Is Christmas a pagan holiday?

Nearly every year for the past 15 or so I run into some religious legal zealot who insists that anyone who celebrates Christmas, with the traditional decor, is indulging in pagan practices. So let's look at the root of these claims. First it's pretty obvious that Jesus was not born in December, that issue has been around for a very long time. Shepherds were in the fields and they would not be in December. There are typically two different holidays associated with the December celebrations. Saturnalia, a Roman holiday to the god Saturn, or the birth of Nimrod. Some believe that Nimrod is also the person recorded in the epic of Gilgamesh.

History is not clear but many believe that Nimrod may have been king or a king during the construction of Babel. It really does not matter. I will accept that the "original" celebration in December had nothing to do with God. But God is almighty and He has a very interesting sense of humor. 

In East Berlin, shortly after the Soviet Union took control, the Soviets constructed a huge TV tower with a giant ball on the top. Exactly who is responsible for the design of this ball is unclear, I have heard any number of stories, several while I was living in Germany. The interesting thing about this tower is that when sunlight hits the tower, the windows make a huge cross. The West Germans called the tower "The Pope's Revenge". The Russian government tried several different methods to stop the phenomenon with no luck. What else is interesting is that this tower was built at the same time that the Soviets were removing all crosses from religious houses. God got the last laugh. 

Let me propose another idea. Suppose you were an orphan with no idea when you were born. Technically you can choose any day of the year, it's actually been done, and celebrate that day as your birthday.

So now let's go back to Christmas. Did the early "church" try to corrupt worship by bringing in pagan practices? Maybe, but it's my opinion that God hijacked the idea. Maybe God Himself inspired someone to choose this day. If you ask 100 people on the street what a Christmas tree means, I seriously doubt that anyone would say Nimrod or Saturn. (Although some fans of Big Bang Theory might know of Saturnalia. Sheldon spoke about it in an episode). Over the years people have forgotten about Nimrod, except for the legal zealots. 

The first recorded December celebration was in 336 AD, most historians put the fall of Rome around 450 AD. So in the last 2000 years how many Roman pagans have celebrated the festival to Saturn and how many Christians have celebrated the birth of Christ? 

The reality is that it's all a matter of the heart. If you feel convicted by the traditional celebration, then don't do it. But don't pass judgment on people who feel differently. Paul discusses this with the issue of meat offered to idols. It's still just meat, but if it bothers you, don't eat it. So I contend that although Christmas may have began as a pagan ritual, God has redeemed it, just as He has redeemed me, and today Christmas is all about Christ.  So if you have any self righteous friends who believe otherwise, send them here. 

When something just isn't right

I wonder daily what it will take for some people to wake up and realize that something just isn't right. How many different things need to happen before we say hmm?

Let me just make a short list of things both in the main stream news and not so main stream. 

Of course there is covid and the election fraud. And sorry but if you can't see the election fraud then you are hopelessly lost. 

Covid is supposed to be super deadly I had it, my wife had it, my 80 year old mother in law had it. I know several people that had it and none of them died. But they all also stayed out of the hospital. I know of some people that had it, went in the hospital, were placed on vents and died. Do some research, did anyone die from covid that were NOT placed on a vent?  

I want to focus a bit on more current events. Let's look at finances. The US is broke. The national debt is at a point where it can never be paid and the current crop of DC crooks just want to keep spending. In a very short time they will vote to raise the debt ceiling and or for a "continuing resolution". Which just means that they won't make any real decisions but will continue to fund the government. Neither issue is a good idea. The alternative is a government shut down, which in reality is not such a bad thing. Somewhere between 35 and 40 percent of all US money currently in circulation was printed in the last year. Just let this set for a moment. 

In 1972 President Nixon took the dollar off of the gold standard and now US dollars are just backed by "faith" in the US economy. But if you add billions of paper dollars without increasing any production, what will eventually happen? The value of all of that paper is going to be less than the paper it's actually printed on. We are on the edge of run away inflation. 

Last week we had the trial for Kyle Rittenhouse. The verdict was exactly what it should have been, but it never should have gone to trial. It happened in Wisconsin. Less than 1 week later, a criminal is released on bail and he drove his vehicle through a crowd at a Christmas parade. In the same state of Wisconsin. Coincidence? 

At the same time the Maxwell-Epstein sex trafficking case is beginning. There are hundreds of people implicated in Epstein's island. Distraction? 

How about what happened earlier in the month. Alex Baldwin, on a movie set, in a scene which did not call for a gun, fires what was supposed to be a prop gun and kills a member of the crew, Halyna Hutchins. Ms Hutchins is married to an attorney who is connected to Hillary Clinton's attorney Sussman. Sussman has been indited by Durham. Another coincidence? 

Recently Bill Gates, associated with Microsoft and currently banned from some countries due to the damage he and his foundation did with vaccines, recently warned of a smallpox outbreak. And shortly after that, several vials of smallpox are discovered and a man diagnosed with monkey-pox. 

