1Ki 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

Cutting," tattoos, peircings, self-mutilation, drugs, etc. All these things are among the most childish reactions to fear yet manifested among the children of men.

Nevertheless, they are an intelligent reaction to a corrupt and unfair society and the absurd inner loathing created by hatred of "normalcy" sold rather than lived.

I got into that subject quite a bit here: (bout halfway down the page...)

http://hometown.aol.com/almightyhishelp/

Anyway, today I thought I'd add a bunch of random notes and thoughts that have come to me during the past week or so...I like to jot things down while I'm doing chores around the house or errands and work, and then type them out later and add to them...I suppose many authors and writers work this way...Prophets and Preachers too...

Some Americans have a greater interest in keeping Kieth Richards alive than in providing for a new born's healthy living. There is something very evil about that.

I don't know what else to say about that, it's obscene and blatant and makes me think Charles Manson was an American Hero.

The funny and unfunny part of it all is that this country was founded by a small band of believing Christians-Puritans-The Real Israel/Jacob who came out of England (not Israel) and sought to escape religious prejudice, persecution and tyranny. They sought to separate themselves so as to practice religious freedom with the Real Liberty bestowed upon them by the Almighty.

I go into that quite a bit, here:

http://hometown.aol.com/ardentallegiant/

So the reason some American Christians have become so gung-ho about issues like marriage, politics, race and law, is because they are not really Christians at all, and want to draw attention away from the fact so that their children, God's Children, will not become wise to the fact that our everyday lives, from what we eat, to how we dress, what we drive and aspire to be and learn...all these things deny the Christ and the Gospel.

If even one American were a Christian, he would deny all marriages made in this country and deem them unholy. You ever see a person at the altar passing out during a wedding ceremony? I believe the Holy Spirit is abandoning them at the altar...

If we were for real, we would demand of ourselves and our nation that we start afresh, allowing the very people we wish to set an example for to lead, following Christ, the Children.

Mosiah 3:10-27

Behold, he standeth to judge the world; and behold, all these things are done that a righteous judgment might come upon the children of men.

For behold, and also his blood atoneth for the sins of those who have fallen by the transgression of Adam, who have died not knowing the will of God concerning them, or who have ignorantly sinned.

But wo, wo unto him who knoweth that he rebelleth against God! For salvation cometh to none such except it be through repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Lord God hath sent his holy prophets among all the children of men, to declare these things to every kindred, nation, and tongue, that thereby whosoever should believe that Christ should come, the same might receive remission of their sins, and rejoice with exceedingly great joy, even as though he had already come among them.

Yet the Lord God saw that his people were a stiffnecked people, and he appointed unto them a law, even the law of Moses.

And many signs, and wonders, and types, and shadows showed he unto them, concerning his coming; and also holy prophets spake unto them concerning his coming; and yet they hardened their hearts, and understood not that the law of Moses availeth nothing except it were through the atonement of his blood.

And even if it were possible that little children could sin they could not be saved; but I say unto you they are blessed; for behold, as in Adam, or by nature, they fall, even so the blood of Christ atoneth for their sins.

And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be no other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent.

For behold he judgeth, and his judgment is just; and the infant perisheth not that dieth in his infancy; but men drink damnation to their own souls except they humble themselves and become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent.

For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

And moreover, I say unto you, that the time shall come when the knowledge of a Savior shall spread throughout every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

And behold, when that time cometh, none shall be found blameless before God, except it be little children, only through repentance and faith on the name of the Lord God Omnipotent.

And even at this time, when thou shalt have taught thy people the things which the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, even then are they found no more blameless in the sight of God, only according to the words which I have spoken unto thee.

And now I have spoken the words which the Lord God hath commanded me.

And thus saith the Lord: They shall stand as a bright testimony against this people, at the judgment day; whereof they shall be judged, every man according to his works, whether they be good, or whether they be evil.

And if they be evil they are consigned to an awful view of their own guilt and abominations, which doth cause them to shrink from the presence of the Lord into a state of misery and endless torment, from whence they can no more return; therefore they have drunk damnation to their own souls.

Therefore, they have drunk out of the cup of the wrath of God, which justice could no more deny unto them than it could deny that Adam should fall because of his partaking of the forbidden fruit; therefore, mercy could have claim on them no more forever.

