Friday, April 25, 2025

“Lord, Is It I?”

20 Now when the even was come, [Jesus] sat down with the twelve.
21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? (New Testament | Matthew 26:20-22)
At some time or other (and probably many times in a lifetime), the answer to that question for every human is “yes.” And if we look beyond self to our divinely-appointed nations, the answer is also “yes.” The scriptures are one long litany of betrayal after betrayal of truth and light till the uncircumcised like Assyria and Babylon were called upon to punish the betrayal.
25 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart (Old Testament | Jeremiah 9:25–26).
When we read scripture, especially Isaiah, Jeremiah and the  Book of Mormon, we see how the pattern repeats and repeats. Having all these scriptural witnesses exposing the nature of the natural man, do we think we have escaped the pattern of betrayal? Or is ours more hidden? more layered with pretense? suffocated with denial?

If we consider North American, which we “People of the Books”1 understand to be a divinely-appointed land of Zion, can we finally acknowledge in 2025 that we are in the grip of that pattern of betrayal of the good that was fought for in the 1700 and 1800s on this continent? that the underbelly of our nations has contributed more to the burgeoning beast of Babylon than any other because of prideful preeminence in science, wealth, military power, technology, manifest destiny, etc, etc.? On the surface, we still preach freedom, democracy, ethics, equality, tolerance, fairness, Constitution, justice, judgment, and on and on, yet in secret chambers, our intelligence agencies and our power- and global-elites conspire for greater power, gain, glory, and, above all, domination. The evidence is recorded everywhere — for over a century — but we keep ignoring it (or shelving it under fiction or “conspiracy theory”) and re-electing, re-appointing, elevating many of the same generational power-abusers and ideologues over and over. The Balaam strategy2 of corrupt and conquer is in full swing. Ask: what nation exports the most corrupted "entertainment" and hypocrisy? Do we imagine that the good we do excuses, counterbalances, or outweighs the horrifying evils? Do we really think Babylon is collapsing because of recent events? Read Jeremiah, a prophet unto the nations,3 and substitute North America 2025 for the accusations and ask “Is it WE?”

And if it is, we may already have our "uncircumcised" Nebuchadnezzar at work performing his service for God until he too exceeds his authority and needs his own punishment.4 In the meantime, we may still have time to wake-up and cleanup, both personally and nationally.

Perhaps begin with a chronological reading and reflection of Jeremiah. As some students of scripture have discovered, Jeremiah was not compiled in true chronology,5 so I set out below the footnotes, an ordered chronology with chapter headings to show in summary the dire and deteriorating state of the kingdom of Judah (and all those other nations God names). In my view, until we see history and our own times in light of this repeating cycle of pride and betrayal, we will never understand the necessity of a Nebuchadnezzar nor the "treasonous" words of Jeremiah in chapter 27.

In company with Jeremiah, the extensive exposés ("revelations") of investigative journalists like George Webb,6 journalist / historical analyst Peter Duke,7 and many others8 reveal the depth of criminality, corruption, hypocrisy, and staggering betrayal that have got above us9 here in North America because of secret combinations we have ignored or pretended do not exist despite years of historical, recorded proof and pattern. Are we like the offended Nephites denying our betrayals because they don't fit with our self-image or expectations? And if we think that more aggressive Christian Nationalism10 will save us, how is that not a betrayal of the separation of church and state; a betrayal of the divinely-mandated separation of what is Caesar’s and what is God’s11? History has proven time after time that man cannot be trusted to combine church and state. Agency is betrayed by coercion.
4 We believe that religion is instituted of God; and that men are amenable to him, and to him only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opinions prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others; but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience; should punish guilt, but never suppress the freedom of the soul (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 134:4).12
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1. People of the Books: 1) Bible (Old and New); 2) Book of Mormon; 3) Doctrine and Covenants; and 4) Pearl of Great Price.
2. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/deja-vu-doctrine-of-balaam-doctrine-of.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/corruption-by-design.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-price-of-rice.html
3. Old Testament | Jeremiah 1:5–10
   5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. ...
   10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
4. Old Testament | Jeremiah 50:17–18
   17 ¶ Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
   18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
5. Biltz, Mark. Decoding the Prophet Jeremiah: What an Ancient Prophet Says About Today Charisma House. Kindle Edition.; Lau, Binyamin. Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet (by an Israeli Jewish scholar)
6. https://rumble.com/user/georgewebb/videos
https://x.com/RealGeorgeWebb1
https://georgewebb.substack.com/
7https://rumble.com/user/TheDukeReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDukeReport/videos
https://thedukereport.substack.com/p/ai-on-ai-on-ai-on-if-this-does-not?source=queue
https://thedukereport.substack.com/
8. Only a few out of thousands:
   ● Catherine Austin Fitts at https://www.youtube.com/@thesolarireport
   ● Hall, John. Guinea Pigs: Technologies of Control
   ● Horn, Thomas; Horn, Nita. Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald The Dawn Of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare
   ● McCoy, Alfred W.. The CIA's Secret Research on Torture: How Psychologists Helped Washington Crack the Code of Human Consciousness
   ● Meerloo, Dr. Joost A. M.. The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
   ● Monteith, Dr. Stanley. Brotherhood of Darkness
   ● Prouty, L. Fletcher. The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
   ● Ross M.D., Colin A.. The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists
   ● Ross M.D., Colin A.. Military Mind Control: A Story of Trauma and Recovery
   ● Rutz, Carol. A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on our Children and Other Innocent People
   ● Scura, John; Phillips, Dane. Battle Hymn: Revelations of the Sinister Plan for a New World Order.
   ● Simpson, Christopher. Science of Coercion: Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960 (Forbidden Bookshelf 13)
   ● Valentine, Douglas. The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. Also The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam (Forbidden Bookshelf 5)
9. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:22–25
   22 And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for vengeance upon them and yet he avenge them not.
   23 Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.
   24 Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
   25 For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning.
10. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/5-church-state-christian-nationalism.html
11. New Testament | Matthew 22:17–21
   17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?
   18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
   19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
   20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
   21 They say unto him, Cæsar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
12. See the entire Doctrine and Covenants | Section 134

Jeremiah Chronology (per Mark Biltz) with chapter summaries from the KJV of the Bible published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
For 40 plus years (beginning c. 627 BC), the prophet Jeremiah preached of impending destruction of the kingdom of Judah (which also contained remnants of the kingdom of Israel that had been decimated by Assyria about 100 years previous). The three main kings during Jeremiah’s prophetic call were:
     Josiah (641/40 – 609 BC)
     Jehoiakim (609 – 598 BC)
     Zedekiah (597 – 586 BC)
Note: the dating of reigns is mostly taken from Edwin R. Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, © 1983 The Zondervan Corporation (New Revised Edition, 1994 by Kregel Publications)

During reign of king Josiah (641/40–609 BC)
CHAPTER 1: Jeremiah foreordained to be a prophet unto the nations—He is called, as a mortal, to declare the word of the Lord. [Circa 627 BC]
CHAPTER 3: Israel and Judah defiled and polluted the land through wickedness—In the last days, the Lord will gather Israel, one of a city and two of a family, and bring them to Zion.
CHAPTER 14: Jeremiah prays because of dearth and famine—The Lord will not hear because of the wickedness of his people.
CHAPTER 17: Captivity of Judah comes because of sin and forsaking the Lord—Hallow the sabbath day: such shall save the people; otherwise they shall be destroyed.
CHAPTER 11: The Jews are cursed for breaking the covenant of obedience—The Lord will not hear their prayers.
CHAPTER 12: Jeremiah complains of the prosperity of the wicked—If other nations learn the ways of Israel, they shall be numbered with them.
CHAPTER 9: Jeremiah bewails the sins of the people—They will be scattered among the heathen and punished.
CHAPTER 15: The Jews shall suffer death and the sword and famine and captivity—They shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth—Jerusalem shall be destroyed.
CHAPTER 16: Utter ruin of the Jews foreseen—Israel rejected and scattered for serving false gods—Fishers and hunters shall gather them again, and they shall serve the Lord—Gospel to be restored for last time.
CHAPTER 7: If Jerusalem repent she shall be preserved—The temple has become a den of robbers—The Lord rejects that generation of Jews for their idolatries—They offer their children in sacrifices.
CHAPTER 18: Israel is as potter's clay in the hands of the Lord—If nations repent, the Lord withholds the evil decreed against them—The Jews shall be scattered.
CHAPTER 19: The Lord will bring evil upon Judah—They sacrificed their children to Baal—In the siege they shall eat the flesh of their sons and daughters.
CHAPTER 2: The Jews forsook the Lord, the fountain of living waters—They changed their gods, worshipped idols, and rejected the prophets.
During reign of king Jehoiakim (c. 609–598 BC — a son of king Josiah)
CHAPTER 26: Jeremiah prophesies the destruction of the people—For this he is arraigned and tried and then acquitted. [Circa 604 BC]
CHAPTER 27a: The Lord sends word to many nations that they are to serve Babylon—[27b] The vessels of the Lord's house shall go into Babylon.
CHAPTER 25: Captive Judah shall serve Babylon seventy years—Divers nations shall be overthrown—In the last days all the inhabitants of the earth shall be at war.
CHAPTER 22: David's throne stands or falls on the degree of obedience of the kings—The judgments of the Lord rest upon the kings of Judah.
CHAPTER 45: Jeremiah promises Baruch that his life shall be preserved.
CHAPTER 36: Baruch writes the prophecies of Jeremiah and reads them in the house of the Lord—Jehoiakim the king burns the book, and judgment comes upon him—Jeremiah dictates the prophecies again and adds many more.
CHAPTER 13: Israel and Judah shall be as a rotted and decayed girdle—Repentance enjoined—Judah shall be taken captive and scattered as stubble.
CHAPTER 35: The Rechabites are commended and blessed for their obedience—They are given a new commandment.
CHAPTER 4: Israel and Judah called to repentance—Jeremiah laments for the miseries of Judah.
CHAPTER 5: Judgments shall be poured out upon the Jews because of their sins—Their iniquities cause blessings to be withheld from them.
CHAPTER 6: Jerusalem shall be destroyed because of her iniquity—She shall be overrun by a great and cruel nation.
CHAPTER 8: Calamities shall befall the inhabitants of Jerusalem—For them the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and they are not saved.
CHAPTER 10: Learn not the way of the heathen—Their gods are idols and molten images—The Lord is the true and living God.
CHAPTER 23: The remnants of Israel shall be gathered in the last days—King Messiah (the Branch) shall reign in righteousness—False prophets who teach lies shall be cursed.
During reign of king Zedekiah (597-586 BC — another son of king Josiah)
CHAPTER 30: In the last days, Judah and Israel shall be gathered to their own lands—David their king (Christ) shall reign over them.
CHAPTER 31: In the last days, Israel shall be gathered—Ephraim has the birthright as the firstborn—The Lord will make a new covenant with them, to be inscribed in the heart—Then shall they all know the Lord.
CHAPTER 24: Zedekiah and the Jews shall be cursed and scattered—Some shall be gathered back from Chaldea to serve the Lord.
CHAPTER 29: Jeremiah tells Jews in Babylon to prepare for seventy years of captivity—Those remaining in Jerusalem shall yet be scattered—Shemaiah prophesies falsely and is cursed.
CHAPTER 46: Jeremiah prophesies the conquest of Egypt by Babylon—Jacob shall be saved and return to his own land.
CHAPTER 47: Jeremiah foretells desolation and destruction upon the Philistines.
CHAPTER 48: Judgment and destruction shall come upon Moab for their contempt of God.
CHAPTER 49: Judgment and destruction shall come upon the Ammonites, Edom, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam.
CHAPTER 50: Babylon shall be destroyed and never rise again—Scattered Israel shall be brought again into the lands of her inheritance.
CHAPTER 51: Judgments and destruction and desolation shall come upon Babylon for her sins—Israel is commanded: Flee ye from Babylon—Israel is the Lord's rod to destroy all kingdoms.
CHAPTER 27b: [a]The Lord sends word to many nations that they are to serve Babylon—[b]The vessels of the Lord's house shall go into Babylon.
CHAPTER 28: Hananiah prophesies falsely that the Babylonian yoke will be broken.
CHAPTER 21: Jeremiah foretells the siege and captivity and destruction of Jerusalem—Zedekiah to be taken captive by Nebuchadrezzar.
CHAPTER 20: Jeremiah is smitten and put in the stocks—He prophesies that all Judah shall be taken captive by Babylon.
CHAPTER 37: Jeremiah prophesies that Egypt shall not save Judah from Babylon—He is cast into a dungeon—Zedekiah transfers him to the court of the prison.
CHAPTER 34: Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah—The Jews shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
CHAPTER 33: Judah and Israel shall be gathered—Christ the Branch of righteousness is promised—The Seed of David shall reign forever.
CHAPTER 38: The princes cast Jeremiah into a miry dungeon—He is freed by Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian, and put in the court of the prison—He counsels Zedekiah concerning the war.
CHAPTER 32: Jeremiah is imprisoned by Zedekiah—The prophet purchases land to symbolize the return of Israel to their land—The Lord will gather Israel and make an everlasting covenant with them.
CHAPTER 39: Jerusalem is taken and the people captivated—Jeremiah and Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, are preserved.
CHAPTER 40: The king of Babylon makes Gedaliah governor over the remnant of Jews left in Judah—Jeremiah is freed and dwells among them.
CHAPTER 41: Ishmael kills Gedaliah and carries people of Mizpah captive—They are rescued by Johanan.
CHAPTER 42: Jeremiah promises Johanan and the remnant of Judah peace and safety if they remain in Judah, but a sword and famine and pestilence if they go to Egypt.
CHAPTER 43: Johanan carries Jeremiah and the remnant of Judah into Egypt—Jeremiah prophesies that Babylon shall conquer Egypt.
CHAPTER 44: Jeremiah prophesies that the Jews in Egypt, save a small remnant, shall be destroyed because they worship false gods.
CHAPTER 52: Jerusalem besieged and taken by the Chaldeans—Many people and the vessels of the house of the Lord carried into Babylon.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

"Peace and Safety" | "Violence and Spoil"

Frequently the “Powers” (or others seeking power or change) latch onto catch-phrases to maneuver people into compliantly (though sometimes violently) accepting or pursuing Utopian futures — phrases and slogans like this one from late 1700s France: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Sometimes they work for good and sometimes for evil. In our own time, we have heard:
Build Back Better
Safe and Effective
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)
Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)
Make America Great Again (MAGA)
Black Lives Matter
All Lives Matter
(plus many others).
A prophetic phrase that has been cropping up lately is “peace and safety.”1 Where have we heard that before?
1 BUT of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape (New Testament | 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3)
Is this “peace and safety” pursuit just a build up to another 604-586 B.C. type catastrophe where Jeremiah and Ezekiel quoted the Lord’s own observation — that “violence and spoil” was the state of affairs because justice and judgment were not?​
6 ¶ For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds (Old Testament | Jeremiah 6:6–7).

9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD  (Old Testament | Ezekiel 45:9).
For those paying attention to the déjà vus of today’s national and world affairs, this observation of “violence and spoil” seems perfectly apt: war upon war; devastating geo-engineered storm after storm; “wild-fire” arson upon arson; litigation on litigation; misappropriation on misappropriation; scam after scam; scandal after scandal; mockery upon mockery of democratic, Republican, Constitutional principles and ideals.

To some degree we are beginning to see the extent of “violence and spoil” that the USA (and most other “Powers”) have concealed or suppressed from their people's awareness. Yet, even with the recent daily revelations, there are thousands of witnesses and exposés that remain unread, un-watched because we don’t really want to know the full truth — the full depth, the entire long spectrum from Right to Left — of “violence and spoil.” For many a 180° view is more than sufficient because a 360° comes too close to home.

BUT has God, the Supreme Polymath, given us a layered, bifurcated warning of things to come in His laments about JerUSAlem? Might things eventually come in threes: like the  destruction of the first Temple (Av 9, 587/86 B.C.) and the destruction of the second Temple2 (Av 9, 70 A.D.) if we do not execute judgment and justice with integrity? — if we remain a hypocritical nation3 or a covenant people asking “what is our sin?”?4 Do we have an Av 95 in our future? Do we understand how much Isaiah (at the point of 722 B.C.) and Jeremiah (at the points of 604, 597, 587/86 B.C.) were speaking to us in 2025? — that if we don’t begin to execute justice and judgment 360° that history will repeat itself?​

To me, God’s word seems but one long, déjà vu lament6 about and warning to His wayward children, interspersed with pleas, redemptive patterns and promises.

Let us look at our own reality 360°. Let us individually and as families reject the lures and acquisitions of “violence and spoil.” Let us petition every day for individual and national repentance, and where it cannot be found, for justice and judgment.

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1. Just web- or media-search “peace and safety” or “peace and security” to see numerous examples, e.g.: Thessalonians 5 Prophecy! (It’s Happening!) | Buddy Brown | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_UwT84MEo4
2. Per Jewish tradition, destruction of Temples 1 and 2 was on the same date Av 9, 656 years apart, though there is some dispute as to the truth of that coincidence: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tisha-bav-is-not-the-date-temples-were-destroyed/
3. Old Testament | Isaiah 10:1-6
   1 WOE unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
   2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
   3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
   4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  5 ¶ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
  6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
4. Old Testament | Jeremiah 16:10
   10 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
Old Testament | Proverbs 30:12
   12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
5. Av is the Hebrew fifth month (circa Gregorian July/August).
6. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/gods-lament.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/03/isaiahs-lamentations.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/03/where-are-lamentations.html
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Friday, March 7, 2025

Please Pray for Canada

Please fervently pray that more Canadians will awaken to the dire situation that is unfolding in the attempted "coronation"1 of a former Central banker2 as the next (unelected) Prime Minister of Canada — a man who has been caught in egregious lies3 and embellishments that have been ignored or glossed over by the captured, corrupted MSM. As a shadow financial advisor to the current scandal-ridden4 PM Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney helped plunge Canada into a 21.9 billion overrun of an already shocking 40 billion deficit.5 Several years ago, Klaus Schwab of WEF bragged that he had penetrated Canada's inner cabinet with WEFians6 and now, Mark Carney, as a member of the Foundation Board of WEF,7 is pretending that there is no dissonance between his alleged "love" of Canada and the agendas of WEF for dismantling sovereign nations.

Please pray that leaders who honor rights, freedoms, truth, consequence, and our Constitution will be elected to a majority government as soon as possible to begin the road back to transparency, consequence, integrity, justice, and judgment. Canada has fallen into a pretense of democracy8 where corruption after corruption by the powers is met with suppression of facts and impunity for criminal acts, and thus, allowed to continue and escalate.

Please pray that more organizations like Democracy Watch Canada can arise and demand accountability — that no one is above the law.


Democracy Watch applies for prosecution of PM over SNC-Lavalin | Duff Conacher
(Bridge City News | Mar 5, 2025 | Time 15:45 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0lzIIIdIw
Please pray that crimes, corruptions, deceptions, and conspiracies of those pursuing power for purposes of Utopian control and self-interest be fully exposed; that power abusers be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

And, where needed, fervently pray the same for your own country.

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1. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2025/02/coronation-of-carney-not-if-we-mark.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/canadians-if-you-vote-for-mark-carney.html
2. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2024/10/dear-fellow-canadians.html
3. A multitude in one speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B1-a-TYk9s
- LILLEY UNLEASHED: What is Mark Carney not disclosing? | Toronto Sun | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78hnQXAlefw&t=338s
- My fellow Albertans and people from Canada (this man ["the lyin' king"] is Canada's biggest threat) | John Bolton | Mar 7, 2025 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDW20K9XPCM
- Tories accuse Mark Carney of lying about Brookfield move to New York – February 26, 2025 | cpac | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZSBO18snoo
4. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/scandal-mania.html
5. Fraser Institute | https://www.fraserinstitute.org › commentary › fiscal-u... Dec 16, 2024 — The government ran a $61.9 billion deficit last year—$21.9 billion higher than the $40 billion deficit originally projected. | https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/fiscal-update-reveals-extent-federal-government-mismanagement
6. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-penetration-of-canada.html
"Who in Canada is Part of the Young Global Leaders?" | Real Estate Media News Network | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kXW9xjz5Hw
7. Carney is a member of the Group of Thirty, an international body of leading financiers and academics, and of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.[40][41] Carney attended the annual meetings of the Bilderberg Group in 2011, 2012 and 2019.[42][43]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney
8. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2025/02/mocking-of-canadian-democracy.html

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

"Privatized Morality"

Warning voices
 from the ARC
If you tuned into the recent ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship1) conference in London, England, you may have heard David Brooks2 use the phrase "privatized morality" which struck me as the perfect two-word summary for a major trend of the past 50-odd years — perfect for the repeating pattern of every person, group, or nation that adheres to the ideology of Korihor3 where:
every man fared in this life according to the management of the creature; therefore every man prospered according to his genius, and that every man conquered according to his strength; and whatsoever a man did was no crime (Book of Mormon | Alma 30:17; bold emphasis added).
"Privatized morality" also summarizes my post of one-year ago: Moral Orientation: Part III - Self-as-Sovereign.4


The moment David Brooks CHALLENGED world leaders at ARC 2025
(Alliance for Responsible Citizenship | Feb 18, 2025 | Time 14:17 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSa52TR9tCA
There were many truth-tellers at this third-annual ARC conference. They didn't all agree on current events and personalities, but they felt free to speak their minds. As it stands, the mix of good and bad is unfolding so rapidly that hindsight may prove the only true understanding of the justice and judgments of our time. Yes, (finally!) much long-standing, pervasive corruption is being rooted out, but are we seeing 360, 180, or less? Where is the Constitution headed in this rout? And if history repeats itself, undoubtedly, so will this observation:
39 We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.
(Doctrine & Covenants 121:39; bold emphasis added)
Let us not be so locked into what is being made visible from the past that we do not observe the present. Let us observe all things 360 and remember the persistence of déjà vu.

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1. https://www.arcforum.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/@arc_conference/featured
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is an international organisation whose aim is to unite conservative voices and propose policy based on traditional Western values. It is associated with psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson. It was founded in June 2023, with a London conference held in October of that year.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Responsible_Citizenship
- https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/time-to-board-arc.html
2. David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)[1] is a Canadian-born American book author and political and cultural commentator. Though he describes himself as an ideologic moderate, others have characterised him as centrist, moderate conservative, or conservative, based on his record as contributor to the PBS NewsHour, and as opinion columnist for The New York Times[2][page needed][3][better source needed]. In addition to his shorter form writing, Brooks has authored six non-fiction books since 2000, two appearing from Simon and Schuster, and four from Random House, the latter including The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011), and The Road to Character (2015). Beginning as a police reporter in Chicago and as an intern at William F. Buckley's National Review, Brooks rose to his positions at The Times, NPR, and PBS[1] after a long series of other journalistic positions (film critic for The Washington Times, reporter and op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal,[4][full citation needed] senior editor at The Weekly Standard, and contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly).[when?][citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(commentator)
- https://heroes-and-hydras.blogspot.com/2025/02/58-david-brooks-author-political.html
3. Book of Mormon character: "Korihor, antichrist who was successful in Zarahemla and Gideon, but was run out of Jershon. Debated Giddonah2 and Alma2, was struck dumb, then trodden down by Zoramites (c. 74 BC).[157]" [Book of Mormon | Alma 30] by
4. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-iii-self-as.html

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Invitation to Pray for the Cardston Alberta Temple

Cardston Alberta Temple
Image source below footnotes
Last year I posted two blogs concerning the Cardston Alberta Temple here1 and here.2 Having just received notice of the planned 2027, 6-month open house for the Salt Lake Temple (now converted from a progressive pattern to single-room instruction), I was reminded of the massive de- and re-construction of the interior of that iconic building following costly seismic reinforcement despite its dedicatory prayer of preservation against seismic events.3 I cannot imagine a similar fate of single-room instruction being forced upon one of the few remaining progressive temples of the Church, if that is the plan.

Cardston, too, has its own preserving dedicatory blessing,4 yet the rumor is that seismic upgrade is also planned for Cardston. Who could have imagined what seismic "reason" would result in for the Salt Lake Temple? Yes, the end result for Salt Lake may be beautiful when it is finally seen, but was it done with the knowledge and required  consent of the people5?

Cardston is one of the few remaining temples maintaining the progressive pattern of early temple building by the restored church. Is it important to preserve that pattern? Let us  pray that if it is, it will be preserved in its present beauty.  The destruction that would be required to convert it to single-room instruction is beyond comprehension. As to seismic necessity? can we not trust in its re-dedicatory prayer of 1991?

As a side note: the structure of the Cardston Temple is unique in that its capstone can be seen from the ground, uniting the corners in a single peak; into a chief or head cornerstone as it were, symbolizing the unifying, overarching mission of Christ.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation* of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2:19-22).
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1. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/08/saving-restored-cardston-alberta-temple.html
2. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-slippery-seismic-slope.html
3. see footnotes 1 & 2
4. Paragraph from the Cardston Alberta Temple Dedicatory Prayer | June 22, 1991
“We dedicate the structure from the footings and foundation to the highest elevation of the roof that it may stand firm and immovable against any trembling of the earth and against the storms of nature that may beat upon these walls. We pray that thou wilt preserve it from desecration at the hands of any with evil intent.” (https://www.thechurchnews.com/1991/6/29/23260491/cardston-alberta-temple-touch-the-hearts-of-thy-people-with-the-spirit-of-elijah-the-prophet/)
5. Doctrine & Covenants 26:2
    2 And all things shall be done by common consent in the church, by much prayer and faith, for all things you shall receive by faith. Amen
Doctrine & Covenants 28:13
    13 For all things must be done in order, and by common consent in the church, by the prayer of faith.
(See also Doctrine & Covenants 104:21)

* Which foundation do we look to (30-34 AD? 1830-1844 AD?) if foundational things change?

Image:
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Attribution: Kim Siever, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Asenath (Wife of Joseph): Hebrew or Egyptian?

See footnote 3


(Since fog and overcast skies have hidden most of the sky of January 2025 I have seen the moon only 3 or 4 times, and thus have no observations to report so, in the meantime, we’ll consider Asenath.)

In the beginning of the Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob legacies, particular attention was given to marrying within the Hebrew bloodline. Here are five examples:
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 ¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot [Sarai & Milcah].
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah [Sarai/Sarah1].
(Old Testament | Genesis 11:26-29)

1 AND Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
(Old Testament | Genesis 24:1-4)

1 AND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
(Old Testament | Genesis 28:1–2)

34 ¶ And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
(Old Testament | Genesis 26:34-35)

5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
6 ¶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
(Old Testament | Genesis 28:5-9)
The myths and legends that have evolved around Joseph in Egypt are numerous with some contradictory elements and probable embellishments, but nonetheless, a wonderful story of how God might have woven two tragedies effecting two people: Dinah (mother of Asenath2) and enslaved Joseph into an incredible account of how (in the words of Joseph from a verse musical3:)
Surely in these years I have seen
How oft good comes out of bad;
How always light breaks up the night
How my God sets things right
That seem impossibly wrong.
Most are unaware of the fascinating story that goes beyond Genesis where 17-year old, newly minted slave Joseph first encounters Asenath, the 6-year old “foster-daughter” of Potiphar and Zelicah, the woman who plagued Joseph so relentlessly in Memphis. After serving 12-years in prison to white-wash “the stain that might leak, Upon Zelicah’s fair name,” 30-year old Joseph (now second in command in Egypt) visits Potiphar and Zelicah, (now in Heliopolis) where he re-encounters Asenath, now 18-years old; and as they say, the rest is history. But, if you are interested in exploring more of this possible, unsung history, you can find it at:
▪ Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews, Trans. by Henrietta Szold, 1968.
     Legends—Vol. 2: 15-23; 38-77; 139; 170-174
     Legends—Vol. 5: Notes (pp. 336/n97; 338/n105; 338/n107; 340/n126; 341/n133; 341/n134; 342/n142; 361/n339; 365/n370; 369/n400
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Edited by James H. Charlesworth,1983.
     OTP—Vol. 1: The Testament of Joseph |. pp. 819-825
     OTP—Vol. 2: Jubilees | pp. 128-130
The Book of Jasher. Pub. by J. H. Parry & Company, 1887.
     pp. 120-124, 128-134, 136-137, 140-147
▪ Old Testament—Genesis | chpts. 37, 39–41
Josephus, Complete Works. Trans. by William Whiston, 1960.
     pp. 46-49 | chpts. IV–VI
Here are two samples to whet your appetite:
Ginzberg, Louis. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 (p. 37). Kindle Edition.
“Asenath was the daughter of Dinah and Hamor [Shechem], but she was abandoned at the borders of Egypt, only, that people might know who she was, Jacob engraved the story of her parentage and her birth upon a gold plate fastened around her neck. The day on which Asenath was exposed, Potiphar went walking with his servants near the city wall, and they heard the voice of a child. At the captain's bidding they brought the baby to him, and when he read her history from the gold plate, he determined to adopt her. He took her home with him, and raised her as his daughter.”
(Pseudo-Philo–314) reference to rape of Dinah by Shechem, the Hurrite.

OTP—Vol. 2: Joseph and Aseneth | pp. 177, 202-238, 245
(202) Pentephres [aka Potiphar] (P) is a wise counselor to Pharaoh and priest of Heliopolis, the place known as Sun City [Heliopolis]; an important centre of the Sun god Rê (footnote e);
(203) Aseneth (A) is very tall and beautiful "beyond all virgins" whose fame of beauty had spread far and wide; in appearance A was like the Hebrews; there was much wrangling amongst her suitors and attempts to fight one another; she lived in seclusion (footnote 2a) and no man had ever seen her; her arrogance was against suitors, not others (footnote 2a);
(204) her rooms contained many gods that she worshipped;
(205) Joseph (J) (while touring the lands to store up corn) sends a message to P of his intention to arrive for "lunch"; P speeds servants ahead to prepare while he and Zelicah (Z) hurry home from their inheritance field / estate (footnote 3i); P is thrilled with the possibilities of a match between A & J; Z is afraid of possible revenge;
(206) P makes his proposal to A that she marry J;
(207) A (who does not know that Zaphnath-paaneah is J replies in shock and rejection just as a servant enters to say J is at the gate;
(208-209) A flees to her room; J offers a heavy-laden olive branch to P & Z [a gesture of “forgive and forget”?]; A sees J from her window [recognizes and remembers him as Joseph of her childhood] and is stricken with remorse for her words and judgments;
(210-213) A & J meet;
(214) J agrees to return in 8 days;
(215-216) A fasts seven days and nights and weeps; she puts on the somber black tunic of mourning that she wore when her brother died; she casts away her idols, goodly clothes, jewelry, and statues out the back window to the poor;
(217-224) A's soliloquies of remorse, fear, grief, repentance; [“Have I been too foolish? Too strangely believing? Giving to the image What the Living deserved?”]; the eighth day, A feels hope, and sees the morning star; an angel appears in her locked room;
(225-231) the angel directs A to put off her mourning tunic and to dress in a new linen robe; he blesses and comforts her and pronounces her betrothal to J if they both accept the plan; he tells her he will visit J and tell him about A’s acceptance of his God;
(235) Pharaoh performs the marriage;
(245) A's prayer: "Lord my God, who make me alive again / and rescued me from the idols and the corruption of death, / who said to me, 'Your soul will live for ever,'" ...
Scholars and readers may differ on who Asenath really is, but the Legends tell an incredible story of human follies and unfathomable futures.

