There is no Fool Like an Old Fool

My friend Mike moved to Florida last year to get away from the Northeast. Then he made the mistake of going back north for his granddaughter’s birthday. He got a blister on his foot, and due to blood sugar problems, it got infected. He has been trapped up there ever since.

He keeps going for treatment, and they always tell him the same thing: a few more weeks.

I don’t know too much about diabetics and near-diabetics and their foot issues, but apparently, they have to be extremely careful about any broken skin on their feet and lower legs. Circulation problems cause them to rot pretty quickly, and this, I am told, is why there are so many diabetics with no toes and/or feet. One day, things are fine, and a month later, you have a stump.

When he was here, we didn’t make the best use of our time. We didn’t pray together much at all. Now that he is stuck among people who hate just about everything about Christianity, things are different. We pray on the phone several times a week. I should have pushed him to do pray with me when he was here, but I didn’t think he would have a sudden toe crisis.

If you plan to get old, you should know something I learned recently. Doctors don’t care at all about your toes, which are more likely to rot off in old age than youth. Doctors have the same attitude they have toward spleens, tonsils, appendices, and gallbladders. If there’s a problem, cut it off. Treating it in order to save it is an inconvenience.

At least one doctor encouraged Mike to let him cut his toe off. Right away. Because keeping it might require weeks of treatment. Yes, that was the horrible down side. Inconvenience. Makes me wonder if insurance companies are behind the amputation movement. Maybe doctors have to answer questions when they don’t cut things off.

Losing a big toe is not insignificant. Your big toes are much stronger than your other toes, and you use them when you walk. They do important things I’m too lazy to look up. Lose one big toe, and you can forget about running for the rest of your life. I suppose once you pass 50, doctors assume you’re almost dead, so it doesn’t really matter if you can run.

The older you get, the less value your life has. This is true legally as well as medically. If you sue someone for wrongful death, the jury will have to consider the victim’s age when they add up the damages. You get more money for a kid than a nonagenarian.

For months, the hole in Mike’s toe has been stagnating. They gave him the wrong antibiotic. Then, after a lot of damage had been done, they gave him the right one. After that, they had to keep cutting stuff away. The infection seemed to disappear, but the hole would not close. Mike said it was like Michael Jackson’s nose. If doctors work on something long enough, it stops trying to heal.

We’ve been praying for his toe, and he has been anointing it with oil and going to God to forgive people. You’re supposed to forgive if you want healing.

For a while, very little happened. They kept telling him his toe was 10% better. So 10% this week, 10% of the remaining problem next week, 10% of what was left after that the following week, and so on. Mike said it was like a radioactive material with a half-life. The problem kept getting smaller but didn’t go away.

They planned to give his toe an MRI this week. Imagine, a toe MRI. They thought he might have a bone spur. I’m not sure how a toe can require an MRI, but I do know an MRI always makes someone a lot of money.

We got more serious, and then this week, Mike told me the wound had dried up. Then he said his doctors were shocked. Instead of the customary 10% decrease in whatever it was they measured, it was 50%. They called off the MRI.

They didn’t really expect a good outcome. By treating the wound instead of cutting his toe off, they were humoring Mike. I think they fully expected to cut it off when he gave up.

He says he feels burning and tingling in the area of the wound. That’s interesting, because those are the things people who receive divine healing most commonly mention, if they feel anything at all.

Maybe he’ll escape the Northeast again soon.

It’s very important to pray when you have a physical problem. It’s important to use oil and confess. It’s important to cast out demons, tell the problem to get out, and command the flesh to heal. It works. Go to Youtube and look up T.B. Joshua or Windsor on Fire if you doubt it. Look up an Inside Edition segment on John Mellor.

Now you’ve heard what happened to Mike, so God has the glory.

The Northeast is doing poorly. Boston just hosted Satancon. Yes, there is a convention devoted to Satan, the worst idiot ever created. I’ll post a video.

It’s amazing to watch Satan’s stooges acting up in the video. They’re so proud of themselves. Their entire lives are continuous smirks. They tear up Bibles. They say they’re smashing patriarchy, which is actually one of the foundation stones of a successful existence. They created a cartoon video featuring a friendly goat named Satan, and they talk about what a swell guy he is. He wants you to be yourself, have fun, learn, and above all, be released from the bonds of Christianity.

Yes, Christianity. That awful religion that emphasizes love, self-sacrifice, kindness, generosity, honesty, and patience. Who wouldn’t want to be freed from that?

I wonder if the Satan thing is driven by Catholics. The people who hate Christianity the most, after jihadis, are ex-Catholics. There is something about the semi-pagan cult of Catholicism that makes former members extremely disgruntled.

The cartoon video is for kids. It’s purpose is to promote Satanism clubs in schools.

The older I get, the more I realize I got to know Satan by knowing my sister. They have the same personality. Completely contemptuous of the truth. Narcissistic. Cruel. Insolent. Without mercy. Controlling. Satan’s children are like Satan. The people in the Youtube video remind me of what I learned.

