Why Do Christians Disagree on Major Things (like POLITICS)? Part 1
OUTLINE:
Intro:
- when I was young I thought Christians were united on most of the major moral issues
- as I got older I realized that wasn't the case
- We need some objective evidence about the things we believe, to be sure they are not based on lazy thinking or our mere biases
- Can we dive down underneath our views to find out what makes those views?
- Some Christians don't resist evil because they have a theology that everything that happens must be God's will
- Some of those Christians might be helping to roll out the red carpet for the devil when he comes to eat our lunch (or eat our children)
The Two Commissions of Christ (or the Two Great Statements of Christ) should be the foundation for how we view the world (and how we see the thing we call "politics")
- These commissions are:
- be salt and light
- go into the world with the Gospel
We will talk about these more later, because they help undo the knot of our biases that ruin Christian unity and make us work against each other.
But there is a Bible principle even more fundamental that we should all agree on: FRUIT .
- If we are bond-slaves of Christ, our whole view of life should begin with the desire to bear fruit for the Master (John 15: 1-8)
- Is it possible that some of us "Christians" (in name) are not only NOT bearing good fruit, but actually bearing BAD fruit?
- If we produce bad fruit, we are worthless, in danger of being cursed, and in the end we will be "burned," Hebrews 6:8
- Many things are happening now in our culture, with abortion being the top example of this, that are attacking the children (64 million babies killed since 1973)
- If we don't "study (be diligent) to show ourselves approved unto God", we will fail to discern our times, and may be allowing, or even helping, God's enemies and thus producing bad fruit. (2 Timothy 2:15)
- Why were the people of Canaan targeted by God for special destruction? Because of their sacrifice of children! God destroyed them in Canaan through the children of Israel, and in Carthage (same people, different country) through the Romans.
- The children are being ravaged in our lifetime, on our watch -- are we offering any resistance?
- There are Christians who seem to think it muddies godliness and pure theology to even talk of anthing that could possibly be labeled political
Historical example: The conquering of Christian North Africa by Islam
Four Reactions by Christians to this invasion:
1) Conversion
2) Conciliation
3) Quiet protest
4) Loud protest (usuallty with martyrdom)
This is happening in our generation: we are being occupied by ideas that attack Christ. We are watching ...
1) Conversion: mainly through the schools :we are funding the schools to teach our kids to hate the things we love
2) Conciliation: Christians are joining groups that hate Christ, making alliances with them. This is not the same as being "salt and light" to those groups
3) Quiet protest: we begin to show real faithfulness to God; often very wise. But any protest is dangerous to our reputations and often our careers, so we don't protest a whole lot
4) Loud protest and martyrdom: this brings Persecution. This is happening to our brothers and sisters around the world; in the West, our martyrdom starts with our characters being attacked.
St. Paul gave Timothy a litmus test for godliness in (at least) a group of believers in a region: if they are not getting persecuted (ever), they may not be godly because "all who desire to live godly in Christ will suffer persecution" (2 Timothy 3:12)
During the time of COVID, we saw persecution against people who spoke against the agenda of the powerful. It's not merely being "Christian" that gets people persecuted: it's opposing the agenda of the powerful. Even for the early Christians in Rome, it was their political non-compliance that got them killed, not the mere fact that they were worshiped someone called "Christ".
REVIEW:
- We don't want to bear "thorns and thistles", we don't want to be cursed and burned. Rather, we want to produce good fruit!
- God has a tender love for children and children are being attacked hard by evil in our day.
- Do we fail to oppose those who are destroying children because of our politics, our bias, our theology?
- If we fail to oppose the Evil One destroying children, or even help him in some way, we are producing bad fruit.
- Are we ancient North Africa in our day, allowing darkness to come over our land, on our watch? (If so, we should repent!)
NEXT TIME:
There is a way for believers to go deeper than our bias and stop getting these things wrong, and stop believing things for flimsy reasons, and start being courageous and producing only good fruit -- and it's based on the biblical theme of Grace and Truth. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Introducing Courage Prayer Cells
Contact me @ timintheark@protonmail.com
PLEASE SHARE THE LINK TO THIS VIDEO WITH ANYONE YOU WANT TO INVITE TO JOIN OR LEAD A COURAGE PRAYER CELL.
