I may be curious to see if Felonious I, on January 20, will recognize the greatness of people power and have remarks about Martin Luther King Jr’s contribution to the United States. However I am not that hopeful, so I will not be soiling the recognition of MLK with broadcasts of the inauguration on January 20th.
Boycott the bottom-feeding Republican criminal enterprise of the 47th inauguration.
We recognize the contributions of Babylon, Persis, Greece and Rome to civic society, but what can we say of Aram, Israel, Judah, the Ishmaelite clans and nations, the several European powers, Great Britain and the United States of America? If Babylon was a head of gold, and if the divided Roman Empire was feet and toes of iron and clay, whence does the Make America Great Again get its cane or walker or wheelchair for a golden age.
41) “In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay. 42) “As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. 43) “And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery. (Daniel 2:41-43)
Felonious I of the United States is spouting anal juice about an American golden age, and you can be sure that ⅓ of the host are enjoying the toilet, the diaper and the trade. However, the difference between gold and iron is stark. Gold and dirt are not in the same ballpark or city. America’s crash will come rapidly. One hour is all it takes to establish the fact that 200+ years of County Commissioner J. D. Hogg, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane and Deputy Cletus Hogg are not witnesses to civic progress.
Terrorism has been the blasphemous and legal rationale for government success in most of modern history. Vigilante self-defense anywhere is not much different from annihilation attempts anywhere. Observers in the 21st century may be unaware that the land claimed by Israelis and Palestinians was once the site of ancient Israelite genocide. The rule of law has not stabilized the progress of humanity despite millennia of opportunity. Courts of justice and the sacred halls of governance are too often the insidious agents of terror, sickness, and injustice. Those who pin their hopes of peace and success on conducting wars are most miserable and bankrupt.
January 16, 2025 is a day of ultimate evil. After almlost two years of Israel’s slaughter, massacre and assassination of Palestinians the announcement of a deal is the epitome of absolute treachery and inhumanity. No-one should think that Israel has done anything beside tickled the hate, anger and patriotism of a sector of Israeli society. The people who are not idealogically connected to the State of Israel want Jerusalem to be a cosmppolitan city, and they stand in the best prophetic tradition. Shedding innocent blood anywhere is a cause for the divine sword to exact its due. The cycle of making widosw and orphans continues with the gravitas of the gullible.
You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. Exodus 22:22, If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, Exodus 22:23, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. Exodus 22:24,
We can recognize terrorist scoundrels in government and elsewhere by what they do, and Israel’s lengthy catastrophic assault on Gaza was not a war. Hamas virtually disappeared after the October massacre of Israeli citizens. When Israel embarked on its war to erase Hamas, the legitimate goverment of Gaza, it could not, with a straight face, tell the world that it would not target and erase Palestinians who are innocent of violence against Israel. It could not, and it did not. What the world has seen is the razing of Gaza and the inflicting of a catastrophic medical disaster on Gazans.
Who then is at the table? Dead Hamas operatives? Hamas allies? Wiping Hamas from the map is as evil a goal as Hamas’ attempts to wipe Israelis from the map. Did any goverment. beside South Africa, ever say that Israel is a terrorist and racist nation? Does anyone have to wonder what God’s take is, when the ancient Jewish people lived side by side for millennia with ancient Canaanites who, according to the edict for Israelite possession of Canaan, were the targets of a genocidal campaign? Israelis and their sworn enemies (like Hamas, the Iranians, and the Yemenis) are heading up the creek without paddles.
Are those people negotiating for Hamas perfectly neutral entities? Now, tell the world, which commentators and observers did not anticipate Israel reporting that Hamas is violating the deal? Which Israeli voter did not know that one of the micro-parties in the coalition that underpins the Netanyahu regime would exploit the agreement because Hamas survives another genocidal assault in the Holy Land? “Once and for all”, and “never again” are expressions of another reality, not banners of a just and peaceful society. An ear tingling era is dawning, and it is not a divine response to violence. We know what that looks like. The brazen lies, thefts and destruction that have defined the devil’s career and character are rolling into high gear in the public eye with narration from the so-called legacy media.
All the heroes of Israel’s past are tapping her gently on the shoulder saying “Wake up”. Judging from the vehemence of settler policy, and the international complicity, the sleep seems to be turning to stupor. Governments like Canada and the US can try to stifle the voices of protest and opposition to Israel’s oppression. paranoia and pride, but Ezekiel’s prediction of the valley of dead bones seems more distant. This exactly why people should not be sucked into unbelief. Just when we say “impossible” God jumps in. Just when we say “peace and safety” calamity kisses us. For now, Israel, its allies and its enemies are in the zone of the undead, thriving on the flesh and blood of others.
Team Canada has more in common with frightened schoolboys than with respectable elected individuals. Standing up to the half dead Republican rabble is going to take more than negotiation skills. Thankfully the premiers are not robots like Republican elected representatives who have no thought of their own. They know when to leave their partisan stripes at home and when to take advantage of an opportunity. Canadian business interests who favour a Canadian dollar trailing the US dollar by 30 points should team up with the Bloc Quebecois, because when it comes to strength and unity to face external threats Canadians will have a winning team, except for Quebec.
People, elected representatives should know, are infinitely more important than politics. So let the squabbling for power and influence end. Canadian politicians know how tariffs work. We cannot say the same for the huffing puffing wolves of the United States and the Canadian Dominion. I am sure that Canadians want their lives improved without giving up their independence from foreign dominance. American resources and Canadian resources come from the same place.
