*To Ruth – may other readers share the awe and excitement you feel when learning the thrilling and providential history of the United States of America.*
When George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States, he delivered a powerful address containing this singular charge to the nation:
“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency” (George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789).
America Guided by Wisdom, 1815
The Father of our Country frequently expressed his rock-solid assurance that God had intervened in America’s War for Independence and that He continued to support the patriots in establishing the first free society in modern times by means of the U.S. Constitution. During the most trying time in the Revolution, General Washington wrote to a fellow commander:
“The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations” (George Washington to Thomas Nelson, August 20, 1778).
Years after the war, Washington’s belief remained fixed. He wrote:
“The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf—And it is my earnest prayer that we may so conduct ourselves as to merit a continuance of those blessings with which we have hitherto been favoured” (George Washington to Samuel Langdon, September 28, 1789).
Washington’s belief was not mere hope or wishful thinking, but evidence-based testimony. He knew that he has been miraculously preserved by God’s invisible hand on numerous occasions. He knew that his army had been supernaturally saved from defeat too many times to be coincidence. The protective hand that shielded Washington was evident long before the Revolution. During the French and Indian War, in the melee of the disastrous Battle of Monongahela, Washington should have died when all other mounted officers around him were hit and killed and he was fired at dozens of times. However, he recorded the following:
“By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho’ death was levelling my companions on every side” (George Washington to John A. Washington, July 18, 1755).
The Indians who were leveling Washington’s companions were ordered by their chief to gun him down as well. They tried. They all tried. One warrior shot seventeen times, another eleven – all misses. Years later, the old Indian chief felt impelled to meet Washington when Washington was visiting the area. When he did, he gave an intriguing testimony of what happened that day and what was to come for Washington and the new nation he would lead:
“I am chief and ruler over all my tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the Great Lakes, and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle. It was on the day when the white man’s blood mixed with the streams of our forest that I first beheld this chief. I called to my young men and said, ‘Mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the redcoat tribe—he hath an Indian’s wisdom, and his warriors fight as we do—himself alone is exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies.’ Our rifles were leveled—rifles which, but for him, knew not how to miss. Twas all in vain; a power far mightier than we shielded him from harm. He cannot die in battle. The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies. He will become chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him the founder of a mighty nation. I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle” (David Barton, The Bulletproof George Washington, 50-51).
In later battles during the War for Independence, Washington was again spared by fortuitous means. More bullets pierced his clothing, more warriors missed direct shots, and some felt they shouldn’t fire when they had a clear shot. One interesting moment shows how God intervened to prevent Washington being killed. In “The Man Who Didn’t Shoot Washington,” we find the following account of a marksman who had the General in his sights but felt he shouldn’t shoot him:
“[Patrick] Ferguson and three of his riflemen were ranging far forward of the British lines when they heard the sound of horses’ hooves approaching from the direction of Chad’s Ford. Sinking down in the undergrowth, they looked hastily to their priming as a mounted man in gay hussar dress rode into the open glade directly in front of them, followed a moment later by another rider in buff and blue, mounted on a bay horse and crowned by what Ferguson was afterwards to describe as “a remarkable large cocked hat.” Obviously, he was an officer of exceptional distinction, and there was, moreover, a look about him that seemed peculiarly familiar. The Scotsman, of course, had never seen General Washington in the flesh. But there were plenty of prints and cheap woodcuts of him in circulation. Furthermore, it had been rumored in the British camp that, a few days earlier, Washington had ridden out so far beyond his own lines that a sudden storm had forced him to take shelter for the night at a farm-house hard by Gray’s Hill—almost within cannon shot of British headquarters at Kennett Square. It was more than possible, therefore, that he had again ventured out on one of those personal reconnaissances by which he was always careful to inform himself of the nature of the ground over which he proposed to fight.
“Ferguson’s first unthinking impulse was to shoot down the two horsemen without more ado; and he signed to his companions “to steal near to them and fire at them.” But almost immediately he signaled them peremptorily to hold their fire. To an experienced gun, raised on the Highland grouse moors in the traditional sporting code, the very idea of taking a shot at a sitting bird was anathema. In his own phrase, even to entertain so shameful a notion was “disgusting.” Furthermore, Ferguson was a typical soldier; and the soldier’s mentality is such that he invariably feels a certain sympathy with the man against whom he is professionally opposed. To attack and overpower him in the heat of battle was all in the line of duty; to play the assassin and shoot him down, all unsuspecting, in cold blood, was not part of the tradition of arms in which he had been raised.
“There remained the possibility of taking the enemy leader and his companion captive. Stepping from his place of concealment, Ferguson called to the hussar officer, who was the nearer to him, and signaled him to dismount. The only response was an excited cry of warning to the rider in the remarkable large cocked hat, who promptly wheeled his charger and made for the further edge of the clearing.
““As I was within that distance,” Ferguson subsequently recorded, “at which, in the quickest firing, I could have lodged half a dozen of balls in or about him before he was out of my reach, I had only to determine; but it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual who was acquitting himself coolly of his duty, and so I let him alone.””
Doubtless, many discount this as an act of God and would have you believe it is one of the many “coincidences” of the founding era. Yet, the “coincidences” and “lucky breaks” were so voluminous that, as Washington said, you had to be a “bad” man and an “infidel” not to admit the reality.
Washington knew that only the invisible hand of the Almighty could have preserved him in the heat of battle so many times as enemy shooters aimed point blank at him and missed, as bullets pierced his coat, and as projectiles of death flew around him in flurries. Similarly, he knew that the entire Continental Army was saved multiple times by divine intervention. The narrow escape from Long Island in 1776 comes to mind.
After being outflanked and surrounded with their backs to the river, General Washington ordered a hasty retreat by boat under the cover of dark. As dawn approached, half the troops – and the General himself – remained trapped as the evacuation progressed more slowly than anticipated. Quite unexpectedly, and fortuitously, a mysterious and uncommonly thick fog blanketed the riverbank, preventing British troops from advancing. The fog lingered just long enough for Washington, in the last boat, to escape. It lifted as Washington arrived at the far bank and enemy troops arrived at the spot he had been with his cornered troops minutes before.
The historian David McCullough described the incident like this:
“At the ferry landing all this time troops and supplies and artillery were being loaded aboard one boat after another as quickly as humanly possible and sent on their way. Everyone worked furiously. A Connecticut soldier manning one of the boats would remember making eleven crossings in the course of the night.
“But the exodus was not moving fast enough. Some of the heavy cannon, mired in mud, were impossible to move and had to be left behind. Time was running out. Though nearly morning, a large part of the army still waited to embark, and without the curtain of night to conceal them, their escape was doomed.
“Incredibly, yet again, circumstances – fate, luck, Providence, the hand of God, as it would be said so often – intervened.
“Just at daybreak a heavy fog settled over the whole of Brooklyn, concealing everything no less than had the night. It was a fog so thick, remembered a soldier, that one “could scarcely discern a man at six yards distance.” Even with the sun up, the fog remained as dense as ever, while over on the New York side of the river there was no fog at all. . . .
“Major Tallmadge, who . . . was among the last to depart on the boats, would write later that he saw Washington on the ferry stairs staying to the very end.
“[Alexander] Graydon estimated that it was seven in the morning, perhaps a little later, when he and his men landed in New York. “And in less than an hour after, the fog having dispersed, the enemy was visible on the shore we had left [behind].”
“In a single night, 9,000 troops had escaped across the river. Not a life was lost” (David McCullough, 1776, 190-191).
Military genius or miracle? Perhaps both, but it was certainly a miracle. Who controls the weather? General Washington didn’t control the weather. God controlled the weather then as now and used it to aid the American cause time and time again.
The great American W. Cleon Skousen wrote of Washington’s concrete surety that America was supported by God, and detailed another miraculous incident involving weather, like this:
“The record shows that on at least 67 occasions General Washington stated in his reports to the Congress that except for the intervention of God the consequence of those contests would have been different. Every man in that convention knew that these were sometimes manifest in a most spectacular way.
“As we mentioned earlier, when Cornwallis put 6,000 men in boats to cross the York River and escape from Washington, a tremendous storm came up and blew the boats right back to the shore where the British could be taken prisoner. Cornwallis was led to exclaim, “Even God wants Washington to win!”
“There were many such instances” (W. Cleon Skousen, The Majesty of God’s Law: It’s Coming to America, 445-446).
Not only did the weather prevent Cornwallis from escaping defeat and capture at Yorktown, but a massive storm prevented the British fleet from sailing to his rescue. Truly, God wanted Washington and America to win.
The escape from Long Island, the victory at Yorktown, and so many other incidents, were rightly considered miracles from God by our forebears. So strong was this belief, I remind you, that Washington believed you had to be “worse than an infidel” to not recognized God’s invisible hand in the matter. From miraculous storms and fog to “coincidental” timing and last-minute turns of fate, America’s victory over monarchical Britain was nothing short of God’s will, favor, and blessing.
Our Founding Fathers saw Heaven’s intervention on their behalf, as did the majority of their countrymen. It is a very modern idea that the establishing of America as a free and independent nation was anything less than providential. The record refutes the idea.
At the close of the Revolution, when he believed he was retiring from public life forever to the quietude of his farm, General Washington said:
“I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interest of dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them, to His holy keeping” (George Washington, Address to Congress, December 23, 1783).
Keep America He did, bringing the Constitution into existence through the Founding Fathers’ wise instrumentality and making America into a safe haven for religious dissenters, the politically oppressed, and all who wanted to be free. He blessed this land with a glorious bounty of resources, wealth, sound institutions, strong men, feminine ladies, big families, industrious people, and Christian virtues. Our Father in Heaven is the true Father of our Country.
I say it again: The Lord made America great. So long as we have trusted in Him and tried to follow His commandments, He has prospered and fortified us. To the extent that we have gone away from Christ and His laws, to that extent we have fallen, become weak, devolved into wickedness and pride, and corrupted the American dream. We have violated and broken the sacred covenant of this special land, which is that the inhabitants of it will worship Christ or be swept off if they would not repent.
We have not done what our forefathers did – we have not remembered the Lord. Our gratitude has been poor. We have not lived up to our privileges. We have not defended the rights He gave us. We have not safeguarded the Constitution which He gave through inspiration and which embodies many of the ancient principles of civil government revealed to Moses. We have not been the shining city on a hill our forebears intended us to be.
What is to be done? How can we remedy the bleak situation? How can we show more gratitude to our God? How can we show appreciation for our God-given rights – for our Faith, Families, and Freedom?
More than electing a new president, more than trying fiscal responsibility, more than ensuring election integrity, more than ending the Federal Reserve, more than keeping our nose out of other nations’ internal affairs, more than repealing red flag gun confiscation laws, more than instituting term limits, more than keeping dangerous transgenders and LGBT-disturbed individuals out of public schools, more than securing our porous border, more than preventing publicly-subsidized social media platforms from censoring speech, and more than any other thing you can imagine that could help restore our Republic, the most important thing America needs is repentance.
Art by Jon McNaughton
Only repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, who is mighty to heal and save, can restore us. America will repent or America will perish like ancient Israel. Our great nation, favored and blessed so long by the Lord, will be cleansed without immediate and wholesale repentance in sackcloth and ashes. If we wish America to be great again, we must acknowledge and adore the invisible hand that made her great to begin with.
If we truly value the Independence we celebrate every year with fireworks and BBQs, we will follow in our forefathers’ footsteps and sing praises to Heaven, raise our voices in humble prayer to our Father above, and repent of our wrongdoings in the name of Jesus our Redeemer. Then, as we manfully stand against tyrants and for Freedom in the American tradition, the invisible hand will work in our favor and for our good. That is true gratitude. That is the way to both spiritual and political salvation. That is America’s only sure course out of these dangerous and turbulent waters in which we are being so violently tossed.
Let’s ride with the old General to victory once more. Let’s share his faith in the Providence that overshadows us. And let’s forever acknowledge and adore the invisible hand that made us free in the beginning and that has the power to make us free again.
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” (Galatians 5:1).
“Good Samaritan Law? I never heard of it. You don’t have to help anybody; That’s what this country’s all about. That’s deplorable. Unfathomable. Improbable.” – Jackie Chiles, Seinfeld
A city is not a community. A group of people living together is not a community. A cluster of houses in a common location is not a community. A political jurisdiction on a map is not a community. What, then, is a community?
I have lived in big cities with millions of inhabitants, medium-sized cities, tiny towns, and even remote villages. I have lived abroad in Russia and Panama and in many varied locations in the United States including Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Wyoming, Alaska, Utah, and Hawaii. In the rural villages and towns in several of these states, I learned the true meaning of “community.”
My first real introduction to “community” was when I lived in picturesque Port Lions, Alaska, as a teenager. When I lived there, the population was around 200. In the theme song of the popular 80s show Cheers, we hear the memorable line: “Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name.” Port Lions is a place where “everybody knows your name” and you know theirs.
In Port Lions, not only did you know everyone’s name, but you could often identify who was driving past your house by the sound of their vehicle. You saw the same people at school, at the post office, on the five miles of unpaved roads, at the airstrip, at the harbor, at the dock, at the dump, on the ferry, and in the woods.
When you needed help, they were there. When you wanted to talk, they were there. When you wanted to throw a party, they were there. When you needed advice, they were there. When you were sick and needed a meal delivered to your house, they were there. When your car broke down and needed a hand, they were there. When your car went into the ditch, they were there. When school kids won in sports, they were there. When they lost in sports, they were there, too. They were always there.
George Washington gave what to me is the keenest definition of “friendship” I’ve ever heard. It applies to our discussion of “community.” Said he:
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence? True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo & withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation” (George Washington to Bushrod Washington, January 15, 1783).
Communities are like true friends – they stick together through thick and thin, black and blue, rain and shine. In Port Lions, we stuck together and faced challenges as a unit. One small example helps to illustrate. Kodiak Island, where Port Lions is located, is home to one of the largest bears on the planet – the Kodiak brown bear. Problems with these bears were rare. In fact, it was common for people to go to the local landfill and watch bears lumber out of the woods, tear through trash, and drag whatever morsels they found back into the forest. Our version of a drive-in theater.
If the bears happened to enter the community, however, the phone lines lit up as everyone called everyone else to warn them and to make sure everyone was safe. Would this, or even could this, happen in a big city?
It was especially true that my family stuck together during our years in Port Lions. My family became more closely-knit than ever before. We started the day together at home. We then went to school together (my Dad is a teacher and my Mom began working as an aide when my youngest sibling began attending school). My Dad was my coach in the afternoon. My family saw each other in the evening for dinner, scripture study, relaxation time, etc. On Sundays, we also had Church in the home – all three hours of it each week. Nothing could have welded our family more closely together than living in Port Lions. For that fact alone, I consider Port Lions the best place I have ever lived and thank God with all my heart for the opportunity I had to live there.
A view of Port Lions on a nice spring say looking across the Causeway.
In Idaho, which is my home state, I have lived thrice in towns of 600 people or fewer and will soon move to Idaho City which fits the same bill: Grandview; Bancroft; and Weippe. In the latter two specifically, the sense of community was alive and well.
I moved to Weippe in 2014 after having lived for several years in a medium-sized metro area. That particular metropolitan area in Utah is ranked as one of the safest in the nation and is a place where crazy things don’t generally happen. Even so, the difference was stark. No matter how safe or friendly a city is, it can never compare to the closeness and camaraderie you feel in a small community where everyone knows everyone else and associates with them in-person on a regular basis. That’s just not possible in a metro area of 300,000. Most of the people you meet daily will be complete strangers and, though nice they may be, you’ll feel no personal connection with them.
In Bancroft, Idaho, community spirit was also reality. Members of the biggest local church chopped wood for people to burn in the winters. We had a great event each year where we lit the Christmas lights, enjoyed food and live music, and welcomed Santa Claus with cheers. I loved my daily trips to the post office because I had the chance speak with the wonderful postal woman Pam. People knew your name and would greet you with a smile or wave at you on the road. You could even stop your car on the road and talk window-to-window with other drivers. You had the time – there were no traffic jams. The atmosphere was simply different.
Name a city anyone on earth where you can regularly enjoy the same benefits I’ve described. I don’t know one. I’ve never been in one. Yes, there may be individual neighborhoods within cities where everyone is close, everyone helps each other, and everyone associates regularly. However, I know of no city on earth where that same situation, closeness, friendliness, and intimacy prevail.
Instead, cities are toxic, both literally and figuratively. Cities are often polluted, dirty, trashy, rundown, full of litter, littered with homeless people and drugged-up wrecks of humanity, drab and dingy, industrial and cold, shapeless and bland, etc. There is greater division, cliquishness, anger, and stress; higher prices, more disease, more crime, and greater tragedies. True, I’m generalizing. Some cities have bright colors, nice sights, beautiful parks, etc. Some are also relatively happy or peaceful and don’t have much violent crime. But, as a generalization, cities are dreary, drab, cold, unfeeling, and more unsafe. We call them “concrete jungles” for a reason.
When you confront people about the toxicity of their city, however, they often recoil and get angry or defensive. Yet, if they’re honest, they will admit that large cities are not conducive to community, oneness, unity, intimacy, or geniality. Sinead Mulhern wrote an interesting op-ed about her experience with Toronto, Canada, compared with her experience in Cuenca, Ecuador. She wrote of arriving in Cuenca and being invited to a party, saying:
“I’d arrived in Cuenca two months before, and this was just the latest example of the city’s friendliness—a stark contrast to the life I’d left behind in Toronto. Here, hellos didn’t come with an arm’s-length handshake but rather with a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Strangers always asked me about myself. Neighbours offered rides in their cars. My landlady never failed to ask about my afternoon run. When I left Toronto after living there for eight years, I wasn’t sure what I was looking for. But here was the answer: community.
“That’s something I didn’t have at home—and, it turns out, I wasn’t the only one. Scientists and world leaders are starting to refer to a loneliness “epidemic.” The New York Times reports that about half of Americans reported feeling lonely—and 13 percent say no one in their life knows them well. And in the U.K., the problem was bad enough that then-Prime Minister Theresa May appointed the world’s first Minister for Loneliness in January 2018. Here at home, 28 percent of Canadians now live alone, which is the highest number on record and a risk factor for loneliness.
“All of this social isolation can have a real impact on our health. A 2015 study out of Brigham Young University found loneliness was as big a risk factor for early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it a bigger health risk than obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. And, according to the U.S. National Institute on Aging, research has linked social isolation to other ailments, like high blood pressure, heart disease, anxiety, depression and even Alzheimer’s disease.
“When I lived in Toronto, I never realized how lonely I was. I’d moved to the city for school and stayed after I graduated, but as the friends I’d made moved away, I was left with a gaping hole that I tried, unsuccessfully, to fill. I swiped right and became familiar with the communication cop-out that is ghosting. I went to parties with seemingly impenetrable Toronto cliques and felt like a permanent fringe friend. I did have meaningful friendships, but in my experience, Toronto is a place where community ranks lower than one’s job, relationship and personal commitments.”
I’ve spoken with many people who have expressed nearly identical views and experiences. They feel, on a gut level, that someone isn’t right about cities. It’s not how humans are supposed to live. We’re not supposed to be nameless faces in a crowd; a cog in a giant machine. Rather, we’re supposed to be unique individuals in a community of individuals working voluntarily together for their collective good and the betterment of the whole. While perhaps not impossible to achieve in cities, it is nearly so.
Cities simultaneously promote collectivism and extreme individualism. I’ve always been a supporter of individualism. However, there are limits. Thomas Jefferson referred to “rightful liberty,” for instance, and said that “rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’; because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual” (Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, April 4, 1819).
Individual rights, agency, and accountability are paramount; yet they must be circumscribed by the rights of other people and the general welfare of the community. This is not collectivism, but rightful individualism. Collectivism says that the community is more important than the individual and it does the very thing Jefferson warned about but in reverse – it restricts rightful Liberty and violates the rights of individuals to promote an undefinable mass called “community.”
Collectivism is not “community” in the sense I’m using the term today. It is an aberration of my idea. My idea of community is a unit, team, or group of people who harmoniously exercise their individual rights to promote a better life for everyone. No one steps on anyone’s toes. No one elevates themselves at the expense of others. No group has legal advantage over another. All are on the same level and enjoy the same rights, but willingly and voluntarily use their personal agency to assist others, work with them, and form a stronger unit.
It’s impossible to read the holy scriptures without encountering the Son of God saying that we should be “one.” He was not a Marxist. He was not a collectivist. Yet, He desired us to be one in spirit, in ideals, in willingness to help, in purpose, in mission, in compassion, and in every other good and wholesome way. He never envisioned us to be “one” mass of humanity with no individualism. Rather, His Gospel speaks of individuals being rewarded, or punished, for their own individual acts. He told parables of individuals using their unique gifts and talents wisely to expand what He gave them and to do the most good possible for others.
Community, really, is about connections. It’s connecting with other people. It’s becoming one with them, not in substance but in purpose, ideals, and goals. Early Americans had many divisions, but their goals and principles were nearly identical. They merely squabbled about how best to implement their shared vision. Having a shared vision that individuals join up with others to reach is what makes a community.
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary gives many definitions of “community,” but its basic definition states that a community is “a unified body of individuals.” I believe this is apt. Like in Port Lions, Weippe, or Bancroft, a community is not merely a political or geographical jurisdiction, but a group of people voluntarily uniting in the spirit of unity and shared interest. They don’t have to help each other, but they do. They don’t have to come together for events and service projects, but they do. They don’t have to support the local sports teams and schools and churches, but they do. They don’t have to help others move into or out of the town and shower them with food and support in hard times, but they do.
In cities, we become faceless, unnamed parts of a faceless, unnamed mass; proudly trumpeting our individuality while actually lacking both individuality and the connections with others that make a true “community.” We effectively disappear. We become consumed in the mass of humanity from whom we are paradoxically disconnected.
In cities, we may have certain connections, friends, and acquaintances, but rarely do we connect with passersby and strangers. Our primary interactions with other human beings are with strangers who don’t know us, who don’t want to know us, and who won’t be there for you when things get tough; nor will you be there for them when they need support.
We may have our own small “communities” within the larger population, but our cities lack community spirit and oneness and don’t operate as cohesive units. Each of these tribal “communities” wars against the other in a competitive manner, cementing divisions and buildings walls where there should be bridges.
This depressing disconnectedness and tribalistic divisiveness have only been exasperated over the past several years as a result of insane COVID tyranny. “Social distancing,” which is medically unsound advice, inflamed loneliness, depression, mental illness, bitterness, anger, self-isolation, and other feelings that don’t benefit or better communities, let alone individuals. Jack Langley at America’s Future published an article talking about the negative changes that have swept the globe in the wake Coronahoax tyranny. He wrote:
“It is inherent to human nature, and particularly to American culture, that we feel the need to be a part of something bigger than ourselves and experience. Whether that be a college, a social club, a religious institution, or even a prominent activist group. We innately feel called to be a part of something, a community of like-minded people if you will. But are we capable of feeling a part of any community if we are only interacting online? I would say it’s possible, but that it is not sustainable long term.
“Life itself is a collection of human experiences. We experience the first day of primary school as a small child, nervous and excited to finally begin education with peers. We experience the first day of college or our career, most often with an independent streak desiring greatly to find out what it is you plan on doing in the world. We innately have the desire to travel to physically experience other places, cultures, and their communities. I would argue that a collection of human experiences tied together thinly through a computer interface leaves much to be desired.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the majority of Americans and quite possibly the world, to forget the importance of community. And this could really be a problem down the road. Communities are what fight back against the onslaught of problems that life hands us . . . We know that as Americans we can deal with anything as a unified group, working together.
“Unfortunately, the self-isolation caused by a global pandemic has caused the country to effectively lose its sense of community because we are simply not engaged with each other as much as we used to be. Life is terribly difficult for even the most clever of people, but is much more manageable, and far more enjoyable, if we do it with a community we trust, cherish, and genuinely enjoy being around. A sense of community is as important to the foundation of the United States as the Constitution itself.”
Who can disagree that having fierce community spirit was crucial in Americans achieving Independence? It was so important to our People that we named our great confederacy the UNITED States. We emphasized our oneness – our shared principles, vision, and mission as an “empire of Liberty” and a refuge for the oppressed of mankind. We enshrined rights such as the Freedom of assembly, worship, speech, and the press in our founding documents because we respected all individuals in the community and wanted each one to feel like a contributing, full member of the whole.
America was not founded as a collective mass where the majority rules and half the community doesn’t matter. We were, rather, founded as a Republic where individual states, made up of individual communities with individuals working together within them and holding equal power, came together for collective goals and to forge something great. Some of those goals were written into the Preamble to the Constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Individuals came together in a united capacity to defend themselves, ensure their rights, perpetuate peace and the general welfare, and to enjoy the blessings of Liberty. Is not this community? It is a community of shared ideals. It is a community of principles. It is a community of individuals voluntarily linked together to do unitedly what they could not do alone. Unless America remembers her heritage, she will eventually fall.
In a broader sense, unless people remember and reestablish the virtues of community, they will continue to grow apart, breed division, and devolve into disarray and tribalism. In a letter not long before his death, the percipient Thomas Jefferson gave this profound counsel:
Do we love our country more than ourselves? Do we value the community and seek to better it? Many, it seems, don’t give a hoot in hell for their country or community. They live only for themselves. In so doing, they tarnish the reputation of our republican system of individualism. People abroad often look in at the United States, see our recklessly selfish behavior, and create a perception in their heads of something that America is not.
Through my job teaching English, I have spoken with many people from Latin America who have erroneous perceptions about us. Recently, a man from Mexico asked me my opinion about my reception in Latin America versus how I’m treated in America. He was of the opinion that Latin American peoples are more open and welcoming. He thought I would readily agree. I told him that, actually, in my lifetime, I’ve experienced far more of a welcoming attitude and community spirit – true friendship, concern, and service – in the United States than in Latin America.
My friend was surprised at my response. I explained that America is seriously divided and that what is true about one part of it is not true about other parts. My part of America – rural America – is community-oriented, friendly, open, helpful, hard-working, close-knit, and kind. However, my friend was thinking of New York City and the big metropolises he sees on the news. To him, that is America. To me, that is a sad divergence from traditional American culture, spirit, and norms.
Many see America as something to exploit for their own ends; a cash cow to milk. They view things much like fictitious attorney Jackie Chiles from the hit sitcom Seinfeld. His bombastic character said: “Good Samaritan Law? I never heard of it. You don’t have to help anybody; That’s what this country’s all about. That’s deplorable. Unfathomable. Improbable.”
What’s deplorable, unfathomable, and improbable is the fact Americans have fractured their communities, divided their strength, and turned inward against each other at a time when unity is needed. We should be one nation under God, one nation united in the principles of Liberty, one nation behind the Constitution and rule of law, one nation opposed to communist barbarity, and one nation standing for Christian morality.
To restore our former station, we must rekindle the glorious bonds of community. We must keep alive the community spirit; the American community spirit. We can’t afford to become disunited and divided any more. Everyone knows that “divide and conquer” is the classic strategy to topple empires, groups, families, marriages, and friendships. At the end of the day, that nation is strongest that, while not sacrificing individual Liberty, initiative, and stewardship, is united in one in principles of goodness, service, truth, light, and community.
I foresee no future in which our power grid won’t be attacked or otherwise taken down. Do you comprehend what a grid-down scenario means? Are you prepared for such a trying situation? If you haven’t thought seriously about our grid-down future or made any preparations for that approaching day, begin today.
First, let’s discuss in detail, citing several sources, how terribly vulnerable our power grid is and what the risks are. In 2017, the Council on Foreign Relations – one of the chief conspiratorial bodies working against the United States – reported:
“The U.S. power grid has long been considered a logical target for a major cyberattack. Besides the intrinsic importance of the power grid to a functioning U.S. society, all sixteen sectors of the U.S. economy deemed to make up the nation’s critical infrastructure rely on electricity. Disabling or otherwise interfering with the power grid in a significant way could thus seriously harm the United States. . . .
Read “Nuclear EMP Attack Scenarios and Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare” by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
“Attacks on power grids are no longer a theoretical concern. In 2015, an attacker took down parts of a power grid in Ukraine. Although attribution was not definitive, geopolitical circumstances and forensic evidence suggest Russian involvement. A year later, Russian hackers targeted a transmission level substation, blacking out part of Kiev. In 2014, Admiral Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, testified before the U.S. Congress that China and a few other countries likely had the capability to shut down the U.S. power grid. Iran, as an emergent cyber actor, could acquire such capability. Rapid digitization combined with low levels of investment in cybersecurity and a weak regulatory regime suggest that the U.S. power system is as vulnerable—if not more vulnerable—to a cyberattack as systems in other parts of the world.
“An adversary with the capability to exploit vulnerabilities within the U.S. power grid might be motivated to carry out such an attack under a variety of circumstances. An attack on the power grid could be part of a coordinated military action, intended as a signaling mechanism during a crisis, or as a punitive measure in response to U.S. actions in some other arena. In each case, the United States should consider not only the potential damage and disruption caused by a cyberattack but also its broader effects on U.S. actions at the time it occurs. With respect to the former, a cyberattack could cause power losses in large portions of the United States that could last days in most places and up to several weeks in others. The economic costs would be substantial. As for the latter concern, the U.S. response or non-response could harm U.S. interests. Thus, the United States should take measures to prevent a cyberattack on its power grid and mitigate the potential harm should preventive efforts fail.”
According to the CFR, our power grid’s vulnerabilities can be exploited by several nations – Russia, China, and Iran, notably – in wartime, or via cyberattacks. The “costs would be substantial.” That’s a gross understatement!
A 2021 article by the Senate Republican Policy Committee noted various ways our grid could be targeted:
“There is almost nothing more essential to day-to-day life in America than electricity generation and delivery. The U.S. electric grid is comprised of all of the power plants and other ways of generating electricity, together with the transmission and distribution lines and infrastructure that bring power to customers. Ensuring the cybersecurity of the electric grid is critical to safeguarding the reliability and resilience of the grid.
“The U.S. electric grid faces significant cybersecurity risks from a variety of actors, including criminals, terrorists, “hacktivists,” and foreign governments. The grid is vulnerable to cyberattacks that could cause catastrophic, widespread, and lengthy blackouts. The effect on hospitals, police departments, banks, gas stations, military bases, and families across America could be disastrous. . . .
“One of the greatest cybersecurity threats to the electric grid involves a mundane function known as “industrial control systems.” ICS are used to manage electrical processes and physical functions like opening and closing circuit breakers. These systems increasingly are being merged with technologies that connect to or rely on the internet. This enables remote monitoring and can improve cost and energy conservation, but it also creates more access points for hackers. . . .
