THE DEVIL'S POTION

   If you could control the world's money, religion, and drugs, you could control the world---and people would kneel to you and kiss your ring.
   If you could get the whole world dependent on money, on religion, and on drugs, you could control the world---and people would kneel to you and kiss your ring.
   If you could control the world, you would become a god to all the people on the earth---and people would kneel to you and kiss your ring.
   The wealthiest and most powerful people in the world today are gaining control of the whole world because they are controlling the money, religion, and drugs.
   Today, drug addiction is a global epidemic---far greater than any other addiction known to man---and far greater than diseases such as measles, Ebola, or HIV.
   Drug addiction is the control of the minds of people; and when the minds of people are under the control of the drug lords, the behaviors of people are also under their control.  Therefore, if you could control the minds of people, you could control their will.
   Drug trafficking is under the control of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world today, for they know that drugs is the devil's potion.
   The Bible has been warning us that this day would come upon the earth.  That day is here now, and the world is falling to its knees in the name of money, in the name of religion, and in the name of drugs.
   Therefore, be watchful:  for one man will arise upon the earth to rule the earth because he will have total control of the world's money, religion, and drugs.  That man is called Antichrist, and he is dwelling among us now.  Look for him in priestly garments.

LIVING IN AN ARTIFICIAL WORLD

   According to the Bible, Satan is the god of this world.  (2nd Corinthians 4: 4)
   Therefore, this world is Satan's dominion.  This world is his kingdom.  And this world is the devil's sandbox.
   The devil rules over governments, and the devil rules over religions.
   Everything that we see in this world is man made, and everything is artificial, not designed to last.
   Kingdoms arise, and kingdoms fall.
   Nations arise, and nations fall.
   Governments arise, and governments fall.
   One by one they all rise up, and one by one they all fall down.
   Living the dream is the same as living in an imaginary world, a world that is artificial.
   That which was here yesterday is gone, and that which we see today will be gone tomorrow, being replaced by the newest brand of artificial.
   Everything is artificial, not designed to last.
   We get educations, get jobs, build houses and have families, working our way through various systems to provide for ourselves and for our families, to hopefully save enough money to retire, play golf, walk along sandy beaches, take naps, eat and drink, watch television, and wait to die. 
   Everything is artificial, not designed to last.
   Governments are artificial, television is artificial, and so is entertainment, business, sports, movies, and music.  Nothing is designed to last.
   Religions, too, are artificial because they are created from the imaginations of men:  filling the heads of people with false gods, false beliefs, false hope, false salvation, and complete with an artificial heaven where people believe they will arrive in their own imaginations---even to believe that certain men of the earth are gods.
   So here we are, living another day in an artificial world, and still exhibiting the same behaviors that previous generations lived:  hoping for a better day, a day when the world could be at peace, but peace has always been an allusive vision, a dream too far.
   This world is a sick place to live, for people are either dead, or they are dying.
   Conditions are the same as when Christ arrived in Bethlehem two thousand years ago when sick people did not want the Lord's message of love, hope, and peace; therefore, men of religion killed Christ because men of religion want people to die, not to live. 
   The love we know in the world today is all because of the love of Christ.  Take that away and the world is no more than a slaughtering pit of men against men, families against families, nations against nations, and people against God. 
   While men talk peace, they hold daggers behind their backs.
   If you are looking for this world to be a better place in which to live, stop looking.  Stop hoping. Stop dreaming.  And stop believing in men in fancy suits and priestly garments.  Instead, believe in the Bible and you will be correct.
   The only good that happens in this world is because of the love of God that abides in the hearts of people who have come to believe in Christ.  That's it.  And that is all.  Everything else is artificial, not designed to last.

