Is The Flag Still There? :: By Denis Bowden

Is the Flag still there?

The shot and smoke (my metaphor for the current News blackout and falsity) had obscured the fort, and some reports say that the prisoners held in the brig of the British Flag Ship kept asking Francis Scott Key and his several companions assisting the ‘exchange of prisoners’ discussions,

‘IS THE FLAG STILL THERE… IS IT STILL WAVING?’ 

It’s reported that the prisoners were not just worried about themselves or whether the British would repatriate them as they hoped but only,

IS OUR FLAG OF INDEPENDENCE STILL FLYING?’

My dearest brothers and sisters, we are the proverbial prisoners held in this patriotic analogy. We are all now being held hostage by traitors and anti-Christ spirits.

https://homeofheroes.com/francis-scott-key/

I am an Australian, a patriot, and I love my country unto the point of my own death. And I love it with a fervor that equals your own love of America.

My country has allied with America in virtually every war you have been engaged in since WWI.

We bled alongside you wherever your own Flag flew. We bled with you as we allied to fight both Nazi Germany and the Japanese Imperial Forces in WWII, we bled with you in Korea and Vietnam, and we still bleed with you in Afghanistan.

Joined in death, our bones sometimes lay beside yours in actions where our remains were never effectively recovered, such as in the dreadful slaughter of the Somme in WWI. Our advancing troops, attempting to storm German positions, were often forced to temporarily seek shelter in great shell holes to avoid yet another bombardment. They were sometimes then buried alive as that same great salvo of shells, exploding on top of their sanctuary, caved in their shelter. To this day, in Flanders and the Somme, farmers still come across their sad resting places.

Today, Australian warships accompany your ‘Freedom of passage fleets’ as we confront the monstrosity that is the Chinese Communist Party’s bid to become the only Super power on earth. China is a Communist dictatorship bent on yet another attempt to rule the world, with all nations subjugated in vassalage before her.

China has fortified virtual sand islands in the South China Sea into gateways with the potential to block trade, and falsely she claims international waters as part of her own sovereign territory. This has the potential to obstruct the right of passage to pass through to our other major trading partners.

The CCP is a blood-sucking machine that will strip all our respective nations of their natural, God- granted treasures and resources. In the end, they won’t even bother to pay for it. They will consider that they have come to own us by default, as our own sold us out.

Tonight, as I type this, China has imposed punishing tariffs upon our landed goods (alleging dumping practices of second-class product) in an attempt to silence and punish us for siding with President Trump’s policies.  How do I know this? The Chinese ambassador openly castigates our Parliament and people for having the cheek to oppose ‘mighty China.’ Like all bullies on the block, they think no one can or would be game to challenge them. Well, one man did. His name, God Bless Him, is Donald John TRUMP.

Like America, a news blackout has occurred here in Australia.

Our major news outlets already have the allegedly criminal bribe-taker that is Joe Biden ensconced in the Oval Office. And even our Conservative Government has rolled over to let Joe and his ‘team’ scratch our belly to keep us quiet and docile on behalf of their own Chinese masters. Make no mistake. Elect Biden – elect the CCP.

And you will have elected a man who reputedly (read all you can about the seized Hunter Biden laptop computers where the secret corruption was painstakingly recorded) is totally beholden to China through bribery and blackmail.

As I type, even Democrats (but loyal Americans) have now begun to realize the absolute, horrific enormity of how a supposedly free and democratic election has been stolen from all Americans. THEY ARE COMING FORWARD TO GIVE EVIDENCE as to what they themselves saw when acting as ballot scrutiny officials. One new witness reportedly says, ‘I couldn’t keep silent any longer and was sick to my stomach!’

In the clip I’ve attached, you will hear two highly decorated generals of the Army tell you this election was stolen from you and threatens to take down the Republic, permanently.

Make no mistake, God-fearing patriots; this is an act of war in which foreign ‘players’ are complicit, supported by internal traitors.

You will also hear mention that when the President and Dept. of Defense identified that computer servers ‘assessing’ the votes were located at a CIA ‘farm’ in Germany, orders were given to seize those servers for analysis. Unfortunately, the CIA got wind of the raid by US Special Forces, and they, acting with the malice of high treason, brought in CIA special forces, allegedly from Afghanistan. A ‘fire-fight ensued. There may have been casualties of US soldiers as mentioned by retired Lt. General McInerney in this clip. I had been hearing ‘whispers’ of this for a fortnight. He confirmed both the raid to seize the servers and the fire-fight, and reports of casualties.

