Our man in Japan

Disgraced, all of them.. Isaiah 45:16 CBS "news" in America is actively trying to cover up the fact that a transgender person was the perp in the school shooting in Nashville. God bless the whistleblower that leaked this to the NY Post.  In fact this is the fourth mass shooting by a transgender person in 5 years. Report that, CBS! Heads need to roll. 

He shall prevail against His enemies .. Isaiah 42:13 The day after a crazy girl who thought she was a boy kills 6 people in Nashville, NHK decide to go with a very effeminate man on, of all things, a program about Japanese baseball. Japan win the World Baseball Classic partly BECAUSE there is much less trans propaganda in Japanese schools than in America, but NHK seems to be doing its damnedest to make sure Japan never wins anything again. Because of course, when you have a serious baseball ⚾ question, clearly a Tokyo drag queen or their ilk will have the answer. 🙄 Can we fire that producer from Japanese TV please? 

Those who war against you shall be as nothing.. Isaiah 41:12 Clearly the hate the trans left has for Christians has reached a new level of violence. Yet I would suggest Islamists remain the bigger threat worldwide, for now. Neither will win in the long term. 

Not one is missing.. Isaiah 40:26 6 new Christians in heaven. Trans woman shoots up Christian school in Nashville..

Then the angel of the Lord went out & killed in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000... Isaiah 37:36 You fight the God of the Bible, you lose. 

Supposing Him to be the gardener .. John 20:15.  I still have these crushing 😳 embarrassing memories of walking home from High School one day. A very pretty 😍 girl I didn't know suddenly waved. So I waved back. Then she walked straight past me, and greeted the person behind me. 😬  Mary Magdalene in the Gospel today is having one of those embarrassing moments where you get people mixed up. But how many of us are confusing Jesus, the Most Holy, Perfect Son of God, with some dude who has no relevance to our lives? 

The hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth .. John 5:28-29 Death 💀 ☠️ is not the end. 

These people draw near me with their mouths, and honour me with their lips, but have removed their hearts 💕 far from me.. Isaiah 29:13 My first thoughts were about Joe Biden. But it would be hypocritical of me to only see him in this verse. I'm guilty too. I often talk a better game than I'm living.  I know outsiders switch off when they see Christians living far from perfect lives. But what I would say is- God gave you a Man with a Perfect Life - Jesus- and you still wouldn't listen...

I will make justice the measuring line.. Isaiah 28:17 I think we all want to live in a just society. The media focus on Trump and Ukraine, but 10,000 Christians have died in Islamist violence in Northern Nigeria. Is it because they are poor and black 🖤 that this isn't news? Or the fact that some people in the media would rather not see Christians as victims? 

Leviathan that twisted serpent.. Isaiah 27:1  Biden likes to portray Putin and China as the bad guys. Actually Satan is the bad guy, and Biden is in league with him himself. Kishida likewise is not the good guy he likes to portray himself as. Similarly, Sunak is compromised. This current war in Ukraine is not as black & white as many would have you believe. Thankfully, both the major GOP contenders for President understand this. 

They will lay your hands on you & persecute you.. Luke 21:12 Terrible things continue to happen in Myanmar. Military roadblocks have been used to prevent aid from reaching displaced people (displaced by ongoing violence) But the international media mostly seem uninterested. 

I will break the Assyrian.. Isaiah 14:25 So the Assyrians died out, just as God said. Looking at the 4 countries left in the WBC, who is Assyria? (Clearly I was wrong about Italy, but thanks partly to Japan's strict sports betting laws, I lost no money.) Of the teams left, it seems to me Cuba & America are more Assyria like. Cuba is a totalitarian regime where basic human rights are denied. And America is a large powerful country that currently ignores the Bible and crushes smaller countries from time to time. While Japan, like Assyria, has persecuted & invaded God's people in the past it is much more democratic today. In Catholic Mexico, priests are still shot, but how much that is specific targeting or part of wider endemic cartel violence I can't say. I predict a Mexico USA final but as you have seen I've been wrong before. Japan remains a very strong team but they are now playing in Miami, not Tokyo. You could argue that the most Assyrian team, China, is alr...

