Remembering Jeremiah and the Rechabites?

Jeremiah
the "weeping prophet
c. 650 - 570 BC
Artist: Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel ceiling

1 THE word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD ... saying,
2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
3 Then I took ... the whole house of the Rechabites;
4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, ...:
5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: ...
8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; ...
12 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, ...
14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: ...
16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; ...
18 ¶ And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.*

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.**

43 And whosoever among you are sick, and have not faith to be healed, but believe, shall be nourished with all tenderness, with herbs and mild food, and that not by the hand of an enemy.***

40 And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year were very frequent in the land—but not so much so with fevers, because of the excellent qualities of the many plants and roots which God had prepared to remove the cause of diseases, to which men were subject by the nature of the climate—****

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*Old Testament | Jeremiah 35:1-19 (Bold emphasis added.)
UNABRIDGED
1 THE word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:
7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
12 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
18 ¶ And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
** New Testament | 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
***Doctrine and Covenants | Section 42:43
****Book of Mormon | Alma 46:40 (Bold emphasis added.)

Observation from a Prophet - 1843: “The doctors in this region don’t know much… doctors won’t tell you how to go to be well.  They want to kill or cure you to get your money.  Calomel doctors will give you calomel to cure a sliver in the big toe and not stop to know whether the stomach is empty or not.
Calomel on an empty stomach will kill the patient, and lobelia doctors will do the same.
If you feel any inconvenience, take some mild physic two or three times, and then some bitters (herbs.)  If you can’t get anything else, take a little salt and cayenne pepper.  If you can’t get salt, take pecosia, or gnaw down a butternut tree. Get some boreset or horehound…
I will give you advice that will do you good… 
(Joseph Smith, The Journals of Joseph Smith; under entry dated Thursday, April 13, 1843; church Historian’s Office, Salt Lake City, Utah.)
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-2-10-march-1843-14-july-1843/68#full-transcript

The Penultimate*(?) False Flag

A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party.¹

Perhaps this 20th Anniversary of 9-11 is a good time to briefly review² the long history of false-flag employment by diverse world powers and players. With the historical ubiquity of false flags, one wonders if “false flag” should not be the first presumption in every real or seeming crisis. However, by using the word penultimate, I do not refer to September 11, 2001. The truth of that 9-11 event is still being suppressed and / or ignored, but the penultimate false flag is probably the one we are now experiencing — the one where the powers and their believers are malevolently pointing their finger at Mother Nature while witting and unwitting servitors remain hunched over in bio-labs, obsessed with manufacturing synthetics, tweaking bio-messenger codes, and pumping gain-of-function. All the while, MSM script-readers repetitiously postulate and publish a flawed Mother-Nature narrative. In reality, the accusatory finger is pointing through Mother Nature to the flawed God of a flawed creation. And the MSM is proving to be the index finger (and frequently the middle) of a false-flag factory.

Yes, COVID-19 is riddled with false flags even beyond blaming Mother Nature. In 2020, COVID-19 itself was false-flagged — blamed for all kinds of unrelated deaths. Now, all kinds of co-morbidities and unknown, unexpected, strange morbidities are being false-flagged to obscure vaccine-induced injuries and deaths. And, even as I write, wave on wave of headlines are false-flagging the un-vaccinated for the current delta wave and all the prophesied, endless, future waves that will necessitate tri-annual booster shots or daily pills forever. Thus, vaccine passports are only as good as the most recent booster — and thus, the fully vaccinated will periodically be lumped back in with the faith-filled un-vaccinated heretics and with all their restrictions and persecutions.

BUT, if COVID-19 is the penultimate false flag, what is the ultimate? Could it be some polished knight on a painted horse flaring a flag emblazoned with miracles and promises like healing, health, peace, safety, justice, love, etc. etc. etc.? — a false messiah spouting false promises for a desperately sick, sinful, and oppressed world? And by peace destroy many?

17 And the Lord will set his hand again the second time to restore his people from their lost and fallen state. Wherefore, he will proceed to do a marvelous work and a wonder among the children of men.
18 Wherefore, he shall bring forth his words unto them, which words shall judge them at the last day, for they shall be given them for the purpose of convincing them of the true Messiah, who was rejected by them; and unto the convincing of them that they need not look forward any more for a Messiah to come, for there should not any come, save it should be a false Messiah which should deceive the people;³

23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.⁴

22 For in those days there shall also arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, that, if possible, they shall deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the covenant. ...
25 Wherefore, if they shall say unto you: Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: Behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not;
26 For as the light of the morning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, and covereth the whole earth, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.⁵

Watch therefore, for the false flag cometh first, as sure as night precedes day.

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*[P]enultimate means “next to last” or “second to last.” It’s probably because it adds an emphatic extra syllable to the word ultimate that people think it somehow means “more” than ultimate—but it really means less. Used correctly, you can say “the penultimate scene of a play” or “the penultimate line of a poem” or “the film’s penultimate shot.” It’s a formal or literary way of saying “next to last.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-penultimate-mean

1. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
2. Here are several resources to review some false flags that are admitted or known:
https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/search/label/FalseFlag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:False_flag_operations
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/False_flag
3. Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 25:17-18 (Bold emphasis added.)
4. Old Testament | Daniel 8:23-25 (Bold emphasis added.)
5. Pearl of Great Price | JST-Matthew 1:22-26 (New Testament | Matthew 24:24)

The YES Bait

Why have so many said “yes” to so much that violates human rights and freedoms? Of course, fear and trust in presumed authorities and experts accounts for most of the compliance, but science has also discovered that saying yes to unpleasant or harmful things can be programmed (as it were) by acclimating people to saying yes to preceding minor or innocuous things – a type of gradualism or incrementalism.

Catherine Sanderson says:

In many cases of tremendous evil, evil is carried out in small steps which makes it harder to recognize and also harder to stop. This process relies on a psychological strategy known as the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. This strategy is a two-step compliance technique in which an authority first asks someone to do a small request, but then later goes back and asks for a larger request. What research shows is that, in many cases, if people are initially asked for the larger request they will say “No.” It's pretty easy to resist But once someone has first agreed to a small request, it becomes harder and harder to resist subsequent requests as they get larger and larger in size.¹

She then goes on to relate a “foot-in-the-door” experiment in southern California where homeowners who agreed to place a 3-inch square sign – “Keep California Beautiful” – near their front door were approached about two weeks later to place a huge (somewhat tacky, ugly) billboard with the same words “Keep California beautiful” on their front lawn. 55% agreed as opposed to only 17% of home owners whose first and only request was to display the huge, obstructive billboard. The initial yes dramatically increased the rate of a second yes.

Sanderson also refers to the “shocking” 1960s experiments by Stanley Milgram which have been referenced several times in these Déjà Vu Times and Déjà Vu Times II blogs.² The Stanley Milgram experiments are perhaps the most relevant experiments to understand the unfolding, escalating obedience of 2020-202?. We are. in reality. in a global recycling of escalating obedience to harm demanded by powerful labcoats – consenting to culture shocks that are anti-human.

Many cannot see any parallels because they believe we are in an unprecedented pandemic that demands we sacrifice rights and freedoms for the safety of all, BUT what if the increasingly censored counter-narrative voices are right?³ What if this is all a long-imagined, long-planned pscience⁴-driven experiment to achieve a Utopian tyranny? What if this is a test of trust in God, not unlike the young prophet's test described in JST 1 Kings 13?⁵ What if believers in the narrative have been suckered because:

... there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—?⁶

Sanderson's final words in Lecture Ten describe the lessons and good news that knowledge / awareness of “this natural human tendency to fall prey to authorities demanding obedience can help people resist such pressures.” The lessons:

First, question authority no matter what. It's perhaps human nature to trust someone who is in an authority position and to follow his or her orders. but this sort of mindless obedience can have serious consequences, so be willing to question authority no matter a person's position. Don't be blindly obedient, regardless of their status, their uniform, their title. [Second]. If you are asked to carry out an order by someone, ask whether you would do the same on your own initiative ... There is no excuse to say, I was just following orders. As you've learned in this class, evil can be a slippery slope. So it's also really important, whenever possible, to resist immediately. Once you start obeying it's actually very difficult, psychologically, to stop; to pull yourself out. It's very hard to stop once you've started obeying authority. And agreeing to even small requests. It's actually far easier to resist initially than to extricate yourself after you have already agreed to do some earlier acts. ... Finally, if you're in a group of people, try to find someone else who is willing to join you in resisting. It is hard to stand alone against an authority. It is far easier, psychologically, to have someone else join you in defying the authority. And even if there's a large group of people willing to obey, having a single partner with you who will join you in defying an authority gives people tremendous courage and strength to resist obedience.⁷

