A Christmas Message ...
Updated: Our Corrupted Compass
We took for granted at one time, in the old days of the rule of law, the "Normal World Order," pre-LIES-Cov-2, Western sanctions, the Ukrainian proxy war, and now Zionist Israel's war, both having the potential to go nuclear, taking people and nations into oblivion, that life would continue on, essentially uninterrupted, though increasingly rapid of late, getting worse before it would, by some unknown future miracle, get better. After all, are we not a Christian people? What harm can come to us?
Well, this mindset changed with the advent of the "Covid" plandemic. The world has changed for the worse, much worse. There is a deliberate attack on Christianity, in partcular by Marxist globalists. The Biden administration has listed opposition to "Covid" lies and "Christian" holidays as a potential terrorist threats. [Terror Threats; Biden Admin $1 Billion On Covid Disinformation]. The insanity exhibited by the "bottom of the barrel" leadership of the Western nations is the effect for the simple reason that along the way we lost our theological GPS, our reliable truth of the word of God compass that directs us to true liberty and freedom. As a result, we find ourselves in the midst of a tempest, a strengthening Cat 5 prophetic societal storm that is crashing our nations upon the rocky shores of an atheist Marxist enslavement and destruction. There is a massive political climate change underway. Is it possible to emerge from this, and once again find our safe harbor? Yes it is. But, all hands need to be on deck. We have no time to lose. [See the Feature article, Damascus A Heap Of Ruins].
Over 700 years ago, sailing from point to point without knowledge of the prevailing winds for a particular time of the year, sailors could end up lost. All that changed with the advent of the compass. It allowed ships to sail in all seasons of the year, and away from sight of land. It opened the way for huge increases in trade and commerce. For the first time, people could travel the seven seas with the relative confidence of not getting lost.
Compasses are vital for keeping us on our correct heading. A damaged compass, or a compass not shielded from metallic influence can give us faulty readings. When this occurs, we lose our true direction, heading off on the wrong course. We’d end up lost. We'd have no way to know for certain which way is north, south, east or west. In fact, magnetic north has changed its location. It's not where it used to be. Its moving away from Canada and heading towards Siberia. [Magnetic North Moving; The Sun's Magnetic Poles Are Expected To Reverse This Year].
According to the author of the book, The Riddle of the Compass, these four cardinal points are first mentioned in writing in the Biblical record. They are in a prophecy concerning Jacob/Israel, father of the House of Israel, as well as the House of Judah, the Jews. “And he [Jacob] dreamed and behold, a ladder was set up on the Earth, and it’s top reached to heaven; and there the messengers of God were ascending and descending upon it. And behold, the LORD stood upon it and said, I am the LORD [Yehovah], God of Abraham your father and God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also, your descendants shall be as the dust of the Earth; you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, to the north and south; and in you and in all your seed all the families of the Earth shall be blessed.” [Gen. 28:12-14; see the Sneakers article, Critical Reasoning And Thinking, What CRT Use To Be].
While reading through this article, be aware that the reference to the LORD in the Old Testament is the same Jesus Christ in the New Testament. [See 1 Cor. 10:1-4; Mat. 15:24; also the Feature article, The Tie That Binds]. For no man has seen God the Father except Christ. [John 1:18] Christ is the LORD God of all 12 nations Israel. [See 2 King. 19:15]. He is the root of David in the Old Testament, but the offspring of David in the New Testament, [Rev. 22:16], the Alpha and Omega.
It’s noteworthy that the first written mention of the four major compass points referencing Earth is in connection with our ancestors, and reaches down to us today. [For those of you not familiar with our true Biblical heritage, we're not gentiles, first read, Paul Was An Apostle To The House Of Israel, Not The Gentiles, And It's Still A Mystery and Moving Forward, then the Feature articles, The Tale Of Two Covenants, and We're Abraham's Seed And Heirs, Not Gentiles; also the Sneakers articles, This Old House and His Treasured Possession]. And regarding the extent of the blessings mentioned here by Yehovah to the House of Israel, the nations of "Western civilization" in the last days, spreading out in all directions and all the families of the Earth being blessed, read the Feature article, Is The US, And Britain, In End-times Bible Prophecy?
Today, as the House of Israel, the indigenous Christian nations of the collective West, our theological-spiritual compass is out of whack. Our angle of declination is way off, and we don’t know which way is up, which is to say our inclination is messed up too. We aren’t following our correct heading, true geographic east, the truth of the word of God. “And behold, the glory of the God of Israel [Christ] appeared from the east. His voice was like the noise of many waters, and the Earth shined in his glory.” [Eze. 43:2, 4]. When Christ returns, he will set his feet upon the Mount of Olives, which is in the east, before Jerusalem. [Zec. 14:4]. Having lost our bearing, we are following the fallacious magnetic charm of the latter day god, Santa at the North Pole [the geographic one]. And the serpent mentioned in Genesis 3:1, is the Hebrew word, nâchâsh. It is same word used in reference to the constellation of the serpent or dragon in the northern hemisphere's sky. [See Job 26:13].
Edom, the sixth beast in Revelation, 666, is Babylon the Great. [See Rev. 3:9]. According to the JFB Commentary, the Babylonians believed the common meeting place of their gods was in the north. “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! You are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north ...." i.e., Satan/Santa at the north pole, [Isa. 14:12, 13]. There is no mistaking it, our theological compass is definitely pointing due north. [See Jer. 3:18].
Today, Satan/Santa is working his evil upon the House of Israel using Edom as his proxy to exalt themselves over us [Gen. 27:36-41] as he desires to exalt himself above God [Dan. 11:36-39]. Indeed, he has gotten us worshiping many idols in place of our Savior. [See the Sneakers article, Birthdays Of The Gods; also the Feature article, Isaiah 63, Big Brother, The Prophetic 21st Century Antichrist]. And the Christmas deceit is working as planned, leading us blindly to destruction.
Thus, having lost our direction, we are spiritually adrift, thrashing about in a theological tempest, facing destruction and death, out of sight of the truth because we have abandoned our heritage and new covenant [our compass] with God. And now we are so easily deceived by falsehoods and lies that would see us wrecked on the shore of deceit. [See the Sneakers article, Got Milk?].
Make no mistake, theologically speaking, we are in Satan's "Santa season," which has permeated our entire Christian outlook. Despite centuries and centuries of "warm and fuzzy" winter tradition, with the deceitful and deadly excuse that we really do it for the children [Pro. 22:6; Pro. 16:25], the Christmas celebration is a perpetuated theological fraud by our Adversary in order to destroy us. Even a cursory look around shows it is working. [See the Newslink section]. None of God's appointed times take place during the dead season of winter. [See the complimentary book, The Hijacked Elephant for details].
Not surprisingly, it is just as Moses warned about, angering our LORD in the last days with the works of our hands, "Santa's workshop" with all those presents under the tree that advertisers bombard us with starting in earnest with Black Friday. [See the Sneakers article, A Life And Death Pickle Of A Predicament]. Christmas does not honor our LORD and Savior no matter our intentions. But it does greatly provoke Him to anger as we'll discover below.
