Living In Perilous Times :: By Jim Towers

These are perilous times we’re living in. Nothing is sure anymore. Right is wrong, and wrong is right. Everywhere we turn, things look bleak.

Today’s headlines on Yahoo said that Marc Bernier, an anti-vaccine conservative talk show host in Tampa, Florida, died after a three-week battle with Covid 19 – the third conservative radio commentator in a month.

He was preceded eight days earlier by Phil Valentine, a 61-year-old conservative talk radio host in Tennessee who mocked coronavirus vaccines but changed his tone after getting sick. He battled the disease for over a month.

Also having a change of heart, before his stopped, was Dick Farrel, a former Newsmax commentator and all-around coronavirus-denying, vaccine-resistant right-wing radio talk show host. The South Florida radio host died of COVID-19 complications on Aug. 6 at age 65 after exhorting fans not to get the vaccine, calling the entire coronavirus crisis a “scam-demic.”

Also, the lawyer for those who dared to enter the Capitol building after the stolen election is missing during the trials and is suspected of being in the hospital with – you guessed it – Covid 19.

It kind of makes you wonder how this tragedy came about since Democrats can party without wearing the worthless masks they demand others wear. A screenwriter could write a movie about how a shadowy group of evil and demonic people are surreptitiously spraying the virus with an atomizer wherever decent people gather to shut them up for good.

As for me, I left Facebook when they shut down President Trump. “Scrubbers” were already making my life miserable as well. Anything I posted that wasn’t politically correct was immediately scrubbed. Not only that, but some pimple-faced dweeb was hacking me constantly too. Just as I was about to go on Twitter, they too shut down the president, so I declined. I will not be a patsy to the leftist agenda to destroy our nation.

When Mike Lindell proposed to start up his internet platform, the internet dweebs made it very difficult for him to get his platform off the ground. Then came his Cyber Symposium, and you could hardly get through to it. And when you did, the sound would go in and out, or the images would halt just long enough to distort facial expressions. It was very annoying to deal with. Maybe we should all contact the Federal Communications Board. I know I will; I’ve had enough of the antics of these communists.

The left has caused much anxiety in stomping on our right to free speech, and it seems like their agenda is the only one you can subscribe to. Anything that you say can and will be used against you; so, if you are truly a conservative or Christian, be careful – be very careful but not afraid of these bullies. “If we fear God, we have nothing else to fear.”

It’s a wonder that the current situation, what with the stealing of the Presidential election of 2020, hasn’t erupted into a full-blown civil war. Conservatives are more prone to listen to reason and go to the courts than to burn down stores, topple statues of our founding fathers, and burn American flags. These actions all amount to destroying our own country from within.

It’s hard to imagine anyone destroying their own home built with blood, sweat and tears, but that’s the state of the nation today. We are lucky that the Second Amendment hasn’t been destroyed despite the left continuing to demand we give up our arms. In cities where guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns and are killing one another in droves. It just so happens that these cities are run by Liberal leaders – where lawlessness abounds day and night.

If you were to think of how to destroy a country from within, all the tactics are being used today without restraint. Freedom of speech, decent morals, and the right to bear arms are being attacked without let-up.

This scenario is likely to bring up images of a criminal despot pulling the strings to cause our downfall. This despot is probably a limp-wristed man who throws a baseball like a girl, a bi-sexual man pulling the strings behind the scenes. Joe Biden is only good at one criminal activity, and that is to make – or shall I say take – money from the American taxpayer and others and distribute it to his family members. Other than that, he is a worthless politician and rotten to the core.

While this is going on, Louisiana has just been hit with a hurricane as devastating as Katrina back in August 2006 on the very same day of that year. I may be making too much of this happenstance, but come on, what are the odds? I’m inclined to believe God is trying to tell us something, and that something is – that He is in control and very angry with the way things are going, what with the destruction of the unborn, wanton homosexuality, and the denial of the Israeli state to exist as such, which Joe Biden just did in his recent meeting with the new Prime Minister Bennie Gantz.

According to some Israeli men who are familiar with Old Testament scripture, detrimental messing in the affairs of Israel is like poking the apple of God’s eye. These same men can point out that other catastrophic events in our country have coincided with such proclamations and actions against Israel by our government. If I recall rightly, then-President Barack Hussain Obama tried to interfere in that country’s election while he was in office in 2015.

