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Finding A Place

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“This is the way we do things here. If you aren’t being ministered to, there are other places where you can be” said Jeff. In other words, If you don’t like it, leave. Buzz off. Take a hike. I heard this with sadness a couple decades ago because I knew it meant that the Scriptural truth I was seeing in the Word and had tried to convey was being refused. This is a mantra at Calvary Chapels, but it really is a mantra for the whole Church. So why would he say this, and why would every other Church say it?

Well, the root of it, in my studied opinion, is fear. The Church (in general), and most churches, are houses built of cards, mostly representing the philosophies of men. They don’t want the wind of the Spirit of Truth blowing through and knocking down what they’ve built.

What was I proposing that was so bad? Was I a heretic, trying to change or ignore Scripture on the virgin birth or deity of Jesus? What could have elicited such a cold and dismissive statement? In a word, discipleship. Calvary Chapel, and many other churches, have a nice way of attracting visitors but offer very little to keep them growing in grace and truth. They have heart-thumping concerts, speak nifty things from the pulpit, and even read Scripture now and then. They lay out a nice banquet of platitude Twinkies and selected Ding Dong verses providing a sugar rush and making one feel good for the moment, but is sadly lacking in the meat of the Word. If you don’t expect much of a church except as a safe-space social club that doesn’t dish up too many of the uncomfortable parts of the Bible, has a nice music team and some special programs on holidays, then you won’t be told to hit the road. A person can survive for a while on Twinkies and Ding Dongs, right up until the nutritional needs of the body demand something more substantial. Then our starving spirits have to go somewhere that offers solid teaching and examples of living the entirety of the Word.

The problems is, does any place like that exist? After making more than 15 churches in 10 different denominations our home before I was 40, I have to say, no. Every single church is a house of teaching cards built on the sand of personalities and men’s opinions. If a person dares to ask questions after comparing the card teachings to Scripture and discovering gaping holes, that’s when all of them will tell you in one fashion or another to find another ministering place. They can’t change because they’d have to admit they were wrong and pride won’t let them do that.

My family, and now my kid’s families, haven’t been to church in a long time, except the kids for some youth group activities once in a while. And yet it is amazing how much we’ve grown in Scripture understanding and practice. We have God’s holidays, His Sabbath and the whole and balanced Word that ties us together in a true ekklesia with our Messiah Yeshua as the head, nourishing us with His body and blood. Now that we have some distance, we see The Church, and most churches, as the dry wells and fruitless fig trees that they insist on staying. They did us a favor by forcing a trip to another place. We went into The Land, figuratively, while they’re still wandering around the same mountain, unwilling to drop their pride and salve their eyes with all the truth of the Word so they can see the way themselves.

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Food Offered to Idols

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Twice in the seven letters to Asian congregations dictated by Yeshua in Revelation “eating food sacrificed to idols and (the) practice of sexual immorality” is mentioned as a bad thing. Yet Paul, we are told by the Church, tells us we can eat anything. They use Scripture, they think, to prove that anything goes.

1 Timothy 4:4–5 ESV. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:20 ESV. Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

1 Corinthians 10:25 ESV. Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

Sometimes they’ll even use Scripture such as Genesis 9:3.

Genesis 9:3 ESV. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Romans 14 is a heavy favorite, where Paul is supposed to have said that everything is opinion. But while cherry-picking and yanking Scripture out of context might be made to support your bacon preference, it doesn’t properly convey what God requires if we look at the balance of the Word.

If we read 1 Corinthians 10 carefully, for instance, Paul is not saying eating food sacrificed to idols is okay. In fact, he specifically links food, idols and sexual immorality together. It seems that pagans routinely combined all of them together in wild bacchanalia or orgies. Paul is telling us here not to engage is such practices. When he speaks of eating food that might have been part of ceremonies such as those, he is limiting the food to what is sold in the market. Once the meat hit the marketplace, you couldn’t tell whence it came. So don’t sweat the source, unless you are told by someone that it had been part of pagan practices.

