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For when he dies, he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. ~ Psalm 49:17 John C. Maxwell, August 27, Leave More Than An Inheritance
After watching those who play the safe middle for years, I saw that safe space take a direct hit this past week. With it came the words labor pain in the middle of a restless sleep which, in the wake of events around planning for revival, I instantly connected to Jesus giving life on the Cross, to mothers giving birth in the womb, to three speakers targeted for being exactly what Jesus was accused of; daring to speak truth to a world that hates the truth.
One of my favorite writers is a New Yorker named Maureen Mullarkey who has been gifted as both an artist and a writer. We’ve become pen-friends! She penned, in my opinion, one of her best and most important works this week about a lost generation that does not bode well for our future at all. And we, as their parents and grandparents, are fully accountable and 100% responsible.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. … Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture…In the surrender of youth culture to technology, the Huxleyan prophecy has been fully realized.” ~ Trading our intellect for “Influencers”
I wrote to thank her and shared the article with our Revival Committee adding, “This is exactly why we DESPERATELY need Revival!” Because only God can fix what we ourselves have absolutely destroyed. My good friend Pastor Mark shared some nuggets of heartland wisdom with our committee this past week:
Somewhere along the line churches got into the practice of safe Christianity.
Safe Christianity made the church spiritually impotent.
The battle for souls is on the front line, not the rear.
There is no safety on the front line.
The farmer prayed for revival. God brought revival. The farmer threw it out…for safety sake.
EVERYTHING, brothers and sisters has come down to a very fine and crystal-clear line between good and evil, death (inheritance) and eternity (legacy)…
What we do in life, echoes in eternity. ~ Maximus
There is no more grey. Those foolish enough to play the grey will rue the day! The double-minded will likely continue their ill-fated dance around the middle where they will have plenty of company. Don’t be fooled when they come to you clothed in their linens of what Bonhoeffer referred to as cheap grace, seeking reconciliation. But accept and embrace them only in the sack cloth and ash trappings of true repentance.
God is bringing the Revival of His Church to the Hudson Valley on Sunday September 24th. Mark it on your calendars and take it to the new Treasures in Heaven Bank! The Legacy Church pastors will know by the Holy Spirit, their House of Worship on this day! The others…
Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. ~ Acts 6:3 John C. Maxwell, Picking Your Team, August 20
Holy Spirit brought us to a very important line this past week. I watched the wolf in shepherds clothing come in and snatch a man’s dream right out of his hand, and then watched the poor man turn around to pet him. I watched as we separated ourselves by the very ruling of our own nature to take our place on either side of this line…
It is along this line that we see the rugged impatience of the Holy Ghost against unbelief. All our fears are wicked, and we fear because we will not nourish ourselves in our faith. ~ Oswald Chambers, Jesus Is Our Salvation
I could not possibly be more in love with my brothers and sisters in CLOTH who chose with a passionate conviction this week to stand on Faith for those who stand for the love of Jesus Christ.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. ~ Revelation 3:12
And on the other side are those we are sad to see who try to ride that middle rail, with one foot on cold, and the other on hot. They fear the “political and controversial” for having to choose a side and choose instead to subjugate themselves and their congregations to pews of willful blindness and ignorance.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. ~ Revelation 3:15-16
So, while it was tragic to watch as the farmer went from taking his Revival cue from Holy Spirit to the counsel of Laodicea, it was amazing to see my brothers and sisters under fire, prove themselves before God to overcometh the ruse of the enemy in the 11th hour. The attack on CLOTH by the Laodicea pastors only strengthened our resolve and commitment to serve the Holy Spirit. It also revealed the weak spots in our own walls which need mending. Whatever God is bringing, He will do it through those of us nourished and standing on Faith over those of us mired in quandary questioning in fear.
Revival, my dear brothers and sisters, is a matter of awakening the sleeping church. Imagine the Devil’s delight as he watched CLOTH attacked from the pulpit. But in the same attack he went after a woman of faith who advocates fearlessly “for the rights of her students and their families who fall prey to the criminal justice system,” a man of God who happens to be the abortionist’s greatest nightmare, and my mentor in the Faith who has dedicated his life to New York Faith & Freedom, and the truth of our duty to uphold both as citizens of the greatest republic ever blessed by God…if we can keep it.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. ~ Proverbs 14:12
The Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments, is an amazing training manual for how to live life in a world that really hasn’t changed that much since God sent Abraham out to multiply his seed. As far as human nature goes, it’s the same as it ever was. The Proverbs 14:12 trap catches as many good men today as it ever has.
If you decide to take up a cause that goes against the grain of the superimposed “social norm”…like, oh say, creating a Classical Christian alternative to LBGTQ/CRT/Satan Club Indoctrination Centers, or a Civics Organization that promotes the values and beliefs that gave birth to our nation over the collective group think madness that is presently leading our society to oblivion and its own self-destruction…EXPECT TO BE ATTACKED!
