19 Unbelievable Statistics About The Drugging Of America
By Michael Snyder Guest writer for Wake Up World
If it seems like most people cannot think clearly these days, it is because they can’t. Americans are literally being drugged out of our minds.
The American people are the most drugged people in the history of the planet. Illegal drugs get most of the headlines, but the truth is that the number of Americans who are addicted to legal drugs is far greater than the number of Americans who are addicted to illegal drugs.
As you will see below, close to 70 percent of all Americans are currently on at least one prescription drug. In addition, there are 60 million Americans who “abuse alcohol” and 22 million Americans who use illegal drugs. What that means is that almost everyone that you meet is going to be on something. That sounds absolutely crazy but it is true. In fact, there are 70 million Americans taking “mind-altering drugs” right now!
We love our legal drugs and it is getting worse with each passing year. And considering the fact that big corporations are making tens of billions of dollars peddling their drugs, don’t expect things to change any time soon.
The following are 19 statistics about the drugging of America that are almost too crazy to believe….
The Drugging Of America
#1 An astounding 70 million Americans are taking legal mind-altering drugs right now.
#2 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors wrote more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants during 2010.
#3 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#4 Americans spent more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs during 2013.
#5 According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.
#6 There are 60 million Americans that “abuse alcohol”.
#7 According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 22 million Americans use illegal drugs.
#8 Incredibly, more than 11 percent of all Americans that are 12 years of age or older admit that they have driven home under the influence of alcohol at least once during the past year.
#9 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is an unintentional drug overdose death in the United States every 19 minutes.
#10 In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.
#11 According to the CDC, approximately three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.
#12 According to Alternet, “11 of the 12 new-to-market drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration were priced above $100,000 per-patient per-year” in 2012.
#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
#14 Many of these antidepressants contain warnings that “suicidal thoughts” are one of the side effects that should be expected.
The suicide rate for Americans between the ages of 35 and 64 rose by close to 30 percent between 1999 and 2010. The number of Americans that are killed by suicide now exceeds the number of Americans that die as a result of car accidents every year.
#15 In 2010, the average teen in the United States was taking 1.2 central nervous system drugs. Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and depression.
#16 Children in the United States are three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants as children in Europe are.
#17 A shocking Government Accountability Office report discovered that approximately one-third of all foster children in the United States are on at least one psychiatric drug.
#18 A survey conducted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that more than 15 percent of all U.S. high school seniors abuse prescription drugs.
#19 It turns out that dealing drugs is extremely profitable. The 11 largest pharmaceutical companies combined to rake in approximately $85,000,000,000 ($85B) in profits in 2012.
In America today, doctors are trained that there are just two potential solutions to any problem. Either you prescribe a pill or you cut someone open. Surgery and drugs are pretty much the only alternatives they offer us. And an endless barrage of television commercials have trained all of us to think that there is a “pill for every problem”.
Are you in pain?
Just take a pill.
Are you feeling blue?
Just take a pill.
Do you need a spark in your marriage?
Just take a pill.
And most Americans assume that all of these pills are perfectly safe. After all, the government would never approve something that wasn’t safe, right?
Sadly, what most Americans don’t realize is that there is a revolving door between big pharmaceutical corporations and the government agencies that supposedly “regulate” them. Many of those that are now in charge of our “safety” have spent their entire careers peddling legal drugs to all of us.
We have become a nation of drugged out zombies, and it is all perfectly legal. The funny thing is that many of these “legal drugs” have just slightly different formulations from their “illegal” counterparts.
If more Americans understood what they were actually taking, would that cause them to stop?
Perhaps some would, but for the most part Americans are totally in love with their drugs and giving them up would not be easy. Just ask anyone that has tried to kick a pharmaceutical addiction.
So what do you think about the drugging of America? Please feel free to share what you think by posting a comment below….
What Does it Mean to “Anoint My Head with Oil” in Psalm 23?
By Bekah Pearson
I have to admit, I always wondered what this part of Psalm 23 meant. I thought “He anoints my head with oil” was figurative language for YAHUAH keeping the Psalmist healthy. I never knew this parallel.
Anoint my head with oil
“Sheep can get their head caught in briers and die trying to get untangled. There are horrid little flies that like to torment sheep by laying eggs in their nostrils which turn into worms and drive the sheep to beat their head against a rock, sometimes to death.
Their ears and eyes are also susceptible to tormenting insects.
So the shepherd anoints their whole head with oil.
Then there is peace.
That oil forms a barrier of protection against the evil that tries to destroy the sheep.
Do you have times of mental torment?
Do the worrisome thoughts invade your mind over and over?
Do you beat your head against a wall trying to stop them?
Have you ever asked YAHUAH to anoint your head with oil?
He has an endless supply!
His oil protects and makes it possible for you to fix your heart, mind, and eyes on Him today and always!
There is peace in the valley!
May our good good Father anoint your head with oil today so that your cup overflows with blessings!
Herd mentality, mob mentality and pack mentality, also lesser known as gang mentality, describes how people can be influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors on a largely emotional, rather than rational, basis.
