Waves

Traveling the world, every continent, every ocean, the waves of the ocean have always been a source of stability for me. My beach home is located just a few feet from the Atlantic ocean. Even though it has been 50 years since I was able to see the ocean, I can still hear the waves crashing on the sands. I know that the tides, through the intricate manipulation of our Creator with the moon, can be accurately timed. Walking on the seashore, wherever in the world, you have that stability of knowing that although things on land are in constant change (usually for the worst), the great oceans of the world are a constant source of stability. He knew what He was doing.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, warfare has now achieved that expectation...that there should be no waves about anything. The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators. In Reader's Digest, Marine General Smedley D. Butler wrote, War is a Racket. Most veterans know the racketeering of war, the military. The ordinary American is used and abused by the manipulators on Wall Street and K Street. There was a time when wars were fought by the military, military men making decisions. We have not been able to win a war since WWII, mostly because it has become a political bounty hunt. Lyndon Johnson, manipulating the Vietnam War from the White House, said that he did not want an “outhouse” bombed in Vietnam without his permission.

The waves of indifference to the plight of the veterans is well known to the veteran, but of no concern to anyone else. This totally blind veteran, who gave his professional skills from many years of hard work and training, could not get even a white cane and talking watch from VA. You are just thrown away like so much depleted uranium (DR), poisoning the bodies of innocent children in Iraq. The waves of indifference, slave masters over the poor, is seen in the waves of unbelievable attitudes of Gaddafi towards his citizens of Libya, Mubarak toward his citizens of Egypt, the other dictators and tyrants of the world toward their citizens. The entire world is heading that way. Lenin said it best. “the masses are only worth something in relation to their benefit to the state.”

Much like the liberals' excitement for green energy, such as wind turbines. More energy is used in the production of wind turbine itself, than will ever be extracted from the turbine. It is only when the turbine is spinning so fast that you cannot see the blades, that any energy whatsoever is being produced, it takes so much energy just to start the turbine, and wind is so unpredictable. But, like the bell hanging around the cow's neck, it makes the liberals feel good to hear and know that they are there, productive or not.

We have a schizophrenia going on in the Arab world. Arabs, like American politicians trying to decide which benefits them most, the east or west. Wealth pursued biblical Abraham because he was a man of character and destiny. Charisma can only get someone so far, but it takes character to get most of the distance. When will a Sunni Muslim such as Obama understand (Obama, who was the first serving American president to shake the hand of Gaddafi on July 8^th, 2009, as well as his giving the Muslim bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia), surely American intelligence had revealed to Obama that Gaddafi was responsible for the shooting down of the American plane over Lackabee, Scotland and the killing of so many Americans. Are there no lines of demarcation in the waves of hypocrisy, not only in the treatment of Americans, but the beguiling of foreigners?

Was it not decided at the Guadalajara, Mexico summit between Obama, Calderon and Harper, that troops from each country would be used to enforce the policies of each other on their respective soils. You can be sure with the inflation of energy prices, food prices, the increased waves of knowledge by the “common folk”, that the world is in quagmire of global corruption. Waves of rebellion can happen here, just as in North Africa and the Middle East, like matches around dynamite, the human spirit is capable of explosion.

The waves of mind drift for many so-called concerned human beings has been a mystery to many of us. The fact that billions are in abject poverty and slavery in China and India and other police states. The fact that billions of babies have been destroyed in the abortion holocaust of the China “one child” policy, and even the Planned Parenthood eugenics of America...3,500 of the most innocent killed each day, 52% of all black babies. There is no doubt that in the mind of even the most liberal, that a person, of one cell or billions of cells, is still an individual in the eyes of almighty God. We will see what happens with the religious community, the academic community, the racial communities with the “personhood amendment”, first introduced in Colorado, now introduced in Mississippi, defining personhood as beginning with the fertilized egg, giving the fertilized eggs the same constitutional rights as any other person.

For those of us who remember the struggles of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the thwarting of civil rights simply because of the color of the skin by white, elitist democrats. It will be interesting to see how these blacks, integrated into the American promise, particularly black churches, will show compassion on the weakest of all individuals, the unborn.

This weekend, the last WWI veteran, died in Charleston, WV at the age of 110. We will see if the waves of indifference toward America's veterans, particularly the disabled veteran and the handicapped citizens changes. The greatest shame of this nation are the waves of indifference toward the disabled veteran and the handicapped citizens. These waves of indifference are almost as hypocritical and despicable as the waves of indifference from so-called Christians toward the real church, the bride of Jesus Christ. Like the grains of sand, God knows you, waves may move you around, but God knows you. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand... (Psalm 139:17-18)

Inheritance

In historic Westminster Abbey, where kings and queens have been crowned, their bodies eulogized for centuries, second in line to the British throne, Prince William will marry Kate Middleton on April 29th. I remember very well, getting up very early to watch television coverage of his parent's wedding at St. Paul's cathedral. I like to see those beautiful horses, beautiful carriages, the pomp and circumstance of British nobility, such an inheritance...for those of us who are descendents of a people in the time when such was important.

In London, I said to one member of the British royals, “do you think the Queen will retire, in favor of Prince Charles?” She said, “no, they will haul her away in a box, she loves being Queen, this is her 59^th year.” The Queen of England was at one time one of the world's richest royals, but today, because of the oil-rich royals of the Middle East, she is twelveth. Like everyone else, her real estate values have declined. Buckingham Palace is worth $100 million less than it was a few years ago, and so it is with her large real estate holdings in London and elsewhere. Even so, the inheritance of the royal family, in terms of wealth, is incomparable.

English nobility is not as impressive as it was at one time, I remember being in Sicily while the Queen was there. The great yacht Britannica in the harbor, red carpets laid everywhere she would put her foot, her private train, her castles, horses, servants...an inheritance for those who follow her on the throne.

Books could be written about the rich people of the world and those who will inherit. think of those who inherited the Rockefeller fortune, the Kennedy fortune, even Sinatra's fortune. Politics, technology, sports, have all changed wealth, families like the Vanderbilts have been replaced by a single, unwed mother called Oprah Winfrey...worth a reported $2.7 billion, a foundation will inherit her wealth. The richest man on earth is Carlos Slim Helu, from the “broke” nation of Mexico.

I have known some wealthy people in my time, those who have inherited wealth. But, believe me, other than for the satisfaction that comes with money, they are very much like the rest of us...put on their socks one at a time, subject to the world, the flesh, the devil and all the diseases that take the lives of the poorest among us. It makes no difference how much money the Queen of England, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates controls, in the end, when God says, “enough”, neither can buy one more second of life. Then, the only important thing, if the richest or the poorest, are joint heirs with Jesus Christ, the greatest inheritance in the world. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Romans 8:17)

As I aged, I became more appreciative of my inheritance, not so much the substantial family inheritance, but other things. My ancestors, from the time they arrived in New Jersey, were all just hardworking, God-fearing, taxpaying, farming land owners. I have in my possession a survey map of the first farm in New Jersey, where the family founded Morristown. The poor side of the family moved to North Carolina, deeply religious, well-known farm people. They prospered...God, family, country.

