Jul 17, 2023

Why God Reveals the Ugly

 I have found myself, through various channels, informed of abominable and hidden things that have been happening in our world for centuries and touching nearly all facets of our American culture and government --- things so horrible that I have dealt with cognitive dissonance. I have found myself hiding my eyes or covering the screen as I watch a carefully prepared documentary. And I think I should. I don't need to focus on the awful details. But, this morning, I asked God why He has allowed me to come to know so many awful truths over the last couple years and, before the question had fully formed into a prayer, I was reminded of Ezekiel. 

God took Ezekiel by his hair to show him all the horrible things happening in his country?

    "...He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem... where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. 
    And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there... And he said to me, 'Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.' 
    And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. Then he said to me, 'Son of man, dig in the wall.' So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. And he said to me, 'Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.' So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel... 
    Then he said to me, 'Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, "The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land."' He said also to me, 'You will see still greater abominations that they commit.' 
    Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then he said to me, 'Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.' 
    And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east. Then he said to me, 'Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? ...Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.'”
(Ezekiel 8:1‭-‬18 ESV)

God showed his servant these horrible abominations being done in secret. 
But why?

As my mind asked this question again, I realized that God wanted Ezekiel to understand the reason for what He was about to do in his country. Amos 3:7 says,

    "For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets."

God gave Ezekiel knowledge of the secret evils being done by the leaders and secret societies of his country so that he could boldly declare the plan of God.  

    "Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, 'Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.' And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar. 
    Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist. And the Lord said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.'  
    And to the others he said in my hearing, 'Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.' So they began with the elders who were before the house. 
    Then he said to them, 'Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.'  
    So they went out and struck in the city. And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, 'Ah, Lord God! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?' 
    Then he said to me, 'The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, "The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see." As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.' 
    And behold, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, 'I have done as you commanded me.'”
(Ezekiel 9:1‭-‬11 ESV)

Psalm 91:7-10 also gives us this same assurance.

    "A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked. Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place — the Most High, who is my refuge — no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent."

The leaders of our country are also very deep into horrible abominations and lying to the American people while devising wicked plans for a one world governance. They say, "You will own nothing and be happy," while they murder and do all manner of abominations before God. Look what God showed Ezekiel about what his leaders were saying...

    "The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate ...at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men... And he said to me, 'Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city; who say, "The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat." Therefore prophesy against them...
    'Say, Thus says the Lord ...I know the things that come into your mind. You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it. You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord God. And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you... and you shall know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you.'
And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. 
    Then I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, 'Ah, Lord God! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?' 
    ...Thus says the Lord God: 'Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone...  I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.  And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.'

...And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me."
(Ezekiel 11:1‭-‬13‭, ‬15‭-‬21‭, ‬25 ESV)

God will protect those who love Him in sincerity and will bring the deeds of the wicked upon their own heads... and He's given those who love HIM a heads-up. 

"If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small! Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter. If you say, 'But we did not know about this,' does not the one who evaluates hearts consider? Does not the one who guards your life know? Will he not repay each person according to his deeds?" (Proverbs 24:10‭-‬12 NET)

Your Hair Says Something About You

 

My thoughts started from couple verses from Ezekiel that stood out to me this morning. 

"...lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments." (44:19)

This verse reminded me of Acts 19:11-12,

"...even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his (Paul's) skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them."

And that made me think of a story about a mantle in 2 Kings. 

"And Elijah took his mantle and rolled it up and struck the waters, and they were divided this way and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground." 

And shortly after this event...

"Elisha picked up the mantle of Elijah that fell off him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and struck the waters and said, 'Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?' And when he too had struck the waters, they divided this way and that, and Elisha crossed over." (2 Kings 2:8‭, ‬13‭-‬14 AMP)

There was power from God in this mantle. 

But then I came to verse 20 of Ezekiel 44...

"They (God's priests) shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads."

…which reminded me of 1Corinthians 11.

God gave Ezekiel instruction for male 'priestly' hair — trimmed short, but not shaven or shorn.

Shaving is done with a razor and no hair is left.

Sheering is done to sheep and fuzz is left.

Leviticus 21:5 says that God's priests weren't to shave their heads. How a man kept his hair in the office of priest mattered to God. And this is a prophecy about the future. The third temple hasn't yet been built. It mattered then and it will matter in the days of the third temple, so it stands to reason that it matters now. 

Long hair was symbolic of being under a promise. Numbers 6:2, 5, and 18 describe a man or a woman consecrated to God under a Nazarite vow. They do not cut their hair at all for the length of their consecration. But, when their promised time of commitment is over, they shave off all their hair and give it to God with their peace offering. A consecrated head (one with long locks) was under a promise to God. 

A woman is made FOR man and under his headship. That's what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11:9. And a woman's office was to be expressed outwardly in the same way as a Nazarite revealed his consecration and subservience to his or her period of promise.

In 1 Corinthians 11:6, Paul suggests that a woman who won't let her locks grow ought to be shorn or shaven. It shows something about the individual. But shaving or sheering was typically what was done to slaves or to women captured (Deut.21:12) and being transferred from being property as a slave to being a wife. The consecration of woman to man is like the place angels hold in regard to God. 

1 Corinthians 11:14 says that long hair is a shame (less honor/ lowered dignity) on a man. It's because it's the sign of being under consecration. And for a woman to be shorn or shaven is a shame for a woman as it is a symbol of lessened dignity.

Revelation 9:8 proves that hair can be "like men" or "like women", the same as with clothing. 

God says in Deuteronomy 22:5...

"A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God."

A woman's long hair is her mantle. It is the symbol of her ministry.

"...if a woman has long hair, it is her glory. For her hair is given to her for a covering."
(1 Corinthians 11:15)

That word  'covering' here is 'peribolaion' — "something thrown around one, that is, a mantle".

In 1 Kings 19:19, Elijah threw his mantle over Elisha to signify the transfer of his ministry. A woman's long hair signifies her consecration to the ministry God has given to her as a woman. 

"The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.' 
...no companion who corresponded to him was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called woman, for she was taken out of man.' 
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife..."
(Genesis 2:18‭, ‬20‭-‬24 NET)

A woman's long hair is her mantle... her glory or 'doxa', as her very apparent reputation for who she IS consecrated to be.

Jun 29, 2023

Be Brave

Some of us are aware of the slavery to a digital/AI control that is slowly being implemented. This is part of the idolatry of our day. People are listening to false prophets telling them not to worry about it... that it's normal and that life is actually better with these idols. 

Talk to Siri. 
Talk to Alexa. 
"Hey, Google."
Stare at your phone to pass the time and answer your questions. 
These are NOT better. 

Today's idolatries are sins that are being added to other sins our culture adopts as it removes God. 

The church, as a whole, refuses to separate themselves from dependencies on godless media in general. They don't know that they are led by what they hear and see. They don't know that what they daily do IS worship. What they daily do affects what they talk about and what they believe. 

Other masters are looming on the horizon to take over America. The first assault has already swept through our nation. The majority of the population has been pierced and their babies slain through abortion, miscarriages caused by poisons hidden in many and varied ways, and by vaccines. Still, God calls for His people to stop and look to HIM.  And YET, people want their 'normal'. And, as in Jeremiah's day and even Paul's day, it's the women who are most adamant. The men cave to comfort. People think it has been the vaccines and medicine and science that has kept America a first-world civilization. But it wasn't. These things have all turned us away from God to the gods that regulate them and yet God's people follow them religiously. There is now only a remnant left who haven't compromised with the gods of our age. 

Some of us talk about fleeing America. But where would we go?

The thing to do is to pray for mercy and obey God from NOW... even if we wake up to realize we have already become slaves. 

"Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)...
You were bought with a price...
So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God."
(1 Corinthians 7:20‭-‬21‭, ‬23‭-‬24 ESV)

God's people need to set all their 'normal' aside and make God GOD of their lives.
 
To the remnant of God's people left in Israel in Jeremiah's day after the first wave of consequences for the nation's disobedience, Jeremiah's told the people...

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea for mercy before Him: 'If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up... 
Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him,' declares the Lord, 'for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand. I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land. But if you say, "We will not remain in this land," disobeying the voice of the Lord your God and saying, "No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there," then hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah.' Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 'If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there, then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die... by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them."
(Jeremiah 42:9‭-‬17 ESV)

Running or hiding should be done according to God's directive. If God hasn't given direction, then we should serve Him faithfully where we are... COURAGEOUSLY. 

But, just as in Jeremiah's day, many of God's people want to run here and there for SELF-sufficiency and some people just want to maintain their 'normal'. 

The king Jeremiah warned knew what was right. He even secretly called on Jeremiah for prayer and counsel. However, the king gave more deference to those influencing him than to the word of God to HIM and said, "...the king can do nothing against...”, and then he surrendered to the opinions of those he allowed to influence him. 
(Jeremiah 38:5 ESV)

"...King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free. But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves. 
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers ...saying, "At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years..."
But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me. You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty... but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.'
Therefore, thus says the Lord: 'You have not obeyed... behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine,' declares the Lord. 'I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts... And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives..."
(Jeremiah 34:8‭-‬20 ESV)

Even when God's people disobeyed and fled to Egypt, God called them to live right there and put away their idolatry. But the women were convinced superstitiously that what they had been doing when life was 'good' was the very reason life was good. They didn't recognize that God didn't punish immediately but sent Jeremiah to rebuke them AND gave them time to repent. 

God used the Rechabites as an example of obedience, even when offered free wine...

"The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me. I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, "Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods..." But you did not incline your ear or listen to me. The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command that their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me...
Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you, therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.”'"
(Jeremiah 35:14‭-‬16‭, ‬18‭-‬19 ESV)

Are there possibly things in this modern life that we do as 'normal' and 'routine'— things we have always done from when life was good or things we simply don't think we need to give up? 

