A Dividing Line

A couple of months ago I started to notice something....  I wasn't sure what it was at the time.  As time has gone by it has been coming more and more into focus.  At first I thought it was just me.  Am I the only one noticing these things?  Or am I just viewing things differently now?  I realized that I was not the only one noticing these things.  Also I think in part that God is continuing to change me and mold me more and more into the likeness of His son.  What I was noticing were things happening and changing across society at large and things being exposed that were once hidden.  All of these things pertained to how we viewed God and whether we were submitted to His will and not our own.


The release of the abortion videos has frighteningly been largely a ho hum for many.  Most people who support abortion have not even bothered to watch them and think they are just conspiratorial lies.  Christians mostly have been totally appalled at the depth of the depravity to which we have fallen.  Unfortunately there seem to be some Christians who fall into the former group and not the latter.  It has further divided people and made harder their positions in most cases.  It is a situation that God cares a great deal about, and has judged nations over.


Then we had Donald Trump come on the scene.  His big entrance included some strong words on immigration.  People have further divided on this issue, but in this instance, it seems to have made people reverse course and go against what they had previously supported.  It also revealed more openly the hatred people hold in their heart for those who differ with them.  People have had horrible and yet superficial reactions to Trump.  He's just the facilitator as that would have come out at some point anyway, and has.  Whether people realize it or not, how we treat foreigners, strangers, and immigrants is very important to God.  I don't think either side has even considered that, nor when confronted with it seem to care very much.  Again, this was just another point exposed where people had to make a choice.  This too is an area where God has judged nations over. 


We had the gay marriage ruling in June that has now come to the point where the government is now jailing Christians for their beliefs in God.  This was a day long warned about but that most people felt assured would never come about.  How is two same sex people getting married supposed to affect anyone else?  It's their private business.  Except now we have Christians having their businesses, homes, livelihoods, and now even their freedom taken away as a result of this ruling.  This subject is even splitting the church as some denominations have become false religions that seem more interested in the lust of the flesh than the will of God.  It has completely finished removing us from our foundations on Godly principles with the judge jailing the clerk for her faith saying that it would be a bad precedent to allow Gods law to supersede the will of the court.  So we now have it declared that Government is above God.  Problem is, people are buying that argument.  Not surprising though since we are now in the 3rd full generation raised without the Bible or prayers being taught that we are just animals that sprang up accidentally from some prehistoric soup cocktail. 


Now more than ever before I feel this next election is not just about who our next leaders will be, but about whether we will accept or reject God.  Frankly, I think it is our last chance based on what I am seeing with God exposing all of the evils for everyone to see and forcing people to take a stand one way or another, for or against Yahweh. 


The silence of the Christian too may be seen as complicity in these things as well.  We not only have to just give lip service to our convictions in the Lord, but also stand up for what we believe with actions.  We need to speak out what we believe to a lost and crumbling nation.  We need to not fear what they may say or do to us, for if God be for us, who can be against us?  Now more than ever we need to be obedient to the word of God and set the example for others, even if it means jail or worse.  Again I hearken back to Esther, who knows if we were not put here for a time such as this?


The agenda of the evil one has been laid bare.  We have been given notice.  Choose this day who you are going to serve.  Will it be the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, the Creator of the universe?  Or will you reject that path and take your own route or that of another god?  Wide is the path that leads to destruction, and narrow is the way that leads to life.  Jesus says I am the way, the truth, and the life.  no man comes to the father but by me.  You show that be being obedient to Him.  Jesus also says, if you love me, keep my commandments, not do as thou wilt.  


Judgment is coming.  God is still in control.  At this very moment He is working in the world and preparing His way.  We are either for him or against him.  It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of an angry God.  We ought to obey God rather than men.

A Time Such As This

Esther 4:14
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?


The story of Esther is one of the most dramatic books in all of scripture.  The story of  Jewish girl taken by force to be part of the Kings harem to choose a new bride from who is chosen to be queen.  Dire circumstances fell and increased government persecution of Gods people came to a boiling point when a descendent of a former enemy of the Jews gains power and influence and tries to have all the Jews put to death.  Esther must then use her position, defy the formal protocols of the land, possible facing death as a result to stand up and make it be known to the king exactly what was up.


