Here’s What You’re Not Going to Do…

Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective

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Daily, I receive emails from numerous sources explaining just how bad things are going to get and for many folks, are already. There are so many opinions out there that it has become way too difficult to know what’s truth, what may be truth and what’s fiction. Certainly, on one hand, there is nothing new in the world, while on the other hand, for most of us this is the first time things have escalated to this level in the world so it can be disconcerting and worrying.

We’ve got the following (a partial list):

• Wars and rumors of more wars
• Stock market problems causing monetary problems
• Inflation that doesn’t appear to have an end in sight
• Constant murmurings of another pandemic coming down the pipeline
• Wars on farmers and food
• Environmentalists striking back and winning in court
• Migrants running amok in the UK, India, Nigeria and other places
• Potential civil wars breaking out all over
• Marxism gaining a serious edge in the USA in spite of the Constitution
• Push toward digital IDs that will create a digital prison for everyone

I know I didn’t hit on everything but I probably don’t need to go on. Each person can readily add their own issues to that constantly growing list. But here’s the thing. Evil has always been in this world since the fall of humanity. Because it seems like the world wants to focus on all the evil that’s happening now, it’s always in our faces. They seem to want us to be preoccupied with worry over the things that are happening in society that we can do nothing about.

As I’ve noted before, what we should be doing is not focusing on the myriad of problems occurring in society. Be aware to a point, certainly, but instead, we should be focusing on our relationship with God and family. Sometimes things happen in life that cause us to look elsewhere and not at all the upheaval. The upheaval will always be here until the Lord returns. Every generation will suffer through things that the previous generation or the one after that current generation may not. Yet again, it seems like every generation has its problems that need to be addressed. So the choice becomes either focusing on the things you can do nothing at all about or focusing on the things that we do have at least some control over.

A good friend of ours just passed away. We have been friends with her and her husband for 38 years. We spent a lot of time together and enjoyed each other’s company in many things. Even after we moved from California, we kept in touch and got together with them several times, when they were living in Boston and then Florida. They lived an interesting life. He did very well in the line of work he was involved in and retired early. They bought a huge sailing boat and spent a year on it sailing up the east coast from Florida to Massachusetts. It was the best time of their life together because they could literally do what they wanted to do.

However, the wife contracted cancer 15 months ago. We received a text from them with a video where the wife said she was going to defeat her cancer. Everyone initially thinks and says that because they’re not really feeling the negative effects of their cancer yet. They aren’t totally fatigued, in pain or spending their days in bed, etc. But as time progressed, her cancer got worse and she underwent radiation and chemo. Eventually, her cancer went into remission. Unfortunately, it came back very quickly with a vengeance and they diagnosed her with “chronic cancer.” She took as many chemo treatments as she could stand after that.

In May my wife texted her and received this response:

I have had three chemos so far.  This week has been rough.  I am in a lot of pain.  Tomorrow I am getting fluids drained from my belly.  I look like I am 6 months pregnant.  Tomorrow I will be slim and trim with a lot less pain.  I will have as many chemos as the body can take as long as it’s keeping the cancer at bay.  I have a CT scan on Tuesday and then an appointment with the oncologist on Friday to go over the results.  Sadly, we found out that since the cancer returned so quickly I am considered a chronic cancer patient. But I am still hoping for a healing miracle if it’s God‘s will of course

You cannot read that and not feel empathy for what she is going through even if you’ve never dealt with cancer before. That was several months ago. However, we learned last night from her husband that after 2 1/2 weeks in home hospice, she passed. When someone you personally know, are close to and younger passes from this life to next, it is jarring. It makes you stop and consider the true brevity of life.

We all knew it was coming but when it arrives it’s still difficult to deal with. It has the benefit though of helping us to refocus because we understand once again at that point what is truly worthwhile. Please pray for her husband who understandably is having a very difficult time coping.

We can focus on the problems in this world and there are many. But aside from praying about them what can we do to affect any real change? Not much. Those problems are not unknown to God nor is He powerless to do anything about them. If things do not change, that means that God has decreed/allowed it.

The world is becoming more wicked. Yesterday I saw a video of the aftermath of an entire Hindu family murdered without mercy – parents and children – allegedly by Muslims in Bangladesh. Radicalized Muslims are rising throughout the world to create a final caliphate. They believe this is their mission.

We all know the troubles experienced in the UK right now. Though migrants walk around open carrying knives, machetes, large sticks and hammers setting upon those opposed to illegal immigration, the police do nothing against Muslim perpetrators. Instead they go after anyone who even peacefully protests against illegals or a person who posts “mean tweets” on social networks. Truly, people are actually being arrested for what they say. I noticed the new VP pick for Kamala has stated the exact opposite of the truth regarding the First Amendment; that there is no guarantee we can say whatever we like. His Marxist intentions are becoming exceedingly clear.

But are the migrants in UK creating civil strife actually UN soldiers sent there to change the face of UK society? Is that why the UK police essentially leave them alone, but come down hard on peaceful protestors protesting illegal immigration? People are starting to think there’s something behind this that is not being told.

Personally, I would not put it past our “dear leaders” and globalists around the world to do something like this in order to bring about the change they believe is needed to usher in their “great reset.” We know we mean nothing to them and are simply in the way of what they want to achieve with a “great reset” or final world order.

