• Addendum: Written July, 2024
No one is above the danger! Individuals can sometimes be amazing in the good they do, but perhaps even more so, is the ability of humanity to continue in ignorance. Just since this truth reflecting these terrible world conditions was published in 2010, the world has been repeatedly shaken into wakefulness by yet more bad. There was the Covid Pandemic, then again by the ungodly cruel war in Ukraine, destroying people just trying to have a life and stay alive. [Like all the rest of us, right?] Then, too, there is the threat of nuclear war in Taiwan. And now most recently, in the unprovoked godless attack on Israel with the sustained horror in Gaza [again bringing nuclear threat and the horrors caused by Israel's inescapable and undeniable need to completely destroy Hamas]. Russia has shown herself, no longer a real and proud nation, but a nation size gang of worthless pilfering thieves who murder to take what people have. But, maybe not all of them! Ukraine has now invaded Russia, perhaps with a realization the true sons and daughters of Mother Russia have no heart to fight Ukrainians, because Russians realize Ukraine is innocent in the war Putin started. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown himself to be a brave man, thus humiliating Putin by his very existence. Ukraine has to know, what ever treaty is reached, Putin will not rest until Zelenskyy is dead. Do we now see the true Russian people would just as soon see the Ukrainian Army move forward and kill Putin? Putin can't pull his heartless mongrel mercenaries out of Ukraine to defend himself in Russia, because they will just keep robbing and raping and murdering women and children like Putin encouraged them to do in Ukraine; and in the other countries he has unleashed them on. Even Putin has to know they all of them remember what he did to his long time close friend and mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin; when Putin first had a disagreement, and then a peace agreement, with Prigozhin. Now, the great nation of China seems to be showing she wants to be just like Russia, in aligning herself with Putin. Or, seeing Putin in decline, is China ready to invade Russia like she is with Taiwan? Sadly, in these end times, much of the world have become eaters of hearts, as they become or join gangs, organized by religion or politics or race or... to steal and take and do harm, legally [only by man's unjust laws (Heb 10:30-31)] or otherwise, rather than working to build up humanity they become takers. Take heart, Christ's words [shared in this letter] are awakening everyone alive to both the danger, and, to their own responsibility before God. (John 15:22) The Palestinian citizens in Gaza have become fed up with Hamas, as they have been forced to realize the promises of Hamas to help them were only lies. Hamas's now obvious and only long term goal and plan has been to kill Israeli's, preparing for many decades to willingly sacrifice Gazan women and children as their shields to do so. We note the state of Israel now also seems to have had enough... They feel the less than worthless leaders of their enemies, (Deu 13:13 of 13-15. Judges 19:22; Judges 20:12-13) those venomous serpents (Rev 12:7-9) who target and kill their children, should start hiding in rat holes like Saddam Hussein did in his last days. Do not YOU be deceived; Hussein's fate and worse is what God has in store for all the wicked... (Mal 3:16-4:3) The Israelis have decided to root out those demon worshipping murderers from their ivory towers where they have lived in luxury while planing death and destruction for innocent women and children. Those leaders have been protected because they have been able to convince the ignorant minions who have been silly enough to believe in and follow them, that joining their fight is the doing of God's work... Can't you see God's hand in allowing the wicked nations to orchestrate all we now see? (Rev 19:17-19) Please don't misunderstand what we are saying: It's not the fleshly state or nation of Israel the wicked have to fear. They should fear יהוה. All these bad actors, meaning everyone except the true followers of Jesus Christ, are now naked and openly exposed for what their terrible nature really is. (Rev 16:15 of 14-16; Rev 3:17-18 of 14-18) Have you heard from Christ, and do you understand, what you can do to save YOURSELF alive? In addition to those few problems mentioned, we have seen the increase in "natural" disasters as much of our world burns in fires and/or in the heat of drought; or, is blown or washed away in storms. We see the increase in earthquakes and volcanos and sink