Rubric

Rubric is a word seldom used, so very important, particularly, for those of us (obsessive-compulsive) about always showing the best version of ourselves, an authoritative and correct way of doing things. Why should just the Mafia be rubric in their activities?

This writer has learned in a long and eventful life, that you either are or you are not. I am a rubric victim, exacting, compulsive, routine in everything. Some men can fall into a vat of manure and come up smelling like a rose. For the rest of us, life is hard work, disciplined. From childhood, I gave the best version of myself, mentally and spiritually. There was no time for foolishness. More than once, I overheard some “ne'er-do-well” say, “who does he think he is?” I so remember Mr. Marriner, big wheel in the church, had everyone fooled, after I had spoken at a meeting, used those exact words. He thought a deacon was free from adultery, bootlegging, sport's addiction. His wife and children knew his hypocrisy, even if others excused it.

On his radio program, Michael Savage interviewed Donald Trump about his most recent book, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again. Trump, one of America’s most influential and powerful men has written many books well worth“digesting”, he knows what he is talking about, money, real estate, politics. He is a prime example of what ONE man can do with ONE life.

I owned a Co-op apartment in Manhattan, a few blocks from the Trump Tower on 56^th Street. His tower is a New York City landmark. One day I had a friend walk me into this building, brass and glass, and describe the interior to me. He told me about the limousines pulling up to the doors leading to the elevators and the Trump penthouse. In his books, in interviews, he makes no secret of his ambitious, egotistical, disciplined life... the humble beginnings of his family, immigrants, the hard work of his father. Trump's income tax reports are in the book, he is not secretive about anything, net worth over $7 billion, low debt. Like other financial giants of this nation, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Mellon, he had a plan and knew how to work his plan. He has little patience with insolence and laziness. One does not get to the top by thinking small, laying around, complaining.

They gave great honor to their fathers. It should be noted that 85% of all prisoners come from fatherless homes, that America spends $100 billion per year to compensate for these fatherless homes.

Even in a corrupt system one can still succeed... just don't confuse success with celebrity. In this world of political-correctness where charisma and popularity will get a hip hop, rapper, or howling politician to the top. At a time when government grants largess, lying and stealing is more important to the scientist and academic than objective research, it is good to know that there is still room for diligence, honesty.

Books later, books written by real investigative reporters, Americans learned how they have been manipulated about many things... Japanese intrigue and entanglements in the skies of this country involving WWII, what really happened at Roswell,NM, Pearl Harbor, Waco, TX, Murrah building, the real truth about “911”. At a time when the world feeds from photography, when children carry cell phones which take photographs in their pocket. Who will ask the questions, why are there no photographs of the imposter in the White House... as a child, marriage ceremony, college? Why is there no photograph of a plane or aircraft parts at the Pentagon? Why is there no photograph of a dead Timothy McVeigh? Even the witnesses do not believe he was executed. Surely with deaths such as Bin Laden, where so much skepticism is involved, around the world, every cynical attitude must be nailed down with photographs.

Wikileaks has disclosed irrational diplomacy. We know that the game is fixed on Wall Street. We play “footsie” with dictators (Emperor Hirohito, the world's richest man, Stalin, Bin Laden) BUT, Why the criminality of global warming, Travel Security Administration (TSA), open borders?

Elderly citizens have little expense until their final illness. Elderly people need little food, have enough clothes and furniture. The house and car are usually paid for. Those over age 85 are the most rapid growing segment of the population. Why should young people, those “slammed” by every expense of getting started, be hammered and nailed, by the RUBRICS of excessive regulation and taxation?

Apparatchik

Visiting the University of Moscow during the depths of the USSR, my question to my guide, "I have never seen such ostentatious buildings, such poor students. Everything about the place seems pretentious. Do any of these professors or administrators have any real professional standing?" My Russian guide said, "no, most are just apparatchiks, all in thier place of leadership, prominence because of their communist party affiliation. In the collectivist system, it is not ideas but ideology.” My friend told me that her husband went before the county Democrat “boss” in order to get a job driving a school bus, when will Americans awaken to the absolute fact that “apparatchiks” are now running our country.

The 97th Tour de France ends on Sunday, the 25th, there is just eight seconds between two top bicyclists. The total length of the bicycle race is 2,263 tortuous miles, as with all true athletic events, the winners get the reward, the yellow shirt, because they had the discipline, drive, character, have taken the risk to come out a winner, no matter who they knew. Justice demands that players performing on the real playing field of life have a level field. Americans, in particular, have no patience with players who use steroids, crooked umpires or referees, or preference shown because of money, family, looks or anything else. We want accomplishment to be real, earned, no slack or head-starts given.

