The Glory of God - Leonard Ravenhill
Psalm 84:7: "They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion."
Friday, September 10, 2021
Monday, September 6, 2021
A Conversation about High Plains Drifter
This is an exchange of comments between Belinda Thorne, formerly from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and Tim Shey, author of High Plains Drifter: A Hitchhiking Journey Across America. These comments were taken from Belinda's post "Remember Lot's Wife" on her blog Grace and Truth:
September/October 2020
Belinda: Tim, why is your book called High Plains Drifter?
Tim: Now THAT is a very good question. I think that in all of my years of hitchhiking around the United States and in all of the years that High Plains Drifter has been available via manuscript, book, Internet Archive or blog, no one has ever asked that question.
I named my book High Plains Drifter after Clint Eastwood’s film High Plains Drifter (1973). I don’t know how many times I have seen that film. I absolutely identify with the main character played by Eastwood (the Stranger) who rides into town and kills some bad guys and then burns the town to the ground.
The Stranger in the film at one time was the town marshal: he was whipped to death by some bad guys who were paid by the owners of the local mining operation. To me, it reminds me of the death of Jesus Christ. There is a scene in the film where the townspeople are having a meeting at the local church and you see this Bible verse on the bulletin board: Isaiah 53: 3-4. The town marshal was rejected by the townspeople and then killed; I have been rejected by family, friends and church people because of my testimony, so I have been alone most of my life (that’s why I identify with the Stranger in the film).
[Here I posted some links pertaining to my book High Plains Drifter.]
I hope these links aren’t overkill to your question, but as far as I can remember, no one has ever asked why I titled my book High Plains Drifter, so I am pleasantly surprised and a little bit flattered.
Belinda: No, not overkill at all, thank you for answering my question.
Two things have stood out to me. One where you said in your short story that you like wide open spaces. And two, hitchhiking you are on the fringes of society.
I’ll tell you why I asked you that question. Last night I was praying. Praying about what to do. It’s so hard here now. Can you imagine, you who like open spaces, that we are in home prison now for 23 hours a day. Allowed out for one hour of exercise or one of us is allowed to go get essentials. And our Premier has extended this lockdown for an indefinite period till we get to less than 5 cases. I am now convinced he is a madman, full of demons.
Of course I am not sticking to these ridiculous rules. I’m doing what God leads me to. My husband and I have been running an underground church in our home for months, because church is now banned. We have mainly men come, those who’ve just left rehab and prison and we sing and praise and read the Word. They park up the road and walk to our house in the dark and sneak in one by one. It’s the only thing that’s kept me going during this dark time.
So I’m praying last night and the Lord takes me to a cliff top and we look down together over a dusty plain where there is dirty, tattooed, fighting people. He has shown me this before. A few weeks ago He showed me it and said “this is the land I am giving you”.
But last night He just showed me it again and I thought how we were on a high plain looking out over.
Then your book title from nowhere came into my head “High Plains Drifter”.
And I felt to ask you why.
The fringes of society, the outcasts who God has called us to. It has always been them. We can never fit in a church. We fit with the homeless and mentally ill and drug addicts. No one else I know is doing anything at the moment. All the churches are quiet and obediently closed and it makes me sick and angry.
I love your Shiloh poem, wow. The line about Cain bludgeoning Abel to death….
Anyway I am going to buy your book, it’s on Amazon yes?
Thank you for reading this, I don’t know what’s happening to me at the moment, it’s all very strange but I know my Lord and I trust Him.
Bless you Tim
Tim: I think it is VERY interesting that you asked about the title of my book on a post that has the title “Remember Lot’s Wife”. If you watch Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter, at the end of the film, the Stranger burns the town of Lago to the ground (God’s Wrath). The Scripture “remember Lot’s wife” is alluding to the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah by fire and brimstone (God’s Wrath). So maybe eventually the Lord will lead you out of Melbourne into the wide open spaces (the Outback?) before God’s Wrath hits Melbourne? You are led by the Holy Ghost; the Lord will reveal to you what you need to do.
About my book on Amazon. I think there is one copy left, but Amazon is charging an exorbitant price for it (probably because it is the last copy). You can read High Plains Drifter for free on my blog.