WALNUT GROVE

                                               Photo by:  Blue Ridge Mountain Genealogy

    According to the history of the Stone Mountain Baptist Association of Wilkes County, North Carolina, church minutes do not reflect the beginning history of Walnut Grove Baptist Church.  Based on county deed records, however, there was a Walnut Grove Church as early as December 29, 1884, and it was a member of the Primitive Baptist Association in 1884.  Its pastor was Calloway Blevins.
   Prior to 1848, there was a church, an arm of New Covenant Baptist Church, located in the same immediate vicinity, and the name of that church is not known.  On April 29, 1848, a new name was given, Mount Zion Baptist Church, which ceased to function in 1873.  Mount Zion was a member of the Primitive Baptist Association.  It seems logical that this is the church from which Walnut Grove Missionary Baptist Church had its beginning.  Walnut Grove was organized on or before 1876, a member of the Mountain Union Association, under the leadership of Calloway Blevins.
  The earliest Minutes of Walnut Grove date to 1895.  In 1897, the church called for a pledge to build a new building, and church records reveal that the present church building was completed on the present site before October, 1908, about one half mile north of the original site.  In May, 1909, a dedication service was preached by Rev. Callie Blevins, assisted by Elder W. W. Myers and Rev. Grant Cothren.  In the 1940s, the church was rebuilt and later Sunday School classes were added.
   In 1897, Walnut Grove withdrew from the Mountain Union Association to become a constitutional member of the newly-formed Stone Mountain Association.  Calloway Blevins was the first Moderator of the Stone Mountain Association, an elected position that he served ten times.
   Some of the ordained preachers at Walnut Grove are these:
   Troy Blevins, 1910; S. L. Blevins, 1916; Callie Pruitt, 1916; Gar Pruitt, 1941; Minter Blevins, 1943; Major Caudill, 1949; Andrew Blevins, ?.
   Former members of Walnut Grove, but ordained in other churches are these: 
   Fred Blevins, Ernest Blevins, Hilary Blevins, Garfield Gambill, Famon Blevins, A. W. Pruitt, Uriah Hanks, Avery Blevins, Jimmy Pruitt, Gordon Joines, WajTie Blevins, and Chelsie Johnson.
  

PHARISEES, 2014 A.D.

   Jesus said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  (Matthew 7: 15)


   False prophets are the same as false teachers, false preachers, false ministers, and false priests, and they are the leaders of false churches.
   To better understand false churches is to come to a better understanding of the Pharisees, for it is in them that we will find the seed of false churches.
   The Pharisees were members of a Satanic secret society, known today in Judaism as the Kaballah, which is a mystery religion that Jews learned during the Babylonian Captivity, and which they brought with them when they returned to Israel. 
   As you read the four Gospels of the New Testament, you will always see the Pharisees lurking in the shadows, following Jesus, agitating, questioning, and trying to trick Jesus, or to find sufficient evidence which they would use to justify killing Jesus. 
   Because the Pharisees were followers of Satan, they knew exactly who Jesus was and why Jesus came to Israel.  Therefore, they knew that Jesus is the one and only true Son of God, and, for this reason, they did not want the people of Israel to know the truth about the Lord, as they also knew that their assignment was to assassinate the Lord:  to shut the mouth of Jesus, to keep Him from talking---while believing that, with Jesus dead, the story of Jesus would simply disappear, that the disciples would return to their fishing boats, and that there would never be any evidence that Jesus was ever on earth.  What they did not know, however, was that Jesus would arise from death!
   Even after the resurrection of Christ, the Pharisees knew that, too, because the devil told them.  But because they could not find Jesus to kill Him again, they went after the followers of Christ to kill them in order to stop the message of Jesus from being preached in Jerusalem, and, from there, to other parts of the world. 
   For the next three hundred years, the killing of Christians continued while the preaching and teaching of Christ continued throughout the provinces of the Roman Empire.  They could not stop the message of Christ, however, and Satan was continuing to lose the battle and not win.
  Thus the devil devised a plan, an evil plan, a plan of deception, a way to trick people and to capture their souls by building a church that would look like a church, and there the Jews created the First False Church of Rome, preying on innocent and ignorant minds---convincing people that they had to enter this church in order to be Christians.  Thus the people did as Rome said to do, for the people were already slaves to Rome, and, instead of dying as they saw Christians dying, they entered the church out of fear for their lives, and, while there, they had their minds indoctrinated with false teachings---while not knowing that the devil was standing behind the curtain.  Not only did adults enter this snare, but they also brought their children to learn to do likewise.
   Something that was invisible to the people of Rome at that time is the fact that this false church was the beginning of an organized and orchestrated anti-Christ movement that would continue to operate through the minds of families, even to this day, eighteen hundred years later---while maintaining the appearance of a Christian church, which looks like pristine chapels, leading them to believe:
              Everything is wonderful.
              Everything is lovely.
              Everything is beautiful.
   As a result of this anti-Christ movement, this First False Church of Rome has taught generations of families how to be false Christians.  Because the ministers are false prophets, their teachings are false, and the beliefs of people are also false; but because the people do not know the truth of the Word of the Lord, they do not know that their minds have been indoctrinated and conformed with lies, and so they live their lives with the belief that they are Christians while teaching their children to do the same, which is precisely what the devil wants them to do. 
   Therefore, it should be clear and easy to understand that the Pharisees transferred their minds and doctrine to others, which found a launching pad in Rome, and that, through them, millions of people have been deceived for the past eighteen hundred years, all over the world, generation by generation, and family by family, by false ministers and false priests.
   Jesus said:
   But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men:  for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
   Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
   Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and all uncleanness.
   Ye serpents, ye generations of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? (Matthew 23: 13, 15, 27, 33)
   Pharisees are among us today, in 2014, standing in the pulpits of false churches:  teaching people to believe as they are told to believe, to live in obedience to them, to kneel to them, and how to appear as Christians through their acceptance of dogmas and doctrines, rites and rituals, and by never accepting Christ and by never accepting the Bible.  Because these Pharisees live with dual personalities, their followers also live with dual personalities.  By their words they say they are Christians, but Christ is not in their hearts; and thus they live their lives as hypocrites, or as Pharisees, just like their teachers, their role models.

