Light is sown like seed for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Psalm 97:11
What the Bible says about light and seed
The True Light "In him, (the Lord Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world,…the world didn’t recognize him." John 1:4,9.
The Good Seed and the Weeds “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.”Matthew 13:24,25.
The TPP, as you may have heard, outright
surrenders U.S. sovereignty to multinational corporations, handing them
total global monopolies over labor practices, immigration, Big Pharma
drug pricing, GMO food labeling, criminalization of garden seeds and
much more. In all, the TPP hands over control of 80% of the U.S. economy to global monopolists, and the TPP is set up to enable those corporations to engage in virtuallyunlimited toxic chemical pollution, medical monopolization, the gutting of labor safety laws and much more.
Plus, did I mention the TPP will displace
millions of American works as corporations outsource jobs to foreign
workers? While corporations rake in the profits from new global powers,
everyday American workers will lose their livelihoods and their jobs
(not to mention their pensions).
Political sleight of hand: It was SOOOO easy to distract the American people with a flag flap!
Essentially, America just got sold out by people like Marco Rubio.
And it was incredibly easy to pull off, too. First, America was
distracted by a contrived, pre-planned mass hysteria / outrage event now
known as the Confederate flag flap. Hilariously, this literal false flag controversy doesn’t even involve the actual Confederate flag. It involves a battle flag that people mistakenly think is the Confederate flag. (But who needs historical accuracy when there’s hysteria to spread?)
While Amazon.com was frantically deleting Confederate flag products from its website and everybody was going bat-crap insane over the 1970’s comedy TV series Dukes of Hazzard
and its use of the so-called Confederate flag on a hot rod car,
Republicans and the President were busy committing outright treason at
the highest levels: surrendering American sovereignty and economically enslaving all of America’s future children.
And that’s the tragic irony of all this: While the political left falsely believed
it was denouncing slavery by pressuring every online retailer and
government entity to ban the Confederate flag, the U.S. Congress was
busy enacting a whole new level of total economic enslavement for everyone, regardless of their skin color.
While ignorant “activists” ran around in
mass hysteria, thinking they were banishing a symbol of enslavement to
the history books, they were actually providing the necessary public distraction for quiet passage of the TPP’s fast-track authority.
In other words, they played right into
the hands of the real slave masters: the globalist, monopolist
corporations and their fascist government puppets who betray the People
at every opportunity.
Believe me: These corporations don’t care
about the skin color of their slave workers. They gladly enslave
everyone, including you and me, if we’re stupid enough to allow our own
elected representatives to forfeit America’s future (which they just
did).
Screw the Confederate flag issue, folks: All Americans are now the “property” of multinational monopolist corporations
that have turned national governments against their own people. The
Confederate flag flap was merely a useful distraction to trick the
population using political sleight of hand to fool everyone about the real agenda being pursued in Washington.
America is now officially a nation of
slave workers beholden to multinational corporate interests. How does
your silly flag outrage feel now?
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Commentary by Jack Kelley As
many of you already know, my newest book, The Redeemer, became
available this week. Since it’s a little different from my previous
efforts I want to give you some background on why I wrote it.
Why Did You Do That?
The
current trend among ministries like ours is to tap into all the
different social networking media in an effort to broaden their
audiences. And while we’ve begun to do that as well, we’ve also been
taking a look at what the world would be like if suddenly there were no
internet ministries.
There are three reasons why I think it makes
sense for someone in my position to consider this. First, of course, is
the rapture of the Church. Without Christians around to maintain them,
Christian websites would soon disappear too. And try as I might, I just
can’t imagine asking one of my non-believing friends to take over in my
absence if I should suddenly disappear, although that could certainly be
the spark to ignite a conversation of a different sort. The problem is
if the conversation resulted in the friend’s conversion I’d be right
back in the same situation. I’d have to find someone who is not a
believer now, but was guaranteed to become one right after the rapture.
So far the Lord hasn’t revealed such a person to me.
The second
reason is an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack. A nuclear warhead
detonated in the atmosphere above the US would send an electromagnetic
pulse hurtling to Earth at the speed of light. Depending on the height,
the location, and the power of the explosion it could destroy all
computers and other electronic devices in the US instantly. No more
internet. No more electronics of any kind. Experts say this is where we
are most vulnerable to terrorists because the capability already exists,
it’s a relatively inexpensive weapon, and we have no defense against
it.
The third reason is something that’s also in the works. The UN
is persisting in their effort to gain control of and regulate the
internet. One of their stated goals is to eliminate hate speech, but as
we know in some people’s view hate speech includes Biblical
Christianity. This is partly due to the fact that we’re opposed to
homosexuality and abortion, and believe that non-believers will be
condemned. If the UN gets the power it wants, Bible study websites like
ours could soon be censored to the point of ineffectiveness.
For
these reasons, I concluded that we should also pay attention to some of
the more traditional means of mass communications, and that includes
writing books. Books are more durable. Once they’re in circulation no
one can push a button somewhere and erase them. In short they’re better
suited to times of political uncertainty.
