Newly Updated: Why Are We Content Living In The Downstairs Apartment In The Elites’ Outhouse?

"It's hard to admit you've been fooled, but it's not too late to turn on the light, and open your eyes."

The title of this article may be disturbing to some, perhaps offensive, even considered vulgar, but it’s an apt descriptive metaphor of our situation for those of the Christian nations of the West who need to wake up, own up to reality, and get clued in as to who we are in the Biblical record. We need the courage to stand up for our heritage, and the truth of the word of God rather than kowtowing to the atheist elites who are of the synagogue of Satan, especially with the alleged "clear and present danger" from UFOs the government is warning us about. [Rev. 2:9; see Kissinger, The Bible And UFOs]. Our continuing ignorance and apathy literally are killing us. As if the ongoing "Covid" destruction, brought to us by many of these same elites, isn't bad enough, even worse are the stark implications of the Iran war started by the US Trump administration of behalf of Zionist Israel that is having global implications, perhaps resulting in a global depression or worse affecting all those living in the downstairs apartment.

When elites and politicians, whose talents and character are far less than the demands of the time, have failed their people, most often elected leaders turn to war, whether real or promulgated, as an off-ramp. This has the greatest impact on unwilling everyday citizens, victims of an unwanted war who trusted these leaders with their common providence. It's an ancient story we experience today, repeated and unlearned. Our current manifestation bears witness to us, made plain by the last days of previous failed empires as they ebbed and evanesced into the chronicles of history past.

The people in the nations of the West are eviscerating themselves, facing increasing commodity shortages and rapid price increases, brought on by failed economic and financial policies by corrupted leaders in what used to be the wealthiest nations on Earth, on behalf of a tiny parasitic foreign nation. And for those in the US, it has become the world's largest debtor nation in history, with $357,000 debt per taxpayer in mid-2026. It is a lawless, morally bankrupt empire of lies for which there is ample supporting evidence, especially with the US starting the Iranian war, wasting billions of dollars a day, further destroying their country, while their citizens suffer the consequences of the elites as noted in the title of this article. 

The most important point to understand in getting ourselves out of our current mess, and it’s getting worse daily, is to start off by getting back on the right path to the knowledge of who we are in the Biblical record. Without this understanding, we have no way to know which door leads us out of the downstairs apartment. While we may assume this knowledge appears to be self-evident to us in the 21st century, we would be wrong in that assumption. Square one for us goes back to the first century with Christ and the apostles, rather than 5th century Roman church gentile groupthink misinformation detour that got us to where we are today. We're not meant to be clones in a herd. This lies at the crux of the entire purpose of the New Testament, and therefore the very existence of Biblical Christianity. The path to knowing what we need to do to get out of our downstairs apartment, and who we are in the Biblical record is an individual Christian pursuit. As the apostle Paul wrote, "Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually." [1 Cor 12:27].

From the secular perspective regarding our current predicament, "There is only the individual, and each individual is responsible for his own awakening. That oh so rare awakening means gaining for self the ability to think, to think as an individual, to think critically, to accept what he alone thinks, to seek and know truth, and to act on that individual knowledge. This fact, in my view, is why most all humans remain completely unconscious for their entire lives, never understanding truth, or anything of value or honesty, and living only to accept the opinions of others, especially government, media, celebrities, and so-called experts and authority figures." It's the anesthetized contented herd mentality. [See the full article, How Does One Wake Up?].

How do we turn around our somnambulant mindset? This means getting rid of fear of leaving the familiar darkness that has cloaked our lives. We need to garner a boldness in our love of the unfamiliar light of the truth. [1 John 4:17, 18; 2 Tim. 1:7]. We are of a tribe, Biblically, the tribe of the House of Israel. This is who we are, the indigneous Christian nations of the West. But this knowledge today deliberately remains hidden in the darkest recesses of the rabbit hole of ignorance and deceit. It is the knowledge of the truth of the word of God that gives us the opportunity, the light to completely get us out of that dark hole. "But he [the individual] who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God." [John 3:21; see James 2:20-24].

