Upward Thought

Paul wrote that "without faith it is impossible to please" God (Hebrews 11:6). Why is it impossible to please God without faith? Because God's sole motivation is our acquisition of greater joy, and the only way we can have increased joy is through improvement, and improvement cannot come except through faith. To have faith is to believe and act according to what you are given sufficient reason to believe. There are many people who will not believe a particular cause will lead to a particular effect until they have already experienced that effect. These people will be incredibly limited in who they become, what they obtain, and what they do for others in this life because their outcomes will only occur through the faith of others.  What we can obtain by choice far exceeds what will happen to us by chance. Those who plant seeds will always have a far greater harvest than those who only receive the harvest of others. God desires us to bear our own fruit, not to simply receiv...

I'll try to make this one short and sweet. We are living in a time when an active cohort of people is attempting to override reality through assertion, rather than reason or right. You'll find this referred to in the scriptures as "changing the times and seasons." It's worthy of your study. I'll elaborate on the topic in a future book. For now, let's consider one example of this.  Although billed as an open encyclopedia, Wikipedia is increasingly neither of those things. Wikipedia has a well-known, intentional, leftist bias. One of the project's co-founders often publicly complains about it.  Wikipedia engages in several tactics to warp its content to align with their ideology. For example, on a given topic, they will frame aspects that are non-congruent with their ideology as under controversy, even if they are not, and aspects that are controversial but congruent as consensus when, in fact, they are not. They do other things, too, like completely del...

While this blog has always been public, it has never been written for a general audience. It presupposes specific foundational beliefs. The foundation of most things said here is found in scripture, and the ideas are described in a way that appeals to it (see the banner of this blog: "Explaining the prophecies and the scriptures to all who desire to hear them.") It is odd to me that anyone who does not believe the scriptures would spend their time on this blog, let alone looking for things they don't agree with, of which there are surely many. When I started this blog nearly ten years ago, I did so as a way of organizing my own thoughts--a public study journal of sorts. It has been cathartic to be able to think out loud, and beneficial to hear the feedback of others. . It's never been highly curated writing, and that hasn't been a problem before. I expected that there would be a time when this format would no longer be sufficient, and it seems that time has come. ...

Matt Crockett posted this , and I agree with every word.

On April 22, 2019, the Lord said to me: "I've exposed you to intercession, I've exposed you to the darkness that is present on the earth, and I've exposed you to the desolation that is coming. What have you done about it? While you have passed these things on valiantly to others, you have not made gain on what has been given. You ought to exercise charity for your fellowmen and take up the cross that extends beyond the passing of information to others, and continues into interceding in faith for the benefit of those who walk in the darkness. There is no such thing as a normal day. With the gifts I have given you, every day of your life ought to be full of urgency. You will be held accountable for all the good you could have done. Weep and wail for what is and what is to come." In fulfilling that charge this morning, I was "weep[ing] and wail[ing] for what is and what is to come" and interceding for the men, women, and children of this nation. As part of ...

This doctrine is laid out on this blog.  I won't attempt to restate it, because if I do people will come out of the woodwork stating that I have misrepresented what that person (who desires to remain anonymous) teaches. Does God's word come from your imagination, or from God? Jesus said that everything he taught came from the Father: "...as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things." (John 8:28). If Jesus, the Son of God, was limited in the worth he could provide by what he was given from the Father, who among us can think for a second that what we produce can be good? Jesus said,  4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. (John 15) We are told plainly that our thoughts are different from God's: 8 For my t...

Interesting facts about upcoming eclipse: The shadow will be 70 miles in diameter. The eclipse is the first to be fully contained within the USA. The eclipse will divide the nation in two. The eclipse will trace the 1,700 mile "crack across America" fault. The eclipse will occur 33 days before a once-in-7,000 years Revelation 12 sign. It will happen 2,422 days or 346 weeks or 6.6 years from a second, criss-crossing eclipse. Interesting facts about the 2024 eclipse: It happens on the last day of the year in the Hebrew calendar. It traces through a second large fault running Northeast from the New Madrid seismic zone. It will be 120 miles in diameter. It occurs 10 years after the first blood moon of the 2014-2015 tetrad.