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A NEW CREATION: DEFINING THE NEW BIRTH [Part 2]
Everyone is born with a preeminent life mission, to discover not only the meaning of life but the purpose of one’s existence, as well as finding the way back home.
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IT BEGINS
We often come across stories in the news of a child becoming lost. Somehow or another, a young one ventured beyond his boundaries and outside the scope of his usual supervision. Perhaps the best way to understand how such could happen is by recalling one’s own experience in this area.
Children raised right are properly warned. They are told to never go outside the backyard, or too far down the street, or beyond the gate to the back pasture. Whatever the limits may be in one’s urban or rural world, they are set for one’s protection. Of course, boundaries start from essentially a single point and gradually grow outward as a child matures, but each time they are reset it always involves another test. Would that it didn’t have to be this way.
Like many of you, I grew up in suburbia. It was the usual neighborhood of house after house in a vast grid of interlocking streets created as yet another master development plan. Prior to such largely twentieth century creations, tiny townships that grew to massive cities often had relatively crude starts with no concept of master planning. This allowed for much differentiation and an organic character. My city was like that. It was relatively already quite old when I was a kid, dating to the early 1700s. The main downtown area streets venturing outward were based on and followed original haphazard primitive trails and frontier roads. When mass suburban post WWII housing projects were plotted out, it was usually on the outskirts of town upon raw land though enveloped by previous country roads or open highways and other natural or manmade landmarks.
Our house, for example, was on one edge of the seemingly endless overall development. This was a bonus and allowed for potential adventure as opposed to being stuck somewhere in the middle of an endless sea of plain-Jane little houses. We were the third house from the edge, in fact. That edge was composed of a rough two lane street that acted more as a wild asphalt raceway. To add to the danger, our street was just down from the top of a rise from which the neighborhood raceway descended another half a mile or so downward. The older ones among us here will recall a time in America when suburban street rods ruled and demanded speed and decibels. Such teens thus showed much appreciation for that street on the edge.
As a preschool kid I was warned to never venture down the sidewalk from my front yard toward that edge for otherwise obvious reasons. It was a good part of being raised right. Yet beyond that street was an open field and beyond that the woods, like the woods that our neighborhood once consisted of just a few years prior, and woods which beckoned as a call of the wild.
The day came when little three or four year old me tested the boundaries. It was not my fault that I was a natural adventurer that descended from a long line of such people or that I was landlocked in an artificial construct that did nothing for a searcher’s heart. So, I tempted fate. I ventured beyond my boundaries. I stepped over an imaginary line and left my former world behind. I walked slower as I went. With each soft step on the concrete path I came closer to the forbidden boundary. It was all a wonder of new discovery. About the time I transversed all of about seventy feet and approached the end of the sidewalk at the third house down and only a few yards from the very edge, I heard a sound behind me, an indistinguishable voice as off in the distance though growing louder. What was it? What was cruelly interrupting my happy moment? Alas, my impending adventure, as being roused from an awesome dream, was soon to be ended. As I turned to look back to my house, there on the sidewalk before me was my fast approaching very concerned and very loving mother. We headed back to the protection of home.
The good news is I never got run over by a speeding hot-rodding teenager on the edge road raceway or even got lost in the woods far beyond, but I did gain an appreciation for properly set boundaries and that venturing beyond into the wild world would have to wait a fortnight. I also fully understood that such boundaries would not be crossed easily and would demand much effort to get past on some future date. Thankfully, though I certainly learned my lesson that day, I never lost my great unbounded yearning for the search.
LOST IN A LOST WORLD
“My people have become lost sheep;
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They have made them turn aside on the mountains;
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their resting place.” [Jeremiah 50:6]
But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” [Matthew 15:24]
The new birth must begin with a search. A person must be hungry for spiritual truth or will never find it. To simply cruise through life as if this world is all there is reveals a nature devoid of the desire to seek the highest good. One must obviously prioritize survival in the here and now and do whatever one can to make a living but never make that the top priority except at the most on a temporary basis. Nevertheless, searching for spiritual reality and even for the Creator Himself is often met with severe challenges that sometimes cause one to stray off course not due to personal failure or resolve but the character of the struggle. It is the nature of such individual pursuits in a fallen world to be overcome with the sheer scale of the project since it requires doing the opposite of the vast majority, such as constantly swimming upstream and facing off against steady headwinds in one’s face. In this regard, the term “lost” is thus relative.
