This is literally everything I hate about church. Like, just this superficial authority, that sits there clothed in flannel, and shames someone for having an outburst of authentic emotions about something for all intents and purposes, we all should be a little worked up about. Israel and Iran are at war, America is getting ready to persecute the Saints. She wasn't demonically possessed. Or a lunatic. She's probably sick by heartbreak, and a Pastor's job is to balm the sick, not cast them out of their church. Literally, have you seen the world today? She's crying out about how evil the world is. Does a demon shout, "Every knee shall bow," obviously speaking about Jesus? Honestly, she's probably a woman who sees the state of the world, and this was her reaction. Just good old fashioned emotions getting the better of someone. Not Satan. If this pastor were mature, he wouldn't broadcast it to the whole world, he wouldn't try to say she's a demoniac because she's obviously not. He'd preach a sermon on the state of the world, and how we have to be vigilant for Christ, and accept that trials and persecutions may come in our lifetimes, and to be prepared for martyrdom, even if it doesn't happen.

Literally, we need more wailing and crying for the sins of these people, not to sit around and gossip about a woman who's distraught over the state of the world, and we ought not do that weird thing Christians do, that I hate. This is Pharisaicalism, not Christianity. You need to be worked up about this. Those at ease in Zion are sinning. Perhaps the LORD will repent, and show mercy to this generation.

He's even lying about her. She's not demonic. She said, and I quote, "Every knee shall bow. Liar." Because Jordan is allied with Israel. We need to be preparing ourselves for hard times, not waiting to go up in a blaze. The rapture may actually happen, but we need to be vigilant, and understand Christians can get persecuted. That's a fact. And Jordan is doing the right thing, but we need to understand, that if trials come, we need not have our roots in the rocky soil. We should be reading and preparing ourselves by studying the martyrs. Not blindly living on, eating and drinking, [marrying and giving into marriage] like nothing is going to happen to us at all. It may not turn out that way. Many in that church may fall. Maybe they won't. We need to repent, and not shame someone for crying out in anguish at the world we live in today. Because she may be trying to tell you, that hard times are a coming. Maybe they aren't, but she's worked up, that much is for sure. And a pastor's job is not to shame the woman for crying out for her LORD. Maybe she's overzealous? Maybe not? But this is not the way to handle this.

Is someone who's demon possessed, shout, "Every knee shall bow." She sounds like she's hurting over the world, and all its pain. I don't know if she's demon possessed, but probably someone who doesn't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. You shouldn't go casting demons out of people, where there aren't any. Like honestly, I wish more people were this distraught over the current world. She's not demon possessed at all, just wailing over the evil in the world, and probably believes she's living through the tribulation. Is she? I don't think it's that time yet, but she's angry at the pastor's ease, when we shouldn't have such ease about us. We should be vigilant and prepared. And equally disturbed in our own way, about the current sin in the world.

and the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

One of my favorite quotes from Men in Black is when he quotes an alien saying, "Some across in the other galaxies, find human language to be a disease." I feel that way when I listen to philosophy. It just turns my head in so many different directions, and I'm just like---none of that is why I believe in God. Although Soren Kierkegaard probably gave the best philosophical answer, that's still not why I believe. But it's getting closer.

I think Frank Herbert's Dune is why I believe. But it's an entirely different world of philosophy that people never encountered before. The Universal of the Ethics--which people know, don't kid yourself--seems to need substantiated on something. As without it, it becomes supplanted by the Moral Necessity, and that leads to suffering, chaos and malaise. And only Jesus seemed to teach an Ethics that parallels what actually describes human flourishing. I find Jesus--being a homeless poor carpenter, who never had an education---remarkable, that he could shut up men who were severely more educated than even our finest scholars today. These Pharisees knew a cross discipline of probably 12 different fields, ranging from the sciences, to language arts and the liberal arts, both Roman and Hebraic law, and Jesus would shut them up in a few phrases. Not only that, He was a master story teller. I see that as divine intelligence. And it's evidence for me He is truly the Son of God. Because we know He existed, and the Gospels are accurate accounts of His life and ministry. We have surviving records of who wrote them. It's just a matter of coming to reckon with Jesus, and that's the whole of why I believe. And no other reason.

Like, His philosophy is universally sound, and has strong echoes in Stoicism, Confucianism, Epicureanism, Pythagoreanism, Mozism, Daoism, Platonism, Aristotelianism, even American philosophies made by the Natives, Jesus seemed to have found parallels and universal truths. It's just the dynamic nature of His teachings, and the universality of it, and He by no wise was educated. He was very poor, and could barely have a place to rest his head. He probably slept on the floor of his little house there in Galilee. They've unearthed homes there, they were the size of a small living room. And He was quite a thinker, for not ever being educated. There's no way they could have afforded it back then, and He was also so isolated.