I often wonder why Christians are so unforgiving, often they are more unforgiving then others, of others sins against them. It seems that it must be that somehow they still have the idea, that they somehow stand before God on their own righteousness.
In the book of Matthew, we read of a story that Jesus uses to illustrate, not just how He is, but how our heavenly Father is, and how much more if we have the Spirit of Christ in us, we should be.
It is a story that you don't often here in today's "feel good about yourself" sermons or the hell fire and damnation sermons of judgmental preachers of doom.
I would like to repeat that story exactly here as Jesus tells it as written by Matthew, who understood this most of all. See Matthew was a tax collector, one of the most hated by the people of his time, as often they are in our time.
The point is not about money though, the point Jesus is making here is about our Father's relationship to us, and how much more our relationship should be with others. My quote is from the NIV Bible.
Matthew 18:20-35
21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
22Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
26"The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' 27The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
28"But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.
29"His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'
30"But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
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We see here Peter trying to be gracious, when he ask Jesus should I forgive SEVEN times? See for the Rabbi's taught that you only had to forgive someone only three times, and then that was it- your out.
Not so much different then the Noahdic laws we have adopted for society, most States have adopted this as the - "three times and your out law". This is defined as that once a person has committed a criminal act and been found guilty of one should they commit an act, any act a third time, they get life imprisonment.
This recently happened to a man who stole a candy bar, it was his 3rd time for a crime, and now he is serving a life sentence for that. Just? Justice?
Christians have adopted this thinking, just like the rest of the world. We seek to punish, to extract vengeance, to see that someone pays for their life of crime or harm they have done us.
Yet, here Jesus has just got through teaching on "whatsoever we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever we loose shall be loosed in heaven". Here we think this gives us the power to bind and loose others, which in essence is what our Savoir is saying, but in a much more meaningful way then we consider.
So now he extrapolates even further his teaching with Peter's question.
Peter thought he was being gracious, using the complete number of "seven" times, but watch what Jesus does with his graciousness, which is limited, like our own at most times in this life in our dealings with others and even our laws of our land.
The body of Christ, His bride, His "church" is to be separate from the world's thinking, separate from the world's ways of doing things. This is why even Paul in his teaching in the book of Corinthians, corrects the Christians who would sue one another for not bringing it before the body of Christ instead of the world. How often are Christians doing that these days, in direct contradiction to a clear directive from Paul. Where did Paul get such a teaching from? Did Paul just make it up as he went along. Did Paul develop some new church doctrine? I tell you, no, he did not.
We will see that he got it from Jesus teaching. For Paul who once sought to kill and murder and destroy, what he considered "the chosen nation of God's" enemy, Christians, his heart had been changed by an encounter with the "real Jesus Christ", not the fictional one of tradition and mens teachings as we have so much of today.
Does Jesus apply this to the whole of governments of the world? Most often not. This teaching will never be understood by the world or it's governments. It's very simple to know the reason why, because we know, no matter what government, it is not God's government, it is not His Kingdom. This is not to say he doesn't allow men to govern, he does, but He has not chosen them as representatives of Himself, history proves otherwise.
All governments which are merely made of people, fall under the same condemnation we all do- "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Yes, even the United States, no less and no more then others.
Once again Jesus shows that those in His government, His kingdom are Kingdom people, that we are to be separate from the world, in all our dealings with others, and how we perceive individuals should be treated. Christ doesn't limit the forgiveness that God give us, nor that which was given to us, when He looked down from the cross and said, "Father forgive them".
Christ tells Peter, "I tell you, not seven times; but seventy times seven."
Why does Jesus give this number? Seven is a complete number under Jewish belief, but even Seven has an ending to it, though what was considered a perfect number. Seventy times Seven is an infinite number, meaning there is no end to it. Thus Jesus says, "Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is" in His Sermon on the Mount.
Oh! how the body of Christ kicks this one out the door because of our religiosity at times. most often as individuals, we have forgotten who we were and who we are, a forgiven people.
We are a people that deserve no less than the death sentence for our sins.
Eternal spiritual separation from our Father in heaven, if He thought and acted as we do that would be all of our fates. But the Good News is: He doesn't!
Jesus emphasizes this again, the forgiveness for which we have been given, and in Matthew 6:14, where He has once already spoken this explaining once again to us what we like to repeat together as the Lord's prayer with little attention paid to it's words.
14"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." Jesus speaks to us, again from the heart of our heavenly Father.
Previous to this, Jesus has again painted not only a very clear picture for the body of Christ as to the will of our Father in heaven, but He give us more insight to the way our Father deals with us and all mankind, whether just or unjust.
Let us read this together- Matthew 5:43-47
43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
There it is in a nutshell. "Do not even pagans do that?" He tells them in regards to their treatment of others, do you only treat those that are good to you that treat you good, do you only treat those that you consider just with goodness? If so, then I will say it no clearer then He did, how can you call yourself sons of the living God?
You say, " I am a Christian", yet are your thoughts the same as that of the world when it comes to justice, or the treatment of others who have offended you? Think again. What makes you any different then they?
When 911 happened, I was sure that President Bush who claimed to be a Christian would call for prayer and only prayer. Instead I heard him cry for vengeance!
I heard then tens of thousands of Christians following right behind him and saying the same.
It wasn't until the teachings of a Catholic monk, Augustine that the body of Christ even considered nullifying the Word of God for the traditions of men, with his concept and teaching of "justified war". No disciple of Christ had even considered such until Augustine, they didn't take up sword, except the one time, Peter did, and Our Lord, told him to put it away. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword, so here we are again, with thousands of young men coming home in caskets from abroad.
The body of Christ has given precedent to this Monk, more then the Word of God, or even considering who they are, and just how, they were saved. Too often the false doctrine of men having a "free will" has pervaded the "church", rather then the Word of God, that reveals it is the Father that draws us and that we couldn't save ourselves if we tried!
Jesus makes this clear when Peter tells Him that He is the Son of God, Jesus in turn tells Peter, that is the Father who has revealed that to him! His body, are the people that the Father has revealed himself to.
The world will never fathom who Jesus Christ is, until His people, those claiming that the very resurrected life of Christ through the Holy Spirit is alive in them, begin to think and act, as Jesus did and does. As long as we sound like the world, look like the world and act like the world, they will never see Jesus Christ for whom He is the "Prince of Peace."
There can be no peace in this world even among believers as long as each one has been harmed by another, and they find no forgiveness for one another. There can be no love, in a world that hates and is at constant war with others. We pray, " thy kingdom come, thy will be done", but then in the next breath, we express words of hatred, and discord against anyone, any nation, any group of people that we perceive that have harmed us.
Once again, just like the Pharisees, we have nullified the Word of God, for the traditions of men!
When will the body of Christ ever get it right?
When I ask, when?
I will tell you when, when the body of Christ opens their hearts and their ears to truth, inexplicable truth and the Word of God, the living Word- Jesus Himself. No greater love can one have...
We even have erroneously converted the act of God, as one of punishment, on Christ for us. God is not angry folks, he is not the God of the shadowy Old Testament, but the revealed truth in that one person, that loved the unloved, and brought salvation to all of us, who did not deserve it. If God was a God of the justice that men portray Him to be, He would never have allowed His Son, to go to the Cross, rather each one of us would get what we deserved individually and directed at us as such, not at His only begotten Son.
We each of us right now, would still be " dead in sin and trespasses", and God wouldn't lift a finger to deliver us from the death which we were in.
See, "Christ died for us, while we were yet His enemies!"
How willing are you to love others, forgive others, act differently from this world. Justice, Our Father in heaven's "justice" is compassion and mercy to those who have offended Him how much more if we claim to have God as our Father should we show compassion and mercy to all men.
BTW- there is a payment for not doing so- Jesus warned- we shall be treated as we treat others for sure by our Father, He will allow this, to drive out the hatred in our lives, to bring us to his compassion and mercy, so that in seeing it, we too will become "perfect like our Heavenly Father is."
Read again the end of the story of the "Unforgiving Debtor". It's time for those who desire to call themselves by His name, to quit using His name in vain, and I am not talking about the proverbial curse word either. If we are who we claim to be, then forgiveness is the heart of God, mercy and compassion are the acts of God.
Will you forgive today, someone who has harmed you, done you wrong, or will you have to be tormented until you pay the last dime? I pray that you will forgive, not seven times, but infinitely as our Lord has taught us. God is love, we love because He first loved us. This is what will set us apart from the world, and the world will see we are the light of the world and the salt of this earth. Do we want to appear as a "Christian Nation" to the world, then perhaps we should exemplify rather then nullify, the life of Christ in our dealings with our neighbors, our family, our friends, and most of all with those that we perceive as our enemies! Believe it or not, there are those who do call themselves Christian who have done just that, just look to our Quaker and Anabaptist brethren, who have heeded the Word of God, and not twisted it like most American Protestants have. May the Lord give you the heart of Christ, and may He most of all teach you forgiveness and what true justice is.
Doctor J.
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A Theorem On The Coming Chaos - Are You Scared Yet?
I enjoy watching Glenn Beck. My reasoning is, that he is a researcher like me. He educates himself, and then shares what he has learned with others. What he has learned is all fact, which most of the Communist and Fascist seeking to destroy this nation fear being told. They fear people, like Glenn, myself and others whose minds are awakened to seek truth, rather than the fiction thrown at us every day by the spin doctors.
I have held to a theory for sometime now, there is a "most secret plot" by people in high places to destroy everything America ever stood for. Kruschev promised that the Communist would take us over from within, not without. We are seeing those days in their beginnings.
Now as a Christian, I am not saying that everything we did was or has been righteous or perfect. Sure enough America and it's people have been as guilty of sin in politics, economics, and how we treat other people's as any nation on earth. However, ultimately, our forefathers, whether Christian or not, understood the principle of the equality of men. This principle is clearly laid out by Paul in the book of Roman's. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God", and all of us, not just a few, need something spectacular to change that nature of men, bent on sin. "Christ is that answer", Paul makes that perfectly clear!
All men are born equal - that is a truth, as God created us all, and with that we do have inalienable rights. Each men as a fallen creature can seek life, liberty and happiness. The nature of fallen men, is however too often centered in his own pursuit of these things without regard for that of others.
In Christ we can truly find, that we can live in a balance of finding that God provides, true life, true liberty and true happiness- I prefer to call it everlasting internal joy. Happiness is a word I associate with the fact that we only seem to be happy when our happenings, (our circumstances) seem not to do us personal evil. So Christians are enamored with Joy, not just happiness, we can keep that joy in the worst of circumstances by staying centered in Christ and His revealed love for us.
Happiness alone as a goal can be self centered.
Joy is centered in the Christ life in you.
All the same, I do believe that governments historically because of the perversity of men, those in power, seek more power, and are motivated to ultimate power, that is power over others, and to obtain that power will use any means necessary to obtain it. War, deception, economics, religion, etc.
I believe there are some things going on, that we have been tricked like the illusionist using card tricks to make us stand amazed at what seems impossible.
The Illusionist works his trick to draw our attention from the hand that is making the moves, to make the trick work, to look at the innocent hand, that is doing all the movement as if there is power in that hand to perform true magic, while all along the magicians other hand is busy making it all look like something real when it is not. He is manipulating the objects that will soon appear magically.
This is illusion utilizing deception and diversion.
I see the immigration issue has been well plotted to draw our attention away from the real culprits coming into this country illegally. They (whoever these secret evil power workers are) have created a deception, a diversion, an illusion, utilizing division given us two sides to keep us from power in unity.
One side is based on human selfishness for their personal well being of jobs, from crime, etc. while on the other hand, in doing this, they create the issue of compassion for people, a care for the immigrant, who is suppose to only be seeking better jobs, a better life, etc. This side, who try to seem humane, but in truth often have their own evil self centered objectives in mind, seek to pay continual lower wages, provide less than safe and healthy housing, and pay a lot less overhead to maintain their business.
They like to use arguments like: our forefathers came over here, the same way, seeking a better life, so why shouldnt these people be able to do so, after all we wouldnt be here, if someone would have been here that believed the same way we do - hatred of illegal immigrants. Let's be honest, the American Indian only reacted the same way, most people are. "Don't come here and force your way in, to steal my natural resources, ability to live, and feed my family, I'll fight back.
Hmm.. seems we have been on the opposite of the border ourselves!
They are both right in their own minds, and what happens the shift of focus of the people is to get us to be locked in battle with one another.
I wrote about this in an email recently on the old technique of Divide and Conquer, historically used time after time when government or those seeking to become the power, sneak in their real agenda their real goal while the division is in place, it always keeps the people in check less they become the power, and the elitist lose theirs.
So, while all this is going on, the illegals still cross the borders.
Fox News tonight revealed videos of men carrying hundreds of pounds of drugs into this country, along with high powered rifles. Of course here is where my theorem comes in.
Interesting enough I went on the Internet to look up Securebordersinfo.org from whence the video came and was suppose to be on and the site was not accessible for some strange reason...hmm...
Before, I tell you what I am thinking, let me say, I love all people of all races, creeds, color and religion, even as Christ did and does.
I have no dislike of any particular group of any people, I only hate sin, and evil.
When I see it, I point it out, make people think, for themselves.
I do not hate the people of countries simply because they are Muslim or look Muslim. I do not hate the "Mexican's or those that look "Mexican". Some of my dearest friends are of Hispanic origin, and I have a niece married to man who has both Hispanic and Asian origin, and a daughter married to a man who is half Hispanic, and I love all of them, with all my heart.
I believe they are as worthy of the preaching of the Gospel and the living of the Gospel towards them as I was and am, Christs love makes us worthy, we have no worthiness in ourselves.
We are to love our enemies. Our kingdom to which we live in, is Christ Kingdom an everlasting one, and it is a spiritual kingdom not of "this world".
Most Christians if a few even understand these words of our Lord.
They and all people are worthy because in Christ, the love He expressed for all men at the cross was for them as well as "Americans".
It would behoove many Christians to read, The Myth of the Christian Nation", written by a Christian friend of mine, you can find his link on this blog site located to the right of my articles, further down the page.
Now to my theorem on the coming chaos -
Here is what I see going on with the border situation, but first I want to share an email I received the other day that a friend of mine forwarded to me from someone that sent it to him. It may be true, it may not, but in retrospect, if there is truth to it, it gives credibility to my "theorem of the coming chaos".
The email I received is here as follows:
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{Events similar to this have also been reported in the Washington DC area, by the Washington Times.}
Interesting, And Darn Scary ! ! So, listen up people!
I remember when Hussein's daughter was interviewed when she was living in the US a couple of years ago---she plainly said at that time that terrorists had infiltrated the US and walked among us everyday......
Happenings in Fresno ... FYI
We now live about 30 miles from Fresno . We are up in the Sierras and Fresno
is the first big town we encounter when we leave the mountains. We shop there
often. I received this from my ex-homicide partner who is still active
in law enforcement circles in the Fresno area.
Excuse the language, but don't excuse the facts. Don't give up
your guns, and buy necessary ammunition if you can find it. Be cautious and
alert. Be ready if, God forbid, we need to protect our families and loved
ones.
If You weren't at Rotary Friday. You missed the only decent speaker we've had in more than a year. LTC John Cotter is the 144th Fighter Wing's anti-terrorism officer. John had a two-part presentation. First part was describing his job as the units anti-terrorism officer. Pretty standard stuff.
The second part was information that will curl your hair. A part-time air guardsman works as a checker at a local Von's. Two women in full burkas buy every prepaid cellphone in the store. Clerk/airman gets to thinking about it. Goes to Cotter and reports incident. Cotter asks store for surveillance video. It's scary enough that he contacts Fresno FBI.
FBI investigates, determines these women have been doing this all over the Valley. Cell phones shipped through Canada to Iraq/Afghanistan where they become triggers for roadside bombs.
The Shell station at Peach and Shaw. Every time a local GI goes there in fatigues they are asked specific questions. What is your unit? When are you deploying? How many aircraft are you taking?
The F-16s out of Fresno fly CAP for west coast. As such they are the first line of defense so they have the US 's most sophisticated air-to-air missiles. Foreign governments would like to get their hands on those missiles or at least learn how to build them. Also how many we have, etc. Two spy groups are working on it, one based at Fashion Fair Mall (the F-16s take-off pattern) and one based at Sierra Vista Mall (the F-16s landing pattern).
Cotter said the ragheads (But we don't profile.) are always probing the base. Two dorks in a pickup show up at the front gate wanting to deliver a package marked Air National Guard, Fresno . No postage, no UPS, no FedEx, no DHL, no nothing. Just a probe.
I asked Cotter why we haven't seen anything about this in The Bee, on KMJ, on local TV news. He said they're not interested. Since Friday I've learned of two other things. My brother-in-law Frank, (management at Avaya) had a Muslim tech who took a leave-of-absence for 6 weeks in Afghanistan . After the 6 weeks were up he called from New York requesting an extension. Frank (who does profile) said, you're fired, and called the Fresno FBI who were very interested. Don't know the outcome.
A Muslim who owns a liquor store in my former hometown of Kingsburg was constantly bugging customers to buy guns for him. Finally one of the guys I grew up with called the FBI.
We are a country at war and the enemy is among us. I don't care what Janet Napolitano says, it's a fight to the death and we should be prepared as possible. Brother-in-law Frank has a theory and I think it may be closer to the truth than Homeland Security wants to admit. There are a certain number (probably a large number) of Muslims among us who are awaiting the trigger date and will begin randomly killing as many of us as they can, sort of a Fort Hood on steroids. I know I'm getting prepared to shoot back.
Two items of interest. Sheriff Margaret Mims wants to grant concealed carry permits to all who are qualified. Columnist Jim Boren, among the most bleeding of the bleeding heart liberals, says it's time for Fresno residents to arm themselves.
LOAD up, you can bet this is happening in places other than Fresno .
David Rayburn
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End of email
I know there is a lot of slanderous speech in it, and proposed conspiracy, and the idea that guns and bullets are needed, etc. I don't agree with the viewpoints necessarily, I just ponder over the facts, if true.
However, let me tell you some facts, I have noted there are Pakistanians, and some others of nation's where supposedly the Taliban and Alqaeda are recruited, funded and trained, who fit "the profile"..blah blah, that speak Spanish very well, that do live among us.
We talk to them often, without paying attention to the details. We often run into them in our stores, gas stations, hotels, and more.
I also know from some former work I did by the names of individuals I spoke with, there is a large population of people especially in the El Paso, Texas region who have "the typical" first and last names, we are all so familiar in hearing associated with alleged Islamic leaders. This much provided information comes to per television news. Names like Mohammed, Furak,and, etc.
Names that send a signal to our brains and we think, Aha!, "he must be from Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, etc.
Oh, yes and they are drawing benefits from our benevolent services provided by Federal and State governments.
Many to most are not U.S. citizens, they may or may not have Visas, which really means little in this day of identity theft and our present laws that provide certain social services to individuals who do not have to be U.S. citizens.
I know I spent 2 years serving and working in Social Services, providing these services to the people.
Now, based on the features of the men, dark hair, dark eye color- most often, and over all physical appearances of the people we meet, who often tell us what countries they are from, I can tell you it would be more than easy for thousands if not at least several hundred "Islamic fanatics "to disquise themselves as " Mexicans". All they have to do, is learn the language, the culture, the mannerism, and fit in.
We as Americans often used this deception in former wars, "blonde men, with blue eyes", to infiltrate German troops. I am sure even now we may have some Hispanic true blood Americans who have been trained to infiltrate the Taliban or others in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. I am sure of it. Men don't change in tactics, just governments.
It only makes sense.
Language often in many places in the world is the only thing that divides us.
I don't speak British, French, Irish Gaelic or Scottish, or New Zealander, yet my heritage and physical appearance fits all these "profiles" if trained to talk like them, I could decieve someone into thinking I was a natural citizen of that country.
While working private investigations you learn to dress and act like the people in the area you are working in, especially while doing surveillance, or undercover work.
The last thing you want to do is stand out like a sore thumb.
The old adage that is often told on television and movies is that the FBI are always picked out by their "3 piece suits and ties".
That isn't always the case, my friend. They know the rules of subterfuge as well and practice it as well as any old P.I. does.
Now here is my theory which does follow along with some of what you read in the email.