For those of you remaining on deck, let’s change this by standing up on deck with the word of God, and firmly grasping the sword of the Spirit of truth, at the ready to battle the increasing evilness that besets us. [See Eph. 6:10-20]. Be careful not to be distracted with the lies and deceits, thereby falling overboard on the way to our safe harbor.
We'll examine a prophecy in Jeremiah, written about the time of the transition from the 7th to the 6th century BCE, addressed specifically to us, the House of Israel, warning us not to get involved with a certain heathen practice, with which we are all too familiar. In no way can this chapter be considered, as some may attempt to wrongly characterize it, a satirical account, unless that person is making an attempt to denigrate the truth of the word of God, which is not something our LORD takes lightly. For the record, this prophecy from Jeremiah is intended to warn us as it is abundantly clear in verse 10. To be precise, it is a serious, life saving warning from our LORD and Savior for us to turn from idolatry. Metaphorically, it is a lighthouse on rocky shores. And it is particularly relevant given our current circumstances. We’ll begin in verse 1.
Jeremiah 10:1- Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, House of Israel.
This is very clear to whom it is addressed. It is addressed to the Christian nations by our LORD, Jesus Christ, who told us, “I am only sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” [Mat. 15:24]. Our LORD also said, " ... the House of Israel are my people." [Eze. 34:30]. And as the gospel says, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people.” [Luke 1:68; see the Feature articles, And It's Still A Mystery and Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall as well as the other articles in the Gospel section]. Be aware the House of Israel is all Israel minus the Jews, who are the separate House of Judah. [Heb. 8:8].
As the apostle Paul confirmed, "But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law [covenant made with Israel only, Exd. 19:5, 6, Tts. 2:14, 1 Pet. 2:9], that we might receive the adoption of sons." [Gal. 4:4, 5]. And as promised, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God ...." [1 John 3:2]. Our abandonment of this truth and our covenant with God over the past two millennia has led to our fatal alliance with the cheery false prophet from the north, Santa. And as we’ll read, our destination is very much a sack of coal rather than shiny presents under the tree.
Those who have redefined our Biblical identity have duped us as were Eve and Adam in the garden, and by the very same entity too, who seems to have a proclivity for trees. [See the Sneakers article, As It Was In The Beginning, So It Is At The End]. It was set in motion by events that took place about 4000 years ago. [Read chapter six, The Genesis Birthright in The Blind Man’s Elephant, now a complimentary PDF download on the Home page, for a detailed accounting; also see the Feature article, Isa. 63: Big Brother, The Prophetic 21st Century Antichrist].
Understanding our history in this regard is essential if we wish to grasp what we’re discussing here in Jeremiah's prophecy. Otherwise, we’ll be tempted to fall back to the defensive position of “no way, I don’t think so, and this can’t be right because.” Knowing the truth sets us free. It puts the wind at our back, hastening us to the correct heading to our safe harbour given us by Christ, our LORD. [John 8:32]. Otherwise, we are destroyed by our lack of knowledge of the truth.
10:2- Thus says the LORD, ‘Do not learn the way of the heathen, and do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathens are dismayed at them.1
Again, this is a very clear statement. Do not learn the way of the heathen. But, of course, we have, in spades. When God tells us to go east, we head north following our compromised compass. Then we wonder why we are in trouble in our own nations. We are a rebellious people. And not only have we learned the way of the heathen, we’ve done it in a much grander fashion than the heathens of past ever imagined.
The signs of heaven here refer to the winter solstice. Among others, the heathens worshiped the Sun as a god. As the year wore on, the sunlight portion of the days became shorter, and colder in the northern hemisphere. The shortest sunlight day of the year is the winter solstice. To appease the Sun god, they devised a certain custom. Regardless of our errant motivation and justifying proclamations, it is this custom we are warned not to learn. [Again, see the Sneakers article, Birthdays Of The Gods]. And what is this custom that the heathens partake in?
10:3- For the custom of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
The heathen custom that we are warned against learning involves a tree cut from the forest around the time of the winter solstice. It doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out where this is going.
10:4- They decorate it with gold and silver and then fasten it securely with nails and hammers so it will not topple.
Our picture is coming into focus. Heathens cut a tree out of the forest around the time of the winter solstice. This is an evergreen tree as the deciduous trees are barren. Then, heathens fasten it with nails so it doesn’t fall over. And then we decorate it with gold and silver. Sound familiar, Dr. Watson?
10:5- They are upright like a palm tree, but they speak not. They must be carried, because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor can they do any good.
Thus, we have trees that are fastened with hammers and nails that stand up straight to keep them from falling over. They are decorated around the time of the solstice. We are told not to fear them, because unlike the heathen’s belief, the trees have no power to do anything, evil or good, much less affect the Sun’s behavior.
Instead, as Christians, the children of God, the House of Israel, we have the power of choice. We should fear the word of our LORD, who is almighty and powerful, the Creator of the heavens and the Sun when he tells us not to learn this custom. Nevertheless, the slaves to the lies, assembled in the dark, below deck, fear their master's tree rather than the word of the truth of our LORD. Adam and Eve made the same mistake with a tree ... once. Those who choose the Christmas tree do it every year.
10:6- Forasmuch, there is none like you, O LORD, you are great, and your name is great in might.
This is a reminder to us, again. Why do we partake in a silly and superstitious heathen custom in direct defiance of our LORD, Christ, whom we claim with our words to follow? “He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me, in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” [Mark 7:6, 7]. And in this case, the practice of heathens. The trees have no power in them, despite what heathens may think. It is our LORD who is all-powerful. Yet, to whom do our actions defer? Justifications aside, it’s such a plain and simple command too, Do not learn the way of the heathen. Don't partake of the fruit of that tree.
10:7- Who would not fear you, King of the nations? For to you does this [tree, and heathen practice] pertain. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like you.
Remember these verses are directed to the nations of the House of Israel, the Christian professing nations, and not to the entire world, or even the House of Judah, the Jews who are blind to Christ in this age. The King of the nations here references the King of Israel, who is Christ. [John 1:49]. The office that Christ holds as King of Israel is his alone. And in all the nations of Israel, there are twelve including Judah, the Jews [see Genesis 49 for the list in the last days], no one is like our Savior. As we look around the nations of the collective West, where are the wise leaders? Therefore, who wouldn’t respect, reverence and honor our LORD and his word? Uh, that would be us, the below deck "Christians." [See the Feature article, You Know You're A Christian When ...].
So, Dr. Watson, what tree is it that is cut out of the forest about the time of the winter solstice [in case you are wondering, this is the end part of December, originally on the 25th], is fastened so it remains upright, has to be carried because it can’t walk, [you know, like out of a supermarket lot or tree farm to your car, or to your doorstep because of government mandates], is decorated with gold and silver [you know, like shiny orbs and tinsel, often with an angel of light on top, 2 Cor. 11:14], and pertains to our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ? The answer is elementary. If you answered totem pole, go to the back of the class.
This is the heathen practice that we are specifically told not to partake in. [$1 Billion On Christmas Trees]. Yet, around the world, and wherever you find the House of Israel spread out to the four corners of the Earth, north, south, east or west, you will find us up to our eyeballs with these heathen Christmas trees. [Christmas Trees East; also India]. In fact, we have instituted official ceremonies where, in "the spirit of the season" [whose spirit? not our Savior's], we can go to watch the lighting of our community Christmas trees. And to top it all off, we can watch the broadcast of the national tree lighting ceremony on cable tv, and probably on a Zoom call as well. [Tree Lighting Ceremony]. We are such a clever bunch.
