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Monday, November 9, 2020

Archbishop Vigano Speaks Out About Election

The world in which we find ourselves living is, to use an expression from the Gospel, “in se divisum” (Mt 12:25). This division, it seems to me, consists of a split between reality and fiction: objective reality on one side, and the fiction of the media on the other. This certainly applies to the pandemic, which has been used as a tool of social engineering that is instrumental to the Great Reset, but it applies even more to the surreal American political situation, in which the evidence of a colossal electoral fraud is being censored by the media, which now proclaims Joe Biden’s victory as an accomplished fact.

The reality of Covid is blatantly in contrast with what the mainstream media wants us to believe, but this is not enough to dismantle the grotesque castle of falsehoods to which the majority of the population conforms with resignation. In a similar way, the reality of electoral fraud, of blatant violations of the rules and the systematic falsification of the results contrasts with the narrative given to us by the information giants, who say that Joe Biden is the new President of the United States, period. And so it must be: there are no alternatives, either to the supposed devastating fury of a seasonal flu that caused the same number of deaths as last year, or to the inevitability of the election of a candidate who is corrupt and subservient to the deep state. In fact, Biden has already promised to restore the lockdown.

Reality no longer matters: it is absolutely irrelevant when it stands between the conceived plan and its realization. Covid and Biden are two holograms, two artificial creations, ready to be adapted time and time again to contingent needs or respectively replaced when necessary with Covid-21 and Kamala Harris. The accusations of irresponsibility thrown at Trump supporters for holding rallies vanish as soon as Biden’s supporters gather in the streets, as has already happened for BLM demonstrations. What is criminal for some people is permitted for others: without explanations, without logic, without rationality. The mere fact of being on the left, of voting for Biden, of putting on the mask is a pass to do anything, while simply being on the right, voting for Trump or questioning the effectiveness of masks is sufficient reason for condemnation and an execution that does not require any evidence or a trial: they are ipso facto labeled as fascists, sovereignists, populists, deniers – and those labeled with these social stigmas are supposed to simply silently withdraw.

We thus return to that division between good people and evil people, that is ridiculed when it is used by one side – ours – and conversely held up as an incontestable postulate when used by our adversaries. We have seen this with the contemptuous comments responding to my words about the “children of Light” and the “children of darkness,” as if my “apocalyptic tones” were the fruit of a ravingly mad mind and not the simple observation of reality. But by disdainfully rejecting this Biblical division of humanity, they have actually confirmed it, restricting to themselves alone the right to give the stamp of social, political, and religious legitimacy.

They are the good ones, even if they support the killing of the innocent – and we are supposed to get over it. They are the ones supporting democracy, even if in order to win elections they must always resort to deception and fraud – even fraud that is blatantly evident. They are the defenders of freedom, even if they deprive us of it day after day. They are objective and honest, even if their corruption and their crimes are now obvious even to the blind. The dogma that they despise and deride in others is indisputable and incontrovertible when it is they who promote it.

But as I have said previously, they are forgetting a small detail, a particular that they cannot understand: the Truth exists in itself; it exists regardless of whether there is someone who believes it, because the Truth possesses in itself, ontologically, its own reason for validity. The Truth cannot be denied because it is an attribute of God; it is God Himself. And everything that is true participates in this primacy over lies. We can thus be theologically and philosophically certain that these deceptions’ hours are numbered, because it will be enough to shine light on them to make them collapse. Light and darkness, precisely. So let us allow light to be shed on the deceptions of Biden and the Democrats, without taking even one step back: the fraud that they have plotted against President Trump and against America will not remain standing for long, nor will the worldwide fraud of Covid, the responsibility of the Chinese dictatorship, the complicity of the corrupt and traitors, and the enslavement of the deep churchTout se tient [Everything fits together].

In this panorama of systematically constructed lies, spread by the media with a disturbing impudence, the election of Joe Biden is not only desired, but is considered indispensable and therefore true and therefore definitive. Even though the vote counts are not completed; even though the vote verifications and recounts are only just beginning; even though the lawsuits alleging fraud have only just been filed. Biden must become President, because they have already decided it: the vote of the American people is valid only if it ratifies this narrative – otherwise, it is “reinterpreted,” dismissed as plebiscite drift, populism, and fascism.