God is calling. He has withheld disaster to give time for repentance. Even in the so-called COVID tyranny of the last few years, God has given people a chance to stop idolizing the media and science and the medical system and stop obeying them and get serious about the Bible and obedience to HIM. 

God rewards those who live according to His way of right, even if they are afraid...

To the Ethiopian who comforted Jeremiah when he was thrown in the pit God said,
"I will deliver you on that day... and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the Lord."
(Jeremiah 39:17‭-‬18 ESV)

To Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah God said,
“...O Baruch: You said, ‘Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.’ ...Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land. And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”
(Jeremiah 45:2‭-‬5 ESV)

"And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers; and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.'"
(Isaiah 30:20‭-‬21 ASV)

Jun 23, 2023

Jeremiah speaks through time to God's people today...

 

I am doing a read-through-the-Bible plan on You Version and my comments have often been too long to share on the app.

Several things from the devotional reading (Jeremiah 14-17) gave me pause...

“They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore, the Lord does not accept them."

Might God's people today be wandering into things from which He would want them to restrain?

"Though they fast, I will not hear their cry... I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.” 

That's a scary thing. But Psalm 66:18 has a similar warning.  

IS God hearing the prayers of the majority of Christians today, or no?

Jeremiah then gives a reason God's people are deceived.

"Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'” 

This is so true. I hear things like this all the time — that God sees Christ when He looks at Christians (minus an evaluation of their daily habits) AND that there will be a pre-trib rapture that somehow voids for Christians the warnings given of the final days (the mark of the beast time) in which saints are told to endure. 

In many churches today, Christians are not taught to analyze their own behavior and character next to Biblical law, which defines God's character and will. They, instead, believe doctrines that make them feel OK and safe. 

The Lord replied to Jeremiah,

“The prophets are prophesying lies in my name... the deceit of their own minds.
(14:10‭, ‬12‭-‬14 ESV)

I believe this is true today. In my experience, most churched people seem not to know the word of God very well. They mostly regurgitate what they've been told it says. 

The next verses in Jeremiah were so sad.

“Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: “ ‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’"

Revelation 13:10 says the same thing. 

"If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints."
 
The Lord then tells Jeremiah, 

"...you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting."

Obviously then, Jeremiah feels God may be gesturing to him and he evaluates himself...

"Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts. I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation."

I think this is what all God's people ought to be about. It goes along with the mourning of which God takes note in Ezekiel 9:4. 

Paul talks about how our life should be with a mindset of not really being attached to our experiences here. Our mind should be so on where God is and what He is about. We are His 'pawns'. 

"This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away." (1 Cor. 7:29‭-‬31)

I think the Lord wants His people to take seriously that about which He accuses them,  "they loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet".

In chapter 15 of Jeremiah, the Lord says,

“If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them. And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the Lord."
(15:1‭-‬3‭, ‬6‭, ‬16‭-‬17‭, ‬19‭-‬20)

In other words, living God's way is going to get us attacked. But God promises to make us like "a fortified wall of bronze".

I can't help but consider what God told Jeremiah about having a family (16:2-5) and how Paul felt about having a family (1Cor.7:7-9 & 28-29) and compare it to how my daughters feel about having families in this crazy time. But, back on topic...

If we were to accuse today's typical congregation of apathy, I think we would hear the same questions as did Jeremiah. 

“... What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?"

And God answered, 

"... Because your fathers …have gone after other gods ... and have not kept my law, and because YOU have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me."
(16:2‭, ‬4‭-‬5‭, ‬8‭-‬12)

I hear in this verse a follow-your-heart mentality from God's people. The church HAS preached a freedom from thinking too deeply about one's own works. They mainly preach that we just need to love God and love people: coming off more like a mindless toleration that doesn't expect too much of oneself or of others. Love seems to have become more of a feeling one chooses to have or outward display one chooses to manufacture, whereas it is something so much deeper than feelings and more real than personal discipline. Love is God because God is love. When we have God, we have love. Love actually produces evidence of the Spirit who possesses us and isn't so much something manufactured by one's own will. Because of a follow-your-heart mentality, members of local church bodies don't end up thinking the same things regarding what a Christian home should look like nor do they agree on what Christians should avoid as far as interactions with the world and with what the world has to offer. Christians are very dependent on most things the world has to offer pertaining to living 'normally'. And I think we need to consider whether we are prepared to let loose of all dependencies when the mark of the beast is implemented. But, like I said earlier, preachers and teachers are explaining away Scripture that gives this warning. I have heard Christians say, "Oh, we don't have to worry about the mark of the beast. I heard a preacher explain that only people saved after the rapture will have to go through that." Where in Scripture do they get this idea? The saints of God are not mentally or physically prepared to endure.

In chapter 17, God says that he "who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength ...is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come" while he who has practiced dependency on God "is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” 

And that's like Psalm 1.

The Lord says He will "search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” 

And then Jeremiah launches into a lengthy discourse about the one of the Ten Commandments MOST ignored by the church. 

"Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day... And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction...
But if you listen to me, declares the Lord, and bring in no burden... on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, then ...this city shall be inhabited forever. But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden... on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire... and shall not be quenched."
(Jeremiah 17:5‭-‬6‭, ‬8‭-‬10‭, ‬21‭-‬25‭, ‬27 ESV)

First off, THE Sabbath isn't Sunday. The early Catholic church persecuted Christians who kept the Sabbath as Judaizers, and made a law against resting on the real Sabbath. Then they gave the first day of the week, sun-god day, Sabbath status. It has been this way for hundreds of years. But now, Christians just don't pay much, if any, attention to what 'keeping the Sabbath' should mean. In the millennial reign, the Sabbath is actually important (Isa.66:23), so why don't we honor a Sabbath between the time of Christ and His millennial reign? 
Why is the Feast of Tabernacles going to be important for ALL nations? (Zech.14:18) 
Why is the church so apathetic to this stuff?

Jeremiah still speaks to an apathetic people.

May 16, 2023

My Appeal to Apathetic and Abusive Authority

I'm not going to sugar coat the truth by engaging is politically correct and culturally relevant jargon. 'Hands-off parenting' in order to raise resilient and resourceful children is an excuse for many self-absorbed parents. And name calling, such as 'helicopter' parents and 'sheltered' children, is often a cowardly coverup for conviction concerning complacency.

God is NOTHING LIKE parents who withhold affection and neglect proactivity toward sons and daughters, hypocritically claiming intentionality toward nurturing independent offspring, blatantly treasuring attention and investments for themselves, deserters of the fight for the souls of their offspring, and AWOL as soon as they turn 18. 

God is NOTHING LIKE a husband who neglects his bride or is bitter and unmerciful toward her as a pretense of justice or awaiting his 'right' to attentions, disguising his own selfishness and laziness under the brutish misrepresentation of his position as ‘head’, presumptuously claiming to avoid damage that supposedly accompanies a 'spoiling' of those he, by his own actions and inactions, considers no more than his own personal property.

The tenets of genuine Christianity dictate that...


"Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church... THEREFORE a man shall LEAVE his father and mother and HOLD FAST TO his wife, and the two shall become one flesh... 

Let each one of you love his wife AS HIMSELF..."

(Ephesians 5:25, 28-33 ESV)

God woos HIS bride with gentleness while proactively and carefully steering circumstances, both pleasant and unpleasant, for the benefit of those under His care. This is NOT manipulation, which is "devious management for one's own advantage". Rather, it is the loving discipline of the heavenly Father.


"...I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths. Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah."

(Hosea 2:6, 14, 19-20 ASV)

Oh, that Christian men would learn from and mirror the true character of God demonstrated in Christ rather than excusing a callous and selfish disposition misrepresented as God-like: mistakenly justifying their presumed position AS god over their family... a position belonging ONLY to God.


"Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

(Matthew 11:29-30 ASV)

A patient and humble disposition is what a man should reflect toward his family.

Paul wrote,


"Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." (Ephesians 6:4 ESV) 

Fathers ought to literally bring to mind how the Lord has fathered THEM today and yesterday and the many days prior before they erupt at their wife or children.


"...the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and chastises every son whom he receives...

God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons...

We have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them... They disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but God disciplines us for our good..." (Hebrews 12:5-11)


"He will not always chide, nor will He keep His anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities...

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust."

(Psalm 103:9-14)

Do you, man or woman, enjoy striking fear and coercing compliance, or do you aim to merit the respect of those who depend upon you? Holding bitterness and pounding one's point 'home' are NOT characteristics of our heavenly Father.

The Bible says,


"Husbands, love your wives, and DO NOT be harsh with them."

(Colossians 3:19 ESV)

AND...


"Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered."

(1 Peter 3:7 ASV)

The "in like manner" part of that verse is...


"...a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious... if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening."

(1 Peter 3:4, 6 ESV)

NOT being gentle and understanding toward your wife will hinder a man’s prayers. I think this would apply across the board.


"...Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me (enjoying that communicative relationship to and from God), seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God... 

 

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart ...and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown."

(Hosea 4:1, 6, 14 ASV)


"Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them (they have other 'loves' in their life they are more dedicated to), and they know not Jehovah... 

Oppressed, they are crushed in judgment; because they were content to walk after man’s command. I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

(Hosea 5:4, 11, 15)

And like the good Father He is, God will father all who are content in their complacency by hedging up their way with thorns and building a wall against them (Hos.2:6), so that they can't find their way, and waiting until, when finally suffering the consequences of their choices, they decide to earnestly seek God. If one doesn’t ever get to this point - if they stay mean and brutish - God Himself will bring an end to the suffering caused by that one's selfish existence (see the accounts of Nabal and Pharaoh and the future days of the Antichrist).


