DISCONNECTING FROM OUR THINGS

 We, as a group of followers of Jesus Christ, have become worse and worse at this (disconnecting from worldliness; or our things) at a time when we are approaching the Second Coming and a time when all things will be had in common.  So the delta of reality vs what it should be is actually increasing as opposed to closing up.  This is ominous because it means the reality when things hit will be substantially more than it has to be.  A truly sad state of affairs.  The prophecies indicated that a "strong spirit of extravagance and speculation" develops among the Saints, and that "financial bondage comes next".

I have a MIL that is now in Stage 4 cancer.  Literally down to weeks to live.  I am not knocking frugality and the principle of being a good steward over what we are given in this life, but she has accumulated substantial wealth in the form of real estate purchases.  But now, with just weeks to live, it is all just meaningless; a distraction to the true purpose of life.   I suppose she was just banking against the day she might have to go into long-term care and the expense of that.  This form of thinking is not bad, so long as we do not forget others and show kindness and generosity, etc there.  So far as I know, there is no yardstick to measure us against our accumulation of wealth, but the standard is clear that we do have an obligration to help the poor and be as generous as we can, as moved upon by the Holy Spirit.

Those who make it into the next phase of thinking (survive the plagues, etc) will have a Consecrated mindset.  There simply will be more thinking for the next guy than there is for ourselves.  This is what makes a successful marriage.  It is what makes 1,000 years of peace possible.  I want it.  I desire it with all my being.  I want to live for it, and if I cannot find it here, I am fine being on the other side with like-minded individuals.

THE COLD, WET SPRING AND THE HOT, DRY SUMMER

 This has been a humdinger of a year to get projects done.  First the spring was ridiculously wet.  Then summer came with a vengeance with non-stop 90-100F temps with no easing up in sight.  This was a prophecy of Bishop Koyle.  That it would be part of the perfect storm as the financial crash and political intrigue came into play.

Are we finally there?

I guess we will find out in harvest time when the reports come out on the quality of the wheat.  Bishop Koyle said it would look normal on the outside - but the insides would be less than animal feed quality.

SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE TO LOOK BEYOND THE WEEDS AND ACCEPT THINGS AS THEY ARE

 I have had a lot of disparaging comments on my holding onto Visions of Glory.  It really has turned into an objet du pariah.  I am sure the comment by the Cardston Temple Presidency on me being a polygamist was somehow tied into my belief in the majority (97%) of the narrative of VoG.,

Not just on this blog - but on Social Media.  There are many who will have ZERO to do with it.  I think the whole Chad Daybell mess precipitated much of this when Lori Vallow had a copy sitting on the arm of her chaise lounger in Hawaii in the arrest photos.

Until something changes (the prophecies fail), I will stand behind a sure thing.  The source is from God.  How do I know?  Because the same spirit burned within my bosom that was present the night in 1976 when I had just completed my side of the Covenant with Father at the Baptismal font.  I still have an indelible memory of that.  When the Spirit ratifies, it is a rare thing that one does not remember.  This includes the Baptism by Fire, the Endowment of Power, the ratification of the Holy Spirit of Promise (which I have not yet received - we are definitely not there in our marriage) and so much else on the Covenant Path.  I expect that it will accompany the Second Comforter when and if that happens in the flesh on this fallen orb.

So, I am waiting patiently, just as with Esdras Eagle and others that the Spirit whispers on - for the same completion of the events in Visions of Glory.  I know it will happen, as indicated.

IF you tear on it, you had better check yourselves because if your Spirit contradicts the whisperings of mine, I can tell you that mine, has never been wrong.  I have a wayward son who still tries to ping me on the whole Elenin thing back in 2011.  There was an amazing coincidence between the incidence of Elenin and major global EQ patterns.  After several years of correlation, it was obvious there was something to the way this thing was interplaying with our gravitational fields and causing 7.0+ EQs.  There was supposed to be a final event in Sept 2011.  I was concerned enough that I suggested getting the family off the west coast and to Montana.  The only thing I was missing (and I said it repeatedly to those around me and to my family) was that I did NOT have a confirmation from the Spirit on that event.  Just a logical line of reasoning in my head.  And it did NOT happen as I expected.  But, even though I did state there was NO confirmation, but I still get hammered on it.  Typical lefty logic...