Jesus tells believers in Pergamum and Thyatira that they need to repent of false teachings coming from followers of Jezebel and Balaam, specifically eating food offered to idols and sexual immorality, so it seems there were ceremonies or parties involved. It seems there were leaders promoting activities that would make a Roman senator hide his face in shame. And as Paul really said:

1 Corinthians 10:6–10 ESV. Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

So “eating anything” is not okay with God. All food is not clean just because we might have an “opinion” that “not food” is acceptable table fare. Idolatry is following our own ideas of right and wrong instead of God’s. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:29–30 ESV. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Shalom

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Slow Motion Boycotts

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I have an active boycott life, meaning I’m always looking to avoid giving my money to people who hate me. I don’t drink beer very often, but I applauded those who stopped buying Bud Light. I’ve refused to buy Nike tennis shoes for several years now. I have many happy memories of Disneyland and Walt’s movies, but now they are ruining the “happiest place on earth” for my grandkids. Tickets to the parks are ridiculously expensive, way overpriced, not to mention gas and hotels, and Mr. Disney has got to be spinning like a top in his grave.

Some boycotts are not felt by the target companies, or at least they don’t admit it and blame lack of sales on other factors. The boycott of Bud Light was immense and could not be denied, so the corporate execs couldn’t hide that one, but some boycotts are more like a slow motion scene in a movie. I know because I am in the process of several myself.

It can take a while to “divest” interest in a product that one likes and has been buying for a long time. I have a drawer full of Levi’s Button Fly 501 shrink-to-fit jeans purchased over several decades for instance, and I really like the fit and the wear. Right up until they started going woke. I was determined to find another brand, so I tried some Wrangler’s. I found that I like their version of denim apparel better, and I like a zipper rather than the buttons. It took me a while to make the switch because I had to initially buy a pair of the Wrangler’s, which meant figuring out different styles and sizes. But I was determined to get away from the woke haters and kept plugging till I got comfortable with the new (to me) product.

The cardinal rule of business used to be that it takes a long time to win a customer’s loyalty, and once you lose that loyalty it is almost impossible to get it back. This axiom is still true, but it is obvious that modern business managers have forgotten. Or maybe they just presume on our loyalty, thinking that we are just stupid and unwilling to put in the work to find substitutes for their products.

So we see some quick effects from some boycotts, but just because the effects are not as dramatic and easier to hide doesn’t mean a slow-motion boycott is not working. It can take a while for the sales changes to be felt. JC Penny’s started a slide in sales when they decided that bathroom gender didn’t matter. Target is struggling with mounting losses. But Light will never recover, especially since there are many, many beers out there that are better. The woke will blame the loss of income on the economy or the weather or some other likely (to them) cause, but they won’t admit their error even when the corporate bigwigs are on the street and out of a job.

I may be taking a long time, but trust me when I say that come hell or high water I am determined to divest no matter how long it takes. I’m sure there are many who feel the same way and are pursuing similar goals. I think this is why stock prices are falling, sales figures are dropping like rocks, and businesses and banks are going the way of the dodo bird. The woke people are losing the loyalty of their customers, and they won’t get it back. Ever. Ta ta and tootle doo, you morons. I, and many others like me, are not going to look back.

The real reason for the woke stuff is the brain behind it. I’m not talking about the CEO’s and CFO’s. It’s evident that what ties all of the perversion and hate together is the Chief Hater, otherwise known as the Deceiver and Satan. He is real and he is the one directing the destruction of culture. The corporations and executives are just willing dupes. The Hater really, really hates God, and wants to usurp His authority and destroy His kingdom so he can take over. This is the reason to fight the woke culture and all that attaches to it. It’s a spiritual battle, and believers need to use every tool we have to sidetrack the “progress” and stay on track with our patient, loving God. We need to live His kingdom in every way, even if it means getting away from our favorite jeans or beer. It may not seem like a battle, but make no mistake it is a fierce conflict being waged not just with swords and shields but also with dollars and economic might.

Ezekiel 9:4–6 ESV. And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.” And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

Shalom

Bruce

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God’s Feasts

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Welcome to our blog page covering God’s feasts or holidays, also known as the Mo’edim or appointed times. You can find a list in places like Leviticus 23. These are the dates for the year 2022 and 2023. Remember that days start the evening before. See also our Manna Booklet for complete information you can print out for your own use.

We publish these dates to help you with requesting time off from work and other planning. Please note the year, because sometimes we update in the middle of the year and Passover for instance is already past.

PASSOVER 2023 (PESACH OR PAY-SOCK), UNLEAVENED BREAD, FIRST FRUITS
Thu 4/6/23 through Wed 04/12/23. First (4/6) and seventh (4/12) days are in addition to the regular weekly Sabbaths. Passover meal is on the evening of Wed 4/5.