“…I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’ Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”

(Zephaniah 1:12-13 ESV)

The Bible says this about the affairs of that man named, Nabal...


"…the man was harsh and badly behaved..."

Abigail testified truthfully concerning how to deal with her husband...


"Let not my Lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him..."

 

"And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So, she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And about ten days later THE LORD struck Nabal, and he died."

(1 Samuel 25:3, 25 and 25:36-38)

Jesus said,


“Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But IF that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and becomes abusive, self-serving, and succumbed to addiction, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful."

From Luke 12:42-46 (my paraphrase)

Being assigned an eternal space with ‘the unfaithful’ should be a sobering thought for many who become ‘drunk’, controlled by their addictions and selfishness, resulting in the mistreatment of anyone in their vicinity.

Jesus, risen as the Alpha and the Omega (Rev.1:13, 17-18), dictated again this warning to John,


“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. WAKE UP, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent.

IF you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life..."

(Revelation 3:1-3, 5 ESV)

If one regards this word of God as true, then the converse of the previous passage is also true. Those who don't wake up and obey the instructions received from God through His Word risk having their names blotted out of the Book of Life. God’s ‘book of remembrance’ lists the names of...


"...those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed His name. 

'They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.'"

(Malachi 3:16-18 ESV)

The white garments referenced in Revelation 3:5 are "...the righteous deeds of the saints." (Rev.19:8) granted to friends of Jesus.

Jesus said,


"You are my friends IF you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you."

(John 15:14-15 ESV)

There will be many who availed themselves of the name, Jesus, or ‘CHRISTian’ while living disobedient to God and apathetic to His Word (see the stories of the five virgins and the miracle workers). They will be assigned a place with unbelievers and with the selfish and apathetic religious people. There will also be those who truly believed in Jesus, but never cared about the evidence of their works or the sincerity of their love.


“...when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.

Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’"

(Matthew 22:11-13 ESV)

(next: Conscious Eternal Torment or Annihilation?)

 

Jan 20, 2021

What is happening?

(Please bear with me as I edit this blog to sound 'less frustrated' and 'angry'.)


Do you feel like something strange is being forced upon our country? There is.

The World Economic Forum wants America to yield to what is being called 'The Great Reset'. 

American young people, and many special interest groups that were publicly show-cased for pity, sadly, self-righteously jumped on board. This 'dreadful pandemic' is 99% survivable. Why is it being described with words such as 'dreadful' and 'scare'?

Please, just listen to/read these individuals', who have gathered at the WEF 1st session concerning 'THE GREAT RESET'. Listen to their own words coming out of their own mouths. Then you won't have to wonder if someone, lumped in with conspiracy groups, is 'feeding you a line'. It is hard to sort it out these days. Honestly, if there are plans/prophecies that sound hopeful, I am rejecting it. This is not because I have lost hope. I haven't. My hope is in God. But, if you look at the messages of God's prophets versus false prophets, God's message always pointed toward repentance and 'fear not' to obey the Lord. But false prophets always shouted victory for those who listened to them, encouraged revolt against oppressors, and a sort of 'don't worry' as you celebrate. I think that every Christian should be pouring over their Old Testaments and reading the stories of God's interaction and instruction within political and national conflicts in the days of the kings of Israel. If we aren't familiar with the character of our God...if we merely live by logic, fueled by human emotion, we will find ourselves deceived and in the wrong 'camp'.

As you listen/read the discussion of this forum and you here a word or acronym you don't understand, please look it up. I've included many links to help you do this so you can understand what is being talked about. Maybe you already know. I did not. In the last few months, I have found myself trying to wade through conspiracy, false prophecy, and truth. If you already know about 'The Great Reset', maybe you don't need to take any time here. I know that, after this, I have little desire to plunge into any other rabbit holes. 


Here is the secret to peace, even as we live in a world where 'bad news' comes upon us almost daily.
Philippians 4:4-9 says, 

"Rejoice in the Lord always. 
I will say it again: Rejoice!
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things...
And the God of peace will be with you."

I have put some random thoughts and supporting links in parenthesis.

The video is an hour and a half, which makes for a long transcript, but I wanted to do this so that it would be easier for those of us, who have had no hint of what is going on, to understand why our country has gone 'stir crazy'.

Following, is the link to the WEF session: an Economic Forum hosted in Geneva where leaders and stakeholders from across the global community gathered for a 'COVID action platform'. 

The Great Reset | Launch session 3 June 2020 - YouTube



It might be of some help, I think, to first familiarize yourself with the speakers and their countries of origin.


Klaus Schwab, German engineer and founder of the World Economic Forum

Antonio Guterres, Portuguese politician, now serving as United Nations Secretary General

Prince Charles of Wales, Prince of Wales


Kristalina Georgieva, Bulgarian, managing director of the International Monetary Fund
IMF chief: We must do more (cnn.com)

Ajay Banga, an Indian-American, current president and chief executive officer of MasterCard

Sharon Burrow, from New South Wales, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation

Victoria Alonsoperez, born in Uruguay, founder of 'Chipsafer'

Bernard Looney (an Irishman), CEO of BP

Juliana Rotich, a Kenyan, has "developed web tools for crowdsourcing crisis information" Juliana Rotich - Wikipedia

"Crowdsourcing involves obtaining work, information, or opinions from a large group of people who submit their data via the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps." 


Brad Smith, President of Microsoft...

Nick Stern...



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King David, in Psalm 37:13, said...

"The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them, But the Lord laughs, seeing their day is coming."

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I started transcribing this video at about the (6:10) minute mark.

"This meeting serves as a launch-pad for the next chapter, The Great Reset."

Klaus Schwabfounder of the World Economic Forum:

"It is obvious that we are in the midst of the most severe crisis the world has experienced since WWII. 75 years ago, countries and peoples came together to shape the post-war global order which brought us decades of peace, increased global cooperation, and prosperity to hundreds of millions of people around the world. 

The Covid-19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century. It has laid bare the fundamental lack of social cohesion, fairness, inclusion, and equality. 

Now is the historical moment, the time, not only to fight severe viruses, but to shape the system for the post-corona era. 

We have a choice, to remain passive, which would lead to the amplification of many of the trends we see today: polarization, nationalism, racism, and ultimately increased social unrest and conflicts. But, we have another choice...we can build a new social contract; particularly integrating the next generation. 

We can change our behavior to be in harmony with nature again and we can make sure that the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are best utilized to provide us with better lives. 

In short, we need a Great Reset. We have to mobilize all constituents of our global society to work together. 

We must not miss this unique window of opportunity. For this reason, I'm grateful that we are joined for this announcement of the Great Reset initiative, not only by his royal highness, the prince of Wales, but by representatives of international organizations, business, trade unions, scientists, and above all the young generation."

It is so hard to hear 'the COVID crisis' discussed as if it were a surprise, when all this seems to reflect Event 201, a pandemic exercise to illustrate preparedness efforts (centerforhealthsecurity.org) 

Hearing a pandemic discussed as a 'window of opportunity' also sounds unfeeling... almost as if it was pre-planned. Also, how can anyone speak of a post-corona culture? Is never 'catching cold' even realistic to imagine?

(Dr. Simone Gold Blows The Lid Off The COVID Lie and Sounds The Alarm About the Vaccines! [Must See] - The True Reporter)


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Antonio GuterresUnited Nations Secretary General (9:14)

"I send you my warmest greetings and best wishes on the launch of The Great Reset. 

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing enormous human suffering and economic hardship. The microscopic virus has closed down entire countries and economies. 

In doing so, it has exposed the fragility that characterizes much of our world. But this fragility is not confined to health systems: run-away climate change, unsustainable level of inequality, and the lawlessness of cyber-space are all warning signs that we must heed. 

The Great Reset is a welcome recognition that this human tragedy must be a wake-up call. As you rightly say, it is imperative that we re-imagine, rebuild, redesign, reinvigorate, and rebalance our world. 

The scare of the pandemic and its social and economic impact demands strong unity and solidarity particularly towards developing countries. 

Specific measures must be targeted at those most affected: women, older people, youths, low-wage workers, the informal sector, people caught up in humanitarian crises. 

Rebalancing investments, harnessing science and technology, and advancing the transition to net-zero transmissions...all elements of The Great Reset are fundamental to building the future we need. 

We have already called for an economic stimulus package equivalent to a double-digit percentage, more than ten-percent, of the global economy. 

Last week, the United Nations, together with the governments of Jamaica and Canada, convened the largest gathering of world leaders since the start of the pandemic to lay solid foundations for a sustainable recovery based on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and The Paris Agreements. 

We must build more equal, inclusive, and sustainable economies and societies that are more resilient in the face of pandemics, climate change, and the many other global challenges we face. 

As momentum builds for a fairer and more inclusive recovery, The Great Reset can help to enlarge the conversation and integrate the thinking into financial systems and global markets. Together, we can make faster progress as we work to end the global pandemic and build a more stable and peaceful and prosperous world for all. Thank you."


A link to the United Nations gathering mentioned:(https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2020/09/world-leaders-to-focus-on-key-actions-to-assist-countries-battered-by-the-financial-crisis-caused-by-covid-19/

The terminology used (enormous sufferingexposed fragility, run-away, unsustainable, etc...)  evokes an emotionalized desperation. And, in using a 99% survivable cold as cause for such extreme phraseology and calls to action, raise further suspicion as to both the origin of and purpose for this Forum.


