In fact, that particular condition can be laid at the feet of those of us who have attended church all those years, but did nothing to counter God being kicked out of schools, government and, indeed, sometimes even churches. Many of us have an affinity for religion, which is oh, so much more predictable than God. It is actually easier after attending churches for so long to prefer having a set of rules to obey, rather than to consult the Bible directly, or even more worrisome, the Holy Spirit directly, for guidance.

Some of us may also have made the common mistake of jumping ahead in the Bible to Revelation, the last book. As with any book, sometimes you can find all you need in the last chapter; and sometimes not. God is the biggest subject there is, ever has been, or ever will be. Surely, He is worthy of our careful study and the revelation knowledge the Holy Spirit sometimes downloads to us if we ask Him.

I do know, however, from my own experience, that the Church Age seems to be missing a few of the bells and whistles that I was expecting. The Bride, rather than being excited about what she has accomplished in partnership with her Beloved, seems to have traveling to distant lands more on her mind than being the hands and feet of her Beloved during the preparation time of “making herself ready.”

It does seem that the Bridegroom may have expected more than regular church attendance prior to returning for a Bride without spot or wrinkle. The Bridegroom gave his Bride his Great Name to use in her efforts to make the world more to His liking. He gave her covenant nations to assist her in her efforts. He gave her other members of His Body with which to partner while he was away. He left her with some number of talents, whether money or abilities, and the parable of the talents seems to indicate that the Bridegroom will expect to see increase from what he gave her, upon his return.

The good news right now is that He is about to release financial talents that the Bride can use to make the world more pleasing to the Bridegroom upon His Return. He doesn’t expect her to squander these talents on her own comfort and entertainment. He expects her to do as He would under the same circumstances.

In the Song of Solomon, the young man pursuing the young maiden, refers to her in this strange manner: “My sister, my Bride.” He is at once making her equal with himself. If He thinks of and treats her as an equal, surely He is justified in expecting great things from her upon His Return.

The bulk of the church is not ready for Jesus’ Return. We haven’t made ourselves ready. We haven’t expended our time and talents on that which we know He loves.

Yes, He is helping us to overcome the cabal. But do not be surprised at the delay between the fall of the cabal and the return of the Bridegroom, while He watches the Bride to see if she is making herself ready for the marriage. Once the talents have been distributed, the courtship begins in earnest. There is nothing the Bride cannot accomplish, if she calls upon her Beloved for help. He expects increase upon his return, as the parable of the talents tell us. We will be given everything we need to make what we rule over, “On Earth, as it is in heaven.”

Don’t bury that talent you have been holding so tightly. He expects to see increase upon His Return. Let His church demonstrate to the Bridegroom that we were worthy of the terrible price He paid for our freedom! Expect to see what you will need to make the hopes and dreams you once had for serving others materialize. A Bride who has made herself ready will remake the Earth to her Beloved’s standards. Go in peace and be about His work!

Armageddon Story, Earth’s Final Kingdom Vol. IV, by Craige McMillan

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We must recognize that God’s enemies have been attacking His Creation for a very long time. In the Old Testament, humanity was united in its efforts to build the tower of Babel all the way up into heaven. God came down and confused their languages. The Great Flood was God’s response to Satan’s efforts to build a super race of mighty men. Today’s DNA pirates will be dealt with as well.

It is as if God’s enemies recognize that they have lost once again, and have to make some parting gesture on their way out of the battle. One last dig at God before they limp off the battlefield. So valiant of them.

In our present era, it is not only Israel that is under attack by God’s enemies, it is also the United States of America. The one-world wannabes can’t implement their world government without taking over America, and using the technology and weapons we have developed to control the entire globe.

The globalists will have their chance to play God, because “It is written” in God’s Word. How do you think that is going to work out for them? Where in the Bible has Satan ever defeated God? How did that work out for Satan at the Cross, where God used Jesus’ death and resurrection to restore fallen humanity?

In the grand scheme of things, globalists are like a wad of gum stuck on one of God’s shoes as he tidies up the earth. They are a momentary annoyance that will be quickly dealt with. They won’t delay the billion-soul harvest, and they won’t gain control over the earth. Satan’s attempt to move the timetable for the tribulation forward has already been denied, by the One who controls time.

