Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
Luke 9.1-6
When Jesus Christ empowered His twelve disciples to go through the towns preaching the Gospel and healing every where, He sent them with instructions to take nothing for their journey, not staves (a walking staff), nor scrip (no written material), no bread, no money, and not a second coat. Jesus told them that where they would go, they would in some places live in peoples' homes, and in some places they would be rejected, and He gave them instructions therein.
The disciples of Jesus Christ obeyed the words of Jesus Christ, which is intrinsic. A believer in Jesus Christ is someone who trusts in Jesus Christ. A believer in Jesus Christ is someone who trusts Jesus Christ. A person can trust "in" something without trusting it. A person can trust "in" another person without trusting that person. For example, a person might claim to trust in the establishment of the Constitution of the United States of America, and yet not claim to trust it as a trustworthy document which will have integrity after all its amendments and modern hoopla. People who believe in what America was from the time of our Founding Fathers until later on when it became locked into a party system, many of those people are alive today and don't quite realize yet that that old country seems to have faded from the vision of all but a few people who are being born today, outmaneuvered by progressively worse actors who pretend to wear the wigs and swing the gavels and believe in the laws they are writing. Similarly, someone might claim to trust "in" Jesus Christ, yet not fully trust Him as their Saviour, and they live life inhabited by fears of death and calamity until they see their need to actually depend on Jesus Christ, and until they actually trust Him as their invisible Friend Who is the Alpha and Omega, Who is the Lion and the Lamb.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18.24
There is a stringent commandment to keep the sayings of Jesus Christ, meaning, to obey His commandments and instructions, and revere His preeminent Wisdom in all, for He is Wisdom. One of His names is Wisdom with the capital W. He is the Source of all. He is the Source of all things. He is the Source of all wisdom and it is because of Him that we humans have His Light (He is the Light) as our Light by which we can see wisdom and know our folly. Those who trust in Jesus Christ know His gentle voice. Those who trust in Jesus Christ know that God truly has wooed us and won us by His kindness, and we know that He is faithful when He tells us to rest in Him, to cast our burdens on Him, and to take His yoke, because His yoke is easy and His burden is light. God's love is severe.
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 11.25-30
The word "obey" is attached to such negative baggage in so many peoples' minds and hearts and this baggage is even carried upon the bodies of so many people today, as a visceral and real negative response and perspective of this word "obey," and this is the righteous response to it today, in how it is used, because people who are being born nowadays are being born into such corrupt and corrupting systems that most people only know people who are abusing and mis-using the concept of natural authority in society, and whenever we are taught to "obey" outside of our parents' houses, and for many, even within their own parents' houses, their concept of obedience is warped and entirely lacking from being true and authentic obedience, because nobody is teaching anybody what is real obedience today, because it is poo-poo'ed on in so many circles, secular and not.
The world today at the same time is bringing up all generations to forsake the way of laws and orders, and to embrace self-indulgence and apparent godliness, in choosing any path which leads to submitting to QR codes and/or RFID tags. The songs being played and the messages being delivered from those "at the top" to those "common folk" is that we should not feel pressured to obey anybody, or be led to think that we are some part in some old "Patriarchy" of bad systems that must be de-constructed so that we can magically pop out into what we need to evolve into being. Then, for Christmas, they sell people Star Wars "force trainer" toys alongside Zuckerberg's "bellowband" haptic wristbands in conjunction with their brainwave-reading wristbands, and alongside Musk's "Neuralink" as the shining examples of how to "evolve" into what the narrators of this great evolution have decided we ought to be. But those are just the first few steps that their a.i. "gods" have instructed them to follow.
At the same time that these narrators are telling people to not follow the rules of other people, they are themselves following strict rules given to them by their self-created and flawed a.i. "gods" (I put "gods" in quotes because that's what they call them) to ensure that their whims and changes to society permeate the "proper" "channels" to enact the "greater good" for "all humanity." It all leads to people being duped into believing that they are self-subjecting themselves to the new QR code and RFID tag system, which makes up the catalogue known as the mark of the beast, from the book of Revelation in the Bible.
Here is an article that I put together here for a concise reference article for how I have come to interpret the mark of the beast as the RFID tag, and the image of the beast as the QR code (tentatively, until the talking image of the beast is revealed, which will likely happen some time between this September 2023 and likely not later than the end of March 2027. I have not yet specifically written about why I believe that March 2027 is the latest that the talking image of the beast will be revealed, but I believe strongly that it could appear before this year 2023 is over, any time after September).
It should be noted that these dates are held at a different level of belief in my heart than my belief in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. It should also be noted that I have never nor will ever speculate or try to guess about a day or an hour when Jesus Christ will return, as He has relieved all of us from knowing this by informing us that not even He knew it at that moment, but only the Father in Heaven. But He gave us so much more that we can know!
The Bible is so many things. It is the written Word of God, revealing the very will and heart of our Creator, so that we would know that He visited us in the form of His Son Jesus Christ, and He lived a perfect life as an example of sacrificial and real love for us, His special creation, human beings. God is not that fictional Zeus, up above on a cloud somewhere waiting with lightning bolts in hand to strike down and destroy His creation. He has spent eons proving His love for us and He shed His own blood for us so that we would know His forgiveness and trust in His Son Jesus Christ. There is no greater purpose than telling people about this. There is no other reason that I do anything that I do, than to tell people about this Jesus Christ and to make His name known.
