Staying? or Leaving?

In a previous post titled: “Speaking Truth to Power | New Testament,”¹ I quoted numerous words spoken by Jesus, including words He counselled His disciples to also use (see JST)² — words highly critical of the religious authorities of His day — words that would surely have been considered “evil speaking” had the phrase been known to the criticized authorities.

In our day, we are also witnessing more and more questions and criticisms levelled at religious authorities of numerous faith traditions by their congregants. Many are choosing to leave their affiliations because the dissonance between what they believe and what they witness has become too great, BUT perhaps we should first ask: “What did Jesus and His disciples do with Their dissonance? Were They able to distinguish the core from the encumbrance?

As we review history, almost every creation of God or man, whether scripture, revelation, Constitution,  empire, agency, corporation, foundation, technology, building, work of art/drama/literature, etc., etc., has fallen victim to decay, revision, or corruption in process of time, re-imagination, or hubris. That is the nature of man and this fallen world. Thus, the dissonance between blueprint and manifestation seems ever present.

So what did Jesus and His disciples do with Their dissonance?

1. They knew the house and the gospel were God's, not man's:

45 And [Jesus] went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
47 And he taught daily in the temple.
(New Testament | Luke 19:45–47, bold emphasis added.; Also: Matthew 21:12–14; Mark 11:17)

2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. ...
20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
(New Testament | John 8:2, 20, bold emphasis added.)

19 ¶ The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
(New Testament | John 18:19–20, bold emphasis added.)

19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them [Peter and John] forth, and said,
20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
(New Testament | Acts 5:19–25, bold emphasis added.)

2. They recognized and honored the honorable feasts and traditions:

3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
(New Testament | Matthew 8:3–4, bold emphasis added.; Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14)

12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests.
(New Testament | Luke 17:12–14, bold emphasis added.)

18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
(New Testament | Matthew 26:18–19, bold emphasis added.; Mark 14:12–16; Luke 22:7–15)

23 ¶ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
(New Testament | John 2:23, bold emphasis added.)

14 ¶ Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
(New Testament | John 7:14, bold emphasis added. (also v. 28)

3. They rejected incorrect or onerous traditions and directives:

16 ¶ Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
(New Testament | Matthew 6:16–18, bold emphasis added.)

1 THEN came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
(New Testament | Matthew 15:1–2, bold emphasis added.)

1 THEN came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
(New Testament | Mark 7:1–5, bold emphasis added.)

1 AND it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.
9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
(New Testament | Luke 6:1–10 | bold emphasis added; also New Testament | Mark 2:23–28)

5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
10 ¶ The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
(New Testament | John 5:5–11, bold emphasis added.)

18 And [the authorities] called [Peter & John], and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
(New Testament | Acts 4:18–20, bold emphasis added.)

10 Commandments vs. modern law
Artist: Daniel R. Fitzpatrick | 1925
Image Info below footnotes

As we see from this insightful image from 1925 many things can be added to, misinterpreted, reinterpreted, suppressed, covered-up, and so forth, such that each person must be individually responsible to discern what is core and what is encumbrance — what is of God and what is of man — what is more or what is less than what God has ordained. There are other examples of Jesus breaking with tradition as well, such as extending the gospel to Samaritans and Gentiles, and being more inclusive of women.

As for our time, there is so much good in what the Prophet Joseph restored, so let us hold on to that good even if various powers may seek at times to sever some from that good. Let us be honest and forthright in our conscience and convictions, not insisting that others see as we see, nor alleging authority we do not have, but living our lives and testimonies with integrity, as the Spirit directs, come what may.

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1. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/03/speaking-truth-to-power-new-testament.html
2. JST Jesus to His disciples (Black and red bold is JST):
   6 And Jesus said unto his disciples, Beholdest thou the scribes,* and the Pharisees, and the Priests, and the Levites? They teach in their synagogues, but do not observe the law, nor the commandments; and all have gone out of the way, and are under sin.
   7 Go thou and say unto them, Why teach ye men the law and the commandments, when ye yourselves are the children of corruption?
   8 5 Say unto them, Thou hypocrite Ye hypocrites, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye eyes; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
   9 Go ye into the world, saying unto all, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come nigh unto you.
JST New Testament | Matthew 7:6–9 from Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 2124). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Additional under #1:

  35 ¶ And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple,
(New Testament | Mark 12:35)
  1 AND it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
(New Testament | Luke 20:1)

Image info.
Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Laws_of_Moses_and_the_Laws_of_Today.jpg
File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/The_Laws_of_Moses_and_the_Laws_of_Today.jpg
Attribution: Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Description: An editorial cartoon contrasting the proliferation of modern laws to the brevity of the Ten Commandments. Winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Date: 12 April 1925
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 12, 1925. Reprinted in Caricatures on American Historical Phases 1918-2018 (ed. Heinz Dietrich Fischer), via Google Books
Permission: Public Domain
Author: Daniel R. Fitzpatrick 1891 - 1969

Speaking Truth to Power | New Testament

Seeing we see not;
hearing we hear not

Those in power seldom favor free speech. History and human nature prove this over and over. Even many of us without much power aren't that keen on free speech if it challenges deeply-held beliefs or narrative commitments (which seems the reason for avoiding religion and politics in social situations — though now recently expanded to include freedom and public health mandates).

As we daily witness, free speech has become so offensive to the powers and their believers, they have taken to labelling all speech that challenges their character or narratives as mis- and disinformation — being for them egregious forms of evil speaking that cannot be tolerated no matter how true the “evil speaking” may prove. So let's review some of the “evil speaking” preserved in Holy Writ. To keep this post manageable, we will first sample from the New Testament.

Jesus to scribes and Pharisees:

3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? ...
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.¹

[Count the woes and hypocrites!]
13 ¶ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? ...
19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? ...
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.²

6 He [Jesus] answered and said unto them [Pharisees and scribes] , Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.³

Jesus to Pharisees and Sadducces:

3 O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign;⁴

Jesus to Pharisees, disciples of Pharisees, Herodians, lawyers:

18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?⁵

37 ¶ And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
45 ¶ Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.⁶

Jesus to the chief priests and elders

31 ... Jesus saith unto them [the chief priests and the elders of the people – v. 23], Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.⁷

John the Baptist to Pharisees and Sadducees

7 ¶ But when [John the Baptist] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.⁸

John the Baptist to Herod

17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John [the Baptist], and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.⁹

Apostles Peter and John to the rulers, elders, scribes, et al. including Annas (v. 6) the high priest,  and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest,

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
13 ¶ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.¹⁰

Stephen to the synagogue of the Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, them of Cilicia and of Asia, and the people, the elders, the scribes, and the council (6:9, 12) circa 30s AD:

51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.¹¹

Apostle Paul to high priest Ananias:

1 AND Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?
5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.¹²

For those who think only powers should speak truth to other powers, consider:

JST Jesus to His disciples (black and red bold is JST):

6 And Jesus said unto his disciples, Beholdest thou the scribes,* and the Pharisees, and the Priests, and the Levites? They teach in their synagogues, but do not observe the law, nor the commandments; and all have gone out of the way, and are under sin.
7 Go thou and say unto them, Why teach ye men the law and the commandments, when ye yourselves are the children of corruption?
8 5 Say unto them, Thou hypocrite Ye hypocrites, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye eyes; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
9 Go ye into the world, saying unto all, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come nigh unto you.¹³
[See the disciples response in JST vs. 14-15.¹⁴]

For a broader previous discussion, see https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-two-evil-speaking-discernment.html

Coming soon: samples of speaking truth to power from the Old Testament.

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1. New Testament | Matthew 15:3–9
2. New Testament | Matthew 23:13–36
3. New Testament | Mark 7:6
4. New Testament | Matthew 16:3–4
5. New Testament | Matthew 22:18
6. New Testament | Luke 11:37–52
7. New Testament | Matthew 21:31, 23
8. New Testament | Matthew 3:7–9
9. New Testament | Mark 6:17-18; see also Matthew 14:4)
10. New Testament | Acts 4:8–20
11. New Testament | Acts 7:51–54
12. New Testament | Acts 23:1–5
13. JST New Testament | Matthew 7:6–9 from Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 2124). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.
14. JST New Testament | Matthew 7:14-15 from Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (pp. 2124-2125). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition
   14 And then said his disciples unto him, They will say unto us, We ourselves are righteous, and need not that any man should teach us. God, we know, heard Moses and some of the prophets; but us he will not hear.
   15 And they will say, We have the law for our salvation, and that is sufficient for us.