What’s It All About?
So
then the question became what to write about. My experience answering
Biblical questions over the past five years has taught me that a lot of
Christians really don’t know very much about our faith. At some point in
their lives they chose to become believers, but because there are so
few opportunities for meaningful discipleship, they frequently just go
on living as they had before. If someone asks them to explain their
faith, they have a hard time doing so because what little knowledge they
have is largely hearsay. And as for having a meaningful discussion with
a curious non-believer, forget about it.
The majority of today’s believers are represented by the seed that fell among thorns in Matt. 13:7,
which is part of the Kingdom Parables. Jesus described them as being
unfruitful because they are too concerned about the things of this world
(Matt. 13:22). According to recent surveys over 90% of
people who call themselves Christians fall into this category. Now I’m
not questioning their salvation. I’m talking about their fruitfulness.
Salvation is not a fruit bearing event. It’s what we do after we’re
saved that determines our fruitfulness. An apple tree is born
because the seed that was planted in the ground has germinated and
produced a new life. It grows to maturity and begins to produce apples.
Although the tree was alive from the moment it sprang forth from the
soil it wasn’t considered to be fruitful until it produced more of its
own kind. After all, apples aren’t just for eating. They’re also for
producing more apple trees.
So it is with believers. We’re born
again because the seed of the gospel was planted in our heart. But
although we’re a new creation from the moment we believe we’re not
considered to be fruitful until we produce more of our own kind. We’re
not just for singing and praising God. We’re also for producing more
Christians (Matt. 28:19-20)
From this I
determined that three groups of people could benefit from knowing more
about what Christians believe and why we believe it. In no particular
order, they are curious unbelievers, new believers, and long time
believers who want to become more fruitful.
After some prayer and
reflection on this, I felt like the Lord had told me what to write about
and who to write it to. I divided the message into eight parts, which
became the book’s eight chapters. Eight is the number of new beginnings
and it’s my prayer that many who read the book will be motivated to
begin their life anew, whether by deciding to become a believer, or by
having their faith strengthened through a deeper understanding of what
the Lord has done for them.
Chapter 1. The Redeemer Is Promised
The
book begins at the beginning, explaining how mankind became estranged
from God and why we need a redeemer to bring us back to Him.
Chapter 2. The Redeemer Awaits
Chapter
two is an overview of what God was doing between the time He promised
to send a redeemer and the time of His actual arrival. Think of it as a
very brief summary of the Old Testament as it concerns man’s redemption.
Chapter 3. The Redeemer Is Given
This
is the Christmas story. To show that the Redeemer is the focus of the
entire Bible I made liberal use of Old Testament prophecies that
foretold of His coming.
Chapter 4. The Redeemer In Ministry
This
chapter is devoted to a summary of things Jesus taught us about what He
had come to do and why it was important for us to understand that He
wasn’t starting a new religion. On the contrary, He was trying to
re-establish a relationship.
Chapter 5. The Redeemer In Victory
This
is the longest chapter in the book and gives a day-by-day description
of His official presentation as the Redeemer, His final days of
teaching, His crucifixion, and His resurrection, eight days that changed
everything between God and man.
Chapter 6. The Redeemer In The Church
Following
His ascension, the men He had trained and mentored began to build His
Church. This chapter shows how the Church began, why and when the New
Testament was written and what effect the Redeemer has had in the world.
It ends with a prayer that allows those who began reading out of
curiosity to become children of God.
Chapter 7. The Redeemer In Prophecy
Jesus
didn’t die for us just so our sins could be forgiven. He died so
whoever believes in Him can have eternal life. Chapter 7 explains why
Christians have a right to believe there’s a future in store for us that
exceeds our wildest expectations.
Chapter 8. The Redeemer Returns
We
conclude with a summary of end times events that will take place after
the rapture. It shows how God will fulfill the promise he made so long
ago to reverse the devastating effects of sin and restore planet Earth
to its original condition.
In Summary
I wrote the book in
simple straight forward language so even people who are not believers
could see the importance of changing their lives and becoming born
again. I included hundreds of Bible references within the text so new
believers could use the book as a study guide to help them understand
what our faith is all about. After a few hours of diligent study with
nothing but this book in one hand and and a Bible in the other, a new
believer can come away with a greater understanding of our faith than
most seasoned veterans have. These references will also help long time
believers search the Scriptures to prove whether what I’ve written is
true in accordance with Acts 17:11, and rekindle the flame of faith they had at the beginning.
As
I did with my last book, I’ve included an appendix with eight of our
most popular studies on prophecy, eternal security, and faith. These
will facilitate continued growth and understanding.
