God's Divine Scavenger Hunt Part 7

 How is you, the reader, how is your family doing?  A lot of people out there may have been hurting. They were depressed.  They suffered through a divorce or members of their family did.  A man doesn't have the opportunity to see his children.  These things hurt.  On a case to case basis, we may be able to look at a family, and see if there was a generational curse.  Generational curses and generational spirits have been a "Thing."  They may be removed; however, to remove them, someone needs to be able to identify that they were there, and repent of any sins.   

• You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,  (Deuteronomy 5:9)  

• 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen (Romans 1:18-25)   

Freemasons, they made a lot of Oaths to God.  Did they break them?  What particular Oaths did someone make?  Given someone's dad or grandad was a Freemason, there may have been a generational curse on that family.  

In many Churches, there may have been Freemasons.  They may have professed a love for God, and appeared to be good Christians.  How was their extended families doing?  Given there was a lot of divorce, LGBT, children born out of wedlock, and other such things, that may be a sign of something bad. 

Given someone was blessed by God, he may have been fruitful.  Given a Christian's family has a lot of heartbreak, there may be something wrong.  Identifying that something wrong may be hard for some people. 

I have been aware that in the American Ancestors of Slaves Community, there have been certain generational curses.  Someone like Rev Jesse Jackson, he was a Freemason.  Was he serving God with what he was doing, or serving himself or something else?  Going further back in time, the KKK, it was a Freemason Adjacent Occult Group, which derived some of what it did from Mysticism learned in Freemasonry.  The KKK had particular ritualism and spiritualism, and did things in secret.  Going further back in time, certain slave owners in the South, they may have been part of other Freemason Adjacent groups with links to The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and other Occult groups.  In the 1830's, a lot of Europe, and America, became really interested in the Occult.  That can turn really ugly on a slave plantation with Social Darwinists.  Various families may have ended up with generational curses.  A family may have been Church goers for generations, but something was done in secret.  

God does not judge the son for the sins of the father.  (Ezekiel 18)  The one who sins shall die.  This is about going to heaven.  A generational curse was not about going to heaven necessarily.    

Views on Society -

Atomism - A belief that society is made up of a collection of self-interested and largely self-sufficient individuals, or atoms, rather than social groups.

Organicism - A belief that society operates like an organism or living entity, the whole being more than a collection of its individual parts.

 In 2025, a lot of people have been taught to think atomistically.  Someone was an atom unto themselves.  Everything was about "Me."  Given someone was in sin during the Reformation, he may have needed to tell himself the lie that his sin didn't effect anyone other than himself.  The Bible teaches an Organic Society.  Christians are a Body of Christ, and the Body of Christ is society.  

The Bible has big genealogies.  Family is important.  Many people, thinking atomistically, thinking of only the individual, they may have been blind to generational curses.  LGBT is an example of generational curses being worn pridefully, as something good.  Christians need to separate themselves from non-Christians.  

Sitting around my apartment yesterday, this topic came to mind.  I could write a lot about it, and show people a lot of interesting things.  The context I have been writing, is the context it came to me in. There is a reality to a generational curse or generational spirits.  They may be removed.  Just going to Church, that doesn't remove them.  To potentially remove generational curses or spirits, they need to be identified and addressed. 

Allegorical Thinking Part 2

 Yesterday, an article was linked that taught about some very particular concepts from The Bible. 

Post:  "Prophets and God and Allegories" on /r/Theology.  

The Question:  Have certain people been using this knowledge in a corrupt way, and where did they learn it? 

Watching the news day to day, occasionally I find something. 

• A few weeks ago, I was watching some news about the Palestinians.  There was a pro-Hamas family.  The family, to include children, they were eating a cake, like a birthday cake.  This cake was decorated with the flag of Israel.  They would eat it with their hands like they were devouring Israel.  
• During Brexit, there were some protestors.  The protestors were in body paints.  One was painted in the British flag.  The other was painted in the European Union flag.  They were kissing.

 These are both examples of the concepts I highlighted in the article.  I haven't seen someone use the concepts much, I have noticed it from time to time.  