This idea can be done via Zoom, Facetime, simple conference call, or however works best, any time of the week your cell chooses
* Introductory comments: (0:00 - 0:35)
* The Great Division in the Church: whether or not we expect an apocalypse and a literal Second Coming. (0:35 - 2:14)
* Summary of the alternative view (the liberal view) that reinterprets end-times expectations: (2:14 - 3:01)
* Our view: the dual nature of Prophecy -- that there can be a near-fulfillment and a far-fulfillment -- portends hard times to come, days like Noah's (3:01 - 3:30)
* The Happy Naive (liberal) View -- that Jesus doesn't need to return to fight evil because the Gospel has already converted the world -- is a problem (3:30 - 4:50)
* THIS invitation is for the group that EXPECTS His Return, and knows the world will get darkest just before the Dawn (4:50 - 5:42)
* Watching for His Return ACTIVELY not passively, to protect our children and fight back against the Dragon (5:42 - 6:43)
* Persecution and battle is an honor for those who are "godly" (2 Tim 3:12), who oppose money and power; not for just any "Christian" (6:43 - 9:00)
Nuts and Bolts of What a Courage Prayer Cell is:
* Ways the church of our era needs to mature in prayer (9:00 - 9:39)
* Explanation of the name "Courage Prayer Cells" and qualifications for participation (9:39 - 11:34)
* How to build a wide network that we'll call The Ark: Join our Telegram page (email me at timintheark@protonmail.com)! (11:35 - 11:54)
* The Seven-Point DNA of a Courage Prayer Cell (11:55 - 14:22)
1) 5-10 members then branch off to another group
2) pray every week
3) constantly be seeking to grow in numbers (then branch off)
4) 4 categories of prayer:
a) souls
b) each other
c) global / national "mountains" (Mark 11:23-24)
d) local "mountains"
5) right length meeting (usually 30-45 minutes)
6) Turn prayers into ACTION: every first meeting of the month, the leader asks the group if the Lord has inspired anything VISIBLE to come from the hidden seed of their prayers in this past month; consider sharing some of these battles on our Ark Telegram page
7) find agreement in prayer, when there is disagreement, by diving into the Word and Spirit and praying more generally, but also take note if a person just isn't seeing the approaching storms. The Spirit is the Teacher (John 14:17) , and His children coming together in unity and in good faith will be transformed by the Spirit as they pray and obey.
* Concluding thought and prayer (14:22 - 15:28)
Which group's treatment protocol do YOU want when you're sick?
This simple thought experiment is a quick comparison of the specs of ...
a) The kind of medicine most of us are getting in the hospitals, Fauci's NIH protocols
and
b) The kind of protocols offered by physicians who are made just a bit different
After hearing the major characteristics of each, which do you think is more scientific?
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Is Omicron SCARY for the world, or just another global-gov't power-grab?
Credit to the talk "Omicron Predictions" by Dr. John Campbell 12/17/21, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T6C-2FNy8I; six of the last 8 slides in this presentation are pulled directly from his talk; this evidence review draws from his but emphasizes the UK less and goes in some different directions
References:
- The "highlighted-up" discussion on omicron discussed at the end of this talk is here: https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-fully-vaccinated-also-unsafe-against-omicron-new-oxford-study-makes-big-claim-2923923
- VAERS system and its unprecedented, record-shattering numbers of vax-associated side effects and deaths: https://openvaers.com/covid-data
- Dr. Peter McCullough, world's #1 voice on early sequential therapy: https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-mccullough-report/
- Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance, the champions of ivermectin: https://covid19criticalcare.com/
- interview with Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche 11/18/21 warning us not to vaccinate in the midst of a pandemic, that doing so is courting catastrophe (this eminent vaccine developer has been warning of this all year, and he's been proven right with the emergence of delta): https://ugetube.com/watch/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree-geert-vanden-bossche-11-18-21_hsAOZ8GTOuYMCLF.html
- UK's Nat'l Health Service on ending their free Vit. D distribution program: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/people-at-higher-risk/free-vitamin-d-supplements-for-people-at-high-risk/
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We can blame those heart attacks -- on anything but those Covey-vaks!
