How to Show Love!

How to Show Love!                           Kelly Durant   2-17-07 Re 2-8-26

 

 1 John 3:16

 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

 

1. Today we will talk about love! I could talk about love all year! I was young when the Beatles sang “Love, Love, Love…All You Need Is Love!” At that time in a cold love starved, tough love parents, and cold war society, people wanted to hear that they needed love, “All you need is love”! We need God’s love, and the love of each other, or we will shrivel up and die! Harlow, a psychologist, did experiments on baby monkeys and proved that without love from a mother or father babies die right away! The baby monkeys would run from the rough wire monkey with milk and hug up to the other furry monkeys. We don’t need psychologists to prove the power of love to keep us alive, we know that instinctively!

 

In I John 3:16 in begins with; Hereby, perceive we the love of God. The first key word is perceive! Love is not love until you give it away! Love is perceived, a manifestation of an action which is from some feeling, or emotion, or passion. In the Greek perceive means to touch, to see or understand by experience: to know. Love is hard to describe but to give an illustration it is like the wind, that we can see by what it affects but we cannot see the wind itself.

 

2. The effects of love we can perceive and define in the manifestation of the 3 T’s; time, talent, and treasure. Love is the opposite of selfishness, instead of the person making him or herself as the owner of everything; it is a position that gives up all to another.

 

In the verse we perceive the implied by knowing all of what Jesus did for us, he died on the cross and gave us forgiveness of sins and healing. ‘Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren’.

 

Jesus gave up all of his time, talent, and treasure. He gave up all, all the time while he was alive and then He gave up all in his death. Laying down his life was something that was a proof and manifestation of his love. He did it while living and then while He was dying, laying down his life for us means for all people of all nations and tribes, in the past, present, and future!

 

We know how Jesus gave up all to show us love, so now let’s carry out a study on how to get others and God to perceive our love. Before applying this to the work of God, let’s apply it to the normal universal human relationships which God created as an example for us to learn from.

 

3. I recall as early as age 14 when you had feelings of love for another girl the expected was that one should show off your talent, I have written several dozens of poems in my life and I imagine you have too. At this time of year of Valentine’s Day, cards with flowers and poems are mailed and delivered so much that it is multimillion dollar industry!   

 

Just to erase any doubts the most beautiful and intense songs I have written have been for my wife Regina!

One Chorus states this:

‘And everyday you choose to stay, 

Shows how love wins anyway!

Hey, I know, love is for eternity

Hey, You know, love’s what made us to be’.

 

Before poems were like this: Roses are red, violets are blue

Sugar is sweet my love, but not as sweet as you!

Poems are only one type of expression but talent applied is imperative.

 

To prove intensity, or passion in love, you must apply your personal unique talents!

 

4. Another proof of love is the treasure, or sacrificial part; how much are you willing to spend? If she perceives you have a lot of money and you buy one rose, instead of a dozen you may be in trouble! When there is love, the other person expects to be treated with a more class than the ordinary.

 

To prove seriousness, or dedication in love, you must apply your personal money, or treasure.

 

Another imperative factor for love is time. You cannot say to your boyfriend (or girlfriend) I love you but I don’t have time to talk to you because I am so busy. For important people, we all have a tendency to make time to communicate! If you are not taking time sharing all the details of your life, your dreams, your pains, your desires with the one you claim to love, then how does a person believe it is love?

 

To prove credibility, or confidence in love, you must take time to communicate, and share your innermost secrets.

 

5. Taking these 3 examples of the expressions and perceptions of love, we can apply them as a thermometer to your life to determine how hot or cold your temperature is for how much you have love for God.

 

Talent:

Do you share your talent with God and others? Some of you do it well, refereeing to you here, and recall God sees every little thing you do with your talents. You show your love by: cooking, painting, teaching, singing, cleaning, leading meetings, disciplining. God knows your names and everyone does. Applying talent shows love.

 

Treasure:

Any program, any building, any operation requires money and thank God we are able to keep going due to your tithe and offerings support, and the support of outside donations along with the major gifts donated by those who are generous. I know many of you give the maximum of what you can and God knows and he blesses the cheerful giver.

Material gifts from your income prove love and it has been that way ever since the Cain and Abel noting that God expects an offering of sacrifice for us to proof our love!

 

Time:

I have seen others give their time since they did not have any money and that is very valid as well! 

I pray you are spending more time with God. Are you reading your Bible and praying? We are doing more prayer lately too.  Everyone must spend quality time with God, we must study His word and consume it as our daily bread so we learn what it is He desires from us. 

 

6. Imagine having a friend but you never spend time with them and you never learn about their wishes!? Do you know what God wants you to do with your life? We pray and talk to Jesus as our best friend so He knows we are honoring and respecting Him and this is proof of our love through the connection of communication. Allow God to talk to you, He will reveal verses, or show you by a sign, or a peace what His will is.

 

And finally, finishing the verse it states: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. The point is, Jesus proved His love, He laid down His life: now all of us are forever challenged to prove our love by showing the same level of sacrifice! We may never die for Him, so we must serve Him daily!

 

Proof of love requires manifestations in time, talent, and treasure given to God’s work so that another brother or sister, or mate can perceive it!