Yes, I am definitely on the fringes of society. The Lord led me out of the church back in 1991. The Lord has had me alone for most of my life. The Lord’s thoughts are higher than my thoughts. I know that the Lord has you and your family in the palm of His hand (I am thinking of Psalm 91).
Belinda: You make a very good connection there . . .I had not connected that! I am going to watch that Clint Eastwood movie.
Yes I believe the Lord is leading us out of Melbourne. I am praying for His specific guidance as to where, but we are quite sure we are going.
Thank you for your link to your book. I look forward to reading it.
I have a scripture for you Tim:
Micah 4:6-8 ["In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem."]
Jesus was an outcast. If we follow Him we also will be. You have to be an outcast to intercede for the outcasts.
You have blessed me greatly and I pray God will bless you greatly in return.
[A few weeks later . . .]
Belinda: Hi Tim. I am reading your book. I’ve just finished chapter 7. I love this chapter.
I felt to share with you this:“The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8
Tim: I am glad that you liked that chapter. I remember that time back in 1998 when I was in San Luis Obispo, California. I stayed in a motel one night and then I slept outside on the side of this hill the next night. I was in this Burger King having a meal and for some reason I began to think of northern New Mexico (I worked on an apple farm in New Mexico back in 1986). Then all of a sudden the Holy Ghost fell on me very heavy, so I knew that the Lord wanted me to go to New Mexico.
So I was hitchhiking in New Mexico and that guy named Israel gave me a ride. Then the next day, that pastor preached about Jacob wrestling with the angel and then the angel named him Israel. It was quite a trip. When you are led by the Holy Ghost, your life is never boring, let me tell you.
When you are led by the Holy Ghost, your life looks a bit crazy. I thought at times that all of that hitchhiking was crazy. But usually some God-thing or something profound would happen virtually every day, so I knew that the Lord was in the hitchhiking. I knew that the Lord protected me and provided for me in my travels.
So why did the Lord have me hitchhike all those years? I talked to a lot of people about my Christian faith. Intercession was a big part. I was taking up my cross and following the Lord which helped to break curses off of my life and I was delivered of many demons (I am still being delivered of demons). The devil hates a life that is dead to self. Also, hitchhiking was simply obedience to the Lord: when we enter the Kingdom of Heaven, our life is obedience unto the Lord: “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven”.
Thank you for the Scripture above (John 3:8).
Belinda: Amen the devil does hate a life that is dead to self. But the Lord loves it, because He can use that one. And that one has power to prevail with Him.
[Twelve days later . . .]
Belinda: Hi Tim, I have just finished reading chapter 9 of your book. It struck me that God was training you to be led by the Spirit. That your life was /is a literal representation (like Ezekiel's was) of how God wants to lead us and how we are to respond. We think to go east but we don’t get a ride so we go west and immediately God sends a ride. The children of Israel had to get their feet wet before the Jordan River parted.
You will hear a voice behind you say this is the way, walk ye in it.To be so trained by the Spirit, to be sensitive to Him, this is it. This is everything. Just some thoughts that have struck me reading your book.
Blessings.
Tim: Amen. I was definitely led by the Holy Ghost as I hitchhiked the United States.
Hitchhiking, also, was fasting and prayer. A lot of people think of fasting as fasting from food. Fasting can also mean fasting from a former lifestyle: I used to work at a lumber yard back in Iowa before I started to hitchhike. I would get odd jobs here and there on the road, but most of the time, I really had to put my trust in the Lord for Him to provide for me, protect me and find a place for me to sleep. Working at the lumber yard or working for that construction company was a vacation compared to hitchhiking.
Remember when Jesus said that these (demons) can only come out through fasting and prayer?(Mark 9:29) So many curses were broken off of me while I was hitchhiking around the country; I was delivered of so many demons while hitchhiking. Why? Hitchhiking was fasting and prayer and hitchhiking was taking up my cross and following the Lord. The cross is death to self-will. Demons hate a selfless body; demons love a selfish, sinful body.
In hitchhiking, I met many people on the road and talked to many people about my faith in Jesus Christ. My hitchhiking also reminded me of when the Lord told Isaiah to walk naked and barefoot in Egypt as a witness against them (Isaiah 20:3). Even if I was not able to talk to people on the road, my hitchhiking was a powerful witness of my obedience to the Lord. Obedience is an end in itself. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done.