One must therefore deduce that there is something deep within the heart of those who yearn for something seemingly far away and from long ago which proves an inarticulate spiritual connection which must be identified and secured. This yearning, however, will likely never bear fruit until it is met by another from the other side who enjoins the search on the behalf of the searcher. That is, one’s spiritual hunger is the activation element which causes the searcher not to find but to be found.
So He told them this parable, saying, “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’” [Luke 15:3-6]
DEFINING THE NEW BIRTH
The Lord taught that one’s spirit must be resurrected and come to life again and is exactly what the new birth entails. It is the New Covenant directive which allows one to essentially return to the Garden. Therefore, when comparing the average normal natural non-born again human being to the Lord Jesus, we see such a massive difference. There is simply no comparison. We see the same difference, though obviously not as dramatic and on a lower scale, between such natural sinful humans and actual spiritually born again humans who have been saved from sin by the Lord and released from its power. The latter are certainly not perfect but certainly have been transformed into entirely new creations (see Galatians 6:15).
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. [2Corinthians 5:17][1]
They are thus like Adam and Eve before the fall in the spiritual sense because the salvation process has resurrected their spirits (which had only existed in seed form to that point). Their bodies, however, are still subject to the effects of sin in this fallen world (which results in aging and physical death) until one’s future resurrection when body, soul, and spirit will each be made perfect and whole again for all eternity.
This means ultimate salvation starts with the new birth. Since this is obviously so important, the new birth must be specifically defined. One must know exactly what the new birth entails. For this we must go to Scripture. What was it about the apostles, the 120, and all the members of the Lord’s first spiritual Community that separated them from everybody else? What did they do to become so much like the Lord? How did they gain their spiritual power? What common experience did they all undergo?
© 2025 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved. [To Be Continued…]
[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
A NEW CREATION: DEFINING THE NEW BIRTH [Part 1]
Because original Creation was severely damaged by sin and rebellion in both the angelic and human realms, it required God’s subsequent plan for a New Creation.
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AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
Creation does not work as intended according to the will of the Creator unless the Creator is recognized and honored by all members of His Creation. Anything less than this will cause problems, allow for faults and malfunctions, and may ultimately cause major failures. Yet the Creator has deemed that all who desire His intention and will can only agree to it voluntarily. It is why He gifted humanity with a free will. People are thus given both the authority and responsibility to choose the Creator’s will and vision or not. The correct choice also should be their top priority since it is the Creator who created everything to begin with, and everything in His original Creation extended forth and branched out from Him, that is, from His plans and creative process—and that it was good.
In this we can see that the Creator is both benevolent and non-coercive in that He never forces one to recognize and honor Him and will not violate His complimentary endowment of free will, which proves His love and His obvious understanding that love can only be freely given. He has also created human beings with the power of perception—the ability to perceive on their own—and the desire to “look around and discover” whatever His Creation has to behold. He knows that in this process, if one remains honorable and honest in one’s ongoing search, one will eventually find Him.
OF SAINTS AND SINNERS
The perfection of His original Creation was marred due to an angelic revolt. One may wonder why such a thing happened or how it could have happened within the bliss and harmony of the heavenly realm. Such bewilderment reigns until one considers the foundational culprit at the heart of it all—the sin of pride. This unfortunate trait is the result of a strange brew. It arises as an alchemical concoction formulated deep within the bowels of worshipful reflection upon self—arising from gifts such as outward beauty, lofty intellect, and/or superior attributes and abilities—that which the self had nothing to do with but takes possession of as if it did.
When one is thinking correctly, the proper response to such personal gifts and attributes is the very opposite of the aforementioned sin. It is one’s focus on the Creator and the recognition that one is a created being with no right to claim creative title nor the right to choose as one sees fit. Thus, rather than personal pride, in which one puts his or her own selfish interests first, one chooses instead to yield to the will of one’s Maker and appropriate the positive character trait of humility, which is a recognition of endowed blessings as gifts given in love. This is an acknowledgment of the Giver and an expression of gratitude to Him. Humility thus originates from the unpretentious heart of a person very aware that he or she is the blessed creation of a loving and beneficent Creator.
As such, rather than focusing laterally on self and generating rebellion, one instead looks upwardly towards one’s Maker and offers praise.
REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE
And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. [Revelation 12:7-9]
An apparent third of the angels of heaven rebelled against the Creator (Rev 12:4). This was followed by a much greater percentage of humanity throughout history. Such defiant outcomes had to be in order to allow for a dutiful Community willingly dedicated to the Creator composed of those who honored Him, appreciated Him, and loved Him. Those who refused were culled by their own choices. Each of the rebels, whether angelic or human, chose incorrectly, having been made vulnerable by personal pride, which caused their inability to withstand temptation, which further caused their descent into the darkness of deception.
THE TEMPTER’S TRICKS
The temptation tactics of the enemy are exactly the same in pretty much every respect as that which was presented to the Lord during His temptation in the wilderness, though nuanced to varying degrees to fit the person thereof:
(1) It was suggested to the Lord that He act out of character and turn stones into bread to satisfy His natural hunger, that is, prioritize natural desires and natural food over spiritual desires (serving God) and spiritual food—the Word of God.
(2) It was suggested to the Lord that He act out of character upon arrival at the “pinnacle of the temple” (having the highest level of spiritual authority and power) by operating outside the Law of God through engaging in a potentially harmful and injurious personal act, knowingly and purposely, in the sight of all, as if to prove He was bulletproof and above approach no matter what He did, in order to summon God’s unilateral protection and unconditional approval, and thus verify His official outward exalted sanitized religious image. (Sound familiar?)
(3) It was suggested to the Lord that He act out of character and accept the rule over all the kingdoms on earth in exchange for worshipping the devil, that is, trade His spiritual authority over His eternal spiritual kingdom for all the temporary perks of natural authority at the highest level over the entire planet, while serving as the devil’s flunky.
This is pretty much what Adam and Eve did. Of course, their spiritual kingdom was the Garden and the devil lied about the world outside it, which brings to mind the following:
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. [Psalm 84:10]
Therefore, we must understand that there are basic natural tendencies endemic to every person which can be utilized by the enemy to gain advantage. The serpent in the Garden knew this, of course, since he was a fallen angel who had failed his own temptation battle. He was very aware of personal makeup and knew the newly created humans had a similar nature in that they were free will beings made in the image of God. It is why temptation always starts in one of three overall areas:
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. [John 2:16]
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate… [Genesis 3:6]
IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. [Genesis 1:27]
One might take a step back here when thinking of the devil and demons as somehow being like God but one must also understand that such fallen angels were at one time bright shining sinless creatures who dwelt in heaven and that in his previous personification the devil was apparently the most gifted angel among them. We must also understand that God Himself has a particular distinct and unique nature and that He draws from Himself to create those whom He would be in relationship with, which, again, means that both angels and humans are at least similar to Him if not predominantly like Him (until they rebel against Him). It is why both have such wondrous abilities in both the spiritual and natural spheres.
Human beings, “made, lower than the angels” (Hebrews 2:7), are intelligent, physically gifted, and infused with potentially tremendous spiritual aptitude including the inherent capacity for accomplishing the things we see the Lord doing in the Gospels. The first man was like that, whose attributes also included immortality before his fall into sin, and was “a type of Him who was to come” (Romans 5:14). It is why the apostle Paul related the first created man to the Lord Jesus, calling both Adam:
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. [1Corinthians 15:45] [1]
Adam was made in the image of God. The Lord Jesus IS the Image of God.
This puts things into greater perspective regarding God’s original intentions for humanity and also how very different humanity was originally. What we see in the Lord Jesus is an absolutely perfect Man but also One who is a type of what all people should be. In fact, Christians are instructed by the Lord’s teachings to strive to be just like Him, as impossible as that may appear. What He means by this is one must appropriate the same divine nature that Adam and Eve had before the fall. It is also why the Lord Jesus taught that every one of His followers must undergo a new spiritual birth in that they must be born again, which means “born from above” (John 3:7).
The Lord’s mission is thus the process of transforming humanity back to its original state and condition.
© 2025 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved. [To Be Continued…]
[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
ISRAEL GOES NUCLEAR: A HISTORICAL RECORD OF LAWLESSNESS [AND UNCLE SAM BOMBS IRAN]
Israel is the only state in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. However, it developed and obtained its nuclear arsenal through secretive clandestine means.
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[Note: I began writing this article early Saturday, June 21, and completed the first full draft prior to final edits shortly before hearing the news of the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites Saturday evening. Yet with so much happening so fast in the Middle East I have since added additional material and also explanatory Notes to this article (in red) regarding events that have happened in the meantime. With grave concern for the massive bombing raid perpetrated against Iran by the U.S. on Saturday evening, it must be noted that it was illegal according to international law and wholly unconstitutional according to U.S. law. Overall, though the successful mission involved highly skilled and professional U.S. personnel obeying orders, the operation was lawless in the extreme.]
LAWLESSNESS
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” [Matthew 23:27-28][1]
Of course, the state of Israel has never admitted to possessing a nuclear arsenal. It prefers to play it coy. On the one hand such an attitude is derived from the general historical facts of the matter which point directly to the surreptitious process employed, which is something Israel obviously knows must be concealed. Under normal circumstances this would be akin to a national version of unrepentant hidden personal sin that causes shame, something better left in the shadows. In this case, though, because there is no shame but more of a smug pride in their accomplishment, it is because if such facts were to get out they would tend to subvert one’s carefully constructed false outer persona and just might lead to ripping the mask off completely. Regardless of such efforts, however, and that the modern state of Israel has been largely successful for many decades in hiding its true identity, the current Great Awakening is assisting in exposing it for what it really is.
“But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.” [Luke 12:2]
Israel’s deliberate cover-up of its surreptitious means of becoming a nuclear power also involves concealing the people and agencies utilized thereof, something deemed absolutely essential, not so much to protect national secrets and particular identities but to conceal a great evil, the evil ways in general that such clandestine efforts are carried out, and their real purposes. Suffice it to say there are thoroughly different agendas involved in such means and processes than what the public is propagandized to believe and by which, once revealed, it would be utterly shocked. That which occurs behind the scenes by such forces is truly the epitome of lawlessness.
Another primary reason that Israel has always refused to acknowledge its possession of nuclear weapons is due to the passage of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 which was signed into law by President Carter on March 10 of that year. This Act incorporated the Symington Amendment of 1976 which “barred U.S. economic and military assistance to any country that imported or exported spent nuclear fuel reprocessing or uranium enrichment equipment, materials, or technology but failed to comply with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) full-scope safeguards.”[2]
Israel has never complied with IAEA directives at their Dimona nuclear facility and still denies it access.[3] This portends that the hundreds of billions of dollars in “aid” that Israel has received from the U.S. is actually illegal and explains their hush hush attitude.
The reality is such that approximately 67 years ago the relatively new state of Israel (founded in 1948), with the assistance of France (which gained nuclear weaponry in 1960) completed the construction of their first nuclear reactor in Israel at Dimona in the southern Negev, as early as 1962. This was largely done in an undercover manner with origins dating to 1958. It was reportedly so secret that U.S. intelligence agencies did not know of its existence for three years. (It is since believed that this reactor supplied the fuel for Israel’s undeclared secret nuclear weapons program which came to fruition by approximately 1967.)
When President Kennedy, who was elected in 1960, became aware of their progress with the Dimona Reactor in 1961 he was reported to be surprised and likely stunned, knowing that the facility could easily be built out for military purposes. No President had ever been as concerned about nuclear proliferation. He then insisted that the state of Israel be subjected to the same official inspections by international nuclear governing bodies to both keep track of the progress but also to limit the process to strictly that of energy. (His concern was not unfounded since the establishment of nuclear power is a mere step toward the creation of nuclear warheads and he certainly smelled a rat regarding Israel’s future intentions.)
Of course, the President’s stance was cause for great concern by Israel since they had successfully avoided such inspection activity to that date and rather than being subjected to proper oversight protocols, were instead assisted by people and agencies in very high places. In President Kennedy, however, they found a stalwart American leader who refused to operate unlawfully in this area and demanded international transparency (for the sake of such trivial issues as world peace). By June of 1963, by official communication, he gave Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion an ultimatum. As a result, Ben-Gurion resigned. This sent shockwaves through the parties involved in the subterfuge.
According to the in-depth research of later select independent sources who pieced together the sordid back story and its implications, it was this event that played a major role in President Kennedy’s assassination only five months later.[4]
Therefore, Iran is an enemy of Israel for only one reason. It is because Israel is threatened by the possibility that Iran might someday develop nuclear weapons also. If this ever happened Israel would be compromised and essentially stalemated. They would no longer hold the great upper hand in the Middle East. It is why they always eliminate any threat in this regard long before such becomes possible by attacking even the benign nuclear energy projects of its neighbors. They had previously bombed both Iraqi (1981) and Syrian (2007) nuclear energy facilities for fear that such could be converted for military use. Such actions are beyond ironic and constitute pure hypocrisy.
