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1/25/08 - 6th Day - Before Breakfast. Preparation of the Sabbath. Herrick Kimball put up a good post entitled An Agrarian-Style Economic Self-Defense Plan. For you folks just now looking into Agrarianism, it makes a lot of sense. My only objection to it would be the "get yourself into a small rural church" idea. Since almost all churches today (as the Bible clearly prophesies) are corrupted and apostate, it wouldn't be a good idea to just go join a church for economic self-defense. The Bible says that Doctrine is one of the two marks of a Christian (the other is fruit), and that we are never to join with those with different salvation doctrines, and that it is a curse and a sin to even bid Godspeed to those who have bad doctrine. A.W. Pink said this (and I paraphrase from memory) - It is better to worship at home alone than to join yourself unto a Church where God's spirit has left. We have acquaintances and I have met literally dozens of people through the years who have told me that they believe in the Doctrines of Grace, and that they realize that Arminianism (Free Will Theism) is a Romanist heresy and is false doctrine, or that they realize that Pentacostal wizardry and such is false, but that they have joined themselves to such and such a "church" just because the people are "precious brethren" who "love the Lord". Thirty minutes of study on the subject should convince you that just because someone is nice and loves THEIR CONCEPT of God doesn't make them a Christian or a brother. It shouldn't take long to ask yourself why God would have us MARK them who preach or operate according to these false doctrines and AVOID them (Rom. 16:17). I have been in many, many churches with very nice people who absolutely smile their faces off and would hug you to death. They HATE sin (they say) and just want to love the brethren. That is they love you until you tell them the truth. Then the switchblades come out. Some of them are willing to call a truce so long as you are willing to zip it about God's truth.

I didn't mean to take away from my friend Herrick's good article, but I just wanted to put a disclaimer in there. Never compromise the only real truth that means anything in order to have friends, influence people, or to have support in an economic collapse. The last place I would ever want to find myself is in a trench in the middle of battle with an Antichrist watching my back.

Ok, so (If the Lord wills) I will be leaving on the Lord's Day afternoon to go to my 6 day woodworking class. Y'all be in prayer for Larry and I as we partake in "learnin'" at the class.

I put up the first two parts of the Darkness and Light series. Here are the links:

Darkness and Light, Part 1
Darkness and Light, Part 2

Well, we finally received some rain here. In fact, it is raining right now and has been raining and drizzling all night. I don't think we received even half an inch, but we'll take what we can get.

The Pope accused the media of imposing "distorting models" of life, and of being unethical. In a related story, a pot called a kettle "black".

In Kuala Lumpur, children can now get debit cards so they don't have to "carry so much cash". I've been to Kuala Lumpur, and I think this is a good idea. You don't want to be carrying a lot of cash when you're eaten by a tiger.

Funniest headline of the day: Pakistan Is Turning on Musharraf. Ok, despite the fact that someone might think that I am obsessed with Kuala Lumpur, this headline might be funnier: Thieves stuff cow into backseat of car, crash it.

This would be funny if it wasn't absolutely serious. Here is a sign outside the door of the headquarters of a marine corps unit in Falluja, Iraq:

Ok, enough for today.

Y'all have a great one.

Michael