Signs - and the Reality Behind Them

This morning I woke up at two o clock and had trouble getting back to sleep. I had just had a dream about being in a place where we had access to lots of computers. And the people who ran the place were telling us which computers we could use and which web sites we could buy things from and which ones we couldn’t. I got to thinking about this and it dawned on me that the reason why this was important is because computers are real and they represent real things. They aren’t just typed words on a screen. If you give someone your credit card number they have power over you and if you do something on line it isn’t just “games” but it’s the real thing of buying and selling and making contracts. I got to thinking of this whole notion of “Signs”. Jesus Christ oddly said that “Signs aren’t important”. Jesus also made the oddly atheistic sound statement that “Swearing oaths is something you should never do”. I got to thinking about this and then thought of how some of the fiercest theological battles you get on the radio between Christians and cults is on the important of baptism. Christians taking the position that baptism is not important. Traditionally baptism is a “Sign”. It represents the reality of something and is a confirmation of something important, like a wedding ring, and to throw it in the trash can just like that says something about the person making the statement. In Genesis it speaks of the heavens and the stars and has the statement “Let them be for signs and for seasons”. I find it odd that the “other” Jesus Christ (on KFI) says “Of all the supernatural arts, astrology is the least validated”. Last July I made the statement when the stock market has been going nothing but up that “I predict thus and so and as a Sign that my words are true I predict that the market will take a precipitous drop in the next few days. This drop occurred right on schedule. In a posting further back in this blog I talk about the Housing market. This was back in mid summer when it wasn’t much of an issue. And I said the housing markets were going to become an issue and to look out for it. One scripture I take very seriously is the one about not taking the Lord’s name in vain. And by this scripture means “empty pursuits that will come to nothing”. But if I had to guess I would say that this is the most common sin that devout Christians commit without batting an eye. Faith, or credulity, in reality, is like paper money. And paper money is only good if it’s redeemable for the real thing, typically silver, which also has special Biblical significance. In my prophecy book I make the statement “People make counterfeits to look like the real thing; never like a fake. People are hoping that they can trick someone else into trading in a counterfeit and getting back the real thing”. It’s kind of silly to say you don’t believe in signs. There are signs everywhere. There are street signs to tell you where to go and signs on products to tell you they are poison. You will note in the life of Joan of Arc, those Burgundian churchmen, as corrupt as they were, wanted Joan to swear out an oath publicly- - that her voices were false and sign her name to a confession. They wanted this because they knew that oaths were real, and not just some kind of a game to pass the time. Many Christians say they believe in faith for faith’s sake. They don’t differentiate between good faith and bad faith. It’s kind of strange when you think about how the idea of “Faith is just as good as reality” became an axiom in our society. Jesus introduced it when he told doubting Thomas that others besides himself may be more Spiritual because they didn’t have to see for themselves but only believed. People peddle their product like giving you a slug and saying “It’s just as good as a quarter” or a pastor giving you a lick and a promise and saying “It’s just as good as answered prayer”. It’s like those commercials that go “It’s just as good as a Xerox”. One of these days some pastor when he’s all alone is going to encounter a talking copier and it’s going to say to him “I’m not just as good as a Xerox, I am a Xerox”. And the pastor will say back “How dare you talk back. I decide what is real and what is not”. To so many religion is like the crazy Aunt they keep in the attic. But every so often when you’re having company over she comes down and mingles among the guests and embarrasses you terribly. That “Dr. House” on the show “House” was commenting how he envied this autistic nine year old, because he didn’t have to conform to social convention but could say anything that popped into his head about anything. Only Royalty in this world have that kind of power. We could say that Royalty have a license to be insane. I’ve contrasted two people in my mind lately. One was that guy named Marcus, who used to live here. In case you’re wondering I picked my alias before I ever knew of him, otherwise I might have decided otherwise. Marcus left here essentially to get outside care because he was showing signs of insanity. But when I contrast the way he interracted with me and a certain main stream denominational Pastor I’ve made reference to in my blogs before but seldom by name. Both were abusive tword me and at times cruel. Both put you on the defensive from the word Go and cranked the maneuver of “Projection” up into the stratosphere. Stated perhaps too simple, projection means “The best defense is a good offence” and both of these people, Marcus and the pastor were offensive to the max. The difference being that Marcus is acknowledged as Insane, but the pastor continues to be a respected man in his church and denomination. In fact if anything, Marcus was the more lucid of the two of them. Christianity does not believe in Signs any more than it believes in any force outside itself. Gene Scott is another person I used to be swayed by but since he’s dead now all of his teaching seems rather irrelivent now. Gene Scott once said that “Unless you have been personally hurt by a religion, you don’t have the right to complain about it, but if you’ve been hurt your words have credibility”. Jesus Christ on the radio’s response to this is the famous “sin transfer” doctrine. So much more rewarding than an ATM machine! The sin gets transferred from the perpetrator to the victim. It is said that nothing is True unless there is some logical scenario by which it might be proved and demonstrated as false. My attitude twords God is “Deliver the goods”. Bob Dylan once had a song “Nothing was delivered”. You should listen to it sometime. If I make a prediction I usually do it in my name, because I do NOT want to drag God into something that’s none of his doing. John Lennon once said of “Six Six Six” that he should “Free the people” and “stop the killing” because “Your time is up you better know it, or maybe you don’t read the Signs”. If only Lennon has been correct. As you know several posts back I wanted a Sign to confirm another Sign. I said there would be “something witchy” to happen to demonstrate to the world that all the stuff we say about the Orion Federation is correct. You might say “You really take the cake. You want something to happen in the world to prove something that you just made up to begin with”. Perhaps. We’ll just see how my predictive “batting average” fairs in the coming months. You know- - whatever happens I want to look back on these blog postings exactly a year from now just to see what the hell was going on in my mind at the time.

In my previous posting I told you of some of the dire things that could likely occur if a Republican were elected in November. But Obama is not off the hook by any means. The media has indeed given him a pass, but not necessarily how they normally mean it. Keep in mind that on certain moral, social, and family issues, Obama is like Hillary on steroids. I have been reading some highly disturbing things sent to me from conservatives about Obama. There is one thing about the World Net Daily crowd. If you say “Deliver the goods; let’s see your evidence”, they have the evidence and the facts, unlike certain other Christians you and I have probably known who go through life on a wing and a prayer. Obama is really bad on the abortion issue carrying partial birth abortions one more dimension into depravity by saying that live babies born from botched abortions should be killed. Obama is also rabidly anti fire arms protection, and also as pro gay as you can get, possibly even affecting areas of employment by a church, not to mention what pastors would be allowed to say about gays under an Obama presidency. There is still that religious banana peel ready for someone to trip on. Just what does Obama believe about Islam and the whole idea of race and religion to begin with? Is he really as much the “JFK man of tomorrow’s enlightenment” as he would like you to believe or does he indeed hold the “views of the past” when it comes to Black extremism? I find it hard to believe that a man could be in a church for twenty years with a pastor like that giving the sermons he gives, and not know what the pastor stands for. I know in myself a certain pastor, previously referenced in this posting, who gave awful sermons, and they only got worse with the passage of time, and I haven’t set foot in that church in over eleven years. That’s what most people do when they encounter a bad situation. They leave. I’d just like to know what was and is going through Obama’s mind.