Virulently Antisemitic

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How far are evangelical believers and the MAGA crowd from the people who say “Jews will not replace us”?  Now is a good time for the tourists who go to Israel for a high to explain their love of the Jewish people and support for their just aspirations.  The UK and the United States never really bought the vision of the self-determination of First Nations. We can see that they have not understood the problems associated with the Partition of Palestine.  Compare what the exiles returning from Persian rule did with what the Jewish immigrants following WWII occupied themselves.  To this day there is no temple, no levitical administration, and no Solomonic throne in the State of Israel.  American treatment of First Nations and African-Americans is a betrayal of Jewish and Christian tradition.  Theology does not get more virulent than to seek to establish a modern movement as the true expression of God’s servant, preserving the ancient material and maintaining the noblest traditions.

Foolish and destructive jealousy

It is the jealousy of Gentiles, wanting to be Israel, that exposes the most virulent attitudes towards the Jewish people.    It is obvious from the ruins of Israel’s spiritual and material treasures that a massive failure has to be entered in the ledger. Israeli lurching to the right deserves a stiff protest, but the popular blessings and curses people associate with Gentile relationships with the State of Israel keeps people from speaking the truth.  Even so, no-one can replace Israel and Judah.  You may have heard of the theory that the UK and Britain are modern Israel, or you may have encountered any number of Christian groups advertising themselves as the true Israel, keeping God’s commandments and upholding the distinctive covenants.   There is no Israel 2.0, no church imitation of Israel or Judah, and the vineyard that was Israel and Jerusalem is not the same kind of entity as the Vine and the branches.

The greatest human entity

All things written in prediction of the One to whom all the prophets gave their most controversial and consequential witness have come to pass.  That One is perfectly at rest.   His day has come and gone.  He has done the Father’s will and there is nothing left for him to do but sit tight at God’s right hand until the time comes for “making Christ’s  enemies a footstool for his feet.” (Psalms 110:1, NASB). This eventual parting of sheep from goats is not some angry reaction to outrageous behaviours and thinking.  Let’s face facts.  The entity making the most noise about supporting Israel will turn out to be the next backstabber.  It cannot say “Yeshua is Lord” without invoking the passion narrative as a punitive act of God against the Jewish people.  It’s not done because it’s impossible.

Idols that corrupt the land

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There was a time when the level of violence all across the planet reached a point that resulted in decisive action. There are no statistics to tell us what the violence was or its daily frequency. The action, even though it was a death sentence on all flesh, was corrective. The sentence of death by flood affected only those who refused the refuge of the ark. A similar judgment came in the Israelite escape from Egypt. A sentence of death on all of Egypt’s firstborn with the notable exception of those who accepted the refuge of a blood-stained doorpost. This was a judgment we can put in the redemptive column. The thought that God might appreciate the works of human hands has always been on the minds of, at least, the practitioners of rituals and procedures, because that is the easiest way to grab a bit of the coveted spotlight on genuine glory. I am interested in how much glory can be found in a land full of idols and in a people who God has convicted of sleeping with all the gods of the nations of the known world.

Did God change his mind about idols?

If people ever thought that a tent and its functional furnishings were the hub of divine benefits they can be forgiven, but let us not be in denial about the value of the works of our hands. Genuine worship is not something the worshipper does to benefit himself. The worshippers’s professional activities and all his property are altogether a very small hill of beans. We understand that only what God prescribes passes for acceptable service (Deuteronomy 15:21). A prayer that has praise, thanks, testimony and idols is corrupt, and both Israelite and Philistine societies have found themselves trying to normalize corruption.

Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.

Malachi 1:14

The advice of Philistine priests and psychics

We always think we can create the right circumstance to bring on God’s smile. If only our society would turn on the axis of what God has said about the things we see as essential. Making an image of justice, blind and blindfolded, is artistic and eyecatching but even the bronze serpent that was instrumental in saving so many lives is a corrupting idol. Using idols to appease the God who abhors idols shows an unprecedented level of idolatry. Even the Philistines will have to answer for giving life to wood and stone.

So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.

1 Samuel. 6:5

Even as late as Isaiah’s days God was still trying to wake people up to what it means to rely on him. Pulling the rug out from under ourselves is a decision we would hardly come to but it seems to be the only way to break our addiction to our own achievements and processes. Yahweh turns off the taps. People then and now believe their support systems or secure lifestyles – their bread and water – are connected ultimately with human actors. The terms support/stay and supply/staff (mishen and mishenah) sum up the totality of the human network. Yahweh reveals them to Isaiah as follows.

