Life

Last Friday was a good day. A day I had longed, hoped and prayed for but was never sure I would actually see. A day marking a major victory against dark principalities and powers in the high places over this country.

Early June of this year Jackie and I celebrated being married for fifty years. When we met both of us came from Catholic families but she had a relationship with Jesus and I was an atheist. It had been my plan to avoid having any arguments about politics or religion but here it was several months after our wedding and we were having a Sunday dinner with her mom, dad, nine brothers and sisters and a couple of brothers-in-law.

When dinner was over and everybody was sitting around the table a couple of Jackie's cousins dropped by. Their mom was very involved in the Right To Life group in Kalamazoo and they had just finished helping her stuff some mailers. So the discussion around the table became about abortion and then switched to religion. It was Jackie's oldest brother (the other atheist) and me against the crowd and it began to get a little heated. Jackie of course had been praying for me and now she was screaming to God in her prayer - "What are you doing?"

Well, it turns out God does know what He is doing and this argument turned out to be a catalyst for my surrendering my life to Jesus and being filled with His Holy Spirit a few months later at the end of November that year. The following January the Supreme Court ruled on Roe Verses Wade and the evil of killing a human life while still in the womb has been heavy on my heart ever since.

In fact for me, someone who majored in Political Science and minored in History, a candidate's stance on the life and rights of the unborn and their willingness to fight for those lives and rights outweighs everything else when I consider whom to vote for, including economics. I believe that if we stand firm on this God will give us guidance and clarity on other issues and will even bless our stupidity when we miss the mark.

So much about following the will of God revolves around core principles. The core principle here is that inside a pregnant woman is a unique individual who has a growing body with a soul and a spirit. That child already has a God given destiny that awaits him or her in time. It matters not how that child is conceived or if indeed it is even wanted by the parent. In life there are struggles and tragedies but God is loving and He longs to pour out His love and healing to all: mother, child, family and community.

The Supreme Court ruling reverses a gigantic self imposed curse over our nation which will greatly weaken the spiritual forces that are trying to destroy this land. The blood sacrifices they desire are starting to end and now the battle can be waged State by State. Watch now for great moves of the Holy Spirit which will transform what are known as the seven mountains of influence: Church, Family, Academia, Government, Media, Business and Finance, Arts and Entertainment.

For over 49 years I have been standing on the ramparts, ready to call out the advance of the enemy or the coming of the great King. For over 49 years I have laid before my Lord the bodies, souls and spirits of many prodigals who walk in the wisdom of this world but do not have a relationship with the one who made us in love. It has been 49 years of seeing many lives wonderfully changed but also seeing the world devolve into the stupidity of the wisdom of this age. Friday was a good day.

 

Scams

Scams you have been led to believe by a lot of supposedly smart people.

Space Aliens and UFO's. In fact, physics places severe limitations on the time and speed needed for any objects that have mass. Travel between stars with planets that could sustain life would take many thousands of years. I don't doubt UFO's but they are not piloted by aliens from other planets.

Life began in a primordial sea. You have been taught that the beginning of life was due to the right chemistry and that complexity evolved through random mutations over time. In fact, life requires an extreme amount of information on many levels which has not and logically could not self organize.  Mutations are always regressive, i.e. the loss of information and there is no logic for development of more complex information over time without immediate benefit.

Variety in species is proof of evolution. In fact, species react to their environment by utilizing information already present for minor changes without adding complexity and can do so only as far as that information allows.

An unborn baby is not a unique human life until it is delivered and unless it is wanted. In fact, once a woman's egg has been fertilized a new human life has begun. It has all the information it will need to develop into a special person with a special destiny, no matter how he or she was conceived and how much he or she is desired. 

Carbon emissions are bad for the environment, less carbon consumption will reduce global temperatures and rates that sea levels rise but will increase severity of weather. In fact, carbon is food plants eat and need. More carbon will equal more and healthier vegetation thus allowing more people to be fed. Fossil fuel consumption has been the key factor in bringing a large portion of the world's population out of poverty. Man released carbon is only a minor fraction of total air born carbon and its total elimination will only have a tiny effect on temperatures. Sea levels have risen at the same rate since we started measuring them and historically there has been more severe weather events during periods of colder temperatures.

All people are basically good so Utopia can be achieved through the leadership of an enlightened leader or leaders and a managerial class who control production, distribution and the education of the masses. In fact, a government needs checks and balances on its ruling class precisely because all men are basically selfish and will, without the desire to follow the will of God, ultimately be deceived into following the will of Satan.

What are the practical results of those scams? The prospect of a Designer and a Creator has as its logical conclusion that God has a will for every person, that our lives are not really our own and that Designer and Creator should be worshiped and obeyed. But even the most intelligent of us have this great desire to be the lord of our own lives. This blinds many to what is obvious and leads others to the deception of false gods that can be satisfied with works and religious acts.

Satan wants to deceive us about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He wants individuals, families, people groups and the population of countries to be controlled by his servants and he does that by offering the illusion of a life that would be better by doing and being the opposite of what God desires for us. He ultimately operates through pride, fear and intimidation and the fruits of his rule is always suffering and death, even for the elite.

So the next time you hear about spending billions to find water on Mars so we can better understand how life began, or are told that climate change will lead to the destruction of mankind so we must eliminate fossil fuels, or that overturning Roe V Wade is anti woman, or read that aliens are probing our private parts, or are asked to vote for people who cannot define what a woman is and see the Constitution as an impediment to progress, just step back and think about why this is happening and who is benefiting from it.