Unlocking the Prophetic: Lesson 34 - Is Hell Real? Part 5
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This teaching is a revelation of the world we are living in. It will bring understanding to the battle of the ages.
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Many of the first colonists to North America were Christians and Jews seeking freedom from religious persecution. Some were Christians who may not have been persecuted, but had a vision for establishing a truly Christian nation in America. These were joined by others who were given a reprieve from prison sentences, and some who had their debts forgiven. There were also some just seeking a new life and adventure, but the common denominator for all was that America represented a new beginning. To this day, this remains the main draw for those who want to come to America.
Even with the great dangers faced by the original colonists in what was a primitive wilderness at the time, the hope of freedom that America represented was worth the risk for those who came. The whole world was still under some form of a feudal system in which everyone was born into a caste or class that was nearly impossible to escape from. For nearly everyone, the major factors of their life down to smallest details was determined for them at birth. However, in America your life could be what you made of it by your own initiative and resourcefulness.
This new world was a major contrast to the old, and in many ways remains so to this day. However, all of the freedoms that have made America like no other nation on earth are under threat today. The question is if we are going to continue to be a true Republic and control our government, or are we going to let it take control of us? Will government be our servant or our master?
The way America was founded and developed resulted in a unique and remarkable spirit in the Americans that became known as “American individualism.” Americans did not see themselves as cogs in a system or subjects of government. They saw themselves as individuals who trusted themselves to know what was best for their own lives. They believed they needed to instruct and guide their government rather than the other way around.
Even though most of the American colonists left something negative to begin a new life in America, they came filled with vision and hope of building a new and better world. They knew it would be hard and dangerous, but the freedom was worth it. Freedom is the oxygen of the brave and the bold, and that’s what Americans became known for, and those are the kind of people it drew from all over the earth.
For over 400 years America was known to be the most positive, visionary place on earth. However, in recent years both polls and studies have named America among the most negative countries in the world! What could have possibly caused this dramatic shift in the basic nature of Americans? Understanding what caused this terrible change is crucial if there is to be a recovery of our faith, vision, and even to remain a sovereign and free nation as many enemies stand ready to subjugate and plunder what has been the most powerful, wealthy nation in history.
The pioneering, resourceful, and overcoming nature prevalent in America from the beginning is now becoming rare. More Americans are expressing a willingness to trade their freedom for more personal security. However, the present chaos in our government, and in our streets, is awakening many Americans to the fact that those who have promised security through their plan of appeasement are the least capable of delivering peace or security. Tyranny always comes in the form of a “bully spirit,” and you can never appease a bully. If you show any weakness, the demands of the bully will be magnified. The only way a bully can be stopped is to stand up to it with a fierce resolve.
The sowing of fear, doubt, and confusion about America as a nation was a planned strategy for wearing out her resolve. It was patiently and systematically spread throughout the land like a deadly spiritual pandemic. To find a cure for any disease we must begin by understanding the disease. This disease has especially attacked our vision and our heart by using “Satan’s cord of three strands,” which we began to address in the last Heritage Brief, Darwinism, Freudian psychology, and Marxism.
America was founded by those with a resolute faith in God, and that He had a specific destiny and purpose for “the new world.” Darwin, Freud, and Marx all attacked faith in God, but also the faith people had in themselves as having been made in God’s image as creative and resourceful. Such clarity was exchanged for a belief that we were only here by random chance, and that the “survival of the fittest” required that the strong rule over the weak. This meant that only the state could be trusted to make decisions for individuals or for humanity in general. Thus, faith in the state and its institutions replaced faith in God.
How has that worked out for us? Any thinking person would challenge the idea that any government in history has been proven worthy of such trust to micro manage our lives and our world as a whole. What government in the world today has even proven able to manage itself?
Studies on U.S. government bureaucracies have shown that from less than 30% to as little as 10% of the resources appropriated to them reach the needs the bureaucracy exists to meet. The rest is consumed by the ever-expanding bureaucracy to feed itself. Such revelations on the nature of modern government is why Reagan stated the obvious truth, “Government is not the answer to our problems—government is the problem!”