 

How good a lover are you?. Do you spend quality talent, treasure, and time with the one you claim to love? Or with your Christian friends and family? 

 

7. And again, how do you love God? If God were to measure your love for Him, what you do to show your love for Him and for your neighbor as yourself? 

 

We have the standard of Jesus laying down His life and this was the maximum love ever expressed by God and by His Son on earth! This type of supernatural, unexplainable, amazing, intense, merciful love provokes a response! How much have you loved back or will love back?

 

With God you can never love enough, but with some people we must establish limits of our love. Matt 7:6  “Don’t give pearls to swine”. 

 

You and I both have had bad experiences with other human beings with whom we have given a lot of love to; we have given our passion, our dedication, and our confidence only to be let down because they were too selfish and arrogant to understand what love is and be thankful for it. Measure love, is the person you are loving thankful, or indifferent, giving or returning nothing, or are they reflecting back your passion?

 

8. At one time or another, we all have been unloving and unappreciative towards God or some Christian friend in the church who has loved and helped. But no one of us here is full of love to our potential yet! If you were you would be like the young ruler in reverse who was told to sell everything and give to the poor and follow Christ, and you would do it and be right now on fire preaching every day to every one about the love of Jesus for all! You would be giving your life for full time service for Jesus!

 

How sad it is that some people have been loved by God through you or I, yet they have still remained in a selfish pit of ingratitude! But we love out of obedience to God, not to get loved backed, amen? We simply must love and leave the rest to God!

 

Love someone today! Love gives a chance and God reveals His love to all in many ways over and over and we should too! He wants us to just love and to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters! Loving God and your neighbor, (and your soul mate) is in obedience to the scripture! Can others perceive that you are giving love? Love as Jesus did, love in Jesus’ name, and you will make a big difference in the lives of those closest to you, and to anyone in your path!

Human Trafficking: It’s Worse Than What You Have Ever Known!

Human Trafficking: It’s Worse Than What You Have Ever Known!  

 Re 1-26-25.   Kelly Durant

 

2 Peter 2:2-4  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.

 

2. How many of you of think we are in better times, that in general slavery has been abolished? No longer are people wearing chains plowing in farm fields but is the era of slavery really over? January always is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and we must all be instrumental in helping to rescue and heal those caught up in it! How sickening and sad to know many children are used and abused and many corrupt officials and media outlets are getting paid off to let it keep happening!

 

I did a google search and this is what came up concerning slavery today…. ‘Estimates of the number of slaves today range up to 50 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used. Slavery in the 21st century  https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/#:~:text=An%20estimated%2050%20million%20people,modern%20slavery%20for%20160%20countries

 

Is that not shocking? That is like the entire population of Colombia, or Spain! And honestly, I think those numbers are low! Many of the persons trafficked are prostitutes, even child prostitutes! About 2-3 million are in the United States and many of them are minorities.

 

3. How does God feel about people owning other people as their slaves to be abused, adulterated, and extortioned? He detests it and excludes these kinds of people from heaven! (KJV) 1 Corinthians 6:8-10 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

 

But as you all well know, we live in a fallen world, taken over by Satan’s authorities which control religious, governmental, and entertainment organizations, and since we are in the end times, we can only expect more of these above-named evil activities to increase. Also, much of it is coming to light! But in vain millions of pages exist!

 

It’s sad because so many young people, especially those of minorities groups or with single parents, fall into the trap of evil seducers who promise them big money and hob knobbing with influential people in exchange for committing crimes against God and humanity. After 5 or so years of abuse, they are often then thrown away to the street like a sick ugly dog or murdered since they have no papers. These human extortioners, which range from street low-lifes to billionaires control their naïve victims usually by getting them addicted to drugs, by enticing them with wealth and fame, by exercising over them extreme fear and intimidation, and by disorientation moving them to another city or country, or island. As in the case of Epstein, many employ mind control and blackmail tactics. They evade the law usually because the victims are afraid for their lives, for the lives of their families, and consequently they suffer in silence never seeking help.

 

4. Okay, now that I have shared the shocking information about how massive this abominable soul condemning abuse is, we must now ask ourselves, how can we be a part of the solution to help save the suffering? To begin with, you and I can pray God will use you and me one day to see an injustice and then act to do something about it. If only one person in every hundred people aggressively tried to help a victim out, we could rid ourselves of this plague in a few years. We might need to quadruple our jail space size though!

 

Here is a major problem I see; Christians and most large church congregations are afraid to tackle this issue, but they should actually be the first ones to respond! It is a moral and physical injustice! And sadly, for some huge churches worldwide, sexual exploitation is ignored, covered up, and under Satan’s control, and it keeps on proliferating. Sexual sins in many ways are dividing and destroying the churches everywhere!

 

Millions of people commit the sin of omission for not denouncing this and doing something when they learn of someone being abused or falling into the hands of evil abusive people. I am very thankful that our church, The Salvation Army has safe houses for the victims in almost every State in the U.S., and we also have them around the world where victims can get rehab, learn a skill, live in a new city, and start a new life. 

