Noah’s Ark – Psalm 77 – Faraday Cage – Dr. Carl Baugh
Psalm 77:16-18: “The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.”
Noah’s Ark Discovered – Jonathan Gray
This is from the blog A Word in Season:
“And Abram went up out of Egypt…
Unto the place of the altar…”
Genesis 13:1-4
The faith of Abraham will produce a forsaking of Egypt (the world) and a journey “unto the place of the altar”. At this altar, by the mercies of God (Romans 12:1), we offer ourselves unto Him as a living sacrifice. True faith communicates the nature, works, and heart of Christ. It is the divine enablement to live beyond our own resources and to draw from the wells of the living Christ. What is impossible for man becomes a natural outflow of life from those in whom resides the living faith of Christ.
In Hebrews 11, we read of the lives of regular people, just like us, who “by faith” lived to see the extra-ordinary works of God – despite the fragility of their earthen vessels. “By faith” we can partake of the same resources. We have the same surety of God, the same assurance of faith, by which they made a difference in their generation.
The leading of God is ever out of Egypt and unto the altar. The altar is the way of life to those who are in Christ Jesus for it is in the losing of our own selves that we discover Him. It is in looking past the faltering resources of self that we discover His vastness. The “I can’t” of Romans 7 is swallowed up by the “Law of life in Christ Jesus” of Romans 8.
The Altar is the place of our transactions with God. It is here where we exchange our strength for His; here that the doctrines of salvation become flesh and substance in our lives. In the offering of all that we are, we become partakers of all that He IS. Our partaking of Him will be in proportion to our offering.
“Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple
get their food from the temple,
and that those who serve at the altar
share in what is offered on the altar?”
1 Corinthians 9:13
“And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh, and the blood,
upon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices
shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God,
and thou shalt eat the flesh.”
Deuteronomy 12:27
The priests would eat of the Burnt Offerings they offered and herein lies the secret of His provision for each one of us. “Give and it shall be given unto you” is the measure of our receiving. It is in this freewill offering that we discover the glory and wonder of our God.
We are bidden by the “mercies” of God to offer ourselves as living sacrifices unto our God (Romans 12:1). While many speak of God’s mercies as a sentiment, the power of mercy upon the human heart enables us to offer ourselves without reserve.
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.”
Romans 12:1
Brian Troxel
This is from the blog The Voice Crying in the Wilderness:
By Chis Banescu
“But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The prophetic words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn resonate like thunder across the history of man. “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Thus summarized the Nobel laureate, Orthodox Christian author, and Russian dissident the main reason why the communist revolution was able to enslave, terrorize, and murder tens of millions of innocent people. An atheistic mentality and a long process of secularization gradually alienated the people from God and His moral laws. This lead them away from truth and authentic liberty and facilitated the rise of tyranny.
Tragically that same process is now at work in America and many other parts of the world. Too many unfortunately refuse to see it or believe it.
America has long been a beacon of freedom for millions of souls who came here seeking liberty and opportunity. It achieved this unique place in history by recognizing the authority of God and His moral laws and declaring that men have the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Founded by faithful and God-fearing men who despised government tyranny and sought religious freedom and individual liberty, America incorporated these universally true principles in its Declaration of Independence and Constitution. These ideals eventually became the bedrock upon which all our laws, government, and institutions were originally built.all rights came from God alone, not governments
America’s Founding Fathers understood and proclaimed that all rights came from God alone, not governments. They insisted that government must always serve man and that man was created by God to be free. Their deep faith and reverence of the Almighty inspired and guided their actions and motivated their decisions. It is this belief and trust in God’s authority and wisdom that ultimately transformed America from a tiny British colony with a handful of refugees, to the mighty economic and military superpower and an oasis of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity for tens of millions of immigrants.
The Founding Fathers, like Solzhenitsyn, understood the dependence of freedom on morality. A virtuous and faithful people who placed God at the center of their lives and the foundations of their institutions helped America become that shining city on a hill “whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere”, said President Ronald Reagan. “We’ve staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us…to govern ourselves according to commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which the Constitution is founded,” wrote James Madison.Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
This same theme is found throughout the writings of the Founders. John Adams clearly understood that our “Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” “He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country,” observed Samuel Adams. Patrick Henry wrote that “virtue, morality, and religion … is the armor that renders us invincible[.] … [I]f we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed[.] … [S]o long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.”
Solzhenitsyn warned that by forgetting God, America and the West faced a “calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness” that would weaken their foundations and make them vulnerable to moral decay and internal collapse. Only by turning back to God from the self-centered and atheistic humanism where “man is the touchstone [measure] in judging and evaluating everything on earth” would the West have any hope of escaping the destruction toward which it inevitably moves.
