Month: April 2024

Does not add up

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Law, Mosaic or other, prescribes certain consequences for violation.  When discovered, transgressions ended in quick judgment, both case and sentence.

2. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, 3. how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,”

Hebrews 2:2-3, NASB

It is highly illogical to think that God’s law was violated in heaven before humans were created,  and he allowed the violation to fester for unknown millennia, centuries, or decades, if there was not something larger than law.   Only madness and demonic jealousy allows us, believers, to posit our speculations about how God deals with sin and death.  We all are believers , saints, because of grace, God’s Son, no credit or thanks to us.

So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’. 

(Luke 17:10, NASB)

Necessary evidence

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People who keep saying they need more evidence when the rogues confess in plain sight are like shallow pools of mud advertising as hippopotamus spas.   Israel has lied about Palestinian children that it jails and tortures, lied about thefts of Palestinian property in Jerusalem, lied about its commitment to a two-state solution to the Palestinian Problem, and finally the Israeli PM lets everyone with an ear know that killing innocent people is “what happens in war”.  The arguments for Israeli apartheid and genocidal intent in the ICJ are impressive, and while the world waits for the distinguished justices to rule and as the United States decides that using its veto to shield Israel from accountability and as nations urgently discuss ending weapons sales to Israel we get another piece of necessary evidence.

Pray for Jerusalem , Gaza and Hebron

For many decades Christians have felt a solemn duty to pray for the Israeli because of the common heritage in religion.   Many have taken the call in the Psalms seriously to pray for Jerusalem’s peace.  Some have taken the call seriously because they want to prosper on account of their prayers for Jerusalem’s peace.  The time has now come for people to realize the praying is not enough, people need also to take the actions that are in their power to bring Jerusalem to peace, and end a war that is inhumane and mindless. With the mounting evidence that crimes are on the drawing board what is the point to praying for the piece of Jerusalem and the government of Israel has said it has no interest in a peaceful solution?

Insult to injury

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Canada’s parliament cannot be dragged into a law and order hut built entirely on Israel’s questionable morality, caricature of democracy, and  commitment to the maintenance of a racist regime.   Morality was always on the table, and Conservative politicians are not going to be trusted to follow the lead of the United States in vetoing international attempts, at the United Nations, to fix the injury to the human family in the creation of the Zionist state and to ignore the decades of Israeli terror and lawlessness. 

Jerk off theology

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In full mirage mode the best some people can come up with is obedience to the law of God and obedience to the laws of men except when they clash.  Tell that to a second century Jew and bring that proposition to a twenty-first century American and the response will be the same.  “You are out of your mind”.   People with vision and heart have been called crazy and demented so maybe you are in good company.  Except for the Love talk coming from Christians  one cannot help notice that modern Christianity defies everything that lay at the core of the Messianic mission.  Every jerk has his theology.

Put some interpretation into the application of light

Not only are modern Christians defying what Christ himself did, they actually redefine the pillars of the church’s welfare, and the interests of those who are Kingdom bound.  In general, the church has melted secular policies into the church’s mission, and to be specific,  the church has not kept Christ as the center of all its thoughts and deeds.  Translations into the many languages of our planet are of particular concern because the vast majority of readers do not realize that translators do not prioritize the interpretation of apostolic speech.  Translators seem to focus on readability and tradition.  Translators are, but most readers are not, aware that simple terms like good,  holiness and gift, are not monolithic.   They are derived from different words in the original languages.  Translators are not careful to relate to the reader every nuance in every verse, and that is why we have pastors.  People getting up in church and telling us what they believe, and people testifying about favors they have received from God, is not edification in the word of God, because education in the word of God means familiarity with the intent of the writers of the Bible, and translations often do not cut it.

No quick thrill in the sermons

“For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the ENCOURAGEMENT of the Scriptures we might have hope.” (Romans 15:4, NASB)

If the goal of preaching and teaching was to connect people to a miracle trail, to a solving of daily and common problems, the world would not have needed a savior like Yeshua.  People would do quite well with a profit like Moses or Isaiah.  The COMFORT of scripture is not that our tears get wiped away or we get a good feeling;  the COMFORT of the scriptures is help, ENCOURAGEMENT, of the sort rendered only by the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.