Old Wives Tales :: By The Gospelist

There have been many myths that have struggled to become reality throughout human history.

There are numerous examples, such as ‘Islam is a religion of peace,’ Democrats care about the poor,’ and the Jews are colonizers who stole the land from the ‘Palestinians,’ just to name a few.

For several centuries, it has been debated whether humans can spontaneously combust and turn into ash. The idea is that a person can burst into flames from the inside rather than being lit on fire by some outside source.

It seems that the first suspected account of spontaneous combustion dates back to 1641. After that, Charles Dickens used the concept to kill off one of his characters in his novel Bleak House.

When Dickens was criticized for trying to legitimize an imaginary and ludicrous event, he pointed to anecdotal evidence of about thirty people to whom this allegedly happened. In his defense, there were various professionals who could not explain how these people burned to death.

Of course, this concept is dubious since the human body is composed primarily of water. One would have to reach an extremely high temperature to burn up from the inside.

The fact that people tend to die when their bodies reach about 108 degrees makes reaching the necessary temperature extremely unlikely.

Spontaneous combustion was one of those silly myths that just could not stand up to scrutiny.

In ancient times, there was another myth surrounding why women would become frantic periodically. In ancient Greece, it was believed that when women reached an uncontrollable emotional state, called hysteria, this was due to a wandering or discontented uterus.

It was believed by the greatest minds of the day that the uterus would wander around the body, like a hungry animal, in search of semen.

If it made its way to the throat, it could cause choking. If it went to the rib cage, it could cause chest pain or shortness of breath.

The cure for this was as ridiculous as the explanation.

The remedy for hysteria required sexual stimulation to coax the uterus back to its original position. It was recommended that marriage, intercourse, and pregnancy serve as treatment for the semen-hungry uterus.

Leave it to a guy to come up with that diagnosis and treatment.

Recently, it seems that we have survived another summer of climate change hysteria after fall and winter have coaxed us all back to sanity.

We were warned by the climate alarmists that the world would experience floods, wildfires, tropical storms, drought, food crisis, water shortage, displacement, and conflict if we did not severely alter our lives.

The bought-and-paid-for pseudo-science was clear: the planet is heating up, and we are causing it.

There is only one fix for this monumental problem.

We must give up our way of life, return to a more primitive means of existence, and turn our freedom and prosperity over to extremely wealthy, demonic people who consider us vermin. They can then lock us in cages, or fifteen-minute cities, and dispose of us at their leisure.

As far as I am concerned, even if climate change were real, its consequences would be preferable to what the evil Globalists have planned for us.

The mass hysteria brought about by the State-run media (i.e., the mainstream media and social media) was non-stop until the weather started to change.

We will have to wait for spring of next year before we must listen to this nonsense again.

We learned from those who suppress the truth (a.k.a. the press) that July 4, 2023, was the “hottest day ever.”

It was awfully hot that day, but we do not know if it was the “hottest day ever” because our records do not go back that far. It is possible that July 4th, between 1930 and 1936, could have been hotter, at least in some places.

There was certainly a devastating drought that was not brought about by ‘climate change.’

Now that winter is here, it looks like it will be getting cold again.

It will be interesting to see how the reprobate minds attempt to spin this into more evidence of ‘climate change.’

In the meantime, they are now following up on all their climate hysteria with the COP28 conference. They need to keep the fires going until the spring.

There is no question that it was hot this year, but there are other explanations as to why this may have been the case. For instance, the heart of humanity is growing more rebellious against God on a daily basis.

We had just come out of a ‘Mock God’ event in June, and it is possible that God was trying to send a message. Perhaps the heat was a reminder of what God has in store for the Godless celebrants of this month if they do not repent.

If there is a spiritual explanation, it is a safe bet that the wrong conclusions will be proclaimed by our ‘religious leaders.’ We are guaranteed plenty of ‘interfaith dialogue’ as the religions of the world come together to solve this imaginary crisis created by the evil Globalists.

Many devout religious institutions are joining even now to guide us down the primrose path of climate responsibility. The United Religions Initiative, the Parliament of World Religions, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and the United Nations Environment Program have all joined forces to save us from imaginary destruction.

And let’s not forget about the most powerful religious institution on the planet, the Vatican, and its role in this great awakening. Even now, the Marxist Pope Francis is radicalizing the Catholic Church to become a major force in this endeavor.

All he must do is purge the Catholic ranks of those who hold Scripture in high regard. Then, he will more easily be able to turn this institution against faithful Christians for old times’ sake.

Each Catholic church around the country can be converted into a collective devoted to battling the evil forces of the ‘climate deniers.’ They can then stage attacks at the local level against anyone who denies their new religion.

With the backing of the evil Globalists, we will be handed over, persecuted, and put to death for our faith in Christ. After all, Jesus failed to warn us against the catastrophe of climate change and, therefore, is unworthy to serve as Savior.

