," Ueda added." Read article

• "The Covid-19 pandemic has stretched the bond between the public and the scientific profession as never before. Scientists have been revealed to be neither omniscient demigods whose opinions automatically outweigh all political disagreement, nor unscrupulous fraudsters pursuing a political agenda under a cloak of impartiality. Somewhere between the two lies the truth: Science is a flawed and all too human affair, but it can generate timeless truths, and reliable practical guidance, in a way that other approaches cannot.In a lecture at Cornell University in 1964, the physicist Richard Feynman defined the scientific method. First, you guess, he said, to a ripple of laughter. Then you compute the consequences of your guess. Then you compare those consequences with the evidence from observations or experiments. “If [your guess] disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make a difference how beautiful the guess is, how smart you are, who made the guess or what his name is…it’s wrong… In general, science is much better at telling you about the past and the present than the future."

• "Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." James 5:13-16 NIV

• "Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events. The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed." Acts 5:11-16 NIV

• "Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." 1 Corinthians 13:8-12 NIV

• "Look! Listen! God’s arm is not amputated—he can still save. God’s ears are not stopped up—he can still hear. There’s nothing wrong with God; the wrong is in you. Your wrongheaded lives caused the split between you and God. Your sins got between you so that he doesn’t hear." Isaiah 59:1-2 MSG

• Tokyo, Japan: Population 13.5 million reported 4,654 cases resulting in 155 deaths.
• NYC, USA: Population 8.4 million reported 174,709 cases resulting in 14,162 deaths.
• Why having been in lockdown, is NYC with similar circumstances and a smaller population, reporting over 170,000 more cases and over 14,000 more deaths?

• "Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you." Mathew 7:7 AMP

 ... and tho'
     We are not now that strength which in old days
     Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
     One equal temper of heroic hearts,
     Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.

Addendum

The author is well aware that the premise of this article, if not Quantum Christianity in toto, is easily rejected. As exposed by the Kierkegaard quote, "Christian scholarship" has much to fear from a simple straightforward handling of Scripture. More demanding New Testament principles are not only challenging, but abrasive. To this end, Kierkegaard further warns that authentic Biblical Christianity is not for the timid, "It is the deepest wound that can be dealt to a person designed to collide with everything on the most appalling scale.” Such a sentiment reinforces the need for Quantum hope and costly honesty. Both prerequisites of "accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth."

If Christianity’s a cruise ship sailing merrily from here to Heaven, then Søren’s sentiment is way out of line. If, from an eternal perspective, Heaven and Earth are at war with fallen angels and devils, Christianity is indeed a battleship and Kierkegaard’s spot on. What recruit facing the rigors of boot camp, much less the horrors of war, would possibly take offense?

Even if Christianity could be likened to a pleasure cruise, given Churchianity’s collision course with so many modern temptations and deceptions, up to an including the blood red mountainous iceberg of abortion, in certain respects might even many well intended ministries be reduced to simply arranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

So is Christianity a cruise or gunship? We must decide. And do so quickly and carefully. Military directives and drills, cramped quarters and sea rations, would be absurd on a pleasure cruise. So too, civilian itineraries and activities, opulent suites and sumptuous banquets, would be anathema during a time of war.  

It can’t be overstated that according to the context of Scripture, the battlefield is not a mythical analogy, but rather eternity’s reality. This partially explains the Bible’s harsh or even horrible accounts of earthly conflict. An explanation pampered modern Christians refuse to accept. Thus our failure to acknowledge the New Testament's call to arms.

Another small problem with the primary tenants of this article is that they are impossible. Tasking, much less requiring, elders of the church to regularly and miraculously heal the sick is patently absurd. Yet, Christianity is synonymous with impossibility. From the incarnation by virgin birth to the atonement and resurrection. From Kingdom signs and wonders to the entire Book of Revelation.

Faith producing miracles is by definition rare. Should mountain removing levels of mustard seed faith be common, the world would be quite a different place. Even so, The New Testament is not only replete with the miraculous, but depended on it. Both as a foundation for 1st century Christianity, as well as a litmus test for Biblical authority and power evangelism/discipleship. Nothing is more troubling and telling than modern Christianity’s lack of miracle producing levels of faith. Nor is anything more needed and necessary than its restoration. As the primary and demonstrable aspect of both the Kingdom and glory of God, its importance and influence is infinite and eternal. As are the ramifications of its continued loss.

