WAKING UP THE CHURCH IN AMERICA
Last night, I sat and listened to a minister in Virginia talk about Russia and the End Times. His entirely erroneous interpretation of Ezekiel 38 was based on a (typical) misunderstanding of how the Bible interprets itself, and an illusion of misplaced heroism that he attributed to the USA, and malevolence that he attributed to Russia. Before I address this important subject, again, (I have in other posts, and will in more detail in another post), I had some overflowing sentiments race at me - that I cannot help but express - to anyone listening..
SMALL USA STUFF
Finally, here upstate NY, we have one contractor that should show up on Tuesday to do our floor. We burned through a total of 4 others, who simply never showed up. A friend of ours up here says that around here, people just 'don't keep their word'. Why? Because they don’t care.
Same deal with our car repair. We had 4 different shops here manage at one time or another to destroy 2 of our vehicles. One shop, (Feldman Brothers of Syracuse) took our perfectly working Chevy Express van, to do a 3 minute - 'reconnect our windshield wipers after heavy snow disconnected them'- job. Charged us $163 - then gave us our truck back with the engine oil drained out.. (Mix-up of jobs?). We drove the shaking van home till the engine exploded. The shop declined any responsibility.
These are smaller issues, but like mosquitoes - deaths by a 1000 cuts around here is the order of the day. (I wonder.. Is New York unique? (say that 3x fast..)
BIGGER STUFF in the USA
A bigger episode up here started with in 2016, being sold a house here in NY that the sellers KNEW was a carbon monoxide trap.. (They'd moved out 4 years before - but lied on the disclosure papers - saying they 'still lived here'). (they also lied about the age of the furnace (That they’d bondoed the inside of throughout - declaring it to be 20+ years old.. It was 65 years old). That ancient furnace plus 2 more basement machines were cranking CM into our bedrooms through a network of destroyed exhaust pipes (pipes that the sellers had 'duct taped'.. and our ‘home inspector’ specifically said 'looked good').. in a house complete with window storms CAULKED shut to falsely lower the heat bills - serving also to keep the deadly CM gas inside the house.. and presumably - anyone trying to escape a fire.
Yes., all 3 of us got very sick, and came close to falling asleep in the gasses forever. All involved - 2 realtors, 1 inspector, 1 mortgage holder (the seller) kept, if not their integrity,.. their jobs.
Later a guy, (MJ Property Development of Cicero NY) took a $4K deposit to build us a deck- that he never returned to build.. We later found he had $253,000 in unpaid judgments on his record downtown (People sue him, he just doesn't show up in court.. Obviously, too busy collecting deposits). He's still in business in Onondaga County.
Those are a few carnal complaints.
THE CHURCH in the USA:
I left off going to churches in the USA years ago, because some of the most harmful, life wrenching, meanest, experiences I've even had the mis- fortune of surviving, were in churches. Church in America - Where there's either abject unbelief.. (which is why 99.99% of them closed in 2020) or such unmitigated arrogance - that you realize your life means exactly zero to the hierarchy - while they count the pew rents I guess..
Did I ever tell you about the minister who offered to take care of my only family member in 1992 - a dog - while I was 1 year active duty.. But, when I returned home - he did not want to give my one sheep back to me. His large family (5 kids, wife, 10,000 friends.. house.. pool) needed my 1 dog. (King David would cringe) When I did retrieve her, the man saw to it that the fellowships ostracized me.
That happened before; I had been excommunicated 2x before and people running the fellowships were OK to close their doors to me.
In 1982 my Manhattan ‘church leader’ kicked me out of the ministry I was serving in with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, for not groveling enough with him.. (That was my 1st excommunication of 3 - showing how much the church cared for my soul). But 2 days after he did so, the Lord made it snow a LOT.. (You can read about the record Blizzard of April 6, 1982 on the East Coast- for that story) That NIGHT the Lord led me to save the life of an old man in the blizzard,.. (story available to see in the film Outrageous Taxi Stories - by Joe Berlinger ) ..adding a series of other miracles associated with that episode). JESUS CARED! (And still does.)
