A conversation.

Following an energetic stroll on a commonly tread street median walking trail, after which I'd left gospel tracts on several of the benches located along the path.

A middle-aged gentleman caught up to me. He was inquisitive, yet respectful.

Him: May I ask you a question? What is your objective, leaving that literature back there?

Me: I am merely sharing Christ with others.

Him: What really is the point of that? People will just throw them away, and if they don't isn't it just littering?

Me: God's Word will not return empty! There may very well be someone who will come across any of those words and turn to Him.

Him: Jehovah's Witnesses are there too. Their idea of only 144,000 people going to heaven is foolish, it just isn't right they should be sharing that out there on the walking trail.

Me: I agree. Jehovah's Witnesses ideas are from Hell. But that religion is just an invention of the Roman Catholic Church, as they all are.

Him: Oh I don't like the Roman Catholic Church either, they are evil with their child molestation issues.

Me: This is why I share what I share out there on the trail. I want people to know the True Living God, and not any of that. I've just been reading an article by John Lennox, do you know him?

Him: No.

Me: He is a scholar and mathematician who is a devout follower of Christ, very articulate and well-established, and he writes about young people succumbing to the World because of their very small attention spans and obsessive use of mobile devices. But even he doesn't get that it isn't that! It is rather which god they are actually worshipping.

Him: I agree cell phone use is getting bad. But what is the point of you leaving those tracts?

Me: Look. (I show him a tract torn in half that was left under a rock on a bench and the end of the walk, one I'd left a few days before when I was on the trail then.) I simply replaced this one with a good one so someone would come to know Jesus. And this one? I consider it a badge of honor, really. I am saying something to them. I just pray for whoever did this, no matter what, they need prayer, and Him.

Him: I don't know how much prayer will do anything.

Me: What is your name by the way?

(He shared his name with me.)

Me: I'm David, nice to meet you. I will be praying for you.

Him: Don't pray for me, pray for this world! (At this exclamation he raised his hands in a kind of exasperation.)

We broke off our interaction as he walked away.

I don't have many of these conversations because I don't instigate them. Many courageous and much more extroverted evangelically-minded people do, that's awesome. My ministry work is chiefly (1) fellowshipping with my family and friends, (2) teaching my students, (3) leaving gospel tracts in strategic places, and (4) writing in my webzine and posting in my blog. But when someone confronts me about my ministry work, I am more than thrilled to engage them.

In that I should add, probably the most important ministry component, (5) praying continually. I did pray for this gentleman, and still do.

I also bathe this writing ministry in prayer because my heart's full desire is to rejoice over people coming out of the hellscape that is their own moral concupiscence as well as the domineering System governance keeping them under a very benighted but quite justified state of constrictive condemnation. I'd like to think at least a few people have come across these words here to direct their attention to Jesus, His beautiful words, and His profoundly abundant Kingdom.

The key is that those things are spiritual parsecs away from all the things the very proficient World Ops who work from the Roman Catholic Hegemony do to keep people moored to their wickedly reprobate livelihoods. Think you can push back against it because you are your own fine individual and can just tough things out on your own?

Okay. You can. You're free to do that. But then Rome is still right there to manage your evildoing and it isn't going anywhere no matter how much they convince you you've broken free from its authoritative grip.

See, this is why I mention this gentleman and the things he shared with me in our conversation. Just from the things that came from his mouth, the things that certainly bang around prominently in his mind, it is not hard to see he is influenced by one of the best tactics the Jesuits have used for centuries to keep people in the ultra-religious fold. It is also one of the most sinister.

It started with a commitment from the earliest convicted murderer to start being really nice to his brother; put into grand philosophical treatises in Greece from one, Epicurus; propelled into the mainstream in Rome with an even more widely lauded literary work by an impassioned acolyte, Lucretius; and further quite prominently disseminated by those extraordinarily skilled Roman Catholic deep-state operatives, as they have done for the past several centuries when they knew they could captivate the imaginations of teetering Protestants still consumed with keeping one foot in the World.

