Nate Rutter

[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

This!

[Matthew Watkins @ITalkOfChrist]

Why did Judas betray Jesus? It's not the reason you think.

I've seen much speculation on how "Satan entered into Judas" and inspired him to betray the Savior:

"Maybe he was corrupted by greed? He did steal from the treasury of the Quorum, after all, and got paid a small sum for his betrayal."

"Maybe he was trying to force Jesus into wider publicity and show signs? No more of this 'tell no man' business?"

"Maybe He was trying to force Jesus to be the Messiah he wanted? Put Him in a position where He had to use His power against Rome?"

In the end, who can really say why Judas did what he did?

Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord. He can really say.

In the JST of Mark 14, he directly tells us Judas's motivation:

"Judas Iscariot, even one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray Jesus unto them, for he turned away from him, and was offended because of his words."

The damning influence that guided Judas down the dark path to deliver His Savior to death is the same influence that pulls women out of attending Relief Society, makes men disregard their Priesthood leaders, and breaks the bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood all across the Church: offense.

Offense is addicting because being it's a combination of three psychological highs:

1. A position of moral superiority
2. Victimhood/underdog status
3. A "bad guy" to blame our problems on

That's an intoxicating mixture. This is why, years ago, I adopted a motto that guides my interpersonal interactions: "Never underestimate someone's tendency to take offense. Including your own."

Satan is extremely powerful with the potent sin of offense. In fact, he has influenced our very vocabulary around it!

Rarely do you hear someone utter the phrase "I took offense" or "he took offense." Instead, we place the responsibility on the other party: "Her remarks are offensive. He offended me. I am offended that you did that."

When we speak like that, we deny our agency, and make ourselves objects to be acted upon.

Beware such thinking. Don't minimize it. Nursing a grudge places you in grave spiritual danger. It doesn't matter if the other person has repented or reconciled. Learn the lesson of Judas: don't hold your own spiritual life hostage over something someone else said or did.

Elder @BednarDavidA gave an amazing talk on this subject a few years ago. I invite everyone to read it frequently:

https://t.co/NEW6odd1vY

[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

Crazy! Where did they all come from? 🤔 (honest question).

"The U.S. population grew by 10.3 million people (+3.1%) from April 2020 to July 2025, with the South accounting for the majority of gains."
https://t.co/0hVdfcKHVe via @visualcap

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

The Average Salary vs. Home Prices

This chart is insanity.

[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

Not surprised, but it hits when you see the numbers.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Price Increases over last 5 years...
CPI Used Cars: +20.4%
CPI New Cars: +20.6%
CPI Food at home: +25.2%
Family Health Insurance: +26.5%
CPI Shelter: +28.0%
CPI Food away from home: +29.8%
CPI Electricity: +38.3%
CPI Gas Utilities: +41.3%
CPI Transportation: +42.4%
CPI Coffee: +44.0%
US Home Prices: +45.1%
CPI Gasoline: +49.6%
CPI Fuel Oil: +54.4%
CPI Ground Beef: +62.4%
CPI Auto Insurance: +65.6%
CPI Dozen Eggs: +97%

[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

Interesting.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

There was no federal income tax the first 137 years in America was a country.

Everything changed in 1913 with The Federal Reserve Act & 16th Amendment (Income Tax).

America’s wealth was built on productivity, and stolen by usury.

[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

!!! 😲

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations.

Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.

[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

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[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

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[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

Wow, something big is going to break. 😮

[Exec Sum @exec_sum]

BREAKING: The Google search for "help with mortgage" has spiked to levels higher than 2008

[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

Love this!!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Nate Rutter @NateJRutter]

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[Lucas Everett @code_everett]

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

HOLY CR*P 🚨

- Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers
- They were REGISTERING TO VOTE
- Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE
- Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
- They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security Numbers

See graph in video:

“Then you'll notice there's a strange, what jumped out at us when we saw these numbers. We're like, what is this? In 2021, you see 270,000 people, it goes all the way to 2.1 million and 2024. These are non-citizens that are getting social security numbers.

This is a mind-blowing charge. This literally blew us away.”

“If I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system from social security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, MAX PAY for these people and minimum collection.

We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We've gone through on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs.

And then what was really, really disturbing us was why we're asking ourselves why.
So we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.

Who did vote? We found some by sampling that ACTUALLY DID VOTE.

We have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Yeah. Already, already. That is already happening right now. The truly disturbing thing though, I just want you to know this, a truly disturbing thing to me, and the darkest thing about this, to me, the voter fraud is terrible.”

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

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Ripple CEO - Brad Garlinghouse Confirms Meeting With Donald Trump! 👀 #XRP

https://t.co/lt6fYtxIEm