*Artist: Boardman Robinson - 1916 AD
Image source below the footnotes

So People, let us review. How many escalating (harmful? inhuman?) “YESes” have we given in the past 18 months? How many more requests / demands are in the works? requests / demands escalating to worse than in the Milgram experiments? And for those who insist (against overwhelming latter-day and historical evidence) that COVID 19 is NOT a long-planned, malevolent coup against rights and freedoms orchestrated by servitors of evil (and aided by the deceived or the complicit), there is little that can be said to awaken you now. You seem to have chosen to believe that safety (personal and allegedly other) is a first principle which has been known for ages to be a suasion and foundation of tyranny.

John Stuart Mill: “A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.⁸

Note that the gift bait outlined in “Corruption by Design”⁹ and the Yes bait often converge to the same result — a morally-emaciated, over-the-cliff catastrophe as pictured by Boardman Robinson 105 years ago.

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1. The Psychology of Good and Evil: Understanding Extraordinary Behavior from Altruism to Atrocities | Audible Audiobook – Original recording. Catherine A. Sanderson (Author, Narrator) Lecture Ten: Obedience to Authority beginning at minute 2:50.
2. E.g. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html | https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-global-stanley-milgram-experiment.html | https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/no-no-no.html
3. Dr. Roger Hodkinson: "This is a Pandemic of Fear" | https://www.bitchute.com/video/pbtK8L3gRU3x/
4. Pscience is based, not on facts, observations, method, experiment, and truth, but on agendas sustaining the pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination.
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
5. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/lesson-from-old-prophet-revisited.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/11/lesson-from-old-prophet.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2012/09/if-it-were-possible.html
6. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:12
7. The Psychology of Good and Evil: Understanding Extraordinary Behavior from Altruism to Atrocities | Audible Audiobook – Original recording. Catherine A. Sanderson (Author, Narrator) Lecture Ten: Obedience to Authority beginning at minute 21:27.
8. John Stuart Mill. "The Contest in America, "Fraser’s Magazine(February 1862); later published in Dissertations and Discussions (1868), vol.1 p. 26 | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill (Bold emphasis added.)
9. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/corruption-by-design.html

*Artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardman_Robinson
Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_1916_-_Boardman_Robinson._LCCN2010643837.jpg
File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Europe_1916_-_Boardman_Robinson._LCCN2010643837.jpg
Attribution: Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952, artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Source; Library of Congress
Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2010643837
Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/30700/30754v.jpg
Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010643837/
Author: Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952, artist
Published in The Masses, v. 8 (October 1916), pp. 18-19
Description: Title: Europe 1916 / Boardman Robinson.

Lesson from an Old Prophet,* Revisited

In recent months, we have been counselled as Church members to earnestly seek and obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit in our individual lives. In recent weeks, we have also been counselled to resume wearing masks (even when not required by local governments) and to be vaccinated, which vaccines, in honesty, must be acknowledged as experimental. And in further honesty, should be assessed in light of decades of secret experiments on unwitting human subjects as profiled in a recent Deja Vu Times post titled “Cheaper than Chimpanzees.”¹ For many people, these two recent counsels have created a type of double bind.²

What is one to do then, when the promptings via counsel #1 oppose the request of counsel #2? What if one's knowledge of agendas past and present, plus the clear and convincing voice of the Spirit requires one to refuse to honor or support the dictates and mandates of combined world powers?

Some may scoff at an alleged double bind or at resistance to seemingly innocuous actions of purported protection and good citizenry, YET for others, these are not small actions of either protection or good global citizenry. They present as actions that sustain and further agendas of manufactured fear, division, distrust, alienation, isolation, pscience³ fraud, coercion, scapegoating, bullying, mass psychosis,⁴ and tyranny — a slippery slope of increasing compliance, complicity, and destruction of values, rights, and freedoms.

