Reported by The Hill: ‘Last month, the U.S. government released its annual point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness on a single night this past winter. The latest figures confirm the tragedy we all see in communities across the country: 650,000 people sleeping on the streets or in shelters, the highest figure since the count started in 2007.’
‘The government also released data showing that last year, almost 900,000 people fell into homelessness for the first time, a 25 percent increase from the previous year and by far the largest increase ever recorded,’ The Hill added.
Additionally, Axios added:
Washington, D.C., New York and Vermont had the country’s highest concentrations of people experiencing homelessness in 2023, according to a report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
By the numbers: D.C. had an estimated 4,922 people experiencing homelessness in 2023 — or 73.3 per 10,000 residents.
- New York had 103,200 (52.4 per 10,000), while Vermont had 3,295 (50.9 per 10,000).
- Mississippi had the lowest rate, with 982 people experiencing homelessness (3.3 per 10,000).
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:5
If you thought these numbers were bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet. 2024 and 2025 will displace millions more onto the streets and into government sanctioned camps and apartments. Hoovervilles 2.0 at best. Make no mistake: a lot of people are going to die in this upcoming economic collapse, and all the other things that come along with that.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I don’t know where these homeless are. I don’t see them. Years ago I did, but not now. No one near me is burning the candle at both ends just to hang on. Several people near me just bought homes that are priced at and over a half a million dollars. The reported reality and my reality are not the same.
It’s happening in both the USA and Kanadastan, increasing daily. There are many homeless people in my rural area living in cars, etc….a first! I agree with your “prediction”, Jacob; it’s going to be much more worse than the Dirty Thirties! Jesus told us so.
As I was waking up to the Christian Right idolatrous antichrist fakery, & the Lord was drawing me out & to the King James Bible position & understanding, there were more & more homeless who were usually connected to the traumatization & demonization of the soldiers that Cardinal Spellman & the big boys & girls highest up & deepest in to craft on both sides of the Atlantic & Pacific used to their own ends of culling, making money from endless war, initiating, sorting & controlling the people to their own ends.
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“The homeless’ were comprised of lots of veterans, and lots whose wives went feminist& left them, or who had abortions against their husband’s will sending many men into tailspins they never got over, and lots of the fallout of gubmint drug running as their families either ran out of the means of keeping them or were terrorized to the point that they were afraid to, as well as the usual panhandlers & migrants who either didn’t want to work at all, or who worked themselves silly, traveling north & south for that sort of labor according to the weather….but just didn’t fit in anywhere.
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People used to have ministries, taking out sandwiches & tracts, to some of those people & places where they congregated. When I was a baby Christian, I worked for a local First Masonic Baptist church here locally for several years, before we got ‘loved out the door’ (we were a mess, but we weren’t CFR Warrenites, and we DEFINITELY weren’t ‘Experiencing God’ as part of God, ascending gods of the Blackaby sort when that part of the ‘small groups’ & sorting came in….thank the Lord).
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Anyways, I got to know a few of the transients & their behavior. They’d mark churches that handed out vouchers to motels & such…and would hit them coming & going. Generally not year by year, but every other or so. I thought the folks & pastor just needed more evidencing truth &witness, & they’d leave their evolutionary brainwashing like what happened to me when I got saved, but they just thought I had a ‘more dramatic’ salvation change than them because they were good people who’d been raised in church, & since neither I nor my husband had degrees, and evolution ‘wasn’t a salvation issue’ …they just humored & ‘handled’ us for awhile.
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Bible says come out and separate, warn once, twice and then separate for a reason….and evil communications DO corrupt good manners.
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It used to frustrate me that the pastor would not even talk to the guys about the Gospel, but just have them wait in my office while he called the ‘ministerial association’ (I had so much to learn!) to have a voucher issued.
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I’d try to give the Gospel & talk to the folks, kind of embarrassed that the pastor was so derelict in his duty….and then I’d go to the Dollar Store, buy a King James Bible & scribble a personal note introducing them to Jesus, & advising where to start reading: Genesis, John and Romans; put some food & personal hygiene items with it, and leave it at the front desk..
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But things were changing by the end of our time there. It was still mainly men, we didn’t see families….save a few from the cities north who started trying to work the churches further south as welfare was ‘reformed’ with hard luck stories to cover car payments & such. See, they conditioned that: throwing money at those people at first, even unasked for ….but then they dialectically switched gears, & ‘reformed’ welfare, while demonizing those folks they’d schmoozed in. Now desperation & ignorance, conditioning to sin set in & the high level sinners began using them & the children that survived abortion but went to ‘Headstart’ conditioning for sin & public school hardening in it, for a little cheap ‘easy sport’, groomed to be drug running mules, activists & so forth.
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People on both ends were growing harder & more & more without natural affection; and fewer & fewer were offering the true Gospel & Christ with power to truly save souls & transform lives. John 1,3 and 8…2 Corinthians 5 KJB. Instead they were given false hopes that could be merchandised by would-be saviors and little popes with their fiefdoms and lordships.
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It’s so plain now!
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Anyways, one of the ‘regulars’ came in, but he was scared this time. While pastor was doing his thing & I talked to the returned vagrant, he said it was getting mean out there like nothing he’d ever seen…and that ‘they’d kill you for your backpack, or just to do it’.
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He was avoiding all the regular stop-offs, camping best as he could in out of sight places. They cracked down on homelessness with their reforms and removals, as the crime & roughness ramped up, preying on the truly weak & needy. That’s why they’re not so visible in some places anymore: not because it isn’t there.
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I tried getting him to go to the local homeless shelter, but he said those places were the worst of all: pervert rape, gang recruiting for sex& drug running…and bad cops & fake ‘church people’. This was roughly around the time of the Bush-Obama selection round, the transfer of wealth in the housing market.
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Well, I was getting my own bellyful of fake church people, and a real bad taste in my mouth about those patriotic wars, the war on terror….seeing how it was playing out, and who was in the ‘collateral damage’ over there every time. Who they were calling ‘potential terrorists’, then ‘bullies’, and shaking down. Started doing more investigation& research, seeking out Bible-believing preaching, canceling World magazine & dumping misleading ‘Christian homeschool curriculum’.
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They were mixing Catholic martyrs and history into edited editions of Foxes martyrs….and so much more. I’m ashamed how much money I wasted with that crowd, but slick as they were, it just doesn’t add up if you’re seeking truth over time, & if the Lord is in it. And, he is faithful, but he will let you learn the hard way & suffer consequences.
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Anyways, the face & character of homelessness changed here in those years. It was probably always worse East coast & big city, but we’re pretty rural here. Now we’d see couples, sometimes with kids in the weeds around interstate interchanges….and a new, hardened looking type lording over the helpless. They started their glyphosate spraying & brought in those tree shredders to make a mess of anything along the roadways….it looked like some of the areas had been napalmed. And they took out all the spring blooming trees to leave the interchanges batten looking. Never saw any vagrants there….guess that was some of that prophetic predictive crime prevention, eh? Or a change of highway department contracts….whatever. Every touch of beauty or mercy, or purity, seemed attacked.
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Oftentimes there’d be one man or couple in the group who seemed to have high dollar camp gear, & a big slick Pitt bull or two in tow. My husband used to comment about how those homeless dogs looked better fed than most of the people….and those holding the leashes not the type he could ‘help’.
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There was a local guy that got into drugs who used to work a certain smalltown interchange. Everybody knew his history, and I knew that the pastor of the last church building we attended & some of the men (pretty much on the up&up, if they’d just let go the gubmint perks, 501c3, ‘grants’ & bending for the ‘privilege’ of chaplaincies, jail ministries etc…going more & more into idolatrous humanist psych sorcery ‘interventions’ & such)….had spoken with him numerous times, trying to coax him to take a job, get off the street & out of the local motel run by Hindus given citizenship & cheap government-guaranteed loans that no white, or black for that matter, born and bred American could ever get.
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Like lots of motels where porn became big business as the legit side of the business & building was run into the ground.
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They did the same thing with other ‘service’ industries, the convenience store gas stations, restaurants etc. While the higher castes were brought into tech and healthcare, along with lots and lots of the Muslims & Saudis whose ‘royals’ & mighty-men frequented Cleveland Clinic quite often. ‘Transforming’ the ethic, you see.
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Creating a little ‘agitation’ between the conflicting groups they’d then try to forcefully integrate on antichrist terms.
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Anyways, we never gave that guy money…but the last time I saw him…not too long before covid… it was cold and rainy, he looked scared, and sick…..not at all as he’d formerly looked. Kind of disheveled, but wellfed & cheerful. I was concerned, & the kids & I ran to the McDonald’s up the road & bought him a meal. One of those slicked up out-of-towner couples came out of the nearby motel that guy used to frequent with their backpacks & big sleek dogs as we went back with the meal….and I didn’t think much of it at first.
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But, as we went on with our errands, I noticed they were going right to that guy. I think they were rolling him for his panhandling money, sleeping on his dime, scaring the heck out of him with those dogs….& probably worse that I don’t like to even think about. Life just got hard….but it wasn’t just the panhandlers suffering.
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Outside of the insulated class, the good Christian fakes & so forth, women were warning one another to stay away from the local parks. Fentanyl laced objects were turning up, and attempted abductions of children were getting more & more common & brazen. I was so shocked. When we checked into it, sure enough: local cops were getting overwhelmed, & one almost died himself picking up a planted candy lure to throw it away in one local park of an especially targeted smalltown & rural area near interstate access.
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If you leave big city for safety….get out from interstates, too. If not, you’ll be easy pickings.
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There was so much fake religion, & I used to grow concerned whenever I was trapped in some waiting room somewhere seeing how much of the programming & sitcoms, reality tv etc involved ‘bad conservative’ and ‘separatist’ Christian types who turned out to be the ‘bad guys’. Meanwhile ‘Father Dowling’ was such a nice sweet old guy…even though you come to find out that was the name of the AA founder’s Jesuit handler who used to smoke dope with him & the Huxley’s while they all talked new age nonsense & swapped wives…..and that that pretty little nun character probably represented the one who tried standing up for children, asked too many questions, talked too much and got her throat slit ear to ear in that sensational NYC trial some years before that.
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They wrote books about it, which mainly circulated only amongst liberals & those already on board, meanwhile they were laughing & mocking conservative evangelical ecumenists with such things. ‘Conservatives’ didn’t read that kind of stuff & they knew it. Fattening them up for the kill.
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Mocking them all the while like they do with the Al Smith dinner every year with candidates ‘left’ and ‘right’ yucking it up & photographed on either side of the big guy in purple….the only ‘mystery’ is which crony will finally get the tap. Like a fixed prom queen, May Queen ‘competition’ (frankly: they can have it). Which one the media ‘puffs’…..rather like the puff of smoke of the tapped ‘white pope’ when the time comes.
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But I understood why it was so hard to get anyone to listen to the Gospel. And to worry about being an unarmed sitting duck in that first church office. Right before we left, I hid the petty cash in a marked envelope in a cabinet…but I didn’t feel safe there anymore in a number of ways, & it wasn’t like mr. softhands, philosophy major ‘pastor’ would, or could, protect anybody, or even himself. Last I heard or checked into their ecumenical weekly community ‘Bible Study’, there was a scary black guy spouting pentacostal scary stuff & guilt-trip social justice black guy there from out of town…it’s always been integrated, but this guy was something. I totally cut connection at that point.
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The Pastor philosopher’s wife died suddenly of cancer shortly after we left. They got rid of him & are now ‘pastored’ by some guy with a public ed admin history & certification……DEEP into antichrist new age spiritism and social justice. Masonic to the core.
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Back to homelessness & the transformation of America connected with it.
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I knew a conservative Wesleyan Methodist lady who was part of my coming to the Lord in the first place. Had known her for at least a decade prior. Her father had been an evangelist & itinerant preacher out in the western states, & Constance had taught school in one of the free local schools remaining for a sacrificial pittance before she was married here in Ohio. She married a Canadian Methodist, who patriated here.
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She & some of the other men and women of her church were involved in such sandwich & tract ministry as I mentioned earlier, and nursing homes. They were affiliated with missionary Nancy Davis that the gangs shot on the international bridge back in those days as they were solidifying their control, and tightening their noose. She & her husband were legit, and Nancy died in his arms as he tried to get her back across the bridge into the U.S.
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When Constance married, they got involved in ministry buying homes of people losing them & renting them back to own at a price they could afford after the crash. It was small scale, on their own dime, but kept some folks off the streets who were very close, & contributed a bit of cash to their own humble household.
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For their own home, they purposely bought inter-city, got involved in ‘community watch’ programs and such….thinking that their fixing up & running a neat lawn & house could be real ministry: not realizing those ‘community’ loan and this & that ‘helps’ and ‘ministries/501c3 schemes’ were transfer schemes setting people up to fail, & as their ‘watched’ neighborhood just got meaner and meaner, with more & more drugs & dumbed down people, broken families, both parents working families fulfilling the antichrist ‘transformation’ as consciences were coarsened, natural affection lost, abuse sky-rocketed…and some folks sincerely trying to let.
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People started getting killed around them before it was all said & done.
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Constance died of cancer, not too long before Nancy Davis died. She tried alternative care, but it was all pharma & insurance controlled, closer to the real deal in healthcare, as they allowed some alternative things, but transferring lots and lots of insurance monies from fat cat hands to fat cat hands. It was sad. She refused to see it, not wanting to evil surmise, and she witnessed to the end. She was so modest, but a very talented musician. Used to play their big grand piano on her trips for treatment, playing hymns and gospel, witnessing to those who stopped to hear or comment; and she learned to write code trying to help private Christian-family owned businesses as the squeeze was on, as well as editing their little missionary paper for gratis.
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A big part of why I chose to treat my own cancer outside the system….and to trust it less and less. I’ve already lived longer than the average for either treated or untreated cancer of my type statistically, and for most of that time, I felt great and was not limited as I am now. A very personal decision, & I don’t judge people either way as they make their treatment choices because circumstances are so different for many. I know early in my own Christian life I would have made different choices….but my salvation was real.
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So much wickedness and deception. And these things did not spring from a vacuum. It’s not just America that’s suffering vengeance as the Lord removes America and turns his attention back to Israel and the source of our ‘transformation’ back at Rome proper & central. I know of two different trusted Christian couples & local churches keeping starving groups in Kenya alive on a pittance as most all the rest of Africa’s been transformed, in the throes of it, or building on the dead bodies of their ‘peoples’ revolutions’ already like they did in the Soviet & China. One of the men goes out at great danger, while his wife meets with the ladies in an often darkened rented room, teaching, praying and encouraging. Power outages are frequent, but it’s way too dangerous for him to take her out where the men go.
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Privileged to know such people. If you find such, support them with prayer, and directly so you don’t have to worry about controlled building budgets & missions admin overhead. That’s where the real temptation & corruptions, parasitical bureaucratic layers, riders & exploiters creep in, because it isn’t truly God’s order, but corporatist and Romish, Babylonian.
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Keepers at home goes out the window in such places, too. Contagion that spreads.
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People are sinners and suffering more & more everywhere. Those big homes are mortgaged to the hilt, overvalued, of shoddy construction if you look at them closely….and what future do those sell-outs or blindly covetous & turned from truth really have? Warn them, 1 Timothy 6 is true….heaping many sorrows to themselves. And steer clear. Where do YOU think the looters will target first when law&justice totally breaks down, or purposely backs down.
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It will be bad here, if the end coming as a flood is perhaps delayed, as things play out….but the means to weather it are still better here, even though options are dwindling. One thing about those Anglo Saxon types is that they don’t tend to blindly trust, and the King James Bible culture of those who actually believe that Book aids in keeping that & the history of serfdom & attempted serfdoms & the ‘counter-Reformation’ in both its in-your-face war & murder, AND it’s subtle ‘modern/postmodern’ philosophical fronts & plays alive & in mind…..even if it’s just in the back of the mind. It never totally leaves. My own husband is of mainly Anglo and Scots blood, and I’m Saxon German on one side… English, Welsh & Celt myself, with even a potential drop of Hamite from the bad old days of antebellum Mississippi & the riverboats. We don’t hate anybody, never have….and Mr. oldschool navy had quite a following of honest black sailors back in the day when he pointed out a stringy-haired, do as little as possible white trash sort of sailor out to them, telling them THAT was a nigger. Honest blacks do the same with the dishonest….and there’s respect where there’s real equality with willingness to back it up or work for it. That kind of truth allows for the Gospel and King James Bible to bear fruit in even some of the most surprising of places & circumstances! That’s what they’ve worked so hard to kill, or to manipulate & weaponize, corrupt, here in the U.S.