All that said,
I think The Redeemer will accomplish its stated goals in the life of
anyone who reads it with a sincere desire to learn. I also think it will
make an ideal gift for a person who has expressed interest in our
faith, whether as a prelude to a personal discussion or to supplement
one you’ve already begun. Of course, you’d expect me to say
something like that. After all, I wrote the book. The best way to see if
I’m right is to get a copy and read it for yourself. Selah 01-26-13
Reblogged from gotquestions.org Answer:
While the Bible does address homosexuality, it does not explicitly
mention gay marriage/same-sex marriage. It is clear, however, that the
Bible condemns homosexuality as an immoral and unnatural sin. Leviticus 18:22 identifies homosexual sex as an abomination, a detestable sin. Romans 1:26-27 declares homosexual desires and actions to be shameful, unnatural, lustful, and indecent. First Corinthians 6:9
states that homosexuals are unrighteous and will not inherit the
kingdom of God. Since both homosexual desires and actions are condemned
in the Bible, it is clear that homosexuals “marrying” is not God’s will,
and would be, in fact, sinful.
Whenever the Bible mentions marriage, it is between a male and a female. The first mention of marriage, Genesis 2:24,
describes it as a man leaving his parents and being united to his wife.
In passages that contain instructions regarding marriage, such as 1 Corinthians 7:2-16 and Ephesians 5:23-33,
the Bible clearly identifies marriage as being between a man and a
woman. Biblically speaking, marriage is the lifetime union of a man and a
woman, primarily for the purpose of building a family and providing a
stable environment for that family.
The Bible alone, however, does not have to be used to demonstrate this
understanding of marriage. The biblical viewpoint of marriage has been
the universal understanding of marriage in every human civilization in
world history. History argues against gay marriage. Modern secular
psychology recognizes that men and women are psychologically and
emotionally designed to complement one another. In regard to the family,
psychologists contend that a union between a man and woman in which
both spouses serve as good gender role models is the best environment in
which to raise well-adjusted children. Psychology argues against gay
marriage. In nature/physicality, clearly, men and women were designed to
“fit” together sexually. With the “natural” purpose of sexual
intercourse being procreation, clearly only a sexual relationship
between a man and a woman can fulfill this purpose. Nature argues
against gay marriage.
So, if the Bible, history, psychology, and nature all argue for marriage
being between a man and a woman—why is there such a controversy today?
Why are those who are opposed to gay marriage/same-sex marriage labeled
as hateful, intolerant bigots, no matter how respectfully the opposition
is presented? Why is the gay rights movement so aggressively pushing
for gay marriage/same-sex marriage when most people, religious and
non-religious, are supportive of—or at least far less opposed to—gay
couples having all the same legal rights as married couples with some
form of civil union?
The answer, according to the Bible, is that everyone inherently knows
that homosexuality is immoral and unnatural, and the only way to
suppress this inherent knowledge is by normalizing homosexuality and
attacking any and all opposition to it. The best way to normalize
homosexuality is by placing gay marriage/same-sex marriage on an equal
plane with traditional opposite-gender marriage. Romans 1:18-32
illustrates this. The truth is known because God has made it plain. The
truth is rejected and replaced with a lie. The lie is then promoted and
the truth suppressed and attacked. The vehemence and anger expressed by
many in the gay rights movement to any who oppose them is, in fact, an
indication that they know their position is indefensible. Trying to
overcome a weak position by raising your voice is the oldest trick in
the debating book. There is perhaps no more accurate description of the
modern gay rights agenda than Romans 1:31, “they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.”
To give sanction to gay marriage/same-sex marriage would be to give
approval to the homosexual lifestyle, which the Bible clearly and
consistently condemns as sinful. Christians should stand firmly against
the idea of gay marriage/same-sex marriage. Further, there are strong
and logical arguments against gay marriage/same-sex marriage from
contexts completely separated from the Bible. One does not have to be an
evangelical Christian to recognize that marriage is between a man and a
woman.
According to the Bible, marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6).
Gay marriage/same-sex marriage is a perversion of the institution of
marriage and an offense to the God who created marriage. As Christians,
we are not to condone or ignore sin. Rather, we are to share the love of
God and the forgiveness of sins that is available to all, including
homosexuals, through Jesus Christ. We are to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15) and contend for truth with “gentleness and respect” (1 Peter 3:15).
As Christians, when we make a stand for truth and the result is
personal attacks, insults, and persecution, we should remember the words
of Jesus: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is,
you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
That is why the world hates you” (John 15:18-19).