95% of the world's archeological history is still underground, every time there is a new discovery of any type, I think of my professors who died not knowing about this new information. Think of what the developments of each 5 years bring, think of nanotechnology, and past scientists, who would have been so thrilled to know such. Just recently on the Northern coasts of Peru, ancient sacrificial temples were discovered, probably, prisoners of war were sacrificed there, about 2000 years ago. The artwork shows participation of spiritual as well as secular leadership. Nothing makes Satan happier than to know that spiritual leaders have compromised with political leaders, that all have been tarred with the same stick of greed and corruption, nepotism, hypocrisy. If you do not have an infusion of the Holy Spirit of God in your being, so that you are fasting, praying, giving with joy, there is something very wrong with your belief system. If you think you are Christian, yet compromise with the sin tactics of government, vote party instead of principle, you are lost.

I have been to many funerals, been around many families and friends, experiencing the loss of a loved one, most do not have a clue about what is going on. I have seen a heathen pastor in a pulpit eulogizing someone in a casket in the front of the church, who did not have a clue about what is going on. A worn out body, usually for an older person, laying in a casket, total value for the chemicals in a deceased body, 75 cents, the person (soul or spirit), no mass, invisible, now an eternity. Most do not understand the magical, powerful, sovereign, supernatural understanding of death, or even prayer. If the average person understood prayer, death, the gift of life, the gift of eternity, such earthly, inconsequential apparatchiks would cease to be important, we would be so intent on honesty, charity, the spirit of Christianity, soul salvation, not earthly, secular involvement.

When you give serious thought to the fragility of live, how easy it is for the oceans of earth to become polluted with oil, and even larger oil pollution in the yellow sea near China, polluted water producing polluted rainfall, water going into ponds, killing fish and plant-life, chemical water falling on agriculture. Remember Germany's black forest was killed with acidic water, as was much of Canada's forests. Nothing threatens agricultural production like air pollution, which kills the bees and birds. In the great depression, which I well remember, 7 million Americans died of starvation, at that time, 90% of the American population lived on farmland where food was obtainable. Today, 90% of the American population lives in cities, large sections of which expect the government to care for them.

Can we even imagine the futility of apparatchiks to care for their fellow man in time of a nuclear disaster when water, food, housing, everything is destroyed? When I was in New Delhi, India (the population of India, over 1 billion, poor beyond imagination) water was being harvested. Pipes and barrels were being used to retrieve all rainwater, they know the disaster which lies ahead. Think of what Port de Prince, Haiti is experiencing: just one city, millions still without shelter, food, or water.

I was on a train in India during one horrendous flood, dead bloated animals everywhere polluting the flood waters. Every time the train stopped, the bed for the train rails, high enough to be above the flood waters, perishing people lined up with containers trying to get some drinking water from the train. I have tried to forget this sight. Remember, anything you experience, especially anything you see with your eyes: pornographic or principled, terrible or tempting, can never be erased from the recesses of your memory. The plague of America, elected politicians and political appointees, responsible for the government, responsible for the welfare of the many, totally inexperienced in dealing with vagaries of life.

“Meese” and Geese

Abraham Lincoln was little known until February 1860 when he made his most famous speech other than the Gettysburg address, the Cooper Union speech. The 1,800 red leather seats were full on that February night in New York City. Among other things, he said he would emigrate to another country where no “pretense is made about loving liberty”, rather than tolerate hypocrisy.

I cannot understand why everything has sought the common level of hypocrisy...politics, religion, commerce, social service, academia, etc. In a world of political correctness, why is truth and honesty so difficult? Even Jesus scorned hypocrites (Matthew 23). In the rules of the people's house, the US House of Representatives, the word hypocrisy is not allowed.

The American Indian brave could put his ear to ground and tell you about a buffalo herd many miles away. Their direction, their numbers, their movement.

So it was with most honest souls, hearts, minds, bodies of God's Great Commandment (Matthew 22). Jesus Christ, The Word, He Who made heaven and earth and everything in it (John 1) designed man for honesty, not deceit. Diogenes, with his candle, looked for an honest man.

A young girl doing secretarial work for me, as I was dictating about the beatitudes “blessed are the meek” (Matthew 7) said, “Dr. Morris, what are meeks?” I said, “they are much like geeks, weeks, very rare.” Some people refer to themselves as moose, elks , lions, bird-lovers. I rented a suite of offices to the local Audubon society, people supposedly interested in birdlife. It was necessary for me to restore and redecorate the unit after their occupancy, even to the carpet.

One of North Carolina's best known politicians, known for inviting Washington hierarchy to his palatial hunting grounds on the coast, was severely criticized for “seeding” land with corn so geese would come in and be an easier shot for the Washingtonian hypocrites...men who supposedly loved wildlife.

