Some Things I Liked, Loved, Wondered, Worried, and Didn't Like, etc. About the Concert (Chicago 2 - May 23, 2018)
Loved - The GA line arrangement. 'Got there in the morning; got an official, numbered wristband from the arena security personnel; got to leave (and do things I needed to) - and come back to line up again at 4:30 pm.
Loved - That we got to use a REAL, clean, hygienic bathroom in the arena's will-call area instead of gross port-a-potties.
Loved - That I got to be up close to the B or e stage.
Loved - The break, the fun, talking with people, the silliness, the surreal-ness of the whole situation, being there to hear and see a long-time favorite band and favorite, meaningful songs.
Wondered - Why I was there, due to the spiritual issues that have arisen; yet feeling that I should be there. Wondering what the spiritual purpose and value of this would turn out to be.
Prayed- At the beginning of the show that something good, special, and worth it all would come out of this.
Liked - a lot of the "posters" - against violence, against violation of freedom of speech, and against abuse of power, killing, and war.
Worried - About the whole MRI (?) brain scan, stage screen image background. I hope everything is okay and stays okay!
Didn't Like - Some of the lyrics of "Love is All We Have Left". Generally speaking, humans don't have immortality until after the 1000-year reign of Christ and the final test upon mankind. I don't like the "close your eyes" line, because it alludes to death; and in the context of this song, that death is not so tragic (like it truly is), but is just a passing on to an "afterlife" (which doesn't exist), to "immortality" (which is incorrect). A dying person is not like a baby who "cries on the doorstep" of heaven; nor does the so-called spirit/ life force of a dying person leave them and enter a baby who is born. (The "Lightning Crashes" song is also altogether wrong in this way.) If a person dies, their life-force goes back to Jehovah - and the individual is kept in Jehovah's perfect memory, until its time to resurrect people back to life here (which will be in God's new world here, after His Armageddon Day).
Loved - "The Blackout". "So glad that we are all still here." Good to dance to. Yes, these last days of this world system are getting to be more scary, intense, treacherous, wicked, unjust, dangerous, violent, and life-hostile. Without Jehovah's promised intervention soon, there would be "an extinction event".
Didn't Like - "Lights of Home" - for basically the same reasons as "Love is All We Have Left." I also previously wrote about this under a video on YouTube. Basically, neither God nor His Son Jesus are responsible for the terrible accidents (or sicknesses, etc.) that befall people today. So sorry you suffered these things. Its always good to call out to Jehovah for help (in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ), and He can definitely help people to endure, especially spiritually-mentally; but, generally speaking, God is not the one causing accidents, sickness, or pain, etc. As you know, He promises that someday [soon, here] THERE WILL BE NO MORE PAIN (a thought that can help a person to endure pain), no more death, no more illness, no more suffering. Glad you made it through a terrible accident and a health issue and are better - may you keep on healing and be well.
Loved - "Red Flag Day". Awesome. Motivating. Energizing. Encouraging. Consoling. Acknowledging. Empathizing. An intriguing musical piece with a power-anthem refrain and a memorable melody line. I'm glad that it SOUNDS like "Paradise is a place you" CAN "see if its yours" - but I wish that the official lyrics could be changed to that word "CAN", instead of what they read, which is "CAN'T".
LOVED - Singing along with (and dancing to) "Red Flag Day" and other songs I loved/liked. Listening to and blending voices, live; and seeing the artists perform, live and in person; and just being there, for whatever good purpose it will serve; are my very, very favorite things about these concerts.
Loved - "Beautiful Day", the parts of "The Ocean" that I could make out/ can remember, "Cedarwood Road", and "Sunday Bloody Sunday". I really enjoyed the cherry blossom graphics all over the screen; and was happy to see what I think were cherry blossoms on trees, and also other pink blossoms floating onto the ground, along the Lake Michigan waterfront and river's edge in Chicago the next day.
