Valley Of Decision (American Revelation XXI, Seven.)

 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. ~Joel 3:9-14

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And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

I've been seeing this kind of shit lately.

If you think these fucking people are trying to crash the economy, push religion on people, and torment women because they have anybody else's interests at heart...even yours, my fellow White Men...you're fucking nuts.

Like, among other things, I'm pretty sure Travis Kelce sees Taylor Swift as an equal partner and about worships the ground she walks on. I'm not seeing where he's some kind of patriarchal asshole like Charlie Kirk is.

I mean, I see the way things are trending, and I sure as hell don't want to live like that...and I don't have near the money those two have. I just don't like adding layers of misery when things are already going to be hard enough. And note I have survival skills, so does my Mom and so does my partner.

A lot of people ain't got that shit. That's what scares me.

Like what good is being even some kind of all-powerful patriarch who rules over his wife and kids if you don't have any money to feed your family with?? Or if you don't know anything about hunting or survival past how to play Trophy Hunter video games or anything about food safety or how to butcher said "Trophy" so you can eat it??

"Power" is only worth so much if you can't eat, and only for so long.

Or if you have to obey and give money (that you don't really have to give, by the way) to some damned Jackleg preacher??

I mean, what's even the damned point??

These fucking people's entire credo is "Anything But America."

Anything but "Love Thy Neighbor."

Anything but even "All MEN are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights."

America is being intentionally run into the ground by these fucking idiots, after social divisions and pressures have already been amped up to the point where they're very likely to break the country on their own.

Yeah, I'm fortunate enough to live in a state that'll land on the "good" side of this mess, such as that is.

But I'm well aware that a lot of people aren't.

It's like I said, when this goes the way it's gonna go, some places in the former USA will be sucky but still kind of normal. Other places in it will be banana republics, fucked up theocracies of various kinds, or literal war zones.

And some places will be literally strip-mined down to the Earth's mantle, to the last millimeter before it's nothing but glowing lava pits, in search of ever more narcissistic fuel for some billionaire jagoff.

And the fucking thing of it is, I don't even know what the hell religion they're supposedly trying to push on people anymore.

Narcissism? Simple-ass cruelty?

I mean, either one tracks, but I've read the Lord's Word and if you think "Love Thy Neighbor" is too hard...or try to define "Neighbor" into a vanishingly small group of people just like yourself??

You're going to hell and had best not plan on packing your Carhartt's for the Afterlife, just sayin.'

And none of These Fucking People even care.

Nobody acts more like "Christianity" is all crap than the Christians do.

And These Fucking People want to impose their bullshit on the rest of us?? For what?? 

Whether I really ever wanted to or not I've spent my Life reading the Lord's Word, either out of literal belief or for writing purposes and as often as not despite being an Agnostic I write basically Christian apologetics as polemics against this shit!

Ain't nowhere in there, my dude, where it says you're Saved by your political Power or wealth. 

In point of fact, far more often than not, those things are a fast-track to Hell.

Because look how the people who end up with that kind of shit freaking act.

I'm not sure if I wanna say that the entitlement, laziness, selfishness and vapidity of the American electorate is bringing about the End Times.

But it's sure starting to look that way, isn't it??

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

You're either willing to fight for it, or you're not.

The world, the country, that we're in is dying of our dysfunctions.

And I'm sorry to remind you of this, but the new world promised in Revelations comes at a cost.

We're all going to have to pay it.

It's a lesser cost and a lighter burden if we share that shit and work together.

We can make that choice, it's our Valley Of Decision.

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John Constantine: You're handing Earth over to the son of the Devil? Help me, here;

Gabriel: [Gabriel sits on top of John Constantine, explaining her rebellion] You're handed this precious gift, right? Each one of you granted redemption from the Creator – murderers, rapists, molesters – all of you just have to repent, and God takes you into His bosom. In all the worlds and all the universe, no other creature can make such a boast, save man. It's not fair.

[Gabriel leans closer to Constantine's face]

Gabriel: If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I will make you worthy of His love. But it's only in the face of horror that you truly find your nobler selves – and you can be so noble. So … I will bring you pain. I will bring you horror.

[Gabriel lifts up Constantine from his collar]

Gabriel: So that you may rise above it. So that those of you who will survive this reign of hell on earth will be worthy of God's love.

John Constantine: Gabriel... you're insane.

Gabriel: [smiles] The road to salvation begins tonight. Right now.

~From the film Constantine.

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We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley