The Christ of Revelation is in charge. His instrument is breaking pottery with an iron bar and tariffs. Read the textbooks I E The books of the Bible multiple times, like I did in school during the first several weeks, then sit back and gaze out the window and long to be outside and listen to the stupid questions the scholars are asking. Never back down from a bully. Let him think you are absolutely insane. I am mad dog.
God answers our desires both spoken and unspoken, which is why we must be careful of what it is we desire. For example, even though it was not what God desired, the people of Israel desired a king like the other nations had and so it happened. Of course, the consequences were that their best people their best children would go to the Capitol and serve the king and be separated from their families in the countryside.
Habakkuk 2:14 states for the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as a waters cover the sea.
I have decided some time ago to make that verse a specific stated request as part of my prayer life. I invite you to do the same for God's grace is powerful infinitely so and can rain down on us through the power of the holy Spirit to bring about the answer. Will you join me, my friends and fellow prayer warriors?
In Revelation chapter 2:26 the resurrected Christ is speaking to John. He that overcomes and keeps my works onto the end, to him will I get power over the nations. Verse 27 continues. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers.
I would like to ask some questions. Has Trump been announced overcomer? The next question is has he been given power over the nations? The third question is. Is Trump ruling them with a rod of iron? To me, the answers are obvious.
I am not a scholar, nor a prophet. My
method of learning is to read all of the history and all of the Bible and sometimes God gives me understanding. I am not a teacher. I am a musician. But it seems pretty obvious that much of Revelation is coming true now, the prophecy of the wilderness in chapter 12, the spirit of suicide coming from the demon locusts, and now this ruling with a rod of iron. You must draw your own conclusion but it is obvious to me that God is in charge of world events. Later Gators.
@realDonaldTrump thank you for all that you are doing bringing peace into the world through tariffs?! 20 years ago I began praying for a president who understood tariffs. Remember the gold coin in the fish miracle? And when you were coming down the golden escalator since I didn't like bosses that shouted YOU'RE FIRED I was going to yell at the TV when I felt an invisible finger on my lips. I realized that meant you were going to win and I was delighted at witnessing the power of tariffs bringing manufacturing back to the United States.
Stick with me just for a moment I have a brilliant idea. Watching the no nonsense Germans handle the dumbass Palestinian protesters made me wonder. Could these former persecutors of the Jewish people be the best ones to head up a Gaza peace Force. Just a suggestion. Stay healthy. Later Gators.
Good morning friends. Just read and shared Don's delicious post. It appears the memo that I received from upper management IE it's all set up. Appears to be on schedule. The book of Revelation in which the 12th chapter points to the Western hemisphere appears to be spot on. My blog THE SHEPHERD'S JOURNAL is increasing in popularity with weekly hits according to the stats from China and Russia. I am just a catalyst. If Don is the historical Oracle, then I am the historical biblical Oracle. Later Gators.
My favorite president is facing off against an ungodly world. Someone has trained him like my mother did to be a bully fighter. My mother promised me a bold of ice cream every time I came home beat up. This unusual training made me almost unable to back down when facing a bully and I have faced quite a few.
My fame skyrocketed when I faced a bully teacher who was picking on a young lady who was a scholar. She had straight A's. One time she made a mistake and got a minus and the teacher laughingly brought it to everybody's attention and made her start crying.
I had had enough. My skinny 8th grade body stood up and said MR KAPLAN, THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. I was unaware until later that I clenched my fist. Mr Kaplan jump from behind the desk and ran up confidently and got right in my face. And ask me to repeat myself, which I did. Mr Kaplan looked like a soldier and I suspect he was a veteran of the Korean war. A huge black kid came up behind me and grabbed me and took me out of the class then apologized because he said Mr Kaplan was going to beat me up.
I went down and complained to the assistant principal. I told him I had just failed the class for the rest of the year but he looked entirely relaxed and said I think it'll work out which mystified me. I waited for the inevitable summer school notice but it never came. When I came back next year and stood in line to find out where my next English class would be, I noticed that I had been passed and sent on to the freshman class. Someone had changed the grade from four Fs to three and I barely passed. I also learned that the assistant principal for the rest of the year sat in the class and monitored it every single day.
The reason I bring this up is my favorite president has been trained somehow by someone to be a bully fighter. He is facing the entire godless world. Will he blink? What do you think? I don't think he'll blink and I think God will be with him. Like every other class that I have attended I have read the text which includes the book of Revelation and all of our questions and speculations are silly. God is in these events. Providence is in charge. I was told it's. All. Set. Up. Later Gators.
I am friends with a blogger by the name of Don. From time to time he has extreme clarity, due to his deep and extensive knowledge of history. We were discussing why Indiana is so bipartisan that they actually fought against Trump redistricting Indiana. Of course, they lost bigly in this last election with all of the bipartisan Republicans which are also called RINOs. Don explained why. It's easy to be bipartisan when you have a super majority.