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1. Ginzberg, Louis. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 (p. 89). Kindle Edition.
“For a period of two years Abraham could devote himself undisturbed to his chosen task of turning the hearts of men to God and His teachings.[41] In his pious undertaking he was aided by his wife Sarah, whom he had married in the meantime. While he exhorted the men and sought to convert them, Sarah addressed herself to the women.[42] She was a helpmeet worthy of Abraham. Indeed, in prophetical powers she ranked higher than her husband.[43] She was sometimes called Iscah, "the seer," on that account.[44]” (Bold emphasis added.)
2. Ginzberg, Louis. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 (p. 63). Kindle Edition.
[As Jacob was dying in Goshen Egypt] “Joseph received two gifts from his father. The first was Shechem, the city that Jacob had defended, with sword and bow, against the depredations of the Amorite kings when they tried to take revenge upon his sons for the outrage committed there. And the second gift was the garments made by God for Adam and passed from hand to hand, until they came into the possession of Jacob. Shechem was his reward, because, with his chastity, he stemmed the tide of immorality that burst loose in Shechem first of all.[377] Besides, he had a prior claim upon the city. Shechem, son of Hamor, the master of the city, had given it to Dinah as a present, and the wife of Joseph, Asenath, being the daughter of Dinah, the city belonged to him by right.[378]” (Bold emphasis added.)
3. The verse musical was published online in 2019 but has been recently slightly revised and will be republished soon.

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Heads Up to God’s Solar / Lunar Festival Calendar?

Waxing Crescent Moon
* Image info & 
source below footnotes

Considering these words:
14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: (Old Testament | Genesis 1:14; bold emphasis added);
should we be paying more attention to God’s “sky calendar”? How much awareness do we give to the mechanics of the sun and the moon in determining Biblical festivals / feasts, appointed days, and prophetic signs and seasons, or do we just trust in “authorities” who make (or change) calendars. In Leviticus 23 and Exodus 12, God gave all Twelve Tribes of Israel directions to inaugurate feasts and days of anticipatory prophetic events. For many, the Spring feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) were all fulfilled in the first coming of Christ and therefore, the subject now of commemoration and thanksgiving, but that the Fall feasts remain anticipatory recognitions of a Second Coming.

Despite understanding this in part, I have been distracted over past months from paying attention to the celestial “sky calendar” until this past week when I encountered an almost 3-year old series of vlogs that seem enlightening and timely.

So once again, I take up the desire to understand how it all works. My personal preference is for even numbers: no quarter days that require a February leap day every four years or so; no annual 11 day shortage between the solar year (365.25 days) and the lunar year (circa 354 days) that requires a thirteenth lunar month every two or three years to realign the two cycles — a thirteenth lunar month that most of us aren’t even aware of because it just happens as part of God’s design; and also unaware because our solar, Gregorian calendar pays no attention to the moon or its first waxing crescent that marks when each of God’s calendar months begin. Enoch’s alleged calendar of four 91-day seasons1 (364 days) that repeat (on paper) with exactness seems so perfect, but for some good reason God’s “sky calendar” has fractions and shortages (like the monthly, lunar, waning / waxing cycle of 29.53 days) that requires regular adjustment to keep assigned days, festivals, and seasons from wandering through every month of the year. And what can we make of the Metronic cycle2 of 19 years that the moon repeats?

I have yet so much to observe and learn, so I just give a brief intro to some principles that pod-caster Lani Finley of Grace and Truth Ministries shares:
▪ God’s Solar Year begins on the Vernal Equinox and ends at the next Vernal Equinox;
▪ God’s Lunar Festival Year begins on the first of Abib (Nisan) and ends at the next first day of Abib;
▪ The first day of Abib (being the beginning of the lunar year and first Festival month) is determined by observing the first waxing crescent moon that always appears in the west just after sunset on or after the Vernal Equinox;
▪ God’s day begins at sundown [disputed by some but adhered to be Mr. Finley];
▪ The Vernal Equinox marks the beginning of the spring season which may or may not coincide with the first day of Abib / Nisan;
▪ Every two or three years, the celestial mechanics gives the world a thirteenth lunar month to reconcile its normal 354.36 day lunar year with the sun’s 365.25 day year.
I may not understand or agree with all of Mr. Finley’s insights, but his research, in my opinion,  merits further study in the spirit of the Bereans.3


God's True Biblical Calendar Revealed At Last! - Part 8
(Grace and Truth Ministries | Apr 16, 2022 | Time: 58:14 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBFnduhDYG8
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBFnduhDYG8&t=317s
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1. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/search/label/Enoch
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle
The Metonic cycle or enneadecaeteris (from Ancient Greek: ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς, from ἐννεακαίδεκα, "nineteen") is a period of almost exactly 19 years after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of the year. The recurrence is not perfect, and by precise observation the Metonic cycle defined as 235 ;synodic months is just 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds longer than 19 tropical years. Meton of Athens, in the 5th century BC, judged the cycle to be a whole number of days, 6,940.[3] Using these whole numbers facilitates the construction of a lunisolar calendar. A tropical year (about 365.24 days) is longer than 12 lunar months (about 354.36 days) and shorter than 13 of them (about 383.90 days). In a Metonic calendar (a type of lunisolar calendar), there are twelve years of 12 lunar months and seven years of 13 lunar months.
3. New Testament | Acts 17:11
   11 These [people of Berea] were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word [delivered by Paul and Silas] with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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