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What's Going On?

Great article in my e-mail box today from Hal Lindsey. Here's an excerpt:

GLOBAL UPHEAVAL

By Hal Lindsey

The world changes. Sometimes it changes quickly. The two world wars of the 20th century created massive upheavals, as did the Black Death pestilence of the 14th century. Some upheavals are caused by new technologies, such as the printing press, the internal combustion engine, the telephone, or gunpowder. Sometimes political revolutions cause fast and massive change, and sometimes big changes come from simple ideas, including bad ones.

Today, several of those things are happening at once. With Covid-19 as a trigger, we see revolutions all around us. Technical revolutions that should have been for our good have been subverted. Ideas that history has repeatedly proven wrong and dangerous, are rising with a new sense of inevitability. 

One of the unique things about this year is that these massive societal upheavals are global. Most of history’s revolutions have been localized, but the changes going on now are going on everywhere. And they are all moving in a specific direction — the direction laid out in the Bible thousands of years ago.

 

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Signs of the Times

This was taken from Olive Tree Ministries newsletter and is something I believe. 

The Encroaching Darkness By Jill Martin Rische October 29, 2019   www.olivetreeviews.org NOTE FROM JAN: Late October is a time when we always can feel the encroaching darkness. Nobody analyzes that better than Jill Martin Rische, daughter of Dr. Walter Martin. This activity was predicted in the Bible for a last generation. It is just one more sign that things are falling into place. I, personally, know the danger and destructiveness of a Ouija Board. I thought it was a game. Dozens of kids at my Christian college were playing it. I soon learned it had occult power and I destroyed it before my life would have been destroyed. Learn more about Jill at her website, www.waltermartin.com. --Jan Markell What is happening to the world around us? Someone’s poured gasoline on the very dry tinder of the human heart and our world is on fire. Evil is good—good is evil, and Satan is alive and well on planet earth.  In the 21 st century, we find ourselves dropped in the middle of a spiritual battlefield where military lines are drawn and the invisible war is upon us. From Judge Kavanaugh to President Trump to a coup in the U.S. House of Representatives, the world as we know it has exploded. As Predicted - Evil Is Waxing Worse and Worse If ever there was any doubt about this, Halloween 2019 brought a ton of proof in the form of a Ouija board weighing in at a monstrous 9,000 pounds. It is heavier than an elephant, longer than a brontosaurus, and larger than five full-size semi-trucks.   Nicknamed “Ouijazilla,” it comes complete with a 400-pound planchet (a pointer) and sits on a huge green space just outside Salem, Massachusetts—headquarters of the Satanic Temple and scene of the infamous Salem witchcraft trials.