To this day, if I could see, I could take you to the farm land, the homesteads, churches and the cemeteries where they lived and are buried. Our Lord appreciated families, ancestry. In the Old Testament, you have ancestral roots of those mentioned, even Christ's ancestral earthly family was given.

My greatest inheritance in my family, is the work ethic. Christian principles and participation, patriotism, with moral living and giving. It bothers me greatly that so many young people do not appreciate or even acknowledge their ancestry. It is hard for me to believe that I am related to people who have let our ancestral homes disappear into the chasm of misuse. In the prosperous country community where I was raised, descendents of the old families have all left with their educations, in the chase for wealth in other places, The old homes are mostly now section 8, lived in by those who know nothing of history or accomplishment. The houses and home sites will eventually disappear.

I live in the historic section of a city, beautiful, well-designed antebellum homes. With the progress of the city, heirs of these homes which had been a source of pride to a growing nation, built ranch-type rabbit boxes in suburbia, gun rack type designed condos on the beach. Beautiful old homes, majestic with their architectural lines, antebellum design-integrity, became occupied by riff-raff, chopped up in two apartments. The most beautiful areas of most Southern cities became slums with slum lords. I well remember that beautiful southern antebellum mansion in which I lived while a student in Memphis, chopped up into student affordable apartments. The great spiral staircase, unimaginable carved woodwork, marble fireplaces, tiled and hardwood floors, a place occupied by people who would never appreciate such. I still remember how quickly relatives discarded antique furniture, handed down through many generations, side boards, magnificent tiger oak dressers and beds, and picture frames...even portraits of ancestors behind bubble glass. They thought phoney imitation veneer over plywood was so beautiful, so shiny, “so modern”.

In most of these cities, a few people who had inherited enough history, to have imagination about these cities, began moving back and redeveloping and restoring the landmark city homes and buildings. Houses with old southern architecture, or an architecture of any type in our history, such as the townhouses up north, stick out, or do not look architecturally correct in suburbia.

Another tragedy of America, the deserting of magnificent downtown cathedrals and churches for mega-church complexes with large parking lots in the countryside. We are supposed to have inherited from those who poured forth their physical and financial energy to produce them, these fine, never-to-be reproduced churches, houses and commercial buildings. In some places, the great churches and cathedrals have been restored, I so appreciate the ancestral-historical attitude of Europe, where inheritance, not only of wealth, but history and philosophy still means something.

We have inherited our waterways, rivers, shorelines, harbors, but have not cared for them. We have inherited the old water pipes, some of the first plumbing known to man, and have not kept it in repair. Many of our illnesses come from the seepage and leakage of ancient plumbing. In thinking of the money or property you may or may not inherit, with taxation, longer living, gigantic before-death expenses in professional care, estates are becoming smaller every day.

Be thankful to Almighty God, firstly for your DNA designed by Him in the council chambers of eternity, just for you. Your religious inheritance, the blessedness of being born and raised in America.

Thrill of Victory

We have all heard the oft-quoted refrain, “thrill of victory, agony of defeat.” One of the first questions I want to ask God: why the committed, convinced, concerned followers of His Son, our blessed Lord, are so afflicted in this present world: troubles, trials, temptations, part of the package of sin? The spirit in the world, during my lifetime: churches celebrating self instead of God, projecting self instead of Christ, politicians projecting self instead of country, the attitude of most people in the world that “it is nobody's business what I do”, “if it feels right, do it”, “I don't want anyone telling me what to do.” As if you can drive down a busy highway without regard for laws or rules of any type.

One of Grimm's fairy tales describes our situation best. The story of the agreement between the cat and the mouse. They had a jar of jelly, and the two decided that they would share it. The cat with the “big I, little U” mentality, bigger appetite, ate more of the jelly than the mouse, paid little attention to the protestations of the mouse, finally ate the mouse. On the farm, I would often notice our big barn cat with a small mouse in the yard. The cat would play with mouse, allow the mouse to start running off, then reach over and pull the mouse back. The cat had already found that a mouse was much tastier after the mouse's neurons were sufficiently afflicted. The animal autonomic response of fight or flight.

Life involves heading down a busy highway, intensified by those keeping and breaking rules. The Christian knows there is a final exit, the splendors of eternity with God. We are not citizens in this place, our citizenship is in heaven, we are just passing through, foreigners, acting different, speaking different, dressing different (1 Peter 2:9). In this life we must deal with the world, the flesh, the devil. Few thrills of victory, knowing the agony of defeat, the tares taking over even the church of Christ. The thrill of victory is later.

Our lifestyle is different, our body is a temple, not a garbage dumpster. Every religion in history has believed in fasting (an internal shower). Eating is mostly a matter of habit, too many overeat, calories instead of nutrition, leads to obesity and diabetes. There must be a detoxification, cleansing of the human body through fasting and the eating of nutritious food. I am convinced that sickness should be unknown to a Christian. Correctly treated, your body is able to heal itself, God put everything we need for healing on earth, available to our physical spiritual and emotional ability. Fasting is your greatest physician within. If you eat correctly, you will not burden yourself with the physical problems of arthritis and joint replacement.

As I child, I remember the cider mill, an ancient apparatus used by my ancestors to process apples from the great orchard on our farm, to convert apple cider into vinegar. Like everything else of historical interest on that farm, it was all thrown away. The cider was kept in barrels, people would come from far and wide to buy that apple cider. During the many years I was away in school and military, my family who had no appreciation whatsoever for history, ditched every valuable thing on the plantation, and now I understand, the land itself. I know of nothing any better for the body than apple cider vinegar, you can tell the real thing because it will have a “mother”, celluose containing acetic acid bacteria. Using apple cider vinegar in the water you drink, on your food and many other ways, will give you good health.

I was acquainted with old country doctors of 60-70 years ago, who mostly used food for treatments. Dr. H.M. Stenhouse, one of my friends who ran for Congress when he was 100 years old in 1990, prescribed food as medicine. I knew others such as Dr. Strosneider, Dr. Crawford, Dr. Pierson, all old doctors who prescribed food, not toxic chemicals. Now there is a drug store on every corner making drug addicts of the population. Western medicine, Big Pharma has transmuted health care into an expensive process of body energy being taken up trying to rid itself of toxicity. There is real victory in healthy living.

