#377: A Last Days' Promise

14 Come unto me, O ye house of Israel, and it shall be made manifest unto you how great things the Father hath laid up for you, from the foundation of the world; and it hath not come unto you, because of unbelief.
15 Behold, when ye shall rend that veil of unbelief which doth cause you to remain in your awful state of wickedness, and hardness of heart, and blindness of mind, then shall the great and marvelous things which have been hid up from the foundation of the world from you—yea, when ye shall call upon the Father in my name, with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, then shall ye know that the Father hath remembered the covenant which he made unto your fathers, O house of Israel.
16 And then shall my revelations which I have caused to be written by my servant John be unfolded in the eyes of all the people. Remember, when ye see these things, ye shall know that the time is at hand that they shall be made manifest in very deed.
17 Therefore, when ye shall receive this record ye may know that the work of the Father has commenced upon all the face of the land.
18 Therefore, repent all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me, and believe in my gospel, and be baptized in my name; for he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned; and signs shall follow them that believe in my name.
19 And blessed is he that is found faithful unto my name at the last day, for he shall be lifted up to dwell in the kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world. And behold it is I that hath spoken it. Amen.

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Book of Mormon | Ether 4:14-19 (Bold emphasis added.)

#376: Last Days – Prophecy, Visions, Dreams

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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New Testament | Acts 2:17-21

#375: Last Days: To Be Judged of Their Works

3 And he did expound all things, even from the beginning until the time that he should come in his glory—yea, even all things which should come upon the face of the earth, even until the elements should melt with fervent heat, and the earth should be wrapt together as a scroll, and the heavens and the earth should pass away;
4 And even unto the great and last day, when all people, and all kindreds, and all nations and tongues shall stand before God, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil—
5 If they be good, to the resurrection of everlasting life; and if they be evil, to the resurrection of damnation; being on a parallel, the one on the one hand and the other on the other hand, according to the mercy, and the justice, and the holiness which is in Christ, who was before the world began.

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Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 26:3-5

#374: Last Days - “A Swift Witness”

5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts.

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Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 24:5

#373: Last Days - “Iniquity Shall Abound”

26 And in that day shall be heard of wars and rumors of wars, and the whole earth shall be in commotion, and , and they shall say that Christ delayeth his coming until the end of the earth.
27 And the love of men shall wax cold, and iniquity shall abound.
...
31 And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land.
...
33 And there shall be earthquakes also in divers places, and many desolations; yet men will harden their hearts against me, and they will take up the sword, one against another, and they will kill one another.
...
63 Ye hear of wars in foreign lands; but, behold, I say unto you, they are nigh, even at your doors, and not many years hence ye shall hear of wars in your own lands.

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Doctrine and Covenants | Section 45:26 – 27, 31, 33, 63

#372: Last Days - “As a Thief in the Night”

2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

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New Testament | 1 Thessalonians 5:2-9

#371: Last Days: “To the Sleeping Nations”

17 Hearken ye, for, behold, the great day of the Lord is nigh at hand.
18 For the day cometh that the Lord shall utter his voice out of heaven; the heavens shall shake and the earth shall tremble, and the trump of God shall sound both long and loud, and shall say to the sleeping nations: Ye saints arise and live; ye sinners stay and sleep until I shall call again.
19 Wherefore gird up your loins lest ye be found among the wicked.
20 Lift up your voices and spare not. Call upon the nations to repent, both old and young, both bond and free, saying: Prepare yourselves for the great day of the Lord;

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Doctrine and Covenants | Section 43:17-20 (Bold emphasis added.)

#370: Last Days - To Scourge Them

96 For I, the Almighty, have laid my hands upon the nations, to scourge them for their wickedness.
97 And plagues shall go forth, and they shall not be taken from the earth until I have completed my work, which shall be cut short in righteousness—
98 Until all shall know me, who remain, even from the least unto the greatest, and shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, and shall see eye to eye, and shall lift up their voice, and with the voice together sing this new song, saying:
99 The Lord hath brought again Zion;
The Lord hath redeemed his people, Israel,
According to the election of grace,
Which was brought to pass by the faith
And covenant of their fathers.
100 The Lord hath redeemed his people;
And Satan is bound and time is no longer.
The Lord hath gathered all things in one.
The Lord hath brought down Zion from above.
The Lord hath brought up Zion from beneath.
101 The earth hath travailed and brought forth her strength;
And truth is established in her bowels;
And the heavens have smiled upon her;
And she is clothed with the glory of her God;
For he stands in the midst of his people.
102 Glory, and honor, and power, and might,
Be ascribed to our God; for he is full of mercy,
Justice, grace and truth, and peace,
Forever and ever, Amen.

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Doctrine and Covenants | Section 84:96-102

#369: “In a Cloud”

7 For behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, the time is soon at hand that I shall come in a cloud with power and great glory.
8 And it shall be a great day at the time of my coming, for all nations shall tremble.
9 But before that great day shall come, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon be turned into blood; and the stars shall refuse their shining, and some shall fall, and great destructions await the wicked.