“The 2021 annual threat assessment concluded, “Although an increasing number of countries and nonstate actors have [cyberattack] capabilities, we remain most concerned about Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.” The report noted that Iran was responsible for multiple cyberattacks in 2020 against Israeli water facilities. Russia “continues to target critical infrastructure, including underwater cables and industrial control systems, in the United States and in allied and partner countries, as compromising such infrastructure improves − and in some cases can demonstrate − its ability to damage infrastructure during a crisis.”
“A 2020 assessment by the Department of Homeland Security warned “we remain concerned about China’s intent to compromise U.S. critical infrastructure in order to cause disruption or destruction.” Last month, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confirmed that America’s adversaries are capable of shutting down the grid.”
Indeed, a grid-down scenario would be “disastrous.” Our enemies have been practicing taking grids down and hacking power stations. Our government is evil enough to do the same to further its ends. It’s only a matter of time before one of a host of “bad actors” pulls the trigger.
In October 2022, the ironically named U.S. Government Accountability Office published a report, complete with helpful diagrams, showing how the grid and smart appliances at home could be attacked. They noted:
“The U.S. electricity grid is really three interconnected transmission grids covering the contiguous United States, as well as parts of Canada and Mexico. It is roughly divided into the western states, Texas, and the eastern U.S. and Midwest. These three interconnections operate independently to provide electricity to their regions.
“There are several points of vulnerability in the U.S.’s system of electricity grids. For example, grid distribution systems—which carry electricity from transmission systems to consumers—have grown more vulnerable, in part because their operational technology increasingly allows remote access and connections to business networks. This could allow threat actors to access those systems and potentially disrupt operations. . . .
“The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—which regulates the interstate transmission of electricity—has approved mandatory grid cybersecurity standards. But it hasn’t taken steps to ensure that those standards fully address leading federal guidance for critical infrastructure cybersecurity. For example, and similar to the above, the standards do not include a full assessment of cybersecurity risks to the grid.
“In 2019, we recommended that FERC consider adopting changes to its approved standards to more fully address federal guidance and evaluate the potential risks of a coordinated attack. These recommendations have not been implemented yet, leaving the grid vulnerable.
“Finally, in March 2021, we found that the federal government does not have a good understanding of the scale of the potential impacts from attacks facing the component of the grid that is generally not subject to FERC’s standards: distribution systems.”
Government efficiency at its best. They know the threat. They know the vulnerability of the power grid. They know how horrific a grid-down scenario would be. Yet, they do nothing. They employ half-measures. They don’t seriously warn the public or take steps to prepare us. While apathy and ignorance surely play a part in why government leaders and their controllers don’t do anything to help prepare the public, I believe many of them want a grid collapse.
There would be no better way to make the entire nation suddenly dependent upon a power that can ride in and save them from destruction than to cut them off from electricity and make them watch helplessly as their entire world grinds to a halt. Remember, these sick people have unleashed bio-weapons on us, foisted poisoned vaccines on the world, lied to take us to war for profit and private agendas, covered up treachery, wage war against their political opponents, ad infinitum. Do you trust these conniving criminal conspirators?
They admit they want a “Great Reset” that involves your slavery to their international plutocracy. They admit they want to take your wealth and property. They admit they want you to live in smart cities where you can never leave – a form of Hunger Games-style high-tech feudalism. A grid-down reality would allow a bigger opportunity to “reset” things than any other situation I can imagine; perhaps even greater than nuclear world war – which is also inevitable. See my in-depth article “The Inevitability of Nuclear War.”
In February of this year, Chuck Brooks wrote in Forbes of the aged condition of our power grid and three “alarming threats” facing it. It’s a more technical and thorough article and I recommend it:
“The underlying reality is that from an energy frequency perspective, the aging U.S. Energy Grid infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to cyber-attacks, physical incidents, and existential threats. . . .
“Although in recent years the grid has been augmented with automation and some emerging tech, It is still mostly dependent on legacy technologies. In fact, 70 percent of transmission lines are at least 30 years old and approaching the end of their lifecycle, and 60 percent of the circuit breakers are more than 35 years old, compared to useful lives of 20 years.
“The aging infrastructure and increasing demand for power have made the grid susceptible to “cascading failures,” where the failure of one component leads to a series of failures. This has been witnessed during periods of harsh weather. . . .
“The new reality is that most of the U.S. Energy Grid critical infrastructure components operate in a digital environment that is internet accessible. The trends of integration of hardware and software combined with growing networked sensors are redefining the surface attack opportunities for hackers.
“The gaps for cyber-attackers have been recognized by government and industry. The General Accounting Office (GAO) has explicitly stated that the U.S, Energy Grid is vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The GAO notes that the grid distribution systems—which carry electricity from transmission systems to consumers—” have grown more vulnerable, in part because their operational technology increasingly allows remote access and connections to business networks. This could allow threat actors to access those systems and potentially disrupt operations.” . . . .
“The fact is that cyber-attacks are evolving in sophistication enabled by artificial intelligence. Also, state actors, criminal gangs, and other attackers are homing in on energy critical infrastructure. Connectivity driven by the adoption of industrial internet of things and operational technology has further expanded the attack surface and energy infrastructure operators should implement “security by design” to counter cyber threats. Cybersecurity by design necessitates building agile systems with operational cyber-fusion to be able to monitor, recognize and respond to emerging threats. The bottom line is that cybersecurity for the U.S. Energy Grid must be elevated. . . .
“As if cyber-attacks were not enough of a security concern, physical attacks by domestic terrorists on the U.S. Energy Grid are an increasing threat. Based on data from DOE, physical attacks on the grid rose 77% in 2022. . . .
“In January 2023, a bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned that domestic violent extremists “have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, identifying the electric grid as a particularly attractive target.” . . . .
“The existential threat to the U.S. Energy Grid can come from a variety of angles. Both weather and solar storms, are top factors for power outages in the United States (one other big factor is outages from squirrels hanging out on transformers and transmission lines!). Hurricanes, tornados, fires, floods, and other acts of nature can have devastating impact on power plants, transformers and transmission lines. . . .
“Solar storms are a different existential threat to address. Solar flares are made up of high-energy particles resulting from explosions on the Sun’s surface. A geomagnetic storm can be defined as a major disturbance of Earth’s magnetosphere that occurs when there is an exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space ecosphere surrounding Earth.
“Over the past 150 years, the earth has been struck by more than 100 solar storms In 2008, the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the damage and disruption of the grid caused by a solar flare could cost up to $2 trillion in economic damages, with a full recovery time of four to 10 years. . . .
“Testimony at the Hearings from the late Dr. Peter Prye, a member of the Congressional EMP Commission and executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, put the threats in frightening perspective: “Natural EMP from a geomagnetic super storm, like the 1859 Carrington Event or 1921 Railroad Storm, and nuclear EMP attack from terrorists or rogue states, as practiced by North Korea during the nuclear crisis of 2013, are both existential threats that could kill 9 of 10 Americans through starvation, disease and societal collapse.”
“Dr. Prye also noted that “a natural EMP catastrophe or nuclear EMP event could black out the national electric grid for months or years and collapse all the other critical infrastructures — communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water — necessary to sustain modern society and the lives of 310 million Americans.”
“The underlying reality is that the US electric grid infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to physical, cyber, and forces of nature incidents. Helping reduce the vulnerability and fortify the U.S. Energy Grid has become an urgent need, and the clock is ticking.”
I seriously dispute that 9/10 Americans would die in a grid-down situation, but who can dispute that tens of millions would perish and that it would upend our society? We would lose more of our people within the first weeks of such a hellish scenario than in all the wars we’ve fought combined. It would be nothing short of catastrophic. The economy would fail, law and order would vanish, mob violence would rage, and last vestiges of sanity would flee. We’d be living an 1800s lifestyle overnight.
This article hit upon one of the reasons I believe a grid-down situation is inevitable – solar flares. Regardless of what happens on earth, the sun may intervene and plunge us into darkness at any moment. We briefly examine the Carrington Event to see what happened in 1859 and what could happen again. To summarize what happened during that exceptional event, Space.com has written:
“On Sep. 1, as [Richard] Carrington was sketching the sunspots, he was blinded by a sudden flash of light. Carrington described it as a “white light flare” according to NASA spaceflight. The whole event lasted about five minutes.
“The flare was a major coronal mass ejection (CME), a burst of magnetized plasma from the sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona. In 17.6 hours, the CME traversed over 90 million miles (150 million km) between the sun and Earth and unleashed its force on our planet. According to NASA spaceflight, it usually takes CMEs multiple days to reach Earth.
“The day after Carrington observed the impressive flare, Earth experienced an unprecedented geomagnetic storm, with telegraph systems going haywire and auroral displays — normally confined to polar latitudes — visible in the tropics, according to NASA Science.
“Carrington put two and two together and realized that the solar flare he’d seen was almost certainly the cause of this massive geomagnetic disturbance. This was a connection that had never previously been made, according to NASA Spaceflight. The solar storm of 1859 is now known as the Carrington Event in his honor.
“The origins of space weather can be traced to contortions in the sun’s magnetic field, leading to dark blotches or sunspots on its surface, according to NASA Earth Observatory.
“It’s from these spots that solar flares, coronal mass ejections and other electromagnetic phenomena can emerge — with potentially hazardous consequences for our technological way of life.
“Sunspot activity rises and falls on an 11-year cycle, and we’re currently approaching the next solar maximum in 2025. So now is a good time to look at the worst solar storms.
“The Carrington Event sparked a huge geomagnetic storm that wreaked havoc with technology. Earth fell silent as telegraph communications around the world failed.
“According to History.com, there were reports of sparks showering from telegraph machines, operators receiving electric shocks and papers set ablaze by the rogue sparks.
“Striking auroras dazzled skywatchers around the world as polar light shows stretched far beyond their usual ranges. The northern lights (aurora borealis) were witnessed as far south as Cuba and Honolulu, Hawaii, whilst the southern lights (aurora australis) were seen as far north as Santiago, Chile, according to National Geographic. . . . .
“It’s been conjectured that a storm on the scale of the Carrington event, if it happened today, could cause an internet apocalypse, sending large numbers of people and businesses offline. For this reason, the U.K. government lists adverse space weather as one of the most serious natural hazards in its National Risk Register, and companies have contingency plans to deal with severe events — as long as they have sufficient warning of them.”
For more about the Carrington Event and CMEs, see here, here, here, and here.
Mother nature does what she wants to and her fury trumps man’s might. We may have gained limited supremacy over certain natural laws, such as the law of gravity, but when nature strikes, humanity has no recourse but through faith, prayer, and purity that can call down God’s protective power.
Who can halt a rushing wall of water from a tsunami? Who can put a lid on the fiery wrath of volcanic explosions? Who can stop earthquakes from splitting apart the ground and toppling buildings? Who can prevent hurricanes and tornadoes from ripping apart cities and homes? Who can stop hailstorms from destroying crops? Who can counter excessively harsh winters that stop plane flights, block roads, and topple power lines? Who can push back the sun when it projects its power in our direction? It is arrogance to think, if Russia and China don’t do it to us first, that our power grid won’t at some point be rocked by the uncontrollable fierceness of Mother Nature.
In May 2023, Reuters published a piece on the U.S. power grid’s vulnerability to extreme weather and because of idiotic environmental regulations. It commented on a report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC), stating:
““Wildfire risks to the transmission network, which often accompany these wide-area heat events, can limit electricity transfers and result in localized load shedding,” NERC said.
“In the U.S. Midwest, NERC said the Midcontinent ISO could face challenges in meeting above-normal peak demand if wind generator energy output is lower than expected.
“In Texas, NERC said resources are adequate for peak demand of the average summer as the state has added over 4 gigawatt of new solar capacity to its grid since last year.
“But the group warned that “dispatchable generation may not be sufficient to meet reserves during an extreme heat-wave that is accompanied by low winds.”
“NERC said New England and Ontario may need to rely on non-firm imports during extreme demand or low resource conditions, while the Southeast is vulnerable due to flat growth in generating resources.
“Limited operation of coal-fired power plants due to new environmental regulations, low water levels on major reservoirs, unexpected tripping of wind and solar resources, and curtailed transfers to areas in need also posed reliability concerns, NERC added.
“NERC has become more assertive in warning about reliability concerns in recent years after power grid operators were forced to impose rotating outages in California in August 2020 and in Texas in February 2021.”
Imagine that, radical Marxist environmentalist regulations are endangering us all. They make a vulnerable system even more fragile and unreliable. But don’t worry, people are being more “assertive” about the danger – as if the will and desires of the People ever changed the incompetence and iniquity of government.
Tripwire has raised yet another warning voice about the reckless vulnerability of the grid:
“Energy is one of the 16 sectors that the Department of Homeland Security has identified as critical infrastructure in the U.S. It is arguably the most important, because it supplies the energy required to power every other essential infrastructure sector. Regrettably, the electric grid is insufficiently secure against both physical attacks and cyber intrusions.
“When there is a disruption in the electrical grid, it’s often merely a matter of short-lived inconvenience. But what if the outage engulfed not just a confined area but a wide swath of the country, and the power went out for a week or more? Many aspects of life would freeze, and the likelihood of potential casualties would skyrocket. Minor annoyances, such as the inability to recharge a cell phone or the lack of internet, would quickly yield to greater concerns, such as having no water to drink, no household heat or air conditioning. In addition, there might be no gas for automobiles or generators, and both local and national emergency systems, such as the ability to call an ambulance might be inoperative as well.
“The number of direct physical attacks on U.S. power grids soared 77 percent last year to 163, a record-high, according to the US Energy Department. Since last September, attacks were reported on 18 substations and one power plant each in Florida, Oregon, Washington and the Carolinas. The attacks underscored the vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid, which keeps electricity flowing across more than 470,000 miles of circuits and includes more than 7,300 power plants, 160,000 miles of high-voltage power lines and 55,000 transmission substations.
“Substations, which increase electricity voltage so that it can flow into big transmission lines, are the biggest targets. But they are mostly in rural or semi-rural areas and typically unprotected.”
Americans are, by and large, naïve of the danger facing them. Who would want to truly hurt us? How could they hurt us at home? We’re generally good folks who want to be left alone. As such, we’re trusting and we ignore things that should raise red flags.
Because of the openness of our society, we’re wide open and exposed to major attacks on our water supply, food production facilities, infrastructure, power grid, and beyond. When such attacks come, they will be devastating because few are prepared – these attacks aren’t even on their radar. You can’t prepare for what you haven’t contemplated.
It’s long past time to start thinking seriously about a grid-down scenario. Even though it’s only a matter of time before a solar flare hits us, more than likely mankind will strike before Mother Nature has her chance. Our enemies know our weaknesses; they have helped design and maximize them! America’s takedown was planned decades ago. The enemy has been methodically following its blueprint and is reaching the conclusion. We don’t know it, but we’re in mortal peril. In the blink of an eye, we could be attacked and reduced to Pioneer days. It won’t come that suddenly for those who pay attention, but those who haven’t begun following the goings on in the world, and who haven’t begun preparing for their logical conclusion, will be startled into stunned paralysis.
In a recent interview with Canadian Prepper, “Green Gregs” Gregory Allison, a rocket scientist whose channel I’ve followed for some time, made this statement about an EMP attack:
“An EMP doesn’t directly hurt anybody. You don’t kick over dead and start doing the funky chicken because an EMP. What happens is you die as a result of loss of infrastructure because you’ve got no water, no fuel, no communications, no bank account, no cellphone. It’s all gone. Electricity is the one critical keystone to all of our 14 critical infrastructure elements. Without electricity, you can’t pump fuel. Without electricity, you don’t pump water, you don’t have sanitation, all these things that we rely on. Everything is electrical powered. And now we’re trying to make things more electrical powered. So, we’ve got a lot of issues with our grid. And this is known by all our adversaries. They know this is our Achilles heel. They know that this is a way to put us out of business.”
You know what an Achilles heel is. It’s the weak point. It’s the vulnerability. It’s the place where, if you hit it, you can destroy that which was otherwise impregnable. America is strong, but the power grid is our major Achilles heel. Its collapse the thing few have thought of and fewer still have prepared for. People in general have no conception of how dramatically a crash would impact them.
While some things would still operate sporadically, generally, people would have no water, no electricity, no light at night, no “smart” anything, no cellphones, no cars, no mobility, no banks, no and digital money. Could you survive?
Could you really endure and survive with no electricity, no lights, no power, no water, no car, no phone? Could you survive the diseases that will spring up because of the terrible sanitation, sewage backups, and decreases in hygiene that will occur? Do you have a way to survive when our nuclear power plants meltdown in the aftermath of a grid-down scenario
Do you have a contingency plan to meet with your family if suddenly communications were down? Do you have a backup plan in case you can’t get there because cars stopped running or the roadways were clogged with refugees? Do you have backup water supplies no dependent upon an electric pump? Do you have food storage on hand so that you don’t have to go to a store or leave your residence? Do you have a power generator? Do you have alternative ways to heat your home if there was no power in winter? Have you ever considered these possibilities?
As we wrap up this up, we point you to several links with tips on how to survive a grid-down scenario:
I leave you to do your own homework on how to best safeguard your family and survive our inevitable grid-down future. However, I share one final quote from the top link on the list above:
“If you’re going to prepare for one disaster, a medium- to long-term power outage is the one. America’s power grid is woefully inadequate, outdated and ill-prepared for an attack or even a natural disaster. Whether it comes in the form of an EMP from North Korea or Chinese hackers or any other source, the power grid isn’t something that you can rely upon on a daily basis. You need to know how to survive a power grid attack, or at least prepare yourself for a power outage.”
Political prisoner Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers fame recently said in an interview on the January 6th nonsense that: “It was not an insurrection. It’s the most ridiculous insurrection of world history.” Rhodes is correct that the January 6th false-flag event was not an “insurrection” and, that, if you attempt to consider it one, you must also conclude it was the most utterly “ridiculous,” pitiful, and impotent insurrection ever conducted.
Rhodes was recently found “guilty” of sedition on January 6th in a Stalinist show trial. If he loses his appeals, he will essentially spend the next twenty years in prison. What was his great crime? The Gateway Pundit gave an apt rundown of what Rhodes did not do on January 6th:
“He NEVER went inside the US Capitol on January 6. He never instructed anyone to go inside the US Capitol. He was unarmed as were all of his Oath Keeper associates that day. They left their weapons outside of the city in their hotel rooms. There was no plan to enter the US Capitol. The few Oath Keepers who entered the US Capitol assisted police. There was no scheme to take over the government with their bare hands. There were no pre-planning meetings on how they were going to take over the Capitol. The prosecution was a sham. There was no evidence of an insurrection – at all! The jury was a pool of DC Communists and unhinged left-wing activists who see themselves as victims.”
Rhodes’ prosecution and conviction were grave travesties of justice. It was test case to see how openly Stalinist the political Establishment could be – how blatantly they could throw their opposition in prison with no evidence of any crime being committed – before the American People reacted. So far, the American People haven’t reacted at all and, so, the Stalinist prosecutorial machinery keeps grinding forward. How many more patriots will it crush to powder before we wake up, mobilize, and act to kill tyranny in America?
In truth, however, I’m far more livid with Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers, and with other January 6 patriots and Donald Trump, than I am with the corrupt, lying political Establishment. Why?
First, I don’t expect anything above lies, slander, false accusations, show trials, and treachery from the Establishment and their socialist lackeys. I understand conspiracy and I know how evil these Satanic traitors are and how they’ve waged constant war against our Republic from its inception. They’ve murdered, robbed, raped, plundered, invaded sovereign nations, jailed opposition, drugged populations, brainwashed and abused children, attacked the Constitution, and fought against God and His laws. There’s nothing they haven’t done and won’t do to destroy our nation, erase our Constitution, and erect a collectivized and all-powerful police state on the ashes.
Second, Trump did nothing to stop the election theft in 2020. Absolutely nothing! His supporters also did nothing but wave flags, parade around, and gripe online. Republicans have also done nothing to rectify the left of the 2022 election, though Kari Lake has at least attempted to reverse the glaring theft of the governorship in Arizona.
Third, Rhodes and Oath Keepers are oath-breakers who reneged on their oaths to fight against America’s enemies, foreign and domestic. In the days after the stolen 2020 election, on December 14, 2020, to be exact, Stewart Rhodes wrote a spirited open letter on his now defunct oathkeepers.org to President Donald Trump warning him of what would happen if he allowed himself to be thrust out of power by election-stealers. He wrote:
“President Trump, We now face a moment of peril as great, or greater, as what General Washington and his men faced in 1776. The very survival of our nation as a free Constitutional Republic hangs in the balance. We have but one last chance to save it. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on your conduct, the conduct of the current members of our armed forces, and the conduct of we the many millions of American veterans and patriots who are still loyal to our Constitution. . . .
“It’s time to honor that oath by defending the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
“This is your moment of destiny. Will you take your place in history as the savior of our Republic, right up there with President Washington and Lincoln? Or will you fail to act, while you still can, and leave office on January 20, 2021, leaving We the People to fight a desperate revolution/civil war against an illegitimate usurper and his Chicom puppet regime?
“We are already at war with communist China and its willing American agents, puppets, and co-conspirators who seek to overthrow our Constitution, as well as the international elites and other foreign enemies who have aided and abetted this war on our nation. They have infiltrated and taken over every branch of government at every level, state and federal. War isn’t coming – war is already here.
“Communist China could never defeat us in open battle, so instead, it infiltrated and subverted our institutions, bought and blackmailed American elites, and made allegiance with willing domestic enemies of our Constitution, to defeat us from the inside out, without having to fire a shot, by using what is commonly referred to as “Fourth Generation Warfare” doctrines and methods. This is war by other means, but it is war nonetheless. Through well-orchestrated mass vote fraud, the Communist Chinese and their domestic enemy allies are about to install their illegitimate puppet, Joe Biden, and his equally illegitimate puppet running mate, Kamala Harris, into the White House, with their treasonous fingers on the nuclear launch codes.
“You must act NOW as a wartime President, pursuant to your oath to defend the Constitution, which is very similar to the oath all of us veterans swore. We are already in a fight. It’s better to wage it with you as Commander-in-Chief than to have you comply with a fraudulent election, leave office, and leave the White House in the hands of illegitimate usurpers and Chinese puppets. Please don’t do it. Do NOT concede, and do NOT wait until January 20, 2021. Strike now.
“If you fail to act while you are still in office, we the people will have to fight a bloody civil war and revolution against these two illegitimate Communist China puppets, and their illegitimate regime, with all of the powers of the deep state behind them, with nominal command of all the might of our armed forces (though we fully expect many units or entire branches to refuse their orders and to fight against them) and with their foreign allies also joining in to assist in the suppression of American patriots.
“Without clean elections, we no longer have a Republic, and you are charged by the Constitution with preserving a republican form of government wherein the people actually elect their own representatives in clean elections. . . .
“Clearly an unlawful combination and conspiracy in multiple states (indeed, in every state) has acted to deprive the people of the fundamental right to vote for their representatives in a clean, fair election as is required in a free nation, striking at the very heart of what it means to have a republican form of government, and disenfranchising them. You, and you alone, are fully authorized by the Insurrection Act to determine that such a situation exists, and to use the U.S. military and the militia to rectify that situation. And the militia includes not only the National Guard units of each state, called into federal service, but also includes the body of the people, age 17-45, and especially us military veterans. . . .
“There is no way out but through. And we will NOT submit to a Chicom puppet regime. You must stand tall and use your constitutional powers to fight this war against enemies foreign and domestic while you are still President and Commander-in-Chief. If you fail to do so, we the people will have to fight a bloody revolution/civil war to throw off an illegitimate deep state/Chinese puppet regime. . . .
“Know this: millions of American military and law enforcement veterans, and many millions more loyal patriotic American gun owners stand ready to answer your call to arms, and to obey your orders to get this done” (Stewart Rhodes, “Open Letter to President Trump: You Must Use Insurrection Act to ‘Stop the Steal’ and Defeat the Coup,” oathkeepers.org, December 14, 2020).
That didn’t age well, did it? Rhodes not so much as lifted a finger to fulfill one word of this passionate plea. He warned of rebellion to tyrants, but didn’t rebel. He warned of fighting a bloody war “to throw off an illegitimate . . . regime,” but did nothing to fight or initiate such a war. Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Alex Jones – despite all the accusations against them – did absolutely nothing to effect a revolution the spirit of our forefathers who threw of the shackles of monarchical Britain.
Perhaps Rhodes didn’t act because he sensed what I’ve lamented many times; namely, that the American People aren’t awake enough to wage revolution against the occupiers, meaning such a revolt would, at present, fail or turn into something more like the Jacobin-Illuminati insurrection in France. Or perhaps Rhodes felt undercut by Trump’s cowardly compliance with the stolen election.
I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020, and I won’t vote for him in 2024, if indeed the election even happens or Trump is even permitted to be on the ballot. Why? Because he’s not a man of his word and has no true knowledge of either the U.S. Constitution or the conspiracy against it. He left us hanging during the Coronahoax Plandemic. He single-handedly shut down the U.S. economy and, through Operation Warpspeed, foisted poisoned vaccine bioweapons on tens of millions of Americans. He allowed Antifa and Black Lives Matter to rampage across the nation, burning city blocks, occupying police stations, and murdering about three dozen innocent people. For all his bluster and big talk, his actions were weak, without direction, and without courage.
I never expected much of Trump, though, knowing his amoral past. He surprised me by being better than I thought he’d be in office, but he is hardly the best man for the job. However, I expected far more of Steward Rhodes and Oath Keepers. I was disappointed they didn’t lift a finger except to type some online messages that they obviously had no intention of fulfilling.
I comprehend fully that the American People are not yet awake enough to have a 1776-esque revolution. We’re too distracted, divided, and dumb. We don’t know the Constitution or its principles. We’ve forsaken God. We have too few leaders in important positions who can lead in a crisis. We lack the same spirit the Sons of Liberty possessed. January 6th was maybe our biggest show of force to date, yet what was it really except a disorganized, leaderless rally with flags, false hope, and misplaced trust?
Imagine an “insurrection” so violent that the “perpetrators” meander within lose stanchions as police mill around.
For a few exciting minutes on January 6, my hopes were raised that the American People, fed up with a century of treachery and unconstitutional behavior by conniving political criminals, were finally fighting back. I was wrong. The video evidence shows that only a couple hundred people entered the Capitol Building, that most of the crowd condemned the few provocateurs who attacked the side of the building, and that the crowd simply melted away without doing anything meaningful except listening to President Trump’s repetitive and deflated speech.
While there were doubtless people carrying concealed firearms, no protesters brandished or fired their firearms on January 6th. The only gun that was fired was pointed at the protestors. The bullet struck unarmed U.S. military veteran Ashli Babbitt, killing her dead for the crime of clambering through a door. What kind of 21st-century “insurrection” doesn’t use firearms? Aren’t Trump supporters and “conservatives” lambasted constantly as gun-toting rednecks and bitter clingers? If that’s true, and we’re so violent and dangerous and full of hate, and if January 6 was truly an “insurrection,” then why didn’t a single patriot fire a weapon? A “ridiculous insurrection” indeed!
Nevertheless, despite our cowardness hitherto, our Lexington and Concord moment is coming soon. It has to. If it doesn’t, we will march into a thousand years of darkness, chains, and misery. When the occupying Establishment finally pushes someone too far, and they manfully exercise their right to defend their God-given Freedom and fulfill the promises and duties listed in the Declaration of Independence, what will you do?
Stewart Rhodes won’t do anything, because he let himself be arrested without a fight by evil people he acknowledged to be illegitimate traitors. Trump won’t do anything except bluster on social media, if he’s even around. But what will you do? Whose side will you be on? Will you call for restraint like sunshine patriots or will you boldly proclaim, “Give me Liberty or give me death!” like the Founding Fathers?
Let’s recall Patrick Henry’s rousing words just prior to Lexington and Concord in 1775:
“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
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“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Patriot, the war is actually begun! A communistic criminal cult occupies our government and is fighting for sole control over our society. It wants to burn the Constitution, eliminate checks and balances, consolidate all power in the hands of the bureaucratic state with its plutocratic ringleaders, dissolve the United States, merge our nation into a one-world dictatorship, snuff out Christianity, morality, and goodness, and once and for all annihilate Freedom.
None of this is hyperbolic. It’s not an exaggeration. The political Elite hate us and anyone who inspires us to stand up, like Donald Trump. I’ve written before that his greatest achievement is emboldening average Americans to stand up and speak out. The Elite can’t have that. So, they must silence the town crier and create a chilling effect and an environment of fear and compliance in which no one dares step out of line. That is why their attacks on Trump will only continue.
In a recent interview, Stewart Rhodes predicted what comes next for Trump:
“This is the whole point of the J6 prosecutions and demonization of everyone that was there is to build up to this moment. They start indicting President Trump for felonies. And this nonsense about the records in Florida. I think, this is just a stepping stone. The next indictment is going to be the real knockout blow. It is going to be January 6th. It’s under the same special prosecutor. He has a grand jury convened also in Washington, DC for January 6th. So that’s going to be the knockout blow. This was the jab, and the next one is going to be the J6 prosecution. And this prosecutor I listened to, I read some of the things he said. He talked just like all the other prosecutors. He’s no different. It’s the same kind of twisting and hyperbole and smear campaign being used against a criminal defendant that was used against me . . . That grand jury in Washington, DC would indict a MAGA hat . . . They’re going to indict Trump again for January 6. It’s going to be the same charges that they labeled against me in my case and the Proud Boys cases. All the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys were their test cases to work out the charges, work out the methodology, and now they’re going to apply the exact same machine to President Trump.”
Who can doubt but that the corrupt conspiratorial Establishment will indeed pursue charges against Trump to the gates of hell? The last charges didn’t stick. Will the new ones brought against him over the weekend? Will a future set stick? If they do, and Trump goes away to prison, will his supporters who didn’t do anything but wave flags when he was robbed of the 2020 election and thrust out of power do anything more this time? Time will tell.
Those who see a path of happiness, peace, sunshine, roses, and rainbows, are deluded. It will be, rather, a path strewn with shell casings, blood, tears, atrocities, and persecution. Are we prepared to do what we must to safeguard our Faith, Families, and Freedom? If not, we are not worthy of them and deserve political overlords to dictate to us.
Patriots, if you are scared, remember that rebellion to tyrants is the American tradition. You may want to recall that our Founding Fathers didn’t declare Independence from a foreign government, but from their own government. They didn’t fight against foreign invaders, but occupiers who had until July 4, 1776, shared the same political allegiance, capital, currency, language, and ancestry. They fought against their brothers who had turned against them and complied with the whims of tyrants seeking powers.
Yet, today, people are too afraid to lift a finger against some of the worst liars and despots to ever ride roughshod over a nation. We’re too afraid to purify our government or to nourish the tree of Liberty. You remember what it must be nourished with. If not, then you aren’t sincere or educated enough in this fight to make any difference. You must quickly educate yourself, learn the principles of Liberty, study the U.S. Constitution, immerse yourself in the unique American Freedom philosophy, and engage in the fight for our Faith, Families, and Freedom.
By Jon McNaughton
We can’t survive many more years of false patriotism and cowardly conservatives trusting in elections and flawed failures like Trump while sitting on their hands and wishing Liberty would descend upon us from Heaven. America can’t afford another “ridiculous insurrection.” Next time, which will likely come after Lexington and Concord 2.0, 1776 2.0 should be the goal. The complete cleansing and purification of our government and the resurrection of the Constitution, perhaps with updated protections on Faith, Families, and Freedom, and provisions against tyranny and treason that are stricter and more actionable, must be the objective. Anything else is a half-measure and will fail.
No more “ridiculous insurrections,” America. It’s time to get serious. Our Rubicon was crossed ages ago. The die is cast. Now, we must cross our Delaware and strike back. As we wait for this patriotic machinery to move into high speed, deepen your commitment to Christ and learn to rely upon the Holy Spirit for direction. In the end, only He will deliver us from bondage as He delivered our forefathers. In His holy cause, we can’t fail, though we may suffer greatly. Outside of His holy cause, defeat is sure. Choose your side today.
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to “liberate” Europe. At least, they say they were there to “liberate” the continent. That’s what our fighting men believed and had drilled into them. That’s what the public back home thought because it was the narrative the controlled press parroted. On that frightful D-Day, General Eisenhower called the Allied invasion of Europe a “Great Crusade.” The shtick he used to justify their actions was this:
“The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.”
If you were publicly educated, this is what you were taught. It’s what I was taught by history teachers, books, and Hollywood. If you never bothered to study the subject for yourself or exercise even a little independent thought, it’s doubtless what you still believe.
Here’s a fact to consider: The victors write the history books. No one listens to the defeated nation’s side. It is downplayed, ignored, rejected, and even demonized. What American cares what the British think about the American War for Independence? Who cares what Carthage thought about Roman destruction of their city? Who really gives a second thought to Persian perspectives about Alexander the Great’s conquest of their empire?
In the same way, the world has ignored – with extreme prejudice and savage ignorance – the German side of the story in the world wars almost entirely. We have failed to let go of the caricaturized versions of events given to us in wartime propaganda, but, instead, have enshrined them as “fact.” Nearly every major narrative we believe about World War II is a lie, an exaggeration, a distortion, or some form or error in judgment.
To think in a one-sided manner is, of course, unjust, unfair, and biased; but that doesn’t stop the average person from doing so. Unless you give the German side equal attention, your version of history is automatically skewed and worth practically nothing. “But, but, but Hitler. . .” Yeah, what about him? Unless you give him a fair trial and look through his eyes and understand the context of his actions (and you can’t do that by looking only at opposition sources), don’t flatter yourself that your opinions about him are fair, let alone correct or grounded in reality.
I know of no man in history, save Jesus only, about whom so many lies have been written and repeated with such frequency than Adolf Hitler. “But he’s a Nazi, right? Why should we listen to a Nazi?” Actually, the word “Nazi” was a slur created by Hitler’s political enemies in the West. Honest historians don’t use it. They use the proper term National Socialists.
“Ah, ha! See, he’s a socialist!” Wrong again. He defined the word “socialist” in an entirely different way than we use it today. He specifically said that Marxian socialism is a perversion of historical socialism. History attests to the fact that the greatest threat ever posed to world communism was not the United States and the “capitalist” nations, but Hitler’s vehemently, avowedly anti-Marxist “National Socialist” state.
Who was it that sacrificed the blood of millions of their best people to fight the Soviet Union? It wasn’t the United States or Britain or France; it was Germany. Those nations, in fact, rallied behind the Soviets and supported them. The only reason the Soviet Union was not destroyed in the 1940s was because the United States, led by Stalin-loving FDR and his conspiring clique of international gangsters and Soviet moles, sent billions of dollars’ worth of supplies, tanks, weaponry, food, etc., to Russia to bail them out when they were on the verge of defeat. Shame on us!
And that is what World War II was about – the advancement of global Marxism against all nations that opposed their one-world dictatorship. Whether they knew it or not, Americans of the so-called “Greatest Generation” fought to defend, save, and advance communism throughout the world.
Let me repeat that: American and Allied troops fought, bled, suffered, and died to advance the communist cause and a burgeoning one-world occult dictatorship. They fought for Stalin and his Judeo-Bolshevik commissars. They fought for the conspiratorial Communist Party and the ideals of Weishaupt, Marx, and Lenin. They fought for the creation of the United Nations. They fought to consolidate the power of international bankers and Marxist-minded tax-exempt foundations like Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller. They fought to construct the military-industrial complex and a bloated, bureaucratic state. Their ideals and honest intentions be damned; this is what they really fought and died for.
I say again, shame on us! What a disgrace the Second World War was to the Christian West, to the rule of law, to human decency, to true Freedom, and to the anti-communist aspirations of millions. Our involvement in World War II is a black stain on our nation’s noble history; a mark of infamy and shame that future generations, when properly educated, will come to despise and mourn.
A little more history is in order before people can shake off their mental shackles which bind them to false narratives and fabrications. Who started World War II? If you said, “Germany,” I say, “Go fish.” Germany did not start World War II – she didn’t even start World War I.
After Polish citizens and military began slaughtering ethnic Germans living in Polish-occupied German territory, after Poland mobilized its forces against Germany, after Polish leadership rejected repeated deals of a very generous nature by Hitler to settle the dispute over land that rightfully belonged to Germany but had been severed by the League of Nation meddlers after World War I, and after the Poles published a map showing their border extending west of Berlin, Hitler ordered a retaliatory attack on Poland.
On September 1, 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler famously discussed Poland’s unwillingness to compromise with Germany, the West’s facilitation of conflict, and Polish aggression. Since you have likely never read the speech, I quote generously from it here. Knowing why Hitler attacked Poland is integral to understanding why I say it is a baldfaced lie that the Allies “liberated” Europe from the “evil” National Socialists. In his speech, Hitler explained:
“For months we have been suffering under the torture of a problem which the Versailles Diktat created – a problem which has deteriorated until it becomes intolerable for us. Danzig was and is a German city. The Corridor was and is German. Both these territories owe their cultural development exclusively to the German people. Danzig was separated from us, the Corridor was annexed by Poland. As in other German territories of the East, all German minorities living there have been ill-treated in the most distressing manner. More than 1,000,000 people of German blood had in the years 1919-1920 to leave their homeland.
“As always, I attempted to bring about, by the peaceful method of making proposals for revision, an alteration of this intolerable position. It is a lie when the outside world says that we only tried to carry through our revisions by pressure. Fifteen years before the National Socialist Party came to power there was the opportunity of carrying out these revisions by peaceful settlements and understanding. On my own initiative I have, not once but several times, made proposals for the revision of intolerable conditions. All these proposals, as you know, have been rejected – proposals for limitation of armaments and even, if necessary, disarmament, proposals for limitation of warmaking, proposals for the elimination of certain methods of modern warfare. You know the proposals that I have made to fulfill the necessity of restoring German sovereignty over German territories. You know the endless attempts I made for a peaceful clarification and understanding of the problem of Austria, and later of the problem of the Sudetenland, Bohemia, and Moravia. It was all in vain.
“It is impossible to demand that an impossible position should be cleared up by peaceful revision and at the same time constantly reject peaceful revision. It is also impossible to say that he who undertakes to carry out these revisions for himself transgresses a law, since the Versailles Diktat is not law to us. A signature was forced out of us with pistols at our head and with the threat of hunger for millions of people. And then this document, with our signature, obtained by force, was proclaimed as a solemn law.
“In the same way, I have also tried to solve the problem of Danzig, the Corridor, etc., by proposing a peaceful discussion. That the problems had to be solved was clear. It is quite understandable to us that the time when the problem was to be solved had little interest for the Western Powers. But that time is not a matter of indifference to us. Moreover, it was not and could not be a matter of indifference to those who suffer most.
“In my talks with Polish statesmen I discussed the ideas which you recognize from my last speech to the Reichstag. No one could say that this was in any way an inadmissible procedure on undue pressure. I then naturally formulated at last the German proposals, and I must once more repeat that there is nothing more modest or loyal than these proposals. I should like to say this to the world. I alone was in the position to make such proposal, for I know very well that in doing so I brought myself into opposition to millions of Germans. These proposals have been refused. Not only were they answered first with mobilization, but with increased terror and pressure against our German compatriots and with a slow strangling of the Free City of Danzig – economically, politically, and in recent weeks by military and transport means.
“Poland has directed its attacks against the Free City of Danzig. Moreover, Poland was not prepared to settle the Corridor question in a reasonable way which would be equitable to both parties, and she did not think of keeping her obligations to minorities.
“I must here state something definitely; German has kept these obligations; the minorities who live in Germany are not persecuted. No Frenchman can stand up and say that any Frenchman living in the Saar territory is oppressed, tortured, or deprived of his rights. Nobody can say this.
“For four months I have calmly watched developments, although I never ceased to give warnings. In the last few days I have increased these warnings. I informed the Polish Ambassador three weeks ago that if Poland continued to send to Danzig notes in the form of ultimata, and if on the Polish side an end was not put to Customs measures destined to ruin Danzig’s trade, then the Reich could not remain inactive. I left no doubt that people who wanted to compare the Germany of to-day with the former Germany would be deceiving themselves.
“An attempt was made to justify the oppression of the Germans by claiming that they had committed acts of provocation. I do not know in what these provocations on the part of women and children consist, if they themselves are maltreated, in some cases killed. One thing I do know – that no great Power can with honour long stand by passively and watch such events.
“I made one more final effort to accept a proposal for mediation on the part of the British Government. They proposed, not that they themselves should carry on the negotiations, but rather that Poland and Germany should come into direct contact and once more pursue negotiations. . . .
“These proposals for mediation have failed because in the meanwhile there, first of all, came as an answer the sudden Polish general mobilization, followed by more Polish atrocities. These were again repeated last night. Recently in one night there were as many as twenty-one frontier incidents: last night there were fourteen, of which three were quite serious. I have, therefore, resolved to speak to Poland in the same language that Poland for months past has used toward us. This attitude on the part of the Reich will not change.
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“The other European States understand in part our attitude. I should like here above all to thank Italy, which throughout has supported us, but you will understand that for the carrying on of this struggle we do not intend to appeal to foreign help. We will carry out this task ourselves. The neutral States have assured us of their neutrality, just as we had already guaranteed it to them.
“When statesmen in the West declare that this affects their interests, I can only regret such a declaration. It cannot for a moment make me hesitate to fulfill my duty. What more is wanted? I have solemnly assured them, and I repeat it, that we ask nothing of those Western States and never will ask anything. I have declared that the frontier between France and Germany is a final one. I have repeatedly offered friendship and, if necessary, the closest co-operation to Britain, but this cannot be offered from one side only. It must find response on the other side. Germany has no interests in the West, and our western wall is for all time the frontier of the Reich on the west. Moreover, we have no aims of any kind there for the future. With this assurance we are in solemn earnest, and as long as others do not violate their neutrality we will likewise take every care to respect it. . . .
“This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5.45 A.M. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs. Whoever fight with poison gas will be fought with poison gas. Whoever departs from the rules of humane warfare can only expect that we shall do the same. I will continue this struggle, no matter against whom, until the safety of the Reich and its rights are secured.”
That is the bulk of Hitler’s speech explaining Germany’s entrance into the conflict brewing in Poland against German minorities and the German port city Danzig. The League of Nations was obligated to protect Danzig and keep it an open and free city, but it did nothing to stop Polish aggression and economic strangulation. Britian and France did nothing as Poland mobilized its militaries – considered an act of war at the time. Instead, they secretly assured Poland of their support should hostilities break out and egged on a conflict. They also secretly asked Stalin to join in on an attack of Germany if war between Poland and Germany began, which Stalin strategically rejected in favor of backing Germany to ensure a larger European war that Russia could later enter victoriously when the parties had exhausted themselves. I covered this, the run up to Operation Barbarossa, and the true initiators of the war in my articles “Victory Day – For Whom?” and “The Greatest Battle in the History of the World.”
Hitler struggled for years to cooperate with European leaders. He offered peace proposals again and again through diplomatic channels, speeches, and op-eds. He pleaded for peace. As a war veteran who had fought bravely and suffered injuries, he knew what war required, he knew war was hell, and he didn’t want to put his beloved nation through another terrible conflict.
In a 1935 interview with Hitler, an interviewer, Ward Price, told him of a politician who had privately confided his view that Hitler was merely pretending to desire peace until his military was strong enough to attack. He asked Hitler’s response. Hitler answered:
“That politician has never led a people. Otherwise how could he believe that one can talk about peace for a decade and then suddenly, with the same people, simply start a war without further ado? When I talk about peace, I am expressing none other than the innermost desire of the German Volk. I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings. The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse. I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor. But I have not fought this for fifteen years to elevate it finally to the throne by way of a detour. What I want is the well-being of my Volk! I have seen that war is not the highest form of bliss, but the contrary: I have witnessed only the deepest suffering. Hence I can quite frankly state two of my beliefs:
“1. Germany will never break the peace of its own accord, and
“2. He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs! For we love liberty just as we love peace.
“And if, without being compelled to do so, I submit to France on behalf of the entire German Volk the pledge that we will place no further territorial demands upon it and thus of our own accord eliminate any grounds for revenge, at the same time I pledge an equally sacred vow that no measure of need, pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
“I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts. I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.
“In any case, I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident. If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.
“I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!” (Adolf Hitler Collection of Speeches 1933-1945, 234-235).
Hitler stated numerous times that only a madman, or one who had never witnessed war firsthand, could desire another European war – especially in the technology age with mass casualty weapons. Hitler didn’t want to sacrifice the best blood of his nation; he wanted to build up his people. Everyone agrees he was an ultra-nationalist, yet, bizarrely, they simultaneously believe he didn’t care at all about his people. Both can’t be true. Either he loved Germany and didn’t desire war, which is evident from his speeches, declarations, and actions throughout the whole of his life, or he was a warmonger who didn’t care. Judge for yourself.
Read the book What the World Rejected: Hitler’s Peace Offers 1933-1940 by historian Dr. Friedrich Stieve to learn the sad truth of the Allies’ perpetual striving for war against a nation that consistently wanted, pled for, and offered peace. I quote an excerpt from the book:
“Germany’s enemies maintain today that Adolf Hitler is the greatest disturber of peace known to history, that he threatens every nation with sudden attack and oppression, that he has created a terrible war machine in order to cause trouble and devastation all around him.
“At the same time they intentionally conceal an all-important fact: they themselves drove the Leader of the German people finally to draw the sword. They themselves compelled him to seek to obtain at last by the use of force that which he had been striving to gain by persuasion from the beginning: the security of his country.
“They did this not only by declaring war on him on September 3, 1939, but also by blocking step by step for seven years the path to any peaceful discussion.
“The attempts repeatedly made by Adolf Hitler to induce the governments of other states to collaborate with him in a reconstruction of Europe represent an ever-recurring pattern in his conduct since the commencement of his labors for the German Reich.
“But these attempts were wrecked every time by reason of the fact that nowhere was there any willingness to give them due consideration, because the evil spirit of the Great War still prevailed everywhere, because in London and Paris and in the capitals of the Western Powers’ vassal states there was only one fixed intention: to perpetuate the power of Versailles.
“A rapid glance at the most important events will furnish incontrovertible proof for this statement.
“When Adolf Hitler came to the fore, Germany was as gagged and as helpless as the victors of 1918 wanted her to be. Completely disarmed, with an army of only 100,000 men intended solely for police duties within the country, she found herself within a tightly closed ring of neighbors all armed to the teeth and leagued together.
“To the old enemies in the West, Britain, Belgium, and France, new ones were artificially created and added in the East and the South: above all Poland and Czechoslovakia.
“A quarter of the population of Germany was forcibly torn away from their mother country and handed over to foreign powers. The Reich, mutilated on all sides and robbed of every means of defense, at any moment could become the helpless victim of some rapacious neighbor.
“Then it was that Adolf Hitler for the first time made his appeal to the common sense of the other powers.
“On May 17, 1933, a few months after his appointment to the office of Reichskanzler, he delivered a speech in the German Reichstag, from which we extract the following passages:
““Germany will be perfectly ready to disband her entire military establishment and destroy the small amount of arms remaining to her, if the neighboring countries will do the same thing with equal thoroughness.
“. . . Germany is entirely ready to renounce aggressive weapons of every sort if the armed nations, on their part, will destroy their aggressive weapons within a specified period, and if their use is forbidden by an international convention .
. . . Germany is at all times prepared to renounce aggressive weapons if the rest of the world does the same. Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression because she does not think of attacking anybody but only of acquiring security.”
“No answer was received. Without paying any heed the others continued to fill their arsenals with weapons, to pile up their stores of explosives, to increase the numbers of their troops.
“At the same time the League of Nations, the instrument of the victorious powers, declared that Germany must first pass through a period of “probation” before it would be possible to discuss with her the question of the disarmament of the other countries.
“On October 14, 1933, Hitler broke away from this League of Nations with which it was impossible to come to any agreement” (Friedrich Stieve, What the World Rejected, 2-5).
Time and time again, year after year, Britain, France, Soviet Russia, Poland, and other surrounding nations, rejected Hitler’s attempts at peace, slapped his outstretched hand of friendship away, and armed for war while Germany pled for a cessation of animosity. The historical record is too sure on this point for any honest and informed person to deny it.
Some honest people may be ignorant of these facts and may not know that Hitler wanted peace, but their honesty will lead them to accept the truth when it is presented to them. Dishonest people, however, are the ones who reject the evidence in favor of the Establishment’s narrative about Hitler that has been beat into them since infancy. Think of it, this is the corrupt political Establishment’s narrative, yet you believe it! What other ludicrous Establishment lies do you believe, WMDs in Iraq, back and to the left, Russia-Trump collusion, Epstein killed himself, Biden beat Trump in 2020?
At some point, you have to grow up and throw off the indoctrination. Hitler was not the bad guy. Germany was not the villain. A good starting point is for you to read Benton Bradburry’s excellent work The Myth of German Villainy. Just as in World War I, Germany in World War II was scapegoated by the true war-starters and world conquerors – the Allies.
Back to Poland and Germany. The fantastic British researcher and author Nick Kollerstrom, in his book How Britain Initiated Both World Wars, wrote of the Polish situation thus:
“After the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was kind of chopped up, the peoples who felt they were German had been separated into different nations, like a jellyfish chopped up into different bits, and they were wanting to come together again, the different bits were wanting to reconnect. At Nuremberg it was declared, that these were wars of aggression, when Hitler went into different countries -they said he invaded Austria, he invaded Czechoslovakia and he invaded Poland. But, I want to try and put a different point of view here: these were Germanic people who were German and wanted to re-join Germany. When the German troops went into Austria, they were greeted with flowers being thrown in their path, and there was no military action, there was rejoicing, and I believe the same happened when they went into the Sudetenland, which was a part of Czechoslovakia, that they were greeted by people who wanted to be part of Germany. Germany had been immensely successful in the 1930s, with its prodigious economic recovery, and that became a motive for peoples wanting to be a part of Germany.
“There were divisions around Danzig between people who felt they were German, in land that had been given to Poland. This became a terrible provocation which soon led to the war. There was a policy enunciated at Chatham House, which one could argue was being pursued by Germany. After WW1, Britain and America had been talking about the right of determination of small nations, self-determination, that was a kind of mantra, and the Americans especially liked it as their formula for dismantling the British Empire -the right of self-determination of small nations. People were trying to think of, what had been the point of the First World War? Ah yes, it was Belgium’s right of self-determination. Could that formula also be applied to, say, Austria, or to German speaking people in different countries? Let’s hear what was said by Lord Lothian, who addressed Chatham House in 1927:
““If the principle of self-determination were applied on behalf of Germany, in the way that it was applied against them, it would mean the re-entry of Austria into Germany, the union of Sudetenland, Danzig, and of Memel in and at least certain adjustments of Poland and Silesia in the Corridor.”
“The key question here is, did Germans, people who feel they are German, have a right to gather together into one country? This was what Hitler called the ‘Reich,’ the idea of that togetherness, that would be larger than what was originally defined as Germany in 1871. Did they have that right – or, would that threaten other European countries? That is here the question. Let’s focus especially on what happened to Poland in 1939. Land had been ripped away from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the war, and given to Poland. What was defined as Poland had at most 50% of native Polish people in it, and they were trying to assert a national identity, very much by getting rid of people who they felt were outsiders, and this was having catastrophic consequences.
“The historian A.J.P. Taylor said, “Danzig was the most justified of German grievances – a city of exclusively German population, which wished to return to the Reich, and Hitler himself restrained only with difficulty”. Germany asked: Can we build a railway and road connecting Germany with Danzig? Poland did not even reply.
“Britons were concerned about German expansion, they said, you’re grabbing this and you’re grabbing that, and so the fatal war-guarantee was given to Poland. That led to even more truculent behavior by Poland, once Chamberlain had given it his unconditional war-guarantee.
“In A.J.P. Taylor’s view, there had been no intention to invade Poland – I think that’s important. Everyone nowadays believes in Hitler’s bad faith, but he said, with the Czechoslovak deal, that was his last demand for land. He didn’t intend to go into Poland. I want to suggest that – or rather, A.J.P. Taylor is saying that – he wanted Germany and Poland to remain on good terms. . . .
“Late in 1938 Hitler made this offer to Poland, – it would have guaranteed its boundaries and protected it against Soviet Russia. It had the German free state of Danzig given a road and rail connection, as it desired to be a part of Germany. And then – this is a bit more controversial – a plebiscite would be given to West Prussia, as to who they wanted to belong to. Poland is guaranteed an open seaport, and they would then continue with the non-aggression pact. Poland didn’t respond to that deal at all – very truculent behavior . . . a hundred thousand Germans had to flee to the woods; or be under shelling from Polish troops from over the borders; “more than seventy thousand refugees had to be housed in German refugee camps. The aggression against Germans increased on a daily basis.”
“It may be hard to believe this, but Poland was wanting war with Germany. It published a map of Europe showing a whole lot of Germany carved out and having become Poland. This became far worse when in March, 1939, Chamberlain gave this unconditional war-guarantee to Poland. It had had a nonaggression pact with Germany, and that was rejected, and instead there was a war-guarantee: which said that in any war with Germany, even if Poland starts it, Britain would come in. That was just what Poland wanted because it did want war.
“Poland intensified its persecution of the German minority. Speaking German in public was prosecuted – this is land that had been German, up until 1918. German-associated newspapers were suppressed, and so forth. The Germans felt this nullified the agreement which they had made at Munich in September 1938 for Britain and Germany to work closely together to maintain the peace.”
It was in this tense situation that the atrocities started. After Poland began inhumanely slaughtering, raping, and forcing German minorities from their homes, Hitler made the decision to attack. On September 1, 1939, when all attempts at peace had failed and delay would mean more German civilian deaths, German troops entered what used to be German territory. This only intensified the massacres against Germans.
Though the study was never finished due to the war, Germany later calculated that that up to 58,000 German non-combatants were killed or unaccounted for at Poland’s hands. It was a horrific atrocity. The ghastliest event was the Bromberg Massacre where Germans were butchered by the Poles. Hitler later recounted in broad strokes what the German troops witnessed:
“I must also mention, however, that this admitted valor of many Polish units stands in contrast to the dirtiest deeds perhaps committed throughout the past centuries. As a soldier in the World War who fought only in the West, I never had the opportunity to witness such deeds: the thousands of slaughtered Volksgenossen; the brutishly butchered women, girls, and children; the countless German soldiers and officers who fell, wounded, into the hands of the enemy and who were massacred, bestially mutilated with their eyes gouged out. And worse yet-the Polish Government has openly admitted this in a radio broadcast-the Luftwaffe soldiers forced to parachute were killed in a cowardly fashion. There were moments when one had to ask oneself: under these circumstances, should one exercise restraint oneself? I have not heard whether any of the democratic statesmen found it worth their while to protest against these acts of barbarity” (Adolf Hitler – Collection of Speeches 1922-1945, 632).
Look up the pictures if you think Hitler was exaggerating about Polish barbarity. And consider why the West has completely covered and ignored this paramount fact of Polish aggression against Germans that was the impetus for Hitler’s attack on Poland. We know from the sources that Hitler made the final decision to attack Poland, after so many attempts at reconciliation, when the report of the Polish slaughter of Germans came across his desk. Why does the West conceal these crucial facts?
Two days after German troops crossed the fictitious Polish border created out of thin air by the League of Nations to reunite Danzig with the Reich and halt the slaughter of his people who were petitioning for his help, something amazing happened that has been swept under the rug. On September 3, 1939, before a peace conference called by Italy could be convened, World War II really began as Britain and France declared war on Germany. Then, on September 7, 1939, French troops marched into German territory, occupying an 8-km swatch of territory in the Saar region.
Did you know that France invaded Germany on September 7, 1939? Did your history teacher teach you that? Have you ever seen that in a Hollywood film? Have you ever heard your local politician talk about the war started by France and Britain? Let’s be clear, the war was a local conflict between two nations only, Germany and Poland – not Germany and France or Britian. Yet, unprovoked, France invaded Germany while simultaneously declaring war on her with Great Britain.
These are facts you can’t refute. It is truth, not propaganda. Be intellectually honest and do your own research and investigate the claims.
Germany’s great “crime” which necessitated her brutal destruction was bucking the Marxist trend and wanting Independence from a one-world internationalist system with which it fundamentally disagreed. For instance, Germany destroyed the Communist Party, outlawing or driving out their subversive organizations such as Antifa and the Frankfurt School. Hitler shut down the smut plays and pornographic theater performances that made Berlin infamous during the Weimar days. Freemasonry was banned and its lodges were opened to the public to show the type of subversive, anti-Christian rituals being performed inside.
The international bankers were limited a great deal. Usury was banned. Crony-capitalism, though not extinguished, was chipped away at. Germany pulled itself out of economic depression and became the #1 economy on earth at a time when millions were in abject poverty in the United States.
Personal Freedoms were enlarged and intellectual pursuits and debates were encourages. Gun rights were expanded. Yes, Alex Jones, Hitler expanded gun rights that had been limited under the Weimar Marxists; he didn’t “take the guns” from German citizens who actually enjoyed shooting clubs and private firearms. Hitler himself, a veteran, carried.
Culturally, Hitler transformed Germany from Marxist decadency to Christian strength. Traditional families were supported as programs to promote motherhood, to get women out of the workforce and back into the home where God set them, and to celebrate marriage, were initiated. A premium was set on individual initiate and a meritocratic system was erected. Honor, honesty, boldness, truthfulness, beauty, intelligence, and strength, were just a few of the virtues promoted. Christianity was supported, protected, and promoted by the state. Hitler himself was a practicing Catholic with good relations with the Vatican, the German army went into battle with the motto “God With Us” on their belt buckles, the German military opened the Christian churches that had been closed by the Judeo-Bolshevik Soviets in Eastern Europe, and so on.
Dr. Robert Ley, a leader in the Labor Front in Germany during Hitler’s time, made this comment in a newspaper, as reported by Time in 1940:
“Money rules the world, but National Socialism does not acknowledge the rule of money. . . . The Führer said, ‘I am perhaps the only head of a State who does not even have a bank account.’ The National Socialist State leadership has not only destroyed plutocracy in Germany and allotted to money its proper role in economy, it also has freed the workers from the exploiters’ fetters. The National Socialist economic order has freed itself, not only from the fetters of money in our land, but—and that is decisive—from the fetters of international money rule.”
Plutocracy, if the term is not familiar, means “rule by the wealthy” or “an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.” Dr. Joseph Goebbels published a pamphlet titled The War Goal of World Plutocracy exposing many of the Elite’s plans to decimate Germany. He spoke often in speeches about the danger of the alliance of Western plutocrats and Eastern communists. He presented Germany as an alternative to this alliance of warmongering tyrants wearing different masks. In one of his most famous speeches, he laid out the argument, first laid out by Hitler, thus:
“The German people, in any event, is unwilling to bow to this danger. Behind the oncoming Soviet divisions we see the Jewish liquidation commandos, and behind them terror, the specter of mass starvation and complete anarchy. International Jewry is the devilish ferment of decomposition that finds cynical satisfaction in plunging the world into the deepest chaos and destroying ancient cultures that it played no role in building.
“We also know our historic responsibility. Two thousand years of Western civilization are in danger. One cannot overestimate the danger. It is indicative that when one names it as it is, International Jewry throughout the world protests loudly. Things have gone so far in Europe that one cannot call a danger a danger when it is caused by the Jews.
“That does not stop us from drawing the necessary conclusions. That is what we did in our earlier domestic battles. The democratic Jewry of the “Berliner Tageblatt” and the “Vossischen Zeitung” served communist Jewry by minimizing and downplaying a growing danger, and by lulling our threatened people to sleep and reducing their ability to resist. We could see, if the danger were not overcome, the specter of hunger, misery, and forced labor by millions of Germans. We could see our venerable part of the world collapse, and bury in its ruins the ancient inheritance of the West. That is the danger we face today.
“My second thesis: Only the German Reich and its allies are in the position to resist this danger. The European nations, including England, believe that they are strong enough to resist effectively the Bolshevization of Europe, should it come to that. This belief is childish and not even worth refuting. If the strongest military force in the world is not able to break the threat of Bolshevism, who else could do it? [The crowd in the Sportpalast shouts “No one!”]. The neutral European nations have neither the potential nor the military means nor the spiritual strength to provide even the least resistance to Bolshevism. Bolshevism’s robotic divisions would roll over them within a few days. In the capitals of the mid-sized and smaller European states, they console themselves with the idea that one must be spiritually armed against Bolshevism. That reminds us of the statements by bourgeois parties in 1932, who thought they could fight and win the battle against communism with spiritual weapons. That was too stupid even then to be worth refuting. Eastern Bolshevism is not only a doctrine of terrorism, it is also the practice of terrorism. It strives for its goals with an infernal thoroughness, using every resource at its disposal, regardless of the welfare, prosperity or peace of the peoples it ruthlessly oppresses. What would England and America do if, in the worst case, Europe fell into Bolshevism’s arms? Will London perhaps persuade Bolshevism to stop at the English Channel? I have already said that Bolshevism has its foreign legions in the form of communist parties in every democratic nation. None of these states can think it is immune to domestic Bolshevism. In a recent by-election for the House of Commons, the independent, that is communist, candidate got 10,741 of the 22,371 votes cast. This was in a district that had formerly been a conservative stronghold. Within a short time, 10,000 voters, nearly half, had been lost to the communists.