At what point do you stop and say, something just isn't right. The virus is supposed to be super deadly, yet for the past several months there have been sporting events with huge crowds. Freedom rallys with huge crowds. But not a lot of people dead. On the other hand, hockey, basketball, and soccer players which were fully vaccinated dropped dead while playing. No connection? 

If you are ready to ask why, or just ready to accept that maybe something just isn't right, then go over to timetofreeamerica.com a lot of information there.

Do you want to live forever?

When I hear or say this I am reminded of the first Conan movie, around 1982. Some goddess asked Conan this question in a vision. For about as long as history has been recorded, people have searched for a way to live forever.

To get a better understanding of what is happening globally right now, one must accept several principles.

1. Nearly everyone wants to live forever

2. The desire for "stuff" is the root of all evil. (Stuff can be considered money, it amounts to the same thing)

3. All creatures can become addicted to pleasures.

4. No-one likes to be proven wrong.

I could add a couple of more but these four are the primary basis for why the current world is going to shit.

I will start with the last principle, we don't like to be wrong. This idea is why so much of today's "science" is total bullshit. Academics receive grants to do research. In most cases they are looking for something specific and will do ANYTHING to prove this idea. I think the best example is the scam of "global warming". It's been proven time and again to be total BS but there is an agenda and there is funding involved. There are people who want the fear narrative to continue. People can be controlled by fear. Notice that after nearly 2 years a lot of people are still wearing masks. And then there is principle no. 2, the desire for "stuff". If any "scientist" determines that global warming is in fact BS, they lose the funding. And so the lie continues. 

It is this same attitude where we don't like to be wrong which causes so much resistance to accept truth when it's obvious. A lot of people are still wearing masks. Otherwise healthy athletes are dropping dead shortly after receiving a shot and still people are lining up to get it. The current resident was placed in power by massive fraud. Most of the politicians in Washington D.C. are pedophiles. If you are able to connect each of these ideas, then you are awake, or very close.

There have been countless studies on pleasure addictions. It goes along with substance addictions. All animals can become addicted to stuff. 

And when one combines the desire to live forever with the addiction to stuff, and remembering that the desire for stuff is the root of all evil, then it's very easy to understand what is happening.

There are currently five major groups or players in the global war. And make no mistake, we are in the midst of a global war. 

While not precise or inclusive, these are the basic players.

1. The Chinese Communist Party

2. The financial elites.

3. The tech elites.

4. The uncommitted masses

5. The Judaeo Christians

Each of the above players have an agenda. Three of which want the same thing, Numbers 1, 2, and 3, want to rule the entire world. Number 2 has actually been ruling the world for several hundred years, the masses have been asleep at the wheel.

Number 4 really don't know what they want. They go through life believing that this is all that there is. Work hard, collect toys, and the one who dies with the most wins. They're not looking for eternal life and find a substitute for fulfillment in stuff. It's principle 3, people can be addicted to stuff.

The people in group 5 are more likely to wake up sooner, that is if they are actually grounded in scripture and understand what it says. Most of what is happening has been prophecies in several places. This group is less likely to develop the stuff addiction, or at least not quite so severe. And they know, even if they don't quite understand it, that life is already eternal. 

So in a nutshell, here is what's happening today.

The CCP wants to rule the world, their population has reached a point where it is very difficult to feed all of them. They also have a problem similar to the USA. A very large part of the population will reach retirement age soon. And there is a critical shortage of skilled middle aged laborers. To solve this problem they are attempting several things. 1. They released a virus designed to kill off a significant portion of elderly people. 2. They currently own a significant number of US politicians. Both at the national and state level. 3. They want the continent of North America to become their primary farmland. (Bill Gates, who is possibly owned by the CCP, although he could simply be a tech elite, currently owns more farmland than anyone else in the nation.) In order to do this,they must take over the country. With so many people in government owned by the CCP, do you understand why the current resident is allowing thousands of 16-20 year old males to come through the southern border unchecked? These are military age, and acquiring firearms in the US, especially with government help, is not a far stretch. We are being invaded by an army, bent on the US destruction.

The financial elites want to control the world also. They have done so with central banking. In nearly all nations they have a central bank, and if you do some research you can find that all of the banks are connected to the same group. The central banks have financed both sides of every war at least since Napoleon. While it's true that the victor writes history, if one does some digging other ideas can be found. It is quite possible that Napoleon was actually trying to remove the central bank control. 

The Federal Reserve, (which is neither federal nor a reserve, it's a private entity that charges the US corporation 0.10 for every dollar printed.) This can also be called the Bank of DC. Then there is the Bank of London, Deutcbank (Germany), and The Vatican are the primary banks. What most Americans do not know is that in 1871 the US constitution was re-written. A new corporation was established and the primary holders of the corporation are The Vatican Bank, and Bank of London. Our birth certificates are treated like stocks and according to maritime law, we are actually not sovereign US citizens. Go to this page for more information, https://annavonreitz.com/  I encourage everyone to take action to become a state sovereign citizen. The majority of the financial elites worship satan. And believe that he can give them eternal life. 

