Armageddon

We're in the midst of the battle of Armageddon, which can be discerned if you have faith, and the ability faith gives to see into the spiritual realm.

Armageddon is a general term for the final confrontation between the forces of Anti-Christ and the people of God. It can mean the battle for God's mountain, which is metaphorical, for the battle takes place over the entire world.

Satan is unloosed and given ability to deceive the nations (unite them under one banner; that banner being globalism which has brought Islam and Marxism under its banner, the two biggest fronts Satan has deployed in history).

This action has now enveloped western Europe and the English speaking countries, historically the heart of Christianity and God's people and the defense of Christianity and God's people. Islam and Marxism hadn't been able to overrun these areas as they are now doing under the banner of globalism.

Decadence, murder, and lies are the usual stench of this Satanic movement, the goal of which is to kill God's people and to defeat God Himself.

Sin is irrational to its core, and Satan and his spiritual children are the most irrational of all.

God's people are to stand and confront Satan, and in this act to call out the final number of God's elect; until the return of the just and warrior King, Jesus Christ.

The love of money - the King James Version got that verse right

10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:10

Promoters of the modern translations of the Bible say the King James Version got this verse wrong. They say there are other motivations for evil other than money. They're being typically shallow. God is talking about consummate evil and the progression of consummate evil. God is talking about the progression of Satanic temptation into ultimate evil.

This is the progression:

1. The temptation to accrue riches (and not take a lifetime of labor to do it). I.e. to get rich fast. This is a temptation to stealing and all manner of financial corruption.

(I'm going to use Bill and Hillary Clinton and Karl Marx as examples.) In this initial stage Bill and Hillary used their power in the governor's mansion in Arkansas to scam as much money as possible. The cattle futures scheme is a good little example. Meanwhile Karl Marx, in this initial stage, was lobbying money from rich elderly lady dupes to finance his project to empower the working man. Basically hanging out with rich people to keep him from doing any labor.

2. At this stage they are drawn into Satanic religion and ritual.

Seems unconnected, you say? This is a progression Satan puts people on ("...they have erred from the faith" as the quoted verse says.) It starts with money. That loosens the morals, desensitizes and begins to sear the conscience. Bill and Hillary now in the cocktail and dog collar environment of Georgetown yellow tooth extreme wealth get togethers. Hillary's good friends with Lynn de Rothchild all of the sudden. Oh, the headiness of it. And what comes with that? Contact with the generational bloodlines of Satanic religion and ritual. Meanwhile, out of nowhere, Karl Marx is writing odes to Satan. Actual poetry giving himself over to Satan. He just started hanging with the right sort is all. (The depths of stage 1 and 2 become hallucinogenically evil. They involve stealing wealth from the poorest of the earth and the most unconscionable acts against infants and children.)

3. The third stage involves working for Satan to bring tyranny upon people. Ultimately upon the world.

Bill and Hillary at this stage become globalists, justifying the most treasonous of acts to destroy America and American liberty as all they do no longer having any meaning within the context of United States law. Karl Marx, meanwhile, is busy drawing up a political philosophy designed to enslave people in Satanic bonds and ultimately to murder as many people as possible to feed the Kingdom of Satan.

So now we can see how the King James Version had it right. The *root* of *all evil* (consummate evil) is the love of money (the temptation to accumulate easy money by whatever means).

The KJV carries the deep meaning. If you question it, fine, but entertain the possibility it is your own current lack of understanding that is the problem.

3 types of money laundering

Here are three types of money laundering.

1. The first type is when you want to steal public money out of a treasury or something similar. You can't just take it. It has to have a reason to leave the treasury. Remember in the 1980s hearing about 600 dollar toilet seats? It was presented as a sort of comical example of ordinary government inefficiency. What it really was was money laundering. To get money out of the treasury the criminals use third party vendors (like companies that manufacture things that the Dept. of Defense needs). The criminals (politicians, political appointees, lobbyists, etc.) tell the third party vendors to massively overcharge for their products, then these companies give the money back to the criminals in the form of campaign contributions and other means that they've made legal.

2. The second type is when you have made money illegally like in drug trafficking and you then have to integrate that actual paper cash back into the financial grid without getting caught doing it. The first example of how this is done, in the past and still today, is casinos. It's been said that Las Vegas was built by the mob (and the CIA) to be a massive money laundering machine. The cash is taken in as purported anonymous gambling losses and re-enters the financial system that way. The second example is fake small businesses that pretend to have customers and fake their books to make it look that way but really just exist to launder money.

3. The third type is when you have to pay people who aren't officially working for you. The neocon blood-for-money endless war racket has this problem. They make money with specialized hedge funds. (Hedge funds are like mutual funds for the rich. Because their clientele are wealthy they don't have to follow laws that ordinary mutual funds have to follow. They can short stocks, for instance and do more exotic types of trading.) These hedge funds are heavily invested in military related companies and thus increase in value when troops are deployed or when actual wars get ginned up. For this to happen neocons have to destabilize countries and regions of the world. A big thing to have to do, so they hire former politicians and high level appointees, bribe world leaders and other people of influence, promise lucrative retirements to active military leaders, and on and on. They also pay media platforms and individual journalists to run propaganda for them to get these endless military enterprises going. Once the blood has been spilled and it's time to disperse the blood money they do it with a type of money laundering. In their case it is done via speaking fees for their famous political types who have been working for them. It is not unusual for one of them to be paid over $100,000 for one speech. Even a quarter million if need be. The box office at these contrived events never match such fees, but no matter. Nobody is really paying attention anyway. They work with agencies that book such events and with venues. Everybody makes money and is happy. They also do book deals where they hire a ghost writer to write some kind of memoir or something for a general or former Secretary of State or whatever, get the publisher to advance a large amount that the hedge fund covers, and then the hedge fund even buys numerous copies of the book to make sure the publishing company gets paid. They also make contributions to magazines run by journalists who produce propaganda for the neocon cause. They also contribute to political action committees set up by their various helpers, and for the low level journalists they provide $10,000 speaking fees for a short jaunt to somewhere in Iowa where the low level journalist gives a speech to three people in a Holiday Inn banquet room.

