In recent years I have several friends and connections which send me information. I have spent many hundreds of hours watching (or listening to) these videos and podcasts. The truth about many things is being told through a great many independent sources. The new information each week or month builds on that which came before.
It covers all the major areas of life and existence; government, finance, corporations, health and health care, pandemics, genocide, population reduction, the "elite", the global plan, religion, war, politics, science, technology, news, censoring, media control, misinformation, dis-information, fact-checking, social media, artificial intelligence, quantum-computing, and much more.
I have learned quite a lot about what is really going on in this world. There are a number of things that have risen to the top of my list that make up "the big picture" for me. The first thing to say is; everything big is corrupt. The bigger it is the more corrupt it is. This covers governments, corporations, the stock market, banking, the medical industry, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and religious organizations, including Christian denominations and "churches." I put "churches" in quote marks because people call those buildings "churches."
Today, 2024/01/22, I started watching a podcast that was sent to me a couple of days ago. It is "The Joe Rogan Experience #2079 - Brigham Buhler. Buhler started a Compounding Pharmacy. When his brother died from an opioid overdose, it inspired him to seek for a solution to some of the problems in the pharmaceutical industry.
He dives into the very widespread corruption that exists in the medical industry and all related agencies like insurance and government. Even Joe Rogan's response to the information Buhler is giving him is, it seems to me to be, a little greater than usual. If you are not familiar with Joe Rogan and his podcasts, he is the most watched podcaster in the world.
At one point in the interview, Rogan says; "Jesus Christ. It's just so gunked-up. It's so corrupt that it feels hopeless, when you're discussing this. Cause there's this feeling that the more you dive into this, the more you describe things, the deeper you expose the corruption, the more... it's so confusing because it doesn't seem like there's a way out."
I stopped the video shortly after that point because I wanted to capture my thoughts while they were fresh in my mind, and started writing this article.
First I want to show that what is happening with this great amount of information that is flooding through the Internet these days is exactly what the Bible says would happen:
A wise man is strong, Yes, a man of knowledge increases strength;
(Proverbs 24:5)
For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
(Ecclesiastes 1:18)
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
(Daniel 12:4)
Wisdom with knowledge increases strength, but it also increases sorrow. And today, especially these last few years that knowledge has been greatly increasing.
So much of the knowledge that is increasing has to do with exposing corruption, and that is also predicted, even promised in the Bible:
For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.
(Luke 8:17)
Every hidden corrupt thing will be revealed. Every covered thing will be uncovered. And every dark thing will have the light shine on it.
There are many people searching out the truth about all these corrupt things, and there are many people trying to make a difference, trying to solve these problems and do things in a better way. There are people doing their best to make improvements in government and politics. I am glad that they are. And I encourage those who are trying to make these changes in all avenues of life.
But that is not enough. The most important thing of all is, from all I can see, being completely ignored. No one seems to have the slightest idea that it is even "a thing."
One church. The one church Jesus said he would build, is the only solution. It is the only answer. It is The Plan, and there is no "plan B."
While it is true that there are many Christians working in a great many ways to make a difference, let their light shine in the darkness, and do many good works, there is one thing that is very lacking.
We get an insight into what is the top priority in the heart of Jesus; We learn from two prayers. Jesus taught His disciples a prayer, and He prayed a prayer to His Father in John 17.
He taught us to pray in what is called "The Lord's prayer." It really should be "Our prayer." And the one in John 17 is really the Lord's prayer. Here is "Our Prayer", the first part:
So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
(Luke 11:2)
The prayer is addressed to "Our Father in heaven," He is the creator of all things. He is God. And He is our Father!
"Hallowed be Your name." His name is to be separated from all other names. His name is to be held above all other names. In the Bible names are very often connected to the nature of the one named. And when Moses asked what God's name was, so he could tell Pharaoh who sent him, God said the Hebrew word meaning something like "I Am." And Jesus said in John 8:58 (NKJV) “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” So however you may want to understand this, Jesus was given the name above every name:
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(Phil 2:9-11)
I'll say that even Joe Rogan, as quoted, said "Jesus Christ", as an exclamation when speaking of the seriousness of the present situation. Perhaps in God's providence and wise kindness, He allows men to call on this name, even without intentional understanding.
But the next two requests in the prayer He taught us to pray are key to what is on Jesus heart: "Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven."
And we get a fuller understanding of what must happen for the fulfillment of this request in Jesus prayer in John 17. In verse 20 He shifts from praying for His disciples, who became the apostles, to "those who will believe in Me through their word." This is Jesus prayer for us, here now today!
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
(John 17:20-23)
"that they all may be one" - here is the key! This is the key phrase. Jesus says the word "one" five times in these few verses.
This is what is on Jesus heart for us today:
I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. (verse 23)
The state of the big denominational "churches" today are in no way the answer to Jesus' prayer to His Father.
This is plan A.
It is THE PLAN!
There is no other plan.
There is no other hope.
Even though Christians and non-Christians may do many things to try to make things better today. If this prayer of Jesus is not answered, all their efforts will be like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic while it is sinking. We need a savior. And we have a savior. But if we do not obey what is on our savior's heart, we will go down with the ship. Mystery Babylon will definitely fall, the Bible says so. The church that will be saved will be a remnant, a little flock, like at the beginning, that most beautiful bride, the most beautiful one that the Song of Songs wants to return. "Return, return, Oh Shulamite. Return, return that we may look upon you." This is the prayer Jesus is praying, just as Solomon, who is a "type" (an illustrative example) of Christ. He wants his bride to return to the oneness and beauty she had at the beginning.
This oneness, when Jesus prayer is answered - "the world will know" (John 17:23 part).
This one church that Jesus is building is the light of the world. This light will overcome the darkness in the whole world.
Let us return to that oneness.
It is the answer.
There is no other.