This was heard just last night that Bill and Melinda Gates are preparing a system to keep track and allow only vaccinated people to travel and buy goods. Yes, these are perilous times we live in. But like I said early on – and it bears repeating – “If we fear God, we have nothing else to fear.” Tuck this other verse of scripture in your heart as well: “God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind.”

Note: I had to get up at 1:42 in the morning when the Lord gave me this message for this article. God often uses double entendres to express a thought, and here’s what He gave me: “Behold, whosoever is of my church and endureth of my church to the end, him will I establish upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them.” (Bill and Melinda Gates?)

YBIC

Jim Towers

Write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit at www.dropzonedelta.com and www.propheticsignsandwonders.com.

Letter to the Ephesians: Commentary, Part 11 :: By Dr. Donald Whitchard

Ephesians, Chapter 6:10-20, NKJV:

The Full Armor of God

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the LORD and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you will be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which, you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints –and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.”

Our strength and real might come from the hand of the LORD. We can never fight the evil of this world in our own strength (1 Cor. 16:13; 2 Tim.2:1). We are to put on the whole armor of God and keep it on, as we are in a continuing fight against the forces of evil led by Satan and his minions (Romans 13:12; 2 Cor. 6:7; 1 Thess. 5:8). Our real enemy is NOT flesh and blood. Tyrants, dictators, and terrorists have come and gone and will face their judgment at the designated time in history (Matt. 25:41; Rev. 20:11-15). Our real foe, the devil, is well-organized, powerful, and has willing accomplices in this world who are bent on doing his will.

The demonic powers have different rankings and responsibilities and are involved in wretched and malevolent perversions and all types of immoral action and behavior. We cannot and must not confront those powers without the LORD and His salvation and authority. We need the armor of God in order to resist the work of the devil and stand firm against his schemes; to be faithful to the Lord Jesus and take the offensive side in the fight (James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8-9). From the day we become a true child of God, we are at war and do not put down our weapons until He calls us home (2 Cor. 5:6; 1 Thess. 4:13-18).

In his commentary on Ephesians, Dr. John MacArthur lists nine ways that Satan attacks us as followers of Jesus Christ:

1) He impugns God’s character and credibility.

2) He tries to undermine present victory by generating trouble and difficulties.

3) He spreads doctrinal confusion and falsehood.

4) He hinders God’s people from service.

5) He causes divisions.

6) He persuades believers to trust their own resources.

7) He leads believers into hypocrisy.

8) He keeps believers focused on the things of the world (Romans 12:1-2).

9) He keeps us from obeying God’s Word.

What, then, are the weapons of our warfare against the darkness of Satan?

Paul tells the Ephesians that the girding of our waist needs to be with truth, totally committed to the work of Christ, and to be dressed in a way so as not to stumble and fall spiritually.

We are also instructed to wear the breastplate of righteousness, which for a Roman soldier was an armored plate worn against the chest for protection of the vital organs. Symbolically, Christ is our protector and armor against the works of the enemy.

A good soldier will also have his feet shod with the shoes of the gospel of peace, giving him the ability to march in step with the orders of the LORD in presenting the Gospel to everyone with whom they come into contact. The shoes also protect the feet against the hardness of the ground, representative of the difficulties we face in our journey as Christians.

There is also the shield of faith, which protects us from the weapons of the devil. A Roman shield was long enough to protect the entire body in times of battle. Just as the warrior trusts his shield to protect him from harm, so does the believer trust Christ by faith to protect him from the devil’s arsenal (1 Sam. 17:45; 2 Cor. 10:4; Heb. 4:12).

The Word of God is our deadliest weapon. It is a sword that cuts down the enemy as well as cut out infections from a soul festered in the wounds of the world and false teachings.

The helmet of salvation represents the covering that the Lord Jesus places upon us while in this world and is symbolic of His eternal promise to keep us in His care for eternity (John 10:28-30; Hebrews 13:5).

Our duties as Christian soldiers are to keep an attitude of continual prayer, to walk daily in the power of the Spirit, being open and sensitive to His direction, and to be bold in our proclamation of the Gospel, which is Paul’s request to the Ephesians while he is in prison for the sake of the LORD.

This is a sign of the trials we will face while here in this world, but we are also promised that one day the Lord Jesus will return to make all things new and show us that all we went through for His sake was well worth it and to show a sin-infested world that it is the Sovereign Lord God Almighty who has the final word.

This ends the series on Ephesians.

Donaldwhitchard@gmail.com

www.realitycityreverend.com