Take up this Lamentation for the Land of the Free, America, once the liberator of others, who will liberate you? Are you really free? Free of what? You have set your self free alright, By your social revolution, you are now free from Marriage, commitment, family, and fruitfulness Yours is the freedom of the madman, who observes no conventions, who wears no clothes, and who breaks all chains, (He will NOT be restrained) and who now lives among the tombs crying and cutting himself… Yours is the Freedom of Adam and Eve, Who broke away from God, and from Eden, and from all that was good… Do you know what you have forfeited? Do you know what you have lost? Sing this dirge for America the Beautiful…. America you really were beautiful, What an idea! A republic based upon self rule, Limits upon Government power, based upon a biblical view of man, Lex Rex, and not Rex Lex, So compatible with virtue! Hard work and Merit were rewarded in you, You put no limits on success or failure… No wonder the oppressed around this sad world looked to your shining light! Why wouldn’t people flock to the shores of the opportunities you offered? But there is no Beauty without goodness…(Envy isn’t good) and we seem to be forsaking goodness… Cry aloud for the home of the Brave… You left all to come here, O nation of pioneers, You cleared the paths for others, and pushed back the frontiers, O Pilgrim people, who wanted only to worship God, Bravely you set out, with the Bible in hand… When did the Word become the enemy? Who has bewitched you America? What is this Separation of church and state? Who invented this? Didn’t we know that men such as Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards, and Washington, were gifts from God, the right men for the right time? How could we forget? Only if the Lord guards the city, that we are safe? O People who sent their sons overseas to fight to free others, Should one drop of blood be shed to promote “gay rights”? Do we give our sons to die for abortion? Mourn that these are your leaders, they are Reeds Shaken by the wind! Politicians who lick their fingers, They sniff the air like a dog in heat, howling, ‘where is the money? Where is the power?’ and ‘ Whats in it for me?’ Their primary loyalty is to self, They are Prostitutes who sell their power for gain. Like a fox in the hen house, Moslems have infiltrated our services, Homosexuals have desecrated our military, Degenerates besiege the family! O Who will rise up for us against the evildoers? The prophets warned us, that When the Lord judges a people, He takes away from them the statesmen, the general, the honorable man, Until the worst among us are given the rule, Remember the Words of Isaiah? “And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.” Plead for the Prodigal Nation, For the LORD whom she has forgotten, Is gracious and kind, His very nature is to restore, to forgive and Heal, The source of our blessings Is of long endurance, Yea, the longsuffering of God is salvation, He is likely to forgive, His mercies are ever new, If we turn to Him with all of our hearts, If we agree with Him again, as in olden times When real leaders called us to prayer, and humble supplication, And God shed his grace upon us in countless ways! HOWL for the Day of the Lord is at hand! weep for the miseries soon to descend!! You thought you were a queen and could not be touched, You boasted that you were immune to the suffering of the others But you didn’t understand, you wouldn’t consider that the protection and abundance you once knew, were gifts from the one your elites have spurned! Those who Seduced You have now turned against you They have slain you, and exposed your nakedness, they have not been protectors of your rights or persons, instead they have sold you to your enemies, Because they have despised you all along, and all that you once stood for, They would lead you, and your children to Hell. Come back to the One who founded you, to the Shepherd who
laid his life down, to the only author of liberty…seek ye the Lord while
He can be found, call upon Him while he is near! Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are
washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.( I Corinthians 6)
Let us suppose that along the coast of Normandy up to one million
non-EU migrants are waiting to be packed like sardines in small
unseaworthy vessels and to cross the English Channel. Let us suppose that first the Royal Navy, then the navies of a dozen
other EU countries, start to search for all such vessels in the Channel
right up to the French coast, out into the North Sea and the Atlantic
even, and then ferry all the passengers on board to Dover, Folkestone,
Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton in a surreal modern-day never-ending
version of the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940. Would the British government
agree to take them all? What of the British people? And if they did
agree, what would the British government and people do with all the
migrants? How would they cope?
Well, Italy has been invaded in just this way, by migrants from many
nations all coming over here from Libya. And Italy’s unelected
government has agreed to take them all. This makes the Italian people —
who are among the least racist in Europe — very angry. It’s hard to
blame them. In October 2013, Italy’s previous unelected government, which like
the current one was left-wing, ordered the Italian navy to search for
and rescue all boat people in the Sicilian channel and beyond. This
hugely expensive operation — ‘Mare Nostrum’ — ran until October last
year and rescued nearly 190,000 people. The Italian government took this
decision after a migrant boat sank with the loss of 360 lives 500 yards
from an idyllic beach on the island of Lampedusa, once a resort of
choice for the right-on rich.
The same left-wing Italian government also took the extraordinary
step of decriminalising illegal immigration, which means among other
things that none of the boat people are arrested once on dry land.
Instead, they are taken to ‘Centri di accoglienza’ (welcome centres) for
identification and a decision on their destinies. In theory, only those
who identify themselves and claim political asylum can remain in Italy
until their application is refused — or, if it is accepted,
indefinitely. And in theory, under the Dublin Accords, they can only
claim political asylum in Italy — the country where they arrived in the
EU. In practice, however, only a minority claim political asylum in
Italy. Pretty well all of them remain there incognito, or else move on
to other EU countries.
