A recent thread following a post to The Bakersfield Californian blog site reminded me of a politician I knew well telling me he tried to get along with everyone. There was no use in my replying to him that what he really meant was that to do this he had to become a professional liar as that is the only way anyone is going to get along with everybody and the way politicians get elected and stay elected is to continue in league with Satan, the Father of lies. Ordinary citizens often find themselves in the same boat when they try to appear as “liberal” only to eventually be hoisted on their own petard, since they must engage in lying at some point in order for them to “get along with everybody.” For this reason, the Apostle Paul added the caveat that we should try to get along with others peaceably so long as it was possible.

“Batteries not included” might well describe the early hominids that first walked this earth millions of years ago, but never developed a civilization or into Modern Man. It was a scant some 12,000 years ago that Modern Man and civilization suddenly and abruptly appeared upon the screen of history. My belief is that the Genesis account is accurate in the facts of how this happened; that a hierarchy of the heavenly host took counsel and decided “Let us make the Adam in our image and after our likeness.” But it was when God breathed His own Spirit of Life into the Adam that this new creation was born with a living soul and one that may be described as “Batteries Included,” and gives real meaning to the words of Scripture “It is the Spirit that quickens; the flesh profiteth nothing.” Or, to paraphrase Emerson, this body, this mortal clay is only the container and vehicle in which we carry about the fire of life, the real person that lives in these mortal bodies subject to death and decay.

When my precious angel, Karrie (Karen) was a small child she once asked me; “Daddy, do dogs go to heaven?” It seems from the time she was born Karrie was to be a critter person, loving all creatures great and small just as her sister Diana did. My answer to her at the time was, “Sweetheart, all life returns to God, the Giver of Life.” To this day I cannot improve upon that answer, but can only elaborate upon it; which I have done at some length over the years.

But in the hereafter in the words of Jesus and sex being part of the curse of God on humankind, falling harsher on women than on men, there will be no marrying or giving in marriage but we will be as the angels of God. However, it is probably because of my advanced years that I can begin to believe this to be a blessing of God in the hereafter. As a young man I had other thoughts on the subject and there is no need to elaborate on those since I spell it all out in my book “Birds With Broken Wings” where the curse of sex is treated as a curse, but much of it from a different point of view since I was still chasing women at the time. But it isn’t old age alone that removes sex as being a curse in one’s life; children, while they exhibit an early interest in the subject are said of Jesus to be representative of those that enter the Kingdom of Heaven “for their angels do always behold the face of the Father.” So it is that Jesus told his listeners that unless you became as a little child you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,” and the harshest condemnation Jesus pronounced was against those that would do harm to a child. From this came my motto: IT SHOULDN’T HURT TO BE A CHILD!

The earliest humans had to deal with the most difficult conditions imaginable, and it isn’t any wonder that after The Fall as other generations began to deal with these conditions they would begin to call on deities of various kinds to help them. Eventually idol worship became commonplace and sex often played a prominent role in such “worship.” In Genesis 4:26 we read that with the birth of Enos, the son of Seth, “then began men to call upon the name of the Lord,” or, using the Lord’s name in worship as modern versions have it; but due to increasing violence as men began worshipping false gods and idols the Lord decided to destroy all of humankind, expressing His regret at creating them. But in sparing Noah, God allowed the violence to continue through Noah’s son, Ham.

In the first chapter of Romans in the New Testament we read that while men knew God in old times, they quickly turned to worshipping creatures more than the Creator and God gave them up to every manner of uncleanness. For this reason God finally chose Abram, later to be known as Abraham to call out a people that would follow the Lord and refuse to worship idols. At that, the only tribe left of the Israelites would be the Jews, the Chosen People who would become People of the Book and hated of all nations. But Jesus would change all this, pronouncing there would no longer be children of God found among just the Jews, but in all nations of the world. The Gospel does not discriminate, but is open to all who believe and put their faith in God as did Abraham.

But it still comes down to this; a child of God is not given to the worship of idols, and does not make an idol representative of God. The love of God, our belief and faith in God is proven among his children by their love for one another, not their love for the children of the Devil. And this is where politicians find their role in the scheme of things, lying by professing their “love” for everybody all the while practicing deceit of every kind in order to be elected and stay elected. And this practice of deceit and hypocrisy in order to “get along with everybody” is not confined to politicians. It is well said that a person’s character may not only be discerned by who their friends are, but by who their enemies are as well.

“This week on 'The Hal Lindsey Report': On this week's edition of ‘The Hal Lindsey Report’: the world's 17 largest economies held a meeting in London last week. Not coincidentally, these are the nations identified by the UN as the world's greatest producers of greenhouse gases. They were there to hold 'confidential' discussions as a precursor to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in early December. It's interesting to note that the participants in the ‘Major Economies Forum’ were asked not to discuss the proceedings publicly. I wonder what they discussed that would be so controversial?”

I don’t have to be a fan of Hal Lindsey in order to benefit from some of his insights, just as I make a practice of listening to civilized discussion by opponents of some of my views and beliefs in many matters. But having read the full text of his report, I do find reason for concern that there may well be a global conspiracy leading America into the trap that Obama seems almost destined to fall into and drag America down with him. Whether or not, Obama still appears to me as an empty suit without a soul and determined to do the will of Satan in destroying us as a nation, bolstering my own opinion that the seed of America’s destruction was sown in slavery. For this and many other reasons, I still see America as “That Great City; Babylon” of Revelation.