It is therefore not surprising that the Democrats have such coarse and violent enthusiasm for their candidate in pectore, nor that the media and the official commentators have such uncontainable satisfaction, nor that political leaders from around the world are expressing their support and sycophantic subjection to the deep state. We are watching a race to see who can arrive first, elbowing and sprawling to show off, so that they can be seen to have always believed in the crushing victory of the Democratic puppet.

But if we understand that the sycophancy of world heads of state and party secretaries is simply a part of the trite script of the global Left, we are frankly left quite disturbed by the declarations of the United States’ Conference of Catholic Bishops, immediately republished by Vatican News, which with disturbing cross-eyedness credits itself with having supported “the second Catholic President in the history of the United States,” apparently forgetting the not-negligible detail that Biden is avidly pro-abortion, a supporter of LGBT ideology and of anti-Catholic globalism. The Archbishop of Los Angeles, José H. Gomez, profaning the memory of the Cristeros martyrs of his native country, says bluntly: “The American people have spoken.” The frauds that have been denounced and widely proven matter little: the annoying formality of the vote of the people, albeit adulterated in a thousand ways, must now be considered to be concluded in favor of the standard-bearer of aligned, mainstream thought. We have read, not without retching, the posts of James Martin, S.J., and all those courtiers who are pawing to get on Biden’s chariot in order to share in his ephemeral triumph. Those who disagree, those who ask for clarity, those who have recourse to the law to see their rights protected do not have any legitimacy and must be silent, resign themselves, and disappear. Or rather: they must be “united” with the exultant choir, applaud and smile. Those who do not accept are threatening democracy and must be ostracized. As may be seen, there are still two sides, but this time they are legitimate and indisputable because it is they who impose them.

It is indicative that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Planned Parenthood are both expressing their satisfaction for the presumed electoral victory of the same person. This unanimity of consensus recalls the enthusiastic support of the Masonic Lodges on the occasion of the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, which was also not free from the shadow of fraud within the Conclave and was equally desired by the deep state, as we know clearly from the emails of John Podesta and the ties of Theodore McCarrick and his colleagues with the Democrats and with Biden himself. A very nice little group of cronies, no doubt about it.

With these words of the USCCB the pactum sceleris [plot to commit a crime] between the deep state and the deep church is confirmed and sealed, the enslavement of the highest levels of the Catholic hierarchy to the New World Order, denying the teaching of Christ and the doctrine of the Church. Taking note of this is the first, imperative step in order to understand the complexity of the present events and consider them in a supernatural, eschatological perspective. We know, indeed we firmly believe, that Christ, the one true Light of the world, has already conquered the darkness that obscures it.

American Catholics must multiply their prayers and beg the Lord for a special protection for the President of the United States. I ask priests, especially during these days, to recite the Exorcism against Satan and the apostate angels, and to celebrate the Votive Mass Pro Defensione ab hostibus. Let us confidently ask for the intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whose Immaculate Heart we consecrate the United States of America and the entire world.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

November 8, 2020

Dominica XXIII Post Pentecosten

Official translation 

I Guess It Doesn't Really Matter Who Wins the Election After All!

 

Dennis Edwards

After looking through one of the newly improved telescopes at the starry night sky, William Jennings Bryan (1860 – 1925)  is recorded to have said, “I guess it doesn’t really matter who wins the election after all.” And Bryan should know. He had more electoral votes than any other Presidential candidate and yet he lost. Even though he accumulated some 493 Electoral College votes, more than any other Presidential candidate, he still lost the election. That’s because those 493 electoral votes were spread out over three Presidential elections: 1896, 1900, 1908. Henry Clay was the only other man who also lost three Presidential bids.

But even before losing the election, after looking up through a newly improved telescope, Bryan came to realization that though the election seemed of such importance to him at that moment and to the men of his time, yet there was a force holding the planets and stars in their course so powerful and awesome that the election seemed miniscule in comparison.

Other great men before and after Bryan have come to the same conclusion. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) had said, “I can see how it is possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but  I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heaven and say, “There is no God.”


Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) another man with a telescope had expressed the same idea some years earlier. “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being…This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of His dominion He is wont to be called Lord God, or Universal Ruler.”


Werner von Braun (1912 – 1977) who helped launch America into outer space as one of the top engineers in America’s Aerospace industry said, “For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose.”

