Where I get My News From: Jesus Intervenes Revisited

From Letters For A Sister.

One of my sisters asks where I get my news from. Where I get my news from is an interesting question, because it really isn't from the "media." I get my view of the news from experiences I have had. I read and hear the news we are given through a filter of understanding, and I go with THAT. Let me explain. (This is going to review a lot of what I wrote in "Jesus Intervenes" (https://lettersforasister.blogspot.com/2024/09/dear-lauri-my-80-papers-2.html).

Remember 631 Third Avenue (I'm speaking to my sister here)? I didn't have very many friends there, as there were few kids my age to play with. It was a pretty boring and lonely place. I spent a lot of my free time sitting on the barstool next to the little AM radio, searching KFWB, KRLA, and KHJ for rock and roll music to listen to. Mom took me to church on Sundays, and had me join the Methodist Youth Fellowship to give me some social experience. I even joined the church. I got into the Beatles and Rolling Stones when they came out. About that time Dylan was a big thing, and the Maharishi, Eastern religions moved to America in a big way, and my high school friends gravitated towards drinking and pot and spiritualism/the occult. It wasn't just about dancing and partying anymore.

I experimented with the Ouija board, learned about meditation, Zen, and Tantra, devoured the Whole Earth Catalogue, and while I wasn't a hippie, I sure was in San Francisco with the kids looking for them. Let's flip forward to 1975, when I was in Honolulu. I was living in the back of my 1959 Chevy Fleetside pickup in the Ala Wai Harbor, listening to Crosby, Stills and Nash, and trying to figure out the meaning of Dylan songs. I haunted the local bookstores, reading everything I could about chakras, mysticism, and the Sufis. I took a class on dream analysis at the metaphysical bookstore, and signed up for their meditation class.

I was making some progress, some interesting phenomena were happening, and then came the possession exercise. They didn't call it that, but I figure that is what it really was. In meditation, we went down to our imagined workshops, formed a door in the wall, and opened the door to whatever was outside of our mind. The idea was that an ascended master spirit-being would come in to teach us the spiritual arts, mano-y-mano. I looked out my door, and it was all dark. Then in the distance, I saw a ramp, and descending it a man. It was Jesus, who was coming to teach me the things he had discovered of the spirit and had taught his disciples. There were some other suggestions I heard, like it had been unspiritual clerics who wanted to control the people who had lost the spiritual secrets the church was for, and it was because I was an earnest seeker like his disciples that he was coming to instruct me personally, etc., etc.

Then, as the bearded, robed, and sashed figure got closer to me, and I gazed upon his appearance, all of a sudden I could see through the light that was emanating from him. The light was a façade; he was all darkness within. Those words--"all darkness within"--came to my mind, and immediately I knew that something wasn't right. I realized that this was a deceiving spirit. The devil also knew that I knew, and gave me a deer-in-the-headlights, "Well, this is awkward" look. I closed the door.

I had immediate multilevel epiphanies:

a) this demonic spirit had been influencing me toward this moment for YEARS; I had been being cultivated.

b) he hadn't wanted me to see his real nature, but he had no power to stop the one who had exposed him.

c) the spirit had to influence me from the outside, because it had less authority than I had. It couldn't get in me unless I lowered my authority to it, which I was just about to do.

d) the one who had opened my mind's eyes did not need my permission to act upon my mind; he was of higher authority than I.

e) the one greater than the spirit and me had been USING the spirit to cultivate me for his own purposes. He had been monitoring us, the deceiving spirit and me, all along. He had chosen this moment, my being matured to this point, to harvest me.

I was quite out of the meditation when we got up to leave. I rode my bike right to my truck and opened the old King James Bible mom had given me. I looked up 'deceive' in the concordance, and found Revelation 12:9, "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." The passage goes on (verses 10-12): "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

Oops! That stuff is REAL. There is a real God, a real Christ, a real Devil, and real deception over the whole world. THIS world is, unbeknown to us, THAT world. Though defeated, the Devil never gives up, and what Revelation says is happening . . . is.

THAT is where I get my news. I know this is a-world-without-God God is trying to make into a world that is His perfect Manifestation. The whole world is deceived, but there is a narrow path that leads to becoming God's manifestation. The Devil is fighting it, pulling every trick, inventing every diversion he can come up with to keep us from discovering it. But we are destined to fulfill the scriptures. Well, we MIGHT be. We CAN be. There is the taking of that narrow path. Can you find it?

Donald is a dork, almost as bad a one as I am. He is stupid, and he is deceived in many ways. No body in their right mind would ever vote for him if he were not up against Hillary or Kamala. Those in my estimate and opinion--from years of studying history and of observation how the Devil works--are manifestations of The Bad Guy himself, or they are at least faithful soldiers in his army. I personally will not vote to be enslaved by the Democratic party's governance. We can only hope that if the Donald gets in, he will learn to be better.

SATAN'S GREATEST DECEPTION - Most People Believe It! Bible Study, 37 min. in

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