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How have we gotten to the point where we nearly had nuclear war on Tuesday and may still have it?
Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Alex Jones are asking how can Trump call himself a Christian and threaten the globe with nuclear war on a whim?
Is Trump the Beast or the Anti Christ? Are these current events the things predicted in the book of Revelation?
Evil is growing all around, thick darkness is growing all around, the USA is heading for poverty and destruction, and now nuclear war. There is no resistance, barely, resistance to evil and lies on an incredible scale, including covid jab lies.
The President turns out to be mad and evil.
Aghast people watch as he starts a war with Iran on a whim, after promising peace, shuts down much of the globe s energy, threatens billions with starvation, and now even global nuclear war in crude, primitive social media posts, which would embarrass a five year old, which comes out of the blue.
Aghast, people find out a circle of Satan worshipping paedophiles control Trump and their politicians using blackmail apparently from some shadowy Mossad HQ in Tel Aviv and that Epstein has been resurrected, apparently through Jared Kushner, the covid jab Czar with a sky scraper on 666 Fifth Avenue...
Yes, the King of the covid jabs and coercive mandates requiring the covid jabs to buy and sell turns out to be publicly linked to the number 666.
The same Kushner pushing the Iran war towards a nuclear Armaggedon which is the climax of the Book of Revelation and ends in the defeat of Satan.
All of the Epstein lies are coming to light because Christ is real. By definition, the Eternal and Absoltute truth wants all lies to be exposed.
Jesus Christ is the Light that illuminates and by definition cannot lie. Christ is the incredible momentum pushing hideous things that have been concealed for decades, centuries, to the surface, into the light, into the mainstream. This, so we can make the choice between good and evil more consciously.
Megyn Kelly said Tucker sounded genuinely appalled.
How did all of this evil appear in a country with all these worthy people who attend Protestant and Catholic churches and live externally moral and civil lives, not committing adultery, looking after their children, paying their mortgage, credit cards? People like JD Vance? How can a JD Vance be evil?
Tucker is incredulous.
After all, he had an eye opening experience when he was attacked by a demon in his sleep. As a Protestant, an Episcopalian, going to church on a regular basis, he had never heard of demons. But he was attacked by one. It left is claw marks on his ribs. It left blood on the sheets. The attack could not be denied.
What kind of falsified version of Christianity had he heard in the Protestant churches that there was no mention of demons despite the fact one of Christ s biggest works on earth was casting out demons? He asked himself.
What Tucker Carlson had heard was a false doctrine that has devastated the church.
The devastation of the true church by lies and evil is a feature of the End Times.
The key false doctrine is that faith alone saves without works, says Emanuel Swedenborg.
Swedenborg wrote a six volume commentary on the Book of Revelation. It is an incredible book, very illuminating if we want to understand the nature of the evil we are wrestling with today in the End Times.
Swedenborg says this evil we are seeing, comes from the false Christian doctrine that we can be Christians without good works.
This is the prosperity gospel of Joel Olsteen and Paula White and countless other pastors of the Evangelical mega churches, who surround and encourage Trump and millions, tens of millions, 100s of of Americans.
The association of Trump with these pastors on the one hand and his shameless, savage, stupid, evil posts, on the other hand, threatening global nuclear war, to wipe out 93 million Iranians, are just two sides of the same coin.
Trump is shameless, savage fraud because the pastors who surround him are savage frauds.
"Well," thinks Trump "if all I have to do to be saved is to pray with Paula White and the other pastors in the White House and confess Christ is King and I am sinner, then why should I bother doing any good thing for anyone, why not loot, rob, kill, murder, ignite nuclear war?"
"Okay," thinks Don Jr "if all I have to do to be saved is to go to a mega church and listen to a pastor and say Christ is my Lord and I am a sinner, and I can even get some votes for it, then why should I not make billions by insider trading on oil futures and igniting a world war? I am going to be saved no matter what I do because I profess Christ is my King and faith saves without works."