holes. Then, to top it off, there is what now seems to be the whole world's refusal to comply with the rule of law; bringing about earth wide anarchy as more and more just do things to tear down our society [become terrorists]. (Rom 13:1-4) Those combined disasters have caused an unsustainable flood of refugees relocating; many of them to take what is left from the few who still do have anything. Probably half the world is now in the grip of starvation or malnutrition [slow motion starvation] while a surviving few still struggle to hoard and retain obscene wealth. Even so, most of the world continues asleep in refusing to recognize and turn to our Creator as their only hope. (Luke 21:36 of 29-36; 1 Thes 5:6-11 of 1-11; 1 Cor 15:34) Even in light of so much evidence of the Great Tribulation Jesus promised, (Luke 21:28 of 22-28) most of this world fails to turn to יהוה as the only possible hope and source of help. [יהוה is God's Hebrew Name as given Moses on stone tablets (Exo 31:18) and used over 6000 times in the original Bible text!] The tribulation, then, has become the great equalizer in these last days. Everyone alive is forced to realize no one is safe or above the danger. In our day in time, then, what ever people have looked to in the past to protect them is proved useless. Whether it be the nation they live in, their wealth and/or power, their youth and vigor, their race, or very often their religion; the approval and blessing of any one or all of those sects and arrangements of humans, religious or otherwise; are now revealed to be a protective wall only in their imagination. (Pro 10:10-11) [Living today in the tumbling down walls of Jericho, as it were, leaves us all with the same and only hope: (Josh 2:12-21 & 6:20-25) Our belief in the protective power of having absolute faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ; our faith based in our own personal knowledge of his words... (John 6:63) That hope, seen running through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation like Rahab's scarlet cord hanging from her window, that faith in the blood of Christ is our "only" hope.] Even in the midst of this Great Tribulation, most people continue to believe and hope in the world's religious and political sooth sayer's, telling them all is well and not to worry. (1 Thes 5:1-3) ["There is more good news than bad," they ignorantly or stupidly proclaim. Maybe for them, in their ivory towers! But, they won't be able to ignore or belittle the suffering of he masses for long. It is a snowball rolling down the mountain of the earth and they will have to acknowledge the great suffering in this world and seek Christ, or continue on dying with the rest of the world. (Isa 45:22-25; Mal 3:16-4:3; John 8:24)] We are way past even the slightest hope in any of man's solutions, religious or political, being any real help or hope. The oppression and/or stress of life in this world without hope, is making them all behave crazily. (Ecc 7:7; Isa 44:24-28) You will loose out on the gift of life if you don't realize: This revelation of knowledge contained in the words of Jesus Christ makes every person who hears responsible? (John 15:22; John 12:48 of 42-50; Rom 1:20 of 16-32) And, God has given us all responsibility to help "everyone" hear! (Rom 10:9-10; Eze 3:17-19; Rom 10:13-15) Living in the midst of the evidence of this Great Tribulation, then, have you come to understand how you can protect yourself alive? Warning: Knowing or following me [or any other human] "can not" help you... You must express your own personal faith in Jesus Christ; demonstrated by learning and obeying [taking advantage of] what Jesus actually taught. I might actually be able to help you, "if you listen" to my encouragement to "listen to Christ" for your-own-self... Actually listening to and following the words of Jesus Christ, how ever you get there, is your only hope. [John 8:31-32; John 17:3; Read: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John over many times.] Having read Christ's words to familiarity, and only after doing that, can you express faith in what you personally know Jesus said is going to happen to you; and in doing so, gain God's spirit to preserve yourself alive! (Mal 3:16-4:3) Let me just say it bluntly: If you are a real friend of Jesus Christ, (John 15:11-17) as at no other time in human history, what you believe is going to happen to you is precisely what is going to happen to you! (Mat 21:21-22; John 11:25-26; Job 33:13-30) But, you must truly believe... You must have such a faith from your own knowledge of "Christ's" words! You must be an active disciple of Jesus Christ... • End of Addendum