  1. the mighty man (big shot, magnate)
  2. the soldier
  3. the judge (law enforcement)
  4. the prophet
  5. the diviner
  6. and the elder (Isaiah. 3:2)
  7. the captain of fifty
  8. the man of rank
  9. the counselor
  10. the skillful magician
  11. the expert in charms. (Isaiah. 3:3)

Here is God’s replacement for this fortune 500 pantheon, from the big shot with his influential empire to the naturalist healer or shaman and his charms. It is a full and complete revelation of human incapacity to maintain independence from the works of God’s hands or even declare independence from what he has said. Kids dishonouring their elders round out the picture of godlessness.

​And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. (Isaiah. 3:4) ​And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. (Isaiah. 3:5)

Handmade things include humans

Idols and images of any kind are across the tracks from God. Where we stand indivcates our choice.

For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Deuteronomy. 31:29

The prohibition of making objects – images of things in heaven or earth – is set aside for the tent and the temple.

All the wood and all the stone

All the symbols, all the enabled powers that be, are resisting the seating of the boys and the infants. When will the adults and elders man-up and recognize the empriness of both patriarchal and Mosaic tradition. Celebrating the greatness of law and covenant is itself idolatry. Nations claiming to possess the best set of laws is idolatry. We are certain that God did not dictate the constitutions of the nations as he did for Israel. A great set of laws does not guarantee life or even a sustainable lifestyle. Wood and stone surround and define the idolatry compound as well as the sacred tent. They also shine light on the stone or rock that provides life and security. The wood comes into full view as the instrument of execution and the destruction of the work of the adversary. Christ on the cross, naked and bleeding, exposes the emptiness of the temple – wood, stone, and precious metals.

A l o h a grunge

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Along with misleading the public with books supposedly addressing faith and eternal life, Americans are engaged in schemes of opposition and protest that look like conscienctious responses to public policy but in fact and design are incontrovertible diabolical priorities, a lot of hot air and discriminatory grunge.

Covid19 denial and so-called pushback

One would think that by now Americans would wake up to the fact that covid-19 is no conspiracy the measures imposed by health oauthorities are not restrictions but protections. If you think these mostly Caucasian freedom fighters care about people and the oppression of poor people ask yourself why they have not spoken out against the corruption and hate that both the GOP and the Catholic-Protestant Alliance have duped people into trusting as today’s purity and love. Faith and life have tenuous links to the politics of any country, and railing against abortion and vaccination are not going to create any reasonable balance in the governance of any country. What will come out of mixing faith and politics is white supremacy and utter whoredom. Aren’t Americans already sounding like whoring queen Babylon? One source of a lot of hot air I just ran into is the following. Read it and save yourself from this crooked and perverse generation.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-jab-requirement-for-us-border-extended-into-2023/

They can’t stop opposing, primping and hating

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’ For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.

Revelation of John 18:7-8, NASB

That’s not a good guy

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We are so sensitive, so trusting, that if a person has no known criminal record or bad reputation we assume and even affirm that the individual can be trusted, and deserves the good guy label.  This contributes to misogynists in the military, pedophiles in the priesthood, bigots on the bench, and criminal crimefighters.  There are even religious leaders who try to avoid the conclusion that the Bible puts forward: that humans are tainted with rebellion and failure.  Whether sin is said to have originated in an angel or in human beings, the point must be made that creatures can never claim perfection such as God has. The whole creation was very good, and, as it turned out, both animals and humans quickly earned reputation and labels as other than good.

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5, NASB

Say it ain’t so

One act of treachery, it is said, irreversibly destroys trust, as for example infidelity in a marriage.  That, we know, does not apply to lying judges, miscreant ministers of state, or the whole slate of religious people.  Only bigoted umpires, self-appointed nation builders and quasi-revolutionaries think that one strike you’re out does not apply to them.

Honest people do not walk around telling themselves how privileged they are to be faultless and deserving of infinite pardons while having their nooses ready to send sinful and criminal people into the hereafter.  They better not try that with God.

Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Luke 18:10-14, NASB

What good guy? The victim or the perp?