Just what if the poor Hispanics are taking the brunt of our hatred, which creates this division of the people in America over personal selfish economics versus human compassion and the ideal of all people deserve a better life at no matter what cost to American indivudals or sovereignty.
What if this is the division being caused simply to keep us looking at the wrong hand of the magician, while he works his magic with the other hand.
An invasion within America of Muslim fanatics to create the great chaos, which will turn America into a Police State much like Israel has or even worse, and is.
Before you quit reading this, let me say, I am not anti-semitic either, though accused of being so because I don't agree with present day eschatology of Darby and Scofield.
I believe they, the people of Israel, Hebrews, "Jews" as anyone- Christ died for them as well and especially came to deliver the Gospel to them first.
The term Jew is really an inappropriate term but even used by me at times, because we have become accustomed to the use of it, describing people in Israel and those we believe who are members of the Jewish religion. We even say Christ was a Jew, which is a slang word, and really that can only apply to those born of the tribe of JUDAH as He was.
We forget that Israel, the old Hebrew nation had 10 tribes to which Paul the Apostle was from one of them, the tribe of Benjamin. So this word really can't be used to apply to all the people living in Israel, they are from many origins, Germany, Poland and even America, and claim heritage as a Jew. We can't even tell if that is true or not after the dispersion in 70 a.d when Jerusalem fell to Rome, most if not all tribes were enslaved by the Romans, and eventually mixed with the Romans and other people of many nations.
Matter of fact, not all of the old Hebrew nation may have even lived in the Holy Land, during the time of Christ, many were dispersed among nations all over the world under the Old Dispersion by Babylonians and the Ayssrians, and only a few returned to the Holy Land and lived there in the times of Jesus. Though the population was more centralized in the area directly around Jerusalem at the time, it was made up of many more tribes then the present political nation Israel can lay claim to. I doubt if many of them could illustrate and prove their genealogy, as is given in the Bible for the one's mentioned in the Old Testament, right up to Christ, that could trace their heritage back to the beginning of time.
I am sorry, but I don't belive they are God's chosen people living and trying to take over all the land there in Israel.
These people are Zionist, and have some extreme political views, with little regard to God or His commandments, or even Christ or Christians, other than desiring to continue the income they recieve from tourism from Christians that travel to visit the sights of the Bible times. Those that call themselves, Orthodox Jews here in America, say the same thing about the formulation of the nation of Israel, it isn't Torah. They are against it and have some excellent material to read, if you care to at least open your mind to truth, once and awhile.
The only people that the New Testament teaches that are the TRUE ISRAEL - are the one's circumcized of the heart, Christians! Paul makes this very clear in the book of Romans.
Christ is the true Israel (see the book of Hebrews) and all those that belong to Him, regardless of race they are one in Him. This is the "mystery of God", that was revealed and completed in Christ. This is explained in Ephesians Chapter Two very well, if you ever bother or care to read it, and rid yourself of the Zionist theology and eschatology.
I don't prefer Palestinians eithers, unless they too are my Christian brothers and sisters and they suffer as much or more than all the people over there.
Now to leave my digression I want to return to the subject at hand, though I do believe there are some Zionist behind the plans to see us become like them, and they will use any method to do so.
The last several spies caught in major spying in this nation were Zionist from Israel. Study and you will find I am not lying about this, it can be Googled as well.
I am sorry, but when chaos breaks out, then someone has to come along to still the chaos, bring in new organization and instill new government, even martial law, to insure "domestic tranquility, even at the cost of your personal liberties!
These are the people that are seeking to rule over us, who want nothing more but ultimate sweet power as elitist to rule every part of your life- to own you, per se.
They not only want charge of your money, your education, you jobs, private business, your health, but every aspect of your life. In government, this is called Totalitarism. A Police State - Communism or Fascism, either one, removes you from the equation and puts a few in rule over all the rest. Elitism, is what I call it. They are the elite, and we are the sheep that need not only to be dumbed down, but corralled and held in check. To be led like dumb sheep to the slaughter.
Internal conflicts in Russia insured that Lenin and then Stalin would soon rule Russia.
The wars between the bourgeois and the proletariats helped to bring about the change that Lenin sought.
All the while leading to less freedom and more enslavement under the elitist rule of Communism. Stalin's rule was supreme Police State, totalitarian to the maximum, where the government was your purest benefactor, as long as you went along with that. Less you speak out, and end up dead, tortured or disappearing in the night to the Siberian Gulag. The best plans of dictators, include silencing, name calling and criminal accusation of those who oppose them.
Gee, have we heard that lately from the left and even the right..?
The facts leading up to Hitler's rule were as follows.
Hitlers blamed the burning of the Reischtag on the Russians, this only diverted the attention of the people from the real culprit- Hitler his SS troops were the one's that did the actual deed)but it was enough to make the people fear the Russians and Hitler was only waiting in the wings to become their Supreme Commander, Dictator, Master.
Right after this is when Hilter was provided complete rule, and then he initiated the "Emergency Powers Act", it read like a version of the "Patriot Act", it didnt really insure the people's security so much as it removed their liberties, privacy, etc, and insured his ruling supreme without interference from rebels. Stalin came and remained in rule for years and East Germany used the Stazi- the East German Secret Police, to have everybody spying on everybody, as enemies of the State.
How many Americans have read the Patriot Act, or the Health Plan, etc. I guarantee, you haven't you rely on the "experts" for what they say... read them..you will be surprised what you learn!
How many even know the little bit of history I just presented you above? Not many of you I am sure, because you have become apathetic, and don't care to know, as long as you can drive a new car, have a job.
They can do that in Russia and China as well. Who want's to live there, not me!
What if this email is true?
What if the real reason behind the borders not having been locked down, is because the division in this country created by the spin doctors, the trained propagandist, is to keep us all shouting at one another, blaming the "Mexicans" for our troubles, and all the while, "the real enemy" (Islamic fanatics)are the one's coming across the borders by the droves, with guns, and drugs to raise more money for more guns and their ultimate plan of chaos in the streets of America?
Somebody knows these things, I can promise you! There are those that are working this plan right now, reading this, and shocked that I know their plans!
I am not the first, there are thousands of us who are awake and not asleep, examining, searching, researching, looking for these facts every day, and finding them. There are too many of us yet, for the plan to work perfectly, we must be silenced, we must be dumbed down, like they are doing our children in their public brain washing institutions they call schools, where history is no longer taught. Where little of anything is taught to be factual then things about "my two mommies, or "how to text too your friends", or "how to create an Internet Social page".
This generation, my generation, we are getting old, and soon shall pass from this world, what will be left?
I am sorry to say, but our poor children are being dumbed down, so they can easily be transitioned into the land of the FREE DUMB!
Oh, they will have jobs, healthcare, money, lives, all provided by their benefactors - the NEW WORLD ODOR...order, but I think it stinks so bad I can smell it from here, kind of like the oil rolling up on the beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
Let me provide another example of dumb down - if you accept 911 on the official story, then someone still needs to cry foul, we have the greatest surveillance and spying weapons and technology in the world, we have spent trillions on National Defense since the Cold War, and yet we are to accept and swallow the story that these guys came to America (the 14 terrorist) and took flying lessons, made plans to high-jack planes and nobody in the intelligence community knew about it! If that is the case, I would say their name "intelligence" is a misnomer..!
Come on, to me that is a more absurd story then what they say about us who believe otherwise about the facts of 911.
Conspiracy nuts, yes you know it, and how often has conspiracy proved the rule of the day? How many time has it been the true facts behind, changes of rule, and governments in history. The killing of Caesar in Rome by the Senate, the killing of Jesus was a conspiracy. Luke says the Pharisees, begin right after Lazarus was raised to form a conspiracy to kill the both of them. "Can't have a former dead guy walking around town"- the truth would draw the people after Jesus, so let's kill them both!
The harrassment of Paul was a conspiracy of 40 Jews who swore they would put an end to Paul, the Apostle.
The conspiracy of the first leader of China, who brought that nation to Communism. The conspiracy of CEO's and others in the corporate world, like Enron.
Get real folks, conspiracy is real, and it goes on everyday, even in the workplace where workers conspire against other workers because they dislike an individual. Wake up, conspiracy is a fact of life!
Here is the definition:
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con·spir·a·cy (kn-spîr-s)
n. pl. con·spir·a·cies
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
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Anyone of these can apply to the word, "CONSPIRACY".
When I was a young man in my early 20's, I practiced doing illusions and got pretty good at it, I might say. I did a few birthday parties doing magic for people.
I know how it works, nothing ever is as it seems to the onlooker, it is all about the patter (your talk) and making the right practiced moves, with one hand and your talk draws your attention away from the hand that is really doing the concealing or revealing of an object.
It is deception in it's purest form, some call it magic, but it is deception, making you believe something is true while the real truth is concealed. You never know the truth, until someone and in some cases the magician shows you how he did it.
Oh you wonder at times, but you just can't put your finger on it.
"How did he do that"?
What if, all that you listen to on the news, all the rhetoric is a diversion, a deception meant for you from seeing what is really going on.
I believe it is, most of the time.I research, and study and discover truth.
The truth is often more bizarre than the illusion that the news media puts out there. Even some conspiracy sites, often get real bizarre with their theories, aliens, reptilians, etc.
I don't buy those, they are absurd.
However, there are others, who have the credibility and the inside info and do tell truth.
You have to always seek to verify facts. As a former Private Investigator, there are many observations and theories, but in the end you must deduct the facts and then report them.
I sign all my emails with a favorite quote of mine from the Sherlock Holmes books, it reads:
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)
Now back to Glenn Beck, he wrote a book called "The Overton Window".
The Overton Window is an interesting political thereom, however I think there is more going on then just trying to get us to accept some things, by making minor and sometime radical shifts of the window on popular thought or acceptance of things.
I think that whoever is the power behind the BIG CARD TRICK is using a marked deck that you can only see with special glasses on.
Christ told us, to "Be As Wise as Serpents, and as harmless as Doves".
We must educate ourselves, to not be blinded by the deceptions in life.
The Bible states that Christians are to discern good from evil, hold onto that which is good and to abstain from evil.
The Bible also teaches us that as part of our spiritual heritage of becoming a Christian, we have been given the "mind of Christ".
This very same mind that could see beyond the Pharisees, and Sadducees, he exposed their self -righteousness for where it actually came from.