Will We | Should We Forget?

Original artist: Markus Szyszkowitz | 2011
Repurposed and recycled by SMS | 2022
*Image use and info below footnotes

With the initiation of a devastating new narrative of war, many of the COVID mandates are being quietly dropped by complicit powers and authorities — being quietly dropped without acknowledgement of the honorable science that is exposing the WHO, Pharma,¹ pscience,² and PHO lies and crimes that can no longer be hidden. But in the tsunamic wake of another devastating, orchestrated crisis will these unconscionable lies and crimes be ignored or forgotten?

Let us ask: Have we heard any confession, any repentance, any pleas for forgiveness for perpetuating or sustaining the lies, coercions, and crimes of a crumbling narrative of “safe and effective”? If we just go forward, pretending no one erred in judgment, conformity, persuasion, or influence; that no one need confess and repent; that rights and freedoms can be so maliciously and mendaciously disregarded without consequence, then can we expect any better outcome than greater and continuing deception, domination, destruction, and death on a global level?

Consider these two World Order (WO) facts:

● Klaus Schwab | September 20, 2017 (Harvard)
(This transcription begins at circa hour 1:07:48)³
“Yes, actually this notion to integrate young leaders (cough) is part of the World Economic Forum^[4] since many years. And I have to say when I mention our names, like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin, and so on. They all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina, and so on. So we penetrates the cabinets. So yesterday, I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I would knows that half of this cabinet, or even more [than] half of this cabinet are former or actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. It's true in Argentina and it's true in France, now. And I mean, with the president, with the Young Global Leader; but what is important for me is those Young Global Leaders have an opportunity to come here and we have established a course now since several years, and I think it has, this corporation, has a tremendous impact because being here for a week really creates a strong community; and we, in addition, to the Young Global Leaders, we have now the Global Shapers in 450 cities arounds the world. ... [They enthusiastically recognize the Global Shapers in the audience.] And what is astonishing is to see how those young people really have a different mindset and I have great admiration because when I have a group of Global Shapers in the room and I asks them: are you thinking global terms or in national terms, the majority would say in global terms. If I asks them what is more important for you: to make money or to serve society, more, certainly 80 percent would raise their hand and would say: serving society. So I'm very optimistic about the future of the world because we see young generation, I think we can build what I would call a new Renaissance particularity using technology; solving all the issues moving forward.”

● Volodymyr Zelenskyy - President of Ukraine https://twitter.com/members_forum/status/1497183130410631170
Curiously, this lenghty twitter record of Zelenskyy's appearances and devotion to WEF has been suspended!! Option: search "Zelenskyy AND WEF".
or try here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225142928/https://twitter.com/members_forum/status/1497183130410631170

In light of these two facts (and hundreds of others now being suppressed or false-flagged), consider and ask: Is one hidden hand⁵ puppeting all the narratives of domination, destruction, and death? Are we, at this very hour, choosing one of the seven dragon heads⁶ to favor with our support and belief? If we think leaders do not psychopathically sacrifice their own citizens for the sake of a power, WO, or Utopian agenda, then we know little of history or false-flags or elitism or the ubiquity and antiquity of power abuse. The masses (and even the naïve elites) are always fodder for satanic schemes. (Remember all those European revolutions of recent centuries?⁷)

Are we buying into more soul-capturing,⁸ soul-destroying narratives? Can we not see that all the terrible “fall-out” from COVID and now this accelerated war has been and is geared toward the destruction of civilization, culture, and especially agency⁹? How many times have we forgotten or ignored past corrupt, unconscionable actions by the powers and authorities so that evil was allowed to escalate into this present dire, dreadful situation?

Where is our obedience to the command:

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;¹⁰

Where is our awareness? Where is our repentance? Where is our memory?