When individuals are affected by mob mentality, they may make different decisions than they would have individually.
Twenty-first-century academic fields such as marketing and behavioral finance attempt to identify and predict the rational and irrational behavior of investors. (See the work of Daniel Kahneman, Robert Shiller, Vernon L. Smith, and Amos Tversky.) Driven by emotional reactions such as greed and fear, investors can be seen to join in frantic purchasing and sales of stocks, creating bubbles and crashes.
As a result, herd behavior is closely studied by behavioral finance experts in order to help predict future economic crises.
How the Elite Control Us and What They Will Do When They Lose Control
In large part, the American people have been conquered through the principle of groupthink. Throughout history, groupthink has played a prominent role in coercing the public of any nation into going to war for the benefit of the elite ruling class and their financial bottom line.
Groupthink
Groupthink is a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis in 1972, and it occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment”.
Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other groups. A group is especially vulnerable to groupthink (e.g. Neocons and the Iraq War, radical Muslim elements within the government and the coming great American purge followed by WW III) when its members are similar in background, when the group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision making.
It is the premise of this article that groupthink is being used to “nudge” Americans into accepting a new paradigm which is suicidal for the country’s continued existence.
The Meat and Potatoes of Groupthink
In his book, Victims of Groupthink, Dr. Janis has documented eight symptoms of groupthink:
1. The illusion of invulnerability is often perpetuated when a cause first becomes public. “If God is for us, who can be against us” is often the kind of mentality that permeates a group in which self-righteousness will somehow protect the group from the faulty decisions of their leaders. It would be interesting to ask the tens of millions of dead people who died in the two world wars in the 20th century how well this illusion works. This illusion of invulnerability creates excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks. For example, when NFL player, Pat Tillman forsook his lucrative playing career and volunteered to serve in Afghanistan, following 9/11, he was killed by military leadership for expressing the anti-war views he increasingly came to believe. In the early days of a movement, people lose their minds and volunteer to give up their lives in order to kill complete strangers in order that billionaire bankers can make billions of dollars of more money.
2. The members of a group quickly fall into a type of collective rationalization in the early days of group think. “If my neighbors believe in our course of action”, it must be perfectly OK to engage in things like genocide and mass murder (i.e. war). The members of the group discount warnings and do not reconsider their assumptions regarding a course of action even when it becomes clear that the course of action is immoral or even suicidal.
3. Belief in an inherent and self-righteous morality. This view is often expressed, as President George W. Bush once said “You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists”. The members of the group believe in the righteousness of their cause and therefore ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions. This type of group psychology has given history some of its darkest days.
4. Stereotyped views of unfavorable out-groups is perpetuated. Stereotypical and extreme negative views of the “enemy” make effective responses to conflict seem unnecessary. This leads to the creation of devices like the infamous “Red List” which will ostensibly be used one day to rid the country of any dissenters.
5 . Direct pressure on dissenters in the group begins to surface in the early days of a movement. Members are under pressure not to express arguments against any of the group’s views. Political correctness is often used to usher in a group think kind of paradigm change. We have witnessed the climate change arguments and the advancement of gay marriage where nobody dare speak out against the concept at the risk of being branded “prejudiced”.
6. Self-censorship becomes a critical operating component of the group. People fear speaking out, so they don’t. Doubts and deviations from the perceived group consensus are not expressed for fear of retaliation from the group and its leader. This is when a society begins to live in fear of its government and the establishment behind the government.
7. The illusion of unanimity is perpetuated in and among the members of a group. The majority view and judgments are assumed to be unanimous. This becomes the well-spring of prohibitions on free speech, politically motivated round-ups and deportation to concentration camps (i.e. FEMA camps). Nowhere, can we find a better example of what happens when six corporations control 98% of the media. Browse through the networks, during the news hour, and you won’t find a stone’s throw difference between the way that CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and Fox, report the news. It is the ultimate example of groupthink. And it is the single most important reason that we have a “sheep mentality “among 95% of the people in this country.
8. Self-appointed ‘mindguards’ becomes a key operating component of the group. Members protect the group and the leader from information that is problematic or contradictory to the group’s cohesiveness, view, and/or decisions. This is the central operating principle of the maintenance of group think. Any dissension inside the group is quickly dealt with as if the dissenter were a member of the group of which their group is aligned against.
Examples of the Fallacy of Groupthink
Historians often point to examples of groupthink “fiascoes”. Dr. Janis offers as examples “the US failures to anticipate the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the escalation of the Vietnam war, and the ill-fated hostage rescue in Iran”. Certainly, the flawed policies enacted in conducting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are prime examples of this erroneous thinking brought about by the eight elements of group think. And this flawed thinking has led to the rise of ISIS, with the help of the CIA.
History commands to not forget the Holocaust, Rwanda, Mao’s purge in China and on and on it goes.
Groupthink Is Being Used to Condition the American People for World War
With every journalist ISIS beheads and with every staged terror attack upon American interests, the American people are being readied for war and the invocation of groupthink is the prime method of mental subjugation of our people. Many of you reading these words are going to become victims to what is coming.