“That is proof that the Bolshevist danger exists in England too, and that it will not go away simply because it is ignored. We place no faith in any territorial promises that the Soviet Union may make. Bolshevism set ideological as well as military boundaries, which poses a danger to every nation. The world no longer has the choice between falling back into its old fragmentation or accepting a new order for Europe under Axis leadership. The only choice now is between living under Axis protection or in a Bolshevist Europe.
“I am firmly convinced that the lamenting lords and archbishops in London have not the slightest intention of resisting the Bolshevist danger that would result were the Soviet army to enter Europe. Jewry has so deeply infected the Anglo-Saxon states both spiritually and politically that they are no longer have the ability to see the danger. It conceals itself as Bolshevism in the Soviet Union, and plutocratic-capitalism in the Anglo-Saxon states. The Jewish race is an expert at mimicry. They put their host peoples to sleep, paralyzing their defensive abilities. (Shouts from the crowd: “We have experienced it!”). Our insight into the matter led us to the early realization that cooperation between international plutocracy and international Bolshevism was not a contradiction, but rather a sign of deep commonalities. The hand of the pseudo-civilized Jewry of Western Europe shakes the hand of the Jewry of the Eastern ghettos over Germany. Europe is in deadly danger.”
Yes, the Satanic world conspiracy (the leaders of whom were indisputably Jewish) was at the gates, and the Allies made a treasonous alliance with them. Only the Germans, led by Hitler, stood in the gap to fight them. Fight them they did. They rooted them out of Germany. They extinguished their Red terror in their nation. They rounded up the Marxist agitators, terrorists, and subversives. They set up an alternative state that was neither governed by plutocrats or by communist commissars. They cut through the fog of lies blinding the minds of millions with the sword of truth, branding themselves eternal enemies in the eyes of the communist world conspiracy.
Hitler’s adjustments to the international status quo were absolutely remarkable and were a thorn in the international Establishment’s side. They were only rivaled by his adjustments to German domestic life. These represented nothing short of a social, cultural, spiritual, political, and economic revolution. The brilliant book Hitler’s Revolution by Richard Tedor is a book that belongs on your bookshelf if you want to truly understand the massive impact National Socialism had on transforming, for the better, German society, and why the other great nations were so eager to demonize and destroy it. Here’s an excerpt:
“During the first half of the 20th Century, two world wars ultimately imposed democratic governments on European states that had been pursuing a separate way of life. One of the most successful weapons in the arsenal of democracy was atrocity propaganda. It demonized the enemy, motivating Allied armies and promoting their cause abroad. It justified the most ruthless means to destroy him. It defined the struggle as one of good versus evil, simplifying understanding for the populations of the United States and the British Commonwealth. The atrocities that Allied propagandists attribute to Germany, the backbone of resistance against Western democracy, remain lavishly publicized to this day. Conducted more zealously by the entertainment industry than by historians, this is largely an emotional presentation. The lurid appeal negates for the future a logical, impartial evaluation of political alternatives. This is unfortunate, since comparison is one of life’s best tools for learning.
“It is a common trait of human nature to often judge the validity of an argument less by what is said than by who is saying it. Casting doubt on the personal integrity of an opponent can be more influential than rational discussion to refute his doctrines. In Adolf Hitler, Germany had a wartime leader whose concept of an authoritarian, socialist state represented a serious challenge to democratic opinion. Indignant that anyone could harbor such views in so enlightened an age, and especially that he could promote them so effectively, contemporary historians provide a myriad of theories for his dissent. Thus we read that Hitler’s obsession with black magic and astrology impelled him to start the war, he was mentally deranged due to inbreeding in the family, he was embarrassed by his Jewish ancestry, he was homosexual, he had a dysfunctional childhood, he became frustrated by failing as an artist, he was born with underdeveloped testicles and so forth.
“It would be more useful for the authors of such legends to question for example why, after the victorious Allies established democratic governments throughout Europe in 1919, this state form became practically extinct there in 20 years. Russia, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Greece, Spain, Slovakia, and soon thereafter France adopted authoritarian regimes. Several of these countries closed ranks with Germany. Hitler gave viable, popular political form to a growing anti-liberal tendency on the continent. Volunteers from over 30 nations enlisted to fight in the German armed forces during World War II. Only by the sword did the Western democracies and their Soviet ally bring them to heel. Surely the motives of such men merit investigation. Simply dismissing the leader who harnessed and directed these dynamic human resources as a demented megalomaniac is no explanation. . . .
“National Socialism was not a spontaneous phenomenon that derailed Germany’s evolution and led the country astray. It was a movement anchored deeply in the traditions and heritage of the German people and their fundamental requirements for life. Adolf Hitler gave tangible political expression to ideas nurtured by many of his countrymen that they considered complimentary to their national character. Though his “opposition” party’s popular support was mainly a reaction to universal economic distress, Hitler’s coming to power was nonetheless a logical consequence of German development.
“True to the nationalist trend of his age, Hitler promoted Germany’s self-sufficiency and independence. His party advocated the sovereignty of nations. This helped place the German realm, or Reich, on a collision course with a diametrical philosophy of life, a world ideology established in Europe and North America for well over a century: liberalism. During Hitler’s time, it already exercised considerable influence on Western civilization. It was an ambitious ideal, inspiring followers with an international sense of mission to spread “liberty, equality, and brotherhood” to mankind. National Socialism rejected liberal democracy as repugnant to German morality and to natural order. . . .
“Hitler argued that the absence of sufficient state controls in a democracy enables the wealthy class to manipulate the economy, the press and elected representatives for its own gain. A widening gulf between poverty and affluence develops, gradually dragging the working class to ruin. Addressing Berlin armaments workers in December 1940, he claimed that the public’s voice in democratic systems is an illusion: “In these countries, money in fact rules. That ultimately means a group of a few hundred persons who possess enormous fortunes. As a result of the singular construction of the state, this group is more or less totally independent and free. . . . Free enterprise this group understands as the freedom not only to amass capital, but especially to use it freely; that is, free from state or national supervision.
““So one might imagine that in these countries of freedom and wealth, unheard-of public prosperity exists. . . . On the contrary, in those countries class distinctions are the most crass one could think of: unimaginable poverty on one hand and equally unimaginable riches on the other. These are the lands that control the treasures of the earth, and their workers live in miserable dumps. . . . In these lands of so-called democracy, the people are never the primary consideration. Paramount is the existence of those few who pull the strings in a democracy, the several hundred major capitalists. The broad masses don’t interest them in the least, except during elections.”
“Die SA discussed another fault of parliamentary systems particularly irksome to Hitler: “There is practically no responsibility in a democracy. The anonymity of the majority of the moment decides. Government ministers are subject to it, but there is no opportunity to hold this majority responsible. As a result, the door is open to political carelessness and negligence, to corruption and fiscal mismanagement. The history of democracies mostly represents a history of scandals.” According to Was will Roosevelt?, “Corruption has spread so much that . . . no American citizen gets upset anymore over incidents of shameless corruption in civil service, because mismanagement is regarded as a natural phenomenon of Government.” Hitler once recalled how a visit in his youth to the Austrian parliament revealed “the obvious lack of responsibility in a single Person.” Germanisches Leitheft stated, “Absence of responsibility is the most striking indication of a lack of morality.”
“Democracy failed because it was a product of liberalism. Focus on the individual led to “self-idolatry and renunciation of the community, the unraveling of healthy, orderly natural life,” according to the German army brochure Wofür kämpfen wir? (What do we fight for?). “The inordinate value placed on material possessions from the economic standpoint formed social classes and fractured the community. Not those of good character enjoyed greater respect, but the rich. . . . Labor no longer served as a means to elevate the worth of the community, but purely one’s own interests. Commerce developed independently of the people and the state, into an entity whose only purpose was to pile up fortunes.” The periodical NS Briefe (NS Essays) summarized, “Freedom cannot be made identical to arbitrariness, lack of restraint and egoistic inconsideration.”
“Hitler regarded liberalism’s de-emphasis on communal responsibility as an obstacle to national unity. He endorsed the words of the statesman Niccolò Machiavelli: “It is not the well-being of the individual, but the well-being of all that makes us great.” Hitler took the rein of government in hand in a liberal political climate. To overcome the liberal ideal, which for many was freedom personified, he introduced an alternative state form. It created opportunities for self-development, but also instructed Germans in obedience. In so doing, Hitler eventually achieved the parity between individual liberty and state authority long contemplated by the German intellectual movement of the previous century. . . .
“There is considerable difference in the socialism of Hitler and that of Marxist doctrine. Die SA explained that the objective of a socialist state is “not the greatest possible good fortune of the individual or a particular party, but the welfare of the whole community.” Marx’s purely economic socialism “stands against private property. . . and private ownership.” Marx saw socialism as international, unifying the world’s working class people who were social pariahs in their own country. He therefore considered nationalism, advocating the interests and independence of one’s own nation, incompatible with socialist ideals. Die SA argued that since socialism really stands for collective welfare, “Marxist socialism divides the people and in this way buries any prerequisite for achieving genuine socialist goals.”
“Hitler saw nationalism as a patriotic motive to place the good of one’s country before personal ambition. Socialism was a political, social and economic system that demanded the same subordination of self-interest for the benefit of the community. As Hitler said in 1927, “Socialism and nationalism are the great fighters for one’s own kind, are the hardest fighters in the struggle for survival on this earth. Therefore they are no longer battle cries against one another.” Die SA summarized, “Marxism makes the distinction of haves and have-nots. It demands the destruction of the former in order to bring all property into possession of the public. National Socialism places the concept of the national community in the foreground. . . . The collective welfare of a people is not achieved through superficially equal distribution of all possessions, but by accepting the principle that before the interests of the individual stand those of the nation.”
“It should be noted that in the Soviet Union, the flagship Marxist state, the regime dealt with the non-proletariat far more harshly than what downtrodden labor suffered during the Industrial Revolution in Western countries. The Soviet police official Martyn Latsis for example, defined the criteria for trials of dissidents: “Don’t seek proof of whether or not he rose against the Soviet with weapon or word. You must first ask him what class he belongs to, what extraction he is, what education and what occupation he has. These questions should decide the fate of the accused.” The Russian historian Dimitri Volkogonov wrote that Soviet purges targeted “the most energetic, most capable, frugal and imaginative” elements in society. Systematic mass starvation, imprisonment, deportation, and execution in the Marxist utopia so decimated the Russian population that the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, forbade the 1937 census from being published. Der Schulungsbrief stated in a 1942 issue, “The senseless extermination of all intelligence and talent, replacing every impulse of personality with passive herd mentality, has wiped out any natural creative aptitude” in Russia.
“Hitler regarded Marxist economic policy as no less repugnant to genuine socialism as the concept of class warfare was. Marx advocated deprivatizing all production and property. State control would supposedly insure equitable distribution of manufactured goods and foodstuffs, and protect the population from capitalist exploitation. Hitler advocated private ownership and free enterprise. He believed that competition and opportunities for personal development encourage individual initiative. He said in 1934, “on one hand, the free play of forces must be guaranteed as broad a field of endeavor as possible. On the other, it should be stressed that this free play of forces must remain for the person within the framework of communal goals, which we refer to as the people and the national community. Only in this way can we attain . . . the highest level of human achievement and human productivity.” . . . .
“A definitive characteristic of National Socialism was its rejection of foreign beliefs, customs and ideas within the German community. It holds that a nation consists of its blood and soil: an ethnically homogenous people and the land they cultivate, the domain that provides shelter, refuge and nourishment from the soil where their ancestors lie buried. Through self-development will a people realize their potential; through awareness of their intrinsic identity will generations fulfill the role nature and providence intended. The NSDAP held that every nation exhibits a collective personality. The influence of foreign peoples whose life experience, environment and ancestry formed them differently will debauch the nation and is hence immoral. Leers saw the introduction of liberalism and Marxism to Germany during the 19th Century as “threatening to destroy our own values. . . . The history of the German people is a centuries-long struggle against spiritual foreign penetration into the realms of politics, law, tradition and our way of life, a struggle against the destruction of our race and perversion of our souls”” (Richard Tedor, Hitler’s Revolution: Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs, 6-8, 14-16, 25-27).
All of these things listed above went against the soul-destroying trends gripping other parts of Europe, North America, and the world at the time. Hitler’s Germany went against everything the communist conspirators against mankind stood for. It was a kink in their generational plan for world control. They couldn’t allow Germany to live and remain a beacon for those who wanted Independence from the international bankers, who wanted to enjoy the fruit of their labor, who wanted to escape cultural decadence, and who wanted stability. See the vile book by Jewish author Theodore Kaufman Germany Must Perish! to see an example of their wicked mindset and genocidal desires.
Most of the things that American “conservatives” are fighting for today were things that Hitler and his movement fought for and, temporarily, achieved; that is, individual responsibility, community and governmental accountability, the reining in of massive corporations, emphasis on personal character and merit, rejection of Marxism and atheism, abolition of Freemasonry, the driving out of LGBT maniacs with their cultural Marxist indoctrination programs and literature, protection of private property, public protection of morality, prosecution of traitors and slanderers, halting illegal immigration and deporting illegals, placing a premium on Germany-first policies, making German citizenship valuable and special, uniting society across class lines, increasing education opportunities, lowering the national and personal debt rates, ending unethical banking practices like usury, practically eliminating unemployment, removing Germany from internationalist League of Nations oversight, increasing gun rights, and so forth.
We, the Allies, ended that. We, the Allies, stopped their stunning progress. We took all of these amazing developments and “liberated” them into the trash bin of history. We bombed the most advanced and civilized nation of Europe into smithereens and replaced a forward-thinking anti-Marxist regime with Soviet control in East Germany and a puppet internationalist socialist regime in the West. Truly, we defeated the wrong enemy in World War II, as General George Patton famously remarked at the close of that shameful war.
Let it sink it: We annihilated a nation set up on Christian values, that had high morals, that cultivated strong traditional families, that heatedly opposed Marxism, Freemasonry, crony-capitalism, big banks, internationalism, and the type of LGBT madness we are grappling with today, that was Germany-first and cared for its people’s interests above the interests of foreigners, and that called for peace until finally pushed to war to save its people from slaughter. How dare we claim we “liberated” Europe! We destroyed Europe!
Regardless of the intentions and thoughts of the men who waded into a hail of gunfire that fateful day, D-Day was a huge step forward for the forces of world domination. It was indeed a “Great Crusade” against civilization and for tyranny. If you invert Ike’s D-Day message, you get closer to the reality:
“In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of German protection over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and power for ourselves in a Marxist world.”
Celebrate the dead who thought they were doing the right thing, of course, but never forget what they really died for. Never forget we fought and died for the Soviet Union’s survival and the destruction of anti-communist, pro-family, Christian Germany. Never forget we bombed millions of people to death, uprooted their countries, changed their governments without their consent, obliterated their cities and priceless art, repatriated millions of hapless people to bondage in Stalin’s Soviet Union, and deliberately allowed Soviet troops to occupy half of Europe to supposedly “liberate” them. Some “liberation” that was!
There are two primary usages of the word “pride.” The first is a negative attribute and the second a positive virtue. In this piece, we cover them both and their relevance to our present day.
We turn to Webster’s 1828 dictionary for the two definitions. First, negative pride can be described thus:
“Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one’s own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank or elevation in office, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. . . .
“PRIDE goeth before destruction. Proverbs 16:18. . . .
“Insolence; rude treatment of others; insolent exultation. . . .
“Elevation; loftiness. . . .
“That of which men are proud; that which excites boasting.”
The second definition of positive pride states:
“Generous elation of heart; a noble self-esteem springing from a consciousness of worth.
“The honest pride of conscious virtue.”
In the first instance, pride is a dangerous attribute. It is the hallmark of Satanic rebellion. Pride is what impelled Lucifer to rebel against the Father and Son in the pre-mortal realm. John the Revelator speaks of “war in heaven” in Revelation 12 in which 1/3 of our Heavenly Father’s children were lured away by Lucifer, rejecting the Father’s Plan and supporting Lucifer’s agency-destroying ideology. But why was there a War in Heaven? Why did Lucifer rebel? Pride.
Isaiah described the reason for Lucifer’s downfall in a dramatic passage about his eternal banishment and defeat. He wrote:
“Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
“All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
“Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the dations!
“For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit” (Isaiah 14:9-15).
Lucifer is weak, foolish, and impotent. He was defeated in the War in Heaven, he has been defeated by Jesus successfully fulfilling the law and enduring the Atonement, and he will be bound forever with the chains he forged for others. The first link in that hellish chain is pride.
Lucifer boasted in his heart: “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt m throne above the stars of God . . . I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” This is pride, arrogance, and delusion. While it is possible, and a Biblically-substantiated fact, that we can become like God our Father through the grace and Atonement of Jesus Christ who is our Mediator and who has the power to bring us to Heaven with Him, it is false that we can do it on our own or in our own way.
Lucifer rejected the Father’s Plan and proposed another. Unlike Jesus who said “Thy will be done,” Lucifer rejected the Father’s preeminence and shouted, “My will be done!” He became a law unto himself precisely because he lusted after power, greatness, and glory. He not only wanted everything the Father has – which is one of Christ’s promises to the faithful who follow and obey Him – but he wanted to replace him and usurp His throne. Instead of rising with everyone else, he wanted to push others down to elevate himself. This is pride.
Rebellion is a defining trait of a prideful person. They think their ways are superior to God’s even though He has clearly stated:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9).
Nevertheless, because His thoughts and ways are far nobler and holier, He is willing and anxious to forgive those who sincerely try to change. He has promised:
“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:6-7).
Lucifer didn’t want pardoned for his rebellion, however. He didn’t think he needed it. He scoffed at the notion that his ways were lower than the Almighty’s; he thought they were superior. He believed he was higher, holier, wiser, nobler, more compassionate, more far-sighted, and overall better. His pride made him elevate himself in his own estimation above God His Father to such an extreme degree that he rebelled, rejected the only path of salvation which Jesus later marked for us, sought the crown and glory and might of the Father, lusted after being worshiped and revered for his supposed superiority and greatness, and started a War in Heaven.
The Lord gave insight into Lucifer’s black heart when he compared the murderous Pharisees to him. He explained:
“Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
“Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear [bear] my word.
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
“And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
“Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
“He that is of God heareth [receiveth] God’s words: ye therefore hear [receive] them not, because ye are not of God” (John 8:42-47).
Rebellion born of pride was the Pharisee’s great sin. This is the same sin that led Lucifer to hell. They heard the word of the Lord – the word of truth – but they couldn’t bear it. Why? Because they were set in their own ways, satisfied with their own paltry knowledge, and too addicted to their lusts to admit their ways were wrong and God’s laws were right.
Lucifer was and is a liar. He is the Father of Lies. He proposed to take the Savior’s place in the Father’s Plan of Salvation. This is not because he truly believed his plan was better, but because it was a way for him to receive the worship and glory of all other beings – the worship and glory that was due the Father whom he rejected in his arrogance.
There is no truth in Satan. Yes, he will tell the truth, at the wrong time and in the wrong context, to hurt people and lead them astray. But he never tells the truth out of good intentions. He can’t do so because he has no conviction of truth in his heart. He has rejected the Father, rejected the truth, rejected the light, rejected the Plan of Salvation, rejected goodness, rejected love, rejected everything wholesome and beautiful and wise.
It becomes significant, then, that in opposition to this lying, lustful, power-hungry, conniving, raging being of darkness and despair, Jesus told us: “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12). Do we want to walk in the darkness of pride or the light of truth? We can only walk in the light of truth when we have shed our pride which blinds us to the light and causes darkness to fill our souls.
Pride is the mainspring of all other sins. It is the one that allows us to justify all the others. If we think our ways, thoughts, and ideas are superior to what God has revealed and His prophets teach, then we will wander in forbidden paths. However, the Lord made it clear that there is only one path, one Plan, and one way to salvation. It is the covenant path of holiness which He marked for us by living a sinless, perfect life as an example:
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).
There are many roads that lead to hell, but only one that leads to Heaven. Satan doesn’t care which path you walk so long as it’s not the one that he rejected long ago that leads through Jesus to Heavenly Father. If you walk a contrary path, it takes you nearer to him. As you come nearer to him, you naturally become more like him, give him more glory, and become more blinded to the light which is father away and dimmer. As you walk any other path except the one covenant path, you become enveloped in mists of darkness and a profound fog of lies, lust, and rebellion. So enveloped, it’s difficult to break free and see well enough to find your way back to the one true path. It’s possible, but it’s extremely difficult; so difficult, in fact, that Lucifer, who was in Heaven and enjoyed the presence of the Father and Son, rebelled against them because he was so blinded by pride and power-seeking.
The antidote to pride and the ways of rebellion it engenders was written years ago:
“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
“So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
“Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
“It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
“Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
“So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
“My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
“For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding” (Proverbs 3:3-13).
Humility is the antidote to pride. However, humility requires faith, and faith requires knowledge. You can’t be humble if you don’t exercise faith in something, or someone, higher. You can’t exercise that faith unless you know something about that higher someone you trust in. Perhaps this is why the Lord so emphatically taught that we must know Him and that knowing Him is eternal life:
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).
We can’t worship, follow, be like, adore, listen to, or even love, a person or thing we do not know. If we don’t know the Father, we can’t worship Him or listen to Him. If we don’t know Jesus, we can’t follow Him or love Him. Knowledge of God, then, is the first step in salvation.
Authentic knowledge is truth and light. That which is truth and light does not reject God or His ways, but honors them. The worldly wise may know a great many things about science, math, the arts, politics, economics, and so forth, but may have an utterly infantile understanding of the ways of God. Yet, one who knows but little of the worldly arts and sciences may be profoundly wise in the things of eternity. Which is better? It is of course better to couple Godly knowledge with worldly, but the former is infinitely more valuable and important.
The great Pioneer leader and prophet Brigham Young gave this tremendous description of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Said he:
“Our religion is simply the truth. It is all said in this one expression—it embraces all truth, wherever found, in all the works of God and man that are visible or invisible to mortal eye. It is the only system of religion known in heaven or on earth that can exalt a man to the Godhead, and this it will do to all those who embrace its laws and faithfully observe its precepts.” (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 10, 251, October 6, 1863).
Even many occultists grasp the fact that truth is the ultimate. For instance, the Theosophists’ motto is: “There is no religion higher than truth.” Yet, their “truth” is foolishness and folly because it rejects Jesus Christ as the Redeemer, rejects His commands, and rejects His covenants and ordinances. Truth is not found apart from the Father and Son. Truth and light emanate from Them. When we reject Them, we reject truth automatically and walk in darkness with the Devil.
An understanding of eternal saving truths is thus the prerequisite to faith in Jesus Christ, which is required before one can trust Him and humbly walk in His ways devoid of pride. By rejecting truth, you reject proper faith, which prohibits you from exercising the childlike trust that is the anchor of humility. The Devil said, “My will be done,” but Jesus declared, “Thy will be done.” And that made all the difference between them. Which phrase we choose to say and do makes all the difference in our lives, too.
One of the greatest sermons ever given on pride was delivered by the outspoken patriot and prophet President Ezra Taft Benson. In “Beware of Pride,” he explained the true danger of this damning attribute in this way:
“Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing.
“The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means “hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.” It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
“Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God’s. When we direct our pride toward God, it is in the spirit of “my will and not thine be done.” As Paul said, they “seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.” (Philip. 2:21.)
“Our will in competition to God’s will allows desires, appetites, and passions to go unbridled. (See Alma 38:12; 3 Ne. 12:30.)
“The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Hel. 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, their accomplishments against His mighty works.
“Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren’t interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.”
This is how the sin of pride makes us react to God – as irreconcilable enemies. We behave as rebellious teenagers who “know” more than our parents when we let pride rule over us. We reject them and follow our own path, which leads us into error, sin, and darkness. We wander around, eat the husks of self-righteous superiority, and eventually end up in rags and misery like the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-24).
However, like the prodigal son, if we “come to ourselves” and return to our Father, He will run to us, wrap us in the arms of His love, and joyfully accept us back home. How much better is it, though, to not have to squander our inheritance, wade through wickedness, and end up in despair, fear, and hopelessness before we come to ourselves!
President Benson’s talk next touched upon how pride makes us react towards our brothers and sisters:
“Another major portion of this very prevalent sin of pride is enmity toward our fellowmen. We are tempted daily to elevate ourselves above others and diminish them. (See Hel. 6:17; D&C 58:41.)
“The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. In the words of C. S. Lewis: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. … It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.” (Mere Christianity, New York: Macmillan, 1952, pp. 109–10.)”
No one likes being around boastful people who judge and compare you with others you at every turn. Not everything is a competition; especially marriage. However, prideful people get a sick pleasure out of being better than others, having more than others, and receiving greater accolades – as if the praise of a fallen world is a worthy reward!
There’s no shame in aspiring to greatness and goodness. There’s nothing at all wrong with excelling in life. In fact, we should attempt to excel and attain mastery in as many areas of life as possible. However, this attainment should be for the sake of our own spiritual and temporal advancement, not because we seek to be better than others.
Too many people fail to realize, as they compete and vie with each other and grasp for power, position, and praise, that they can never rise higher by putting others down. Thet Lord taught:
“[H]e that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
“And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
“Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?” (Matthew 23:11-17).
The Lord clearly denounced pride here when he said that whoever exalts himself will be brought low. He elevated humility when He said that whoever abases himself and serves others will be exalted. Pride is anathema to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Gospel focuses on service and being selfless, whereas pride is me-centered and relishes being served, being greater than others, and being praised.
Me-centered leadership is the world’s version. Servant leadership is the Lord’s kind. The true leader doesn’t take glory to himself, but, like Christ, does his good deeds without fanfare, without trumpeting them abroad, and without focusing the glory for the act on himself. When the Lord served, healed, and ministered to others, He often told them to praise their Heavenly Father and to go their way in peace and leave His name out of it.
The Savior’s teaching is one of humility and quiet selfless service to God and man:
“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
“Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
“But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
“That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” (Matthew 6:1-6).
Not only do individuals risk losing their reward if they are prideful, but nations risk losing everything if they reject humility to God. Ancient Israel was broken up, enslaved, and scattered among all nations precisely because they thought they knew better than their Redeemer and failed to walk in His ways. They professed His holy name with their filthy lips, but their hearts were corrupt and their pride was high. They leaned unto their own wisdom, not the Lord’s.
Continuing with President Benson’s words, he warned of the dire consequences of pride both to individuals and societies:
“The scriptures abound with evidences of the severe consequences of the sin of pride to individuals, groups, cities, and nations. “Pride goeth before destruction.” (Prov. 16:18.) It destroyed the Nephite nation and the city of Sodom. (See Moro. 8:27; Ezek. 16:49–50.)
“It was through pride that Christ was crucified. The Pharisees were wroth because Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, which was a threat to their position, and so they plotted His death. (See John 11:53.)
“Saul became an enemy to David through pride. He was jealous because the crowds of Israelite women were singing that “Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.” (1 Sam. 18:6–8.)
“The proud stand more in fear of men’s judgment than of God’s judgment. (See D&C 3:6–7; D&C 30:1–2; D&C 60:2.) “What will men think of me?” weighs heavier than “What will God think of me?” . . . .
“When pride has a hold on our hearts, we lose our independence of the world and deliver our freedoms to the bondage of men’s judgment. The world shouts louder than the whisperings of the Holy Ghost. The reasoning of men overrides the revelations of God, and the proud let go of the iron rod. (See 1 Ne. 8:19–28; 1 Ne. 11:25; 1 Ne. 15:23–24.)
“Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. Most of us consider pride to be a sin of those on the top, such as the rich and the learned, looking down at the rest of us. (See 2 Ne. 9:42.) There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.
“Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
“Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. “How everything affects me” is the center of all that matters—self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
“Pride results in secret combinations which are built up to get power, gain, and glory of the world. (See Hel. 7:5; Ether 8:9, 16, 22–23; Moses 5:31.) . . . .
“Pride is the universal sin, the great vice. Yes, pride is the universal sin, the great vice.
Humility brings nations to their knees in prayer and submissiveness to God. Pride brings nations to their knees as it erodes the pillars of their society and destroys them from the inside out. America is crumbling today because we have been blessed by the temporal things of the world for so long that we’ve become prideful and have forgotten the God who gave us those blessings. Though millions of us still praise His name, we walk in our own ways and have rejected the covenant path of Christian discipleship. On the institutional level, our People are beginning to hurl God out onto the street and are in open rebellion against Him.
Rebellion against God is rebellion against Freedom. We lose our Liberty as we lose sight of God’s will. Paradoxically, we gain true Freedom when we cling to the Lord’s laws and walk humbly in His commandments. If we wish, both as individuals and a civilization, to regain our lost Liberties and God’s favor, we must come to ourselves, confess our rebellious nature, exercise faith in Jesus Christ to change, and walk forward down the true covenant path. If we don’t, God will destroy us and cleanse this land as He did anciently to Israel and other peoples who had, but rejected, His holy law.
Hearkening back to President Benson’s powerful address, the current apostolic leader President Dieter F. Uchtdorf made similarly enlightening comments about the destructive nature of pride and the need for greater humility and selfless service:
“I believe there is a difference between being proud of certain things and being prideful. I am proud of many things. I am proud of my wife. I am proud of our children and grandchildren.
“I am proud of the youth of the Church, and I rejoice in their goodness. I am proud of you, my dear and faithful brethren. I am proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with you as a bearer of the holy priesthood of God. . . .
“When our hearts are filled with pride, we commit a grave sin, for we violate the two great commandments. Instead of worshipping God and loving our neighbor, we reveal the real object of our worship and love—the image we see in the mirror.
“Pride is the great sin of self-elevation. It is for so many . . . a holy stand that justifies envy, greed, and vanity. In a sense, pride is the original sin, for before the foundations of this earth, pride felled Lucifer, a son of the morning “who was in authority in the presence of God.” . . . .
“Pride is a deadly cancer. It is a gateway sin that leads to a host of other human weaknesses. In fact, it could be said that every other sin is, in essence, a manifestation of pride.
“This sin has many faces. It leads some to revel in their own perceived self-worth, accomplishments, talents, wealth, or position. They count these blessings as evidence of being “chosen,” “superior,” or “more righteous” than others. This is the sin of “Thank God I am more special than you.” At its core is the desire to be admired or envied. It is the sin of self-glorification.
“For others, pride turns to envy: they look bitterly at those who have better positions, more talents, or greater possessions than they do. They seek to hurt, diminish, and tear down others in a misguided and unworthy attempt at self-elevation. When those they envy stumble or suffer, they secretly cheer. . . .