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Then in 1990 I arranged to bring 3 gals over from Germany for a Bible class with the upstate NY minister (the guy who would later assay to keep my dog)- cept' he changed his mind the DAY before the 3 ladies flew into Kennedy Airport - The man called me the day before their arrival to say they shouldn't come to the class. (Though he'd collected their class registration fees 40 days previous)
When I protested (after all, they'd bought ROUND TRIP TICKETS from Germany 40 days earlier and were to arrive the next day) - he SCREAMED Bloody murder at me through the phone.
When they arrived, the 4 of us discussed our options, and decided to go ahead and drive the 2 hour trip to his house upstate NY to the Bible class. When we got there, the minister took the 3 visitors in and closed the door on me. (Actually, he didn't have the guts to do it himself. He had his secretary do the dirty job of kicking me out of the class. I drove around upstate NY for 3 days while my 3 friends completed his class).
Later in 1992 - when I was given active duty orders for DLI in California - this same minister offered to keep my dog and take care of her for me. I thought - ‘wow.. he's making it up to me’! (In those days I was a sucker for a kindness - though I have always had a longsuit in forgiveness). I gave him my dog and left for California. But when I returned in 1993 - as a hero from my duty year! - FIRST in my Russian graduating class! - the HONOR GRAD!! - Following a brutal year in the military, fraught with sexual and other types of harassment, I came home to NY - to not a single welcome - not from my family, not from my church. No warm greetings were waiting there either.., because the minister had changed his mind and decided to keep my dog.
That led to no place to stay, because - when I protested - this minister turned everyone against me - and the gal I was supposed to move in with - changed her mind. (I wound up living in my VW bus for a few days till I secured housing with a wonderful old friend). This 'minister', BTW, has never apologized to me.
With the minister like that who needs enemies?
(This time period in 1993, was probably the lowest point of my life - leading to an ill advised marriage - and a chain of unfortunate events that I will not discuss, to protect the innocent. But people who 'serve God' putting their own selfish interests first, and in violation of the 2nd Commandment - can do much harm.)
THE USA and the WORLD
You know what, if that's the CHURCH in America.. (and these were not isolated incidents at all) it explains this nation’s careless treatment of the world.
People that can do this to each other are the people who - if they work in the government - will say things like joe biden did in 1994.. 'If Haiti just sunk into the Caribbean.. it makes no difference to US interests'.. (We don’t care. Not about Haiti,.. not about Ukraine.. Not about US veterans.. Not about Blacks. Nobody. )
Or if you work in Congress, or for the US '*defense' department (*a misappropriated name) you can send bombs all over the world, because you have stock in Raytheon. (Weapons Stocks soared in the US last year with the start of the Ukraine boondoggle).
Or you can mandate vaccines - EVEN FOR CHILDREN, because like Anthony Fauci.. (and folks in Congress, and not a few governors) you own hefty stock in Merck or Pfizer..
Or you can manufacture viruses like Ebola, and Marburg, and AIDs, to reduce unwanted populations in Africa (to free up resources) meanwhile pretending that your vaccines are being administered to ‘save lives’. (I’ll take ‘Bill Gates for $200’)
And other egregious stuff like this.
Or like some Christians did.. you can buy into a DINAR scam because you were told by the 'prophet' (kim clement, katie souza, td jakes - pick your prosperity poison).. that the investment represents ‘God giving 'the WEALTH of the wicked (Iraqis) to the 'righteous'.. (Christians) [unquote]. This is more than just ignorance. It is a crying shame. (Do Christians not have any idea what the [righteous] US did to Iraq?)
But friend, you can also look back at US history, from our treatment of the indians, or the black slaves, to our 1840’s war with Mexico, and 1880’s war with Spain, (both of which the US started on false premises to gain territory),. or look at our hundreds of - coup d' etats, or military and proxy wars, or assassinations, throughout the 20th Century - (All perpetrated in the name of Democracy).. and see the same patterns repeated again and again.
Anyone’d be excused for believing that Isaiah 18 is talking about the USA when it says 'A nation terrible from its beginning'. And don't think for one minute the nations of the world are fooled. For the most part, only the Church in America is fooled. When the Christian charities show up in 2022 to collect $ for the well publicized Ukrainian bombardment, but are dead silent for 96 months while Russians in Ukraine are quietly bombed… well, you get the picture.