 

5. What is sad is that the world promotes sexual exploitation sins (porn, prostitution, etc.) as if they are normal, legal, and acceptable. A friend of ours who ran to be Mayor of a (certain) City told us that the first ones to come offer him money (in case he was the victor) were the owners of the strip clubs! Evil exploiters always work in the dark from behind the scenes, it is Satan’s secretive way.

 

The mafias in New York and L.A. don’t even need to pay off officials anymore to sneak in illegal drugs and people, all they have to do is find some rebellious teenager online that wants to run away from home! They get enticed by people they have never met and then after meeting up with them are trapped and enslaved just like in the movie made in 2017 ‘Trafficked’.  

 

These evil gangs can put her or him in a hotel room and make more than $1,000 per night, so one youth over time can make someone a million dollars before they are abandoned or killed! This is like having a chain on someone who is forced to labor. It is a hell with no freedom, no education, and no normal life like others. 

 

6. Have you ever wondered, what happens to all the missing children year after year? In the U.S. alone about 500,000 go missing per year! What a huge number! Apart from exploitation many children are captured for Satanic ritual abuse (SRA)! The practice of abusing children and then killing them has been Satan’s game from the beginning of time as with the Baal and Moloch! People who play with Satan’s crowd are commanded to perform acts that will guarantee them hell as a punishment for abominable works.

 

 The children of Israel were forbidden to offer their children to the false pagan (Satanic) gods who always wanted human sacrifice. Leviticus 18:21

And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

 

This is why Satanic groups in society are nothing to play with nor respect! Due to their secret evil practices by blackmail and coercion, Christians must demand they never be allowed in our community schools, libraries, or clubs and organizations. Their statues in public must come down! They are parasite vermin destroying communities from within by their immorality, corruption, murders and extortions.

 

7. Those of us who love God are often naïve to all the evil around us, while the people of the world think violence, disappearances, and exploitations are just the normal ways of the world. Those living a lie hold the truth as the enemy! Vs 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

 

The pattern we observe is that people who are evil, violent, vile and abusive, with secret sins having a double life, are the ones who may be the most outspoken against the people of God because we speak the truth, and the truth exposes their evil and lies! Christians usually are the only ones who expose their deeds as evil, so we are hated the most, maligned and under attack, either to be sabotaged in our fellowships internally by Judases, shamed by the media, or shut down by new illogical, illegal, non-freedom-of-speech laws targeting us. 

 

After all the agendas are in place already, there is a now a new push to normalize pedophilia. Marriage, or casual you know what, between an 8-year-old and a 50-year-old should be legal and normal, according to many people who support certain political and religious views!? So, if the murder of a newborn is fine, then why not any s_x as one pleases? We are as in the days of violent Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

8. So, we are on God’s side and what is He going to do about it? Vs 3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

 

God is going to judge, condemn, and lock into hell the demons and the dead souls who have practiced these abominable acts! The practice of demons is to own their host, to have them as their property or merchandise. so they do extreme lude and offensive acts. They get them to recruit and entice others into a sinful lifestyle as well which will bring upon their souls and bodies horrible consequences and judgement. Beware that certain political parties, certain religions, and certain companies want to own you and me. They will punish you or kill you if you do not think, act, speak, and support all the soul damaging agendas they dictate to you. 

 

Satan hates God’s beautiful creation of humankind and he wants all ages and races of people to be rapidly killed by extreme exploitation! What a crime and an outrage that people would destroy their own, even those from their own families and neighbors by trying to own another’s soul, mind, and demand vile activity in order to make money from them, or get them to do evil. 

 

9. So, we need to warn everyone, even the children, and we need to do awareness campaigns to expose that this type of evil is an abomination to God and a crime against humanity. Human trafficking may include exploiting others for the drug trade, sexual abuse, and unpaid labor and an infinite amount of secretive sinful activities.

 

Take note that this abuse happens on a scale of entire nations! In (fill in the blank) if you do not like their government and policies, and if you do not conform to their abuse of you as a slave to their leaders to labor in a factory, you will end up in a slave prison camp. There, your kidneys, or any body part, will be harvested at any moment they please so the state can then make a huge financial profit off of you! Atheistic political parties, or false Satanic domineering cult-like religions (those opposing the glorifying of Jesus), are murderous and abusive and never fulfil their promises to you for peace, equality, justice, and a god-like status. 

 

Watch and pray and be very cautious with certain organizations, gangs, mafias, and even your neighbor down the street, as Satan is always on the prowl, like a roaring lion seeking who he can devour. Pray that you and I can protect our own from being owned by another person who will make merchandise of them. Save your own and save a stranger when possible! Jesus will guide you, be courageous! Let’s expose human trafficking so these monsters cannot operate in our neighborhoods! 

      

 

You know you can expose suspicious activities when you see them, here is a website for that https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/identify-victim?utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=rg.search-fy20.broad-allcit&utm_content=human&utm_term=human%20trafficking%20statistics

God’s Timeline: Where are we in 2026?