The above verse came at the time when she was being asked to stand up for Gods people and proclaim the truth, even if it meant her demise.  We today are facing hard times.  While we are not yet at the point of being annihilated, we are at the point of having our ability to live and express our faith openly taken away.  The full force of government is being used to try and make us go against our God with the threat of loss of property, livelihood, family.  We are regularly ridiculed and lied about, demonized by those who wish to silence us.


Looming in the backdrop of all this is an old enemy of Christendom; Islam.  For 1400 years those who follow Mohamed have been venturing on a quest for world domination and the extermination of Christians and Jews.  Unbelievers here side with them and give them favored status, while attacking and removing all symbols and remembrances of Christendom from our national memory. 


In modern memory we can still look back and see what happened in Germany to the Jews and see very eerie similarities to what is starting to take place in the US.  The German government too gave favored status to Muslims while attacking and removing anything Jewish from German memory.  They, like has begun here, were being made as the scapegoats.  All that was wrong could be placed squarely on Gods people and if only they were not there, we could evolve into the great human utopian era. 


Now is the time for believers to stand up and proclaim the truth of God to the nation and to the world.  It is time we stand up and live our beliefs faithfully and recommit ourselves to do that which God wills us to do.  It is time to stand up and call out the evildoers and expose what they are doing.  For if we remain silent at this time, God will raise up those voices elsewhere and we will not be spared.  Who knows whether we have been placed here for a time such as this?

Poverty and Politics

I wanted to take a minute to examine this picture I have seen going around.  This is nothing against the person who posted it or of those for who this may be true.  It is an examination of how this argument is often used.

Something like this is often brought up in response to a conservative talking about reforming the program or cutting the budget.  The intent is often to paint anyone who is for reform of the program as mean spirited cruel bigoted individuals who want people to starve and making grandma choose between having electricity or eating dog food. This statement is just as bigoted as it claims the other side is.

This argument is also used to stamp down and mute out the truth about the massive fraud and abuse that IS in the program. Because someone points out that truth is not them calling every individual on food stamps names or stereotyping them.  It is people who wish to truly help the people who need help and don’t like that help being abused by those who do not need it.  We are not going to be able to help anybody if we keep going further into debt, in part, because the conditions are made to force people onto a program and then secondly that the program is not policed to prevent the fraud and abuse from occurring. 

Maybe it is not popular to stand up to this sort of message, but it is the truth.  What we need to do is set the conditions for people to get off of food stamps by having jobs.  By more people having jobs, we will have a larger tax base to help those who are still in need.  We need to balance the budget and pay off the debt.  If we keep borrowing we will go bankrupt and won’t be able to help anybody.   We need to stop giving away money we don’t have to people who don’t like us and use that to help our own.  We need to begin teaching biblical morality to our children so that people will be a little more responsible as adults and there won’t be such a high crime rate that keeps jobs away from the cities and poorer areas.

Those things are not bigoted statements or stereotyping.  They are reality.  Until people began grasping those realities and implementing them, we will go bankrupt and everyone will be stealing from their neighbor just to survive.  Instead we stereotype those people as being bigoted and accuse them of stereotyping the poor.  There is not much time left before this house of cards falls down and there will not be any assistance or opportunity for success for anyone.

Be Careful What You Wish For

In the book of first Samuel, we have a situation where Israel asks God for a king (roughly chapters 6-10).   Up until that point and time Israel lived with a very democratic system of governance.  They had their individual communities and tribes and elders all loosely knit together as a nation.  Each community had judges and governance was very participatory and required involvement on the part of the people.


Israel, as usual, was not happy with this system and wanted to be like other nations that had a king over them.  Why they were not happy, I don’t know.  Maybe it was just easier to have a king make all the decisions for everyone rather than everyone having to put forth an effort to govern themselves.  (sound familiar? Lol)   Anyway, they were willing to give up a certain part of their sovereignty, I suppose for a little security.  They had, after all, been at war and maybe they felt a strong centralized government would better serve them against the terrorists that kept invading.


In a blog I as reading, the anonymous author said this, “As well as a rejection of God, I see this choice as a rejection of community. In the systems of clans and judges there is room for debate, for consensus perhaps; but with that room comes messiness and effort. It is, I think, the harder route.


