Please exhale; the unprincipled loser of money, lawsuits and elections, will earn a well-deserved pretrial stay with his mouth. The insurrectionist repackaged as patriot is naked as a jaybird. All the dire predictions about the demise of the right to free speech is a fig leaf. Americans have been calling Black people names with impunity since they first transported our ancestors to work for free. There is no revisiting of George Washington’s vision, the die is already cast. Americans and a whole lot of other aspiring Nations have missed the boat, because they have thought they could synchronize Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam Zoroastrianism and atheism into a grand experiment where people are perfectly free. This is where we all see that we need a break.

Criminals tend to stick to what they know

When an indicted person shows that he is opposed to the authority that confronts him he is likely to be a person seeking to end all authority but his own. I smell live bait; extreme positions and violence. The grave is not saying no, and the jails will be brimming with slanderers and traitors. Where do we suppose all the patriotic language is leading society? When firearms misfire they need an overhaul, and the armed entity needs to be cautious and less desperate.

Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand

. Daniel 12:10, NASB

Misfires have been known to be suicidal. Where else could a virulent combination of the right to bear arms and freedom of speech lead?

The things we report are not facts because we report. When we state the opinions of others or affirm our own beliefs we do not establish faith. The gods we seek, worship and create demonstrate the range of human experience and enlightenment. Government and the lack of it have equally brought us to the brink of extinction quite apart from the many gods we revere. As we have seen, there are no yet to be discovered books, visions, dreams or wisdom sayings that will change the direction of earth’s kingdoms and nations. Sounds negative? So does work, play, law, justice, man, woman, feast, famine, birth and death. So let’s keep our thinking and belief strictly in their silos.

Kings will always tax their subjects and leave their children untouched, and fools will always build bigger barns for their own pleasure.

And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?” (Matthew 17:25b, NASB)

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’ So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:20-21, NASB)

There is no ambiguity about who the one from above is, despite all kinds of scrambling to rewrite the record of sacred revelation.  A yes or a no from him is simply yes or no.  No mystery covers his meaning, but the heartless and rebellious are quick to show the one from above as just like or subservient to even the best ones from earth. It is amusing and deadly. 

“He who comes from above is above all, he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.” (John 3:31, NASB).

Christ is not one of the prophets

“See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.” (Hebrews 12:25, NASB)

There are far too many Christians who underestimate the authority and the finality of Jesus’s words.  They think nothing of turning to Moses or one of the ancient prophets, or even a contemporary prophet, or even their pastor, or even th parents.  If heaven’s speaker takes Moses to the next level, should he not be more considerate of human hardness of heart, and should he not provide real answers to human rebellion beside death sentences, or should he throw a book at people and hem them in with irreversible condemnation?

Inside scoop

The speaker from heaven has inside information that no one else could possibly have. He can speak of things that he knows which no one else could know. There were many things that he said that had the authorities and the learned people of his day scratching their heads.

1) God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2) in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.”

Hebrews 1:1-2, NASB

The full moon shows us the full bath of light from the sun, once a month, and the event marks the death of Christ as the sacrifice for the sins of humanity, and shows that his mission is indelible. It is written in the sky. The woman who gave birth to Christ has the moon under her feet, and she is bathed in starlight, head to toe. Heaven’s speaker is not moving over for any of these authorities, nor will he be capitulating to Caesar. He is Caesar’s Lord. He is lord of all those who are wielding military, economic and colonial power. When will we learn?

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.