We do need government for some things that only government can do, but for all other matters that governments attempt to do has resulted in devastating waste and increasingly oppressive control. The wisdom of our Founders was that government must be limited, and its limits constrained by a Constitution that was “the supreme law of the land.” When government becomes our god so that we put our trust in it instead of God and we begin looking to it as our provider, we begin to lose our own resourcefulness and become increasingly dependent on government. When this happens, government becomes the biggest threat to our liberty and keeps us from being who we were created to be, and who we can be.
It is noteworthy that Darwin, Freud, and Marx have all been debunked by science and their own track records, yet, they continue to be sown into the fabric of American society through public education, the media, and arts and entertainment, as well as members of our own government. The main reason this has been successful is not for what they accomplished, which has been the opposite of what they promised, but it has been because of the power of their propaganda.
This three-pronged attack on our basic humanity was done with characteristic brilliance and subtlety by the devil who has had the experience of trying to destroy God’s work for so many millennia. However, God has an undefeated record, and always will. This ultimate strategy of the devil to remake man in his image while debasing the image of God in man will end up being another brilliant Divine trap for the devil. The God who began a good work in mankind, in America, and many other nations, will complete it. The ultimate victory of light over darkness is certain.
In future Heritage Briefs we will examine how both science and history have debunked Darwin, Freud, and Marx. We will contrast the devil’s strategy with God’s purpose for mankind, for our nation, and for us as individuals.
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The leading newspaper in the nation has not mentioned Christmas in 10 years. Christmas is attacked by both God haters and religionists. It has fallen into great disfavor—accused of everything from paganism to materialism. It is socially unacceptable to celebrate Christmas. It is 1843 England. Also known as the hungry 40’s.
A young and gifted writer is deeply restless and can’t sleep. He asks an assistant to meet him in the middle of the night, “take me to see the worst of London. Do not spare me anything.”
What he saw horrified him and left a mark in his soul that would haunt his novels for the rest of his life. Children, living like stray dogs scavenged through garbage in sub-zero temperatures.
Charles Dickens had to do something. So, he mustered his considerable weapon: he marshalled the English language and sent it into war against child abuse. Vast corruption must be exposed! This nation-destroying curse must be lifted! He set ink to paper with the force of a volcanic eruption and the skillful cuts of a surgeon. The result was a pamphlet entitled An Appeal on Behalf of the Poor Man’s Child. Then something happened: He never released the pamphlet. Historians are divided about why. Usually, it does not fall upon facts but on anti-Christian bias. Here is my heart tells me happened: He heard the voice of God. “If you release this pamphlet it will bring good for a season, but if you write the story, I am about to give you, it will bring good for all time.”
It would be a story where the main character is the most uncompelling, and unsympathetic character to any audience: an old man—a wealthy miser! Even his name is off-putting: Ebeneezer Scrooge. With only weeks left before Christmas how could he finish it and get it published? Astonishingly it was published on December 19, 1843. Not only that, it was made into a script and opened in 2 theaters that Christmas day.
This story is not only credited with saving Christmas, it has been synonymous with Christmas ever since. Outside the Bible, no written word about Christmas has been more influential and widespread in its power to evoke love for children and the poor.
Christmas has inspired the best music. Musical artist regardless of their fame are compelled to release a Christmas album. It has a power that no one can explain or predict. Opposing armies have stopped combat, met on neutral ground in the middle of a war to celebrate Christmas.
Here is Nephew Fred from A Christmas Carol: “I have always thought of Christmastime… as a good time: a kind forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
The supernatural power of Christmas is also seen in the creation of Silent Night. It was written because the organ broke and a song for a guitar was necessary. Christmas again showed its power with Handel’s Messiah. Handel wrote it in 24 days. When he finished the Hallelujah Chorus, he said it was as if the roof came off his room and he saw the great God Himself.
Christmas is a weapon! It brings proof of the Deity of Christ by its inexplicable effect on the world. Even when it offends it is doing God’s work. Even Scrooge screamed, “then let me leave it alone!” But Christmas won’t let us leave it alone. But the message about Scrooge transcends even Christmas. It is about God’s power to create a weapon to combat evil through anointed artforms.