SPIRITUAL INSANITY

   As you open your eyes and look across the world today, what do you see?
   As you watch television or read newspapers, what do you see and hear?
   As you watch the leaders of governments today, what do you see?  What are they saying?
   As you watch the leaders of religions today, what do you see?  What are they saying?
   As you open your eyes and look across the world today, what do you see on the faces of people?
   What are people doing?  What are people saying?
   When was the last time you saw children playing, and laughing, and having fun?
   When was the last time you saw people walking in a park without looking over their shoulders because of fear?
   When was the last time you saw people walking the streets of cities at night to "window shop" without the fear of being attacked, mugged, robbed, or raped?
   When darkness falls, we gather our kids off the streets or out of the front lawns and lock our doors.
   When darkness falls, we lock our houses, lock our cars, lock our businesses, and even lock our churches and religious institutions.
   When was the last time you saw a president, king, queen, or any government leader weeping?
   When was the last time you saw a minister, preacher, priest, rabbi, or pope weeping?
   The leaders of government want us to believe that government is our god and that government knows best what is best for us.
   The leaders of religion want us to believe that religion is our god and that religion knows best what is best for us.
   Collectively, government and religion want us to believe that they will take care of us all the days of our lives and even to give us a place in heaven.  If this is true, why did government and religion not do this six thousand years ago and for all of the years that humans have dwelt upon the earth?
  So then, when was the last time you heard a government or religious leader talking about the love of God? 
   Probably never.
   In truth, the whole world is suffering from spiritual insanity, for the whole world has lost its mind, gone crazy, and should be in a psychiatric institution because the love of God has been deprived from people because of the leadership that stands before us in front of our eyes.
   In truth, the devil stands in front of people, thus preventing people from knowing the love of God.
   The devil is also standing in government and in religion, thus preventing people from knowing the love of God.
   The devil stands to divide people from people, nation from nation, and he stands to divide families from families, husbands from wives, and children from parents:  so that we are at war with one another instead of being united with Christ in a war against Satan.
   Without the nourishment of the love of God, people suffer.
   The solution for this madness, this spiritual insanity, is---and has always been---Christ the Lord.
       For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten God, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  (John 3: 16)
  
  
  

RETURN TO BABEL

   Therefore the name of it is called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:  and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.  (Genesis 11: 9)