We should keep His Word with us at all times. We should keep His promises and His commands and His encouragements and His discouragements with us at all times. We should keep our knowledge of His presence with us at all times. We should keep our awareness of His Holy Spirit's influence and guiding and convicting and healing and blessed presence in our lives. We should keep our memories of our families and their love for us and the times that we enjoyed when we were younger and the times that we enjoyed as we grew. We should keep our memories of our lessons learned through following what is right, and also the memories of our lessons learned when we did what we knew was wrong, or when we didn't do what we knew was right and needed to be done.
What else should we keep with us? Faith. Hope. Love. These three always exist and are eternal.
But what else? What else do we need?
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4.11-13
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Matthew 6.5-8
We need to pray. Jesus tells us that God knows what we need before we pray it, and He gives us instructions on how to pray. God designed us to pray to Him constantly, not only "as though" we were breathing air, but literally breathing Him in and out in our spirit all day, every day, while we are awake and while we are asleep, voluntarily and involuntarily. It is how God created us. The God Who created all spirits is the God, the very Holy Spirit that we are awakening to become aware of, when we become aware of our own spirit, because God tells us that He is the Father of all spirits. He tells us that the Word is the Light that lights all men.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1.1-14
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Hebrews 12.6-16
Keep Jesus Christ and nothing else is needed that He won't provide. He wants us to ask Him for what we need, and in praying, we come to expect Him to provide it. What a wonderful joy it is to realize that God our Heavenly Father knows how to give us good gifts, and that He wants to withhold no good thing from us! It is our immaturity which He is working out through His Holy Spirit, in this life, and for those who learn obedience when they are young, they have the rest of their life to enjoy His blessings that He provides freely to all. It is our own choices, mostly, which keeps us from enjoying the good things of God. Sadly, for America, and for most of the nations which have become drunk from the wine of America and the global societies that our nation has built upon lies, the days of "enjoying God's blessings" are turning from enjoying green lawns and sports to an "always-in-crisis" mentality as a result of the sins that our nation has deployed in our homes, in our schools, in our churches and places of business, and in our neighboring countries and in countries around the world. These sins are in our heart. The antidote is the same as it always was: repentance and seeking God while He may be found.
The world pretends to offer uniqueness. God created us unique, and it is actually the world which is trying to convince everyone to let themselves be packaged and sold and bought over and over again, by creating systems where "NFT" technology is "cool" and "profitable" and where you can get "unique" tokens. But, everyone knows these things are not unique, or very special, and they can be churned out in batches of 1 or 10 or 100 or a billion if they want. And, everyone knows that these systems are just as vulnerable to hacking as any other system has ever been, and they will and are already hacked. The world pretends a lot of things, but right now in our current day the world is pretending like RFID and QR code technologies aren't being used very much, and then all of a sudden, they're going to seem like the solution to everything, and they're going to provide access to so many things that simply won't be feasible or accessible without the RFID and QR code.
The edge of the sword now appears to be: identity, definition, and ownership. Satan is on a full-on assault against the minds of people today, especially young people, when it comes to their understanding of their identity, the definition of words, and the concept of ownership and authority. We are not living on borrowed time. We were purchased by the very One Who created us. There is an eternity to spend with Him in Paradise for those who find their need for Him and love and trust Him now.
The world tries to convince us to make choices about preferences and likes and dislikes, and the world tries to get us to turn over our "biometric" data as a casual thing to pass around, and the world tries to place as many pieces of tracking data as possible all around our goings-abouts, in the form of cookies and facial recognition and NFC (RFID) and through monitoring online data and other presence-aware technologies, and in other ways. The world is and has been building so many different types of profiles on people in so many disparate and scattered ways, and the world has been developing the technologies needed to aggregate this "big data" into workable profiles that can be sifted down into "singular" identities for people to claim and be assigned to people. The world is pretending right now like it doesn't realize this is happening, and the world has employed so-called "privacy advocates" to write articles in news journals documenting the slow-burn decent into madness that is going to cause the world to come to such a desperate place of "want" and "need" that the world is going to jump on board the RFID and QR code system in leaps and bounds all the way up to the point that it is mandated across the board for every citizen to create and be assigned an image and identity in this system.
The trick is that it hasn't already happened yet. The trick is "We've been doing it all along."
The Governments are well on their way to scooping up the world's entire population in this new catalogue system that has been under development since before the days of Adolf Hitler. Hitler employed and paid some of the very same people and families that the United States employs and celebrates and pays today to continue on the development of the worldwide catalogue system that has been forming for quite some time now, and which we are witnessing the beginning of its end, this very year, if my understanding is correct. By 2031, all tribulation and stuff will be over, if this September truly is the beginning of the roughly seven years of tribulation as described in the Bible.
Regardless of whether my date-setting is accurate, which is something which requires patience to know, I know now that most of the things which need to happen, according to the Bible, have already happened, or are presently in the process of taking place, for the time period for Jesus Christ to return. He Himself gave us very clear things to watch for, and He described out of His own mouth what the times and people of the last days will be like, and it is a perfect description of many people in the world today, and in 4 or 5 years, I think everyone will agree that there is no doubting that the end of the world is near.
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
John 8.51
