My “2-bits” Worth :: By Dennis Huebshman

Way back in my school days (1950’s – 1964), we had a cheer at sporting events that went: “Two Bits; Four Bits; Six Bits; A Dollar – All for (school name) stand up and holler!” At that point, everyone would stand and yell “Hooray” at the top of our lungs. Can you just imagine the shout that will be going up when all Believers are taken up to meet Jesus in the air? For those who don’t know, 2-bits is a quarter or 25 cents. (Scripture ESV – emphasis mine)

There’s going to be shouting for sure, but no one that will be left behind will hear it or be involved. Looking at 1 Corinthians 15:52-53, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trumpet. For the Trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.”

One dictionary definition states that “twinkling of an eye” is the time it takes to blink once. Several other sources say it’s actually too fast to measure and would be counted in nanoseconds. Each nanosecond is one billionth of a second (Oxford languages / Miriam Webster.) For those who believe that the Rapture can’t take place so fast, nothing is impossible for our Heavenly Father.

To put my “two bits” in at this point, once the Rapture starts, it will be too fast to measure. For those who actually believe they will be able to call out to be saved when the trumpet and shout take place, that won’t be a possibility.

Sadly, there are many more souls so caught up in earthly things that they have made no plans for their eternity (Matthew 7:13-14). Even though it doesn’t seem like it right now, our time on earth isn’t even “a twinkling of an eye” compared to the eternal life we all face. With this in mind, I invite all who are reading this to take a brief moment and think about the only two options that everyone has.

The first option is for all who accept Jesus’ offer of eternal Salvation. The steps are found in Romans 10:9-13 and basically are: Admit we’re all sinners in need of a Savior; Believe that Jesus is the only one that fits that title (John 14:6); and if we Call out to Him to forgive us, He will do so, and we will be saved. One must receive and accept the Gift given to us by Our Savior. To try to buy or earn His gift is an insult to Him.

Before anyone tries to say they’re not a sinner, please read Romans 3:10, Romans 3:23, and Romans 6:23. When it says “all,” that includes every soul that is on earth, has ever been on earth, and will ever be on this earth. The only exception is our Savior, Jesus the Christ. His time here was totally sin-free, and He completely fits the title “Christ” or “Anointed One.” He is the only “human” that could ever fulfill the Father’s need for a pure-blood sacrifice that could cover all the sins that will ever have been committed on this earth. Just thinking of the sins I have committed in my lifetime, and knowing that Jesus paid for my pardon with His blood, is totally amazing to me.

Even more amazing, He paid for everyone’s sins, and the cost for us mentioned earlier is to receive and accept His gift. Sounds like something that no one would refuse, but also, as stated, more will reject Him than accept Him.

That leads to the second and only other option available. For anyone to take their last breath on this earth without Jesus as their Savior, their eternity will be absolutely miserable.

First, look at Matthew 25:41. Jesus tells of the “eternal fire” prepared for the devil and his angels. Then, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:10, and Revelation 20:11-15 give the final destination of the antichrist and false prophet, Satan himself, and finally the long line at the Great White Throne. That line started forming with the beginning of earth’s time and will go through the Millennial Reign of Jesus.

All who were out of the will of God from creation to the crucifixion will be in that line. All from Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection that will not have received and accepted Him as their Savior will be there also. As stated, that’s all the way to the end of the time remaining on this earth.

Please note, no matter what false prophets may try to tell you, all who enter the Lake of Fire will be there forever. There is no pardon or suspended sentences. They will not have an advocate to speak on their behalf as all Believers have. They will be responsible and will account for every sin, great or small, they ever committed throughout their time on this earth.

Logically, one would think that everyone would really give some thought to becoming a part of the Shepherd’s precious flock. For all who truly receive and accept Him, they are “reborn” to a new eternal destination, and all their sins will be forgiven.

In fact, Psalm 103:12 gives us the assurance that “as far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us.”

Then, when – not if – we sin after being saved, we have 1 John 1:8-10 and 1 John 2:1; “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us (1 John 1:8-10). “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father; Jesus the Christ, the Righteous” (1 John 2:1).

We were given this pathway because God knows all of our weaknesses. He loves us so much that He provides this for all who have Jesus as their Savior. Once we leave this earth, we will have forever immortal, imperishable bodies and a mindset such as our Savior that is absolutely sin-free. No more falling into temptation ever. Just living and loving and serving our Lord and Savior. It will be totally beyond any description we could come up with in earth terms.