“My dear brethren of the priesthood, my beloved fellow disciples of the gentle Christ, should we not hold ourselves to a higher standard? As priesthood bearers, we must realize that all of God’s children wear the same jersey. Our team is the brotherhood of man. This mortal life is our playing field. Our goal is to learn to love God and to extend that same love toward our fellowman. We are here to live according to His law and establish the kingdom of God. We are here to build, uplift, treat fairly, and encourage all of Heavenly Father’s children. . . .
“. . . We can be grateful for our health, wealth, possessions, or positions, but when we begin to inhale it—when we become obsessed with our status; when we focus on our own importance, power, or reputation; when we dwell upon our public image and believe our own press clippings—that’s when the trouble begins; that’s when pride begins to corrupt. . . .
“Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.
“Humility directs our attention and love toward others and to Heavenly Father’s purposes. Pride does the opposite. Pride draws its energy and strength from the deep wells of selfishness. The moment we stop obsessing with ourselves and lose ourselves in service, our pride diminishes and begins to die. . . .
“. . . we are tools in the hands of God. When our heart is in the right place, we do not complain that our assigned task is unworthy of our abilities. We gladly serve wherever we are asked. When we do this, the Lord can use us in ways beyond our understanding to accomplish His work” (President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Pride and Priesthood,” General Conference, October, 2010).
Whom do we glorify? Do we glorify ourselves or God our Father? Do we put our trust in the arm of flesh or in the Lord of hosts? Do we look inward or Heavenward? Do we help ourselves or help others? Where is our devotion focused – on our own advancement, wealth, or praise, or on the wellbeing, betterment, and uplifting of our fellowman?
Furthermore, are we grateful for the unprecedented blessings we enjoy? Collectively, we have so much wealth, so many personal possessions, such an abundance of technology, clothing, vehicles, tools, entertainment, food and drink, information, and opportunities. Yet, how grateful are we really? Do we have an attitude of gratitude? If we don’t, perhaps it’s a sign we are overtaken by pride. If we can’t see clearly enough to recognize and appreciate our multitude of blessings, then we are spiritually blind and deny truth, which is a symptom of pride.
We should, rather, be grateful to have the knowledge that we are each beloved children of God, that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for and redeem us, and that we have been granted His Priesthood authority to perform saving ordinances of ourselves and our neighbors. It is not sinful to recognize that we are sons and daughters – the literal offspring – of our Eternal Father. That is something to be grateful for, proud of, and continuously mindful of. If we allow it to go to our heads and think we are “chosen” when others are destined for hell fire, then we are guilty of pride and need to repent. Catholics, Protestants, and deluded people of all faiths and denominations are sometimes guilty of this prideful mindset.
Let’s not elevate ourselves, but humble ourselves to the earth in recognition of God’s greatness and of His great goodness toward us. We have things to be grateful for every day, including our lives, our daily chance to be better than we were the day before, the abundance of knowledge available to us, the ability to travel and see the world and acquaint ourselves with people and things, the general prosperity of society, and more. Let’s be humble and understand the source of our blessings and rely on the Lord instead of on our own finite understanding, meager strength, and flawed virtue.
Instead of exemplifying the first of the two definitions we talked about at the beginning, let’s emulate the second. Recall that the second definition of positive pride means: “Generous elation of heart; a noble self-esteem springing from a consciousness of worth. The honest pride of conscious virtue.”
Having “noble self-esteem springing from a consciousness of [our] worth” is Godly. We are His sons and daughters with boundless potential, through Jesus Christ, to become like Him. This fact, that we are loved by our Father who has provided everything for us to succeed and return to Him, should give us “generous elation of heart.” It is also perfectly permissible to be grateful for our virtue and our worthiness in God’s sight, which worthiness and obedience to Him brings us the blessings that enrich our lives.
If we are to shed the pride which holds us back, which includes the pride of valuing, celebrating, and tolerating things God has condemned or forbidden, we must recognize our statue before God. We must know who we are – that we are His children whom He loves. This is part and parcel of gaining that correct understanding of truth we spoke of earlier. Truth is the foundation on which we build lives of faith. Our faith must be centered in Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Redeemer. When we truly trust in Him, we walk in His path and bear the trials of life with patience. This is humility, which is the only antidote to pride.
Dear reader, each of us is guilty of being prideful at times. Jesus is the only One who has escaped this universal sin. We would do well to follow Him. Following Him is walking in the light, which is the opposite of walking in the darkness of pride. Let’s remember our blessings and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Let’s have noble self-esteem as children of the Father who have the privilege of becoming like Him through our Savior Jesus Christ.
We close with the words of a sweet hymn about Christ-like humility. May we each be a little humbler today and walk a little nearer to the Lord of light and truth. God bless you.
“Be thou humble in thy weakness, and the Lord thy God shall lead thee, Shall lead thee by the hand and give thee answer to thy prayers. Be thou humble in thy pleading, and the Lord thy God shall bless thee, Shall bless thee with a sweet and calm assurance that he cares.
“Be thou humble in thy calling, and the Lord thy God shall teach thee To serve his children gladly with a pure and gentle love. Be thou humble in thy longing, and the Lord thy God shall take thee, Shall take thee home at last to ever dwell with him above.”
*I wrote the bulk of this article in mid-2022. Since then, the litany of suspicious events has lengthened exponentially, making my original observations more relevant and timelier than ever*
“Food processing plants don’t just “accidentally” burn down at this rate and they certainly don’t “coincidentally” become landing pads for plane crashes at the rate they are. Our food supply is under attack in America. The question is—by who?” – Charlie Kirk, Founder of Turning Point USA
America and the Western world are currently being hit by repeated terror attacks and acts of violent sabotage, but the controlled media refuse to cover it. Today, I want to highlight a score of suspicious incidents in the United States which I believe are covert terror attacks or deliberate sabotage. These attacks are escalating the growing chaos, uncertainty, and demoralization of our nation. I will also give several theories as to who is behind the events, what their end goal is, and what you need to do to protect your family.
If you have been paying attention, you know that food plants are burning down, trains are derailing right and left, industrial and natural gas plants are exploding, chemical incidents are proliferating, power substations are being shot up and sabotaged from coast to coast, fires are ravaging farms, many farmers are simply not planting crops, cattle are dropping dead or are being euthanized by the thousands, deer populations are being decimated by disease, food shortages are growing, inflation is cranking up the cost of nearly everything, energy output is becoming tenuous and blackouts are beginning, and we are teetering on the brink of bedlam.
Despite these events, many still say “all is well.” They naively thought that the Republicans were going to win the midterm elections and arrest the progress of evil, which didn’t happen (as I predicted here and here, and reminded you about here). Regardless of the two past elections being blatantly stolen, many still believe against belief that Trump will save them in 2024. Perhaps worst of all, they think societal collapse and tyranny “can’t happen here,” or believe that we are going to turn this mess around and “save our Republic” without the shedding of blood and without tremendous suffering, cataclysm, and divine cleansing.
The scriptures have a very pointed message for such people: “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion” (Amos 6:1), and “others will [Satan] pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell. . . . wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion! Wo be unto him that crieth: All is well!” (2 Nephi 28:21, 24-25).
All is not well. America, the greatest and most powerful nation in world history, is on the verge of collapse. Yes, Liberty is rising in the hearts of many, and revival is gripping many souls. There’s no denying it. However, evil is so well-entrenched and has progressed so far down its path of destruction, that we won’t salvage things on our own without divine help, and certainly not without an unprecedented effusion of blood, tears, and suffering.
What we have seen so far with global conflict, shortages, and mayhem, is only a mild prelude to what the rest of this decade has in store for us. We will yet see the global Holodomor I have emphatically warned about. You will yet see the day when you will break down into tears of gnawing regret that you didn’t listen to us “conspiracy theorists” and didn’t plan for your family’s future with food storage, useful skills, relocation out of Babylon, a correct education, and a better relationship with the true Lord Jesus Christ.
Let’s first talk about the evisceration of the food supply and production plants, as well as some of the other suspicious events like train derailments. Here is a smattering of recent headlines with hyperlinks followed by several lines from each. Read them in full if, as I do, you believe the present topic is crucial:
“We now know that the globalist genocidal war against humanity is a multi-vectored assault on every system that sustains human life: Biology, energy, economics, freedom, self-ownership of your body and so on. Now, we have new information that reveals the food scarcity attack vector is targeting the fertilizer supply chain in order to unleash massive crop failures in 2022. . . .
“Between starvation and bioweapons “vaccination,” the vast majority of the current world population will be subjected to one of these two genocidal vectors. When globalists state they want to reduce the world population by 90%, they mean it. In fact, they’ve figured out exactly how to pull it off.
“Food riots, food rationing and rampant food inflation are now all inevitable.”
“Following a wave of arson that saw numerous food processing plants in the United States burn to the ground or get crashed into by planes all at roughly the same time, the FBI’s Cyber Division published a notice explaining that the next phase of this engineered takedown involves cyberattacks. . . .
“Nearly two dozen food processing facilities in the U.S. and Canada have already been affected by a “string of fires, plane crashes and explosions,” The Western Standard reported.”
“This is all happening as the Ukraine-Russian conflict has disrupted the global food supply chain. Food prices are at record highs, and the Rockefeller Foundation just released their timeframe of when “massive, immediate food crisis” may begin — they say, “in the next six months.””
“Let’s state for the record right up front what I am very certain the destruction of food processing plants is being done intentionally. With over a dozen major food processing plants in North America as well as across the globe “randomly” burning to the ground, exploding, or otherwise being destroyed in the last few weeks alone, this is all part of the plan. It is far too frequent to be random.
“I would go so far as to say there have been more “random” food processing plants destroyed in the last few weeks than over the course of the previous decade. Judging by news searches that EXCLUDE 2022, it just wasn’t very common. Now, it’s happening every single week, and often multiple times in the same week. . . .
“On the latest episode of The Midnight Sentinel, I dove into this topic and made some clear accusations. If a few of these plants burned to the ground around the same time, it might be a coincidence. We’re talking about more than a dozen. Once we consider the timing of this all happening a month after Biden’s “food shortage” announcement, it seems way beyond the realm of random chance. . . .
“Normally, we fight evil by first praying, then getting involved with protests, lawsuits, and even civil disobedience. This is how we fought against medical tyranny most recently and to some extent it worked, though that fight isn’t over. But in this situation, the best way to fight is to still pray but rather than try to fight them directly, we need to defend ourselves and our families. That means being self-sufficient.
“Anyone who is in any way beholden to government will be controlled, enslaved, or killed. Those who are useful idiots to the globalist regime will be under the thumb of the powers-that-be. Those who have no use to the powers-that-be will be enslaved or killed. The easiest way to control people is with threat of death and food shortages certainly does the trick.
“We need as many Americans to be able to fend for themselves and their families as possible. As much as I hate telling people to be “selfish,” we’re talking about an existential threat. There’s nothing selfish about wanting to live free and to not be under the tyrannical thumb of world government. Protect yourself with firearms, food, water storage, and precious metals.”
“[I]t still isn’t clear what the cause of the fire was or whether it is tied to the protests — though some have speculated it is in retaliation over the career-destroying nitrogen policy brought in by the Rutte government.”
“Shockingly, nearly 20 U.S. food plants have been damaged or destroyed over the last year or so, around the same time supply chain breakdowns already began gnarling the U.S. food supply.
“This is absolutely not coincidental.
“Then came the war in Ukraine in late February, resulting in food costs reaching an “all-time high” and supply chain issues worldwide.
“But never fear, because Bill Gates has bought up hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. farmland across 19 states over the last several years, making him the largest private farmland owner in the country.
“Notably, China has also been spending billions buying up tens of thousands of acres of American farmland.
“Whether a coincidence or conspiracy theory, these bizarre circumstances nevertheless add up to the same thing: food shortages are likely coming, and billionaires like Bill Gates and hostile foreign nations like China stand to benefit.”
“Meat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only California plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state. . . .
“The Vernon plant has been the target of repeated protests by animal rights activists over its treatment of hogs. It also was hard-hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some 300 employees exposed to infections in 2020. Several were hospitalized.
“California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Smithfield Foods about $60,000 for safety violations that exposed workers to infection.
“Smithfield Foods was founded in Smithfield, Virginia, in 1936 and according to its website provides more than 40,000 jobs in the United States. It was acquired in 2013 by Hong Kong-based WH Group.”
“Law enforcement officials stated that the cause of the explosion is currently under investigation. This incident adds to the increasing number of food processing plants throughout the US experiencing fires or, in this instance, devastating explosions.”
“A North Carolina power substation was damaged by gunfire early Tuesday in the third known power substation shooting in the state since early December.”
“A recent spate of attacks on electrical substations in North Carolina and other states has underscored the continued vulnerability of the nation’s electrical grid, according to experts who warn that the power system has become a prime target for right-wing extremists.” [note the lying propaganda about “right-wing extremists” when many of these attacks are linked to communistic terror groups like Antifa]
“Two individuals were killed and three more injured Tuesday morning when an explosion and fire devastated an industrial complex in Miami’s suburbs.
“According to footage obtained from nearby businesses and TV news helicopters, the explosion that occurred in Medley, Florida sent a large fireball into the sky and left multiple trucks and other vehicles in flames.”
“Photos also shared to WKYC show smoke billowing to the sky, with the cloud visible for miles. The blast was apparently so great that pieces from the plant landed at Northern Haserot directly across the street.”
“A massive fire heavily damaged a furniture factory and warehouse in Chicago Heights early Monday morning, a year after the company announced a major expansion at the site.”
“While the US government is dispensing millions of dollars in resources to treat balloons as an existential crisis, a small town in Ohio finds itself engulfed in what actually looks like the apocalypse. Perhaps by design, all of the drama surrounding violations of US airspace by Chinese spy initiatives has done well to keep what is becoming one of the worst environmental disasters in recent memory from getting any headlines.
“The chaos began early last week when a train of more than 100 cars derailed in East Palestine, Ohio near the state’s border with Pennsylvania with roughly 5,000 residents. The accident launched fifty of those hundred freight cars from the tracks. Twenty of the freight cars on the train were carrying hazardous materials, ten of which were derailed. While the accident had no fatalities, of those ten cars, five contained pressurized vinyl chloride, a highly flammable carcinogenic gas.
“In order to address the volatile scenario around the crash site, the Ohio Emergency Management Agency executed its plan of venting the toxic gas with a controlled burn in order to evade an uncontrolled explosion which presented the risk of catastrophic damage. . . .
“However, that operation sent large plumes of smoke containing vinyl chloride, phosgene, hydrogen chloride, and other gases into the air as the flames from the controlled burn raged on for days. Phosgene in particular is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and respiratory issues. The toxicity of phosgene gas is so potent that it was previously used as a chemical weapon during the First World War.
“The hazardous airborne chemicals prompted officials to issue mandatory evacuation and shelter-in-place orders within a one-mile radius of where the train derailed.”
“State officials admitted yesterday that the derailment may have killed more than 43,000 amphibians, crustaceans, fish and other aquatic animals. Some residents have reported finding dead roosters, rabbits and foxes, with animals like pigs becoming ill with strange symptoms.
“In addition to the carcinogenic dioxins that poisoned the area, there are also concerns about the presence of toxic PFAS from firefighting foam at the crash site, which likely contaminated soil and water and does not break down in the environment. And, what we are hearing about now is just the beginning; the effects of this disaster could well impact people in the area for generations to come.”
“Farmers in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania are especially concerned that dioxins and other deadly chemicals may have spilled over onto their land, affecting their crops and livestock, and the soil where they grow and roam.”
“The remediation plan for the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, now includes sending all the contaminated wastewater from the site several states away to Baltimore, Md. . . .
“Strangely, the Back River plant in Dundalk that is slated to receive contaminated wastewater from East Palestine exploded last week, tearing holes through three walls and triggering a fire. Officials claim they do not know what caused the explosion and fire, but they insist that the incident will not impact the facility’s waste disposal capabilities.”
“A local health care worker is calling the phenomenon “chemical bronchitis.” Patients are reportedly turning up at clinics with a bad cough and other concerning symptoms such as a burning sensation when they breathe, rashes on the body, and general feelings of weakness.
“QUICKmed Urgent Care told local media outlet WKBN that its workers are seeing many such patients since the incident occurred. When people leave East Palestine, even just temporarily, they start to feel fine, only to have their symptoms return when they arrive back home.”
“Physician and podcaster Dr. Lee Merritt has accused the federal government of lying about the Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment and chemical spill.
““The issue is [that] the cure they’re trying to give us is going to be worse than the problem, because they’re lying about what happened,” she said during the Feb. 27 edition of the “Sons of Liberty” podcast with host Tim Brown. . . .
“The former Navy physician and surgeon, who hosts the “Merritt Medical Hour” on Brighteon.TV, noted that the Buckeye State is rich in minerals and farm land. The train derailment and chemical spill – alongside the burning of the vinyl chloride that leaked out from one of the railcars – is also being used for land grabbing.
““I think this is a land grab for the purpose of cutting out our agricultural base and possibly to get the minerals underneath that base,” Merritt told Brown. She added that authorities are also coming after America’s food supply by poisoning the soil. Prior to this, they initially targeted Amish farmers producing raw milk and farming cleanly.
“The “Sons of Liberty” podcast host agreed, telling his guest that the globalist cabal wants to drive people out of their own land and round them up into cities.”
“The East Palestine train derailment is a bona fide chemical disaster, with toxic chemicals from the so-called controlled release poisoning all forms of life in the area. If you are fortunate enough to live well outside these chemicals’ reach, you might feel pretty lucky, but experts are warning that this type of disaster is far more common than we’d like to believe – and more than 200 million Americans are at risk of experiencing something similar.”
“It could take some time for this derailed train to be fully removed from the tracks as the propane must first be siphoned from the overturned tanker before it can be moved. Around 150 feet of track has been left mangled from the incident.”
“An ongoing investigation in the US is trying to find out how a large shipment of chemicals disappeared from a sealed rail car.
“About 60,000 pounds (approximately 27,215kg) of the chemical ammonium nitrate, which can be used both as a fertilizer and in explosives, had been manufactured by Dyno Nobel, a global leader in the commercial explosives industry.
“The shipment was loaded into a Union Pacific rail car, with the train leaving Cheyenne, Wyoming on April 12. The seals “were still intact” when it arrived two weeks later in Saltdale, California. Accordingly, a report was filed on May 10 at the National Response Center (NRC) for railroad incidents.”
“Mohave County officials claimed that the train was carrying hazardous materials, but BNSF Railway said it was carrying corn syrup and that “there are no hazardous materials involved.”
“Lena Kent, general director of public affairs with BNSF Railway, said at least eight cars derailed, and there is no estimated time for the train tracks to reopen.”
“Communities alongside rail lines had two more close calls this week as freight trains carrying hazardous materials derailed in Houston and Detroit.
“For the communities where this week’s wrecks took place, the damage was less severe than symbolic: a reminder of the importance of rail-borne hazardous materials to every part of the economy just after the crash in East Palestine, Ohio.
“Houston is the capital of the nation’s petroleum industry, part of a sprawling crescent of refineries, crackers, factories and liquefaction plants stretching from Baytown, Texas, to the Mississippi River industrial corridor in Louisiana — sometimes called Cancer Alley.
“And Detroit — the once-and-future heartland of American automotive manufacturing — is now a rising hub of electric vehicle and battery manufacturing, a suite of high technologies whose exotic chemistries depend on hazardous materials.
“For example, liquid chlorine — carried in the train that derailed in Detroit — is an essential component in wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicle batteries, according to the Chlorine Institute.”
“Boulder City officials said on Twitter that the city fire department was heading toward the incident about 10:30 a.m. after video circulated on social media showing an explosion near the dam.”
“There was an explosion at the Honeywell Plant in Geismar, Louisiana on January 23, 2023. Following the explosion there was a release of toxic hydrogen fluoride and chlorine. A shelter in place was ordered as a result. It is unclear if anyone was injured as a result.
“There have been a number of incidents at industrial and manufacturing plants. There was a fire at the Celanese Industrial chemical plant in Pasadena, Texas on January 6, 2023. There was a fire at the Carus Chemical Company plant in LaSalle, Illinois on January 11, 2023. There was an explosion and fire at the Phillips 66 Refinery tank farm in Borger, Texas on January 17, 2023. There was an explosion at the Quick Turn Anodizing facility in Guthrie, Kentucky on January 17, 2023.”
“One person was killed and at least dozen people were injured Monday afternoon in an explosion and fire at an Oakwood manufacturing company, Oakwood Fire Department officials said.”
“An explosion at a liquefied natural gas terminal in Texas has left nearby residents rattled and is taking a substantial amount of the fuel off the market at a time when global demand is soaring.
“Freeport LNG will be offline for at least three weeks, the company said Thursday, following a fire in its export facility.
“Emergency management and fire officials are fighting a blaze that broke out after an explosion at a gas plant in central Kansas.”
“These Are the 20+ Food Facilities That Have Burned in 2022”
“Every year, a small percentage of food facilities are destroyed in industrial accidents.
“But 2022 has been ESPECIALLY ACTIVE, with over 20 fires at food facilities so far—a much higher figure than average.
“It’s gotten a lot of people wondering—including some of the country’s largest media outlets—what the heck is going on?
“The answer is… we do not know—at least not yet. But these disruptions to our US food supply chain during already historic supply shortages will only make the inflation of food prices worse.”
“In the wake of last Thursday’s plane crash into the General Mills plant in Georgia, the Western Standard published a list of more than a dozen major food processing plant disasters that have occurred since late last year in the U.S. and Canada.
“The paper also quoted David Clement, North American affairs manager at the Consumer Choice Centre, who said that these disasters will likely have an impact on the food chain and maybe even the prices consumers pay.
““Any additional disruption to the food industry and the food processing industry will create a ripple effect,” Clement said. . . .
“Whatever is going on, the number of disasters at food processing plants has been very high over the last few weeks. At a time when our food supply is already vulnerable due to the war in Ukraine and mounting Bidenflation, that should worry everyone.”
“At this point, only God can prevent massive food shortages from hitting the United States in the near future. We knew things were bad when even Joe Biden’s handlers instructed him to warn the world last month that we would all be experiencing food shortages soon. Now, it seems to be a foregone conclusion. . . .
“There’s no need to panic, not because it wouldn’t be justified but because it wouldn’t be productive. Now’s the time to get as prepared as possible and to spread the word before it’s too late.”
“Back on July 28, 2020, the Rockefeller Foundation published a document called “Reset the Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System” that warned about the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) supposedly causing “a hunger and nutrition crisis” in the future – and one “unlike any this country has seen in generations,” it added, referring to the United States. . . .
“So, what exactly is in store for the future? Well, it sounds like a whole lot less meat and non-GMO fruits and vegetables, and a whole lot more insects, lab-cultured “meat,” and mass starvation – not to mention global depopulation from Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines.”
“Interestingly, the foreword to the “Reset the Table” openly states that it is “a comprehensive playbook” for the future architecture of the world order. It further states that “all of us” will be expected to comply with its dictates.”
Many more articles could be drawn forth to underscore the high number of odd fires, plane crashes, and explosions at food production facilities and farms, but you get the point. Now, let me say that I’m perfectly open to the idea that some of these incidents are accidents or coincidences. Some of them. But all of them?
Do you really believe it’s all a coincidence? Yes, fires happen at food production plants. Yes, trains derail more often than you might think. Yet, it stretches credulity to think that these dozens of farms and plants in numerous locations all broke down and accidentally burned within months of each other – and at a time we are already enduring a food crisis with increasing shortages.
It boggles the mind to think that so many hazardous waste situations resulting from train derailments could happen within such a short period. And it is highly suspicious that all of these incidents have taken place at a time when economic woes were already proliferating due to malicious Scamdemic lockdown policies ushered in by President Donald Trump and tyrannical state governors.
Despite the emerging pattern of sabotage and malicious intent, the corporate media has been out in force to call it all a “paranoid conspiracy theory.” Fact-checkers – a code word meaning gatekeeping propaganda outlet – have tried to debunk the lists of dozens of fires and explosions, saying there’s nothing unusual about them or that those talking about them are “conspiracy theorists.”
The National Fire Protection Association put out an article literally titled “Nothing to See Here,” using the phrase seriously instead of ironically as it is usually used. They leaned heavily into the “conspiracy theory” rhetoric to dismiss the litany of fires and explosions from coast to coast. In extreme gaslighting, the NFPA said that “nothing is unusual about any of the fires” yet, in the very next sentence, admitted “no data is kept on fires that occur strictly at food processing facilities.” In other words, without data or proof, they simply dismissed the spat of fires and explosions as “conspiracy theories.”
All of this makes me recall Thomas Jefferson’s wise words:
“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery” (Thomas Jefferson, “Summary View of the Rights of British America,” 1774).
A few unrelated incidents here and there can be dismissed or downplayed, but dozens of them? Can we dismiss planes twice crashing into food production facilities? Can we dismiss trains laden with hazardous chemicals crashing all over the nation? Can we dismiss all of this without at least seriously considering the possibility that they are acts of sabotage or guerilla warfare?
Folks, when you have two plus two, the answer is four. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And, in this case, the blaze is literal. Our food industry is being burned to the ground. Our infrastructure is being demolished. Our nation is suffering a strategic, controlled demolition, much like the World Trade Centers in New York did on September 11, 2001. Sadly, we are only at the beginning – it’s about to get much worse.
In May of 2022, the CEO of Goya Foods made this prediction about our burgeoning food crisis:
““We are on the precipice of a global food crisis. God created humanity. Humanity has created every way to destroy itself — from nuclear to biological to chemical. But now we’ve waged a war — we’ve weaponized food. In the Ukraine — between the Ukraine and Russia — they represent 50% of the world’s production of fertilizer, 30% of wheat, 20% of corn, 2.5 million acres of sunflowers, other food and minerals . . .
“We’re going to have to tighten our belt and consume less. We’ve gone from oil independence to oil dependence. We’ve given up that position — to have our oil at cost . . . When we bring in stuff from — let’s say, Thailand — coconut water. We’re paying 10 times the freight we usually pay…
“The biggest component in food and anything is transportation. The transportation has skyrocketed because we’ve given up our independence. When you have an unbalance in the food production — in 2008, the price of grains tripled. Why? Because we were planting corn for ethanol instead of rice and grains and other things . . . When you have an imbalance in the world production — 50% of fertilizer — the farmers are paying double for fertilizer. They’re planting less. Their yields are gonna be less. Costs are gonna go up . . .
“It’s a very tight balance. And if we interrupt the food production, we will have a food crisis. Prices will go through the roof.”
I rather think this analysis understates the gravity of the situation. We are preparing not merely for higher prices and some shortages. We are going to endure engineered famine on a global scale. It will make the Judeo-Soviet-engineered Holodomor Terror Famine in Ukraine in the 1930s a blip on the historical radar.
For those who think this is extreme, ask yourself why millions of farmers around the world recently protested from the Netherlands and Germany to India and Sri Lanka. In 2021, some 250 million Indians went on strike to oppose devastating new agriculture policies – the “three farm laws” – that would wipe out family farms. Dutch farmers are now protesting en masse because of a plan to confiscate their land to create homes for third-world immigrants. The excuse for this Great Reset power play is, you guessed it, “climate change.” Specifically, they claim this theft of land will cut down nitrogen.
Regarding the Dutch revolt, The Washington Postwrote:
“The unrest among Dutch farmers was triggered by a government proposal to slash emissions of pollutants like nitrogen oxide and ammonia by 50% by 2030. Provincial governments have been given a year to formulate plans to achieve the goal.
“The reforms are expected to include reducing livestock and buying up some farms whose animals produce large amounts of ammonia. Farmers argue they are being unfairly targeted and are being given no perspective for their future.”
Forced off your land. Dictated to by intrusive government. Targeted unfairly. No hope for the future. That’s what Agenda 2030, the Environmental, Social, and Governance scheme, and the Great Reset are all about. That’s what the Dutch are protesting. It’s also the reason why the Sri Lankan people just ousted their government.
“Sri Lanka is in a last-ditch effort to stave off economic collapse after an allegedly climate-friendly ban on artificial fertilizers devastated one of the country’s largest industries. . . .
“Environment Minister Mahinda Amaweera declared a government initiative to save the earth from “our own geoengineering misuse, greed and selfishness” in 2020 ahead of a forum on halving nitrogen waste. The move was part of Sri Lanka’s effort to pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals; the country signed onto a green finance taxonomy with the International Finance Corporation in May that included a commitment to organic fertilizers.
““If you want to go organic you have to cut down more forests to have enough production, because fertilizer use enhances crop production,” Vijay Jayaraj, a research associate at the Co2 Coalition, explained to The DCNF. “And if you’re cutting down fertilizers, then it means that you need more land to produce enough crops to even meet the domestic demand.” . . . .
“Inflation in Sri Lanka stood at 54.6% in June, according to Trading Economics, with food prices rising 80.1% and transportation 128% since May, Reuters reported. Half a million people have sunk into poverty as of early 2022. . . .
“The Sri Lankan government restricted supplies and activities to only those deemed essential on June 28 in the face of fuel shortages until new shipments arrive in two weeks, CNN reported—shipments for which Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the government cannot afford to pay, according to The Guardian. Wijesekera warned Monday that the country had less than a day’s worth of fuel left under normal demand. . . .
“Sri Lanka has an almost perfect ESG score at 98.1, tied with Tajikistan, according to data from World Economics. For comparison, Sweden sits at 96.1 and the United States at 50.7.”
The higher your ESG score, the lower your economy will plunge. Sri Lanka is proof. Dear reader, the green agenda is a poison and, when ingested, causes death. The honorable Ezra Taft Benson once warned of the venomous tentacles of the Satanic world conspiracy:
“Now we should all be opposed to Socialistic-Communism, for it is our mortal and spiritual enemy – the greatest evil in the world today. . . .
“For Communism is just another form of socialism . . . No matter whether they label their bottle as liberalism, progressivism, or social reform – I know the contents of the bottle is poison to this Republic and I’m going to call it poison” (Ezra Taft Benson, “Stand Up for Freedom,” February 11, 1966).
The tactics of this engineered enslavement of humanity vary slightly in different places, but the agenda is the same. Despite existing and impending food shortages, in enemy-occupied California, the state is paying farmers not to plant. Of course, they claim they are doing it to conserve water:
“Much of the state is already experiencing extreme drought conditions. As part of a $2.9-billion plan to try to keep water flowing in California rivers, the state will pay farms to keep thousands of acres vacant this growing season.
“Both state and federal officials, as well as some major water companies in the region, signed the plan on Tuesday. Their hope is to keep upwards of 824,000 acre-feet of water every year in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Capital Press explains that one acre-foot of water adds up to around 325,000 gallons of water—or typically enough to supply water to two households for a year.