It is because of Scrooge, that I find much of some today’s Christian music formulaic, unimaginative, predictable, and even snowflake like. Bono from U-2 called some of those songs “dishonest.” How dare I make such a criticism? Because we didn’t use to scare so easily. We wrote songs of sacrifice and commitment; towering themes filled majestic hymns.
Somewhere in the mid to late 20th Century the church developed an insecurity complex and began to “do things almost as good as the world does.” Not just in music, but in all art forms. We even have green rooms which is a nod to Hollywood.
A great exception is Black Gospel Music. It was so original the world had to copy it for Motown and R and B. Black Gospel was so powerful the world kept trying to steal talent out of the church. Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and many others began in church.
The spark of divine creativity does not rest on those who surmise what might sell or what won’t offend. It comes on those who would sacrifice all to obey God.
However, there is another reason creativity is in short supply: We don’t recognize the multiple opportunities of service outside the pulpit. Not everyone is a preacher—nor should they be! The gifts of God fit in business, art, media, healthcare, education and yes, politics.
Because God came upon a famous novelist like Charles Dickens, the devil was blindsided. What if you are supposed to create something no one has seen before?
Finally, the idea that we need to tone anything down to win souls is hogwash. Johnny Cash comes to mind. It is truly amazing the influence he carried. Bob Dylan, Elvis, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones revered him. Yet, he never muted his faith or his witness. God gave him a sound the world couldn’t resist.
A heart filled with love for God and hatred for evil, who is willing to be completely open to do something new is our greatest need today. God is searching to drop original miracles on someone like you.
Now check out the video of the entire village. It's one way Mechelle and I want to Merry Christmas and God bless you and yours.
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Unlocking the Prophetic: Lesson 31 - Is Hell Real? Part 2
WHEN THIS IS OVER
Posted on November 30, 2020 by mariomurilloministries
You are getting conflicting messages. People tell you Trump lost and the Christian thing to do is to graciously accept Biden. Others say you should never do that.
Some Pastors are flipflopping about Trump. Some prophets who prophesied Trump’s victory are now repenting and saying that they were wrong. Still others who prophesied Trump’s victory, then recanted and now are recanting their recant.
No wonder a fog has fallen on the minds of millions of Christians who have no idea what to believe and do about this election. And though the situation seems complicated, knowing what to believe and do is quite simple
Just ask yourself, “What will be my greatest regret when this is over? What will haunt me most in the future about my actions today?” That is when it will be blazingly clear to you.
The answer to what you will regret the most is found in the story of the three boys and the fiery furnace.
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up” (Daniel 3: 16-18).
Imagine the pressure on these three young men. A nation stood against them. The most powerful person in the world was enraged and more than willing to burn them alive. Wouldn’t it be best to pretend to worship, in order to avoid such a gruesome death?
No, that would be the worst choice they could make, because after it was all over, only one thing would matter: They did not make room for a miracle and they had denied their God by worshipping an idol.
There is a lot of confusion right now, but one thing is undeniable: Joe Biden is the idol they want us to worship. Was there voter fraud? No matter how loud the fake news media screams otherwise, the truth is, yes there was, and on a massive scale.
Listen to Kayleigh McEnany, “There is only one party in America trying to keep observers out of the count room, and that party, my friends, is the Democrat Party,” she said, adding, “You don’t oppose an audit of the vote because you want an accurate count…you take these positions because you are welcoming fraud, and you are welcoming illegal voting.” This is such a potent argument that Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto, was forced to cut her off in order to protect the lie.
I am sure that the devil has told you all about the ridicule and rejection you will endure for standing with Trump. But will any of that matter when this is over? The only thing that will matter is your regret that you disqualified yourself from a miracle and bowed before an idol.
In 2000, it took 36 days, but the truth finally came out. I believe it will come out again, in 2020. We must with patience, possess our souls.
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The Free Market thrives on freedom. The more it has the better it does. People thrive in freedom. The more freedom people have, the better they do, and the happier and more productive they become, a fact to which history is an overwhelming witness. Mankind was created to be free, and as we are told in II Corinthians 3:17, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Marxism is the antithesis of freedom, and the source of the greatest oppression and slavery mankind has ever experienced. Under Marxism, the state is god and dictates everything everyone does. You go to school where the state tells you, study what they tell you to study, work at the job they tell you to, live where you are allowed to live, and can only have relationships you are allowed to have. It actually gets even worse than this, as the state tells you where you are allowed to go, what you are allowed to say, and even what you are allowed to think. Any deviation from what is allowed brings swift punishment, and even torture and execution.