To Occult - To Hide Away.  

What does a Pastor or Priest teach about?  What they were not teaching, and why, may say a lot about them.  Are there elements of Christianity, and Christian Spiritualism or Mysticism, that someone may have been aware of in 1820, but are blind to today?  Given there was, that something was occulted.  There has been a lot of knowledge of God, and understanding out there.  Some people have worked to hide certain understandings away. 

God Almighty is God you cannot control.  Pagans made gods looking to control something. 

 What the Palestinian was doing with the Israeli cake, that was a kind of sorcery, where someone was outside of God, looking to control something, to force his will over something.  A Prophet of God, he was a servant, serving God.  A Prophet was "In God."  The Will is a major theme in comparing and contrasting mysticism.  Was someone Willful like a Harry Potter, doing whatever he wanted to regardless of authority?  Was someone Willful like Fredrick Nietzsche and The Will?  A Christian is humble and penitent.  His will was brought low till it aligned with God's will and good plans for him.  God's plan is God's Kingdom. 

  

Allegorical Thinking

 The Question:  How can someone learn to understand Bible Allegories better, and where did you, Man on Fire, where did you learn? 

I learned from The Holy Ghost. 

It may be that someone may be mentored into being able to think in Bible Allegories.  Lets start with learning from The Holy Ghost. 

• I don't know.  
• I don't care.  
• Be teachable.  

Was someone a Catholic, and a Bishop or Pope was doing something wrong?  I don't know.  I don't care. 

Was someone protestant and their Pastor was corrupt?  I don't know.  I don't care. 

Was someone a Protestant, and the Catholics were right about something or vice versa?   I don't know.  I don't care. 

An Academic somewhere, he needs to produce something.  He needs to produce something to graduate, and to potentially please his peers.  Who were his peers?  Who was someone trying to please?  Man or God?  Doing things that are pleasing to God, a man may be hated.  Teaching good theology at Harvard or Yale in 2025, someone may be hated.  They hated Jesus first.  (John 15:18)

In a doctor's office in the US, there may have been some toys laying around for toddlers.  There may have been a toy with some shapes.  There is a square, a triangle, and a circle.  A toddler needs to fit the right shape into the correct hole or form.  Given someone needed false things to be true, like an Academic promoting their newest Theological Doctrine, it may have been like trying to force a circle into a triangle.  It doesn't work.  Someone was selectively reading or worse. 

How does someone learn to listen to the Holy Ghost?  They were seeking God with all their heart and soul and strength and mind.  They don't know, and they don't care. 

God's plan is The Kingdom of God.  The Kingdom of God has particular values.  Was a pastor or a priest doing something wrong, ceding things to Satan, or otherwise being a false teacher?  We may care about this.  Towards getting there, where someone is in God. I don't know, and I don't care.  The goal is to be In God, where someone loves the things God loves, and hates the things God hates.  This is taught to someone by God. 

An understanding of allegories is an understanding of the Spiritual.  To understand the Spiritual, someone may need to understand The Prophets of the Bible. 

Post:  "Prophets and God and Allegories" on /r/Theology. 

God's Divine Scavenger Hunt Part 6

In February 2014, I had been on Twitter.  I started working for God full time, and I had between tweeting songs for God, with God.  Some of the songs I used were prophetic.  Anyone could have the gift of prophecy.  A four year old girl could have the gift of prophecy.  A Church Elder could have the gift of prophecy.  Anyone could have the gift of prophecy.  God gives irrevocable gifts.  Someone who grew up in a Church, and then ended up a Freemason, or in the Occult, could also have had the gift of prophecy.  Part of God's Divine Scavenger Hunt, over several years, was finding certain prophetic people.  This episode is how I became The Real Slim Shady. 

It was April 2014, a Friday, and I went to the Veteran Administration there in Murfreesboro, TN.  I ended up talking to a doctor, and I looked the doctor in the eye, and told him "I talk to God."  He freaked out on me.  He about jumped out of his skin.  He became a hysterical and demanded......he demanded I be institutionalized.  I suppose I walked into the wrong end of the VA.  