Two things that concerned me in this speech were
1. Why women are in the list of 'most affected' and 
2. Why, for whom, and from whom a call was made for an economic stimulus package.)

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Prince Charles(12:50)

"These are unprecedented times. Every person on the planet has been impacted by the corona virus pandemic. Our world came to a standstill and it became clear that we do not have the answer or the mechanisms to address such an unprecedented global threat. The threats posed by this dreadful pandemic  came upon us suddenly with very little warning. 

The threat of climate change has been more gradual (see Gen.8:22), but it's devastating reality for many people and their livelihoods around the world (see Amos 4:6-8) and its ever greater potential to disrupt surpasses even that of COVID-19. (Look... )

Italian Dr. Warns the Vaccine Will Make You Ill or Kill You, COVID-19 Protocol With No Use of Hydroxychloroquine, Pope Francis & Other “Christian” Leaders Urge Everyone To Take The Vaccine & Things You Can Do To Fight This Planned Evil | Z3 News

Resist the Scamdemic, says Dr. Petrella! | FromRome.Info

Peruvian court rules that Bill Gates, George Soros and Rockefeller family “created” coronavirus pandemic | SGT Report

In addition to COVID-19, over the last few decades we have seen bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, MERS, SARS, which are all zoonotic diseases originating in animals. More than half of all pathogens affecting humans come from animals. Changing the relationship between wild, domestic, and human animals  makes pandemics more likely, which is why we need to restore balance with the natural world through decisive action on climate change and restoring biodiversity. 

If we look at the planet as if it were a patient, we can see that our activities have been damaging her immune system and she's been struggling to function and thrive due to the strain we have put on her vital organs. To treat her we need to restore balance and put nature back at the center of the circle. (see Rom.1:25) And, to achieve this, we must act for health and well-being, understand nature's pathogens and cycles, recognize the value of diversity, unity, and the interdependence of all living things, consider the importance of innovation and adaptation, and invest in nature-based solutions to help stimulate a more circular bioeconomy that gives back to nature as much as we take from her. 

(Her? Laudato si' (24 May 2015) | Francis (vatican.va))

I could only hope that, as this current crisis passes, we are able to reflect on the shape, the type, of world we want for ourselves and for future generations. 

The 75 years after the Second world war saw unprecedented growth, rising longevity and poverty reductions. (Wait... isn't THAT exactly the SDG goals YOU guys are promising with The Great Reset?) But, all this put an overwhelming strain on our environment. (ahhh...ahem) The good news is that we have many of the solutions at hand: renewable energies now cheaper than fossil fuels. Our agriculture and land use can be more resilient, healthy and productive if we do not degrade our land, destroy our forests, and poison our water. Unfortunately, we so often forget that we are profoundly dependent on nature for our lives and livelihood. So, how do we balance the need to rebuild economic prosperity, the need to get people back to work, against environmental concerns? Investing sustainably now can be a fast, efficient, and attractive way to reboot our economy. Therefore, what should be the principles that underlie the reshaping of a new and better global economic system? To seize this window of opportunity, I believe we need to do five things. (Why do I feel like I'm being introduced to a pyramid scheme, where only the top of the pyramid are 'diamonds'?)

First of all, to create momentum for the Great Reset, we need to capture the imagination and will of humanity. We will only change if we really want to change.

Secondly, the global economic recovery must set us on a new trajectory of sustainable employment, of livelihoods and economic growth. To achieve scale, we must not be afraid to reorientate our long-standing incentive structures which have been having such perverse effects on our planetary environment and on nature herself, if we are to reap the benefits afforded by a more sustainable world. 

(I'm concerned about how the WEF defines 'incentive structures'. Go to What We Can Learn About Nazi Rule From the 'Ideal Nazi Wife’ | Time, hold down the 'alt' and 'f' keys, select 'find on page', type 'incentive', read this paragraph and realize the goal stated by Gates here gates on population control with reproductive health at DuckDuckGo .)

Thirdly, we must redesign systems and pathways to advance net zero transmissions globally. and, in this regard, carbon pricing can form a critical pathway to generally sustainable markets. This reset moment is our opportunity to accelerate and align our efforts to create truly global momentum. Countries, industries, and businesses moving together can create efficiencies and common economies of scale that will allow us to leap-frog our collective progress and accelerate our transition. 

(Our? What of the War of 1776?)

Fourthly, we must re-invigorate science, technology and innovation. This crisis has shown the importance of investing in science, technology and innovation. We are on the verge of catalytic breakthroughs that will alter our view of what is possible and profitable within the framework of a sustainable future. 

(Science has 'evolved' into a religion of interdependent support networks for deception and political agendas. No 're-invigorating', thank you!)

And fifthly, we must rebalance investment. Accelerating sustainable investment could offer significant economic growth and employment opportunities; including in green energy, the regeneration of nature and landscapes, circular bioeconomy, ecotourism, and green public infrastructure. It is time, therefore, to align sustainable solutions with funding in a way that can transform the marketplace. This would be the most dramatic act of responsible leadership ever seen by the global private sector and would at once provide a catalytic incentive for the public sector to follow. 

We have a golden opportunity to seize something good from this crisis. Its unprecedented shockwaves may well make people more receptive to big visions of change. Global crises like pandemics and climate change know no borders and highlight just how interdependent we are as one people sharing one planet.

Over the past month or so, despite the ongoing crisis, I've been encouraged to see the growing calls for a green recovery. We need only to look to the United Nations secretary general, to the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the EU (European Union), the Petersburg Climate Dialogue, the Canadian government, the top 26 universities network, and businesses around the world to see this. 

(And now I'm beginning to understand the spiderweb of indoctrination, influence, and control.)

And, as we move from rescue to recovery; therefore, we have a unique but rapidly shrinking window of opportunity to learn lessons and reset ourselves on a more sustainable path. (We?)

It is an opportunity we have never had before and may never have again. So we must use all the levers we have at our disposal, knowing that each and every one of us has a vital role to play. 

Everything I have tried to do and urge over the past 50 years has been done with our children and grandchildren in mind. So, I can only encourage all to think big and act now. Thank you." 

(I am concerned with what appears to be a dishonest agenda among leaders discussing this supposed surprise pandemic.


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Now, we hear from Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund... (21:20)

"Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. Many thanks to his royal highness and to Prof. Schwab for bringing us together. Now is the time to think what history would say about this crisis and now is the time for all of us to define our own role. Will history say, that was the great reversal? 

And we actually today see very worrisome signs. 170 countries are going to finish this year with a smaller economy than when they started and we already project there will be more debt, more deficit, more unemployment, and there is a very high risk for more poverty unless we act. And that takes me to what is it that would make it so that history would look at this crisis as the great opportunity for reset. 

From the perspective of the IMF, what we see is inevitably a very massive injection of physical stimulus to help countries deal with this crisis and shift gear for growth to return. But, it is paramount that this growth leads to a greener, smarter, and more fairer world in the future. And it is possible to do that provided that we concentrate on the key elements of a recovery now. We don't wait for the days to come. For the Fund, what we see are tremendous opportunities. 

Let me first talk about the green growth in the future. We can put in place public investments and incentives for private investments into low carbon and climate resilient growth. Not only that, but many of these investments can lead to job-rich recovery. Think of mangroves restoration, reforestation, or building insulation and think of the key sectors for reducing climate intensity where both the public and private sectors can invest. I'm particularly keen to take advantage of the low prices today to eliminate harmful subsidies and to bring in place carbon price as an incentive for the investments for the future. 

Secondly, we know the digital economy is the big winner of this crisis. But, if we allow it to drive further division in our world; in other words, countries and communities to fall further behind, then it is going to bring more pain than gain for the future. So, it is critical, and we at the Fund work with others to use investments that are going to be supported by institutions like mine, by World Bank, and others to shrink the digital divide and also we need to think of how we are going to use the benefits of rapid growth in digital where profitability is jumping up to build more of a sharing of these benefits across our societies.

And that takes me to my third, and I think the most important, point of a fairer world. (Fairer?) 

We know that this pandemic, if left on its own devices, is going to deepen inequality. That has happened in prior cases of pandemic. But, if we were to concentrate on investing in people... in the social fabric of our societies... in access to opportunities to education to all... in the expansion of social programs, so we take care of the most vulnerable people... THEN we can have a world that is able to work for all.

And I want to conclude with an example from the past. William Beveridge (A eugenics advocate of the 1940s. The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget (newstatesman.com)), in the midst of the second world war put forward his famous report in 1942 in which he projected how the UK can address what he called Five Giant Evils. And that led to a better country after the world, and actually to the National Health Service (NHS) that is saving so many lives today in UK. And my institution was created exactly in this time. 

So we now have to step up: use all the strength we have: in the case of the IMF, one trillion dollar lending capacity, and tremendous engagement on the policy side, to turn a page to have that history be about The Great Reset, not about the great reversal. And I want to say loud and clear, the best memorial for those who lost their lives to the pandemic is that greener, smarter, fairer world. Thank you."

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Next, we hear again from Klaus Schwab, Founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, working on THIS agenda for many decades. (see Agenda 21... now known as Agenda 2030, Agenda 21/2030 is the New World Order – Real Truth Real News (wordpress.com))

The moderator asks... 

(28:30)

"What does the Great Reset mean to you... and how is the World Economic Forum and Davos going to contribute to this game-changing moment?" (https://www.weforum.org/focus/the-davos-agenda-2021)

Klaus Schwab speaking...

"I think the most important issue is to change our mindsets and instead of being so much focusing on short-term, as we did in the past, we have to keep in mind the long-term perspectives and the long-term prosperity. 