Improbable or not, failure to face difficult, or in this case impossible truth, undermines the offer of power implicit in the New Testament. As previously referenced, Christianity was designed to be heralded by "a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power." Without which much is left lacking. As with any split vessel, half the Gospel holds little or no promise of living water.

Even so, what modern church would open such a spiritual pandora's box? How many in positions of leadership are willing to risk all they have on an impossibility with little or no chance of success? Even if persuaded to do so, what explanation would suffice for having delayed so long? What would parishioners and colleagues think? What other unpleasantries might require addressing?

This is exactly Kierkegaard's point when sardonically stating, "Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world?" A reasonable question. Thankfully one asked and answered by a great cloud of witnesses, the likes of which we are told "The world was not worthy." Up to and including Martin Luther and Blaise Pascal, Charles Wesley and Hudson Taylor, Charles Finney and Smith Wigglesworth, George Müller and Evan Roberts, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jackie Pullinger, Brother Yun and Nik Ripken. To name just a few.

Countless Christian men and women have proven the old adage, "The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer." Or as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,  Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II is credited as praying, "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

With such examples and so much to gain, validating and complying with the directives of James 4 hardly seems too much for God to ask. While such a demanding assignment may be problematic for entire denominations or even large congregations, a qualified task force or insertion group of spiritual commandos might prove worthy of the task. For those hardy souls willing to venture in, we highly recommend a thorough reading of GB's Prayer of Anguish, where step by step exegesis and helpful suggestions are provided.

As a further word of warning, the Apostle John's Book of Revelation is remarkable on many levels. Within its pages John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, reveals the greatest time of suffering and death Earth has ever known. Just two of his sixty predictions will take the lives of half of humanity!

Our generation has been given unprecedented and tremendous gifts and would do well to remember Christ's warning, "to whom much is given much is required." Besides reaping the answers to the prayers of all generations we also have 2,000 fulfilled Bible prophecies and the pages of the Scriptures's final Book of Revelation coming alive as a prophetic witness of Biblical authenticity.

The Apostle John, perhaps well educated in the knowledge of his time, still knew far less about the world than today's average elementary school student. Even so, he was able to look ahead into the future and describe in detail what were then unimaginable events. Two thousand years later the honest reader of his words can see the stage being set for the last chapter of human history as many of of his prophecies begin to unfold!

For example, the nation of Israel is a key player in Revelation's drama, yet in the Apostle John's day Israel was being ground under the boot of Rome, a global power showing no signs of weakening. For John to suggest Israel would become the center of world wide attention was ludicrous. All the more so after 70 A.D. when the Romans literally wiped it off the map. Yet in 1947 A.D. Israel reappeared in the same location. Never before or since has a nation having vanished for two centuries, much less two millennia, suddenly reemerged so. Israel's resurrection as a nation, not to mention its global status, is unprecedented in human history. Adding to Israel's miraculous modern history is the unbridled hostility of billions of Muslims, hundreds of millions of which all but surround the small plot of land Israel resides on. About the size of San Bernardino County in the Los Angles basin, Israel's population has been as little as 3 million. The Muslim nations nearby occupy as much territory as the United States, with over 300 million and yet in every war and conflict Israel has not only survived but conquered its attackers. The odds of Israels reappearance, growth and national prominence are astronomical. Additionally, there are a host of other previously impossible predictions all testifying to the validity of John's awesome and awe-full prophecy. These include the potential of a nuclear holocaust and fallout, as well as the technology necessary for the Mark of the Beasts, both for the first time in human history at the stage of development necessary for the kind of implementation Scripture warned of two millennia ago.

The Alive After The Fall video is a short but well produced overview of last day prophecies in light of recent events. It also offers a reasonable though fearful handling of America's currently apparent place in Biblical prophecy, along with resources to help equip individuals and families to survive what may well be coming. GB highly recommends watching the video, but if necessary you can click here to view the transcript.



Spiritual Press Release

The imagined text of the Spiritual Press Release below was prayerfully written, in quantum hope, a week prior to Pentecost Sunday 2020, as if offered the day after:

By the end of May churches across America, and much if not most of the world, had been shuttered for months. Bowing to pressure he helped create, on May 22 President Trump finally declared that in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic, houses of worship were essential and ordered state governors to remove bans against congregational gatherings. He also directed the CDC to issue reopening guidelines.

