An Oversize October Surprise? Live Not By Lies.
Govt. Agencies To Run Nationwide Test of Emergency Alert System on October 4th - What Else?
Rumors run rampant ‘round the net as the most audacious internet soothsayers foretell the coming of a mammoth calamity on October 4; everything from a nationwide blackout to the broadcast of frequencies designed to activate graphene nanoparticles injected with COVID-19 vaccines.
🍁Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2 Sep 19, 2023
https://twitter.com/AntonioTweets2/status/1704108461678633217
On October 4, 2023, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) in collaboration with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is planning to conduct a nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test.
The test will occur across multiple platforms on Wednesday, October 4th at approximately 2:20 p.m. in the East and 11:20 a.m. Pacific.
The nearly inescapable alert will be seen and heard on terrestrial and satellite radio and television and most cell phones in the United States and its territories will receive an emergency notification as well.
The WEA (Wireless Emergency Alert) test will send an alert to all cell phones with a unique tone and vibration and a message reading “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” Cell towers will repeat the signal for approximately 30 minutes.
The EAS (Emergency Alert System) test will be sent to radios and TVs and will interrupt regular broadcasting with an alert and message lasting about one minute delivering the message: “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System… This is only a test. No action is required by the public.”
Officials say: The purpose of the nationwide emergency alert test is to confirm that the systems are in working order and that they can be activated swiftly to minimize confusion and maximize public safety in times of national emergencies. If postponed, the backup date is October 11th.
What’s All The Fuss About?
There are rumors circulating across the internet that the October 4th test is a cover for a hidden agenda; everything from a nationwide blackout to the broadcast of frequencies designed to activate graphene nanoparticles in the blood of those who received COVID-19 mRNA jabs.
Here’s a taste of the prophecies of a few Internet seers:
YouTube: Offgrid Secrets - Dark Predictions For October 4th 2023
X: Christina Paula (@cpaula111)
https://x.com/cpaula111/status/1703854704915263498?s=20
As you can see the bulk are not making reasonable suggestions, but rather going “all-the-way” with the most sensational, unfounded claims imaginable.
Please don’t misunderstand my point. I am not saying that our federal government and its agencies are above deception and even outright murder of their citizens. There is very good reason to question the federal, state, and local governments — and we must!
What I am saying is that it is no service to anyone to promulgate dubious claims framed in overtones of fear, especially when it is so blatantly obvious that the messenger hasn’t even a rudimentary handle on what is scientifically feasible now or will be for at least the next 30 years.
This is a great opportunity to hold accountable all those who preyed upon the naivety of the average social media lurker and took advantage of the ignorance of the general public to get clicks, gain viewers, and collect ad revenue.
Think of it like this: The EU’s Digital Services Act, the UK’s Online Safety Bill, and all other draconian lockdowns of free speech online must be fought tooth and nail. Because there is no way to sway unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who make these decisions, our best case for why these totalitarian tactics must be halted ASAP must be made to the general public who can en-masse make a real difference. How can we possibly make our best case to the average netizen, or the general public when all that these treacherous tyrants have to do is simply summon for presentation a few examples of these frivolous grifters circulating their silliness and its case closed?
No, these grifters should not be censored and removed from the public square. The answer is, that we must seek truth from the proper foundation of sound critical thinking founded on the wisdom of biblical Christian worldview.
Folks, the stakes are too high. We simply have to do better than this.
But, we do have an opportunity when we see such daffy disclosures as these on social media. We can hold them accountable. Any person who claims to love truth, and says they are trying to “get the truth out to the people” and “wake people up” should be glad to receive correction when they’re wrong.
Therefore, when October the 5th, 6th — or 10th rolls around and none of these calamities have materialized, we must remind these immature mouthpieces of their defective decrees.
If we can police ourselves this way, as responsible free men and women should already be doing, then we have a chance to slow the roll of these meddling middle managers and their odious overlords.
Who Do You Obey?
The follower of Christ has a particular responsibility before God in relation to all kinds of lies.
"Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are His delight" (Proverbs 12:22).
If you KNOW that government, media, and/or societal leaders are embracing lies or purposely promoting deceptions, two things are required of you: you must not participate in those lies and you are to expose those lies.
It’s easy enough for us to grasp the idea of exposing the lies of others.
“And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them” (Ephesians 5:11).
But the Ninth Commandment is very specific that we are NOT to lie to others.
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Exodus 20:16, The Ninth Commandment).
see also: Ephesians 4:25, and 1 Peter 3:10
Sounds simple, right? Not so fast!
The implication here goes further than simply not deceiving another or concealing a matter to gain an advantage.