At tiger tops in India, I rode an elephant for many miles to a famous lodge, where , supposedly you can watch tigers in the wild. I said to the guide, “totally isolated, only accessible by plane then riding an elephant, what is this train track doing here?” He said, “In former times, the Maharajahs and ruling class of India would come here by train and then, from the train would shoot the game in the wild. The natives would actually tie game to trees so the rulers could get their kill from the train.” This is what you call game hunting by the “rich and famous” and politicians who make rules for the rest of us.

Have you ever tried to describe eternity? Have you ever tried to describe a man's relationship with God, the One who spoke and the world was formed? Have you ever tried to describe man's attempt at worship, giving to God, the greatest act of worship? Are you more afraid of God's blessings or God's curses? Because, if you believe, you know that he has challenged you to prove him by giving cheerfully to him, of that by which you are blessed (Malachi 3:10).

You cannot get giving out of Christianity, in the Garden of Eden, only one tree was fenced off to Himself. He told them not to touch it, a part of everything you own belong to Him, whether you believe it or not. God has a right to draw a line around some things, a part of your wealth, your time, your talent. I never ceased to be amazed at those who find substitutes...civic and social clubs, politics, masonic groups, Skull and Bones, professional societies.

The cardiologists have their own group, the astrologers have their own group, the astronauts have their own group, all taking up your time, talent, money. There is very little that these groups or people in these groups will ever accomplish for you.

Like the college fraternity, many men seek security and recluse in secret handshakes, exploring one another. I understand the Masons strip naked, take off their wedding ring, even the Christian cross, commit self entirely to a satanic organization. Such decadence as this must be a stench in the nostrils of all mighty God. Much as having a mistress when you have a wife at home, who is supposed to submit to you.

Do you love your schooner's gear, your golf clubs, your season tickets more than the Word who created you, or the Word you should study and share. In Calcutta, India the second largest city in the world (Mexico City being the largest) a small goat was tied at an alter, a priest, in a spotless white robe came out of the temple, and in front of hundreds he chopped off the goat's head, then with his hands he put goat blood on everyone who would come up and kneel. Meek, moose, elk, geese, skulls and bones, all become insignificant before the holy God of the universe.

Hoping and Figuring

Today, all news reports concerned the Obama budget being presented to Congress. The $3.8 trillion is beyond the comprehension of most Americans. After 15 days laying under the rubble of the Haiti earthquake, the 17 year old college student who was pulled out alive is perhaps the only human being who can talk about the crush of so much weight on life. Every parent should realize the debt with which their children and grandchildren, for many generations, are involved. Statistics is a very bewildering science and the statisticians at the White House, the Treasury Department, and every other federal agency, are just busy “hoping and figuring” that things will not get any worse as far as the economy is concerned.

On each side of the Flood, mankind has faced perilous problems. Those who have finally gotten off the fence, not knowing which way to go, are now standing on the brink of an almost bottomless cliff. From the very beginning, man has sought refuge in a power greater than himself. 95% of the world's archeology has yet to be unearthed but no civilizations have been explored that did not have deities to worship. In traveling the world (8 round the world trips, passport stamped in 157 countries), I have been amazed with religious systems and structures which evidently brought satisfaction to someone. I will never understand how an idol can be carved out of something, the idol worshiped, the excess wood, clay, gold or silver just thrown away.

On one of my trips to Burma I visited the Buddhist shrine caves of Pindaya. In the southernmost Pindaya cave there were 8,000 images of Buddha. As was the case in the temple to Buddha at Kandy, Sri Lanka, the devotees were lined up to view the images. Four men were standing over to the side and they beckoned for me to come over and, in broken English, one asked, “ Are you a Christian?” I said, “I am not Christ-like but I do believe God, I believe in Jesus Christ and I am a Christian.” They understood, smiled broadly and said, “We are Christians.” I made their photograph, shook hands and wished God's blessings upon them and, as always, gave each a business card. Then, much to the consternation of the Communist, Buddhist guard, who inquired about their talking with me, I said, “They wanted to meet an American.” There are more stupas in Burma than there are people. Stupas are religious shrines much like tombstones in our cemeteries. Some very large, some very small, all offered as worship to Buddha, most contain the ashes of a deceased Buddhist. Buddha taught that nirvana is a relief from suffering and a rebirth. There are probably 350 million Buddhists in the world today, mostly in Asia.

In the world's more recent religions, Witchcraft is certainly the fastest growing. From Witchcraft grew the early Grand Lodge of the Masons, a more-or less labor union of early stone cutters who built the cathedrals and temples of western Europe using many of the symbols found in early Egyptian and Judaism. From the Masons came the Mormons. Joseph Smith, considered the founder of the Mormon group, was an outstanding mason and husband of 27 wives. Through a “supposed” prophet, Moroni, and the help of certain tablets, he established the Mormon group which is one of the fastest-growing American denominations. There are an estimated 14 million Mormons in the world today. Because of legalism in the establishment of the state of Utah,and other problems with polygamy, like most religious groups there are several factions.