Just seeing how many changes have taken place over the past couple of years should be an indicator that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled rapidly. In Luke 21:28, Jesus told us that when all these things “begin” to take place, we’re close to going Home. Each day, this earth turns more and more evil, and all the attitudes Paul gave us in 2 Timothy 3 are here right now. Anyone who wishes to put off calling on Jesus is choosing to gamble with their eternal souls to the delight of the devil.

Please know that your soul is the most valuable part of you that will ever exist, and the Father will not force anyone to accept eternal life with Jesus. He leaves the choice up to each and every person individually. As given in 2 Peter 3:9, He doesn’t want anyone to fail but will honor whatever choice we make. It is our decision of who we will serve. It will either be Jesus or Satan. There is no third option available.

Jesus sacrificed Himself so we could have the opportunity to live with Him forever. He has even personally prepared a place for all His flock as given in John 14:1-3. Satan only wants to pull souls away from the Savior and will use every evil means to do so.

Today would be a great time to join the Great Shepherd’s flock of John 10. His sacrifice was for everyone, not just a few – John 10:16. The gift has been totally paid for and is ours for the asking.

Call now before it’s too late. You will be eternally thankful that you did.

Shalom!

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Wandering off into Myths (Part 2) :: By The Gospelist

 

White Supremacy

It has recently come to our attention that there is a major crisis of white supremacy plaguing the nation. White supremacy apparently was not a problem for the first 240 years of history, but in the last 5, it has become a pressing issue. Apparently, it just recently dawned on the Democrats and our corrupt media that this is a crisis, so it must be true. This blight became ‘evident’ when Trump won the presidency by promising to put America first. His agenda of deregulation, enforcing immigration law, tax cuts, and strengthening our military reeked of white superiority and apparently served to further oppress minorities in this country. After all, no minority ever benefitted from this type of agenda.

In reality, we could probably gather all of the white supremacists in this country and fit them into a phone booth with room left over for a satyr and a wood nymph. It appears that those who claim dominance because of their skin pigmentation are actually fairly rare in this country (although this could change if the Democrats keep provoking ethnic divisions). However, our government has never allowed the facts to get in the way of a good narrative, especially one that allows them to falsely accuse their political opposition. And there has never been a more faithless population that is so easily fooled by this false accusation as exists in the body politic today.

As with most of the trash that infects this society, many of these false ideologies come out of our schools of ‘higher learning.’ The most pernicious of ideas to arise is called Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT is like man-made global warming in that it is meant to infect every area of society. Once the infestation occurs, it allows its proponents absolute control over all public policy and institutions. There is a great deal of power to be had if society buys this bill of goods and accepts it as a valid part of the system. Bad ideology can bring down nations, and it also has the power to subject people to gross injustice (a.k.a. Social Justice) if it is not challenged.

According to ‘Google Gaslighters’ like Education Week, “Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.” To translate: It is an “academic concept” because it has no basis in reality. It is a “social construct” because it has been created and assigned to society to serve a political purpose.

By creating a false narrative, bad policy, like defund the police, can be forced on the people, and they will acquiesce to the resulting degradation. Those who dare to point out the foolishness of this narrative can have their livelihoods destroyed by being labeled a racist. Worse still, they can lose their ability to buy and sell without the authorization of those who push this tale.

At the heart of CRT is the terrible sin of bearing false witness against your neighbor. Anyone who believes in achievement based on merit is in danger of being falsely accused of white supremacy. If you believe you only deserve the house that you can afford, the job that you can excel in, being punished for your crimes or the grade you have earned, then you might be a member of the KKK. The fact that the Democrat party – which was the party that defended slavery, created the KKK as their special ‘brownshirt’ unit, and were great champions of Jim Crow laws – are the ones falsely accusing others of racism is especially rich. Only among a Godless population can this sleight of hand be achieved without so much of a whimper from the accused.

What is interesting is that the purveyors of this false narrative do not announce that they are going to implement it in society. They simply create it and move forward without any explanation of the implications of what they intend to do. Many parents had no idea that rubbish like CRT was being taught even to their young elementary school-age children. Imagine your child coming home and telling you that you are a racist in true Bolshevik fashion. Then, when you go to the school to complain about this teaching, you are placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list for daring to question the wisdom of your teachers.

