Freedom Church

08/30/2026

Floodgate: The Tommy Hellfiger Hiss-Story

YOUR PRIDE AND YOUR MUSIC have ended here in the world of the dead. Worms are your blanket, maggots are your bed. You, the bright morning star, have fallen from the sky! You brought down other nations; now you are brought down.
––Isaiah 14:11-12 CEV

What do you do when the devil has signed your death certificate, and everybody has walked away from the grave of Lazarus?

The devil who showed up in the Garden of Eden had a hiss-story of a bad fall that left open and unhealable wounds. There was a smoldering fire kindled on his insides that was like a growing cancer. Also, a hideous Green Lie had laid her eggs into this wound, and the proud mother watched with pride as her babies grew:

“Y’all make Mama proud. How stinking you are! How putrid! If one fly can destroy the anointing, how much more can trillions!”

Lucifer was created in perfection. “You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation” (Ezekiel 28:13).

1. Lucifer saw the Lord's beauty, then somewhere started looking at his own beaty
2. Lucifer was the Blood of Jesus Hammond Organ

I believe it was when he took his eyes off the Lord and began to look at himself that he started having prideful thoughts: “You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north” (Isaiah 14:13).

One translation says, “I’ll climb to heaven and place my throne above the highest stars.” To ascend means Lucifer was in Eden: “You were in Eden, the garden of God.”

Ezk 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

Where does the biggest mass murder take place? In the Garden of Eden: In Adam, all die.

1. If this is indeed true, it means that the Lord REPLANTED the garden that iniquity had destroyed.
2. It means the serial killer had returned to the scene of the crime––murderers have returned to the scene of their crime many times as a concerned bystander

There is no doubt in my mind that the tree of life in the Garden of Eden represents and points to Christ, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the antichrist. The fruit in both these Trees had SEED. One righteous Seed had a His-Story of goodness, and the corrupt seed had a hiss-story of wickedness.

What’s a devil to do when he STILL wants to be God, and the only way to obtain this is to enter through the back door by usurping the authority God gave the first Adam to take dominion over the world? You must SCAM the new owners into signing over their title deed to the world.

The devil came to the Garden of Eden with a problem: How could he show up with hellfire smoking in his ears and maggots crawling over his body? He had to disguise himself: HE HAD TO PRESENT AN IMAGE TO EVE THAT WAS ONLY SNAKE-SKIN DEEP.

Think about it. For the devil to look to himself and think he could defeat God means that the first deception that led to the first iniquity was when the devil believed the façade of his own image. He may have looked powerful, but all his power came from the Lord. When the Lord withdrew the anointing, all he had left was THE IMAGE OF SOMETHING GREAT AND POWERFUL.

He became an image that was only skin deep. EVERYTHING HE WOULD ACCOMPLISH WOULD BE DECEPTION––WORKS DONE IN DARKNESS.

How did he tempt Eve? As a friendly snake who pointed out the outward beauty of the Figs on the fig tree. His War Strategy: Give a man a fig, and you’ve fed him one meal. Teach a man to become a self-sufficient, self-confident, and self-consumed fig farmer, and you’ve fed him for life.

Men look at the outward appearance and make all their judgments based on skin-deep evidence. Whether the fruit was a pear, apple, or fig, the skin was thin and covered up the seed on the inside.

Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Mat 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
Mat 23:28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

How does the devil deceive the world?

Rev 13:15 The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.

The irony of the fall of man is that although Adam and Eve were still made in the image of God and they outwardly looked the same after sin entered, inwardly they bore the image of a snake. They now possessed a spirit of disobedience.

God looks at the heart, and after the fall He looked into the heart of man and saw the desperately wicked eyes of a serpent staring back at him.

The language of love and the language of seduction are the same. The one who wishes a girl for a wife and the one who wishes her for only a night both say the words, “I love you.” Jesus has told us to discern between the language of seduction and the language of love, and to know the wolves clad in sheepskin from the real sheep.
––Richard Wurmbrand

Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

To know means experiencing the world through your eyes. Through the eye gate, the spirit of disobedience will enter your heart as a multiplying seed. Disobey, and your eyes will open up like a highway for the devil to enter your heart and then exit your heart with curse words, damning your destiny with wicked, world-altering words set on fire by hell itself.

1. To know means: To have an intimate relationship with another person, an idea, or an experience.
2. It means you will have AN OPINION in direct opposition to the truth. It means you will learn how to sin and be creative about it.
3. It means you will declare and teach others how to sin
4. It means you will be known as a sinner

Notice the temptation of Eve is all about presenting a lying image that contradicts the concrete evidence of THE REALITY OF ETERNAL TRUTH.