I discovered once such willing soul in Alex Newman this week. Straight from the stout-hearted men who say what they mean and mean what they say file! Alex flushes the snake from the grass at every level of our culture and proceeds to stomp its head with the battle cry, “I say we do it with the Great Commission!” Hold that thought…
On the very same day, I got this pretty amazing video about the “training manual” I referenced in the first paragraph of today’s Tune-up. I whole-heartedly encourage you to share this with people in your circle of family and friends who seem lacking in their conviction of faith. As I said to my friend after watching it. I’d say that’s amazing…but that’s God! What I find more amazing is the number of us who ACT as if He is not there!Alpha & Omega
…which bring us to The Deadly In-Between. Several weeks ago, I received this Derek Prince teaching from a dear friend. Living As Salt & Light In it, he describes his struggle in the Christian Faith as a young boy growing up in the UK because he saw no evidence of believing in the community of adults around him. BINGO!
My favorite book in the training manual is Acts, the story of the First Century Disciples of Jesus. God pointed me to the good shepherd of the church I now attend in a response I received to 136 letters I sent to all the pastors in Orange County New York where I live in 2020. Pastor Steve was one of the only four responses I received to my letter registering my objection to the churches closing their doors as a move that was antithetical to the Gospel. In his letter to me, Pastor Steve wrote, in agreement, “We are called to be First Century Disciples.”
Unfortunately for America the majority of church pulpits have become the favorite grassy knoll to the hiding snake. Why would this be? For the same reasons pedophiles seek positions in day care centers, boy scout troops, and Disney Land. In stark contrast to their colonial predecessors, the Black Robe Regiment, these are the hidden reefs Jude warned of; the clouds without water, trees whose fruit withereth, twice dead. Theirs is a gospel of fear designed to draw their flocks into the illusion of safety they carve out between truth and lie, the polar opposite of Psalm 23, the modern-day killing fields of the deadly in-between! CLOTH, on the very eve of Revival has come under its greatest attack since its inception in 2020…from the pulpit!
There is no middle ground when it comes to the accountability and responsibility we have to one another. Iron must sharpen iron. Truth must be told in love. But the easy way out which seemeth right to a man is exactly the paralysis and deadly in-between ways of death.
When is “that day”? When the Ascended Lord makes you one with the Father. In that day you will be one with the Father as Jesus is. ~ Oswald Chambers, Question versus Revelation
Don’t let “that day” find you hidden behind walls of dead stone, in between the right and wrong, truth and lie. Wherefore he saith, Awaken thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. ~ Ephesians 5:14
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. ~ St. Matthew 9:37-38
Sadly, most of us have grown up conditioned and taught to chase happiness. The happiness in finding the right career, home, wife/husband, family…life. It’s right there in our Declaration; the pursuit of happiness…the American Dream. Consoling a brother of my ripe old age the other day over his struggle in attaining this illusive carrot, knowing him to be Christian, I asked him if he was born again. Words, you see…words mean something…as I am newly discovering in my foray into the subject of common law. Joy is what we’re after!
Before we can find joy, we need to discover the truth. Or, as my dear friend and brother Rev. Bill Banuchi put it in January as the New York Faith & Freedom resolution for 2023, Restoring Truth. Yesterday I sent Proof of Our Coup d’état!! Parts 1 and 2…you listen and be the judge.
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Part 1 ~ “The Secretary of Defense IGNORED a sitting senator!” ~ DOD Whistleblower Lt Mark Bashaw
Part 2 ~ The Jan Halper-Hayes Clip at the 7min mark!!! WOW!!
Now to set the stage for Joy, the born-again-point I attempted to make with my struggling friend was exactly this: when we finally die to ourselves, which is to say, we die to sin and are born again in Christ Jesus, our carrot-chasing days are over. I imagine there are many folks my age who followed the Jesus “movement” in 1971 and mouthed the words, who are still chasing happiness carrots. Words, you see, have to mean something. But there’s way more…our long-haired friends in ’71 were missing something. If we can be conditioned to chase happiness, what else can we be conditioned to do? After you listen to Parts 1 and 2 above, it becomes clear that the something most ALL of us who were around in 1971 were missing (and many if not most still are) is TRUTH. And who came down the elevator in 2015 (hmm…the very year I was saved!) to reveal the truth and expose the “Deep State” enemy within? You guessed it! President Donald J. Trump, the man America has been conditioned to hate by those responsible for the greatest crimes in human history, including the sex-trafficking of children…which, oddly enough, brings us to the Joy part of today’s Tune-up. Yes, if you do not find Joy at the end of Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard’s “Service, Prayer, Gratitude” lecture to the cadets of the United States Air Force Academy, then my friend, you need to see a doctor. Service, Prayer, Gratitude
NOW, finally, on this Gathering of Saints Sunday upon the very fertile and well-prepared ground in Montgomery, NY, we have the TRUTH…AND, for those who are prepared to plant the seed of their former selves in the ground at Twin Ponds and be born again in Jesus Christ…we will have revival and the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever seen this September. We will know joy everlasting.