Here’s how it works. In the welcome centres, they are given free
board and lodging plus mobile phones, €3 a day in pocket money, and
lessons — if they can be bothered — in such things as ice-cream-making
or driving a car and (I nearly forgot) Italian. Their presence in these
welcome centres is voluntary and they are free to come and go, though
not to work, and each of them costs those Italians who do pay tax €35 a
day (nearly €13,000 a year). Yes, they are supposed to have their
photographs and fingerprints taken, but many refuse and the Italian
police, it seems, do not insist. As the Italian interior minister,
Angelino Alfano, explained to a TV reporter the other day: ‘They don’t
want to be identified here — otherwise, under the Dublin Accords, they
would have to stay in our country. So when a police officer is in front
of an Eritrean who is two metres tall who doesn’t want his fingerprints
taken, he can’t break his fingers, but must respect his human rights.’
This year, there is space for just 75,000 migrants in such places.
Hotels are filling the breach, including the four-star Kulm hotel
perched high above the luxury resort of Portofino on the Ligurian coast.
But most of the rescued migrants could not care less about all that
jazz and have just disappeared.
The ones who stay long in the welcome centres are those who
have revealed their identities in order to apply for political asylum in
Italy. Last year, 64,900 migrants did so in Italy — roughly a third of
those saved by the Italian navy. But this being Italy, the judicial
system only had time to reach a decision on half those applications
(accepting 60 per cent of them), and anyway, thanks to the byzantine
Italian appeals procedure, those refused asylum can remain for years.
Even if their asylum claim is finally rejected and by some cruel quirk
of fate they are actually handed a deportation order, it is easily
ignored: last year Italy forcibly deported just 6,944 people — a figure
set to shrink even more once a law before parliament is passed banning
deportation to countries where human rights are abused.
Fair enough, you might say, if all the asylum seekers were genuine
refugees from war zones. But contrary to the impression given by most of
the world’s media, hardly any of 2014’s intake were from war-torn
countries such as Syria or Iraq (though it is true that the number of
Syrians is now rising). Last year, most were from sub-Saharan Africa. Top of the league table
were the Nigerians, followed by the Malians and the Gambians, the
Senegalese and even the Pakistanis — who together made up 70 per cent of
the total. No doubt these countries are no picnic to live in, and parts
of some of them are war zones, but that should not, and in theory does
not, guarantee refugee status. It is also a fact that most boat people
are young single men and the price of a ticket on a people-smuggling
boat is €2,000 (nearly two years’ pay for the average worker in Mali).
It’s worth remembering here that the majority of the boat people are
Muslims and reports suggest that a small number are Islamic terrorists.
The terrorists of ISIS are, we know from their Twitter feeds, obsessed
with taking their crusade to Rome. One of those arrested in connection
with the Islamic terrorist attack on the Bardo National Museum of Tunis
in March had crossed the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy in a migrant
boat in February.
Many refugees have no intention of staying in Italy, which is hardly
surprising. For a start, only people who lose a full-time job are
entitled to unemployment benefit. Italy, thanks to the straitjacket of
the single currency, has been mired in recession for most of the past
six years, with an official unemployment rate of 13 per cent (the real
rate is probably 20 per cent) and the youth unemployment rate at a
staggering 43 per cent.
The government of Matteo Renzi — the man billed as the Latin left’s
answer to Tony Blair — seems happy to ferry into Italy a vast army of
migrants with no real idea what to do with them except hope that they
move on to other EU countries. The Italian premier has also been quick
to champion the Euro-luvvie definition of this as a ‘European’ and not
an ‘Italian’ crisis. So as of spring 2015, the ferry service is now
operated not just by the Italian navy in the Sicilian channel but across
the entire Mediterranean by the navies of many other EU countries,
including the Royal Navy. This year, they have brought 54,000 boat
people into Italy and a further 48,000 into Greece, and the summer
migration season is not even in full swing yet.
Recently, Nick Cooke-Priest, captain of the British vessel involved in the rescue mission, HMS Bulwark,
told reporters that ‘the indications are that there are 450,000 to
500,000 migrants in Libya who are waiting’ to reach Italy. The British
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said ‘We could see hundreds of
thousands trying to cross this summer.’ Fabrice Leggeri, the head of the
EU’s border agency Frontex, has put the figure even higher, at ‘between
500,000 and a million’. So huge are the numbers that Italian police
often just dump coach loads of migrants in town squares or at main
railway stations which are then turned into temporary camps. Government
policy is to try and spread the migrants out throughout the peninsula to
lessen their impact; but now many regional and town councils (of all
political persuasions), especially in the north, are in open revolt and
refusing to take any more. Scabies is rife (of 46,000 migrants tested
this year, 4,700 were infested) and one in four migrants is said by
doctors to have Hepatitis C. The anti-immigration vote is rocketing and
the Italian left has taken a hammering in the recent regional and city
elections.
The EU — urged on in particular by an increasingly desperate Italy
and Greece — is trying to draw up a quota deal to distribute the huge
migrant army; but as with the single currency, when push comes to shove,
it is every nation for itself. Despite months of talks, there are few
signs of an agreement even on the small numbers being bandied about. A
couple of months ago, there was much talk about UN sanctioned military
action by the EU to stop the smugglers’ boats putting to sea from the
Libyan coast. For weeks now, the silence on that subject has been
deafening.