I agreed to be institutionalized in order to prove I wasn't crazy.  It was Friday, and the doctors had all gone home.  It was after 3:00 pm.  Personally, when I was in Afghanistan, there were no weekends.  I worked twelve hours a day, seven days a week.  I worked the night shift.  I was a little irritated losing my Friday, and sitting there all weekend, with nothing to do. 

They did try to drug me.  I didn't need their drugs.  I was all natural.  I don't even take Advil.  I refused their drugs.  

Sunday came along, and before bed time, they tried to offer me some drugs, and I refused them.  The nurse gave me this attitude like "It is your funeral."  That was the first sign that they slipped drugs into my dinner.  I did all right that night.  I was uncomfortable, but I lived. 

The doctors finally showed up Monday morning.  I ended up being interviewed by a foreign female doctor.  She was greeted by me letting her know how weak the doctors there were...in a polite way.  Didn't show up all weekend.  Slipped drugs into my dinner.  Who did they think they are?  I am not a lawyer, but I ended up being able to finding all the right buttons to push, and letting them know that I wanted out.  They couldn't keep me there legally. 

I ended up taking a personality test Monday.  Tuesday I was asked by said female doctor "How did you do so well?" in a surprised way.  I supposed I shrugged my shoulders.  The test was looking to see if you had a balanced personality.  Could someone be conduct themselves in a healthy manner, or were they weak,  allowing people to walk all over them, or abusive and over the top.  I walked the line.  I also had God on this multiple choice test. 

I ended up released Tuesday afternoon.  I had spent five days in a mental health asylum. 

To be tweeting or posting online, certain songs, for God, in a prophetic way, I may have had to fit into the song, and have experienced some things.  Some songs, they may have been prophetic.  Tweeting or posting said songs, for God, in an understanding of The Power of the Tongue, I may have had to be fulfilling them in God's plans for me.  This brings us to the Real Slim Shady video, where the main character of the video is in an Asylum.  The Return of what? The Return of who?  Not Slim Shady. 

It took me a few years after the asylum, before I really understood what Slim Shady was.  Eminiem was said to be Illuminati.  Knowing not much else about Eminem, just looking at his music, his fruit, we may be able to see some things. 

In the 1776 Illuminati, there was Adam Weishaupt.  Weishaupt was a Professor of Cannon Law.  He was a very educated man.  Weishaupt, and his Perfectibilists, they took on aliases.  These aliases may  have had allegorical meanings.  Weishaupt became Spartacus.  Spartacus was an escaped Roman Slave, who started a rebellion against Rome. The Romans ended up capturing many of the former slaves in the end, and when asked who was Spartacus, many of them replied "I AM Spartacus!!  Weishaupt may have seen himself a "Free Thinker" an escaped slave of Catholicism.  Weishaupt as a professor, he worked to make copies of himself.  Is that not exactly what Slim Shady was, but in a 1990's way? 

Tweeting songs for God, I may have been experienced something.  Either I experienced it prior to, that is, prior to working for God, I experienced it working for God, or I was about to experience something, where I could fit into the song, and hit some sort of standard or qualification to be tweeting it. 

Spiritual Warfare: Priests of Baal and Corrupt Mysticism

 The last few days, testimony has been given pertaining to God's Divine Scavenger Hunt.  Given someone found this blog post first, they should go back and read God's Divine Scavenger Hunt first.  We have been working to lead people into understanding.  Given someone cannot follow instructions, they may hurt themselves.  Please follow instructions. 

Imagine for yourself, a small Island, like the Island of Malta.  This island, it is separated from the rest of society, and only 10,000 people live there.  This population of 10,000 is men and women and children, and they are living under God, on Earth as it is in Heaven.  They were living with God. 

Marriage is a sacred thing.  There may be particular rules in place to ensure that everyone is chaste until marriage.  There is no sexual immorality or adultery or lies. 

Given a man and woman, in marriage, both had an open third eye, and were Seers, they may be in intelligent design of how men and women are to be together in marriage and intimacy.  They may be able to read each others minds and emotions.  They are one flesh, a unit.  They may be able to talk to God, and be in God's counsel. They are living in harmony with each other, and with God. 