Remove impurities from the silver and the silversmith can craft a fine chalice; remove the wicked from leadership and authority will be credible and God-honoring. ~ Proverbs 25:4-5
My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,” ~ Galatians 4:19
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember? ~ St. Mark 8:17-18
While salvation is available to all who seek it, Revivals are a church matter. And the church up to this point is a mess; out of touch with its own self and the world around it. An abysmal failure in its mission, evidenced by the state of the culture God tasked it to influence. If desperation is the key to church Revival, as pointed out by Rev. Tim Mercaldo several weeks ago, then it seems to me that what is needed in this hour is for enough of us in the church to agree on our desperation, which is to say that we are broken beyond our ability as men to fix what we ourselves have broken, without genuine 2 Chronicles 7:14 repentance, and the supernatural intercession of our Creator. And there needs to be more. If our brokenness is the result of the church having stepped off the field, are there any among us who actually believe that “God is in control” will bring Revival without His church coming together (John 17:21) to be THE salt, THE light, and to be THE city on the hill He made us to be? This being the case, brothers and sisters, it is time for each of us to open our eyes, open our ears, and remember…there is an enemy. And there are none more well equipped than we to stand against it. BUT, first we need to know him (Hosea 4:6).
We are dealing with an attack on the human body, which is breaking us down into deep dark levels, wearing us down and trying to parasitically drain us into nothing, and ultimate compliance into their trans-humanist agenda. What that should tell you is on the flip-side of that is the human body is so resilient that its taking generations and layers and layers of attacks to be able to make us succumb to their will…at the center of point of all of this is our focus on God, and our strength that comes from our centering on Him. And I don’t say that lightly because that literally effects the frequency vibration and energy that they are trying to drain down. ~ Scott Kesterson, BardsFM
If we don’t know and understand how we are being attacked, how in the world would we be able to defend ourselves? A friend posted this just yesterday, “You’re Not Going To Wake Anybody Up Anymore! We’re basically at End Game.” Moments later a brother in CLOTH said to me that it will take a “Road to Damascus Moment” to awaken his former pastor. While that may be, here’s what I would say, We never give up on anybody. As He did with Paul, He can do with any of us. But this fight is about our energy, and using it wisely.
Most of all, we need to finally grasp the horrible truth that the enemy’s #1 target is children. And WE need to put an end to it and bring those responsible to swift justice. Sound of Freedom was our wake-up call to action. But it goes well beyond that…from the poisoning of their minds in our public schools, to the poisoning of their bodies: 63,060% increase in child excess death rates across Europe!!Death Shot! We would know it is the very same here too…if we had a legitimate 5th estate news service. This is being settled in the court of heaven, but we are being proven here and now (Judges 3:1-4).
“The worst thing we can do is give in to the darkness, and surrender to the darkness, and be quiet and silent because we’re afraid.” ~ Jonathan Cahn, Here & Now
There will be a CLOTH/Gathering of Saints next week where there will be a briefing on our responsibility and accountability to one another as members of the Body of Christ…for just such a time as this.
One of the greatest gifts leaders can give those around them is hope. Never underestimate its power. ~ John C. Maxwell, August
That whom so ever should cause these little ones to stumble…
A BRIEF WORD FOR US ALL: In this most critical hour of rapid spiritual and moral decline, we must steadfastly remember that God’s truth and His love are inseparable attributes of His eternal character! In this time of great apostasy, there are sadly even many professing Christians who are forsaking the truth of God’s Word in the name of a “love” that accommodates, permits, and tries to somehow justify the insane and immoral wickedness of our present evil culture! We tragically observe many individual clergy members, whole denominations, and even popular gospel recording artists now falling for the deception of sin and embracing what God clearly forbids! In the name of love, one very popular singer now embraces and condones the lesbian marriage of her daughter, and even celebrates it! While a gospel artist, she has forsaken truth and become a liar! Whatever the cost, we as the followers of Christ must by God’s grace stand for the truth in love! Truth, of course, apart from genuine love, grace and mercy, then becomes condemning religious legalism, keeping souls out of the kingdom! Let us remember the words of John the Apostle in his Second Epistle addressed to “the elect lady and her children”, where we clearly see, as in many other Scripture references, the unbreakable relationship between God’s truth and love! We cannot sacrifice one for the other regardless of the pressure of a corrupt world against us! ~ Pastor Steve Offringa, Howells Church
Day 26 ~ When the Spirit of God has opened your mind to His incoming and you are determining to know more, you will find that external circumstances and internal knowledge go together, and by obedience you begin to fulfill your spiritual destiny. ~ Oswald Chambers, Know What You Should Do