The French have ‘closed’ their border with Italy on the Côte d’Azur
in defiance of the Schengen Agreement, which guarantees free movement
within member nations. They are rigorously checking trains, cars and
even footpaths across the mountains, and sending any illegal migrants
back to Italy; they say they have sent back 6,000 this year. The
justification is simple: the Italians are failing to identify these
people and distinguish economic migrants from refugees. Who can argue
with that? The Austrians are doing the same at the Brenner Pass in the
Alps.
Pope Francis said last month that leaving the boat people to drown
(about 3,500 are known to have died last year, and already nearly 2,000
this year) is ‘an attack against life’ akin to abortion. All of us feel
it to be our moral duty to save lives where we can. Yet it cannot be our
moral duty to ferry such vast numbers across the Mediterranean into
Italy and Europe for ever, unless they are genuine refugees. In fact,
our moral duty is not to do so — and the only solution is the one which
few politicians dare even talk about, let alone implement: that the
navies of the EU should stop the ferry service and start a blockade of
Libya. Prime Minister Renzi tried to pretend that the migrant crisis did not
exist, but now that it has turned into an emergency he can remain
silent no longer. He blames other EU countries for putting the nation
before the union — in this latest meltdown of EU collective
responsibility — and the British and the French in particular for
getting rid of Muammar Gaddafi and turning Libya into a failed state.
When Gaddafi was in power, thanks to a deal struck with Berlusconi, who
like Blair had an excellent rapport with the Colonel, the number of boat
people slowed to a trickle.
Signor Renzi now threatens his EU partners with what he calls ‘Plan
B’ but refuses to reveal the details. It is thought to involve, among
other things, refusing the EU fleet permission to land rescued migrants
in Italy, and giving all migrants already here temporary leave-to-remain
cards — in order to fox the French and flood Europe with them. That’ll
teach them. The Italians call Renzi ‘Il Rottamatore’ (the Demolition
Man) because of his vow to reform Italy root and branch. The nickname
may end up being more apt than anybody realised.
Nicholas Farrell is the author of Mussolini: A New Life.
Jewish author Avi Lipkin warns that Muslim spies in churches.
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While
speaking at the Future Conference held at Skyline Church in San Diego,
California, Jewish author Avi Lipkin said "all" churches in the U.S.
have been infiltrated by Muslimspies in order to document and catalog Jews and Christians in preparation for violent jihad, the Christian Post reported Tuesday. According to Lipkin, these spies pretend to be "born-again" Christian believers in order to deceive their intended targets.
"We are realizing with our own very eyes fulfillment of more Bible
prophecy than in any other generation in 2,000 years," he said. "I
believe the Messiah is in our time and I believe Israel will realize its
borders." Lipkin explained that Muslims are generally forbidden from having
Jews and Christians as friends. There is an exception for those
intending to engage in jihad, he said. "It is very dangerous for a Muslim to even be associated with
Christian missionaries or Christian churches unless they are spies," he
said. "My wife has picked up broadcasts that say all the churches in
America have Muslim spies in them, including former Christians who
converted to Islam."
"When Muslims come to you and say 'Oh yes, we have accepted Christ
and we are born-again,' you gotta be real careful because lying in
Arabic is not only permissible it is commanded," he added. "Lying is a
virtue in Islam to defeat the enemy."
He cited the case of one Middle Eastern Muslim doctored who applied
for a Canadian visa. According to his account, radical Muslims demanded
she record personal information, addresses and phone numbers of her
Jewish and Christian patients in Edmonton. They further demanded she
provide that information on disk so they would know who to kill once the
order for jihad was issued, he claimed.
"When a war breaks out in the Middle East and orders for jihad come
to the Muslims of Canada, the Muslims of Edmonton will kill the Jews of
Edmonton and Muslims of Toronto will kill the Jews of Toronto and the
Muslims of Vancouver will kill the Jews of Vancouver," he said. "This
was in 1999 but even now, they are cataloging the Jews wherever the Jews
live. The Muslims like to have ecumenical relations with the Jews
because they want to know who the Jews are and they go to the rabbis and
want to be best friends with a rabbi. They want to get close with the
rabbi because it will be easier to reach him and kill him."
Once the order goes out, Jews will be targeted for death on Saturday
and Christians will be targeted on Sunday, he explained. "Allah wants to
kill the Jews on Saturday and kill the Christians on Sunday; kill the
Hindus, kill the Buddhists, kill the blacks in Africa and the Muslims
kill each other all in the name of Allah," he said. "The bottom line in
Islam is that every Jew dies and after that every Christian dies. Jesus
Christ is coming back."
He went on to say that to followers of Islam, Jesus Christ is a
Muslim. "On that day of judgement, every Jew and every Christian who
has not converted to Islam will have his throat personally slit by Jesus
Christ, the Muslim," he said.