God’s Timeline: Where are we in 2026?         By Kelly Durant 1-11-26

Ecclesiastes 3 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: 2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up

2. Are you like me, you always wonder, what time is it on God’s watch, and what is to come next? Knowing history, and knowing that it often repeats in cycles, we can become quite disturbed by current events, and by what schemes the nations are sinisterly planning. Digital IDs along with crypto currencies are in the works for a total control of all nations, but the good news is, God is in control! We know He has a plan for the lives of each one of us, His children, each of us are on His timeline, so we need not worry. Many beautiful souls in the past did die as martyrs, but we are in His hands no matter our fate, no matter the year of intense events.

The Bible, within its warnings and future events planned for God’s people (and the punishment of the wicked), are predicted on a time scale. When a nation is built up on wickedness, a time comes for God to destroy it. One of the first warnings and wrathful destruction came through Noah; God gave the people a 120 years grace period, but then after that there was the flood reset. No one repented in that 120-year period! From then on it was up to the decedents of Noah to rebuild Godly governing systems but sadly, due to the lingering sins they harbored in their memories and damaged DNA (from the wives of Noah’s sons), this world rapidly became corrupted again.

The world is very corrupted still with people ignoring the worship of God and Jesus and to love their neighbors being under the leadership of the demons and Satan (no matter the nation, they are all murderous and evil). The world will remain this way until all the prophecies of Revelation and Daniel are fully completed, and then, on God’s timescale, not on one we can calculate, Jesus will return to bring into existence a New Heaven and a New Earth! What a wonderful new start! Then the demons, the lost rebellious souls, and the fallen angels will be locked up in the fiery bottomless pit of Hades so they can no longer tempt and corrupt God’s creatures. These terrible demons in high places have created horrible pain, oppression, destruction, and suffering since the beginning…and all people continue experiencing their corruption until today!

3. “To everything there is a season.” Many things happen in 100-year intervals. For example, after the flood it appears that, according to the genealogical ages of Noah’s grandsons (Nimrod, in particular) that the construction of the tower of Babel began about that time. Another major event was the splitting of the continents, Genesis 10:25 “To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided”. That was also around 100 years after the flood as well. How disturbing that Nimrod aspired to reach the heavens to try to make himself to be like God! And many thousands supported him in the tower’s construction until they got their languages confused! How quickly people forgot God!

Aspiring to gain a god-like status, or apotheosis, is satanic pride, and observe that we have a repeat of this rebellion happening throughout our 6,000 years of current history. Isaiah 14:14 I (Lucifer, Satan) will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’  Noah’s great grandsons knew of God’s judgements on the earth from the flood, but they rebelled anyway and established oppressive, slave driven nations, making themselves out to be super-human-god-like animals to be worshipped (ex. Griffons, & hybrid creatures, etc.) which is idolatry all beginning with the very first nations of the Sumerian/Egyptian cultures. 

We know that from the Sumerians, (Iran) the Egyptians branched off, and militarily others took over after them as the Mede-Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. We conclude by their similarities in idolatry that they simply changed the names of their demon gods, that people were commanded to worship. How disturbing that many of these religions included human sacrifice! They practiced occult knowledge (deception) with an elite priesthood class adapting expressed forms of human-animal-like-beings to be worshipped. Today, Baal (bull cults, fertility & weather controlling gods, aka Zeus, Jupiter) are still occultly worshipped by elites in their secret societies, in tunnels, and private clubs; idolatry continues today with billions of people!

4. In 2026, where do we stand with false god worship? Most world religions today worship past dead teachers that established moral codes or spiritual ritual practices, being manipulative and deceptive. Many of them believe in killing you if you do not submitt to their oppressive order! John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. 3 And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. 4 But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them. For 2 millennia Jesus Christ has been preached and He has converted many millions of lost souls and transformed individuals into become loving creatures! This is contrary to the filthy, hateful beings these people were before His touch of conviction and salvation by means of the Holy Spirit.   

Idolatry has a new phase. It appears there will be a rise in the worship of our man-made technology, AI, robotics, etc. AI combines the knowledge of all religions into one to calculate out the conclusive ultimate religion, and this is the worship of man himself (from the erroneous input that man invented the idea of God). With AI gaining consciousness (?), an insidious, illogical speculation, it appears that the ‘image of the beast’ (we being the beast beings, and a copy of us is made, the image) has come into fruition within recent years. Note that technocracy has become a new religion with millions of adherents. These idol worshippers put their faith and trust in the computer’s quantum outputs and productions and not in God, who would convict them of their sins. Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. Computers are constructed with these materials and are dead without electricity.

The final world power to come about, the worship of self, as depicted in the 10 toes of Daniel 2, fused with technology consisting of the clay (flesh) merged with iron (machines), is here! ‘Transhumanism is defined as a philosophical movement that advocates for the enhancement of humanity through artificial intelligence and converging technologies, with the goal of overcoming biological limitations and combating aging to achieve immortality’- Google. This trans-human movement is, in essence is a religion, a replacement of all the previous ones. Currently in 2026 everyone appears to be using and trusting in AI answers above any historical precepts established by God in the Holy Scriptures.

5. Technocracy is here. This leads us to ask who is programing the computer search engines and check points to give us the outcomes we currently obtain? It is Satan using his programmed people! In Daniel we see how Satan will maneuver the world’s final government religion, and it will be the worship of Satan himself! Daniel 11:37 He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.