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Doctrine and Covenants | Section 34:7-9

#368: Last Days: To Render and Rebuke

15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.*

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*Old Testament | Isaiah 66:14-18

#367: Last Days – “Wonders in Heaven Above” | "Signs in the Earth Beneath"

As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are now manifesting in daily news and the exposés of things once hidden!

New Testament | Acts:

16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.*

Old Testament | Joel:
28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.**

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*New Testament | Acts 2:16-21 | No changes in JST
**Old Testament | Joel 2:28–32 | No changes in JST

#366: Last Days | God's Great Army?

Could these verses describe (in part) an infestation of millions of destroying insects? (Real or man-made or both?) What would it look like? What would it sound like? Consider verse 25.

1 BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
...
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.*

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*Old Testament | Joel 2:1-11, 25

#365: Which Generation?

{Bold are corrections by Joseph Smith*]

24 Now these things he [Jesus] spake unto them, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem. And then his disciples asked him, saying, Master, tell us concerning thy coming?
25 And he answered them, and said, In the generation in which the times of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled, there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, like the sea and the waves roaring. The earth also shall be troubled, and the waters of the great deep; ...
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation, the generation when the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, shall not pass away till all be fulfilled.*

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*JST: New Testament | Luke 21:25, 32 from Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 2321, 2322). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.

#364: Last Days – “Many Churches Built Up”

As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are now manifesting in daily news and the exposés of things once hidden!

14 But behold, I prophesy unto you concerning the last days; concerning the days when the Lord God shall bring these things forth unto the children of men. ...
20 And the Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of their eyes, and have stumbled, because of the greatness of their stumbling block, that they have built up many churches; nevertheless, they put down the power and miracles of God, and preach up unto themselves their own wisdom and their own learning, that they may get gain and grind upon the face of the poor.
21 And there are many churches built up which cause envyings, and strifes, and malice.
22 And there are also secret combinations, even as in times of old, according to the combinations of the devil, for he is the founder of all these things; yea, the founder of murder, and works of darkness; yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords forever.

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Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 26:14, 20-22

#363: Last Days | “Your Riches are Corrupted”

As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are now manifesting in daily news and the exposés of things once hidden!

1 GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

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New Testament | James 5:1-8

#362: Last Days | Corruptible Things Dissolved

With the rapid deterioration of world conditions, Voices from the Dust will feature, each Sunday, a prophetic voice concerning the last days. As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are now manifesting in daily news and in the exposés of things once hidden!

[Most weekly posts will be taken from Lutes edition of Joseph Smith Translation* showing deletions (strikethroughs) and corrections (bold)].

JST New Testament | 2 Peter 3:2-16

1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance;
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.
4 Denying the Lord Jesus Christ, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things must continue as they were are, and have continued as they are from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old that of old the heavens, and the earth standing out of in the water and in out of the water, were created by the word of God;
6 Whereby And by the word of God, the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished;
7 But the heavens, and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store by the same word, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But concerning the coming of the Lord, beloved, be I would not have you ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise and coming, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to toward us-ward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall shake, and the earth also shall tremble, and the mountains shall melt, and pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be filled melt with fervent heat; the earth also shall be filled, and the corruptible works that which are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing If then that all these things shall be dissolved destroyed, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation conduct and godliness,
12 Looking for unto, and hasting preparing unto for the coming of the day of the coming of God the Lord wherein the corruptible things of the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements mountains shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless, if we shall endure, we shall be kept according to his promise. And we look for new heavens, and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you, the longsuffering and waiting of our Lord, for salvation.
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that who are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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*Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (pp. 2704-2705 | New Testament | 2 Peter 3:2-16). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.

[Simon] Peter[5] (died between AD 64 and 68 on the Vatican Hill), [1]also known as Peter the Apostle, Peter the Rock, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon... or Cephas,[6] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church. ... / According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter

#361: Last Days | Perilous Times

With the rapid deterioration of world conditions, Voices from the Dust will feature, each Sunday, a prophetic voice concerning the last days. As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are manifesting in daily news and in the many exposés of things once hidden! [Reviving this Voices From the Dust blog begins (propitiously) on this May Day | Mayday! of 2022.]

[Most weekly posts will be taken from Lutes edition of Joseph Smith Translation* showing deletions (strikethroughs) and corrections (bold)].

JST New Testament | 2 Timothy 3: 1-17

Books of Timothy
are credited to Paul, but
his authorship is disputed
by some scholars

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But For evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 And all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

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*Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 2642; New Testament | 2 Timothy 3:1-17). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Paul the Apostle, ... commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Hebrew name Saul of Tarsus,[note 2][6] was a Christian apostle (although not one of the Twelve Apostles) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.[7] Generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age,[6][8] he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle

Chuck Swindoll: “Paul wrote 2 Timothy from a dark and damp Roman prison cell, just before his death in AD 67. The Roman emperor Nero had been slowly descending into madness since his ascent to the throne in AD 54, a process exacerbated by the great fire of Rome in AD 64 that burned half the city. With the residents of Rome in an uproar, Christians became a convenient target for Nero, who used believers as scapegoats for his city’s own lack of preparedness. Paul was one of those caught up in this persecution and was beheaded by Roman officials soon after writing this letter.” | https://www.insight.org/resources/bible/the-pauline-epistles/second-timothy

One Year Anniversary of Voices ...