Charles Taze Russell founded a bible study group in 1876 which has become known as the Jehovah's Witnesses...a rapidly growing cult in American religious denominations. This group now numbers around 7 million...rapidly growing because of their proselytizing efforts. For instance, in the city here where I live, there are 8 Kingdom Halls. I have had several Jehovah's Witness followers work for me. I can tell a male Jehovah Witness as soon as I talk to him for a few minutes...always alert, always extremely likable. Like the Mormon missionaries, they grow because they believe in what they are doing and they carefully prepare themselves for their work. They are convinced, and you don't easily unconvince them.

Most large denominations have spent too much time with Oprah Winfrey as their spiritual advisor, believing nothing themselves (Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, etc.), they are easily led into the entrapment of cult or new age thinking. 75% of all young people reared in the large “Ivy League” denominations leave the church because they only saw hypocrisy in the faith professed. Take note, in the large denominational churches the members want front seats at concerts and athletic events, get real excited about worldly things, but in the church, sit in the rear and generally want to hide from God's presence...in their living, in their giving, in testifying. In the large Protestant, Baptist, non-denominational groups (Joel Osteen, etc.), the atheist or agnostic can feel perfectly at ease in a so-called worship service. As one black preacher told me, “I figure I will hold onto the church just in case there is something to it, hoping for heaven and to escape the wrath of God.” So, we have millions “hoping and figuring” in religion, as well as in patriotism.

The Bible is a Jewish law book. The rest of us (Gentiles) are important only as we affect the Jewish religion, the Jew. The Old Testament prophet, Nehemiah, was the King's cup bearer, the first line of defense between the King and his enemies. In the course of today's royal families, he was the food taster...the one who tasted the King's food first to make sure no one had poisoned him. It is still done with royalty and with people of great power and wealth (King Hussein, late King of Jordan before his son, the present King Abdullah went to the thrown at the death of his father, was said to have had many dead cats in the palace. Cats were used as the food tasters).

The Muslim world, numbering over one billion, will use any form of death (suicide bombers, gas, dogs) to enforce their religion. Muslims figure that they will take over the world through the death of infidels or the conviction of non-believers. Their rapid move into Europe and America, the high birthrate of their children, surely should be defined. For every church building in England which is sold because of non-use, two Muslim mosques are built. There are more Muslims in the United States than Jews. For instance, in Yemen (population 23 million) 50% of the Muslim population is under 15 years of age. There are 48 predominate Muslim countries. I found in traveling through each that the populations were mostly children. I found the same in Mexico, a population of children...in Muslim countries, as predominate Catholic countries, religious zealotry is anti-American and pro-drug culture.

Like our great American bankruptcy (all American systems expected to be bankrupt in eight years), we just “hope and figure” that we are wrong, that our eyes have deceived us...that we really do not understand what we see down the road. Like the new mortgages (pick and pay), you pick to pay interest only, a never ending mortgage of a certain amount ($1 million house, $500-$800 per month as far as the eye can see) or a (hoping and figuring) new mortgage contract every five years. Can one even imagine the lack of sobriety in the financial world...none of the technical graphs work anymore...only disaster seen in the future. Even those with doubts and despair...those who did not trust...are flaying and grasping at the straws of any hope...even in the hope of new age, cults or even Witchcraft.

80% of those in mental hospitals are there because they could no longer figure on hope. FAITH IS A GIFT. There are certain absolutes in the world, regardless of what your college professor told you...Good and Evil...Right and Wrong...Heaven and Hell. Twenty seven times in one book of the Bible, Psalms, “the mercies of the Lord endure forever”. Learn to depend on His mercy, His atonement, His redemption.

Malachi

I first met Malachi as a teenager during WWII. My father, mostly away during the war, had returned to the family farm which my mother and I had kept going while he worked at Camp Davis and Ft. Bragg.

Malachi, a young, black, intelligent, enthused soldier of the South Pacific, had just returned to his mother and father, who still lived very much as slaves on one of the Brady farms outside Kenly, NC.

In the effort to prepare returning veterans to earn a living, the government had set up schools for practical education at many of the high schools. My great uncle Silas, brother of my grandmother, an accomplished carpenter, was teaching carpentry at a local high school. My father, already an accomplished carpenter, was assisting him and there he had met Malachi.