God has forbidden His people from recklessly sharing information that is not true — even if we believe the government or elites are capable of it.
In other words, if you are spreading information that during the upcoming FEMA/FCC Emergency Alert test, the government or some agency or group, is going to be knowingly and purposely transmitting harmful frequencies that will activate graphene nanoparticles in the blood of those who have taken a COVID-19 vaccine or booster, and you don’t have valid knowledge of such a thing being true or even possible, you are bearing false witness, sinning against everyone who hears you, and sinning against God.
When we engage in spreading such information that cannot be rightly and truly supported with facts and valid, accurately interpreted data, then we are participating in the same kinds of lies that the establishment promoted during the Pandemic and still promotes about COVID-19 vaccines.
If you have shared ideas as truth that you cannot know truthfully are valid, you must repent of that sin immediately. God commands it of us and, Jesus Christ said in John 14:15, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
The follower of Christ is aware that there are many ways to bear false witness and that we may even endorse a lie with our behavior.
The Bible requires us to ask hard questions: “Are the authorities telling the truth about various other matters?”
And the more difficult question that cannot be forgotten: "Am I participating in lies?"
Be vigilant because the Father of Lies is stalking you right now and looking for an opportunity to devour you with deceptions, the newest interesting theories, and meaningless endeavors deep down in the fruitless rabbit holes of social media and the so-called “truth movement.”
We must be certain that someone is trustworthy before we place our confidence in them because even with our behavior, we are either endorsing the truth, supporting a lie, or co-signing the sin of another.
Are you upholding truth? Or are you, by excitement, overeagerness, or negligence encouraging the useless contradictory information and bearing false witness?
It has become far too common to neglect our due diligence and simply repeat what we hear from others online, on social media, or at work, etc. and of course, many of those who spread sensational and wrong information are not intentionally lying. But they’re still bearing false witness, and if you share it yourself, you are too.
In our world, with an incessant flow of information at our fingertips and almost endless opportunities to fool or be fooled, we must all consider,
Is it loving to our neighbor to give them information that we cannot truly justify? Do we glorify God when we carelessly boost bad information or endorse known lies? Is it loving, and does it glorify God to provoke and reinforce fear?
Are you loving your neighbor and glorifying God when you tolerate or stimulate fearful and fruitless reports?
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:13-16).
Christian brother or sister, The Lord Jesus Christ called you the Light of the world. Because we have no righteousness or light of our own, it means that Christ, the Light of the world, is in you. Yes, we are the salt of the earth, purifying that which is rotten, and preserving that which is good, but we are also carrying the Light of the world, which implies the highest moral character that we must give to the world.
It means we must stand in stark contrast to sin and its corrupting power, we must stand for the light of truth in contrast to the sinful darkness and ignorance of lies.
“that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16holding fast to the word of life” (Philippians 2:15-16).
It’s a delicate balance between exposing lies and exposing others to lies. We endorse lies when we refuse to expose lies. We endorse lies when we push false information, knowingly or unknowingly, the effect is the same — we sin and harm others with our sin.
That’s why we need Christ, we need His Holy Spirit to guide our steps in His word; to teach us, to tell us when we’re wrong, to correct us, and to train us in righteousness, that we may be complete, and equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
We must not endorse lies, we must not let tyranny advance, and we must not quicken unfounded fear lest we do the enemy's work for him.
On the day when Alexander Solzhenitsyn was arrested for the last time in 1974, he released a short essay titled, "Live Not by Lies."
He loved his neighbors, the Russian people, by imploring them to reject, repudiate, disavow, and deny the lies they were being told.
"The most accessible key to our liberation [is] a personal nonparticipation in lies! For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person…”
“Never knowingly support lies! … Yes, at first it will not be fair. Someone will have to temporarily lose his job. For the young who seek to live by truth, this will at first severely complicate life, for their tests and quizzes, too, are stuffed with lies, and so choices will have to be made. ... Not an easy choice for the body, but the only one for the soul."
As Scott Brown writes in his booklet, Thinking Biblically About Forced Vaccinations,
“It is both our biblical and civic duty before God to protect the family, the church, and the individual from lies. We must protect them even from civil governments when they lie. This is a proper application of the Ninth Commandment.”
We face a powerful foe. We are facing powerful lies. We are watching the world embrace fall into mass deception,
“because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:11).
Therefore, let us stand firm and do battle courageously with the weapons of our warfare the Lord has given us: The gospel, prayer (for our enemies also), and exposing darkness (not exposing others to darkness).
Let us "live not by lies. Instead, let us live as Paul tells us:
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God" (Ephesians 6:10-11).
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