I was going to post this on Tuesday being that it was the 1 Year Anniversary of our Grand Old Website. I can’t believe it’s been a year already. I am extremely excited about how the site is changing and where it is going. It has gone from a place where we just rant about liberals and Drudge headlines to a place where men share wisdom on God and Country. This is how I envisioned 3G.

I am very thankful for the opportunity to be in the company of fine men such as these. Men, whom like our Founding Fathers, uphold morality, faith, and honor in thought and action. May God continue to bless us and our humble website. Use us Lord for Your glory. Amen.

“We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! ” John Adams and John Hancock April 18, 1775

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One of the greatest joys of Bible study is the ability to examine the text in its original written language. There are nuances and word pictures in Greek that are utterly lost in translation if great care and effort are not taken, and these can make a big difference in the force, attitude, or meaning. One example of this is John 6:44 where Jesus says, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him…” The verb for “draw” hELKUSHi (hELKW) paints the word picture of a sword being forcefully drawn from its scabbard or of a fish being inexorably reeled in. Now how’s that for a vivid mental image of irresistable grace? Studying Greek helps in understanding Scripture just like having a color TV instead of a B/W helps to give you a clearer, more vivid picture of what is going on.

And that brings me to my real point…

When King Leonides of Sparta uttered his now-famous words, “Molon Labe,” in 480 BC, he was not inviting Xerxes’ army to “come and get” their weapons. LABE is 2nd person plural in the Imperative voice. LAMBANW, the lexical form of the verb, means to take or get. Another verb, DEXOMAI, means to get or to receive.

Do you see the difference?

When we speak of “getting” something from someone (e.g. I got this suit from JJ), English hardly conveys whether you acquired the item in question amicably or by force. If I were to say, “I took this suit from JJ,” it carries a completely different attitude than, “I received this suit from JJ,” doesn’t it?

Now, cast your mind back to the Battle of Thermopylae…

Xerxes issues his ultimatum to the Greeks. Leonides, knowing the outcome is hopeless but determined to fight on anyway, utters the words that will, ultimately, inspire and be egregiously and sloppily mistranslated by generations of freedom loving patriots.

Do you think he was inviting the Persians to stroll over and have the weapons handed over to them? NO! Leonides issued a mocking, double-dog dare: “You–all of you–come and take them!”

When the gun grabbers and JBT’s come for your firearms, courtesy of the unPatriotic Act that will allow a liberal administration to declare members of JPFO, GOA, and yes, even the execreable and self-serving NRA to be considered domestic terrorists, will you meekly and submissively stand quiescent and allow them to be taken from your hand? Or will you be one of the few who stand their ground and declare, in the true spirit of Leonides, “Oh, Hell no! You–come and take them!”

Whichever group you will ultimately choose to be in, please, please, please go forth and mistranslate no more. MOLWN LABE does not simply mean, “Come and get them.” If you’re going to have the cojones to quote Leonides, then have the integrity to do so properly and with the true force and accurate meaning of the words.

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General, Gun Rights, Heroes, History, Weapons, Word of God

Daniel was a doubt dissolver. He was one of the most intruguing men in the entire Old Testament. He was honored by both enemy and friend alike and was promoted by his captors. Daniel was called a prophet by Jesus but many Jews deny him this title. Why? Well he made a prophetic statement of exactly when the Messiah would come and what would happen to him and what would happen to Jerusalem after him. So what would happen to Jerusalem after Messiah came? He said “the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;…” Tell me, when was Jerusalem destroyed along with its sanctuary? 70 AD. Does anyone know of a Messianic figure that came before 70AD? This is what Daniel said:

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In light of my previous post can we speculate for a few minutes? What if John, the writer of Revelation, did prophesy WW1, WW2, and a few other big events in perfect order? WW1, 8 million dead, was most likely the sounding of the first trumpet. The first trumpet speaks about all green grass and things being burnt up. It may not mean world wide but the German army had a burnt earth policy that they burnt every green thing in site. Read it. WW2, 52 million dead, was most likely the sounding of the second trumpet. The second trumpet says that 1/3 of the ships would be destroyed. Just over 105,000 ships, naval and domestic, where in the ocean. 36,000 was sunk. Just over 1/3. It also says that a huge mountain of smoke and fire came out of the sea. Could it be he saw Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What was the third?