This is the history of Marxism—it turns every nation it takes over into a virtual prison where there is hardly anything the people can do without getting permission from an authority. This is why the Soviet Union had to put up “The Iron Curtain,” which was actually a prison wall to keep the people from escaping to freedom. The desire to get out was so great that multitudes gave their lives trying to escape.
Even a cursory study of Marxist states shows how Marxism is the opposite of the utopia their propaganda claims they will be. Marxism is the worst totalitarian tyranny the world has ever known. So how does each new generation get drawn to it? It proves that “those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it,” and so the naïve and idealistic continue to believe the lies of Marxist propaganda.
In the late 19th century, before Marxism had actually taken over a country to run a government, it was the rave in intellectual circles. Even some of the most successful capitalists such as Carnegie and Nelson Rockefeller gave huge sums to support and teach Marxism. When the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917 and the true nature of Marxism was exposed, the world was horrified, and it quickly became very unpopular. As it seemed destined to crumble and disappear, it was shored up by two unexpected allies—Freud and Darwin.
Marxism is basically about destroying the foundations of society in order to remake mankind into what Marx and his followers think it should be. Sigmund Freud likewise sought to do the same in his own way. He taught that mental problems from depression to the most extreme insanity were the result of the oppression and subsequent sense of guilt that was the result of an archaic paternal society, as well as religion with its cruel and unnatural morality.
Darwin, whose theory of evolution was gaining popularity at the time, taught that men were just evolved beasts and fundamentally attacked the belief that we were created by a Creator, God. So, Darwinists believed that just as man had evolved from other primitive beliefs, we would continue to evolve from belief in God until we acknowledge that we are our own god.
In Ecclesiastes 4:12 we are told, “If one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.” The philosophies of Marx, Freud, and Darwin were like the devil’s three cord strand to bind mankind with what would be very hard to break. To do this, all three of them attacked the three most basic pillars of true freedom and stability in society: the belief in God, Judeo-Christian based morality, and devotion to family. Around these the final battle lines of freedom vs. slavery and light vs. darkness have pivoted ever since.
History reveals with absolute certainty that the economic and political liberation promised by Marx, and the liberation of the soul and mind promised by Freud, actually resulted in the opposite of what they promised. So, how do these get away with continuing to promote their madness with such a dismal track record? A force of revisionist historians was sent into the media and education systems of the west with what proved to be a brilliant and successful strategy. They gradually made the good in our history appear evil, and the evil appear good. They even revised the actual events of history to fit their political and social agendas, and very few protested or challenged them.
Darwin created an easy road for Freudian psychology, and Freudian psychology created an easy road for Marxism. Marx stated that his main purpose was to “dethrone God” to destroy the free market, and then freedom itself. Marx’s concept of freedom was a freedom from religion and morality, and for everyone to conform to his concept of what people should be like. To accomplish this, Marx sought to focus all human allegiance on the state as their god in place of God. Right and wrong would be what the state said they were.
Marx also taught that the destruction of the nuclear family was essential for the ultimate evolution of humanity. In Marx’s “utopia” nothing could rival the state as having the supreme allegiance of the people, and next to God the nuclear family was the biggest threat to this. So, a strategy was devised for separating children from their parents at a young age as wards of the state first and then as property of the state.
Some of the teachings of Freud made authority figures and even parents as suspects of abuse. This premise was used to justify the break-up of the family. To fortify this, Marxist authorities began giving awards and rewards to children who turned in their parents for even suspected thoughts or actions that were contrary to government policy or dogma. The children who turned in their parents, or other family members, were made heroes, while their parents were severely punished. This system made it almost impossible for anyone to trust anyone else, even the members of their own families, further tightening the control of the state over the hearts and minds of the people.