This leads me, for example, to the need...and the World Economic Forum is very much engaged...to elaborate a comprehensive system of ESG (Environmental, Social, and good Governance Criteria) for companies. It should be a must for companies to report, not only on financial success, but how they contribute to our environmental health, to social cohesion, and exercise good governance. That is only one aspect. (Report?)

So, to answer your question related to DAVOS, we will now start quite a high number of task forces to look at all the different issues. And we will present all those ideas to the people assembled in Davos (the location of the WEF is in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland), to the leaders for business and from the political community. 

But, at the same time, we will make Davos very different, very open. We will mobilize our 10,000 global shapers in over 400 cities around the world to organize a twin summit and to interact continuously with those assembled in Davos who will ensure that we do not fall back to old recipes, but that we really look at forward oriented solutions." 

(30:40)

"Klaus, what do you say to skeptics out there who might say, 'We need to go back to where we were because we need the engine to run maximum. If we go for the Great Reset, if we go for green growth, if we go for long-term-value creation, it may be at the expense of jobs or short-term productivity.' 

What do you say to those people?" (uh oh)

"My question to those people would be, 'What is the alternative? And, what we are doing, to a certain extent, is a betrayal of the next generation if we do not act... if we don't take our responsibility in the face of history.' 

So, my response would be, 'Instead of being cynical and critical, why don't you come and you engage?' We need all the forces. We need everybody on board. And this initiative will really integrate everybody in the world who has a voice and who has particularly innovative proposals on how to improve livelihood." 

(The initiative to 'integrate' everybody in the world. That wouldn't have any relatability to Earth-616, would it? And, yes, this IS a serious question.

Karl Schwab (Earth-616) | Marvel Database | Fandom

616 (number) - Wikipedia)

(also, see Rev.13:15-18)


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Prince Charles' reflections: outline of a five-part plan that is aligned with where HE thinks people want to go...

(32:25)

"Well, if I may say so, I'm hugely grateful to the Secretary General, the United Nations Secretary General, and to Kristalina Georgieva for joining us on this occasion. It really is so good of them to give up their precious time. I must say I was so heartened to hear what Kristalina was saying, having known of her for quite a long time now... and I know how remarkable she is... and how much experience she has in all these different fields. So, what she was saying made an enormous amount of sense to me. And the fact that she, with the IMF and the secretary of the United Nations, are taking these particular lines now... and understand the need for the kind of action... and the fact that we have no alternative, as Klaus was saying... as that IS the case... we have no alternative because otherwise, unless we take the action necessary... and we build again in a greener and more sustainable and more inclusive way, then we will end up having more and more pandemics and more and more disasters from ever accelerating global warming and climate change. 

So, this is the one moment, as you've all been saying, when we have to make as much progress as we can. ('We' again? What's with the 'we'?) And again, if I may say so, this is...after having spent, I don't know... whatever it is now... thirty-eight years of my life trying to encourage corporate, social and environmental responsibility... and it tended to be a rather uphill struggle for many years... we managed to recruit some people, but by no means the majority of the private sector... 

Now the private sector is, I think, at the heart of the key of how we actually do this in a better and more sustainable way: that recognizes the long-term requirements... recognizes, as Klaus was saying, the fact that we owe it to, not only the next generation, but, as the First Nations people all around the world know, to The Seventh Unborn Generation. (First Nation? 7th Generation?) 



https://study.com/academy/lesson/who-are-the-first-nations-people-tribes.html

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/prince-charles-has-been-talking-to-canadas-aboriginal-elders-about-threats-facing-the-planet/wcm/553fd0d1-b050-4e99-bdd5-0612990f7f04/amp/

What is the Seventh Generation Principle? (ictinc.ca)

And this is where I think the leadership of the private sector can make a terrific difference; particularly, in helping to inspire the public sector to support at the same time. So, I mean, I can only pray that we recognize the urgency of the situation...and the fact that all of you have gathered here today at least is one indication of that. You have huge experience and I know you can make a difference, so thank you for your involvement."

(Prince Charles and Klaus Schwab will be sponsoring a series of 'Great Reset' dialogues. This was the first. January 21st, 2021 was the next scheduled dialogue to 'flesh out' the aspects of The Five-Point Plan and focus on 'seizing the moment'.)


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(36:59)

Ajay Banga, an Indian-American, current president and chief executive officer of MasterCard, an Indian from Citi's Asia Pacific unit, who noted that around 45% of MasterCard's revenue comes from the U.S. and that there is a need for diversifying the revenue base...hmmm...speaks next.

(https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/ajay-banga-named-ceo-of-mastercard/articleshow/5789790.cms)

"So, first of all, thank you for having me and thank you for creating the opportunity for this dialogue. You know, I've been saying for awhile that the world's problems fit on three sides of a triangle. That's the prism you should look through. We just talked about 'It's one versus many', 'Man versus nature', and the unfortunate foundation is 'long-term versus short-term'. 

We just went through all of those in what we heard from his royal highness, Kristolina, and from Klaus. The pandemic has exacerbated one angle of that. I think no doubt that it has contributed to the very unfortunate circumstances in America right now, around our country... of the riots we've seen. 

As a company, we made a commitment some years ago to go after 500 million people to be brought for financial inclusion by 2020. We did that and now we've upped it to a billion and added that we will bring in 50 million micro-SMEs and 25 million women entrepreneurs (Why women? Why feed preference due to race or gender? Please stop!), all part of the 'one versus many' side of the triangle. 

The other one, the one about the climate and 'the man versus nature', we aren't directly as impactful on nature. We try to use our presence with consumers to say, 'What is it consumers understand?' They don't understand carbon credits but they understand the planting of trees. And so we said we'd plant 100 million trees by incentivizing consumers to behave in certain ways. (Now I feel like a lab rat.) Take the tube in London or a taxi, as an example. 

Why am I saying all this? In the process of doing all this, we've come to two lessons and that's the answer to your question from my perspective.

The first, there is not enough money in government or philanthropy to make it possible to deal with the three sides of this triangle. (Soros, Gates, Prince Charles, Klaus… please stop your philanthropic contributions. We don't want it.) You need private sector capital, private sector ingenuity, private sector technology, and private sector capabilities to come to the party.

(What party? Is it THIS one... https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-green-new-deal-is-a-crazy-new-deal-that-would-be-a-disaster-for-us-all Or is it THIS one... Green Party of the Federal Republic of China | Federal Republic of China Wiki | Fandom) 

We have to make it part of our business model which is those two examples I gave you of inclusion and climate.

Second learning: you need enormous trust between the private sector and the public sector for this to actually work. That trust is hard to come by. What I have seen during the course of the pandemic is some light at the end of the tunnel of trust. The private sector and governments are working, and the NGO (Non-government organization) sector are working really well together...whether it's the Therapeutic Accelerator (https://www.fshdsociety.org/therapeutic-accelerator/) we launched with Gates (There he is! I knew he'd show up.) and the Wellcome Trust (https://wellcome.org/news/wellcome-pledges-50-million-new-initiative-speed-development-covid-19-treatments) or the work I see on SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) around the world... or benefit distribution and the use of data and analytics for the purpose of directing activity.

(Use of data for directing activity?) 

I think that this issue of bringing the private sector to The Party ( I feel like a prize of war) and bringing it in a way that the trust between the private and the public sector come together, those are imperative for us. If you're going to make real progress on moving the needle and seizing the opportunity that we just heard about."

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Moderator:

"...We are talking about the need for a New Social Contract..."

(40:15)

"How important is it that, as part of that social contract, people are delivered jobs that are purposeful and meaningful?" ('Delivered'?)


Sharon Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation speaks next.

"I thought Klaus introduced the 'need for a new social contract because this will build trust' very eloquently. 

And I thank Kristolina for the 'greener, smarter, fairer world' because it fits right into this frame. There's no doubt that people and planet must be on an equal footing with economy. 

So, indeed the prince's ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance Criteria) has come of age. 

But we have to put indeed the environment and social medias on the same page. 

(THAT explains a lot about the social media censoring going on.) 

If you think about it, COVID-19 has starkly exposed existing fault-lines in our world. We had already 'income inequality' that was fueling 'income, race, gender inequality'...

It WAS about despair.

It was about anger.

It was resulting in a distrust even of our democracies... even of each other, I should say. 

(see Matt.24:12 and Isa.3:12) 

And, of course, you've seen some of that anger spill over now around 'racial injustice' before and again it will come on 'income injustice' and, of course, 'progress for women' has stalled everywhere.

(I truly believe they are binding all this negativity on Americans and then yanking their strings.)

We have 'a climate emergency' which we can't walk away from. There's no doubt that the very survival of the human race requires us to act.

(see Gen.8:20-22 and Dan.2:20-22) 

And, of course, we have choices facing the best and worst of technology...and I was delighted Kristolina raised some of the inequalities...but we indeed need to look at this world with a lens... 

(see 1Sam.16:7) 

…of what will indeed make our world better. And, of course, the WES (World Education Services)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Education_Services) 

taking a huge leadership on this. So, in that context, we would say that while we are very supportive of the global act of solidarity around a health crisis that has put human lives first, we can't ignore the impact on people's lives... and jobs, jobs, and jobs... income support... of course wages... and income for the areas where we've seen the labor market breakdown... But if we don't have full employment at the center of recovery and building resilience, then we will go back into the same spiral. 

(Who, again, is 'WE'? Is it the collective broken socialist and communist economies that want a piece of American wealth? ...using 'global solidarity around a health crisis' to spin their webs?) 

We also need, of course, job creation to go along with that and investment in enabling green infrastructure; in industry policy to help us shift the transition... adjust transition... on all these fronts; and, of course, in care and in ecosystems repair. 