   Return to the tower of Babel and you will find the origin of all religions that are scattered across the face of the earth today.
   Return to the tower of Babel and you will also find the origin of all secret societies that are scattered across the face of the earth today.
   Return to the tower of Babel and you will find the first unholy trinity that featured a father god, a queen of heaven/mother of god, and a son of god.
   Return to Babel and you will find the blueprint for Christmas, the Christmas tree, the giving of presents, and the imaginary character we call Santa Claus.
   Return to Babel and you will also find the blueprint for Easter, the Easter bunny, and Easter eggs.
   Return to Babel and you will find the origin of infant baptism, for it was there when pagan priests washed babies before presenting their little bodies as burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Sun god.
   For all of these elements were transported out of ancient Babylon and delivered to Rome as something new, and as something to be accepted, in the new Christian religion that was invented in Rome more than three hundred years after the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ---as a new tower of Babel and a new Nimrod emerged under the disguise of the Catholic Church of Rome with the hidden purpose to destroy the Gospel of Christ, to destroy the Bible, and to destroy Christians from the face of the earth as well as with the hidden purpose to convert the whole world to Roman Catholicism and Papal Worship, operating as a religious Mafia in order to control the world's governments, the world's religions, and the world's supply of money.
   Today, the Catholic Church is the wealthiest and most powerful institution on the face of the earth, and all decisions of governments and religions are initiated from Vatican City.  For this reason, all world leaders, including presidents, kings, queens, and leaders of religions kneel to the pope of the Vatican in Papal Worship, just as the people of Babel knelt to Nimrod.
   At first glance, this story today sounds totally unbelievable, yet it is unbelievably true; but until people are willing to look for the stories behind the stories, they will never know truth; and until people are willing to look to the Bible, they will never know truth.  For the truth today is this:
   The leaders of the Vatican, the leaders of governments, and the leaders of religions are masters of deception, masters of disguise, and masters of dual personalities.  Outwardly, they appear as honest and trustworthy people; inwardly, their hearts are evil.  But in secrecy they are priests of the Church of Satan, and their goal is to capture souls for the devil.
  
  

UP IN SMOKE

       "And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.  And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."  Jesus of Nazareth, Mark 3: 24-25.


   In the United States, radical extremists have been fueling the flames of racism for a long, long time, convincing people to believe that they are still victims of slavery because of the color of their skin, and the evidence of that lie came alive last night when the city of Ferguson, Missouri went up in smoke.
   At the same, radical extremists have been fueling the flames of gender inequality by convincing women that they are still victims of slavery because their sex as females.
   Racism and gender inequality have been an operation by radical extremists, flying in double-wing formation for a long, long time, seeking to change America's laws to fit their own agendas.
   The protesters in Ferguson did not agree with America's judicial system.  They wanted revenge, not justice.  In truth, all they wanted was a crucifixion, or a hanging by the neck until dead---an eye for an eye, or a death for a death.  And when they did not get their way with our nation's legal system, they reacted as toddlers without parents. 
   Today, Ferguson looks like a city that has been destroyed by terrorists, which is the way cities look all across the Middle East.
   Now, however, let me share three quotations from the mind of Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, from 1933-1945:
   1.   “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.  The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.  It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
  2.   "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
  3.   "Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street."
   Now look at what happened to Germany under the leadership of a dictatorship-run state:  Germany became a land of chaos, followed by destruction, thereby leaving the people of Germany in a heap of rubble and ashes because their freedom was stolen from them, and Germany went up in smoke.
   If we will examine human history, we will see that all of man's empires upon the earth have fallen because of internal corruption.  All of them have fallen, and all of them have gone up in smoke.
   Knowing this is true, then we should also believe that the freedom of this nation or any nation will not stand when the house is divided, or when people are divided from people:  when bad people arise at the top and when good people are imprisoned and killed.
   Unless God helps us, then we will also see this once great and powerful nation fall because of internal corruption---to the extent that this nation will one day go up in smoke.
   God, on the other hand, has promised He will help us if we will trust in Him:
      If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  (2nd Chronicles 7: 14)