8th dedicated, complete reading of the Bible, AV1611

(Begun Feb. 12, '18 - Finished Apr. 5, '18)

Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth ISamuel IISamuel IKings IIKings IChronicles IIChronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans ICorinthians IICorinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians IThessalonians IIThessalonians ITimothy IITimothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James IPeter IIPeter IJohn IIJohn IIIJohn Jude Revelation

By dedicated I mean a cover-to-cover reading done in a not desultory manner. That doesn't necessarily mean as fast as possible. It can mean a single chapter a day, which would take a long time, but the discipline of doing a chapter a day and keeping it up would make it a dedicated effort in my definition. I, of course, usually do my complete readings much faster. The fastest was a 66 day effort, about 20 chapters a day. It strained my eyes. The longest, if I recall correctly, took about a year and a half. Most were in the five to nine month range. This 8th reading will be the fastest probably because I'm reading along with the Max McLean recording on the YouVersion app, and in some chapters I'm going at 1.25X speed. I've never been good at paying attention to an audio book. My mind wanders and I miss large sections, but with this I am reading the text along with the recording.

Paradise Opened

Haven't read it, but I suspect this book may be an under-the-radar great book on covenant theology.

The trinity of crime of the Devil's children

The political class centered in the baby boomer generation, worthless to its core, decided a good way to spend their time and energy was to figure out myriad ways to steal money from local, state, and federal treasuries in our trillion dollar economy. I.e. from tax payers. Including future tax dollars in the form of debt.

Once these crimes became second nature Satan led them into deeper spiritual darkness.

They discovered Satanic religion and ritual. Much of it involving children and infants. Innocence.

Then, to complete it all, they gave themselves over to attempting to impose tyranny over people; especially God's people in God's historical nations.

1. Money corruption
2. Satanism and its associated crimes against children
3. Tyranny

Money led the way. The love of money is the root of all evil, somebody said...

To increase understanding

To increase understanding you have to increase capacity for understanding.

First, to get understanding you need sources, or the substance for understanding. Higher influences. Time-vetted truths. Experience as well. Language is a good general way to see these influences. Language suggests something deeper than surfacy knowledge. Language can be the inner higher visual meaning in an epic poem like the Iliad or the Odyssey. Language can be all that is involved in a hands-on trade, like brick laying, or gardening or commercial fishing or farming. There is metaphor in the actions of these things, and understanding gained in the experience of the process involved in doing them. Understanding can be found in great works of literature where truth has reached a summation and been articulated well. The Bible obviously is the beyond-summit engrafted temple of wisdom.

Music is a language as well.

An aside: you have to recognize the unity of truth. Unity of truth is an old phrase that has gone out of the language. It means truth is not relative, or subjective, and doesn't evolve (or change) over time. For instance the truths of human nature are as true today as at any time of the past since the fall of man. The truths of the ways of the world are the same. Customs and traditions and mores may be different from one era or culture to another, but truth is eternal.

So to then increase this understanding in yourself you need to increase your capacity for understanding. Think of your capacity as a glass that can only hold so much water. At a certain point any more water will just be wasted as it spills over the top. To hold more understanding you have to become a bigger glass.

This is described in an old formula: understanding equals knowledge plus being (understanding = knowledge + being).

Not just knowledge, but knowledge plus level of being.

This is why intellectuals and philosophers throughout history are often incredibly stupid (dangerously, murderously, demonically stupid). They are solely knowledge with little level of being.

How do you increase your level of being? By provoking your limits so as to then extend your limits. For instance, engaging influences (like books) that are just above your current level of understanding, and activities that are just outside your current circle of interests. Also, not just being developed intellectually, or emotionally (i.e. creatively), or physically, but to get developed in all three areas of your being. Put simply, be a book reader, a musician, and an athlete. This ideally is what happens in a school environment, but it ultimately has to be self-motivated and minus the solely worldly goal.

There are other categories of activity that increase level of being. The Bible presents them. Loving your enemy is one (a command that itself requires understanding to know what it actually means). All the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels (and of course the entire word of God) that is of the nature of something you do. Things that take effort to get better at. Going against the features of your fallen nature. Cultivating the features of your new nature as a regenerated follower of Christ.

This language of progressive sanctification can also be learned from secondary, or even secular works, separating the wheat from the chaff. Stoic philosophy gets close to Christian teachings in ancient sources such as Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius. I use the language called the Fourth Way which I believe was best written (or spoken) out by P. D. Ouspensky in his book the Fourth Way. Ideas, practices, goals of inner, spiritual development. Always requiring Christian discernment (the Spirit of discernment) and a standard to judge all by (the word of God itself).

So when you make these efforts to increase level of being you then are able to increase understanding because you have greater capacity for understanding.