Fear and intimidation are the two most powerful tools used by Marxists to destroy nations, cultures, and people groups. But there is a weapon far more powerful than fear—and that is the truth that can set people free. As the truth of the true nature of Marxism becomes known, the terrible darkness that it is will retreat again, but it will slip in again if we do not recover the truth of history and teach it again with integrity to our children as Scripture commands.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties. ~President Woodrow Wilson
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them in habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. ~ President John Adams
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This is such a different time that we find ourselves living in today; a time we have never seen before. Our old MO will not fit this new narrative, which is a mixture of real, of fictional, and of false. Real as in true reality; fictional as in what someone believes is true, but not provable; and false as in knowing it is a lie. I will refer to this new narrative as RFL.
Within this new RFL narrative, many people in our world are trying to redefine truth. To accomplish this, they must create a new narrative, or recipe, in which to mix their witch’s brew. It will start with a big measure of fiction, which is a type of faith in the imagination. This faith is not a divine faith, but rather a misdirected apprehension of fear which is interpreted by the individual as faith. Sometimes this type of faith is misunderstood as a prophetic seeing. Not just any type of seeing is prophetic; however, seeing what God is doing and going to do behind the scenes on behalf of what you are seeing is.
The new RFL narrative must also have an atmosphere in which it can thrive. I call this atmosphere “a time I have never seen before”. This is a spiritual atmosphere that has no bias of assumption or expectation. It is just very conducive to a high level of spiritual activity, both good and bad.
Again, this atmosphere has no agenda; it is just an atmosphere in which spiritual activity can thrive. Therefore, we see that today, not only can the evil of this world thrive, but the Kingdom of God can also thrive in a greater way. This is the day that the followers of Christ will do the greater works.
John 14:12
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
When you discover you are living in “a time you have never seen before”, you will know that this scripture is highly active today.
Mark 2:11-13
12 The man jumped up, took the stretcher, and pushed his way through the stunned onlookers! Then how they praised God. “We’ve never seen anything like this before!” they all exclaimed.
Unlocking the Prophetic: Lesson 30 - Is Hell Real?
Eph. 3:16-19: I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
What a day we are living in! It seems that everything is draining us on all sides, shouting: give me, give me, give me. The struggles in our society are accusations of how we all fall short of someone's expectations, which drain the very life out of everyone. How can we reenergize and revive ourselves?
In looking to Jesus, isn’t it amazing how He can continue to be so rich when He is always giving away all that He has? Could it be that this “power” He is giving away is part of the inheritance of the saints: a power that comes out of “His glorious riches”?
I always wondered where the “power from heaven” would land in me. From this verse, I can see that it is in my “inner being”. When I grow weak in my inner being, I need to be strengthened from above with strength that Paul calls “power”. It appears to me that my inner being must have some type of spiritual battery in it. Sometimes it is strong, and at other times, it runs down and becomes very weak.
Let me use my cows to give an analogy of this spiritual truth. I am a dairy farmer and the cows on my farm have a necklace around their necks. This necklace has a transponder attached to it. A transponder is a little plastic box that contains a microchip inside of it. This microchip contains the number of the cow on which it hangs, so that the computer can identify her as she enters the milking barn. High-tech cows, don't you think?
This transponder contains a battery; a battery that is not accessible because it is covered in plastic for protection. The developers of this transponder needed a way to charge the battery without taking it out, so here is what they developed.
When the cow enters the barn, the transponder sends a signal, which is a small, electrical signal, to the reader antenna. When the antenna receives the signal, it then sends back a greater electrical signal to the transponder to acknowledge that the transponder signal has been received. The weaker receives a greater in return. The greater signal is from the antenna; therefore, the battery in the transponder is always charged. The only way the battery in the transponder grows weak is when it neglects to be in contact with the antenna on a daily basis. The developers knew the transponder and the reader antenna had to be in relationship with each other, with signals transferring from one to the other.
In this same way, Christians are to keep their spiritual batteries charged. When I pray and send a spiritual signal to God; God, in return, sends a spiritual signal back to me which is greater than the one I sent to Him. High-tech Christians, don’t you think? The greater, God, is sending to the weaker, us, the divine strength that we need for this new day. If we neglect contact with this greater source, our batteries will grow weak. The weaker our batteries become, the more hopeless we feel, only to grow weaker each day.
