Jimmie Douglas

5 yrs

▶︎ AS A CHRISTIAN, YOU’RE “ENTITLED” TO… WHAT? ?

“I’m just standing on all the promises of God!” you sing. And who told you that all the promises of God were to YOU PERSONALLY?

The vast majority of God’s Bible promises were to OTHER individuals or OTHER groups. They were CONDITIONAL covenants in which God says, “If you do this, this, and this, then I’ll do that, that, and the other. BUT if you DON’T, I WON’T. Instead, I’ll bring in the Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, Arabs, Muslims, Nazis, and the United Nations.”

“But that was the Jews. I’m a CHRISTIAN, and Christians have BETTER promises,” you mechanically recite. And by “better,” you mean like scourging & crucifixion or being boiled in oil or sawn in two or pulled apart by horses or thrown to lions or covered in pitch & set afire as the original “Roman candles” to light their feasts?

“No! I’m a MODERN-DAY Christian!” you proclaim. And by “modern-day,” you think that means you’re ENTITLED to the American Dream and health & longevity and a storybook marriage and adorable & adoring children and maybe even a winning lottery ticket?

? As a sinner, you and I are “ENTITLED” to death, Hades, and the Lake of Fire.

? Anything better than those are GRACE, and grace is “UNMERITED FAVOR.”

? “UNMERITED” cancels out “ENTITLED” — for all time.

There’s absolutely no way for us to atone for even ONE sin, much less all of our many sins, or to earn our way to Heaven. Jesus is the ONLY ONE who could ever forgive us, save us, and provide us eternal life.

Therefore, we should live lives of profound GRATITUDE, not pampered entitlement. Should we be blessed to escape death at the rapture, to escape 1,000 years in Hades, and to escape the Second Death in the Lake of Fire, that’s much more than we could ever deserve!

◉ GOD DOESN’T OWE US ANYTHING, BUT WE OWE HIM EVERYTHING!

Live accordingly — whatever your lot.

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Jimmie Douglas

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▶︎ ENEMIES DOMESTIC!

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▶︎ THE MOST IMPORTANT VOTE SINCE... AMERICA! ??

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▶︎ IF NOTHING ELSE, THANK HIM FOR THE GIFT OF PRAYER!

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▶ ISLAM'S GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICA!

After nearly ☛800 years (711-1492), Spain completed the Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula by overthrowing the last of the Muslim invaders.

After nearly ☛800 years of rape, pillage, beheadings, siege, torture, and extortion from a malignant parasite masquerading itself as a religion, Spain was absolutely BANKRUPT.

It was just then that Christopher Columbus approached King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with the idea of his finding a shortcut to the East Indies, giving Spain a tremendous competitive advantage for their financial recovery.

The hope of financial recovery from battling Islam for so long is why Ferdinand and Isabella gladly supplied Columbus the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria with prominent ☛RED CROSSES on their sails. These red crosses acknowledged the CHRISTIAN RECONQUEST and remained on Spain's sails for over 300 years, until sails were replaced by engines.

✟ “It was THE LORD who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from there to the Indies... There is no question that the inspiration was from the HOLY SPIRIT, because he comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the HOLY SCRIPTURES...” (Christopher Columbus)

And, yes, Columbus "failed" to find the shortcut to the East Indies. And, yes, "all" he found were North, Central, and South America blocking his way. The islands he first found were named the West Indies, and that's why the natives were called "Indians".

If not for nearly ☛800 years of Muslim blood and carnage, Columbus might never have sailed the ocean blue.

◉ And THAT summarizes Islam's greatest contribution to America. Think about it. Think very seriously about it.

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❖ p.s. — People on television seem to think that our "Islamophobia" (irrationally believing they want to use their scimitars on us) started on 9-11-01. Despite the 800 years listed above, Thomas Jefferson sent our Navy on its first mission "to the shores of Tripoli" because Muslim pirates were highjacking ships and holding them, their cargo, and their crews hostage. That was in the FIRST Barbary War (1801-05), 200 years before 9-11. It ain't just about GItmo.

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© Jimmie Douglas

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