The Christian doctrine is falsified in practice in the Catholic and Orthodox church. In theory, the doctrine is stil taught that we must do as Christ does to know Christ and be saved. We must love our neighbour, do good works for them to be saved. But in practise the clergy, for the most part, and especially in the higher offices, are so corrupt, so worldly, so dedicated to money, power, comfort, so avaricious, rapacious and wicked that by their very example they falsify the teaching of Christ.
That is why we find people like JD Vance flocking to the Catholic church and actually daring to call himself a Catholic. His life and career shows JD Vance has no clue what Christianity is or who Christ is or what good actions are but every clue of how to climb the slippery pole and increase his wealth through corruption and by flattering and enabling Trump, by backing him publicly in everything in the hope of being the next Prez. Wicked? But does he see himself as wicked through sins of omission as well as commission? Likely not at all. Blind. Blinded by false doctrine. Deluded by false ideas of what Christianity and Catholicism are just as much as the Protestants who follow Joel Olsteen and Paula White.
The people who see this, the majority, no longer go to church. The minority who still go to church largely subscribe to the false doctrine in practice that attending Mass, taking the Sacraments, saying prayers is enough to save them, and they do not have to do good deeds.
When we are cut off from Christ, we are cut off from power.
We are cut off from the dynamic source of power, the power that can shatter the Beast, destroy the Anti Christ, devastate the diabolical kingdom of Satan.
The sun rises and it shatters the night. The darkness fades.
If we do not understand who Christ is, if we are taught in Church, the opposite of the truth, then we cannot have a spiritual connection to Christ or avail of his power to shatter the Beast.
Any Christian who has the Truth of Christ inside their living spirit, as a principle, is like a flash of lightning, a sword of lightning which is powerful, vital, effective and invincible.
The spirit of Christ is a force which produces effects on our spirit. It gives us knowledge, impulses to do the good, vitality, energy, freedom, creativity, freedom. Christ is life itself.
Satan wants us to be weak, pathetic, frightened, anguished, depressed, isolated, ignorant. That is how he can control us. He wants us to be stupid, selfish and egotistical like him. Then he has a handle on us.
That is why Satan wants to falsify Christianity.
False doctrines are deliberately spread throughout the Christian churches by the forces of Satan because Satan does not want us to know the true doctrine, get to know Christ and avail of his power, and enjoy an incredible increase in power.
I Cor 4 20 says "For the Kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power."
When we have a connection to Jesus Christ, we become so powerful, we cannot be destroyed by any thing, cannot be defeated by any thing, not even by death for there is no death.
Christ has the capacity to infuse directly into our spirits, light, knowledge, strength, inspiration, creativity, vitality, joy, confidence, energy, courage, and so to overcome every obstacle, problem, difficulty in this world, and every threat in the fight against evil, against the Beast, the Anti Christ.
He is all sweetness, delight in us, love for us, patience with us, interest in us, good will for us, joy in us. He loves us with burning, overflowing love. But we do not love him or others. We only love ourselves. And the false doctrine that faith is enough to be saved encourages that very selfishness, which cuts us off from Christ.
Jesus Christ gives us the knowledge, the absolute certainty, the direct experience that we are eternal spirit destined for Heaven and that Heaven is all bliss, joy, freedom, peace, happiness, vitality, strength and everything we want.
True faith takes away our fear of death, a key way by which Satan controls us and gets us to do evil and so damn ourselves.
Plato demonstrated that we have an immortal soul using just logic and natural human reason 2,400 years go.
Plato showed how the mere fact we can grasp mathematical formulas, which are immaterial ideas capable of infinite replication, means we have a capacity within us which completely transcends the material world and all its restrictions of time and space.
Language, words also have a generalizing power.
That is why Big Brother in Orwell s 1984 attacks language, tries to limit words to 400 in a special language called Newspeak as well as attacking logic (two plus two is five)
In spirit, in thought, we can go outside our physical, natural material world into an infinite world of ideas. Therefore, we must have an infinite capacity within us, Plato argues in The Meno also.
But Jesus Christ does something more, much, much more for us.
He does not offer us a mere intellectual demonstration of our immortality. We do not need to study some words and ideas on a page. We can live eternity.
He gives us the experience of immortality in this world already so we do not fear death.