Today is day 28 of our corporate prayer and fast in preparing the ground for Revival here in the Lower Hudson Valley. As Pastor Steve warns us above, many are losing their discernment in this most critical hour. Last Thursday He showed me the stark contrast between a local pastor whose mind is open to His incoming in this hour, who stepped up to lead when and where leadership is needed most; and a local bank executive I hadn’t seen in 27 years who has turned his back on truth and sold his soul to the insane and immoral wickedness of our present culture. My connecting with Pastor Dave is the very fulfillment of Chambers’ truth of external circumstances coming together with internal knowledge. His #1 on the Prayers for Revival list: 1. Ask God to bring deep conviction of sin, spiritual brokenness, a holy fear of God & genuine repentance among His people. There will be no revival without these elements & only God can produce them in His people. After all we cannot program or work up genuine brokenness & repentance.(2 Corinthians 7:10)
Yesterday I drove an hour to stand with my Christian brothers and sisters in Croton-on-Hudson to let those sexually grooming children through Drag Queen Story Hours, know that our children are not for sale! We were armored up and while things got a little tense towards the end, we were anointed with Holy Spirit, and more than protected by His angels. I have learned something very important about spiritual warfare. The demons can SEE who has Jesus/Holy Spirit and who does not. If the enemy SEES the James 4:7 Spirit in you, he will leave Roadrunner-rubber running for the hills…or off a cliff and into the sea (Mark 5:6)! I witnessed my new friend Jane minister to a mother and her young son who could not have been more than 7, and a very angry couple on the proverbial edge…with pure love. The 7-yr-old had confronted us, coached by his mother, scolding us for judging. His head dropped as he realized Jane was the opposite of his mother’s description of who we are as sons and daughters of the most High. She diffused the anger of the couple in pretty much the same calming loving way. That, my friends, is exactly who and how we are called to be! Amen? We are THE salt, THE light, and THE city on the hill (Matt. 5:13-16)
My Texan brother Eric who writes, God WILL bless and empower those who openly proclaim His kingship over mankind. We Christians have to make the first move, in darkness, in confusion, in a situation that seems hopeless…And then, when the first defiant step forward into enemy territory is made, God sends his angelic host to fight alongside us…Those who venture out into hostile territory with the cross held high are worthy of divine help. We Christians need to follow the motto of the Special Air Service…”He who dares wins.” God favors those who dare. God bless, has offered me a partnership in the millstone business.
CHRISTIAN JUSTICE FOR PEDOPHILES…WITH MILLSTONES. ~ BY ERIC MARTIN.
We are three old guys, and we are all closing in on eighty years. We’ve paid our dues. We’ve earned our retirement 401-Ks and social security benefits. We’ve raised our families, welcomed grandkids and we’ve seen our fair share of trouble. Some of us went to war and bear the physical and emotional scars. We did it for God, country and family. We did it for America. It looks like we’ll have to do it all over again.
We love our great nation, and we are all united in feeling an anger that clouds every moment of our waking lives. We sense that something very wrong has gone down, that this country is in the hands of those who hate us. We have witnessed the disasters of the Biden administration, the humiliation in Afghanistan, where brave Americans fought and died, only to be betrayed by a doddering fool who can’t find his way out of the White House. We watched the egregious fraud that decided the 2020 election in Biden’s favor. We heard the lies of Doctor Fauci and his cohorts which paralyzed the entire nation. Our children lost two years of education… But there is something else that is even more sinister because it is a doctrine that threatens to make us all lose hope…It makes us doubt all the good that we and our ancestors have accomplished…It makes us hate ourselves, it derails our very sanity.
We learned in combat that demoralizing the enemy was a powerful weapon to attain his final defeat. America is now controlled by a globalist Neo-Marxist elite which has one overarching goal: to utterly destroy our Judeo-Christian civilization. They want to eradicate our belief in the God of the Bible, our reliance on the Ten Commandments as the unerring guides to a moral and stable society. They hate Jesus Christ and attack the Christian churches, not with fire and sledgehammers, but with armies of perverts who deny the truth of the gospels, and who deride Jesus Christ. They push a homosexual agenda which promotes the most disgusting forms of sexual deviancy.
From this perverse infiltration has grown the tentacles of depravity which are choking our people today. Judeo-Christian beliefs are supplanted with the divisive doctrines of “pride…” The LBGTQ-plus agenda which indoctrinates vulnerable children to believe that their biological sex is a myth. They are encouraged to mutilate themselves to advance the satanic goals of an enemy who intends to obliterate family cohesion. White American children are browbeaten by woke teachers to feel guilty for slavery, for being “privileged,” for coming from a two-parent family…Fathers are racist and have to go!