IRAN IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Over thirteen years ago in February of 2012, I wrote and posted a five-part series here which I entitled Iran in the Crosshairs. In case you may be interested, these are well developed articles filled with relevant facts that pretty much perfectly align with the present. Most of the names are different but the agenda is exactly the same. The point here is that the state of Israel has been crying wolf about Iran’s purported nuclear weapons intentions about as far back as the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
The facts are, of course, that Iran has never had a nuclear weapon. Every pertinent certified agency and intelligence service confirms this fact and it was even recently confirmed in March of this year by the United States Director of National Intelligence. Conversely, Israel is constantly stating that Iran is only two years/a year/six months/weeks/any day now away from building a nuclear weapon. Again, they’ve been saying this for over forty years. Yet, when two years/a year/six months/weeks/any day now came to pass there was still no weapon. These were not, therefore (of course), actual warnings of an impending threat but mere ongoing propaganda and fear tactics to gain what they wanted, namely billions more in military aid and whatever else plus an eventual green light to attack Iran, something Israel has desperately wanted to do. I wrote about all of this in my series.
As we all know now, that long desired intention finally took place with Israel’s uncalled for surprise attack against the sovereign nation of Iran on June 13, only ten days ago. This happened after a softening up faux peace talk process involving the U.S. which Iran apparently did not perceive to be a charade. Now, regarding who could win such a fight between these two Middle East countries, the facts are that Israel could never win without much assistance from the U.S. and by engaging in the initial attack were either counting on such assistance to occur or the overall plan was always one in which it would occur. If the U.S. was not involved and would not be involved, and if Israel did not possess nuclear weapons, Iran would most likely be the victor. This is already proving true.
Therefore, if the recent two week decision period on whether or not the U.S. will attack Iran given on June 19 is for real the U.S. will continue building up in the meantime for inevitable war. [Note: Shortly after I wrote this and the following lines, of course, the world found out this two week interim was yet another ruse and a trust-busting continuation of the effective betrayal of diplomacy.] If by some strange chance the U.S. decides to not engage (After great intercessory prayer from American Christians? After yielding to the American electorate against such a war?), Israel would then be down to its final chance—it would invoke the Samson Option.[5] This is the alleged last ditch military option in which Israel would employ its nuclear weapons arsenal against whatever targets it warrants including those at a distance if you get my drift. For those knowledgeable of Old Testament history who understand invoking the historical character Samson and his final act, they should rightly perceive ominous overtones. One might readily ascertain, therefore, why the U.S. will likely get (more) involved in the Israel-Iran War very soon. [Note: My prediction here proved true.]
On the other hand, Iran is closely allied with such notables as Russia, China, India, and Pakistan, each of which possesses stores of nuclear weapons, and in the case of Russia, a vast store. Will these nations sit idly by if Iran is attacked with such sufficient force that its livelihood and perhaps very existence is threatened? And what might Iran do to protect itself and retaliate?
Such wars never go according to plan. There are always unintended consequences. Things quickly spin out of control which necessitates further action outside the scope of original objectives. Once started, they always involve happenings and occurrences that are unplanned and previously unseen. This particular war in the making has great potential to achieve that very thing and could easily result in an international Pandora’s Box scenario to the nth degree.
© 2025 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved.
[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
[2] ://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v19/d6
[3] ://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-nuclear-programs-iaea-94c0f87c357fd72169dee198cb6800a7
[4] One relatively early work (and possibly the best) is Final Judgment ©1995 by Michael Collins Piper. This book is subtitled: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy.
[5] According to Seymour Hersh and Israeli historian Avner Cohen, Israeli leaders like David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, Levi Ashkol, and Moshe Dayan coined the biblical term Samson option in the 1960s. See ://thesvi.org/deconstructing-israels-samson-option/
DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN I PRESUME?
Who are the unknown concealed purveyors of various nefarious secretive agendas designed to condition, persuade, and convince the public at large to believe in and act on mere illusions presented as reality?
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IT’S ALIVE!