Let's begin the waking up process. And remember, as Paul told the ekklesia in Thessalonica, prove all things and hold fast that which is of God. [1 Ths. 5:21]. The corollary to this is " ... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." [Phl. 2:12]. In other words, think for yourself. Christian salvation is an individual pursuit as is spiritual growth. Don't take our word for what you read here either. Prove it to yourself. And then have the courage, and the conviction of the truth to put it into action in your life. [See the Parable of the Sower]. 

For those of you not familiar with the content in some of the articles on this site, WE ARE NOT GENTILES. This is a foundational lie, far more deadly in the big picture of things than the "covid jabs are safe and effective" lie. The gentile lie has been pounded into the theological fabric of our nations by our Adversary for centuries in order to deceive us. The fundamental point we must understand is that the root cause of our current day predicament is theological, not secular, which are the effects of our missing the mark. Believing we are gentiles has sent us off in the wrong direction from ground zero. Until we get back on track with a correct theological compass guiding us, both individually, and then as nations, matters will only get worse. See Jonah 3 as a positive example so different from the "US king." 

The truth of the word of God is plain, simple and incontrovertible. We are the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Those descended from Judah, the Jews, are only one nation of Israel, the House of Judah. [Map]. The Jews are not all Israel as is the common modern day misconception. They are a small minority, about 1.5% of all Israel today. [1 Kng. 12:20-24]. And many of those claiming to be Jews are not of Israel. [Rev. 3:9; see the Feature article, And It's Still A Mystery, and the Sneakers article, Tail Wagging The Dog?].

Read the last days prophecies about us in Gen. 49. "And Jacob [our patriarch Israel] called his sons and said, "Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days …." The Jews, Judah, verses 8-12, is only one of Israel’s 12 sons who are around today. So where are the other eleven? A good place to start is by looking in the mirror. [Hosea 4; see the Feature article, Mirror, Mirror On The Wall].

Paul clearly wrote in the Book of Hebrews, "... how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the God of the living? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." [Heb. 9:14, 15; see Heb. 8:7-9]¹. Even a true believer of the false gentile narrative should be able to answer this. Question: Who were transgressors of the law, subject to the first [old] covenant made with Moses and the children of Israel, who had their sins forgiven, those of Israel or gentiles? [A: Exd. 34:27].

So then, who is the new covenant meant for that Christ, our kinsman Redeemer, delivered in the first century to cover the sins [1 John 3:4], the redemption of those who transgressed the old law covenant? This is a bit like asking what color is Superman's red cape? Christ, and the apostles were sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel in the Christian age to share the good news, the gospel, of redemption. [Eph. 1:3-7]. But does this truth register even one bit? Yet, quite plainly this is what is recorded in our New Testament texts. [See the Feature article, Paul Was An Apostle to The House Of Israel, Not The Gentiles; also the new Sneakers article, Who Is The Savior Of All Men?]. 

Christ clearly stated he was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, not to the gentiles. There is no Orwellian doublethink at play here. Read it for yourselves. Mat. 15:24. Was Christ lying? Then who is? He plainly said this to a gentile woman. He told his apostles DO NOT go to the gentiles, but only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Again, read it for yourself. Mat 10:5, 6. Was he lying? Then who is? The directive given by Christ was the same to all the apostles including Paul.² For those of you wishing to invoke John 3:16, again see the Feature Article, Mirror, Mirror On The Wall.

So why do "Christian" pastors and ministers contradict the clear words of Christ? Why do they say he was lying about being sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel? Our pastors and ministers, who should be telling us the truth, and likely don't know who comprises the House of Israel today, simply will come up with some false arguments based on lies they have learned from others, passed down over generations. Recall, "awakening means gaining for self the ability to think, to think as an individual, to think critically, to accept what he alone thinks, to seek and know truth, and to act on that individual knowledge." Don't leave your mortal and eternal destiny to the professionals. It's you, Christ as your mediator, and our Father in heaven. That's it. [1 Tim. 2:5]. As the apostle Paul wrote, "Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually." There are no apathetic piggyback rides on the coat-tails of religious organizations.