People of America, Democrat or Republican, but patriots all, ‘do you get this?’ Part of your own defense mechanisms to defend the integrity of the Republic, acting obviously under the orders of their own chain of command, conspired to house suspect voting servers offshore. The implications of this are astounding. They are also sickening, and they break your heart.

And I kid you not; if America goes, Australia will fall like a big juicy apple right into the hand of the CCP.

Mark me well; Joe Biden is the ‘Wicked Queen turned Witch’ who brings this poisoned apple to kill ‘Snow White’ (my metaphor for Australia). He will deliver us up on a platter to our enemies, as he will quickly deliver up America the same way.

These are the actions of a ‘Quisling,’ the name of the man who sold Norway to the Germans prior to their invasion in WWII.

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson Quisling (born July 18, 1887, Fyresdal, Norway—died October 24, 1945, Akershus Fortress, Oslo). He was a Norwegian army officer whose collaboration with the Germans in their occupation of Norway during World War II established his name forever as a synonym for “traitor.”

At a meeting with Adolf Hitler in December 1939, Quisling urged a German occupation of Norway; after the German invasion of April 1940, he proclaimed himself head of the government.

At the conclusion of the war he was executed as a traitor.

This surname lives on in infamy. He is to Europe as was Benedict Arnold, who sold out his own nation and fellow Americans for what he hoped was personal profit, success and advancement.

Here is the clip of the interview with Lt. General Michael Flynn and Lt. General McInerny: https://www.worldviewweekend.com/tv/video/wvw-tv-exclusive-lt-general-michael-flynns-first-interview-president-trumps-pardon

There are many traditional American Democrat voters who are now totally askance at how far to the Extreme Left of Socialism America and her people have been captured and taken.

Those who now control the Party are slathering for our literal deaths. In the Public Square (to which only they now have access), they are chortling that they have already prepared lists of their class enemies (patriots).

No, they are not saying they will prepare such lists: THEY ARE OPENLY STATING THEY HAVE LISTED THEIR ENEMIES.

They are speaking of CCP and Soviet Russia-style (Gulags) ‘re-education’ camps. ‘Recalcitrants,’ (Christians particularly, who will NEVER recant and deny), along with other ‘specially identified highly dangerous enemies,’ are to be first in the roundup. And in the long term (as they feel confident enough to move at will and also when they have seized the guns and identified ALL the ID of their owners), ‘the deplorables’ will be executed.

The Biden ‘team’ of hand-picked Leftists will follow the Marxist handbook to the letter. In fact, wherever Communism has ‘succeeded’ in breaking a democratic nation, their initial actions are always to destroy ‘class enemies’ of the people (the Proletariat).

Do you think I am inventing this from yet another supposed ‘conspiracy theory?’ These are people who, amongst other beliefs, share a focus on ‘forcible’ depopulation. Abortion/the aged/the mentally challenged are firmly within their sights. Why not ‘political dissidents?’ Many of them speak to and sing this evil mantra openly.

There will be no militias of patriots permitted to exist.

I also suggest, on the evidence of that which has gone down in EVERY country that has fallen to the Communist Hammer and Sickle flag (blood-red aptly to signify the blood of martyrs) that both serving military officers and veterans of all ranks will be ‘dealt with,’ if convicted by ‘tribunals of the people.’

In Europe, as the little, independent nations of the Balkans fell to the Soviets, the KGB Secret Police, armed with lists, gathered police/army/bureaucrats/priests and known conservatives. Taken into the forests where huge pits had been pre-dug, they were machine-gunned and hastily buried. Talk to an older Pole/Latvian or Lithuanian if you wish to confirm it personally.

It is well documented that approximately 100 Million people have been murdered as Communist revolutionaries took down their respective countries. And allegedly, 77 million of them perished in Mother Russia alone.

Jon Voight, the respected actor, says it best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwx6bpyvrJE&ab_channel=TheHill

America!!!

‘IS THE FLAG STILL THERE?’

During your own Revolution to escape the constraints of British rule, there were eyewitness accounts that the Flag continued to fly over Fort McHenry because patriots, seeing it virtually shot away on several occasions, risked their lives to run from their limited shelter to physically lift the supporting pole back into position, and some died in the effort. The awful, horrific bombardment went on for hours.