Thank you for reading my book. I greatly appreciate your response.
Romans 8:14: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Understanding the Culture - William Federer
Understanding the Culture - William Federer
Ecclesiastes 1:9: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
Understanding the Culture (Day 2)
Sunday, August 1, 2021
Kierkegaard: "the person who surrenders absolutely to God"
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| Soren Kierkegaard |
This is from the blog Dover Beach:
“…the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil, but the devil cannot see him.”
--Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations
Friday, June 18, 2021
A military source: "Trump signed the Insurrection Act." The masterpiece of Trump against the deep state
by Cesare Sacchetti
The latest article published by the American journalist Laurie Roth could be the key to everything.
Basically, it could be the key to understanding what has been happening in the last six months within the United States.
Roth claims she had a phone conversation with a high-level military source who leaked a stunning revelation to her.
A few days before leaving the White House, on January 14, Donald Trump would sign the act known in the United States as “Insurrection Act”, which confers special emergency powers to the President of the United States in order to quell rebellions and acts that can harm the sovereignty of the country.
The journalist in her article entitled “Are the military and Trump in control?” claims that “Regarding the speculation/confusion as to whether President Trump signed the Insurrection Act or not, he did. He signed it on Jan 14th, 2021.”
Roth also claims that the signing of the act would give President Trump an extension of two months of his Presidential powers.
At this point, the first natural and spontaneous objection to the claims made by Laurie Roth would be to question the allegation that it is not possible to trigger the Insurrection without an official proclamation made by the President of the United States.
In other words, the act must be public and therefore cannot be a private decision. Actually, this is not entirely correct and it is the Insurrection Act itself that says so.
The Insurrection Act was originally approved by Congress and ratified in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson.
Later, the provisions contained in this law were inserted in another law known as “Posse Comitatus Act” of 1878.
Some of these provisions prescribe that for matters of national defense from external threats, it is not required to follow the standard procedure to trigger the Insurrection Act.
According to some juridical interpretations, this means that in this case, the President is not bound to inform the Congress of his decision and to make an official proclamation of the Act.
If the security of the country is at risk by threats that can overthrow the President and the Constitution, then the Commander in Chief can sign the Act without making any official announcement.
In emergency situations, the President can also dispose of other extraordinary powers that perfectly abide by the Constitution and the federal laws.
A few people are probably familiar with the PEAD, an acronym which stands for “Presidential emergency action documents”.
PEAD’s creation dates back to the Eisenhower administration during the first half of the 50’s and they are acts specifically conceived to face emergency situations and guarantee the “continuity of government.”
At that time, the main concern was to ensure a functional government in case of a nuclear conflict.
PEAD’s powers were extended in the following decades and now they include other potential crisis scenarios.
However, these acts have a peculiar characteristic. As the Brennan Center for Justice correctly points out, they are “secret” and “they are not even subject to congressional oversight”. Therefore, there’s no way that Congress might know if the President resorted to PEAD to deal with an emergency situation.
Only a very few top ranks of the military would be informed of their activation, which implies that the Commander in Chief has extraordinary powers to cope with an exceptional crisis.
Trump’s strategy to hit the heart of the deep state
Therefore, this could have been the legislative procedure that may explain what happened in the last months.
This could have been Trump’s master chess move to trick the deep state, which had orchestrated a coup d’état to overthrow the President.
At this point, it is necessary to take a step back in time and look at the months of big upheaval after the night of November 3, when the biggest fraud of all time took place, until January 20, the days of the potentially fake inauguration of Joe Biden.
Everyone knew that the election was stolen from Trump. There was already overwhelming proof at that time, when for the first time in the US election history some miracles happened. Dead people were resurrected to vote Joe Biden and mail votes were entirely assigned to Joe Biden.
Everything was already clear, and Trump was perfectly aware that globalism was planning this coup two years earlier, when in 2018 he signed an executive order entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election”, which considered the activation of a state emergency in case foreign meddling occurred in the US election.
Undoubtedly, meddling took place, especially in countries such as China, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Canada and Germany.