It is about time that people give up the drama of their perjured testimony and admit that good guys are as rare as Adam.  He was obviously not a good guy, even though he was part of what ELOHIM called a “exceedingly good” creation. As Peter puts it, we Christians are not peddling fables, natural  or logical sensuality (2 Peter 1:16, 2:2).  How does a being like Adam, called son of God, turn into the rebel we have come to know?  If we know we are not admitting it, because we are still saying that God’s plan is to restore all things as they were from the beginning. 

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

Colossians 1:12, NASB

Facing facts head-on

Do we think that God is not aware of the difference between the content of our hearts, sanctimonious prayers, and our performance? For which part of God’s will are we responsible in the light of his provision for our justification?  That said, we can say with absolute confidence and certainty “There is no good person besides ELOHIM”.  I know many people just want us to have an emotional response to God, no thought necessary.  Others wish to have us buy their sales pitch so they can insist thereafter that we swallow their concoctions as if their inventions were life’s elixir, even when it is obvious that they are making things up as they go. For crying out loud, there is only one law of Moses, and only one gospel of Jesus Christ. Good guys are really rare, and let’s quit buying the viral videos and testimonials of extraordinary virtue.  People are in receipt of extraordinary grace everyday, but extraordinary virtue does not exist. One either has the gifts of love, goodness, gentleness and faith, or one doesn’t.

When politics fuels crime

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November 2022 sees Canada and the United States wallowing in the mire of colonial attitudes, with apologists broadcasting explanations of necessary wealth and prosperity. 45 is a known criminal vetted as the saviour of an America most people wished never happened, and Canada’s opposition parties seem to be headed in that direction, spurred on by Conservative politicians. The promises to reduce crime are like reviews of a restaurant never visited.  Any society that has failed to outlaw racism and wholesale packaging of public misinformation is doomed.  The United States and Canada are more like Iran and Russia than people are willing to admit.   God and mammon are not mere options; they are the two poles to which the human heart can be attached. We cannot be so blind as to not see that the desire to be rich sinks boats.

Love of money is covenant-killing  covetousness and idolatry

A nation devoted to tipping the scales of justice for some of its  citizens and deeply invested in denying rights and access to improving standards of living is on a suicide mission.   In the terms of bottom line definitions, such a society is dead. Temple mount in Israel is desolate, even though a mosque adorns the hill, and the hill lacks a Jewish installation not because Romans or Jews were bad people but because God wanted to make an example of national hypocrisy and international consumerism. The fourth world-ruling empire is all consumer and destroyer. Every modern state bears the stamp of this dreadful entity.

“After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.”

Daniel 7:7, New American Standard Bible

When religion turns criminal

One has to look hard to find a religion that does not at  least smile at the awkward and airy things people call wisdom, justice and nobility.   Let’s own the space that says noone deserves to be faceless in the  public spaces, without rights in private, and exempt from investigation in the courts.  There is no need for crimes to attach to what people eat, drink, or wear. God designed our bodies to be seen, and we should not want to hide our faces. Least of all we should want to put a lid, of any kind, on the aspect of our humanity that makes us whole or complete; women.

Fighting for the voiceless

When a government clothes itself in religious robes and brings the gavel down on women and girls, foreigners and particular ethnic groups we can be sure that lunatics are in charge. Even the seemingly thriving province of Ontario has lunatics running things. The legitimacy of labour protest and bargaining process has choked the premier. His Heimlich may well come from the courts, but the women the premier seems ready to erase as valuable workers who deserve a decent wage will ring a bell he cannot ignore, unless he wants to be exposed as a verifiable insurrectionist and arsonist in the chamber of Canadian Charter Rights.

They’re all inflamed with conservative nincompoopery

Political and religious conservatives rely on extreme legislative moves or extreme rulings by courts while clinging to their mantra that less government is better. Tell that big lie about less government to the people who lived in the time of the judges (the 15th to 11th centuries). Maybe people want to forget that even with a law created by Great Britain (the British North America act of 1867) Canadians embarked on a genocidal venture which many today are slow to acknowledge. Conservatives and fundamentalist types of politics and religion should be the last sources of more laws when solutions are needed. Their rhetoric tells us that removing restrictions makes society better, and removing regulations in the markets will improve general welfare. That kind of reasoning does not seem to apply to people’s rights; rights for which the crown stands as the guarantor. But they don’t believe in the crown either, do they?