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1. Pharma: https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2021/11/trust-us-honest.html
2. Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honourable Science – pscience being the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination; being pseudo, politicized, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes and servitors. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system.
3. The 2017 Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture on International Political Economy https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/strengthening-collaboration-fractured-world-featuring-special-guest-yo-yo-ma (Time 1:08:00) (with hagiologist David Gergen). Bold emphasis added.
4. YGLs: https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-wef-school-of-world-coups.html
5. New Testament | John 10:10
   10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:
6. New Testament | Revelation 12:3
   3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
7. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/it-all-makes-perfect-sense.html
8, Book of Mormon | Alma 12:11
   11 And they that will harden their hearts, to them is given the lesser portion of the word until they know nothing concerning his mysteries; and then they are taken captive by the devil, and led by his will down to destruction. Now this is what is meant by the chains of hell.
Book of Mormon | Alma 40:13
   13 And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of the wicked, yea, who are evil—for behold, they have no part nor portion of the Spirit of the Lord; for behold, they chose evil works rather than good; therefore the spirit of the devil did enter into them, and take possession of their house—and these shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and this because of their own iniquity, being led captive by the will of the devil.
Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 18:15
   15 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always, lest ye be tempted by the devil, and ye be led away captive by him.
Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:4
   4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 15:35
   35 And there is a place prepared, yea, even that awful hell of which I have spoken, and the devil is the preparator of it; wherefore the final state of the souls of men is to dwell in the kingdom of God, or to be cast out because of that justice of which I have spoken.
9. Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:3-4
   3 Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;
   4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
10. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:23-25 (Bold emphasis added.)

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The Power-Abuse Spectrum?

Viktor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor,¹ wrote:

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“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes— within the limits of endowment and environment— he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this [1940s] testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.”²

As we are witnessing greater levels of tyranny and power abuse in once solidly democratic countries, each of us will be faced with more and more decisions of how we will respond to power abuse that harms or injures us or others, as well as to power opportunities to harm or heal.

God already put us on notice about the potentiality and predisposition for abuse:

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.³

I wonder if we are prepared for the decisions we will have to make. Do we acknowledge or deny our predispositions? Where are we already on the power-abuse spectrum? Have we already bullied someone to act against their will or conscience? Will we obey orders or mandates when it is against our conscience? 

Power is one of the chief attributes of God and we are, perhaps, in a global test of power use and abuse, unlike the world has ever seen. 

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1. Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997)[1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor.[2] He was the founder of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy which describes a search for a life meaning as the central human motivational force.[3] Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.[4]
Logotherapy was recognized as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy; the first school was created by Sigmund Freud, and the second by Alfred Adler.
Frankl published 39 books.[5] The autobiographical Man's Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
2. *Frankl, Viktor E.. Man's Search for Meaning (pp. 133-134). Beacon Press. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)
3. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 121:39

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The Power of the Air Horn!*

Many are familiar with the scripture phrase “the prince of the power of the air” as referring to Satan,¹ which was the phrase that immediately came to mind when pastor Charlotte Quist² spoke of the truckers' convoy and of its reminder for her of God's use of sound in several dramatic events:

• the great shouting of Joshua and the people as the priests blew the seven trumpets at the fall of the walls of Jericho³;
• David waiting to hear the sound of marching in the treetops before commencing battle against the Philistines⁴;
• Gideon and his 300 being directed to break pitchers holding lights and to shout in the middle watch of the night to terrify the sleeping, warrior hosts of the east.⁵

For pastor Quist, the honking of the convoy had a prophetic sound:

Whatever your personal feelings about the freedom convoy taking place in Canada right now, the prophetic nature of the SOUND that has come from the movement and the prophetic message for CANADA that is tied to it should not be ignored. / Canada is called to be and to bring healing to the nations, a prophetic word for Canada inspired by Revelation 22:2 "And the leaves of the tree will be for the healing of the nations."

What a thought-provoking insight considering the global response to the Canadian Freedom Convoy 2022.

I thought of all those horns pummeling the air like trumpets — sounds so distressing to the “prince of the air” that those reminiscent echoes could not be tolerated. And so, those who do not know, or perhaps who do not care whom they serve in this historic event have forbidden their sounding in Ottawa, but elsewhere, worldwide, they are sounding. We are hearing “the sound of a shaken leaf.”⁶

Evil is no longer leashed or hiding. Its face is bared for all the world to see. As Jesus foretold:

10 The thief^[7] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.⁸

So, however things appear, however the powers maneuver, they cannot prevail. They expose and defeat themselves in their frenzy, rage, hypocrisy, and pride. We do what is in our power and leave the rest to God. We take the way of peace, integrity, and love. The blood-stained battles of Joshua, David, Gideon, and others are in the past. Ours is the way of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others who, instead of shedding blood, gave their blood in pursuit of peace and justice. We pray it does not come to that for us — that our willingness will be counted as enough.