GEOPOLITICS & CHRISTIANS
Readers might be forgiven for thinking but I have an ax to grind, or unforgiveness in my heart.. But nothing could be further from the truth. I have forgiven everyone. This isn’t ‘anger’ as much as abject disappointment in people you expect much more from. I don’t play fast and footloose with the commandments of God. He says, forgive as you want to be forgiven. So I do. The dust will settle without my help.
Let's be clear, however. Forgiving, people does not mean ignoring or glossing over their sins. It means allowing God to judge His own people and recompense as He sees fit. He’s the searcher of hearts - after all.
BUT LAST NIGHT I was reminded again of these Church heresies while listening to that Virginia minister’s online sermon, extoling the innocence of the United States while panning Russia, in a highly inaccurate butchering of the 38th chapter of Ezekiel.. While the saints in the audience sat in their comfortable pews nodding their heads in agreement, in complicity -as it were - by proxy, of the crimes perpetrated around the world using their tax dollars.
And he got my gaal. The Russia bashing is over the top for way too long, and it has cost over 100,000,000 lives and counting.
The Church is comfortable in its ignorance of the crimes ongoing against the world, which is a form of enablement. For the record - We're supposed to be saving people.. not bombing them... not deposing their leaders.. not sanctioning them..
SANCTIONS:
(For the last 15 years - the reason I have SERVED with the Larouche PAC, and the SCHILLER INSTITUTE - visiting Congress to implore them to do things like - ‘lift the egregious sanctions off of Syria’- because this PAC is doing, I believe, what 600,000 clergy in the USA SHOULD be doing - SPEAKING TRUTH. (But for maintenance of their 501c3's, they are deathly silent.)
THE SCRIPTURES
IF IF IF the Scriptures painted a rosy picture of the USA., we MIGHT have reason to write these episodes off as a 'few bad actors'. But the reality is - we have a horrible reputation in the Bible.
Many years ago, when I asked him if the USA was in the Bible, the Lord duly took me to Jeremiah 50 & 51, for our military crimes, Nahum 3 for our medical crimes, and a series of chapters in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Revelation for our spiritual crimes against the people of the world. I've since worked the topic diligently to where I know what is going to take place here, and if not 'when', then in what 'order', (i.e.. after what other event) our national denouement is to unfold.
Jesus Christ told the world 'The Kingdom of God is at hand’. It has not been 'time to feather a nest' in this world - in 2000 years.
IF Israel had accepted her king, the world today would be bowing to him now. Now however, in the wake of their apostasy, Israel's supremacy awaits the Advent of our LORD. In this interim period - a blip on eternity's screen - sovereignty over the earth has been given to the Gentiles - until their lawlessness shall come to the full - and their worship be finally given to a god after their own heart... antichrist.
The Gospels and Church Epistles point out that we have been in the Last Days and the Hour of Darkness - since the Lord was taken prisoner, and led to his crucifixion. The proportionate times consequent from his ascension to the apocalypse is illustrated in the length of the OT vs the NT of the Bible. We're in the final section - the New Testament is short for a reason.
It's a downhill slide and going by very fast. Even if we have 25 years left - (which is about what I believe remains before the man of sin rises up - (Yes, the church will be gone before that) - it's going to flash by in the blink of an eye.
How are you using your time?
Ditched the TV yet?
Quit the annual Superbowl ritual with its satanic half time shows?
Doing street ministry?
Did you close your church (or fellowship) in 2020? (Or like the Russians right now in Kiev, go to Church in resistance of the evil commandments of men?)
Are you baptizing the Saved in the HOLY SPIRIT - that they may have POWER to live by? (And can pass that forward.. with healings and deliverances?).
As to the SHORTNESS of the remaining days, and the DETAILS of the Hour of Darkness - I have written the last of a 5 part series and will publish it soon.
SURE the Church is 'set apart', from the Wrath of God to come. But we’re not set apart from answering for ourselves before the Lord. And we are NOT guaranteed Rewards or specific positions in the Kingdom. Some will be happy just to 'be there'.
The answer of a good conscience, I think is to get concerned enough about the brevity of the remaining days, to ask the Lord how to BEST REDEEM THEM.
Yours in Truth, Victoria