No Profit in Prophets

The misinformation tsunami is getting pretty deep.

A Youtuber I like put up a video about how God is mad at Christians who don’t believe the prophecies about Trump winning the election. You know…the election was in November, the electors met in December, Biden was inaugurated in January, the courts ruled against Trump, Trump can no longer communicate with the American people, and–call me a pessimist–it sort of looks like a done deal.

People can backpedal if they want. They can say, “I meant a second term that will come later.” That’s not what they predicted. Sorry. The best Trump can hope for, barring a miracle the likes of which the world hasn’t seen in centuries, is that Trump will be resurrected as president of part of America after the cold civil war turns hot.

The Youtuber I watch linked to a video by a lady named Kat Kerr. I clicked.

I know. I have no one to blame but myself.

I saw an elderly lady with bright pink hair, wearing a shawl. She said a few words in a normal voice, and then she started bellowing that God was going to do this and that. Judging by her tone, the idea was that God was really sore at me.

Would God be angry at me for doubting prophecies that had already been proven wrong? God isn’t going to punish anyone for that. If the Biblical prophets had blown it repeatedly, God wouldn’t have expected people to believe them.

Kat Kerr promotes herself as a prophet. Doesn’t the Bible say something about what happens to people who promote themselves? Something negative. And the pink hair…not a great sign.

Unlike 99% of the people who watched the video, I checked her record. In 2018, she said God would turn the map red, meaning Republicans would sweep everything.

Remember how that didn’t happen?

She also predicted Trump would win last year in a landslide. Afterward, she responded to critics by redefining “landslide.” Something about how misdeeds would be uncovered. Sort of like ruins in a desert after an earthquake, I would guess.

That hasn’t happened.

There was also a link to a video by an African lady. She said God’s will would be done in America. He wouldn’t allow things that were not his will to happen. I had the audacity to comment. I asked why we had been allowed to kill 60,000,000 babies.

Everyone else was lapping it up, however.

God’s plan is for men, not women, to lead the church. Whenever he chooses a woman, it has to be because a man refused. Feminism came from hell. God is male. Jesus is male. The prophets were male. Adam, Enoch, Moses, Joshua, David, and all the kings of Judah and Israel were male. The disciples were male. All of the books of the Bible were written by men. The human beings who are subordinate to God, on the other hand, are the bride of Christ.

Am I the only one sensing a subtle pattern?

Women desire attention considerably more than men do. They will do strange things in order to get it. I don’t intend to get sucked into following unfulfilled women who are not content with their place in the plan and who crave eyeballs and ears.

God will only permit conservative leadership? Okay. Some things need to be explained, then. Here are a few: FDR, Jimmy Carter, LBJ, Bill Clinton, two Obama election victories, and Joe Biden. I’m only looking at the presidency. It gets worse when you look at other offices. Let’s not even discuss Christian nations that have already fallen. You have to be addled to think God won’t allow leftists to rule. Have you heard of Russia? Do you know what happened in 1917?

Trump is over. America is over. You need to stop trusting the wrong things. Bad times are here, right now, and you need to join the flock and get God’s help. Israel is the only nation that will survive forever, and it includes those of us who are grafted in.

I have to wonder what the red-cap prophets will be saying 6 months from now, while Trump is still out of office and still unable to communicate with us. What will they say when America turns into Cuba? Will they say it’s just a test? Will they tell us Trump is still coming? What if Trump dies? Will they tell us he’s going to be resurrected?

Our Cuban-style future is beginning. There will be “land reform.” If you have a nice house on a big lot, it will be given to someone with the right color skin. There will be correction of financial “inequity.” Wealth, not just income, will be taken away and given to people who are too irresponsible to be trusted even with food stamps. You’ll lose the right to vote. Disarmament is a given. Secession is on the table. How will the red-cap prophets redefine this as victory?

It reminds me of the way people will say a person who died from cancer was healed. “He doesn’t have cancer now.” If that’s healing, why didn’t Jesus run sick people through with a sword?

You don’t really have to pray for a sick person in order for him to die, and God doesn’t have to intervene. It happens all by itself. You can’t say God really glorified himself by doing nothing and letting Satan win.

I can’t swear that God won’t do something really strange and bring Trump back, but a miracle like that would be about like the second coming or the flood, and the world hasn’t seen a miracle like that in millennia. It’s a lot to ask, and at least most of the people predicting it have already proven unreliable.

It should be a fantastic thing for the church if a bunch of fake prophets were exposed, but I don’t think it will help, because people will still think they’re the real thing.

I don’t prophesy about America’s future, but I make guesses based in reality. I have some common sense, I know how human nature works (all too sadly), I have observed history, and I am familiar with obvious Biblical patterns. I’ll put all that up against pink hair and bad track records any day.

I guess I’ll give a Christian Mingle update. I think I MAY have communicated with one real person. I’m not sure. I make her mad, she doesn’t have a sense of humor, and she has nothing interesting to say, so it doesn’t help. She could be a real person who just isn’t exciting, and whose reasons for being single involve her personality, but she is probably a scammer who is angry at me for smoking her out and who happens to speak good English. Also, the woman in her photos is beautiful, and that’s usually a clue that you’re talking to a man in China.

I received a few “smiles” from three or four women who are probably real because they are very unattractive. There is just no way, no way, no way, no way. I’m sure women who come across my profile frequently have the same feeling. I’m not going to say something stupid and childish like, “their loss.” It’s not their loss. They’re sticking to their standards. Good for them. Starting up with a man you don’t want is a loss. Being single is nowhere near as bad as being with the wrong person.

Here’s a horrible question: who is generally more motivated? People who want to marry, or people who want to divorce?

I’ve received maybe 30 new “smiles” from accounts that are clearly fake.

For the heck of it, I responded to one today. She sent a photo of a young black woman in clingy booty shorts, followed by a shot of the same young woman in a satin bikini that covered very little, and it showed her enormous breast implants. She’s supposed to be 50, by the way. I guess she’s trying on outfits for church.

I don’t see myself renewing my membership. It’s unpleasant, seeing how badly the system works. I am fatigued by the constant and frequent assaults from people trying to do me harm. They don’t get anywhere, but it’s still tiresome. Christian Mingle should screen members, but they don’t, probably because they prefer to receive the money and let legitimate members suffer. It would be very easy to demand identification and insist that people put up photos before they contact anyone.

I changed my locality to Tennessee for a while, and it seemed like I got a little improvement, but not much.

I kind of enjoy asking scammers questions. One was supposedly from Texas, so I asked if she preferred Aggies or Longhorns. It took her quite a while to finish Googling and announce her loyalty to “the texas longhorns.” That’s not what people say in Texas. They say “‘Horns.”

To sum up, Trump isn’t coming back, I think the people who prophesied conservative nirvana are wrong, and Christian Mingle appears to be really bad, except for scammers.

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I just got a scammer to admit he or she is in Nigeria. What a blast from the past.

Oops. I’m wrong. It’s Ghana.