“The most impacted sector will be the rice industry, as the plan would leave 35,000 acres of rice fields in the northern Central Valley—adding up to about six percent of the yearly crop—unused.
“California produces virtually all of domestically grown sushi rice, and the Central Valley is responsible for a quarter of the nation’s crops. The region is the second-most-pumped aquifer system in the US, with 20 percent of America’s groundwater supplied from pumping Central Valley aquifers.
“The new initiative keeps wildlife in mind, as officials are looking to restore 28,300 acres of additional habitat for animals and help revitalize populations of creatures such as salmon.”
Another report about California’s war on food stated:
“California leads the nation in agricultural production. It’s no exaggeration to say this state feeds the world out of its fertile Central Valley. But that rich land has become a battlefield. . . .
“Despite agriculture’s vital role in the California economy, some want to use legislation to shut down a significant portion of the industry. If enacted, Assembly Bill 2764 “would prohibit commercial animal feeding operations and slaughterhouses, as defined, from commencing or expanding operations.”
““Essentially, it is putting a halt to the growth of this industry. Eventually, we would like to see no factory farms at all. No animal farms, and no slaughterhouses,” says Almira Tanner, an activist from Direct Action Everywhere.”
Devon J. Mathis of the California Assembly had something to say about the aforementioned bill:
“[A]s California seeks to find ways to support the U.S. in its global effort to assist other countries in need, it is entirely counterproductive to limit our production of resources and food. This would thereby increase our dependency on others. Instead, by cutting red tape and streamlining the production of resources at home, we can continue to lead the nation in agriculture production.
“The agriculture sector is an essential part of our state, our economy and the global market. Unfortunately, this bill is just another attempt to kill the agriculture industry in our state as well as the economic benefit it provides to our local communities.”
Activist Almira Tanner, from Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), said exactly what she hopes is accomplished by this bill:
“It is the first step towards phasing out the destructive animal agriculture industry in California. Hopefully, that would spread to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world. It prevents any new facilities from being built or any existing facilities from expanding. Right now, it applies to any sort of commercial animal farm, or slaughterhouse, that makes over $100,000 in revenue. So, this is really comprehensive. It is targeting almost every type of farm. We might see that revenue limit change in negotiations as we try to get this actually passed through the legislature. But, essentially, it is putting a halt to the growth of this industry. Eventually, we would like to see no factory farms at all. No animal farms, and no slaughterhouses. The first step towards doing that is actually just making sure we don’t keep building new ones.”
This mentally-deficient activist is unapologetic – she wants to outright end the farming industry. It’s part of the green agenda, which, as I covered in my books A Century of Red and Red Gadiantons, is really the Red agenda by another name.
Jaime White has written about the Elites’ involvement in shifting the world away from normal food to eating bugs and a minimalist diet that will make us dependent and weak:
“A Rockefeller Foundation document from 2020 outlines an ambitious plan to transform America’s food system using the COVID crisis as the pretext.
“The document, called “Reset The Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System,” was released shortly after the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced its Great Reset agenda months after COVID was declared a national emergency. . . .
“The document goes on to say that the U.S. food system must be seized and reorganized in the name of “social justice,” “environmental protection” and “fairness.”
“Notably, though the document describes the need for Americans to have a “healthy diet” through “sustainable agriculture,” it makes no mention of the word “organic,” and the word “natural” is only used in relation to “natural disasters.”
“So what does the Rockefeller Foundation mean by a “healthy diet”?
“If the WEF’s “Great Reset” is any indication, a “healthy diet” is the globalist euphemism for a diet of plants, insects, and reclaimed drinking water.
““By 2050, the world’s food supply will need to feed another 2 billion people. Insect farming for food and animal feed could offer an environmentally friendly solution to the impending food crisis,” a WEF article from 2021 stated. . . .
“For this social engineering proposal by the Rockefeller Foundation to come to fruition, a major crisis is needed to compound the problems created by governments snarling supply chains with COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
“Perhaps that’s why institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the United Nations, the Bank of England, and the WEF are now warning of a devastating global food crisis to come in 3-6 months, citing the Ukraine conflict and lingering COVID policies. . . .
“This appears to be an example of the Hegelian Dialectic, a problem-reaction-solution model the globalists use to impose their agenda on the world.
“Engineer a food crisis by shutting down supply chain routes, reducing livestock quotas, and putting fuel and fertilizer sanctions on Russia, wait for public outcry, then introduce a “solution” to transform the way Americans access food and the food they eat.
“Why else would governments shut down farms amid such an impending food crisis, even for the sake of “climate change”?”
If California stops producing food at its normal pace, how will it impact your budget? How will it impact our nation at a time of other shortages? What will happen if farms are shut down, fertilizer shortages prevent farmers from growing new crops, cattle are euthanized, and government policies keep things locked down in a perpetual state of “crisis”? How will it compound the preexisting food crisis? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that we are heading for mass famine and starvation.
The attack on our nation goes beyond blowing up food production facilities, killing cattle, or artificially decreasing the food supply. I cited multiple articles above about the Ohio “Chernobyl” event that is poisoning and likely sterilizing thousands of Americans, contaminating soil and water, and killing off animals by the tens of thousands. I also cited attacks on power stations which, whatever you might think about the food production fires and explosions, cannot be dismissed as an “accident.”
It’s cliché to say, but our entire way of life – our health, the food supply, our elections, public infrastructure, the education system, the legal system, free speech, public decency standards, the family unit, general morality, ad infinitum – are under attack. All of this is by design. We know the plan. We have the blueprint. We know the culprits.
Let’s now discuss who is behind the chaos, including at least some of the terror attacks on farms, food plants, and railways. We know that what is happening is being eagerly promoted by the World Economic Forum, the Rockefellers, and other Elite groups. I cited several articles above discussing this fact.
Part of the “Great Reset” agenda is to implode society. Why? So that a New Age can rise from the ashes. But ashes are essential. And where things don’t fall apart naturally, they have to receive a helping push. These “pushes” come in a coordinated way in the form of “crises.” World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab explained the following in his book COVID-19: The Great Reset:
“[T]hese massive transitions to something entirely “new” were always defined in terms of a response to a violent external shock or the threat of one to come. World War II, for example, led to the introduction of cradle-to-grave state welfare systems in most of Europe. So did the Cold War: governments in capitalist countries were so worried by an internal communist rebellion that they put into place a state-led model to forestall it. This system, in which state bureaucrats managed large chunks of the economy, ranging from transportation to energy, stayed in place well into the 1970s.
“Today the situation is fundamentally different; in the intervening decades (in the Western world) the role of the state has shrunk considerably. This is a situation that is set to change because it is hard to imagine how an exogenous shock of such magnitude as the one inflicted by COVID-19 could be addressed with purely market-based solutions. Already and almost overnight, the coronavirus succeeded in altering perceptions about the complex and delicate balance between the private and public realms in favour of the latter. It has revealed that social insurance is efficient and that offloading an ever-greater deal of responsibilities (like health and education) to individuals and the markets may not be in the best interest of society. In a surprising and sudden turnaround, the idea, which would have been anathema just a few years ago, that governments can further the public good while run-away economies without supervision can wreak havoc on social welfare may now become the norm. On the dial that measures the continuum between the government and the markets, the needle has decisively moved towards the left.
“For the first time since Margaret Thatcher captured the zeitgeist of an era when declaring that “there is no such thing as society”, governments have the upper hand. Everything that comes in the post pandemic era will lead us to rethink governments’ role. Rather than simply fixing market failures when they arise, they should, as suggested by the economist Mariana Mazzucato: “move towards actively shaping and creating markets that deliver sustainable and inclusive growth. They should also ensure that partnerships with business involving government funds are driven by public interest, not profit”.
“How will this expanded role of governments manifest itself? A significant element of new “bigger” government is already in place with the vastly increased and quasi-immediate government control of the economy. As detailed in Chapter 1, public economic intervention has happened very quickly and on an unprecedented scale. In April 2020, just as the pandemic began to engulf the world, governments across the globe had announced stimulus programmes amounting to several trillion dollars, as if eight or nine Marshall Plans had been put into place almost simultaneously to support the basic needs of the poorest people, preserve jobs whenever possible and help businesses to survive. Central banks decided to cut rates and committed to provide all the liquidity that was needed, while governments started to expand social-welfare benefits, make direct cash transfers, cover wages, and suspend loan and mortgage payments, among other responses. Only governments had the power, capability and reach to make such decisions, without which economic calamity and a complete social meltdown would have prevailed.
“Looking to the future, governments will most likely, but with different degrees of intensity, decide that it’s in the best interest of society to rewrite some of the rules of the game and permanently increase their role. As happened in the 1930s in the US when massive unemployment and economic insecurity were progressively addressed by a larger role for government, today a similar course of action is likely to characterize the foreseeable future” (Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret, COVID-19: The Great Reset, 70-71).
Be clear about what Schwab is saying. He is saying that government is the “only” solution. “Bigger” government is necessary. A “larger” role for government is our salvation. Governments taking dictatorial initiative to act “rewrite the rules” of society is necessary. Government enjoying a “vastly increased and quasi-immediate government control of the economy” is Schwab’s reality. Central banks, government, and powerful businesses working in a “partnership” is what he wants.
The fruits of such a system, by Schwab’s own admission, will be akin to FDR’s socialist schemes of the 1930s which tanked the American economy, eroded individual rights in favor of government bureaucracy, stole sovereignty from the American People and put it in Wall Street’s hands, plunged the world further into the Great Depression, stripped away the wealth of our nation, and empowered government beyond all previous constitutional bounds. All of this, dear reader, is the predictable result of socialism-communism.
Make no mistake, despite Alex Jones, Joel Skousen, and others shrilling crying about the “globalists” all day, Schwab and his ilk are not “globalists,” because “globalism” literally means nothing and is a vague distraction from the truth. They are, rather, committed Marxian socialists. Communists, if you prefer. Many of them are also Luciferians and New Age occultists. What does it tell you about “globalist” Klaus Schwab when he has a bust of Bolshevik dictator and occultist Vladimir Lenin on his desk?
But, some cry, Schwab promotes “stakeholder capitalism” and is not really a communist, but more like a “fascist.” Stakeholder capitalism, an invention of Schwab, seeks to enlist companies to toe a government line as opposed to being owned by the government as under communism. That’s a semantical difference, which is to say no difference at all in practical effect and principle. Stakeholder capitalism is no more nor less than Lenin’s “state capitalism.”
“State capitalism” is what Lenin said should be promoted in the West. Communism had already triumphed in the East, but capitalism was too entrenched in the West to accept communism outright. So, a perverted version of “capitalism” in which the state controlled everything in actual fact, while allowing “private” companies to exist and pretend to govern themselves according to strict regulations that benefit the state and enrich CEOs in league with the state’s agenda, should be adopted. Does this system sound familiar? It’s the one Red China adopted and promotes under their “global governance” schemes.
Once again, Schwab and his ilk who promote global governance are not “globalists,” but communists. The communists are the original “globalists.” Who was it that created the Comintern (i.e. Communist International) to wage covert war against all nations from inside them, using homegrown agents and subversives whenever possible? The Soviet regime. Who created the First International in London in 1864? Socialists and communists (Karl Marx was heavily involved, as well as in the Paris Commune). Who published The Communist Manifesto? The Communist League, which was formerly known as the League of the Just, which can be traced backward through the League of Outlaws, Italian Carbonari, French Jacobins, etc., to the Order of Illuminati.
The communists and socialists, then, hail from the same source – the Order of Illuminati. They come out of the groups who variously called their ideology socialism or communism. Later, they adopted the terms Marxism, then Leninism, then Maoism. But they continue to use the ideas of Marx, Lenin, and the various socialist and communist writers and thinkers. Schwab, in the above quote, quoted Mariana Mazzucato, a rabid Italian Marxist. Together, all of these ideological comrades pursue the same goal of a world dictatorship.
To bring about their Marxian-communist-socialist-Illuminati (call it whatever suits you, it’s the same thing) world dictatorship, this international band of robbers and occultists have employed everything from war to economic collapse to engineered pandemics, to force mankind into the shackles they have forged. One of their potent tools is terrorism.
Modern terrorism is a Soviet invention. It existed thousands of years ago in various forms, but the Soviet Union perfected and modernized the dastardly industry. They trained and funded terrorist groups from Germany to Palestine to Cuba to Nicaragua to Vietnam. Terror was their game and no one has been more involved than Soviet Russia. Please watch G. Edward Griffin’s 1982 documentary “No Place to Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism” for a crash course on this aspect of the communist conspiracy.
It was not only that the Soviets trained foreign terror groups or the elite forces of other nations, but they had their own specially trained units who were waiting in the wings to carry out massive disruption operations the world over. Soviet intelligence operative and defector Suvorov theorized how the next world war would begin. Not the precise moment, but the months leading up to it.
As you read his description of how he thinks Russia will gradually initiate the next world war, please keep in mind the myriad of strange farm and forest fires, production plant explosions, plane crashes, train crashes, boat crashes in canals around the world, hack attacks on oil pipelines, suspicious mass shootings, assassinations and assassination attempts, and incidents that seem to keep piling up one on top of the other. Suvorov wrote:
“The last month of peace, as in other wars, has an almost palpable air of crisis about it. Incidents, accidents, small disasters add to the tension. Two trains collide on a railway bridge in Cologne because the signalling system is out of order. The bridge is seriously damaged and there can be no traffic over it for the next two months.
“In the port of Rotterdam a Polish supertanker bursts into flames. Because of an error by the captain the tanker is far too close to the oil storage tanks on the shore, and the burning oil spreads around the harbour. For two weeks fire brigades summoned from practically the whole country fight an heroic battle with the flames. The port suffers tremendous losses. The fire appears to have spread at a quite incredible speed, and some experts are of the opinion that the Polish tanker was not the only cause of the fire, that the fire broke out simultaneously in many places.
“In the Panama Canal the Varna, a Bulgarian freighter loaded with heavy containers, rams the lock gates by mistake. Experts reckoned that the ship should have remained afloat, but for some reason she sinks there and then. To reopen the canal could well take many months. The Bulgarian government sends its apologies and declares itself ready to pay for all the work involved.
“In Washington, as the President’s helicopter is taking off, several shots are fired at it from sniper’s rifles. The helicopter is only slightly damaged and the crew succeed in bringing it down again safely. No one in the craft is hurt. Responsibility for the attack is claimed by a previously unknown organisation calling itself ‘Revenge for Vietnam’.
“There is a terrorist explosion at Vienna airport.
“A group of unidentified men attack the territory of the British military base in Cyprus with mortars.
“A serious accident takes place on the most important oil pipeline in Alaska. The pumping stations break down and the flow of oil falls to a trickle.
“In West Germany there are several unsuccessful attempts on the lives of American generals.
“In the North Sea the biggest of the British oil rigs tips over and sinks. The precise reason for this is not established, although experts believe that corrosion of main supports is the culprit.
“In the United States an epidemic of some unidentified disease breaks out and spreads rapidly. It seems to affect port areas particularly, such as San Francisco, Boston, Charleston, Seattle, Norfolk and Philadelphia.
“There are explosions practically every day in Paris. The main targets are the government districts, communication centres and military headquarters. At the same time terrible forest fires are raging in the South of France.
“All these operations — because of course none of these events is an accident — and others like them are known officially in the GRU as the ‘preparatory period’, and unofficially as the ‘overture’. The overture is a series of large and small operations the purpose of which is, before actual military operations begin, to weaken the enemy’s morale, create an atmosphere of general suspicion, fear and uncertainty, and divert the attention of the enemy’s armies and police forces to a huge number of different targets, each of which may be the object of the next attack.
“The overture is carried by agents of the secret services of the Soviet satellite countries and by mercenaries recruited by intermediaries. The principal method employed at this stage is ‘grey terror’, that is, a kind of terror which is not conducted in the name of the Soviet Union. The Soviet secret services do not at this stage leave their visiting cards, or leave other people’s cards. The terror is carried out in the name of already existing extremist groups not connected in any way with the Soviet Union, or in the name of fictitious organisations.
“The GRU reckons that in this period its operations should be regarded as natural disasters, actions by forces beyond human control, mistakes committed by people, or as terrorist acts by organisations not connected with the Soviet Union.
“The terrorist acts carried out in the course of the ‘overture’ require very few people, very few weapons and little equipment. In some cases all that may be needed is one man who has as a weapon nothing more than a screwdriver, a box of matches or a glass ampoule. Some of the operations can have catastrophic consequences. For example, an epidemic of an infectious disease at seven of the most important naval bases in the West could have the effect of halving the combined naval might of the Soviet Union’s enemies.
“The ‘overture’ could last from several weeks to several months, gradually gathering force and embracing fresh regions. At the same time the GUSM would become involved. Photographs compromising a NATO chief appear on the front pages of Western newspapers. A scandal explodes. It appears that some of the NATO people have been having meetings with high-ranking Soviet diplomats and handing over top secret papers. All efforts to refute the story only fuel the fire. The public demands the immediate dismissal of NATO’S chiefs and a detailed enquiry. Fresh details about the affair are published in the papers and the scandal increases in scope. At that moment the KGB and GRU can take out and dust off a tremendous quantity of material and put it into circulation. The main victims now are the people whom the Soviets had tried to recruit but failed. Now carefully edited and annotated materials get into the hands of the press. Soviet Intelligence has tried to recruit thousands, even tens of thousands, of people in its time. They include young lieutenants who have now become generals and third secretaries who have now become ambassadors. All of them rejected Soviet efforts to recruit them, and now Soviet Intelligence avenges their refusal. The number of scandalous affairs increases. The nations discover to their surprise that there are very few people to be trusted. The Soviet intelligence service has nothing to lose if the press gets hold of material showing that it tried to recruit a French general, without saying how the attempt ended. It has even less to lose on the eve of war. That is why the newspapers are full of demands for investigations and reports of resignations, dismissals and suicides. The best way of killing a general is to kill him with his own hands.
“There is a marked increase in the strength of the peace movement. In many countries there are continual demands to make the country neutral and not to support American foreign policy, which has been discredited. At this point the ‘grey terror’ gathers scope and strength and in the last days of peace reaches its peak.
“From the first moment of the first day of war the main forces of spetsnaz go into action. From then on the terror is conducted in the name of the Soviet Union and of the Communist leadership: ‘red terror’.
“But between the ‘grey’ and the ‘red’ terror there may be an intermediate period — the ‘pink’ terror, when active military operations have not yet begun and there is still peace, but when some of the best spetsnaz units have already gone into action. The situation is complicated by the fact that, on the one hand, Soviet fighting units are already in battle, but that, on the other hand, they are not yet operating in the name of the Soviet Union. This is an exceptionally risky moment for the Soviet high command. But he who risks nothing gains nothing. The Soviet commanders want to gain a great deal, and so are ready to risk a lot. A great deal has of course been done to reduce the level of risk. Only a relatively small number of spetsnaz troops take part in the ‘pink’ terror, but they are the best people in spetsnaz — professional athletes of Olympic class. Everything has been done to make sure that not one of them should fall into the hands of the enemy before the outbreak of war. A great deal has also been done to ensure that, if one of them should fall into enemy hands at that moment, it would be very difficult to establish his connection with any country whatsoever.
“The ‘pink’ terror may continue for no more than a few hours. But those are the most important hours and minutes — the very last hours and minutes of peace. It is very important that those hours and minutes should be spoilt for the enemy and used for the maximum advantage to the Soviet side. It must be pointed out that the ‘pink’ terror may not be carried out at all. It is used only when there is absolute certainty of the success of the operations and equal certainty that the enemy will not be able in the remaining hours and minutes to assess the situation correctly and strike the first pre-emptive blow.”
All of these seemingly accidental events that Suvorov hypothesized would be unleashed – fires, boat crashes, bridge collapses – are of the sort we are seeing occur nearly every day now. Could some of these “accidental” fires in fact be the work of Russian special forces or specially trained units of hostile nations? Could they be the work of domestic operatives who serve not the American People but the shadowy forces that control it?
To attribute all of these things to “accident,” “coincidence,” or “incompetence,” is delusion. Thomas Jefferson rebuffed this line of thinking in two important statements. The first was quoted earlier regarding single acts of tyranny versus a series of oppressions. I repeat it here:
“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”
The second statement comes from the Declaration of Independence:
“[A]ll experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Both statements instruct us to look for patterns of behavior. Single bad acts can often be discounted, but a series of them is harder to justify away. One act of terror could be the work of a lone nut, but a series of similar attacks forces us to look for a broader conspiracy. Seeing multiple planes crash into food production plants isn’t normal, nor are many train derailments carrying harmful chemicals that are released into the air, nor are so many forest fires and grid attacks and oil refinery accidents, etc.
When we witness all of these bizarre events at a time when so much suffering already abounds, we may be able to discount some of them as accidents or the result of incompetence, but all of them? Are all of these accidents? Of course not! It would be exceedingly foolish write them off. Taken as a whole and viewed together, a pattern emerges – a pattern warned about by defectors from the enemy and patriots who have studied this topic for a living.
Suvorov, for instance, went on to theorize about specific Spetznaz attacks that could occur, describing the potential scenarios and impacts. One included Russian agents flying small remote-controlled aircraft into the White House, another talked about fomenting revolution in Pakistan, and so on. I invite you to read Suvorov’s chapter detailing these operations here.
Russian sleeper cells in the United States are not fiction, but fact. Soviet defector Colonel Stanislav Lunev testified:
“Although most Westerners don’t realize it, the GRU is one of the primary instructors of terrorists worldwide. The Communist Party Central Committee specifically authorized the GRU to train terrorists in order to further the USSR’s political goals and support its allies. After all, what could be better than to have other people commit terrorist actions that further your own goals?
“There was also the GRU Special Center for the training of terrorists at GRU headquarters. The KGB provided financial and communications support to terrorists, but the operational training and support was reserved for the GRU. The GRU has trained terrorists from almost every country in the world, including Iraq, Libya, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Italy, Germany, Spain, Turkey, and Latin America. Where no terrorist groups existed in countries inimical to the USSR, the GRU would help to form them, and then provide them the necessary training, funding, and organizational support. So, for example, while the terrorists involved in the World Trade Center bombing [of 1993] may never have attended GRU training, the GRU was responsible for the formation of the terrorist group that they belonged to” (Stanislav Lunev, Through the Eyes of the Enemy, 80-81).
“Long Live Red Terror”
Most “Muslim” terrorism today is, in fact, Marxist terrorism wearing a Jihadist mask. Most of ISIS’s leaders, for instance, were Iraqi’s formerly trained in Russia. Most of ISIS’s leadership spoke Russian. When the war started, fighters from the “former” USSR flooded down to join the Devilish cause. U.S. and Israeli fingerprints are all over ISIS as well – it is not a monolithic entity, but has factions. But we must never discount the Russian involvement in Middle East terror.
In his account, Col. Lunev also explained how thoroughly Russia has prepared to carry out terrorist acts here in the United States:
“Though most Americans don’t realize it, America is already penetrated by Russian military intelligence to the extent that arms caches lie in wait for use by Russian special forces – or Spetznatz.
“As a GRU officer, my main mission was to prepare for war. I can tell you that for the Soviet Union and for the Russian Federation, America was and is the main expected wartime adversary. Other countries count only as a means to attack America.
“Russia remains terrified of the power of America, and Russian military intelligence does everything it can to prepare for a war that it considers inevitable. Let me be very clear about this. The GRU is still recruiting agents and is still preparing for war with the United States as we approach the supposedly peaceful, post-Cold War millennium. . . .
“These elite special forces are under the control of my former employer, the GRU . . . They penetrate countries shortly before a war and perform military sabotage that Americans would call terrorism. Some Spetznatz groups perform as assassination squads. These soldiers are familiar with all types of weapons, explosives, and mines; and they are experts at killing quickly without weapons as well. They are also trained to drive all types of military vehicles, including helicopters and small airplanes. They must be fluent in at least two foreign languages. English is the language of choice.
“During wartime, they would try to assassinate as many American leaders as possible, as well as their families. They would also blow up power stations, telephone switching systems, dams, and any strategic targets that cannot be taken out with long range weapons . . . In Soviet and Russian military doctrine, nuclear weapons are not merely for deterrence; they are to be used, and Spetznatz has them available.
“Spetznatz troops are currently training inside the United States. They regularly enter the country as foreign tourists, using fake passports and their knowledge of foreign languages to pass as Germans or Eastern Europeans.
“They are the best supplied troops in the Russian military. One of the GRU’s major tasks is to find drop sites for their supplies of clothes, cash, and special equipment – including even small nuclear devices, the so-called “suitcase bombs.” . . .
“It is surprisingly easy to smuggle nuclear weapons into the United States. . . .
“In wartime, many GRU officers – all of whom are men – would go undercover to directly aid the Spetznatz forces.
“These wartime plans were fully in place during the Caribbean Crisis – or Cuban Missile Crisis, as Americans refer to it – and remain fully in place today. In 1962, Spetznatz forces were deployed all over the free world, ready to commit acts of sabotage. When no orders came to “go into action,” they destroyed all evidence of their presence and went home. They were undetected and operated freely during the hottest period of the Cold War. Now, when America is less alert to the danger, think of what Spetznatz could do” (Stanislav Lunev, Through the Eyes of the Enemy, 22-28).
Perhaps we should not think in terms of what they could do, but of what they are doing and have done. I firmly believe, though I confess my lack of direct evidence, that various enemy sleeper cells are being activated to carry out some of the disruptive acts we have discussed, including fires and explosions at farms and food facilities.
Am I saying that Russian agents are behind the plant fires, animal deaths, and so on? No. Not necessarily. The communist world revolution was never a Russian conspiracy, though Russia was seized and used as the primary base of operations for decades. Instead, I’m saying that the communist conspiracy is behind it, be that whatever branch it may. It has always been a tenet of communist strategy to use native born conspirators whenever possible and it appears to me that many of these incidents are the work of “insiders.”
I repeat and underscore the fact that this vicious conspiracy often uses home-grown agents (such as Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground) whenever possible to further its ends and carry out its dirty deeds. It nearly always operates via third parties, front groups, and smaller nation states under their sway. For instance, the Soviet Union rarely provided terrorists to do their bidding, opting instead to train foreigners and supply them via client states like Libya and Cuba. The Palestinian Liberation Organization was wholly created by the Soviets and both of its leaders past and present, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, were Russian-trained agents. Palestinian terror, then, is directly attributable to Russia.
Iran is also a major sponsor of world terror, but who sponsors Iran? Russia. And, more recently, China and Turkey have strengthened ties with the terrorist regime. Like the PLO leaders, the Iranian Ayatollah was trained in the Soviet Union. Iran couldn’t carry on its work of sponsoring terrorism via Hamas and other groups, or plant sleeper cells in the United States which we know they’ve done, without Russian backing.
Homegrown Antifa terrorists training with likeminded terrorists in the Middle East
Could it also be that Marxist-minded home-grown terror groups like Antifa are involved in at least some of the incidents? Have we forgotten that Antifa members have derailed a train, shot people dead in the streets, brawled in the streets, rioted, and burned locked buildings with people inside? There is also evidence that Antifa members were behind many of the fires throughout California last year. It would be in alignment with their playbook to deepen the food crisis.
The conspiracy is so vast that it has its agents embedded throughout the intelligence agencies of all major nations – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, Iran, and beyond. The term “sleeper cell” originated with the Soviet strategy of planting agents covertly in an enemy nation, establishing them for years sometimes, and activating them whenever necessary for nefarious operations include terrorism, sabotage, spying, subversion, etc.
Let me repeat that Iran, Mexico, China, Israel, and other countries, have operatives and cells inside our nation which are capable and willing to do harm and who have been caught red-handed doing harm in the past. The largest spy ring ever uncovered in America, for instance, was Israeli. This spy ring was discovered in the aftermath of 2001, around the same time the dancing Israelis, agents of Mossad, linked to the 9-11 attacks were apprehended. One source explained:
“US authorities have broken a network of Israeli spies living in the United States who were burrowing into the justice and defence departments, a French website specialising in intelligence matters reported Monday.
“The site, Intelligence Online, said it had exclusive access to a US justice department report that showed “a huge Israeli spy ring operating in the United States was rolled up by the Justice Department’s counter-espionage service” last year.
“Around 120 Israelis were arrested or deported as a result of the top-secret operation, which it said had began in April last year and was ongoing.
“The website said the ring was active in the states of Arkansas, California, Florida and Texas, and was made up of around 20 cells of between four and eight members who were aged between 22 and 30 and had recently completed Israeli military service in an army intelligence division. . . .
“Dasquie said US investigators were concerned by indications that some of the alleged Israeli spies had been based in the same US cities as people suspected of having helped in the logistics of the devastating September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
“For instance, it had been established, he said, that a dozen Israelis, including the alleged surveillance leader, had been based in the Florida town of Hollywood between January and June last year.
“US authorities have arrested another dozen people “suspected of being tasked with the logistics of preparing the September 11 attacks” in the same area, he noted.
“Dasquie stressed, however, that the “troubling” coincidence was still only one theory being looked into and that there was not enough information to determine whether Israel’s Mossad secret service had been aware of the preparations for the September attacks.”
A network of powers, nations, intelligence services, banks, corporations, organizations, cults, churches, media outlets, and organizations is attacking us, ruining our food supply, and causing chaos. The various groups in this conspiracy don’t always agree and might not know each other, but their agenda is roughly the same and they are directed, from beneath, by the malevolent one who wages war against God and all goodness. I have repeatedly identified this conspiracy as the communist conspiracy, but I go a step further: It is the Illuminati-communist conspiracy, Babylon, the Church of the Devil. It is utterly Satanic.
While some of the mysterious incidents were doubtless accidents, it breaches the boundaries of belief to surmise there is no hidden hand directing this work of chaos for higher purposes. The timing is too perfect. The targets are too calculated to hit us where it hurts. The results are too specifically engineered to contribute to and exacerbate the existing crises. It’s death by a thousand cuts.
Regardless of whether you want to accept the reality of conspiracy, the fact remains that we are moving into a worsening food crisis that shows no signs of improving. Be it the Russians, Israelis, home-grown terrorists, our own “Deep State,” or sheer incompetence allowing conniving opportunists to empower themselves, the result is the same – our Faith, Families, and Freedom are degraded while the state expands and darkness proliferates. The question then becomes, “What do we do about it?”
For many years, I have urged everyone to get a food storage. I have warned that a time of famine was coming. I have warned about the Elite’s Zero Population agenda of mass genocide using poisoned vaccines, air pollution, water and food contamination, and outride murder. I have warned of a coming global Holodomor. I have constantly urged everyone to gather at least a one-year food storage, including water, warm clothing, and other essentials. I would bet everything we will need it. I have staked my own life on having such preparations.
