If I had it to do over again….

How many times have we thought that way? If you’re like me, probably more than you would like to count.

If we had it to do over again—with an assurance that we’d do at least as well as we did—what efficient and artful users of time we could become!

Unfortunately, we all know it doesn’t work that way. We are forced to use time … in real-time. Moses’ prayer, therefore, carries for us the utmost urgency:

“So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Ps. 90:12).

The Apostle Paul exhorted, likewise, “Let a man examine himself” (1 Cor. 11:28). “Examine yourselves,” he reiterated in 2 Cor. 13:5. “Let each one examine his own work” (Gal. 6:4).

Most of us can probably look back on the year, which is now closing right before our eyes, and see some fantastic successes—deadlines met, goals accomplished, honors achieved. We celebrate these outward victories, but we may know inwardly that they came at a high price. Other priorities—perhaps even some vastly more important—were left untouched. We revel in our triumphs while our failures lie hidden away, out of view.

And all of that makes it so incredibly difficult for us to complete an honest assessment of the year we are leaving behind. It was in that spirit that even Paul stated:

“I know of nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God” (1 Cor. 4:4-5).

The final and ultimate evaluation of a year—this past year, or any other, for me and all believers—will be offered by Christ Himself when we stand at His “judgment seat” (2 Cor. 5:10).

Should we then not even attempt to assess the progress we are making in the meantime? Going back to Moses’ prayer and Paul’s instruction, I think that would be extremely unwise. Even though our own self-evaluation is bound to be flawed and skewed, we must still engage in the process to the best of our ability. We need to learn all we can about when, where, how, and why we have succeeded and failed so that we might magnify the former and eliminate the latter. After all, next year affords us that precious commodity that we highly desire—the opportunity to do a year over!

Ah, the superb possibilities offered by a New Year!

As we grow older, we realize that we have fewer and fewer of them left and that—in light of the experience behind us and the exigencies before us—each one should be counting more than ever. And, yet, if we strive to overfill it, we may miss some of the real priorities on which we must be focused. What a delicate balance life requires!

“One thing is needed,” Jesus said in Luke 10:42. “Without (Him we) can do nothing” (John 15:5).

Over the coming days, many of us will be filling out year-end reports and waiting for results. May this be a spiritual exercise and not mere number-crunching. May God’s shine light upon our hidden faults and convict us, where needed, regarding our shortcomings.

Perhaps you have some extra time this week—or even on into January. What a glorious opportunity these winter days present to us if we will only take advantage of them. This is a wonderful season in which to catch up (or get ahead) on reading our Bibles and other books—for spiritual edification, as well as for physical and spiritual renewal. It also provides an occasion to think, pray, prioritize, and plan. These actions, along with perhaps getting some needed additional rest and exercise, will serve to recharge our batteries for the year ahead.

In the final analysis, only the Lord God can offer an honest evaluation of my year. Since He will do so one day, I had better endeavor to do so now.

May the Lord bless you with a productive and Happy New Year—for His glory.

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Paul J. Scharf (M.A., M.Div., Faith Baptist Theological Seminary) is a church ministries representative for The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, based in Columbus, WI, and serving in the Midwest. For more information on his ministry, visit sermonaudio.com/pscharf or foi.org/scharf, or email pscharf@foi.org.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version.

 

Each point that follows merits a book-length treatment, and some are receiving that, but in as few words as possible, here’s 2022-in-review:

1. Fauci (“I am the science”) continues perpetrating greatest crime against humanity in history by non-stop pushing his experimental vaccine for all, forbidding use of therapeutics.

2. His history of malfeasance had been chronicled previously by RFK Jr’s 2021 book The Real Anthony Fauci. Best-seller was no. 1 on Amazon but, strangely, received no reviews in major media.

3. Fauci struck by amnesia. Deposed by state attorney generals in spring 2022, and released in November 2022, when asked about Covid, vaccines, lockdowns, masks and all the rest, Fauci said “I don’t recall” 174 times.

4. December 2022: The New York Times publishes Fauci’s farewell essay where he confirms his own hero status.

5. WHO, CDC work to finish Fauci’s pogrom. State medical boards sanction doctors who provide alternative therapies, e.g., ivermectin, etc.; cast a chill over all of medicine. “Trust is broken,” one doctor says.