This isn't the first time Lipkin has issued dire warnings. In 2012, he said
President Obama intends to bring between 50-100 million Muslims into
the United States in an effort to make the country majority-Muslim by
2016. "The more Muslims you have in America the more capable they will
be to wreak havoc on Jews and Christians," he told Vic Eliason of VCY
America. He also said at the time that his wife overheard a broadcast
in which Saudis claimed they would have a Muslim in the White House in
2008.
Thousands of U.S. troops safeguard the border of South
Korea. U.S. warships patrol the South China Sea to stand witness to the
territorial claims of Asian allies against China. U.S. troops move in and out of the Baltic States to signal our willingness to defend the frontiers of these tiny NATO allies. Yet nothing that happens on these borders imperils America so much as what is happening on our own bleeding border with Mexico. Over three decades, that border has been a causeway into the USA for
millions of illegal immigrants who are changing the face of America – to
the delight of those who think the country we grew up in was ugly. All sides of this quarrel have been using the figure of 11 million people here illegally. In her new best-seller “Adios, America!” Ann Coulter makes a compelling case that the real figure is close to 30 million.
If that is true, and if the next president embraces amnesty and a
path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, that will mean the end to
America as the Western nation we have been, and the beginning of
America’s life as what Ann calls, unapologetically, a “Third World
hellhole.” Indeed, when we consider the certain consequences of a failure to
secure the border for six more years, and amnesty for people already
here illegally, igniting a new invasion, we should ask ourselves: What problem do we Americans confront that will be more easily solved with millions more immigrants? Between 80 and 90 percent of those coming are from Third World
nations. On average, they have higher illegitimacy rates than
native-born Americans, higher drug use rates, higher rates of obesity,
spousal abuse and child abuse, higher rates of disease, lower test
scores and higher dropout rates, and higher crime and incarceration
rates. Children of immigrants are more gang-oriented. And Third World
immigrants consume more per capita in social services than they pay in
taxes. Hence they contribute to fiscal deficits at every level of
government.
Will millions more immigrants help solve our infrastructure crisis? Undeniably, poor immigrants provide cheap labor for businesses and
the rich. But their working- and middle-class American neighbors bear
the social costs that they inflict upon communities. Politically, immigrants from Third World countries, as they rely upon
government for food, housing assistance, health care and the education
of their children, support the Party of Government. Mitt Romney lost the two fastest-growing major minorities, Hispanics
and Asians, who now account for more than a fifth of our population and a
seventh of our voters, by 40 points. And as their numbers and voting
percentages rise, the GOP will find that reaching 270 electoral votes is
not only more difficult than in Reagan’s day, it has become impossible.
Among the myths or lies drummed into the heads of Americans is that
we have always been a “nation of immigrants,” and “diversity,” i.e.,
racial, ethnic and religious diversity, “is a strength.” But America in 1970 was a white nation with a black minority of about
10 percent. And, as Coulter writes, “Nearly the entire white population
of America from 1600 to 1970 came from a geographic area of the world
about twice the size of Texas. The entire black population came from an
area of West Africa about the size of Florida.”
Is ethnic, racial and religious diversity truly a “strength”? Why, then, has the most diverse region of Europe, the Balkans – with
its Serb, Croat, Albanian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Turkic peoples, and
Catholic, Orthodox and Islamic religions – had the bloodiest history? Was it not racial and ethnic diversity that tore the Soviet Union
into 15 nations and half a dozen sub-nations, and is tearing at it still
in the Caucasus?
If diversity is a strength, why is Beijing, which worships strength,
moving millions of Han Chinese into Tibet and western China to swamp the
Tibetan and Uighur peoples, as they have done to the Mongolian and
Manchu peoples? How did diversity work out for Rwanda and Burundi? If diversity is a strength, then why are Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen
falling apart? Why are Sunni and Shiite, Palestinian and Israeli
fighting? Why are Scots, Basques, Catalans, Venetians and Flemish
agitating for secession and independence?
Has the addition of tens of millions of Asian and African Muslims
strengthened the Old Continent that ruled the world? Or do they imperil
its security and survival as the cradle and heartland of the West? As racial, ethic and religious hatreds pull people apart and create
terrorists all over our disintegrating world, why would we make
ourselves ever more diverse? Writes Coulter, “Roe v. Wade can be overturned. Obamacare can be repealed. Amnesty is forever.”
Anyone concerned for the future of this country as one nation and one
people should find a candidate who will commit to secure the border,
enforce immigration laws against businesses that hire illegal immigrants
and pledge no amnesty for the duration of his presidency.
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It's
always nice to talk about love and tolerance. We know that God loved
the world. He loves His Son. We are told to love each other, that is how
they will know us (John 13:35). But sometimes love is not appropriate
or warranted. Do I mean this, really? Well, we know we are supposed to
hate sin. We know there are six things, no, seven, that the Lord hates.