He should have been more concerned about saving the earth than saving us from our sins.

It is becoming clearer what the false prophets will be proclaiming while people of faith are being persecuted. They will not be announcing the soon return of Christ. Instead, they will be warning of the pending judgment of Gaia.

The unholy communion of Globalists and the Vatican have joined together to unveil their public online resource ‘tools for change.’ This manuscript is the ‘bible’ for ‘faith leaders’ and organizations across the world to address the fictional horrors of climate change.

Using these tools, they expect to reach ‘carbon neutrality’ by 2030. Travel will need to be highly restricted, our diets will need to be altered to something far less appetizing, and the more useless among us may have to be exterminated to save the planet.

To achieve these highly ambitious goals, the help of numerous deluded morons in the Protestant ‘church’ will need to be enlisted. The evil Globalists have issued a resource called Faith Action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their noble effort to save the world.

They intend to enlist the Laodicean church in their effort to control and enslave mankind until the Lord returns. These false Christians will aid the Globalists in their effort to control the resources of the planet so no one can buy or sell without their permission.

According to Swamini Adityananda Saraswati, the Director of the United Religions Initiative (URI):

“Faith leaders of our world can no longer take a blind eye to the enormous repercussions of climate change. Now is the time for great and concerted action if we are to ensure the survival of countless people. This partnership with UNEP, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology demonstrates just that.”

Saraswati is like Mother Theresa of the URI as she purportedly works tirelessly to serve the poor while also fighting to improve the environment. She allegedly works in the service of God and humanity for the welfare of all.

Of course, the god that she serves did not send his only Son to die for the sins of humanity. Her god helps us find our inner divinity as we seek bliss and spiritual joy and discover the enlightenment within ourselves.

According to this mystic, through consistent and strong meditation, our divinity can slowly start to be revealed to us, unfolding like a flower, a little at a time.

Gee, thanks, Swamini, but you can take your inner divinity and your climate change hoax with you when you enter eternity.

According to the Right Reverend William E. Swing, who could not preach the Gospel if his life depended on it, it is imperative that the faith community understand what it can do to save the planet.

No wonder Jesus will one day tell these people he never knew them.

The number of Laodiceans promoting this rubbish is legion.

Instead of calling sinners to repent and be forgiven in the name of Jesus, they insist:

  • Religious and spiritual values are necessary for a sustainable and flourishing future.
  • Everyone must participate in the care and restoration of the earth.
  • The environmental responses being conducted worldwide are done in the name of all that is holy and good.
  • The support and activism of faith-based organizations are essential to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

And behind all this wonderful spirituality is the Vatican.

Recently, the most corrupt president in the history of the country met with Pope Francis to discuss climate change, the flu bug hysteria, and global poverty.

What could be more productive than two deluded morons discussing a fictional crisis, a manufactured crisis, and a crisis they themselves intend to cause?

According to the pope, Biden is a ‘devout Catholic’ even though, in reality, he is a mindless heathen.

The only thing he is going to hear from Christ when he dies is, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”

The False Prophet wannabe (FPW) (no since calling him the pope anymore) supported Biden’s continuing to take communion even though his works are of the devil. He will be hearing the same words from the Lord that Biden is destined to receive.

The FPW still believes Biden should be able to partake of the Lord’s supper because he has remained a devout Catholic.

And Catholics wonder why we Protestants criticize their theology.

How any religious leader can get away with proclaiming pure paganism for so many years without being held accountable is more than sufficient evidence that Catholicism is not a Christian faith.

Way too few Catholics seem to have noticed the ‘change’ in their own theology.

Biden lauded the FPW and thanked ‘His Unholiness” for his advocacy for the world’s poor and those suffering from hunger, conflict, and persecution.

Let us all hope that the FPW does not attempt to become an advocate for the rest of us. His track record of helping the poor, hungry, and persecuted is dismal. In fact, it almost seems as if he is an advocate for those causing these problems.

The FPW then issued an appeal ahead of the United Nations conference that was to begin the following Sunday.

Due to the upheaval caused by the flu bug hysteria, the FPW called on the U.N., the most corrupt institution on the planet, to make radical decisions to safeguard the environment and place global concerns over the interests of individual nations.

Sorry people, but anyone who considers this joker a Christian is still dead in his sins. He abandoned his sheep suit a long time ago.

The pope is not pretending anymore.

The Spirit clearly says that in later times, some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

We are in ‘the later times,’ and it is clear that some have abandoned the faith and are teaching demonic theology.

Those alleged Christians who preach ‘climate change’ instead of the Gospel are easy to identify as being a deceiving spirit. This is a doctrine of demons designed to enslave humanity and lead souls away from the saving Grace of Christ.

