Rapture (Reason For The Season 2025, Fourteen.)

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If any man have an ear, let him hear.

He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he speaks as a dragon.

And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceive them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13, King James Bible.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those...moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner.

I don't really wanna just say "I keep seeing this bullshit" but I keep seeing this bullshit.

"Christians" from fully state-controlled Russian Orthodox to your local Independent Fundamentalist Republican-Jesusites in Dry Hump, Alabama...claiming they're "persecuted."

Even as they and Trump stand there at some bullshit rally he shouldn't be having, loudly braying at each other about all being goat-eager to literally persecute other Americans for basically no reason worth mentioning.

They say they're "Persecuted." It's nothing more even in their minds than an excuse to hurt other people.

I'll note; Same motherfuckers loudly in the bag for AI, corporate takeovers financed by our enemies, and Citizenship, Constitutional Rights and Laws not meaning a damn thing.

But they say they're "Persecuted."

I'll note that I've said on here; Hell, I've been saying for 30 years...and I was a Conservative Christian Republican Senior Airman in the United States Air Force, then-very-new to the End Times Prophecy Movement at the time when I first said so, that if the government...any government, can say that a woman cannot have an Abortion, you've automatically removed any defense against the Mark Of The Beast that is not dependent on a specific religious doctrine and/or interpretation thereof, which invoking that also automatically tells anybody pushing such a thing who they need to eliminate first and perhaps even more importantly, why...should it ever come to that.

When the State says "Hey, we're gonna put this computer chip in your hand or your head" and you refuse specifically citing Revelations, Chapter 13? Yeah, you're gonna put an altogether different mark on yourself, it's called a target. And that's what Persecution actually is.

But the real truth of the matter is much worse, and I've been saying this for several years now. 

These Fucking People are gearing up to try and say "It's Not The Mark Of The Beast When We Do It!"

And do you really think all the "Conservative" White people who don't even believe in stuff like basic medical science and human rights and have about this level of educational attainment;

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. 

~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

Are gonna even have the presence of mind to bring up Revelations, Chapter 13, especially not after Fox News has had a bunch of botox-filled, fake-boobs or spray-tanned glittery well-dressed, D-grade "Celebrities" on to show off their shiny new X-The-Everything-Chips by NeuraLink?? 

People will literally buy that shit!

That's where this idolizing billionaires and Capitalism and the worship of wealth leads.

(If you wonder why I reject so much of the annual Christmas hysteria, that's why.)

And if they have a brain in their head these fucking people won't start with some dried up, washed up blowhard Republican like James Woods or Jon Voight or some performative second-rate like Kevin Sorbo, no, they'll start with somebody that flies that shit under the public's radar like Gwen Stefani or Katy Perry.

We live in a country where half the population is functionally illiterate, how in the fuck is somebody supposed to know what Revelation, Chapter 13 even says when they cannot read the Lord's Word for themselves?? 

I'll note here yet again that Ukraine is a small-c conservative, big-C Christian country but one that chose Democracy with intention and a will and that respects human rights and religious freedom. The Ukrainians don't seem to have the problem of a high rate of illiteracy either. This stuff is generally referred to as the Lord's Word for a reason!

But it's not enough to just be able to read; to hear or say the words. This is not Magic Words And Phrases time, Unga Bunga, any kind of that shit. You have to know some of the context and eschatology and history and philosophy and shit so they can problem solve for yourself. How does that work, when people go into this stuff thinking all the bad shit only happens to all those Sinful other people?? Or for that matter, when a Pastor preaching about Sin must be thought only to be preaching about the Sins of Other People??

Yo, nobody ever got Saved by worrying about what other people were doing.

Salvation is about your participation in the Divine Conversation, your relationship with God as you understand Him/Her/It/Whatever to be, and your Repentance and sorrow for your wrongs, not theirs.

Nobody and nothing can take that away from you, if you genuinely have it.

And if you believe Heaven isn't Heaven if other people get to go, or that the point is to go and watch the suffering of other people who didn't?? God and Jesus and Heaven and Hell ain't what you really believe in, now is it?

You believe in privilege and relative status and sadism and that crap never saved nobody. That's what False Doctrines like the Rapture are meant to create.

(Also, seriously, Chris??)

I don't have any great insight or magic answer here; That part is for you the reader to figure out as is how it relates to you.

But again, you either believe in freedom or you don't.

And if you don't make your choice freely, you don't make a choice, and likely all that awaits you is the Underworld.

Think on that.

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I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? "No," says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor." "No," says the man in the Vatican, "it belongs to God." "No," says the man in Moscow, "it belongs to everyone." I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well. ~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

Thirteen

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:1-14