PENTECOST 2023, WEEKS (SHAVUOT OR SHAH-VOO-OAT)
Fri 5/26/23 and Sat 5/27/23 (really on Fri. Saturday is traditional because of what used to be a time lag getting the message out to everyone). Fri 5/26 is a Sabbath in addition to regular weekly Sabbaths.

TRUMPETS 2023, DAY OF THE AWAKENING BLAST (YOM TERUAH OR YOM TAY-ROO-UH)
Sat 9/16/23 and Sun 9/17/23 (really on Saturday, same reason as Pentecost). Sat 09/16 is a double Sabbath.

DAY OF ATONEMENT 2023 (YOM KIPPUR OR YOM KEY-POOR)
Mon 9/25/23 which is also a Sabbath. Fasting starts the evening before.

TABERNACLES 2023, BOOTHS, NATIONS (SUKKOT OR SUE-COAT)
Sat 9/30/23 through Sat 10/7/23 (traditional ninth day Sun 10/8). First (Sat 9/30) and eighth days (Sat 10/7) are double Sabbaths.

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Hate Speech

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At first, I didn’t want to appeal the Youboob decision to delete my video Am I A Homophobe? which has since been moved to Rumble. I know that they are staffed by a bunch of low-life communist losers, and any appeal to reason wasn’t going to work. They informed me that my content violated their terms of use, but did not specify the problem exactly. This is what they said:

Hi The Whole Bible Christian,

“We wanted to let you know our team reviewed your content, and we think it violates our hate speech policy. We know you may not have realized this was a violation of our policies, so we’re not applying a strike to your channel. We realize this may be disappointing news, but it’s our job to make sure that YouTube is a safe place for all. If you think we’ve made a mistake, you can appeal this decision – you’ll find more details below. Content glorifying or inciting violence against another person or group of people is not allowed on YouTube. We also don’t allow any content that encourages hatred of another person or group of people based on their membership in a protected group. In June 2019, we announced updates to this policy. We understand you uploaded your content before our policy updates, so we’re not applying a strike to your channel.”

Rather a general criticism, without really saying anything. So I finally decided to appeal, knowing it wouldn’t work. This is what I said:

“Define hate. Was the deletion due to the CDC statistics I used? Or was it the quotes from homosexual writers?”

Of course they didn’t respond to any questions. That would be logical and reasonable, and consistent with a “no hate” policy. Instead, they said they reviewed the appeal and “confirmed that it violates our hate speech policy.” Since the video consists heavily of CDC statistics and quotes from homosexual writers, I have to say I agree with Youboob. Homosexuals are overflowing with hate. Hate for God, hate for decency, hate for anything and anyone connected with God. What is really sadly funny about the whole thing is that Youtube doesn’t even realize that they confirmed the hate of homosexuals!

The homosexual lifestyle choice is destructive and hate-filled. Disease, shortened life spans, destruction of families, and a never-ending pursuit of physical pleasure at the expense of all things good are good definitions of hate. These go right along with God’s definition of hate, which is to withhold an action which would benefit someone else.

People who condone and protect homosexual lifestyles are therefore hateful themselves. They are withholding words and actions that would reveal the iniquity so it could be corrected. Instead they encourage and “support” the harmful ways of homosexuality to the destruction of the person who makes the choice. Suicide is common. So-called “homosexual marriage” only functions as long as the partners can have sex with anyone they want, and the average number of one-time couplings is in the hundreds. Parents of homosexuals are at fault for helping to create and encourage homosexuals through bad parenting. Instead of admitting it, they seek justification by anointing the behavior.

It’s no surprise that Youtube wanted nothing to do with any sort of good information and hope for correction of homosexual lifestyle choices. They are not in the business of promoting God or good. They have an agenda that is a part of the goals of homosexuals, which is the destruction of anything good coming from God. They are agents of the deceiver, and soon to be in full cooperation with the little horn or beast of prophecy.

May God come soon to destroy the kingdoms of the world and establish the Kingdom of Yeshua haMashiach soon.

Shalom

Bruce

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Made the Big Time

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Well, I made the big time and finally got a video deleted from Youboob. It was on there for a number of years (about seven or eight I think) and just last month it got removed. The video is titled Am I A Homophobe? and the conclusion, after presenting facts from homosexual writings and CDC statistics, was that yes I am a homophobe. However, a phobia is an irrational fear, while fear of homosexuals is anything but. When you look at the whole package of what they are presenting, the fear of their agenda is not irrational at all. They have twisted the word “phobia” into meanings it doesn’t have.

Homosexuals want “homosexual marriage” when their real intention is to destroy marriage. By their own words there is no such thing as a homosexual marriage unless each party is free to have sex with whoever they want whenever they want. The average homosexual will have hundreds and even thousands of one-time sexual partners. Marriage is monogamy with the opposite gender and is designed by God to be fruitful. He wants “godly offspring” according to Malachi (2:15).

The homosexual lifestyle choice is corrupt and harmful to everyone it touches. It comes in part from hate for God and all that He is. It is said by some to “love the sinner and hate the sin.” Stupid. To love the sinner is to insist on repentance from evil and horrible behavior, not to let them wallow in deadly filth. A parent may be heartbroken that a child has strayed into such heinous behavior, but to “love” them by tolerating their behavior is not to love them. It is to wish upon them pain, suffering and death with eventual permanent death in the lake of fire.

Milo Yiannopooulos is a sort-of famous person who has repented from the lifestyle choice. He has some rather blunt words of wisdom for those who seek to normalize and biblicize the death and destruction that comes from the choice. See his video Protecting the Unborn and Help Men Struggling with same-sex attraction for more.

You can also view my video Am I A Homophobe now on Rumble. I’ll gradually be moving all my content to Rumble in the near future.

Shalom

Bruce

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The Hollow Man

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Mike Pence was in the right place at the right time and did the most absolute wrong thing a self-described “Christian” or even patriot could do in 2021. He didn’t stand up for the best principles of what a Christian believes. He didn’t stand for the country. He didn’t even stand. He could have defended the oppressed, the poor, and the meek who had their voices silenced and their votes nullified, and been entered into the historical annals of our country along with other mighty pillars of integrity and virtue like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. He was put in place by God and given the opportunity to show the world how to lead a country in righteousness and truth. Instead he showed us….nothing. A spine like a bowl of spaghetti. A will that wasn’t. Emptiness and hypocrisy. An embarrassment to all who genuinely follow God’s Word.

He says he would do it again the same way, and he is implying that he wants to run for president. I hope he does. I hope he ignores the polling that shows him a very distant also-ran, because then most of the country could show him exactly what he means to us as a leader. He trod on the downtrodden, crapped on the Constitution, and dumped trash on freedom-loving individuals everywhere. In his spineless destruction of God-given values he demonstrated his disdain for every good thing that built this country.

We could call him a villain, but he’s a long ways below any self-respecting evil person. At least a useless sack of excrement like Hitler or Stalin stood for something. It was the wrong and evil something, but they could be given a little credit for having a purpose and following through. Not Mr. Pence. There was nothing momentous or earth-shattering that he had to do. There was reasonable doubt that some of the elections were filled with fraud. He simply had to send electors back to states and direct that the states straighten out their election issues. That’s it. He didn’t have to create law like a bunch of the secretaries of states did. He didn’t have to twist the Constitution all out of proportion like a Democrat. All he had to do was follow it. His responsibility was already outlined in the law of the land. He just had to uphold his oath of office and stand in the gap.

Mike Pence isn’t a villain. He isn’t a great leader, or even just a leader. There’s nothing to him. He’s a caricature of a Christian, an empty suit, a typical politician with his finger in the wind. A hollow man.

UPDATE 2/2/2022: For more information see the article by Emerald Robinson titled “The Treachery of VP Mike Pence Explained.”

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To all the Democrats in 2022

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Isaiah 29:20–21 ESV. For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off, who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

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Selwyn Duke Misses the Mark

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In a column of 1/5/22 titled The Truth Factor: A Major Reason for the West’s Declining Christianity Is Rarely Recognized, Mr. Selwyn Duke presents his opinion that, in short, the reason for declining Christianity in modern times is people. People are to blame because of cultural relativism, lack of belief in objective truth, and a few other things. However, if this is correct, how in the world did Christianity spread and flourish in the first few hundred years of a “cultural relativistic” Roman empire after the Resurrection of the Christ?

The Empire’s pursuit of hedonism (pleasures of the flesh) and narcissism (self-worship reflected in idolatry) were certainly as prevalent and mind-numbing as they are now. Yet Christianity was accepted by huge numbers of Jews and Gentiles even at the threat of death. The culture, or more accurately cultures, was about in as bad a shape as it (they) are now. The people didn’t like objective truth, rejected any constraints on immorality, and generally were as jaded and seared of conscience as people nowadays. How, if Mr. Duke is right, did anything about Christianity ever get traction with anyone?