As yet they did not know the Scripture.. John 20:9 My daughter has just come back from Europe. Germany has lost its way. 

Yet a little while, And He who is coming will come & will not tarry.  Hebrews 10:37 A writer at The Guardian thinks merely the description of Christian judgment is "ghastly". I'm guessing she will not cope at all well with meeting Christ in the flesh. God have mercy on Britain: as Betjeman wrote: Come friendly bombs & fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now. There isn't grass to graze a cow Swarm over, Death! 

I have commanded my sanctified ones.. Isaiah 13:3 Calvary chapel in Santa Clara, California defied local COVID ordinances and stayed open. No one got sick. Attendance tripled. And now Santa Clara want $2.8 million in fines. The church is refusing to pay, & rightly so, instead suing the county for breach of 1st amendment rights. Wish more churches in Japan & England had stood up to the "health" fascists. 

The 4 corners of the 🌎🌍 Earth.. Isaiah 11:12 Farcical hearing the Americans bleat about "Russian aggression" when THEIR drone was in the Black Sea. Maybe back off a little? Somehow I went about my daily business without getting attacked by those dastardly violent Russians yesterday, I wonder how I managed it? MAYBE BECAUSE I DIDN'T FLY RIGHT NEXT TO THEIR BORDER? America does this to China also, repeatedly. Let's be clear- China had no business sending a 🎈 over the US, and let's face it, America has no legit business in the Black Sea right now. The Earth IS NOT, WAS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE American property. If Russia took out the legit Puerto Rican government with a coup, America would not be happy, yet they expect Russia to just put up with it when the US did it to Ukraine. Doesn't the fact that the American President's son 'worked' for the major Ukrainian gas company smell just a little off to you? 

Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it?  Isaiah 10:15 So, online, people are saying Shohei is a god in his hometown. I've never been to Iwate, so I can't really say, but I suspect if it is anything like the rest of Japan, the people there probably do love baseball a little too much & God not enough. So far in this tournament Japan has beaten all comers, but that was 4 countries (China, Czech Republic, Korea, Oz) which are mostly irreligious. Australia 🌏 is probably the most Christian of the 4, but even there the population voted for gay marriage, showing an allegiance to secular rather than Christian values. Now for the first time Japan faces a far more traditionally Catholic country, Italy. Can they prevail? Much stronger on paper, certainly,  Japan is 15 ranks higher than Italy. But Taipei was ranked 2nd, now they are out. Sports betting is of course mostly outlawed here, but if I were allowed a bet, I would be putting a quid on Italy for the upset. It...

Every mouth speaks folly.. Isaiah 9:17 Despite Pope Francis rightly condemning the nonsense of gender ideology, we had the ludicrous farce of an entire British courtroom addressing a convicted male rapist as 'miss'. When will this stop? Yousef wants it to never stop- he sees it as progress. Less than a quarter of Scots agree. 

His name shall be called Wonderful.. Isaiah 9:6 Pretty sure Jesus deserves all the superlatives far more than any being dished out at the Oscars today.  

All things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses & the Prophets & the Psalms concerning Me.. Luke 24:44 Most Jews deny that Jesus is Christ, Messiah, or the Son of God, but He is actually all over the Old Testament, starting with Genesis. It's true most  Christians don't read Hebrew, but we have plenty of Biblical experts who do. 

An evil heart of unbelief.. Hebrews 3:12 Celebs like Gary Lineker think they can make up their own moral code, and spit on everyone else. So pleased to see the Beeb have done the right thing for once. It really is time the secular left learned that not everyone to the right of Chairman Mao is a Nazi. Oh, and by the way, the Nazis were SOCIALISTS. THE CLUE IS IN THE NAME! 