Liked/ Didn't Like......Liked all the touching, lovely photos of a beloved Mom. Loved the love, honor, and sentimentality. (Heavy sigh though) didn't like what seemed esoteric (and unscriptural) in the lyrics though. For example, "Once we are born, we begin to forget, the very reason we came." Scripturally, that ISN'T. Why? Because there is no "pre-existence of the soul" before people are conceived in their mother's womb, to be born. The only human who ever had a heavenly pre-existence was Jesus Christ. (Then he lived and died as a perfect human, and is now back up in heaven, ruling, as God's appointed King there.) (I also didn't like that at the beginning of this song, it almost seemed like more of a [would be wrong] incantation of a "spirit of the dead" rather than the calling-up of memories of a Mom.) Make your Mom proud - do and teach the right (scriptural) things. She'll be back someday soon, in the resurrection, you know.
Don't know what to say that I haven't already said - "Until the End of the World". Judas was NOT a hero of any sort, but became a greedy thief, a conspirator with evil Pharisees, and a traitor. He was NOT "predestined" to be the human who would fulfill prophesies by evilly betraying and sharing in causing the death of the Son of God - no individual was "predestined" to do that - but Judas knowingly violated God's holy spirit and chose to do that anyway. This is what the Scriptures teach. There was no excuse for his letting himself become a tool of the Devil. As Jesus described to His Father in prayer, not one of his apostles was "LOST" (as in not coming back, for sinning against the holy spirit, like the Gehenna-bound evil Pharisees), except for "the son of destruction" - Judas Iscariot. So, he's NOT a hero, and NOT a good example. So this song and its antics are kind of messed-up.
Thanks for Sharing. Your story. Sounds like a wild ride, glad you survived. "HMTMKMKM". I don't want to comment on this except to ask why did you let someone depict you as being like the bad angels Christ threw down out of heaven. Why do you even have "kill me" in the lyrics. It's rather disturbing, violent, and senseless.
"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." That was pretty good of The Who (and you've sung that also.) All positive images. Maybe change "kill" to something nice (or at least non-violent) instead? Same C/K sound - "COOL me", lol.
LOVED - "Elevation", this "Influx Remix" version. Love it. It's energizing, involved/intricate/intense, lilting, ethereal, and exotic - a trip of the mind, a joy to the heart. And then the singing starts, and it comes way back down to earth, lol. But I love it. Loved the fluorescent puffs of color of the screen too (but no, I don't do Holi, thank you). Loved that this was performed right in front of me, on that "e" stage. LOVED, loved, loved dancing to this, with the live singing, live.
Loved (but didn't like one or two lines of) "Vertigo". A thrilling, energetic song, fun to watch being performed too. But crosses aren't right - nobody has "Jesus 'round their neck" for wearing cross jewelry. And Satan's offer to Jesus, of Matthew 4:8,9, alluded to/ loosely paraphrased in the song? People just don't hear enough of the balancing part of that, Jesus' response to Satan's temptation of offering him (Jesus) "All the kingdoms of the world and their glory" (which Satan then and now still largely controls). People don't so often know that Jesus then answered, "GO AWAY, SATAN! For it is written, 'It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service." (Matthew 4:10) I wish that was more featured.
How did I miss it - "I Know its Only Rock and Roll", a "snippet"? A set list I'm looking at says it was there...I like most of that song - fun.
Liked - "Desire". Don't know where one's coming from with all of the aren't-you-glad-to-be-experience stuff; but it reminds me of a kind of spiritually-warpy U2/ Johnny Cash Song, "The Wanderer", wherein the line says, "I went out walking, in search of experience - to taste and to touch and to feel as much as a man can before he repents." Yet, that's just wrong. A.) God says to "be babes as to badness" - He admonishes people to stay innocent. (1Corinthians 14:20) B.) No one belongs courting "sinning against the holy spirit" - intentionally doing/ partaking of what they know is wrong and sinful, according to their conscience and God's own words, yet assuming "forgiveness" - because that would wrongfully be abusing the value and intent of the sacrifices God and His Son made to "cover" for sins. (Hebrews 10:26-31)
LEFT THE ROOM - for the whole Macphisto and "Acrobat" number. Gave up my spot near the front to do so. To me, a large, floating and snarling/taunting Devil head can't be entertainment. As with the Rolling Stones live "Sympathy for the Devil" performances, it is disturbing, but true, that some people actually seem to relish the Devil references - and so the spirit with this can come out to be very bad. Scripturally, we're supposed to "OPPOSE THE DEVIL" (James 4:7), NOT "MOCK" him.