10:8- But they are altogether stupid and foolish; the [Christmas] tree is a doctrine of vanity.
Okay, we’re not so clever. In fact, we’re downright stupid and foolish with the Christmas tree. That’s pretty harsh language to use about anyone. Keep in mind, our Savior, who shed his blood for us when nailed to a wooden cross made from a tree, is telling us this. If Jesus Christ walked into our house this December, pointed at our Christmas tree and said, “You stupid and foolish sod. I gave my life for you, I redeemed you so you can have eternal life. And you repay me by running after a silly and ignorant pagan custom, blatant deceit and lies, directly contrary to what I told you!” what would we say?
“Yeah, well get over it. I’ll honor you any way I choose, if I choose.”
While most of us may think we would not dare utter these words to our Savior, we do worse. We make this same point with our actions every Christmas, dishonoring Christ's sacrifice. Because we greatly dishonor our LORD and his love for us, we are, for all intents, the ones twisting a crown of thorns on our Savior, spitting on him, and striking him on the head. Merry Christmas, Jesus. [Mat. 27:29-31].
Our Savior suffered this humiliation for each of us because of our sinful ways, especially with the tree. Yet, we can’t or won’t connect the dots. We are more afraid of what our Christmas tree-hugging neighbors, co-workers and family might say if we don’t have a Christmas tree in our house and office. What would we tell them if they asked why? We fear the tree, and therefore Satan, and not our LORD, all our falsely pious, justifying words to the contrary. So it's no wonder why so many fear the peer pressure of refusing to get injected with poison, even though both these roads lead to death. [Video: The Killer Vaxxes; Mat. 24:22].
And it’s all because we have forgotten our covenant, and forsaken the true gospel our LORD and Savior delivered to us in the first century. This tree is not bearing good fruit as is so readily apparent in all aspects of our lives, especially what's happened to us since last December's Christmas. Is our vision 20/20 when looking at, and understanding what's happened to us in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and now in 2024? We're on the brink of nuclear WW3, our nations crumbling under our feet. Our ship of state is taking on water. We're sinking. Do we choose to remain stupid and foolish? Those of you standing on deck will connect the dots.
Time is not user friendly at this point. So, to be blunt, and to get to the crux of our situation, the entire "Christian" birthday boy/manger/tree celebration of Christmas is bogus. It's a lie. It's a deadly Satanic fraud just like the "vaccines." We need to get this idolatry out of our lives in order to save our lives, like we would any malignant cancer. Even 8 year-olds reading the first eleven verses of chapter two in Matthew can figure out the truth. And they have. See how you do. [Mat. 2:1-11; again see the Feature article, You Know You're A Christian When ...].
When we adults are gullible to this extent, we are easy prey for other lies and frauds that beset us daily now in society. And the ultimate aim of these frauds and lies we have accepted, all go to one end, as it was with our Adversary in the garden in Eden ... our death. That was Herod's intent with his lie to the wise men, too, in the first century. And it is the intent of the elite "Great Reset" princes today. It all started with the first lie. [Again, see the Sneakers article, As It Was At The Beginning, So It Is At The End] Lies and death are inextricably linked from the get go, in our recent history, and in our near future, for this is an evil time. It's time we wake up to the root cause of our present day idolatry. As the children of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, we need to get the lies of Satan out of our lives or we will die, for our LORD has spoken it. [See the Feature article, And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor].
Our family has a pertinent history lesson written down for us in the word of God. Yet, we're ignorant of its relevance for us, having accepted our false identity as gentiles despite Christ's own words. [Jer. 34:30; Mat. 15:24]. The result is as Karl Marx noted, "Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled." We need to understand, the Biblical record is our family history.
Joshua, a descendant of Joseph, the kingly line of the House of Israel, after he had taken them across the Jordan River into the Promised Land, warned the children of Israel, all 12 tribes, before his death, “Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so the LORD will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you. When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.” [Jos. 23:15, 16]. This was the result of the House of Israel's first purging from our LORD by the Assyrians beginning in 732 BCE, more than 100 years before Ezekiel's, and 200 years before Zechariah's prophecies below.
Moses penned a warning to us just prior to his death about these same matters, with one exception. They are not history, they are current events, to take place in the latter days. [Deut. 31:29]. The prophet Ezekiel reiterated what Moses wrote in his prophecy, also for our current day. "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Pound your fists and stamp your feet [Ezekiel], 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. He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them [aka the stupid and foolish ones]. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols. So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land [of the Christian nations] desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah [the Arabian desert], in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'" [Eze. 6:11-14].
This doesn't sound much like a merry Christmas does it? Nope. Sounds more like the promised second purging coming our way as we'll read about below in Eze. 24:13, 14. Looks like the price of the heathen "works of our hands" Christmas tradition just went up. Question is, do we insist on remaining stupid and foolish?
In Zechariah's prophecy, as a reminder he mentions the warning that was delivered by Joshua to the children of Israel went unheeded. The prophecy of Ezekiel for these last days is a warning to us, having wandered off the same path as our ancestors into the darkness of idolatry with trees again. And again, we face the same fate, although worse in degree by the hand of our LORD.
Knowing this, will we, as the nations of the House of Israel, continue on the path of lies leading to our destruction and death? "Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. Therefore, it happened, just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen, says the LORD of hosts. [Jer. 30:15]. But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.” [Zec. 7:12-14].
After the first purging, some of our ancestors of the House of Israel returned to, and lived in the land of Israel by the time of Christ in the first century, as did pagan, gentile people. Christ began his ministry, as the prophet Isaiah wrote, in the House of Israel's land of Galilee. [Mat. 4:12-17; also Isa. 9:8-21]. For the Christian nations of the West, the House of Israel, from Australia to the Hawaiian islands to the forests of the Pacific northwest to heel of Italy's boot, there will be no return this second time. But ask yourself this, what would make the land to be so desolate after us that no one would return to it or even dare pass through it? If Chernobyl comes to mind, you might be right. There are more than 200 nuclear power plants in Europe and the US, each with the potential to release up to 400 times the radiaton of the Hirshima and Nagasaki bombs combined, in a nuclear war. [Again see the Feature article, Damascus A Heap Of Ruins].
Remember, God created man a little lower than the angels. [Psa. 8:5]. However, we are promised eternal life, ordained to be kings and priests in the first resurrection [Rev. 1:5, 6] in the kingdom of God much to Lucifer's anguish. [Isa. 14:12-21]. And as kings and priests in the kingdom of God, we shall judge angels. [1 Cor. 6:3]. Now having rebelled and fallen, as Satan, he has directed his anger towards us, the nations of the House of Israel, to whom the promises were made, and to God as we read in Isa. 14:12, 13. We have given Satan victory over us when we swallow his lies hook, line and sinker. As a result the children of Israel needlessly will suffer the deadly events of the "Apocalypse" by the hand of our LORD.