He told them "your father is the "diabolos", the evil".
"THE DEVIL"- is how the Catholics, and Protestant traditionalist changed it to read. The Word in the Greek is Diabolos- from which we get the word Diabolical... it means evil, not a person, but a system or life of evil....religion is definitely that!
Jesus could see right through their phalacteries, their bell ringing, their long cloaks of self rightousness,all their religious hooplah. He saw them for who they were and what they were up to, every step of the way.
Thus because he knew them and their thoughts, in the very best sense who they were, he often escaped them. He alluded them for years, he was able to throw questions and parables at them, yet they were too blind to see their own illusion would no longer work, because "He was the light that had come into the world.
He revealed their deceptions, and their self centeredness, their EVIL for what it was.
I believe as Christians we need to wake up more to what is really going on.
Now I don't believe in creating fear or hatred, and as I said, I have met some wonderful people of all races, creeds, colors and religions, that all need Christ, just like I did.
I love them, but what I am saying to you, we need as God's people to be more observant of the facts, and aware of our surroundings and more apt to discover evil, and expose it then most.
Not for the purpose of scaring people, are you scared?
Perfect love- Christ love, removes all fear.
We should have the very discernment Christ had while here in the flesh for now we have His very life inside of us.
To summarize, what would be the purpose of those who would allow all this deception, these Overton Window shifts and deceptions along with prevalent illusions of making us focus on the wrong issues and the wrong things, and in this case even the wrong people in what is taking place. Eventually Chaos- that's what..
While we are busy focusing on the oil spill it has distracted us from the illegal immigrant issue that was so prevalent just days before, all the news was the Arizona Law that was passed. It seems as long as new NEWS BREAKING items come along, and they run it day after day, our attention is completely drawn away or diverted from the truth or finding the truth or resolving problems in America.
They don't want the illegal immigration issue resolved right now, it doesn't serve their evil purposes, the invasion of the nation by the real enemy who seeks not just your jobs but to take over the entire nation. It won't happen of course, our troops are trained, very well trained to disperse the enemy, but who will really come into power then? Will we then have a militarized, police state, in union with the elitist corporate and political machine behind it all. A new government not unlike Stalin's reign as dictator.
Let's think for a bit. Let's look at some facts on the Gulf Oil Spill issue.
For example, why did a "blowout preventing valve" fail that is made by the Cameron Company. This valve is still not working right?
A valve that had already been shown to have some 250 possible weaknesses and possible failure points. Who is the Cameron Company that makes these?
Why did this one fail and still failing when they have been used more than in this one case? Is there or was their a plot to make this whole scenario? Is it possible, there is some conspiracy here?
Why is BP catching hell, when TransOceanic owned the rig, and Cameron's valve is supposedly the cause?
Did anyone think that this is an Overton Window to move the public opinion to lean a little more to becoming Al Gore's green, to cut back on drilling our own oil, to lessen our national strength once more,our National Security, in using our own natural resources and become less dependent upon the Islamic countries for our oil?
We would become less dependent on the Muslim Oil Cartel, why they don't want that.!
Why don't we think these things out, why are we blinded by all the false rhetoric?
Let's investigate as a people, the connections, the facts, and when found, let's confront those responsible and quit leaving everything to the Fox guarding the Henhouse to tell us how the chickens all got killed and ate!
Why, because you have been taught just like you have in Orthodox religion
(Churchianity). "Don't ask questions".
You are to just believe whatever the EXPERTS tell you.
Church Leaders, Politicians, and Journalist, are notorious for telling lies. for spin doctoring, utilizing every known deception known to mankind to keep you under their power, mesmerized by their charismatic answers to all of life's problems. You worship them and idolize them, and that is just what they want. It serves their better purposes - themselves!
When will you as a Christian listen to the Lord, when he says,
"come let us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet, I shall make you as white as snow....
Why, because you have been blinded by the god of this world - EVIL!
Are you scared yet?
I hope that I haven't instilled fear but faith, to trust the one person, that is always true, the truth Himself. He who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life."
Here is my hard fact theorem, I don't like it anymore than you do.
America as we know it, is undergoing the greatest evil changes it has ever experienced and ever will, and unless God Himself intervenes, we may face challenges along with our children that we never dreamed possible could take place in this country. Challenges, that will make and break us as a people that once called themselves, the United States of America. We are about to see what history has proven time after time, all kingdoms of men, may fail and do fail.
I pray not, I pray that our eyes, will be opened, and we will not seek hatred and bitterness toward any one people, even the most evil of enemies, but that we will be driven to our knees in prayer and supplications. I pray that we will for once wake up to truth, Christian truth and be a people united in heart as Christians, not driven apart, divided over trivial and ignorant issues of men, and that we will as the first thirteen colonies did be brave enough to say, we stand united against any enemy that threatens our peace, our liberty and our pursuit to live. However, I don't believe violence, or revolution by force is the answer. I believe it is by love in Christ that we can conquer our enemies. I pray that we will see the way, is not politics, wars, religion, economics, nor even eschatologies, theologies, etc, but the answer is LOVE toward one another and but mostly toward God our Creator, and the one that we all must answer to.
Are you scared yet?
Then it is time to replace that fear with knowing Christ, and His love.
Though we may end up seeing in our lifetime the fall of America, we still have and live in the everlasting Kingdom of Christ, as brothers and sisters in Christ.
You know, love can change the world and it did.. It is happening every day, as people discover the truth and love of Christ for the first time.
Let us be that light, and salt to this world, less we hide our lights, and the salt loses it's flavor and be good for nothing but to be trampled underfoot.
May God bless us as Americans, yes, but God please bless our enemies, by allowing them to see the glorious light of Jesus Christ, which when one is exposed to the light, all darkness is driven out. If we claim to be Christian, then Christ love should be the predominant character of behavior exemplified in our lives, toward ALL MEN!
Let us as Christians, bend our knees before God, our Father, in unity in Christ, and pray not just for this country but one another, regardless of creed, color, race or religion, and let us no longer be blinded by the darkness of this world and man's kingdom's but let us know and realize everyday what the Kingdom of God is: it is Joy, Peace and Righteousness in the Holy Spirit.
Chaos may come, but the peace of Christ is everlasting for those of us who know Him and that peace that passes all understanding.
Let us not be a part to the impending evil, but let us know it, abstain from it, and allow the Spirit wroking through you, to change others about you, to see truth and know it, and live in it and by it.
Let us know the enemy, yes, but let us love them as Christ taught us, and love can change the world for the better.
Teach us O Lord not to fear, teach us Lord not to allow our fears to produce hatred, and defensiveness, but teach us Lord always to be on the offense with the life of Christ in us, and the Gospel preached from us, and not just in words, but by the deeds of your Spirit within us working those works of righteousness toward ALL people that we encounter in this life.
Let us be courageous to speak truth, to be wise, yet harmless, and to exercise the minds for which you gave us individually each of us, not just a few, or just the special,but all of us, if born of His Spirit, we can seek, and know truth without the necessity of anyone, including myself, in telling us what truth is, Christ is the Truth...don't be fooled or scared.
Jesus said these words, "you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". Therein lies how we keep our liberty, true liberty, by abiding in Him who is truth.
Dr J. Black
with love in Christ always.
I have held to a theory for sometime now, there is a "most secret plot" by people in high places to destroy everything America ever stood for. Kruschev promised that the Communist would take us over from within, not without. We are seeing those days in their beginnings.
Now as a Christian, I am not saying that everything we did was or has been righteous or perfect. Sure enough America and it's people have been as guilty of sin in politics, economics, and how we treat other people's as any nation on earth. However, ultimately, our forefathers, whether Christian or not, understood the principle of the equality of men. This principle is clearly laid out by Paul in the book of Roman's. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God", and all of us, not just a few, need something spectacular to change that nature of men, bent on sin. "Christ is that answer", Paul makes that perfectly clear!
All men are born equal - that is a truth, as God created us all, and with that we do have inalienable rights. Each men as a fallen creature can seek life, liberty and happiness. The nature of fallen men, is however too often centered in his own pursuit of these things without regard for that of others.
In Christ we can truly find, that we can live in a balance of finding that God provides, true life, true liberty and true happiness- I prefer to call it everlasting internal joy. Happiness is a word I associate with the fact that we only seem to be happy when our happenings, (our circumstances) seem not to do us personal evil. So Christians are enamored with Joy, not just happiness, we can keep that joy in the worst of circumstances by staying centered in Christ and His revealed love for us.
Happiness alone as a goal can be self centered.
Joy is centered in the Christ life in you.
All the same, I do believe that governments historically because of the perversity of men, those in power, seek more power, and are motivated to ultimate power, that is power over others, and to obtain that power will use any means necessary to obtain it. War, deception, economics, religion, etc.
I believe there are some things going on, that we have been tricked like the illusionist using card tricks to make us stand amazed at what seems impossible.
The Illusionist works his trick to draw our attention from the hand that is making the moves, to make the trick work, to look at the innocent hand, that is doing all the movement as if there is power in that hand to perform true magic, while all along the magicians other hand is busy making it all look like something real when it is not. He is manipulating the objects that will soon appear magically.
This is illusion utilizing deception and diversion.
I see the immigration issue has been well plotted to draw our attention away from the real culprits coming into this country illegally. They (whoever these secret evil power workers are) have created a deception, a diversion, an illusion, utilizing division given us two sides to keep us from power in unity.
One side is based on human selfishness for their personal well being of jobs, from crime, etc. while on the other hand, in doing this, they create the issue of compassion for people, a care for the immigrant, who is suppose to only be seeking better jobs, a better life, etc. This side, who try to seem humane, but in truth often have their own evil self centered objectives in mind, seek to pay continual lower wages, provide less than safe and healthy housing, and pay a lot less overhead to maintain their business.
They like to use arguments like: our forefathers came over here, the same way, seeking a better life, so why shouldnt these people be able to do so, after all we wouldnt be here, if someone would have been here that believed the same way we do - hatred of illegal immigrants. Let's be honest, the American Indian only reacted the same way, most people are. "Don't come here and force your way in, to steal my natural resources, ability to live, and feed my family, I'll fight back.
Hmm.. seems we have been on the opposite of the border ourselves!
They are both right in their own minds, and what happens the shift of focus of the people is to get us to be locked in battle with one another.
