Upward Thought

In COVID, God provided everyone in the world irrefutable evidence of the extreme fragility of modernity. Society today requires that every single piece in the highly complex whole work exactly as it is intended to, all the time. COVID should have reminded people that this assumption is foolish to rely upon.  In COVID, God provided everyone in the world irrefutable evidence that world leaders are absolute fools with dreadfully insufficient understanding of second- and third-order effects, as well as basic economics and familiarity with normal life, and that they are unable to resist the temptation of sacrificing the welfare of any and everyone else for their own personal benefit. Everyone should now realize that the only tools they have are to print more money, draw up edicts, and enforce them at the point of a gun. These tools are woefully incapable of addressing any of a very large set of potential problems. In COVID, God provided everyone in the world with irrefutable evidence of...

1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. 7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. 9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doct...

Someone wrote me this email about the repentance book I recently published. I felt like they understood the intent and meaning of the book. "THANK YOU for your book Repentance. I recognize the PRIMACY of the message. FAITH and REPENTANCE must come FIRST! And you have ACCURATELY identified and defined what TRUE repentance is. I am ASTONISHED that these important truths have been so ill-defined and so "re-defined" that they have become INERT, for all intents and purposes, as if, as it were (as the scriptures say) there was no atonement made. Satan has literally OBLITERATED the gospel of Jesus Christ by obscuring what is our conscience: the light of Christ, the voice of God to us individually. I have only read through Ch 4 so far, but CONVEYING THIS ONE TRUTH ALONE is worth EVERY effort you've made in writing this book! All this time I've thinking "Where are you, Lord? Why aren't you speaking to me?" And, as you've said, he never STOPPED speaking! ...

16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. (Psalm 50)

 (Originally published 8/22/21) Today I received an email. Rather than write a specific reply to that person, here are two extracted portions of that email and my reply to all people: "I appreciate that so much of what you've written in the last few years has come to pass -- exactly as you said it would. Others scoff, saying "NOT EVERYTHING HAPPENED JUST LIKE HE SAID!"" When the prophesies of Samuel, all of which seemed absurd, began to be fulfilled, the people did not respond by believing in God. Instead, they said: Some things they may have guessed right, among so many; but behold, we know that all these great and marvelous works cannot come to pass, of which has been spoken. (Helaman 16:16) It did not matter that: 13 ...great signs given unto the people, and wonders; and the words of the prophets began to be fulfilled. 14 And angels did appear unto men, wise men, and did declare unto them glad tidings of great joy; thus in this year the scriptures began to be...

I wrote this two days before the Russians invaded Ukraine, but withheld it until this morning. This is vital information, and I have no reason to believe it will be taken seriously by any that read it, given response to previous prophecies. For about ten years I have been warning you that the USA will be terminally invaded by the Chinese and Russians, and that most men would die or be taken away as slaves. At the time, most people who read those warnings dismissed them as ridiculous--something that was impossible. Perhaps today, a normal person would consider the possibility much greater. As the world experiences echoes of wars and rumors of wars, fear will increase. Let your fear be the fear of God, and not of man, nor anything men can do to you, nor death. God knows all things, he has all power, and he loves you more than you love yourself. Trust him, reconcile your life to his will, and find peace in him that has power to overcome anything that can or will happen in this life. Ten y...

(Originally published 7/15/21) At some point during the creation of this earth, God "roared" and the waves parted to reveal the dry land. This happened all at once, and made an incredible sound. You can read many references to this event scattered across the scriptures. I'm not sure whether the ancients were more versed with this event, or whether it is just the case that the writers who referred to it had seen it in vision. Regardless, it's an image that comes into my mind from time to time when I find myself struggling to contain what God has, is, and will teach me.  He has made it clear to me that I need to contain these things and lay them out in clarity in books rather than make sloppy ejections of them in this blog. That is one reason why I don't blog much anymore. I only have so much time, and writing here takes away from the time I can spend on books. The topics addressable there are greater than those here, for various reasons, including the fulfillment o...