March 1st completes one year (a 360 anthology | 30 posts per month for 12 months) of Voices from the Dust. These warning and déjà vu voices from the past and recent past could go on for years, but from here on, March 1, 2022, posts will not be daily as in 2021–2022, only as I encounter things of sufficient import to add.

I again add this advisory:

Until we acknowledge that the obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination has plagued every age of history, we will never understand the events of our time. – SMS

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Suggestion: When you first encounter this blog, treat it as an anthology and proceed daily from the date you encounter it using the post date as your reference; or use the post # that corresponds to the day # of the year,

#360: “Power Tends to Corrupt”

“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means.”*

Paraphrased variant: All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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*Letter to Mandell Creighton (5 April 1887), published in Historical Essays and Studies, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (1907), edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, Appendix, p. 504; also in Essays on Freedom and Power (1972)
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet,[1] and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.[2][3] Between 1837 and 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet.
He is perhaps best known for the remark, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", which he made in a letter to an Anglican bishop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

#359: “Hereditary Rights”

“The nation had no instinct and no productive power that emancipated it from the customs of its forefathers. Every appeal against oppression was to the hereditary rights; the only protection which the Englishman knew was in the traditional laws of his country. By means of this perpetual recurrence to old principles, and of the gradual contrivance of new forms in which to secure their action, the English people conquered their freedom. The intensity of their conservatism was an impulse as well as a guide of their progress.'*

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*'Contemporary Literature', The Home and Foreign Review, Vol. III (1863), p. 714
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet,[1] and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.[2][3] Between 1837 and 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet.
He is perhaps best known for the remark, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", which he made in a letter to an Anglican bishop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

#358: The Conscience of Mankind

“The great question is, to discover not what governments prescribe, but what they ought to prescribe; for no prescription is valid against the conscience of mankind.”¹

“By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.”¹

“Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.”²

“Put conscience above both system and success.”²

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1. The History of Freedom in Antiquity (28 February 1877) · The History Of Freedom and Other Essays (1907) printing
2. Postscript of letter to Mandell Creighton (5 April 1887), published in Historical Essays and Studies, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (1907), edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, Appendix, p. 505
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet,[1] and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.[2][3] Between 1837 and 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet.
He is perhaps best known for the remark, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", which he made in a letter to an Anglican bishop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

#357: “Wise as Serpents” | “Harmless as Doves”

16 ¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

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New Testament | Matthew 10:16-28 (Bold emphasis added.)

Jesus... (c. 4 BC – AD 30 / 33), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.[11] He is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion. Most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited messiah (the Christ), prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus

#356: WEF & WO

Repurposed | Recycled Pursuant to the Times

Cartoonist: Carlos Latuff | 2012
Repurposed by SMS | 2022

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Carlos Latuff (born 30 November 1968) is a Brazilian political cartoonist.[1] His work deals with themes such as anti-Western sentiment, anti-capitalism, and opposition to U.S. military intervention. He is best known for his images depicting the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Arab Spring events.[2] Latuff's cartoons comparing Israel to Nazism[3] have been accused of being antisemitic by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and by other authorities in the field, especially the cartoons of his which are considered to trivialize the Holocaust.[4][5][6] Latuff has dismissed the charges of antisemitism as "a strategy for discrediting criticism of Israel." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Latuff
Repurposed by SMS 2022 from the dust of 2012: 1) “Bahrain” replaced with “WEF & WO” [World Economic Forum & World Order].

Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Political_cartoon_by_Carlos_Lattuf_on_Nabeel_Rajab_arrest2.jpg
File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Political_cartoon_by_Carlos_Lattuf_on_Nabeel_Rajab_arrest2.jpg
Attribution: Carlos Latuff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Description: Political cartoon by Carlos Lattuf on Nabeel Rajab arrest
Date: 5 May 2012
Source: http://latuffcartoons.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/human-rights-activist-nabeel-rajad-arrested-in-bahrain.gif
Permission: This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. | This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Carlos Latuff. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: Carlos Latuff grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
Author: Carlos Latuff (1968)

#355: False Flag? – Coverage of Canada Freedom Convoy 2022?

True Flag

When the words of this Voice come to pass:

22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad,*

how will Canadian authorities, CBC, Ottawa officials, police, other media, and all their bosses and employees fare when the coverage, depiction, and treatment of the people's peaceful protest is judged against TRUTH? What false picture did the powers consistently paint in the face of countering evidence? What flags and motives did the powers falsely generalize and ascribe to thousands of peaceful, patriotic, freedom-cherishing Canadians hoisting aloft the beautiful symbol of Canada?

Time will tell.

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*New Testament | Mark 4:22