Given sin entered the Island, this harmony was disrupted.  It would need to be addressed, and removed.  The Body of Christ is a society.  Given sin enters the body, it may be like a wound.  Wounds fester.  Given a wound wasn't addressed, the body may die. 

A Priest of Baal may have been a Seer who believed in "Holy Prostitution."  He was an Evil person looking to be "One Flesh" with many.  Being One Flesh with many, he may be able to read minds through demons, and do other such things. 

Dr. Carl Jung, he was an Occult Pagan Seer.  It is not hard to web search that, I don't care to link it here.  The Spiritual works in a particular way.  Anything Dr Carl Jung taught.....it may be off and wrong.  There may be something to it because there are rules to the spiritual, and he may have been working on some particular rules or laws. 

Dr. Carl Jung wrote about The Collective Unconscious.  In someone's subconscious, there may be have been demons.  Most people are unaware, asleep, not awake to this.  A Seer, a Mystic, he was becoming aware.  In Kundalini Yoga, someone was unaware, they worked to become aware, and integrate.  In Shadow Integration, someone was unaware.  They worked to become aware, and integrate.  The difference between Kundalini Yoga and Shadow Integration may be that in Yoga, they were cultivating particular demons.  In Shadow Integration, there may have been any number of things in someone's subconscious. From Dr Carl Jung and Shadow Integration, we have an understanding of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  In both Yoga and Shadow Integration, someone was becoming a "More Possessed" person.  They were possessed and unaware before.  They became a "More Possessed" person where they were thinking and perceiving and motivated through demons. 

The Collective Unconscious is in the Bible. 

• Mob shows up at Lot's house.  (Genesis 19)  
• Mob shows knocks on door of house Levite is staying in.  (Judges 19)  
• In 2022, Self-Entitled Egotists in a Gay Pride Parade, who felt they were Holy and Moral in their wickedness, they knock on someone's door looking to know him carnally.  
  

What lead to the mobs, knocking on someone's door, looking to know a man carnally?  They were in Baal Worship and Temple prostitution.  They had particular demons running through the collective unconscious.  

Is there something to mind control and the third eye?  There is.  That is not of God.  That is a corruption and demonic.  Man was meant to be living in harmony.  Given we are to research MkUltra, were they using elements of Dr. Carl Jung and Occult Mysticism? 

Operation Midnight Climax

Operation Midnight Climax was established in order to study the effects of LSD on non-consenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass. The prostitutes were instructed in the use of post-coital questioning to investigate whether the victims could be convinced to involuntarily reveal secrets. The victims were sometimes fed subliminal messages in attempts to induce them to involuntary actions, including criminal activity such as robbery, assault, and assassination. Many of the CIA operatives involved in the experiments voluntarily indulged in the drugs and prostitutes for recreational purposes.[4] Additionally, information from Wilmington News Journal on October 15, 1978, reports from a FOIA request that, "the spy agency purchased two pounds of Yohimbine hydrochloride... by Dr. Robert V. Lashbrook, the chief aide to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb." The role of Dr. Lashbrook was to, "monitor and approve materials for Operation Midnight Climax."[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax)

 The glove seems to fit.  The evidence seems to line up.  There are clear themes here. 

Christian societies value virgin brides.  Wiccans, who claim to be modern day Witches, have believed in a mother goddess with a goat headed consort. Satanists have believed in "sacred prostitution."  Was your nation or Church more of a Virgin Israel or a Harlot Ezekiel 23?  Drinking a Harlot's Wine? (Revelations 17) 

Christian societies value virgin brides.  Given most people someone knew, given they were not virgins when they married, you do not live in a Christian society. 

The following is from an article on the city of Baalbek. 