There is real victory in decent living. We understand that two of the crudest men to ever enter the oval office were Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton...sexual activity in the Oval Office. Disregard for the feelings of anyone and everyone because they were president. I am told that Lyndon Johnson was the crudest man ever to walk the earth, on his ranch, urinating in public, even in front of the press corp. He would bring dignitaries into the bathroom for a conferences even while he sat on the commode. Rules of etiquette and decency that applied to other people, did not apply to him, and so it is with Madoff, bin Laden, or even the Bushes. Secret Service protection has increased 400% since Obama took office. Winning anything, even the presidency of a country, is not always a sign of victory (Gaddafi, Mubarak, Carter, Clinton, Mao, Saddam Hussein).

Learn early in life not to confuse accomplishment with success, think of Helen Keller and Madonna. You would agonize with defeat of the morals on an immoral earth, corruption in government, the frustration of religiosity in church, indifference in education, scams and squalor in business. Take each day one at a time, with every semblance of real happiness you can find. Time on this earth, even at best is very short. Your victory comes after the fight is over. O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever....He plunged me to victory, beneath the cleansing flood. (Victory in Jesus, Hymn)

Hubba Hubba

This week, we heard with sorrow of the deaths of four round-the-world missionaries on their yacht off the coast of Somalia. a yacht filled with Bibles that they were distributing around the world. This week we hear of the plight of the Coptic Christians in Egypt, brought to Egypt by the disciple Mark, he was martyred in the streets of Alexandria, but from the humble beginnings of Mark, the Christian Church grew in Egypt until, at one time, Egypt was mostly Christian. There are thousands of Coptic Christians in Egypt today, their lives are not easy, according to Egyptian law, on every form of identification, religion is specified, even on their passports. In such an Islamic country, it is difficult for a Christian to get a job. In India, converting to Christianity from Hindu or Muslim faiths, you must report such to the police or face such a severe fine. As cruel as Saddam Hussein was in Iraq, Christians were protected, there were 500,000 Christians in Iraq before the American invasion. Today, most Christians have fled, the Christian churches are being persecuted and destroyed, only a few thousand are left.

Christian history has been marked by the martyrdom of saints. One does not face death for a false religion, these martyrs believed in their religion. More Christians were killed last year, martyrs to the faith, than had been killed in all previous Christian history, an estimated 165,000. Among those killed last year, one of my college friends, Dr. Thomas Little, killed along with his missionary group in Afghanistan, he was one of the few doctors caring for people in the mountains of that country. He, his wife, children and others had been there for many years, his father is a doctor in Canada, but he chose God's work in Afghanistan. All in the missionary group were killed by the Islamic terrorists, except their guide, who kept shouting to the killers, “I am Muslim!”. Even though the guide had witnessed the miracles of healing provided by this missionary group, he escaped death by clinging to his false faith.

Many of us remember the movies of WWII, servicemen being entertained by USO troops and others. A shapely young woman would come on the stage, and from all corners you would hear, “hubba hubba”. This was an expression of approval, excitement, pleasure. The men and women who fought the Axis powers of WWII, were real men and women, patriotic, oriented to the love of God, family and country. This phoney-baloney, “Ask, Don't Tell”, anticipation for retirement pay, did not enter the equation for their devotion for country. Many times during the past 50 years, I have been in and out of veteran's hospitals. Before that, I was a staff member, as a medical service officer of army military hospitals. Service to God and country was considered an honor. In recent years, I have seen a totally deterioration of service in VA facilities, there is not one doubt in my mind that it has come from this attitude of political correctness...the employment of people who would never meet the qualifications for employment in a private facility. I said to one VA physician, “the technician outside, doing the preparatory work, does not know what she is doing.” He said, “doctor, this place is full of people who do not know what they are doing.”

There may be a computer that can count the number of letters that I have written to VA officials concerning discrepancies in veteran's treatment. Like the organization, supposedly interested in defending veteran's rights, Blind Veteran's Association (BVA), the only thing these organizations care about is getting your membership fee (DAV, VFW, etc.). Next to slavery, the greatest shame of this nation is its treatment of disabled veterans and handicapped citizens. Just as Christians do not face death for a false religion, and the most repulsive thing in the world is religiosity, young men and women do not face death for a false patriotism.

I do not hold myself up as an example of anything for anyone. But, coming from the poverty of an eastern North Carolina tobacco farm, the inadequacy of a small country school (13 in graduating class), working at night in order to go to university in day time, for eight years, passing all boards and requirements for military commission. Entering the army as a medical officer, returning, 100% disabled, service-connected. I feel that, totally blind, I can offer some criticism. Criticism for the fact that veterans pension benefits are totally inadequate (mine were never established). Criticism that there is no preparation for disability (I never had one minute of rehabilitation), criticism regarding healthcare (I have never been able to obtain a white cane from VA, pay for my own talking watch).

It must be a stench in the nostrils of our blessed Lord, to see teachers and other government workers protesting in the streets about their pay and entitlements. In the state of North Carolina, a graduating college student can start teaching school at age 23 or 24, going to summer school to obtain advanced certification by a masters degree or such, and retire at age 54 or 55...30 years service, drawing a wonderful retirement check with benefits. After working 30 years, most are retired for another 30 years, retired as long as working, drawing checks and benefits. This applies to most government workers, including the double dippers, who get addition government jobs, for instance in the postal service. I know several government workers, who on your taxpayer dollar, have spent 30-40 years of their life playing golf.

The user friendly Gospel is straight from hell, user friendly patriotism leads to enslavement. Who loves you enough to tell you the truth? The pitiful politicians, pastors, and parents who know better, but want you to like them.

Jailhouse Joy

God talks to us in every way...earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, and storms, but we refuse to listen. There has been about 300 earthquakes just along the west coast of North and South America. Recently, the great volcano in Yellowstone National Park has been churning...a volcano 50 miles across, can one even imagine the destruction to the productive plains of America when this volcano erupts? This week, we are greeted with the information that an earthquake mostly destroyed the city of Christ Church, New Zealand, one of the most beautiful cities I have ever visited. I understand the great cathedral there in the square was almost totally destroyed, built by the Anglicans in 1840.

At age 80, I am still learning, but who wants to hear from an old man watching world history and world economics? Such simple things as you cannot bail out the titanic as it is sinking, it is easier to take a cat out of a paper bag than to put the cat back in the paper bag, When you are in hole, stop digging, and the best way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

Most of the New Testament was written by the apostle Paul under the inspiration of God. Paul was probably the best educated man of his time, a phenomenal new creature in Christ after his conversion. Every place he went, there was either a revival or a riot, he usually went to jail. The greatest example of joy in the Bible is the account of Paul and Silas, in stocks at the the jail at Philippi. Beaten and harangued, at midnight, they began to sing hymns. God talked to them, their fellow prison mates and jailors with a earthquake. Get down to the basics, everyone you know, everyone you have ever studied, the prophets, strip away everything about them, their education, their heritage, their ancestry, their preparation for living in this world, they are either a child of God or a child of the devil...they find joy in serving their creator (the center of their existence is Jesus Christ) or some sadistic satisfaction in serving Satan.