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World War III is upon us. Many political pundits have stated such rhetoric since 2001. Are we entering a War that will shake our World to its foundations? I say yes. May we bring in prophecy? Hang with me for a few moments and you too will see that this coming war just may be prophesied by the prophet John.

Rev 9:14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. Rev 9:15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. Rev 9:16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Rev 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. Rev 9:18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

I’ve written about this before and Irvin Baxter Jr has been writing and recording about this for over 30 years. Notice in the above prophecy where this war starts. The river Euphrates, where we are fighting now. It escalates and turns into a global war and 1/3 of mankind will be killed. It stats an army of 200 million will fight. Are we in prophetic times?

Wednesday I heard on the radio that Buzz Patterson said something to this effect. America will invade Iran and in doing so China will invade Taiwan causing an Asian war. Dear reader China is backing Iran and will take Taiwan in the not too distant future. China bosted in 1999 that she could put 200 million men into arms, Mao Tse Tung stated that. Since then China has threatened the US on several occasions. No one is taking it seriously. Today Taiwan taunted China,’Taiwan Taunts China with Military Might’. This article states, “Taiwan has staged its biggest live-fire army drill in 20 years, simulating a triumphant repulsion of an invading Chinese force in a display designed to send a clear message to Beijing that the country will not be cowed.”

If you’ve never wanted to live for Jesus Christ, now is the time to start. A nuclear exchange between the US and China will most likely take place. If the above prophecy is for this day. The first five trumpets of Revelation has already sounded, to listen to the proof just go here and look for the Seven Trumpets. If this is wrong then PRAISE GOD.

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Now’s yer chance to show everyone just how all American you really are. Just got the 3G Online Store up and goin. There is currently only one design, but I’m open for any ideas! Just drop em in the comments!

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Faith. Most people view faith as some religious expression, like going to church or praying, but just because you do those things doesn’t mean you have faith. Faith is substance. Faith is hope. Faith is evidence of the unseen. One writer of the New Testament said show me your faith without your works and I will show you faith by my works. Works can’t generate faith but be certain, faith will generate action.

Lights camera ACTION. Faith. Faith is powerful. Matter of fact, faith attracts God like honey attracts flies. Like water attracts the thirsty. God loves faith and He can’t resist it. God loves us and when we exert faith, God will show up. Where there is faith the impossible is only a whisper away.

Last year my brother was diagnosed with Chordomas. A rare but a very deadly form of cancer. The doctors had given little hope, trying to be helpful I’m sure, but it was painful to watch. His wife had lost her mom a year before and now this, their baby was only months old. I spoke with my brother and said something like this, “Look, the doctors are smart but don’t believe a word they say. You have nothing to lose just have faith in God and pray for a miracle.” Now, I know, when people read “have faith in God”, they read, “forget medical treatment” but that isn’t so. If you have nothing to lose might as well go down swinging. He did. He believed God could heal him and cause the prognoses to be wrong. The doctors scheduled a very risky surgery to remove this tumor from his spine. They said it was bigger than my fist and it could leave my brother paralyzed. My friends prayed. My family prayed. I prayed. The surgery was supposed to last six hours. An hour and a half he was out. The tumor had shrunk to the size of a prune, it wasn’t Chordomas, it wasn’t even cancer. Just a tumor. Faith is the evidence before the unseen was even known. My nephew still has a great daddy, a wife still has a husband, and I still have a role model.

Two months ago a lady in my local church came for prayer. She had been diagnosed with Hep C. She was depressed and realized that her lifestyle had brought on this disease. Years of drugs and abuse to her body. A simple prayer of faith that night reversed her disease. She was going for treatment the next week and when she got to treatment her blood count was reversed. The hope was out of reach but God had saved her and that is a miracle of the soul, God had healed her a miracle of the body.

Three weeks ago the mother of a good friend of mine came for prayer. She had a tumor on her lungs. Her Grandmother and her Mom died of cancer of the lugs and so hope wasn’t in abundance. I still recall the electricity in the air that night. The doctors said it was a solid mass on her lungs and she was going in for surgery two days later. After the church prayed no light or voices from heaven, just a simple belief that God was going to do what needed to be done. When the report came to me I was about to teach a class. The doctors said when they went in to do the biopsy. The tumor popped and vanished like it was filled with air. They told her that they had no explanation of what happened, only, you do not have cancer!

Now granted I may need God’s divine hand to heal me oneday, what happens if he didn’t? I can only say that faith attracts God and if he so decides to answer the request that we make. Then praise God. Job was faced with a terrible circumstance. He lost everything but he said, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him…” The real miracle is being close to him. Trust is found in deep relationships. Trust is the bedrock and has faith as its foundation. Never gage someone by their circumstance. Never gage God’s love with what is happening, you may be next, have faith in God. Simple, satisfying, and powerful faith in Jesus Christ.

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At risk of sounding egocentric I want to let it be known publicly that I believe God has been orchestrating an offensive to save me from the clutches of Satan. I wouldn’t make such a bold claim if I didn’t have strong evidence to support my idea.

It all started last Saturday morning when I received the news that little Jordan Mason had been killed in a boating accident. To say that his death has had a profound effect on me would be understating the situation. My soul felt crushed, but why? I had only met the young man a handful of times. Nevertheless, my heart was as broken as if I were part of his family.

His death and my subsequent emotions that followed forced me to take an inventory of my life. It was surely a sad list. My shortcomings, if all were written down, would fill hundreds… no, thousands of pages front and back. But the ones that were most despicable were my failures at being a father, a husband, and most importantly, a Christian. I will not go into detail regarding these failures because it would take hours and it would just depress you all. But I do want to shed light on a few things that have weighed heavy on my heart.

First, I have been dealing with extreme bouts of guilt. Not only from my sin, but from something that has been resonating in my head for the last few days. Like I said before, at risk of sounding egocentric: I have felt that in some way I am responsible for the death of Jordan Mason. Now I know what you all are probably thinking right now, “Dude, you were nowhere near Pend Oreille River on Friday, how could this tragedy be your fault?’ The answer can simply be found in what I believe the purpose of Jordan’s death was. I am responsible for the death of Christ, am I not? I am responsible for the death of Jordan Mason Christ died so that I might have everlasting life, Jordan may have died to remind us all of that. Like Christ, Jordan died so that others might live.

With this insight I am burdened to pull myself up by the bootstraps and call on our Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness. If I don’t Jordan’s death may very well be in vain. If I don’t I forfeit the gift that was given to me at Calvary. I would let down my children, my wife, Jordan Mason, and our Heaven Father. This cannot happen. I won’t let this happen.

Today at church, the sermon was eerily appropriate. We took communion and before I partook of the bread and juice, I confessed all my sin to the Lord. My sins include but are not limited to: lust, wrath, greed, pride, envy, gluttony, and sloth. Again, I will not go into detail but I wanted to publicly state that I am a sinner and I need Jesus Christ to save me from these sins.

My heart longs to be closer to Jesus. My body longs to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I pray for a complete and sincere revival in my life. I pray that Jordan and his family forgives me and others who are are responsible for his death. I pray that I could be a father to my kids like Tim Mason was a father to Jordan: selfless and completely devoted to the Godly calling of raising his little ones. Amen.

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Last night there was a terrible accident on the Pend Oreille River. Jordan Mason was being pulled on a inner-tube by a boat and was struck by another boat. His little life jacket was all they could find. The search is still on but they have called off the helicopters. My best friend’s son was one of Jordan’s best buds. They did Awana together, they wrestled together, and they played together.

Jordan’s father Tim Mason is an incredible man. I have often thought of asking him to be a contributing author here at 3G. Like many of us here, he is a Right-wing, God fearing, Patriot. He is also a pastor at Fourth Memorial Church here in Spokane. He runs the Riverview Bible Camp up there in the summer. Please pray for the Masons. Pray that God will create a miracle. Also keep the 17 year-old girl who was also hurt in your prayers as well.

KXLY News- Update

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