I wrote about this in an email recently on the old technique of Divide and Conquer, historically used time after time when government or those seeking to become the power, sneak in their real agenda their real goal while the division is in place, it always keeps the people in check less they become the power, and the elitist lose theirs.
So, while all this is going on, the illegals still cross the borders.
Fox News tonight revealed videos of men carrying hundreds of pounds of drugs into this country, along with high powered rifles. Of course here is where my theorem comes in.
Interesting enough I went on the Internet to look up Securebordersinfo.org from whence the video came and was suppose to be on and the site was not accessible for some strange reason...hmm...
Before, I tell you what I am thinking, let me say, I love all people of all races, creeds, color and religion, even as Christ did and does.
I have no dislike of any particular group of any people, I only hate sin, and evil.
When I see it, I point it out, make people think, for themselves.
I do not hate the people of countries simply because they are Muslim or look Muslim. I do not hate the "Mexican's or those that look "Mexican". Some of my dearest friends are of Hispanic origin, and I have a niece married to man who has both Hispanic and Asian origin, and a daughter married to a man who is half Hispanic, and I love all of them, with all my heart.
I believe they are as worthy of the preaching of the Gospel and the living of the Gospel towards them as I was and am, Christs love makes us worthy, we have no worthiness in ourselves.
We are to love our enemies. Our kingdom to which we live in, is Christ Kingdom an everlasting one, and it is a spiritual kingdom not of "this world".
Most Christians if a few even understand these words of our Lord.
They and all people are worthy because in Christ, the love He expressed for all men at the cross was for them as well as "Americans".
It would behoove many Christians to read, The Myth of the Christian Nation", written by a Christian friend of mine, you can find his link on this blog site located to the right of my articles, further down the page.
Now to my theorem on the coming chaos -
Here is what I see going on with the border situation, but first I want to share an email I received the other day that a friend of mine forwarded to me from someone that sent it to him. It may be true, it may not, but in retrospect, if there is truth to it, it gives credibility to my "theorem of the coming chaos".
The email I received is here as follows:
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{Events similar to this have also been reported in the Washington DC area, by the Washington Times.}
Interesting, And Darn Scary ! ! So, listen up people!
I remember when Hussein's daughter was interviewed when she was living in the US a couple of years ago---she plainly said at that time that terrorists had infiltrated the US and walked among us everyday......
Happenings in Fresno ... FYI
We now live about 30 miles from Fresno . We are up in the Sierras and Fresno
is the first big town we encounter when we leave the mountains. We shop there
often. I received this from my ex-homicide partner who is still active
in law enforcement circles in the Fresno area.
Excuse the language, but don't excuse the facts. Don't give up
your guns, and buy necessary ammunition if you can find it. Be cautious and
alert. Be ready if, God forbid, we need to protect our families and loved
ones.
If You weren't at Rotary Friday. You missed the only decent speaker we've had in more than a year. LTC John Cotter is the 144th Fighter Wing's anti-terrorism officer. John had a two-part presentation. First part was describing his job as the units anti-terrorism officer. Pretty standard stuff.
The second part was information that will curl your hair. A part-time air guardsman works as a checker at a local Von's. Two women in full burkas buy every prepaid cellphone in the store. Clerk/airman gets to thinking about it. Goes to Cotter and reports incident. Cotter asks store for surveillance video. It's scary enough that he contacts Fresno FBI.
FBI investigates, determines these women have been doing this all over the Valley. Cell phones shipped through Canada to Iraq/Afghanistan where they become triggers for roadside bombs.
The Shell station at Peach and Shaw. Every time a local GI goes there in fatigues they are asked specific questions. What is your unit? When are you deploying? How many aircraft are you taking?
The F-16s out of Fresno fly CAP for west coast. As such they are the first line of defense so they have the US 's most sophisticated air-to-air missiles. Foreign governments would like to get their hands on those missiles or at least learn how to build them. Also how many we have, etc. Two spy groups are working on it, one based at Fashion Fair Mall (the F-16s take-off pattern) and one based at Sierra Vista Mall (the F-16s landing pattern).
Cotter said the ragheads (But we don't profile.) are always probing the base. Two dorks in a pickup show up at the front gate wanting to deliver a package marked Air National Guard, Fresno . No postage, no UPS, no FedEx, no DHL, no nothing. Just a probe.
I asked Cotter why we haven't seen anything about this in The Bee, on KMJ, on local TV news. He said they're not interested. Since Friday I've learned of two other things. My brother-in-law Frank, (management at Avaya) had a Muslim tech who took a leave-of-absence for 6 weeks in Afghanistan . After the 6 weeks were up he called from New York requesting an extension. Frank (who does profile) said, you're fired, and called the Fresno FBI who were very interested. Don't know the outcome.
A Muslim who owns a liquor store in my former hometown of Kingsburg was constantly bugging customers to buy guns for him. Finally one of the guys I grew up with called the FBI.
We are a country at war and the enemy is among us. I don't care what Janet Napolitano says, it's a fight to the death and we should be prepared as possible. Brother-in-law Frank has a theory and I think it may be closer to the truth than Homeland Security wants to admit. There are a certain number (probably a large number) of Muslims among us who are awaiting the trigger date and will begin randomly killing as many of us as they can, sort of a Fort Hood on steroids. I know I'm getting prepared to shoot back.
Two items of interest. Sheriff Margaret Mims wants to grant concealed carry permits to all who are qualified. Columnist Jim Boren, among the most bleeding of the bleeding heart liberals, says it's time for Fresno residents to arm themselves.
LOAD up, you can bet this is happening in places other than Fresno .
David Rayburn
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End of email
I know there is a lot of slanderous speech in it, and proposed conspiracy, and the idea that guns and bullets are needed, etc. I don't agree with the viewpoints necessarily, I just ponder over the facts, if true.
However, let me tell you some facts, I have noted there are Pakistanians, and some others of nation's where supposedly the Taliban and Alqaeda are recruited, funded and trained, who fit "the profile"..blah blah, that speak Spanish very well, that do live among us.
We talk to them often, without paying attention to the details. We often run into them in our stores, gas stations, hotels, and more.
I also know from some former work I did by the names of individuals I spoke with, there is a large population of people especially in the El Paso, Texas region who have "the typical" first and last names, we are all so familiar in hearing associated with alleged Islamic leaders. This much provided information comes to per television news. Names like Mohammed, Furak,and, etc.
Names that send a signal to our brains and we think, Aha!, "he must be from Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, etc.
Oh, yes and they are drawing benefits from our benevolent services provided by Federal and State governments.
Many to most are not U.S. citizens, they may or may not have Visas, which really means little in this day of identity theft and our present laws that provide certain social services to individuals who do not have to be U.S. citizens.
I know I spent 2 years serving and working in Social Services, providing these services to the people.
Now, based on the features of the men, dark hair, dark eye color- most often, and over all physical appearances of the people we meet, who often tell us what countries they are from, I can tell you it would be more than easy for thousands if not at least several hundred "Islamic fanatics "to disquise themselves as " Mexicans". All they have to do, is learn the language, the culture, the mannerism, and fit in.
We as Americans often used this deception in former wars, "blonde men, with blue eyes", to infiltrate German troops. I am sure even now we may have some Hispanic true blood Americans who have been trained to infiltrate the Taliban or others in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. I am sure of it. Men don't change in tactics, just governments.
It only makes sense.
Language often in many places in the world is the only thing that divides us.
I don't speak British, French, Irish Gaelic or Scottish, or New Zealander, yet my heritage and physical appearance fits all these "profiles" if trained to talk like them, I could decieve someone into thinking I was a natural citizen of that country.
While working private investigations you learn to dress and act like the people in the area you are working in, especially while doing surveillance, or undercover work.
The last thing you want to do is stand out like a sore thumb.
The old adage that is often told on television and movies is that the FBI are always picked out by their "3 piece suits and ties".
That isn't always the case, my friend. They know the rules of subterfuge as well and practice it as well as any old P.I. does.
Now here is my theory which does follow along with some of what you read in the email.
Just what if the poor Hispanics are taking the brunt of our hatred, which creates this division of the people in America over personal selfish economics versus human compassion and the ideal of all people deserve a better life at no matter what cost to American indivudals or sovereignty.
What if this is the division being caused simply to keep us looking at the wrong hand of the magician, while he works his magic with the other hand.
An invasion within America of Muslim fanatics to create the great chaos, which will turn America into a Police State much like Israel has or even worse, and is.
Before you quit reading this, let me say, I am not anti-semitic either, though accused of being so because I don't agree with present day eschatology of Darby and Scofield.
I believe they, the people of Israel, Hebrews, "Jews" as anyone- Christ died for them as well and especially came to deliver the Gospel to them first.
The term Jew is really an inappropriate term but even used by me at times, because we have become accustomed to the use of it, describing people in Israel and those we believe who are members of the Jewish religion. We even say Christ was a Jew, which is a slang word, and really that can only apply to those born of the tribe of JUDAH as He was.
We forget that Israel, the old Hebrew nation had 10 tribes to which Paul the Apostle was from one of them, the tribe of Benjamin. So this word really can't be used to apply to all the people living in Israel, they are from many origins, Germany, Poland and even America, and claim heritage as a Jew. We can't even tell if that is true or not after the dispersion in 70 a.d when Jerusalem fell to Rome, most if not all tribes were enslaved by the Romans, and eventually mixed with the Romans and other people of many nations.
Matter of fact, not all of the old Hebrew nation may have even lived in the Holy Land, during the time of Christ, many were dispersed among nations all over the world under the Old Dispersion by Babylonians and the Ayssrians, and only a few returned to the Holy Land and lived there in the times of Jesus. Though the population was more centralized in the area directly around Jerusalem at the time, it was made up of many more tribes then the present political nation Israel can lay claim to. I doubt if many of them could illustrate and prove their genealogy, as is given in the Bible for the one's mentioned in the Old Testament, right up to Christ, that could trace their heritage back to the beginning of time.
I am sorry, but I don't belive they are God's chosen people living and trying to take over all the land there in Israel.