We need income protection. (From whom?) 

We need minimum living wages and incomes finally settled... 

(How can wages be 'settled' when not all people are all equally abled?)

 …with, indeed, the business community accepting that social dialogue... and collective bargaining help us share our wealth. 

(Again...whose wealth is getting 'shared'? Do they have a say? Or, is this about a group of high-minded individuals with a lot of money 'forcing'/coercing/black-mailing America to surrender... for the good of the planet, of course?) 

On top of that. If we walk away from health and safety, whether it's formal health systems or whether it's safety of people and their lives and their risk of biological hazards... If we don't see global standards... then, again, we put our people at risk everywhere. 

(WHO is 'our' people!?)

And we can never again... we can NEVER again... allow our health/education care systems to be underfunded. 

We must indeed build equal economic participation... 

Sorry, we must build social protection... and I'll finish on this...

If we don't build social protection for everybody... $37 billion is all it would take for 5 years of funding for the poorest countries... 

(That explains this... https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/15/democrats-covid-coronavirus-stimulus-foreign-aid/) 

…for health and income protection. 

I know that Kristolina... I know many governments... are on our side. 

But we need it to be funded... and we need to see that, indeed, transparency of government and of governance includes consultation with people. 

Finally, can I say, on financing, we must build a system of financing that is sustainable. And you have others on this panel who can deal with those questions better than me. But we must end the 'short-termism'; whether it's about investment or our approach to debt which is, after all, investment in the future. 

(I never considered debt an 'investment in the future'; see Prov.22:7 and Rom.13:8)

I thank you. The Great Reset is a proper envelope to deal with these questions: a New Social Contract."

(I DON'T believe these people understand how America was organized as a healthy democratic republic. So, how can they even think that forcing on America the socialism, that has ruined their economies, will save the world?)

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Next speaker is Victoria Alonsoperez, founder of 'Chipsafer'
(Is this important because of this...

(45:30)

Moderator:

"Victoria, can you just give us a sense of what this Great Reset means for younger generations and how this process can 'give them a voice' and how we can hold ourselves accountable to their needs as we look at the future."

Victoria...

"Thank you very much for the invitation. I think this is a great initiative that is very needed. I believe that right now we are at an evolutionary point in our society in which we are realizing that the way in which how we used to act or make decisions was not sustainable at all. And some great champions of that are the younger generation. 

(see Isaiah 3:4, 12) 

We have seen how the young generation is 'raising awareness' (A generation that feels superior to their elders: manipulated and indoctrinated.), 'speaking up', and that is SUPER important because it gives awareness about the global challenges that the world is facing right now. 

(see Prov.26:17, IThes.4:11, and 1Tim.5:13)

And I think that we need to leverage on that and then also, have more 'social entrepreneurs',(https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/social-entrepreneurship), innovators...people that can really tackle those challenges with the appropriate solution. And I think the younger generation is great for that because they are full of passion (No! This is NOT a good thing as most are devoid of morals and good sense!) and they are seeing what the problems are and finding how to solve them. (Isa.3:12) And I think that is something very important. 

It's also finding that a right problem... you know, many times, we criticize some industries... like, for example, I work in the farming industry, and I've been able to speak to a lot of farmers from various parts of the world, rich and poor. And one thing that I notice is they love the land, you know...they want to be more sustainable. The problem is, many times, they do not have the tools or they do not have the knowledge on how to be more sustainable or they do not have the access to capital. And I think that is a great point in which young entrepreneurs, especially from developing countries that are there and can see the right problem, can really step up and create solutions. And we are, I mean, my generation, is also very connected. We grew up with internet, so we are in a much connected world. We can collaborate as we are seeing right in the... during these times how the... open collaboration is super important... and create processes or technologies from The Fourth Industrial Revolution that can really help us make better choices. 

We... I think that we... need to demand from the companies... we need to demand from the governments... but we also need to create change. We not only have to demand change, but also create change. 

And, for that technology, it's extremely important to actually also help us in how to come up with the best solutions for a problem. 

And I think that, of course, there will be a transition period in which we have to start making better decisions...

…and change the way that we think. 

But I think that we are seeing, with my generation, the next generations are going to be more aware and taking more of the right choices." 

(Her whole conversation really bothered me. She has been SO programmed.)


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(49:00)

Ajay Banga outlines some of the ambitious steps that MasterCard has planned.

Moderator:

"How much does the business sector need to start taking these ESG goals more seriously? There's a lot of skepticism, and cynicism even, about the ESG and how closely businesses will follow them. 

Do we need to really put CEO's fingers to the flame a little  on some of these goals? 

(Is that what you mean by incentives?)

Does business need to get 'ahead of it' before the public, global public, loses confidence and loses faith?"

Ajay...

"I think that, what Klaus was referring to, which is an effort at the WEF (World Economic Forum) around The International Business Council to develop objective measures that can be put into the way all of us report out. (WE are all going to 'report out'?) I think that's an outstanding way of doing it, because you create transparency... (WE didn't see it coming.) And you create a level playing field in how people speak about the importance of these... And, by the way, you ensure that investors begin to pay attention to it as well. So, I think this is a brilliant idea and I'm all very supportive of it.

I would say, one thing about cynicism, Adrian, the time for cynicism is a little behind us. And the idea of looking ahead really requires us to put cynicism away and start thinking about constructive participation. 

So, you're welcome to have a point of view. And you're welcome to have a discourse. But being an unchecked critic is really not acceptable. 

And it's time to come to the table and make a difference. And I think that's the point that we all need to emphasize for each other."


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The next section is 'The Transition to a Sustainable Economy'

(51:08)

Speaking, will be Bernard Looney (an Irishman), CEO of BP since Feb.2020. and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Energy Institute, and is a mentor in the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Executive Programme (https://www.businessroundtable.org/about-us/members/bernard-looney-chief-executive-officer-bp).

He will address opportunities afforded by the current low price of oil and a transition that is being accelerated by the pandemic.

(51:48)

Moderator:

"How does a company like yours play a part in making that transition work?"

(52:00)

Bernard Looney...

"To Professor Schwab and to his royal highness, we at BP... we welcome this great initiative and I would like to offer some thoughts on the question you raised. 

I think some people know in...on February the 12th of this year (2020), BP set out an ambition to become a Net Zero company by 2050 or sooner (https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/news-and-insights/press-releases/bernard-looney-announces-new-ambition-for-bp.html) and not just that, but actually to help the world get there. 

And I think a lot of people have asked Adrian if the pandemic has somehow slowed our energy in this area and... if anything, I think it's increased it... and we're as, if not more, committed than ever to make that happen. You know, we all know there is the carbon budget... it is finite... it is running out...

But I think a better way to explain it might be the refinery workers that I was speaking to in the United States just a few weeks ago.... and they thanked me for the commitment to the energy transition and I asked them why and one of them said, 'Given the choice, I choose my grandchildren every time.'...

(um... Aren't ya'll just shifting the pollution footprint? https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a1709966/will-some-gas-and-diesel-cars-still-produce-less-pollution-evs/)

…And that was coming from someone who has worked in hydro-carbons for his career. So, that is what this is about and we have some thoughts on what we think should happen... Obviously, it's against a backdrop where growth and employment is core and governments will be facing higher deficits, higher debts, so we need to think about how we can do this at low or no cost to the tax-payer and in some way increase revenue. (HOW does this math work out?) 

There are three policy points, Adrian, that we would just quickly touch on.

The first is that any recovery stimulus should have green conditions attached to it. Kristolina mentioned this. I agree with her 100%. We're seeing some of that here in Europe and we absolutely encourage and actually advocate for that.

Secondly, energy prices should reflect real costs. (So... Does this mean executives don't get a paycheck?) 

His royal highness talked about carbon price. 

Kristolina talked about abolishing subsidies for fossil fuel production. 

We agree with all of that and, in fact, we advocate strongly for all of that.

And then thirdly, supporting decarbonization in emerging economies. We want to make sure that, in those countries, people are not forced to choose between a clean energy and supporting jobs ..supporting jobs and livelihoods. They shouldn't have to make that choice. 

And 'Building Back Better' (Hello! THAT is what Biden-Harris is parroting) ought to be about closing the gaps that exist in 'inequality' and 'social injustice' rather than widening them ('Widening gaps' is actually happening because passionate youths have  been programmed through the public education system. Philanthropists have fueled and financed social unrest demonstrations in order to create civil unrest and distrust)

You know, just in closing, Adrian, I would say we need our imagination here. We're seeing today, every day, the art of the possible. The possible is being redefined each and every day right now. And so, the next time someone tells us that tackling 'climate change' is either too costly or else too difficult, I think we need to remind them, and remind ourselves, of what just is happening right now. ("remind them" means bullying every facet of world society and economy into accepting the 'global warming' theory and climate change agenda) So, that's where we are at."

(55:30)

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Next up is Juliana Rotich (a Kenyan): another poster child taken under the wing of the wife of the big guy, Mr. Klaus, himself. She is on the 'net' as, 'Lionesses of Africa', a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, Inc., a nonprofit tech company chaired by Mrs. Hilde Schwab. She is a also a venture partner in Atlantica Ventures (https://vc4a.com/ventures/atlantica-ventures/) and also co-founder of Blck.org (https://www.lemelson.org/juliana-rotich/)


Moderator:

"How do you see this Reset working in terms of empowering people in those emerging economies and helping them to avoid some of the tough choices that Bernard was talking about?"

(55:42)

Juliana...