In the name of God (whom so many have abandoned), hear this call to repentance. There is coming a time when failure to repent and call for the Saving Grace of Jesus will double down on your ‘forever’ future. You have none whatsoever if death claims you unrepentant. There is no undoing of that left undone. Remember the parable of the rich man who called out to the beggar Lazarus from the forever of the Hell he chose freely for himself.

Repentance, as we call upon and entreat the name of Jesus, is the major step we must take, and it is truly our call to Arms!

‘THE BRITISH ARE COMING!’  

Only this time, they come from China to replace Old Glory with the Hammer and Sickle. And they will bring riches and entitlements to the traitors that opened the door. Mark me well; those traitors sit on both sides of the House and Senate: already bought and paid for. However, if they run true to form, even amongst the traitors, there will be a culling and kill-off to include those ‘who simply know too much and where all the bodies are buried.’

You can do your ‘bit’ by at least having the courage to send this Rapture Ready link to as many folks as you can. Mark me well; if Biden and his team are given (‘I won’t say elected’) the Presidency, even our email will eventually be subject to cancellation until all voices of opposition are finally silenced.

You’re maybe a bit worried, you say, about ‘exposing yourself’ lest they come for you?

My friends (fear not), they will come for all of us regardless of both our silence and docility if their plans achieve fruition.’

Remember (as you continue to call upon the name of Jesus), ‘none of us have any portion here,’ so we cannot build a future in this World in any case. Our hope is built on the promises achieved through Jesus’ blood and righteousness.

Through our prayers, together with our physical efforts (even such as this), we prevail upon Almighty God to forbear his long overdue ‘Day’ just a little longer.

Jew and Gentile revered King David. He was a many-faceted and flawed human being. David was a man of faith, however, and he believed the promises of God. In spite of his many incursions into sin, God forgave him.

Donald John Trump is flawed as are we, but he claims Christ crucified, the Son of God. If we accept that he is genuinely repentant for his own sins, then to me at least, it is self-evident that God has brought him to this time and his present role, specifically,

Maranatha.

Denis Bowden

denisjbowden@gmail.com

 

 

 

Romans Lesson 45: God Knows My Name & Yours :: By Sean Gooding

Chapter 16:1-16

“1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea, 2 that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also. 3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 4 who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. 5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia to Christ. 6 Greet Mary, who labored much for us. 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

“8 Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. 9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. 10 Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus. 11 Greet Herodion, my countryman. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. 12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord. 13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them. 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them. 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ greet you.

It is easy in this life to think that you don’t matter – that you are of no value, and what you contribute to this life is nothing. It is even more so in the scope of the Lord’s churches. I know men and their wives who have been missionaries in the toughest places for decades; they know what it is to live in peril, fear of disease, and fear of even weather conditions. I know of people who have completely left their culture and made their new home, their home. They speak the language, eat the food, adopt the culture, dress and talk like the people that they went to. I know men whom I admire when they teach the scriptures; they awe me, they inspire me to work harder, to study more, read more – and maybe, just maybe I can teach like them.

The largest crowd I have ever preached to was about 200 or so on Sunday morning at a hotel in Toronto. A group of union people from the US were having a meeting in Toronto, and one of the people, a Christian, had a cousin in the church I pastor and asked if I could come and host the Sunday service for them as many of them were away from their home church. So, I went, and it was great. But I have been to Billy Graham crusades here in Toronto with close to 50,000 in attendance. I have never preached to a crowd that big. I might freeze up and not know what to say.

On any given Sunday, I pastor a church that will have 10-15 people; when we combine our church with the sister church in Guelph, we can have 20-30. I know countless pastors that meet in their homes and serve churches with just a handful, 30-40 people. We have become so accustomed to the Mega-churches on TV, we assume all are like that. But the truth is most churches in North America have a regular attendance of about 75 or so. No one but the people they serve knows their names, no one but maybe the local hospital knows their names, and they are not famous at all, not a household name, so to speak.

I can speak for me; I have a loving family in our church that I have had the privilege of hosting a baby dedication service for every kid born into that family for 20+ years. They have a wall with pictures of me holding the kids, and now the grandkids; they know who I am. They love me, and I love them. I know many pastors who are the same way, famous with the ones God has given them. They never get in the way of Jesus; they are faithful.