I put the blame squarely on the Church. The problem isn’t Christianity, the problem is how it is taught and lived by those who say they are Christians. If there is any moral or cultural relativism, and obviously there is, it was birthed and watered and fertilized (can I get an amen on the fertilizer?) by the leaders and teachers of the Church. By Church, I mean the collective, visible, entirety of every organization claiming to follow the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The so-called “Church” has modeled and force-fed a sort of Churchianity that looks like Christianity but only in name. It has appropriated some of the wool of what looks like Bible teachings while denying the One who bought them. They do this by sitting in judgment on the Bible, cutting out sections they don’t like while blowing those they do like all out of proportion to the rest of the Bible. They use deceptive words such as “Jesus, Jesus Jesus” just like many in Israel said of the Temple in Jeremiah 7. Israel said “The Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD” like they were rubbing a lucky rabbit’s foot.

Israel thought that just because they had the Temple that God would always protect and nourish them. They could live however corruptly they wanted, do a couple sacrifices, and keep living corruptly. Now the Church uses Jesus as the same kind of a lucky rabbit’s foot. Go to Church on Sunday, say the Name a few times, then go out and live like they want to anyway.

The reason Christianity is declining is not the condition of the hearers of the message but the fact that the Church message isn’t any different than the world’s. They aren’t teaching (or living) the Word, which makes Christianity as different from the world as the Garden of Eden is from a landfill. The Church just looks like a bunch of social clubs, with varying rules of behavior mostly coming from confessions, creeds, by-laws and statements of faith that might contain some of the Word rather than the unchanging and undying whole Word of the Most High.

Jesus told His followers to “make disciples, baptizing them…and teaching them to observe all that I commanded you (Matthew 28:20).” Since the misnamed New Testament wasn’t created at the time, that meant all of the also misnamed Old Testament words of God. “All I commanded you” was all in the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. He didn’t command anything new, He just cleared away the commandments of men that had come to obscure the Word.

His Word has been obscured again. The Church teaches “commandments of men” as commands of God (Isaiah 29:13) just as other religions do. So it just doesn’t look any different compared to the world. The commands of men are the same relative, permissive, sappy, weak, banal, lame, narcissistic junk that is the hallmark of the world. Their Jesus is a caricature of the Jesus of the living Word, nutritionally lacking in the power to change not only oneself but the world.

The problem is not the hearers of the Word It is in the ravenous wolves wearing sheep’s clothing who substitute their own opinions for a whole Bible.

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Excerpt from Whole Bible Prophecy

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Isaiah 46:9-10 NASB95. 9“Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, 10Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

Whole Bible prophecy is my attempt to meld or blend or weave all of the words God has given us into a complete picture of what He wants from us, what has happened when we don’t give it to Him, and what will happen if we continue to reject Him. The message from God is “REPENT.” Return to following the whole of His Word, including all of His laws.

Too often, interpreters grab parts of books or verses and patch them together while attempting to plug in current events. They ignore passages that don’t bear on the message they want to convey. I, on the other hand, do not think that any one part of the Bible stands alone. God has breathed out a complete picture in His Words, and anyone who wants to understand that picture not only has to look at the whole thing, we need to live the whole thing.

The place to start for understanding prophecy is, well, The Beginning. The book of Genesis is the back drop for every succeeding event or prophecy. In loving grace, God made a perfect place and created perfect beings to inhabit it and take care of it. Dad and mom (Adam and Eve) decided to ignore His Word and go their own way, and every child since has done the same thing. Some of us have repented and order our lives after His wisdom and ways, but the majority of people insist on continuing the sin of Adam.

All the world’s troubles can be traced back to rebellion against anything to do with God. Imagine a place and time with no war, disease or pestilence. Paradise. We had it, and didn’t want it. We chose and still choose to pursue our own ways and goals, but apart from God and His life, we just create death and destruction. I don’t know if you see it or not, but our world is already gone. You can see it in the way we cater to people with money, and the way people with money use it to further the destruction of godly culture. It is there in the thinking that everything is fine and getting better. It is in the distancing of ourselves from the morality and life in God’s Law, with the Church leading the way. It is illustrated for us in so many of the ways we treat each other, from the ho-hum reaction to the slow disappearance of our rights, on up to the spinelessness of political leaders. We are at the exact point of thinking “peace and safety” as the storm from sudden destruction is on the horizon and coming fast, just like the flood.