These people are Zionist, and have some extreme political views, with little regard to God or His commandments, or even Christ or Christians, other than desiring to continue the income they recieve from tourism from Christians that travel to visit the sights of the Bible times. Those that call themselves, Orthodox Jews here in America, say the same thing about the formulation of the nation of Israel, it isn't Torah. They are against it and have some excellent material to read, if you care to at least open your mind to truth, once and awhile.
The only people that the New Testament teaches that are the TRUE ISRAEL - are the one's circumcized of the heart, Christians! Paul makes this very clear in the book of Romans.
Christ is the true Israel (see the book of Hebrews) and all those that belong to Him, regardless of race they are one in Him. This is the "mystery of God", that was revealed and completed in Christ. This is explained in Ephesians Chapter Two very well, if you ever bother or care to read it, and rid yourself of the Zionist theology and eschatology.
I don't prefer Palestinians eithers, unless they too are my Christian brothers and sisters and they suffer as much or more than all the people over there.
Now to leave my digression I want to return to the subject at hand, though I do believe there are some Zionist behind the plans to see us become like them, and they will use any method to do so.
The last several spies caught in major spying in this nation were Zionist from Israel. Study and you will find I am not lying about this, it can be Googled as well.
I am sorry, but when chaos breaks out, then someone has to come along to still the chaos, bring in new organization and instill new government, even martial law, to insure "domestic tranquility, even at the cost of your personal liberties!
These are the people that are seeking to rule over us, who want nothing more but ultimate sweet power as elitist to rule every part of your life- to own you, per se.
They not only want charge of your money, your education, you jobs, private business, your health, but every aspect of your life. In government, this is called Totalitarism. A Police State - Communism or Fascism, either one, removes you from the equation and puts a few in rule over all the rest. Elitism, is what I call it. They are the elite, and we are the sheep that need not only to be dumbed down, but corralled and held in check. To be led like dumb sheep to the slaughter.
Internal conflicts in Russia insured that Lenin and then Stalin would soon rule Russia.
The wars between the bourgeois and the proletariats helped to bring about the change that Lenin sought.
All the while leading to less freedom and more enslavement under the elitist rule of Communism. Stalin's rule was supreme Police State, totalitarian to the maximum, where the government was your purest benefactor, as long as you went along with that. Less you speak out, and end up dead, tortured or disappearing in the night to the Siberian Gulag. The best plans of dictators, include silencing, name calling and criminal accusation of those who oppose them.
Gee, have we heard that lately from the left and even the right..?
The facts leading up to Hitler's rule were as follows.
Hitlers blamed the burning of the Reischtag on the Russians, this only diverted the attention of the people from the real culprit- Hitler his SS troops were the one's that did the actual deed)but it was enough to make the people fear the Russians and Hitler was only waiting in the wings to become their Supreme Commander, Dictator, Master.
Right after this is when Hilter was provided complete rule, and then he initiated the "Emergency Powers Act", it read like a version of the "Patriot Act", it didnt really insure the people's security so much as it removed their liberties, privacy, etc, and insured his ruling supreme without interference from rebels. Stalin came and remained in rule for years and East Germany used the Stazi- the East German Secret Police, to have everybody spying on everybody, as enemies of the State.
How many Americans have read the Patriot Act, or the Health Plan, etc. I guarantee, you haven't you rely on the "experts" for what they say... read them..you will be surprised what you learn!
How many even know the little bit of history I just presented you above? Not many of you I am sure, because you have become apathetic, and don't care to know, as long as you can drive a new car, have a job.
They can do that in Russia and China as well. Who want's to live there, not me!
What if this email is true?
What if the real reason behind the borders not having been locked down, is because the division in this country created by the spin doctors, the trained propagandist, is to keep us all shouting at one another, blaming the "Mexicans" for our troubles, and all the while, "the real enemy" (Islamic fanatics)are the one's coming across the borders by the droves, with guns, and drugs to raise more money for more guns and their ultimate plan of chaos in the streets of America?
Somebody knows these things, I can promise you! There are those that are working this plan right now, reading this, and shocked that I know their plans!
I am not the first, there are thousands of us who are awake and not asleep, examining, searching, researching, looking for these facts every day, and finding them. There are too many of us yet, for the plan to work perfectly, we must be silenced, we must be dumbed down, like they are doing our children in their public brain washing institutions they call schools, where history is no longer taught. Where little of anything is taught to be factual then things about "my two mommies, or "how to text too your friends", or "how to create an Internet Social page".
This generation, my generation, we are getting old, and soon shall pass from this world, what will be left?
I am sorry to say, but our poor children are being dumbed down, so they can easily be transitioned into the land of the FREE DUMB!
Oh, they will have jobs, healthcare, money, lives, all provided by their benefactors - the NEW WORLD ODOR...order, but I think it stinks so bad I can smell it from here, kind of like the oil rolling up on the beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
Let me provide another example of dumb down - if you accept 911 on the official story, then someone still needs to cry foul, we have the greatest surveillance and spying weapons and technology in the world, we have spent trillions on National Defense since the Cold War, and yet we are to accept and swallow the story that these guys came to America (the 14 terrorist) and took flying lessons, made plans to high-jack planes and nobody in the intelligence community knew about it! If that is the case, I would say their name "intelligence" is a misnomer..!
Come on, to me that is a more absurd story then what they say about us who believe otherwise about the facts of 911.
Conspiracy nuts, yes you know it, and how often has conspiracy proved the rule of the day? How many time has it been the true facts behind, changes of rule, and governments in history. The killing of Caesar in Rome by the Senate, the killing of Jesus was a conspiracy. Luke says the Pharisees, begin right after Lazarus was raised to form a conspiracy to kill the both of them. "Can't have a former dead guy walking around town"- the truth would draw the people after Jesus, so let's kill them both!
The harrassment of Paul was a conspiracy of 40 Jews who swore they would put an end to Paul, the Apostle.
The conspiracy of the first leader of China, who brought that nation to Communism. The conspiracy of CEO's and others in the corporate world, like Enron.
Get real folks, conspiracy is real, and it goes on everyday, even in the workplace where workers conspire against other workers because they dislike an individual. Wake up, conspiracy is a fact of life!
Here is the definition:
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con·spir·a·cy (kn-spîr-s)
n. pl. con·spir·a·cies
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
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Anyone of these can apply to the word, "CONSPIRACY".
When I was a young man in my early 20's, I practiced doing illusions and got pretty good at it, I might say. I did a few birthday parties doing magic for people.
I know how it works, nothing ever is as it seems to the onlooker, it is all about the patter (your talk) and making the right practiced moves, with one hand and your talk draws your attention away from the hand that is really doing the concealing or revealing of an object.
It is deception in it's purest form, some call it magic, but it is deception, making you believe something is true while the real truth is concealed. You never know the truth, until someone and in some cases the magician shows you how he did it.
Oh you wonder at times, but you just can't put your finger on it.
"How did he do that"?
What if, all that you listen to on the news, all the rhetoric is a diversion, a deception meant for you from seeing what is really going on.
I believe it is, most of the time.I research, and study and discover truth.
The truth is often more bizarre than the illusion that the news media puts out there. Even some conspiracy sites, often get real bizarre with their theories, aliens, reptilians, etc.
I don't buy those, they are absurd.
However, there are others, who have the credibility and the inside info and do tell truth.
You have to always seek to verify facts. As a former Private Investigator, there are many observations and theories, but in the end you must deduct the facts and then report them.
I sign all my emails with a favorite quote of mine from the Sherlock Holmes books, it reads:
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)
Now back to Glenn Beck, he wrote a book called "The Overton Window".
The Overton Window is an interesting political thereom, however I think there is more going on then just trying to get us to accept some things, by making minor and sometime radical shifts of the window on popular thought or acceptance of things.
I think that whoever is the power behind the BIG CARD TRICK is using a marked deck that you can only see with special glasses on.
Christ told us, to "Be As Wise as Serpents, and as harmless as Doves".
We must educate ourselves, to not be blinded by the deceptions in life.
The Bible states that Christians are to discern good from evil, hold onto that which is good and to abstain from evil.
The Bible also teaches us that as part of our spiritual heritage of becoming a Christian, we have been given the "mind of Christ".
This very same mind that could see beyond the Pharisees, and Sadducees, he exposed their self -righteousness for where it actually came from.
He told them "your father is the "diabolos", the evil".
"THE DEVIL"- is how the Catholics, and Protestant traditionalist changed it to read. The Word in the Greek is Diabolos- from which we get the word Diabolical... it means evil, not a person, but a system or life of evil....religion is definitely that!
Jesus could see right through their phalacteries, their bell ringing, their long cloaks of self rightousness,all their religious hooplah. He saw them for who they were and what they were up to, every step of the way.
Thus because he knew them and their thoughts, in the very best sense who they were, he often escaped them. He alluded them for years, he was able to throw questions and parables at them, yet they were too blind to see their own illusion would no longer work, because "He was the light that had come into the world.
He revealed their deceptions, and their self centeredness, their EVIL for what it was.
I believe as Christians we need to wake up more to what is really going on.
Now I don't believe in creating fear or hatred, and as I said, I have met some wonderful people of all races, creeds, colors and religions, that all need Christ, just like I did.
I love them, but what I am saying to you, we need as God's people to be more observant of the facts, and aware of our surroundings and more apt to discover evil, and expose it then most.
Not for the purpose of scaring people, are you scared?
Perfect love- Christ love, removes all fear.
We should have the very discernment Christ had while here in the flesh for now we have His very life inside of us.
To summarize, what would be the purpose of those who would allow all this deception, these Overton Window shifts and deceptions along with prevalent illusions of making us focus on the wrong issues and the wrong things, and in this case even the wrong people in what is taking place. Eventually Chaos- that's what..
While we are busy focusing on the oil spill it has distracted us from the illegal immigrant issue that was so prevalent just days before, all the news was the Arizona Law that was passed. It seems as long as new NEWS BREAKING items come along, and they run it day after day, our attention is completely drawn away or diverted from the truth or finding the truth or resolving problems in America.
They don't want the illegal immigration issue resolved right now, it doesn't serve their evil purposes, the invasion of the nation by the real enemy who seeks not just your jobs but to take over the entire nation. It won't happen of course, our troops are trained, very well trained to disperse the enemy, but who will really come into power then? Will we then have a militarized, police state, in union with the elitist corporate and political machine behind it all. A new government not unlike Stalin's reign as dictator.