So how to make sense of all this? It takes me back to a Déjà Vu post from November 2010 — to the story of a young prophet⁵ — to JST 1 Kings 13. There an old prophet counsels a young prophet to do something the Spirit of God has counselled against. Perhaps it is time to revisit that story and post.

Lesson from an Old Prophet*

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*https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/11/lesson-from-old-prophet.html
Note: I am not implying conscious purpose or direction concerning the current president or presidency. I have no way of knowing. Rather, JST 1 Kings 13 is the story of a young prophet being tested in perhaps the most challenging way possible. If there is any analogy, it may be about us navigating these latter-days.

1. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/08/cheaper-than-chimpanzees.html
2. Double bind: a psychological predicament in which a person receives from a single source conflicting messages that allow no appropriate response to be made. from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20bind
A double bind is a dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, with one negating the other. In some circumstances (particularly families and relationships) this might be emotionally distressing. This creates a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other (and vice versa), so that the person will automatically be wrong regardless of response. The double bind occurs when the person cannot confront the inherent dilemma, and therefore can neither resolve it nor opt out of the situation. Double bind theory was first described by Gregory Bateson and his colleagues in the 1950s,[1] in a theory on the origins of schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Double binds are often utilized as a form of control without open coercion—the use of confusion makes them difficult both to respond to and to resist.[2]:271–278
A double bind generally includes different levels of abstraction in the order of messages and these messages can either be stated explicitly or implicitly within the context of the situation, or they can be conveyed by tone of voice or body language. Further complications arise when frequent double binds are part of an ongoing relationship to which the person or group is committed.[1][2] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind (Bold emphasis added.)
3. Pscience is based, not on facts, observations, method, experiment, and truth, but on agendas sustaining the pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination.
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
4. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/08/manufacturing-psychosis.html
5. And are we not all supposed to be prophets for our own lives?
Old Testament | Joel 2:28 ~ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

Help is on the Way! but ...

Observations from Sunday's lesson reading:

For I, the Lord, have put forth my hand to exert the powers of heaven; ye cannot see it now, yet a little while and ye shall see it, and know that I am, and that I will come and reign with my people.¹

Meanwhile,

... verily I [the Lord] say unto you, the rest of my servants, go ye forth as your circumstances [and technology] shall permit, in your several callings, unto the great and notable cities and villages, reproving the world in righteousness of all their unrighteous and ungodly deeds, setting forth clearly and understandingly the desolation of abomination in the last days.²

So, how are we, “the rest of My servants,” doing? Are we sufficiently awake to a sense of our awful situation³ so as to be rending the heavens with cries for

like unto

11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.⁴

9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.⁵

1 PLEAD my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.⁶

17 Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you;
18 Yea, cry unto him for mercy; for he is mighty to save.
19 Yea, humble yourselves, and continue in prayer unto him.
20 Cry unto him when ye are in your fields, yea, over all your flocks.
21 Cry unto him in your houses, yea, over all your household, both morning, mid–day, and evening.
22 Yea, cry unto him against the power of your enemies.
23 Yea, cry unto him against the devil, who is an enemy to all righteousness.
24 Cry unto him over the crops of your fields, that ye may prosper in them.
25 Cry over the flocks of your fields, that they may increase.
26 But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness.
27 Yea, and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your hearts be full, drawn out in prayer unto him continually for your welfare, and also for the welfare of those who are around you.⁷

Are we really crying for help? Can we allow ourselves to discern the depth of evil design that is bent on the destruction of the world as God created it? and admit how far we have allowed that evil design to get above us? Do we think our cries manifest weakness? Will our cries for help make a difference? Can we cry out and trust at the same time?