I went out into the hallway and made a 22-second flip-book video showing these words, to contradict what Mr. Macphisto pronounced to the masses, that "The truth is dead!"
It just says, THE TRUTH IS NOT DEAD. "THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND EXERTS POWER" HEBREWS 4:12. (See a previous post for a link to this very short and humble video.)
This line Macphisto said IS true and a good point to teach though - that when people don't believe that Satan exists, that is when he gets "some of [his] best work done."
Used the restroom during - "You're the Best Thing About Me". Not wild about that song. I don't like the line, "The best things are easy to destroy." However, I LIKED the sound of Larry's hand drums.
Wandered in again for - "Staring at the Sun" I really like that song, and loved the old video for it - showing the silhouettes and shimmery water, etc. I enjoyed singing along/ listening to and blending voices for this one also. Too bad I could not recover my place up near the front, but for this, but oh well. I wrote about this song at length long ago. The "luminaries" and institutions of this world (including false religious institutions) that people have classically looked to and trusted for guidance and help - in lieu of Jehovah - have and are failing them. The "sun" of them, the "light" of them is becoming too dark and/or is too FALSE to sustain the life of human kind. (See Revelation 8:12 below.) The moon's become dark, turned to "blood"; the SUN's become dark, one-third gone. (mmm...I'm going to use that for a song/poem line.)
(Revelation 8:12)
"And the fourth angel blew his trumpet. And a third of the sun was smitten and a third of the moon and a third of the stars, in order that a third of them might be darkened and the day might not have illumination for a third of it, and the night likewise."
If people turn to Jehovah, with His given and available scriptural truth and spirit; if they "repent and turn around" (Acts 3:19), and honest-heartedly open up their hearts and minds up to learning essential scriptural truth from God, so as to heed His truth and obey His scriptural requirements as they discover these things and see the proof of them (including by the testimonies of their own God-given, inborn consciences and the Creation of Jehovah all around them and within their person) - THEN THAT TRUE, WANTED, NEEDED, LIFE-SUSTAINING LIGHT OF TRUTH FROM JEHOVAH, with His spirit/ His active force, CAN FLOOD IN.
Lots of people don't like hearing Jehovah/ Yahweh's own scriptural messages - especially the disciplinary or warning messages. These messages may seem inconvenient and bothersome to their goals and desires, and so they BUG them. Its like they hear an irritating sound of the metaphoric "locusts" of Revelation, who have, as prophesied, swarmed-out, upon the earth, to deliver Jehovah's scriptural warning messages to mankind - whether it "bugs" individuals or not. The purpose is good - its for the sanctification of Jehovah/ Yahweh's holy name, and for the saving of individuals of mankind. So its all for love, Justice, righteousness, and goodness.
"There's an insect in your ear/ If you scratch, it won't disappear
It's gonna itch and burn and sting/ You want to see what the scratching brings"
"And the likenesses of the locusts resembled horses prepared for battle; and upon their heads [were] what seemed to be crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as men’s faces, 8 but they had hair as women’s hair. And their teeth were as those of lions; 9 and they had breastplates like iron breastplates. And the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle. 10 Also, they have tails and stings like scorpions; and in their tails is their authority to hurt the men five months. 11 They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name is A·bad′don, but in Greek he has the name A·pol′lyon." (Revelation 9:7-11)
So, its a very meaningful, "relevant" song - especially during these last of the pre-Armageddon days.
