New Beginnings

One of my favorite things about the television show Frasier are the themes woven throughout. The primary one being the relationships between Frasier and his father and brother and how it evolves. The other is the new beginnings.

The series starts with Frasier arriving in Seattle, returning to his hometown after years in Boston that ended with divorce. He begins his new life in Seattle with a new job, new friendships and recreating relationships with his family. He is scared. He is recovering from heartbreak. But he is bold!

Over the 11 seasons, the years pass and Frasier begins developing new routines. He builds his radio show. He visits the same coffee shop. He becomes inseparable from his brother. Women in his life come and go but he builds a life of success and comfort and deep bonds.

After a bold change, he settles in once again to a life that soon enough isn’t new anymore. He moves into middle age, seeking love, fulfilling his life’s purpose and in his own quirky way always growing and developing.

But at the end of the series, midway through the final season, he meets a woman, the one he’s been searching for. He overcomes great odds to win her heart, only to discover she is moving to Chicago. He is devastated. His family life has also changed. His dad has remarried and his brother has a child, everyone now moving in new directions. But he has become comfortable.

But this new relationship is enough to inspire him to another new beginning. In middle age, after creating an established career and new friends, he leaves everything to pursue this new love he hasn’t even known for that long. The last time you see Frasier, he’s embarking on his new life.

I relate to this. Complacency and routine turning into major life changes, taking big risks, pursuing new love.

Boldness leads to more boldness. I see it in my family, too. My mom has embraced a new chapter in retirement. My one sister is expanding her family, the other building a small town empire. My brother has taken a new direction with his career and family. New stories full of boldness and purpose.

Just when you think you’re in a rut and nothing exciting will ever happen to you again, well, then it does.

Martin Crane, Frasier

The Climate Change Game

Covid played an important role for the globalists in terms of gauging our compliance. But after over two years of nonsense, most people have wearied of the stupidity. So we have moved on to the next global problem for the elites to exert their walk over us: climate change.

I’m not even going to argue about the validity of climate change. But what I will say is that the entities that try to force this belief on us (international corporate fascist elite authoritarians) don’t actually care about it either. Much the same with how covid measures were not about our health, climate change measures are not about saving the planet.

We are seeing teenagers and young athletes having heart attacks. They call it climate change (because they won’t say it’s from the poison jabs).

Every problem we have in our civilization – especially those that are attributed to some form of other abuse or tyranny they’ve put on us – they call climate change now.

We are seeing obesity rise in children. They call it climate change (because they don’t want to blame the bad food and excessive technology – or the bad example of parents).

And the answer: a total overhaul to how we live in order to achieve a zero carbon score.

Well, here’s the part they don’t say outloud. You are a carbon based life form. And when they say eliminate carbon, they mean you.

They have already started reducing the population. Soon they will implement digital currencies that can track what we buy and we will be given a carbon allowance. You’ll eat bugs. You’ll be imprisoned into “modern, climate friendly cities” where you’ll live in austere conditions.

And I’ve heard people say, if it saves the planet they are willing. But this is nonsense, because the elites won’t live as we will. They will go on as they do now, only moreso. They will consume in even greater excess. With the rest of us under the thumb, they will have full access to all of the resources and beauty of the world.

You will be a prisoner. You’ll eat bugs. You’ll go nowhere. You’ll have no purpose, you’ll essentially be a rat in a cage until you die. But it will not save the planet.

This is a deep state, globalist ploy that ironically preys on people’s sense of humanity to save the world in order for them to destroy humanity. You can find a hundred inconsistencies in their arguments. I saw one that said beef was dangerous to consume (because climate change, duh) but energy drinks are super healthy. That if you can’t afford gas you should buy an electric vehicle. They preach about emissions but then do chem trails and fly around in their own private jets. And they trot out their celebrity spokespeople to normalize eating bugs and giving up your car for climate change when these same people live in excess.

They will lock us down over climate change. They will tell us that lockdowns reduce emissions. They will scare us with threats that the rivers will dry up and the ice caps will melt and the bees will all die off and herd us into our eco-pod apartments and ration us our amenities while they live large on the earth’s plentiful resources.

And lo and behold, Hershey and Goldman Sachs are both warning of chocolate shortages this Christmas season. Very 1984.

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

George Orwell, 1984

The Rapture

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

One of the great hopes of every generation of Christians is that we will be the ones to experience the promise of these verses, to not die but be caught up in the clouds with Jesus at the rapture.

The Rapture and the Second Coming are two separate events. It’s not certain but most theologians believe the Rapture will occur and that will usher in the tribulation period – a time period where Antichrist will rule the earth in a truly terrible New World Order, culminating in the battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus to earth.

While the second coming has signs that peecede it, the rapture does not. It is imminent. It could happen any second. It could happen in 10 years or 100 years because “no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.” Matthew 24:36

But the fact is, we are already seeing signs and prophecies be fulfilled regarding the second coming. So if we can see the signs of the second event, surely the first must be near.

While no one knows the day or the hour, “Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

My sister is pregnant right now. We know she is due in the fall but we do not know at what day or hour her precious baby will be born. But we know it’s coming as we watch her belly grow. And when she starts having contractions we will know the time is very soon. We will not be caught off guard or surprised when the baby is born. We are expecting him!

Jesus told us that we should not be ignorant and we should be wise about the signs. He didn’t tell us this to lead us astray.

We see the signs already of a growing one world government, which is predicted in the Bible. We see the technology and interests in place for the “mark of the beast” – a required mark on our right hand or forehead to participate in commerce. We see an increase in tyranny, persecution and famine. And we live with the first generation of adults in the last 2000 years to see Israel be rejoined together as a nation.

Another fascinating prophecy on the verge of coming true is that before the Second Coming the gospel must be preached in every tongue. For the first time ever, this is about to come true where at least a part of the gospel has been translated into every language.

Movies have depicted the rapture in different ways. Because this event will not be seen by unbelievers I sort of imagine it the way it appears the Left Behind movies…a sudden disappearance where the tangible possessions of a person such as their clothes and jewelry are left in a pile. Those left behind will not know at first what has happened. But many who have heard the truth and dismissed it will soon figure it out.

The period after the rapture will soon begin a time known as the tribulation. This is where the world will find their authority in the great deceiver, an antichrist who will eventually be indwelt by Satan and force people to take his mark and worship his image.

It will be the hardest and most terrible time period in human history. Many will choose to follow this satanic new world order. But many, many others will become part of a great revival, tribulation saints, working to bring others to Jesus before His physical Second Coming at the end of the 7 year tribulation.

There is hope for those left behind to choose Jesus. But it will be a literal hell in earth as judgements from heaven rain down to get attention of the unbelievers. People will ask how come a loving God will use such harsh tactics to grab the attention of people. But I ask you now…if He doesn’t have your attention when you live in abundance, when you live in prosperity, what will it take to get your attention?

Believers around the world are expectantly hoping for the rapture and the utter privilege to be a part of that prophetic moment.

Don’t be left behind.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

John 14:3

Grace Abounds

But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

Romans 5:20

I’m not perfect by any means. I’ve done bad things and I’ve struggled with character weaknesses. But Satan is the great accuser, and he whispers in our ears to remind us of our past and to weaken us to live in shame.

But the Bible tells us we should not allow this. Once we are washed in the blood of Jesus, our sins are no more. We are forgiven. We don’t need to constantly seek re-forgiveness. Sure, in our human frailty we remember mistakes often with regret. But we must remember that the Bible promises us that where sin abounds, grace abounds even more!

I regret hurts I’ve caused people. Bad choices I’ve made. Character flaws I’ve let go unchecked. But I’m forgiven. No one on earth can take that from me. And to point to my sins as being worse, or so bad they can’t be forgiven, seems like a form of idolatry to me. A way of saying God isn’t big enough to absolve me.

Does this grace permit us to go forward and continue to sin to perpetuate the cycle of grace. Paul tells us in the Bible “God forbid!” We are not to live in a cycle of sin. But we are to rejoice in our forgiveness.

We must walk like we are forgiven. Talk like we are. That we are children of the living God. That we are precious in His eyes. We are not to be downcast and ashamed because that is where Satan will lurk to tempt us away from what should be our new lives.

But we live in a world where other humans like to remind us of our transgressions, or our pasts, and of their grudges. But we must remember that “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

We don’t earn our forgiveness. We don’t earn it through penance or through good deeds, and we can take no credit for it. We receive it through grace and we must respond to that joyfully because we are loved by our Creator.

And we must be courageous and wise in the face of those who would try to force us to wallow in shame.

Forgiveness

This weekend I listened to a great sermon by one of my favorites, Bayless Conley, on the topic of forgiveness.

The premise is that we are not asked to forgive, we are not told to forgive if we can find it within us. We are commanded to forgive and that “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:14-15.

We must forgive. Faith is linked to love. And love requires forgiveness. And as this sermon explains, in some cases, persistent unforgiveness can actually damage us physically.

The sermon details the experience of one lady who refused to forgive her father for over a decade and was plagued with an endless migraine.

Aside from the pain her unforgiveness caused both her and her father, from the outside it is very sad. A waste of years that could have been spent in love.

My own father experienced a similar situation. He and his first wife had one daughter. My dad had been an alcoholic and drug addict in his 20s and was not a good husband during those years. After finding Jesus and getting sober, sadly, his wife decided she didn’t want to continue the marriage. After reconciling himself to this and moving on, my dad met my mom at work. They fell in love and married a few years later. My dad’s only daughter was 15 at that time, and after a conflict with my dad, never spoke to him again.

My dad left the door open. And seeing how my father loved my siblings and I so much after we came along I can imagine he loved her just as much. What a wound it must have been to him that she never came around.