But in the words of Viktor Frankl:

“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes— within the limits of endowment and environment— he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.”⁹

Let us Hold On.¹⁰

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*An air horn is a pneumatic device designed to create an extremely loud noise for signaling purposes. It usually consists of a source which produces compressed air, which passes into a horn through a reed or diaphragm. The stream of air causes the reed or diaphragm to vibrate, creating sound waves, then the horn amplifies the sound making it louder. Air horns are widely employed as vehicle horns, installed on large buses, semi-trailer trucks, fire trucks, trains, and some ambulances as a warning device, and on ships as a signaling device. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_horn

1. New Testament | Ephesians 2:2 (Bold emphasis added.)
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
2. God is saying THIS about Canada 2022 | Have you heard the prophetic sound? (Victory Church GP | Pastor Charlotte Quist | Feb. 3, 2022 | Time 18:57) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6x9JuXlnA
3. Old Testament | Joshua 6:2-5, 20
2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. ...
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
4. Old Testament | 2 Samuel 5:22–24; also 1 Chronicles 14:15
22 ¶ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
5. Old Testament | Judges 7:12, 17-21
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. ...
17 And [Gideon] said unto his [300 warriors], Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
19 ¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
6. Old Testament | Leviticus 26:36
36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 

7. E.g., those who have co-opted GoFundMe and now GiveSendGo.
8. New Testament | John 10:10
9. Frankl, Viktor E.. Man's Search for Meaning (pp. 133-134). Beacon Press. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)
10. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/01/hold-on.html

Other reference to SOUND (Bold emphasis added):
Old Testament | Leviticus 25:9
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Old Testament | Numbers 10:9
9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 5:13
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
Old Testament | Psalms 150:3
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Old Testament | Ezekiel 33:2 - 7
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Old Testament | Joel 2:1-2
1 BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
New Testament | Matthew 24:31
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
New Testament | 1 Corinthians 14:8
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
New Testament | Revelation 8:6
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

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The Vulnerable Appeal

As many have seen in recent weeks, the MSM (especially CBC), presents, almost exclusively. the voice of common folk and “professionals” who are living in fear, believing in the pscience narrative,¹ or appealing to “love thy [vulnerable] neighbor” to justify continued masking, vaxxing, and lockdowns.²

But recently I listened to a young mother of an immuno-compromised child (cancer) express her dismay at how some are so willing to sacrifice fundamental freedoms on the alter of their own or another's sickness or vulnerability. To her, this one-sided focus misrepresents many of the vulnerable and their families; it was to discount their courage, their trust in God, their love of freedom, and yes, their love for their neighbors. This mother and her child were in and out of hospital during the first year of the pandemic and despite their many exposures, they and their family were blessed with relative wellness. But it disturbs her when families like hers are presented as one of the excuses for imposing irreparable harm and injury on millions. To her, such appeals are contorting love of neighbor or concern for the vulnerable into a power transfer that denies God-given agency and inverts what love really means.

A question to consider in all this is whether most of our frailties or vulnerabilities are not man-made? Of course, many of the vulnerable had no personal choice in their situation, but where did their vulnerability originate? Yes, sometimes as a  result of individual choice and consequence; sometimes  through the choices of others, distant or current; but perhaps most often through the simple fact of being born into a corrupted world.

If we remember: in the beginning, every creation period was called good, except for the sixth which concluded with the creation of male and female, and thereafter all was called very good.³ Then came the eviction from Eden. Man began using his knowledge of good and evil and, as history proves, frequently for evil.

In our own lifetime we can see much good, but also much evil because, every mortal body has been compromised, to varying degrees, both before and after birth, by man-made toxins and pollutions of water, air, food, pharma, ignorance, life-style, and on and on. In many ways, it is amazing we survive as long as we do in states of fluctuating health and sickness. We survive because of that very good day millennia ago. Except evil (the great corrupter of good and very good) loves to false flag creation as being so flawed in design as to justify further pollutions, corruptions, experiments, and interventions in the name of (to recycle a recent phrase) “build back better.” Or is this the real truth: some men and women are just trying to remediate what other men and women have ruined?