Loved - "Pride". To sing along with that song was what motivated me to want to attend my first U2 concert.
I must have just wandered outside again or something - for most of "Get Out of Your Own Way" and "American Soul." I don't like "Get Out of Your Own Way" entirely, because I don't like "Now you're a girl who's left with no words." I'm not left with no words, and never want to be left with no words.
With "American Soul", I was still wandering or something, and mainly missed it. However, I came in and noticed the giant American flag background. Okay.
Left it - "City of Blinding Lights". I already wrote about this song yesterday, in a previous post...I saw the upside-down cross on the lower section of stage right. That, along with the line "Blessings aren't just for the ones who kneel, luckily", made me want to be out of there.
So, I basically left - for most of the encore - only wandering in from the outside on occasion.
I did, however, hear Bono say something like this, before "13 (There is a Light)": "Parents, hold on to your children. Children, hold on to your parents. Children, know who your parents are." That was pretty rich, worthy advice! And your song line of, "and the world comes, STEALING CHILDREN from your room" is very noteworthy.
How many people have any idea at all how monstrous and demonic the current human rights crisis/ homeland terrorism at large/ new and spreading Nazi-like regime of UNJUST child "removal" - CHILD THIEVERY/ KIDNAPPING and human trafficking of them, FOR PROFIT and/or illicit "control"/brainwashing and/or EUGENICS (euthanasia-forced death-MURDER of the weak and sick) by CORRUPT, conscienceless, and evil agents of states is occurring?! How many people realize that the same category of corrupt, conscienceless, and Satanically evil individuals are also doing the same to senior citizens - and weak, sick, and or vulnerable other persons - medically KIDNAPPING THEM, robbing them, and orchestrating their forced death-murder-demise?! Corrupt state agents and their cohorts are actually engaging in this homeland terrorism and are carrying out these CRIMES AGAINST GOD and HUMANITY for paychecks, bonuses, and in the case of child STEALING in the US, Federal incentives for their states. This new Nazi-like, Stalinistic, Satanic terrorist movement of destroying the lives of multiple people at once, by cowardly and consciencelessly targeting their children (with their legal and other vulnerabilities) has covered Britain, has spread across the US like a devastating plague, and is also seen in Canada, Australia, and probably other places. it's a situation of:
"MOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED"
FATHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
GRANDMOTHERS and GRANDFATHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
GREAT-GRANDARENTS OF THE DISAPPEARED
BROTHERS and SISTERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
AUNTS and UNCLES OF THE DISAPPEARED
HUSBANDS or WIVES OF THE DISAPPEARED
SONS and DAUGHTERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
GRANDCHILDREN and GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE DISAPPEARED
Surely, Armageddon Day from a very angry God Jehovah - the Creator and Purposer of scriptural, Divine family arrangements, parental rights, the right to life and liberty, and the Giver of CHILDREN to their PARENT(s) [Psalm 127:3] - and NEVER to any state or government of this largely Satan-run world system - is SOON. Indeed - "Sometimes, the end is not coming...The end is here."
This IS the end of this largely wicked world system - Armageddon is NEAR.
"Put your hands in the air, hold up the sky/
It could be too late, but we still got to try."
Well, it IS TOO LATE.
As predicted, from Eden on, defiant "independence" from God has all but completely ruined our world; and many people still aren't listening to Jah - many are listening less.
So, its not us that would be able to hold back the sky. Right now, four angels are as if holding back four winds of destruction - and they are about to let them go, at God's command, onto the stubbornly and heinously evil people of the world, on Armageddon Day. (Revelation 7:1-3)
"Just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more." (Psalm 37:10)
Loved - that you DIDN'T DO the "Raised By Wolves" performance. I hate it. I hate that it condemns ALL "beliefs" - including scripturally TRUE beliefs; and that recently, what one can easily assume to be spiritual literature was still being ripped up and tossed.