" ... according to the prince of the power of the air [think 5G, 1 Pet. 5:8], the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience [compare to Php. 2:12, 13], among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others." [Eph. 2:2, 3]. By celebrating the Christmas lie, we remain sons of disobedience, whose spirit works in the children of wrath, rather than the children of our LORD and Savior, whose Spirit works in us. We are beset with lies and deceits by Satan that we so willingly embrace that Christ has now become our enemy. [Jer. 30:15]. But, for a short while longer, each of us called and chosen has the chance to be joined to our Savior in the Spirit when we ditch the lies of Satan and Christmas. It's time to stand up on deck.
"The serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?' And the woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ Then the serpent said to the woman, 'You will not surely die ...'" [Gen. 3:1-4]. The same deceit applies to the fruit of the pagan custom of Christmas and the tree. Don't touch it. Do not learn the way of the heathen.
We are so far from the truth of the word of God now, that we have replaced it with the lies, believing with all our heart and soul. And because we have embraced the lies of Satan, in particular with Christmas, we are at destruction and death's doorstep as a people as the prophecies tell us. And as the apostle Paul wrote, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness [our modern day censorship] because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools ...." i.e., stupid and foolish. [Rom. 1:18-22].
As the apostle Paul warned, "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." [Col. 2:8]. We have become fools who rush into the arms of those who seek to destroy us. Look around you at the state of affairs in the Western nations who profess to be Christian. Is the truth held in high regard, or is it suppressed in unrighteousness, smothered in lies or outright censored? All we need do is look at certain media sites who out themselves every day one way or another in this regard when we pay attention. [Propaganda Media]. What we are experiencing now is not the fruit of the wisdom of God. It is the foolishness of men who follow after the lies and evil traditions of men rather than the truth of the word of God, with the resulting godless misery that falls on us. We are repeating the same mistakes that our ancestors of the House of Israel made. And we will reap the same damnation they did. Only this time around it will be worse for us. "And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation." This is the storm that is about to crash our nations onto the rocks of destruction. [Dan. 12:1; see Deut. 30:15-20; also the Feature article, Christ Against Christians].
The questions before us are simple, and real. Why have we chosen curses and death over blessings and life? And do we remain fools headed for destruction or do we change our ways, embrace the truth of the word of God that we may save our lives? Do not learn the way of the heathen. [Jonah 3; 2 Ths. 2:10-12].
Verse nine references the retail gods, the sorts of merchandise, the "gold and silver" et al, the work of our hands associated with the pagan tradition of the solstice tree [again see the Sneakers article, A Life And Death Pickle Of A Predicament] making the point that “everything connected with idols is the result of human effort.” [JFB Commentary, Jeremiah 10; see the Sneakers article, Better Than Gold; see Christmas Spirit]. Americans alone spend an estimated trillion dollars on Christmas each year. [Trillion Dollar Idolatry]. By comparison, US Christian churches are estimated to take in $70 billion or so in donations over the course of the entire year. This amount is less than the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' increase in personal wealth, a reported $74 billion during "covid" in eight months. And during this Christmas season how much more will the "Christian" masses send to him buying Christmas presents? So, who's our daddy ... Jeff or Jesus?
10:10- But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the Earth shall tremble, and the nations will not be able to abide his indignation.
This is the effect dot that needs connecting to the cause dot. Otherwise, we get the not so happy ending dot, the sack of coal we mentioned at the beginning.
The very being of our Savior is truth. Referring to the nations of the House of Israel in Isaiah, "And he [Christ] said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Savior." [Isa. 63:8]. Now we are children who live the lie. We shame those who don't believe the lies. Our Savior has offered us eternal life. Instead, we choose the Christmas tree, which is nothing but a lamentable, false and lifeless god that leads us away from our first century covenant. It leads to our death. What excuse do we offer up to follow this god in direct opposition to what we have been told? “Well, LORD, the compass I got at Christmas said it was pointing east to you, but I ended up going north to Santa Claus. It’s not my fault!” Excuses are reasons for failure. Christ didn’t call us to be Christian failures.
When we have Christmas trees in our homes and offices, our actions show we lack the conviction of the truth. We are feeble in faith, not trusting the word of our Savior. We scurry below deck and hide, like Adam and Eve in their nakedness before God. And when our faith lacks the works of trusting and following Christ’s words, how can we claim to be Christians? “Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith [Greek, pistis, a conviction of the truth] on Earth?” [Luke 18:8; see the Sneakers article, We Don't Believe You].
Our LORD’s anger is addressed to us, the House of Israel. We have taken our birthright and the abundant wealth of the incredible covenant promises, and squandered it throughout the four corners of the world on a two-bit tree god. Do not learn the way of the heathen.
Perhaps, being told we are stupid and foolish, even by Christ, is a bit too pedestrian nowadays to really get through to us in our f-bomb laden society. We may need something more robust and vigorous in the way of vulgar vernacular. But I’ll leave it to what works for you.
This Christmas business is the most colossal and mindboggling boondoggle foisted upon any people in the history of the world. We’ve been duped by our Adversary, who has sought our death from the get go in the garden [Rom. 5:12-14], directed away from the promise of our eternal inheritance, our eternal life [1 Cor 15:26] in our Father’s kingdom as kings and priests [Rev. 1:6], paid for in full by our Savior’s blood, for what, the works of our hands under a dead tree!? What fruit does a dead tree bring forth? Well, besides the destruction of our liberty, nations, and ultimately, our lives? [See the Feature article, The Princes Of A Plundered House].
Picture a long white, windowless building as seen from the side. On the far right end, a large banner with flashing lights hangs over double doors, it reads, SATAN'S SANTA'S FREE TOURS! Standing in line at the double doors are a multitude of sheep waiting to get in. At the far left end of the building a small nondescript sign reads, "Lamb Chop and Wool Blanket Outlet." This about sums up our current predicament.
Remember, that in the context of the Christmas tree we are told, by the anger of our Savior the Earth shall tremble, and the nations [that’s us] will not be able to abide his indignation. These are not idle words. As it is said, it will be done. Scripture cannot be broken. Might be a good idea, for us older folks, to write this down on a slip of paper, or for those of you who are younger, have it handy on your smart phone. Bring it with you when you go, provided you aren't locked down, to buy your tree this year. Read it just before you pay for the tree. And understand that the true cost of the tree that pertains to our LORD, as we’ll see, first is the loss of our birthright, then our freedoms and countries, and in the end, our lives. We're in the countries stage right now, though moving into the losing our lives phase too as the experimental injections have, according to stats from around the world, killed 20 million so far. And this doesn't take into consider WW3-ish events shaping up in the Middle East.
In the book of Joel, the prophecy says, “The Earth shall quake before them, the heavens shall tremble, the Sun and the Moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. And the LORD [Christ] shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?” [Joel 2:10, 11; also in context for the House of Israel, Acts 2:16-21, 36].
Christ said in Matthew, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days [the first five seals of Rev. 6], shall the Sun be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken ….” [Mat. 24:29].
And in Revelation we read, “And when he opened the sixth seal [during the time of the sixth beast, 666], and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the Sun became as black as a sackcloth of hair, and the Moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell unto the Earth … and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved away out of their places.
“And the kings of the Earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?’” [Rev. 6:12-17]. This is our journey's end because we have learned the way of the heathen, having adopted the idolatrous doctrine of the tree as our own.
We are foolish if we think the whole Santa-Christmas tree thing is innocent and harmless. We are stupid if we think it honors our Savior. Our corrupted compass leads us to a false destination. We need to align ourselves with the compass bearings given to us by our Savior. On deck Christians fear, honor and respect our LORD and the truth of his word. [Mark 13:31].
There is no place for a pagan dead tree in a Christian's life. Do not learn the way of the heathen.
10:11- Thus you [Jeremiah] shall say to them [the nations of the House of Israel], ’The gods that have not made the heavens and the Earth shall perish from the Earth and from under these heavens.’
Verse 11, rather than being written in Hebrew, was written in an Aramaean dialect, [W. Wright, Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages, 1890, p.16]. Aram's ancient border was just to the north of the kingdom of the House of Israel, which is southern Syria today. Connections with Aram go back to Isaac who married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel of Padan-aram. Bethuel was a son of Nahor, Abraham's [Abram's] brother. [Heb. Arammiy, Gen. 25:20]. His son Jacob/Israel married Rachel and Leah, daughters of Laban, also of Aram. [Gen. 29:16]. Aram was a descendant of Shem, Noah's firstborn son. This region did not become known as Syria, an abbreviation of Assyria, until after the Assyrian Captivity of the House of Israel, beginning in 732 BCE.
The contrast of putting this verse into a northern foreign language, Aramaic, rather than the Hebrew language of the House of Israel’s covenant with the true God, highlights the point that our Christmas trees are foreign to the truth. They are false gods, considered idolatry in the eyes of the LORD God of Israel, and will be destroyed along with everything else we've put in place of the true God. It also ties it in with the duality of Isaiah's chapter 17 regarding both the Aramaeans [Damascus] and Ephraim, the House of Israel. [Again, see the Feature article, Damascus A Heap Of Ruins].
Jeremiah penned verse eleven about 40 years or so after the last remnant of the House of Israel was taken into captivity by the Assyrians. [2 Kng. 17:24]. It was still a fresh memory. As Jeremiah wrote this after the Assyrian captivity of the House of Israel, it is a prophetic history lesson. And because we are ignorant of our covenant relationship with God, believing the deceit that we are gentiles [see the Feature article, Moving Forward], we have no clue that this message is intended for us today. Nevertheless, we suffer the consequences of our ignorance. [See the Feature article, Mirror, Mirror On The Wall].
Jeremiah wrote of Israel in chapter three. “The LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king: ‘Have you seen what backsliding [House of] Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain under green trees, and played the harlot’ … (you) have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD ... I put her away and gave her a bill [legal document] of divorce.’” [Jer. 3: 6, 13, 8]. The highest point at which trees can grow on a mountain is called the tree line. Forest trees that grow up to the tree line are members of the pine tree family, or evergreen trees. The high mountain areas referenced here are located in the northern reaches of the kingdom of the House of Israel, not far from the border of Aram. It is in this area that Christ began his ministry. [See the Feature article, The War Dispatches].
The preceding verse, verse 10, today reiterates the outcome of the divorce, the Assyrian Captivity, only to a much greater degree. The nations of the House of Israel, all those not of Judah, the Jews, were divorced from God, slain and the remnant remaining alive forcefully removed from their lands, taken captive as slaves and scattered throughout the Assyrian Empire. [See Map House of Israel].
Ezekiel wrote a parable about us, the House of Israel. We are called a rebellious house. [Again, see the Feature article, And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor]. As we've mentioned, prophecies can and do have dual fulfillments. We see here that the children of the House of Israel were divorced from God and were afflicted for their dalliance with trees. It will be worse for us the second time.
"In your filthiness is lewdness: because I [our LORD, Christ] have purged you [Heb. taher, to be cleansed, made pure, referencing the Assyrian Captivity, followed by Christ's first century redemption], and you were not purged [we haven't learned from our history and are back to the trees again], you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon you [what we commonly refer to as the "Apocalypse," we are in the beginning stages now, the winds are picking up, and the seas before us are getting bigger]. I [Christ] the LORD have spoken: it shall come to pass and I will do it, I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways and according to your doings [not our falsely pious words] you will be judged, says the LORD." [Eze. 24:13, 14].
This describes a brutal time for the children of Israel by the hand of our LORD, which, to use a different metaphor, is "at our doorstep." It corroborates the dual nature of the purging prophecy for Ephraim, the House of Israel in Isaiah 17 that is the basis for the updated Feature article, Damascus A Heap Of Ruins, which is a lead-in to this article.2
Our LORD and Savior no longer is the meek sacrificial Lamb of God from the first century. This is the 21st century, and he is furious, as in violent and intense anger, with us for returning to the idolatry of the tree. Stop and consider. Christ purged the House of Israel, divorced our ancestors from the covenant, killed them by the hand of the Assyrians, and the rest were removed from their country and made slaves. Then, Christ takes on life in the flesh to redeem us from that divorce. Spiked to a tree, [the symbolism should not be lost on us, 1 Pet. 2:24], he gave up his life for us in a humiliating public execution that we might reap the glorious inheritance, eternal life, according to the promises of the new covenant. "One can show no greater regard for those dear to him than to give his life for them, and this is the love you shall find in Me." [John 15:13, JFB Commentary; the English word friends in the KJV is not a noun, but the Greek adjective, philos]; see the Feature article, You Know You're A Christian When ...].
Yet after all this, we, who self-righteously claim to be Christians with our lips, dishonor Christ by stupid and foolishly returning to our old ways with trees again? [See Pro. 26:11]. According to Ezekiel's prophecy, the events of the "Apocalypse" and the fury of the great day of our LORD's anger will not be a merry time. Since the Assyrian Captivity, Isaiah 17:1-3, the House of Israel has not been "purged of our filthiness." Therefore, some people believe God is absent from our daily affairs. He's not. We are experiencing the beginnings of his hand against us daily in our domestic and world events. The years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 should be obvious in this regard. We are nearing the time when "the man of lawlessness will be revealed." [See 2 Ths. 2:7-12]. We are being given fair warning of what lies in store for us if we choose not to change course in our lives. Do not learn the way of the heathen.
When we don’t learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes with its severe consequences. Because of our putting Christ’s name on the Christmas tree, and speciously tying his name to the heathen custom at the winter solstice, the current day House of Israel is told by the prophet Ezekiel, “Afterward, he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks towards the east … By setting their threshold by my threshold and their door jambs beside my door jambs, with only a wall in between me [in the east] and them [in the north]3 they have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I will consume them [Heb. kalah, to come to an end] in my anger … As for you [Ezekiel], son of man, describe to the House of Israel the temple [the house of God] that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the pattern.” [Eze. 43:1, 8, 10, 12; to measure God's plan, the pattern for us, see the Feature article, Three Temple Ages Make A Plan].
God warned our ancestors to come down from the forests in the high mountains and forsake their idolatry with trees. He advised the House of Israel to return to the temple, the house of the LORD, and the keeping of his ordinances. They didn't. Hence, our ancestors divorce from God, and the destruction and death of our ancestors during the Assyrian captivity. While Ezekiel described the physical temple, the altar and the priesthood in his follow on verses and chapters, this is a prophetic reminder for us today. The House of Israel needs to weigh it's new covenant, God’s plan of our eternal inheritance, being kings and priests to God on the new Earth in the new Jerusalem against the way of the Christmas tree that defiles Christ's name and leads to death. Christ is now fulfilling his plan. "Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus." [Heb. 3:1; see the Feature article, The Three Times In God's Plan].
The clear message is that these false gods, Santa, and the Christmas tree, which our "Christian" society, i.e., mass stupidity and foolishness, holds in high regard today, will be destroyed by our LORD [See Zec. 13:2; chapters Eze. 6, 7], with the very large majority of the House of Israel being acceptable losses in the process too, as was the case the first time around in Isaiah's chapter 17 prophecy. Our time is to a greater extent, however, as only a remnant, out of a billion plus of the children of all Israel, will survive. [See Isa. 11:11, 12; Rev. 7:1-4]. The prophet Isaiah warns us today, “But they [the House of Israel] rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit [received in the first century CE, see Acts 2:36-38], therefore he [Christ] was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.” [Isa. 63:10]. Christ is fighting against us because of our apostasy. Don't learn the way of the heathen. [See the Feature articles, The Good News Colour Revolution].
10:12- He has made the Earth by his power, and he has established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens at his discretion.
10:13- When he speaks, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the Earth, he makes lightning with rain, and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
These verses are similar to what God reminded Job of regarding his power in creating the cosmos. “Can you [Job] lift up your voice to the clouds that the abundance of waters may cover you?” [Job 38:34]. In other words, can you tell the clouds to rain on Earth? Didn’t think so. And neither can a decorated tree that is cut out of the forest. You'd think with all our computers and combined brain power, we’d be smart enough to figure this out. But …
10:14- Every man is stupid in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. [See the Sneakers article, Artificial Intelligence Is The New Golden Calf].
10:15- They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall all perish.
Again, keep in mind that the context of Jeremiah 10 is the House of Israel. This is addressed to us and not the whole world. The point here is that all these graven images, the Christmas tree, Santa, Elf On The Shelf, plus the Christmas carols, "feel good" Christmas movies, all the presents we buy, all this is vanity and deceit, fueled by our self-righteousness. [See the Sneakers article, Do You Have The Right Stuff?]. They are not capable of imparting life. Our LORD and Savior is real. Yet, we choose to ignore the magnificent plan God set before us that leads to life, instead settling for another lie of our Adversary, going to heaven. [See Isa. 14:13 and the Feature article, Heaven Can Wait]. Rather, we choose to embrace the fake that destroys us. Embracing Christmas and Santa is rejecting Christ despite what the true believers below deck may be hollering.
Where does this idea come from that in sowing evil we expect to reap righteousness? This is stupidity as defined by our Savior. And we have become so stupid, and ignorant of our heritage that we think banning these heathen symbols of Christmas is "Orwellian." This step in the right direction is attacked by our blind and stupid Christmas loving society. Our foolish "Christian" throngs may as well be screaming, "Give us Barabbas!" [Again see the Sneakers article, Birthdays Of The Gods].
Our Savior has offered us eternal life in a new heaven and Earth. We have the opportunity to be kings and priests to our God [Rev. 5:10]. But we chuck this out the window for what, Santa and his red-nosed reindeer, "sacred" songs like "I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas," a tree, and gifts, the works of our hands, we probably want to return? Do we really understand how stupid and faithless we must look to our LORD? [See Christmas Spirit, "TVs For Christ"]. It’s such a simple thing. Do not learn the way of the heathen.
What word from our LORD is there here that we don’t understand? It's somewhat reminiscent of what our LORD said to Adam and Eve. " ... don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." [Gen. 2:17]. Eve and Adam didn't listen either. And we know how it turned out with that tree. The House of Israel was divorced by God over their idolatry with trees. And here we are again embracing the trees. We don't do well when it comes to trees, do we?
10:16- The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former [the Creator] of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance. The LORD of hosts [heaven’s armies] is his name. [See Gen. 2:1; Isa. 37:16; Jer. 2:19].
In other words, the House of Israel’s share or portion, our inheritance promised by our Creator is not like these false man-made bobbles. God’s promise to us is magnitudes greater than what we can imagine. He is the Creator of everything in existence both in heaven and on Earth. We are Christ’s “chosen generation [the Christian age between Christ's first and second coming, which is unique in Biblical history], a royal priesthood, a holy nation, our LORD’s possession, that we may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” [1 Pet. 2:9]. Yet, weak in spirit, we choose to run with the herd in the familiar darkness of the tree rather than rejoicing in the light of the truth of the word of God.
Forsaking this compass heading, we joyfully follow the course of darkness, proclaiming the merry praises of Santa Claus, happy to decorate our evergreen trees at the time of the winter solstice in accordance with the heathen practices we’ve learned and embraced. We are encouraged in this deceit to "keep Christ in Christmas." Yet Christ warns us, Do not learn the way of the heathen.
So, in our eagerness for learning the way of the heathens, we have forsaken our true Christian inheritance, sailing the seas of unrighteousness, out of sight of the truth. No wonder we have lost our birthright, and now are losing our countries, our freedoms, liberties, and now with toxic vaccines, and potential nuclear war too, our lives to our enemy. We are stupid and foolish. Our LORD of heaven’s armies and Savior is angry with us. And as promised by his word, he is setting his armies against us because of our iniquities.
Or ... those of us on deck can choose to immediately change course ... come to bearing 090 degrees true. [Again, see the Feature article, You Know You're A Christian When ...].
10:20- My tabernacle is spoiled and all my cords are broken, my children have gone forth from me, and they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent anymore or to set up my curtains.
10:21- For the pastors have become stupid, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Because of our insistence on following our erroneous compass heading, the children of the House of Israel are told we’ve left God, and the flocks shall be scattered. [Jer. 9:16]. We’ve abandoned our covenant and the gospel. We allowed God’s house to become dilapidated, overrun by heathen practices. As his children, we have forsaken him, and the truth, for God is truth. [See the updated Sneakers article, This Old House]. Even those who should be our shepherds leading us to our LORD have not sought him. Our society has become a runaway snowball, bumping and bouncing downhill, racing towards its proverbial hell. It doesn’t take a theological scholar to look at the events of the past few years, this past year in particular, to see the emerging lawless beast all around us.
The US, and the no longer great, Britain, their inheritance plundered, are no longer economic superpowers unless we are referencing the supersized US national debt more than ten times larger than China and Russia combined. China has warned the US to get its financial house in order, while downgrading the US's credit rating. And the Chinese yuan is increasingly used in foreign transactions. Along with Russia abandoning the US dollar, other nations of the Global South, and the BRICS countries are abandoning the dollar in trade. The move away for the US petrodollar is accelerating as the US swamp seeks to impose its will through sanctions on other countries. When the US petrodollar collapses, the economy of the West and much of the rest of the world has the potential to crash along with it into abject chaos.
The top two US debt items are military expenditures and paying interest on the national debt, now surpassed an unsustainable $36 trillion, largely due to past military expenditures, and the more recent intentional "covid" destruction. [US Debt Tracker]. And this deliberate great "covid" economic destruction has pushed 8 million more Americans, and who knows how many more around the world, below the poverty line, while the billionaire elite have reaped hundreds of billions more in their pockets, and together with record inflation rates, and the dicey unregulated derivatives market, we have a greater threat to national security than any terrorist organization or "security" leak in history.
Yet, the financial caretakers in the US and governments of the West plod ahead on the same old track, postponing rather than solving, bickering as they go, unenlightened to the extraordinary threat within. As with the Roman Empire and others only found in the dust of history, moral and honorable civilizations degenerate and rot until they destroy themselves from within, doomed according to the inexorable law of moral and political entropy. And still, most remain blind to it all.
With the respect and prosperity of its people gone, the vitality of the fundamental underpinnings of its economy gutted and looted, the US vainly strains to remain a military superpower, as did the old Marxist Soviet Union. The looters of the Federal Reserve print ink on paper for money, petrodollars, in a desperate dash to avoid collapse because it lacks integrity and economic exuberance. Unless, we change and return to the love of the truth of the word of God, and not the way of the heathen, the prophecies tell us we will not find our safe harbour.
This "wide is the gate and broad is the way" path, in a short time, leads to the advent of the Beast and False Prophet who will offer us, as the Christian writer Dostoevsky noted in The Brothers Karamazov, our daily bread "to make everything all better." Or as they claim now, "Build back better," albeit with more debt to these vultures, after their deliberate "covid" financial havoc, than ever before. Those below deck are nothing more than ignorant lamb chops and wool blankets in waiting. [See 1 Ths. 5:1-11; also the Feature article, Is That You, Big Brother?].
While the House of Israel's Ephraim and Manasseh possessed the birthright blessing, what we use to be, our militaristic, "live by the sword" brother Edom does not have this promise. The purging that our LORD said is to come upon our heads is clearly manifesting itself. We've surrendered our birthright to our brother. He has nearly gained total dominion, voting machines notwithstanding. [See Gen. 25:23; Gen. 27:40; also chapter six, The Genesis Birthright in The Blind Man's Elephant for a complete discussion]. We are daily prey to the wolves in sheep’s clothing. [See Rev. 13:7]. This is where we, the children of the House of Israel, are in the silly Santa Season. [For a secular video comment, see US Not Greatest Country Anymore. Warning: contains adult language and mature message not meant for whinerbaby snowflakes of any gender].
According to various media reports, people around the world wonder, “What happened to America?” This isn’t the magnanimous defender of liberty and truth that the country use to be. As President Truman said about seventy years ago in his first address to the US Congress, "The responsibility of a great state is to serve, and not to dominate, the world." [See Luke 22:24-27]. The US has gone from George Washington, a president who "could not tell a lie," to politicians who cannot tell the truth. We only need a little objective introspection to see that those of the House of Israel no longer control our nations. [In reference to who does, see Obadiah. v. 4; Gen. 25:23, also John 8:39-47, and the Feature article, Obadiah And The Prophetic Parable Of The Tares].
Siblings, the US and no longer great Britain, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand are at the forefront of lawlessness, torture and the killing fields of war with the globalist family's aim to dominate the world. It was little more than a decade and a half ago that the US, for the first time in its history, became the overt instigator of war and torture, with Syria the fourth overt US war in the past decade and a half or so, depending on how we classify US actions in Libya, Ukraine, Pakistan, North Korea, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia of late. This does not include the economic sanctions war the US and Western Europe are waging against Russia, China, Iran, and others, or what has the potential to be WW3 in the Middle East. Re-read Genesis 27:40. [See the Feature article, Revelation 17:Big Brother].
After a major economic fiasco whose "perpe-traitors" were bailed out by those most negatively affected, every call, every email, everything just about is gathered without consent in violation of the 4th amendment rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. But the swamp government, despite its less than stellar track record of being forthright and honest, tells us not to worry. They're not pushing us towards a one world government. They’re not Big Brother. There is no "great reset," despite Herr Schwab's book bearing that title. [See the Sneakers article, One World Peace And Security].
One quick example should make the point. Article VI of the US Constitution mandates that federal and state officers from any branch of government must take an oath to uphold the US Constitution.
It states, “The Senators and Representatives ..., and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution ....”
The oath is: “I (name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” A side note, the US Air Force, [who for decades denied the existence of UFOs, now admits their existence, joined by the UK's UFO Files], and in the blink of an eye, has formed the US Space Force, dropped the "So help me God" portion of their oath. [See the updated Sneakers article, Flying Saucers In The Bible ... Really?].
Yet in a now long past media report about swamp creatures, “The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies' internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts. FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, in a bid to deploy government-provided software capable of intercepting and analyzing entire communications streams. The FBI's legal position during these discussions is that the software's real-time interception of metadata is authorized under the Patriot Act.” And with the purchase of Twitter [X] by Elon Musk, we are learning just how much the government was in cahoots with social media to lie and censor us too. Governments, like cockroaches, prefer to live in the darkness rather than the light of democracy.
Americans should be asking, “Why is it that those sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, invoking God's name, are defending their unconstitutional actions, which doesn't seem patriotic, under the Patriot Act, aka Pandora’s Box, rather than pursuing the perpetrators who are enemies of the Constitution? Why does the Patriot Act, itself a wolf in sheep's clothing, provide cover for violating the Constitution?" "Why does the US Supreme Court refuse to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the government's snooping on its citizens without warrants?"
Perhaps US President John Adams was somewhat of a prophet when he said, "Our Constitution [and republic] was only made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." He also observed, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." While the US was deliberately created as a states and individual rights republic, we are becoming that suicidal democratic morass Adams warned us about. The chosen instrument of cause is our abandonment of our heritage and covenant with our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. But who among us is willing to wholeheartedly return to the love of the truth of the word of God, and our Savior? It's time we realize the Constitution will not save us.
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Considering this, and looking at what we’ve read above here in Jeremiah, we should come to the realization that these events are the beginnings of the promised effects of disavowing our covenant with God, our purging. The cause and effect dots are connecting. The end-times prophecies and current events have intersected. The secular has blended into the theological.
We justify erecting heathen tree gods in our homes in the name of Christ, teaching our children the ways of Santa/Satan rather than the plan of God [there's even an app for kids "proving Santa is real" to keep the deception moving forward], fulfilling the prophecy that “his children have gone forth from God.”
If we were smart, rather than stupid and foolish, we’d do the purging. We wouldn't fear a tree and the corrupted heathen culture our "Christian" society now embraces. We'd throw Santa and the tree overboard. Or better yet, we’d never let them on deck. It’s easier to do than you think. Godly courage is a wonderful thing to experience. It's empowering to shed spiritual cowardice and ignorance. [See Rev. 21:8]. Standing up with the truth rather than the false doctrine of a tree is exercising our faith, the spiritual liberty we have in Christ. [See the Feature article, The Risk Of Loving The Truth].
The example of the ekklesia in Thessalonica in the first century should serve as our inspiration. "For from you the word of the Lord has rang out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia [the first century Roman province encompassing most of Greece], but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything. For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of welcome we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come." That wrath, which Paul speaks of here in the first century, is now our 21st century reality. [1 Ths. 1:8-10].