When one is presented with the unfortunate subject of brainwashing one usually pictures a run-down grubby quasi-scientific laboratory off on the gritty edge of an industrial district in a bad part of a dark metropolis staffed by nutcase goons with grimy lab coats, strange facial expressions often stuck in place, and a psycho determination to fulfill a wild and crazy theory or some such for the sake of wholesale societal change involving the transformation of people into automatons. Or programmed slaves. Or manipulated masses obsessed by wacked-out agendas. Or extremists extraordinaire unaware of being the victims of mass social engineering yet insisting their position and belief is good, right, and correct though otherwise obviously backwards, stupid, senseless, morally wrong, and thoroughly unsupported by facts.
OUTWITTING TOTO
The sure existence of brainwashing demands the existence of brainwashers. While the reality of the latter may be acknowledged on a small scale, this acknowledgment decreases as the scale increases. At some point early in the process of their latest brainwashing technique the manipulators behind the scenes have the decided ability to fade into perceived nothingness though their ongoing number of deceived subjects increases exponentially. This would otherwise not only prove their work’s effectiveness but also their presence.
Yet when their illicit strategy works according to plan no one beyond them even notices there is a plan and thus is correspondingly never aware of the brainwashers’ existence. That they escape detection is obviously due to the brainwashers not only controlling the narrative but also controlling the narrative disseminators which they created whose main function is to spew out incessant spurious falsities, untruths, and inaccuracies disguised as facts as part of an ongoing overall agenda. This successfully gives forth only a fabricated perception of reality. The narrative disseminators also act as an imperceptible façade behind which the brainwashers may not only hide but essentially cease to exist in the minds of their subjects.
Hence, we somehow arrive at having great masses of the brainwashed yet without existent brainwashers. This in turn puts forth the false notion that the brainwashed masses do not exist either, as being brainwashed that is, which allows the brainwashed to continue on in their brainwashed condition though not aware of it or aware of what they actually are, especially since most of the people they know personally or are friendly/familiar with are seemingly just like them. They all appear to share the same common beliefs, have the same general view of history, have the same relative overall view of the world, and in the main operate according to the same social and cultural conventions.
EXPOSING THE MASTER SHYSTERS
This further means that the remaining few non-brainwashed who are still in control of their minds and have a handle on truth and actual reality are perceived by the brainwashed masses as the real social deviants since such people refuse to get with the program and go along with the nefarious overall social agenda. What this really means is that there are some who are somehow not programmable and are seen by the brainwashers not only as bad subjects but enemies of their shrouded plan. Their greatest fear is that the non-programmable few will expose their shrouded plan.
Because of this the societal brainwashers do all they can to initially censor any truth-tellers who are determined to shine light and expose darkness. They know such good guys not only want to tell the truth but also—aghast!—free the brainwashed captives. If censoring fails they will then attempt to demonize the truth-tellers by making them appear incorrect, extreme, and even nuts in the eyes of the brainwashed in the hope that the brainwashed masses turn against the ones trying to free them. Sound familiar?
IT’S THE REJECTION AND SHUNNING OF VERIFIABLE FACTS AND OBJECTIVE TRUTH THAT PROVES SUCH PEOPLE ARE BRAINWASHED.
This further proves the existence of hidden Doctor Frankensteins.
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. [2Corinthians 4:3-4][1]
© 2025 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved.
[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
PROCLAIMING TRUTH, OVERCOMING IGNORANCE, REVEALING CORRUPTION, AND EXPOSING DECEPTION
In the beginning Americans were more intelligent and knowledgeable with a high liberty index. Then a century and a half later America effectively became a nation of Forrest Gumps.
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And now this nation has apparently revived cognitively. The average IQ of America has been measured at just below 100, which ranks as normal or average on the scale. Below 90 presents the beginning of deficiency. Above 110 counts as superior. 140 is genius level.
A century ago the American IQ was about 70 or less. This means Americans are gaining in intelligence though not necessarily in truth. Americans have also gained in education but this is relative. Does a formal education actually equate to greater intelligence? Based on many of those who have college degrees it appears as though something is amiss. One can also not compare a prescribed college education with one based on decades of personal study using books, literature, research studies, and other materials not found on politically correct campuses that subscribe to a doctrinaire cultural narrative heavy on social engineering. Since the general public has also become comparatively intellectually lazy and less studious it follows that a greater percentage of Americans may have a greater IQ and educational level while simultaneously being spiritually lacking and practically deficient. Common sense and wide-ranging functional abilities have waned.