These teachings come through hypocritical liars whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. Biden believes in ‘gay marriage’ and killing unborn children for the convenience of fornicators.

His conscience is scarred for life.

Such teachers forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

The FPW has already begun the process of perverting marriage by baptizing ‘transgenders’ and recognizing ‘gay marriage.’ He further intends to demand that we abstain from certain foods because partaking of them exacerbates climate change.

I doubt the FPW will object when we are forced to eat bugs after the evil Globalists have shut down most of our farms and food processing plants.

It is the job of every Christian to point these things out that we might be good ministers of Christ Jesus. We are to have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales.

The problem is there are way too few Christians calling climate cultists to repent.

When these ‘religious leaders’ experience the wrath of God because they suppressed the truth, their combustion will not be all that spontaneous.

And their flames will be eternal.

This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance, that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.

We must watch our lives and doctrine closely. We must persevere in both because, when we do, we save both ourselves and our hearers.

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The Time Is at Hand: Intro to Book of Revelation :: By Donald Whitchard

Matthew 24:39-41, Mark 13:24-27, Luke 21:25-28, John 14:1-3,2 Timothy 3:16-17,2 Peter 1:19-21, Revelation 1:1-3

Summary: The book of Revelation is the unveiling of what the LORD has in store for the closing chapters of history as we know it. Revelation shows us that Jesus Christ is the Conquering King who will make all things new.

“THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants – things which must shortly take place. He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the Word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near” (Revelation 1:1-3, NKJV).

The book of Revelation is the written record of the total and final fulfillment of all biblical prophecy. It is the assurance that God’s promises will always be kept. It tells us about the certainty of both eternal reward and punishment, the accumulation of all Divine warnings, the triumph of Christ over all things, and that all things will be made new. It is the final appeal of salvation, the closing chapter of God’s act of redemption, the restoration of Paradise, and the record of the tragic consequences of rebellion and rejection of Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6; Acts 4:12), and the Only Savior who provides eternal life and peace with God the Father.

The book of Revelation lends itself to both symbol and substance of what is to come and what will be accomplished. In the book of Revelation, all creation will play a role, either for good or evil within the Sovereign plan of God for the Last Days. The world as we know it will come to an end on His terms, and not by some treaty or law where we subsist on bugs, barley, and a dystopian lifestyle to “save the planet” and reduce the temperature of the earth by a degree or so.

The book of Revelation forever destroys the thoughts and actions of reprobate humanity and their plans to rid this planet of the idea that there is a God and that we are accountable to Him. While Scripture tells us about the rise and reign of Satan’s “Man of Lawlessness” (Daniel 11:36-45; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12; Revelation 13:1-10), it also tells us not to dwell on him but to keep our eyes upon the One who will “slay him with the breath of His coming” (Luke 21:28; 2 Thess. 2:8; Revelation 19:11-21). As Christians, we are to watch for Christ, not Antichrist.

Scripture afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted, and Revelation is proof of that fact. Revelation is a warning cry to believers and the churches to remain faithful, devoted, and obedient to the commandments and absolute rule of the Lord Jesus Christ and not allow the world’s influence to corrode and compromise the mission of sharing the Gospel with all people (Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8-11; 1 John 2:15-17).

The book of Revelation is the only one that promises a blessing on those who read and study its contents (Revelation 1:3). The question is: Why is it then one of the most disputed and avoided books of Scripture if what I have just described so far gives the believer assurance, hope, joy, a sense of victory, and fulfillment of God’s wonderful promises?

The answer lies in the fact that pastors and teachers are scared to touch it because they feel that it cannot be interpreted properly, or that the symbols and word pictures found in it cannot be understood, or a host of other inexcusable reasons. One-third of the Bible deals with prophecy, and to ignore it or dismiss its significance is the sign that either you are not being taught or not willing to heed the “whole counsel of God” and, therefore, are being spiritually deprived (Psalm 73:24; John 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21).

Pastors, you are NOT free to discard the teaching of Bible prophecy to pick and choose those portions of Scripture you like. You are not to become fixated on “pet doctrines,” social issues, ideological tirades, and feelings or preach messages that “tickle the ears” which end up damning the souls of your flock (Matthew 7:21-23, 18:6; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Timothy 4:3).

Revelation is not some type of cosmic conglomeration of visions and events that are the product of apostolic beliefs of how the world would end. Revelation is a factual, literal, historical, logical, and rational holy account of what is to come according to the plans and will of Almighty God, nothing more or less.

With prayer, direction from the Holy Spirit, and a sense of spiritual maturity, the book of Revelation can be properly interpreted. God is NOT the Author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33), and Revelation is no exception.

In the next installment of our study of Revelation, we are going to look at the importance of literal interpretation of Scripture, and specifically that of prophecy.

donaldwhitchard@outlook.com

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