Here in this world, we can experience that we never die and go straight to heaven.
But we can only have this connection if we have the right ideas about what Christianity is.
Christ is love. His Kingdom is love. It is a community of people who love others. That love manifests as actions, actions of charity, mercy, generosity, interest that benefit others.
St Paisios tells the story of how a monk on Mt Athos explained the difference between heaven and hell to a novice.
"Imagine a group of hungry people sitting around a table with long spoons," he said "In the middle is a pot of food. But the spoons people are holdng are too long for them to be able to put the food in their mouths. They starve. That is hell. Now imagine exactly the same scene. But the hungry people with the long spoons feed each other. That is heaven."
Could it be clearer? Heaven is giving to others. Thinking of others before ourselves.
Yet, that we must do the works of Christ to be saved and going to church is not enough, is obscured by the false doctrines of today.
Christ makes it clear in the Gospels that he does not want that kind of formalistic, ritualistic faith.
He says you must do what I do, give to the hungry and thirsty, visit the prisoner, give comfort to your neighbour. I am your neighbour. I am the human beings around you. The degree of your love for me, Christ, will be shown by the degree to which you help your neighbour in a very real concrete, practical way. That means we must give of our money, our time, our energy.
That is the message of Christ. Sacrifice for others, generosity, giving to others.
The prosperity gospel is all about taking from others, accumulating money.
Joel Olsteen, Paula White preach the complete lie that Christ wants us to make lots of money, climb the career ladder and that if we follow him, we will be rewarded with a big house, car, job with holidays in the Caribbean, lots of prosperous friends with perfect false teeth and perfectly ironed clothes.
They want us to substitute external things for spiritual things.
Christ is about giving our eternal spirits something much more important than money, than a car, a villa, a yacht, a villa, a beach holiday in Hawaii. These are all mere material pleasures which are here to day and gone tomorrow. A life focussed on food and drink and sleep is unstable. Whether we get up to eat cavier or dried bread, drink champagne or water, sleep in silk or in rug, does not really matter that much in the big picture. All these things are material things which come and go, here one day, gone the next, filling us one hour, leaving us hungry, thirsty, tired the next so that we never find rest, peace or security in the material sphere.
We must give to others our money, our energy, our time, our comfort even our life. We must sacrifice for others. We must do good to other people, to our neighbour. Other people must be happier, healthier as a result of our lives and actions.
Only then will Christ come to dwell with us. This is completely clear in the Gospels.
He infuses into our spirits His vast powers, the very same powers which crated the Universe, the sun, the stars, the moon, the mountains, the seas, the human being.
St Paisios lived in external powerty in a Kelli on Mt Athos.
But he shone with the Absolute pure elemental light of the spiritual world more brilliant than the physical sun, as Athanasios Rakovalis reports. He performed miracles, healed people, split rocks could reveal the future because within him dwelled the infinite power and knowledge of Jesus Christ.
With his inner spirit filled with glorious joy, freedom and creativity, depth, breath and beauty of Christ, St Paisios saw everywhere beauty, depth, gold, silver, pearls, diamonds in a flower, a rain drop
The pure Absolute light of Jesus Christ enters the human spirit and reveals all things, as Swedenborg says.
But only because he did the works of Christ. When St Paisios was old and sick, and wanted to be left alone to rest, and hundreds of people came to his Kelli every single day to ask him for advice, for a blessing, miracle, he sat with them from morning until night, not even taking the time for a cup of tea. He accepted the principle that Christ is giving to others. It is a life of service to others. St Paisios gave his time, money, energy to others. He gave his last jumpers to pilgrims who needed them.
We cannot love God and material things at the same time. We must give of our material things to have God as a living presence in our soul, as a power in our lives. If necessary, we must give everything because Christ is the great prize. He is the infinite power, heaven, bliss, life, vitality, energy, individuality, freedom, peace, fulfilment, endless joy.
When we are cut off from Christ, we are cut off from power.
We are helpless, spiritually helpless, in great danger.
We ae cut off from the dynamic source of power, the power that can shatter the Beast, destroy the Anti Christ, devastate the diabolical kingdom of Satan.