Collectively, if we knew we were the House of Israel, we could amend our wayward behavior, which is the first tenet of Christianity as delivered by Christ and the apostles in the first century, in light of what our LORD says to us, "Thus says the Lord GOD: Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, ‘Alas, for all the evil abominations of the House of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.'" [Eze. 6:11; see the Sneakers article, Name Those Tenets]. Hmm, unprecedented murder rates, increasing food shortages, "Covid" injuries, deaths, war in the Middle East that has the potential to escalate into WW3, does this ring a bell? And this is only the beginning according to the prophecies that pertain to the House of Israel. It should be rather evident that we need to make positive theological changes. [Highest Increase Murder Rate In Modern History].

In a prophecy in Jeremiah, our pastors, as it is in Hebrew, bāʿar, have become stupid, dull-hearted, brutish no longer receptive to the truth. [Jer. 10:20, 21]. Church attendance keeps falling as flocks become scattered due to the non-relevance of the lies. What do flying reindeer and bunny rabbits have to do with our daily lives, and our relationship with our Savior? Nothing. Our true Biblical heritage and relationship with the truth and our Savior? Everything.

Yet, in a non-thinking mind-boggling feat of modern Churchianity, these pastors base the herd's biggest day of celebration on a lie. "Christ was a newborn baby in a manger when the wise men presented their gifts to Jesus." The Bible states in very plain language, "And when they [the wise men from the East] were come into the house [Greek, oikia] they saw the young child [Jesus, Greek, paidion, young child, little boy] with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold, and frankensense and myrrh." [Mat. 2:11]. If this simple foundational fact of Christianity doesn't wake us up to make some needed changes, well .... [See the Feature article, And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor]. 

We have no hope when believing we are gentiles. Christ's plain words bounce off our hearts and minds like ping pong balls off concrete. But imagine if we paid attention to the truth written in the Biblical record for us exactly as Christ said? It completely changes our entire theological worldview. It allows us to find ourselves in the Biblical prophecies, those that warn and give guidance to each of is in the House of Israel in these last days. It gives us hope and a sense of history and destiny that reindeer and bunny rabbits can't. Instead, we remain indoctrinated with the adopted pagan customs and lies we have embraced thinking we are gentiles, rather than with the truth as God's people, the House of Israel, that would set us free. [The Downstairs Life].

The truth is we’ve gotten into this mess because we've been propagandized, suckered into to loving these lies. It's so much easier to deal with fairy tales and illusions foisted on us by the "experts," rather than putting the dedicated effort into proving the cold hard facts of the truth to ourselves... at least until the deceits hit the fan, like alien UFOs? There's always a price to pay. And these same prophecies tell us it is a very steep price to pay by each individual, and collectively as nations. Lukewarm and apathetic, we refuse to make the effort to search out the truth and live it because we don't see any point to it. Our theological belief that we are gentiles is a hollow, soulless existence in this world, devoid of anything more meaningful than dying and "going to Heaven," which is another pervasive Roman church fiction, a blatant lie that leads us down the rabbit hole, contrary to the Biblical record.³ [See the Feature article, Heaven Can Wait II]. 

On the other hand, there is an innate beauty and peace living the truth of the word of God. It is fulfilling, bonding with the spirit of those of the House of Israel who seek first the power and authority, the kingdom of God. The truth opens the door to the goodness and blessings that we all want in our lives. The lies slam it shut, complete with a posted warning, Keep Out! [See the Feature article, Is The Kingdom Of Heaven Here Yet?].

Our spirits have become dulled, lukewarm believing we are gentiles, disregarding the truth of the word of God. [See Rev. 3:14-21]. Instead, stuck in our apathy, we prefer to sit back watching the corporate news talking heads lie to us, tell us what to think and what to do, tolerating the destruction that besets us daily. Look around and think about what our politicians are saying and doing to us while dumping a load of BS on us that they know we will swallow. It’s not for our benefit. Our love of the lies have blinded us. It's turned us into naive fools that are easy pickings for the elites. [2 Ths. 2:10-12; see the Feature article, The Princes Of A Plundered House]. Where has it gotten us? Residence in our downstairs apartment. Why do we accept it? [Tolerance and Apathy Are The Last Virtues Of A Dying Society; Video: America The Beautiful; The Song].

If you are so steeped in false doctrines pushed by false prophets, politicians, and elite billionaires, with only their own interests at heart, that you want to continue believing you are not of the House of Israel, but a gentile, contrary to Christ’s own words, who are you following? Who is the Destroyer, the father of the lie? [John 8:44, 45]. Make no mistake. While we may think this situation doesn't affect us individually, it's a creeping cancer that will get everyone unless we get right with our Lord and Savior. Self-righteousness and lip service are dead ends.

Our nations, and individuals will continue on the prophetic apocalyptic path to our destruction unless we make positive changes, beginning now. Not tomorrow. It starts with each one of us. Discover and rejoice in your true Biblical heritage while the door remains open. What is happening to the collective nations of the West, the nations of the House of Israel, is the beginning of our Lord's hand being put against us in these last days, "divine intervention," exactly as it is written to us in the prophecies. [Luke 13:22-28]. See the Newslink section for secular verification.

As our end times prophet Ezekiel is sent to warn us, "Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O House of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies," says the Lord GOD. Therefore turn and live!" [Eze. 18:31, 32]. These past few years are just the start our troubles. Disagree, scoff all you want, deceive yourself, but the truth stands, while more lies are continually invented to keep us on the path to death.

We are losing our nations, our birthright blessings today to the evil atheists, the liars who seek to destroy us. Why do we let them continue in their lies? Why do we let them tell us who we are rather than our Savior? The crazy thing is, the truth is free for the getting. You just need to want to get it.

We need to change from our errant ways, boldly getting out from under the blindness of the lies that have shrouded us, and step into the light of the truth. If we can’t recognize that our nations are cursed right now, and not blessed, then we will remain stubborn and deceived in our rebelliousness to the truth of the word of our Lord all to our detriment. As the prophecies say of us, "Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us." [Micah 3:11]. This is not unlike our ancestors leaving Egypt. 

As Moses told our ancestors, twice in four words, "Remember, do not forget [we have though because we’ve lost knowledge of our Biblical ancestry] how you angered the LORD your God, in the desert from the day that you went out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD." [Deu. 9:7] In the New Testament we have confirmation of this. " ... not according to the covenant that I [Christ] made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord." [Heb. 8:9; see the Feature article, And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor].

Now in the Christian New Testament, 1 Corinthians, the apostle Paul, a descendant of Israel’s nation of Benjamin, from whom the first king of Israel was chosen, writes, "Moreover, brethren [Greek, ἀδελφός, adelphos, brethren in Christ, blood kin, of the same father individually, of the same fathers nationally], I do not want you to be unaware [remember, do not forget] that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.” [10:1-4; see Mat. 1:1, Rev. 22:16].

Do we choose to continue our rebellion against our Savior and the truth, to be in bondage to our adversary's lies, or will we joyfully embrace the love to the truth of the word of God? It's not a matter of God being on our side. We've abandoned his word the truth in our lives, our true heritage, hence, our current downstairs living arrangement. For us, then, it's a matter of us getting back on God's side.

As is attributed to the late US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "While we are entitled to our own opinions, we aren't entitled to our own set of facts, which have their own set of consequences independent of personal opinions." Therefore, we are free to believe what we want, and do what we want. This is the liberty, the freedom of choice we have from Christ. It's just a matter of which set of consequences in life we choose to experience. [See the Sneakers article, Does Romans 13 Mean We Have To Be Subject To The Evil Authority Of Men?].

