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Sunday, 29 November 2020

10 Stages of Sinning

 Based on our Saturday Sabbath Bible study of today, I synthesized the following ten (10) stages of sin (for one type of sin, or category of sin):

  1. Doing one or more bad things before the age of knowing sin, & before personal responsibility for sin.
  2. Love the sin, and the doing of the sin.
  3. Feel guilt & shame from doing the sin
  4. Feel tormented & frustrated by grudgingly, reluctantly refraining from the sin.
  5. Happiness, joy, relief, and thanks for having avoided doing the sin.
  6. Hate the sin, and flee from the risk of doing the sin.
  7. Perfect, sin-free day (24 hr. period) for the sin
  8. Perfect, sin-free periods longer than 24 hrs. in time, then interrupted by 1 or more incidents of the sin (ie. lower & lower risk of the sin).
  9. Stages 2 to 8 of the above sinning process spreads more & more from one or a few categories of sin, to apply to more and more different sin categories.
  10. Sealed by God, raptured to Heaven, and changed by God for all eternity into a sin-free child of God.
I suggest that these 10 steps for sin apply equally well to True Christians, Born Again Christians, luke-warm Christians, new converts to Christianity, cults, pagans, agnostics, apatheists, and atheists.

In my life, I am currently in either Stages 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9; depending on the various sin categories.  I am working, praying, and hoping for my first sin-free day (Stage 7) for all sins and all sin categories.  I wasn't always this way.

Luke-Warm Christian

Prior to Feb. 2017, I was a luke-warm Christian who did my fair share of sinning.  I was chronically stuck in Stages 2, 3, or 4 (depending on the sin category).  I have made significant progress since then by learning about Born Again Christianity, and choosing to be baptized as a Born Again Christian.

I chose to eliminate many chronic sins from my life.  Some sin categories disappeared "cold turkey", leaving me without a fight, with no struggle, with no remorse.

Other sin categories eventually left me alone (ie. Vaporized out of my life) with more difficulties, with more fits and starts, with occasional backsliding into old sinful habits, then gradually achieving longer & longer periods of sin-free bliss for that sin category.

Today, I am still triggered to sin again for some sin categories at my chronically favorite sins by certain people, places, or activities.  Frustrated about chronically falling into old sinful habits in spite of my weak, imperfect will power, I finally decided to seek help through prayer to God for strength to resist, and a spiritual hedge around me to keep me far from my favorite sins.  I immediately learned that when I prayed for strength to resist my favorite sins in this manner on a preventative basis, I was 100% successful in avoiding that sin.

For example, when I decided to go to the grocery store, I was at risk of gluttony to buy junk food.  Recognizing my decision to go grocery shopping would put me in great danger of the sin gluttony, I prayed all the time I was driving to the grocery store.  After I parked my vehicle in the grocery store parking lot, I again prayed one last time before getting out of the vehicle.  For some unknown reason, I didn't pray while inside the grocery store.  I noted that I sailed right by all of the sinful opportunities in the grocery store aisles and displays.  After I exited the store and was again seated in the vehicle, ready to leave for home, I noted I had been sin-free from gluttony.  God had truly hedged me in.  I praised God and thanked God again and again.  I started the vehicle and went home with a smile on my face.

However, when I absent mindedly forgot to do preventative prayer on other occassions, I often fell into the gaping, wide open pit of sin I had previously dug for myself during my previous 60 years of luke-warm Christianity, and satanic "do as thou wilt".

Pray preventatively, achieve perfection.  Forget to pray for strength, I get backsliding into my chronic sin habits.

Anti-Sin Toolkit

Unknown to me at the time, God was responsible for providing me with many opportunities that prepared me for my future life as a Born Again Christian, and Overcomer (yet to begin, but coming soon, I hope).

For example, having been a Professional Engineer for 41 years, a Management Consultsnt for 32 years, and training thousands of people in many different industries, I had many opportunities to discover, practice, and create a toolbox of methods for quality assurance in manufacturing, engineering, design, high tech industries, treating dysfunctional behaviours in industrial organizations, and achieving business excellence.

These techniques helped me help others to achieve better quality products, less employee frustration & more job satisfaction, better profits, and better customer satisfaction.

I now see that these same methods and techniques can be used to fight sin too.

These methods include, but are not limited to:

FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis)

FTA (Fault Tree Analysis)

PPS (People Problem Solving)

7STC (7 Steps to Change behaviours)

FFA (Force Field Analysis)

5W (5 Whys?)

MP (Mistake Proofing)

SPC (Statistical Process Control)

6S (6 Sigma)

I believe that my ability to better understand why I continue to sin in some stubborn, chronic sins, this will help me to more quickly eliminate those few remaining sin categories our of my life.

These tools are man's ways, not God's Word.  However, did God lead man to create these as specialized tools to aid the implementation of God's Word?  

Satan is all about chaos and destruction.

These quality assurance tools of man are all about minimizing death, destruction, loss, and chaos.  These tools are about holding back entropy and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.  I therefore conclude these tools are against Satan and Satan's goals.

Could I, should I, rely exclusively upon God's Word and prayer for eliminating the few remaining sin categories in my life?  I don't know, perhaps that would be better.  I haven't yet started to use any of these valuable, effective tools (unknown reason for my procrastination).  Perhaps that is why I procrastinate.

Are these quality assurance tools a form of legalism, another Pharasidic system of burdensome bureaucracy, a potential millstone around our necks?  Possibly, I'm not sure.  Today, I see these quality assurance tools as temporary scaffolding that helps during the construction process of a sin-free life.  Once that sin-free life has been constructed, the scaffolding used to construct can be removed, exposing the God-build structure in all its beauty and glory.  Ugly, yet useful scaffolding is only a temporary measure, a means to an end.

In the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3, 5, and 6), Jesus said that the poor in spirit, and the meek will inherit the Earth and the kingdom of Heaven; and those that hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled.  I see that these quality assurance tools could help.

Jesus said that some evil spirits could only be removed by prayer and fasting.  Perhaps the same is true for deeply engrained, chronic sins.

If you have troublesome sin that is difficult to get rid of (eg. drug or alcohol addiction, porn or sexual addiction, smoking, dietary addictions, gambling, etc.), I am willing to freely share my knowledge and tools with all who seek relief.  Feel free to contact me, leave a comment below, or share your struggle, so others can know, learn, and not feel so alone in their struggle against sin.

By analogy and anecdotal evidence, and with God's help, we can learn how to become sin-free, just like Enoch, Noah, Job, Jesus Christ, and others.  Just because everybody (except Jesus) sinned in the past, this doesn't mean we are helpless, and must continue to sin forever.  Perfection is possible.

Every Saint has a past, and

Every Sinner has a future.


Sin= Manufacturing Defects

So you can better understand this analogy, and the possible uses for the tools listed above, I propose the following true case study.  For example:

In the 1970's, the Big 3 Auto Manufacturers (GM, Ford, Chrysler) had about 85% of the N. American car industry market share.  Quality was lousy, customers complained, and switched to competitors, but they were just as bad, so every 3 years the wayward customer returned to their original supplier, so round & round they go; buy GM, swith to Ford, then switch to Chrysler, then back to GM.  Others saw it as pointless, and stuck to the devil they knew and stayed loysl to their chosen auto manufacturer.

The Japanese developed higher & higher quality cars since 1948, when the USA experts when to Japan to teach them how to improve.  The Japanese were excellent students, and in 30 years, they had passed their USA teachers.  NBC did a television documentary "If Japan can, why can't we? to expose the problem, and recommend solutions.

I suggest poor quality manufacturing is similar to sin against God's Commandments.

Wanting to learn from the Japanese, and obtain high quality and low, low import prices so as to maximize profits, the Big 3 started buying auto parts from Japanese auto manufacturers, and the Japanese auto parts suppliers.  

In one case, Chrysler bought thousands of engine cam shafts from a Japanese supplier.  When they received the first shipment, Chrysler carefully inspected every cam shaft.  There was not one defect in thousands of cam shafts, as indicated by the typical Go-NoGo gauges; an impossible miracle for N. American suppliers.  Surprized, they brought out the more accurate micrometers.  In fact, the micrometers measuring to 1/1000 of an inch showed every cam shaft was perfect, and exactly the size; exactly at the central target (ie. Ideal) measurement on the blueprint.  Only when they got out air gauges accurate to 1/10,000 of an inch could they find any variation in the dimensions.  

The cam shafts were perfect, all of them.  

The cold, smug, arrogant parts suppliers of N. America saw, but didn't believe their eyes.  They thought it was a trick; a cruel joke.  However, it was true.  Perfect.

When the most accurate measuring devices were used, and the most sophisticated statistical analysis was calculated, it estimated that only 1 bad cam shaft would occur in approximately 5 years of production at maximum capacity.  Chrysler was amazed, and scared.

Within 10 more years of continuous improvement, the Japanese error rate had dropped to one defect in 40 years of production.  Since the Japanese manufacturing plant had an economic and physical life expectancy of just 20 years, it was virtually impossible to make a bad one in the entire life expectation of that manufacturing plant.  It was perfect..  

Something changed that day.  People woke up from a long sleep, and realized that the Japanese students in quality had passed the complacent, slumbering teachers from USA.  USA realized it had lost its way.  USA had become an apostate manufacturer, barely giving lip service to product quality and customer satisfaction.

God must feel the same way today about our chronic sins as N. America automobile customers felt in the 1980's about the chronic manufacturing defects.

Back to God

Today, we gasp at the sad statistic that 94% of so-called Christians are luke-warm; a Christian in name only.  Occasional lip service is the most that God receives from most Christians.  Worse, most non-Christians and non-secular people ignore God completely.  Only a tiny minority believe perfection is a goal, let alone trying to achieve that goal.

The Bible tells us:

  • God does not want to be the #1 thing in our lives (ie. First among many things).  God wants to be the ONLY thing in our lives.
  • The one and only thing to focus on is to love God. 
  • If we love this world and the things in it, we hate God.
  • If we love Jesus, we will do God's Commandments.
  • We must be Born Again to reach Heaven.  That means us as individuals must be allowed to die spiritually so that we can be reborn spiritually in Jesus Christ, to do God's will, not our old, flawed, sinful will.
  • We must learn and grow as perfect in Christ, leading sin-free lives.
Perfection isn't easy to achieve, but God doesn't command and expect impossible things.

Of the 10 Steps for Sin shown above, at what stage are you currently at?  How long have you been sleeping or stuck at that Stage?  Do you have any plans or desire to move to a better stage, a more perfect level?  If not, why not?

Please share your comments below.


Friday, 13 November 2020

USA Election & End Times

 The US election of Nov. 3, 2020 still has no winner.  Is the delay & the ultimate outcome for purposes other than the obvious reasons?

I have watched the following video, and recommend it for plausibility, and tightly linked to God's End Times process.

It will give you insight into the election campaign, the vote, and what comes next.

https://youtu.be/s8mxudY2wlI

Sunday, 8 November 2020

Judgement Time

 It is Judgement Time, USA.

Here is Julie's latest prophecy message from God.

https://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/2020/11/it-now-comes-with-fury-prepare.html?m=1

After reading and re-reading this latest message, it is clear that we are in End Times, with the destruction of Mystery Babylon (USA) as the first order of business.

Psalm 91 says 1,000 to your left will fall, and 10,000 to your right, but it will not touch those who are a child of God.  Nothing and no where is safe without the protection of God for True Christians (see below for info on how to upgrade your status to True Christian).  God has already moved True Christians into safe areas, &/or will ensure they escape (either to Heaven, or as Overcomers through End Times).

Luke warm christians will not receive God's full protection.

The exact events that will soon occur are not known, but it will likely be sudden (ie. occur in less than 24 hours), and be of such huge magnitude in both severity, geographical coverage, and downtime (ie. an extended or infinitely long time to repair &/or replace damaged  infrastructure, command & control systems, electrical grid, telecommunications, road systems, transportation systems, etc.) that the USA will be thoroughly destroyed, no longer a world power, no longer a threat to any prior enemies, and unable to defend itself from foreign invasion.

The timing of this event is not exactly known, but most likely between Nov. 10, 2020 and Nov. 18, 2020 (and before Dec. 31, 2020).

Once USA is destroyed, Israel (and others, like Taiwan) will be all alone in the world, and its enemies will pounce via Psalm 83 War (rocket war, then likely nuclear war), allowing the rise of the AntiChrist and his evil, totalitarian dictatorship over the entire world.

God's Prophet, Pastor Dr. Robert Mawire confirms that it is too late to pray for help or healing of USA.  God will no longer hear these types of prayers, as God is bringing judgement upon them:   https://youtu.be/jFmg111pLSQ

Dr. Mawire says anybody praying for "Make America Great Again", or to pray for USA to repent its sins and then God will restore the land, or to pray for more time, or pray for a certain US Presidential election outcome, or any similar prayers; that these types of prayers are against God, and against God's Word, and these types of prayers by the lost and misguided will not be heard, nor answered by God.

James 4:3-4 KJV says:   

[3] Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. [4] Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." 

Get right with God, and God's plan for End Times.  The USA is doomed.  You can choose to be a friend of USA, and against God, and join USA in its judgement, or you can choose to get right with God, get onboard with God's Word and God's plan, and save yourself as a child of God, as a True Christian, under God's guidance and protection.

God's Coming Judgement

Dutchsince notes the rise in M6 earthquake activity around the world (see https://youtu.be/G0jKPUNSoIk ), and the rare M4 earthquake on USA's North -East coast.

Another Brother & Sister in Christ note a huge sunspot (AR2781) that is slowly rotating into position so as to be Earth-facing on or about Nov. 11, 2020.  Will it erupt into a huge CME that damages or destroys most or all electrical grids and electronic devices, like or worse than the 1859 Carrington Event ?   https://youtu.be/VOKZYE4uGWA

In Julie's prophecy & elsewhere, hail (ie. Meteorites) and water waves (ie. tsunami, hurricane, floods, etc.), &/or CME (Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun), &/or riot, crime, civil war ?, etc. will strike the USA.

Erin, another prophet, has her latest prophetic posting that supports Julie and Dr. Mawire, and adds a different viewpoint to these events: 

 http://sparrowcloud9.com/heaven-dreams-interpretations/the-tribulation/excerpt-from-dreams-questions-answered/full-dreams/dream-445/

God's Roadmap to the End (a Bible-based, non-prophetic Watcher) makes similar alerts and warnings:   

https://youtu.be/XzWreukMsEk

The prophet Erin's prior posting also supports the soon arriving judgement: 

http://sparrowcloud9.com/heaven-dreams-interpretations/the-tribulation/excerpt-from-dreams-questions-answered/full-dreams/dream-444/

Jesus:  “This is the Year of My Favor.  This will be a year of New Beginnings.  Things are about to change for the better.  Your roles are much greater than you think or imagine.  Now, remain encouraged as all things are about to be shaken.  A Great Revival will bring with it a harvest unlike anything before or ever again.  Rejoice!  Erin, rejoice!”

Monte Judas, a Messianic Jew, a non-prophetic Watcher (Bible-based and linked to current events) from Lion & Lamb Ministries has published a post-election warning as well:

https://youtu.be/Ximk5K-f29k

Two others also suggest sudden destruction.  This Watcher that I just discovered, and have not yet researched them for quality and consistency.  Due to the urgency, I include them so you have the link (good, bad, or otherwise), so you can decide for yourself:

https://youtu.be/NusMUyjJC2w 

When the above YouTube video starts, go to Comments. Pinned at the top are Timestamps, about halfway down is Enoch Calendar Reinstated at timestamp 1:10:00. Click on that link, then pay close attention. They claim that Oct. 31 2020 was the convergence of 3 High Holy Days, and fulfillment of Daniel 9:24-26 prophecy.   Next, there is extremely High Watch for Jesus coming to Earth on (or soon after) Nov. 7, 2020 to: 

A. give 40 day warning, acting as Jonah to Ninevah before its destruction; and 

B. Give Latter Rain to the faithful (True Christians). 

The video is long, but well worth your time.  Their Enoch calendar is very different than the one I follow, delayed by a month or so;  I'm not yet sure why.  They also have both an Enoch sun, and an Enoch moon calendar, which is also new & strange to me.  Therefore I note their position, but do not yet endorse it.

The second questionable "prophet" has been very busy for years, making numerous predictions of God's soon coming wrath, then claims a delay occurred due to prayer, repentance, or similar grace of God.  She now claims no more delays, with a long, convoluted explanation.  I have discounted her work long ago, but include it here so you can decide for yourself:

https://youtu.be/TFtb7pyL5qo


Friends of USA

USA and Canada are good friends, for last 208 years (since War of 1812).  

Canada gets about 90% of our fruits & vegetables imported from USA, and about 17% of our GDP is imported from USA, and is Canada's largest trading partner.  About 30% of our gasoline & diesel is imported from USA (a bad, chronic lack of self sufficiency by Canada, ignored by the Canadian government for 50 years).

The US economy is 12 times larger, and US population is about 10 times bigger than Canada.