Let's think for a bit. Let's look at some facts on the Gulf Oil Spill issue.
For example, why did a "blowout preventing valve" fail that is made by the Cameron Company. This valve is still not working right?
A valve that had already been shown to have some 250 possible weaknesses and possible failure points. Who is the Cameron Company that makes these?
Why did this one fail and still failing when they have been used more than in this one case? Is there or was their a plot to make this whole scenario? Is it possible, there is some conspiracy here?
Why is BP catching hell, when TransOceanic owned the rig, and Cameron's valve is supposedly the cause?
Did anyone think that this is an Overton Window to move the public opinion to lean a little more to becoming Al Gore's green, to cut back on drilling our own oil, to lessen our national strength once more,our National Security, in using our own natural resources and become less dependent upon the Islamic countries for our oil?
We would become less dependent on the Muslim Oil Cartel, why they don't want that.!
Why don't we think these things out, why are we blinded by all the false rhetoric?
Let's investigate as a people, the connections, the facts, and when found, let's confront those responsible and quit leaving everything to the Fox guarding the Henhouse to tell us how the chickens all got killed and ate!
Why, because you have been taught just like you have in Orthodox religion
(Churchianity). "Don't ask questions".
You are to just believe whatever the EXPERTS tell you.
Church Leaders, Politicians, and Journalist, are notorious for telling lies. for spin doctoring, utilizing every known deception known to mankind to keep you under their power, mesmerized by their charismatic answers to all of life's problems. You worship them and idolize them, and that is just what they want. It serves their better purposes - themselves!
When will you as a Christian listen to the Lord, when he says,
"come let us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet, I shall make you as white as snow....
Why, because you have been blinded by the god of this world - EVIL!
Are you scared yet?
I hope that I haven't instilled fear but faith, to trust the one person, that is always true, the truth Himself. He who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life."
Here is my hard fact theorem, I don't like it anymore than you do.
America as we know it, is undergoing the greatest evil changes it has ever experienced and ever will, and unless God Himself intervenes, we may face challenges along with our children that we never dreamed possible could take place in this country. Challenges, that will make and break us as a people that once called themselves, the United States of America. We are about to see what history has proven time after time, all kingdoms of men, may fail and do fail.
I pray not, I pray that our eyes, will be opened, and we will not seek hatred and bitterness toward any one people, even the most evil of enemies, but that we will be driven to our knees in prayer and supplications. I pray that we will for once wake up to truth, Christian truth and be a people united in heart as Christians, not driven apart, divided over trivial and ignorant issues of men, and that we will as the first thirteen colonies did be brave enough to say, we stand united against any enemy that threatens our peace, our liberty and our pursuit to live. However, I don't believe violence, or revolution by force is the answer. I believe it is by love in Christ that we can conquer our enemies. I pray that we will see the way, is not politics, wars, religion, economics, nor even eschatologies, theologies, etc, but the answer is LOVE toward one another and but mostly toward God our Creator, and the one that we all must answer to.
Are you scared yet?
Then it is time to replace that fear with knowing Christ, and His love.
Though we may end up seeing in our lifetime the fall of America, we still have and live in the everlasting Kingdom of Christ, as brothers and sisters in Christ.
You know, love can change the world and it did.. It is happening every day, as people discover the truth and love of Christ for the first time.
Let us be that light, and salt to this world, less we hide our lights, and the salt loses it's flavor and be good for nothing but to be trampled underfoot.
May God bless us as Americans, yes, but God please bless our enemies, by allowing them to see the glorious light of Jesus Christ, which when one is exposed to the light, all darkness is driven out. If we claim to be Christian, then Christ love should be the predominant character of behavior exemplified in our lives, toward ALL MEN!
Let us as Christians, bend our knees before God, our Father, in unity in Christ, and pray not just for this country but one another, regardless of creed, color, race or religion, and let us no longer be blinded by the darkness of this world and man's kingdom's but let us know and realize everyday what the Kingdom of God is: it is Joy, Peace and Righteousness in the Holy Spirit.
Chaos may come, but the peace of Christ is everlasting for those of us who know Him and that peace that passes all understanding.
Let us not be a part to the impending evil, but let us know it, abstain from it, and allow the Spirit wroking through you, to change others about you, to see truth and know it, and live in it and by it.
Let us know the enemy, yes, but let us love them as Christ taught us, and love can change the world for the better.
Teach us O Lord not to fear, teach us Lord not to allow our fears to produce hatred, and defensiveness, but teach us Lord always to be on the offense with the life of Christ in us, and the Gospel preached from us, and not just in words, but by the deeds of your Spirit within us working those works of righteousness toward ALL people that we encounter in this life.
Let us be courageous to speak truth, to be wise, yet harmless, and to exercise the minds for which you gave us individually each of us, not just a few, or just the special,but all of us, if born of His Spirit, we can seek, and know truth without the necessity of anyone, including myself, in telling us what truth is, Christ is the Truth...don't be fooled or scared.
Jesus said these words, "you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". Therein lies how we keep our liberty, true liberty, by abiding in Him who is truth.
Dr J. Black
with love in Christ always.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
What We Teach Our Children - Violence
In the aftermath of yesterday's horrendous senseless massacre at Virginia Tech, the questions are flying across the news, why? Of course, we will hear from all the so called experts, psychologist, therapist, counselors, and security experts. Every news network will have their own individual editorials and commentators tell us why. Well, I want to exercise the same perogative as a Christian and a news commentator.
Let me begin by saying, the answer is simple. Violence begats violence. America is the most violent nation on earth. We are blood thirsty and we are entertained by it. We love revenge, love to inflict injury on those we think harmed us.
Apparently someone harmed this male that committed this autrocity so he did what He has been taught by American politics, American churches, American policy, and American television and entertainment. He sought to avenge himself. To strike back at others before they might get him. To go after those that had caused him harm whether "real or imagined". It's the American way, for goodness sake. We watched after 911, our own "Christian President" go for vengeance. He still is.
Every year in America we slaughter millions of unborn babies. Where are the news commentators while this autrocity and senseless murder goes on? Every evening, you can catch World Wrestling, the Tough Man contest, and great films of violence, full of bloodshed, and murder. If that isn't enough entertainment for you, the delight of watching war and weapons documentaries are every where you turn your TV channel to.
We have the satisfaction of watching, movies about the death penalty being used on the "bad guys" or even the evening news. Better yet, if you are young, there are a thousand choices of new video and PC games you can play. Drag out your XBox or other video game player and you can go into a world of hurt.
Better yet, you can wait until the news comes on and catch some real live violence going on in Iraq. Nothing like seeing men, women and children who aren't your blood kin being killed by the dozens, blood stains on the roadway, blood on the wall. What the heck, it isn't your blood afterall.
Now, I don't want to make the focus as television as the source of all our problems. "Televison is only the reflection of the heart of the society that watches it".
At least that's how I see it. No, let's go to the deeper issue, the heart of a country that claims 80% of it is Christian.
Now, you may have heard all that before, but the fact is God said, the following in the very beginning of time. Let's take a look at a command of God's that he made to Noah, the man of righteousness. This is one of God's earliest commandments to Noah, this is right after "He"- Yahweh had destroyed probably millions, of people with drowning them. He alone maintains justice, he alone is just, to decide who shall live and who shall die. He reminds Noah of this with this short but very powerful command.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever shed's man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God he made man.
Then Our Lord and Savour wrapped the same package up when as the very "revealed Yahweh come to be manifest, in the flesh as Yeshua (Jesus), declares to Peter the exact same thing, in paraphrase to the verse above.
It happened on the night that we as fallen individuals would have acted as Peter did, and drawn our sword to fight off "the evil terrorist", the Pharisees, Judas and the other Temple leaders that were coming to take our King away from us. We would have drawn our sword and cried loudly "Revenge" or better yet, as in the movie with Mel Gibson about the struggle for freedom in Scotland, we would yell "Freedom" and slaughtered everyone in sight that we percieved to be our enemy, allowing the blood to splatter on our faces as they did. Yet, in the midst of the opportunity to defend their King and as far as that goes, the King to defend himself, Yeshua (Jesus), reminds Peter of these very words spoken by Yahweh thousands of years before.
Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into it's place; for all who take up the sword shall perish by the sword."
How we have perverted the Gospel with our misunderstanding of the Old Testament and the actions Yahweh took to set apart for himself a people after His own heart. How He allowed them, as an instrument of His righteousness, to use the sword only for the Theocracy of the nation of Israel at that time. God is no longer in the nation business, or the physical kingdom business. He is in the Kingdom of God business, building a spiritual Kingdom. There has been a covental change. God can do as He pleases, you and I cannot!
It was not the heart of the Father to kill and maim and murder others, but there was no other way to punish the wicked, to keep His people from joining into the pagan nations around them and their taking on the pagan nations, sin and idolatry.
He, being the only "just" being there is in all the universe "could and can" make that decision to destroy physically the wicked. He has never, given that over to the hand of men. He allows governments to be formed, he doesn't put a stamp of approval on one or the other. He allows men to be unjust to men, for He is working out His plan. How could one ever use Romans 13 in the way American church goers do for American, they would have to justify Hitler, Stalin or any of their regimes to say, God established them and to go against them is sin.
All government has a wicked heart and desires nothing more than to power over others. For the Word of God tells us that these kingdoms belong to the enemy, Satan.
Thus, we see, our own slowly dissolving into totalitarianism as well. Men always desire to be in power over other men. This has been church history as well.
Now some may argue, that Romans 13 states differently, and in one way it is true he allows men to establish governments, and laws, and some to carry the sword, but it has never been His desire or His way for men. For He would be contradicting His own statement in Genesis and in Matthew.
Yahweh knows the heart of men, and He knows in our fallen state, men will always seek power over others.
Yet, as Christians we have been called to "power under" men. Just as our Lord did, when He could have called ten thousand angels, when He could have armed His disciples and used His powers to destroy Rome and Israel right then and there. He knew what was going to happen to Israel for their rejection of Him, and that was the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
He used a wicked nation to destroy another wicked nation - Israel. He had warned them and told them "for the blood of all the prophets and the saints were upon their heads"
Now, we ask, what can we do, to avoid future situations like the new "Columbine" killing at Virginia Tech? Well, my answer is this, we can't stop the world with their wars and hatred, with their thirst for blood, for their love of the sword. We can't even imagine that we can, for Jesus said, "there will be wars and rumors of wars", until He returns.