When you try to live in community, when no one person is ‘in charge’, then you have to be open to listening to others and to questioning yourself. You can’t just follow the rules, you have to engage with them, test them, even challenge them, or their interpretation. You have to be willing to change.


When someone is telling you what to do from on high you don’t need to wonder if it’s right or wrong, you don’t need to inquire into yourself; you’re just following orders.
In this, latter, model there is no personal responsibility. There is no group ownership of faith.”


When I look at our nation, I see a very similar path as what the Israeli’s had taken.  When we first started out, our model was of a small central government and each of the states being rather sovereign in and of themselves, governing themselves as they saw fit. It required effort, involvement, and that willingness to battle it out in the realm of ideas. 

Over time, we Americans wanted less and less involvement and we wanted more and more to be told what to do.  We also wanted more and more of what could be given to us rather than earning it.  Too, it was our desire that our  personal responsibilities in taking care of ourselves and our families, as well as our communities be dictated to us.


It then come to me as  no surprise that we find ourselves in a situation where we have a dictatorial government that wishes to control every aspect of our lives and no longer respects the sovereignty of the state, county, or municipality.  Those entities have been bought out and made dependent upon the federal government, and the people gladly handed off the responsibility so their own lives would be easier.


The people got what they asked for, but hadn’t thought out the consequences.  Now a number of people are beginning to regret the decisions they made, and are beginning to see the need to take back the power they gave up.  It will not be easy though. Those who hold such power are not prone to just handing it over.  I don’t recall too many times in history where a government just handed over their authority to the people without the people forcibly taking it.

Be careful what you wish for.  You just might get it.

We Are The Evil Empire

There was a time where the United States of America stood for freedom, justice, Godly morals, love thy neighbor, and that which was good in man.  It really was not that long ago.  It was in my lifetime.  When I look at the country now, I don’t know who we have become.  We are unrecognizable now from the moral super power we once were.  Not only are we unrecognizable; but we are living a delusion, thinking we still are the moral super power.

IN my lifetime, we used to believe that every child had the right to live.  That changed in 1971 and now we have slaughtered over 50,000,000 people on the alters of liberalism.  How can we speak to others of human rights when we do not even value the lives of our own humans?  The souls of the murdered scream for vengeance.

In my lifetime, we used to value ourselves and our bodies.  Sex was viewed as a sacred thing given only in love to a partner of the opposite sex in a lifelong bond.  Now we live in a society of sexual deviants that only cares about self-gratification in the moment.  We have devalued the bond between two people of the opposite sex that we feel it is ok to have intercourse with anyone, without consequence or responsibility.  Entire industries have sprung up to serve the self-serving instant gratification seeking spoiled brats, including the murder factories mentioned above. 

In my lifetime, you could not even show a belly button on the screen.  Today it is almost impossible to find a movie without a pornographic sex scene between unmarried people.  The themes of movies were once good vs evil where the good triumphed in the end compared to today’s films of special effects and gore where you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys and you are never quite sure which one won.  How can we speak of being a moral people when our pop icons are barely more than porn stars who have flashed their private areas to millions to gawk at?

In my lifetime, sex between two people of the same sex was considered a perversion and a mental illness.  Today, not only is it considered normal, but we are redefining our social institutions to accommodate this perversion of nature.  Now that this is normalized, we have people who want to have sex with little children wanting to be recognized and accepted into society as normal as well.

In my lifetime, Foods could be mostly trusted to be what they were naturally.  The beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables were closely related to the exact same things we had eaten naturally since our beginnings.  Today we have these scientifically produced monster foods that are destroying the very environment we need to survive in and may even be killing us off slowly.  In a sick need for greed we are putting our entire existence on this planet in jeopardy just to create a few more bucks into a corporations coffers.

Doesn’t it seem a little odd that today, in the country we once considered the evil empire just 30 years ago, Russia, Bibles are allowed and taught in their schools, and sex is at least recognized as only normal between a man and woman?  And that this evil empire considers what we are doing to our food supply so dangerous to the existence of people on this planet that they are saying war may result from our tampering with the food chain?  Maybe Russia is not the evil empire any more.  I think we have taken up that role, and most don’t even see it.