Every day, every news broadcast we find another place “a-flame“, mostly involving dictators, tyrants and oil...the big money-power source for their government's economy. Countries will not fight over sand, they fight over the liquid gold under the sand. Even after I was mostly blind (I am a totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected medical officer veteran), God still wanted me to travel the world. No one wants to hear it, it is so much more convenient to live in ignorance, but most of the countries of the world are dictatorships or police states, people living in poverty, little more than slaves...especially in the communist and Islamic countries. I will never understand why western civilization, Europe, Canada, America are so anxious to get there. You can be sure that the increased rioting, increased gasoline prices, increased prices of everything where the protestors are active are heading this way.

America now knows what it is like to be occupied (Wisconsin, Ohio, White House, etc.). Forbes magazine tells us that Barack Hussein means “the blessing of Hussein” and Obama means “he is with us.” It was just a few years ago that Colonel Gaddafi of Libya was a hero in America, with young people wearing t-shirts with his picture and name on them. Now the same tyrant-dictator, with billions of dollars of oil revenue stashed in foreign banks (Forbes estimates his net worth at $1.25 billion), is strafing his citizens in the streets with helicopters and jet planes, telling Al Jazeera television that he will fight them to the last bullet.

The most gnawing question I have in my mind after having seen the results of despots around the world. How can citizens support the leadership of such a nation, but we are seeing the very same thing in America, protestors in the street and a supposed leader who does not have a clue about solving any problems.

For twenty years, I have warned the American people about the dangers of fluoride in their drinking water, fluoride's neurotoxic effects on the brain. Hitler knew that people were more docile with fluoride, since westerners are not docile enough, fluoride contamination and toxicity has increased, now chemicals from the air (contrails), as well as chemicals from most food products (monosodium glutanates). Unless I awakened in Cuba, China, or North Korea this morning, Americans in particular should still be concerned about their health. We have become obese and diabetic from calories, not nutrition.

We are living in apocalyptic times, the world can completely change over night, find joy in your salvation, from the jailhouse of slavery to the freedom of Jesus Christ. As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:36-39)

Web of Deception

Aging radio and television talk show host Larry King (77), recently interviewed Catholic Priest Michael Manning. In the interview, King (Jewish), asked Father Manning if he believed it is necessary to believe in Jesus Christ to go to heaven. As is the case with so many liberal spiritual imposters, he gave the universal restoration answer, “I have known many religious Rabbis, Buddhists, Hindus, who I believe will go to heaven.” Of course, this is God's business, all I can go by is the New Testament scripture which specifies that only the born-again believers in Jesus Christ will go to heaven: the way, the truth, the life (John 14:6).

My thought processes my entire life have been besieged with thoughts of Christian martyrs, the committed lives of Mennonites, Amish, Quakers, Catholic nuns and priests in their habits, and other saints of the Christian faith with whom I have been acquainted. It is beyond all comprehension that any human being capable of reading and understand God's Word, cannot become a believer in Jesus Christ. George Foreman, two-time world heavyweight boxing champion said, “when I became a Christian, I felt I had been raised from the dead.”

Recently, I heard Dr. Chauncey Crandall, a physician, supervising cardiologist at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Palm Beach, Florida, talk about his book Raising the Dead. He has lectured all around the world about the incident. Jeff Markin, auto-mechanic, in spite of their best efforts, died in the hospital emergency room. Dr. Crandall had been called in to see that everything possible had been done to keep this man alive, and was filling out the final report as the nurse was preparing the body for the morgue. As he left the room, God told him to go back and try once more to resuscitate this man. He went back and told the nurse to try to resuscitate this man again. Bewildered, the nurse said, “doctor, he is dead.” But to satisfy the doctor, the nurse began the resuscitation electronic procedure again, it had been forty-five minutes, and the patient came back to life. Today, the patient is alive, working in a local church, having been lead to Christ by Dr. Crandall. He went in to the blackness of hell, as one discarded, without hope.

Near death experiences, peeking into both heaven and hell have been experienced by many. With every Christian, you cannot give what you have, only what you are. We all have different versions of ourselves, understand the importance of putting forth the best version of yourself, demonstrating the importance of your life. Judas was chosen just as were the other 11, he saw the miracles, raising of the dead, healing of the sick, feeding of thousands. His feet were washed by our Blessed Lord, as were the others, yet for a bag of silver, he betrayed his Savior. Compare Judas and Peter, Judas went out and killed himself. Peter, warming himself at the enemy's fire, denied his Savior. He came back, repenting, became the “rock” of the church. An example for frail human beings everywhere. As an old man, he wrote that our faith is more precious than gold (1 Peter 1:7)

Why does it surprise us that evil men are caught in a web of deception, easily beguiled by Satan, loving selfish ambition. Filthy lucre, power-madness, more than anything else with which the human mind can be trapped, deceived. Colonel Kadafi, tyrannical, Islamic ruler for 40 years, now killing his people in the streets with his own military helicopters. The cheapness of life, not just with Muslims (Iraq, Iran, Egypt, etc.), Americans killing 3,352 babies every day through abortion. In order to become President, Lyndon Johnson involved in the assassination of President John Kennedy.

Since WWII, warfare has so cheapened lives, beneath the sand in the Middle East and North Africa, lives lost for the black gold (oil) which lies beneath the sand. Read your history, 100 years ago, the tyrants of the world, the power-brokers of the world, saw the increased value of oil. Russia's Stalin took over many of the oil fields. The money-kings of the world set up Hitler to straighten out Stalin. Along came WWII, with the mess of England, Japan, and America. Really, it has never ended, the power grab for oil, it is going on this very day.

2000 years ago, the madness for money, evident even in the life of Christ. The Sanhedrin, the Jewish Rabbis, were probably being paid off by the moneychangers in the temple. Jesus put on a tent of human flesh to dwell among us and show the decent way human beings should live. His own, killed Him on a cruel cross, and He said there, the eternal truth, “they do not know what they are doing.” He had told us to love our neighbor as ourselves (Matthew 22:39).

Prisons are full of people; church house, school house, court house, even the White House are full of people who like to live in luxury off the hard work of others. In a marvelous land of opportunity, vacation time, retirement time has become more important than supplication time. An Islamic cleric said recently that the Islamic flag would eventually fly over the White House. Most Americans are concerned with retirement time being longer and more rewarding than their work time. Most government retirees, draw as much money in government retirement as they ever did in working for the government.

If only mortal man could understand his capability, his calling. Charles Lindbergh was brave enough to fly the Atlantic alone, on a small plane, and land in Paris in 1927. The man responsible for kidnapping Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow's only child, was brave enough to climb into his second story window, steal and kill their precious child. Many of us have been brave enough to fly over the great cities of the world, to see the ability of man, the domes of Rome, the neon frescoes of Hong Kong, the spherical minarets of Istanbul. When will we learn the Creator of life, even the life of man, instilled in him to be the benefactor of good, or yield to the deceptive web of evil.