I know world war, mobocracy, economic collapse, plagues, natural disasters, tyranny, and grid down scenarios are coming. There’s no doubt. It’s not fantasy or conspiracy, it’s reality. We’re seeing the economy tank. We just lived through one man-made plague. We’re enduring tyranny. Natural disasters are increasing everywhere. Riots are raging. War is being fought in more and more nations, and nuclear war is being threatened and, I believe, is inevitable The controlled press is now, just this week, warning of “right-wing extremists” preparing to make attacks on our power grid – which, based on how they usually project, means they are planning to take down the grid (remember, “they” means any wing of the mass global conspiracy). Are you prepared? Could you survive?
I have also recommended folks serious about surviving these dark days to relocate out of the cities. Cities are the work place to be in a crisis. For one thing, and this is highly relevant to our topic, it’s difficult being self-sufficient in a city. There is little space to grow your own food. And that food you do grow will likely be stolen from you by hordes of starving people. In the rural areas, it will be a different story.
In the country, you have the chance to own property, farm, raise animals, homestead, hunt, fish, and forage. In the country, you have good folks who, by their lifestyle, are more self-sufficient and handier. They help each other. There is a greater sense of community. The people, by and large, are more religious, moral, and patriotic. Your chances of survival, and of mounting a resistance to the demonic forces of world tyranny that will come to call, are higher.
No matter how you feel you need to prepare to safeguard your family, I want to emphasis there is still time. Start today. Prepare. Pray for guidance. Follow the quiet promptings you receive. However much time we have left, the end is approaching swiftly. Prepare methodically and at a good clip, though you don’t need to panic buy or do something rash. Know, though, that we’re in the end game, a titanic clash is coming, and your family won’t be exempt.
A mob of maniacs may never march into your neighborhood; or they may do just that. The grinding tank treads of an invading army may never tear up your streets, but they may. Your government may never demand you disarm and send men to round you up, but they have voiced their desire to do just that and they are evil enough to do it given the right pretext. Prepare, carefully but quickly.
As time goes forward, terrorism will increase. Fires, “accidents,” “failures,” and perhaps even bombs and bullets, will increasingly hit power stations and foot factories, oil refineries and pipelines, transportation facilities and trains, and so forth. Don’t be overly alarmed and respond in a panicked and hysterical way. Don’t tune out or be a victim of cognitive dissonance. However, know it’s all part of a well-documented plan to take down your nation and subjugate your family. Expose the plan; light disperses darkness and truth always rises to the surface. React boldly, decisively, and manfully to protect your rights, your principles, your family, the Constitution, and your nation. Inform others. Be fearless. Raise the alarm to rally our brothers and fellow freemen.
Raising the alarm and prompting someone to take current events seriously and prepare their families survive what’s coming is what I hope to have accomplished in some way with this article. Share it with others if you learned something or find some benefit in it.
God bless you to stand firm in the face of terrorism. Hell has been unleashed, but Heaven is stronger. Satan is raging, but the Lord is already victorious. The Devil will rule openly over his usurped kingdom for a season, but seasons change and the true King is returning to claim His throne forever. Keep the faith. Stay the course. Hold the line.
On Memorial Day 2023, we turn our minds to our war dead – those who sacrificed everything for their country, their values, and their loved ones. One author has written:
“America was born in blood. America suckled on blood. America gorged on blood and grew into a giant, and America will drown in blood” (Thomas W. Chittum, Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America, 1).
Traditionally, Americans have loved peace. We have disdained conquest. We have championed the rights of oppressed peoples and nations and the cause of Independence. However, our defense of our principles, our peace, and our People has often led us to war with its abhorrent carnage, misery, and bloodletting. We have also fought unjust wars of aggression that were shameful and an affront to God.
Not every soldier who has ever fought or died is a hero. Not every one has been an exemplary person who served with honor. They don’t all deserve our unwavering respect simply for wearing the uniform or dying on the field of battle. However, the majority of American servicemen who have lost their lives have been sincere people who believed, wrong or right, that they were fighting for a higher cause that was just, noble, and good.
Those who have sincerely believed in the correctness of their cause, who served in an upright and honorable manner in God’s eyes, and who gave their lives doing what they truly thought would liberate or bless other peoples, deserve our honor and respect. Those honorable dead who willingly fought for God and country are the ones I honor today.
Such were the men who fought the British monarchists and traitors for Independence at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill and Trenton, Kings Mountain and Yorktown. Such were the men who demolished the British invaders with General Jackson in New Orleans. Such were the soldiers and militiamen who ended the Indian wars against white settlers and Pioneers. Such were the Confederate warriors who defended their states against Union invasion. Such were the men of the Alamo who warred against Santa Anna and his Mexican aggressors. And on the list goes.
Shortly after Independence had been declared in 1776, Samuel Adams, the Father of the Revolution, gave a rousing speech where he reminded his countrymen of the stakes of the war and the sacrifices that had already been made to secure national sovereignty. He cried:
“Courage, then, my countrymen; our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Dismissing, therefore, the justice of our cause as incontestable, the only question is, What is best for us to pursue in our present circumstances? . . . .
“We are now on this continent, to the astonishment of the world, three millions of souls united in one cause. We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations, and foreign nations are waiting to crown our success by their alliances. There are instances of, I would say, an almost astonishing providence in our favor; our success has staggered our enemies, and almost given faith to infidels; so we may truly say it is not our own arm which has saved us.
“The hand of Heaven appears to have led us on to be, perhaps, humble instruments and means in the great providential dispensation which is completing. We have fled from the political Sodom; let us not look back lest we perish and become a monument of infamy and derision to the world. For can we ever expect more unanimity and a better preparation for defense; more infatuation of counsel among our enemies, and more valor and zeal among ourselves? The same force and resistance which are sufficient to procure us our liberties will secure us a glorious independence and support us in the dignity of free imperial States. We can not suppose that our opposition has made a corrupt and dissipated nation more friendly to America, or created in them a greater respect for the rights of mankind. We can therefore expect a restoration and establishment of our privileges, and a compensation for the injuries we have received from their want of power, from their fears, and not from their virtues. The unanimity and valor which will effect an honorable peace can render a future contest for our liberties unnecessary. He who has strength to chain down the wolf is a madman if he let him loose without drawing his teeth and paring his nails. . . .
“. . . When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny. Ye abandoned minions of an infatuated ministry, if peradventure any should yet remain among us, remember that a [Joseph] Warren and [Richard] Montgomery are numbered among the dead. Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! . . . .
“We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career, while the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from heaven.
“Our Union is now complete; our Constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties: We may justly address you as the decemviri did the Romans, and say: “Nothing that we propose can pass into a law without your consent. Be yourselves, O Americans, the authors of those laws on which your happiness depends.”
“You have now in the field armies sufficient to repel the whole force of your enemies and their base and mercenary auxiliaries. The hearts of your soldiers beat high with the spirit of freedom; they are animated with the justice of their cause, and while they grasp their swords can look up to Heaven for assistance. Your adversaries are composed of wretches who laugh at the rights of humanity, who turn religion into derision, and would, for higher wages, direct their swords against their leaders or their country. Go on, then, in your generous enterprise with gratitude to Heaven for past success, and confidence of it in the future. For my own part I ask no greater blessing than to share with you the common danger and common glory. If I have a wish dearer to my soul than that my ashes may be mingled with those of a Warren and Montgomery, it is that these American States may never cease to be free and independent” (Samuel Adams, Speech, August 1, 1776).
If we wish to continue as free states in this mighty confederacy called the United States, we must remember our fallen warriors. We must remember why they fought. We must remember the values and principles they held so dearly that they were willing to fight, bleed, and die to defend. We must remember their sacrifices – their mangled bodies and corpses. More importantly, we must resolve to make the same ultimate sacrifice for our Faith, Families, and Freedom that they made when the time comes.
The blood of our fallen heroes nourished the American soil. From that fertile ground grew a Liberty tree whose branches have provided more people with the cool shade of Freedom than any Liberty tree ever has. Today, however, many of the branches have withered, the leaves have fallen, and the soil is parched.
After Shay’s Rebellion, Thomas Jefferson made an intriguing remark:
“[G]od forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure” (Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787).
Rebellion to tyrants is the American tradition because rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. God is the Founding Father of America. He required His own Son Jesus Christ to sacrifice for mankind and to lay down His life for those who would repent and follow Him. He redeemed America by the shedding of the blood of her valiant patriots. He will yet preserve America from her current distress through the shedding of her patriotic blood.
Sometimes, doing what is right requires daunting sacrifice. It requires enduring hardship, persecution, trials, false accusations, tribunals, enemy armies, tyrannical governments, enraged mobs, and the scorn of friends. But if it’s right, the only course of action that is honorable is to walk through the fire. If we want the Liberty tree to flourish and cover our children in the cool shade of its lush branches, then we must refresh it with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tyrants are a dime a dozen; patriots are rarer. Be a patriot. Be a freeman. Be a warrior for truth and light. There’s so much to do! There’s a war to win. There’s Freedom to regain. There’s a country to save. There’s immortal glory to gain through our sacrifices and toil.
As we now contemplate the mangled bodies of our war dead who fought and died for their American principles – for their Faith, Families, Freedom – and honor their bravery, future generations will honor us if we stand up boldly, fight manfully, and sacrifice to restore the Republic. Some of us may die, some of us may live; but the outcome will be Liberty! If we die, what better cause is there to die for? If we live, what better action to have taken part in than the reestablishment of Freedom? And, if we live to see the fruits of our labor, we will have the privilege to honor those who did not, but whose blood sanctified our free nation and ensured a bountiful harvest of Liberty.
Today, the best way to honor our dead is to defend what they died defending – their Faith in Christ who redeemed them, their moral values, their virtue, their honor, their traditional Families, their sovereignty, their rule of law, their Constitution, and their Freedom. John Adams highlighted this great truth when he reflected:
“Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it” (John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777).
Our war dead are no doubt rolling in their graves watching Americans squander the Freedom they died for. They no doubt burn with regret and righteous fury watching us elect tyrants, allow despots to steal elections, and to generally sit by silently as a wicked cabal rides roughshod over us. They doubtless mourn for America – the only bastion of Liberty on planet earth.
Do we truly honor our dead if we continue to vote for the same political parties that have sold out our rights and have presided over our demise? Do we respect or spit upon their memory if we let our rights of free speech, association, religious worship, self-defense, jury trial, state sovereignty, and private property, to name a few, be stripped from us? In short, do we really honor our fallen heroes if we let fall the constitutional form of government, and, with it, the God-given natural rights it secures?
American, you must be better. Don’t place flowers on graves or wave the flag or post flowery messages memorializing spilled American blood if you aren’t man enough to publicly, vociferously, and literally fight for Freedom. To do so is hypocrisy and an insult to their memory. The only true memorial to our fallen warriors is to uphold, defend, and perpetuate the Faith, Families, and Freedom they secured with their noble blood.
In the book of Daniel, that great prophet interpreted a dream had by King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel described the “great image” seen by the king as “terrible” (Daniel 2:31). He recounted:
“This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay” (Daniel 2:32-33).
The body of this “great image” was odd, disjointed, and terrible. Of course, what the king saw was not a real man made of gold, silver, brass, iron, and clay. Those are symbols. The image represented a series of evil kingdoms that would be set up by Satan to oppose God’s work of salvation among men.
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul used a similar analogy to sketch the Church of Jesus Christ. The Church is described as a “body” comprised of different members. Though the parts of the body served different functions, they operated together as “one.” He said:
“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
“For the body is not one member, but many. . . .
“But now are they many members, yet but one body.
“And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
“Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary. . . .
“That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. . . .
“Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
“And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 20-22, 25, 27-28).
Paul taught that the “body of Christ,” which is the Church of Jesus Christ, is one. It is not splintered into 45,000 denominations and sects. It cannot permit schism. A divided body of Christ is no body of Christ at all.
Moreover, no part of the body can say to the other parts that they aren’t necessary. If bishops say apostles are no longer necessary, those bishops are in error, have denied the faith, perverted the Plan of God, and mangled the body of Christ. If you find a church that denies apostles and prophets, you can rest assured that it is not the Church of Jesus Christ and that it is out of harmony with the Bible.
The “body of Christ,” or, rather, modern Christendom, is misshapen, disjointed, deformed, contradictory, and corrupt. It bears no resemblance to Biblical Christianity. Protestantism is nothing but schism, division, and chaos. It is a smorgasbord or buffet approach to salvation – whatever you want goes. Every preacher, pastor, or minister thinks he is called of God and goes off and forms his own church. By what authority? Certainly not God’s! Do you recall how the Savior conferred His authority to His apostles? Let me refresh your memory:
“Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
“And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick” (Luke 9:1-2).
The significant point is that Jesus called His apostles – they didn’t call themselves. He empowered them and endowed them with authority – they didn’t endow themselves with authority. He sent them to preach His Gospel – they didn’t send themselves to preach their own version of salvation.
Herein lies the difference between the true Church of Jesus Christ with its legal administrators of Gospel ordinances and all other denominations, sects, and churches that – however sincere they might be – are unauthorized and unapproved by the Lord. The Lord has only ever authorized one Church to bear His name, preach His Gospel, and officiate in His saving ordinances. He taught this doctrine and the apostles taught it after Him.
“no doctrines of [Jesus] lead to schism. it is the speculations of crazy theologists which have made a Babel of a religion the most moral and sublime ever preached to man, and calculated to heal, and not to create differences. these religious animosities I impute to those who call themselves his ministers, and who engraft their casuistries on the stock of his simple precepts” (Thomas Jefferson to Ezra Stiles, June 25, 1819).
Unity is one of the hallmarks of the true Church of Jesus Christ. Disunity, discord, and division are hallmarks of Satanic influence and apostasy. It is absurd to believe the twelve apostles branched off and created their own churches. Obviously, they did not. They remained intact, united, and under one head. It was only after the apostles were hunted down and murdered by the Jews and Romans that an uninspired bishop in Rome and other conniving sophists in other parts of the world derailed the Church by severing its moorings connecting it to the pure doctrine of Christ, eventually leading to monumental schisms, religious wars and persecutions, and centuries of spiritual darkness and apostasy.
I repeat that the body of Christ, His Church, is deformed and disfigured today because of schisms, persecutions, and apostasy spanning a full 1,700 years. Yet, it is incorrect to say that the Church of Jesus Christ is divided. His Church never can be divided for He is at its head. Those professing allegiance to Him, however, have divided themselves among warring factions.
About 1.3 billion people have chosen the Catholic Church as their spiritual home, though who can honestly claim they are united? The Catholic faith is perpetually at war with itself – and with the Bible. Research “anti-popes” to convince yourself that no unbroken line of apostolic succession from Peter could have ever existed in the Catholic Church. Consider also that the office of “pope” is unBiblical. And what of apostles and prophets, seers and revelators?
It is basic history that the bishop of Rome illegitimately usurped authority from the apostles. The apostle John, the last living and highest-ranking apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ, was alive when the bishop of Rome, Linus, claimed authority over the Church. Catholics variously claim that Linus received authority either from Peter or from Paul (and some say Clement was the first bishop). At any rate, Linus’ claim was false. It was a usurpation. Power is not merely granted. No prophet chooses his own successor – only God chooses who will lead His Church.
Besides these facts, no bishop has authority to govern the Church of Jesus Christ because the office of bishop is a lesser authority and does not hold the keys to officiate over the Church. Only apostles hold those keys. By denying apostles, the Catholic Church denies and contradicts its own claim to be the Church of Jesus Christ.
Let’s be clear, the Catholic Church rejects the idea that their popes have been or are apostles. From the Vatican’s own documentation, I quote the following:
“Bishops, therefore, with their helpers, the priests and deacons, have taken up the service of the community, presiding in place of God over the flock, whose shepherds they are, as teachers for doctrine, priests for sacred worship, and ministers for governing. And just as the office granted individually to Peter, the first among the apostles, is permanent and is to be transmitted to his successors, so also the apostles’ office of nurturing the Church is permanent, and is to be exercised without interruption by the sacred order of bishops. Therefore, the Sacred Council teaches that bishops by divine institution have succeeded to the place of the apostles, as shepherds of the Church, and he who hears them, hears Christ, and he who rejects them, rejects Christ and Him who sent Christ.”
In the Catholic view, bishops somehow “succeeded to the place of the apostles,” replacing the office altogether. This is a blatant usurpation. Where in holy writ was the office of apostle or prophet discontinued? Where in the Bible is the office of bishop elevated to the status of apostle or granted the same authority to preside? It is convenient for the Catholic Church that hundreds of years after the true apostles were martyred that bishops magically elevated themselves to a position of leadership over the Church of Jesus Christ.
Logic, scripture, and history dictate that the Catholic claim to leadership over the body of Christ is flawed, unscriptural, and unhistorical. Did not Christ teach the following?
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
“Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
“A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
“Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
“Wherefore by their afruits ye shall know them.
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:15-21).
This passage condemns the Catholic Church as an organization. Many of its members have been the salt of the earth, and I personally know many Catholics whose values I happily share and whose friendship I cherish, but, regardless, institutional corruptness has produced bitter, rotten, detestable fruit. It has produced a “body of Christ” that is “terrible” like the monstrous figure interpreted by Daniel.
History testifies to the effusion of blood, the cries of persecution, the blinding of minds, the reveling in debauchery, and the centuries of schism that the Catholic Church has produced. Numerous popes have been debauched, adulterers, murderers, warmongers, persecutors, and the vilest of sinners; Alexander VI, Leo X, Boniface VIII, John XII, and Sergius III, to cite only five of many.
And what of “anti-popes”? All Catholics know that there have been periods in its church’s history where there have been competing claims to the throne. Where in the Bible do you find such contention? Where do you find the apostles competing over who will lead? Where do you find the prophets killing each other and buying off voters to gain power? History condemns the Catholic claim to supremacy and legitimacy.
Sometimes Catholics blame Protestants for the great schisms that occurred in Christendom. How so? The schisms began 1,700 years ago when Constantine – a fake Christian who introduced paganism to the Catholic Church and fused it together with a perverted version of Christianity that is completely unBiblical – who used the state to mandate his own creedal version of Christ’s Gospel and then persecuted dissenters who rightly rejected it.
And what of the Greek and Russian versions of the Catholic Church? Those broke away long before Protestants arrived on the scene. It was because of so many centuries of bitter division and mass confusion that a few men like Martin Luther – who bothered to read the Bible – began to question the Catholic Church’s man-made doctrines created after the apostles died, man-made offices (such as pope), and man-made ordinances not found in the Bible.
However, in a sense, Protestantism made the situation even more confusing and impossible. Instead of there being several major denominations, there sprang up hundreds, and then thousands, and now tens of thousands. All of them are false because they all come out of the Catholic Church. If the Catholic Church was wrong, how could its children be right? If the Catholic tree produced corrupt fruit, how could a branch from that tree produce good fruit?
Protestantism, as worthy as its idea of getting back to Bible-based Christianity was, did not provide a solution to the problems of disunity in the body of Christ, disharmony in Christian doctrines, or the issue of authority. Let’s take each of these three problems individually.
First, by their very existence and exponential multiplication, Protestant churches have further fractured the “body of Christ,” dividing this group from that, disowning this part or that, and creating great havoc. No one knows the exact number of Christian churches in the world, but it is around 45,000. That is a staggering number and perfect evidence of the continuing dark day of apostasy that enveloped Christendom at least 1,700 years ago.
It is self-evident that not all of these 45,000 churches can be right. It is impossible. Each believes its own doctrine laid down by its own leaders. Each pastor teaches his own unique dogmas, relying on his own learning and understanding and not on the scriptures and the Holy Ghost which is the source of all truth.
Second, the disharmony of Christendom is rampant. Baptists disagree with Methodists, Presbyterians disagree with Jehovah’s Witnesses, Congregationalists disagree with Lutherans, Pentacostals disagree with Episcopalians, and on it goes. Each has a unique mode of baptism, laying on hands, paying tithes, calling/electing leaders, preaching, giving confessions, worshiping, etc. Each church chooses its own doctrines, ordinances, policies, and programs. They take what they like and discard the rest. They preach their own wisdom; all other ideas be damned.
Martin Luther and the 95 Theses
What is there in this mode of Protestant operations that accords with how the Lord’s Church functioned in Biblical times? Most Protestants, like Catholics, deny the need for apostles and prophets. Taking it further than Catholics, however, Protestants often deny the need for any church structure, Priesthood hierarchy, or organization. Who can read the New Testament’s clear teachings on how Christ organized His Church by calling apostles, seventies, and others, sending missionaries out two by two, requiring baptism and the laying on of hands, and so forth, and yet belong to a church that doesn’t admit prophets and apostles or that changes what the Lord instituted?
Protestantism is synonymous with confusion; Catholicism isn’t any better, though they at least admit the need for a Priesthood hierarchy as confirmed umpteen times in the Bible. It seems that Protestants are hellbent on believing the Bible, but only the parts they agree with. They preach the Bible, as they interpret it, and they allow others (within reason) to believe whatever they’d like as well. There’s no unity, no harmony, no brotherhood of faith. It’s every man for himself. Is not this precisely what the Lord warned about when He said:
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).
Protestants fancy themselves the “few there be that find it,” yet none of them agree on anything. How can they flatter themselves they are on the straight and narrow when they are wandering in strange paths that lead in every direction and there is no unity among them? The Bible rebukes them and rejects their doctrines. If the Lord were here today, they were reject Him just as they have already rejected His Gospel and have left the covenant path of salvation.
Third, it is farcical for Christians to claim to teach or perform saving ordinances without authority to do so given to them from God. Be assured, reader, your preacher does not have this authority unless he can directly trace it back to Jesus. He can’t claim to have felt “called” or “led.” That is delusion, fantasy, and folly.
The apostles did not call themselves to the ministry; Jesus called them directly. Abraham, Elijah, Moses, Samuel, Peter, Paul – none of them called themselves; they were called by the Lord through revelation. They didn’t merely feel a burning in their heart and go out to preach; they received an actual call, either through an authorized servant of God who visited them in person or by direct revelation or visitation from the Lord Himself. Moses had his burning bush, Abraham had visions, Peter was invited and called by the mouth of the Lamb of God. Your pastor had what – a “feeling”? Nice try.
“Christ Calling Peter and Andrew” by James T. Harwood
The issue of authority is perhaps the biggest of all. Either the Lord sent your leader and authorized Him to preach and save through ordinances, or He did not. If He did, it should be easy for them to show their Priesthood line of succession back to Christ. If they can’t, they are false teachers who must repent and whose congregants who follow them are being led to damnation unless they check themselves and get on the true path led by shepherds called by the True Shepherd.
Catholics have no legitimate claim to the Lord’s Priesthood authority because their founding bishops were usurpers who did not follow John, the last living apostle, and who have formally denied the office of apostle with its presiding authority. They have elevated bishops above what the Bible allows, twisting the word of God. Yet, their claim is closer than the Protestants’ claim. Protestants have zero claim to Christ’s Priesthood authority because they came out from the Catholics and were a millennium and a half removed from the Savior and don’t even pretend to trace their Priesthood lineage to Peter.
If Catholics and Protestants don’t have authority, how do they baptize? How do they lay their hands on heads and allegedly confer the gift of the Holy Spirit? How do they pretend to officiate in ordinances and in the affairs of the Church (which of the 45,000 churches, anyway)? How do they administer to the sick or cast out evil spirits? How do they lead by revelation which they usually deny? How can they pompously claim authority when they know full well they have no such authority and couldn’t trace it back to Christ if their lives depended on it?
No ordinances entered into are valid unless they are solemnized by the legitimate Priesthood authority of Almighty God. The last presidency of men who held this Priesthood was Peter, James, and John. This authority was shared by the twelve apostles and those who were later added to the apostleship like Matthias and Paul. But Peter, James, and John presided by Christ’s command. When they were martyred, their authority did not devolve onto others and, as one Catholic writer put it, the “Apostolic age [was] over.”
If all of the evidence was not enough to prove apostasy and a revocation of divine authority, an intriguing fact misunderstood by most Christians seals the deal. John the Beloved did not die, but, like Elijah, Enoch, and others who were taken to God, remained. The resurrected Lord, in fact, had said that John “shall not die” but that he should “tarry till I come” and it became a general saying throughout the primitive Church (John 21:21-24). If John still tarries on earth and will remain until the Lord comes, how is it that Linus or any other bishop in Rome claimed to lead the Church of Jesus Christ? John never abdicated his Priesthood. It was a flagrant usurpation of John’s rightful authority for a lesser bishop to claim to succeed Peter.
With all of these facts in mind, it’s impossible not to conclude that the current body of Christ is deformed and disfigured beyond recognition. Were Christ to return today, He would not recognize the mass of confusion that bears His holy name. This is what Thomas Jefferson concluded, and who can disagree with his statement? He said:
“I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel, and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what it’s Author never said nor saw. they have compounded from the heathen mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the great reformer of the vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were he to return on earth, would not recognise one feature” (Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, January 9, 1816).
It is historical fact that the Catholic authorities engrafted Gnostic, Hellenist, Platonic, and other pagan philosophies, forms, titles, and rites onto primitive Christianity, perverting it and changing it. It now resembles Mithraism more than Christianity. Creeds were concocted that diverge from scripture and, in fact, outright deny its plain truths about the nature of God, the nature of man, and the doctrines of Christ. While rejecting most of the outward forms and rites, Protestantism has retained the corrupted doctrines and creedal dogmatism.
Mithras
If Catholics and Protestants are all wrong, have departed from the correct path, and lack authority to perform the most basic saving ordinances, where do we turn for truth and salvation? And let’s be clear, salvation has never been found outside of a revealed and organized Church structure. Never. Not in ancient times, not in the Savior’s day, and not during the age of the apostles. Where, then, do we turn?
It was the faith of learned men like Thomas Jefferson that there would be a “restoration” of pure Christianity. Not a new Reformation, which clearly didn’t work despite its noble intentions, but a Heaven-led Restoration. In a letter to James Smith regarding the advance of Unitarianism and the emergence of civil religious Freedom, Jefferson said:
“I have to thank you for your pamphlets on the subject of Unitarianism, and to express my gratification with your efforts for the revival of primitive Christianity in your quarter. no historical fact is better established than that the doctrine of one god, pure and uncompounded was that of the early ages of Christianity; and was among the efficacious doctrines which gave it triumph over the polytheism of the antients, sickened with the absurdities of their own theology. nor was the unity of the supreme being ousted from the Christian creed by the force of reason, but by the sword of civil government wielded at the will of the fanatic Athanasius. the hocus-pocus phantasm of a god like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads had it’s birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. and a strong proof of the solidity of the primitive faith is it’s restoration as soon as a nation arises which vindicates to itself the freedom of religious opinion, and it’s eternal divorce from the civil authority. the pure and simple unity of the creator of the universe is now all but ascendant in the Eastern states; it is dawning in the West, and advancing towards the South” (Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, December 8, 1822).
Little did Jefferson know that two years prior to this letter, the most glorious event since the Ascencion of the Savior in the Holy Land occurred in upstate New York and formally began the “restoration” of “primitive Christianity” and the bringing of a glorious body of Christ to the earth.
In 1820, a young man walked into a grove of trees to pray. He had read in the epistle of James, first chapter, fifteenth verse, this promise:
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5).
This young man had been tossed on the current of Christian revival. He saw one sect condemn all others and each preach its own unique interpretation of scripture. He expressed his concern that “the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.” He wrote:
“At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the determination to “ask of God,” concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not upbraid, I might venture.
“So, in accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. . . .
“After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.
“But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.
“It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
“My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
“I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
“He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time” (Joseph Smith – History 1:12-20).
This event is known to those of us who believe it and know it to be true by the power of the Holy Ghost as the First Vision. In 1820, the Eternal Father and the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ appeared in glorious vision to a young man who prayed to know the truth in sincerity and humility. They told this lad, Joseph Smith, that an apostasy had overtaken the Church of Christ and that Joseph was to be an instrument in Their hands to restore the truth and authority of Heaven.
Before I say another word, I want to testify to you that I have zero doubt about this happening. I know with every particle of my soul that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God called by Jehovah to restore and preside over His Church in these last days. I testify that this Church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that it possesses the only authentic Priesthood authority on the face of the earth. I witness that the “dispensation of the fulness of times” that Paul foretold (Ephesians 1:10) is now and that it was ushered in when the Father and Son appeared to Joseph Smith in upstate New York in 1820.
On April 6, 1830, after years of heavenly tutoring at the hands of angels, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1829, he received the Priesthood keys and authority to minister and officiate in the Gospel of salvation when John the Baptist first, and Peter, James, and John next, appeared to him and Oliver Cowdery and placed their hands on their head and conferred them. Thus, the Priesthood line initiated by the Savior during His Ministery, which was alive in John, continued through Joseph Smith.
This line of authority continues today through an unbroken chain of apostles and prophets. The full keys and authorities are exercised today by the presiding apostle, President Russell M. Nelson. The presiding authorities – the chief apostles or prophets – of this Dispensation are: Joseph Smith; Brigham Young; John Taylor; Wilford Woodruff; Lorenzo Snow; Joseph F. Smith; Heber J. Grant; George Albert Smith; David O. McKay; Joseph Fielding Smith; Harold B. Lee; Spencer W. Kimball; Ezra Taft Benson; Howard W. Hunter; Gordon B. Hinckley; Thomas S. Monson; Russell M. Nelson.
These men are true messengers from Heaven; duly authorized servants of the living Lord who appeared to Joseph Smith. I testify with all my soul that I know through the Holy Spirit’s sacred manifestations to me that these men were called by revelation and that they are led by the Master. I sustain them and support them because I sustain and support the One who called them and whose Priesthood authority they bear.
Only through the Priesthood authority is salvation found. Yes, salvation comes through Jesus Christ. He is the author of salvation. His Atonement makes it possible. However, He has mandated that we pass through ordinances – that is how we access His divine grace and achieve salvation. For instance, did He not say: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). No one can baptize or be baptized without proper authority. You could be baptized every day the rest of your life and it wouldn’t wash your sins away or open the gate to the Kingdom of God unless the one administering the ordinance had authority from the Savior to perform it.
And what about being born of the Spirit? We know very well how the Spirit is given as a gift after baptism. Acts chapter 8 teaches us the process:
“[W]hen they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. . . .
“Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
“Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
“(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
“Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
“And when Simon [the sorcerer] saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
“Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
“But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money” (Acts 8:12, 14-20).
