"Stop your lying, and speak the truth to your neighbor, for we belong to one another. Do not let your anger drag you into sin. Do not let the sun set on your anger, and give the devil an invitation into your heart."
Ephesians 4:25-28
"Strive for peace with all, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord, Take care that no one falters from the grace of God, and that no bitterness takes root and flourishes in troubles, for by this many will become corrupted."
Hebrews 12:14-15
"Few things are more destructive to Christians than anger. Anger causes us to lose our self-control and to say and do things we would otherwise never consider. Anger, if allowed to remain, turns into bitterness that eats away at our hearts. Anger does not bring about God’s redemptive work; far more often it hinders what God is working to accomplish.
Is your anger turning into bitterness? Is your anger causing you to speak in an unchristian manner to someone or to gossip about them? Is your anger causing you to make excuses for your own ungodly behavior? Is your anger preventing you from acting in a loving, redemptive, and Christlike way? You must examine any anger within you and allow God to remove any sinful attitudes that your anger may have produced."
Henry Blackaby, Christian Anger
"Those wishing abundant wealth are falling into temptation and a trap, and into many foolish and harmful passions which plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evil, and people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains. But you people of God, avoid this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness."
1 Timothy 6:9-11
"But the scholar of the law, wanting to justify himself, asked Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'”
Luke 10:29
"As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be with the coming of the Son of man. In the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, even to that very day in which Noah entered into the ark. They did not know what was happening, even as the flood came and swept them all away."
Matthew 24:37-39
If the armor of God is love crystallized from faith, then the armor of the devil is bitterness and hate, hardened from pride and anger.
This has been an interesting time, a time of revelations and the falling away of masks.
Serve whom you will serve, and now you must surely be unable to hide behind a false ignorance.
Take your deal with the devil if you will, and let your will be done to you.
I no longer know you.
Stocks flopped again on the open, but were steadily driven higher into the close.
VIX did a similar about face, coming in high and going out low.
It's just a working hypothesis as there is only circumstantial proof, but I am playing this with the thought that Donnie has unleashed Bessent and his facilities at the ESF to paint a pretty picture with the markets.
The White House that since the government has been 'shut down' we won't be seeing certain government collected data.
Here is all data being suspended:
- Jobless claims
- Nonfarm payrolls
- Consumer Price Index & Producer Price Index
- Retail sales, factory orders, housing starts, trade data
- Employment Trends Index
We may see quite a bit more of this, and it will work for a while.
But it is not sustainable.
Gold came in hard with a rally to a new high, but was pushed back to unchanged at the close.
Silver is still hanging in there at some impressive highs.
The recent speeches to the gathering of America's top military officers was painful to watch.
And the President declared that certain American cities can be used as 'training grounds for the military' to crush the enemies within.
The masks are falling away, and what has been hidden is being revealed.
Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniquity. Faustus had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner — he was a conscious follower of the Prince of Darkness.You may look away, but you can never again say you did not know.
The fact he could publicly project an Antichrist image with pride, having no fear of reprisal, and his seeming diabolical art of escaping all punishment when others who were considered heretics had burned at the stake for less, would certainly signal that an unnatural individual walked in their midst. It is true in many respects he assumed the role of the charlatan, yet how apropos, considering his willingness to follow the Father of Lies and deception.
E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
When the reckoning comes, it is going to be exceptionally dramatic, and memorable.
Have a pleasant evening.
