Good ole 30-something boys

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The smartest angel in heaven tried a coup and ended up being expelled with a third of God’s angels. This development has been replicated in several scenarios.

Mostly it is the 33- percent phenomenon that haunts bad actors in politics. There have been memorable Likud wins in Israel since 1977 and they have done some good things, but they had more than 33% of the vote once, with a 37%. The other wins are at 33% or less.

The manipulation of the American vote to secure a win could not reap more than 30-something %, and potus45 is paddling upcreek with no paddle. A win at the polls does not mean popular approval.

Some of us are aware that his “canoe” is nothing more than a rickety raft of brittle and decaying logs.

Talk about cheesy champions!

More Press (P)scoops

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Pseudo ψευδώ I lie

Pseustes ψεύστης liar

Pseudo– ψευδο- false

  1. Where do people learn to lie? At Home.
  2. Where are insults the way of life? In the US army.
  3. Did someone ask us to save ourselves? No.
  4. Prophets prophesy profit for profit. Shame!

Pity but Scrutinize Sarah

Sarah Sanders pseems quite comfortable with her psmoke and mirrors, and has much more respect for her paycheck than the truth. This is true of most people, but she should know that Roger Stone is a handyman for and hero (“man with guts”) of the tyrant of Mara Lago and she is increasingly incapable of showing that the trending lies of 2019 do not connect to her Pennsylvania Avenue workplace.

The pslow wheels of justice

One day an indictment will be Sarah’s to cherish, as much as she cherishes the lying bigot who hired her, and that will crown her career with psuccess.

When she starts crying and wearing the victim badge we will know that psomething of her humanity remains, but then it will be too late. Sarah had psold herself to lie for the sloganeering mob. That is her job.

Presidential poop and pscoop

She stood on the lawn of the White House this morning, January 25th, and said that Roger Stone’s indictment has nothing to do with the White House. Poor Psarah!

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How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal? Jeremiah 23:26-27

Hotel California Blessings

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“Bless me Father because I have sinned” was commonly thought to be the intro to priestly pardon while we have no specifics on exactly what the blessing(s) might actually be. No matter how hard we try it is difficult to avoid the spectre of immeasurable blessings coming out of Jesus and the Holy Spirit and arising out of a sin experience. No speculation! Human nature equalizes the field of blessing seekers. It is one thing to seek blessings to which we have no right and another to pretend that we’ve checked in to Hotel California and can leave anytime we wish.

We are certain that God blesses sinners, hears their cry, and does not accept human performance of duties as evidence of purity or reliability.

And if you faithfully obey voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28:1-2

The idea that we can pay for God’s blessing, or put on a performance of appreciation that is equal in value to His blessing is attested as desolate and futile in the history of the Jewish religion (which the Arabian tribes and their allies have tried to outdo with fables and intensely corrupt violence). Friendship with God is on his terms: grace through faith. No speculation!

We are blessed because he is supremely generous

Deuteronomy is known for its quid pro quo, so believers with the notion that the blessings named in the 28th chapter are simply to be claimed as faith inheritance have some explaining to do. It is hard to imagine a cogent explanation beside shocking and shameful avoidance of divine instruction.

Incredible patience with lies

God has favored Israel to be today head of many things in the world. The Jewish people, to whom the blessings and curses were spoken, have kept their faith in God, and many have honoured God in their pastoral functions and equally in their loyalty to Moses.

When the rubber hits the road however

  1. Christians say “Ask Yeshua”
  2. Muslims find Christians so they can learn
  3. Jews still talk about Moses

In Christ we find no shadow of turning. Our anointing and blessing do not come and go. In Christ we are not blessed because we are perfectly obedient. checking in to the House of Bread is permanent.

Psalms 132:11-16

The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne. If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne. For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place: This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread. Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.

You cannot not be blessed

Save me often lest I wither

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Where I am most of the time is surprising and instructive.

Not only am I

Blessed in giving

Secure in trusting

Confident in delays

but I

walk on water and find it

easy and way more frequent than I imagined.

So is slipping beneath the waves

(easy and frequent).

Then I know omnipotent saving power

Matthew 14:30

But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, Lord, save me.