Yesterday, Pentecost Sunday 2020 came and went. Judging by millions of messages before, during and after, it was business as usual. Merely temporarily reduced in the scale.

Multitudes joined in cautious and joyful reunion, to fellowship and worship, enjoying renewed albeit limited freedom.

Conspicuously absent from this oft forgot religious anniversary were remarks targeting, much less prayerful confessions regarding, our doubtful habits and besetting sins. Beliefs and lifestyles having reduced modern Christianity to our current deplorable state.

False doctrines embraced by scores of sects were happily resumed, rather than repentantly redressed. Habitual justification of anemic faith, by teaching and obeying half the Gospel or less, continued unabated. Reinforced by the false comforts of assumed salvation and presumptive worship.

Subdued services on this anniversary of Pentecost failed to note the height of irony. Few if any, gathering on the memorial of the birth of the church by Holy Ghost fire dancing on the heads and tongues of fully sanctified 1st century believers, soulfully lamented the spiritual pandemic of powerless so blatantly pervasive in the 21st.

After months of costly and mountainous evidence, growing concerns regarding conspiracies and conspirators arose here and there. Yet none concerning our own. A conspiracy of silence through designer doctrine artfully concealing the loss of the gifts of the Spirit offered and imparted on the original day of Pentecost. As both Christianity‘s birthright and responsibility. Particularly telling has been the wholesale theft of the children's bread of Divine deliverance and miraculous healing.

Pulpits were silent on the issue for obvious reasons. Not the least of which being the need to placate parishioners and replenish bank accounts. Elders were shielded from suspicion, much less inquiry, regarding their unacknowledged and unmet responsibility to heal the sick and forgive sins through the prayer of faith. Ministries and worship teams we’re not only given a pass, but were celebrated for their resolve and resourcefulness in employing technology and social media to provide comfort and assurance. In obfuscated opposition to the spiritual Koinonia and unity marking the first Pentecost, Churchianity joined in false harmony proclaiming, “Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”

What fingers were pointed targeted ubiquitous and growing levels of temptation and deception, immorality and sin. All conveniently outside the camp. While right to do so, we were equally wrong in failing to discern and confess the plain and simple heart of the matter. That the presence and power of darkness grows in direct proportion to the absence and impotence of light. Both naturally and supernaturally.

Here again, as ever before, little or no heed was paid to the more numerous fingers pointing back at us. Thus the primary and principal lessons from not only the global health and economic crisis of COVID-19, but the coming and going of Easter and now Pentecost, was lost on the spiritually shuttered eyes and ears of modern Christianity. Even Prophetic Christians failed to enter the crucible of James 4's Prayer of Anguish. Thus tragically, the only people on earth possessing even a remote hope of hearing and rightly responding to what the Spirit is saying to the church, yet again refused to listen.

God have mercy. Christ have mercy.


Update 2020

COVID-19 Pentecost 2020 came and went as predicted. Sermons before, during and after continued to be status quo and seeker friendly. Many minored on the topic of change, yet remained mired along traditional lines. Most justified previous positions, with little or no questioning regarding the problem of powerlessness made obvious by C-19. Few, if any, offered deep dives into such crucial topics as worldliness and entitlement, brokenness and repentance, sanctification and unanswered prayer. Passages like 2 Chronicles 7:14 were given lip service at best. James 4's Prayer of Anguish was ignored entirely.

Here and there, the importance of Pentecost was raised without doing the subject justice. Much less pinpointing the glaring global need for a new Pentecost of our own. If and when talk of a Sacred Assembly arose, there was little interest in even discussing prerequisite pre-revival repentance. In regards to healing the sick or the importance of power evangelism and discipleship, there were no mentions of our fall from grace. No church councils were convened to address the matter. No team tasked to recover the gifts of the Spirit.

What could and should have been our finest hour, was largely our darkest.

