Some Hills Just Aren't Worth Dying On.

There are so many people out there who just don't get it. But, it's taken me almost six decades to get it myself. My mother cursed me by saying the usual mother's curse, "I hope you have a child just like you." Well, I had three. Like their mother, they insist on dying on every hill. They have to win an argument or debate. Sadly, I taught them that. I made a lot of mistakes as a mother of 8, and that was one of them. I didn't learn this lesson until recently, so I do not expect them to learn it any easier or earlier.

Being a writer, student of the Word, student of people, and all around social person behind the blue screen of a monitor, I observe a lot of people arguing online. I too used to be one of those who could get into a good knock down drag out fight on X or Facebook, or anywhere someone lit my fire with what I call their folly. It's so foolish to start and even try to continue a fight or debate on social media sites, just as foolish as it is to fight with one's significant other in a text conversation. It goes nowhere fast, and both end up worse off then when the conversation began.

There is a great divide, one like I've never witnessed. It's both political and religious, so if you think you can separate the two, you are living in a dream world, because they are intricately connected and always have been. The three groups politically are called, Patriots, Normies, and those suffering from TDS (Trump Delusional Syndrome). There is even a sub-divide among the Patriots, but that's for another post. Let's just lump all the "Trump Fans" in the Patriot's category. The Normies are the average TV-watching, fake-news believing sheep. They have drunk the Kool-aid, and there is no way to get that poison out of their system. They believe what they see on social media and TV, and they can't seem to turn it off. They may mean well and may be perfectly "normal," passivists, but they aren't helping the cause. Those with TDS, on the other hand, are lost because of serious demonic influence. I'm sure we've all experienced the crazed woman screaming her head off when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, or shaving their heads and swearing off sex because Donald Trump won the election.

They are the cancel culture and they support crazed agendas that no one would have believed post WWII or even in the 60's-70's. The Bible is clear that He would send strong delusions to force them to believe the lies, and worse than that act out in strange demonic ways. They seem to have gone completely mad! (Pun intended) Because of their stony hearts, GOD has turned them over to their natural selves, and there is no way to rescue them. (Romans 1) They are programmed to hate Trump and anyone who is a Trump supporter.

When it comes to religion, it is the same with hardline fundamentalist New Testament Christian church people who treat the New Testament as if it replaced the Old Testament, or as we like to call them, the Hebrew Scriptures. They may claim they aren't replacement theologist, but they indeed are. I used to be one of them, so I can speak from experience. They read and follow Paul as if he replaced Jesus. They take Paul's words so out of context that they completely contradict what Yeshua clearly taught in the Gospels. These man-made doctrines are so ingrained in them from generations of seminary-taught pastors who drilled it into them that getting them to even consider that they have been taught wrong is like knocking down a hornet's nest in the middle of the day. We all know that you don't do that. They have all been so brainwashed and conditioned to think their way is right that YHVH GOD has chosen NOT to reveal the truth to them because they love their man-made traditions and doctrines too much. It's what is familiar and comfortable for them. Don't get me wrong, I am not questioning their salvation in any way shape or form.

Many of these church people hate Trump. They also have Trump Delusional Syndrome, because Trump isn't a Biblical scholar, or a Biblical hero like King David or Joseph. Are you catching on to the religion and politics mix yet? Do you understand that both David and Joseph were political leaders called of GOD and not priests? They were prophets, yes, also as deep into politics as anyone can be; and both anointed and appointed by GOD to be such. These anti-political church people usually have zero knowledge of Biblical history and the politics throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. Truth be told, David was clueless when it came to the Torah, and 2 Samuel 6 proves that when he put the Ark of the Covenant on a new cart and one of his cherished men suffered the consequences of that "Biblical ignorance. He knew nothing of the TORAH, which means instruction, because by the time he came to power, the Torah had been just as corrupted and mostly lost and misunderstood as contemporary Christianity has become today, with its thousands of Protestant denominations and the Vatican. I'll stop there. Times were no different then than they are now. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

Many church people think we are living in the worst of times, the last days, the end of days because they have no true historical knowledge of all the evil that existed before they were born. The Bible is replete with the most horrific evil, but it is white-washed or ignored, because it doesn't sound uplifting. I finally stopped arguing with these people, because YHVH GOD said it was folly. GOD has chosen to blind them, and who among us thinks they can go beyond what GOD has already decided and change His order? The only thing I can do is post and write about the truth GOD shows me and trust Him to get it to the hearts that are open to Him. We have no more power to change or convict a non-believer of their need for a Savior than we do to change or convince these people of the truth. The only power that can do that is the Holy Spirit. GOD calls us to a work or a job, but it is through the heat of the fiery furnace of affliction, He teaches us to trust Him to light the way for those searching in their own darkness.