I see why God will put liars in the lake of fire, as he has promised. They’re unbearable. They make people who tell the truth do a tremendous amount of work to disprove their lies. They turn people who believe them into slaves. They prevent people from learning the truth and finding freedom and blessings.

One of the lies the Satanists in the Youtube video promote is the one that says they don’t believe in Satan. Of course they do. They just pretend they don’t so they can avoid the pitfalls and obstacles of promoting a new religion. They can attract gullible atheists. They can go into schools without triggering lawsuits.

If they didn’t believe in Satan, they would call themselves freethinkers or something. They wouldn’t jam Satan in people’s faces. They’d be more like James Randi’s bunch.

Randi. There’s a guy who made a living destroying himself.

Back in Kentucky, where I was born, they have an expression they use to describe a liar. They say she will sooner climb a tree to tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth. This is how my dad described my sister when he was frustrated.

Liars are infuriating, because it’s impossible to get them to confess. Prove they’re wrong, and they won’t admit it. They tell new lies in response to the truth, or they accuse you of things in order to deflect. Eventually, you want to give their heads the Gallagher Sledge-o-Matic treatment, just to end the misery they cause. Liars are like biting flies that never stop.

I think this is why Joe Biden annoys me so much. He lies constantly, and almost no one checks up on him, because the MSM is dishonest. Trump lies a lot too, but he lies about unimportant things like his golf scores and how many people show up at his rallies. Biden lies about serious matters that affect all of us. He and his crew tried to steal the election by lying about his son’s laptop and his daughter’s diary. Whether the effects of these lies were big enough to put him over the top, I don’t know, but Biden and his team are disgraceful, contemptuous liars who took advantage of a rigged system and an ignorant public.

“As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.” There’s a verse for our current White House occupants.

Leftists love to complain about Trump’s lies, but in reality, the true things he says are what make them most unhinged.

The Satancon video reminded me why God is bringing the tribulation. Most people need it, because they hate the truth and anyone who tells it. Indescribable suffering is the only thing that will wake them up and come clean, and most of them won’t even respond to that.

Name a leftist cause, and the Satanists are for it. Environmental extremism, socialism, perversion…across the board, they side with the left. Because Satan is the father of all leftists. This is why I use the word “leftist” to describe nearly anyone who is against God.

I doubt there are any prominent Satanists who are conservative, and we all know witches only gather to curse conservatives and Christians, never wacked-out leftists. Somehow, stupid people are still inclined to give Satanists a chance, and they don’t see Satanism as a leftist religion.

The philosopher George Santayana is famous for saying, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” as though this were a brilliant observation and something that was not already obvious. Leftists can’t learn from the past. The things they promote have caused terrible destruction in the past, but they keep pushing them as though they were clever new ideas.

It’s funny they call themselves progressive, because they keep returning to catastrophically-wrong notions that were disproved centuries ago.

I always say they’re like people who step in the same pile of manure over and over. That’s actually Biblical, now that I think about it. Proverbs 26 covers it:

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

In 2 Peter 2, Peter referred to the verse about dogs:

The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

I had a weird dream night before last. I was in a field, like my pasture. The air was warm, but it was dry. The sky was overcast. Thousands of feet up, I saw a tangled mass of angry-looking clouds.

The wind was blowing, but it was a strangely uniform wind. Ordinarily, wind is turbulent, and it shifts around. It varies from place to place. The wind in the dream all moved in the same direction. It was as though the atmosphere were a shell around the earth, and it was all moving one way at once.

It looked like rain, but the rain didn’t fall. I was fine, but the sky and the wind had a very ominous feeling to them. The wind seemed to be blowing to another place, where bad things would happen. It was as though the clouds would come down in that place, and the storm would do great damage.

I went to the grocery yesterday, and when I went outside to start the drive, the sky was overcast. The air was warm, but it was very dry. I looked up and saw grey clouds much like the ones in the dream. It felt eery. Again, ominous.

The sky I saw was unlike the sky in the dream in one way. On one side, the clouds were broken, and I saw shafts of bright sunlight pouring through from above. The clouds around the openings the sun came through had silver borders.

It made the whole spectacle seem even stranger.

When I look up and see the sun pouring through big openings in overcast skies, I always feel as though God’s throne room is behind the clouds, and he is gathered there with his angels, looking down from a place of unearthly righteousness. That’s how I felt yesterday.

As I drove home, I thought I saw a rainbow to the left of my car, but when I looked carefully, I couldn’t find it. I thought, “The last thing I want to see is a rainbow.” Rainbows make me think of the end.

The rainbow is a reminder of God’s promise that he won’t use water to destroy the world a second time. Next time, it will be fire, according to the Bible. When perverts use the rainbow as their symbol, it’s just Satan using them to taunt God. “You can’t drown us again.”

Maybe the perversion flag is Satan’s way of saying that since he can’t use water, God will have to burn people he loves if he wants to end Satan’s rule here.

Maybe leftists are like hostages with Stockholm Syndrome. Maybe Satan is saying, “If you want to take me out, you have to go through them.”

Things keep getting worse. There is no reason to think it will ever end. I’m glad I’m not near a blue city, and I’m thrilled to know my wife and I have hope of leaving in the rapture before the real misery starts.