This shows perfectly the order of the Church of God. Who baptized the people of Samaria? Philip – an authorized apostle. The report of his baptisms was given to higher authorities – Peter and John. They arrived and laid their hands on the baptized individuals to confirm them members of the Church of Jesus Christ and to grant the gift of the Holy Ghost. If Philip did not have authority to baptize, the baptisms would have meant nothing. If Peter and John would not have had authority to lay on their hands, they could not have given the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Also note that the Holy Ghost did not magically come upon the baptized individuals. In only one instance recorded in the Bible did the Holy Ghost ever fall upon people. That was the case of Cornelius, the Gentile. To open the eyes of the Jews to the fact that the Gentiles were also permitted to receive the Gospel and enter His Church, the Lord poured out the Holy Ghost upon the Gentiles. Read Acts 10 for the account.
It “astonished” Peter and the others because it was highly irregular – a singular sign that departed from the usual order. After the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, Peter ordered those who received it to be baptized – showing that the laws and ordinances of God must be complied with at all time. Thus, even this incident proves the necessity of authority. The Holy Ghost would have fallen upon these Gentiles in vain if they had not then complied with the ordinance of baptism ordered by Peter who was God’s recognized and chosen authority.
Again, I say, that there is no salvation outside of ordinances, and no ordinances are acceptable to God unless they are completed in His way and by His authority. A random believer cannot take another person down into his local river and baptize him and expect it to be recognized in Heaven. It’s a nice gesture, but it’s unauthorized by the Savior, and, thus, null and void.
Can your pastor, priest, preacher, minister, or guide trace his Priesthood authority back to Jesus? All Latter-day Saint Priesthood holders can. We can trace our Priesthood to Joseph Smith who received the lower Priesthood under the hands of John the Baptist and the higher Priesthood through Peter, James, and John. Peter, James an John received their higher Priesthood directly under the hands of the Author of that Priesthood – the Lord Jesus Christ. If you want to be baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and thus become candidates for the Kingdom of Heaven, only a duly-authorized Latter-day Saint Priesthood holder may officiate in those ordinances according to the revealed pattern.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a Protestant organization formed from schisms or attempts to repair what was broken; it is a restored organization. It did not come because a man studied in books and had a different idea, but because the God of Heaven appeared to him and elected Him to be His instrument in taking His truth to the world. This was prophesied in the Bible, but few Bible believing Christians recognize it or interpret the numerous references wrongly.
Peter, James, and John conferring the Priesthood upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery
For example, Paul spoke of the “dispensation of the fulness of times” in which all things would be gathered in one in Christ (Ephesians 1:10).
John testified of the Gospel being revealed anew from Heaven in the last days before Christ’s return: “I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every enation, and kindred, and tongue, and people” (Revelation 14:6).
Isaiah spoke of a future apostate age in which people would honor the Lord with their lips but will have “removed their heart far from me.” This age of apostasy would be interrupted by an inspired man that would receive another book of scripture that would be given to him from Heaven and which would commence a “marvellous work and a wonder” that would defy the so-called wisdom of the self-wise (Isaiah 29:10-14).
Ezekiel also saw this book of scripture and said that it would join the Bible and be one in the Lord‘s hands: “Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand” (Ezekiel 37:19).
Malachi said that Elijah would appear before the Lord returned; but what Christian denomination claims such a visitation? (Malachi 4:5-6).
Micah foretold that “in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Micah 4:1-2). Where is the house of God set up in the mountains and where is the law that issues forth from a Zion that is clearly not the same as Jerusalem?
Finally, Daniel prophesied of a “stone cut out of the mountains without hands” that is His Church, or Kingdom. “[T]he God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever” (Daniel 2:44-45).
What other church beside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fulfills each of these divine requirements from the Bible? Which other church is built on a foundation of apostles and prophets, seventies and elders, patriarchs and teachers, and sends men and women two by two into all the world in their tens of thousands to preach the everlasting Gospel? Which other church practices the laying on of hands to give the Holy Ghost, to administer to the sick, and to perform sacred ordinances? Which other Christian denomination worships in holy temples as the Lord and His apostles did?
It simply defies reason to reject The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint’s claims to be the Lord’s only true and living Church. If it is not The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, then please show me the other organization that fulfills all of these requirements, that is led by apostles and prophets with Priesthood authority they can trace back to the Savior, that can show when an angel brought them the everlasting Gospel, that can show when and where Elijah returned, that has another book of scripture that has joined the Bible as a witness of Christ, that has houses (or temples) of God set up in the mountains of Zion, or that fulfills any of the other glorious promises about restoration and uniting all things in Christ.
Modern Christendom is more like the disfigured and terrible man of brass, iron, and clay than the unified body of Christ spoken of by Paul. Truly, all of the 45,000 sects that claim Christ are incorrect except one. There can be only one. If it was not the Catholic Church, and it clearly was not, then it cannot be any Protestant church or Orthodox church that broke off of it. Instead, we must look for a Kingdom set up without hands by God through heavenly manifestations, revelations, and angelic visitations. We must look for a new book of scripture that complements and confirms the Bible and stands as another witness for Christ. We must look for new apostles and prophets and the Priesthood authority to perform miracles, officiate in ordinances, and lead the Church of Jesus Christ.
I submit that only one institution fits the bill. That is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of His Church and His restorative work initiated with Joseph Smith in these last days the Lord testified to the world via revelation in this manner. His words offer a stinging rebuke, but hold out the hand for all to search these things, learn the truth, and join themselves to His Church and prepare for His coming:
“For verily the voice of the Lord is unto all men, and there is none to escape. . . .
“And the rebellious shall be pierced with much sorrow; for their iniquities shall be spoken upon the housetops, and their secret acts shall be revealed.
“And the voice of warning shall be unto all people, by the mouths of my disciples, whom I have chosen in these clast days.
“And they shall go forth and none shall stay them, for I the Lord have commanded them.
“Behold, this is mine authority, and the authority of my servants, and my preface unto the book of my commandments [The Doctrine and Covenants], which I have given them to publish unto you, O inhabitants of the earth.
“Wherefore, fear and tremble, O ye people, for what I the Lord have decreed in them shall be fulfilled.
“And verily I say unto you, that they who go forth, bearing these tidings unto the inhabitants of the earth, to them is power given to seal both on earth and in heaven, the unbelieving and rebellious;
“Yea, verily, to seal them up unto the day when the wrath of God shall be poured out upon the wicked without measure—
“Unto the day when the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work, and measure to every man according to the measure which he has measured to his fellow man.
“Wherefore the voice of the Lord is unto the ends of the earth, that all that will hear may hear:
“Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come, for the Lord is nigh;
“And the anger of the Lord is kindled, and his sword is bathed in heaven, and it shall fall upon the inhabitants of the earth.
“And the arm of the Lord shall be revealed; and the day cometh that they who will not hear the voice of the Lord, neither the voice of his servants, neither give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut off from among the people;
“For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant;
“They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth fold and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.
“Wherefore, I the Lord, knowing the calamity which should come upon the inhabitants of the earth, called upon my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and spake unto him from heaven, and gave him commandments;
“And also gave commandments to others, that they should proclaim these things unto the world; and all this that it might be fulfilled, which was written by the prophets—
“The weak things of the world shall come forth and break down the mighty and strong ones, that man should not counsel his fellow man, neither trust in the arm of flesh—
“But that every man might speak in the name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world;
“That faith also might increase in the earth;
“That mine everlasting covenant might be established;
“That the fulness of my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world, and before kings and rulers.
“Behold, I am God and have spoken it; these commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they might come to understanding.
“And inasmuch as they erred it might be made known;
“And inasmuch as they sought wisdom they might be instructed;
“And inasmuch as they sinned they might be chastened, that they might repent;
“And inasmuch as they were humble they might be made strong, and blessed from on high, and receive knowledge from time to time.
“And after having received the record of the Nephites, yea, even my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., might have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of God, the Book of Mormon.
“And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased. . . .
“What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same.
“For behold, and lo, the Lord is God, and the Spirit beareth record, and the record is true, and the truth bideth forever and ever. Amen” (Doctrine and Covenants 1:2-30, 38-39).
I again bear my personal, independent testimony that I know the Lord has spoken in these last days through Joseph Smith. I know that The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ is a companion to the Holy Bible and that it witnesses of Christ’s divinity, mission, and Atonement. I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only Church of Christ on earth. I know that God’s Priesthood is on the earth and that all men and women who want to be saved must humbly receive the ordinances of salvation under the hands of authorized Latter-day Saint Priesthood holders. And I witness that the Lord directs this marvelous work via revelation through prophets and apostles, the chief of whom, at present, is President Russell M. Nelson.
My witness is unimpeachable because it is from the Holy Ghost. The Spirit does not lie. These truths fill me with light and joy and expand my understanding of who I am, my relationship to Heavenly Father, and the reality and nature of my Redeemer Jesus Christ. They are good fruits from a good tree. I invite everyone to join me in feasting upon the truths of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The body of Christ is not divided or deformed, however wavering and feeble some of its professed members may be. Its doctrines emanated from Heaven. Its scriptures came through revelation and by angels. Its Priesthood was conferred by the ancient apostles who received it from Christ, and is held by living prophets. The fullness of the everlasting Gospel with its sacred covenants and saving truths and ordinances is in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only. Of this, I bear my personal witness which I have from God.
Motherhood should be encouraged and celebrated. However, righteous motherhood should be honored, praised, and encouraged even more. Except those who have prohibitive medical conditions, all women are naturally capable of becoming mothers. What’s more, they are expected by their God and Creator to become mothers to rear and nurture His children in this mortal existence. All women, then, regardless of age, should have their eyes fixed upon the goal and potential of not only becoming mothers, but becoming righteous mothers.
The first command ever given to mankind, to our first parents Adam and Eve, has never been rescinded and is in full force today:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:27-28).
Men and women are supposed to procreate and multiply. Making families is not merely an incidental part of the Plan of Salvation, it is a central tenet. From the very beginning, the family unit has been the most fundamental and important unit in society. It is the mainspring of all virtue and vices, Freedom and slavery, righteousness and iniquity. And it is the fundamental unit of government and civilization revealed by Heaven.
The patriarchal pattern and order of marriage was established at the time God joined man and woman together in the covenant of marriage and commanded them to multiply:
“[T]he Lord God . . . made . . . a woman, and brought her unto the man.
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 1:22-24).
Both man and woman were created to complement each other and to be helpmeets to one another. The man was given specific duties, talents, and proclivities, and the woman was given other duties, talents, and proclivities. While men and women share the same basic human nature and desires for good, our male and female microchip has been programmed differently for the Lord’s special purposes.
Subsequent scriptural declarations describe the type of relationship that should prevail within the sacred and holy bonds of marriage. The Apostle Paul taught the Ephesian Saints:
“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh” (Ephesians 5:21-31).
This is the pattern for a superb marriage. A Christian marriage is founded on love, mutual respect, holiness, careful care for one another, selfless sacrifice for the other’s wellbeing, faithfulness to the Lord, and a harmonious working relationship between the husband and wife in their separate and respective duties.
There is not a word in this passage about either domineering or servile behavior. Men are not intended to rule as tyrants and women are not required to slavishly comply with every word and demand uttered by their husbands. Yet, the fact is that God choose the man to lead. He is supposed to lead in love, respect, and righteousness. He is supposed to nourish and cherish his wife. In his inspired role as patriarch, he is to provide, protect, instruct, discipline, and uplift his family.
Likewise, the woman was chosen by God for special purposes. She is to follow, assist, and help her husband in the work of founding their family on the rock of the Redeemer Jesus Christ. She is meant to be a shining example of virtue. She is designed to be the heart of the home, the light of the family, the one who warms the hearth with her sweet spirit, the one who nurtures and exudes love and comfort, and the blessed homemaker who turns a house into a home.
Through a barrage of slanderous teachings, distortions, and propaganda, modern feminist society has successfully convinced women that motherhood, homemaking, and good old-fashioned wifery are boring, outdated, unproductive, less valuable than “a man’s work,” mundane, a waste of talent, and even oppressive. These malicious myths have prodded many women into the workforce. Instead of being the housewives, homemakers, and mothers God, nature, and all true men want them to be, they are now workplace pawns slaving away in 9-5 jobs and wasting their talent on things that no one will remember or care about in the eternities.
Let’s dispel a massive myth right now; namely, the idea that you can successfully be a full-time mother and a full-time employee. This is logically impossible. If you work full-time with little children shipped off to day care, a babysitter, or a relative’s, how can you possibly believe you are a full-time mother? Delegating your duties makes you something of a surrogate mother. The one who cares for, feeds, changes, plays with, and teaches your child is more of a mother than you are.
I want to quickly clarify that I don’t condemn those who must work to help support their family. There are many good women who, because of financial difficulties or a husband’s injury or some other extenuating factor, have to work outside the home. God bless you for the righteous desires. These mothers are still doing their duty and should be helped in their challenging circumstances.
There are tens of millions of women, however, who work as a matter of course or who choose to put their families second after their careers. That’s exactly what is happening – they prioritize work, career, personal advancement, money, status, reputation, or physical things over the wellbeing of their family. Such is the opposite of righteous motherhood.
In 1981, a great man of God, Ezra Taft Benson, gave a sermon titled “The Honored Place of Woman.” In it, he warned women of prioritizing incorrectly. He emphasized the prime importance of women in the home. He gave counsel on how women can help save the souls of God’s children and claim a crown of eternal happiness in Heaven. I hold his talk close to my heart and consider it the most poignant and powerful address ever given on motherhood and womanhood. I therefore quote generously from its inspired declarations. President Benson taught:
“We must ever keep in mind that it is the design of Satan to thwart the plan of our Eternal Father. The plan of the adversary is to destroy the youth of the Church . . . and to destroy the family unit.
“In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood. God said, “It was not good that the man should be alone; wherefore, I will make an help meet for him.” (Moses 3:18.)
“Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.
“Before the world was created, in heavenly councils the pattern and role of women were prescribed. You were elected by God to be wives and mothers in Zion. Exaltation in the celestial kingdom is predicated on faithfulness to that calling.
“Since the beginning, a woman’s first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.
“Since the beginning, her role has been to teach her children eternal gospel principles. She is to provide for her children a haven of security and love—regardless of how modest her circumstances might be.
“In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow—not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother’s place is in the home!
“I recognize there are voices in our midst which would attempt to convince you that these truths are not applicable to our present-day conditions. If you listen and heed, you will be lured away from your principal obligations.
“Beguiling voices in the world cry out for “alternative life-styles” for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
“These individuals spread their discontent by the propaganda that there are more exciting and self-fulfilling roles for women than homemaking . . . They also say it is wise to limit your family so you can have more time for personal goals and self-fulfillment. . . .
“It is a misguided idea that a woman should leave the home, where there is a husband and children, to prepare educationally and financially for an unforeseen eventuality. Too often, I fear, even women in the Church use the world as their standard for success and basis for self-worth. . . .
“Some Saints are deluded into believing that more and better circumstances will improve their self-image. A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances. Mary, the mother of our Savior, was of most modest circumstances, yet she knew well her responsibility and took joy in it. Remember her humble exclamation to her cousin Elisabeth: “He hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” (Luke 1:48; italics added.) Her strength was inward, not from outward material things.
“It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
“We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s influence.
“Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.
“It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character.
“Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness.
“How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when neglected!
“I do not wish to wound any feelings, but all of us are aware of instances of active Latter-day Saint [i.e. Christian] families who are experiencing difficulties with their children because mother is not where she ought to be—in the home. . . .
“The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when mother works outside the home. You mothers should carefully count the cost before you decide to share breadwinning responsibilities with your husbands. It is a truism that children need more of mother than of money. . . .
“Years ago, a son wrote to his mother and asked her what she did to successfully rear her children—all nineteen of them! She wrote him this reply:
““The writing anything about my way of education I am much adverse to. It cannot, I think, be of service to anyone to know how I, who have lived such a retired life for so many years, used to employ my time and care in bringing up my own children. No one can, without renouncing the world, in the most literal sense, observe my methods; and there are few, if any, that would entirely devote above twenty years of the prime of life in hopes to save souls of their children, which they think may be saved without so much ado; for that was my principal intention, however unskillfully and unsuccessfully managed.” (Franklin Wilder, Immortal Mother, New York: Vantage Press, 1966, p. 43; italics added.)
“That mother was Susannah Wesley, and the son who wrote was John Wesley, one of the great reformers. Twenty years of the prime of life in the hopes of saving the souls of her children! Such a task required skill, competence, courage, intelligence, and ingenuity far above any career.
“Do you want a principle for successful motherhood? Make time to teach your children the gospel and principles of gospel living when they are young. It may be that you too will need to “renounce the world” and “devote above twenty years of the prime of life in hopes to save the souls of [your] children.”
“No accomplishment transcends the building of the character of a son or a daughter of God.”
Women, mothers, do you understand how important you are in God’s Plan for the salvation of His children? You are essential! Your role is no lesser than a man’s because it takes place in the home away from the eyes of the world. Your efforts are not wasted because you don’t receive a paycheck in dollars and cents. Your talents are not squandered because they are not on public display. Quite to the contrary! Your talents can be fully used and perfected only in the home!
Ladies, the home is where you were designed to shine! Only as mothers do you fully fulfill the measure of your creation. If you remain single or childless through no fault of your own, yet remain faithful to your covenants with God, all of these blessings will be bestowed upon you in the eternities. However, if you neglect or intentionally put off your opportunity to marry, have children, and experience the joy of motherhood and traditional homemaking, you will reap regret. As President Benson said, you may even forfeit your exaltation in Heavenly Father’s Kingdom.
A woman’s place in the home is a place of honor and eternal reward. A righteous mother is a benefit to her family, community, nation, and world. Her influence is far greater than the influence of CEOs, scientists, realtors, bankers, or news anchors. Climbing the corporate ladder doesn’t get you one inch closer to Heaven, while raising little boys and girls to become faithful and upright men and women and remaining virtuous in the process will write your name in the book of life.
When women embrace detrimental philosophies, like feminism, and live the type of life that prevents them from embracing marriage or motherhood, or from fully participating in them as first priorities, they heap upon themselves judgment. If women would be honored by God, they must honor Him by obeying His commandments to become one flesh with a man, submitting to that man as a helpmeet and full partner in the work of creating a family, raising righteous posterity, and turning a house into a home by their sweet, feminine influence.
We have pointed out that men are appointed by God to lead their families. But where, pray tell, does a child’s obedience and willingness to follow his father’s direction originate? It comes from the mother’s example! Why would a little toddler listen to his father if he sees his mother ignore or disobey him? Why would a little girl respect her father if her mother doesn’t respect him?
The pioneer leader Brigham Young often gave counsel to women on how to magnify their divine calling as wives, mothers, and homemakers. On one occasion, he said:
“What faults do I discover in my neighbors’ families? I can see their women go off visiting, riding on horseback, attending parties, while their little ones are neglected, and left to run at large in the streets, exposed to the pernicious examples of vile company. Hear it again! The blood of these wicked children will be required at the hands of their mothers! Should your husbands be called out to fight the Indians, or go to the islands of the sea to gather the poor, it is none of your business, when it is their calling to be away from home.
“I want education to commence here. I wish you strictly to follow out this principle, and when children are old enough to labor in the field, then the father will take them in charge. If children are not taught by their mothers, in the days of their youth, to revere and follow the counsels of their fathers, it will be hard indeed for the father ever to control them. I know it is so, for it is too true. Mothers will let their children go to the Devil in their childhood and when they are old enough to come under the immediate guidance of their fathers, to be sent out to preach the Gospel in the world, or to learn some kind of mechanism, they are as uncontrollable as the winds that now revel in the mountains. . . .
“Let education commence at this point, you mothers! . . . Let mothers commence to teach their children while in their laps, there do you learn them to love the Lord, and keep His commandments. Teach them to keep your commandments, and you will learn them to keep the commandments of your husbands. It is not the prerogative of a child to dictate to his mother, or his father; and it is not the prerogative of the father to rise up and dictate to his God whom he serves. Is it right that my wife should dictate to me? It is just as reasonable, and as right, as it is for your children to rise up and dictate to their mother. It is not their business to dictate to you, their duty is to obey, and not to dictate. . . .
“I wish to impress my lecture more particularly upon the minds of mothers. Am I not continually exhorting the brethren to be kind to their families, and never to ill use a human being on the earth? I exhort you, masters, fathers, and husbands, to be affectionate and kind to those you preside over. And let them be obedient, let the wife be subject to her husband, and the children to their parents. Mothers, let your minds be sanctified before the Lord, for this is the commencement, the true foundation of a proper education in your children, the beginning point to form a disposition in your offspring, that will bring honor, glory, comfort, and satisfaction to you all your life time. To the mothers who may be here today, who have not the experience they will have, and young women who are perhaps just entering upon the stage of life, let me say (and I wish you always to keep it in remembrance, even you younger females who have newly entered into the sacred state of matrimony), fulfil the commandments of Eloheim, fill up the measure of your creation, that the joy of your hearts may be full in the day of the resurrection, in that you have done all you could to fulfil His law, and bring to pass the purposes of the Lord. Always keep your minds pure before the Lord. You may say it is impossible, because of your temptations, but let me inquire, Do you pray? Did you pray this morning, before you left your houses? Did you pray last evening, before you laid your bodies down to rest? Did you pray that the Holy Spirit might rest upon you, so that your sleep might be sweet and refreshing? Some of you may reply, that you have children, and have not time to pay attention to this duty in the morning. Some of you may have sick families, and others of you may be afflicted in other ways, and you will offer these facts as reasons for similar neglect. In these circumstances the mind must be centered upon the Lord, and upon His work, continually. When you embark to fill up the end of your creation, never cease to seek to have the Spirit of the Lord rest upon you, that your minds may be peaceable, and as smooth as the summer breezes of heaven. Never cease a day of your life to have the Holy Ghost resting upon you. Fathers, never cease to pray that your wives may enjoy this blessing, that their infants may be endowed with the Holy Ghost, from their mother’s womb. If you want to see a nation rise up full of the Holy Ghost, and of power, this is the way to bring it about.”
Righteous motherhood begins with personal righteousness. Prayer, scripture study, service, worship, charity, fidelity, love, and all other virtues, are necessary. It is hard for a woman, as a mother, to teach her children virtue, chastity, prayer, or devotion to God if she herself does not live, or try to live, them. From birth, children should be taught about their Father in Heaven, His Plan of Salvation, their Savior Jesus Christ and His redemption, and the other teachings of the Gospel. Who better to teach children at this tender age than mothers who spend the most time with them?
Another time, Young observed the powerful influence women have over the affairs of the earth. In a mighty sermon to Christian sisters, he declared:
“When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and sisters, and the influence they wield, I look upon them as the mainspring and soul of our being here. It is true that man is first. Father Adam was placed here as king of the earth, to bring it into subjection. But when Mother Eve came she had a splendid influence over him. A great many have thought it was not very good; I think it was excellent. After she had partaken of the fruit she carried it to her husband, saying, “Husband, a certain character came to me and said if you will eat of this fruit you will find it excellent, and it will make you as Gods, knowing good from evil; and I have tasted it, and I assure you it is excellent.” Her influence was so great with Adam that he also partook of it, and his eyes were opened. You know the result—they were both driven from the garden. Before this, however, they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth and thus fill the measure of their creation.
“Now, I say the women have great influence. Look at the nations of the earth. Any nation you like, no matter which, and you enlist the sympathies of the female portion of it and what is there you cannot perform? If the government wants soldiers, they are on hand; if means, it is forthcoming. If you want influence and power, and have the ladies on your side, they will give it you. You take a nation that is going to war, whether our nation or any other; in the late struggle, for instance, between the Northern and Southern States, suppose all the mothers, sisters and daughters of the Republic had set their will and determination that no soldiers should go to the field, how many do you suppose would have been obtained? A few Irishmen and Germans might have been hired, but that is all. This is the influence the ladies hold in the nations of the earth. It is true that they are not allowed to go to the ballot-box, but let the females in any district be united and say that such a man shall not go to Congress, and I reckon he cannot go. He may make up his mind to stay at home and make shingles, raise potatoes, or do something else. If he is a lawyer, he may try to get a living by pleading law, but he cannot go to Congress. And when the ladies say send such a man, he is pretty sure to go if they are united and determined that it shall be so. The ladies may not know that they wield so much influence as this, and they would probably want some outward sign before they could be convinced, but it is nevertheless true that their influence is as powerful as I have stated.
“Now, a few words directly to my sisters here in the kingdom of God. We want your influence and power in helping to build up that kingdom, and what I wish to say to you is simply this, if you will govern and control yourselves in all things in accordance with good, sound, common sense and the principles of truth and righteousness, there is not the least fear but what father, uncle, grandfather, brothers, and sons will follow in the wake. . . .
“One thing is very true and we believe it, and that is that a woman is the glory of the man; but she was not made to be worshipped by him. As the Scriptures say, Man is not without the woman, neither is woman without the man in the Lord. Yet woman was not made to be worshipped any more than man was. A man is not made to be worshipped by his family; but he is to be their head, and to be good and upright before them, and to be respected by them. It is his privilege to walk erect, to converse the same as God, in fact he is made in the express image of his Heavenly Father, and he should honor this position. Yet he is not made to be worshipped, but to be the head and superior, and to be obeyed in all love and kindness, and the woman is to be his helpmeet. Woman has her influence, and she should use that in training her children in the way they should go; if she fails to do this she assumes fearful responsibilities.
“We have instances in this Church of mothers full of faith and good works, and if you mark their children you cannot find one that is froward in his ways; I do not remember an instance among the children of such mothers but what believed in and delighted in the Gospel. We have also here the children of mothers of an opposite character—mothers who have been careless and indifferent about the Gospel or the kingdom of God, and, if you mark their children, they are the same, and they stray away from the kingdom of God and from the ordinances of life and salvation. This is the result of the influence of the mother; I am an eyewitness of it.
“If our sisters comprehended the power they bear and the influence they wield in the midst of the people it does appear to me that they would consider their condition a little more than they do.”
While many women seek a false form of “liberation” from their God-given duties and the roles for which they were designed, righteous women recognize their power and influence. In seeking for power and influence outside the home, feminist women have abdicated their greatest potential for influence – motherhood.
Godly women embrace their powerful influence not by living a single and “independent” life, as they suppose it is, but by becoming righteous mothers in the home who raise faithful posterity to the Lord. Nothing is more important to society and the world than righteous motherhood. And women have been called by God Almighty to fulfill this all-important role. What a blessing! What privilege!
Women, what more could you want? What can a career in an office give you in terms of things that matter most in eternity that motherhood and molding the minds and manners of the rising generation can’t? If you find motherhood drudgery, might I suggest you’re doing it wrong or have the wrong attitude. Speaking as a man, I guarantee you that if God wanted me in the home instead of providing for my family, nothing could keep me away. What better life could I desire than to be in the home with my spouse and my children?
Finally, of women’s innate influence over their children and, thus, over society, President Brigham Young stated:
“I know that mothers can teach their children; and they ought to teach them, and this is my duty to tell you what to do in this case. Remember to traditionate your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Teach them as they ought to be taught, that they will have faith from their youth up, and the Spirit of the Lord to direct them, that they may never lose sight of this faith in Christ, and our Heavenly Father; and when they are old they will not depart from the good path. I am firm in the faith, and verily believe, that if mothers will bring up their children aright, and give them that early training that they should have, their children will grow up and never depart from the path of rectitude and truth.
“The mothers are the moving instruments in the hands of Providence to guide the destinies of nations. Let the mothers of any nation teach their children not to make war, the children would grow up and never enter into it. Let the mothers teach their children, “War, war upon your enemies, yes, war to the hilt!” and they will be filled with this spirit. Consequently you see at once what I wish to impress upon your mind is, that the mothers are the machinery that give zest to the whole man, and guide the destinies and lives of men upon the earth.”
It is a proverb that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. In a very real sense, it is true. The training mothers give their children in one generation becomes the principles and policies of adult men and women in the next generation. Many women complain about the conduct of men, yet they decline to be mothers – nullifying the validity of their arguments and marking them as hypocrites. The quiet, unsung, humble women who cheerfully embrace motherhood are the ones who are doing the most to shape the future, fix society’s problems, and raise the leaders, husbands, prophets, warriors, and statesmen of the next generation.
I honor my own mother and her selfless devotion to our family and home. I also recognize her firm faith in our Father in Heaven and in His Son’s Gospel. She is a righteous woman and a righteous mother. Whatever else my mother may have accomplished in life, such as becoming an EMT and CNA since her children left home, it takes a back seat to her decades of loving, tireless service as a full-time mother and homemaker committed to the rearing of her sons and daughters in holiness. I love you, Mom.
To the other women, I would say continue being mothers even though your children may have left the nest. You can love, encourage, and nurture them now as before. You can continue being a beacon of light and love for them. Encourage them in their motherly duties, instruct them, and provide a worthy example for them.
To all the young women, I say prepare for the day when you will become a mother. After serving God in faith, make becoming a righteous mother your number one priority. Nothing you ever do will be as important and impactful. If you don’t feel a desire to be a mother, pray to receive it. Being a mother will bless your life and you will be in a greater position to bless the lives of others and your community more by being a mother than by going into the workforce. Generations of those yet unborn will remember you and praise your name if you do your best to be a righteous mother who raises children to the Lord.
To all the mothers currently raising children, which includes my wife and my sisters, I say God bless you! You are doing what the world despises. You are swimming against the current. You are enduring the mocking and scoffing of Babylon, but you are fulfilling the commandments of your Eternal Father. You are a partner with Him in raising His precious sons and daughters. Nothing is more important in this life!
Now and in the eternities, your roles as wife and mother are the highest and holiest callings you will receive. In mortality, it is rare to find an old woman without children who doesn’t regret not having them. It is equally rare to find an old woman with many children and grandchildren who isn’t grateful for them and who doesn’t think they are their biggest blessing.
Stay strong, mothers. Step into your critical role more fully. Use your myriad of talents and abilities, your God-given gifts and skills, to better our world by molding its next generation. If you work outside the home by choice, go home and make it your sanctuary and abode and devote your life to your family and children. Be full-time mothers and watch the blessings flow. If you work because you are compelled to, may the Lord ease your burdens and assist you in finding a way back home and keeping your children on the straight and narrow per your righteous desires. In all cases, mothers, your selfless sacrifices are noted in Heaven and by those who love you and who are indebted to you for so much.
Ladies, please remember that the home is where you were designed to shine! You will find infinitely more fulfillment, joy, peace, Freedom, and influence as a wife, homemaker, and mother than you ever can in the corporate or business world. Your names will be remembered and blessed by your posterity for all time. Being a righteous mother of virtue, loving service, and firm faith in the Savior Jesus Christ, will not only make you infinitely valuable to your community, but will also earn you a crown of glory in the world to come. God bless you!
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