 ..Went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it.  Isaiah 7:1 In this chapter of Isaiah we have 3 bad kings. There are no good guys, except Isaiah the prophet. What's interesting is a Russian, Ukrainian, and American would probably interpret this passage differently. Most Japanese probably wouldn't bother to try, because Isaiah isn't a sacred text in Shinto or Buddhism, but one of the reasons people still read Isaiah 2500 years or so after it was written is what it says about war & politics still holds true today. God never loses, though His people sometimes do. Certainly China couldn't prevail against Japan last night at baseball ⚾, but if, God forbid, it actually came to real war, is anyone going to suggest it will end the same way, with a convincing Japanese win? 

Blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.. Luke 7:23 Jesus has always offended the corrupt, whether the Jewish establishment in Jerusalem initially, or tyrants down through the ages. These days He offends the secular and the woke. Like I said, the corrupt.  

Their carcasses were as refuse in the middle of the street.  Isaiah 5:25 I like Mexico. I wish them well in the WBC. I picked up a cheap guidebook at Book Off, it's a beautiful book with lots to see, but news stories like today just put me off going, even if I had the money. It just seems like the gangs are out of control. I'm sure the whole country isn't like that, but how do you know which bits to avoid? I met a Mexican girl here in Japan in 2016, who was keen to explain that Trump was a racist, etc, but it seems to me he is more realist than racist. 

A homer of seed .. Isaiah 5:10 So the World ⚾ Baseball Classic starts this week. Can Japan 🗾 win? We will soon find out. I obviously hope Britain does well! Is baseball in the Bible? Not exactly. This homer in Isaiah isn't the out of the park hit, nor a reference to the Greek poet, the American painter or the cartoon character. Rather this homer refers to a heap or dry measure, in the slightly more important than baseball world of agriculture. It's maybe not as much fun watching a man plant a field as it is watching Shohei pitch, but we do appreciate your work, guys. Thank you. We truly couldn't survive without you. 

Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good 🍇 grapes..? Isaiah 5:4 Liverpool had a historic best ever win at Anfield over their rivals the Red Devils, beating them 7-0. The Dutch manager has seen improvement but clearly whatever he said at half time (1-0) didn't help at all. 

Slow of heart to believe .. Luke 24:25 New evidence often requires a new paradigm, yet despite soft tissue being found in dinosaur fossils, some scientists seem desperate to cling to the millions of years old paradigm. If your science textbook at school didn't talk about such things, maybe it's time to get a new textbook? Oh, and by the way, a fancy diagram showing how birds are related to dinosaurs is not evidence. It's merely a fancy diagram. 

They will perish, but you remain, & they will all grow old.  Hebrews 1:11 Gisele, the Brazilian "supermodel" wife of Brady the GOAT, not only divorced him & ruined the lives of her kids & husband, but now, not content with that, is now preaching yoga to her millions of followers on Instagram. Quite why people follow a supermodel for spiritual advice I don't know, but it does irritate me. Many women seem to think they can ignore God's Holy Word, the Bible, & act as selfishly & narcissistically as they like, & still be 'spiritual'. It doesn't work like that.  Meanwhile 9 million people in Ethiopia are at risk of famine. Maybe if you want to be truly good, Gisele, you could help them out a little?

The child will be insolent towards the elder.. Isaiah 3:5 This is why I don't enjoy teaching kids. But I haven't been beaten unconscious by a pupil..yet. 

The idols He shall utterly abolish.. Isaiah 2:18 One day soon, Japan shall be free of Shinto, Buddhism & Islam. India will be free of Hinduism. And the West will be free of LGBT ideology. 

Neither shall they learn war anymore.. Isaiah 2:4 A state of heavenly peace in the future, for sure, but unquestionably better than a hot war in East Asia anytime soon. Are Biden & his people hoping to kick off a war with China over Taiwan? Does America regard provoking China into war as a good long-term strategy?!? God knows. Doesn't seem wise to me.  Certainly Biden's current war in Ukraine seems to be pushing China & Russia closer together, which is not in America's interest. I'm not sure it is in Japan's interest either, so quite why Kishida is going along with it I'm not sure..