What these men are saying is that they believe that there is a God and that He is ultimately in control.


Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), not a religious person and who did not believe in a personal God, nevertheless said something similar: “…scientist’s religious feelings take the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.” In other words, compared to that super intelligence all our striving, thinking, and acting were utterly insignificant.


In  the book of Psalms from the ancient Hebrew Bible, we find King David around 3,000 years ago  writing, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” [Psalm 19:1-3 (NIV)] 


 
A similar thought is found in the Greek New Testament in the words of Apostle Paul, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and God head; so we are without excuse.” [Romans 1:20] Both these authors, King David and Apostle Paul are saying that if we look at nature we will see the hand of God and that He’s in control.


Even the book of Job, believed to be the oldest preserved Scripture, probably from about the time of Abraham or earlier, prior to 2000BC,  states, “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knows not in all these that the hand of the Lord has wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.” [Job 12:7-10] Job is telling us to look at nature, to look at biology, and to look at geology  if we doubt there is a God. He is saying that God has the soul of every living creature in His hands. He’s got the whole world in His hands.


Even Jesus makes the same argument in his sermon on the mount. He tells us if God so cares for the birds of the field and the flowers of the field, will He not take care of each one of us? He goes on to tell us not to worry. [Matthew 6:26-34] Why should we not worry? Because God even knows the amount of the hairs on our heads and promises to take care of us just as He cares for the sparrows, not one of which falls to the ground without Him knowing. [Matthew 10:20-31]


So we may look at the election and be worried that God is not in control and things are not going the way we think they should. But God has told us that He can make a crooked path straight, like we say in Portugal: “Deus faz linhas retas, por caminhos  tortos,” or God makes a straight line out of a crooked one. Or as we read in Isaiah: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.  “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” [Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV)]

God’s word clearly teaches that one of the spiritual forces behind the systems of this world is Satan. The Apostle John tells us, “Love not the world nor the things of the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” [1 John 2:15] And, He goes on to write, ”We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.” [1 John 5:19]  Jesus said, “If you were of the world the world would love its own, but because you are not of the world, but  I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” [John 15:19

Apostle James, Jesus’ brother warned, “You adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” [James 4:4] Even Luke, in his depiction of Jesus’ temptation by the Devil writes , “And the Devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the Devil said onto him, All this power will I give unto thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whosoever I will I give it. If thou therefore will worship me, all shall be thine. [Luke 4:5-7]

Apostle Paul has collaborated with these Scripture by adding, “The God of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, less the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them and they should be saved.” [2 Corinthians 4:4] He told us that there is spiritual wickedness in high places, [Ephesians 6:12] but he went on to say that, “But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.” [Acts 20:24]

 Whatever happens here on earth it is our job to keep our mind and heart on the heavenly vision, to keep “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” [Hebrews 12:2] He will give us perfect peace if we keep our minds stayed on Him for we trust in Him. [Isaiah 26:3]

In the Psalms we read,  “The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.” [Psalm 115:16] God has given mankind free will. From our knowledge of Bible prophecy we know that mankind will not choose to follow God. Jesus has told us that many will choose the broad way that leads to destruction. [Matthew 7:13] Therefore, we can conclude that men may very well make the wrong the choices in their politics. Some believe that both political parties, either right or left, are controlled by the same financial and or spiritual powers who can and will manipulate either side for their desires and goals. In the book of Revelation we read, "for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived." [Revelation 18:23b ]

Apostle Paul wrote to his disciple Timothy saying, "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come"...(and) "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." [12 Timothy 3:1 & 13] But the time will come when God will need to step in and say “Stop the world!” He will come to “destroy them that destroy the earth.” [Revelation 11:18] It looks like things will get so bad in the future that mankind may even be ready to destroy itself, if God did not intervene. Like Jesus said, “Unless those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” [Matthew 24:23]


The verse summarizing on what our attitude should be toward the election results is found in Romans 8:28. “We know all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.” Each one of us have been called to His purpose. We heard His call and responded. We now have His purpose hidden in our hearts. We realize that God can and will bring good out of every  seemingly evil or bad situation we find ourselves in. In the Proverbs  we read, “The Lord has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” [Proverbs 16:4] God even has a plan for those that reject Him, though He has no pleasure in their death [Ezekiel 33:11] and would that they all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. [1 Timothy 2:4]  The Lord through Isaiah said, “I form light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” [Isaiah 45:7]

The Lord has given mankind free will. In order for free will to exist, the possibility of evil must exist. In order for true love to exist, free will must exist. True love is dependent on free will. God gave mankind free will knowing that man would abuse it and choose evil over good. But God knows how to teach us from our bad choices. He also has made provision for our bad choices by sending a solution to our problem, giving us a way of escape. He Himself came into humanity and lived the perfect life offering us the way of salvation if we would but take it.