Our day is not unique in its corruption of very good. Why do we think that God authorized the complete destruction of entire peoples? Why the flood? Had they so corrupted their flesh (and spirit) that there was no healing because there was no repentance? and that innocent children were inheriting those corruptions and suffering without hope for health or healing? Could Noah's contemporaries have had their own versions of “spike protein” or graphene? And if we think the ancients were too primitive, consider the medical equivalent of ancient architecture which we cannot understand or replicate. How is knowledge lost so completely that it requires square-one rediscovery? Consider our own still lost technology of space flight(?) to the moon⁴ or of Roman concrete.⁵

This human body is beyond marvelous and no one, whatever they may claim, understands its gestalt genius. Too many medical and  pharma pscientists seem like cavorting teens randomly flipping switches in a particle accelerator to see what might happen. But back to the vulnerable. Science has discovered and invented astonishing things to help the disabled and the health compromised to live better, more fulfilling lives, but living in fear and asking others to live in fear or guilt will never be healthy for anyone.

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1. Pscience narrative: trust Pharma; untested vaccines are safe and effective; vaccines prevent illness; VAERS is not reliable data; the unvaccinated are the problem; MSM is unbiased in its reporting; masking & lockdowns work; the economic, social, and mental health costs are justified; counter-narrative voices are disinformation and must be censored; the COVID narrative is the only truth; etc. etc., etc. | see also: https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/what-is-covid-narrative.html
2. • Plan to lift COVID-19 measures like being 'abandoned' by government, say immunocompromised Albertans | Emily Pasiuk · CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2022 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-covid-19-rep-immunocompromised-1.6341237
• As N.L. warns of COVID-19's inevitability, immunocompromised people fear they've been forgotten Darrell Roberts · CBC News · Posted: Jan 10, 2022 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/immunocompromised-omicron-nl-response-1.6307769
More CBC Control Appeals (added Feb. 19 & March 2, 4, 2022)
• Some immunocompromised Canadians face anxious future with lifting of COVID-19 restrictions | Mark Gollom · CBC News · Posted: Feb 17, 2022 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/immunocompromised-canadians-restrictions-covid-19-1.6347743?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_433566
• Pediatricians urge Alberta to reinstate masks for kids, boost COVID-19 vaccination rates | Jennifer Lee · CBC News · Posted: Feb 16, 2022 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-masks-vaccination-kids-1.6353867?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Calgary_1652_433278
• Judge rejects emergency request to give Alberta school boards mask enforcement powers | Wallis Snowdon · CBC News · Posted: Feb 14, 2022 at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/student-mask-mandate-injunction-alberta-1.6351165?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_430658
• Families of immunocompromised Albertans worry risk will rise as masks come off | Jennifer Lee · CBC News · Posted: Mar 01, 2022 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/immunocompromised-albertans-risk-masks-1.6368622?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Calgary_1652_450558
• Manitoba's plan to end mandatory isolation prompts scorn from medical experts, fear among the vulnerable | Bartley Kives · CBC News · Posted: Mar 04, 2022 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-isolation-covid-elimination-reaction-1.6372215?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_452750
3. Old Testament | Genesis 1:21, 23, 25-27, 31
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. ...
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. ...
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: ...
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ...
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
4. • How We Lost The Ability To Travel To The Moon | Dec 11, 2015, [Fascinating theory, eh?] | https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/12/11/how-we-lost-the-ability-to-travel-to-the-moon/?sh=7cd4d6f71f48
• 50 years ago, we flew to the moon. Here's why we can't do that today | Bob McDonald · CBC News · Posted: Nov 10, 2017 1:42 PM ET | Last Updated: March 24, 2021 | https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/blog/50-years-ago-we-flew-to-the-moon-here-s-why-we-can-t-do-that-today-1.4397053
5. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
• We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Outlasts Our Own By: Laurie L. Dove  |  Updated: Dec 2, 2021 | https://science.howstuffworks.com/why-ancient-roman-concrete-stronger-than-modern.htm

Letter to JRC Law School

This post publishes a letter (email) sent yesterday to seven administrators and law professors at the J. Reuben Clark Law School. When we claim rights and freedoms, we also have responsibilities, and one of those responsibilities is to speak-up in defense of freedom. This post is an appeal, to all who continue to support the COVID narrative, to reflect on where they have put their trust and why.