But the vilest offence against our children has emerged from the forces that promote pedophilia. These reprobates are found amongst the elites of Hollywood, the political parties, the moguls who control Wall Street and the mass media. They have organizations like the Man-Boy Initiative, they are the consumers of a depraved industry which kidnaps millions of innocent children from all over the world. In America, over 200,000 children go missing every year, and thousands of them end up dead, or in the streets. Children as young as two are raped and offered as human sacrifices in satanic rituals.
The mainstream media, working for the globalist elite, has avoided any serious investigation of the child sex trade. They are owned, after all, by these ruthless perverts. The truth, however, always manifests, and courageous Christians like Tim Ballard, Mel Gibson and Jim Caviezel have produced a movie that reveals this trade in all its ungodly infamy. “Sound of Freedom” is breaking all box office records and millions of Americans are flocking to see it. They are horrified by the ubiquitous presence of this crime against humanity, of this crime against our children.
The three of us have seen the movie, and we have the greatest admiration for Tim Ballard, Mel Gibson and the great actor, Jim Caviezel. We knew that we too had to do something, as Americans, and as Christians. So, we went to the New Testament and found out what Jesus Christ had to say about pedophiles…We found it in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 9, verse 42:
“And whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.”
We did not have the resources to produce a movie, or to pay for a national advertising campaign. No, we are three old guys in retirement, but…but we are still resourceful. We have produced a bumper sticker which we hope will be reproduced by patriots and Christians all over these United States. It reads:
CHRISTIANS PROTECT CHILDREN
WE ARE IN THE MILLSTONE BUSINESS NOW
MARK 9:42.
We will do our very best to send these to all our friends, to our veterans’ groups, to Christian pastors who still have the guts to be Christian. We have done this for our children, for God, and America. We hope that you will follow our example and take action. We can win this battle against the forces of evil and yes, God will help us. God bless America.
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. ~ Ezra 4:3
“Leaders must practice discernment. Relationships can get messy; people often harbor personal agendas and attempt to mask their true motives or to make them sound more noble than they really are.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Read, Then Lead, July 15
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying (sacraments of communion); who can hear it? …From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. ~ St. John 6:60, 66
“Having exceptional people on the journey with you doesn’t happen by accident. It’s true that the greater your dream is, the greater the people who will be attracted to you. But that alone isn’t enough. You need to make sure they’re compatible with you.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Not Everyone Will Take the Journey, July 16
Many of you reading this morning’s Tune-up will understand that these back-to-back Maxwell passages are no accident and refer precisely to the truth of the hour we are in. Ezra 4:3 deals with the discernment of God’s children and the enemy without, whereas John 6:60,66 is discerning the enemy within. The Ezra enemies, or as my inner sheepdog likes to refer to them as, the wolf is not the problem…once identified. Just ask David and our own Founders. It’s the John enemy that can and will hurt us the most. As Chambers puts it, The next time you feel inclined to grouse over uncongenial companions, remember that Jesus Christ had a devil in His company for three years. ~ A Devil in the Company
What Jesus alone knew was that the Ezra enemy and the John enemy are one and the same. What separates the many whocouldn’t hear it who went back from Peter who said, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life? Serious question: Did the many who couldn’t hear it choose, or was it God? And if you say the former, please explain your interpretation of St. John 17:9, I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. I actually encountered the John enemy last night…
In June of 1863, just weeks before the Battle of Gettysburg, a college president asked Lincoln if he thought the country would survive. President Lincoln replied:
I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me…I do not rely on the patriotism of our people…the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue…(or) the loyalty and skill of our generals…But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it…I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe. ~ America’s God and Country, William J. Federer
A Remnant brother asked a great question after reading Lincoln’s response to the professor, How would Lincoln answer the same question today? To which I replied, I think Lincoln would make the same prediction today. He had the vision to look beyond the enemy to see us.
So the enemy I encountered last night in possession of a brother I haven’t seen since the going got tough, wasn’t too thrilled when I asked it where its shepherd was on John 17:21, why it won’t let him out of his temple of dead stone tomb to stand up for the little ones being hunted, raped, tortured, masked, and injected with DNA-altering poison and why he allowed his temple of dead stone tomb to be declared unessential, and will likely do so again. You see, there’s a certain comfort…a perceived safety within the temple of dead stone tomb. There’s no battle, no danger there…or so it seems. And because most churchmen today have taken themselves out of the conflict and off the field of battle, we are treated to this exchange between Tucker Carlson and Mike Pence:
Tucker said, “where’s the concern for the United States,” and Pence replied with, “That’s not my concern.”
Which brings us back to the same question of whether they chose to seal themselves away, or God has made the choice for them? The answer floats somewhere high above my paygrade. And yet somehow, I feel John Hartford, may he rest in peace, may have had the answer. Tall Buildings
Good news! We win when the enemy can no longer hide!
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble. ~ Luke 17:2
The movie “Sound of Freedom” hit movie theaters on July 4th. The true story of Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard played by Jim Caviezel scored a direct hit on the evil that goes as far beyond human comprehension as the love of God on the opposite side of the good/evil spectrum. Christian patriot/blogger/journalist Scott Kesterson has battled more than most to bring the absolute horror of child-sex trafficking to the front-and-center-focus of a rapidly deteriorating American culture. He has called for his Bards Nation followers to engage at their local levels to transition from passive awareness to an action plan; Rescue, Heal, Restore.
Two weeks ago in SMTU I covered Ballard’s personal experience of rescuing a 16-yr-old girl from behind the Red Door in Port-au-Prince who had been raped every day, week, and year of her life since she was a 6-yr-old “rescued” by the Clinton Foundation after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. NOW, she needs healing before she can be restored. Move over abortion…child-sex-trafficking is now our greatest sin as a nation!
WARNING! When you take a stand for the little ones, the enemy’s orcs will come at you with the rabid foaming viciousness of Damien’s nanny and Rottweilers in The Omen doing what they do best, projecting their hatred and bullying onto you. Armor up!
So, here is the question that has kept me up at night. HOW DID WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN? God answered:
The key to America’s greatness as a nation is the principle of subsidiarity. Power emanating from the lowest unit (Nuclear Family) upward…the diametric opposite of top-down tyranny ultimately imposed by central government. The guardian/protector of the family is the man.
SO…the enemy, smarter than Solomon knew…he had to take out the man!
FACT: As Pornography viewing levels in men have increased, testosterone levels have proportionally decreased.
CHALLENGE TO MEN: If you are a father right now who accepted the lie that you are not a man unless you are sexually stimulated, I guarantee you; divorce yourself from it, purify yourself, purify your actions, lay a covenant on your technological devices, over your body, and keep yourself pure for 60 days, and watch your masculine tendencies transform themselves. Put your heart in the Word and watch how God regenerates you as a masculine Godly man…and watch your patience be overhauled in the process. ~ BARDS Interview with Matt Kleopher
Received this a few days after listening to Matt’s interview from an attorney friend…
I’ve worked in porn production for 10 years, but I’ve never seen porn used how Silicon Valley is deploying AI-generated virtual reality porn to pacify unemployed young men. >They think AI will cause millions of layoffs and change the structure of society forever. UBI and distractions are needed to placate people. >The AI VR porn induces an elongated orgasm they call “cresting,” which optimizes dopamine and makes the technology habit-forming. Cresting feels like you have entered heaven, better than any painkiller >There are no content restrictions, and the algorithm pushes more and more dangerous/taboo content until you’re hooked on genres you can’t find anywhere else. It’s $1.50 per use. >They already have lab facilities operating AI VR porn, and their test subjects are people who become mindless rats living for the next orgasm while scientists study their dopamine levels. They are working together with the porn industry to release AI VR porn in 2025 alongside UBI lobbying efforts for the 2024 election. This is all worlds away from the sexy videos. It’s multiplayer porn used as a sedative. I could not have imagined something this dystopian happening in my lifetime.
I need to take a moment to give a shoutout to brother James who along with his wife administers a Facebook page we’ll call Eastwick at its Best. 4,999 members and one unhinged soul named Peter. Please pray for Peter and others like him who have sealed themselves inside the tomb of the narrative spun by the ultimate Pied Piper…leading our children to the next red door.
For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, ~ Hebrews 2:1-3
We, CLOTH, need your help. We have heard the call of God and have given ourselves to bringing the Eagle Classical Christian Academy to Orange County. We selected our official scripture verse for the school; And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. ~ Isaiah 54:13
Our children are our future. They are not for sale. If you wish to help us secure their future, please send your check made payable to Circleville Church with ECCA in the memo section to: Circleville Church 890 Goshen Tpke. Circleville, NY 10919
Agony that has God behind it can be turned into triumph; but think of agony in which there is no God, neither in heaven above nor earth beneath, only the terror of an accusing conscience. No human sympathy can touch that desolation.
…and keep this poor lost soul in your prayers.