The sun rises and it shatters the night. The darkness fades.
Jesus Christ is the Truth and the Light that by definition cannot lie. By definition, the truth wants all lies to be exposed.
As the truth and the good, Christ wants all evil to be revealed.
The Beast, the Satan does not want us to tap that power on any account. The power of Christ spells the end for the diabolical kingdom of Satan.
But we can only tap the power of Christ if we do good things to our neighbours out of love, affection, respect.
It is not enough to go to church, to read the Bible in the morning or good books before we go to work and belong to a bible group or church group. It is not enough to want to do good, to wring our hands and say "how I would love to do good to this or that person, if I this or that". We must do whatever good we can do for other people every day we are alive. That is how we get to know Christ.
What is the routine of so many so called Christians today?
They get up early in the morning to get ready for work, switch on the TV with the remote control, watch cable TV with scenes of wars, revolutions, violence or sports rolling before their eyes, drink a coffee, stumble over to a desk to open their Bible study for the day in obedience to their Pastor, father, mother, church group, read through it and feel very virtuous for having done that, close the book and forget all about it, prepare their breakfast of healthy fruit and protein shakes, cereals, for themselves and their spouses, children, shower, dress and groom themselves for work, clamber into their car, drive for ten, 50 miles into some parking lot, some garage, get out, head for the company cafe to get a coffee and a snack, enter some lift, climb some stairwell, sit down in some office cubicle, open some computer, work for hours, focussing on some irrelevant, technical detail or doing calculations or analysis on some irrelevant matters for which they are, however, paid lots of money for by some boss. Bored with the work as they may be, they feel very self satisfied with the money they get so they can still pay their credit card debts, mortgage, petrol, holidays, Amazon purchases, Netflix. Bouncing along with self satisfaction, they head out for lunch at a local fast food joint, return to work until the minute comes when they are allowed to leave the office. That minute, they close their computer, tidy their desk and leave via the same lift, stairwell, go to the same car in the same garage and drive, stopping at a Walmart to buy groceries, to drive the same ten, 50 miles to the same house which they left where they perform their various chores, after getting a cool drink and snack from the fridge, greeting their spouse, children, walking their dog, taking out the garbage, mowing the lawn, doing the gardening, cleaning the garage and the house, wiping and dusting the surfaces, sweeping the floors, preparing the dinner, cooking the dinner, eating the dinner, washing up, getting ready for bed, getting the kids washed and into bed, before lolling on the couch and watch the sports with a beer or a soft drink or surfing the internet before they go to bed.
On Sunday, the routine only varies because they go to a mega church in the morning, where they hear how wonderful they are just for attending the mega church, how God loves them just because they are Christians, proven by the fact they attend the church and read the Bible and love their pastor, and give their pastor money, how Christ loves them back and his love for them and their virtue is shown by giving them a good job, a big house, lots of well dressd friends with perfect false teeth they have with good jobs who invite them to their lake side house for a barbecue on Sunday where they spend the afternoon watching the sports on TV or playing football while preparing a feast of food and sipping beers.
That is heaven for the average Protestant Christian today.
They are told because they go to work, do not commit adultery, do not steal or commit any obvious sin, and go to the church, they are saved.
They are not saved.
They are doomed.
And on some level, they know it.
That is why there is so much anguish, emptiness, void, unhappiness, feeling life is meaningless that accompanies this form of Christianity. So much fear of death, poverty, life.
The average Christian does not understand why they do not feel the presence of Christ in their lives, why going to the mega church, watching the Disney World presentations of mega church pastors like Joel Olsteen does not make them really happy or make any real impression on them because they are told Olsteen is what Christianity is. It is faith. Just turning up for church.
When they hear Christ is about giving, sacrificing, giving money to others, they feel terrible. The entire pleasure of their life consists in self indulgence which they believe is sacrifice.
To have to do without some of that self indulgence, those little pleasures that make up their daily life, to buy less at Home Store or Walmart to have some extra money give to a neighbour in need, never crosses their mind. Or if it does it seems impossible.