Loved - "Free yourself to be yourself, only you can see yourself". That's relatively true, but Jehovah can "see" and understand us even better.
Loved - That we got to use a REAL, clean, hygienic bathroom in the arena's will-call area instead of gross port-a-potties.
Loved - That I got to be up close to the B or e stage.
Loved - The break, the fun, talking with people, the silliness, the surreal-ness of the whole situation, being there to hear and see a long-time favorite band and favorite, meaningful songs.
Wondered - Why I was there, due to the spiritual issues that have arisen; yet feeling that I should be there. Wondering what the spiritual purpose and value of this would turn out to be.
Prayed- At the beginning of the show that something good, special, and worth it all would come out of this.
Liked - a lot of the "posters" - against violence, against violation of freedom of speech, and against abuse of power, killing, and war.
Worried - About the whole MRI (?) brain scan, stage screen image background. I hope everything is okay and stays okay!
Didn't Like - Some of the lyrics of "Love is All We Have Left". Generally speaking, humans don't have immortality until after the 1000-year reign of Christ and the final test upon mankind. I don't like the "close your eyes" line, because it alludes to death; and in the context of this song, that death is not so tragic (like it truly is), but is just a passing on to an "afterlife" (which doesn't exist), to "immortality" (which is incorrect). A dying person is not like a baby who "cries on the doorstep" of heaven; nor does the so-called spirit/ life force of a dying person leave them and enter a baby who is born. (The "Lightning Crashes" song is also altogether wrong in this way.) If a person dies, their life-force goes back to Jehovah - and the individual is kept in Jehovah's perfect memory, until its time to resurrect people back to life here (which will be in God's new world here, after His Armageddon Day).
Loved - "The Blackout". "So glad that we are all still here." Good to dance to. Yes, these last days of this world system are getting to be more scary, intense, treacherous, wicked, unjust, dangerous, violent, and life-hostile. Without Jehovah's promised intervention soon, there would be "an extinction event".
Didn't Like - "Lights of Home" - for basically the same reasons as "Love is All We Have Left." I also previously wrote about this under a video on YouTube. Basically, neither God nor His Son Jesus are responsible for the terrible accidents (or sicknesses, etc.) that befall people today. So sorry you suffered these things. Its always good to call out to Jehovah for help (in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ), and He can definitely help people to endure, especially spiritually-mentally; but, generally speaking, God is not the one causing accidents, sickness, or pain, etc. As you know, He promises that someday [soon, here] THERE WILL BE NO MORE PAIN (a thought that can help a person to endure pain), no more death, no more illness, no more suffering. Glad you made it through a terrible accident and a health issue and are better - may you keep on healing and be well.
Loved - "Red Flag Day". Awesome. Motivating. Energizing. Encouraging. Consoling. Acknowledging. Empathizing. An intriguing musical piece with a power-anthem refrain and a memorable melody line. I'm glad that it SOUNDS like "Paradise is a place you" CAN "see if its yours" - but I wish that the official lyrics could be changed to that word "CAN", instead of what they read, which is "CAN'T".
LOVED - Singing along with (and dancing to) "Red Flag Day" and other songs I loved/liked. Listening to and blending voices, live; and seeing the artists perform, live and in person; and just being there, for whatever good purpose it will serve; are my very, very favorite things about these concerts.
Loved - "Beautiful Day", the parts of "The Ocean" that I could make out/ can remember, "Cedarwood Road", and "Sunday Bloody Sunday". I really enjoyed the cherry blossom graphics all over the screen; and was happy to see what I think were cherry blossoms on trees, and also other pink blossoms floating onto the ground, along the Lake Michigan waterfront and river's edge in Chicago the next day.