10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.⁸

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1. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 84:119  | Yes, this was given in 1832, being 189 years ago, and maybe we still can't see it (what God's hand did to exert the powers of heaven), but the things we should be able to see and discern are the woeful conditions of our latter-day world; how much is already being destroyed around us, not at the hand of nature, but by the corrupted, misused, and abused  technologies of man.
2. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 84:117
3. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:24-25 ~ 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. 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. (Bold emphasis added.)
4. Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 14:11
5. Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 20:9
6. Old Testament | Psalms 35:1-2
7. Book of Mormon | Alma 34:17-27
8. Old Testament | Isaiah 41:10
A few more messages of help and hope:
Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 32:7-8 ~ Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Old Testament | Psalms 12:1 ~ HELP, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
New Testament | Hebrews 13:6 ~ So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Old Testament | Psalms 37:39-40 ~ But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Old Testament | Psalms 46:1 ~ GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Old Testament | Psalms 28:7 ~ The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Old Testament | Isaiah 49:8 ~ Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
New Testament | Romans 8:26 ~ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 109:43–44 ~ O Lord, we delight not in the destruction of our fellow men; their souls are precious before thee; But thy word must be fulfilled. Help thy servants to say, with thy grace assisting them: Thy will be done, O Lord, and not ours.

“The Judas Thing”*

[*Words of Dallas Jenkins (creator, writer, director of the TV series: The Chosen**) during his interview with Luke Dimyan, the actor portraying Judas Iscariot.***]

How prescient, in this season of COVID-19 (and escalating variants), that Episode 8 of Season 2 of The Chosen should introduce us to Judas. I say prescient because it seems that more and more “Judas” choices are being presented to us by the authorities and world powers:

• whom will we believe?
• whom will we trust?
• whom will we obey?
• how will we perceive / respond to unfolding latter-day tests and trials?

Prescient too because the prime activity of the adversary through all ages has been to trigger the Judas element in each of us, and the recent turning of things upside down has revealed more fears, divisions, angers, contentions, confusions, and tyrannies within ourselves and our society than we could ever have imagined.

As I posited in a prior post: Are we facing our own individual, third temptation?¹ being promised the world if we will place our trust in the promises of science pscience?²

But perhaps, equally dangerous as believing or trusting in world powers and authorities is to trust in our own perceptions and expectations of how God is going to (or should) use and resolve all this for the blessing of His children. I do not know how The Chosen will eventually present the motives that propelled Judas to do what he did, but I wonder if we were given a hint about inappropriate intervening in the Old Testament story of Uzzah.³

Uzzah, along with his brother Ahio, sons of the Levite Abinadab, were driving a new cart carrying the sacred ark of the covenant. Uzzah, perceiving sudden danger to the ark when the oxen stumbled, stretched his hand to intervene and “God smote him for his error.” Many are troubled by this consequence for an understandably normal reaction to fear or expectation, but there is obviously, in God's justice, something in the story about inappropriate intervening, even as in Christ's rebukes to Simon Peter.⁵

Was Judas attempting to inappropriately intervene because of some fear or expectation? Is that “the Judas thing”? How many times do we intervene or permit or sanction an intervention because our perceptions are confined to this world? because seeing, we see not that the arm of God is already outstretched to save the situation and instead, we stretch out our arm to override His?

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**“The Chosen is a television drama based on the life of Jesus, created, directed and co-written by American filmmaker Dallas Jenkins. It is the first multi-season series about the life of Jesus, and season one was the highest crowd-funded TV series or film project of all time.[1][2] The series' creators stated that they had hoped to distinguish the new series from previous portrayals of Jesus by crafting a multi-season, episode-based story.[3] The series portrays Jesus "through the eyes of those who met him".[4] In addition to VidAngel and its own app, the series airs on several streaming services.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chosen_%28TV_series%29
***https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Iscariot

1. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-three-temptations-2021-conversion
2. Pscience is based, not on facts, observations, method, experiment, and truth, but on agendas sustaining the pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination.
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
3. Old Testament | 2 Samuel 6:3-7 ~ 3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. 4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. 5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. 6 ¶ And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Old Testament | 1 Chronicles 13:7-10 ~ 7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. 9 ¶ And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. 10 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 85:8 ~ 8 While that man, who was called of God and appointed, that putteth forth his hand to steady the ark of God, shall fall by the shaft of death, like as a tree that is smitten by the vivid shaft of lightning.
4. Abinadab (father of Ahio and Uzzah) ~ https://biblia.com/factbook/Abinadab-(father-of-Ahio)
5. New Testament | Matthew 16:21-23 ~ 21 ¶ From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
New Testament | John 18:10-11 ~ 10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
New Testament | Matthew 26:51-54 ~ 51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear. 52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Déjà Vu Duty? Like Unto 1839?