The filters on computer programs currently delete, omit, or mock many posts containing Jesus’ content as they deem these as harmful, or ‘hurty’. As we know in Chi_a and other countries like England and Canada, critical opinions will get you put in jail deeming you guilty of hate speech. Not allowed are comments about the government, or of certain crimes committed by certain religious radicals. The exception though is for Christians who are freely attacked, gaslighted, and cancelled! What an epitome of a double standard employed for the persecution of good Christian people just preaching the gospel as Jesus commanded in John 15:16!

In 2026, common transactions are out of our hands and are managed by computers. Most all applications for any service must be handled through the internet, QR codes, etc. But if the internet or power goes down, what will happen? Total chaos! No more money from the ATMs, no gas at the pumps, no credit card usage, with stores looted, we will become vulnerable and set up for a self-destruction! The fall of this country is within the scheme of programed obsolescence. The men in the Big Clubs have pushed debauchery and corruption the past decades and consequently we as a nation are bankrupt financially, morally, and spiritually!

6. Considering the cycle of the rise and fall of empires, did you know they occur on a roughly 250-year cycle? That was the rough duration of Rome and of many others. 2026 marks the 250^th year celebration of the foundation of The United States. I can remember the 200^th year celebration in 1776, and it is amazing to me 50 more years have gone by so fast!

Consider ‘Alexander Tytler's Cycle of Civilizations: From bondage to spiritual faith to great courage, liberty, abundance, selfishness, apathy, dependence, and back to bondage’. -Youtube   In our current cultural climate we conclude that we have run the gambit of these qualities and that we are now in an era of dependence. People are too dependent on the government money for survival, on prescription meds for sanity, on computers for work, transactions, and information, and on local stores for all foods and goods. In the case of a mega-disaster, a total monetary failure, or a civil war type catastrophy, only the independent farmers might survive! 

And bondage! There is a major world religion right now trying to impose their bondage on Americans. Who else? The elites like the Rockefellers (one of the 13 Trillionaire families), and also Blackrock and Vanguard own a huge part of every U.S. company, including systems of healthcare, investments, media, food supplies, and more. These evil rulers impose counterproductive globalist, anti-Christ polices. They repeatedly announce they will impose a digital currency, a digital ID and social credit control system by this year 2026 or by 2030. They affirm in their forums implementation of perverse policies provoking people in all nations to become non-reproductive, sick by medicines and foods, and consequently depopulated. We are useless eaters to them and they want our early death! For monetary gain, they have purchased many influential useful mindless puppets to serve their interests! It is very disturbing! But we can, by being aware and nonconformed, escape! John 8:36 Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. Only Jesus’ Word, and the Holy Spirit can open our eyes!

7. So, on God’s timeline where are we? If we begin with the 4004 BC creation date of our world, using the Masoretic Text genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11, (with no significant gaps), we can calculate estimates. The conclusion is we are in the year 6030. However, with some older Bibles, like the 1818 standard editions, from Adam to Christ 3,974 years have passed; by adding 211 years since the 1818 date until now, we get an even 6,000! Either way, sliding into the 6,000^th year of history must imply some signal that we have entered into a different era, or time marker.

How we would love for Jesus to return this year to set up His millennial kingdom completing a 7,000-year cycle! But we do deduct that there might be errors in our calculations of Biblical genealogies, and the date remains a mystery as Jesus himself said Matthew 25:13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming”.

We are in a year in which the “mark of the beast” could globally be mandated. Revelation 13:16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Digital ID implants in the hand connected to your bank and medical accounts are already in use in several countries! 

8. Summarized, God wants us aware, or fore-warned, of the prophecies that will be fulfilled in these ‘last days’ that we are living in. Fulfilled prophecy confirms God’s Word as supernatural truth, and only Jesus gave us details that no other religious teacher can match. 

Ever since the industrial revolution and the murdering of hundreds of millions of people in the recent World Wars (beginning about 100 years ago), people have felt that something sinister is just around the corner. According to recent poll inquiries, 4 in 10 people believe we are in the last days; Biblical literate Christians discern we are in an age of unprecedented significance!

No matter the year we must live by this, Mark 13:32 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. We must live ready to go, ready to stay, ready to do God’s will no matter what! Watch and pray is the command!

9. Knowing how fragile our world is should convict you and me to desperately seek God! When monetary inflation implodes in a country, like in Iran these days, people panic and riot in the streets daily for a new governance. When an evil dictator is removed, rejoicing in the streets also happens. The people in the streets appear as waves roaring, indicating change is inevitable.

How do we live ‘ready’ to go? By living in holiness, love, and bearing good fruit!  By obeying God’s Word. Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

When I was young, I always wondered what the world would be like before Jesus’ return, as in the days of Noah. I never imagined this would include human brain interfaces with computers (transhumanism, robotics, etc), bioengineering of foods and meds for our ignorant consumption of toxins, total corruption and thievery by almost every governmental leader, total debauchery with human child trafficking and organ harvesting, and the blackmailing of the world’s leaders by digital recordings of their nauseating s_x perversions. Satan has perfected control devises and only those with Jesus have a chance to be aware, awake, wise, and escape the traps.

