Spirit of Truth/The Bible on Trial

Easy Expert~ Yesterday after our program The Bible on Trial finished at 11AM, a friend of mine came over to the house to help both Rick and me to deal with some car issues that have been presenting for a while. Ricks little red car has an ongoing coolant leak that he could not find, and I have been working on our 6 month 'new' 2006 Ford F-150 little by little to get it squared away such that I know it will do the job, and also go the distance. I have found that expert help (in many things) is often called for when dealing with either unknowns (in Rick's case), or in having an expert do a job that even though I could do it, I am no longer physically capable. For me climbing underneath a vehicle is actually dangerous, and I avoid when posslbe. While I was setting up my truck for the needed repair that Richard would do for me (sway-bar bushings and end-links), and new Iridium spark plugs that I would do while he was doing the other job, Richard was giving advice to Rick about the coolant issue.  This thing that I really like about Richard is that he is an 'Easy Expert'; He gives advice, and does the job, without making you feel like a fool for not having thought of that solution yourself. And when I got stuck trying to remove that last two spark plugs from a very tight space, he had the tools in his truck that I needed but did not have. He really helped both of us in a way that gave us confidence that we actually could fix the problems. When we confront people with issues involving Truth and Lies we need to be the 'Easy Expert', Why use a sledge hammer when a ball peen hammer will do the job better. A gentle approach is often the best way to allow a person to see the truth, and figure it out on their own, without accusing them of being an idiot. If a person is open to the truth, and there is enough time, they will see the truth when presented. If not, then use a bigger hammer.

Count on it~ In dealing with events in the news of the world today, the one thing you can know for sure is that more often than not what you see and hear is not what you should be getting. There is almost always a hidden agenda in the reporting of events by what is commonly known as the Main Stream Media (henceforth MSM) that supports on side and denigrates and vilifies the opposing side, and makes it virtually impossible for the casual 'newsie' to find truth in any reporting. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if people have not been exposed to alternate and reliable sources for news these people will thoroughly believe lies as if the are the 'God's honest truth', because they have no frame of reference with which to judge the quality of the news they are being shown. This is especially true concerning the reporting of the news coming out of the Eukraine. According to the MSM the Russians are deliberately and without regard to non-combatants attacking hospltals, schools, churches, and even movie theaters filled with people, and by these accounts there have been thousands of civilian deaths of innocent people trying to escape the carnage. But WHAT IF the things that are being shown by the MSM are not true, and are not reality? Is this even possible? When news is agenda driven in order to support a narrative that the Deep State needs to put in place a 'One World Order', ANYTHING is possible.  This is true today in narrative based news, just as it was during the time when Jesus was on earth. The leaders of Israel had a narrative that said that THEY were the only ones with the truth that was 'fit to print', and this upstart itinerant preacher named Jesus was just some nutcase that didn't know what He was taling about, and was fomenting decent against the leadership of Israel.  Satan has used this method with great success from the beginning. Count on it!

Join us for our program The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, today March 19, 2022 at 10AM PDT, on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.

Party Talk~ My wife and I went to a St. Patricks day party at the home of a good friend yesterday evening, and as I listened to the conversations that were occuring between the guests the primary topic was (of course) what was occurring in the Eukraine. Every single person there was horrified as to what happening (me included), and ever person there (except me) was blaming Russia and Putin for the plight of the people of the Eukraine. It was all I could do to keep my mouth shut, and not say a single word in response. The people at the party are my friends, although some only casually. Every one of them (except me) gets their news from the MSM, and believes everything that is being shown them as being the truth. This includes my lovely and gracious wife. Everyone there believes that the President of the Eukraine is a hero, and that Putin is an evil bastard that is only interested in subjugating the people of the Eukraine to his evil will. My friends at this party firmly believe that what they are being shown on TV is actually what is happening, and if I had opened my mouth and told them the truth I would have been an instant pariah. No one at the party would want to know the truth about the Eukraine, because it would interfere with what they already believe about what is going on there. No one there at the party would believe that Putin is the hero, and no one would believe that what Putin and the Russians are doing is saving the world from the horror that would occur to them if the One World Order (Deep State) were to come into full control of the world. The world has turned crazy in believing lies as if they are truth, and defending those lies with righteous fervor. There will soon come a time when the willingly ignorant people of the world will be shown the truth about what is happening in the world, and they will be shocked and dismayed when they learn how badly they were fooled.