My first experience with Malachi was in assisting my father in the trimming of the mules' feet on the farm. It may sound strange to the uninitiated but the hooves of horses and mules must be trimmed like toenails and fingernails, they grow and in order for the animals to work their feet must be kept in repair. My father was teaching Malachi about the various tools in this craft. It was my job to hold the “twist”. The “twist” was a mechanism that fitted on the lip of the mule in order to control the mule. Naturally, these dumb animals did not want anyone “messing around” with their feet. They had the ability to stand on three feet while one hoof was being trimmed. In other writings, in speaking, I have often referred to the twist as a wonderful way to control homo sapiens. We had a large tobacco farm and I “cropped” the leaves off the stalks of tobacco side by side with Malachi and several others whom my father hired to do this work.

This involves a young black man, the only child of a black couple who lived enslaved on one of Dr. James Calhoun Brady's farms. He owned much land and there was approximately 50 tenant families living on his land. Mostly black, some white, all in complete enslavement because not one of the families ever ceased to be in debt to this landlord.

The small town, small population, one main street and at the end of the street, as one can well imagine: Tara and Heaven. The great white house with the six great white columns in the front, manicured lawns and large cars in the driveway. This is the old type aristocracy of the old south, first half of the 20^th century. Dr. Brady was a physician and, of course, as always, the richest, most prominent man in the area, a member of the democrat legislature. Blacks did not vote and the whites were so intimidated by his influence since he controlled everything in the area (banks, drugstore, only doctor) that his election was always just a matter of formality.

On a side street, near the mansion, was his office for his medical practice and next to it, an office for his farming operations. He had overseers who kept the tenants in abject poverty and subjection, making sure they never got out of debt to the Senator who controlled their lives totally. Of course, law enforcement was at the command of the Senator. My grandfather, who lived in this small town, once showed me the jail. Hollywood would be unable to duplicate the horrendous appearance of this small building with its bars and no chemical company would be able to duplicate the smell from the building because the toilet facilities consisted of a hole in the rear of the one room structure. If the jailed inmate received any water or food, someone in the family had to bring it to him.

The thing I will never forget is Malachi's description of what happened to any one of the enslaved tenant farmers who rebelled in any way against the treatment, or the cheating from the crop sales, the usury involved in ludicrous charges for everything in keeping the farm families in total submission to the Senator.

Along with tobacco, grain crops such as corn and soybeans, much cotton was produced. Of course, at that time, all agriculture farming was done by hand plows with mules. Fertilizer bags were used in the picking of the cotton (I know because I have used such myself). Four of the bags were sewn together to make “cotton sheets”, sheets where you emptied the bags of cotton, kept until they were taken to the cotton gin, where baled. One of the most horrible examples ...use your own words...bigotry, racial hatred, discrimination...two overseers throwing one of these cotton sheets over a man, dragging him off to a deserted area and beating him half to death simply for not complying with one of the Senator's dictums. WE THOUGHT SLAVERY WAS OVER IN 1865. Slavery persisted in North Carolina among the tenant farmers, cotton mill workers, right on through most of my lifetime.

Malachi had come back from the war, his only clothing still his U.S. Army uniform, having participated in the battle of Guadalcanal. Little did I know then that eventually I would visit Guadalcanal, where some of those great US ships are still sticking up out of the water in the bay. Malachi was determined that he would not become a victim of the Doctor/Senator, as had been his father and mother. Alma, his mother, had been a cook in the great old house until her health kept her at home most of the time. But she had witnessed what this doctor, a descendant of one of N.C.'s greatest families, had done to his wife. Keeping her drugged so that, to the people in the community, she appeared a total alcoholic.

This legislator, so enjoying his prestige in Raleigh and elsewhere, believed himself to be so much better than anyone else in the community, he would even go to a large city nearby to get his hair cut. This family would not think of buying their groceries or clothing in the town which they had exploited their entire life. One would think that a physician, one duty-bound by every moral and ethical constraint of medical history, would have some empathy for patients. He was, from what I can learn, more or less an educated, rich drug pusher.

I knew physicians of his historical era who believed in preventative medicine, who used food as treatment, who counseled every age group in homeopathy methods of treatment and prevention. So easy in a rural setting. I never heard of that coming from him because I believe he had too much financial interest in the drugstore. Later, when another younger doctor came to the town, things changed. The old Senator just became an old politician, an old “land hog”, an old hypocrite astounded to see the black and white children going to school together. Probably looking at the church down the street and thinking how he had disgraced the very building by his presence in it.

Once, an elitist fraternity man, with whom I had classes, introduced me to his fellow fraternity brother, the old Senator's grandson. I told him that I was raised a few miles from the home, that my grandparents lived in Kenly, etc. He looked at me as if I had been the biggest pile of trash he had ever seen. Remember, this is the old south, the way it has been most of my life. There is nothing peculiar to this one little town. Most eastern North Carolina towns could tell this same story. The big house in town, where the controlling family lived, who tried to keep an absolute authoritarian control over everything and everyone in the town, particularly if a cotton mill were involved and certainly the tenant farmers on lands surrounding the town where God-fearing, humble, American citizens were just trying to eke out a living in spite of the extortion and oppression of the late 19^th century and early 20^th century slave masters.

