LEST WE FORGET

As I was singing The Battle Hymn Of The Republic yesterday at Church In The Park, the gravity of the words hit home to me—for THEN, and for NOW, as well as for SOMEDAY.
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SOMEDAY, Judgment Day, The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord—Like “lightning unloosed”, like stomping out grapes in a vat before sorting out the juice and the pulp in the “winepress”, God’s “grapes of wrath” will “trample out” justice that all creation has been waiting for, for six thousand years.

“God’s mills grind slowly,
But they grind exceeding small.
While with patience He may linger
Yet in justice He grinds all.”

God will right all that’s wrong—all evil and evildoers will be judged, and be sent to hell.
Too late for mercy—too late to beg for mercy.

“Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.”

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THEN, Slavery, Civil War—God’s “grapes of wrath” over American slavery, stored up for only so long—He personally “stomped them out” in the “vintage” (the vat) and “loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword”—blood shed across America, by Americans, by God ?
What caused the Civil War ?
Where was God ?
God showed up, with justice, and we paid the terrible price.
? Once and for all ?

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[I saved “for now” for last, to draw attention to where we are today]
NOW, X X X America’s National Sin X X X, Judged—A thousand times worse than slavery—Consequences (God’s judgment) worse than civil war—“stored up wrath” of God, scary beyond comprehension—No wonder God wiped out the Canaanites, with ‘innocent’ casualties, by command—
What for ?
For heinous murders of babies, sacrificed to ‘gods’.
Sixty million babies murdered in America, sacrificed to _____, AND IT ISN’T STOPPING ! ! !
Abortion is the worst of the worst in human history, and we forget God’s just judgment.
BUT GOD does not forget, HE has not forgotten, HE will not let this go, HE will not leave this alone.

We got a reprieve in the 2016 election.
We got a reprieve in the 2022 SCOTUS overturn of Roe.
We got a reprieve in the 2024 election.

And yet—
” ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
—–Abraham Lincoln

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half death and half life.

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Read this now, slowly, in light of the above:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.
His Truth is marching on.

NOT MY RELATIVES

When I was at the bank the other day, I had to comment about a sweet picture on a calendar.
It showed a mother gorilla gently holding her baby—lovely, for sure.
I simply said, “Sweet, but not my relatives.”
The two bank employees heartily agreed.

Then I posed a question, “If that gorilla could talk and comment on people in a similar endearing picture, what would she say ?”
Immediate response, without hesitation, “Lovely humans, not my relatives.”

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Trump’s election is light at the end of the tunnel.

The light we see is the light igniting the explosives to blow up the swamp.

Pray—the tunnel is still 51 days long.

SENIOR MOMENT/OXYMORONS (7)

I modified my all-time best oxymoron to a cold, hard fact of getting older, with issues.
And every time I share this with people, they “get it.”

Original oxymoron, from decades ago—
Occasional outbursts of consistency.

And now, fitting this time of life—
Occasional outbursts of reality.

CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING

I heard this for the first time on afr.

Perspective on Thanksgiving.

Lying on his doghouse, as he was accustomed to doing, Snoopy could smell the absolutely wonderful food being prepared and eaten on Thanksgiving Day.
His spirits soared as he imagined special treatment with a special treat shared by his beloved master.
Later in the day Charlie Brown came out with a bowl of “dog food”.
Snoopy was so disappointed, devastated, finding it hard to be thankful.
Finally he realized he could be thankful that he was not a turkey.

WEARING ORANGE – OR – WHITE

“It is appointed to man once to die, and after that the judgment.”

The verdict.
The judgment.
The sentence.

The verdict for every person’s eternal future is established before we die.
The judgment is announced by The Judge after we die.
The sentence is carried out immediately.

The verdict is ours to decide, now—perish forever in hell, then—or—live forever in heaven, then.
The judgment pronounced, after it is too late—name not found in “The Book”—or—name written in “The Lamb’s Book of Life”.
The sentence ordered, carried out immediately—“Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”—or—“Come, you blessed of My Father. Enter the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

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Some (most) will be wearing orange (condemned guilty).

Some (few) will be wearing white (redeemed righteous).

SHAME, BUT NOT ASHAMED

“When they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.”

“I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation—to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.”

“And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”

IT’S EMPTY

“Here, Mom; take this, it’s empty.”
—–Bill and Gloria Gaither’s daughter,
when she was finally ready to give up her pacifier.

The parents had tried unsuccessfully to take it away when they thought it was overdue—and they gave up, wisely.
Bill makes the application to Americans’ search for meaning in places that are empty.

“YOU BELONG AT ANOTHER RALLY”

That’s right.
That’s great.
Those two college students belong at the other rally.
It may indeed be smaller, as promised by the leader.
Those two college students had already been to the other rally.
That is why they had a mission to be heard at this rally.
People at this rally desperately needed to hear that “Jesus in King”.
People at this rally had never been to the other rally to hear about Jesus.
So the two college students brought Jesus to the rally, for all to hear.
They paid a price—ridicule, shame, shoved, removed—like Acts 5:40,41.
But they were not ashamed, not then, not later.
Their testimony spread, through opposition.

Now—will everyone of us who follows Jesus do the same ?

“When the council had called the apostles back in, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.”

“YOU’RE AT THE WRONG RALLY”

The election is over, but the issues are not.
Many people who cheered at rallies for the side that lost in the election, have not gone away or changed their mind—hopefully some have seen error and see light.

“Jesus is King” is not welcome by democrats.
“You’re at the wrong rally”—–Kamala Harris’ immediate public response when she heard “Jesus is King”.

Kamala, you ARE the wrong rally !

The people in that rally were deceived, cheering Kamala’s sarcastic put-down of Jesus, except for the two Christian college students.

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Kamala Harris quoting the Bible over and over from the pulpit of a church a week and a half before the election was also not pleasing to God—demonic blasphemy—and that blasphemy from the heart did not go away after she lost and the democrats lost.
Remember, the devil uses Scripture too, twisted to his advantage, to deceive.
The people in that church were deceived, hearing God’s Word used by Harris, who was used by the devil, for campaigning against God.
The left will not give up, because their “message is brought to you by – – – satan”.

“Be not deceived—God is not mocked—whatever a person sows, that will he also reap.”

The Godless leaders and people on the left have not only sown seeds of evil in this country and in Americans, they are hell-bent on watering, fertilizing, and harvesting the fruit of their efforts—all on purpose, to intentionally destroy this “nation under God” and replace it with the same Godless results accomplished in communist Russia, communist China, communist Cuba, communist North Korea, tyrannically transformed Venezuela—socialist, marxist, communist USSA, United Socialist States of America.
And that ‘ain’t’ pretty—and that won’t be pretty here, no matter how much lipstick you smear on the pigs like Stalin, Putin, Mao-Xi Xi Ping Pong, Castro, Kim(one)-Kim(two)-Kim(three), Chavez-Maduro, Biden-Harris-Pelosi-Schumer-Blinken-Yellen-Austin-Garland-Mayorkas-Obama-Clinton . . .

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The election is over, and thank God for victory, but the battle of God and God’s people against extreme evil in America is waging even more fiercely.
Just like the victory of Roe being overturned increased the intensity in the fight for life.

Elected leaders can stand and stop some of the evils, but only Christians can fight the evils inside us, with Jesus.

“He who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”

“Doing good” includes helping anyone in need (especially other believers), encouraging those in the right, confronting those in the wrong, and taking action to fight evil everywhere around us.