There is never enough money because the desire for material things is never satisfied. Someone who has a salary of 100,000 dollars wants a car worth 40,000 dollars and house worth a million dollars while someone with a salary of 500,000 dollars a house of five million. The credit is always maxxed out because the desires for material things are never ending and always maxxed out.
When there is never enough money for themselves, how can they give to anyone else? When they can barely afford the 50,000 dollar interest payments a year to keep their car, house, how can they afford to give ten dollars to their poor neighbour?
The human will alone is not enough.
But we are asked by Christ to put our faith in him, to give to others with our eyes on Jesus Christ.
When we give to others, sacrifice, while putting our faith in Christ, we acquire power.
Christ comes and dwells with us.
The bodies of the just, who do the works of Christ, are rightly called temples because their soul reigns supreme within them, like God in his temple, or because God himself dwells in the souls of the just like St Pasios.
The bodies of the selfish are called sepulchers of the dead because their souls are dead within them. Whoever does no spiritual thing with their body, above all no act of giving to others out of charity, cannot be considered truly alive. They are dead. Death dwells in their bodies. They are compared to sepulchers, tombs which are closed.
As Light, Christ wants to make himself known to us. The Light of Christ shines on all of us all the time. But not not all of us see him.
We do not see him if we do not do the works of charity, mercy, love, generosity to others.
As Love, Christ made himself known to us through good works. Christ did not just look down from heaven and see human beings suffering in the diabolical Kingdom of earth ruled by egoism and selfishness and stupidity of all kind. He took action.
He took on human form, lived among us, accepted poverty, humiliation to walk among us, teach us, heal us, and finally die for us a dreadful death, a Crucifiction, as we can see on the Shroud of Turin, so he could resurrect and give us increased power.
That is why Christ has the right to ask us at the end of our lives "What did we do for others?"
Of course, Christ blends infinite mercy with infinite justice but he does want actions, fruits, results.
A lot of people who believe they are Christians will be turned away from heaven. Christ himself warns. Anyone who professes to believe in him but has no deeds of love will not be accepted in the Kingdom of Heaven.
But the false prophets in our churches tell people the opposite. They tell them the lie that we can be saved by faith alone and without good works.
When we translate that selfish, egotistical doctrine into our lives, then we get the arid, stale, flat, dead consumerism and self righteousness of contemporary Americans. This is where the passivity comes from, the strange obsession with what other people will think about an action rather than with what is inherently right and just.
And, then, the same people, who neglect to give their neighbours the minimum help in their lives crammed full of business and themselves, actually wonder why the USA is falling apart around them?
The aggregate social output of tens and hundreds of millions of people pursuing exclusively egotistical ends is social collapse. We saw that civic, democratic and economic collapse during covid.
Something like that, and worse, will happen again if we do not change.
Let us accept Christ in our hearts.
Let us make Christ the living principle which motivates our actions. Let us ask is this action pleasing to Christ? And let us do that action if is pleasing, become people with generous hearts, whose every thought is how to give and who make other happy, healthy, wise etc
Then Christ will give to us and in abundance all the things we really want. Joy, peace, a clear conscience, life, vitality, energy, freedom.
As we grow in these qualities, the kingdom of the Beast will be crushed. For the Beast lives only from our selfishness, our anguish, our fear, our misery, our lack of self respect, our self alienation fed by false doctrines in the church.
John Chysostom said reading the Gospel is like walking in a beautiful garden with wonderful trees, and fountains and stunning flowers and a scentred breeze, free and leisurely.
Let us have that image in our minds when we pick up the Gospels to read. We are entering Paradise. We are discovering an incredibly beautiful new place. In that garden, we are supremely free, free to be ourselves, to ask any question, think any thought, question every thing, create any thing, ask for any thing, become any thing, all light, all truth, all life, all joy like our Lord Jesus Christ because Christ will give us the power. He loves us, every one of us. But he respects our free will. If we do not want to change, do not want to become people of good actions, of good will, of the kindly thought for others, the generous impulse to help others, he will not force us to change.
But we will have to bear the consequences of our selfish lives.
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