A message of encouragement (and caution) for New Year 2024...

Hi ATS,

Unfortunately I've been unwell over the Christmas period hence I wasn't able to write earlier than today to wish you all a blessed Christmas & a happy, healthy & prosperous New Year for 2024. I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season, that you have enjoyed spending time with family & friends, and that you have held the reason for the season - Christ our Lord - close to your heart in this time.

My main thoughts as regards the coming year, is that we all are now engaged in spiritual warfare against the rulers of this present age of darkness, and their plans are not slowing down by any means. We have seen great evils perpetrated over the past three years in particular, as the ruling class have sought to initiate the beginnings of their plans for a New Order for the Ages, as they would put it. They have intended to begin a program of depopulation, which involves sowing the seed of noxious poisoning having the effect of causing sudden death, promoting the growth of cancers, and damaging fertility to a devastating extent, especially in young mothers & those who are seeking to become pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term.

I, like many of you, have become consistently more & more appalled at the evil deeds of those who work this darkness in our midst. I have sought to emphasise in recent threads that we have a responsibility now to even pray against these rulers & their plans to destroy us, literally adopting a form of prayer known as 'cursing'. I have sought also to demonstrate that the first priority of the praying church has always been that we are to pray for good government, so that we may live lives of peace & dignity, in which the Gospel can be promoted fruitfully. These points have been well received by some, yet others believe that we are still under the utterly fruitless obligation to pray beneficiently for these evil persons responsible for these great terrors worked against the common people; I want to re-emphasise that we are no longer to live under the illusion that we can turn this situation around by praying for the people who have cauterised their consciences in their efforts to continually double down on the darkness they have wrought in our times.

It is my hope & belief that these evil persons are opposed by some powerful real world groups, and that these powerful groups - de facto 'fifth columns' in the fight against tyranny - are they who now require our prayers of support. We may not know who they are, but I am assured that they exist, and so we are to pray for their efforts to defuse & expose the works of darkness, so that we may work towards a better situation than that we currently possess. We may not win the war - indeed I strongly believe we are headed towards an imminent Armageddon - but I do believe that we can win the war for the soul of Mankind, if we expose the darkness & showcase the Light which overcomes all darkness. Our principle task as praying Christians should be to expose & crush the works of darkness, and to demonstrate the grace & power of the Gospel of Christ, bringing people to saving knowledge of His goodness & love for every single one of us.

May God be with you as the New Year rolls in, may you find prosperity in addition to grace & truth, and may we all increase in wisdom to the knowledge of how we are to proceed in these dangerous times. It is a near-certainty that we will begin to see more of a crackdown on the voices of independent media, as legislation is introduced around the world to quell the voices of the people who are trying to do exactly what I am admonishing us to do - to expose the darkness & demonstrate the light. The evildoers will use every trick in their dark books to crush dissent & resist our efforts to throw light on their evil mission. We will also almost certainly see new WHO rules from May next year which will drastically reduce national sovereignty & cause all of us to be at risk of more fraudulent pandemics & lockdowns, and of course there may be an attendant attempt to introduce CBDCs in order to cripple us financially, restrictions on travel & the development of 15 minute cities.

As a result, I believe that we may need to begin taking precautions such as utilising TOR browsing on the deep web in order to protect ourselves from government prying & to retain access to media which will be censored on the mainstream web within a fairly short time, if the bad guys get their way. We should all therefore familiarise ourselves with the necessary technology & protocols, seeking to establish modes of communication as & when it becomes impossible to properly correspond openly on the mainstream web. I would recommend stocking up for at least a months' worth of provisions for emergency circumstances such as grid shutdowns or logistical delays, and I would recommend developing real world contacts in your local area who you can trust to work with in the event of emergencies which necessitate collaborative action.

With that said, God bless all of you good people out there in ATS land..

Happy New Year (as happy as we can make it...!)


FITO.

I'm being serious here. You are not going to go through next year thinking this way, are you?

Because if you do, you'll find that all you did was waste the next year of your life over NOTHING.

If you keep doing it, you will waste your whole life. I'm six decades old and been hearing this type of nonsense for all of it. People used to talk about Obama, and his FEMA death camps, martial law, and all those plastic coffins too. Nothing happened. Y2K, nothin'. 2012, nothin.

It's always the same. Just different time periods. Thought I'd just give you a heads up.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

This next year will be unlike any thing any generation of American has seen by far. To see or say otherwise you are very mislead, a fool or a agenda shill or agent. Period!
Lock your doors.