But again, what can we change? Nothing really. We can use discernment to avoid problems with the authorities where things will be stacked against us. Fortunately, we don’t have the anti-free speech rules in the USA as they do in the UK and Canada, but when push comes to shove, globalists are not going to ignore America. In fact, the installment of Kamala and Waltz (if that actually happens), will give globalists a leg up on deleting the First and Second Amendments.

All of this is certainly in keeping with what former KGB Staff Member In Charge of Psychological Warfare and Propaganda Yuri Bezmenov has stated decades ago. They mean to destroy the USA (and other western nations), and do so from within.

But of course there is something far bigger than anything Satan or his followers can throw at us and try to achieve. We need to realize God doesn’t need us begging to change things. He’s already in control and has never lost control. What is happening is similar to what happened in Israel’s day during the prophet Jeremiah’s adult life.

Throughout the Book of Jeremiah we read God’s pronouncements of judgment on the nation of Israel. He makes promises that He keeps. Looking at the landscape today, I doubt seriously that God can be too happy with the visible Church. Consider how many denominations have gone thoroughly wayward and how often leaders in those denominations push or pull their congregations to places that God warns His people not to go.

During Jeremiah’s day as a young man who was also a prophet of God, he was raised up to warn Israel about the huge problems they faced with God because of their continued rejection of God and His commands. Oh, like many today, they still played the “religious” game, thinking that they could literally worship any number of gods during the week and then on the Sabbath, bring the required sacrifices to God to cover themselves. It wasn’t working. God wasn’t impressed and through Jeremiah, God told them all about what He saw continually and didn’t like. It’s pitiful to read just how bad the Israelites lowered themselves and then thought that God didn’t see any of it, so they were fine as long as they went through the motions God demanded. This is not to say that every Israelite was a complete hypocrite because God has always kept for Himself a remnant of believers in Israel.

It gets so bad in Israel that the Israelites get to the point of wanting to kill Jeremiah because of what he was telling them. Though his words were given to him by God Himself, the people did not want to hear it. In fact, they told him he needed to stop speaking to them about it. Eventually, they wanted to kill him and tried but God intervened (Jeremiah 11).

Reading through Jeremiah is so sad. He was just doing what God commissioned him to do. Because of that, he was ridiculed, threatened, stood against, treated cruelly at times, and generally was seen as a pariah. At one point, he wished his mother’s womb had been his grave (Jeremiah 20:17). Yet, he knew God directed his life. Imagine the pain of having to tell Israel’s leaders what God was going to do based on their rebellion against God. Read Lamentations for more detail.

I was reading a recent substack by Pablo Frascini. [1] I’d highly recommend reading it. He covers a variety of subjects:

• Israel, War
• The Economy
• Prepping

He talks of Israel being placed in a corner. They were attacked by terrorists (Hamas), on October 7 of last year. They chose to defend themselves aggressively against those terrorists and anyone who joins in with them. Nearly every nation and the UN stands against Israel. Rarely, if ever, is the original massacre of over 1200 innocent Jewish people mentioned. Instead, the UN and others constantly harp about the “children” in schools that Israel destroys. Never mind that those schools were destroyed in the early morning hours way before any children would have been there and the only people killed were Hamas and/or Hezbollah terrorists.

Frascini also talks about the economy and of course, it’s not doing well. In fact, for many people in the USA alone, they can’t even live from paycheck to paycheck. They are literally drowning in their debt and the government has done nothing but increase the burden.

Pablo believes that any “realignment” of t he global economy will occur, but the bulk of it will occur after the Rapture. Of course, this makes sense to me because if you stop to imagine millions of people gone in an instant and the havoc it creates in that wake, what better wake-up call is there for the world to realize they need to fill that void with something? Frascini believes the recent stock market downturn was caused by global murmuring regarding a breakout war between Israel and Arab countries. Interestingly enough, he also believes there will be some sort of de-escalation (obviously before Ezekiel 38-39 breaks out). On that note, Pastor JD Farag has an interesting opinion as well concerning the Northern Invasion war that is yet to occur in his sermon, “Urgent Prophecy Update… – Sunday, August 11th, 2024“. [2]

Regardless, whatever happens, we can be sure that the mainstream media and many within the prophecy industry want to continue to gin up the anxiety. Again, I can do nothing to change the course of this world, America or in the state in which I live. It’s far beyond my pay grade. All of that rests in the Lord’s powerful hands and infinite wisdom and mercy.

I wonder if it is enough to simply live our lives to the best of our ability, leaning heavily on His everlasting arms to get us through? We can only do so much can’t we? We cannot change the course of predetermined future history. We cannot add an inch to our height. We cannot change anyone else’s opinion about anything.

Please consider what the prophet Jeremiah went through by reading that entire book. He consistently uttered the words that God gave him to say. He was met with ridicule, hatred, death threats and more because he deigned to do what God wanted him to do. This is our lot as well and if the world doesn’t hate you (or hates you very little), it could be you’re not doing things correctly. We’ll talk more about this in an upcoming article with Jeremiah as our background when we discuss what it actually means to know God.

In the meantime, might I suggest that you simply do what you can do for yourself, leaving all the rest to God. If you have extra cash to be able to stock up on perishables (including vitamins and other supplements since they usually have a two-to-four year shelf life), then do that. If you cannot do that, do you really believe God will ignore you, not hear you and not provide for you? He knows your circumstances better than you do.

Let me leave you with Jeremiah 17:7-8 as a form of encouragement.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes, But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

[1] https://serpentsndoves.substack.com/p/unscripted-israel-war-the-economy

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5RiLh23CR4

Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective