Monday, April 6, 2020

Lullaby*?


Does it help:
● if a father of a teenager asks us to get his child up and ready for early morning seminary and we proceed to sing a lullaby?
● if we are commanded to wake up to an “awful situation”1 and instead, we insist on acting as if the crushing restrictions of the “situation” are justified or that they are only temporary accommodations to Nature's naturally recycling assaults (especially if we ignore that Nature has often become an impressee2 of long-simmering and simulated abominations)?3
● if we are soldiers in the midst of battle and our commander believes (per the expertise of X masquerading as friend of US) that special forces can battle a crisis by directing all focus, energy, and resources toward controlling or expunging Y (a technocratic, endlessly reproducible corruption patented and owned by X)?
So, what are we to fast and pray for this Good Friday? — for the defeat of or protection against [conscripted, corrupted, CRISPR-ed4] “Nature”? ... Perhaps.

But what are the prayers referred to in John's Revelation that might sync us with or call forth God's will?
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints[5] upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.6
Could the prayers that might call God out of His hiding place be our own call — our cry — for justice and judgment, mercy and truth to “sweep away the refuge of lies” and to “overflow the hiding place” of evil? because
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.7
Could this help?
Those who pray do so not because they believe certain intellectual propositions about the value of prayer, but simply because the struggle to be human in the face of suprahuman Powers requires it. The act of praying is itself one of the indispensable means by which we engage the Powers. It is, in fact, that engagement at its most fundamental level, where their secret spell over us is broken and we are reestablished in a bit more of that freedom which is our birthright and potential.8

Intercession is spiritual defiance of what is, in the name of what God has promised. Intercession visualizes an alternative future to the one apparently fated by the momentum of current contradictory forces. It infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. Those who have made peace with injustice, who receive their identity from alienated role-definitions, and who benefit economically from social inequities, are not likely to be such intercessors.9

Prayer, in short, is the field-hospital in which the diseased spirituality that we have contracted from the Powers can most directly be diagnosed and treated.10
Has the trumpet11 passed to the seven angels of John's Revelation and been multiplied?12
Heaven itself falls silent. The heavenly hosts and celestial spheres suspend their ceaseless singing so that the prayers of the saints on earth can be heard. The seven angels of destiny cannot blow the signal of the next times to be until an eighth angel gathers these prayers—prayers for justice, vindication, and victory—and mingles them with incense upon the altar. Silently they rise to the nostrils of God. Then from the same altar the angel fills the same censer with fiery coals and hurls them upon the earth. The earth is convulsed. The silence is shattered. The heavenly liturgy is complete. Now the seven angels who have the seven trumpets make ready to blow.13
How fervent can our prayers be if we do not recognize the “awful situation” that we have allowed to get above us?14

Do we even process what praying for justice and judgment, mercy and truth means in prophecy?

My friends, if we are going to pray for justice and judgment, mercy and truth, we had better be prepared because when the smoke of the incense reaches God, this follows:
And the angel took the [same] censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.15
What else could be more vital to plead for in our prayers and fasting than these four — justice and judgment, mercy (i.e., forgiveness / love), and truth — in this world of domination, violence, hypocrisy, corruption, “lying wonders,”16 invisible / unimaginable bio-weapons, and the sufferings of millions because we have ignored, in our prosperity and blindness, what has been done by US17 for well-over 100 years? What else can we expect? What else should we hope for? What else must we do?

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All Bold emphasis added)
* lullaby ~ a soothing refrain // specifically a song to quiet children or lull them to sleep
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lullaby )
Are lullabies all we will tolerate?
Old Testament | Isaiah 30:814 ~ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Old Testament | Ezekiel 3:17–21 ~ Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Old Testament | Isaiah 58:1 ~ CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:8082 ~ That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you. Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor. Therefore, they are left without excuse, and their sins are upon their own heads.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 63:58 ~ For this is a day of warning, and not a day of many words. For I, the Lord, am not to be mocked in the last days.
New Testament | Matthew 7:13–14 ~ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

1. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:24 ~ Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things [murderous combinations built up to get power and gain] come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; ...
2. Impressed: to levy or take by force for public service // specially : to force into naval service // to procure or enlist by forcible persuasion (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impress )
3. duckduckgo “bio-weapons research”; follow the witnesses and the many hubristic scientists who have spoken openly of crafting designer, virulent diseases and testing them on unwitting populations.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
5. (of every nation, kindred, tongue, religion, and people)
6. New Testament | Revelation 8:3-4
7. Old Testament | Psalms 89:14
Old Testament | Genesis 18:19 ~ For I know [Abraham], that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Old Testament | Isaiah 28:17–18 ~ Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Old Testament | Proverbs 21:3 ~ To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
8. Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 4168–4170). Kindle Edition.
9. Ibid., (Kindle Locations 4181–4183). Kindle Edition.
10. Ibid., (Kindle Locations 4177–4178). Kindle Edition.
11. https://kutv.com/news/local/angel-mormoni-loses-trumpet-in-salt-lake-earthquake
12. New Testament | Revelation 8:57 ~ And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
See also: https://josephsmithfoundation.org/missionaries-will-the-missionaries-be-called-home-prior-to-calamities-in-the-last-days/
13. Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 4193–4196). Kindle Edition.
14. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:23 ~ 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.
15. New Testament | Revelation 8:5–7
16. New Testament | 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ~ Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
17. Lost Soul of America at  https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/01/lost-soul-of-america.html
Old Testament | Isaiah 59:1–15 ~ BEHOLD, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.