Let me remind everybody that a times I am considered a genius but I am not a prophet or an expert or or a scholar. I am a musician. My way of mastering subjects is totally different. I am a speed reader and at the beginning of each year I would read the textbook several times during the first 4 weeks of class. Then I would sit back for the rest of the year and longing they look outdoors because that's where I wanted to be. Because I never paid attention to the lectures and was irritated at all of the stupid questions the students would ask, I was regarded with disdain especially since I hated to do homework because homework kept you indoors. But the teachers were absolutely shocked at times on the high scores of my test which included one time where two of us got a perfect score in the 8th grade and I was hauled in to the counselor room. The other one had no idea that he had Aced the test. His name was Howard Henry and he carried a briefcase the size of a suitcase and he did all of his homework and went on to work in Washington DC. For the rest of my non scholarly life the teachers kept prodding me to change but I never did. But my favorite class was history and I read and devoured the textbook plus every single issue of time magazine US News and world report and Newsweek while I sat in the back of a class and aced the class. Then I went on to Nazarene Bible college and I devoured the Bible reading it multiple times. What came out of that was an extreme clarity and so I sit now and can explain what is happening in politics. Not that I'm always right but my clarity at times is a little bit frightened even to me. So what I am summarizing is that we have just gone through a period of 100 years where women have been empowered to defend themselves with divorce lawyers and a bottom support which many men in the Republican party have been disdainable of and there have been abuses of course with women becoming welfare Queens but slowly we are coming to a balance of bipartisanship and now we are switching from the age of lawyers to warriors and I think that summarizes my thoughts very well. Of course it took Trump to understand the power of tariffs to undergird the economy so that we could afford this minimal support for women with children and also strengthen our war department so we could go in and beat the s*** out of the bullies in Iran. I think that's enough for now. Later Gators.
The second time God called me to preach was during a sermon by the Great Chuck Millhuff.. I was attending Olivett Nazarene college in Kankakee or actually Bradley Illinois. I am not a scholar but a musician and I am also an incurable night owl and I often missed morning classes and morning chapels but Chuck was a powerful preacher I guess he still is and I made an effort to make it to chapel.
During his sermon I again was spoken to by God. The fiery letters PREACH appeared on my heart. It was clear to me that God was calling me. It was one of the reasons why I was attending college even though I did very poorly in class.
I was attending Dalton Church of the Nazarene because that was where my wife was from and they were all very excited about Nazarene Bible college so my wife Lynn and I attended that college for several years.
We traveled as a musical group called The insights and went to Boston. We had to leave on Sunday night and I had a vision of the word FIRE which I shared with both the pastor and the evangelist. They laughed but later when we called them the evangelist got on the phone and apologized. On Tuesday after taking a trip in the church van the pastor and the evangelist came back and across the street a huge fire destroyed the building and the evangelist apologized.
I will continue the story later. I love you guys. I'm including this humorous and sarcastic meme. Remember, sticks and stones may break my bones, but memes will never hurt me or you.
I am going to break with my tradition of a short sermon. I think, however, I will keep it topical.
My name is Mike, but because the factory where I worked for almost 20 a years called me mad dog, I often use that name.
I am convinced that God has spoken to me but not like men speak to men. When God spoke to me the first time it was during a sanctifying experience. For some reason I had noted for love that the people of my church had for me and I felt overwhelmed with love after a pretty decent sermon. I had gone down to the altar to pray because I was convinced that I had offended God and when the people came down to pray with me which was a tradition at my church, I felt their love and I filled overwhelmed with their love. I had God speak to me in one word. I had fiery letters in my heart or soul or whatever you want to call it. The firey letters spelled preach. Since this secretary gets quirky and sometimes quits I think I will have to make this sermon in several parts and copy it to Facebook and I will continue later. Later Gators
My favorite blogger is Don on substack. I call him to historical Oracle. I am going to start calling myself the historical biblical Oracle. If you are a member or supporter of Don with finances, at the outrageous price of $5 per month, you can get his priceless perspective on current events which he carefully documents almost religiously. I made a comment today and I thought I'd pass it on to you.
Since I am now technically a bipartisan and agree with my Kamala voting daughter from the perspective of the historical biblical Oracle I think God allowed women to stumble into politics and cause all sorts of damage with the sensitive egos of men just because statistically men have abandoned women and their children and the responsibilities by the boatload All the while continuing my support for President Trump and the New age of warriors, but only because I believe the book of Revelation has clearly stated by the warrior Christ that now it's time for a persevering warrior to step forward and pardon my French when I say kick the s*** out of communist, Islamic idiots. What? You didn't see that in Revelation? Well, I guess I did because I actually believed in the authority and the clarity of the word of God. My daughters call me delusional but remember that God cuts a lot of slack for women but remember Adam was a dumbass and knew what he was doing when he did wrong but God promised that Christ would be born of a virgin and not Pete buttigiege. Am I being too sarcastic?