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Other lineages don’t have that heritage, and it was the Latins who partnered with Arabs & Turks to seize & use the existing Hamite tribal warring & slaving system to their merchandising ends…..tempting many of the Daughters to come into the same due to the obscene profits. A lot like sodomite Keynesian economics & ‘fiat’ now crashing to digital as so many knew it would and warned before it all got blameshifted to the Jewish Vatican bankers (not that they were totally innocent either!).
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Dutch & British took over after Portuguese & Spanish domination of ‘the trade’. The devil played that miracle of destruction of Spain’s armada, too. He had a vested interest, and a lot of ground to try & regain.
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But, sadly, those nations are about given over already, the demoralization, dumbing down & superstitious suffering there at the African end of the slave trade is immense, & any of the brethren remaining there suffer the harshest persecutions. And Europe isn’t far behind them.
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Devil worship spreads worse than any normal pestilence….deceitful, cunning, and multiplying misery & corruptions, magnifying the suffering, serving death and destruction. CIVILIZED devil worship like Rome’s is the most subtle & worst of them all. Its outcomes are listed right there in Leviticus 18 and Deuteronomy 18 (easy to remember: 6+6+6).
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And we see in the judgment passed on the Amorite tribes of Canaan when their sin came to the full, after 400 years no less, and not before, —-the commands regarding them appropriately given in Deuteronomy 7: seven being God’s number of fullness & completion….given just before the invasion judgment of Joshua, type of the Lord Jesus Christ. How like today & the world those offending sins bringing judgment were.
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The young should be thinking of simple, healthy & whole renewable food & clothing, housing etc moving forward…but not to the exclusion of waiting, watching, praying, spending time in God’s word & studying to shew oneself approved of God, able to rightly divide as the subtleties and wickedness grows worse and worse.
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We elders, not so apt to prep or move away from the troubles so easily anymore, praying, warning and aiding them howsoever we can. Daniel, and his three friends had parents & elders who didn’t make it out of the Babylonian judgment, yet those young men were taught well, knowing both the word and the fear of the Lord. They were equipped, received it, and built upon it even in the hardest and most trying of times and circumstances……and they wouldn’t have been the most manly in the world because they were of those forced eunuchs made by men. Yet, they were men at heart, & they stood. There are distinctions ….fine ones, that we need to take care not to forsake lest we become like karmic, cruel Rome and her Daughters. 1 Corinthians 6 KJB.
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There’s a lot there & in the epistles….in all the word, really…able to instruct & edify all of us. Was listening to a little church gathering sing ‘O Come Angel Band’ this morning. Bracing. Encouraging. In the literal & full sense of those words, feeling the dew of the Jordan, it must be near….anticipating the trump, the shout….for some of us our race is nearly run in the bodily sense,& there are times of weariness or oppression when we’re tempted to despair, to give way to fear until we remember where are hope & strength come from, & turn to him & that word as a flower toward the sun, our Sun of Righteousness with healing in his wings and are given grace commensurate to the need.
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And many of those younger may not see death, though they may see some really troubled times. Whatever…..it’s lonely, and hard, especially when loved ones fall away or never enter in, persecute & so forth….but it wasn’t all bad, and it won’t all be bad, and there are always more than you think who haven’t bent the knee, or utterly given over. Such a joy when the Lord allows you to encounter them, or brings them into or through your life.
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I also had a rare, rare opportunity to witness to a real tough nut Masonic-leaning member of our family this week who seemed actually thoughtful and a bit receptive given all they’re seeing come about around them & in the world, with that new 20/20 vision etc. After all these years, I was so surprised! Took more than one blind hit from that direction over the years. Who would have ever thought, but the Lord?
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Whatever you do: Don’t stop or fall away now.