Unfortunately America did not heed Solzhenitsyn’s warnings. In the last several decades America has been rapidly transformed from a God-fearing and worshiping nation, into a secularist and atheistic society, where communist and atheistic ideals are glorified and promoted, while Judeo-Christian values and morality are attacked, ridiculed, and increasingly eradicated from the public and social consciousness of our nation. Under the decades-long assault and militant radicalism of many so-called “liberal” and “progressive” elites, God and His moral laws have been progressively erased from our public and educational institutions, to be replaced with all manner of delusion, perversion, corruption, violence, decadence, and insanity.Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants,” warned William Penn. Throughout history, the most serious threats to man’s freedom always arise when men refuse to acknowledge that God is ultimately the source and protector of real and lasting liberty and freedom. When that timeless truth is erased from men’s consciousness, when God’s wisdom and laws are forgotten, when morality is no longer a virtue to be treasured and emulated, when human life is no longer sacred, and man becomes the only standard of all that is true, then genuine freedom will begin to vanish from any group, institution, community, or society. Carnality, greed, selfishness, and worldly pleasure and power become the main goals of human existence. The moral and ethical clarity, conviction, and courage required to defend freedom and protect genuine liberty ultimately disappear, to be replaced by the most cruel, unethical, tyrannical, and godless ideologies.
Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.
It is no coincidence that advocates and followers of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism – all secular, immoral, atheistic, and godless ideologies – enslaved and murdered the greatest number of people in the history of mankind. All produced some of the most cruel, violent, and evil tyrants this world has ever known, despots who persecuted their own citizens, slaughtered the innocent, destroyed their own people, and brought calamities to other nations. All subjugated the liberty and property of men to the absolute power and control of the state. All were enemies of God and blasphemers of His Holy Scriptures. All viciously persecuted the most devout and religious members of their societies, primarily the religious Christians and Jews who righteously and faithfully followed the Lord.
This is the lesson the 20th century expended so much blood to teach us. It appears that without a marked change in course, the Western world is going to have to learn it again.
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“Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall, nor must we linger fruitlessly on one rung of the ladder. Material laws alone do not explain our life or give it direction. The laws of physics and physiology will never reveal the indisputable manner in which the Creator constantly, day in and day out, participates in the life of each of us, unfailingly granting us the energy of existence; when this assistance leaves us, we die. And in the life of our entire planet, the Divine Spirit surely moves with no less force: this we must grasp in our dark and terrible hour.”
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Templeton Address
“To be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and lastly, to be magnanimous and brave; so to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave; and it usually happens to the appointment, and as it were retributive justice, of the Deity, that that people which cannot govern themselves, and moderate their passions, but crouch under the slavery of their lusts, should be delivered up to the sway of those whom they abhor, and made to submit to an involuntary servitude.”
–John Milton, Second Defense of the English People
Proverbs 14: 34: “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
This is from the blog The Eye of the Needle:
by Cesare Sacchetti
To better understand what’s happening in the United States in relation to the 2020 election is necessary to read some independent newspapers not aligned with the so-called mainstream media.
What’s happening in these weeks is something unprecedented in the United States.
Proof of massive electoral fraud is emerging, especially in the battleground States, which have always been crucial in determining the fate of the election.
Other proof of voter fraud was already shown to several US Courts, but unfortunately, the almost totality of these courts refused even to look at the evidence shown.
The main difference between now and then is that at this moment the necessary audits are finally taking place.
Almost nobody in the US and Europe probably knows where Maricopa is now and almost nobody probably has the slightest idea of what’s going on in this Arizona county.
In this county, a mechanism was set in motion that could really change the destiny of America and of the entire world.
Everything started on March 31, when the Arizona Senate choose to authorize an audit to recount and verify the ballots cast in Maricopa County, which is the fourth largest county in the US.
The society that received the task to perform this audit is the Florida-based Cyber-Ninja.
When the deep state saw what was happening now, the reaction was of pure panic. The Democratic Party rushed to a local judge to demand the halt of the audit. The judge was available to consider the request of the plaintiffs, but only they would be able to post a bail of 1 million dollars.
The Democrats failed to fulfill this request and the audit went on.
In order to understand how serious the Maricopa audit is, it is certainly helpful to read the chronicles of “The Gateway Pundit”, which accurately described the procedure undertaken to verify the authenticity of the ballots.
Ultraviolet light is pointed on the ballots to check if watermarks are present in them. Watermarks can confirm or not if the ballot is authentic. This blog, and other independent media, mentioned the use of this technology but many people, including Trump’s supporters, ruled the news as “fake” despite the CYSA clearly mentions the presence of watermarks in the ballots.