I don't know whatever happened to Malachi, I have a feeling that Malachi became successful but, it goes to show again the disdain with which America's elitist hold those of us who have been willing to defend their country and their greed.

It gnaws at me every day of my life, the hypocrisy of our nation, the south, eastern North Carolina, the fact--and it is a fact--that for political and financial gain, Baptist pastors, lawyers who attended church, those fortunate enough to have an education permitted or turned a blind eye to this profane lifestyle, even to this day...so- called Christians voting for the Democrat lie.

Getting Involved

The prophet Jonah, Jewish preacher/evangelist was told by God to go to Nineveh (present day Mosul, Iraq) because of the wickedness of the people. Instead, Jonah took a ship towards towards Tarsus, Spain in the exact opposite direction. You know the story, as always he was rebelling against a sovereign God. Jonah was thrown out of the ship and landed in the belly of a great fish where he stayed for 3 days and 3 nights. The fish coughed him up on the shore of the Mediterranean. This time, he went to Nineveh and this Jew preached against their sins, causing the entire city of around 200,000 to repent, including the leadership. Jonah was still in a state of rebellion and sought refuge in the Iraqi desert while he waited for the city to be destroyed, God provided him a shady plant but God also provided a worm to destroy the plant. Disobedient again, the sovereignty of God and our failure to get involved in obedience.

Recently, in California, a 14-year-old girl at a high school dance was gang raped while many of her fellow students looked on. When asked why they did not help her, they stated they did not want to get involved. In New York City, another young woman was murdered. Before she died she pleaded for help to the 20 or so onlookers. No one wanted to get involved. This week, in this city, a 47-year-old woman was arrested for not reporting her mother's death. Her 87-year-old mother had laid dead in her house for 7 months. Her death had not been reported even though her family lived in the same house. It was reported that at least 5 people lived in the house where the deceased lay.

Obviously, the family was more interested in the government checks coming in, then getting involved in her funeral service. Surely, somewhere, in the recesses of this daughter's mind, she must have considered how many times her mother had been involved in rearing she and her children. In America, all denominations report a total church membership of around 112 million, but we know that only 5% of church members are real believers, most are just “playing” church. Most people, when asked, will say they are Christian even though there is nothing in their life or my life, that makes us Christlike.

Most evangelical denominations believe in the rapture of the church. After the rapture, when 20-30 million real Christians are caught up with Christ, and all the other people are left, THEN we will know how many Christians were on Earth and how many were engaged in the masquerade party. The word “rapture” like the word “trinity” are not found in The Bible, but we believe in the certainty of the event. Since most of the real born-again believers of the world are in America, can one even imagine what life will be like here for those “left behind”? Can one even imagine what the economy will be like when these predictable, productive, citizens of heaven leave their problems of earthly existence behind? Many of their family members, neighbors, and those whom they have come in contact would be with them and would have a better life on Earth IF they had become involved with their salvation.

Noah, preacher of righteousness, pleaded with his fellow man (population of Earth approx. 5 billion before the Great Flood) right up until God closed the door on the Arc of Salvation. Noah was involved for 120 years as he built the arc, strict specifications and ratios given to him by God, such shipbuilding that is still used until this day. The people scoffed and kept scoffing until their last breath. All died, and from the time of Noah's covenant through the Abraham covenant and until this day, 2000 years on this side of the cross, and the 2000 years on the other side of the cross of Christ, most have scoffed and doubted and will do so until the rapture, the next cleansing. To this moment, never forget, every prophecy and every promise in God's word has been fulfilled. The religion that which grows most today is the religion of witchcraft. The unbelievers were scorned and scoffed, the pretenders will continue to be more involved with the world than their Redeemer.

Standing on the Mount of Olives (I still had a shadow of vision in one eye at the time) looking towards the eternal city of Jerusalem, the gold dome of the Mosque of Omar, the many Christian church steeples all over the most famous city in the world, my thoughts, then as now: if Christians, Jews, and even followers of Islam could learn to live together with their differences the world's wealth which has been spent on warfare could relieve the humans' needs on Earth, even in the so-called Holy Land. If Christians lived their faith, the world would want Christianity. The tragedy is most followers of Christ want it both ways.

