GLADSTONE!

Good morning, blog readers, from cloudy and cool (46 degrees) Wisconsin where, on my morning walk, I saw: one deer! Thank You, Jesus!

Question: “Does the name ‘Gladstone’ ring a bell for you?” It did for me, as I remembered, there was a “light” (4.8) earthquake there recently which shook New York City. Well, guess what? Yesterday, according to the USGS, there was a “very minor” (2.6) aftershock near Gladstone, New Jersey. Coincidence? Or, what I like to call, using an expression from Jesus. in Matthew 24:8, “the beginning of birth pains.” All I can say is: “Stay tuned!”

Oh, and here’s another, perhaps prophetic and dangerous, headline from the recent news: “COVID Pandemic Made the Rich Even Richer – Wait Till You See What the WHO (not the rock group) Is Planning Next.”

David Bell, of the Brownstone Institute, reported: “Relax for a few minutes, sit back, and pretend morals and business ethics are redundant. Then imagine an infallible, risk-free business scheme in which you get to create the market, decide the product, manage its regulation and then have the power to confine people to their homes or remove their income until they submit to buying it. And no one can sue you or take you to court if all goes wrong (sound familiar?). No legitimate government would allow that within its borders (except perhaps a few family-run or completely totalitarian ones), so aim higher and make this international, as it then ceases to be a fantasy. All this is being negotiated within the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic documents to be agreed by your government in two months’ time.

Your organization will be a public-private partnership, so using taxpayer money but guided by the private sector. You spin a story that a series of plagues are about to engulf humanity, exponentially increasing in frequency and severity (like “birth pains”), your partners own the media, so don’t be troubled by reality).” All I can say is: “Stay tuned and get ready for a rough ride before Jesus returns.” And, yes, He is coming! So, as believers in Jesus, keep watching, waiting, working, witnessing for, walking with and worshiping Jesus until He comes.

And, if you are not a believer in Jesus, please agree with God you are a sinner who needs a Savior Who is Jesus (Romans 3:23, 24) and believe He died on a cross for your sins, was buried and raised from the dead (I Corinthians 15:1-4) to forgive all your sins and give you eternal life (John 3:16). Then, be about the “six ws” above until He comes. Blessings with love, Doug (4/11/24)