The beast with seven heads and ten crowns is rising up out of the sea as our current events, both domestically and in the Middle East, show us. [Rev. 13:1-11]. We are the root cause of our own predicament just as the prophecies have warned us. The hand of our LORD is against us because we’ve made him our enemy. [See the Feature article, Christ Against Christians]. And it will continue to be against us unless we turn from our “stupid and foolish” ways. As Einstein noted, "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
It's evident the days of our national blessings are ending. The anger of our Savior is set against our people as it was with our ancestors millennia ago, " ... I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent ...." As stubborn nations, we refuse to learn from history and turn from our stupid and foolish ways. Whether we choose to do so as individuals is up to each of us, well at least until our LORD becomes weary with false repenting, as he did with the House of Judah, stretching forth his hand to destroy them. [Jer. 15:6 also see our current day warning, 2 Ths. 2:9-12]. Chances are most of us will justify our choice to remain below deck, stupid to the very end.
Our theological and moral compass is corrupted. As noted above, the end-times prophecies have intersected with current events. In order to return to the heading set before us by our LORD, our compass needs major repairs. Salvation is by the hand of our Creator as the prophets Obadiah, Micah, Ezekiel and the apostles make clear. His evident and unequivocal word gives us our bearing. "And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature [Heb. ktisis, rabbinical use referring to a person who converts from idolatry to Judaism, or in this case, to the truth of the gospel] under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister." [Col. 1:21-23].
In our current time, we may feel helpless, unable to impact the course of events in our lives. But this is not the case. Even doing one thing, humble and sincere prayer, can make a big difference, for our oppressors are few in number. We have our LORD and Savior to protect us when we stand with him, for no one can stand against him. [Dan. 4:35]. Give your life to seeking first the kingdom, the power and authority, of God and to our savior, Jesus Christ. We can start in our own homes by encompassing the truth of the word of our LORD this year, setting our sight on the correct course, and unlearn the way of the heathen. Study and pray to God for understanding. And then share it with others who will hear it. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." [2 Tim. 1:7].
So brethren, "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." [Php. 4:6, 7] Therefore, “Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. For what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?" [Mat. 7:7-9; also read Rom. 5:12-21].
Which heading and course, then, will you chose to follow, not with hollow words, but in truthful actions? Will you continue to stubbornly stand with the tree, the deceiver Satan, and the evilness in this world that brings curses and destruction upon our heads? Or will you wisely, in faith, the conviction of the truth, stand up on deck with Christ and the blessings that come to us with living the love of the truth of his word? Whose side are we on? It's all one or the other. [Luke 11:23].
Choose wisely, brethren, and pray diligently with an earnest heart to our Father in the name of our Savior Jesus Christ for the strength to stand up with, and daily walk in the truth of the word of God.
1 Our LORD and Savior tells us, "Do not learn the way of the heathen." This is a simple and straightforward directive. But there are those who tell us that Christ is wrong. It's perfectly fine to learn the ways of pagans despite the fact that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." [Heb.13:8]. Whether they are related to Christmas or Easter, the principle is the same. The Christian Post ran an article in April 2014 which said, "Thomas Burke, dean of Humanities at Hillsdale College and a professor of philosophy and religion, however, believes that it is acceptable for Christians to partake in rituals during Easter that may have pagan roots. In an interview with The Christian Post, Burke explained that given that these "secular" Easter traditions "no longer have those pagan associations and meanings," they are "perfectly legitimate for Christians. Insofar as such practices and symbols now represent Christ, they are perfectly legitimate for Christians."
Burke mistakenly tells us these practices no longer have these pagan associations and meanings, they represent Christ now, so it's okay to practice them. This rationale sounds familiar. "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die." [Gen. 3:3, 4]. So go ahead, jump in feet first into pagan traditions, God doesn't mind. "There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." [Pro. 14:12]. We're back to that conundrum faced by Adam and Eve. Do we heed the word of God or find ways to justify what we think is right? [See the Feature article, Easter, Babylon And The Antichrist].
And what stands out as utterly amazing here in December 2020, is that the majority of the House of Israel are afraid of "Covid" according to media polls, which medical authorities show is treatable, and has a 99.991% survival rate thanks to PCR "testing." Yet when it comes to fearing the word of our LORD and Savior to ditch the tree and Santa, we "Christians" show no fear even though out of the one billion plus people of the House of Israel, only 144,000, according to Revelation 7, will survive the "Apocalypse" unless we change our behavior. This, by the way, is a 99.9999% non-survival rate. Or put another way, we fear the "Covid" fraud with its 99.991% survival rate, but not the truth of .00001 survival rate by the hand of our Lord and Savior, unless we turn away from our evilness.
Reports show that people are out buying Christmas trees at a record rate. In times of great evil, the children of the House of Israel run to their false gods for comfort. We might as well pour gasoline on our heads and light a match to stay warm this winter, which, ironically, citizens of the EU may need to do. Indeed, this is stupid and foolish behavior for which we are certain to pay a far higher price than the Covid fraud.
Or to paraphrase Forrest Gump, stupid is as stupid dies. "Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O House of Israel?" Also, “Therefore you, O son of man [the prophet Ezekiel] say to the House of Israel: Thus say, 'If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them [Heb. verb, maqaq, to rot, decay] how can we then live?' Say to them: 'As I live,' says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from their way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O House of Israel?’" [Eze. 18:31, 33:10,11].
2 This specific passage from Ezekiel, while a direct prophetic reference to the city of Babylon the Great, the corrupted Jerusalem, is a 3-D multi-faceted prophecy. The duality is that while the House of Israel once again has returned to idolatry and trees, once again God will use Babylon to punish those of Israel. It is a reprise of Israel's shortcomings, Babylon being used to punish Israel, then God destroying Babylon, which in the last days is Edom, Zionist Israel's capital city of Jerusalem. Thus, we have a multi-layered, interwoven prophecy involving the children of Israel, Edom, Babylon, both as a metaphor for our rebellious and sinful ways, and literally as two heads of the beast, and the city of Jerusalem over a period of thousands of years. Twice Edom's Jerusalem will be destroyed, 70 CE and at the end of this age. And twice the House of Israel shall be purged, the Assyrian captivity and the end of this age. And twice our LORD shall recover the remnant of Israel. The cause of these events being set in motion is all 12 nations of Israel leaving the love of the truth of the word of God, which in turn engenders Babylon, etc.
3 This is akin to a store selling a merchandise brand, say Rolex watches. Then, someone else opens their business next door claiming to sell the same watches, but they are fakes. Watch buying customers could be fooled into thinking the counterfeits are the real thing because these stores are side by side, with only a wall between them. It is the same with our corrupted Christian practices today. As the owner of the true Rolex dealer, we'd want to make sure the guy next door is exposed as a fraud that is giving our business and Rolex a bad name, and put him out of business. Christ will do this with us and our counterfeit Christian practices that have defiled Christ's name.
Postscript: All the Christmas Messages are as applicable today as they were when written. Some passages have been edited and updated. I recommend reading, or re-reading, them in order.
-- Michael J. Miller, 2013, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
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