Though cognition in itself has gained as have the professions demanding it, it appears that contemporary education has also drifted off into the world of the abstract and hypothetical which makes the overall IQ numbers somewhat suspect. Not only that, but young Americans have become relatively uninformed regarding history and literature compared to prior generations, both due to a lack of interest but also because of a curriculum based on indoctrination rather than facts. And though history has always been subjective it is now the case that much American history is no longer being taught at all, especially with regard to Constitutional studies, the American Revolution, and individual liberty due to conflicts with present political priorities. Considering all these negatives in light of apparent positives, are Americans merely projecting intelligence while effectively becoming dumb and dumber?
We use the term “dumbed-down” to refer to an actual conscious effort by those with control in the education and propaganda sphere to make Americans less knowledgeable of truth and more accepting of concepts thought to be true but based on fabrications. Most Americans have bought into the program. These people will continue to grow less knowledgeable over time regardless of brainpower. Their quasi-academic adaptations, lack of interest in gaining truth, and willingness to adopt what is essentially a low common denominator and socially middling attitude regardless of otherwise positive factors in their lives, such as wealth or good health, make them doomed to continue a downward slide.
On the flip side, however, there is now a greater percentage of Americans, though the percentage relative to the entire population is relatively small, who have gained much more knowledge and truth than the average person and continues to expand their thinking. Their intelligence quotient is somewhat higher but this is not the central factor that causes the rise in their awareness level. It is simply due to the fact that they are hungry for truth and reality, work very hard to find it, and understand that they previously had been propagandized and deceived. In other words, they discovered the existence of a public relations agenda manipulating and programming the populace which caused them to seek the real truth to overcome false truths and purposeful misinformation.
For example, this always happens to Americans who were raised as nominal Christians when they become real Christians. After their legitimate born again experience they suddenly have a great hunger to read the Word of God, especially, of course, the teachings of the Lord Jesus in the four gospels. His teachings open their minds and hearts to greater truth. The more truth they gain the more they can apply it to other subjects. The ongoing result is the discovery of ever more truth and a greater ability to see through false narratives and half truths. This is especially true for “Christian” false narratives. Christianity in general is rife with false doctrines that have no legitimate basis in New Covenant teachings.
Every denomination has its pet overemphasized doctrines that may or may not be true but which serve to cloud or cover over the fullness of the Lord’s teachings and those of the early Church.
Because Americans in general used to have a much higher level of respect for their authority figures they never or rarely questioned the activities of these people. After being incessantly lied to and cheated by corrupt officials over a great many years this is no longer the case. In this we have come somewhat full circle. America started out as a nation fully aware of outward abuses by a distant government and fought against it, not willing to take the abuse, and fought to the point of overcoming the distant government though it was the greatest power on the planet. It was arrogant enough to deem itself invincible but lost badly to what initially appeared as a hodgepodge collection of unintelligent and radical homegrown dissidents. It did not see our forebears as great freedom fighters intent on protecting individual liberty.
Most Americans are not like that anymore. In fact, Americans became so trusting of thoroughly corrupt authority figures they never questioned the myriad of much greater abuses perpetrated upon them than those upon the American colonists. They reached a place of polar opposite, otherwise known as a deep pit of abject stupidity and ridiculous false trust in which they were easily manipulated and deceived. It was not because Americans were actually stupid but merely chose to act that way. They were certainly uninformed and misinformed, however, but such was no excuse. Because of this they doomed their descendants to lives much less than they should have been and allowed the country to be taken over by a cabal of evil people. How were so many so easily fooled?
There were voices of reason and warning but these were shouted down and eliminated by the ignorant brainwashed majority. The same dynamic took place in ancient Israel with any number of powerful prophets who were most often rejected and killed off instead of listened to. The people later saw that the prophets were right but usually far too late to change the evil course they brought upon themselves.
THE PROPHETIC VOICE REACHED ITS ZENITH WITH THE LORD JESUS AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT THEY DID TO HIM.
Americans did this to Americans and this still happens as a daily occurrence. The few who know the truth and the right way are shouted down by the evil DAs in control who have no interest in truth, justice, and the Lord’s way, and these evil people have millions of brainwashed Americans supporting them. As long as they can continue to have such a great deceived percentage of the populace on their side there is little more the proponents of truth and reform can do for the time being.
However, proponents of truth and honesty are growing in numbers. They are making inroads despite the fact that so much is against them. We truly are in the early stages of a national Great Awakening and it will eventually turn the tide against all those who love evil and hate the Lord. The worst perpetrators are not those far away in the political and financial capitals but much closer. They are often deceived American Christians of many different stripes who simply have no eyes to see or ears to hear and no spiritual gumption whatsoever. They may outwardly give off the impression of being loving and kind but it is only a thin veneer hiding unawareness and relative dishonesty. Those who don’t believe this is true have yet to do what the Lord did in exposing the false-veneered corruption for what it is.