Sermon titles and subjects varied. Some more interesting than others. Yet nary a one chose the clearest text of all. "Behold I stand at the door and knock." Rampant and rising levels of temptation and deception, immorality and sin on display everywhere. Both without and within modern Christianity. The threat of present and future global pandemics abound. Economic tribulation reverberating worldwide. Forty three million seeking unemployment benefits in the U.S. alone. Coast to coast rioting and looting, violence and murder over the death of career criminal George Floyd from coast to coast. To the point of choreographing race riots with militias on both sides (if link does not play click here to download militia video). All this while calling to defund the police after already making the crucial job of society's protectors all but impossible.

Scripture is clear such manipulations of facts and logic, much less the rebellion and anarchy they promote, are forbidden and will prove disastrous for all parties involved.

Makes one wonder how much louder Christ need knock.


Update 2022

It should be abundantly clear things changed substantially in 2020. Nationally and globally, the world has never scene the like of even the following short list: 

1. Covid-19 and variants, of questionable origin, mandates promoting and/or requiring untested and dangerous MRNA “vaccines” and “boosters” with negative efficacy and even deadly side effects revealing unprecedented control of healthcare and politics by the collusion of pharmaceutical companies and bureaucrats. To the point of threatening the removal of medical licenses of physicians prescribing safe and reliable treatments proven effective against respiratory and other illness. Example: In 2015 Ivermectin won the only Nobel Prize award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior. Also report by Fortune Magazine (not right wing magazine) reveals that a simple  home remedy of saline solution used for "Twice Daily Nose Flushing Can Reduce Covid Hospitalization and Death Researchers Find" by 85%. This study was conducted Fall 2020, and could have helped prevent 3/4 of Covid deaths.

• Sample Daniel Horowitz: "Twice Daily Nose Flushing Can Reduce Covid Hospitalization and Death Researchers Find" by 85%
• Sample Link: Steve Deace **9/15/22 Circumvent Medical Cartels with Dr. Harvey Risch** Simple straight talk from preeminent  honored immunologist and cofounder of The Wellness Company TWC.health 
• Sample Link: **Ivermectin Nobel prize** In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world’s most devastating tropical diseases. Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments.
• Sample Link: Daniel Horowitz: **9/26/22**The Woman Who Survived American Hospital Holocaust with COVID in Plano TX**: One could make a movie about Gail Seiler’s experience in a Plano, Texas, hospital during the pandemic. Our hospitals have become killing fields. From remdesivir and illegal DNR orders to denial of treatment, forced starvation, and abuse based on vaccination status, Gail experienced the horrors that hundreds of thousands of other Americans suffered in the hospitals. Except, thanks to her husband and help from state Senator Bob Hall, she wound up being forcibly extricated from the hospital after 14 days of torture (7 days no water…). Even though the doctors said she wouldn’t last a day longer, she is now perfectly healthy and is trying to raise awareness about the hospital genocide.
• Sample Link: Daniel Horowitz: **The Risk of Cancer from Both the Shots and Perpetual Mask Wearing with Guest: Dr. Colleen Huber | 6/3/22** “Clot shots. Poisoning of Americans (World) beyond belief, as they prepare to stick babies as young ad 6 months old. HOW IS THIS NOT THE ISSUE OF OUR TIME?  That it perpetuates the virus, destroys the immune system, and causes every ailment known to man… And yet to this day, it’s like it doesn’t exist. It’s a complete lockout…” “If you don’t get it you have your career destroyed. If you do get it you have your body destroyed. And then everything they plan on doing there on down with it. And everything it represents, with biomedical state, track/trace, transhumanism... Dr. Colleen Huber: Neither Safe Nor Effective: The Evidence Against the COVID Vaccines (Cancer Researcher/Get eBook). 
• Sample Link: **Died Suddenly** Documentary featuring video of alien and deadly clots being pulled from arteries and bloods vessels during autopsies, surgeries and from a beating heat. Never before seen clots harming and killing large cross section of population after receiving MRNA “vaccines” and/or boosters. Devastating effects on US military and civilians. Extreme rise in prenatal death and birth defects among newborn. Cover up and collusion by. governments, health care and media industries. Great Reset agenda of elites through population reduction and control.

• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **The Thirty Tyrants** USA adopts China’s citizen control polices  
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **Time To Start Believing In Conspiracy** Theories

• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **A Clarion Call Go On The Offensive** Interview with Dr. Peter McCullough
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **8/24/22 The jobs/Dr. Ryan Cole**Excellent interview with Dr. Ryan Cole who is treated over 500,000 Covid patients and has impeccable credentials explaining the clot shots are extremely dangerous and genetically mutating. 