Synergism

One man plus God and anything is possible, God never appointed a committee to do anything, a group has never started anything, physical, spiritual, political, it may take a group to get it going, but every business, every organization, all started with the idea from one person. God is the world's great artist, He designed every snowflake that has ever fallen, every mountain range, every pastoral scene in every valley. His greatest design, that of genus Homo, the human being, created in His own image. Just think, of all the billions of people who have lived on this earth, no two are alike. Every fingerprint, the iris flex in every eye, the voice, the DNA, each completely separate, even identical twins are different.

From the council chambers of eternity, before the world was formed, each of us designed specifically for His glory. We so cheapen ourselves by failing to realize, our own synergism. And yet, just as each blessed to escape the abortionist, born to face life, we are the only animal who knows we are going to die.

One man's physician gave him the bad news, that he was going to die, nothing could be done to save him. His doctor said, “enjoy these last days. What would you like to eat? I'll notify the nurse.” The patient said, “There is nothing I like better than watermelon.” The doctor said, “at this time of year it will be difficult to find a watermelon, it may take six months.” Our friend, the patient said, “I can wait.”

At best, life is a struggle, both physical and spiritual, we wonder why Christ surrounded Himself with such weak individuals. Not one of the 70 followers understood Him. When we study His 12 disciples we are amazed that such weak men could do anything, yet all with the exception of two became martyrs: Judas killed himself, and John the youngest, died an old man on the island of Patmos. What is the difference in leaders and others who have walked through history.

We find that 90% of our misery can be attributed to ourselves. I find the greatest essential in life is good habits, who wants to take the time to exercise, to pray, to read God's Word, to attend worship services? For most, church is so boring, just spectators, and even though hell is talked about more than anything else in the Bible, what preacher will tell well-dressed, sophisticated, educated, good-smelling people that they are going to hell when they die, if they do not live according to God's instructions?

We hear about something now, which has been ignored for most of my life. I know of nothing more important, it is this matter of bullying one another. There is nothing that has caused more stress in my life, from childhood to present, than the inhumane act of bullying. I was the oldest of four children, my parents, like their parents, believed in the integrity of life, that life is a precious opportunity to glorify the Creator of life, to show politeness. We were taught politeness, cleanliness, stewardship of everything in life.

Even mid-20^th century, an all-white country school, they had not prepared me for the bullying pursuant, a child with these qualities. I believe the building is still standing, I would like to have a picture of the corner of the building where I was treated at recess. Young boys would push and fight, this was foreign to me. I would seek the protection of that corner. The two walls were my security blanket. One teacher finally saw the situation, drew me out of this meekness and better established me on the playground, but I have never forgotten yet, the torture I endured as a child because of the meanness that went on in the boy's bathroom. I left to wonder how many young boys go through the same thing in today's world. Since, most of the time there is not adult supervision, and young boys must endure the bullying that takes place when they are not prepared for this brazen side of life.

As one of my aunt's said, “it was necessary for me to teach my son to fight, if he were to be a survivor.” Such bullying is not just a childhood experience, it has become the rule, not the exception, in every day life for most of us. There are 435 members of Congress, who spend their lives at great expense to the citizens, bullying the population of the United States of America. The 1,300 government agencies just involved in intelligence work, 8,000 have top secret clearance, most of these agencies do not know what the others are doing, much of the work is duplicated, this is the reason we have a national debt of $14 trillion.

There is practically no freedom left in the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” It takes a permit or license to do anything. Law enforcement has become just another bullying agency. With all their licenses, fees, there are still 50,000 Americans dying on the highways each year, 17 times more than those killed in 9/11. We are so anxious to bully the world, military bases in 130 countries, 66 years after the end of WWII, we still have military bases in Germany.

In the world's once richest nation, there are 43 million families on food stamps. All of us come to the yellow woods were there are two paths: one, the least traveled, the other, very traveled. The question, which will you take? The path of least resistance, bowing to every physical and moral indecency. Or, will you take the least traveled path? Escaping the bullying of desperate people and nations. The last stages of any fallen empire, a military which saps the strength of the country, a country no longer defending it's borders from the invasion of non-citizens, illegal immigration.

Governor Purdue of North Carolina expects her lawyer son, Gerriet Purdue, to pass out millions in incentive money to prospective industry which the hard-working, God-fearing, tax-paying citizens have coughed up through the bullying of state law. One uses 7 million brain cells each day, our actions are determined by what we are. It is time for Americans to become synergistic defenders of our spiritual, physical and moral beliefs. Not bullied by the indecency of others.

Silence Is Consent

Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote the book The Last Days of Pompeii in 1834. This book describes in detail the happenings in the Italian city of Pompeii just before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. When I walked on the streets of Pompeii, I remembered how quick the city was engulfed by fire and lava. The place is frozen in time, even sleeping dogs were cemented forever.

The incandescent light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison, first patented and tested in 1880. This would be the miracle of miracles for America and the world, all working by the light of oil lamps. I will never forget my family's first light bulb after the power lines had been run through the country Our house had been wired and we had the incandescent bulb hanging down from the ceiling...so it was with the local school house, church house, houses of millions around the world. Wonderful light from the incandescent bulb. Also, the bulb gave off just enough heat that it could be used in a room to keep pipes from freezing, in an area to keep the water pump from freezing, in a chicken house to keep small chicks from freezing.

Today is the day we bid goodbye to the incandescent light bulb, it will no longer be manufactured in America. Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) joined with U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) to introduce the Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act. The legislation would repeal light bulb standards Congress included in the 2007 energy law that effectively bans traditional incandescent light bulbs starting in 2012. “Washington needs to stop picking winners and losers in the marketplace and micromanaging how Americans live their lives,” said Senator DeMint, the lead co-sponsor of the bill. (http://www.thestatecolumn.com/state_politics/south-carolina/sen-jim-demint-bill-would-end-ban-on-incandescent-light-bulbs/)

American trend forecaster, Gerald Celente, says America's future has two possible outcomes: terrorism or WWIII. I believe there is a third outcome, if there are enough Americans with the backbone to stand up against the communist take over of America. Last year, $31 billion was spent in America just enforcing useless regulations such as light bulb bans. Just a few years ago, there was a federal procedure, “Knock and Talk”, regulating government housing. Regulators could walk in and look over the property in which the government allowed you to live, determine how you are spending your welfare fund. (All over the world, particularly the Balkan countries, after the communist takeover, I saw the inspectors clad in their brown suits, with their briefcase, inspecting everything in these countries.)

In a matter of a few months time, traveling by air has become a nightmare, scanning of your body. We know that TSA (Transportation Security Administration) is now equipped to scan travelers on highways, to scan large trucks. Each year, 500,000 Americans die from cancer. I cannot help but believe that many of these deaths are unnecessary, radiation from such unnecessary processes as scanning at the airport, or x-rays at the dentist office and other medical procedures.