Liked/ Didn't Like......Liked all the touching, lovely photos of a beloved Mom. Loved the love, honor, and sentimentality. (Heavy sigh though) didn't like what seemed esoteric (and unscriptural) in the lyrics though. For example, "Once we are born, we begin to forget, the very reason we came." Scripturally, that ISN'T. Why? Because there is no "pre-existence of the soul" before people are conceived in their mother's womb, to be born. The only human who ever had a heavenly pre-existence was Jesus Christ. (Then he lived and died as a perfect human, and is now back up in heaven, ruling, as God's appointed King there.) (I also didn't like that at the beginning of this song, it almost seemed like more of a [would be wrong] incantation of a "spirit of the dead" rather than the calling-up of memories of a Mom.) Make your Mom proud - do and teach the right (scriptural) things. She'll be back someday soon, in the resurrection, you know.
Don't know what to say that I haven't already said - "Until the End of the World". Judas was NOT a hero of any sort, but became a greedy thief, a conspirator with evil Pharisees, and a traitor. He was NOT "predestined" to be the human who would fulfill prophesies by evilly betraying and sharing in causing the death of the Son of God - no individual was "predestined" to do that - but Judas knowingly violated God's holy spirit and chose to do that anyway. This is what the Scriptures teach. There was no excuse for his letting himself become a tool of the Devil. As Jesus described to His Father in prayer, not one of his apostles was "LOST" (as in not coming back, for sinning against the holy spirit, like the Gehenna-bound evil Pharisees), except for "the son of destruction" - Judas Iscariot. So, he's NOT a hero, and NOT a good example. So this song and its antics are kind of messed-up.
Thanks for Sharing. Your story. Sounds like a wild ride, glad you survived. "HMTMKMKM". I don't want to comment on this except to ask why did you let someone depict you as being like the bad angels Christ threw down out of heaven. Why do you even have "kill me" in the lyrics. It's rather disturbing, violent, and senseless.
"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." That was pretty good of The Who (and you've sung that also.) All positive images. Maybe change "kill" to something nice (or at least non-violent) instead? Same C/K sound - "COOL me", lol.
LOVED - "Elevation", this "Influx Remix" version. Love it. It's energizing, involved/intricate/intense, lilting, ethereal, and exotic - a trip of the mind, a joy to the heart. And then the singing starts, and it comes way back down to earth, lol. But I love it. Loved the fluorescent puffs of color of the screen too (but no, I don't do Holi, thank you). Loved that this was performed right in front of me, on that "e" stage. LOVED, loved, loved dancing to this, with the live singing, live.
Loved (but didn't like one or two lines of) "Vertigo". A thrilling, energetic song, fun to watch being performed too. But crosses aren't right - nobody has "Jesus 'round their neck" for wearing cross jewelry. And Satan's offer to Jesus, of Matthew 4:8,9, alluded to/ loosely paraphrased in the song? People just don't hear enough of the balancing part of that, Jesus' response to Satan's temptation of offering him (Jesus) "All the kingdoms of the world and their glory" (which Satan then and now still largely controls). People don't so often know that Jesus then answered, "GO AWAY, SATAN! For it is written, 'It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service." (Matthew 4:10) I wish that was more featured.
How did I miss it - "I Know its Only Rock and Roll", a "snippet"? A set list I'm looking at says it was there...I like most of that song - fun.
Liked - "Desire". Don't know where one's coming from with all of the aren't-you-glad-to-be-experience stuff; but it reminds me of a kind of spiritually-warpy U2/ Johnny Cash Song, "The Wanderer", wherein the line says, "I went out walking, in search of experience - to taste and to touch and to feel as much as a man can before he repents." Yet, that's just wrong. A.) God says to "be babes as to badness" - He admonishes people to stay innocent. (1Corinthians 14:20) B.) No one belongs courting "sinning against the holy spirit" - intentionally doing/ partaking of what they know is wrong and sinful, according to their conscience and God's own words, yet assuming "forgiveness" - because that would wrongfully be abusing the value and intent of the sacrifices God and His Son made to "cover" for sins. (Hebrews 10:26-31)
LEFT THE ROOM - for the whole Macphisto and "Acrobat" number. Gave up my spot near the front to do so. To me, a large, floating and snarling/taunting Devil head can't be entertainment. As with the Rolling Stones live "Sympathy for the Devil" performances, it is disturbing, but true, that some people actually seem to relish the Devil references - and so the spirit with this can come out to be very bad. Scripturally, we're supposed to "OPPOSE THE DEVIL" (James 4:7), NOT "MOCK" him.