It would be like trusting Po Dump Diddly Squat in a raggedy 1976 Dodge truck to co-sign a loan to buy a trillion-acre Paradise Ranch in Texas, and not trusting your father, Sam Walton Rockefeller, who owns GMC, Ford, and Chevrolet companies, to co-sign for a hundred trillion dollars.

Gen 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Here is what you must see: The temptation was to get the eyes of Eve to begin looking in the light of her own understanding.

There was no sun in the first three days of the creation story. “And God said, “Let there be Light, and the Light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” The sun was created on the fourth day: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day.

What happens when you turn on a flashlight at high noon on a cloudless day on the fourth of July in Alabama? It shines, but it shines in obscurity and adds nothing to the Light. When Adam and Eve sinned, their eyes were opened, and they became blind as bats.

1. A fig laced with fentanyl has the image of life-giving food
2. A serial killer driving a Jaguar and a dozen roses in hand along with a wedding ring has the image of a loving bridegroom
3. A pyramid scheme has an image of financial wisdom

I believe the devil instructed Tommy Hellfiger to create the Fig leaf apron known as the Fig Newton. THIS ALSO WAS AN IMAGE-ONLY SOLUTION: FIG JUICE CANNOT COVER SINS, MUCH LESS TAKE AWAY SINS.

These aprons came with night vision goggles (NVGs) and magnified the darkest of lies over the Light of Truth. A complimentary blind man’s walking cane was included with a cap that read: Blind Man Tour Guide.

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Fig leaves are nothing but the grass of the field: Here today, gone tomorrow. And after the fall, the ground was cursed: Everything started dying.

1. I believe the Lord killed an innocent lamb and it was a cherished pet
2. I also believe the lamb licked the hand of the Lord before its throat was slit.
3. Satan enjoyed it
4. Satan noticed the Lord hated the fig leaf apron: Jot this down in your Death Planner: Teach man to offer anything but innocent blood.”

This doesn't mean that the devil didn't do anything with the slain lamb. No sir, He took the wool and pulled it over the eyes of Cain, the firstborn of Eve.

How does the devil tempt Cain, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, to sin? He taught him to go against what Adam and Eve taught about offering an innocent lamb, and taught him to offer carrots THAT CAME FROM GROUND THAT WAS CURSED.

1. This same compromised spirit taught Abraham and Sarah to offer the seed conceived in Hagar as a substitute for the Seed of Isaac, who is a type of the Seed of Christ
2. This same compromised spirit taught Israel to choose Saul based on an image that contradicted the truth: The Scepter shall not depart from Judah until the LION OF JUDAH comes
3. This same compromised spirit will teach Israel to reject the image of a Lamb dying on a cross and to choose an antichrist instead

After Saul sinned, he still desired the image of being blessed by Samael in front of the people.

1Sa 15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

The ultimate absurdity is that the Pharisees and Sadducees wanted to make sure that, while committing high treason by rejecting Jesus and choosing a murderer, they made sure they didn't go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled

Jhn 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover.

They also made sure that Jesus, the Passover Lamb, was dead so that they could offer the image of obedience by keeping the Sabbath in a temple now void of God's Presence.

Jhn 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

When I killed the two rattlesnakes that raced into my yard on four prosthetic legs, I DID NOT think to make pets out of them, because I knew the hiss-story of rattlesnakes.

1. I hated these snakes because I love my pack of Siberian Huskies.
2. If I picked them up, I would have been bitten

What kind of special nut would I be if, after being bitten, I invited these two snakes into my home and tried to make them pets? That would make me a certified nut indeed. But I’d have gotten it honest. Someone once said the real problem in the Garden of Eden wasn’t the forbidden fruit.

The problem was the two nuts on the ground. How many times have people tried to make pets out of their sin?

It is time to shoot this lying snake in the head: CUT OFF THE HEAD AND THE REST WON’T RATTLE LONG!

It was Satan who designed a custom-tailored Tommy Hellfiger suit for Jacob––The Esau Line: Look the part rugged hunter!

It was the Lord who designed the transformational clothes for Israel: The Sackcloth and Ashes Brand––Dress for Success. It’s not about you! Be clothed with humility.

Jacob went from the Can-Do-Man worried about his image before Isaac to the Can-Do-Nothing Man who was transformed into the image of Christ and therefore, his name became Israel.

Israel with a limp.

The devil presented the image of impossibility at Lazarus' grave.

The Lord revealed the express Image of His Heavenly Father. The Can-Do-Nothing-Man, without His Father, revealed His Name to all who will confess that their name is Jacob. He revealed His Name: I AM the Resurrection and the Life.