Thanks to a Telegram page to be named later for the tip on this one. The references are:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/physical-activity-may-increase-heart-attack-risk-study-suggests-1.4679205
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/why-are-heart-attacks-becoming-common-among-seemingly-fit-people/articleshow/87515634.cms
https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/health/cold-weather-and-heart-attack-reasons-and-prevention/2375729/
A hint of what the world is piecing together regarding this very unusual year for seemingly very healthy athletes dying inexplicably, in totally unprecedented numbers, it here:
https://rumble.com/vpno1d-athletes-collapsing-all-over-the-world.html
Psalm 139
A Psalm of David
All the days that were written for me
Were already recorded in Your Book
Before even one of them came to be
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COVID Update Episode #1: Ron Johnson's Panel (intro)
Sen. Johnson seems to be one of the people in DC who has not lost his soul. His Expert Panel deserves wide wide distribution, but is very hard to find on a search engine. It begins here at 30:40.
https://rumble.com/vokrf7-sen.-johnson-expert-panel-on-federal-vaccine-mandates.html
This video summarized Sen. Johnson's intro, especially in three powerful points that he highlights, being denied by our policy-makers: (full notes included):
1) the fact that the vaccines are not preventing COVID infection or death, which really begs the question of whether they should be called vaccines
2) the way natural immunity makes the vaccines both moot and often more dangerous than they already are
3) vaccine injuries
Enjoy! Comments welcome.
MY FULL NOTES AS FOLLLOWS:
Review of Senator Ron Johnson's Expert Panel on Federal Vaccine Mandates
He invited the following personages to his panel: none of these showed up
- heads of the CDC, Sec. of Def., Sec. of Labor, Sec. of Transportation, FDA director Woodcock, HHS Sec. Becerra, NIAID Dir. Fauci, NIH Dir. Collins, and CEOs of Moderna, J&J, Pfizer / BioNTech
3 Realities that our policy-makers are denying:
1) the fact that the vaccines are not preventing COVID infection or death, which really begs the question of whether they should be called vaccines
UK (b/c we don't have good data in the US):
- last 7.5 mos; 80% of COVID cases are vaccinated
- 63% of deaths from COVID: fully vaccinated
- last 4 weeks: 78% delta deaths fully vaccinated
2) Natural Immunity
- the way that natural immunity protects people from COVID better than vaccination does
- natural immunity has been recognized for every vaccine program in the past but somehow gets no recognition for this one
- vax recipients are more likely to be injured by the vaccines if they have already been exposed to COVID and have that natural immunity
3) Vaccine injuries
VAERS (CDC's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, the only safety signal we have): comparison (apples to apples) with flu vaccine VAERS data over the past 25.75 years:
- total adverse events for flu vaccines : 193,712 (7596 per year), for COVID 818,044 = 108x the per-year average, and over 4x the 25-year total.
- deaths for flu vaccines: 1996 (78 per year), for COVID 17,128 = 220x the per-year average, and over 8x the 25-yr total.
- And with these kinds of numbers, the CDC is calling the shots "safe and effective" and spending our tax dollars to saturate us with billboards and ads saying our kids are irreplaceable so they should get this vaccine.
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Introducing The Ark
PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO WITH TRUSTED PEOPLE ONLY.
This is a first time video from one of the founders of The Ark. If you are a lover of Liberty who hasn't joined us yet, and would like to, or if you are already on The Ark and willing to join a work group, please email me: timintheark@protonmail.com (NEW EMAIL I STARTED SINCE MAKING THIS VIDEO).
Scroll to the bottom past all the footnotes for a list of work groups that we'd love to see formed in The Ark ("HOW YOU CAN JOIN AND HELP ").
Here are references for some of the things I've stated in this video:
0:30, "Police State"; clearly using the force of law to eject people from their jobs and careers is the ominous beginnings of a police state, but not the nightmare (yet) that we are seeing Down Under.
0:50 "Limited in their effectiveness"
A) the "vaccine's" efficacy is clearly lacking in the age of delta variant
i) Israeli data: although ~80% of the population is injected, ~80% of the COVID cases are breakthrough cases (email me for the chart) *
ii) a number of other countries also reporting high numbers of breakthrough cases
iii) estimates of Pfizer's efficacy currently around 40%; protection for <1y, and reaching to below the 50% threshold, defines a failed vaccine
iv) the amount of public confidence in this drug, compared with its extremely brief period of efficacy, is unprecedented
v) two studies show that fully vaccinated people can harbor COVID in the nostrils, looking well and easily passing COVID to others*
1) 251x (Vietnam study, Chau et al) compared to unvaccinated people in the pre-delta era* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733
2) 1000x (China study, Li et al) the viral load of COVID in the nostrils compared to unvaccinated people in the pre-delta era*
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.07.21260122v2
B) Project Salus Study (Massive A.I.-driven Cohort study by DoD / Humetrix) on Vaccine Efficacy presented 9/28/21: *
i) Characteristics:
a) part of a U.S. DoD study
b) called "Effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against the Delta variant among 5.6M Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older"
c) study data covered 5.6 million vaccinated Medicare beneficiaries (2.7 million with Pfizer and 2.9 million with Moderna)
d) January to Aug 21, 2021
e) 4/5 of Medicare recipients (16M out of 20M) were age 65 and over
ii) Results
a) 161,000 breakthrough infections (~2.9% of the cohort)
b) 33,000 breakthrough hospitalizations (0.6^ of the whole cohort; 20.5% of those infected!)