It is a constant fight not to be overcome by the bondage of bitterness, bitterness toward government in its culture of corruption, bitterness toward news sources in their culture of fraud and phony-ism, such as Fox networks substituting a last year's booing incidence in a recent event. Wikileaks has put out in full view, weaknesses in government, the blasphemy of diplomacy, nothing is sacred or secret anymore. Elitists who should never be appointed to anything are serving as ambassadors, representing America in other countries. To the uninformed, everything is obscure, to those who have risen to the top by political contributions, who they know, not what they now. Our foreign programs, our political futures are in grave danger. Every time I met an ambassador at an embassy overseas, the thought immediate occurred, I wonder how much his ambassadorial title cost him.

Does it ever occur to you: why so many homegrown terrorists? Why the bondage of hatred and distrust of Americans toward their government? Could it be that most of us see more government failures than government successes. Could it be that Americans have seen support for dictators around the world such as the tyrants in Mexico (corrupt government in Mexico, supported by the US, even as millions have escaped across the border to find a better life in America...hard working people, family people). We have seen America support tyrants in Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya. Like the poor and dispossessed in America, those put in uniform to defend this country, the poor and dispossessed in other countries are just used as cannon fodder. 900,000 Iraq and Iran young men killed in that war in 1988-89. Henry Kissinger said, “it is too bad that both sides cannot lose.”

There is always a root and taste of bitterness, particularly to those who have served their country in uniform, who have returned as disabled veterans. Those who have done nothing or disgraced us are the heroes (President Clinton has a $600 million Presidential library).

Those who should be on the front lines for America's battle for sobriety and integrity, often give their consent through their silence. I think particularly of the pastors and preachers of the country. Watching the politics of eastern NC in my long life, I am particularly bitter toward the baptist churches, who, through the silence of consent have allowed the democrat party in this area of the nation to leave them in abject poverty...tenant farmers and cotton mill workers. I have bitterness toward the blacks and particularly the black churches and preachers, who in lockstep, still support the democrat party when they know full well that this party has kept them racially underfoot. The blacks vote 99% democrat, while at the same time taking crumbs from the democrat table after 130 years of democrat rule. The black vote, silence of black preachers and churches, shows their consent to political corruption and lack of empathy, not just for themselves, but everyone else. Is this Christianity?

A Bible scholar told me that 35% of all church members do not have enough knowledge of the Bible to know anything about the prophecies and promises of God's Word. Those who know and love freedom, those who know and love the redemption through Christ, those who know and love the power of God in the history of nations, will not give their consent through silence.

Nominating

I was eating supper at a famous barbeque restaurant, then as now, as always, doing two things at once: reading a manuscript as I ate. I finished, looked across the room, and there she was. It had been 40 to 50 years since I had seen her, but I still the recognize the same small woman, my third grade teacher, Ms. Collier. Of course, as this writer, she had aged, her name had changed because she had married and I had more or less, through the years, kept up with her because I had relatives living in the same town in which she was reared.

Now I knew she would not recognize me, and I could have paid my bill, walked on out of the restaurant, but I went over to her table and said, “I am one of your former students, I just want to speak to you.” She looked at me with incomprehension, I sat down across from her and did not let go of her hand which I had taken when I introduced myself. I said, “I was in your third grade class at the Nahunta school, and believe me, I have never forgotten you, your classroom was right next to that of Ms. Buffalo, Ms. Dickinson and Ms. Edmundson was still there at the time.” She was looking at me with disbelief. I said, “I remember your family owned the saw mill, and I remember your married name, Fleming, and he died.”

Then, I told her about my education, military experience, and that I had come back to practice. I said, “you gave me a love for reading and music. I still remember the rack of bottles each filled with so much water to give a tone, and you teaching me the various tones in music, the large pictures of presidents and writers, the band in which I played. I always wanted to play the tambourine, but you had me playing the sticks. You were a marvelous teacher, and I want you know that I could never forget you, and I could not have walked out of here without speaking with you.”

She seemed to have recovered. She said, “Thomas, I remember you, I remember your beautiful mother, one of the prettiest women I ever saw (my mother was always known for her beauty).” She said, “after all the years of teaching school, you are the first to ever thank me. Right here, this day, you have made my life worthwhile.” I said, as I picked up her check to pay for her meal, “I will stay in touch.”

About six months later, I saw her obituary in the paper, her funeral was at the funeral home in Fremont, I decided to go the service, something I rarely do. I knew the funeral home director, I gave him one of my cards when I went in and said, “give this to a member of the family, and tell them that I was one of her students.” She did not have any children, obviously one sister survived, not many people at the service. I saw the funeral director when he went over to her sister and said, “Dr. Morris was one of Dora's students and he is here.” She got up, came over and kissed me on the forehead.”

We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Dora Collier was a good teacher because she was called to be a good teacher. She was a good teacher, not because of her students, but because of who she was. We are Christians, not because the world needs us, but because of who we are. Those who observe physical, political, spiritual laws have the free will not to obey anything, and many feel that obedience is oppression. The one thing I will never understand, from the council chambers of eternity, God chose us for life...nominated us for certain things. You have the same power, even though you may be the poorest, as the richest, as the most powerful, potentate or Pope to approach God.

On the archive building in Washington DC, are these words, “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” During the political nominating seasons, which we are entering now, federal, state, local, I hope Americans will become more aware of the importance of putting real leaders into places of leadership. In 1865, Julia Ward Howe wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic, in it she said, “nothing we do seems the equal to the problems around us, therefore we do nothing.” If the republic is going to be saved, something must be done. The only hope of this nation, from everything I know, is the use of state's rights to rein in the federal government.

Inflation, higher taxes, global tyranny, all because Americans, both parties, but particularly the democrats have nominated and elected people addicted to spending money, there is no way the world can survive with America's debt. So many preachers and pastors are just performers, so many politicians are just pretenders. Because of the dishonesty and corruption of politics, the money involved, politicians will spend a tremendous amount of money to get elected. Surely it has occurred you that one does not spend millions to get elected to a job that pays a very reasonable salary. Surely it has occurred to you, that at the church house, saved people of faith, do not have to be begged to work for the church or even attend church...will give willingly of their means for God's work. You can tell a real, “not imposter” preacher.

In the insanity of news, along with global upheaval, global inflation, the international monetary bank states that food prices around the world are up 29%, cotton has increased 180% in price. In most countries, including America, the middle class has disappeared, around the world we will see most populations sink into poverty. America has become a profane society, we have a neurological nourishment of lies from the new media, uncontrolled government spending murdering the economy. The time has long passed for Christian courage as well as political courage, those who have caused the problem cannot solve the problem, much like witch doctors teaching in medical schools.

Ridiculous, perverted Obama talking about “winning the future.” America's future involves nominating leaders more concerned with saving than spending. Obama said his commission appointed to handle the problem (Bowles, Simpson) is just a framework for conversation. There has been enough conversation, Nero fiddling as Rome burned. We need walking, not talking, moving forward in the 21^st century.