I wonder who painted the picture of the music celebrity being greeted in heaven by other rock stars who never publicly repented of their abominations?

08/16/2026

08/16/2026

I would love to see you at Freedom Church today. I will be speaking about the War Between the Seeds. This war will end in an epic battle between the Spirit of Christ and the spirit of the Antichrist, whom I believe will be the Muslim Mahdi––the guided one who will conquer the world to prepare the way for the return of Jesus. (I am not dogmatic about the identity of the antichrist)

The War Between the Seeds is the Battle of the Lord and can be understood by simple biblical math.

1. One Holy Seed of Christ against one corrupt seed of the antichrist
2. One mother named Sarah against one mother named Hagar
3. One Lamb named Jesus against one snake named Lucifer
4. One hour where Christ does his work and one hour where the antichrist does his work

It is 11:59, and the world has been turned over to a reprobate mind. Pete Buttigieg––a married man to a man–– joined Michigan Democrats and Governor Gretchen Whitmer in Detroit on August 7, 2026, to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, who is a Muslim. This is like a rooster named Pan Fried campaigning for a political ticket of Tyson Chicken for president and Colonel Sanders for vice president. If Buttigieg were in the Muslim stronghold of Iran, the best he could hope for would be to be thrown off the top of a skyscraper.

It is 11:59, and all things are possible. It's possible to see all that the LORD has promised, and it's possible to blow it all. Think of the generation of Israelites that came out of Egypt: They refused to sign the Title Deed of Faith presented to them by the manifest Presence of God. Instead, they set the deed to the Promised Land on fire with tongues set on fire of hell.

08/09/2026

Jacob Finally Looked in the Right Mirror

BE DOERS OF THE WORD, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:22–25).

Two people dwell in every home: The fleshly man and the spiritual man. The man of sin and the man of righteousness.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. (Romans 7:18).

The word dwelleth refers to a husband dwelling in a house with his wife, and to a wife dwelling in a house with a husband. THIS CAN DEFINITELY PICTURE TWO DIFFERENT MINDSETS!!!!!!!!! Of course I'm referencing where the man is always right….

The number one enemy we all face stares at us each day with blinded eyes. Elvis should have never sung I Did It My Way. How did that work out for you? He should have been singing to himself, You’re no good, You’re no good, You’re no good, Elvis, You’re no good!!!!!

We should all get up every morning and sing to the man in the mirror, He's no good, He's no good, He's no good, He's the Can-Do Man.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall
I finally saw my stinking self
And now I'm so appalled

Here are the key words to James, and understand that the context is what to say and do in a storm.

1. Count it all joy when your faith is being tested––Peter said this is a fiery trial of faith
2. The double-minded man will receive nothing––He's back and forth like Israel in Exodus
3. This is in a storm––tossed to and fro by the doctrine you are hearing––I can and then I can't
4. Be swift to hear what the Lord is speaking in the storm
5. Don’t listen to the flesh which says, “Jesus, you don't care that we are perishing, do you?”
6. This will lead to anger: I'm thinking the disciples were upset that Jesus didn't care!

Here is the way to hear and do in the New Covenant: Jesus, I'm hearing what you are saying to me through the scriptures and by your Spirit in me and with me in this storm: “It is I, be not afraid, We’re going to the other side!”

The new commandment is this: Believe on the Name of Jesus and put no confidence in your natural ability to work it all out! Trusting in your carnal flesh ain’t-a-gonna work, and when it doesn't work, you’ll become a summer thunderstorm in Muggy, Alabama––You’ll flash lightning bolts and make a lot of noise! The zip code to Muggyville is 66666.

Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. For anyone who hears the WORD but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at HIS FACE in a mirror, and after OBSERVING HIMSELF goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

James is talking to Christians who have begun in the Spirit, but then revert back to the flesh.

The flesh is that perverted principle in human beings which perpetuates Satan’s proud hostility and enmity against God.
— Major Ian Thomas
What does a Christian see when he looks into the scriptures? He sees the Truth: I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. The Lord's plan for us in the storm is to always get us out of the way: Take up your cross daily, or else the Can-Do man will foul things up!

Remember, the essence of reverting back to the law is this false belief system: Yes Lord! I hear all that you command, and the Can-Do man will observe and keep all that you ask of me. After all, if you didn't think I could obey the Law, You would have never given me the Law!

The double-minded man forgets that he is crucified with Christ, and immediately starts walking in natural eyesight. Jacob began in the Spirit by God's sovereign choice: The oldest Esau will serve the younger Jacob.