c) 10,400 breakthrough ICU admissions (0.2% of the cohort; 6.5% of the breakthrough infections; 31.5% of breakthrough hospitalizations)
iii) General Findings of interest
a) bulk of COVID-19 infections occurring among the fully vaccinated
b) projected outcomes for this cohort worsen over time
c) by month six, vaccine protection wanes considerably for both Pfizer and Moderna
d) the older the Medicare beneficiary, the weaker the mRNA vaccine is in protecting the person against breakthrough hospitalization
iv) Specific findings of interest
a) 71% of all COVID-19 cases by August were of vaccinated people
b) Breakthrough infection rates 5-6 months post-vaccination are twice as high as 3-4 months post-vaccination
c) impact of age: "Age has a minor contribution to the reduced vaccine protection seen in the group vaccinated 5-6 months ago"
d) As vaccine immunity wanes, Moderna affords greater protection than Pfizer
e) the vaccines do a better job of protecting against hospitalization than against infection;
1) hence the virus still spreads
2) vaccinated individuals therefore offer, TrialSite suggests, a potential viral reservoir for variant evolution
v) Summary (by TrialSite News):
"The data herein suggest that President Joe Biden’s claim that this pandemic is one of the “unvaccinated” is an outright falsity. "
*ref: https://trialsitenews.com/project-salus-study-5-6m-vaccinated-medicare-beneficiaries-waning-mrna-vaccine-effectiveness-raises-questions/
0:59 "dangerous" new pharmaceuticals: www.openvaers.com speaks for itself;
see also: Classen B. US COVID-19 Vaccines Proven to Cause More Harm than Good Based on Pivotal Clinical Trial Data Analyzed Using the Proper Scientific Endpoint, “All Cause Severe Morbidity”. Trends Int Med. 2021; 1(1): 1-6. (accessed 10/6/21 via https://newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/us-covid19-vaccines-proven-to-cause-more-harm-than-good-based-on-pivotal-clinical-trial-data-analyzed-using-the-proper-scientific-1811.pdf )
1:05 : Physician intimidation:
https://www.fsmb.org/advocacy/news-releases/fsmb-spreading-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-may-put-medical-license-at-risk/
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-apha-ashp-statement-ending-use-ivermectin-treat-covid-19
1:14 : "doctored studies that framed good drugs as bad drugs, even to the point of killing people with toxic doses of otherwise good and safe drugs"
Attacks on Hydroxychloroquine HCQ, accompanied by human casualties
1) HCQ reputation marred in The Lancet by fraudulent, later-retracted Solidarity study arm w/ fabricated data from Surgisphere, 5/22/20
2) WHO's Solidarity trial testing HCQ w/ doses 4x higher than std dosage (ex: India) - result was inc. mortality on HCQ
- WHO: 1600mg first day, 9600mg total in 11 days vs India: 800mg first day, 2400mg over 5 days
3) UK's Recovery Trial (funded by B&M Gates Foundation) testing HCQ w/ first day doses 3x higher than std. on day 1, ~4x higher total
- Recovery: first day doses every 6 hours: 800mg + 800 + 400 + 400 ; then 400mg twice daily x 9 days
- mortality rate in COVID patients seen by Dr. Raoult in France with his HCQ protocol (600mg QD x 10 days): 0.75%, all over age 74
- Recovery trial mortality rate: 34x higher ; its conclusion: HCQ is ineffective and dangerous for use in COVID-19
- Recovery trial used the same high loading dose for all, rather than the standard weight-based dosing; in the protocol's words:
"No dose adjustment is required for weight based on the doses defined in this protocol."
- Recovery trial: did not evaluate HCQ in its therapeutic niche: early disease; rather, it was used on already-very-sick hospitalized patients
- "The Solidarity trials are not ... testing the benefits of HCQ on Covid-19, but rather are testing whether patients survive toxic, non-therapeutic doses."