The good news is that great progress is happening anyway and eventually everything purposely hidden will become known. Mass corruption and deception will be revealed. This is occurring in both the spiritual and natural realms due to: (1) The greater outpouring of the Lord’s Holy Spirit and a much greater percentage of Spirit-filled people, (2) Superior technology which allows for greater knowledge and which reveals the flaws of past inferior technologies used to deceive, and (3) The fact that truth seekers in both realms are driven to succeed, will never stop, and cannot be stopped. The Lord Jesus is on their side.
Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops.” [Luke 12:1-3][1]
This proves that a great many people already knew about the evil religious fraud of the Pharisees et al but never said anything openly for fear of retribution and social/religious ostracism. Sound familiar? They were reduced to speaking in the dark and whispering in inner rooms. But the day came when many of these same people were supercharged with the Spirit of the Lord and began proclaiming truth everywhere regardless of the consequences. They revealed corruption. They exposed deception. They brought people into the Lord’s great light.
This is what separates nominal Christians from the real thing. In this they obey their callings and do the work of the Master.
© 2019 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved.
[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
THE HIDDEN ENEMY AMONG US
The adversary is a master of propaganda. He revels in misinformation. He lives to deceive. If he can’t stop you he will try to send you in the wrong direction. He does everything in his power to conceal the truth.
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And it should be evident that what is referred to in an overall general sense by an unsuspecting world as “Christianity” is actually a vast collection of unrelated, incongruent, disparate, and often contradictory elements, from merely human but also otherworldly sources, with no connection whatsoever to the original. Unreal Christianity is thus rife with untruths, half-truths, fruitless rituals, syncretic misapplications, and even what Paul referred to as teachings of demons.
The million or so separate Christian camps each have their own primary ideology and religious slant, and each, for the most part, declines close fellowship with the others for fear that its individual identity and brand will be diluted and weakened, and thus compromised toward funding and support. Many of these factions, some quite large, got started because some DA believed the whispered fabrications of the enemy or the weird ramblings of his own wayward mind and ran with them, taking many clueless hangers-on along for the ride.
Once such groups effectively progress from single dominator and analogous cultic origins to gain the desired reputable respectability and requisite numbers, a strange but perfectly understandable phenomenon occurs: The recognition, reception, and incorporation of greater truth, light, and correction is absolutely refused so as not to interfere with established success and acceptance. This only facilitates even more splintering off, the creation of new sects, and greater division. Thus, the multitudinous Christian factions of the last two millennia have more in common with the devil’s obfuscations and religious confusion than the Lord’s original teachings.
Therefore, if one wants to figure out what is what and which is which, one must be willing to do comprehensive, long-term, in-depth study of the Word of God and particularly the pure teachings of the Lord Jesus. One must investigate actual Christian history (not the fake constructs) in as much detail as possible. One must also do much wide-ranging research (much), with no vested interest or personal religious apologia, and wade through the ubiquitous, muddy, debris-laden waters of deception and misinformation to sort it all out.
In that process, as a byproduct of the search for truth, one will discover the frauds and the deceived. Their deceptive cloaking devices will fall away. They will no longer be concealed and they become completely exposed. This is exactly what happened with the Lord regarding the fake religionists of His time. He could see right through them. He could also apparently see demons, which, when you think about it, is really cool, since the devious imps were used to being invisible and getting away with all their lying shenanigans but could no longer hide—Anywhere. Whenever they attempted their magic disappearing act around the Lord it no longer worked.
Here’s just one example:
In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, “Let us alone! What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, he came out of him without doing him any harm. And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another saying, “What is this message? For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out.” [Luke 4:33-36]
Think about this the next time you go to church.
FRUITLESS FRAUDS
It was therefore impossible to deceive Him. This is the way it must be for His real disciples. This is why the vast majority of those who claim to be NT Christians are not seeing Christians—they still have their blinders on. They can’t see the enemy. They remain deceived.
As a starting point in one’s search for truth and dividing truth from error, consider what the Lord told the frauds and deceived people of His time:
“Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.” [Matthew 21:43] [1]
© 2017 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved.
[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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