So then [God's gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God's mercy. [It depends not on one's own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God's having mercy on him.] (Romans 9:16 AMPC)

Here’s what the flesh looks like when it attempts to accomplish by the flesh what has already been accomplished by God's Decree. Issac, Rebekah, and Jacob were all in the flesh. I believe Jacob heard that he was the one called, but as soon as he left that mirror, he forgot about the calling and went about to perform God's work in “the creature energy of the flesh.”

1. Isaac thinks he’s dying but will live many more years, so he moves in fear and attempts to bless Esau, who is a type of the flesh
2. Rebekah schemes to stop this by pure deception
3. Jacob dresses up like Esau and lies invoking the Lord's Name: “The Lord blessed me by enabling me to have a quick and successful church, I mean deer hunt.”
4. Jacob plainly said, “I am Esau” when Isaac asked his name.

The Can-Do Man reaps what he sows.

On his wedding night, Jacob enters the honeymoon suite, which is dark, to lie with his wife for the first time. In the morning, he awakens with a lightmare.

“Can you believe this, Rachel? We have the rest of our lives together.”
“It is kind of hard to believe when you think about it,” said Leah.

Jacob was suddenly spinning, and he had been spinning out of control for years. He wrote this song recorded by the Spinners.



Hand me down my white cane
Hand me down my hat…

Hey, y'all, prepare yourself for the Can-Do Man
You've never heard a sound
Like the Can-Do Man
He's bound to lose control
When the Can-Do Man starts to jam

The goal of faith ––teamed with patience––is to reveal the end of faith. The end of faith is a Revelation of Christ in you. For years Jacob lived by walking in the flesh. “I'm so tired of living in my own strength, lifting up your name in my own power, Lord I am weary, I am wounded, I am worn; be my victory this hour.”

Jacob had been looking in the mirror and seeing himself. And then he looked into THE MIRROR and saw Christ! He refused to quit wrestling with the Lord, even though all he could do was wave his little finger in the Lord’s Face, but this was Jacob waving the white flag of surrender.

“What do you see, Jacob, when you look in the wrong mirror?”
“I see only my sorry old self!”

[The Man] asked him, What is your name? And [in shock of realization, whispering] he said, Jacob [supplanter, schemer, trickster, swindler]! (Genesis 32:27 AMPC)

Jacob finally looked in the right mirror: “And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved” (Genesis 32:20).

God tests our faith to prove that Jesus is our life, our truth, and the way we walk in our commission from Him.

In every test Abraham faced, the answer was never found in his natural self but in the Word of God. As his self-confidence faded, his faith continued to grow. The answer came when the Spirit of Christ in him became the sole basis for his faith.

1. The end of faith in Sarah was no confidence in flesh
2. The end of faith in Jacob was no confidence in flesh
3. The end of faith in Joseph was no confidence in flesh
4. The end of faith in Moses was no confidence in flesh
5. The end of faith in Peter was no confidence in flesh

We must look in the same glass that our Heavenly Father looks through––He sees us as we really are; He sees Christ in us. And on the throne in heaven, he looks at Jesus and sees us seated in Him and with Him!

Jas 1:5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Jas 1:6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

1. The Lord did not behold iniquity in Israel, even though they were still on the Potter’s Wheel, and the Potter was working out their flaws.
2. The Lord saw the church as pure golden lampstands, even though there were sins to be repented of.

The Lord has given us the wedding gift of a lighted mirror.

2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

We are to renew our minds by looking through the “looking glass” and seeing Christ in us. We are to walk in the mindset of Christ.

Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

1. Jesus could look within Himself and see the Father working in Him
2. We can look within our spirit and see Jesus, our everlasting Father working in us

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does”

Jesus in us is the ONLY effective doer of the work God has called us to. Look at His mindset in a storm on the Sea of Galilee compared to the disciples’ mindset: “Lord, don't you care that we perish?” I believe they were angry when they said this.

Jesus looked to the ever-present, ever-speaking, living Word of God. In other words, Jesus looked into the right mirror and saw the Son of Man who is the only Can-Do Man.

Psa 107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Psa 107:28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

We are to look into the Word of God and see this same Jesus in our ship––He is with us in the storm. We are not to look at the cold stone tablets of the Law.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith. The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “THE MAN WHO DOES THESE THINGS will live by them.”

To be justified by the law would mean that you kept all the commandments flawlessly, including your thought life. This means that God could look at your life from beginning to end, and see that you were exactly what He wanted you to be: Another Jesus. This equals impossibility times infinity!

Lord, open the eyes of our understanding!

08/09/2026

I would love to see you today at Freedom Church! I will be speaking on Jacob Finally Looked in the Right Mirror. Some of us are in storms even now. The question is, who are you depending on, and what are you speaking?