For those breathing easy with the lifting of many COVID restrictions, it might be advisable to pay attention to the predicative programming headlines¹ that are prepping / psy-oping us for a coming dark, devastating winter (perhaps preceded by a global, devastating, grid-failure (“cyber-attack”) during an inescapable (geoengineered) summer heatwave on heatwave.² The predicted, (promised) cyber-attack³ is just one more (table-topped) stress-scenario designed to drive humanity and civilization toward complete breakdown.

Alpha & Omega

So as we press onward from delta (4th letter of the Greek alphabet) to omega (the last letter)⁴ perhaps we should reread a revelation (directive) from 1839 concerning another of the repeating episodes of crimes against humanity that have plagued human events forever. So many empires have imploded because they refused to sufficiently discern and expose the evil⁵ in their midst (which is not excusable by the evil in their enemies⁶). We become irate when our enemies lie, cheat, steal, torture, and murder, but when one of our own confesses in open forum, we laugh and applaud.⁷ This whole pandemic narrative is one of lying, cheating, stealing, torture, murder, power-pursuit, and gain. We have refused to discern, expose, and prosecute the evil that has now got above us⁸ till our nations are ripe for destruction⁹ as foretold by the great Alpha & Omega.

If we ever come to learn the depth of evil we have refused to discern, expose, and prosecute, we may then understand how the “dark and blackening deeds are enough to make hell itself shudder, and to stand aghast and pale, and the hands of the very devil to tremble and palsy.” That is how bad men / women and things can and have become; how blind and deaf we have been.

Perhaps 1839 has become 2021 via a technocratic, global explosion. So, if we have “awakened to a sense of our awful situation,” do we have a duty like unto 1839? a duty to lay all these crimes against humanity before men and God?

1 AND again, we would suggest for your consideration the propriety of all the saints [world penitents] gathering up a knowledge of all the facts, and sufferings and abuses put upon them by the people of this State [nation, agency, secret combination];
2 And also of all the property and amount of damages which they have sustained, both of character and personal injuries, as well as real property;
3 And also the names of all persons that have had a hand in their oppressions, as far as they can get hold of them and find them out.
4 And perhaps a committee can be appointed to find out these things, and to take statements and affidavits; and also to gather up the libelous publications that are afloat;
5 And all that are in the magazines, and in the encyclopedias, and all the libelous histories that are published, and are writing, and by whom, and present the whole concatenation of diabolical rascality and nefarious and murderous impositions that have been practised upon this people [of every nation, kindred, and tongue]—
6 That we may not only publish to all the world, but present them to the heads of government [to establish their culpability and liability] in all their dark and hellish hue, as the last effort which is enjoined on us by our Heavenly Father, before we can fully and completely claim that promise which shall call him forth from his hiding place; and also that the whole nation may be left without excuse before he can send forth the power of his mighty arm.
7 It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity.
8 It is an iron yoke, it is a strong band; they are the very handcuffs, and chains, and shackles, and fetters of hell.
9 Therefore it is an imperative duty that we owe, not only to our own wives and children, but to the widows and fatherless, whose husbands and fathers have been murdered under its iron hand;
10 Which dark and blackening deeds are enough to make hell itself shudder, and to stand aghast and pale, and the hands of the very devil to tremble and palsy.
11 And also it is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart—
12 For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—
13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—
14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness.
15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.
16 You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.
17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.¹⁰

Let us “waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them”; attend to discernment with great earnestness; and “do all things that lie in our power,” including fervent prayer for the arm of the Lord to be revealed.