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Just over one week ago, many of us were invited to the JRCLS Annual Fireside with this bullet point heading the list of “notes” for attendees:

• Masks are required; attendees must be vaccinated.

Could someone please explain, in light of:

    1. these documented exposés:

• Breggin, Peter; Breggin, Ginger. COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey
• Kennedy Jr., Robert F. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health; 

    2. Book of Mormon warnings of secret combinations in the last days seeking "to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and [to bring] to pass the destruction of all people" (Ether 8:22–26[1], emphasis added);

    3. Nephi's warning:

34 O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm (Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 4:34);

    4. Christ's admonition to take the narrow way of the few and not the broad way of the many[2];

    5. the science and history of power abuse and domination, including:

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 and Covenants | Section 121:39, emphasis added);

    6. JRCLS Mission Statement & Educational Objectives as detailed at https://law.byu.edu/about/mission-and-objectives/;

    7. the January 21, 2022 JRCLS Annual Fireside address of keynote speaker Ahmad Corbitt[3];

    8. the testimony[4] of tens of thousands of doctors, health professionals, lawyers, scientists, researchers, pastors, educators, and on and on, who are rejecting this Nazi-like narrative of lockdowns, censorship, coercion, isolation, fear-mongering, distrust, scapegoating, mendacity, propaganda, and crimes against humanity;

and last, but not least in accountability:
      9. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights[5];
    10. The Nuremberg Code & Principles[6];
    11. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights[7];
    12. The Declaration of Helsinki[8].

Yes, in light of all these and many more, WHY are the JRCLS and BYU campuses demanding vaccination and masking when the COVID narrative is in dispute and unsupported by unfolding evidence? Have we learned nothing from the Book of Mormon? from Nuremberg? from teenager Helmuth Hübener who was reinstated to LDS membership after his excommunication by his branch president and his execution by German authorities? Have we so soon forgotten his courage and integrity in resisting Nazi crimes against humanity?[9] Or do we think none of the above 12 points apply because some scientists[10] and other profiteers have declared a pandemic and mandated experimental vaccination for "our good"? – a vaccine that is now proving neither safe nor effective[11].

Have we, like the church at Ephesus, left our first love[12] thinking that alleged love of our neighbor (the second love[13]) justifies trusting in the arm of flesh or trusting in those who have proven, time after time, to be liars and deceivers?[14]

Would someone please explain why we are continuing to sustain this crumbling narrative of fear-driven domination and destruction of God-ordained rights, freedoms, and dignity? Where is our courage? Where is our remembrance of history? Where is our discernment? Where is our trust in a magnificent God – His omniscience, His omnipotence, His omnipresence, His forgiveness?

Sincerely,
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1. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:22–26

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.

26 Wherefore, I, Moroni, am commanded to write these things that evil may be done away, and that the time may come that Satan may have no power upon the hearts of the children of men, but that they may be persuaded to do good continually, that they may come unto the fountain of all righteousness and be saved.

2. New Testament | Matthew 7:13–14; (also 3 Nephi 14:13–14; 27:33)

13 ¶ 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:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

3. Yet to be published at https://www.youtube.com/c/JReubenClarkLawSociety
[Now published Feb. 2, 2022 on YouTube | Ahmad S. Corbitt | JRCLS Annual Fireside | 2022 (J. Reuben Clark Law Society | Time 56:45 | for Ahmad Corbitt go to minute 19:20) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ztr1QB4FI]
4. A reading of the exposés in point 1 above includes many names and web-searching those names will lead truth seekers to many other courageous advocates for science, truth, and freedom; plus Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Vernon Coleman, Dr. Lee Merritt, Dr. Simone Gold, the 920,000+ signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) | https://gbdeclaration.org/; the FLCCC Alliance | https://covid19criticalcare.com/; etc..

