Convinced that the fellowship of 20 something nations was not good enough the United Kingdom tries to carve a path for itself.   At the same time the most thoughtful body on the planet, the United States Senate conducts a trial without witnesses and documents.   These days are tumultuous indeed and indicate the depth of the decay that comes with human organizations. To use the terms from a famous lament and prophecy “The gold has dimmed” and the iron has rusted.

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

Lamentations 4:1

• Gold represents the best of human governance
• In the lament the gold has lost its character and secret things are on the streets (is public)

Britons were half-baked Europeans.   They kept their pound and imperial measures out of selfish pride.  It should not come as a surprise that some people want to be either in or out.

And whereas you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

Daniel 2:43

Senators who do not know what a trial looks like are not surprising to me.  We all expect elected officials to be literate and committed to decency and excellence.  The Republican dominated Senate is showing itself  to be dealers and experts in muck.

I’m taking Peter’s exhortation to heart afresh. After taking the audience that they needd to relent and believe he cautioned about his contemporaries.

And with many more appeals he solemnly warned and entreated them, saying, “Escape from this crooked generation.”

Acts 2:40

News from Hong Kong trickles out when it has to do with the noble protesters against the administration of Carrie Lam. The Financial Times is reporting that residents should brace for violence using IEDs and firearms.

See the Financial Times story here:

https://www.ft.com/content/5636f828-3e69-11ea-b232-000f4477fbca

The perpetrators of violent crimes are not likely to be the same people as those demanding real democratic change but the two groups (assuming there is a group responsible for the bombings) are in the same group to PRC. Next up for the antidemocratic governments: martial law.

January 31, 2020

If we accept that the best laws can be negative, tribal, oppressive, and lack impartiality no future beckons, and only the bloodletting and fierce political combat by any means appears as certainties.

What is happening in the United States are the closing moves of the preparation of global dictatorship.  No good can come of a supreme court that is stacked with judges with fascist, quasi-Judeo and quasi-Christian commitments.

Social upheavals

Much of the moral morass in which we find ourselves is explicitly perverse. The wickedness in high places of which the Scriptures speak is a phenomenon happening with the approval and bankrolls of the world ruling powers. The church has its own wicked performance too but is not a world-ruling power. The heavenlies is the realm of spirits.

The trend of government is to at least avoid the appearance of intrusion into religious matters and vice versa. It won’t be long before serious consideration is contemplated about the contributions of the three faith communities with seeming vested interest in the final peaceful disposition of Jerusalem.

International Interest

It may seem like a most worthy venture when the international community begins to demand a voice and action towards Jerusalem’s peace.
Zechariah (12:3) has an early warning out.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

The nations -all earth’s people- will be in the wrong side of history. The end of unconditional support for Israel is inevitable. People know what justice looks like. The international siege of Jerusalem will trigger events that shape the end of the age and Zionite destiny.

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:2

Do not hurt yourself

The Jerusalem heritage does not mingle with mediocrity. It does not peddle prophecy or wage war. The city can only persist when the best of two traditions are combined. Jerusalem is royal territory and as such has it’s own unique seal and destiny.
It is not surprising that God empties the city when its residents betray its sanctity.

Leadership under scrutiny

Priests and rulers (academics, tribal heads, elders and princes) have each sought to be the supreme authority. This is where the bad smell persists. The kingdom of priests of the Sinai Covenant (Exodus 19) has not become a reality because the combination of priest and king can never seem appropriate within the confines of the Law (commands, statutes, judgments). No foreign power or policy will ever dominate Israeli life and the hope that a Mosaic and patriarchal society is the future of Israel is delusional. If belief in Moses was real then Melchisedec’s pattern of leadership would have been understood and accepted. Our Lord’s evaluation of Israel is an “F”

The ministry of Christ as high priest includes him being King. This is the critical matter of governance in Israel but it has been overlooked and sometimes deliberately ignored when we try to address the final destiny of Jerusalem, indeed, its peace

11) If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12) For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Hebrews 7:11-12

Kingdom without a king

The promise of priestly community and service had its days and moments of awakening but overall the monarchy and the priesthood were fast asleep. Through its own survival instinct and the pressures of governing the priesthood declined

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Hebrews 9:11-12

All of us who see ourselves as inheritors of the kingdom have at one time or another contorted ourselves and the message in order to appear as belonging to something we admire. Jerusalem has not chosen peace as long as its residents leave the bright light of salvation to keep their tradition. Believers like to think that they chosen the king of peace because they are enrolled as followers of Yeshua of Nazareth. However, as long as salvation and holiness have foundation in laws, prophets, reform movements, or levitical priestly services peace will elude everyone.

If American greatness is anything we can tag it as a southern drawl. That would remind everyone of the bloodletting that haunts the nation’s nobles. Since a third of the population is firmly deceived by the drone of greatness returning we are certain that a deep southern drawl, embellished with hateful speech and illegal policies, is a better definition.

Ditch your dad

Every rock we overturn in the age of ready media reveals mutants of the worst kind. Canadians know the flaws in our first prime minister and we have no plans to disown him.

Suicidal society

Canadians also repatriated the constitution and topped it off with a charter of rights. We are not amending it to glorify violence and capitalism. Our national police force has been under attack for grave errors and poor practices and we are not condemning it as a failed entity.

National ID not a den for any religion

Canada’s political leadership for the last decade championed a black hole of right wing so-called values while the Americans were blocking dialog with hetero ideologies, plotting to create barriers to immigration, glorifying gun violence and paying lipservice to a Christian morality.

The slippery slope

Our social fabric is rich whether people want or like hyphenated labels or not. The people we meet or pass in the course of our daily lives are happy to be religious or not. Canada is still a safe place even though gun violence is on a steep rise; safe until we bow to international pressure to worship the wonderful and imminent beast.

All nations bow

John tells us about a beast coming up out of the earth (Rev. 13:11), a different (one might say opposite) location from the first beast; this national is the spitting image of lies and deception. According to John, this entity had two horns like a lamb (symbol for the saving Christ), and he spoke as a dragon (symbol for the destructive the devil).

Miracle trap and legal necessity

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Revelation of John 13:15

And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

Revelation of John 13:14

If the voice you hear and seem unable to avoid is on a channel you cannot change I am sorry for you. Changing the channel is a poor option when every other channel turned out to he a clone of the one to which you are tuned.
I have tried to stay abreast of political developments for good reason. Doing so has a cost. One has to listen to what amounts to the deafening drone of the thieving and perjured scribes and Pharisees along with the voices of conscientious compatriots or colleagues. Poor Israel at Sinai! They tuned out Yahweh and got Moses with same song. Blessed us in the 21st century! We tune out every stakeholder and preserve our sanity.

The cost of tuning out

I kid you not. The message that little dt (of Mar a Lago) did nothing wrong comes with a stifling bad smell, a temptation to turn all of those voices off, and the suggestion to paint every messenger with the same colours. Tuning out the clanging cymbals of political combat for a while is unlikely to affect the flow of life as occurs when one tunes out the voice of Yeshua, even for a minute, so we can cling to older unreliable voices.

One can be hypnotized by the drone

Only time will tell if the elected representatives in the GOP are actually more than tinmen. It is devastating to think that anyone with a spiritual or moral spine (all elected officers are expected to) will chant the false narratives that are the main feature of Republican rallies. If one’s fame comes from making a lot of noise (like Collins, Jordan, Gaetz, and Gohmert), and not from being sighted and thoughtful workers of the facts it will not be long before there arises a new definition of honest.