First, your school tries to gaslight you into thinking that your lying eyes are deceiving you, then you become a lawbreaker when you refuse to be deceived and find yourself on the FBI’s list of potential subversives. While real criminals run the streets causing mayhem, responsible parents are being threatened by our most powerful law enforcement agencies.

If the government cannot use corrupt law enforcement agencies against us, they can use our fellow citizens to enforce their orthodoxy. The communist front group called “Black Lives Matter (BLM)” has taken over where the KKK left off. The name “Black Lives Matter” is itself a false accusation against the rest of us by people who care nothing for any human life, especially black lives.

Communists view all people as tools of the party, and if they do not serve that purpose, they are disposed of. BLM, a group that claims to ‘care’ about people of color, has caused the death of more black Americans than the KKK. The defund the police movement has caused the death of numerous black Americans even though it is billed as a way of protecting them. Once again, we see the sleight of hand that, in this case, turned this group of totalitarian thugs into a civil rights group.

Communist front groups like BLM have been around for decades but have not had as much success as this new group of agitators.

In his book, Masters of Deceit, J. Edgar Hoover laid out their motives and tactics with great precision. This was written over 60 years ago, so the communists have had ample time to perfect their deceptive techniques. They work diligently to undermine public confidence in law enforcement by attempting to portray criminals as innocent victims of society. They protest and agitate, violently if they can get away with it, to get positive press coverage. This process is much easier since almost every press outlet in this country and around the world is hopelessly dishonest. Their objective is to sway public opinion away from the institutions that protect the public to make them easier prey when they become more violent.

This was on display during the George Floyd riots of 2020. The death of George Floyd was a dream come true for the communist groups that are supported by our government and the globalists. Floyd, a career criminal with a long rap sheet, was caught in a petty crime by Minneapolis police. When they attempted to arrest him, he resisted and was held down for nine minutes by a police officer with his knee on his neck.

Floyd was high on meth and fentanyl, which probably contributed to his arrest and restraint. The whole incident was recorded, and all that was required was for the press to mischaracterize what happened and intimidate the toxicologist to get the narrative they wanted. The police officer, who was white, was very easy to demonize by people who have never had to deal with violent, dangerous people to maintain public order. The toxicologist then fell in line with the narrative and assured the public that Floyd’s death had nothing to do with the meth and fentanyl in his system.

With the narrative set, the communists went into ‘agitation mode’ and began to loot and riot in Democrat-run States. They had less success in Republican States because most Republicans had the moral fortitude to recognize this kind of protest for what it was. Democrats, who have little to no moral fortitude, accepted the false narrative that this was a civil rights riot and allowed their businesses to be robbed and destroyed.

BLM got a huge bonus when all officers who were present were terminated from employment and charged with various crimes. They were now able to kneecap the police by claiming ‘systemic racism’ despite the fact that there was no racial component to this incident. The racial component was added because the officer happened to be white, and the criminal happened to be black. The myth that this was a racial incident and that there is any such thing as ‘systemic racism’ is now solidified in this society and will bring about even more evil and injustice as long as it persists.

When lost souls join a cult, they enslave themselves to a false ideology. They are then willing to sacrifice their possessions, their livelihoods, their bodily autonomy, and their very lives to meet the demands of the cult leaders. Those who accept the idea of ‘systemic racism’ have joined the race cult and are now prepared to sacrifice their freedom. We see the same cult mentality with climate change, where many people are willing to throw away liberty to ‘save the planet.’ We saw it with the recent flu bug hysteria where it looked like the entire world joined the “Branch Covidian” cult (Note: the Branch Davidians were a cult in Waco, TX in the 1990s). There has never been a more perilous time than this where so many people are so easily manipulated into enslaving themselves to the false narratives of the globalists.

It should be noted that there is no such thing as ‘racism’ because we are all the same race. If we can procreate together, we are the same race. It is a made-up term designed to cause discord among the various ethnic groups. It is constructed to inflame passions since it implies that one person hates another person, or considers that person inferior, because of his skin tone. It is an insidious term that has no basis in reality. The proper term would be ‘ethnicist,’ but this is not as sexy as racist, so it is not employed by those who wish to agitate the public. And never forget, agitation is the primary tool of the communists and their globalist financiers to force society to enslave itself.