"Thank you very much for inviting me and including me in the conversation. Thank you to Professor Klaus Schuab and the prince of Wales. I'm joining you from Nairobi, and one of the things that this pandemic has exposed is that there is a lot more people, and a lot of young people, who are living in precarious reality. So, this has hit not only in the individuals but also in the small businesses quite hard 

(The ONLY thing that hit all of us hard was the fear-mongering and regulations mandating unnecessary closures and ridiculous reopening procedures over a 99% survivable virus!) 

And it has also hit social entrepreneurs who typically work with the most vulnerable. But we've also seen social entrepreneurs step in in incredible ways. There's women who used to run school feeding programs in schools and we've seen her work become even more important during this pandemic. So, from the ground, not only has it exposed the precarious reality, it has also exposed the opportunity to reenter The Reset around the most vulnerable and those on the edge where it only takes something like a pandemic or difficult circumstances to slide into poverty. So there've been a lot of improvements over the last couple of years. But, a lot of those improvements will be wiped out if we Reset in a way that does not invest in young people to get them to a place where they feel like they can bounce forward. 

(Pay attention to the next thing she says... how to help young people 'bounce forward'...) 

And the way we can do that is, first of all, just making sure that there is money in their pockets (see Luke15:11-32) ...to not only survive now but to be able to continue to employ others.

(Question: if every young person is given money in their pockets TO employ others... then, IF they are all honest, who is there be to employ? ...the older generation? see Is.3:4)

For example, some of the experts here in Kenya and other African countries estimate that more than 75% of Small and Medium Enterprises may have a really difficult time. Some of them may actually shut down...and that is extremely problematic. (to be expected... see Pro.13:11) 

So, governments do need to have a fund that they can put money directly into people's pockets and directly into SMEs so that those SMEs can continue to keep people employed. 

(Have governments EVER proved faithful with monies PUT in to their accounts... actually funneling it down honestly to the people?)."


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(58:50)

Moderator:

"As we look at this Great Reset, I think probably no country embodies those choices as well as China where we're really looking at the Chinese economy as possibly providing the world with an engine forward out of the pandemic... 

…But also looking at how it uses the technologies of The Fourth Industrial Revolution and 'the new greener technologies' to help power that transition."


Dr. Jun Ma Jun (of China), known as 'Mr. Green Finance', chairman of China's Green Finance Committee and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) talks next.


(59:15)

Moderator:

"Your perspective on how China is going to manage the transition and what we can expect..." 

(WHY is China managing ANYTHING... let alone, the world!)

Govt: China could take down U.S. power grid - CNN Politics

(And... it looks like we might see some Rev.17 shaping up?)

Pope Francis and the Great Reset - The Fatima Center

An Open Letter to President Trump from Archbishop Carlo Maria ViganĂ² – The Burning Platform

Anyway, Jun speaks...

"Thank you very much for having me...Last couple weeks we've been discussing this topic of Green Recovery or Green Stimulus package within the Chinese Green Finance Committee and we also had conversations with quite a few MDBs (Multilateral Development Banks, https://www.isdb.org/financing-the-sustainable-development-goals-the-contributions-of-the-multilateral-development-banks) within the region including ADB (Asian Development Bank), AI (Artificial Intelligence: scary stuff... having conversations with an AI), BI (Bank of Indonesia, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/09/30/bi-chinese-central-bank-sign-local-currency-settlement-agreement.html) and so on (https://www.zdnet.com/article/adbs-innovation-sandbox-is-helping-it-become-a-more-digitally-capable-bank/, https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/06/16/151178/ant-financial-chinas-giant-of-mobile-payments-is-rethinking-finance-with-ai/)

One strong message that's emerging from these discussions is that the recovery has to be greener than any of the previous recoveries. 

(Other recoveries? I guess I just learned something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_stimulus_program)

And, in order to do that, we need to ensure that the stimulus package, including fiscal and monetary, are much greener than they were before. Now, why we see a lot of urgency for ensuring this to happen.

Two reasons...

One is that size of the stimulus package, including fiscal and monetary, are very very big. In U.S. and in some of the European countries it amounts to 10-20% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In China, the fiscal stimulus, measured by …fiscal deficit is about 8% of GDP. It's not as big as in the U.S. 

(Why have the Democrats PUT us in their hands? Now we can see why they have fought Trump so mercilessly.) 

Biden’s order could let China control U.S. electric grid (msn.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzpRWmuIdWw

But it's much bigger than the historical numbers. So we cannot waste this opportunity to ensure that the very precious money that's raised from the next generation is spent on green and low-carbon. 

(AND the next administration MUST bow to every demand to get a stimulus package from China.)

And the other reason is that for many of these projects, especially infrastructure projects, that the government will invest in, the carbon footprint is determined in the design stage of the project. And these carbon footprints will be lasting for few decades. So it's critically important that we make sure that these projects are designed green in the coming few years.

We came up with a couple of specific recommendations for the governments in China and also within the region. 

These are the six...

Number one, we need to make sure that the percentage of green projects, in a total number of projects, is higher than any time in history. For example, according to the Chinese green taxonomy, back a couple years ago, maybe 5-10 years ago, 10% of projects were green. And we want to make sure that a much higher percentage, maybe 5 and 20 percent, I think, based on the taxonomy.

And a lot of economists have developed a taxonomy, including China, Europe, and so for these countries and regions, we encourage them to report the greenness of the projects in the government pipeline so that the whole society can monitor greenness of the government stimulus package. 

(How about that, my Democrat friends? In your self-righteous fervor and naivete, you have 'climbed into bed' with the enemy so that the United States will required to report to and be monitored by China... all because, why again? Trump was rude and tactless like many Americans?)

The second idea is that for those projects who cannot be labeled as green, because they do not fall into the green taxonomy, that includes …green energy, green building, environmental remediation projects, and so on... but fall into maybe manufacturing, in general... For these projects we need to make sure that they still follow strict environmental and climate standards so they don't do a lot of pollution and gen a lot of carbon for future generations to spend money to fix. And, in order for that to happen, also we need to enhance transparency for these so called non-green projects. And, in China, we expect the regulator, including The Environmental Ministry and Financial Regulator, to come up with regulation by the end of this year... to ask for all list of companies and all bond issuers to release environmental information on a mandatory basis. Now, if that's done, I think it would be very helpful in insuring the transparency of major projects done by large companies.

The third point is that the consumption stimulus needs to be green as well. A lot of countries giving subsidies for individuals and some of them are giving consumer coupons. So how do we make such spending are also greener than before. One idea is that the government can put together a wide list of green consumer goods; for example, electric vehicles, energy efficient refrigerators, energy efficient air conditioners, LED light bulbs, recycled papers... and these are the ones that should be given preference on the list of consumer subsidies and consumer coupons.

The fourth idea is that the government's Employment Generation Program needs to be green. What do we mean by that? In China, there is a lot of migrant workers who have lost jobs recently and they stay at home on the farm. And, instead of paying them unemployment benefits, letting them to do nothing, we should ask them to plant trees and pay them money. I think that's a better way of utilizing money and making the planet greener.

The fifth point is that governments should consider issuing green bonds as much as possible. A lot of governments are doing green projects anyway, but they are not issuing green bonds. And by doing the green bond issuance, it can not only enhance the market participation, because it encourages the private sector to join, but also can make sure the so-called green projects coming …are really green. As the market, we monitor them, and they need to have transparency  for the green bond market.

And final point is for those central banks which are intending to use QE (Quantitative Easing, i.e. purchasing public debt), they should be considering buying green bonds and this will help the development of the green bond market."


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And now, speaking concerning the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is Brad Smith, President of Microsoft.

(thinking now, for some reason, of Dan.7:7-12 and 19-22 and Rev.13... sadly)

(1:06:15)

Brad Smith...

"Interestingly, the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies...as people needed to work from home or study from home or governments needed to operate from home, it was digital technology that they turned to. To sustain the continuity of society around the world. As people return to work, I think we can continue to expect digital technology and data, you know, fundamentally, to BE the infrastructure for this decade and, you know, for The Great Reset we're talking about here. 

I think the great opportunity we have is to put this technology to work in a way that is going to advance all the goals that everyone has been talking about today. I think that needs to start with what it'll take to promote a more inclusive 'jobs and economic recovery'. I think that means recognizing that broadband has become the electricity of the 21st century. We need to spread broadband technology more broadly. (5G was forced on us while schools and businesses were closed and Space X began launching the grid into the sky.

 SpaceX's 'illegal' fleet of 5G satellites could wipe out life on Earth - Daily Star 

What You Should Know About 5G Satellites—How Musk’s Sci-Fi Dreams Are Becoming Our Living Nightmare • Children's Health Defense

It gives new meaning to Isa.8:12. Why would we call it a conspiracy? The thing is done. Maybe we're just setting the stage for Rev.6:13 and Matt.24:29?) 

And then we need to couple that with new initiatives to equip more people with the digital skills they'll need, not just to have a tech job, but a job that is increasingly tech-enabled in almost every part of the economy. (I don't want tech-enabled.)

And we need to do this in a way that remembers that there are more than a billion people on the planet that have some kind of disability, temporary or permanent, and so we need to ensure that all of this works for them. 

I think as we do that, there are a couple of other things that are really of paramount importance. We need to sustain people's trust... (it's gone for me) And that means protecting their privacy, (always conditional and ever-changing) it means protecting their security, it means that ensuring that these new technologies, especially Artificial Intelligence, are deployed responsibly around the world. 

(YIKES! AI deployment?) 

I think we have the opportunity to recognize that data, and technology more broadly, are indispensable tools to solve almost any of the problems that we confront.(Isn't that 'playing' god?) And so, when it comes to protecting people's fundamental rights, as we're seeing in the United States today, we've been focused for several years on using data to shine a light on disparities, for example...between the practices of police on African Americans and blacks in the United States in comparison to other populations and that is I just think just a slice of what we'll need to address around the world. 