Now it’s happening before the eyes of everyone. The media is failing to report the Maricopa Audit because it’s behaving like an ostrich, who places his head under the sand in the vain hope that the reality of the surface would fade away.
If one would like to lend the terminology of the globalist regime, he could say that the deep state and the media are “deniers.”
Meanwhile, the recount proceeds, and many illegalities already emerged. The auditors found thousands of duplicated ballots, which are ballots that replace the original ballots, in case these are damaged or unusable.
To be legit, a duplicated ballot must have the same six-code number of the original ballot, otherwise the duplicated ballot should be considered as a ghost ballot, or simply fake.
However, Maricopa has triggered the Domino effect. As soon as the recount started in Arizona, from the other side of the country, in Michigan, a courageous lawyer, Matthew DePerno, started to produce evidence of a massive fraud in the State of the Great Lakes.
The pattern is quite the same. Thousands of illegal ballots came up and these votes determined the “victory” of Joe Biden.
These votes were switched in the same moment and in the same quantity and this circumstance itself proves the impossibility of a human hand in the switching. An algorithm was used to move all these votes from a candidate, Biden, to another, Trump.
Therefore, it was confirmed what it was partially shown in November. Joe Biden is not the legitimate President of the United States.
America was the victim of a massive fraud perpetrated within the United States and even outside the country.
This international coup allowed the establishment of an imposter in the White House.
How the deep state orchestrated the coup against Trump
As was mentioned before, the fraud was orchestrated on two sides: a domestic one and an international one.
At this point, a flashback to the night of November 3 could be very important. Many readers probably remember what happened that night when the scrutineers halted the count simultaneously in the key States.
It was unprecedented. The deep state realized that something went wrong. The fraud was not enough. And here comes the international side of the electoral coup against Trump.
The role played by Dominion on this side was simply crucial. It is important to remember that Dominion is the Canadian company that managed the electoral count in many States.
Dominion is closely related to some Democratic Party key figures, such as George Soros and the Clintons.
Basically, Dominion in this election managed the entire election to the point to replace the electoral officials, who didn’t have access to the passwords of the modem.
The US election was basically privatized. But the fraud to be completely successful needed not only fake ballots, but also a massive switching of votes from Trump to Biden.
In this regard, Italy played a fundamental part to allow the successful outcome of this operation.
That night was the beginning of the Italygate scandal, namely the involvement of the Italian government in the electoral fraud.
According to several sources close to Italygate, Conte’s government gave a green light to Leonardo, an Italian government company, to switch the votes from Trump to Biden.
The fraud would be coordinated in the US Embassy in Rome by General Graziano and by another man of the US State Department, Stephan Serafini.
The technical side of the operation was managed by an Italian professional hacker, Arturo D’Elia, who worked also for NATO and with the District Attorney office of Naples.
At this point, the question that many people are asking is why didn’t Trump, who was informed of all this scheme, declare the election illegal in the first place?
In other words, why wasn’t the kraken unleashed in November or December?
Trump avoided a civil war by allowing the establishment of a puppet administration
Now, one should try to imagine what would mean the official enforcement of martial law or the activation of the Insurrection Act made by Trump.
Under the constitutional aspect, Trump had all the right to adopt these measures because there was a direct attack against the US Sovereignty conceived to overthrow the legit commander in chief.
Under a more practical aspect, such decisions would have led the country to a new civil war much more devastating than the 1860 civil war under the Lincoln presidency.
The Democratic States, such as California and New York, would have likely seceded and the UN, an institution closely tied to the Rockefeller family, would have internationally condemned Trump’s act.
The UN would have also encouraged a foreign military intervention to overthrow Trump.
It would have been an explosive situation with devastating consequences for America and the world. Trump’s masterpiece move was instead to do what was required to do to stop the fraud, but at an underground level.
Trump would follow Sun Tzu’s principles of The Art of War. War means deception and sometimes the best way to fight an enemy who is powerful in a particular moment of the battle is to evade him and to attack him in a second moment.
The deception against the deep state seems to have been quite effective.
A puppet administration devoid of real powers is now established in Washington.
Joe Biden doesn’t control the military and most of the US armed forces don’t recognize him as the legit commander in chief.
The mission of Biden was to hype up tensions against Russia, the other great adversary of globalism, and speed up the enforcement of the Great Reset in the US.
Biden completely failed the goals assigned to him by the cabal.
Tensions with Russia are deescalating. Apart from some insults against Putin, Biden didn’t do any substantial act to harm Russia’s interests.
Putin denied Ukraine military support in the Eastern front, where Kyiv has been running deliberate provocations against Moscow.
Recently, it has emerged how Biden seems also to be intentioned to lift the sanctions against Nord Stream 2, the Russian pipeline. This would be a major move to normalize relations with Moscow.