The tech elites want to rule the world also, they see immortality in a different perspective. They believe that through technology, merging the human with tech, one can achieve immortality. If one could remove the brain and place it in a robot, then as parts break down they are replaced but the brain continues. As SCI-FI as this may sound, there was a recent meeting of the trans-humanists. 

So today we have a certain amount of overlap in the parties who want dominion. As the CCP, the financial and tech elites all want some of the same things, there is some amount of cooperation. The CCP wants to kill off as many seniors as possible. The satanists want to kill off about 80% of the globe and the tech elites want to conduct experiments to see how to merge tech with humanity. So we have the shot, filled with who knows what. The manufacturers will not tell us and as it's an emergency authorization they don't have to. Many labs have released some findings, which the media labels as fake. (The media is owned by the financial elites).

We do know that a part of the injection re-programs one's DNA to make a spike protein. At least that's what we're told. What else can be programmed? Look up CRISPR technology. Also look up SORT, Selective ORgan Targeting.

The forth group, the uncommitted masses, are the hardest ones to deal with. They watch the media and swallow the cool aid. They don't want to discuss politics or religion and simply want to go back to "normal". These are the folks who get in line and will do whatever the government says to do. Cliff High calls this group the "normies". A small portion is still capable of critical thinking and I think there are some who are actually waking up.

The final group, the Judaeo Christians. This group already knows there is eternal life. That the pleasures of this life will not compare with what is ahead. When the whole agenda first came out, it was primarily people in this group, those who are well grounded in all of scripture, that said something is wrong. It boggles my mind the number of professing Christians who blindly followed the direction of our governments. Did they not notice how nearly every government across the globe instituted the same policies? 

The initial question was asked; Do you want to live forever?

You will. There is simply an address change. I wrote in an earlier blog that the fountain of Life is real and it flows straight from the throne of God. It's living water and available for whosoever may come. The cost is cheap yet expensive at the same time. It costs yourself. One must accept that I am not enough. That the accumulation of stuff will only satisfy my addictions, but not my spirit. And it takes surrender. Tell Him today that you are sorry, that you missed it and want to receive life. Accept that Christ Himself has paid for your failures and commit life to Him. The promise of eternal life is right before you. Choose you this day who you will serve, will it be the gods of the world, whose promises are empty, or the God of eternity who promises life?

Using a mated queen for removals

 It's been awhile since I actually did a beekeeping blog post. Here is something that I've now tried three times with success so I figured I'd pass it along. In the months of September and October I did a lot of removals. I try to avoid anything in the building structure, there is simply too much liability in tearing up someone's house. I will, on occasion, do a removal from soffit or if I know the homeowner I might get a bit more involved. I've had pretty good success lately in finding the queen, I'd estimate 90% or better. What I typically do when I find the queen is cage her and put in whatever box I'm using. Usually a 5 frame nuc. I put comb in frames with rubber bands, put in a few thousand bees then just leave the box right where the colony was, and the bees are typically inside by dark. Sometimes I can't find the queen and so either I'll vacuum up as many bees as possible, or put as many bees as I can in a box with comb and leave it there, hoping that maybe the queen is already in the box. This has worked several times, apparently I had her but just did not see her. But on at least three removals I was not so lucky. One was in soffit. I put bees in the box with comb, left the box on the roof and went back at dark. When I left, bees were going in so I thought she was in there. Went back and there were several large clusters where comb used to be. So the queen was not in the box. Another was a water meter box. I really enjoy doing these, I think finding the queen here is better than 90%. But I did one and could not find a queen. In fact I found no eggs but a lot of brood from day 3 or 4 on. Looked like they lost the queen a couple of days before I got there. Again I tried putting comb in a box, took all of the old comb out of the meter box and went back in the evening. More than half of the bees were clustered in a corner of the meter box. And the third one was something I did just last weekend. Bees in a compartment of a camper trailer. They had several very thick honey combs and some broke off as soon as I lifted the cover. Searched for quite some time and did not find her. Put a lot of bees in the box with comb. Watched for a while and others were going in. Went back that evening and inside of the trailer there were several large clusters all around. So in each of these cases I was certain the queen was not in the box. And as they were not in a single cluster, there was no queen. If there was still a queen, the bees would be in a single cluster. Being that I raise queens and had some mated in the bank box, I tried an experiment. I went back and put one of my mated queens in a frame and taped the end so they could not chew the candy plug. In all three cases, when I went back the next evening, all of the bees were in the box. Now you may say this works for me because I make queens, but it can work for anyone else too. I have for a long time advocated that every beekeeper should have a five frame nuc in every apiary they operate. It's a resource hive. You move brood frames every 1 or 2 weeks to build up production colonies and you always have an emergency queen. Should anyone find themselves in a similar situation, you simply go to this resource hive, remove the queen, catch the removal and then return the queen back to the nuc. At worst she's out for 2-3 days. At best less than 1 day. And now you have some other options. With the queen out of the nuc, the bees will be making queen cells. You can cut them off, make up another nuc or put the frame in the new removal.