The myth that BLM was created by minorities who were tired of police oppression needs to be debunked as well. It was not created by minorities; it was created and well-funded by evil white communists (EWC) in our institutions of higher learning and in society at large. Some minorities, who share their sick ideology, were simply placed in charge of this group to make it look authentic. What is comical is that most of the people that the EWC placed in charge of this organization are criminals and have stolen most of the money that was donated to them. All of the fascist businesses and liberals who gave them money wasted it on people who have no interest in improving black lives. Their only interest is profiting from the ‘useful idiots’ who are easily drawn into the race cult.

The primary target of the EWC is white Christian males. Their job is to marginalize Christian thought by saddling believers with the label of white supremacist. Obviously, most white Christian males are understandably not very happy with that particular designation. To combat their discomfort, the EWC decided to throw gasoline on the fire and accuse them of white fragility. Anyone who dares to complain about being falsely accused of racism can now be falsely accused of being too sensitive to handle the false accusation of ethnic bigotry. The communists always stay on offense and press their attack as long as their unwary victims are willing to tolerate it.

As if that were not bad enough, the EWC attacks the ‘Protestant Work Ethic” by announcing that white Americans who succeed are guilty of white privilege. Those who were raised by parents who demanded that we “get off our lazy butts and get to work” are demonized for the resulting success. Those who use the term white privilege tend to be lazy. They hope to gain success, not by hard work, but by attacking the hard-working in order to escape the burden of being a responsible adult. The fact that they undermine society and make it more amenable to their globalist masters is merely a bonus.

We now live in a society where creating false narratives, then making false accusations against those who challenge them, is standard procedure for those who wish to enslave us. When the government supports that agenda, they have the power to enforce any false narrative upon the resisters. The result is the corruption that we currently see in our government. This is how our society, and many other societies that turned from the faith, became like ancient Israel as prophesied by Isaiah. The ‘modus operandi’ for these societies is clearly spelled out, “So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance, truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.”

This quote from Isaiah 59 is dark and foreboding because it is not just something that happened in the past. It is how most great nations fall. The good news is, if we do not put a stop to it, then God will. When there is no one else to intercede, then God Himself will dress for battle and put an end to the false accusers. “According to what they have done, so will he repay.”

We have now seen how the vile ideology of white supremacy and ‘racism’ has infected our churches. Most churches were already dead due to teaching ‘best life now theology,’ purpose-driven theology,’ and social justice theology. The Southern Baptist convention is actually struggling with issues like critical race theory, white privilege, gender equality, the handling of sexual assault cases, and who among them is deserving of “cancellation.” None of this absurdity has anything to do with the proclamation of repentance for the forgiveness of sins in the name of Jesus.

Those ‘churches’ on the side of the narrative of the heathen need to be called to repent. If they refuse, they should be removed from fellowship and turned over the Satan.

Anyone in the church accusing other members of ‘racism,’ white privilege, or being homophobic has no place in the body of Christ. There should be no fellowship with these people, and they should be expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention, or any other church, if they persist in their error. Unfortunately, after dining on false doctrine for so many years, it is doubtful that the Southern Baptists, or most other denominations, have the moral fortitude to stand on the Gospel.

When CRT is implemented in society, it results in evil and injustice. When it is preached from the pulpit, it is an abomination. It is one of the ‘doctrines of demons’ that we were warned was coming when the end times were upon us. The BLM Bolsheviks admitted on their website before it was scrubbed that they would like to forbid marriage and destroy the family. So, too, would the climate change fanatics like to dictate what we can eat. In its present form, CRT is content with simply causing its adherents to bear false witness against their neighbors in order to empower themselves and their globalist masters. If it is not resisted, it will metastasize into even greater evil.

In ancient Athens, a great philosopher named Socrates was falsely accused of ‘corrupting the youth.’ As occurs today, he was accused of what the leadership of Athens was actually doing. Today, our leadership is corrupting the youth with bad ideology such as climate change and the farce of white supremacy. The goal of bad ideology is always power. Those who demand dictatorial power will always target the under 25 demographic in order to pollute their minds. Once the minds of the youth are contaminated with false doctrines, that society is on its way to becoming nauseous to God.

While we wait for evil people to exhaust God’s mercy and compassion, we still have the responsibility to share the Gospel. When falsely accused, we share God’s law, then call the evildoer to repent and be forgiven in the name of Jesus. The Gospel is the only tool that will effectively deal with the demonic evil that is running amok through our churches and our world.

We have been charged “in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the Gospel (which is the Word); be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths” (II Timothy 4:1-4).

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March 28, 2022