Satan can whine and cry and plot and scream, but he can’t do anything outside of his allotted time. God’s Will cannot be overcome, thwarted, denied or disabled by anyone or anything. When Christian education returns to the educational system, more people will know and understand this. Gee, I wonder what subjects will be cut from the education curriculum to make room for God’s wisdom?

God gave America a constitution based on His Word. He is a great defender of freedom and human choice (free will). Governments have worked hard to restrict human rights, because governments always want more power over others. The less competent the government, the more power its rulers want.

God seeks to guide people by His Goodness, not intimidate them by His power. We are, however, very close to witnessing God clean up some of the messes that have been plaguing our nation – and others – for a long time. In America’s case, this mainly happens because we have chosen to ignore the constitutional guideline that says, Election Day means Election DAY. What part of this is difficult to understand? Before we had automobiles and public transportation, people traveled from their homes to polling places and cast their paper ballot. They were known by their friends and neighbors. They didn’t have fancy counting machines designed to insure that the “right” candidate was elected.

If you don’t believe that God still comes and fixes things that have been broken on earth, then the next few months (years?) are going to be difficult for you. God is going to reveal a government filled with mask-wearing puppets pretending to be people they are not. Masks will come off in public. Actors will be revealed pretending to be known political figures. Close to chaos will erupt in what is left of our fake government, masquerading as a legitimate, elected government.

Government, at least in America, was not designed to control us; it was designed to serve us. As we allowed government to drift further and further away from its godly foundations, it began to think that it – at least the people within it did – was God. It’s not. It never was. And God Himself is going to make that abundantly clear to everyone. Every good show must end. Right now, I’d step away from where the curtain is coming down. You don’t want to be under it when the curtain falls on this show.

Earth’s Final Kingdom, Vol. IV in Craige’s Armageddon novel series.

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It was God’s efforts in the supernatural realm that created the natural universe and everything in it, including galaxies and solar systems, ours included, where our Earth orbits around our sun.

The universe did not exist prior to God existing. God existed before anything was created in the natural world. God clearly tells us this in His Word in Genesis: He spoke everything into existence.

The “Big Bang” came into existence much later – when nonbelievers made up their own explanation for the creation they saw all around them. This was their effort to “appropriate” God’s creation for their own use and benefit.

The damage this caused should be obvious to the Gaists, Greenie worshipers and depopulation fanatics. They “see” and operate only in the natural world. Their pride of existence has overcome them, and thinking themselves wise, they have become fools. Still, they refuse to repent from their error, and insist that we must all join them in their error and give them all our resources, and then they will “save” us from ourselves. Idiots!

Measurements and mathematics are mankind’s explanations for what exists – not God’s explanation. Idiocy, in case you haven’t noticed, is a creation of the natural world and is transmitted primarily through the educational system. The clueless are employed by the clueless to create more clueless. If you stay with their system long enough and pay enough money into it, you will be awarded a degree in one offshoot or another of idiocy. That entitles you to become a “supernatural” denier, to yell loudly that we have only a few days left, and demand everyone contribute their substance to you to fix this imaginary problem created by you and your friends. The nursery, the planet, the universe must all bow down and worship the brilliance of these people and in reverence apply for a certificate of idiocy, which will only be issued at the end of our lives and the exhaustion of all our substance.

Mankind transitioned from operating in the supernatural realm to the natural realm when Adam and Eve chose the fruit of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil over walking with their Creator God in the cool of the Garden of Eden. God in His mercy, we should note, prohibited their access to the Tree of Life, lest they eat of it and live forever in this state of bondage to the natural world, which is but a subset of the supernatural world.

The church, as well as most of the rest of the world, fell for this nonsense, because it was taught to children in school, and we were all once children. Thus what began as an adjunct to religious education, at least here in America. became a replacement for religious education. Why would we not want children to know first about God, and only after that learn about mankind’s ideas and suppositions?

Maybe it’s time the church reassesses the biblical mandate for its leadership. Or do we prefer fighting supernatural battles from the natural world, because we like to hear the clashing of swords and crave the excitement of battle?

Would it not be better for all of us if the church returned to its God-given power and authority in the supernatural world, and fought its battle there, from a position of power?