The confirmation of the Spirit is 100% dead reckoning.  Most else is just an educated guess, to one degree or another of success.

So, it will be interesting to see how Holland, Oaks and others fare in the events that will come to pass shortly.  For now, we have time and past precedent on our side!

WE JUST HAD AN ESDRAS EAGLE MOMENT - PRESIDENT BIDEN IS OUT

Wow - you could not have foretold it better than the author of that book calling out the meaning of the long and short feathers.

Amazing!  I feel that Trump will win.  But it will be a tough row to hoe after that.  Lots of chaos and collapse of the economy which will lead to CW2.0

Many who have nay-sayed over the years will be choking down some crow.  I recommend beak first... 

TRUMP AND THE DEEP STATE

 They want him out of the way.  Why, you ask?  Because he has said that he will stop the war in Ukraine in a single day if he is elected President again.  I know how he will do it; he will simply throw Ukraine and other "buffer states" out of NATO and give Russia some breathing room.

They set him up at that rally.  I would fire all of those responsible for security and buy my own.  So disgusting what was allowed to happen.  The deep state wants war to cover up their crimes and to have the people controlled and distracted.  There is VERY little opposition left to their plans to install the A/C.  Having Trump in there would just ball those plans up - and they will not have any of it.  We need to concertedly wake up (number one) and then fight against them, realizing that they are just using our military and earthly power as pawns.  They have since WWII and well before.

That utter human excrement needs to be taken and flushed.  I would give my life for it in a hearbeat.  Would not hesitate for one second.  My quality of life as it stands sucks to high heaven - so bring it.  We need more people disconnected from their "things" who would be willing to do the hard things.

THE BROTHER OF MARTIN HARRIS TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS OF THE MISSING 116 PAGES

 The 116 pages and the Mulekites.

Interesting listen:

https://youtu.be/d3LQalVrQkI

Enjoy!

THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ENDOWMENT AND THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF IT ALL

 I cannot recommend this enough!

https://youtu.be/dU81hfwml6Q?si=0ODMq2XJpgvHrtuo

SMALL TOWN POLITICS AND COVERING THE ASSES OF THE CRONIES

 One thing that became toxic to me at Boeing was the pervasive action of the cronies covering each others' asses and doing some very bad schitt.  A rather benign one was one of the production managers on the 777-FWDSI would be gone for some period of time beyond the usual half hour dinner break (second shift) and then come ambling back in "quite happy" along with a few cohorts.  They had been out somewhere smoking some weed and - they reeked of it.  I am not sure if it was the fact that the manager was black and thought he was untouchable due to his race, or what - but the fact that he was allowing ANY of that kind of thing to go on under his watch and then encouraging it with his underlings - was beyond the pale.  And we wondered why we had quality issues at Boeing...  You could have told him that he had just been fired, car re-po'd and his wife was sleeping with his best friend and he would have just laughed it off.  Let alone dealing with serious issues on the 777.  Around that same time, I had witnessed and was investigating a bolt that snapped in half and fell on the floor overnight (third watch) after it had been torqued to spec.  No big deal right?  Nope, it was on the steering mechanism for the nose landing gear.  Me and one other employee were sober-minded enough to chase that one to ground and discovered a faulty case hardening process at a vendor and released a Service Bulletin.  A bunch of work on our part - but necessary to keep a plane hurtling down the runway at 160mph from going up in a fireball at the end of it.  The worst of it was that the head of the bolt was facing down, so a very little movement of the mechanism in flight (possibly even first flight) would have dis-lodged this particular bolt and all hell would have broken loose in a split second (no warning).  So, I also had to drive a drawing and assembly change.  Simple things; huge results and benefits.  What I am saying here is that intoxicated people could really have no cares in the world about serious schitt.  But this was the good old boys system at Boeing.  If you were on the inside, you could literally get away with murder.  If you asked too many questions or ruffled too many feathers, it was schittsville for you.