Nah, it will be business as usual. The election will conveniently go to the D's again, they're not done milking Bidenomics yet. R's will go along with it again because they're in on the take and anything but Trump amirite?
People will continue to be distracted by contemporary 'wedge issues', personally, I've no problem with LGTV people, LG makes a fine television, it's no Samsung, but still a fine unit. I digress...
Stock market will keep going up.
Housing prices will keep going up.
Immigrants will keep pouring across the border.
Nothing will change.
Not a damn thing.

a reply to: Disgusted123

Did you miss the covid lockdowns and accompanying bull that lasted 2020 until 2022?

edit- not part of the 'thread'

a reply to: Disgusted123

I'm not speculating about what MIGHT happen, I'm commenting on what has demonstrably ALREADY HAPPENED, along with the attendant parts of the plan which are definitely being rolled out even as we type these words. Bravo for being 60 years old, like its some sort of token achievement - you clearly haven't developed the wisdom usually concomitant with great age. I'm 40 years old & can see for a certain fact that there is a devilish conspiracy afoot in the world at large in our times. If you can't see that, then I'm sorry to say you are one of those who is blind, who cannot perceive the truth even when it is already staring you in the face. Regards.

a reply to: Disgusted123

You also clearly missed that my tone is optimistic, full of faith & hope for the future. So I fail to see why I'm going to suffer for thinking in the manner outlined in the OP.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

Sorry to hear you are unwell, was it serious or just the flu or a bad cold or something?

I hope you start feeling better.

The wife wound up in the ER with really high blood pressure and some tingling on her right side of the body. We figured it was because she was going out with friends to eat a lot of junk food and the kids were giving us all sorts of specialty sweet breads and candies for the holidays. Now she is on a blood pressure pill again for a week and a half of indulging in sweets and junk food. With eating even better with ten percent junk foods she had gotten off her blood pressure meds, it is so easy to slip backwards between thanksgiving and Christmas.

Avoiding junk foods for a week has reduced her BP to reasonable levels again, she had negative reactions to the first prescription, now she got a new one and hopefully by not slipping back again she will be able to get off of that in a few months.

Tis the season to eat a lot of crap. I did not eat much of that junk food, I did alright. But I sat with her for five hours in the hospital ER and the chemicals they use there to kill germs, both in the HVAC system and the ones they clean with really irritate my lungs, bronchial tubes, and throat. I have never been able to stay in a hospital long, maybe an hour max. That area effected seemed to creat a lot of mucus...that sticky thick stuff to protect the airway. It has been about two weeks and the mucus is still causing issues. I should not have stayed in the room with her, with all the sick people they have increased those chemicals in the air a lot in the rooms and where people wait. Most people are not effected by them I guess, and there are less invasive ones, but they cost up to three times as much and hospitals cannot afford to pay that much more. I understand that, the cheap chemicals are even a hundred bucks a gallon to treat the HVAC air I guess.

I have had this problem for at least thirty or more years, I do not know why I stayed there with her, I should have got someone else to stay with her. But we never expected to be there that long.

originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

I have never been able to stay in a hospital long, maybe an hour max. That area effected seemed to creat a lot of mucus...that sticky thick stuff to protect the airway. It has been about two weeks and the mucus is still causing issues.

I had to post because me and my brother are both having the same issue. We live in different towns and have not been around each other, even for Christmas...but both got sick a week ago last Wednesday, and both still having a thick bit of mucus that won't seem to stop. He is doing better since yesterday, but I'm still kind of battling it. Never had anything quite like it before, but so far...no pneumonia or fever. Wonder if anyone else on here has been having something like this as well? Anyway, take care and hope you get over it asap!!

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment


Sorry to hear you have been unwell over the Christmas holidays! Hoping you will be back to normal quickly God bless and keep you as we go into 2024. Good post; glad to see others are staying awake as well.

originally posted by: Disgusted123
I'm being serious here. You are not going to go through next year thinking this way, are you?

Because if you do, you'll find that all you did was waste the next year of your life over NOTHING.

If you keep doing it, you will waste your whole life. I'm six decades old and been hearing this type of nonsense for all of it. People used to talk about Obama, and his FEMA death camps, martial law, and all those plastic coffins too. Nothing happened. Y2K, nothin'. 2012, nothin.

It's always the same. Just different time periods. Thought I'd just give you a heads up.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

Scary how some people live their lives in such constant fear. I come here for entertainment at this point because it’s got so nuts and all the conspiracies have started revolving around politics.

originally posted by: Disgusted123
I'm being serious here. You are not going to go through next year thinking this way, are you?

Because if you do, you'll find that all you did was waste the next year of your life over NOTHING.

If you keep doing it, you will waste your whole life. I'm six decades old and been hearing this type of nonsense for all of it. People used to talk about Obama, and his FEMA death camps, martial law, and all those plastic coffins too. Nothing happened. Y2K, nothin'. 2012, nothin.

It's always the same. Just different time periods. Thought I'd just give you a heads up.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

Judge Not Lest Ye be Judged...............

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

In the past three years, people who use religion as a crutch for their doom-porn have denied a real pandemic, have blamed all sorts of others and 'spiritual forces' for it, have argued against everything that would have reasonable protective effect against the disease, and have tried to promote snake-oil supplements as treatments.

In the last three years, nothing has happened that hasn't happened over and over again before. And, of the doom-porn from back then, none of it has happened. No great reset, no cull, nada.

I am a Bible believing, born-again, Christian and I have read 'The Revelation of Jesus Christ' (Iēsous, IESVS, or Yeshua, depending upon which language you take his name from), and other biblical prophecies, and they aren't exactly instructions for secular people on how to avoid the doom as some are proposing.

In short, the forces on the side of good and decency, who are the followers and disciples of Jesus, win.