Even in a Democratic Republic, and only those who have seen the oppression of Communism can appreciate a Democratic Republic, know the thrill of voting. Yet, as with Christianity very few get involved. Only in national elections, in this country, do those who are registered to vote actually vote. Many give the excuse that politics is a dirty business and they do not want to get involved. Many lazy people do not chose to work because they don't want to get their hands dirty. I'm the first to tell you that I do not trust the new electronic voting machines. Joseph Stalin said long ago, “it is not the voting that counts but who counts the votes”. If the gambling machines in the casinos can be fixed, you can be sure that voting machines in the precincts can be fixed, and I am convinced that they are. I can not believe that in most elections everyone voted for the loser.

I have never known a politician who did not leave politics without wealth. Most get very wealthy in office. The most money Lyndon Johnson ever made was as president of the United States, he returned to Texas a billionaire. Bill Clinton said, “I did not have a nickel until I became president, now I am a multimillionaire”. But, with all the corruption, all the hypocrisy, all the decadence in politics and in government, it is all we have left. It may take your involvement, even in a revolution, to straighten things out. Jefferson, 3^rd president of the United States said, “The tree of freedom must be watered by the blood of patriots and martyrs”. In military cemeteries, around the world, 126,000 of our finest lay buried because they chose to get involved. Since WWII, most have been brought home for burial, 250,000 in Arlington alone.

Only with involvement on every level of government will government improve. Write letters, make phone calls, let the criminals know you are watching. Character determines destination. How did so many citizens of low character get elected to public office, and how did so many citizens of low character and little ability get appointed to government jobs? The only country, faith, or life you have to lose is your own.

Get Real

A very bright, young preacher asked me this question. “Do you think Jesus ever joked, laughed and ever had a good time?” I truly believe that our blessed Lord was too serious to spend one moment of his life in frivolity. Laughing and joking, He probably enjoyed life as much as most serious minded people enjoy life, even though we only have a record of three years of His life. I feel sure He played games as a youngster, had young pals that He shared thoughts with. But remember He was God. He had been with his Father in the very creation of the universe, (John 1). He put on a tent of human flesh and dwelled among us and became the Way, the Truth, the Life. (John 14:6).

He knew that we were mere mortals in a battle with satanic forces everyday. He knew that we were limited in our ability to think. I think He would even forgive many of the stupid people who are on television and the radio. I never ceased to be amazed at the stupid statements I hear on talk shows. So many people have just enough intelligence to dial a phone.

I never cease to be amazed about the decisions people make about their lives. They destruction of their body with addictive substances. They do not prepare for living or dying. Our ancestors, all the way back to Adam, would never believe that the inhabitants of this earth have tolerated the tyrants who have ruled them, who are always supported by military forces, born of ordinary people, but so brainwashed that they support the Herods and Hitlers of history. Hitler, himself, did not haul the Jews to the death camps in the Holocaust. Clinton and Reno did not hire outsiders to come in, kill and burn alive the 85 women and children at Waco. Most of us did not vote for Obama. Enough people have been brainwashed by Satan's arsenic of change that we will all pay the price.

It is so simple that there are tares among the wheat, that the tares have taken over the church. It is so simple that the sheep are lead into the slaughter pen by a Judas goat. The sheep, when they are slaughtered, never make a sound. This is where we find ourselves today. So many are just silent, blighted sheep. It must be a sad exposition and stench to a God of justice and glory.

Get real. Who do you think you are fooling? The triune God of the universe, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit knows more about you than you know about yourself. God is not surprised at anything. He knows the ending as well as the beginning of the parade. Politicians, pastors, prophets and poets have tried to fool God, as well as their fellow man. They will answer to God and in some rare cases to their fellow man. Slave masters may have a good life here on this earth, may enjoy a life for a season (Hebrews 11:25). We can rejoice in the certain knowledge that there is a pay day, one day.

Get Real. Do you think anyone that abuses a child sexually or otherwise will escape? Do you think any woman who will sell the most private part of her body and life will escape? Do you think a politician who will involve himself in graft and corruption will escape? Do you think prophets and priests holding themselves to a higher standard, living off the hard earned money their followers have given in obedience to God, if not true to their mission, will escape?

Get Real. Do not be a pretender. Lying, cheating, stealing, may not bother you; but it greatly bothers the happiness of our heavenly Father. Send this word to the White House, to the State House, to the court house, to the church house. He set the example. And He was not joking when he said to us, “Follow me.”

Smell of Dystrophy

The human body is a very resilient being. It has the ability to adapt to almost anything. Perhaps it's greatest adaptation skill is that of smell. You just simply get acclimated to something and then you don't notice it anymore. Years ago, when I arrived by plane in Rangoon, Burma, the stench from the bathrooms in the airport facility was just almost more than a human being of sensitivity could bare. I have found that traveling through most Communist countries that they have no disinfectants or soaps to clean anything. Even the people do not use deodorants. It is an excruciating experience to get on an elevator or get too close to some of these Communist citizens.