- essentially, it seems 396 patients were murdered in this "clinical trial" with the result that HCQ was removed from the COVID formulary
4) Quoting Dr. Meryl Nass's detailed analysis of Recovery AND Solidarity Trials
- in UK Recovery Trial, AND in WHO Solidarity trial, HCQ used in non-therapeutic and potentially lethal dose
- HCQ is further being given, in clinical trials, too late in the disease course to determine its value against SARS-CoV-2
- Collection of limited safety data in Solidarity Trials serves to protect investigators and sponsors from disclosure or expected AEs (like death)
- it appears WHO has tried to hide info on the HCQ doses used in the Solidarity Trials (which is nonetheless discoverable from registries)
- Conclusions (frightening):
# sponsors of these trials, and of WHO, heavily support HCQ's more expensive competitors, and vaccines; HCQ trials designed to fail?
^ in so doing, these agencies and charities have de facto conspired to increase the number of deaths in these trials
* in so doing, they have conspired to deprive billions of people from potentially benefiting from a safe, inexpensive drug in a pandemic
+ this might contribute to prolongation of the pandemic, massive economic losses, and many increased cases & deaths
5) Solidarity Trial ended 6/13/20, 2 days after Dr. Nass's tweet 6/11/20 to WHO Dir. Tedros, inquiring re: doses, & liabilities to damaged patients
3:03 "globalist coup"; very good summary of this problem in this book length treatise: COVID-19 And the Global Predators, We Are the Prey https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Global-Predators-are-Prey-ebook/dp/B09GVWYWYK
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HOW YOU CAN JOIN AND HELP
As you think about the broad categories of out-reach and in-reach, you may be already thinking of different ways you can help. I'll give you a few examples here to jog your mind:
OUTREACH TEAMS might be the following:
- Prayer team, to make sure The Lord is building the house, and the laborers are not laboring in vain
- Evangelism team, to make it clear that it's normal for us who bring truth to love our neighbors enough to also bring grace, and it's normal for those whose focus is grace to have enough courage to also bring truth
- helping people run for political office or school board
- smokin' out the bad politicians
- conducting live protests
- Phone Call / Email activism
- Educating the community out of the massive medical ignorance going on
- Educating the politicians
- Educating pastors and church boards on the real science
- Leading boycotts of businesses that discriminate against the unvaccinated
- Leading "buycotts" of friendly businesses
- Reaching out to new members
- Reviewing the Science as it evolves, to keep each other well armed with good information
- Staying strong on the school boards, until the schools deliver education again to the children, rather than propaganda
- School Boards pressure team: talk to Victor and Mary Read (PM Tim Potter and I'll put you in touch with them)
- Coordinating with state and national political efforts, to make sure we all add our clout to whatever's going on out there
INREACH TEAMS might be the following:
- Team for looking out for people in need
a) starting Give/Send/Go pages for them (this has been done once! Talk to Donnie Granger)
b) general awareness and calls to help ; our community of believers, like the First Century Church, should become a place in which "there is no need among us"
- news / education specialist: a Channel devoted to "the essentials that we all MUST know," interview summaries, etc. would be so helpful
- Legal Guidance CHANNEL:
- Medical Guidance Channel-- Does everybody know where to get good medical help? They can and should!
- Health and Healing Channel -- contact Janelle; COVID is teaching us that our diet and daily habits are key to our health and survival; this team is passionate about coaching for that!
- Education / Inclusion of YOUTH (very very important but easy to forget about!)
- Networking for mutual support & trust (coordinating sharing of advice, relationships, microfinance, trade, work / commerce)
- Preppers teaching us how to survive and network if and when things get REALLY hard.
I know this is a broad-based strategy, really an "umbrella" of sorts (no pun intended), but remember, our strategy is to build a community that will outlast whatever storm is coming. We will have to love God through Christ, more than we love anyone, and we will have to love each other and work together, not just now, but forever, in ever-widening circles of both small group interaction and nation-wide and world-wide coordination. Ultimately, we are just trying to be the community of servants of the King that Jesus told us to be. We realize we have been asleep for too long -- time to wake up!
Psalm 91 Memory Song
My daughter and I sing Psalm 91 to original music -- our mission is to help as many people memorize these precious promises as possible. Live verses 1-2 (hint: you'll find that "secret place" in the Messiah), then boldly claim the rest!
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