The power of life and death is in the tongue. We either look in the mirror and see the hopelessness of our flesh, or we look into the mirror and see Christ in us.

And this means we will speak faith, or we will speak out of fear and anger.

Here are the key words to James chapter one, and understand that the context is what to say and do in a storm.

1. Count it all joy when your faith is being tested––Peter said this is a fiery trial of faith
2. The double-minded man will receive nothing––He's back and forth like Israel in Exodus
3. This is in a storm––tossed to and fro by the doctrine you are hearing––I can and then I can't
4. Be swift to hear what the Lord is speaking in the storm
5. Don’t listen to the flesh which says, “Jesus, you don't care that we are perishing, do you?”
6. This will lead to anger: I'm thinking the disciples were upset that Jesus didn't care!

08/02/2026

After a fifteen-year hiatus, Ricky and I found ourselves back in roofing, though we no longer owned a single hammer. Our first job was a hunting lodge in Camp Hill, and we had to borrow two orange, big-headed hammers from John Rhodes, the contractor. The real joys of roofing are the breaks, finishing, and, of course, payday. During one break, we traded jokes while I took a sip of a cold Diet Sunkist.

AAARGH!

My mouth exploded with pain inflicted by a straight-from-hell yellow jacket, who herself was working outdoors. In the words of Stephen King, “The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.” I rushed home to a Lortab, and the earth, wind, and fire orbited in my head.

It was September, and the throb in my mouth, I remember.

Who in their right mind would put a stinger in their mouth? One measly thought of the nasty thing sickens me. They not only have my hate, but also my R.E.S.P.E.C.T. These hell-a-flyers bring their A-game and leave you no choice but to tip your cap to their glorious devilment. Singleness of mind binds them together as a cohesive team, sharing the common goals of protecting their house and ruining picnics.

Man retaliates when a yellow jacket attacks. An unwritten code passed down through generations of Bee One Bombers commands retribution under the strongest terms possible.

We will fight them in Alabama. We will fight them at their nests. We will fight them at the picnic table. A jacket for a jacket and a sting for a sting. We shall never surrender. Never quit! Never quit! Never quit!

The next day, another yellow jacket disrespectfully landed beside me on the roof. Without warning, the big-headed hammer from China mashes his ugly, revolting, yellow-bellied guts, taking my hatred to new, exciting, satisfying levels. This wasn't a Sunkist.

This was an Orange Crush.

My long history of jacket wars started in 1968. Ma Maw Jennings had a Crepe Myrtle tree in her front yard. (Terri Wilbanks Rice said her husband, Jim, thought it was a Craig Myrtle) For some reason, I hit Craig with a stick, not knowing he hid a military stronghold of black-eyed terrorists.
They stung me on my back, legs, stomach, and face. To draw out the poison, Daddy had a chew of Red Man to***co, and he put the juice on the stings.

This didn't help much to my way of thinking. Levi Garrett would have been a much better choice.

The burning sting of their poison was my first fiery trial. Did my stick create the bees? Of course not—it merely disturbed what was already teeming in the nest. From the abundance of their home, Craig and his comrades struck.

The yellow jackets' aggression comes from the queen bee, also known as the foundress, who has competed with other foundresses for reproductive domination. She lays her eggs and raises them through complete metamorphosis, from eggs to larvae, then to pupae, and finally to adults. The first thing a yellow jacket sees is its foundress, and its entire life conforms to the will of the queen. The business of buzzing around for the queen defines normalcy for this earless terrorist.

Did the yellow jacket in my Sun Kist originate in my mouth? No, a queen hatched it from the eggs–– seed–– she received from a male bee. Why did I spit out the nasty stinger? He had no place in my mouth because he represents a curse full of poison. Separation defines my relationship with yellow jackets, not inclusion.

The sting in my mouth may have ruined my day, but it didn't end my life. Far worse is the poison that begins in our hearts, spreads to our tongues, and ultimately ruins not only our lives but also those around us.

I spit the yellow jacket out, but how often have I put poisonous words in my mouth in a heated argument? Or perhaps I spoke out of carelessness, or out of deep disappointment. A deadly foundress downloaded hell's thoughts into my heart, and I spoke accordingly. That’s the sad truth.

Have you ever been stung by words of anger and hatred? The stinger is in the tongue: “Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with lies. Snake venom drips from their lips” (Romans 3:13 NLT). Why were you stung? Someone was defending the dishonor of a devil’s nest.

AND THE TONGUE IS [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man's existence] and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).

But no one can tame the human tongue; it is a restless evil [undisciplined, unstable], full of deadly poison.
— James 3:6;8 AMP+