The worst smell was when I visited a mental hospital in Rangoon, a hospital filled with mental patients, who were not trained and did not use bathroom facilities very well. I doubt if some of these patients had bathed in years. If one went there with any residual intelligence, it would be gone in a short time.

Hospitals, especially mental hospitals, are notorious for the lack of hygiene. When I arrived as a staff member of the Army Hospital at Fort McClellan, Alabama, an old cantonment-type hospital facility (large wooden barracks type buildings for wards joined together by long covered walkways), all made of wood siding, wood windows, with pipe connections for heat and water, it was old. (There would be a ward for surgery, dental clinic, eye clinic, administration, etc.) My first day as the chief of the eye clinic, I noticed a smell in the place, and I asked, “What is that awful smell?” The NCO's and others said, “With the big fans running in the summer, it is not too bad. It only gets bad in the winter when we have heat.”

This had been a regular ward for a long time, but like all the other wards, had been converted for a new purpose. It just so happened that there was a padded room in the clinic which had a locked door that had never been opened for inquiry, even though each room was supposed to be inspected on a regular basis. After I had been there about 6 months and had become accustomed to the smell, we had a short in one of the pieces of equipment, which required the fire inspector to inspect the building. When he opened the door to this padded room, there was a dead body in the room which had probably been there for a long time. The corpse had become a mummy; but the smell in the room was still strangulating. Of course the clinic was sealed off. Army inspectors came in to investigate. A general “hush” order was put out. Everyone was told not to discuss the matter. To this day, I do not know how long the body had been entombed or what the mysterious circumstances were about. It would make an excellent Alfred Hitchcock movie, some mental patient put into a padded room and forgotten.

It is a known fact that people can adjust to anything. We can adjust to the knowledge that everyday of our life, there are people in hell, that there are people on their way to hell; and we are generally unconcerned both as individual Christians and as a Christian Church. IF we believed, we would be doing everything possible to keep people from going to an eternal place of torment. IF the Christians on the Titanic which went down to the bottom of the ocean 100 years ago, had believed that the unsaved on that ship were headed for an eternal hell, they would have done everything possible to reach them before a certain death. IF parents believed in an eternal hell they would make every effort to insure the salvation of their children. The sad truth is most people have gotten accustomed to the smell and they no longer pay any attention.

In a contract, both parties must agree to the substance of the contract. God has given us a contract, paid in full, by His only Son. Our side of the contract is that we accept Him in a personal relationship and His free gift of eternal life in glory. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17).

We do what we do because we believe what we believe. IF we believe in the certainty of death and life after death, we would have no time for just playing around with church, no time for the golf course. IF Christians live their faith before the world, the world would have been saved long ago. The world has become acclimated to the hypocrisy of those who profess but do not possess. The world is much more interested in global warming than they are in the searing heat of hell. From 1660 to the present, the earth has warmed about ½ degree each 100 years. The state-run media visiting this hoax on the public does everything possible to destroy this republic and their latest challenge is to destroy the Christian church, the basis of our democratic, free enterprise, capitalistic republic. Entrepreneurship which made this country great, the Mom-and-Pop business, the small family farm have been degraded to the ash heap of history.

Insurance (AIG, FDIC) is just backed up by pennies on the dollar. Eighty banks have closed so far this year. They have predicted 1000 will close by the end of next year. Your account is supposed to be insured for $250.000. But, FDIC reportedly has about $10 billion to insure all bank accounts. The liberals who have chased industry into Mexico and China are the very ones concerned about global warming in this country and the pollution in those countries. When Mr. Hitler took over the automobile business in Germany, as with Mr. Obama, (General Motors, now Government Motors) he rode around in a large Mercedes. He produced a Volkswagen for the masses.

The Communist movement has been taken over by the environmental movement. Green manure is supposed to make everything smell better. We have rulers in high places who have never known what it is to want for anything. Thank God for poverty and for keeping you out of luxury. Those who have known poverty know the basics of life, hard work, the joy of preparing for a better life, the sweat of discipline, depending on your spiritual and patriotic faith, faith in God and faith in country.
There is on the horizon an amalgamation of the philosophies of Nazism, Communism mixed with Islam. It is time for real Christians, real Americans to get off their knees and take a stand, especially in 2010 and 2012; otherwise your country is gone. In the past 7 months, $23 trillion has been spent by the present administration on bailouts and sell-outs, twice the GNP. We have lost 2.5 million jobs and this president said he would add 3.5 million jobs. There has been an increase of 700,000 jobs, but all in government. Even a Nuremberg-type trial where the spenders wrangle Geithner, Paulson, could be tried, would not erase the smell. Only the verified votes of concerned Americans will erase the shame and the smell.