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1. Predictive Programming

Newsweek cover of
May 21 – 28, 2021
Source image in Footnote 1.a.

   a. - Newsweek cover of 5/21 – 5/28/2021 at https://www.zinio.com/ca/newsweek/console-8421-232382-i514850
   b. - Opinion: We could see a winter comeback of covid-19 if we don’t get more Americans vaccinated now Opinion by Leana S. Wen Contributing columnist May 6, 2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/06/we-could-see-winter-comeback-covid-19-if-we-dont-get-more-americans-vaccinated-now/
   c. - Two gaps to fill for the 2021-2022 winter wave of COVID-19 cases (Maciej F. Boni Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State | Disclosure statement Maciej F. Boni receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | March 3, 2021 https://theconversation.com/two-gaps-to-fill-for-the-2021-2022-winter-wave-of-covid-19-cases-156169
   d. - Here's What Experts Think Will Happen To Covid Come Winter: One question hangs in the back of our minds: will cases spike again this winter, marking a return to stricter lockdown measures? By Natasha Hinde 17/03/2021 | https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/will-covid-be-back-in-winter_uk_604b78f4c5b65bed87da0d7c
   e. - COVID-19: UK should prepare now for 'difficult autumn' and 'hard winter', warns Public Health England official: Dr Susan Hopkins says the population may have less immunity to other respiratory viruses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By David Mercer, news reporter | 8 March 2021 | https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-should-prepare-for-difficult-autumn-warns-public-health-england-official-12238728
  f. - Chris Whitty warns Covid lockdown measures may be needed next winter as virus ‘won’t disappear by spring’ | By Abbianca Makoni | 05 January 2021 | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/christ-whitty-covid-lockdown-next-winter-b703672.html
   g. - Will we go into lockdown again in autumn? | BY MELIH ALTINOK | JUN 03, 2021 | https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/columns/will-we-go-into-lockdown-again-in-autumn
   h. - As Covid dissipates in the U.S., cold and flu viruses may return with a vengeance | By Helen Branswell | May 27, 2021 | https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/27/as-covid-dissipates-cold-flu-viruses-return-vengeance-2/
   i. - When the next pandemic hits, scientists aim to have a vaccine already: Here's how Researchers are trying to develop more universal vaccines to be ready for the next coronavirus | Emily Chung · CBC News|· Posted: Feb 12, 2021 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/next-pandemic-vaccine-1.5908926?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_241401
   j. Public health agency warns of fall COVID resurgence if delta variant becomes dominant strain | Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Jun 25, 2021 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fall-resurgence-delta-variant-public-health-agency-1.6080357?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_285522 
2. Recognize how a grid failure in heat can be more catastrophic than in winter, resulting in prolonged losses of
   ▪ communication (cell phones, internet, zoom-meets, radio / TV, etc.)
   ▪ home and water heating / cooling, lighting, cooking, freezers, fridges, food
   ▪ transportation (vehicle electronics, fuel pumping & access, food transport, preservation, access, travel, etc.)
   ▪ banking, price scanning, buying & selling transactions
   ▪ many hospital & emergency services, water pumping, sewage treatment
   ▪ manufacturing, business, & school capability
   ▪ housing and business access in apartments, high rises, etc
   ▪ etc.
3. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/catastrophe-prophets-profits.html (see especially example 3.)
Episode 403 – Meet the World Economic Forum | TheCorbettReport | June 12, 2021 | Time 1:09:57) at https://www.corbettreport.com/wef/
4. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2021/06/delta-variant.html
5. Discerning What Is Evil: Milk or Strong Meat? https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/04/milk-or-strong-meat.html
6. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 10:25-28 ~ Yea, he [Satan] saith unto them: Deceive and lie in wait to catch, that ye may destroy; behold, this is no harm. And thus he flattereth them, and telleth them that it is no sin to lie that they may catch a man in a lie, that they may destroy him. 26 And thus he flattereth them, and leadeth them along until he draggeth their souls down to hell; and thus he causeth them to catch themselves in their own snare. 27 And thus he goeth up and down, to and fro in the earth, seeking to destroy the souls of men. 28 Verily, verily, I say unto you, wo be unto him that lieth to deceive because he supposeth that another lieth to deceive, for such are not exempt from the justice of God. (Bold emphasis added.)
7. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/01/lost-soul-of-america.html
8. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:23-24 ~ 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.
9. For those who think the blame for corruption or contagion lies with Russian or China, or some other, remember that the Nephites thought the blame lay with the Lamanites, in déjà vu of all falling / fallen nations and empires. For criminals and their organizations, the blame lies somewhere other than self and all their crimes were necessitated for good cause or self-defense.  Are the USA, Britain, Israel, Canada, etc., etc., any different?
10. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:1-17