“You claim to be such a “Christian” my little chipmunk wrapping yourself up in scripture and the Bible. Yet your nothing more than an empty shell of a man let alone a human. Never have I met ANYONE more intolerant or hate filled than you Chip. Nothing more than an empty hypocritical coward in a suit preaching, never practicing what you preach. You’re disgusting and make me sick even interacting with you. Do everyone a favor, please just go away.“
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my heads with oil; my cup runneth over. ~ Psalm 23:4-5
What do you hunger for? I spent most of the last quarter century of my life as an investment and retirement planner because I honestly believed that most people hungered for those things in life that require some degree of planning; a nice home, a family, college for the kids, weddings, and at the end of the happy trail, a comfortable retirement…endless golf, swimming pools, movie stars. (Cue Flatt & Scruggs)
On the other hand, this is what my Scottish brother Oswald Chambers believed, with all his heart, should be the focus of our hunger: Continually restate to yourself what the purpose of your life is. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness…The one thing that matters is whether a man will accept the God who will make him holy. ~ Oswald Chambers, Holiness to the Lord
As a backdrop to these two opposing views of how to live our lives I need to point out that up until the late 1800’s in America, ALL Americans were given their roadmaps to life through a Classical Education based on Biblical worldview…which is why every day began with prayer in the classroom followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. This system of education created men like George Washington, “No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the people of the United States.” Or, Francis Scott Key, “The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.” And General Douglas MacArthur, “In this day of gathering storms, as moral deterioration of political power spreads its growing infection, it is essential that every spiritual force be mobilized to defend and preserve the religious base upon which this nation is founded.” How is it any wonder that America became the greatest nation in history? And then men like Horace Mann and John Dewey came along to throw God and baby out with the Classical Education bathwater to give us what we have today…producing men like Joe Biden, “All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing,”
To quote Marlon Brando at the end of Apocalypse Now, “The horror.” Behold…
Our own government created fear to coerce millions into taking an injection that has killed thousands and maimed thousands more around the world to depopulate and make people dependent on the Luciferian-ordered healthcare and pharmaceutical industry for millions if not trillions in profit. How many people in your circle of family and friends are now asking for your prayers for those, once perfectly healthy, now suffering miscarriages, turbo-cancers, myocarditis, or the exploding “died suddenly” list?
The Jim Caviezel movie, Sound of Freedom, comes out this week. This is the true story of Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard and his mission to rescue children from the evil and thriving enterprise of child-sex trafficking. Child-sex trafficking is fast eclipsing all other evil enterprises across the globe, and our beloved country overthrown and occupied by this rogue and criminal administration under globalist and CCP puppet Joe Biden is a main player if not THE main player behind it all. Last Sunday I wrote about the Little Red Doors. Since then, 800 children were rescued from a barge where they were being raped, tortured, sacrificed, and killed for body parts in San Francisco.
Now examine the two opposing views on how to live our lives and ask yourselves if any of what you have just read would have been possible had we followed the Chambers prescription?
There are some things that must occur before the Lord returns: there will be a great falling away, the man of lawlessness will be reveled, the son of destruction…Paul had told them as much and was reminding them. His prayer was that their hearts would be directed into the love of God—nothing else has that keeping, preserving, protecting kind of power! ~ Founders Bible, Introduction to 2 Thessalonians…which coincidently matches the 7th Day prayer of the CLOTH 40-days of prayer and fasting…which happens to be today.
Day 7 ~ Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. ~ Psalm 20:4 A great deal depends on what is the real deep desire of our hearts. (Perfect) The enemy uses frequency technology and other tricks to drown out the voice of our own hearts…to replace it with his own.
There is a great deal of chatter in the Christian community about “end times”. We don’t live in end times. We live in these times…the NOW time! I will tell you truly as a retired professional retirement planner that if you continue on the present “comfortable retirement” path, you will do so at your own peril. But my dear friends, if you choose to follow the Chambers Rx, humble yourselves, pray, and seek His face, and turn from your wicked ways; not only will we inherit His promise, but we will also turn the Sound of Freedom from a whisper to a shout loud enough to free every child in the world. We need, my friends, to develop an insatiable hunger for the truth. And I will simply tell you what He told me. The truth lies between His promise in Isaiah 54, and our duty in 3 John. Our battle cry will be emblazoned on the banner of the Eagle Classical Christian Academy,“And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.” ~ Isaiah 54:13
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. ~ 3 John 1:4
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ~ Proverbs 24:3-4
The Sons of Liberty, the Liberty Tree, the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty—Liberty, Liberty, Liberty—To (our Founders) (Liberty) was a sacred trust, a precious possession, a privilege to be stewarded, and a right they would be responsible to give an answer for.Liberty meant everything to them. It was something worth fighting for, and, yes, even dying for. It was far more valuable than mere freedom…in comparison to liberty, freedom is somewhat feeble. A certain freedom can be revoked, and my rights violated or rescinded, but liberty cannot be rightfully violated by anyone except the Creator or the individual who owns the liberty.Under freedom, others can negate an individual’s rights anytime they can acquire (or steal as in 2020) enough political power to do so. It is called majority rule, and with it you can vote (steal) someone else’s freedom out of existence; but not so with liberty, because that is an endowed right from our Creator…This is also why our Founding Fathers were at pains to establish a republican government as opposed to a democracy. ~ Founders’ Bible