Pollyanna

Many use the word Pollyanna without knowing its meaning, perhaps no more important word in one's vocabulary, it is a bias toward encouragement, positive thinking and actions, psychological expedience. I remember that even during the depths of the Great Depression, women at the church, in the community, provided a system of Pollyanna, whereby they would give one another gifts, something crocheted, produced from the garden, baked goods, to one another, showing their love, concern, a way of encouragement.

The most effective tool Satan has in his arsenal of weapons, is his weapon of discouragement. If he can just put discouragement in the heart of an individual, anchor defeatism in the mind, he has accomplished something with the satanic forces of darkness, that only the power of God can remove. Many of us live our entire lives without much encouragement. I can say without fear of contradiction, in all honesty, that I have never had one word of encouragement from one relative, one classmate, one pastor or Christian...all those who you would think would be the first to offer such to one who is blind, living alone, honored God, family, and country. Every pastor, every family member, who ever came to me as a patient, or for whom I did any type business, always received a professional discount, hundreds of them. I could count on the fingers of one hand, the times I received a “thank you”. Years ago in my life, when I could see, I would always write a personal letter to the family of anyone who died, telling of my relationship with the person, pleasant memories. I never once, not once, was thanked for such remembrance.

In Pasadena, California, lawyer John Kralik changed his life by writing thank you notes to everyone he could remember who had affected his life, his book 365 Thank Yous, describes how he wrote a thank you note every day for one year, the responses he received and how it affected his own living. Classic etiquette teaches that one responds to kindness. I remember every teacher, every professor, just as important in my life, those who were kind to me in places of business, waitresses, clerks in stores, the automobile mechanics, people who need a Pollyanna lift in their life.

I give a large part of my income for God's Work, churches, college awards and scholarships. It embarrasses me as a Christian, to tell you how few times I have been thanked for such. As Mark Twain said, “good manners cost so little.” Every time parents introduce me to their young son, I always take his hand because I never know what type hand I am holding, a future surgeon, pianist, mechanic, pastor, therapist of some sort. I learned long ago, not to display my genuine faith, but under my breath I think, “God, I give this young man to you, regardless of his family, the world, the flesh, the devil.” Because, most will have to make it on their own, but “one man plus God and anything is possible.” Slowly but surely, the once Christian America is sinking into the abyss of Godlessness. I have visited the Godless, communist countries of the world, know the forsakeness of depending on government. Perhaps the most totally dependent people are the Chinese. The Chinese government is sending colonies of their people into foreign countries, 1 million into Africa alone; Canada, especially Vancouver is practically taken over by the Chinese.

BBC gave a program recently on chicken farmers in Zambia, Africa. Classic, communal, authoritarian communism...and they know nothing else, has taught them to work hard, to stay in good health. So much of the world has become so careless in their health, they treat the temple of God, their body, like a garbage can. God's Word, the Bible, the answer book, instructs us about food and everything else (Genesis 1:27-31). We eat vegetables with seed, not this genetically-modified seed-less hybrid trash. The Chinese eat raw or steamed vegetables with seed, quality meat. Many of you eat cereals where the box has more nutrition than the cereal in the box. There are more laxatives sold in stores than any other thing sold over the counter. This problem is mostly a matter of water. The most addictive substance known to man is sugar, your fast food place sprinkles, not only your french fries, but your meat with sugar. 3 teaspoons of sugar will shut down your immune system for six hours. Sugar is cheap, keep everything white out of your diet, sugar, flour, salt.

Start dietary restrictions when children are young, study the statistics about the number of fat children in our nation and the percentage of diabetes. Diabetes was a rare condition when I was in school, so were STDs, so was cancer. Microbes, including cancer, always thrives in a low PH medium. The greatest thing for your body is to detoxify, to cleanse, to fast. The homeostasis of your body is rhythmic, your body is accustomed to your routine, your attachment to certain foods, even certain prescription drugs. Just as you need an interruption, a vacation, so your body needs to escape the steady rhythm, purring of your system. Learn to fast for several days, cleanse with water and pure juices, detoxify with raw, fresh vegetables. Keep leeching plastics, chemical additives (chloride, fluoride found in most water systems) out of your body. Most of the time, the body will heal itself, most of the time you can live with good health. Life depends on your comfort zone, you constantly move toward God, or your are in free fall away from him. Thankfulness, goodness, giving is not just Pollyanna. Defying pride, what is expected of us as human beings.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day's history is very sketchy. First recognized by the Catholic church in 496 AD, and removed from the calender of saints in 1969. Valentine's Day pertains to two saints named Valentine, one ~197 AD, the other ~269 AD, both of them early martyrs of the Catholic church.

Amidst the flowers, candy, cards, and hoopla of the commercialization “day of love” fest, we remember the famous Saint Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago where seven gang members were killed. Such would hardly get a headline any longer, because there are so many homicides everyday. A mother in White Plains, New York strangled her 18 year-old daughter because she was “constantly disrespectful.” A 23 year old father killed his two sons in Atlanta (ages 1 and 3), and critically wounded another, because of the mother's boyfriend.

There are 45 homicides in America each day, all of them some mother's child. When the notorious John Dillinger was killed in 1934, just the picture of his feet in national publications, brought home to every one, that every person, regardless of death circumstances, is some mother's child. Every baby, blessed to be born and not aborted, blessed to be loved by the mother, who carried the child in the sanctity and safety of the womb, is totally dependent on the maturation of a caring world in determining destiny. Character determines destiny, every child deserves “love and care”.

Life is a battle between the world, the flesh, the devil. The devil wants me to get mad because I am disabled. The devil wants me to get mad because I have had little or no encouragement from anyone during my disability. The devil wants me to give up because the world is in the condition it is in... 30 billion pounds of explosives dropped on God's earth by my country, taxation beyond comprehension. I have been told by a local attorney, handling the estate of a wealthy man in town, who, in his final instructions to him, told him to have his body cremated at death. He said, “then I want you to put the ashes in a cardboard box, mail them to the director of the IRS in Washington, with a note which states as to the deceased's instructions, he wanted me to tell you, 'now you have it all'.”

I well understand this man's attitude, particularly veterans who have defended this country. Time and time again, I write a politician about something specific, giving documentation, only to receive in return, a generic reply, on expensive paper, which could go to anyone about anything. Almost always, without exception a letter and envelope asking for a political contribution. Most of us have found that writing anyone in Washington is just a waste of time.

Since 1970, the greatest proportion of tax dollars has gone to those at the top. Even the average federal employee makes a salary of $130,000 a year plus benefits. Retirement benefits for most federal, state, local government workers is almost beyond comprehension, compared to the private sector. The greatest ambition of most hard-working, God-fearing, taxpaying parents who love their children is to send their children to a good school. They think they can move them up the ladder through education, better schools. We have learned, sadly, that the more money you throw at education, the worse education becomes. The average income of a middle class family of four, $50,000.