I went out into the hallway and made a 22-second flip-book video showing these words, to contradict what Mr. Macphisto pronounced to the masses, that "The truth is dead!"
It just says, THE TRUTH IS NOT DEAD. "THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND EXERTS POWER" HEBREWS 4:12. (See a previous post for a link to this very short and humble video.)
This line Macphisto said IS true and a good point to teach though - that when people don't believe that Satan exists, that is when he gets "some of [his] best work done."
Used the restroom during - "You're the Best Thing About Me". Not wild about that song. I don't like the line, "The best things are easy to destroy." However, I LIKED the sound of Larry's hand drums.
Wandered in again for - "Staring at the Sun" I really like that song, and loved the old video for it - showing the silhouettes and shimmery water, etc. I enjoyed singing along/ listening to and blending voices for this one also. Too bad I could not recover my place up near the front, but for this, but oh well. I wrote about this song at length long ago. The "luminaries" and institutions of this world (including false religious institutions) that people have classically looked to and trusted for guidance and help - in lieu of Jehovah - have and are failing them. The "sun" of them, the "light" of them is becoming too dark and/or is too FALSE to sustain the life of human kind. (See Revelation 8:12 below.) The moon's become dark, turned to "blood"; the SUN's become dark, one-third gone. (mmm...I'm going to use that for a song/poem line.)
(Revelation 8:12)
"And the fourth angel blew his trumpet. And a third of the sun was smitten and a third of the moon and a third of the stars, in order that a third of them might be darkened and the day might not have illumination for a third of it, and the night likewise."
If people turn to Jehovah, with His given and available scriptural truth and spirit; if they "repent and turn around" (Acts 3:19), and honest-heartedly open up their hearts and minds up to learning essential scriptural truth from God, so as to heed His truth and obey His scriptural requirements as they discover these things and see the proof of them (including by the testimonies of their own God-given, inborn consciences and the Creation of Jehovah all around them and within their person) - THEN THAT TRUE, WANTED, NEEDED, LIFE-SUSTAINING LIGHT OF TRUTH FROM JEHOVAH, with His spirit/ His active force, CAN FLOOD IN.
Lots of people don't like hearing Jehovah/ Yahweh's own scriptural messages - especially the disciplinary or warning messages. These messages may seem inconvenient and bothersome to their goals and desires, and so they BUG them. Its like they hear an irritating sound of the metaphoric "locusts" of Revelation, who have, as prophesied, swarmed-out, upon the earth, to deliver Jehovah's scriptural warning messages to mankind - whether it "bugs" individuals or not. The purpose is good - its for the sanctification of Jehovah/ Yahweh's holy name, and for the saving of individuals of mankind. So its all for love, Justice, righteousness, and goodness.
"There's an insect in your ear/ If you scratch, it won't disappear
It's gonna itch and burn and sting/ You want to see what the scratching brings"
"And the likenesses of the locusts resembled horses prepared for battle; and upon their heads [were] what seemed to be crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as men’s faces, 8 but they had hair as women’s hair. And their teeth were as those of lions; 9 and they had breastplates like iron breastplates. And the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle. 10 Also, they have tails and stings like scorpions; and in their tails is their authority to hurt the men five months. 11 They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name is A·bad′don, but in Greek he has the name A·pol′lyon." (Revelation 9:7-11)
So, its a very meaningful, "relevant" song - especially during these last of the pre-Armageddon days.
Loved - "Pride". To sing along with that song was what motivated me to want to attend my first U2 concert.