Behind Enemy Lines, Vol. II, Armageddon Story novel series, by Craige McMillan

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The first effort was during the 1980s, when desktop microcomputers, such as Atari, Commodore PET, Ohio Scientific, Radio Shack’s TRS80 and finally even the IBM PC appeared on the scene. I worked in banking and computers at the time, and our software engineers began to get calls from customers explaining that our interest calculations were wrong, because they didn’t line up with what they produced at home.

Our savings system programmer was the most entertaining to listen to when he related these calls. Invariably, the customer would cite the computer word size he used in the calculations, saying, “This system uses an eight-bit word for its calculations, it must be accurate.” After a time, the programmer would say, “Well, our mainframe uses a 64-bit word. I think we’re going to stick with those results.”

The AI cheering section at that time consisted of some of the top university computer scientists in America. Marvin Minsky is the only name I remember; I think he came from MIT. There were five or six more, and together they were big proponents that Artificial Intelligence was going to take over everything.

As I recall, there were only a very few useable AI systems that had been developed and did anything of value. They were actually called Expert Systems at the time. Digital Equipment had developed a computer configuration system. The sales person put in the customer information, the DEC minicomputer system purchased, and the system would configure the customer’s new computer and order the parts the installers would need to properly assemble the system for the customer.

Perhaps the most impressive system of that era was known as Mycin SP. It was designed to do only one thing: to diagnose spinal meningitis. It could be used by non-specialists and returned diagnostic results on a par with specialists. If the data it needed was not available, it would order the necessary tests.

There were other efforts, but I don’t recall them as being particularly successful. The big university computer scientists went from being AI’s biggest supporters to among its toughest critics. Pretty much their observation was that to be generally useful, AI systems would need to understand the English language. That proved to be far more difficult than anyone had imagined, and most of the early pioneers abandoned the cheering section after just a few years of failures.

There were lots of things that looked like AI on the surface. One of the most popular was a program named Eliza. It was a favorite of secretaries and support staff having a bad day. Eliza would talk to you about anything, as long as you typed it into her terminal. There was no intelligence, beyond simple word parsing and asking you questions about words you seemed to use more than others. Eliza didn’t understand anything. But that didn’t seem to deter her friends, who would chat with her for hours.

At least the AI effort at that time was a serious attempt to produce something new and useful. Today’s efforts are warmed up leftovers, being served as the answer to all of humanity’s problems, even down to personal significance.

The real intentions, however, are much more sinister and dark. It is propelled forward by an ignorant, deceitful media and billionaire boosters who want someone other than themselves to proclaim that the earth is over-populated and we need to kill enough people to make it sustainable (for them).

AI needs to be seen for what it is: a fantasy that deceitful liars and opportunists want to use as a vehicle to propel forward their own dreams of world domination, while blaming a hapless machine when things go horribly wrong. “The AI” is simply their “fall guy” for when their hopes and dreams for world domination for their exclusive benefit fail to produce the promised results. The previous researchers were true believers who gradually drifted away from the dream. Today’s proponents are frauds and opportunists looking to shield themselves from the ill effects of their godless plans to control the world. All they want is to deflect the blame for their failed political and social efforts onto a machine. “Oh, I had no idea. … I’m not sure who coded that part of the system. yadah, yadah, yadah.

Yadah. We’ve heard it all before, many times. God is not fooled, and neither are we. Gosh, even Amazon isn’t fooled. AI-created “books” have flooded their electronic shelves, pushing their human authors to the sidelines while customers look for some hidden meaning in the AI gobbledegook.

As usual, fiction explored this quagmire before the academics got there. Douglas Adams, writing in “The Hitchiker’s Gude to the Galaxy” series, described a computer known as Deep Thought. The assembled scientists gathered before it to ask it the Big Question: “What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything.” Deep Thought worked on the problem until its meltdown began. While the assembled scientists awaited the answer, Deep Thought announced that it did not have the answer. But it did not leave them without hope. It told them (paraphrasing), “I will design a greater computer that will be able to determine the answer for you.”

This new one churned on for many years. Finally it summoned its caretakers and told them that it had, in fact, arrived at the answer. “The answer is 42.”