So, yes, everything is ultimately in God’s control. He has given us free will to do as we please. But behind the scenes He is working quietly, secretly to woo us all to Himself. So, no matter who wins the election, the bad or the good, the better or the worse, the right or the wrong; God will let man make his own decisions, but ultimately He will use those decisions to accomplish His purpose . He is calling us all home to Himself, to His arms, to His command to love one another.

From our knowledge of Bible prophecy we know that mankind will not ultimately make the right decisions. Mankind will make the wrong decisions and end up in the hands of the Son of Perdition. [Revelation 13:4-8; 2 Thessalonians 2:3] We know we are moving closer and closer to the fulfilment of those end time prophecies. Many of us have studied the prophecies forty or more years. We know what to expect. We know those days of “Jacob’s trouble” or “Great Tribulation” will be difficult. But we also know that He will be with us and will be helping and empowering us in those evil days, and “the people who know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” [Daniel 11:32b]

Therefore, we can say with William Jennings Bryan: “I guess it really doesn’t matter who wins the election after all.” God is ultimately in control and will work things out for our good. God is with us. He will separate the sheep from the goats, [Matthew 25:32] the wheat from the tares on His return. [Matthew 13:24-30] He admonishes us to fear not [Isaiah 41:10] and keep about His Father’s business of winning hearts, souls, and minds into His kingdom. “Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord when He comes shall find so doing.” [Matthew 24:46] Jesus said, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life." [Revelation 2:10b]

God has declared “the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.” [Isaiah 46:10] Trust Him. He does have the whole world in His hands, and it will all work out in the end for good!

Post Script: I need to add a comment. That's not to say you shouldn't vote and that it doesn't matter. One party may very well be more in line with God's opinion than the others. Pray and ask God to show you what you should do. Evil men triumph often because good men do nothing. Don't be a do nothing-er, be do  good-er. One party may be less evil than the other. Ask God for discernment and vote in line with Biblical principles and not according which party will make you richer. 

In the end, our faith is in God, that He will save us and provide for us, not in a political party. However, one party may be better than the other and follow more closely the values we believe are important. For God's sake, follow God!



Sunday, November 8, 2020

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Friday, November 6, 2020

How Can You Grow Your Platform and Become One That Instructs Many?

 

Dennis Edwards

God’s word tells us that in the last days there shall be those among the people  who have understanding and they shall instruct many.[1] How can we, Christians who have lived a life of service for God and others, often on difficult mission fields with much personal sacrifice; how can we who have studied and followed God’s word faithfully since our youth; how can we prepare ourselves to fulfill Daniel’s prophecy?  How can we prepare ourselves to instruct many?

Some years ago the famous American billionaire Warren Buffet was asked what advice he would give to a young college student, or a young person in order to  enhance their prospect of success and leadership in the open market. How could a young person improve their CVC? What talent should they develop to increase their opportunities in the job market and their success and influence as a leader?

Buffet responded that the number one attribute that increases one’s leadership potential and financial rewards  is public speaking. He continued that if a young person seriously wanted to improve his or her potential to realize a greater position of leadership and a higher pay bracket then he or she would need to improve his or her’s ability in public speaking. Public speaking was the number one asset to increased job and leadership possibilities.

The famous financial wizard, public speaker, and writer George Barnard Shaw (1856 – 1950) in his autobiographic essay “How I became a public speaker,” wrote on his own personal difficulty with public speaking. In order to overcome his timidity, Shaw forced himself into situations where he had to speak publically. He joined various debating clubs and pushed himself to face his fear of speaking in publc. At first, he made a fool of himself, as we all will do. But over time, his nerves cooled, his mind calmed, and he became one of the most sought after public speaker of his day.