And then, finally, I think it's right that every part of this conversation recognize that, in all probability, the challenge of this great decade, Great Reset, the greatest opportunity of this decade, is around sustainability. That's why we as a company committed that we will be carbon negative by the year 2030. But I think what we really have the opportunity to do is unite the private sector, use digital technology to better measure Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions (https://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/greenhouse-gases-epa) created in the building of products and empower consumers around the world. So, when they make a choice about which product to purchase, they can see what was emitted in terms of the amount of carbon to create that product in the same way they can read the nutritional content on a label at the grocery store (Will it be transparency that evolves like this?... House votes to repeal country-of-origin labeling on meat | KSL.com) or food product. If we can empower consumers with all of this, I think we unleash this next generation to have a much broader impact more quickly."


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And now, Lord Stern, i.e. Nick Stern, will speak on climate issues...

(1:10:10)

Moderator:

"(Give) perspective on the scale of the challenge we face when we...the Great Reset is a very ambitious term...it's a very ambitious project... Is it up to the level of ambition that the world needs to tackle a crisis as big as the one you've outlined in Climate Change?"

Nick Stern...

"Thank you very much, Adrian, thank you your royal highness... 

Klaus...for bringing us all together. 

Adrian, I'll try and answer your question by trying to integrate what we've heard today... to try to put the pieces together because we have to change for a serious response to 'the climate crisis'. We have to change our economies dramatically in the next 20 or 30 years. And the next ten years is absolutely decisive. If we are negligent in these next ten years, if we don't move fast enough, then 3 degrees would be beyond our capabilities...and that would be devastating...let alone 2 degrees. But let me try to put together what we've heard today, because I think that's the overall answer to all a question about scale and how we can change.

I like to think of it in terms of the different players and their behaviors and how they change, and the different actions and investments that we have to make and how we design and evaluate those actions... investments... changes. I think it helps to think of individuals and communities, firms, governments and the states, The Third Sector... 

(I guess that's 'them'?) 

What is the third sector and what does it do?; Public policy engagement toolkit; Newcastle University (northernbridge.ac.uk))

…if you like, The Labor Movement, faith, NGOs, and finally... insha institutions. 

(https://getinsha.com/en/inshare.php) 

The last two, we've heard eloquently from my friends, Sharon and Kristolina, about labor movements... about international organizations. I think individuals and communities... We've seen our common humanity emphasized and brought together in these last months of the COVID crisis. We've seen young people looking after old people... notwithstanding that their education, their lives, their training have been so disrupted. So, individuals and communities are stepping up. 

Firms, I think, are beginning to step up... and we've heard it today... and that has to accelerate. 

I think we have to understand the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance), not as an add-on. Rather, we have to understand the purpose of The Firm as finding profitable solutions to the problems of people and planet

The first word there really of substance is 'profitable'... but, we have to breathe to live...  

But, breathing is not the purpose of life. 

So, finding profitable solutions to problems of the people and the planet... and we're starting to see firms move to that... and we're seeing firms behave responsibly in that way, actually doing better on conventional measures of profitability... and doing better in this particular period. 

So, those are the actors and the players, and how they can change and react to each other in different ways.

What do we have to do? …and here's the answer to the climate question... 'sustainability'. 

We have to invest strongly in the right kind of assets... the right kind of physical assets... sustainable infrastructure... including green energy, of course, as we've heard... in human capital... in people and the skills that we need for these new economies... particularly looking after the young people who risk being a lost generation here... and actual capital fundamental if we're going to have a strong, healthy biosystem... but also of course to the negative emissions that we have to create... trees, land, restoration, oceans and so on... and finally, the social capital is a fundamental importance... how we support... where is our confidence in institutions... where is our sense of community and taking on the problems of inequality. 

(It's like he's reading an outline!) 

If we invest well, in those four assets, we have something that is a really strong response to the challenges of 'sustainability' in terms of the assets we create for the next generation. 

And, of course, the technology for each of these capitals, the technology of how we put it all together is fundamental. Let's access those against the values we've agreed in The Sustainable Development Goals.

THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development (un.org)  

(No poverty? Read Duet.15:11 and Matt.26:11) 

And if we do these things, then we will have a sustainable recovery, which is a very strong recovery... fast… labor intensive... big multiply... Just what Haynes would have liked (???) if we look after retro-fitting buildings, trees, and so on. 

And we'll find a transformation that is enormously attractive... good idea to have cities where you can move and breathe, ecosystems which are robust and fruitful and protect ourselves against 'the climate change' that we would otherwise create. So this is a story of hope (Stop! Just, stop!), vision, and practicality, and delivery... 

And we can do all these things. 

And I am enormously grateful to his royal highness and to Klaus for their leadership and taking us forward. Thank you."

(1:15:30) 

I'm stopping here with transcribing this... I'm tired. 

The rest is creepy anyway. 

Listening to Klaus reminds me of Nazi Germany anyway. 

You can listen to the rest if you want to. But, THIS is what is going on. THIS is why everything feels so weird. 

I have tried to sound the alarm and wake some of you up.



"To whom can I speak and give warning?
Who will listen to me?
Their ears are closed
so they cannot hear.
The word of the Lord is offensive to them;
they find no pleasure in it.
But I am full of the wrath of the Lord,
and I cannot hold it in.
'Pour it out on the children in the street
and on the young men gathered together;
both husband and wife will be caught in it,
and the old, those weighed down with years.
Their houses will be turned over to others,
together with their fields and their wives,
when I stretch out my hand
against those who live in the land,'
declares the Lord.
'From the least to the greatest,
all are greedy for gain;
prophets and priests alike,
all practice deceit.
They dress the wound of my people
as though it were not serious.
"Peace, peace," they say,
when there is no peace.
Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
No, they have no shame at all;
they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
they will be brought down when I punish them,'
says the Lord.
This is what the Lord says:
'Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, "We will not walk in it."
I appointed watchmen over you and said,
"Listen to the sound of the trumpet!"
But you said, "We will not listen."'"
(Jer.6:10-17)

You want to see how China's policy is working out for them?

[Solved] 2021/1/4 Young employees rebel against Chinese work ethic by being lazy, refusing overtime, and hiding in the toilets. They call it 'louchin... | Course Hero

These plans for world unification and control and all the issues which rest firmly in the sovereignty of Almighty God, sounds like little-god complexes... maybe even akin to blasphemy. Regardless, the nations are seeking their own way to a utopian world, apart from God. It sounds like the same attitude of the masses in the time of Babel.

The rebuilding of the tower of Babel? …uniting the world according to the mind of man …playing 'little god' to God's earth.


"Now the whole world had one language and a common speech...
They said to each other, 'Come... let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves...'

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 
The Lord said, 'If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.'" (Gen.11:1-6)

The next summit begins January 21, 2021. 

(https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/06/the-great-reset-a-unique-twin-summit-to-begin-2021/)

Do you really WANT to know what is going on? I won't try to explain anymore. Throughout 2020, I shared the links of talented individuals and became censored, and rebuked by those sweet little passionate youths the monster has his claws in. Rather, I will point you to see and hear the 'talking mouths' for yourself. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

I can't help but think of this verse...


"Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator...
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done." (Romans 1:25 and 28)

Did you feel broken in 2019? 

I didn't. 

And, yet, there were those who were working very hard to ensure we 'got broke' in time to meet with Agenda 21 guidelines and began implementing controls from lessons learned in Event 201, a John Hopkins high-level pandemic exercise in partnership with the WEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (About Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019 (centerforhealthsecurity.org))

Wouldn't the beast, as an envoy of the Dragon, be disguised to the world as an 'angel of light'?

So, if you want this group of geniuses with good intentions to rule the world, you've got the complete package right here. They have carefully and confidently set The Great Reset in motion already... because they know how we Americans love our comforts and believe our media. 

We were the last nation standing in their way. And now... they are shouting lies and obscenities so as to drown out anything but the glories of their long awaited, planted vehicle of forced change... a cold they call Covid-19. 

Italian Dr. Warning on Vimeo

As soon as evidence is posted, it's censored. So every individual has to ask their own questions and do their own research... because they've done a pretty good job keeping us quarantined from information and from each other.


“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth...
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, HE himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history AND the boundaries of their lands. 
God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.‘ For in him we live and move and have our being.’" (Acts 17:24-28)

Diversity and individual nationalism is God's design. The nations are rebelling against HIM.

Please listen to or read the transcript I have carefully typed out. If you cannot read, comprehend what you read, or do not know how to look up terms you do not understand, then you cannot be helped. I cannot spell things out for you. Others, who HAVE spelled it all out, have been silenced or deleted. This is a risk I am taking... by giving you the chance to HEAR/READ the very individuals as they speak for themselves. 

So, either you are the type of person that likes to be told what to think and buy and... to be micromanaged... OR, you are a truth seeker. 

Let me warn you, the 'educated' younger generation with all the energy and passion has been sold a 'fair' package that they have self-righteously gotten behind. 

If you haven't trained your children to honor authority, don't count on them dedicating even a second of their brain capacity to truth.



"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 
You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 
When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another...
So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? 
Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 
So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn
‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; 
Anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 
Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it."
(Matt.10:21-39)

I'm going to put these right here at the end in case someone asks me to justify truth of claims regarding some 'things'...

're-education'...

'smart communities'...
The investment company behind the land acquisition the previous article mentioned...
Well...not going any further down THAT rabbit hole.

The 'vaccine'...
"Gates declares, "First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."

REMEMBER: