HIS WORD ABOVE HIS NAME [PS.138:2] 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH OF THE CHURCH! (ISA.59:1-2) ♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️ 1. Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. (Isa 59: 1-2) When we last spoke on this,casting aspersions and blames on God for the eventual implications of our own choices,there was no desire to continue it,as holiness subjects are hugely unpopular with the freedom churches. I'm sorry if my comments are antagonizing,but it's the truth. And some responses I saw prompted me to go more on it. TEACHINGS ON SIN DESERVE THE WHOLE OF OUR ATTENTION, IF TRULY WE ARE FOR GOD! NOW,I MAKE BOLD TO ASK A QUESTION..WHY IS THAT IN OUR HOURS OF NEED, THERE'S NO DELIVERANCE? I AIN'T REFERRING TO THE SORCERIES MANY OF SEE AS DELIVERANCE AND MIRACLES (MAGIC ACTUALLY). WHY ARE OUR PRAYERS FOR AID LARGELY GO UNANSWERED? Is God dead? Of course NOT. It's largely because of the sin matters we refused to address. Till date,plus GRACE minus GRACE, sin yet remains a barrier between us and God. God didn't Sacrifice so much for sin to give us a license to willfully continue in sin. DO WE REALIZE THE SINFUL IMPACT OF THE WEALTH IN THE CHURCH TODAY? HOW THE WEALTH WAS SOURCED...THE METHODS AND THE DESPERATION... REMEMBER,GOD ISN'T MAN; For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. (Rev 3: 17) I'm sure you know He was directly addressing us...the last of the churches. The wretched, pitiable,poor,blind and the naked is showing our lives to us on a TV screen how we became rich(from pew to pulpit and back) Let us revisit Isaiah 59 again👇just a few verses; 3. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4. No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. (Isa 59: 3-4) Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways. (Isa 59: 7) Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. (Isa 59: 9) With this,👆, isn't it clear enough that God knows where the church wealth is gotten from,and THEREFORE MERELY WATCHES US USING THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH TO SOLVE CONSECRATED ISSUES....AND YOU KNOW IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. YOU CAN'T WORK IN COMPANY "A" AND RECEIVES SALARY FROM COMPANY "B"! The defilement of the hands. With the guilt of blood. But probably this stands, by a strong figure, for sin in general. The lips are lying, and the tongue depraved. Here the organs of the body, ministers of the mind, express and set forth the state of the latter. There is a certain correspondence between cleanliness of the person and truthfulness and honesty of the soul. And it is just this which is wanting. Society is resting on a foundation of chaos. Men weave their schemes, vain and brittle as spiders' webs, or hatch policies pernicious as the eggs of basilisks. They tread with swiftness the paths of mischief; their thoughts are full of hate and destruction. They ignore the way of peace and the track of justice, and follow crooked paths of their own (Proverbs 10:9; Proverbs 28:18; Proverbs 2:15). It is a picture of extreme social demoralization. LISTEN TO WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT IT; Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. (Rev 3: 18) Going back to Prophet Isaiah ,God passionately desires us as His watchmen to address SIN and treat it like leprosy...that it can lead to PENITENCE AND CONFESSION OF SINS. The prophet speaks in the name of the people. And here all the true elements of repentance and confession may be found. 👉The connection of sin with Divine disfavour. The first thing is to see that the curse does not "causeless come;" the next to fix upon the true cause. It is not because of want of will or want of power in God (ver. 12). They were entitled to expect His help, according to the covenant, but not apart from conditions on their side to be fulfilled. If, then, the judicial interference of Jehovah on their behalf was not witnessed, the cause must lie in the breach of those conditions - in "our sins." 👉Human darkness and bewilderment without God. "Jehovah shall be thy Light and thy Salvation." That light withdrawn, - what can there be groping and stumbling in the thick darkness? (Deuteronomy 28:29). How extreme the contrast of the "way which Jehovah knows," of the "path of the just, shining to the perfect day;" and the "knowing not whither he goeth," the "staggering as at noonday," the groping and stumbling of the man God-abandoned and left to himself. 👉Human sorrow and despair without God. Compared to the growling or moaning of beast or bird. Men long to have their own will and way, and find that to be "lords of themselves" is a "heritage of woe." Sooner or later they must find that their passionate autonomy means "rebellion" before God and in their own consciousness. And peace cannot be where they know that they are thus "kicking against the goads." The passage strongly shows how a violated conscience must be a tormenting conscience. God will not let us sin and forget. "As for our iniquities, we know them." 👉Human shame and self-contempt without God. It is contempt that "pierces through the shell of the tortoise;" above all, one's own contempt. The worst is when we look into the mirror held up, not by hand of enemy or critic, but by our own, and see the lineaments of the traitor, the expression of the infidel at heart, the base attitude of the deserter and backslider from the Holy One, the downcast mien of the convicted liar. There has been no truth, no rectitude, no justice. You still want to know why? These, as fair spirits, have been Banished from a polluted Earth. And if one would live an innocent life, he is but game for any rude spoiler. In all this there is the deepest sense of the evil of sin, and of the need of humiliation. It is felt that humiliation cannot remove the evil, unless it first remove the sin. Misery is the natural effect of iniquity; and he that seeks to rid himself of the one before he is freed from the other would hinder the stream before he has stopped the fountain. *REND YOUR HEARTS, AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS .* If the heart be not torn off from sin, to rend only the garment further provokes God, and makes the breach wider. There is no religious duty attains its end, but when it weakens our sin." True repentance and fasting/praying for forgiveness draws down, as here seen, the pity and invites the help of the Almighty God. SO,NEVER MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING WEALTH IS A SIGN OF GOD'S APPROVAL OF A CHURCH...NOT AT ALL, FOR IT MATTERS TO GOD HOW THAT IS ACQUIRED 🙇🙏!