 I may completely misapprehend the sentiments of this gentleman, so deepest apologies if I do, but the tentacles of a fierce Epicurean commitment could be seen in the substance of my conversation. Viz:

The most important freedom is to enjoy the pleasures of life, preferably the high-minded things, the cultured things. This is because all there is you see and touch is all there is. When you die, you as a person vanish into the abyss of matter. Those who hold any belief in the supernatural are fools, yet it is exceptionally kind to humor muted religious people. Those who do deserve the most censure, however, are those who treat those things seriously, vociferously, for they are the ones who cause the most problems. Intolerance and exclusivity are the worst evils. Otherwise it is very good to ingratiate oneself with the virtuous rich and powerful who are all about helping the poor and downtrodden, so right now we may at least feel the best about ourselves for death ends everything.

I know a concise brief here about the mentality of the thing may lack some important intricacies, but it'll do. I've written before about this infectiously widespread phenomena, and have a page with a few more of its core features. One of the key elements is that today Epicurean-minded people pack out the once stalwart Protestant churches in the United States, and is an easily recognized symptom of an Americanist Christianity that has gone far off the rails and is now thoroughly Catholicized.

Recently renowned tech billionaire Peter Thiel made some remarks about what he thinks is true Christianity and the identity of the Anti-Christ, and how much with the help of the "AI" powers-that-will-be we can all avert the inevitable doom many think it portends.

Renowned expositor of all tech oligarch designs Whitney Webb remarked that Thiel's take is not real Christianity, with some typical additional remarks about how oppressively overbearing Palantir is what with all its unseemly finding-out-things-about-everyone. Thing is Webb would get it if she knew Thiel's Christianity is indeed that Epicurean brand heavily marketed by the very legitimate institutional sin management program of the Ecclesiocracy.

It is, in fact, merely another imaginative version of Rome's surveillance state that has been around for millennia. This is what the present "AI" Dominion is all about — just the latest form of the very necessary Inquisition. It resides in the City established by God Himself as explicated in the fourth chapter of Genesis. It is always there to accomplish its summarily ruthless prosecutorial duties, through whatever channels there are. As a matter of sworn duty it must register every name, number, and characteristic of every individual on the planet, and this now becomes not just possible but imperative with the massively burgeoning Data Center Complex.

The political: Keep the World devotee in a perpetual state of dread for optimum social behavior now that every individual human being is incessantly observed, processed, and catalogued. It is indeed a modern-day ubiquitous panopticon. Or for those who zealously object, and there are your typical legion of revolutionaries — routinely stir their sense of entitlement into rebellion for maximum seven-fold retribution. Whichever, either works fine for the Roman empowered enforcement apparatus.

The commercial: Sell the wonders of all the best things your particular proclivities desire. It is the tailor-made shopping extravaganza every single time you open your eyes. Everything that excites the individual may now be turgidly promoted to provide maximum pleasure — nothing says Epicurean as much, especially since the political feature is designed to rein in the more obsessive abuses of those things. And never mind how much rent-glomming will be ever-so finely tuned — hey, exquisitely customizing your material life has a modest price.

The financial: Track the transactions, every single one. The value arrangement of each individual may be impeccably managed through the finely tuned Data Processing protocols — sure people screech like banshees about the CBDC, but they'll come around. A comprehensive credit score accounting system that is pretty much foolproof with the work of Caesar's genius technocrats along with the wonderful AI machinery — just makes things so much easier. Doesn't mean the money laundering for the benefit of favored potentates and constituencies will end, it will just be much more comfortably opaque and efficient.

And if you absolutely HAAATE all of that, go ahead, you go. Go off. You go be the best Luddite you can be, go for it, rant and rail and rage and all the rest of it. Webb suggested something blapped all the time — "Get rid of your smart phone!" Even more from so many such prepper-minded blappers: "Move off the grid altogether!"

Go for it.

Except, please.

Where are you going to go?

That John Lennox piece about which I'd hoped to converse a bit more with my Epicurean-minded friend? Actually a transcript of a speech, it is here, you may check it out yourself.

He does his typical great work elucidating the nature of where we are here in the last days, what with all the languid social and catastrophic economic subjection, but he seems to feel the real problem with young people today is that their attention span is too short, and that the domineering nature of the mobile device is to blame. I like John Lennox, he is an amazing apologist, but here yet again he missed the mark.

The sobering reality has nothing to do with the technology but with who exactly one is worshipping. Does the Rome-commandeered technology draw people away from God? Of course it does! But think about it. There are only two objects of anyone's worship, only two.

Jesus Christ, and a counterfeit System-invented Jesus Christ.

There is only One of the former, and hundreds of the latter. People like Peter Thiel and all his cohorts and protégés and detractors and antagonists think they're making striking declarations of their profound insights, but they're just bandying about a bunch of the Society's Jesuses.

