Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, October 13

"Love is strong as death." Song of Solomon 8:6

Whose love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs, the destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it were applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely living love to Jesus my Lord? I do love Him, and perhaps by His grace, I could even die for Him, but as for my love in itself, it can scarcely endure a scoffing jest, much less a cruel death. Surely it is my Beloved's love which is here spoken of- the love of Jesus, the matchless lover of souls. His love was indeed stronger than the most terrible death, for it endured the trial of the cross triumphantly. It was a lingering death, but love survived the torment; a shameful death, but love despised the shame; a penal death, but love bore our iniquities; a forsaken, lonely death, from which the eternal Father hid His face, but love endured the curse, and gloried over all. Never such love, never such death. It was a desperate duel, but love bore the palm. What then, my heart? Hast thou no emotions excited within thee at the contemplation of such heavenly affection? Yes, my Lord, I long, I pant to feel Thy love flaming like a furnace within me. Come Thou Thyself and excite the ardour of my spirit.

For every drop of crimson blood
Thus shed to make me live,
O wherefore, wherefore have not I
A thousand lives to give?

Why should I despair of loving Jesus with a love as strong as death? He deserves it: I desire it. The martyrs felt such love, and they were but flesh and blood, then why not I? They mourned their weakness, and yet out of weakness were made strong. Grace gave them all their unflinching constancy- there is the same grace for me. Jesus, lover of my soul, shed abroad such love, even Thy love in my heart, this evening.

A Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) visits a Zahara Sunburst flower (Zinnia elegans) for an afternoon lunch of nectar in a Virginia garden during his journey south to Mexico. #MonarchButterfly #Monarch #Butterfly #DanausPlexippus #ZaharaSunburst #ZinniaElegans #Flower #Nectar #JourneyToMexico #AmericanMeadows #Gardening #PlantBiology #AnimalBiology #Biology

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -Peter Thiel

Elon Musk copted and Peter Thiel founded a company that became PayPal.

Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms.

This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley.

Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm.

Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance's successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience.

Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.

The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.

Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.

He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator. If Trump is gone from office, perhaps by Vance organizing a 25th Amendment removal due to claims about Trump’s cognitive decline, Vance moves in and that process begins.

Remember, it was just a couple of years ago when Musk said Trump was too old to even be a CEO, let alone the president.

Yarvin says that Democracy is an "outdated software" and openly opposes it and that:

- Government agencies should be dismantled and The U.S. should be broken up into "patchworks" controlled by tech oligarchs.

- That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to "fix" society

- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves.

The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating.

Then to replace government with private corporations.

To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"

To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.

Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.

This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters, they are "Dark MAGA"

This isn't a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:

- Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.

- JD Vance, the “MAGA heir,” is being positioned to help implement this transition.

- The public is too distracted to realize what’s happening.

- If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, August 6

"Let the whole earth be filled with His glory; Amen, and Amen." Psalm 72:19

This is a large petition. To intercede for a whole city needs a stretch of faith, and there are times when a prayer for one man is enough to stagger us. But how far-reaching was the psalmist's dying intercession! How comprehensive! How sublime! "Let the whole earth be filled with His glory." It doth not exempt a single country however crushed by the foot of superstition; it doth not exclude a single nation however barbarous. For the cannibal as well as for the civilized, for all climes and races this prayer is uttered: the whole circle of the earth it encompasses, and omits no son of Adam. We must be up and doing for our Master, or we cannot honestly offer such a prayer. The petition is not asked with a sincere heart unless we endeavour, as God shall help us, to extend the kingdom of our Master. Are there not some who neglect both to plead and to labour? Reader, is it your prayer? Turn your eyes to Calvary. Behold the Lord of Life nailed to a cross, with the thorn-crown about His brow, with bleeding head, and hands, and feet. What! can you look upon this miracle of miracles, the death of the Son of God, without feeling within your bosom a marvellous adoration that language never can express? And when you feel the blood applied to your conscience, and know that He has blotted out your sins, you are not a man unless you start from your knees and cry, "Let the whole earth be filled with His glory; Amen, and Amen." Can you bow before the Crucified in loving homage, and not wish to see your Monarch master of the world? Out on you if you can pretend to love your Prince, and desire not to see Him the universal ruler. Your piety is worthless unless it leads you to wish that the same mercy which has been extended to you may bless the whole world. Lord, it is harvest-time, put in Thy sickle and reap.

MUCH MORE TO JIMMY BUFFETT THAN JUST HIS MUSIC.....

MK-Ultra Mind Control Survivor - Cathy O'Brien
Cathy O’Brien, Recovered Survivor of the CIA, MK-Ultra Mind Control Operation called Project Monarch, discusses her experience.

The horrifying and shocking content of this interview is a matter of public record, and has been documented in O’Brien’s book, Trance-Formation of America, which is based on the transcripts of her testimony before a special federal investigative committee. On August 3rd, 1977 the 95th U.S. Congress opened hearings into the reported abuses concerning the CIA’s Top Secret Mind Control Research Project and most of the congressional records are included in her book.
MK-Ultra Mind Control Survivor - Cathy O'Brien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcBowRzV3WM

Monarch #3. This one doesn't want to leave. Spending the night inside since it's so cool outside. Hopefully it will be warmer tomorrow.

2 monarchs released today God's wonders never cease to be amazingly beautiful

Thought this appropriate as Squirt has 8 monarch chrysalis this year. Patiently awaiting their transformation

ME; MORE IN COMMENTS
MUCH MORE TO JIMMY BUFFETT THAN JUST HIS MUSIC.....

MK-Ultra Mind Control Survivor - Cathy O'Brien
Cathy O’Brien, Recovered Survivor of the CIA, MK-Ultra Mind Control Operation called Project Monarch, discusses her experience.

The horrifying and shocking content of this interview is a matter of public record, and has been documented in O’Brien’s book, Trance-Formation of America, which is based on the transcripts of her testimony before a special federal investigative committee. On August 3rd, 1977 the 95th U.S. Congress opened hearings into the reported abuses concerning the CIA’s Top Secret Mind Control Research Project and most of the congressional records are included in her book.
MK-Ultra Mind Control Survivor - Cathy O'Brien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcBowRzV3WM