Sanctions Blowback for the Empire Karl Sanchez The above cartoon suggests the content of this Global Times article, “US' ban on Huawei eventually boomerangs on itself.” We know how poorly the illegal sanctions laid on Russia and the USSR before it have performed, that they primarily damaged the ones breaking the law in various ways while actually strengthening the target of the sanctions. We recall it was Team Trump and the Obama Swamp before him that decided China was a threat to the Outlaw US Empire, although of course Communist Red China has always been an enemy since it won Independence in 1949. Escalation, however, occurred with Team Trump and Congress who launched a Trade War consisting mostly of tariffs that drove up inflation and mostly hurt American citizens and later the banking industry with the ending of the Zero Interest Rate period. Much of the damage was done through legislation passed by Congress that was cheered and approved by Team Trump. We recall the Lawfare waged via the Canadian proxy that didn’t end well, so another way was needed, and the blowback from what was devised is what the article deals with. IMO, it’s the Tar Baby all again. For those not familiar with that rather old American folk tale, you can read it at the above link (stories 2, 4 & 6 are the ones most associated, but the entire collection is excellent, although the dialect might be hard for some). Here’s the article: Despite the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that bars the US government agencies from contracting with any entity using Huawei components, the Pentagon is pushing for an exemption from the ban on the Chinese tech giant, with defense officials warning that it could jeopardize national security if not resolved, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday. Ironically, the US had used "national security" as an excuse when it imposed the ban on Huawei. It is evident to see that this ban was not based on so-called national security concerns at all, but was a political decision to suppress China's high-tech industry through the crackdown on Huawei. The US imposes restrictions on various products from Huawei, but it does not take into account the specific situation in different departments and fields. Now when it comes to the implementation stage, various problems begin to emerge. The Pentagon's call fully proves that unilaterally banning a Chinese company, especially a company with immense size and influence like Huawei, the US' consideration was immature, and it was just a ridiculous decision made on the spur of the moment. Bloomberg mentioned that Huawei is "so firmly entrenched" in the systems of countries where it does business, given the company accounts for nearly a third of all global telecommunications equipment revenue, finding a replacement would be "impossible." This shows that the US' ban on Huawei has begun to hurt some of the core parts of the country's system. Huawei's products are competitive and popular in terms of price and quality. Therefore, it is almost impossible for the US to find complete substitutes. And Washington thus can only choose to accept more expensive products, or products with inferior quality to Huawei's. Moreover, the process of finding substitutes would be long, and such substitution will bring more economic burden to the US. Zhang Tengjun, deputy director of the Department for Asia-Pacific Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, believes that in the current environment in the US, it is unlikely that the ban on Huawei will be completely lifted across the country. However, the reality is that the US may have to consider continuing to use some of Huawei's products. This will obviously further showcase the double standards of the US on this issue. In other words, the excuse of "national security" cited by Washington is untenable, which simply demonstrates the hypocrisy of the US itself. Ultimately, the Huawei ban didn't reach Washington's expectation to halt the Chinese company's technology development. Instead, it has provided an opportunity for the company to work on enhancing self-reliance. In an article published by the Economist titled "America's assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring" on June 13 reads that Uncle Sam's attacks failed to kill Huawei, but have only "made it stronger." Washington's containment may have brought some troubles to Chinese companies in the short term, but in the long run, the US actually has no chance of winning in the "wars" it has waged. It can be said that the US' suppression of Huawei is unprecedentedly severe, but the company's resilience is also unprecedentedly strong, which is like a banner for other Chinese enterprises.Under Washington's extreme pressure to force Chinese companies to "withdraw from US market," Huawei is an excellent example of how far a Chinese company can go. There will gradually be more backlash against the US itself, because Huawei's competitiveness is obviously increasing, said Lü Xiang, a research fellow of US studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He noted that the US has restricted Huawei's products in the name of national security to protect its own related manufacturers, but this kind of protection only maintains the backward production capacity in the US. In this case, such protection actually blocks US progress, and the backfire on the US will become clearer and clearer in the longer term. [My Emphasis] Although the above cartoon’s dated 2023, the article that makes it real is a complement to the one above and also from Global Times, “US runs into 'self-imposed obstacles' as Pentagon seeks Huawei exemption.” Both articles depict the usual Outlaw US Empire behavior—not just practiced by its national government—of shooting first and asking questions later as you’ll read: Despite US media revealing that the Pentagon is seeking an exemption from a 2019 Act that prohibits the US Department of Defense from contracting with entities that use Huawei equipment, Chinese analysts believe it's not a sign that the US will slow down its crackdown on China's technological development, but does show that the US' abuse of the "national security" concept has backfired, and that as Huawei continues to grow, the US will increasingly run into more self-imposed obstacles. According to a Bloomberg report released on Wednesday local time, the Pentagon is provoking "a fresh showdown" with Congress, as it feels it cannot avoid doing business with Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications provider. Some US defense officials also warned of the risk of "national security being jeopardized" if the issue is not properly handled. Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which went into effect on August 2020, prohibits US government agencies from buying or contracting with entities that use Huawei components. Citing officials, Bloomberg claimed that the Pentagon believes Huawei is "so firmly entrenched" in the systems of countries where it does business that it makes finding alternatives almost a mission impossible, especially given that Huawei accounts for almost one-third of all telecommunications equipment revenue worldwide. The Pentagon believes that if all the stipulated restrictions related to Huawei were met, it would also disrupt the Pentagon's ability to purchase the vast quantities of medical supplies, drugs, clothing and other types of logistical support the military relies on, Bloomberg reported. Pentagon spokesman Jeff Jurgensen said extending the waiver would allow for purchases if they are deemed to further US national security interests. Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate's intelligence committee, also admitted that a waiver may be necessary, according to the Bloomberg report. Sun Chenghao, a fellow and head of the US-EU program at the Center for International Security and Strategy in Tsinghua University, told the Global Times that the Pentagon's reported appeal is more about a technical and business-specific issue, and shows very pragmatic thinking on supply chain and cooperation with other countries. "It does not mean a shift in the US strategy of containing China," said Sun, "The US' attempt to crack down on Chinese technological development is unlikely to stop." So far, the House and Senate committees in charge of the legislation have declined to include a waiver in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, according to Bloomberg. In addition, the Biden administration revoked eight licenses in 2024 that allowed some companies to ship goods to Huawei, Reuters reported on Tuesday. "The Pentagon's attitudes show that the previous US bill is backfiring, as the US has encountered and has to deal with Huawei's irreplaceability, including Huawei's own technology, as well as Huawei technology integrated into other countries' products," said Lü Xiang, a research fellow from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. If Washington continues its restrictions and containment, it will run into more self-imposed obstacles, Lü noted. According to US media reports, four years after Congress ordered local network operators to remove telephone and internet equipment from Chinese companies, there is still much Huawei and ZTE equipment that has not been replaced, especially in rural areas. Only 12 percent of the companies in the Federal Communications Commission program have completed their work, while 40 percent of local network operators cannot complete the removal of Huawei and ZTE equipment due to a 3 billion funding shortfall. If the "national security threat" claim holds water, isn't the US simply letting Huawei damage its "national security?" Lü asked, "By abusing the concept of national security, the US government has undermined the normal and just market competition." "America's assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring. The company is growing stronger and less vulnerable," The Economist said in a headline on June 13. Huawei is indeed rebounding from the US' crackdown. According to Huawei's annual report released on March 29, the company's global sales revenue in 2023 was 704.2 billion yuan ($96.8 billion), and its net profit rose 144.4 percent year on year. On April 30, Huawei revealed that its profits had soared 564 percent in Q1 of 2024. Huawei's growth despite US attempts to write it out of its own and Western allies' markets and industrial chain also shows that the US may be able to achieve some goals in the short term, but it is almost impossible to stifle the global tech giant in the world, Sun said. Huawei's development shows the strong resilience of Chinese technology companies, Lü said, "by cracking down on Huawei and protecting its own companies, the US is actually encouraging local competitors to be lazy in innovation. As Huawei gradually makes real breakthroughs, the US goal of containing China's technological development will become increasingly difficult to achieve." Just as with Russia. I find the situation hilarious. Whatever happened to the vaunted Yankee ingenuity, know-how and ability to get the job done regardless the obstacles? Or was that always just hyperbole? The self-proclaimed leader’s being bypassed in many areas. The protectionist path no longer works in today’s world as competencies globally are shared as more minds are getting educated and provided an opportunity to show their capabilities. And that aspect will continue to grow markedly in the decades to come. Yes, the competitive world can become win-win, but as with the tortoise and the hare, one cannot rest on one’s laurels. There’s also the issue of technology transfer to developing nations as Humanity strives to create a worthy life for all at the expense of none. That is separate from the issue at hand but is one that will need to be discussed in the near future. * * * Like what you’ve been reading at Karlof1’s Substack? 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