The elite use such organizations as Tavistock Institute to devise public policy reflective of these psychological tools of manipulation.
Any organizing principle of war states that you must first neutralize the command and control structure over the enemy. This is why, whenever we invade a country, we first take out their radar and communications ability. This is one of the approaches that we need to employ in neutralizing the hold the globalists have over our minds. To do that, we only need to follow Jim Marrs’ advice and turn off the TV. Collapse the major instrument of control that our enemies employ against us, namely, the control over our minds through the mainstream media.
If CNN and FOX were to disappear, we would stop being conditioned on what to think and begin thinking for ourselves. Subsequently, the veil of deception would be removed from over our eyes. The sheep would lose their media based shepherd and the sheep would be forced to find their own way in life. The resulting paradigm could lead to a global awakening and, other than the return of (J-sus)/Yahushua, this would constitute the worst nightmare for the globalists.
Winning the Numbers War
Throughout my academic career, I have immersed myself in discovering how change occurs. Why do some movements take hold and win the day, while others die on the vine? The answer, coming from the field of social psychology, is surprisingly simple.
The flip side of groupthink also exists. The antidote to group think is more groupthink in the form of presenting a groupthink psychology that is the antithesis of the existing paradigm being perpetrated today.
The Ten Percent Factor
Scientists from the prestigious Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have determined that if just 10% of any given population holds to an unshakable idea, that the idea will become adopted by the majority of the country. However, the scientists who belong to the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) found that if the ideas are shared by less than 10% of the population, the idea will not progress and will eventually die out. The research was first published in a peer reviewed E Journal in an article entitled “Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.”
Computational and analytical methods were used to discover the tipping point where an obscure idea eventually becomes the majority opinion. The finding has dramatic implications for those of us trying to wake up the sheep in this country.
The SNARC scientists found that the 10% figure was applicable whether they were talking about the spread of innovations or to advance an ideal.
Reaching 10% of the population should be the objective of the alternative media and the primary goal should be the preservation of the soul and not to be quite as focused on achieving physical victory in this realm of existence.
As previously stated, in order to wake up 10% of the population, the country would have to turn off the biggest propaganda device in the country, the television. Nature abhors a vacuum and if people were not watching television, they would begin to think for themselves, instead of being told what to think. If the 10% factor were to ever be reached, it would constitute groupthink in reverse.
There is no question that untold numbers of people are beginning to question the motives and actions of the government. And increasingly, these awakening sheep, are looking to us in the independent media for answers. The 64 million dollar question has to do with whether America will reach the 10% threshold in time to make any real difference?
The Globalists Will Never Let the Number of Awake Americans Reach 10%
If I can invoke the research of SNARC, don’t you think that the elite, with their vast resources already know the parameters of groupthink? Of course they do, they are using these principles against humanity in the here and now.
Summary
I am of the belief that the independent media is on the threshold of a major breakthrough and the 10% plateau will actually be achieved, if even for only a short time. I firmly believe that the 10% factor will only be achieved for a very short time. The globalists are not yet ready to completely subjugate the planet. However, they do have failsafe positions which they will resort to if the trend curve of their movement is being thwarted by an awakening population. What are these failsafe strategies? World War III comes quickly to mind. One has to simply create a false flag, blame the next terrorist group and go to war in order to perpetuate the threat. Groupthink is invoked and history repeats itself, again. The globalists have even a more virulent failsafe position in the form of a biological attack upon the people of the United States. A widespread biological attack would quickly reverse the momentum of any social movement against globalist tyranny.
Regardless, the only weapon that humanity has at it disposal in the moment, is to awaken as many people as possible.
About the Author
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“What can we learn from the life of Shimshon (Samson)?”
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AND the children of Yashar’el did evil again in the sight of YAHUAH; and YAHUAH delivered them into the hand of the Pelishtiym forty years.
And there was a certain man of Tsor’ah, of the family of the Daniym, whose name was Manoach; and his woman was barren, and bore not.
And the angel of YAHUAH appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, את eth-you are barren, and bear not: but you shall conceive, and bear a son.
Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
For, lo, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Naziyr unto ELOHIYM from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver את eth-Yashar’el out of the hand of the Pelishtiym.
SHOFETIYM (JUDGES) 13:1-5
And the woman bore a son, and called את eth-his name Shimshon: and the child grew, and YAHUAH blessed him.
SHOFETIYM (JUDGES) 13:24
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Samson, Hebrew Shimshon, (shim-shone, Sunlight; Shimshon; of the tribe of Dan; a Yashar’e’liy.) legendary Yashar’e’liy (Israelite) warrior and judge, or divinely inspired leader, renowned for the prodigious strength that he derived from his uncut hair. He is portrayed in the Book of SHOFETIYM (Judges) (chapters 13–16).
Question: “What can we learn from the life of Samson?”
Answer: Samson’s life is one of contradiction. First, he was to be “a Nazirite, set apart to YAHUAH from birth” (Judges 13:5), yet he continually broke his vow. The Ruach (Spirit) of YAHUAH came upon him many times, giving him great strength to fight the Philistines, the oppressors of the Yashar’e’liym (Israelites). At the same time, however, Samson was a womanizer and a vengeful man, full of sin. Samson’s life illustrates that giving in to temptation leads to sin, that YAHUAH will use even a sinful man to enact His will, and that YAHUAH will not let us escape the consequences of our sin.
The life of Samson – giving in to temptation leads to sin
Samson’s story begins with a violation of YAHUAH’s law. He wants to marry a Philistine woman despite his parents’ protests and in violation of YAHUAH’s law about intermarriage with pagans. His mother and father accompany him past the vineyards of Timnah (Judges 14:5) to obtain his new bride when a lion attacks and is killed by Samson.
As a Nazirite, Samson had to follow the laws written in Numbers 6:1-21.
First, he was to “abstain from wine and other fermented drink and…not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink. He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.” By passing by the vineyards of Timnah, he invited temptation to violate this portion of his vow. Had he not walked so openly into temptation, he would not have encountered the lion, another source of later sin. When Samson came back by the carcass of the lion, it was filled with a honeycomb, which he ate. This was a clear violation of the second part of the Nazirite’s law:
“Throughout the period of his separation to YAHUAH he must not go near a dead body” (Numbers 6:6).
Samson seemed to know what he was doing was wrong because when he gave the honey to his parents, “he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass” (Judges 14:9).
The customary feast described in Judges 14:10 was, literally, a “drinking party.” Although Scripture does not indicate whether Samson drank wine or fermented drink, it was yet another source of temptation that ultimately led to sin. In this case, Samson offers a wager on a riddle, and his wife betrays him and gives the answer to his riddle to her countrymen, the Philistines. In response, Samson murders thirty men.
The life of Samson – YAHUAH will use even a sinful man to enact His will
Samson willingly went into situations that led to sin, but each time, YAHUAH used him for His glory. YAHUAH created Samson to “begin the deliverance of Yashar’el (Israel) from the hands of the Philistines” (Judges 13:5).
Even sinful men cannot prevent YAHUAH’s will.
When Samson killed the lion, it was his first recorded test of strength. It gave him confidence to face the Philistines. He murdered 30 Philistines out of vengeance in order to pay a debt. Later, Samson swears to “get even with the Philistines” (Judges 15:3) and to “get [his] revenge on [the Philistines]” (Judges 15:7).
Both occasions were for personal reasons and were not righteous, but YAHUAH used them as a springboard to launch Yashar’el (Israel) out of their oppression. Despite Samson’s sin, YAHUAH’s will would not be thwarted.
The life of Samson – YAHUAH will not let us escape the consequences of our sin.
Even though YAHUAH’s will is unstoppable, Samson still experienced the consequences for his sin.
When he met Delilah and she begged to know the secret of his strength, he broke the final part of the Nazirite law: “During the entire period of his vow of separation no razor may be used on his head. He must be holy until the period of his separation to YAHUAH is over; he must let the hair of his head grow long” (Numbers 6:5).
After Delilah’s countrymen cut his hair, Samson still expected YAHUAH to be with him. “He awoke from his sleep and thought, ‘I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.’ But he did not know that YAHUAH had left him” (Judges 16:20).
He had gained confidence from previous violations which appeared to have gone unpunished, but his continual willful disobedience had reached an end.
When Samson had finally broken all of the Nazirite laws, he had to face the consequences of his actions.
The lessons we can learn from Samson’s life are that if we willingly and repeatedly walk into temptations which lead to sin, we will suffer the consequences of our disobedience even though YAHUAH still uses us to accomplish His will.
In the end, Samson understood the true source of his strength, but he never understood his true purpose. “Then Samson prayed to YAHUAH, ‘O Sovereign ELOHIYM, remember me. O YAHUAH, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes’” (Judges 16:28).
We see from this verse that Samson was more concerned about revenge than about doing YAHUAH’s will, and it cost him his life.
“Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived” (Judges 16:30). YAHUAH’s will was done, but the many blessings Samson might have seen were never realized.
Let’s break down the miraculous event described in Matthew 14:22-32 and John 6:21 line by line.
Scripture (verse 22): After feeding the multitudes, YAHUSHA urged his disciples to get into a ship and go before Him to the other side of the sea.
Message: YAHUSHA’s disciples were sent on their journey to their destination which is the kingdom or the Promised Land. YAHUSHA indicated that He would come to them later representing the Second Coming of the Master.
Scripture (verse 23): After sending the multitudes away, YAHUSHA went up into a mountain to pray. When evening was come, He was there alone.
Message: “Up into a mountain” symbolizes His ascension into to the right hand of YAHUAH in heaven. He went there to pray indicating His status as our Great High Priest after the order of Melchisedek who makes intercession for us. His being there alone at evening indicates that He is the firstborn of many brethren. He is the first to overcome; he alone had overcome at that spiritual time of evening. Currently, we know from the signs of the times that spiritual evening has past, and the night is far spent.
Scripture (verse 24): The ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves for the wind was contrary.