See especially The SARS2 Pandemic: Will Truth Prevail? | Scott Atlas | Academy for Science & Freedom | ... (Hillsdale College | Jan 24, 2022 | Time 1:39:30) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6kmm70ji5c | May also become available at https://www.hillsdale.edu/ if censored from YouTube.
• Mandates and Morality | Pastor Ron Kelly (formerly titled: The Tortoise and the Prayer) (Village Seventh-day Adventist Church | Dec. 11, 2021 | Time 55:43) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FAbLEzPzRU&t=5s.

5. U.S.A. | https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript
6. Nuremberg Code | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code)
First Point of 10 | The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity. 
Nuremberg Principles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles
Principle IV: The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him. (This principle could be paraphrased as follows: "It is not an acceptable excuse to say 'I was just following my superior's orders'".)
Principle VII: Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principle VI is a crime under international law.
7. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
[Four examples of 30]
Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. [vaxxed vs. non-vaxxed?]
Article 13.1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.| 2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 27.1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
8. The Declaration of Helsinki (...) is a set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation developed originally in 1964 for the medical community by the World Medical Association (WMA).[1] It is widely regarded as the cornerstone document on human research ethics. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki
Principles
The Declaration is morally binding on physicians, and that obligation overrides any national or local laws or regulations, if the Declaration provides for a higher standard of protection of humans than the latter. Investigators still have to abide by local legislation but will be held to the higher standard.
Basic principles
The fundamental principle is respect for the individual (Article 8), his right to self-determination and the right to make informed decisions (Articles 20, 21 and 22) regarding participation in research, both initially and during the course of the research. The investigator's duty is solely to the patient (Articles 2, 3 and 10) or volunteer (Articles 16, 18), and while there is always a need for research (Article 6), the subject's welfare must always take precedence over the interests of science and society (Article 5), and ethical considerations must always take precedence over laws and regulations (Article 9). 
9. Helmuth Hübener:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_H%C3%BCbener
https://archives.lib.byu.edu/agents/people/6550
https://www.mormonwiki.com/Helmuth_Hubener
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICswA1YnvA8
https://www.thechurchnews.com/archives/2002-12-14/documentary-reveals-truth-and-conviction-104823
10. Or is the more accurate term, pscientists, where pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science? – pscience being the inevitable consequence of the natural man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination; being pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes and servitors. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system. The 21st Century question is: What are we now enabling or supporting? science or pscience?

11. Research VAERS, https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html; | breakthrough cases; ADE, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12725690/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement

12. New Testament | Revelation 2:4-5 (Bold emphasis added.)

4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

13. New Testament | Matthew 22:36-40 (Bold emphasis added.)

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

14. • Pharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision | By Victoria Knight and Rachana Pradhan and Elizabeth Lucas | October 27, 2021 at https://khn.org/news/article/pharma-campaign-cash-delivered-to-key-lawmakers-with-surgical-precision/

• see more at Kaiser Health News | https://khn.org/morning-briefing/wednesday-october-27-2021/
• GSK, Pfizer and J&J among the most-fined drug companies, according to study By Brian Buntz | November 18, 2020 at https://www.pharmaceuticalprocessingworld.com/gsk-pfizer-and-jj-among-the-most-fined-drug-companies-according-to-study/
• Big Pharma Paid Billions in Penalties for Illegal Practices, Study Shows | The peer-reviewed study found that 85% of the pharmaceutical firms surveyed paid penalties and most engaged in illegal activities for four or more years. By Inside UNC Charlotte | 11/20/20 | https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pharmaceutical-firms-paid-billions-penalties-illegal-practices/
• List of largest pharmaceutical settlements | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements (not current - only up to 2012)
• Violation Tracker Parent Company Summary:
   - https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=pfizer
   - https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=johnson-and-johnson
   - https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=astrazeneca
• Big Pharma companies that have paid the most in fines | https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2016/03/31/gsk-pfe-bms-nvs-pay-most-in-fines.html
• Big Pharma’s Big Fines by Lena Groeger, ProPublica | Feb. 24, 2014 | https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma
• The disturbing story behind Pfizer’s $2.3 billion drug marketing fines (The Ethical Nag Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed | by Caroline Thomas | posted April 19, 2010) | https://ethicalnag.org/2010/04/19/pfizer-bextra/