The world is in decay, but true Christians are sprouting new life! Use this year to read God’s Word more, to pray more, to serve one another in love, and to expose evil so it cannot continue to exploit the innocent. Watch and pray! And preach the good news of the forgiveness, salvation and eternal life we obtain by faith in Jesus Christ our Lord and King!  

New Year 2026 Have faith in the decay!

The New Year 2026 Have Faith within the Decay! 1-4-26 

By Kelly Durant 

Mark 11:20-22, 20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

2. We are all creatures of habit. Studies show that if you can make something a habit for 2 weeks then probably you will be able to keep on with the good habit for the rest of the year. So what new habits do you & I need? Are our priorities really in order?

Often for the New Year we hear of people starting a new diet, or getting into an exercise program while others create a strict budget. These things are good but they are only personal and benefit the body. These things are just things of the flesh, and in general as humans we get bored with the flesh easily. John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Try making a goal centered around spiritual growth and getting closer to God: that goal will last you as it is invigorating! 

The truth is we all must review the bad news of the past as this can be a motivator to get you and me to react! Like when a king gets news of losing a battle, the news makes him and everyone disturbed and upset so they unite, work hard, get fired up, prepare tools and supplies, and then go on the attack so they can win the next battle! God wins battles through people and he needs you to be in action for Him in benefit of yourself and others in this New Year of 2026!

3. Every year many of us make new goals but to our own frustration! A 2007 study by Richard Wiseman from the University of Bristol involving 3,000 people showed that,”88% of those who set New Year resolutions fail, despite the fact that 52% of the study's participants were confident of success at the beginning. 

Men achieved their goal 22% more often when they engaged in goal setting, (a system where small measurable goals are being set; such as, a pound a week, instead of saying "lose weight"), while women succeeded 10% more when they made their goals public and got support from their friends.” In other words any one of us will succeed better if we plan on how to make our goals and then make our goals public, and then get support one from another to be accountable!

But Imagine how different the world would be for you and for me if people’s goals (yours and mine) were to be centered around growing spiritually having more faith, to respond more maturely to life’s difficult events, to pray more, to study the Bible more, to get involved and become more useful to God and more active in the Corps and community!  I wish each one of us could say as John the Baptist said, (John 3:30) “He (Jesus) must increase, but I must decrease”.

4. Don’t get discouraged as setting New Year goals seems to be for the most part in vain because they usually are left unaccomplished! Man proposes but God disposes! The factor is people have pride and a lazy sinful flesh that gets in the way so most people put forth very little interest in their own physical or spiritual development: but this we must change. People in general are undisciplined and do not pay attention to their inner voice of conscious of right and wrong, and then take the conviction to do what is right for God no matter the cost & sacrifice! 

To please God you and I must produce fruit for God’s kingdom and that requires seriousness, dedication, work, sacrifice, discipline, humility, and a resilience to the resistance, mockery, and persecution that others will lay on you for doing what’s Godly. These attributes mentioned do not appear to be attractive qualities at first since you must put forth so much effort but in the end, these are values that will invoke respect from others (of high caliber people anyway) and this will produce respect for one’s self, not to mention God’s respect!

5. One simple doctrine of the Salvation Army is to live a Holy life. Today, because so many people have lost their holiness and failed to live as a real Christian should, there exists an increasing overpowering subliminal Satanical passiveness to just let things go in everyone’s mixed up world.  Every year more indifference dominates. The promoted politically correct posture that no one should ever have feelings of guilt or remorse over any sin, scandal, or damaging failure is destroying us!  People are not being punished with appropriate consequences and they have no shame. They have no fear of God nor of authorities! 

A true Christian, however, does not live as a brute animal that falls into any simple trap repeatedly but instead will have the Holy Spirit as an inner voice to correct them to do what is not right in their lives and not be as the cursed decaying world but instead will progress in holiness from year to year sincerely evaluating what was done right and what was done wrong.

Due to an increase in the amount of people who rationalize, legitimatize and endorse sin in the world, the world is decaying beyond repair, like a losing battle with a deadly disease! Only a rise in reactionary moral movements could swing the pendulum back to the right side, but these types of movements always get heavy ridicule and persecution by the media and the powers that be. Individuals in collective groups in society have in general lost their desire and legal ability to fight-for-the-right to uphold Godly standards in leadership; however, the church should be the exception to this trend and be a light in the darkness! We must live by what we pray when we repeat as Christians’ “thy kingdom come!” 

The trend will be ‘more of the same’ for this year and it is not good! Unless Christians wake up, pray and do their part to bring God’s holiness back into all areas of establishments, which includes within the home, the workplace, the colleges, the government, and in the churches, the world’s systems will continue on with their rapid decay, dystopia, and hellish terrorism.

6. Do you remember when Jesus was walking with his disciples and he was hungry and they came upon a fig tree that had no fruit and Jesus condemned the tree and it withered up that same day? Mark 11:20-22 The message of eliminating the useless is affirmed by this act. This we should do at the end of a year to begin a New Year: eliminate the fruitless things quickly!