Remember; democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ~ John Adams
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! ~ Benjamin Franklin
Now, my dear friends, after this past week of DISTRACTION upon DISTRACTION, even on Jeff’s C&C radar screen…Distracting Beasts…I need to connect the good truth of our Liberty to the evil truth behind the little red doors…
We ended up finding at the end of this multi-month operation this little red door in downtown Port-au-Prince that you wouldn’t think anything of it. It looked like a janitor closet, but it’s this den of satanism, its this dungeon-looking place where these children are being raped there. It was the first time we actually walked in on a raid and saw the kid being raped. Anyway, (holding back tears) we got the kids out…there’s four of them that came out. A couple of them had babies…the infant they were using to leverage the young mom. Anyway, the next day we were talking to them and the one girl couldn’t believe it. She finally spoke her first words holding a teddy bear after being rescued. She had been kidnapped at age six after her parents died in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. From six to sixteen she was brutally raped for money. And here the red door opens, we go in and get her out, and she says to us, “Is it OK for me to have hope.” ~ JP, Underground Railroad
So, God has revealed to me the spirit of infiltration and deception…the very spirit behind the evil in JP’s report above, that unfortunately is very much alive and well in the majority of our churches, as I personally observed in both my former church in Orange County, as well as within a group of Sullivan County pastors. Called before the pastor, deacons, and elders of my former church to be reprimanded for exposing the spirit behind the sexual grooming that leads to the sex-trafficking of our children, as well as exposing the spirit behind the contact-tracing used to groom people into accepting the evil of the mRNA injection, and ultimately to the mark of the beast, God put on my heart to present all five of them a copy of the Founders’ Bible. I honestly thought these were good men who simply didn’t know the truth about our great American heritage, our liberty, and our solemn duty as churchmen to uphold and pass it on to the next generation. Only two of them ever thanked me. The two largest Christian assemblies in Orange County are infiltrated and controlled by the same spirit…paying lip service to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John while bowing the knee at the Progressive altar of Social Justice, equity, inclusion as it cozied them into solidarity with Black Lives Matter in total submission and surrender to enemies of God who, in turn, have declared them unessential.
The very same spirit among the Sullivan County pastors saw the Founders’ spirit in us willing to defend the sacred trust, the precious possession, the privilege to be stewarded, and the right WE would be responsible to give an answer for, and it vigorously attacked that spirit in us…for being “political”. And it is the very same spirit in both Orange and Sullivan churches that have led their flocks off the field of battle and into the graveyards of irrelevance, as it demonizes patriotism as idolatry and afflicts the church leaders with indifference to the John 17:21 mission of CLOTH as well as their own revival! Far worse…this spirit has literally disarmed men from their primary role of protecting their communities, their families…and especially the children from the evil that is rapidly closing in around them.
I simply can’t imagine a greater pain born by God than that caused by our indifference as repayment for the absolute greatest abba love any father has ever shown, let alone from the ONE who pulled us all from the jaws of hell!
As one of the Sullivan Pastors recently put it, “We serve an awesome God and He’s still in complete control of our universe.” Truer words were never spoken. I, for one, have never doubted God. It is His church and church leaders that need to be held to account in this hour by every single one of us who counts himself a Christian. Proverbs iron has never sharpened iron in silence. Speak up for the (children) who have no voice, for the rights of all the down-and-outers. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute! ~ Proverbs 31:8-9
CLOTH is a cross-denominational fellowship of Christian leader’s committed without apology to Biblical truth and values, to the clear Gospel of Christ, and to our unity in Him according to the Scripture (see John 17:21)! This unity is critical for us as the followers of Christ, for mutual encouragement and spiritual strength, as today we face an unprecedented battle against the forces of anti-Christ evil, in every area of spiritual, moral, educational, and political concern! As the early, First Century church stood together as one in Christ, so must we, for strength and effective witness by the Spirit of God in these perilous days! We are certainly praying for a genuine revival in the church and in our Land, bringing true repentance, reconciliation and restoration across the board, to a backslidden church, and to a country needing divine cleansing from their sins and iniquities before a holy and just God! With this in mind, and with a revival gathering prayerfully planned for this coming September 23rd, we are beginning, effective tonight, the 25th, a 40-day season of prayer and fasting, through August the 4th! As you personally seek the leading of God’s spirit for this season, please join us seriously, sacrificially, and prayerfully, to cry out to the Lord for HIS mercy and mighty move among us as His people, for a new “Great Awakening” in our midst! We commence this 40-day season at 7:00 PM tonight in the “Upper Room” at the Twin Ponds Farm 531 River Road, Montgomery, NY 12549! There is absolutely NO church alternative or amendment to, or religious substitute for 2 Chronicles 7:14 – no concert, no recital, no sermonette, or any other easy “quick fix” for what we need! We must be desperate for our God, and for what He alone can do by His Word and answer the cry of His people (Jeremiah 33:3)! ~ Pastor Steve Offringa, Howells Church
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