Best Meal Ever~ Last night my wife and I went to a high end steak house for dinner. My daughter gave us a gift card as an anniversary present, but my wife wanted to combine the dinner as part of my birthday celebration, so we went to the restaurant yesterday, my birthday. It was literally the best meal I have eaten 'out' in the past 50 years or so. The last time I had a meal this good was in the late '60's at a Michelin 2 star restaurant in Los Angeles that is no longer in operation. The salads, the bread (oh my), the sides, the wine for my wife (and in my case a wonderful 16 year old single malt scotch), the desserts, the coffee, and of course the steaks were all perfect. Upon delivering my steak (an aged 14 oz. New York Strip) my waitress asked if I wanted some steak sauce, and I said, "Why would I ruin a work of art by adding anything to it beyond what the chef prepared."  As with any high end restaurant everything was A-La-Carte, so Becky and I splurged (which is what my daughter wanted us to do) and added 4 sides to our meal-asparagus, mashed potatoes, sauted mushrooms, and Au Gratin potatoes (the house specialty). The embiance in the room was lively, and a little noisy, but not so much that my wife and I could not carry on a stimualting conversation. It was a magnificent evening. And yet as good as this meal was it is just a foretaste of the meal that those who become righteous in fact through the process of Santcification will experience when we all get together around the heavenly table in the earth made new. And before that becomes a reality we will experience glorious times together as family and friends do, after the wars and strife we are now experiencing are set aside in favor of the fulfillment of the prophecies of Peace and Prosperity of Revelation 10 and Daniel 2. We are so close to this happening I can almost taste it. The Wedding Supper of the Lamb is near at hand.

RE-brithday~ Most Christains that I have met can tell you the day, time and circumstance when they were 'born-again'. This is especially true for the Evangelical and Penticostal branches of Christianity, that put a premium on the emotional component of salvation-how you feel about salvation is much more important than the learning and knowing how you are 'saved'.  Now this is all well and good as far as it goes, yet as Spirit of Truth Ministry has iterated on our programs becoming 'saved' is not a 'once-and-done' proposition; it is a lifetime goal where abiding in the words of Jesus becomes the operative identity that informs the person in the 'way, the truth and the life' that leads to becoming righteous in fact, not righteous by faith because of grace.   As Rick has stated many times our world has gone through a re-birth, moving from the prophecies of the Death Road in Revelation, where all hell was to have broken loose during a horrible time of trouble (which will now never happen), into a new reality of Peace and Prosperity as seen in Daniel 2, that will happen as soon as the final elements of the demise of the Satan's kingdom take place. We can all see this playing out in the Eukraine, in the final throes of the pandemic, and with the Deep State Players doing their best to stave off the inevitable end to their rule over the world. Soon we will see the glorious re-birthday of the world into a place of joy and light, peace and prosperity. But before that will happen there is still a time when the Evil One will try and salvage what is left of his kingdom, the end of which has already been assured.  Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today, March 11, 2022 at 10AM PDT for another excursion into the truth, on our program The Bible on Trial, where we will continue the study into the shift from the Death Road to the Life Road, on; blogtalkradio.com/sot.

What would you do? ~ ~ If everything you believed about salvation through Jesus Christ was wrong? ~ If everything you trusted to be true about good and evil was the opposite? ~ If everything you understood about politics in the world was not what it seemed on the surface? ~ If those people that you just knew were good turned out ot be evil, and those you thought were evil were actually good? ~ If nothing you now believe with all your heart and soul, mind and spirit, were proven false? Would you crash and burn, give up on life, and go into hiding and cry? Would you rail that what you were experiencing was unfair, and that God would never allow this to happen, because He loves you? Would you shut your eyes and ears, close your mind and say to the universe that "This can't be happening to me?" Would you feel abandoned by God, and because your world was turned upside down state that God no longer exists? What I have just described happens everyday to lots of people the expectations of which do not match the reality of the moment. Good and Bad things happen to people on both sides of the divide between truth and lies, and it becomes a challeng to decipher and decode what is truth from what is not. It is for THIS REASON that Jesus said He came into the world, "To testify to the truth. Eveyone that is already OF THE TRUTH will hear My voice." (John 18:36). It is for THIS REASON that we need a gold standard for truth against which we can measure everything, that standard to which we go to when times are tough, and the world is going crazy. It is for THIS REASON that Jesus brought the words of the Father to earth, and gave those words to His own eyewitness disciples, so we could learn them and have peace even when the storms of life rage about us.  It is for This Reason that Spirit of Truth Ministry exists.