So what can we do? How can we have strong spiritual batteries? Just stay in touch with the Source. The only One who can charge your spiritual battery is the One who created it: our Lord. We must not neglect our daily relationship with God, so He can send us the spiritual power to charge our spiritual batteries. He has also provided us with a quick charge, one that He knew would be needed from time to time. I believe when believers gather together, a quick charge can take place, and we see this in the verse for today.
Eph 3:17-18 And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints.
What an incredible power surge this is!
The freedom released by the birth of the American Republic resulted in such a burst of initiative, advancing technology, and wealth creation that other nations were compelled to allow their citizens increasing economic freedom. This resulted in other freedoms, and soon other republics were formed, which resulted in a new age of liberty and unprecedented progress.
For all of the spectacular benefits of the emerging free market, this was unexplored territory. Pioneers have rarely found the best course through new territory without making mistakes, and it was the same for the free market economies. However, it was worth it many times over as the economic and social benefits, as well as health and quality of life advanced more in the first two hundred years of the modern free market than in the previous six thousand years of recorded human history.
As is the case with almost every kind of economic or social advance, the ones with the faith to take initiative and jump in early benefit the most. Those who miss opportunities usually go through a cycle of remorse, and then jealousy and bitterness. Jealousy is one of the deadliest forces in world history. We are even told that Jesus was crucified because of envy (see Matthew 27:18). Jealousy is an enemy of progress that we must understand.
Marxism arose just as the free markets were beginning to hit their stride, and it did so by feeding envy and resentment. Marxist writings are not filled with vision and hope, but with rage toward the prosperous. As the saying goes, “Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a skillful carpenter to build one.” Marxism is filled with strategies of how to tear down governments and economies, but little on how to build something better to replace them with.
Wise and successful people do not follow those who destroy, but rather those who build. How could anyone follow Marxism that has only led to devastation, as opposed to the free markets that have led to more building and development than anything else in history? The answer is that those led by jealousy, resentment, and bitterness can be so blinded that they repel reason. If you want to test this, just try to reason with those rioting in our streets today.
For those who may be drawn to hope and vision, Marxists promote an imaginary but undefined utopia they will one day build. After taking over many countries they still cannot point to a single one that was improved, much less that became the promised utopia. Wisdom compels one to do their due diligence and research regardless of how good the deal sounds. This requires checking the track records of what is being promoted. Perhaps this is why Marxist leaders say they don’t want followers who understand what they’re doing—they just want followers who will be compliant. Any thinking person would take pause at this, but sadly not many still know how to think after being educated in our present corrupted school systems.
Jealousy and bitterness blind people to reality. For this reason Marxism was born out of a strategy to find wounded, bitter, and disgruntled people, especially those left behind economically, and turn them into a force for rebellion against the successful. When one is looking through the eyes of pride, jealousy, or rejection, they will be quick to embrace the doctrine that tells them this failure is the result of exploitation and injustice. That’s basic Marxism.
Marxism coined the term “social justice” and proposes that everyone should share everything equally. The tactics used to attain this are not devoted to lifting the downtrodden up, but to bringing everyone else down. That is not social justice, but social tyranny. The only real equality Marxism has ever brought is in poverty, depravity, and slavery to the Marxist elite.
This is not to imply that some have not been unjustly treated or exploited in the development of the free markets. Some of these have been grievous such as child labor abuses and the wrongful plundering of natural resources from those who could not defend against it. Even so, such behavior has started to bring a reaction from the public that the system is now quite self-correcting.
For every account of economic abuse there are usually many accounts of people, and even whole nations, being transformed from poverty to prosperity. So why is it that these success stories are rarely found in the media today? Getting control of the media has been the first strategy of Marxism, and they have done this.
This is not to imply that everyone in the media is a Marxist, but a large percentage of Western media is now controlled by Marxists. Many in the media today have an agenda to condition the population for Marxism and erode the foundations of freedom. Many who are doing this may not know that’s what they’re doing, which is why they are called the “useful idiots” by the Marxist elites.