This is what we can get from this passage: all too often, we see and hear the Apostle Paul – and make no mistake – he is famous as a servant of God, but he did not do it on his own. Let us talk in human terms. Paul had Barnabas to help him at first; then he teamed up with Silas; then as he was getting older and his eyesight was failing, he needed someone to write his epistles for him; then he talked of being with Luke and others that surrounded him. He speaks of his need to see Mark, the need to speak to Timothy and to Titus, and the need to make sure the next generation was ready to take up the charge. Paul understood that he could only do so much and that the ministry he had in public was supported by the people behind the scenes.

If you read Luke 8:1-3, you will see that Jesus had people that supported the ministry financially so that He and the disciples could do the work.

After this, Jesus traveled from one city and village to another. He spread the Good News about God’s kingdom. The twelve apostles were with him. Also, some women were with him; they had been cured of evil spirits and various illnesses. These women were Mary, also called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; Joanna, whose husband Chusa was Herod’s administrator; Susanna; and many other women. They provided financial support for Jesus and his disciples.

God knew their names as well, and He knows yours. He knows the effort and the time that you put into the church that you serve as a pastor, or Sunday School teacher, or an usher, or a deacon, or the piano player, or the choir director, or the guy who makes sure that the washrooms are clean or the driveway is shoveled. No pastor can do everything, no one. We need each other, and together we are an unstoppable force. Paul, God leading, wrote down the names of the people. They were not famous to the world, but they were famous to God.

I have a dear mentor, a senior pastor; I will not name him, but he is in his eighties, on dialysis, has pains in places he probably did not think could hurt, has had all kinds of surgeries, and even had a transplant. However, even though he is not able to preach anymore, he is still in church the vast majority of the time, still leading by example. He has his Bible open when the preaching is going on and somehow manages a genuine smile in all this. God knows his name, and one day he will be greeted as a ‘good and faithful servant.’

Some of us can think of the sweet word of a brother or sister that turned a bad day around, got us through an internal fight, and carried us like an angel’s wings when we were too broken to go on; God knows these people; He sent them, and they spoke life and energy into your soul. See Colossian 3:16-17,

“Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”

We all need each other; Paul needed all these folks that are mentioned. They had either helped him carry the message, received the message, or had provided lodging, food, money even, and maybe just a safe place to lay his head as he ran from his enemies. Nonetheless, they were just as important to the ministry of the Gospel as Paul. Maybe you just have a small income, but you tithe to your local church faithfully. God knows; God is aware of the sacrifices that you make. Nothing you do for Him and nothing that you invest for Him is missed. He knows it all, and He knows your name. You are important to the Lord; your contribution, even small in your eyes, is large to God.

Earlier I mentioned missionaries, and we love them at our church. I have friends that are missionaries in Kenya, Russia, South America, Ukraine, and many other places. They are awesome people, but you know, we are taught a principle from an incident in the life of King David. In 1 Samuel 30:23-24, we see these words,

“But David said, ‘My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us. Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.'”

If you go back and read the account in 1 Samuel 30, the Amalekites attacked David’s people, took their goods, and kidnapped their families. There were about 600 men that followed David at that time, and they were given permission by the priest to pursue the enemies and retrieve their families. But of the 600 men, about 200 were so weary from the previous battle that they stayed with the remaining goods, and the 400 went to fight. They prevailed and plundered the Amalekites, returning with the families, and no one had died. The 400 who went to the battle did not want to share the goods of the plunder with the 200 who stayed. But David, a godly man and leader, made the statement above; the share of those who went to battle will be the same as those who stayed with the stuff.

Maybe you are not the missionary in Africa or the Philippines, or in South America or Russia, or wherever, BUT you faithfully give that extra $5 or $10 or $20 to help in his work; then you are just as famous to God as he. He could not have gone to that place without your help. The same God who called him to the field calls you to give sacrificially and provides you with the job that pays so that you have money to give. We are all a part of the Kingdom’s work. God knows your name. He knows who you are, and He knows the sacrifices that you make for Him.

What made these people in the passage above famous is that they gave of themselves, they gave to the kingdom of God, they gave to the messengers of God, and they helped the message get to the next person. These are things that we can all do. God knows them by name, and one day He will reward them by name as well. See Mark 10:29-30,

“Truly I tell you,’ Jesus replied, ‘no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.…”

God bless you,

Dr. Sean Gooding

Pastor of Mississauga Missionary Baptist Church

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