I already talked about how I had to threaten my manager to do the right thing when it came to a 40 year old employee who was one of the level 5 engineers and was the wing to body join guru on the 747-8.  He totally accused me of screwing up a database and basically putting the name of a fellow engineer on a non-conformance that was a Britishism for "penis".  Who knew what a "knobhead" was?  Thankfully, the false recording showed that I had done it at 1:47am and I was clearly off shift and resting in the arms of my wife at that time.  I had multiple cameras, gate entrances to prove it, etc.  I had left a few hours before.  But, when the crony engineer with 40 years experience is on his third strike with HR for making sexual references to women who were just around the corner of the cubicle farm, my strike would have been his third and last even though I was just trying to NOT get walked out by security when this very 40 year schmuck had accused me of messing with an official FAA record.  He (the guy with two strikes) actually had the gall to tell me he could have me fired (the guy who had never been to HR in his life) for my supposed indiscretion.  All of this happened around the time my wife was also falsely accusing me of diddling the kiddling after she snapped during a two week power outage where we were heating our house with the gas fireplace only and cooking on our camp stove in the kitchen.  This was the event where my Bishop went to pains to put me on two deep leadership in my Scout calling when there were no others in the program who were two deep.  I was pretty much, blow-a-fuse pissed off at the whole mess and went on the warpath.

When others from around the Everett factory came to me asking me why I had been so stupid as to pull a stunt like the "knobhead" affair, I fired off an e-mail and told my boss that he would comply with a list of five of my demands (correcting the narrative) within 72 hours or I would blow the whole thing sky high and possibly take legal action.  At that point, he had gone completely radio silent on my attempts to reach out to him via e-mail to resolve/reverse the situation.  I had received multiple visits from past 777 managers asking me to just drop it.  My response was that "asshole" needed to learn to apologize or he would just continue his entitled and atrocious behavior.  At about hour 70, I got a response with reversing actions on all of my demands and I walked away from that brink.  The guy who mis-judged a situation got to continue his 40 year career while still maintaining his reputation (among all engineers) as "resident asshole" and I was left with the very uncomfortable prospect of having to deal with S. Israel as my boss until I decided to leave the company with a golden handshake (half a year's salary as severance) along with 12,000 other engineers.

Needless to say, I despise cronyism.  The good old boys...  I just had a Boeing contact reach out to me and let me know that the company may not recover because of favoritism in appointing engineers to a Tech Fellow position within the company.  Apparently, it is more or less granted as a political favor instead of being based on merit.  A very dangerous thing - as the Tech Fellows are usually Phds and are the brain trust of the company.  The elite of the elite.  They are tapped to drive future innovation within the org.  But that may not be important any more where the bean counters are only focused on stock performance and care little about what the stock performance may be beyond their tenure on the Board or before they can cash out their options from the compensation/severance packages.

But I see it here in Cardston in spades.  There are those who are connected.  And those who are not.  If you have a contrary opinion of one who is connected, his brothers rise to protect and defend and you will quickly find yourself on the outside.  For example, if you work in the temple and your boss who sets your officiating schedule accuses someone of polygamy (namely me) and the person who was actually snogging on other married women (in the hopes they would be one of his multiple wives) are best (eat Sunday dinner together regularly) friends, then you take your cue and drop the lesser friend for fear of damaging relationships within the clique and whom you are really trying to impress and upon whose ladder you are attempting to climb.  And this was how Jesus got crucified.  The filthy priests in the temple were held in such reverence and awe due to position, that they could call on the simple-minded (low-IQ) crowd to chant "Crucify Him!!".  I used to marvel at this ability of the Priests to have a hold over them people to take out the very Son of God.  I no longer hold that same level of marvel - because I have witnessed it firsthand.  I no longer marvel that 70% will end up in body bags.  I am now quite certain.  Because people cannot stand on principle and follow the Spirit to arrive at a correct conclusion - but will follow popularity over principle.  This has gone on at largely LDS beer bashes in high school.  Once the most popular crowd is in, everyone is in except for those who are principled.  I had to navigate this on the outside during my time in high school.  It is a lonely road.  One I am fine with - but baffled how adults do not get past the high schoolish behaviours.

So many other examples that I do not have time to list.  But fascinating to witness nonetheless.