But my dad died 6 years ago and she had never reconciled. Her children will never know him, and she never got a chance to really realize how much he loved her.

It’s a trite expression but it’s true, to forgive is to set a prisoner free, only to discover the prisoner is you.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. It’s more than a strength of character. It’s more than the right thing to do. It is a fulfillment of our obedience to our Lord, who has forgiven more of us than we can comprehend.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

Luke 6:37

The Home School Option

I’ve written on this topic before, and I have a long history of being passionate about the option to home school.

With all going on in schools with the LGBTQ+ agenda being pushed, the security issues, and the not at all new issue of the schools not teaching kids anything to help them grow in knowledge, people are considering home schooling more than ever before.

I was home schooled in first grade and then again in grades six through nine. My parents made sacrifices to keep us at home and teach us themselves. With 4 children and not a lot of money, home schooling was not just an easy option for them. My mom worked in the day, my dad stayed home with us and then he worked in the evening until he retired.

The payout of this was worth it to them. By eighth grade I was reading and comprehending at a college level. I understood history and civics at senior level, and on top of my academics I was learning how to think and not just remember facts.

That is what the education system does. It creates regurgitaters, not thinkers. It is a pulpit for the government narrative, not a place to encourage free thinkers.

I remember in 12th grade I had a social studies teacher who was an absolute communist. I wrote papers that to this day I can look back on and see my well reasoned arguments and yet he was giving me Cs. On the exams I was scoring very well but in written assignments I was doing poorly. This man would argue with me in class because he couldn’t stand my free market perspectives. Instead of encouraging my ability to think freely he penalized me. He was not there to teach, he was there to indoctrinate.

In all my years of school, from the first years as a little girl to the completion of my master’s degree, I can count on one hand how many teachers actually worked to light an intellectual fire in me and still have fingers left.

It was truly my parents who taught me to self educate, to question, to be curious. It was my parents who taught me to be discerning, and to chase my questions down to find answers. It was my parents who protected me from being brain washed or preyed upon. It was my parents who taught me to live bravely and brightly, curious and free.

No one will love your kids like you do. No one wants to see them thrive like you do. No one wants them to dream and create and be free like you do. No one has a greater interest in their ability to reason than you do. The government is interested in compliant cogs in their machine.

The Mark

When I was growing up, my dad told me about the mark of the beast.

It was an implant we’d be required to receive under our skin one day in order to be allowed to participate in society. It would be required by the antichrist, the end times tyrant that would preceed the Second Coming.

And while I didn’t doubt my dad, my imagination couldn’t imagine what this could possibly be and even more so, couldn’t imagine why anyone would ever agree to such a thing.

But decades have passed and surveillance has become normalized. We laugh as if it’s funny that our phones can hear our private conversations. You can’t go anywhere without being captured on video. They sell it as safety or convenience, but it is a violation and has led to where we are now.

Which is, amazingly, a place where many people will embrace the idea of a chip under the skin.

This video demonstrates powerfully the technological possibility and the evil intent behind this “innovation.”

The Bible tells us in Revelation 13:16-17, “It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.”

And what is that number? 666. Which is subtly presented to us in the logo of the World Economic Forum, through the striking through of the O letters. The same WEF that so desperately wants this chip under our skin.

For ages, Christians and non-Christians alike who have raised alarm over this upcoming development have been labeled conspiracy theorists. But there’s no denying it anymore – there’s a conspiracy against us, and through fear mongering and media manipulation more and more people are accepting this tyranny over their life.

But the mark of the beast is a symbolic allegiance to the antichrist and against God. We will soon be forced to choose which side we are on.

What’s Next?

Another week and another battleground for humanity’s future are before us. An exciting week for me as celebrations will begun at the end of this week for a long 39th birthday weekend for me. But it is exciting – and frightening – for the world as well.

The World Health Organization is meeting in Switzerland this week, to discuss the amendments to a treaty which will have 194 countries surrender their national sovereignty to a global regime during the next pandemic. This will include global lockdowns and vaccine passports, among other things.

Amazingly enough, the World Economic Forum is also meeting this week, in Switzerland, for their annual Davos meeting to address their agenda entitled “History at a Turning Point.”

Is it coincidental that these two simultaneous meetings occur at the exact same time as a monkeypox “outbreak”occuring in various countries, which Biden has said everyone should be alarmed about? The same monkeypox outbreak that Bill Gates “predicted” and…how interesting, the US recently received millions of monkeypox vaccines.

Greg Reese has amazing coverage of this, as always, in one of his 5 minute synopses.

There is an ongoing and dangerous baby formula shortage going on that is entirely the fault of the FDA.

The Pfizer CEO was captured explaining ingestible pharmaceutical/vaccine pills that can track and enforce compliance.

Canada is preparing to roll out its digital ID.

Meanwhile, a war rages on in Ukraine that the rest of the world is being lied to about, and tensions seem to be rising in China.

We need to be ready. Come, Lord Jesus, come!