I was tempted to turn on the air conditioning today but it was too nice and just used the ceiling fans. I did some yard work while James played nearby. He helped me carry some branches to the trash pile. Now James and Joshua are watching the Three Stooges and they are both cracking up because Shemp is trying to set up a table but it keeps folding back up again.

I did some news surfing and things are really getting so ridiculous. If the whole world were just united against Saddam and stood up to him, told him like it is, and backed it up with the threat of a united force and stood by their word (say what you'll do and do what you say), Saddam would be in exile right now with no war. It's because of the actions of the no war at any price crowd, whatever their motives, (and that includes countries too) that give Saddam confidence and keep him fighting for power and making actual war necessary.

And believe it, the motives (or hopes) of most of our so-called friends are to divide and conquer the United States. And it is working. The divisions in this country are getting wider and wider. The differences between the (pick one: anti-war/pro-war, anti-American/pro-American, liberal/conservative, socialists/capitalists, world citizen/American citizen, etc, etc, etc.) are so vast one side can't comprehend how the other could possibly believe what they do. We are becoming our own enemies. It's becoming impossible to put youself in the other sides shoes because you can't even imagine how anyone could possibly think that way. The far left has so influenced this country and those views have become so normal that the journalists and reporters don't even recognize that they lean left and many of the people watching don't recognize it either. These two (or more) sides are not going to get together, it's just not going to happen.

There is only one hope and I'm sorry to say, all knowledge of that hope has become perverted and twisted to the point of complete unrecognizability - except in name. Mention Jesus Christ and you get all manner of reactions. People hate you or want to kill you or won't take you seriously or ban you or censor you or pigeonhole you or ridicule you, most just don't care. Then there are those who use that name, sincerely yes, but believe all manner of different doctrine, worship Him in every way but how He said to do it, form hundreds of different denominations in His name, and then hate you with seething, white-hot hatred if they find out you dare actually believe what the bible says, actually keep the commandments, the Sabbath, and the holy days, if you know Jesus Christ is not a pacifist, long haired sissy boy (John 18:16 if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight,) and upon his return His kingdom will be of this world and He and His servants will fight. So, the only hope will not be used because everyone refuses to believe it for whatever reason they have.

Because we refuse to believe and obey we have this to look forward to:

Lamentations 1:1  How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow is she, Who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces has become a slave! 2 She weeps bitterly in the night, Her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers She has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1: 9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not consider her destiny; Therefore her collapse was awesome; She had no comforter. "O Lord, behold my affliction, For the enemy is exalted!"

Ezekiel 16:3 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

When we (modern day United States, Britain, Israel - Israel and Judah in the bible) make deals and treaties with other countries instead of relying on God, God calls that whoredom. That is what this is talking about. We pay them! Turkey comes to mind today, but we pay (bribe?) many other countries to see things our way or at least go along.

Jeremiah 30: 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. 15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

After this national punishment, the other countries will be vanquished, some exterminated, and Christ will return and Israel (not just the modern state of Israel but all the modern nations that make up ancient Israel) will be restored to it's rightful place.

That's all I'm gonna write, anyone still listening? More here.