And their torment is as a lake of fire and brimstone, whose flames are unquenchable, and whose smoke ascendeth up forever and ever. Thus hath the Lord commanded me. Amen

I guess it basically comes down to what sort of courage one believes in that determines your final understanding of the Scriptures...To be a Christian, a willing follower of Jesus Christ, is the most courageous act one can attain to in All of Creation.

A lesser sort of courage would be in war, protecting the freedoms of the debtor to Christ and those willing to be practitioners ofthe former and greater sort of courage. It must be hard to be a debtor and the brand of courage it takes can often seem more worthy because it is hard and that is when it becomes unworthy; when it tries to become more important in the eyes of the innocent, for that destroys the whole reason for being courageous in that way in the first place, in that it destorys an innocent child's understanding of courage. Because it is a conscious decision as a grateful sinner unto the mercies of God to be a defender of the Right. If you betray that relationship by placing more worth upon your strength, honor, and courage to war, than upon the ulitmate sacrifice of your Lord and Saviour and upon a greater, higher heavenly nature, which knows not war, wrath or violence, you commit violence against your Creator, and are found guilty of a greater sin than that of your enemy and unworthy and ungrateful for the Atonement that grants you Liberty which is again different from "freedom." Because freedom to sin is slavery hard won which leads to insanity.

Then comes the time when all will hate the people of God, and will seek to destroy the righteous among them.

Heleman 13:24-37

Yea, wo unto this people, because of this time which has arrived, that ye do cast out the prophets, and do mock them, and cast stones at them, and do slay them, and do all manner of iniquity unto them, even as they did of old time.

And now when ye talk, ye say: If our days had been in the days of our fathers of old, we would not have slain the prophets; we would not have stoned them, and cast them out.

Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil.

But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say: Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth—and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet.

Yea, ye will lift him up, and ye will give unto him of your substance; ye will give unto him of your gold, and of your silver, and ye will clothe him with costly apparel; and because he speaketh flattering words unto you, and he saith that all is well, then ye will not find fault with him.

O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you? Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides? Yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light?

Yea, behold, the anger of the Lord is already kindled against you; behold, he hath cursed the land because of your iniquity.

And behold, the time cometh that he curseth your riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them.

And in the days of your poverty ye shall cry unto the Lord; and in vain shall ye cry, for your desolation is already come upon you, and your destruction is made sure; and then shall ye weep and howl in that day, saith the Lord of Hosts. And then shall ye lament, and say:

O that I had repented, and had not killed the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out. Yea, in that day ye shall say: O that we had remembered the Lord our God in the day that he gave us our riches, and then they would not have become slippery that we should lose them; for behold, our riches are gone from us.

Behold, we lay a tool here and on the morrow it is gone; and behold, our swords are taken from us in the day we have sought them for battle.

Yea, we have hid up our treasures and they have slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land.

O that we had repented in the day that the word of the Lord came unto us; for behold the land is cursed, and all things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them.

Behold, we are surrounded by demons, yea, we are encircled about by the angels of him who hath sought to destroy our souls. Behold, our iniquities are great. O Lord, canst thou not turn away thine anger from us? And this shall be your language in those days.

But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.

O ye people of the land, that ye would hear my words! And I pray that the anger of the Lord be turned away from you, and that ye would repent and be saved.

I was asked to leave Church last week for mopping the floor without Church Council approval, and they took out a police order against me barring me from attending services and entering the building because of "threatening" letters I wrote them...The threat was that I gave the Pastor one week to start improving or resign or I would start speaking with the Congregation during services.

Unbelievable level of cowardice. They've taken a "recess" during August to avoid confrontation altogether...I was seated outside this past Sunday trying to invite people to sign a petition to have the Church Council and Pastor ousted...No response yet, but I've been seen and remain hopeful for a future with this Church and Community. Strange, wonderful times we live in, and the most important part of every community across this nation is going to be the Church of that Community at last!

I'd like to post some letters I wrote them here but I feel it is inappropriate without their input and right to defend themselves...So far they refuse to meet with me, or even write back replying to my letters...

This Pastor is a rat, this past Sunday he introduced a possible new pastor, a woman, which I can't approve.

He's just so unchristian minded , it is obscene...He is an interim pastor, just there to take up space until they find a settled pastor. The last one was a woman, and she reigned for over twenty years and basically, singlehandedly ruined the Church and township.

Anyway, I'll keep folks who might be interested abreast of the situation as it progresses.

Any ideas and suggestion would be welcome in helping me deal with this...

Judg. 20: 7

Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

Keep da Faith...