Above all, a key role in this attack to the US sovereignty came from Italy, because the most important part in the meddling would occur in Italy, in the US Embassy of Rome, through the participation of Leonardo, an Italian government aerospace defense company that Conte’s government allegedly authorized to run this operation.
The attack against the US sovereignty was already in course and a mechanism was set in motion to oust President Trump.
The deep state was trying to “fix” what, in their eyes, was a major bump in the road, namely Trump’s election in 2016.
At that time, the system chose to orchestrate the Russiagate hoax in order to falsely depict Trump as Putin’s puppet.
Even on that occasion, Italy played a fundamental role because the operation was conducted on two sides.
On the US side, the former President Obama would allow the illegal espionage against Trump and the opening of the FBI “Crossfire Hurricane” probe to investigate the inexistent collusion of Trump with Russia.
On the Italian side, the former Italian PM, Matteo Renzi, would involve the Italian secret services in this operation.
The axis between the Italian and the US deep state has been the key element that has been constantly trying to overthrow Trump over the last five years.
The coup failed because Trump became President anyway. In 2020, the globalist cabal perfectly knew that a bigger coup was needed to oust Trump.
This is the reason why the entire US deep state, under the direct supervision of the British branch of the Rothschilds, the Ashkenazi bankers, gave the order to perpetrate the biggest electoral fraud in history.
However, Trump knew the globalist plans very well. He was prepared. He knew that globalism needed to conceive a huge coup to successfully remove him from the White House.
After all, the assassination attempts against him all failed. In August 2020, a mysterious sniper fired against the Presidential helicopter that was flying over Virginia. Nobody still knows who shot that fire.
A few weeks later, a drone was successful in approaching the Air Force One and almost collided with the Presidential plane.
At that point, the deep state had only the option of electoral fraud, which was planned on a large scale, especially in the US key states, and involved several EU governments, especially the Italian administration firmly in the hands of globalism and bitter enemy of the President.
Trump sat down by the riverbank and waited for the attack of his enemies.
All this happened without making any noise. It happened without giving the possibility to the media controlled by the cabal to label Trump as a “dictator” for having ordered the execution of an act, which was necessary to foil the coup against the presidency.
This was the greatest trick of Trump against the system.
He crossed the Rubicon, as his people were encouraging him to do, but he didn’t do it publicly. In this way, he spared his country a devastating potential civil war.
There are too many leads and proof that show that the Biden administration has never really been in charge.
The deep state assigned Biden the mission to enforce the Great Reset. It gave him the task to drag America and the world towards the last phase of the New World Order.
The deep state also ordered Biden to escalate tensions with Russia until provoking a possible armed conflict.
Nothing of this has happened. On the contrary, opposite scenarios are taking place. However, if Trump signed the Insurrection Act, everything would make sense. If Trump really did that, it would be easy to understand why Biden hasn’t done what he was supposed to do. Biden instead is pursuing policies, which could have been pursued by Trump as well, such as the sanctions waiving on the Russian pipeline, Nord Stream 2.
At this point, several things that didn’t have a clear explanation six months ago are clear now. For instance, several people probably remember the first Biden video in the Oval Office. At a certain point of the video, one can clearly see behind Biden a profile walking very similar to Trump.
If that was really Trump, then the message he sent to his enemies is quite clear.
He was mocking them. Trump allowed the establishment of a puppet administration and he’s using it to better fulfill his agenda.
In the latest six months, we have seen a controlled demolition of the deep state.
The four steps to strike at the heart of the New World Order
We could say that Trump and his military allies hit globalism in four steps.
The first step was to strike the international finance, which finances the Washington political establishment.
The GameStop operation doesn’t appear to be the result of a random meeting of some small newbie investors who agreed to buy the shares of this company and caused major losses to the big Wall Street hedge funds that had placed instead put options against GameStop. As a result, Wall Street lost billions of dollars.
GameStop has been the beginning of a controlled demolition. It has been the beginning of an attack at the heart of globalism.
The second step was the lifting of the harmful and useless Covid restrictions. If we follow the progression of Covid restrictions in the last six months, we can easily see how 46 states out of 50 lifted mask mandated.
The United States hasn’t stepped into the Great Reset. On the contrary, it has distanced itself from it.