He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself Or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. (Proverbs 22:16)
Shame on all those entrepreneurs who have supported the US economy at the expense of Canadian workers
Canadian television keeps giving air to the orange juice exuding from the spectre of Mar a Lago instead of having the gravitas to put a disclaimer at the beginning of clips coming from the abyss that is Republican Party politics. When the Bloc Quebecois and the Conservatives offer their parallel to the escalator speech of the Mar a Lago felon the cheer will no doubt be loudest and clearest from white Canadians and wannabes in the prairies. It is not too much to ask that news broadcasts post a disclaimer at the beginning of every citation of the American president, and adding a laugh track at the end.
The following is likely to be laced with lies, megalomaniac fables, racist slogans, religious nincompoopery, and fascist pride.
Make America Great Again. Blah, blah, blah.
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Of course caring for others begins at home, they say, but it really starts in the heart. So why are the most popular questions not “Are are you hungry?” or “Are you thirsty?” Considering that”How are you?” is likely to get a response that addresses emotional status or even a reciprocal greeting we might give some thought to getting past the greeting to a genuine concern for two basic needs.
The king, Yeshua, passes sentence on the accused at the end of the age.
42) for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; 43) I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’ 44) “Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’ 45) “Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ (Matthew 25:42-45)
What a marvelous thing it is to discover that there are people whose hearts are wide open, believers who are always ready to entertain strangers, and especially to provide for those who have nowhere to go, no food to eat, no water to drink.
If Daniel was a man who did not eat the delicacies of Babylon, or did not drink wine, or was a vegetarian, or used oil to appear joyful (have a shiny face) he certainly did not need to describe three weeks of his life. Would he?
I did not eat any tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed. (Daniel 10:3)
One fable relates how Daniel chose to defy the king of Babylon, by eating vegetables. To be clear, MEAT = flesh. There is no such thing as a biblical case for or against vegetarianism. It is pure juvenile and modern nonsense to create ancient Israelite vegans. From the top to the bottom of society, Jewish people engaged with their national heritage would be obliged to eat beef, mutton, or goat flesh. Remember, fables are explanations people invent when they have no intention of embracing the truth or even the facts of history. So no one but Adam can claim to benefit from being a vegetatian.
The priests of the Levitical order were obliged to eat flesh. They had no choice.
“Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy. (Exodus 29:33)
Imagine how often a priest and his family has flesh to eat in the process of their mediation and tell us how many in the Levite family could be vegetarians.
“And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the flesh.
(Deuteronomy 12:27)
Then we come to the world where the priesthood and its regulations are changed, not modified, but uprooted and replaced by a new order and law. We find that food, the things one ingests, is not a measure used by God.
But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. 1 Corinthians 8:8
The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
(Romans 14:3)
Of course there are people who, despite evidence to the contrary, would like the world to see them as the creme de la creme. Babylonians did it and Iraqis do it. The builders of the tower of Babel did it and all the modern aspiriing superpowers do it. Persians did it, and Iranians do it. Rome did it, and keeps doing in the Pax Britannica and the Pax America. You see how perfection pervades the secular world, but then ask yourself if there was ever a world dominated by a non-secular regime, and the answer is yes, and we can identify the fact from the terms of ancient Israel’s covenant (the first covenant).
Judging people by what they eat has been explicitly rebuked by the introduction of the disciples to God’s acceptance of Gentiles. Gentiles do not need Jewish priroties to be accepted by Christ. The Heavenly Father draws people to Chriust apart from circumcision, which is the primary seal Hebrew identity, apart fropm the Law of Moses, which is the arrangement for Hebrew nationhood, and God draws people to Christ and gives them the Holy Spirit apart from the rituals and regulations regarding purity. This understanding about cleansing and purity has We have no right to judge people on the basis of these kinds of behaviours.
The followers of Christ and the followers of Moses are not one and the same. That is just bewitching silliness. The church is not Israel, neither as kingdom or nation . The church is not Israel, neither as race or as a people.
When you read the Hebrew Bible you will find the Book of Daniel in the ninth place with the thirteen writings. Christ’s followers are obliged to treat the book of Daniel as a prophetic work. Daniel’s book has six instances of first person narrative (Daniel 8:15, 8:27, 9:2, 10:2, 10:7, 12:5) and the book is the only one that has a detailed account of the future international scene with figures fully explained. For example:
“The ram which you saw with the two horns represents the kings of Media and Persia. (Daniel 8:20)
31. “You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome. 32. “The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, (Daniel 2:31-32)
38. and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold. 39. “After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. (Daniel 2:38-39)
What could be strange or destructive about a prophet who eats flesh, drinks wine and eats Babylonian delicacies? Nothing, except that prophets are not a thing in the Covenant of Paschal Blood. Not Daniel and not even Moses holds any ranking when the child grows up. Believers are utterly rebellious when they put themselves at the mercy of prophets, miracle workers and exorcists. At some point faith has to release the child into adulthood. That is why the Sermon on the Mount had no reference to Law and Proohets until the Lord Christ detected the rotten thoughts of the audience.
“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it. Luke 16:16
Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?
My teenage years were turbulent and adventurous. I had no small gift of learning to play musical instruments.
I had one of these with the box covered with snake skin. I figured out how to accompany my singing. I thought my masenko was magical. In one of the family’s moves my one-stringed music maker disappeared from my life.
Life is Fun, But Not a Joke 