The way God assesses the useful and non-useful is collectively and individually as He takes into account that you and the group are either going up or going down in your walk with Him.  The Christian life is kind of like a roller coaster ride, you are getting higher, lower, going back up again, or slowing to a stop! Where are you on the growth track? Was the past an up, or down experience in your walk with God? And your spiritual fruit?  So where are you headed in 2026, up or down? Your free will is in control and you must make serious commitments to see fruit.

The entire chapter of Mark 11 teaches us a lesson on having more faith in our prayers, and the final line of verse 22 is of great importance, “Have faith in God”. The disturbing part is that the tree without any fruit was considered by Jesus worthy of quick judgment, of rapid decay and destruction, since its function of producing good fruit was not being exercised. 

 7. The past for many was very discouraging and you read can read about it in the news from reports! You and I must increase our faith to bring about more good into being! Never underestimate yourself, you as a Christian living a holy life, offer the world much more hope than anyone else can! If you are doing good and producing you don’t have to worry about Jesus drying you up! The decayed dry ones of the world have the warning of what’s coming for them!

There is another verse that sends a severe warning to the decaying, to those who do not progress in their walk with God from year to year, to those who have no good fruit and little desire of His ways of correction but they instead continue in their sin. Revelation 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

8. This year of 2026 will for some will bring more growth in the things of God, more good fruit, more faith, more blessings and happiness. However, for others that are only concerned for their selves and the flesh, this year may be just as bad, if not worse, than the one that just passed!

The 2026 year, which for numerically interested people (but please restrain from superstations) adds up to number10, and that looks good! But how you react to all the challenges that will come, whether you have faith and choose the “good and eschew the evil” in your decisions, will determine how the year’s events will turn out for you. For some the future will sadly bring more frustration, more dryness of spirit, and more bad news. But for us who are sincere Christians it will bring new opportunities to grow in faith, to get a new start to get closer to God, a new chance to climb higher with more fruit produced before the final day of the eternal solidifying of a being permanently good or evil. 

Stay positive and optimistic by keeping your spirit wet with the water of God’s word so you produce fruit! The past year has brought billions of people disappointments, insecurities, frustrations, shock from scandals, feelings of personal violations, and more decay with AI robotics taking over but never under estimate the power of one person with God! A righteous Christian person accomplishes much! James 5:16

May the Lord this year help you and me to make a real difference in our home, church, workplace, school, and community!  May the Lord help us to be busy this year “doing His good” by getting closer to Him, growing more in faith, serving others more, saving souls for Jesus, and doing the most we can according to our gifts, calling, and potential! In Jesus Name, Amen.

Christmas: The Kings Honor a Baby         Kelly Durant    Re: 12-14-25

Matthew 2:9-11    ⁹ When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.¹⁰ When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.¹¹ And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.

2. All of us are people surrounded by individuals who are creatures of habit. It is evident that no nation, race, or people will never drastically change past traditions, most are here to stay (Not good in many regards). As Christians we will always celebrate Jesus Christ’s birth while the people of the world will emphasize celebrating gift-giving materialism. Consumerism has morphed itself into a magical man who gives out endless gifts. Santa Claus is a famous fictional character and is used as a tool to market all kinds of merchandise, right?  

It is true that some Christians do not find that Santa Claus so offensive depending on the context and status in which you interpret him. He is just a fantasy and many children know that by age 5. The actual historical basis of the story of St. Nicolas giving out gifts to the poor children is a wonderful example of how we all should be! But Santa from the North pole dominates over the St. Nicolas story!

All of us here, as multi-millions of people, do gift giving as a tradition! Giving and sharing gifts with one another is rewarding, and especially giving to those in hard times; no one doubts that God blesses those who help the needy! (Matthew 25)

3. Here’s my personal take, what if we really did abide by the list of who is ‘naughty’ and who is ‘nice’ in order to qualify who will get a gift and who will not? I think commerce would come to screeching halt if we abided by that rule! Today some children are terrible and no one, not parents, nor teachers are correcting them appropriately. Only when these ego inflated bullies grow up and end up in jail for disrespecting the wrong person and the law do they start to see the light of right and wrong. (if they ever do!)

I wish we could grade adults on how naughty or nice they were as well. Some of you I have observed (but what I observe does not matter really, it is God that sees everything!) have been very good at loving, helping, and of humbly serving and caring for those in need. We should reward goodness, but the world rewards those following the evil trends Satan’s demons inspires others to do. 

Also, we all have seen others with bad behavior, that when they get their pride just a bit little offended, they start saying all kinds of rude things. Like when you scratch a veneer surface, the cheap wood underneath shows through!

4. But let’s contemplate on making our traditions better: God was the first gift giver! He gave Jesus Christ to the world to be the savior so everyone would repent and radically change and by becoming as He was, humble, loving, and serving, we are granted the heavenly gift of eternal life. Our job is to preach the gospel and thereby share the gift of eternal life to everyone we meet. Jesus=the best gift!

Let’s now jump to the part of the story about the other ones in the record that gave material gifts to Jesus. These are kings honoring Jesus as the King of Kings. There usually are the 3 kings in the manger scenes, but these are the ones giving 3 types of gifts. We conclude there were at least 3 but there actually could have several been more. Who knows, but with all their servants they all may have been totaling in the hundreds. 