The town became a battleground upon the rise of Christianity.[82][h] Early Christian writers such as Eusebius (from nearby Caesarea) repeatedly execrated the practices of the local pagans in their worship of the Heliopolitan Venus. In AD 297, the actor Gelasinus converted in the middle of a scene mocking baptism; his public profession of faith provoked the audience to drag him from the theater and stone him to death.[82][3] In the early 4th century, the deacon Cyril defaced many of the idols in Heliopolis; he was killed and (allegedly) cannibalised.[82] Around the same time, Constantine, though not yet a Christian, demolished the goddess' temple, raised a basilica in its place, and outlawed the locals' ancient custom of prostituting women before marriage.[82] Bar Hebraeus also credited him with ending the locals' continued practice of polygamy.[88] The enraged locals responded by raping and torturing Christian virgins.[82] They reacted violently again under the freedom permitted to them by Julian the Apostate.[3] The city was so noted for its hostility to the Christians that Alexandrians were banished to it as a special punishment. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baalbek)

Christian societies value virgin brides.  Were you living in a Christian society, or a society headed closer to Baalbek?  Areas of some major US Cities, and even some smaller ones, are already there.  They are disgusting.  People have been flaunting God's Judgement of War, Famine, and Plague.  

The spiritual works in a particular way.  Are you starting to come into understanding? I was prodigal son in June 2014.  I had to work through some things. 

Previously: "A Bridegroom Part 1" on In God We Trust. 

I recommend reading through that part of the blog, with insight as to what was happening. 

Given someone was in sexual immorality.......they were sexually immoral with someone who was sexually immoral, and so on.  Someone may have been six degrees from Matt Damon.   Matt Damon was sexual immoral with someone who was in a Puff Daddy party, who was immoral with someone at a college, who was immoral with "Some Guy" who had a job and a car and ended up marrying her.  

When man and woman come together, they are of "One Flesh."  Given a lot of people were "One Flesh," they may have been a blob or in a river of the dead.  Somewhere in that blob, there may have been a Satanic Occultist who was perceiving he was empowered, through demons.  That would be what Baal worship was.  Now you know. 

Be careful with this understanding.  Turn to The Lord Jesus Christ and pray. Repent of your sins. Christian societies value virgin brides.  Given someone was in a Harlot Ezekiel 23 society.....that society could be shot.  God's Judgement may happen. 

God's Divine Savenger Hunt Testimony - Part 5

 We may need to take a minute and reflect on somethings that were going on in the testimony so far.  I was a pretty normal man in September 2013.  I received a calling from God in October 2013.  I was talking to God, and went into training with God.  I ended up experiencing a lot of interesting spiritual things.  What was I doing towards growing in faith? 

Previously:  "Understanding and Growing in Faith" on In God We Trust.  

In May 23, 2014, I ended up with a third eye open.  I didn't know what that was.  I was growing in faith with God and following directions.  It took me about six months before I even looked up what a third eye was.  I did some light research, came to some understandings, and put those understandings in my pocket for later.  It wasn't important to me that I had an open third eye. 

Given a Christian in Germany, around 800 AD, given he had what I had, he possibly didn't think about the third eye, nor write much about it, nor care.  He was talking to God, and growing in faith.  Today, we have the internet, and there is a lot of information out there.  I may be able to make some sense of things. 

The Spiritual works in particular ways, and there are rules that govern the spiritual.  In the Bible there were Seers, and not all Seers were doing right, nor were they servants of God.  If we were to watch a documentary about Prophets, every Old Testament Nation had their wisemen  and court sorcerers.  Only Israel had the Prophets. 

God conditioned me towards being successful.  God shepherded me into something.  God may have been shepherding me my entire life, and I just didn't realize it. 

Part of Western Occultism was working to relearn what the wisemen and court sorcerers of Egypt and Babylon knew.  Some of that was translated into New Age.  There have been instruction books that say something like "Do A and B and C will happen," towards opening your third eye.  Every so often, the last decade or so, I have found someone freaking out.  He opened up his third eye, and was attacked by demons.  He got into one of those instruction books.  That was wrong.  I was conditioned to handle it by God.  I have had to pray unceasingly, or sing songs in my head, or otherwise keep my mind busy.  Given I let up, I may have had something trying to fight its way into my noggin.  That is gross.  Many people who opened up their third eye, outside of God, they ended up with demons, and were perceiving through demons. 

The testimony that has been given so far, it may appear to line up with some other testimonies out there over the internet.  The Spiritual works in particular ways and there are rules to it. This could also be considered part of God's Scavenger Hunt, where I discovered lost understanding, and helped reveal some things.  

God's Divine Savenger Hunt Testimony - Part 4

 After May 23, 2014, I ended up very supernaturally sensitive.  In the spiritual, there may be Angelic Airwaves.  God speaks to his angels telepathically.  In said Angelic Airwaves there were also demons and occult weirdos through demons.  I felt like I became a "Radio Head." I was picking up things.  I had become different. 

Reading my Bible, I felt like I was "waking" or soaking things up.  It would feel like a red and black static on a TV.  It was kind of like being drunk on wine, but with a static feel to it.  About a month or two later, I drove by a graveyard, and I could sense or feel the spirits there.  They felt like black and white static on the TV, and that hurt.  I would recoil away. 

Back in March 2014, I had finished Twitter.  I felt like I had completed a learning mechanism for opening eyes and ears and teaching about faith with music videos.  Personally, I had grown in faith a lot creating it, and reviewing through it.  I had grown a lot in Christ.  At the top of the Twitter, I stickied a Tweet that said something like "For More Go Here," and there was a link to a Facebook Page I had created called "Champions of Christ." (Dread)  I hadn't done much with it due to ending up in jail. 

May 23, 2014, through the Summer, I was taking notes of things received.  Talking with God, I found that I could use "If, Then" statement to work things out.  I would feel or perceive out the right answer with God.  Given I typed something wrong, it may have felt like there was an invisible barrier under my fingers or thumb, keeping me from typing and sending.  Sometimes I would write something wrong, and immediately feel that it was wrong once it became public, and I would edit it. 

I learned about the word "May."  Given I was to type "Will," or something in the affirmative, that may have been like giving prophecy.  Did I have permission to give that prophecy?  Something "May" happen was leaving something open to God.  Potentiality. 

Song:  "The Last Time"  by The Blind Boys of Alabama.  

I had been a Prodigal Son.  I had gained a lot of attention from Occult Freemasons Tweeting songs on Twitter.  I ended up feeding the pigs.  After May 23, I became aware of them, and that they were watching me.  I would receive questions from people, and work out answers over Facebook. 

June 2014, I ended up homeless.  I had been in jail and had a few other things happen where I hadn't had time to seek employment with a Church.  I decided to drive into Raleigh from Murfreesboro, TN. 

Previously:  "Darknight of the Soul Testimony."  on In God We Trust

As a US Army Veteran, I had drank a lot.  How much is a lot?  Given a doctor gave me a survey at the Veterans Administration about how much I drank, there was a scale on a questionnaire between drinking zero, and completely unhealthy.  I maxed out his scale and then some.  After May 23, 2014, having drank as much as I did, it had done something to my biology and spirit where I ended up God's Spiritual Sponge Bob Square Pants.  I ended up soaking up spirits and sending them to God. 

In the first two weeks of being homeless around North Carolina, I was working towards hitting rock bottom.  Being homeless and losing hope is hard.  I was learning how to lean on God.  I ended up buying hotel rooms, maxing out my credit card. 

I was laying in the bed of a hotel room.  I had my Iphone4, and was on "Champions for Christ" Facebook Page.  I was taking notes, and working somethings out with God and the Pigs.  Suddenly, it came to mind about a legend.  I had read histories of The Crusades, and been been aware of a legend of a Talking Head of John the Baptist.  Suddenly, with God, this came to mind. 

Typing on "Champions for Christ" I write something similar to"

"I suppose we are on a quest for the Talking Head of John the Baptist." 

"Given someone has it, they should burn it." 

I took a break.  Writing things like that was spiritually taxing.  About ten minutes later, I decided to take a shower.  In the shower, with me, ended up being the soul of John the Baptist.  "Oh." I thought.

He was about 5'8".  He was stern.  He didn't say anything to me.  He was there for a moment, and then he went up to God. 

There was a lot of interesting things that happened that summer.  I suppose it is good to give testimony to it.