The third step was the operation Evergreen in the Suez Canal. Several naval experts pointed out something obvious. The positioning of a boat so big in a very narrow space such as the Suez Canal can’t be the result of a coincidence.
That boat was placed there intentionally. A high military source revealed to the American journalist, Scott McKay, that on the containers carried by the boat there were children victim of human trafficking.
The US and Russian special forces would recover the children.
Before labeling as “conspiratorial” this hypothesis, we should remember that it’s not the first time that human beings are trafficked in this way.
Last year, the Dutch police arrested human smugglers who prepared containers to carry human beings kidnapped by the criminals.
At the same time, this operation also showed a geopolitical and economical purpose.
Through the temporary closing of the Suez canal, Trump dealt a tremendous blow to the economic engine of globalization, namely Communist China.
That stretch of sea has become the main trading passage of Chinese goods. Through his obstruction, Trump sent a clear message to the higher echelon of globalism.
Globalization is built on quicksand and can be sunk in at any moment through the closure of commercial naval routes.
Now there’s the fourth step, the most important one. The annulment of the 2020 election and the official return of Trump to the White House.
If we look at Trump’s website “From the desk of Donald J. Trump” we can see that the President is talking very often on the ongoing legal audits, which show how the election was stolen.
An irreversible mechanism was set in motion. “Journalists” on deep state’s payroll, such as Rachel Maddow, immediately realized that. Once the audits start, others would follow and the fraud will be fully exposed.
Maricopa has been the beginning of a virtually unstoppable process. The result of this process would be to reinstate Trump before 2024. People closer to him, like Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, clearly said that.
Trump’s return is at hand. The 2024 story is just a diversion to deceive the media that keeps ignoring reality, pretending that things would change in this way.
Q is not a psy-op
Basically, we are witnessing the enforcement of an operation militarily and scientifically planned.
Personally, I didn’t have a specific opinion of Q, the military intelligence that allegedly backs Trump. However, in the latest months, some undisputable facts have emerged. The Covid terrorist operation failed to drag mankind towards the last step of the NWO.
Above all, the system hasn’t been able to reconquer the US, without which a world government is impossible.
We must not demand the reader a blind adhesion in “trusting the plan.” We must ask him or her to put together the facts and draw his or her own conclusions.
However, facts are telling us that on the global chessboard, globalism is losing the battle.
The US is not marching towards the totalitarian society wished for by the elites, much less Russia, the second world superpower.
Only the weak EU is trying to advance towards this plan, but without the participation of the two world superpowers, the Great Reset is deemed to fail.
For all these reasons, we can think that Q is not a psy-op as Alex Jones and David Icke claimed.
In this regard, we should remember that the former, Jones, said that he had regretted having met Trump.
The latter, Icke, backs the theory that the reptilians, alleged extraterrestrial beings, control Earth, and it’s not a secret that the alien theory is strictly related to masonic and New Age circles of satanic inspiration, because it is functional in denying the existence of God.
Icke, in particular, claimed that Q is a reboot of a group of false dissidents belonging to “Operation Trust”, a government operation conceived by the Bolshevik regime in the 20 to capture the opposition.
If Icke were to be right, at this point we should have seen a sting of the dissidents belonging to Q and a strengthening of the globalist regime.
On the contrary, we are seeing the opposite scenario. The globalist regime is weakening on the global plan and the Q group is rather strengthening.
At this point, the reader should consider two things.
The first is to always look at the facts. Several people ask to see facts that show how Trump has tricked the deep state, but they don’t realize that facts are before their eyes. They’re just waiting to be looked at.
The second is to always keep in mind the spiritual nature of the ongoing struggle. If we consider only the material side, we can’t understand the spiritual, openly satanic side that inspires the enemy.
This is the only way to understand what’s going on – through the use of intellect and through the faith in God. Not only are not the two concepts contradictory, but they’re also strictly complementary.
To have an idea of the timing of the final showdown between Trump/Q and the New World Order, it is useful to consider the statements made by Trump to his friends.
It turns out that Trump thinks that he could be reinstated by August 2021. If that is the case, we’re really close to the final showdown.
The next months could be really decisive in determining the fate of America, the world, and mankind.
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