The Great Reset is stuck. Many US States have lifted Covid restrictions and others, like Florida, are sanctioning companies that demand vaccines to their employers for working.
At this point, one could ask who’s really in charge in the United States and who are Biden’s handlers?
There’s a possible interpretation that could explain what’s going on.
According to several sources close to Trump, the President would temporarily deliver the power to the military by signing the Insurrection Act.
All this was allegedly done in an unofficial way.
In this way, Trump turned the Biden administration into a puppet administration, devoid of any effective powers and not in control of the military, still loyal to the President.
This situation closely resembles a prophecy very popular in these weeks made by Kim Clement, a South African singer and pastor that predicted the victory of Trump years before his candidacy.
This 2008 prophecy speaks of two US Presidents, who in a certain moment of history would rule at the same time.
It’s a situation that is unbelievably similar to what is happening now in America, with Trump, possible covert commander in chief, and Joe Biden, a virtual president who doesn’t seem to be really in charge.
However, this diarchy is deemed to end at a certain moment and Clement also said something very interesting related to this situation.
The South African pastor explicitly mentioned Italy, where a big event would take place. Was Clement referring to Italygate and to Italy’s role in the international coup against Trump?
It’s not easy to say, but what Trump did would be only a strategic retreat. Now comes the second part of the plan.
In order to have regular elections, it’s necessary to remove one of the primary causes which allowed the fraud in several States. One of the primary causes are the electoral laws that allowed to count illegal absentee ballots and the participation of electors who had no right to vote, such as illegal aliens.
In almost half of the US States, the electoral laws were already changed in a more restrictive way. Therefore, Trump is laying the ground for a new election that will be likely held before 2024, and by changing the laws he’s dramatically reducing the eventuality of a new fraud.
Trump himself in his latest interview released to Chanel Rion, an OAN journalist, clearly said that. “Something has to be done before 2022”, while in another interview released to Joe Pagliarulo, he said that Biden cannot be able to govern when the audits will prove that he had lost.
Trump’s interviews and appearances are exponentially growing as the electoral fraud is being revealed in the key States.
Sources close to Trump said that his rallies would start again in June and that in July his social media platform would be ready.
Trump’s move seems to indicate that the President is already at work for an electoral campaign to be held before 2024.
Mike Lindell, My Pillow CEO, spoke of a possible return of Trump in August.
It’s hard to say if Trump would be already President for that month, but it could be certainly said that Trump is already working for a premature electoral campaign.
The Rothschild convened an emergency meeting to stop Trump
On the deep state side, they immediately realized Trump’s plan and the Rothschilds in person stepped in to handle a situation very tricky for them.
This circumstance is extremely rare. The Rothschild family has always preferred to work behind the scenes.
The Rothschilds built their financial empire during the last 2 centuries by following a strict rule. They financed the two sides of all the wars in order to control them both.
Above all, as Nathan, one of the members of the family said, is crucial to control the issue of the currency of the States. If you control the currency, you control that nation.
The Rothschilds have been knowing this rule very well.
However, the Rothschilds had to break their rule and intervene directly because the situation seems quite dangerous.
Lynn de Rothschild, the wife of the banker Evelyn de Rothschild, former CEO of The Economist, convened an emergency summit with 100 CEOs of the most important and influential US corporations.
This meeting was held on Zoom, the platform used for videoconferences, and there were people like Mary Barra, GM CEO, and James Murdoch, son of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
This event seemed to be a repetition of what took place last year, when the financial establishment of the US coordinated to perpetrate the 2020 fraud.
Time magazine also revealed how the US establishment worked closely to reassure the successful outcome of the electoral coup against Trump.
The inspirers and the instigators of this crime were indeed the Rothschilds.
In this Zoom meeting, the Rothschilds delivered their orders to the US deep state. It’s vital to prevent the reform of the US electoral laws in a more restrictive way.
Therefore, what is unfolding is the latest chapter of a long war between this family that wants to rule the world by ushering in a New World Order and Donald Trump and the military patriots loyal to Trump.
One can call them Q if he wants, but this doesn’t matter. What matters most is that it would be the outcome of this battle to determine the fate of America and the entire world.
For the first time, after many decades, the US is not playing the Rothschilds pawn game.
For the first time after many decades, there’s a US President who doesn’t want to sacrifice his country upon the altar of global tyranny ruled by Freemasonry and by this family of bankers that aims to replace God himself.
Globalism has a plan. To drag mankind towards the New World Order it needs America. It’s impossible to get a world government without the participation of the first-world superpower.
This is Rothschilds’ obsession who have been waging war against the US since the beginning of its existence to have control of the “New World”.
In the idea of Freemasonry and of the cabal, it is the new Atlantis that has the leadership of the building of the new Tower of Babel.
It’s a battle that overcomes the material borders to reach the spiritual side. The spiritual side really helps to understand what’s going on in the world and the real nature of this battle.
There’s a passage in the Bible that incarnates the meaning of this historical moment and is the one of the Ephesians.
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Therefore, the final showdown seems to be closer than ever and it is already possible to see some light at the end of the light. The children of darkness perfectly realized that and they’re ready to everything to avoid their defeat. Globalism is like a wounded animal. It’s ready to everything before finally dying.
However, those who understood the nature of this was, has nothing to fear. In any case, the light will win. The evil that is oppressing the world will be wiped away.
The time for the children of darkness is soon to expire.
Johnny Enlow: The Return of Cyrus!
Conspiring Against President Trump
ItalyGate – Patrick Timpone & Cesare Sacchetti – One Radio Network
This is from the blog Alternative Postscript:
Anti-colonialism was one of the dominant political currents of the 20th century, as dozens of European colonies in Asia and Africa became free. Today we are still living with the aftermath of colonialism.
Apologists for terrorism, including Osama Bin Laden, argue that terrorist acts are an understandable attempt on the part of subjugated non-Western peoples to lash out against their longtime Western oppressors. Activists at the World Conference on Racism, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, have called for the West to pay reparations for slavery and colonialism to minorities and natives of the Third World.
These justifications of violence, and calls for monetary compensation, rely on a large body of scholarship that has been produced in the Western academy. This scholarship, which goes by the names of “anti-colonial studies,” “postcolonial studies,” or “subaltern studies,” is now an intellectual school in itself, and it exercises a powerful influence on the humanities and social sciences. The leading Western figures include Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Walter Rodney and Samir Amin. The arguments of these Western scholars are supported by Third World intellectuals like Wole Soyinka, Chinweizu – who uses only one name, Ashis Nandy and, perhaps most influential of all, Frantz Fanon.
The assault against colonialism and its legacy has many dimensions, but at its core it is a theory of oppression that relies on three premises.
First, colonialism and imperialism are distinctively Western evils that were inflicted on the non-Western world. Second, as a consequence of colonialism, the West became rich and the colonies became impoverished; in short, the West succeeded at the expense of the colonies. Third, the descendants of colonialism are worse off than they would have been had colonialism never occurred.
In a widely used text, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,” the Marxist scholar Walter Rodney blames European colonialism for “draining African wealth and making it impossible to develop more rapidly the resources of the continent.” A similar note is struck by the African writer Chinweizu in his influential book “The West and the Rest of Us.” Chinweizu offers the following explanation for African poverty: “White hordes have sallied forth from their Western homelands to assault, loot, occupy, rule and exploit the world. Even now the fury of their expansionist assault upon the rest of us has not abated.”
In his classic work “The Wretched of the Earth,” Fanon writes, “European opulence has been founded on slavery. The well-being and progress of Europe have been built up with the sweat and the dead bodies of Negroes, Arabs, Indians and the yellow races.”
These notions are pervasive and emotionally appealing. By suggesting that the West became dominant because it is oppressive, they provide an explanation for Western global dominance without encouraging white racial arrogance. They relieve the Third World of blame for its wretchedness. Moreover, they imply politically egalitarian policy solutions: The West is in possession of the “stolen goods” of other cultures, and it has a moral and legal obligation to make some form of repayment.
I was raised to believe in such things, and among most Third World intellectuals they are articles of faith. The only problem is that they are not true.
There is nothing uniquely Western about colonialism. My native country of India, for example, was ruled by the British for more than two centuries, and many of my fellow Indians are still smarting about that. What they often forget, however, is that before the British came, the Indians were invaded and conquered by the Persians, by the Mongols, by the Turks, by Alexander the Great, by the Afghans and by the Arabs. Depending on how you count, the British were the eighth or ninth foreign power to invade India since ancient times. Indeed ancient India was itself settled by the Aryan people who came from the north and subjugated the dark-skinned indigenous people.
Those who identify colonialism and empire only with the West either have no sense of history, or they have forgotten about the Egyptian empire, the Persian empire, the Macedonian empire, the Islamic empire, the Mongol empire, the Chinese empire and the Aztec and Inca empires in the Americas. Shouldn’t the Arabs be paying reparations for their destruction of the Byzantine and Persian empires? Come to think of it, shouldn’t the Byzantine and Persian people also pay reparations to the descendants of the people they subjugated? And while we’re at it, shouldn’t the Muslims reimburse the Spaniards for their 700-year rule?