Yale University offers its students a course on public speaking as do many other universities. Yale’s professor on Public Speaking emphasizes in his beginning lecture  that the two most important ways to increase our platform and therefore our influence on others is through improving our ability to speak publicly and or improving our writing ability. Many people that today are public speakers started out by writing a book. When the book became successful, it helped to launch them into a speaking career.

Does God’s word have anything to say about public speaking? We know that our ability to speak publicly or even on YouTube or on the telephone can increase our platform and influence. Could our ability to reach more people with the Gospel message with today’s modern technology be a fulfillment of Jesus’ prediction that His followers would do “greater things” than He did?

In the New Testament we see Apostle Peter cowarding and denying Christ thrice. However, after waiting and receiving the infilling of the Holy Spirit, Peter’s speaking ability, his boldness, his conviction become  powerful. The Jews that persecuted him took knowledge that he, a simple fisherman, had been with Jesus. Many of those Jews received Peter’s message. Though he had no theological training and was unlearned and ignorant in the eyes of the Jewish Sanhedrin,  yet suddenly his public speaking ability matched that of the learned Scribes and Pharisees. Peter’s time spent with Jesus and the infilling of the Holy Spirit were the keys to his public speaking.

Other men of God have been afflicted with fear of public speaking. Moses was one who had a stammer, a speech impediment. The Lord told him not to fear, but to have faith and He would take care of his stammering. In Exodus 4:10-13  we read,

And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

But Moses didn’t believe. His fear of public speaking overtook him. God would have healed him had he believed. But Moses clung to his fear, and God was angry with him. Nevertheless, in compassion, God sent Aaron, Moses’ older brother,  to speak for him and be Moses’ voice to Pharoah.

The book of Acts records Apostle Paul’s successful public speaking encounters with Roman, Jewish, and Greek authorities. Nevertheless, in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians we see Paul refuting a belief held by some of the Corinthians that though “his letters … were weighty and powerful; …his bodily presence was weak, and his speech contemptible.”[2]

The Greeks had the tendency as maybe we all do to admire a man who spoke well especially if his physical appearance was becoming. Apostle Paul responded that “such as we are in word…such will we be also in deed when we are present.”[3] In other words, his speaking would be equal to his writing, and they were both powerful.

In the second part of Daniel chapter 11, which most Bible prophecy experts consider to be decribing the period of the Great Tribulation or “Jacob’s Trouble,” we find the words,

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many.[4]

God wants His people to be teachers instructing the world as many are deceived by the god of this world who has blinded their minds. How can we as God’s representatives “instruct many,” if we are not overcoming the common fear that many face, the fear of public speaking? Jesus has told us we will do greater things than He did. He told us that the baptism of the Holy Spirit would cause to flow out of our hearts rivers of living waters or waters that are flowing with life. Those waters are the words we speak, the words of God we speak to others. As Jesus has said,

 The words I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.[5]

The Lord has told us to open our mouth wide and that He would fill it.[6] He may send us a fellow companion like he sent Moses Aaron, but we should be overcoming our fears and becoming the powerful men and women of God He wants us to be. Powerful by being dependent and obedient to His still small voice that calls us to be a witness to all men.

In the Proverbs we read,

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.[7]

In other words, our happiness and fulfillment doesn’t come from a good meal, but from sharing God’s word with others. We should be seeking and finding more avenues to share God’s word with those in need. Otherwise, we will be miserable, like Apostle Paul wrote.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.[8]

Or like Jeremiah bemoaned,

But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.[9]

Let us, therefore,  do our best to overcome our fears and develop both our talent of speaking publicly and writing. Let us learn to use the new  technology for God’s advantage and to the spreading of His precious words to the lost and needy. Let us make blogs, YouTube channels, Facebook posts, or any of the many other ways to speak up and be heard.  Let us stand up for Jesus and let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father which is in heaven.[10]

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” ― William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) famous American orator and politician[11]


[1] Daniel 11:33

[2] 2 Corinthians 10:10b

[3] 2 Corinthians 10:11

[4] Daniel 11:33a

[5] John 6:63

[6] Psalm 81:10b

[7] Proverbs 18:20

[8] 1 Corinthians 9:16

[9] Jeremiah 20:9 NIV

[10] Matthew 5:16

[11] https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/310550.William_Jennings_Bryan

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