He also qualified what we as individual Christians are to do, and that is not to be a partaker of this world's ways of hatred, war, blood thirst, and violence. "Take no revenge, love your enemy"!
He set a people apart for himself, these are His people who have beaten their swords into plowshares. Who can lie down with a lion as a lamb, who can turn the other cheek, who can love their enemy, who don't answer insult with insult, injury with injury, just as our Lord did not in every aspect of His life.
We can do all we can to try to justify our love for blood shed, but the Lord has already spoken and when we disregard His word, and live like the world, act like the world, then we "who claim to be Christian" will suffer the consequences like the world - we will die by the sword.
It doesn't take a degree in psychology or security to understand the very simple, but powerful statement, that Jesus made on that evening. When if ever, there could have or should have been looking at things in the eyes of men, there been a breakout of violence and bloodshed, this would have been the time to do it. Yet, Jesus told Peter; "those who live by the sword will die by the sword".
What are you teaching your children at home, in your attitude's and opinion of these things? Do you love the world, it's VIOLENCE? Do you get all excited to see someone get blownup in a movie, killed by a gun, stabbed by a knife. No matter what that person is, or who he is, or what your opinion may be of him or her- it still comes down to this "they are created in God's image"- and if you shed THEIR blood, God will require that YOUR blood be shed too.
How we like to spout off the Ten Commandments to others, that is the "9" commandments, for one of the ten says this:
Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
By the way, there are 613 commandments, can you name them? Do you keep them?
We quickly judge others, when our own hearts are not right with the Lord.
All I can say, until real Christians start coming out of the woodwork (the world's molding) and take a stand like the once forgotten AnaBaptist and their now day brethern against being a part of the world and it's kingdoms, the Mennonites, the German Brethern and the Amish, we will see a lot more of the Virginia Techs type of violence, and I can promise with the direction the so called organized church is going now, with their love for violence, and war and all the gory murdering aspects of thinking they are going to build a "City of God" - ie; America, get out the easy chairs, and turn on your TV's because the bloodshed entertainment is just getting started.
How often I have heard the warmongers like to take Romans 13 out of context to justify their lust for hate and bloodshed, and yet they never read or qoute from the verse previous to Romans 13:1-7
What about Romans 12: 1-2 or Romans 12:17-21 or the ending of their favorite out of context scripture, verse 8 in Romans 13.
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another, for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
My answer as to why the senseless violence in America today is this- GOD SAID!
...but men say differently.
Jesus said it then and he says it now to the body of Christ -
"You nullify the commandments of God for the traditions of men! "
Dr. J.
Let me begin by saying, the answer is simple. Violence begats violence. America is the most violent nation on earth. We are blood thirsty and we are entertained by it. We love revenge, love to inflict injury on those we think harmed us.
Apparently someone harmed this male that committed this autrocity so he did what He has been taught by American politics, American churches, American policy, and American television and entertainment. He sought to avenge himself. To strike back at others before they might get him. To go after those that had caused him harm whether "real or imagined". It's the American way, for goodness sake. We watched after 911, our own "Christian President" go for vengeance. He still is.
Every year in America we slaughter millions of unborn babies. Where are the news commentators while this autrocity and senseless murder goes on? Every evening, you can catch World Wrestling, the Tough Man contest, and great films of violence, full of bloodshed, and murder. If that isn't enough entertainment for you, the delight of watching war and weapons documentaries are every where you turn your TV channel to.
We have the satisfaction of watching, movies about the death penalty being used on the "bad guys" or even the evening news. Better yet, if you are young, there are a thousand choices of new video and PC games you can play. Drag out your XBox or other video game player and you can go into a world of hurt.
Better yet, you can wait until the news comes on and catch some real live violence going on in Iraq. Nothing like seeing men, women and children who aren't your blood kin being killed by the dozens, blood stains on the roadway, blood on the wall. What the heck, it isn't your blood afterall.
Now, I don't want to make the focus as television as the source of all our problems. "Televison is only the reflection of the heart of the society that watches it".
At least that's how I see it. No, let's go to the deeper issue, the heart of a country that claims 80% of it is Christian.
Now, you may have heard all that before, but the fact is God said, the following in the very beginning of time. Let's take a look at a command of God's that he made to Noah, the man of righteousness. This is one of God's earliest commandments to Noah, this is right after "He"- Yahweh had destroyed probably millions, of people with drowning them. He alone maintains justice, he alone is just, to decide who shall live and who shall die. He reminds Noah of this with this short but very powerful command.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever shed's man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God he made man.
Then Our Lord and Savour wrapped the same package up when as the very "revealed Yahweh come to be manifest, in the flesh as Yeshua (Jesus), declares to Peter the exact same thing, in paraphrase to the verse above.
It happened on the night that we as fallen individuals would have acted as Peter did, and drawn our sword to fight off "the evil terrorist", the Pharisees, Judas and the other Temple leaders that were coming to take our King away from us. We would have drawn our sword and cried loudly "Revenge" or better yet, as in the movie with Mel Gibson about the struggle for freedom in Scotland, we would yell "Freedom" and slaughtered everyone in sight that we percieved to be our enemy, allowing the blood to splatter on our faces as they did. Yet, in the midst of the opportunity to defend their King and as far as that goes, the King to defend himself, Yeshua (Jesus), reminds Peter of these very words spoken by Yahweh thousands of years before.
Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into it's place; for all who take up the sword shall perish by the sword."
How we have perverted the Gospel with our misunderstanding of the Old Testament and the actions Yahweh took to set apart for himself a people after His own heart. How He allowed them, as an instrument of His righteousness, to use the sword only for the Theocracy of the nation of Israel at that time. God is no longer in the nation business, or the physical kingdom business. He is in the Kingdom of God business, building a spiritual Kingdom. There has been a covental change. God can do as He pleases, you and I cannot!
It was not the heart of the Father to kill and maim and murder others, but there was no other way to punish the wicked, to keep His people from joining into the pagan nations around them and their taking on the pagan nations, sin and idolatry.
He, being the only "just" being there is in all the universe "could and can" make that decision to destroy physically the wicked. He has never, given that over to the hand of men. He allows governments to be formed, he doesn't put a stamp of approval on one or the other. He allows men to be unjust to men, for He is working out His plan. How could one ever use Romans 13 in the way American church goers do for American, they would have to justify Hitler, Stalin or any of their regimes to say, God established them and to go against them is sin.
All government has a wicked heart and desires nothing more than to power over others. For the Word of God tells us that these kingdoms belong to the enemy, Satan.
Thus, we see, our own slowly dissolving into totalitarianism as well. Men always desire to be in power over other men. This has been church history as well.
Now some may argue, that Romans 13 states differently, and in one way it is true he allows men to establish governments, and laws, and some to carry the sword, but it has never been His desire or His way for men. For He would be contradicting His own statement in Genesis and in Matthew.
Yahweh knows the heart of men, and He knows in our fallen state, men will always seek power over others.
Yet, as Christians we have been called to "power under" men. Just as our Lord did, when He could have called ten thousand angels, when He could have armed His disciples and used His powers to destroy Rome and Israel right then and there. He knew what was going to happen to Israel for their rejection of Him, and that was the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
He used a wicked nation to destroy another wicked nation - Israel. He had warned them and told them "for the blood of all the prophets and the saints were upon their heads"
Now, we ask, what can we do, to avoid future situations like the new "Columbine" killing at Virginia Tech? Well, my answer is this, we can't stop the world with their wars and hatred, with their thirst for blood, for their love of the sword. We can't even imagine that we can, for Jesus said, "there will be wars and rumors of wars", until He returns.
He also qualified what we as individual Christians are to do, and that is not to be a partaker of this world's ways of hatred, war, blood thirst, and violence. "Take no revenge, love your enemy"!
He set a people apart for himself, these are His people who have beaten their swords into plowshares. Who can lie down with a lion as a lamb, who can turn the other cheek, who can love their enemy, who don't answer insult with insult, injury with injury, just as our Lord did not in every aspect of His life.
We can do all we can to try to justify our love for blood shed, but the Lord has already spoken and when we disregard His word, and live like the world, act like the world, then we "who claim to be Christian" will suffer the consequences like the world - we will die by the sword.
It doesn't take a degree in psychology or security to understand the very simple, but powerful statement, that Jesus made on that evening. When if ever, there could have or should have been looking at things in the eyes of men, there been a breakout of violence and bloodshed, this would have been the time to do it. Yet, Jesus told Peter; "those who live by the sword will die by the sword".
What are you teaching your children at home, in your attitude's and opinion of these things? Do you love the world, it's VIOLENCE? Do you get all excited to see someone get blownup in a movie, killed by a gun, stabbed by a knife. No matter what that person is, or who he is, or what your opinion may be of him or her- it still comes down to this "they are created in God's image"- and if you shed THEIR blood, God will require that YOUR blood be shed too.
How we like to spout off the Ten Commandments to others, that is the "9" commandments, for one of the ten says this:
Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
By the way, there are 613 commandments, can you name them? Do you keep them?
We quickly judge others, when our own hearts are not right with the Lord.
All I can say, until real Christians start coming out of the woodwork (the world's molding) and take a stand like the once forgotten AnaBaptist and their now day brethern against being a part of the world and it's kingdoms, the Mennonites, the German Brethern and the Amish, we will see a lot more of the Virginia Techs type of violence, and I can promise with the direction the so called organized church is going now, with their love for violence, and war and all the gory murdering aspects of thinking they are going to build a "City of God" - ie; America, get out the easy chairs, and turn on your TV's because the bloodshed entertainment is just getting started.
How often I have heard the warmongers like to take Romans 13 out of context to justify their lust for hate and bloodshed, and yet they never read or qoute from the verse previous to Romans 13:1-7
What about Romans 12: 1-2 or Romans 12:17-21 or the ending of their favorite out of context scripture, verse 8 in Romans 13.
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another, for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
My answer as to why the senseless violence in America today is this- GOD SAID!
...but men say differently.
Jesus said it then and he says it now to the body of Christ -
"You nullify the commandments of God for the traditions of men! "
Thus, what we teach our children - Violence.
Dr. J.
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