GREAT WITNESS OF VISIONS OF GLORY

 It is quite possible that this is the best witness of the book.  I wish I could make this required reading for temple counselors…:

You know i have a very interesting experience with this book. I was lead to it by the spirit at Seagull book. After reading ill be honest, it scared me and i had some issues with how some things were presented. Because of how somethings were presented i didnt like it and spoke ill of the book. However if i were being honest with my self i knew it was true i couldn't dismiss it like some of the other fraudsters. I decided to really study it, i probably put in close to 200 hours picking it apart. I didnt like certain aspects but couldnt dismiss it still. I was till negative at this point. Then after fasting and praying i finally got my answer. After all, with things that happen in book one must know for sure and then prepare if true. So anyways after walking up stairs to go to bed. I felt and amazingly strong spirit. As i came into my room i felt the presence of an angel but could not at this point see. I was told to kneel and pray. I was told what to pray and received immediate answers. I was then told to lay down. After doing so i was told to lay down and immediately i was taken into the future and found myself on the streets of SLC after the earthquake. My angel turned to me opened the book and pointed at it and said " you see it is true" I said "dang it" I was shown other things as well. But because of my diligence of trying to find out the truth the Lord showed it to me and i have just a strong a witness of Thom as the three witnesses of BOM. Sadly it will all happen and probably very soon.

NEW FALSE PROPHET AND THE AGENDA

 This is cool stuff.  Sounds like he is DoC:

[FYI: I would not have included this information, if the individual was not seeking a public audience.] 

Several weeks ago, I arrived at the Church History Library to bide time before a lunch appointment with some good friends. As usual, before taking my seat I walked over to the display cases at the far side of the room. As I did so, I noticed a well-dressed man in his mid-40s speaking with an elderly sister missionary. She wanted to tell him about the different items on display, but the man clearly had other plans. I overheard him say, “I am just a messenger” and I knew this was going to get interesting. “Just messengers” show up on temple square all the time and I’ve had some fun interactions with them over the past decade. 

 I walked to the front desk and asked an acquaintance what was going on. She smiled and told me that this gentleman had been trying to get copies of the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon to general authorities that morning and had finally settled (maybe with the help of security?) to bring them to the Church History Library. That is where the Church collects items after all.  

 

 A few moments later, I heard the sister missionary profess her desire to read the papers that were being left at the CHL and the man was on his way out the door. To the horror of the officials in the room (I imagine), I followed him out, introduced myself, and invited him to come back in and tell me his story. His name was Shane Baldwin and we sat together for 30 minutes. 

 A decade ago, he was convicted for some charges related to investment fraud that amounted to $14 million (he didn’t tell me the details but you can look them up). In prison, he found his faith and began entertaining angels in his jail cell. One angel told him that he would one day provide Shane with the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon. And at some point when Shane got out of prison, he received an email—apparently from the same angel—with the promised record in an attachment. And the best thing about it was that Shane didn’t even have to translate the record (although he seemed to suggest he had perhaps amended it.)  At the end of our conversation, Shane suggested a number of scriptural passages I could read to learn more about him. These were, of course, the same scriptures would-be Latter-day Saint messiahs have been reciting for two centuries. 1 Nephi 3; D&C 85; Isaiah 28; etc.  

My friends had shown up and so I thanked Shane for his time. I went to greet them and Shane got up to again leave the building. On his way out, he turned back to me and said there was another scripture I should be aware of. Hebrews 13:2. “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” He then said that sometimes you speak to angels and don’t know you are doing so – implying that Shane was an angel in the flesh. (Now this is the oddest claim, because I’m a Latter-day Saint – I think everyone is an angel in the flesh.) 

This was not that unusual of an interaction. I have met One Mighty and Strongs, Davidic Servants, and Roots of Jesse over the years. Shane is just the latest of many – unaware that he is reciting the same script that so very many have recited before him. (In Terrible Revolution, I explained how Brigham Young responded to these claims when he encountered them.)

In the coming days, I noticed that Shane had started a new YouTube channel in which he is bringing in a series of ideas to shape his brand. The major theme is conspiracy. These include polygamy denialism, the Nemenhah Records (these are the sealed portion that Shane is promoting), Joseph Smith’s assassination was an inside job, etc. Michelle Stone, Jacob Isbell, Cloudpiler, and a few others have shown up on his show. 

Friends, I'm not interested in digging into this in too much detail, but I am concerned about individuals’ abilities to discern truth from error; healthy from unhealthy paths. The scripture I would point us to is Jacob 6:12 “Oh be wise – what can I say more?”

Oh and a new episodes of Angels and Seerstones will drop tomorrow.