Gary Field
DC# M05398
Everglades C.I.
1599 SW 187 Ave
Miami, FL 33194

"No eye has seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the hearts of man the things that God has prepared for those who love Him." 1 Cor. 2:9

What a tremendous blessing it is for those of us who delight in the will of such a mighty God, the only true God, who is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that we can ask or even think! What's even more amazing, is that He does it according to "...the power that works within us."
Hallelujah!

That's the key my friend. It is not according to a degree granted by Columbia University, an ordination from a major denomination, or an idea backed by The Shark Tank. :-) "It is it not by power, nor by might, but by my Spirit says the Lord." Zech. 4:6

Rather than the "Information Age" that many people say defines the "Times" we are living in, we are currently under the dispensation of Grace. Amen? What people need to realize also though, is that Grace is a "limited time offer".

If your rent is due in the 1st and you have until the 5th to pay for it without a penalty, then that is a "Grace Period". The dispensation of grace began at Calvary, and will end when the Trump sounds. (No pun intended.)

It's not a coincidence that once again we find ourselves living in a time when "Information" is competing with Grace. We may not have enough information to know whether the "fruit" of that tree in the garden was an apple, a fig, or a pomegranate, but we do know that it was from the tree of knowledge (of good and evil). Today we have Apple Computers, and all kinds of information available at our fingertips. Once again the skin of the truth is being wrapped around a body of lies, and so-called knowledge (gnosis) is being pitted against the Grace of God. Unfortunately, those who would equate "Information" with knowledge and power, would also assume that their "eyes had been opened" and they too would be like gods. (Gen. 3:5)

"A man's judgement can only be as good as the information upon which he has based it... Give him no news, or present him only with distorted or incomplete data, with sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda or deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning process and make him something less than a man."

Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Publisher New York Times (1891-1968)

Yes, it has been said that we are living in an "Information Age", but where there is information, there is mis-information, which is bad, but there is also disinformation which is far worse. Misinformation is easily remedied, but disinformation is straight propaganda which is meant to mislead and to manipulate. Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit atrocities.

2nd For. 4:3-4 tells us that "If the Truth of the Gospel is hidden, then it is hidden to this who are lost." But they are not "lost" because they are "dense" or they just "made a wrong turn". They are lost because the "god" of this world, (Satan), has "blinded the minds of them", so that the glorious light of the gospel, which is the truth about Jesus Christ, should not be received by them.

In this so-called "Information Age", people confuse "information and knowledge" with "wisdom and understanding". Google may be able to give them the "facts", but facts are to knowledge, what a pile of bricks are to a building. You've got to know how to put those bricks together in order to make a building. And so it is with forming a body of knowledge out of a collection of facts.

Complicating that effort would be the "composition" of those bricks. Are they up to standard? Do they meet code? Will they be able to withstand the weight of the structure? Or will they crumble from shoddy construction?

Likewise, how do you assemble a body of knowledge out of "alternative facts", "fake news", "misinformation" and "propaganda" in a world where headlines blare that "Truth is not truth"?

2nd Tim. 3:1-17 is quite clear about the perils we would face in the last days. 'Men would be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy... having the appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Always learning, but never able to arrive at the truth... going from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived."

The Word tells us "...be not conformed to this world..." yet we end up being divided by the political parties to which we've conformed and waving red and blue flags as though we were Bloods and Crips fighting a turf war with a vengeance. Rather than being transformed by the "renewing of our minds", we are busy upgrading our smart phones and looking forward to "Artificial Intelligence".

Let us remember that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. (2nd Cor. 10:4-5)

"But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book UNTIL THE END, man shall run to and fro, and KNOWLEDGE will be greatly increased."
Daniel 12:4

I began this letter with the intention of wishing you and the family a Happy Thanksgiving, but I had to follow, where the Spirit led.

Now I'm at the end of my 6,000 characters, so:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! :-)

Gary