Expert Systems, such as Mycin or today’s grand master chess computers, are not artificial intelligence. They are programmed devices that can calculate very quickly a variety of potential actions. Fast answers from a multitude of quick calculations should not be mistaken for the answers that we as human beings seek.

“The AI” is simply more “BS” from those who believe they are anointed to run the world. Ask yourself (or better yet, ask them), who it was that anointed them. Therein lies the truth.

Earth’s Final Kingdom Vol. IV in the Armageddon Story novel series, by Craige McMillan.

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Several years ago, the pastor of a small church I attended related to the congregation an account of supernatural healing of a young boy in the town who did not even attend our church. In the weeks afterward, no one else ever mentioned it, even at the church.

One day several months later, I related the account to a man who was in our business. He was a big, biker guy who loved riding motorcycles and telling other bikers about Jesus. Near the end of the account, I noticed tears running down his face. I noted the tears. He responded, “That was my grandson who was healed. You don’t even know the full story.”

I allowed that I didn’t know. My only source of knowledge was our pastor, who was at the hospital with the boy who had been badly injured in a four-wheeler accident, his parents and the doctor from a local hospital. He had been thrown from the vehicle and hit his head on a rock in the field.

The boy was airlifted from our small, local hospital to a specialist children’s hospital for a traumatic brain injury. The doctor had told the pastor, “He’s not going to make it.”

It was late in the evening when the helicopter landed atop the specialist hospital. There was a surgical team waiting. They took the boy into the operating room, and soon thereafter a doctor emerged and told the family, “This must be the wrong child. There’s nothing wrong with him.”

That part had been related to our church by the pastor. The grandfather looked at me where we stood together in our business. “You don’t know the full story,” he said. “There were three other children in the specialist hospital with similar injuries. They were all healed that evening when my grandson arrived.”

“Thank you,” I told him. “This is the first first I have heard of that.”

The pastor retired about a year after that event. Perhaps he did not know of the other children healed that evening. I never heard the incident mentioned in the church by anyone else during the year or so afterward until we stopped attending. If I hadn’t encountered the grandfather, I would never have known of the full extend of the healing event. But I’m grateful that I learned of it. The local newspaper never asked about it. I asked a doctor whom I’ve known for a long time if he had ever observed something similar. He responded, “There have been a few cases in my career, where there was no other explanation.”

Even a cursory reading of the Bible will teach us that God operates as naturally in the supernatural realm as we do in the natural realm. For God, the supernatural is entirely natural. When Jesus walked this earth, He lived in the natural world with His disciples, but he often operated in the supernatural realm. He confronted evil spirits, He healed the sick and blind, and He raised the dead.

Church today sometimes seems aimed at convincing the natural world that we are just like they are, trapped in the natural world where we all operate. Many of us become uncomfortable when we see someone lay hands on the sick, and see them recover. Why? Does the church perhaps believe the lie that God is just like us, only bigger?

Have we swallowed the world’s lie about evolution creating life, and creation creating itself through a loud bang? Follow the science, and it will eventually lead you to Auschwitz and the other death camps, where human beings were used as lab rats in scientific experiments. That’s what happened then, and it still happens today in big pharma, big education and big government. Large entities with power over others often mistake themselves for God. Playing God may be a popular pastime for some of those addicted to fame and fortune, but it is disastrous to the rest of us when we believe that God has any equals.

Don’t even go there. Nothing good will ever come of it. This has been one of the colossal news failures of our era, to believe that following the science would make us better human beings. Following the science without understanding our humanity and limitations will always take us to the death camps. Eventually it will be your turn to be the lab rat.

God, in His mercy and grace, has provided another way out of that natural quagmire for us. Our humanity is not a failing; it is God’s gift to us, through Jesus of Nazareth. Humanity, alone, has the Jesus option. Let’s stop pretending that we are God, and follow the path for advancement to godliness that Jesus provides.

In the era coming very soon, God may tell you that He wants you to operate in the supernatural world, as well as the natural world. Don’t turn away. Simply ask Him for the power necessary to be effective there. Great rewards are ahead for those who take God at His Word.

Reconnaissance, the beginning – craigemcmillan.com

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