As the example of Islamic Spain suggests, the people of the West have participated in the game of conquest not only as the perpetrators, but also as the victims. Ancient Greece, for example, was conquered by Rome, and the Roman Empire itself was destroyed by invasions of Huns, Vandals, Lombards and Visigoths from northern Europe.
America, as we all know, was itself a colony of England before its war of independence; England, before that, was subdued and ruled by the Norman kings from France. Those of us living today are taking on a large project if we are going to settle upon a rule of social justice based upon figuring out whose ancestors did what to whom.
The West did not become rich and powerful through colonial oppression. It makes no sense to claim that the West grew rich and strong by conquering other countries and taking their stuff. How did the West manage to do this?
In the late Middle Ages, say the year 1500, the West was by no means the most affluent or most powerful civilization. Indeed the civilizations of China and of the Arab-Islamic world exceeded the West in wealth, in knowledge, in exploration, in learning and in military power. So how did the West gain so rapidly in economic, political, and military power that, by the 19th century, it was able to conquer virtually all the civilizations in the world? This question demands to be answered, and the oppression theorists have never provided an adequate explanation.
Moreover, the West could not have reached its current stage of wealth and influence by stealing from other cultures for the simple reason that there wasn’t very much to take. “Oh yes there was,” the retort often comes. “The Europeans stole the raw material to build their civilization. They took rubber from Malaya and cocoa from West Africa and tea from India.” But as economic historian P.T. Bauer points out, before British rule, there were no rubber trees in Malaya, nor cocoa trees in West Africa, nor tea in India. The British brought the rubber tree to Malaya from South America. They brought tea to India from China. And they taught the Africans to grow cocoa, a crop the native people had previously never heard of.
None of this is to deny that when the colonialists could exploit native resources, they did. But this larceny cannot possibly account for the enormous gap in economic, political and military power that opened up between the West and the rest of the world.
What, then, is the source of that power? The reason the West became so affluent and dominant in the modern era is that it invented three institutions:
science, democracy and capitalism. All these institutions are based on universal impulses and aspirations, but those aspirations were given a unique expression in Western civilization.
Consider science. It is based on a shared human trait: the desire to know. People in every culture have tried to learn about the world. Thus the Chinese recorded the eclipses, the Mayans developed a calendar, the Hindus discovered the number zero and so on. But science requires experiments, laboratories, induction, verification, and what one scholar has termed “the invention of invention” – the scientific method, this is a Western institution. Similarly, tribal participation is universal, but democracy – involving free elections, peaceful transitions of power, separation of powers – is a Western idea.
Finally, the impulse to trade is universal, and there is nothing Western about the use of money, but capitalism based on property rights, contracts, courts to enforce them, and, ultimately, limited-liability corporations, stock exchanges, patents, insurance, double-entry book keeping – this ensemble of practices was developed in the West.
It is the dynamic interaction between these three Western institutions – science, democracy and capitalism – that has produced the great wealth, strength, and success of Western civilization. An example of this interaction is technology, which arises out of the marriage between science and capitalism.
Science provides the knowledge that leads to invention, and capitalism supplies the mechanism by which the invention is transmitted to the larger society, as well as the economic incentive for inventors to continue to make new things.
Now we can understand better why the West was able, between the 16th and the 19th century, to subdue the rest of the world and bend it to its will. Indian elephants and Zulu spears were no match for British jeeps and rifles. Colonialism and imperialism are not the cause of the West’s success; they are the result of that success.
The wealth and power of European nations made them arrogant and stimulated their appetite for global conquest. Colonial possessions added to the prestige, and to a much lesser degree to the wealth, of Europe. But the primary cause of Western affluence and power is internal – the institutions of science, democracy, and capitalism acting in concert.
Consequently it is simply wrong to maintain that the rest of the world is poor because the West is rich, or that the West grew rich off “stolen goods” from Asia, Africa and Latin America, because the West created its own wealth, and still does.
The descendants of colonialism are better off than they would have been had colonialism never happened. I would like to illustrate this point through a personal example. While I was a young boy growing up in India, I noticed that my grandfather, who had lived under British colonialism, was instinctively and habitually anti-white. He wasn’t just against the English, he was generally against the white man. I realized that he had an anti-white animus that I did not share. This puzzled me: Why did he and I feel so differently?
Only years later, after a great deal of reflection and a fair amount of study, did the answer finally hit me. The reason for our difference of perception was that colonialism had been pretty bad for him, but pretty good for me. Another way to put it was that colonialism had injured those who lived under it, but paradoxically it proved beneficial to their descendants.
Much as it chagrins me to admit it – and much as it will outrage many Third World intellectuals for me to say it – my life would have been much worse had the British never ruled India.
How is this possible? Virtually everything that I am, what I do, and my deepest beliefs, all are the product of a world view that was brought to India by colonialism. I am a writer, and I write in English. My ability to do this, and to reach a broad market, is entirely thanks to the British.
My understanding of technology, which allows me, like so many Indians, to function successfully in the modern world, was entirely the product of a Western education that came to India as a result of the British. So also my beliefs in freedom of expression, in self-government, in equality of rights under the law and in the universal principle of human dignity – they are all the product of Western civilization.
I am not suggesting that it was the intention of the colonialists to give all these wonderful gifts to the Indians. Colonialism was not based on philanthropy: It was a form of conquest and rule. The English came to India to govern, and they were not primarily interested in the development of the natives, whom they viewed as picturesque savages. It is impossible to measure, or overlook, the pain and humiliation that was inflicted by the rulers over their long period of occupation. Understandably the Indians chafed under this yoke.
Toward the end of the British reign in India, Mahatma Gandhi was asked, “What do you think of Western civilization?” He replied, “I think it would be a good idea.”
Despite their suspect motives and bad behavior, however, the British needed a certain amount of infrastructure in order to effectively govern India. So they built roads, shipping docks, railway tracks, irrigation systems and government buildings. Then the British realized that they needed courts of law to adjudicate disputes that went beyond local systems of dispensing justice. And so the English legal system was introduced, with all its procedural novelties, such as “innocent until proven guilty.”
The English also had to educate the Indians, in order to communicate with them and to train them to be civil servants in the empire. Thus Indian children were exposed to Shakespeare, Dickens, Hobbes and Locke. They began to encounter words and ideas not in their ancestral culture: “liberty,” “sovereignty,” “rights” and so on.
This brings me to the greatest benefit that the British provided to the Indians: They taught them the language of freedom. Once again, it was not the objective of the English to encourage rebellion. But by exposing Indians to the ideas of the West, they did. The Indian leaders were the product of Western civilization. Gandhi studied in England and South Africa, Nehru was a product of Harrow and Cambridge. This exposure was not entirely to the good; Nehru, for example, who became India’s first prime minister after independence, was highly influenced by Fabian socialism through the teachings of Harold Laski. The result was that India had a mismanaged socialist economy for a generation.
But my broader point is that the champions of Indian independence acquired the principles and the language and even the strategies of liberation from the civilization of their oppressors. This was true not just of India but also of other Asian and African countries that broke free of the European yoke. My conclusion is that against their intentions, the colonialists brought things to India that have immeasurably enriched the lives of the descendants of colonialism.
It is doubtful that non-Western countries would have acquired these good things by themselves. It was the British who, applying a universal notion of human rights, in the early 19th century abolished the ancient Indian institution of sati – the custom of tossing widows on the funeral pyre of their dead husbands.
There is no reason to believe that the Indians, who had practiced sati for centuries, would have reached such a conclusion on their own. Imagine an African or Indian king encountering the works of Locke or Madison and saying, “You know, I think those fellows have a good point. I should relinquish my power and let my people decide whether they want me or someone else to rule.” Somehow, I don’t see this as likely.
Colonialism was the transmission belt that brought to Asia, Africa and South America the blessings of Western civilization. Many of those cultures continue to have serious problems of tyranny, tribal and religious conflict, poverty and underdevelopment, but this is not due to an excess of Western influence but to the fact that those countries are insufficiently Westernized.
Sub-Saharan Africa, which is probably in the worst position, has been described by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as “a cocktail of disasters.” But this is not because colonialism in Africa lasted so long but because it lasted a mere half-century. It was too short to permit Western institutions to take firm root.
Consequently, after their independence most African nations have retreated into a kind of tribal barbarism that can be remedied only with more Western influence, not less. Africa needs more Western capital, more technology, more rule of law and more individual freedom.
None of this is to say that colonialism by itself was a good thing, only that bad institutions sometimes produce good results. Colonialism, I freely acknowledge, was a harsh regime for those who lived under it. My grandfather would have a hard time giving even one cheer for colonialism. As for me, I cannot manage three, but I am quite willing to grant two. So here it is: Two cheers for colonialism! Maybe you will now see why I am not going to be sending an invoice for reparations to Tony Blair.
Source:
Dinesh D’Souza, 2002
Sfgate.com
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This is my response:
Western/European colonialism also brought the Gospel of Jesus Christ–especially through Christian missionaries from Great Britain (the British Empire). Poverty, primarily, is a spiritual condition. A nation that has suffered from poverty for many generations or even centuries is because that nation is cursed. Begin to preach the Gospel to the people and the Light of Heaven comes into their lives and their lives are transformed. Also, prayer and fasting need to take place to break the curses off the land of that nation. Curses come through sin: devil worship, abortion (human sacrifice), sexual sin (homosexuality, adultery), earth worship, etc. Break the curses off that land and the Lord will bless the land.