Attention spans? In eternity there will only be two lengths of attentions spans. Mr. Lennox should be smart enough to grasp this.

For those whose belief is on The One God in the Person of Jesus Christ and because of their abiding faith in Him will be resurrected into righteousness, they will only need a millisecond of an attention span because for eternity we will get to gaze upon the face of God Himself — truly the greatest joy anyone could ever have.

For those whose belief is on an anti-Christ, another Jesus deftly concocted by the World and dazzlingly sustained to keep people enslaved to the System, and by remaining in their sin are destined to be resurrected into judgment, they will be stuck with an attention span that will last an eternity, forever wallowing in darkness and nothing good at all where they will be painfully desiring yet never seeing the only thing that transcendently satisfies.

One of the greatest ironies is how many of these tech oligarch's are shuffling off to environs where they may feel safer from the effects of their magnanimity. Thiel is said to be heading to Argentina. Secluded island compounds are the rage among that set. I've even heard of many of them are performing their own version of leaving-the-grid by building elaborate expansive bunkers for that extra measure of security.

Huh.

You'd think the AI-dominated perfect world they've set in motion would make everything splendidly perfect for everyone, but, huh, how reclusive are these people going to get? Will they get far enough away? Uber-tech gazillionaire Elon Musk has been effusively sanguine about the settlements he wants to make on other planets... um, why? Sure some of it is just his gushing about his ten-year-old science-fiction-movie fantasies, but methinks the reasons for all this is truly about this.

The plain truth that every individual on the planet is the worst evildoer ever.

Adam and Eve didn't happen eons ago. By God's time signature it happened yesterday. And it happens every day, in every unrepentant heart on the planet. You can see it in the Epicurean-saturated tech oligarch's behavior. Hey, you can see this truth most plainly in the fact that each one of us resides in little fortresses called houses or apartments comfortably separated from the rest of humanity.

Us rank-and-file human beings are no different.

This isn't a call for communes, either, for every one of the more renowned such establishments in history were disasters and further demonstrate the all-too sloughed off reality.

The landscape of humanity is desolate.

I use that reference deliberately because it is why God told Isaiah to tell the people to stay blind, deaf, and stupid — that is until they see that thing. Check it out there in the sixth chapter, they must actually see the full landscape of what they've done.

I've often made reference to this Biblical principle in my webzine work, but I'm adding it here because I came across another reference in Isaiah I'd read in my morning devotional a few days ago. It blew me away. May I share it with you? From the 41st chapter of that book. (Emphasis mine.)

"I [the LORD] will make rivers flow on barren heights,

    and springs within the valleys.

I will turn the desert into pools of water,

    and the parched ground into springs.

I will put in the desert

    the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.

I will set junipers in the wasteland,

    the fir and the cypress together,

So that the people may see and know,

    may consider and understand,

That the Hand of the LORD has done this,

     that the Holy One of Israel has created it." 

 There it is, the restoration of our land, for the purpose of just plain getting us to, really, not be stupid. He so wants to give it to us. Life, and abundance, and everlasting joy. Jesus used the whole land picture too when addressing this exact thing in the gospel accounts. Sowing seed that is The Word? Only if it settles and sprouts and matures in willing hearts will it produce anything.

Thing is, produce seeds need time to grow, and to be honest I just don't think there is much time. Talking about all this "AI" and Data Center stuff, I don't see how Q-Day isn't stunningly imminent — Q-Day, that time when the quantum computing network becomes powerful enough to break any of the encryption systems that protect modern digital life.

There is so much to the technology and the myriad applications behind all this, but this kind of thing does mean the world you know cannot remain static in ways we are used to — it is indeed culture shock on steroids. Every day we are experiencing something closer to a Q-Day, so even today who you follow is about as critical as anything. This is because sometime shortly after Q-Day there will be something apocalyptic, and even the best science-fiction conjecturing futurists don't know what that is.

But God did tell us about The Apocalypse.

We're heading towards it at breakneck speed. It'll arrive, that's a certainty. And sorry, it doesn't matter for squat how much you've gone off the grid and hunkered down a thousand feet underground in your fully-stocked fully-ventilated fully-wired luxury bunker, it's coming.

So yeah...

Who are you going there with?

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"Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, 'There is peace and security,' then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober."

- From the first letter to the Thessalonians, fifth chapter

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