6. Canada and New Zealand become police states. GoFundMe confiscates donations to trucker protest.

7. Fauci’s NIH co-owns Moderna patent, profits from it. Highest paid public servant Fauci boosts his $10 million net worth with royalties. He refuses to disclose how much, saying it’s not required by law.

8. Similarly, Gates investment in “the vaccine” pays off; Microsoft founder and eugenicist tells CNBC it was his “best return ever.”

9. Gates and Johns Hopkins host another pre-pandemic table exercise: Catastrophic Contagion, at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022. Their previous meeting in October 2019 preceded the Covid onslaught by a relative few days. Begs the question, what’s next?

10. Lockdowns destroy lives and businesses.

11. A crack appears in Medical Totalitarian culture. In turnabout from earlier assurances, CDC, Pfizer, Dr. Birx “the scarf lady” admit two shots “does little or nothing,” recommends constant boosters, which guarantees forever cash flow.

12. Pfizer chief Bourla says same. Bourla, Fauci, etc. get Covid.

13. People start to notice significant numbers of people, many quite young, drop dead with “no cause given.” For real-time social media posts see: Telegram Covid BC (Vax Reactions) and Twitter #diedsuddenly.

14. Other victims manifest cancer (“turbo cancer” goes from zero symptoms to stage four in short periods of time), neurological, inflammation of brain and spinal cord, meningitis, stroke, narcolepsy, anaphylaxis, heart attack, myocarditis, pericarditis, auto immune disease, pregnancy and birth outcomes, fetal injuries, fetal mutations, spontaneous abortion.

15. Ignoring these deaths and injuries, still the media leaps to defend the vaxx. Potential reasons for Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) from various features in Main Stream Media (MSM), now called Lying Legacy Media (LLM):

• • Artificial sweeteners
  • Soil
  • Snow
  • Energy bills
  • Sweating
  • Snoring
  • Sleeping in a recliner
  • Sleeping on your back
  • TV
  • Falling asleep while watching TV
  • Flight delays
  • Redlining
  • Being tall
  • Solar storms
  • New chemicals in earth’s atmosphere
  • Conspicuous by its absence is of course the “safe and effective” Covid vaccine.

16. Statistics prove what was suspected: insurance and government bodies here and abroad cite 200-year statistical surge in deaths of unknown origin. Researcher Edward Dowd takes the lead here.  Sole change in period studied: Covid vaccine.

17. True believers, however, say correlation does not prove causation. Public outcry muted, stymied, ultimately ignored.

18. A few cracks also appear in Woke Culture. In another turnabout, Musk buys Twitter, releases Twitter files, outs government censorship of alternative vaxx views from doctors, scientists.

19. Musk tweets his pronouns are “prosecute/Fauci.”

20. WEF Klaus Schwab continues to promote:

• • Communism (you’ll own nothing and like it)
  • Globalism, totalitarianism
  • Homosexuality (Harari is gay)
  • Transgenderism
  • Digital implant IDs

21. Schwab’s Rasputin, the Israeli Yuval Noah Harari, openly gay history professor at University of Jerusalem, gains more media spotlight, and the plot to eliminate ‘useless eaters’ thickens.

22. Disney becomes point guard for WEF New World Order (NWO), features “We love Satan” sign in new Tim Allen movie The Santa Clauses. (Yes, we knew.) Disney ups the ante in planning more gay and trans themes in future productions. Disney chief Karey Burke has one trans and one “pan” child, so continues to “talk her book,” as they say in trading circles. No backlash in sight, people accept continuous normalization of perversity, trans surgeries, mutilation of children, and counseling younger and younger children without parental knowledge or consent.

23. Normalization working: more college students identify as neither he nor she.

24. February 2022: Ukraine provokes war with Russia from attacks on ethnic Russians in past years. This story is squashed by media, never told.

25. Cohort NATO also cited for provoking war with Russia by encircling Russia; Putin’s ask for return to 1997 borders and cessation of surrounding of Russia with nukes is ignored; war starts.

26. Nord Stream 2 pipeline destroyed by explosives. No one claims credit, but Biden earlier said USA would do it. “I promise you we’ll be able to do it” were his exact words. So, Europe is left to freeze and starve by a USA act of war.  Amazingly, few notice, fewer comment. America, asleep.

27. Joe Biden brinksterism brings us to edge of nuclear holocaust with Russia. Again, few notice or comment. America, asleep.