When the politician and preacher are cult-created crackpots

I do not know who can take miracles and mounds of money as the tokens of a thriving society. It was not the case when Hebrews sought to save their lives by moving to Egypt. It was not the case when Haitians unraveled the French grip on their island. It does not apply as America China and the European Union jostle for supremacy in economics and people control. It is obvious that both preachers and politicians are drinking something that intoxicates them. It is neither feast nor famine that defines human nobility. The sustainability of leadership needs something more than lawyers, police, jails, and business partners. Yeshua once asked his disciples on whom they thought the rulers of the world impose tax or tribute.

25a) “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?” 26) When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt. 27) “However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”

Matthew 17:25a-27

Cults are to be identified by (a) their own unique authority structure and resources, such as books and institutions (b) their undue elevation of a single person to all-encompassing authority. With that identification we can all smell crime like we have never seen before, worse than Nazi Germany, worse than Tiananmen Square, worse than the African Slave Trade. Politics depends on crime.

I admire civil servants

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What profession do you admire most and why?

Civil servants are the face, hands and feet of government. They put themselves at our disposal before they see us. Who would not admire such devotion? Uninformed agitators, ungrateful manipulators and pork-barrelers.

Ignorant people call them names and some may deserve it, but civil servants serve us even on the holidays. Civil servants do their work regardless of who forms the government, regardless of what we look like, regardless of how uninformed we are, and they are happiest when we leave with a smile they caused.

Conquests that honour Christ

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Christ was victorious in the most unusual ways.  First and foremost, He died to give life to the lost. He was punished as innocent to free the guilty.  He became human to give humans access to divine attributes.  These three prominent features of the mission are sacrificial. The concept of blood covers them.  These days the blood of Christ gets thrown not only into the redemption and remission of sin operations but at every desire the believer wants fulfilled. The fact that we have eternal life does not mean that we are invincible.  We actually suffer, run into disappointment, experience bereavement and loss, make mistakes, exercise poor judgment, and act without love, faith or hope.  The list of supposed blood-wrought solutions is long, and all the conquests believers claim do not honour the Anointed.

Pleading the blood of Christ just became a fix-all


The blood of Christ is irrelevant to an exam for which we did not study.  The death and resurrection of Christ are not functional for adjusting our financial situation.  The blood of Christ does not avail to dedicate a baby, buy a house or sell a car. What’s next? Is someone seriously going to plead Christ’s blood for their government for their political campaigns?

Christian victory is real


Make no mistake!  The agents of victory are many, but all are subsequent to the redemption by blood.  Let me list a few to remind us and affirm that blood does not replace any of them.

Agents of victory

  • Supreme power.  “Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” (Exodus 15:1, KJVA)
  • Force of arms.  “And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30, KJVA)
  • God’s favour.  “By this I know that You are pleased with me, Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.” (Psalms 41:11, NASB)

Divine armour for life’s warfare

  1. BELT OF TRUTH
  2. BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
  3. GOSPEL SHOES OF PEACE
  4. SHIELD OF FAITH
  5. HELMET OF SALVATION
  6. SWORD OF THE SPIRIT
  7. PRAYER AND PETITION
  8. BEING ON THE ALERT
  9. PERSEVERANCE AND PETITION (Ephesians 6:14-18, NASB)

End the blood abuse

Blood is known to be an agent of atonement and reconciliation, and in the levitical system it is clear that the blood of animals did not remove the chasm between Yahweh and the people.  If blood, all by itself, does not accomplish atonement as the genesis of all benediction then the dedication of the apostles and their early disciples is all badly misplaced. None of them applied Christ’s blood to anything beside remission, redemption and cleansing. Forgive me, but capitalism and commerce are not targets of eternal love. Since we overcome by Lamb’s blood and by our own testimony (Revelation 12:11) it stands to reason that the testimony arises from our use of the other agents of victory made available because of the Lamb’s blood.

For a penny: trips to the landfill

eejoseph,

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

On sale:

Guaranteed one-way trips to the landfill.

  • alliances between religion and politics
  • religious republics
  • thinly disguised plots to break
  • cheer-evoking slogans that will in a court of law end in contempt and conviction

Today’s Special: free excoriation of bishops, imams, rabbis, philosophers and gurus who abuse their own books and insult the common decency.