When I came out of school, the advertised pay for a beginning doctor in a hospital emergency room was $12,000 a year. My 5^th grade teacher made $85 a month. The President of the United States, FDR, made $50,000 a year. He ran WWII with one secretary and a few extra employees. Today, with the Executive Office Building, etc. there are 1,800 employees on the staff of the President. President Harry Truman, borrowed money to move his family back to Independence, Missouri.

Germany has always set the pace in the European economy...savers, people who stretch their money. Germany hates the change of supporting other countries in the European Union (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, etc.). The Frankfurt Stock Market is about to take over the New York stock exchange (the Marshall Plan really worked!).

One cannot get completely disillusioned, distraught, seeing Arab nations becoming more and more in line against Israel. Egypt and its recent reconstruction is a diplomatic nightmare. Think of the 18 million people, population of Cairo, just across the border from Gaza. Think of the history of the Suez Canal. We understand the 87 year old King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, is in a state of frenzy concerning America forsaking Mubarak of Egypt. Is his country next? In many of these middle east Islamic countries, Jordan, Yemen, Dubai, Libya. What next? America has put $500 billion into Israel. Aoth Rupert Murdoch and Bill O'Reilly have recently addressed the American Defamation League (ADL). A Christian whether in Israel or America, cannot buy one square inch of land in Israel.

Every river is a challenge, to build a bridge, use a boat, or just leave it alone. When will we learn that we do not have to build a bridge across every river in the world. That the 50% of Americans who do pay taxes cannot support the entire world, Valentine's day or any day. Pygmy-brained Americans think that in the coldest winter in history, we still have global warming, that there is no connection between the Rothschilds and Rupert Murdoch, that in order to climb out of poverty, you must be a mason or a member of skull and bones. When will we learn that on Valentine's Day or any day, we must be sure of our affections. We thought Bush 43 was a conservative, we supported him. We find that Laura supports abortion, and that the Bush twins are making videos supporting same-sex marriage. On Valentine's Day or any day, you cannot go forwards looking backwards, just glance through the rear-view mirror occasionally.

Snickers

Today is the day of prayer in Muslim countries, including Egypt. The 18^th day of the benign coup d'etat. The country which has been the cornerstone in keeping middle east peace (Israel-Egypt peace accords), suddenly achieved world headlines. The dictator, for 30 years, Mubarak, has played the citizens of his country, Mr. Obama, world leaders, like a violin. Unemployed people, who have nothing else to do, very much like those who demonstrate in this country, did not change anything.

There has not been enough bloodshed for a real revolution. When a man has been in total control for 30 years, has socked away $70-$80 billion, which the US has presented him for keeping the peace, you know he has his military and everyone else on the job under his thumb. Egypt gets $315 million a day from tourism, like England and Japan, whose natural resources are zero, there is nothing else in Egypt from which the millions can make a living. The tourists have disappeared, one shop owner said he had sold nothing for two weeks. So, those in tourism, shop-owners, like their fellow Egyptians on the streets, are all facing starvation, things might have been bad before, but they can get worse, especially if the Suez canal is brought into the picture, 1/6 of the world's commerce going through that one vital waterway.

At the end of WWI, Lawrence of Arabia brought some of his Arab leader-friends to Paris to participate in the peace talks. There, Arabs nomads had never seen bathrooms, faucets, from places where water is so precious, they were amazed that you could turn a handle and water would come out. On returning, they all removed the faucets from their bathrooms, thinking that they would have an endless supply of water. Nothing has changed in the history of the world, men still forget that there must be a power source for everything.

The news in this morning's newspaper all started with one baby, in one pitched ark, floating in a river many years ago. Jochebed, the mother of Moses, just as Jonah, saving his sons from the water, left a long history of the salvation of the people of the world. It all took place in the middle east, then and now. Mr. Harold Campen, 85 year old radio talk host, for 59 years answering questions on family radio, states that Christ will return April 21^st, 2011. A Russian scientist has just announced that world will end in 2036. I don't believe either of them know but everything in God's Word tell us that the time “is drawing near”.

John, the beloved disciple, youngest, but the one who lived the longest, the only one not martyred, on the island of Patmos, wrote the book of Revelation, the last book in the Bible. Chapters 4-19, tell of the end times, chapter 3 tells the history of the church, the seven churches describe the history of the church age, there can be no doubt that were are living in the Laodicean church age.

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (Revelation 3:14-22)

God, like us, nauseated by lukewarmness in any drink, we want our drinks either cold or hot. Rich, having need for nothing, sounds like today's “prosperity gospel” preachers, wealthy denominations (SBC, Episcopal, Catholic, etc.). Dignified, sophisticated, beautifully attired, groomed, perfumed; what pulpiteer will tell these folks that they will go to hell unless they repent of their sins? Most, self-satisfied, really have no need for God.

I was reared in the Great Depression, country church, cotton was selling for 3 cents a pound (USDA Market News, January 2001: $1.78 a pound). At that country church, the new pastor, James Evans, wore such a ragged suit that the equally ragged women of the church sold butter and eggs from their farm homes to buy him a new suit. His Christianity was real, their Christianity was real.

A wonderful baptist son, married an equally wonderful Presbyterian daughter, they could not agree on going to one church or the other. He finally said to her, “if Jesus were to return to earth and say that he was a Baptist, would you change denominations then?” She said, “no because I'd know he was a fake, our Blessed Lord is a Presbyterian.”

We are in the final hours of the church age, there can be no doubt about it. The world snickers when the world speaks about Jesus Christ, and if the so-called Christian is going to be popular with the world, you must snicker along with them. The good ol' boys who control everything, do not believe in redemption.

100 people in Japan commit suicide every day, 9 out of 10 Japanese will not buy a house where there has been a suicide. You always deduct at least $30,000 from the selling price of a house where such has occurred. Christians love life, non-Christians do not believe in life (and this 16% of the American population), even in giving life to the most innocent, babies. This is the abortion crowd, and yet there are so-called Christians in both white and black churches who will support the Democrat party who promote the atrocities of abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage. Today, in South Africa, unemployment is 25%, it has been that way since the communist, Nelson Mandela, took over. Unemployment in America is edging toward 25% since the communist Obama took over. Unemployment in Egypt is almost 25%, Cairo, 18 million population, people sleeping on the street, prisons known for torture, Coptic Christians persecuted.

Most things go in opposite directions, the needle does not hurt as much if you look at it entering the body. The brain modifies pain. When will the world learn that the only way to escape the pain of unemployment, political corruption, is to face it head on, and start with the best psychiatrist, the one looking back at you in the mirror. We are living in a time of the apostate church, corrupt government everywhere. Faith is 90% courage, cling to your Christian faith.