I am the wealthiest man on the planet, not because I have much property or have millions or billions of dollars in a bank account. I am the wealthiest man on the planet because I have the Presence of God in my life. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for shedding your precious blood on the cross, so that I can have access to my heavenly Father. And because I have access to the Father, He can inspire me/reveal to me ideas to make my life better and other people’s lives better.
Many years ago, back in the 1600s, the great Christian intellectual, John Milton, wrote that because of the power and influence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Great Britain, the English language would be the dominant language of the world someday. On a similar note: I believe the Lord allowed Alexander the Great to conquer the Persian Empire because the Greek language is easier to learn than the Persian language. The Greek New Testament is still being studied today in 2021. That is the power of God in the affairs of men.
To Be Free
https://hitchhikeamerica.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/to-be-free/
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This is what they don’t teach you about colonization – Dr. Thomas Sowell
FAKE PANDEMIC
5 May 2021
“If you look at the images of Wuhan in these days, you will see how China fooled the world. People are wearing no masks. There’s no social distancing. No green pass and no vaccination required. In January 2020, the media showed us the images of the Chinese lockdowns. It was a terrorist propaganda show. China played a part to start the fake pandemic. Now China is waiting for the Western world to commit suicide by taking lethal vaccines and collapsing its economy with lockdowns. China is now ready to buy the Western world at cheap prices.”
The above quote was taken from two posts from Cesare Sacchetti’s Twitter page. Within 24 hours they were taken down. His account has been suspended.
16 March 2021
“The last US CDC report revealed that the overwhelming majority of Covid patients died from previous diseases ‘without any help from the coronavirus’. This means just one thing. There never has been a ‘lethal virus’. There never has been a ‘pandemic.’ It has always been a scam. The Covid pandemic is the greatest hoax of all times. They only reason which allows the hoax to continue is the people who keep believing it.”
https://gab.com/CesareSacchetti1/posts/105899746670282067
21 May 2021
“More details are emerging about the coup d’état attempt against the Belarusan President Lukashenko. Last year, Lukashenko rejected a bribe of 940 million dollars in exchange of the enforcement of Covid restrictions in his country. After Lukashenko’s refusal, the deep state chose to overthrow his government through the classical operation known as ‘regime change’. Regime change means the funding of a coup against foreign governments which don’t comply with the globalist agenda. In this case, the operation was managed by the US NGO NED, National Endowment for Democracy. NED is also a Soros’ partner. Therefore, what happened in Belarus was a subversive operation orchestrated by the deep state to overthrow the legitimate President of a foreign State and meddle into its sovereignty. Once again it has been confirmed that the only threat against international stability comes from George Soros and his subversive NGOs.”
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Leigh Dundas Speech – California Health and Freedom 2021
Chinese document discussing weaponizing coronaviruses provides ‘chilling’ information
This is from the blog Dover Beach:
“When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it has received something Divine, does not demand anything else in order to convince it that this is precisely from the Lord; but by that very effect it is convinced that this is heavenly, for it senses within itself spiritual fruits: love, joy, peace, and the rest (cf. Gal. 5:22).”
–St. Seraphim of Sarov, Little Russian Philokalia
Galatians 5:22-25: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
God Reigns in America – Dr. David Mackereth
Psalm 37:38: “But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.”
Psalm 92:7: “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.”
Romans 9:22: “What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction.”
Deep State Dream – GITMO – Proverbs 28:13
Psalm 32:5: “I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.”
Psalm 51:1-2: “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.”
I John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Dreams from the Lord 2011-2021
2 April 2021
This morning I was listening to my audio Bible and I fell asleep. I had a dream where I was with Mark Taylor, the prophet from Florida. We were in a big room in this basement and we were throwing the football to each other. I noticed that, when Mark threw the football, it was a perfect, tight spiral. When I threw the football, at first, I used my right arm, but I threw a wobbly spiral because I had a sore right arm. (The first week of January, I injured my right shoulder and it has been sore since that time. It is healing, but very slowly.) Then I used my left arm and threw the football; I threw it a bit better, but it was still a bit wobbly. When we threw the football, we always caught the football–it never fell to the ground, which reminds me of this verse:
I Samuel 3:19-20: “And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.”
The fact that Mark Taylor was throwing perfect, tight spirals means that his prophecies concerning President Trump are right on target.
This dream means that Mark Taylor and myself are on the same wavelength.
About my sore right shoulder: it might be prophetic and it reminds me of this scripture:
Genesis 32:24-25: “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.”
Death of Zechariah