The USA is Canada's big brother who helps us, protects us, and cares about us.  Nobody can attack Canada without a swift and deadly response from USA.

On the USA side, Canada is the USA's largest trading partner.  Our economies and social lives on both sides of the border  are tightly coupled.

What happens to Canada when USA is destroyed by God?

Canada isn't much better than USA on a moral or sin basis for the average citizen, but the extremes of greed, lust, crime, pornography, drugs, etc. are found mainly in USA, rather than Canada.  The USA as a country however, has also been guilty of many sins (eg. war, imperialism, aggression, coup d'etates, murder, international drug trade, etc.).

Does Canada get protected, or will we be destroyed as collateral damage during US destruction?

I don't have inside knowledge to God's plans, but logic says that when USA is destroyed, Canadians will be scared, shocked, suffer PTSD, thank God it was USA rather than us, and have survivor's guilt.  Next, we will worry and scramble on how to cope without the  USA.  

Without USA to protect us, we are a sitting duck.  The same goes for Israel, and the rest of USA's former allies.  All things will quickly spin out of control.  The relative peace & security we have enjoyed for the last 75 years is gone. 

In these last 75 years, more people world-wide have entered the Middle Class than ever before.  More people world-wide left abject poverty behind than ever before.

After God's judgement on USA, old grudges and imperialism will quickly come to the front.  Everybody will scramble to grab all the spoils they can, as quickly as possible.  It will be messy. 

Peace, security, plentiful food, & consumerism are all gone instantly.

It will be the necessary, fertile ground for the rise of the AntiChrist.

Rescued by Pre-Tribulation Rapture?

Most luke-warm Christians have been taught, and believe in a Pre-Trib. Rapture.  They believe that Jesus will rescue them, sending them to Heaven, before Satan and his evil plans start.

Dr. Mawire and many others say Pre-Trib. Rapture is a non-Biblical false teaching, a lie from Satan to tickle the ears of the deceived, trapping them onto the road to Hell.  For more info, see:

https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2020/10/final-puzzle-piece-for-gods-end-times.html?m=1

However, it is likely to soon have Pentecost II, or a Latter Day Rain, of huge annointing of the Holy Spirit given to True Christians, and sealing them under God so as to fully protect them from harm and Satan's evil powers during the Great Tribulation (ie. the next 7 years).  One annointed and sealed, tbese True Christians become Overcomers, who do great exploints for God during the next 7 years.


Repent & Pray Continuously

Daniel prayed 3 times per day when he sought help from God during his Babylonian captivity.

King David prayed 5 times per day.

The Bible says for us to pray continuously or without ceasing in:   1 Thess 5:17, Romans 12:12, Philip 4:6, Ephes 6:18, Col 4:2, Luke 18:1, 2 Thes 1:11, Dan 6:10, and Luke 21:36.

Many will soon die in God's Judgement that comes in the next few days of hours.  

If you refuse to repent, and then die in your sins, you will awake at your trial before God at the Great White Throne judgement.  You will be pronounced guilty of your many sins, then bodily thrown into the Lake of Fire to burn in torment for ever and ever.

God doesn't want you to go to Hell.  I don't want you to go to Hell.  You don't want to go to Hell.

Therefore, you need a solution.


Heaven: The Alternative to Hell

Everybody gets eternal life:  most in Hell, a few in Heaven.

If you want an eternal life of peace, joy, fun, and fulfillment in Heaven, this is your best chance to obtain it.  You must be a True Christian (someone who knows God, believes 100% in the true God of the Bible, loves God with all of their heart, mind, body, and soul, and obeys God's commandments).

You must immediately repent all of your sins, be a True Christian, and pray continuously.

If you don't, you're on your way to Hell.

Repent before it's too late!

Remember, Psalm 91 says 1,000 to your left will fall, and 10,000 to your right, but it will not touch those who are a child of God (ie. A True Christian).  

In my experience and estimates for USA and Canada, of all those who call themselves Christian, only 4% are True Christian.  Your church and Pastor has likely misled you away from God's Word and salvation.  My wife and I were in this luke-warm Christian category for over 50 years, till we realized our error and became True Christians in Feb. 2017.

Here are your detailed instructions for becoming True Christians, for getting to Heaven, and avoiding Hell:

God's 26 Commandments for Christians

https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2019/12/gods-26-commandments-for-christians.html