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Shutting down my voice and pen have been a strategy for doing no harm. Today, I can say there are great reasons for silence.
Happening in plain sight. Breaking news! Hot off the presses! Not really. The sins of the Israeli government are none of those things. It is rare for outsiders to see the brutality of Israeli hatred for Palestinians and Gentiles in general. There is no documentation available of how the government of Israel steals, with deadly violence, land from Palestinians. The western press and governments now have no choice but to call on Israel to behave like the rest of us. Follow Abraham’s lead. Hamas’ brutal attack may have awakened some of us in the west to the Palestinian Problem, but the spineless preachers of Christianity are perhaps the most gripping picture of cowardice and depravity. Not one of the so-called watchmen on the walls have said a word about the criminal ex-president or the beleaguered Israeli Prime Minister. The reason is that the two nations have lost their compass, despite the high-faluting slogans about God and country, law and order, peace and security.
Instead of preaching the gospel, namely the death and resurrection of Yeshua of Nazareth, American and Canadian preachers have settled for pushing miracles and prosperity instead of teaching people that their hearts need to change towards love for the neighbor and the appropriate respect for their ancestors and for their children.
They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, declares the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. (Jeremiah 31:34, NASB)
This great prophecy is not happening because Americans and Israelis have no sins of which to repent. Labelling the halls of power “Dens of thieves” is not an anti-American jab, nor an Antisemitic uppercut. Facts, man! Just facts. I am sufficiently experienced to recognize criminal enterprises. America United? Never again. Israel, holy land? Definitely and bordello government.
A label we apply to persons who defy knowledge and insist on oppressing the defenceless is evil. An utterly ignorant, incited and energetic crowd needs no obscure label. Calling them extremist or far right anarchists may only scratch the surface of the political pond. When people who disagree with us become enemies to be destroyed none of the honourable tenets we have come to acknowledge and commit ourselves to apply any more. For the English speaking world the common descriptors are White, Anglo, Christian Killers Overdriven. Here is a list of what is truly wacko about society and the powers that be.
Why does it not bother us that all the people who claim to be reformers and revolutionaries have no other roots – whatever they say they stand for. They have invented their own sources of authority and then concoct fables, just as the Jews did about their history, and try to impress us with a kind of wisdom and knowledge they propose to be previously unknown. That doesn’t work in Christian circles, because the gospel was once for all time delivered to the saints. It’s done. There is no light to be shone on the gospel beyond what is already written. The Holy Spirit does not get into anything but what is written so that we can be safe. So if you have a conviction about anything that is not settled once for all by the intervention of Yeshua of Nazareth something wacko is lapping at your heels.
The world does not, and has not for decades , revolved around American rhetoric and even less around a humanitarian Israel, China or any of the veto -wielding nuclear powers of our times. Staring down the right to self-defence is the right stance for the global community. The right to free expression seems to have no traction when Black lives – remember the Orange Threat’s “What have you got to lose by voting for me?” – are at stake. White people have for centuries been killing Black people with law enforcement looking the other way saying “There’s no there here”. Israel has been oppressing everyone who is not a Jew, with cleverly disguised abuse and bullying of secular Jews. Republican grandstanding just exposed its malignant tumor of hypocrisy thinking they can force yes and no answers to complex questions about civility and free speech. So a rabid mob has succeeded in bullying intelligent persons, while criminally tainted individuals of the Orange And MAGA clan persist in their diabolical schemes.
Now that university presidents are targets – for thinking critically – of the idolatrous conservative political establishment a lot of pundits and respected commentators are going to lose their heads and their place in the pantheon of truth-bare news
We are telling you, Dobson and the Pharisee crew can throw in the towel right now. Focus on the Family ads on Canadian television is part of the conservative conspiracy to infect Canada with religious psycho-babble. Focus on the Family was the tip of the spear that deceived Americans about Christian politics. It is because they rejected Yeshua of Nazareth as God that they have turned to lipservice love, homicidal patriotism and flag idolatry. The Canadian family does not need a model based on the United States or the kingdoms of Israel or Judah. Focus on the Family Canada is heading up the creek with no paddle.
Christian politics is of the same family as Christian circumcision or Messianic salvation with Moses and the Ten Commandments as the leads. the conservatives are hoping that pulls and sham debates can deflect the Canadian people from having governance that is liberal and grounded in human rights. Focus on the Family, let me remind us, led the push to home schooling resulting in two generations of morons posing as the learned and chosen. Focus on the Family laid the groundwork on American radio and television for insurrectionist notions to appear as normal and recommended. Canadians are not buying that drug! Focus on the Family is simply sleepwalking hocus pocus!
What could you do less of?
As much as there is a need for strangers to trust one another there is a mass rising of people who are targeting benevolent individuals with scams and outright malicious designs. Society can boast about having new levels of connectivity while thefts and a host of other violations of people’s rights seem to be increasing. When we are in distress help sometimes appears before we send out an SOS, but these days when help arrives – police and emergency services – the trust is not always there. I do not need that kind of caution, whether it is official agents, strangers or random people, when I offer or need help.
Guess who wants peace and shows that they do? Neither kingdom nor state, nor freedom fighter, nor terrorist.
1) And it will come about in the last days That the mountain of the house of the Lord Will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, And the peoples will stream to it. 2) Many nations will come and say, “Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord And to the house of the God of Jacob, That He may teach us about His ways And that we may walk in His paths.” For from Zion will go forth the law, Even the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 3) And He will judge between many peoples And render decisions for mighty, distant nations. Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they train for war. 4) Each of them will sit under his vine And under his fig tree, With no one to make them afraid, For the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
Micah 4:1-4, NASB
If justice and morality has to do with the treatment of slaves then Moses got it down pat, because the first stop cute and judgement right after then comes out treat a slave, and we should not forget the descendants of made their way to Sinai as the result of the liberation of slaves from Egypt. So let me propose that morality in the 21st century has something to do with how many slaves the powerful Nations have set free, and how workers are treated by the United States, regional powers like Israel, the Arab Emirates, and the islands of the Caribbean.
Killing innocent people is written in the DNA of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders. The facts are recorded by the prophets and in the chronicles of the kings of Israel and Judah. The United States and European Union and United Nations cannot give Israel a new heart, because that is a thing they rejected wholeheartedly from the time Moses laid down the rules and regulations of their relationship with Yahweh. Israel and her allies have fried up their version of the truth and dare the public to reject it. Sensible people – spiritually enlightened and accountable – only need to call the earth and sky as witnesses to the wickedness playing out in Palestine.
How dare anyone compare the sins of Israel with the scenes of her mouth?
2) Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; For the Lord speaks, “Sons I have reared and brought up, But they have revolted against Me. 3) “lAn ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master’s manger, But Israel does not know, My people do not understand.” (Isaiah 1:2-3, NASB)
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