Though Marxism has grown by feeding mostly on the disgruntled and bitter, there is another group that has been easy prey for Marxism—idealists. Idealists are usually pseudo-intellectuals who are driven more by a need for personal recognition than a sincere pursuit of truth, knowledge, and wisdom. Because their shallowness is easily discerned by true intellectuals, the pseudo-intellectuals are usually dismissed by them. Those so rejected are easy prey for the poison of jealousy and resentment that Marxism builds on.
So, Marxists can easily capture pseudo-intellectuals by just feigning respect for them, but the way they really feel about them is that they are “useful idiots.” Such “useful idiots” are sown throughout the media, education, and other places of influence to do the work of plowing the ground for Marxism.
Marxists have been very skilled at propaganda. Lenin was something of a propaganda genius. Marxists learned that their promise of a new utopia was especially attractive to youth, as well as the disenfranchised. However, after they had been successful in taking over a few countries they had a basic problem that undercut their propaganda—history!
Everywhere Marxism gained control, the result was the opposite of what they promised. Mankind has never experienced worse tyranny, injustice, and inequality than under Marxism. By the 1930s this became widely known, and there began a huge groundswell of opposition to it. The Marxists retreated for a time, but then came up with a brilliant plan for countering the truth history reveals—they would revise history.
Marxists released an army of revisionist historians to make the good look evil, and the evil look good. They inculcated students with this deception from their earliest ages through the easily manipulated public school systems. Now there is a huge divide between the generations who have witnessed or experienced the horrors of Marxism, and those who have been indoctrinated to believe that their parents are lying about this.
What can be done about this now? We obviously have a difficult battle to recover what has been perverted or stolen from our Republic, but never give up on the power of the truth to prevail. Truth has foundations. The Marxist deception crumbles quickly with even the most cursory research. Just a few armed with truth can prevail against an army of deceivers.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people… ~John Adams
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Psalm 100: Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; W e are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.
Hmmm: to be a person that is really thankful; thankful for all things. Is it possible for us to be transformed into this heavenly creature? Does the condition of our hearts determine what we see? Does the condition of our hearts help to focus our spiritual eyes? How can we see this invisible God we love? I mean, how can we really see Him? But then we have to ask, is He really invisible or do we just need eyes that can see Him? Let’s take a spiritual journey and explore a little of the invisible world. Things we see can be a language. The things we see around us do not come out of nowhere. They were created according to something in the invisible realm. What if we look at a “key” verse that unlocks this unseen world?
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him. (KJV)
So we can see that the scripture above has given us a road map into the unseen world. The Bible is teaching us that there are two worlds: one is visible and the other is invisible. Both worlds were created by Him. The created world, which is the visible, gives us the capacity to understand the unseen world, which is the invisible. The created world is a reflection of the unseen world. The unseen world has two speeds in which it moves. It moves faster than the naked eye and it moves slower than the naked eye. Let me give you an example. Can we see a tree or a child grow? I think not, but we can see a miracle of life. It is just moving at a pace that is slower than we can see with the naked eye. On the other hand, there are also things that move faster than we can see. This means there is part of this creation that we just cannot see with the naked eye. This part of creations makes up the unseen world. God gives us revelations in which we can understand and see the unseen world. One of these revelations is that of the “thankful heart”. If God is in an unseen world, perhaps we need the capacity to go where He is. It is becoming very evident that we cannot enter into this world with our own understanding. The scriptures reveal to us a truth. We see in Psalm 100 above that we are to Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. If we are truly going to enter into this unseen world and into His presence, we first must do this with “thanksgiving”: thanksgiving unto Him. Are we truly thankful to God? I often find myself not very thankful at all. On the contrary, I find myself very unthankful most of the time. Why, we might ask ourselves? Could it be that what we focus on determines what we see? If what we see in the invisible world is determined by the condition of our hearts; then an “unthankful heart” sees that which is dark and depressing. It is always seeing what is going wrong on the planet. A “thankful heart”, however, can see dark as well as light, but chooses to focus on the light and the good. It sees what could be on the planet if our hearts were truly thankful for the opportunity that God has given us. I pray that we will consider our ways and become a thankful people unto our worthy God for all He has and is doing for us.
Blessings,
Alan