• Sample Link: Candice Owens: **George Floyd was a Criminal (Facts)**
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **Episode 571: 9/24/20 Summary of BLM "Martyrs"** 
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **It’s officially time for BLM to be labeled a domestic terror group.** DNC comments:
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **When the media says unarmed black shootings:** Actual case by case review
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **Police Shooting Stats:**

• Sample Link: **Crimes or Cover Up** Glen Beck Exposing The Worlds Most Dangerous Lie:  History of C19 conspiracy with dates and facts. 

• Sample Link: Ben Shapiro **Daily Wire. Episode 1159 is entitled, Do You Speak Woke?** 

• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **Episode 727: The Evil Quacks Mutating Our Children**: Reviews Irreversible Damage The Gender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Schreier
• **Transgender Craze Seducing America**: interview with the author Abigail Schreier: Chowchilla prison article

• Sample Link: **Dinesh D'Souza** Author and filmmaker (2,000 Mules) Dr. Simone Gold, the founder of America's Frontline Doctors, tells us how she went from being a guest speaker at the Capitol on January 6 to facing a 60-day prison sentence for doing nothing.  
• **Epoch Times**
• Sample Link: **The Real Story of January 6th** Epoch Times New Investigative Report and Video: 
• Sample Link: **Jason Whitlock Fearless Blaze Media** Ep 124 | January 6: Little Lies Lead to Huge Deception | Kamala, Biden, AND Ted Cruz ALL Get It Wrong
• Sample Link:  Matt Walsh: **Might Be Time For A National Divorce:**

• Sample Link: **Texas Tribune Arrests along U.S.-Mexico border top 2 million a year for the first time.** https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/19/u-s-mexico-border-arrests-record-2022/amp/
• Sample Link: **Tucker Carlson Battle For The Border**

• Sample Link: **CDC Fentanyl Facts** 
• Sample Link: **Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid approximately 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.**
• Sample Link: **National Institue on Drug Science 92,000 persons in the U.S. died from drug-involved overdose in 2020.**

• Sample Link: **Blaze Media current odds are 1/178 an American resident will be murdered during their lifetime.**

• Sample Link: **Tucker Carlson Insane policies, energy and fuel crises.**
• Sample Link: **Daniel Horowitz The Only Ones Who Can Save Democrats Are Republicans and Diesel Shutdown.**

• Sample Link: **Steve Deace 12 Republicans who voted for the so-called "Respect for Marriage Act."**
• Sample Link: **Daniel Horowitz The Only Ones Who Can Save Democrats Are Republicans and Diesel Shutdown.**

• Sample Link: **Washington Post President Biden declares MAGA Republicans represent extreme and/or greatest threat to US.**
• Sample Link: **Fox News President Biden twice threatens Second Amendment supporters with F15's.**

• Sample Link:  **Monopoly: Who Owns The World**
• Sample Link:  **Great Reset Introduction** Prager U interview with author and commentator Glenn Beck
  

• Sample Link: Eric Metaxas: **Letter to the American Church** Eric Metaxas wrote the definitive 24 hr audiobook biography on Bonhoeffer. His point is the American church is letting unprecedented evil arise and will perish today if we fail to respond to Bonhoeffer’s warning against cheep grace to the German church. 
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **3/8/22  Americans: A Very Serious People**. (We are the problem. Including republicans & Ukrain is the new Covid).
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **3/13/22 Weekend Of American Debauchery** (Hopeless…)
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **8/3/22 The People Are The Problem** (There are no red states)
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **8/9/22 We’re Quickly Running Out Of Time** Crossing A Line: DOJ - FBI Raid on Trumps House. Coming for you…

• "Be honest in your judgment and do not decide at a glance (superficially and by appearances); but judge fairly and righteously." John 7:24 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

• "But the spiritual man [the spiritually mature Christian] judges all things [questions, examines and applies what the Holy Spirit reveals], yet is himself judged by no one [the unbeliever cannot judge and understand the believer’s spiritual nature]. For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes]." 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 Amplified Bible

• “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8 New International Version

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