Below is Abby Phillips a hero of my independent minded daughter and I agree because she always keeps her cool and she's spoken out against Democrats supporting Nazis and she also has to put up with my favorite guy Scott Jennings.
At every school, there came a point when someone understood that I understood everything. I did not think I was a genius. But they thought I was.
Part of the reason they did not understand how smart I was was because I did not want to be there.. The word. P e r i o d. Silly AI but she works cheap.
I would sit at the back of the class and pray for the next outdoor session. I like to run. I like to be outdoors. I like outdoor games. I like to explore. I absolutely loved boy scouts. I crawled in the brush like the Indians until I learned about poison ivy the hard way. My first year at boy scout camp I called poison ivy from head to toe. I suffered terribly I. Even had it on Mr wee wee. I think the nurse gave me a steroid shot. They called me the poison ivy kid. I became an expert on poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. I also became an expert on ginseng because it had the same three-leaf pattern. They called me the poison ivy kid. I scared them s******* when I came back the next year but I did not come down with total poison ivy that year. I'm sure they breathed a sigh of relief.
I need to wrap this up because my secretary will only take so much. I tell you this to let you know that besides my total aversion to paperwork, which was almost a mental illness, and all believed I was a genius, I barely graduated high school with a 2.00 average, and I didn't finish college, either at Nazarene college, or Bible college at Colorado springs but I did become ordained through a simplified home study. And now you know the rest of the story.
My father followed to the Bible college in Colorado springs. Mom had a picture taken of all of us. We had a riot while that happened.
I could tell the Democrats that they're going to lose and they might believe me and then I would miss out on the joy of watching them having the s*** beat out of them excuse me for no longer speaking in Evangelical terms. I will from now on be referred to as the historical biblical Oracle. I will not refer to myself as the former evangelical because this would cause too much confusion with my Evangelical friends whom I deeply love and support but they don't know how to interpret the Bible or history. Every time, and I do mean every single time some theology or ideology tries to take over the world somebody stands in their way and his name is God the Father and his son the Lord Jesus Christ and the infinitely connected and capable holy Spirit. This would be an appropriate place to say duh.
April 30th, Thursday
God had to find a way to humble me because he has given me kind of a superpower. I have the ability to master a subject completely. Not the normal way like normal people. I am not a scholar. I am not a prophet. I do not have a degree in college and I barely made the top half of my high school class and I was pushed through there because they assumed that I wanted to be a scholar because of my ability to master a subject.
Let's take the first subject that I have truly mastered and that is music. I have the ability to sit down at the piano with three or four people that have a basic understanding of harmony and I can pretty quickly get together a trio or a quartet. While I play the piano I can also hear where everybody's part is and play one finger slightly louder so that that person will naturally find their part.
I have worked with multiple trios and quartets and duets and soloists and they all consider me a musical genius.
I am allowed to be in those circumstances a dictator. Usually someone else is the manager and they're the ones that back me up and say listen to him he knows what he's talking about and so I have free run and rain r e i g n while I'm at the piano and my little group is around me. Hence the difficulty for me to be humble.
I have also mastered in my own way the internet and now I have two blogs that are taking over the internet more or less because of my situational awareness of the circumstances which brings me to my third area of expertise, adventures.
My friends who know me well especially from my youth will agree that I know how to plan adventures as long as I have a wise co-pilot such as my first wife l y n n e. We were known in North Dakota that when the blizzard warnings came in and everybody was being told to shelter in place we would head to Minot North Dakota to go shopping. The old farmers would even call us on the phone if there was a blizzard warning to see if we were headed to Minot. My wife was my co-pilot and she willingly jumped in the car with me driving during a dangerous time because I was the master of adventure. If you don't believe me, ask one of my siblings or my daughters who have the same fearless ability as well as any of my cousins. Just don't ask them for money for they will block you.
Even though I hate getting my hands dirty I also learn to master mechanical skills. All of these abilities have one limitation. Me. Because I don't like to be tied down to a desk or even a workshop. As much as possible I like to stay on the move and go outside where I used to every so often go out with a smokers who were condemned to an outdoor life. Of course I had to train them for a while to straighten up their language so that I didn't repeat their words in front of my children and so I would warn them if I repeat one of the words that you say I will slap you silly except that I don't know when to stop. That seemed to be enough and they were always very careful around me.
Now that I've explained why it's a difficult to be humble when God's bless me in so many ways. To be continued.
Next chapter. How God keeps me humble with lymphedema.
My awesome cousin Joyce Krohe Dittmer has passed away. God is not God of the dead but of the living. Jesus said that. I'm just repeating it. I know without a doubt that like all of my clan she was... Absolutely fearless and I guess she still is.