"And whatever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance [our redemption to eternal life]; for you serve the Lord Christ. But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality." [Col. 3:23-25]. But like Adam and Eve, our nations have chosen to go with the serpent. As individuals, we still have the opportunity to make positive changes. [See the Sneakers articles, As It Was In The Beginning, So It Is At The End and Bum's Rush].
 
Know that our Lord determines what it is that leads to blessings or curses, life or death. Let us not be cowards that pull back when confronting the truth, content to be theological shut-ins, locked down with the lies and deceits. Let us be bold, joyfully welcoming the truth. If we truly are Christians, then it's time we, as individuals, wake up, open the door to the light of the truth of the word of God, to live the blessings from our Lord, and move out of the downstairs apartment. 


¹  " ... He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah — not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt ... "  The apostle Paul is quite clear in the New Testament, distinguishing between two houses, those of the Jews, Judah and those of the remainder of the nations of Israel. This old covenant propehtic quote by Paul from Jer. 31:31 refers to "their fathers," plural, clearly showing that the Jews and the rest of Israel are separate and distinct. And notice, no mention of any gentiles.  

² During Paul's first missionary journey, Paul preached in the synagogue in Antioch of Pisidia. This is a pivotal point of Christian understanding. When the Jews in the synagogue, along with those descendants of the nations of Israel, heard Paul preach the gospel of Christianity, Judah, the Jews rejected it, fulfilling many Biblical prophecies, including the sceptre departing from Judah to Israel. [See the Feature article, Paul Was An Apostle To The House Of Israel, Not the Gentiles].  

In Acts 13:44-49, note, the DBY as well as the YLT translators correctly have it nations, while the editors at BLB inserted "Paul Turns To The Gentiles" in the section header, misleading readers a la Jerome. It's best to ignore these latter day headings altogether. A caveat, if you search the BLB for the "House of Israel," there are no references given for the New Testament, though there are several mentions in the gospels, Acts and writings of the apostles. Yet if you go to the BLB KJV or other translations, the Matthew 15:24 verse reads as Christ said, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel." Remember, prove all things.

Correctly, Paul then turned to the nations of the House of Israel, with whom our LORD says in the Old Testament, "Thus they shall know that I, the LORD their God [our Savior Christ, Isa. 43:3, Luke 2:11] am with them, and they, the House of Israel, are My people, says the Lord GOD" [Jer. 34:30] and in the New Testament, "I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel ...." [Heb. 8:8].  No where is there any mention of a covenant, new or old, with gentiles. Paul's ministry was the same as all the other apostles directed by Christ. But because of Jerome's mistranslation of the Greek ethnos into gentiles rather than nations, this out of Biblical context, incorrectly translated verse, more than any other eliminated the House of Israel from the New Testament awareness over the centuries even though the entirety of the New Testament is for the House of Israel. It's a cunning, and deadly deception from which we suffer today. [For the details, see the Feature article, The Good News Colour Revolution]. 

³ For those who may think I'm unfairly picking on the Roman church, I have experienced that of which I write. I came from a rather large extended devoutly Roman Catholic family. I endured all the catechism indoctrination up to confirmation, and escaped being an altar boy. One of my aunts was a nun. And having visited the Vatican, the pagan origins of the church are starkly apparent. [Pagan Vatican Art, Graven Images]. It is the process of our individual awakening that leads to the truth and the light by which to see clearly the lies and deceits.

What may appear to be a daunting trek into the unknown when looking forward, becomes an exciting adventure in new discoveries on our way to the summit of the truth to a better way of life, both in the flesh and with the Spirit. We come to realize our journey becomes one of exploring the fortitude of our own personal faith. As Sir Edmind Hillary said after climbing Mt. Everest, it's not the mountains that we conquer, but ourselves. No one but ourselves can climb the mountain, the unconquered peaks that lie within each of us. Thus, we come full circle, which brings us back to the awakened individual that has been to the summit. [See the Prologue, p. 19, The Blind Man's Elephant].

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