Deception~ Have you ever heard the expression, "Not everything is as it seems"? This statement describes perfectly what the world is now experiencing with the 'war' in the Eukraine. If you watch MSM at all you are probably feeling as if the world is about to come to an end in a giant fireball of nuclear holocaust, and the only way to stop it is to sanction Russia into oblivion, or start world war three and have the 'civilized' countries gang up on Russia and China and bomb them into the stone age. Even a sitting U.S. Senator (a Republican no less) has called for the assasination of the Russian President. If anyone had said this about the US President they would be in jail. So WHAT IS GOING ON? Is the world really on the brink of disaster of epic proportion, or is there something happening that is based on unseen and unreported (in the MSM) activity that is setting the world up for a new beginning into a bright, peaceful and prosperous new beginning? According to the way we at Spirt of Truth Ministry (e.g. Rick Sterling) read Bible prophecy, and as we have been discussing since August 2021, all prophetic indicators point to a soon coming time of peace and prosperity such as the world has not seen since Eden. But how can this be with so much turmoil present in the world? Why isn't this information getting out to where it needs to be, so that everyone knows that God's plans are being fulfilled right before our very eyes? Not all that is seen is real, and not all that is hidden is lies. The truth is that what we are seeing in the world is the effort of the Deep State, Dark Side, and Satan, to keep the people of the world on edge so they don't look in the right place to find the truth.  This is truly a spiritual war between truth and lies, and not guns and bombs, and although it appears that lies are winning the truth will win out in the end.

"Look once and see the surface; look twice and see what is beneath!" - D. Neufeld “Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”― Phaedrus (Roman Philosopher and Fabalist) It is times such as this that I really miss our good friend past Dr. Rich Humpal. Rich was a firebrand that when he got his teeth into an issue, and he would not let it go until he had researched and found out the whole truth about it. During the early days of social media, when there were just a few platforms for discussions Rich was 'deplatformed' several times because the people that ran these forums were unable to counter the comments that Rich would post.  His 'handle' was Rock-roller, because he would leave no stone unturned until he had found the truth. If he were here today he would be in 'hog-heaven' with what is going on with the Deep State in in the world, and with what is going on between Russia and the Eukrane. He would be the first to tell you that all is not what it seems, and what is being told to you in the Main Stream Media. On the program yesterday Rick showed the connection between Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Revelation 10, and what is going on with respect to the alternate understanding of these prophecies and what we see happening in the world. What we are being shown is overt war between an autocratic dictator and a small 'innocent' country that is being unfairly overrun by a mighty power bent on conquest. Butt this is only the first look that the movers and shakers of this world want you to see.  But IF you roll the rocks away and take a second look you just might find that what is beneath the surface is different than what you have been shown. Doing this would make all the difference in understanding where we are in time.

Word Games~ The latest social craze that has swept Twitter, and that has now been bought by the New York Times for millions of dollars, is the cute little word game WORDLE. It is a word guessing game that has captured the hearts and minds of millions of people world wide. The rules are simple and straight forward, and by all accounts addictive. It is fascinating to me that this is true in a society that spends very little of their free time reading anything. Reading anything worth while takes time and energy; doing WORDLE takes minutes, and is really more of a guessing game that doesn't require any high leve thought or analyisis. It's just fun. So why am I writing about an innocuouse game while the world is exploding with a war in the Ukraine, and strife, unrest, and protests? The reason is that this game reflects the current mind set of a large portion of the population that is not directly affected by the socio-political unrest in specific places; people long for a means of escape from the chaos they see in the news or that they live with everyday, and wish to go to a place that is innocent and peaceful, a place that requires no hard decisions, no planning ahead for emergencies, no trying to decipher what a politician or a religious leader is trying to get them to believe. The world is full of word games. These games affect the way people think and how they behave. The words from the MSM (main stream media) cause people to believe things that make them uncomforatble and worried. Politicians say words that try to make people feel that there is hope, when the people only see worry. The answer (truly) is in the words that Jesus brought to this earth from His Father, and which He geve to His own eyewitness disciples. His words bring peace in the midst of the storm. His words bring do not bring chaos, they bring clarity and truth to a truth staved world.  Jesus does not play word games.