Message: The “ship” that the disciples were in was like a place of safety even though the circumstances looked bleak; just think of Noah’s ark. The sea symbolizes people in scriptures. Isaiah 57:20 states that the wicked are like the troubled sea; Jude 4-13 and Revelation 17:15 also confirm the definition. I believe the adversary or satan makes his appearance when the verse describes the ship being “tossed with waves for the wind was contrary.” We cannot see satan just as we cannot see an ill wind. However, we can see the results of his works in the actions of the people he uses. These people symbolize the waves. (Note: Luke 21:25 gives a description of the end times by stating, “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;”)
Scripture (verse 25): In the fourth watch of the night, YAHUSHA went unto them, walking on the sea.
Message: To me this means that the Father is going to send YAHUSHA back to save us at the time right before daybreak. The fourth watch of the night is the last watch of the night before dawn of a new day. It’s also interesting that YAHUSHA stated that no man knows the day or the hour but for us to watch. The verse depicting the coming of YAHUSHA on the water indicates that we may know the “watch;” the fourth watch includes the 10th, 11th, and 12th hours.
When the verse stated that YAHUSHA came “walking on the sea,” it does not mean that His mission is to step on people! However, the Father said that all of his enemies would be put under his feet; the Father told the Son to “come sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool” (Psalm 110:1). Also, the ship represented the place of safety for the disciples; all those not in the ship would be considered enemies.
Revelation 21:1 describes the new heaven and the new earth. The statement given within that verse, “…and there was no more sea” probably does not pertain to an actual body of water. It most likely represents the sea of humanity (individuals and kingdoms) that have made themselves enemies of YAHUAH through rebellion and sin. Remember the political beast that arose from the sea in Revelation 13:1?
Scripture (verse 26): The disciples were fearful when they saw him walking on the sea; they thought it was a spirit.
Message: The disciples were aware of the spirit realm just as we are now. We know that there are many counterfeits but only one YAHUSHA so it stands to reason that we would be wary of false spiritual activity. Some of us are even fearful about the coming anti-messiah and must be reminded that the gates of hell will not prevail against YAHUSHA’s Assembly.
Scripture (verse 27): YAHUSHA identifies Himself right away and tells His disciples not to be afraid.
Message: He said that my sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow Me (John 10:27). He will identify Himself to His believers at His coming. Every eye will see Him (Revelation 1:7).
Scripture (verse 28): Peter asks to join the Master on the water.
Message: Peter knew that if it was the Master walking on the water, the Master would ask Peter to follow Him; YAHUSHA said that His sheep follow Him (John 10:27).This demonstrated faith and leadership abilities within Peter. If it had been some other spirit approaching them, the disciples in the ship would know the imposter, but Peter probably would have physically perished! However, Peter knew the Master’s voice because he had cultivated a close relationship with Him.
Scripture (verse 29): YAHUSHA tells Peter to come to Him, and Peter walked on the water toward Him.
Message: YAHUSHA said that He would come back but asked if He would find faith on the earth (Luke 18:8). He knows that we can only please the Father by faith. YAHUSHA approved of the test to which Peter put Him. The answer is that there will be faith on the earth upon YAHUSHA’s return! This account of Peter indicates that some end time disciple(s) is going to get out of the boat at risk of his or her temporal life to meet the Master at His coming by faith.
Scripture (verse 30): Peter saw the effects of the wind and began to be afraid; he cried out to the Master when he began to sink.
Message: Peter took his eyes off of YAHUSHA and focused in on the works of the enemy all around him just as we tend to focus on some of the horrific “signs” of YAHUSHA’s return. The key for anyone who steps out of the ship is to always keep the focus on YAHUSHA and not on the satanic attacks. We walk by faith and not by sight. When Peter looked with his natural eyes, he started to sink. All he could see with his natural eyes were the troublous waves.
Scripture (verse 31): YAHUSHA was right there to save Peter.
Message: This verse shows the expectation and the perfection of the Master. He was pleased to have Peter demonstrate the faith to step out of the boat, but He reproved Peter for doubting afterwards. He said that Peter had “little faith.” (Note: To most people, if they had walked on water for only a few seconds, you couldn’t tell them anything. They would think that they were all that and two bags of chips!!) YAHUSHA wouldn’t let Peter perish either. He knew just when to stretch out His hand to save. He will do the same for all of His disciples who put their trust in Him.
Scripture (verse 32): When YAHUSHA and Peter came into the ship, the wind ceased.
Message: Only at the appointed time of YAHUSHA’s return will satan be silenced. YAHUSHA could have chosen to rebuke the wind early as He had on a previous occasion with the disciples, but I believe He didn’t because he wanted his actions to symbolize the end time triumphant entry of the King of Yisrael. The miraculous event was not only for the original 12 disciples, but it was a special message for us.
Scripture (John 6:21): When YAHUSHA was willingly received into the ship by the disciples, the ship was immediately at the land wither they went.
Message: The account in John states that the ship was immediately at its destination when YAHUSHA was welcomed on board. We are in a journey to the Promised Land. When YAHUSHA returns, we will be gathered together and immediately given glorified bodies. We will have reached the Promised Land which is eternal life. YAHUSHA did say that the kingdom of heaven is within you (Luke 17:21).
The account of YAHUSHA and Peter walking on water is a reminder to us to keep our attention on the Savior and not the signs as we approach the Promised Land. HalleluYah!!!!
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THE ENEMY’S TACTICS FOR WEARING OUT THE SAINTS (Set-Apart Ones)
BY Michael K. Lake, Th.D., D.R.E.
YAHUAH has been speaking to me a great deal about understanding strategies in spiritual warfare. Most believers, if they are serious about spiritual warfare, tend to do so by the seat of their pants. For them, spiritual warfare is like occasionally confronting a bully on the playground in elementary school. They are aware of the event, but are never aware of the “long game” of warfare. Strategic warfare is a concept that is foreign to them. Unfortunately, the enemy is quite familiar with strategic warfare. In fact, it is the only game he plays.
What is the end result of this? Most believers approach spiritual warfare like they are either playing checkers or, even worse, dodge ball. Satan always plays chess! He strategically weaves things into the assembly and society over decades and even generations. I believe this is one reason the “Moral Majority” has become the “Minority Without a Clue.”
To start with, I want to look to the Book of Daniel for some insights. Speaking of the Anti-Messiah, Daniel states:
Daniel 7:25 (NKJV)
25 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time.
The Amplified Bible gives us a little more insight:
Daniel 7:25 (AMP)
25 And he shall speak words against the Most High [God] and shall wear out the saints of the Most High and think to change the time [of sacred feasts and holy days] and the law; and the saints shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time [three and one-half years].
I have taught for many years that the Anti-Messiah system has already accomplished some of this. Daniel was writing about the end-times and that the saints shall become “worn out.”
There is no way around it; Daniel was speaking of you and me. Notice that the Anti-Messiah would change the times of the sacred feasts and Set-Apart (holy) days. This part he has already accomplished. Few believers know what the Feasts of YAHUAH are or that they are still a part of our acceptable worship of the Almighty.
Instead, we have replaced them with holidays that originated in Babylon – the spiritual seat of power for the Anti-Messiah system. Whether you are ready to hear this are not, it is time to grow up spiritual and fully embrace only what is in the Word of YAHUAH – from Genesis through Revelation. Although I could go into more detail regarding this, I will leave that for another time.
There is another aspect I want to get into here. Dr. David Stern, in the Complete Jewish Bible, translates this verse somewhat differently. Let’s take a look at it.
Daniel 7:25 (CJB)
25 He will speak words against the Most High and try to exhaust the holy ones of the Most High. He will attempt to alter the seasons and the law; and [the holy ones] will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.
Everything in the Kingdom of YAHUAH, and even this universe, moves in cycles. In fact, anything that is “alive” will have some sort of cycle to it. The Feasts of YAHUAH are cycles of learning more about Messiah and His workings in the full plan of redemption. There are seasonal cycles to nature. There are even cycles in the life of a woman that is all about reproduction and giving life. There are also seasonal cycles in the life of a believer and even the Body of Messiah. Let’s take a look at them.
Winter: A time that appears to be dormant. Things appear to be dead. For plants, not much going on above the surface. A time to deepen the root system.
Spring: Everything springs back to life: much activity, new seeds are sown and a great deal of rain.
Summer: Things get hot, dry and a lot of hard work. Little benefit is seen from labor – which is always difficult.
Fall: Finally the payoff comes. The temperature cools down, there is a refreshing and a harvest from seeds sown and toiled over.
Looking at this list, you can easily apply these seasons to your life or your ministry. We all cycle through those at different rates. For some, it is a 6 month cycle; for others, it can be several years. The cycle is there, and it is undeniable.
Here is where the enemy’s plans come in to play. What if he is able to change your seasons? If he has done things to get us off the timing of YAHUAH somewhere, our seasonal rotation could look like this:
Winter, summer, winter, summer, winter, summer
Summer, summer, summer, summer, summer
Winter, winter, winter, winter
There would be no times of refreshing. There would be no real harvest. There would be only variations of the dead of winter and the drought of summer. If we are truthful, it kind of sounds like the testimonies I am hearing from believers worldwide.
I wish that I could tell you I had all of the answers to solve this dilemma, but I don’t. I do have some insights that I would like to share to restore your spiritual cycles.
1. Repentance:
Repentance is always a great place to start. The enemy got in because we made a tactical mistake somewhere. Repentance always throws the devil off. He is incapable of repentance and cannot comprehend it. One of the major “doctrines of demons” today is that there is no need for repentance after you are saved. The Scriptural truth is that your repentance has just begun! Always be quick to repent and to be corrected by the RUACH HA’QODESH (Holy Spirit). It crucifies the flesh and breathes life into your spirit!
2. Seek to Get Back into the Rhythm of Heaven:
This can start by researching and beginning to celebrate the Scriptural feasts. Do not just use the traditional Jewish observance. Allow Messiah to come alive and let the RUACH HA’QODESH (Holy Spirit) guide you as you observe them. Never do anything that would take away from what YAHUSHA has accomplished. Rather, seek to understand more of what He has done and what He will do. It is all there in the feasts.
There are also daily and weekly cycles that are specific to each one of us. Times of worship, devotion, fasting, prayer, study, etc. Allow the RUACH HA’QODESH (Holy Spirit) to guide you each week. They should get more meaningful over time and become spiritually rich. Don’t let the devil kick you into autopilot. Live each day with awareness to the Kingdom, and live it with purpose. The Kingdom of YAHUAH has no drones – only sons and daughters that are alive, vibrant and aware!
3. Command the Enemy to Release Your Seasons:
(Note – only do this after a time of repenting to make sure your armor is on properly.) I can tell you what I am seeing spiritually about this. If you have been going from winter to winter or winter to summer – over and over again – all of those springs and falls are not lost! I see a large dam that the enemy has erected to hold them back. You need to start binding the enemy over stealing your seasons and command him to release what he has already stolen. You may have a fight on your hands over it. Discouragement will come knocking on your door almost immediately. Actually, that is good news. Why would the devil hit you if you were missing it? Two great allies to a soldier of Messiah are determination and consistency. The enemy has stolen your blessing, your refreshment and your fulfillment in YAHUAH. Heaven is saying that now is the time to fight to get it back. The more years the enemy has stolen means the more that must be released. It is time to go from being “worn out” to “thoroughly blessed!” The time of the harvest is near!
Dr. Lake is the chancellor and founder of Biblical Life College & Seminary and serves as an educational consultant for various Christian organizations around the world. He also serves as the Pastor of Biblical Life Assembly in Marshfield, MO. Dr. Lake is listed in the US Registry’s “Who’s Who Among Outstanding Americans,” Sterling’s “Who’s Who Executive Edition,” and the “Who’s Who Among American Teachers” for his accomplishments in ministry.
This final video of the MINDGAME series explores the use of the ‘Force’ within the mystery religions, the polarity of light and dark, and why God is not part of that system.
NOTE: This is not an entry-level video, but is for viewers who are familiar with these topics and are firmly grounded in their belief in God and Jesus, as well as the Truth of the Scriptures. If you haven’t watched parts 1 and 2, please do so before watching this one, since the information presented here puts all the previous pieces together.
That article references this UN “2030 Agenda” document that pushes a blueprint for so-called “sustainable development” around the world.
This document describes nothing less than a global government takeover of every nation across the planet. The “goals” of this document are nothing more than code words for a corporate-government fascist agenda that will imprison humanity in a devastating cycle of poverty while enriching the world’s most powerful globalist corporations like Monsanto and DuPont.
In the interests of helping wake up humanity, I’ve decided to translate the 17 points of this 2030 agenda so that readers everywhere can understand what this document is really calling for. To perform this translation, you have to understand how globalists disguise their monopolistic agendas in “feel good” language.
Here’s the point-by-point translation. Notice carefully that nowhere does this document state that “achieving human freedom” is one of its goals. Nor does it explain HOW these goals are to be achieved. As you’ll see here, every single point in this UN agenda is to be achieved through centralized government control and totalitarian mandates that resemble communism.
Translation of the UN’s “2030 Agenda blueprint for globalist government” (controlled by corporate interests)
Goal 1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Translation: Put everyone on government welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies and handouts that make them obedient slaves to global government. Never allow people upward mobility to help themselves. Instead, teach mass victimization and obedience to a government that provides monthly “allowance” money for basic essentials like food and medicine. Label it “ending poverty.”
Goal 2) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Translation: Invade the entire planet with GMOs and Monsanto’s patented seeds while increasing the use of deadly herbicides under the false claim of “increased output” of food crops. Engineer genetically modified plants to boost specific vitamin chemicals while having no idea of the long-term consequences of genetic pollution or cross-species genetic experiments carried out openly in a fragile ecosystem.
Goal 3) Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Translation: Mandate 100+ vaccines for all children and adults at gunpoint, threatening parents with arrest and imprisonment if they refuse to cooperate. Push heavy medication use on children and teens while rolling out “screening” programs. Call mass medication “prevention” programs and claim they improve the health of citizens.
Goal 4) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Translation: Push a false history and a dumbed-down education under “Common Core” education standards that produce obedient workers rather than independent thinkers. Never let people learn real history, or else they might realize they don’t want to repeat it.
Goal 5) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Translation: Criminalize Christianity, marginalize heterosexuality, demonize males and promote the LGBT agenda everywhere. The real goal is never “equality” but rather the marginalization and shaming of anyone who expresses any male characteristics whatsoever. The ultimate goal is to feminize society, creating widespread acceptance of “gentle obedience” along with the self-weakening ideas of communal property and “sharing” everything. Because only male energy has the strength to rise up against oppression and fight for human rights, the suppression of male energy is key to keeping the population in a state of eternal acquiescence.
Goal 6) Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Translation: Allow powerful corporations to seize control of the world’s water supplies and charge monopoly prices to “build new water delivery infrastructure” that “ensures availability.”