I must have just wandered outside again or something - for most of "Get Out of Your Own Way" and "American Soul." I don't like "Get Out of Your Own Way" entirely, because I don't like "Now you're a girl who's left with no words." I'm not left with no words, and never want to be left with no words.
With "American Soul", I was still wandering or something, and mainly missed it. However, I came in and noticed the giant American flag background. Okay.
Left it - "City of Blinding Lights". I already wrote about this song yesterday, in a previous post...I saw the upside-down cross on the lower section of stage right. That, along with the line "Blessings aren't just for the ones who kneel, luckily", made me want to be out of there.
So, I basically left - for most of the encore - only wandering in from the outside on occasion.
I did, however, hear Bono say something like this, before "13 (There is a Light)": "Parents, hold on to your children. Children, hold on to your parents. Children, know who your parents are." That was pretty rich, worthy advice! And your song line of, "and the world comes, STEALING CHILDREN from your room" is very noteworthy.
How many people have any idea at all how monstrous and demonic the current human rights crisis/ homeland terrorism at large/ new and spreading Nazi-like regime of UNJUST child "removal" - CHILD THIEVERY/ KIDNAPPING and human trafficking of them, FOR PROFIT and/or illicit "control"/brainwashing and/or EUGENICS (euthanasia-forced death-MURDER of the weak and sick) by CORRUPT, conscienceless, and evil agents of states is occurring?! How many people realize that the same category of corrupt, conscienceless, and Satanically evil individuals are also doing the same to senior citizens - and weak, sick, and or vulnerable other persons - medically KIDNAPPING THEM, robbing them, and orchestrating their forced death-murder-demise?! Corrupt state agents and their cohorts are actually engaging in this homeland terrorism and are carrying out these CRIMES AGAINST GOD and HUMANITY for paychecks, bonuses, and in the case of child STEALING in the US, Federal incentives for their states. This new Nazi-like, Stalinistic, Satanic terrorist movement of destroying the lives of multiple people at once, by cowardly and consciencelessly targeting their children (with their legal and other vulnerabilities) has covered Britain, has spread across the US like a devastating plague, and is also seen in Canada, Australia, and probably other places. it's a situation of:
"MOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED"
FATHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
GRANDMOTHERS and GRANDFATHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
GREAT-GRANDARENTS OF THE DISAPPEARED
BROTHERS and SISTERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
AUNTS and UNCLES OF THE DISAPPEARED
HUSBANDS or WIVES OF THE DISAPPEARED
SONS and DAUGHTERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
GRANDCHILDREN and GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE DISAPPEARED
Surely, Armageddon Day from a very angry God Jehovah - the Creator and Purposer of scriptural, Divine family arrangements, parental rights, the right to life and liberty, and the Giver of CHILDREN to their PARENT(s) [Psalm 127:3] - and NEVER to any state or government of this largely Satan-run world system - is SOON. Indeed - "Sometimes, the end is not coming...The end is here."
This IS the end of this largely wicked world system - Armageddon is NEAR.
"Put your hands in the air, hold up the sky/
It could be too late, but we still got to try."
Well, it IS TOO LATE.
As predicted, from Eden on, defiant "independence" from God has all but completely ruined our world; and many people still aren't listening to Jah - many are listening less.
So, its not us that would be able to hold back the sky. Right now, four angels are as if holding back four winds of destruction - and they are about to let them go, at God's command, onto the stubbornly and heinously evil people of the world, on Armageddon Day. (Revelation 7:1-3)
"Just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more." (Psalm 37:10)
Loved - that you DIDN'T DO the "Raised By Wolves" performance. I hate it. I hate that it condemns ALL "beliefs" - including scripturally TRUE beliefs; and that recently, what one can easily assume to be spiritual literature was still being ripped up and tossed.
Loved - "Free yourself to be yourself, only you can see yourself". That's relatively true, but Jehovah can "see" and understand us even better.
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