I find it fascinating that they were kings in their very distant distinct lands, yet they came to recognize the authority of a baby who would grow up to be a king. Think how much faith, humility, and supernatural confidence this requires to travel 6 months to a year there and back! Trusting in a heavenly sign!

5. Also, consider that if they saw the star stopped over a house, why didn’t other people see it and come as well? Were others just not in tune with the heavenly bodies in space? Or were these men special in their spiritual ability to perceive? 

Here is a real Christmas mystery: How did these KINGS from very different cultures and lands very distant from each other all interpret the same reading of the stars and prophesies of their ancient writings or religions that a KING would be found under the spectacular appearing of strange bright star? 

Kings, as we know from history, never bow to anyone. Everyone in their lands is expected to bow to them and give them gifts and taxes; never was it heard of that the kings would give gifts and that they would bow to another authority, especially kneeling in front of a baby!? They not only kneeled, they worshipped Him! That is honor! They were elated filled with “exceeding joy"! Unprecedented!

6. Showing respect and honor will always imply sharing something of value to prove honor. All religions ask for something; some 10%, or you can give 100%, it all depends on how much you will give up for God! God is fair and blesses back.

What I hate about governments is they ask for a usual 20-30% and if you’re rich they might take up to 90% in taxes! (in socialist Europe & elsewhere) Why do you think the English, as well as others, keep immigrating to the U.S.? They are escaping the heavy burden of their taxes. The burden gets heavier day by day everywhere! Here, sadly, it has gotten very burdensome! You’re taxed for working, spending, saving, & when you die whoever gets you stuff will get taxed on that as well!

Have you ever wondered how each king knew how many provisions they would need to travel 6 months to a year to reach Jesus to give Him a gift? Many people here will give to the Lord a few days of their time, but would you do what they did and spend a big part of your fortune on a trip that would mean camping in extreme heat and extreme cold, crossing deserts, facing thieves, and hiring dozens of crews to help you care for your camels and equipment? The honor of these kings required great sacrifice of goods and time!

We know the kings came from the Orient, but from where precisely is still undefined by historians. Many agreed that amongst these kings were one or more of the Zoroastrian kings, which were in power in Persia at the time of Jesus’ birth. 

The King Vishtapa, was Ciro's father, and he had been convinced of the existence of a 3^rd and final savior that would come in the world who would battle in the end of the world and defeat evil. Zoroaster said that a great savior would arise in the world, and his name would be Soasyant, which means one who will fulfill righteousness! Amazingly this goes with same description of Christ in the bible!

7. Contained within the writings and prophesies of these kings was the word that the savior would be born of virgin, and he would live and then be killed but on the third day he would be resurrected. All of this ancient knowledge the wise kings would have shared and known amongst themselves. What irony that the kings of the world honored him while those of Jewish dissent missed what was happening. 

Notice as well in Matthew Chapter 2 that king Herod asked the Jews, what the prophecy said and where would the king be born and they replied in Bethlehem. The Jews had the book of Isaiah and all ancient prophecies that co-incited to confirm the birth of the righteous Messiah, the Christ, or baby Jesus.

These were legendary writings and they confirmed that Jesus would be born the Messiah, not just for the Jews, but for everyone in the orient and for the rest of the world! What makes me upset is how the people of the world reject truth fulfilled in prophecies which is awe-strikingly supernatural, a sign that God is revealing His power to transcend our understanding! 

8. These kings obviously returned home to honor Jesus by telling everyone about Him! They told of all their adventures, of escaping getting killed by Herod over his jealousy, and of finding Jesus below the star. They were evangelistic prophets but how long did their people keep on believing? 20 years, 100, 300, we don’t know!

The news of baby Jesus fulfilling ancient extrabiblical prophecies did not last very long because pagan worship continued in the orient and centuries later the religion of Moh was crafted and new laws were imposed without the influence of Jesus recognized by these ancient kings. A ‘submissive’ oppression spread not by gaining the awe of people as the fulfillment of prophecies, but by fear! Those in that whole region (about 50 countries) who did not bow to ‘their prophet’ were deposed and genocides took place with several hundred million deaths. 

9. So, from today’s study we conclude that honor to our Lord and savior Jesus Christ must be done in a similar manner as it was done by the kings.  How was that honor shown?

By sacrifice: they traveled far, and they gave gifts to prove their revering honor. 

By worship: they kneeled in front of Jesus and recognized his divine authority.

By being ‘in tune’ with the divine: they acted upon seeing the star as a supernatural sign which confirmed that the king they had expected in ancient writings would appear. They honored him as the righteous savior of the world with great joy! Poor shepherds, wealthy kings, and even angels honored Jesus!

If kings honored Jesus, how much more we should honor him! None of us here today are a king or a queen. One day when we join the heavenly host to honor Jesus, God will know who honored Jesus the most! Heavenly rewards will be for those who honor Him now. Every knee will bow to Him, and the sooner we do that the better as all authority is His over souls in Heaven, and in this world.

“May you be filled with the wonder of Mary,

the obedience of Joseph, the joy of the angels,

the eagerness of the shepherds,

the determination of the magi,

and the peace of the Christ child,

And may the Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, bless you now and forever.”