Rocky or Rickety

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It is not an accident that the bottom line of Christian faith is an old dead and shallow maxim from Solomon. Since the law is the instrument of death you would have to be out of your mind to take Solomon’s word over Christ and John the Baptist. Faith and works are not partners in salvation. We are saved by grace through faith. Faith is not works, because our work is to believe in the Beloved Son and to believe him.

Not so smart after all

Ever heard that saying “believe by faith”? Who says stuff like that? I suppose it is time to start talking about loving by love, and being patient by patience. So ridiculous!

Jewish people had no incentive to follow Solomon, why should I? The will of God is not “wrapped up” in shady human performance, even when we think we have done our duties. First and foremost is eyes for Gid alone. Neither Solomon nor his people made it past the first commandment.

Self deception

Obedience is an outcome that succeeds only when we due to our illustrious pedigree and profession. Whether you are Jew or Gentile (there is no 3rd identity and all were born into sin), it is treachery, adultery, and demonic deceit to put the upward call of God on the same level as any heritage whatsoever.

Yeshua is not one of those guys

Few of our contemporaries in the 21st century find the grace and courage to say like Paul that the life in Christ to which we have come makes all the great and marvelous stuff we’ve known up to that point of meeting Christ seem as rubbish.

Consistent with Sinai and temple theology is death and desolation. Consistent with Golgotha and the throne of grace is life and abundance. To be grounded in Christ is to have his words as the source of life. Do we know that lifegiving saying of Christ? or are stuck with prophets, kings, and sages? Yeshua could not be psyched by the smartest of his contemporaries, and the high priest, oh man, he was woefully ignorant of God’s design. There is a lot of information in the Bible but the only there is the there of the stone refused.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 8:51

Is your house a rickety shack or a something built on the Rock?

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: Matthew 7:24

Big Red Dragon Justice?

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Look east, far east.  The wall is still there and both Chinese population and goods keep pouring westward.   An inroad into the west seems to be characterized increasingly by interference, greed and the shedding of innocent blood.  We are looking for the signs that Chinese justice rises to acceptable human norms.

Kill any Canadian and we smell a kangaroo court.

Mr Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister, should know that the wisdom, courage, and endurance of the Canadian people is behind him when he takes a stand against misogny, economic bullying and manipulation, and espionage.  The Saudi government and the People’s Republic of China are probably hoping they can skew the reporting of the true sentiments of Canadians.

These two have been getting away with abusing their own people while profiling themselves as the champions of decency and wisdom.   The powers at the UN Security Council who ought to be bringing the hammer down when humanity’s collective security is theatened are mired in currying favour with and selling weapons of war to racist, totalitarian, and murderous regimes.   The sudden arrival at a death sentence for a Canadian in China ought to wake a lot people.

Can China do the human thing?

THUS … purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.  Deut 21:9

We are waiting.

Honest Dialogue

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Go AFN! Go Canada!   We have heard many of the heartbreaking stories. We have acknowledged the injustices. We have set off on the highway to be reconciled to in a just and lasting partnership.  The air is thick with hope and our observations have to include the entrenched bigotry that has stymied Canadians’ dreams of a North American continent that is the envy of the world.

Some provincial official is bound to step up with some niche interest that makes the First Nations’ dignity look like an inconsequential. I guarantee it.  Doug Ford of Ontario has set his sights on gutting language rights.  He has also pretended that the federal government did not lay out its plans for the legalization of cannabis, claiming that the whole program has been hurriedly downloaded onto Ontario.   Doug Ford is an example of why Canada’s First Nations are still demanding justice.

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Isaiah 59:13  And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Isaiah 59:14

Having worked alongside First Nations peoples in the labor movement, I am sure that their honesty will lead the way without the baggage of a political system that has failed us repeatedly, not only in Canada  but across the world.    Westminster governance is a whitewashed wall that needs fresh paint.  All the law and order champions are happy with reepresentative parliamentary government because it has served giant manufacturing entities,  stark raving mad bigots, racist police and military cliques, and xenophobic religious wizards (sorcerers).  That is the start reality of honest dialogue.  Seome one has to listen with a heart and reveres the injustices and abuses of power.

Let’s go. Our children deserve better than the last 150 years

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.  Isaiah 1:23