The world's largest Ouija Board

The brains behind this actual door to hell is a tattoo artist by the name of Rick “Ormortis” Schreck, vice president of the Talking Board Historical Society —an organization dedicated to contacting spirits from the other side. Schreck aimed for the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not world record for giant Ouija Boards, and walked away with the prize.  Largest Occult Tool on Earth It’s hard to conceive of so much visible evil in one place, and yet there it is—in our faces— the largest tool of the occult on planet earth.  This is much more than a publicity stunt, though. It is a concerted effort to promote the evil that God has condemned. “ There shall not be found among you anyone who…practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord ” (Deuteronomy 18:10-12).   He Knows His Time Is Short As Christians, we see the enemy ramping up his strategy and breaking free of restraint, and this means there are victories to be won. We are fighters, and it’s time to check the armor and scope the battlefield. As if this were not enough, once again witches gathered from around the world at one minute to midnight on October 25, to curse President Trump.   According to Michael M. Hughes, a witch promoting this spell, they will continue to curse Trump “ at midnight on every waning crescent moon until he is removed from office.”  Make no mistake - we are the target In case you may think this is only about attacking Donald Trump—think again: This curse is also aimed at you and everyone you hold dear. It is specifically “crafted to bind Trump and all who aid or abet him.”  The pack of occult wolves behind this bizarre attack is known as the #MagicResistance —an alliance of 13,000+ witches worldwide, doing their level best to destroy the President and his supporters. They try to frame this curse as not really being a curse—just a “binding spell” not meant to cause harm.  But a simple review of spell details reveals that the tarot card called “La Torre” or The Tower is a central part of the ritual. It depicts a man falling from a high, crumbling tower and its meaning is dark and dangerous.  “The Death card is usually the card people are terrified of, [but] out of all of the cards in the deck, The Tower is the one you really need to brace yourself for. The Tower Tarot card represents chaos and destruction.” So the actions of these witches are clear to all who care to look—they intend danger and destruction; they wish to cause catastrophe in Trump’s life and in the lives of millions of men, women, and children across America. There is no such thing as a good witch One of the greatest ironies in this world-wide cursing is that Hughes recommends including Psalm 23. This is nothing new—sorcerers in Egypt turned to the power of God 2000 years ago. They used the name of Jesus first in their exorcism rituals, followed by a long list of Egyptian deities.  Even witches and sorcerers know there is power in the name of Jesus, and in the living Word of God—they just don’t believe it works against them. But God says it is alive, active and sharper than any two-edged sword. It will not return void. God is greater He is far more powerful than any evil these lost souls can summon, and the Bible says an undeserved curse will never come to rest (Proverbs 26:2). In the last days, human hearts burn for revenge. They will do anything to get it.  It feels surreal at times, but Jesus spent a large part of His ministry teaching us how to fight against the prince of this world and against a dimension of reality we cannot see.  Paul warns us to take up the armor of God and be prepared to fight, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places ” (Ephesians 6:12). We should not be surprised by this level of evil or afraid of its power. The Bible tells us that we will judge the angels, and they know it. They are terrified of the great power we have as children of the Most High God.  We are facing the end of this world and Satan will not go quietly. But Jesus is coming back for us and until He returns, we will occupy.

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The Joys of Photographing Jewelry

I've been taking pictures of some of my jewelry so I can list it on my website and my Etsy shop.

You can really see a piece clearly when it's in digital form. Like these earrings below.

Does anything jump out at you?

There's another pair exactly like this out in the world somewhere!

Don't ask me how I missed this when I mailed the earrings out. If you have a pair just like these, send me an e-mail and I'll send you the pair above free of charge. I'd rather you have two pair than two mismatched earrings!

As I said earlier, I've been taking new photographs of jewelry, and editing photos with my new Windows photo program that came with Windows 10. I'm also listing some new things on Etsy and my website that haven't seen the light of day before now. Here's a teaser:

Cleaning up photos is a full time job! I'm no photo expert, so sometimes I spend too much time trying to get the tint and light just right so the photo truly represents the colors as well as possible. Sometimes I tinker too much and the photo becomes a lost cause.

I have yet to figure out a good background for photographing light stones like Aquamarine, Light Amethyst and Rose Quartz.  I like to use scrapbooking paper, but there are times even that doesn't work. I've also tried vinyl flooring, black vinyl material, real wood, ceramics, and even one of those storage boxes that looks like a book (which is what I used for the gray mismatched earrings in the first photo).

 

Sometimes I want to pull my hair out and give away my jewelry just so I don't have to waste another minute taking and editing photos. 

And then I get a few good shots and I think maybe I'm getting the hang of it.

Maybe....

And then the day is over and the next time I want to photograph jewelry I have to start all over again.

Hope you have a bright and wonderful day!

Surgery Update

Not sure how to explain this without being very graphic. Last week on Tuesday, 4/21, I had a craniotomy; this means the neurosurgeon opened a hole in my skull in the right temple area to reach the tumor that was compressing the optic nerve and causing some peripheral vision loss.

When you think of peripheral vision being impaired, you don't immediately think they will have to open your skull and move your brain out of the way to fix the problem. But basically, that's what they did. The sort of tumor I have is fairly common and usually non-cancerous; it's called a Meningioma. It was just in a bad spot where there wasn't much room for it to exist. This is my second time around, having had the exact same surgery in 2008. This time the neurosurgeon removed more bone above the optic nerve to give it room. He wasn't able to remove any more tumor or scar tissue under the nerve because the nerve itself was too fragile and could have been destroyed by further manipulation. I am able to see, but it will probably take a visual field test to determine if I have any loss in my peripheral vision.

Yes, I'm on some very good meds, so no, it doesn't hurt. Mostly my head is numb. Mostly I'm really doing good. Mostly I'm amazed by medicine and what we're capable of doing to the human body.