28. Instead, sports and homosexuality get enthusiastic attention: Joe Biden trades Merchant of Death for Russian-jailed homosexual female basketball player, leaves Marine behind. Little or no public outcry. America, asleep.

29. Joe Biden signs order to launch test of digital currency, which will be employed to control who can buy or sell, and strip Americans of their few remaining liberties. Recalls Afghanistan military exit, shame.

30. Joe Biden keeps border wide open for unlimited, continuous invasion of illegals. No plan to fix or change because the globalist “plan” is to destroy America so it can be sucked into one-world tyranny, along with Europe, Canada, Australia, et al.

31. Musk exposes Twitter’s Hunter Biden’s laptop story suppression. Details remain in limbo; Hunter (and The Big Guy) continue to walk free.

32. Trump and/or Trump Inc. is recommended for prosecution on insurrection, tax fraud, mail fraud.

33. Trump announces 2024 candidacy, launches $99 NFT trading card. Predicts it will “sell out.”

34. Predicted midterm “Red Wave” fails to materialize. Most meekly accept Democrat ascendency, but a few, like Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake, fought on (but lost).

35. Pew Research says 39% of Americans believe we are “living in the end times.”

36. Soaring for years, in 2022, cryptocurrencies collapse.

37. Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX collapses. Ukraine was cited as major “customer.”  Democrat party cited as major FTX benefactor.  Investigation to follow?

38. US debt ending the year approaching $33 trillion. In 2000, the number was $5 trillion. In 1980, less than $1 trillion.

39. USA lacks $5 billion for border wall, or social programs addressing genuine need, but freely gives $100 billion to Ukraine in its proxy war with Russia. “This isn’t charity,” Zelenskyy tells Congress. “It’s an investment in ‘democracy.’” He wants regime change in Russia. U.S. populace cheers. My friend, 71, otherwise successful and intelligent, messages me to say “are you watching this!!!???” and that he wishes he “could enlist” in the fight. The Anti-Vietnam War crowd has become vicarious Ukrainian warriors, unaware of the Azoz’s, Nazi’s, et al.

40. Chase Bank shutters account of religious freedom group. Earlier told Kanye West to take a hike. Similarly, PayPal shuts accounts, plans fines for violators of “community standards” $2,500, but does not advise them of their “crimes.”  After public outcry, (who knew?), they walk it back. Will Biden/Democrat/Chinese Communist ESG be fully installed in USA in 2023?

41. Woke Culture marches on: Stanford says America is a harmful term in a guidebook on hate speech.

42. Woke Culture marches on: Washington governor’s summit says drop rationality in favor of emotion. Also says ‘individualism,’ ‘objectivity’ are rooted in ‘white supremacy.’

43. As Paul Craig Roberts says and as Mark Dice man-on-the-street interviews (see youtube) prove: Americans are no longer smart enough or virtuous to hold on to a democracy. Just a matter of time, now.

44. One sign of hope: the Awake are fighting back against the Woke. State’s attorney generals and surgeon generals are calling the Fauci regime to task. In Florida, a grand jury will be summoned to investigate Fauci.  House Republicans vow the same.  Will these grow into a movement to reclaim American liberty, and sanity?

45. Even more urgently, will America cease its proxy war against Russia before humanity is vaporized in nuclear conflagration?

This was 2022, a year of pandemic Rampant Delusion, the triumph of Medical and Military and Cultural Wag the Dog covert tyranny, where the Woke Few tightened their rule of the Clueless Many.

Yes, Satan had a busy and successful 2022.  Leading at halftime, he will lose the game in the end, though few know this now….

Despite his success, one greater than Satan is real. God is real, and triumphs in the end.

Straight ahead:  more planned pandemics, Israel-Iran conflict, the two-state solution, USA-China-Russia conflict, globalist Antichrist kingdom, tribulation then Great Tribulation, and finally, the fulfillment of every word of Bible prophecy.

What to do if you are not saved? Consider the claims of Jesus Christ.  Disavow Satan.

Despite what Disney tells you to do.

Happy New Year 2023.

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John Hamilton wrote (newly updated) THE COVID VACCINE: And the silencing of our doctors and scientists and (also updated) False Flags, State Secrets, Government Deceptions:  A Short History of the Modern Era.