Goal 7) Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Translation: Penalize coal, gas and oil while pushing doomed-to-fail “green” energy subsidies to brain-dead startups headed by friends of the White House who all go bankrupt in five years or less. The green startups make for impressive speeches and media coverage, but because these companies are led by corrupt idiots rather than capable entrepreneurs, they always go broke. (And the media hopes you don’t remember all the fanfare surrounding their original launch.)
Goal 8) Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Translation: Regulate small business out of existence with government-mandated minimum wages that bankrupt entire sectors of the economy. Force employers to meet hiring quotas of LGBT workers while mandating wage tiers under a centrally planned work economy dictated by the government. Destroy free market economics and deny permits and licenses to those companies that don’t obey government dictates.
Goal 9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Translation: Put nations into extreme debt with the World Bank, spending debt money to hire corrupt American corporations to build large-scale infrastructure projects that trap developing nations in an endless spiral of debt. See the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins to understand the details of how this scheme has been repeated countless times over the last several decades.
Goal 10) Reduce inequality within and among countries
Translation: Punish the rich, the entrepreneurs and the innovators, confiscating nearly all gains by those who choose to work and excel. Redistribute the confiscated wealth to the masses of non-working human parasites that feed off a productive economy while contributing nothing to it… all while screaming about “equality!”
Goal 11) Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Translation: Ban all gun ownership by private citizens, concentrating guns into the hands of obedient government enforcers who rule over an unarmed, enslaved class of impoverished workers. Criminalize living in most rural areas by instituting Hunger Games-style “protected areas” which the government will claim are owned by “the People” even though no people are allowed to live there. Force all humans into densely packed, tightly controlled cities where they are under 24/7 surveillance and subject to easy manipulation by government.
Goal 12) Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Translation: Begin levying punitive taxes on the consumption of fossil fuels and electricity, forcing people to live under conditions of worsening standards of living that increasingly resemble Third World conditions. Use social influence campaigns in TV, movies and social media to shame people who use gasoline, water or electricity, establishing a social construct of ninnies and tattlers who rat out their neighbors in exchange for food credit rewards.
Goal 13) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Translation: Set energy consumption quotas on each human being and start punishing or even criminalizing “lifestyle decisions” that exceed energy usage limits set by governments. Institute total surveillance of individuals in order to track and calculate their energy consumption. Penalize private vehicle ownership and force the masses onto public transit, where TSA grunts and facial recognition cameras can monitor and record the movement of every person in society, like a scene ripped right out of Minority Report.
Goal 14) Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Translation: Ban most ocean fishing, plunging the food supply into an extreme shortage and causing runaway food price inflation that puts even more people into economic desperation. Criminalize the operation of private fishing vessels and place all ocean fishing operations under the control of government central planning. Only allow favored corporations to conduct ocean fishing operations (and make this decision based entirely on which corporations give the most campaign contributions to corrupt lawmakers).
Goal 15) Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Translation: Roll out Agenda 21 and force humans off the land and into controlled cities. Criminalize private land ownership, including ranches and agricultural tracts. Tightly control all agriculture through a corporate-corrupted government bureaucracy whose policies are determined almost entirely by Monsanto while being rubber-stamped by the USDA. Ban woodstoves, rainwater collection and home gardening in order to criminalize self-reliance and force total dependence on government.
Goal 16) Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Translation: Grant legal immunity to illegal aliens and “protected” minority groups, which will be free to engage in any illegal activity — including openly calling for the mass murder of police officers — because they are the new protected class in society. “Inclusive institutions” means granting favorable tax structures and government grants to corporations that hire LGBT workers or whatever groups are currently in favor with the central planners in government. Use the IRS and other federal agencies to selectively punish unfavorable groups with punitive audits and regulatory harassment, all while ignoring the criminal activities of favored corporations that are friends of the political elite.
Goal 17) Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Translation: Enact global trade mandates that override national laws while granting unrestricted imperialism powers to companies like Monsanto, Dow Chemical, RJ Reynolds, Coca-Cola and Merck. Pass global trade pacts that bypass a nation’s lawmakers and override intellectual property laws to make sure the world’s most powerful corporations maintain total monopolies over drugs, seeds, chemicals and technology. Nullify national laws and demand total global obedience to trade agreements authored by powerful corporations and rubber-stamped by the UN.
Total enslavement of the planet by 2030
As the UN document says, “We commit ourselves to working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030.”
If you read the full document and can read beyond the fluffery and public relations phrases, you’ll quickly realize that this UN agenda is going to be forced upon all the citizens of the world through the invocation of government coercion. Nowhere does this document state that the rights of the individual will be protected. Nor does it even acknowledge the existence of human rights granted to individuals by the Creator. Even the so-called “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” utterly denies individuals the right to self defense, the right to medical choice and the right to parental control over their own children.
The UN is planning nothing less than a global government tyranny that enslaves all of humanity while calling the scheme “sustainable development” and “equality.”
1984 has finally arrived. And of course it’s all being rolled out under the fraudulent label of “progress.”
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