(Proverbs 6:16-19). We hate sin so much we're supposed to kill the old
man in us. (Colossians 3:5). We don't endlessly give the Gospel to those
who hurl it back, those hurlers are called swine. So when it comes to
love, we know we don't 'love' everyone or everything, at least not
according to the romantic or secular definition of love. So here is the
question: are we supposed to love false teachers?
To
the world it might appear that all is well in the Christian realm.
Much-beloved speakers hold forth from the pulpits of some of the largest
churches in the world. Believers and nonbelievers alike buy their
books, avail themselves of their programs, and utilize their
methodologies. One might come to the conclusion that Peter must not have
been referring to the church in our day regarding false teachers.
Tolerance is the word of the day. We hear admonitions on a regular basis
to "just get along" with those of opposing faiths. "Love" reigns
supreme.
But what is this "love" of which they speak? What about
those who identify a false gospel or a false teacher among some of the
popular speakers these days? Does this "love" still apply to those who
expose the ones who are actually deceivers among the flock?
A
dear sister in the faith posed the question to me. To love those who
are deluded and cannot understand the Word and care for them and not be
critical. I thought about it for a long time, because I love poorly and
I'm always appealing to the Lord to teach me love better.
So I
began to think hard, should we love false teachers? Are they to be
pitied? I decided, no. Though I value the opinions offered and they DO
make me think, I don't necessarily always agree. I'd like to offer an
alternate view about how far not to go in pursuing love, and to offer a different perspective of what love actually is.
If
we read Jeremiah 14:16, there is not even a hapless non-believer who
accidentally can't understand God's truth and accidentally follows false
prophets because they don't know better. They DO know better. God said
He will pour out their evil upon them because they knew better
but followed false prophets anyway. 2 Timothy 4:3 also puts the blame on
those who choose to follow false teachers because they wanted their
ears tickled, so they went out and accumulated for themselves false
teachers who told them what they wanted to hear.
But back to the
false teachers themselves. I reserve my highest caring in this
situation- for Jesus. We do care for the state of our neighbor's souls,
and we do care for brethren, but in all this let us not forget caring
about Jesus.
I care about His name and what people do in His
name. The harshest criticism in the Bible from everyone, (Jesus, Paul,
Peter, John the Baptist, John, James, Jude, etc) was aimed at those who
pervert God's word. It is not a situation where we say "poor, poor false
teachers. Let's understand them and open our hearts to them and care." I
do hope they are saved someday, but beyond that they get no caring from
me. I am highly CRITICAL of them in righteous indignation. Here is why-
The
Bible tells us they do it on purpose. They disguise themselves- that
isn't an accident. (2 Cor 1:13). They do it for greed. (1 Timothy 6:5).
They do it to put us in bondage again. (Gal 2:4). They do it because
they hate Jesus and love themselves. (1 Tim 6:4). They do it because
they enjoy lying. (2 Peter 2:1).
Unfortunately,
their prognosis is not hopeful. Their spiritual condition is terminal.
Those who are deprived of the truth are headed for judgment. Hebrews 6:6
solemnly warns of such men that “it is impossible to renew them again
to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God,
and put Him to open shame.” Peter says that they bring “swift
destruction upon themselves” (2 Peter 2:1). The severest hell will be
reserved for those who, having been exposed to the truth, turned away
from it (cf. Hebrews 10:26–31).
The goal of the false teacher is not to create an environment of love, but to feed his ego and fill his pockets. ~John MacArthur You
notice they don't pervert Buddha's words. They don't pervert Allah's
words. They don't pervert Shiva's words. They choose to pervert Jesus'
swords for gain, for fame, for an audience, and all the other reasons. I
am critical of that because I care about Jesus.
Every
epistle in the New Testament was written to correct error in the
church. Did Paul, Peter, James, John, and Jude not understand that to
correct those who were in error was in truth a failure to love them? Did
they believe that it was none of their business to bring correction to
the false teaching? Do we consider them divisive for confronting error
and holding fast to the truth? No! They boldly addressed the error and
at times even named the offenders.
No, I do not love false
teachers. I do not care about false teachers. I care about Jesus. I love
His followers. Tim Challies said in his essay 7 Marks of a False Teacher,
False
teachers are concerned with your goods, not your good; they want to
serve themselves more than save the lost; they are content for Satan to
have your soul as long as they can have your stuff.
Jesus called false teachers broods of vipers and hypocrites. (Mt 23:33) So did John the Baptist in Mt 3:7 Paul said they were cursed. Twice in 2 sentences. (Gal 1:8,9) Paul said their talk is gangrenous. (2 Tim 2:17) Jesus called them ravenous wolves (Mt 7:15) John called them deceivers (2 John 1:7) Jude calls them ungodly perverters (Jude 1:4) Peter called them depraved, disobedient, and destined for hell (1 Peter 2:8, 2 Peter 2:1,2) John called them antichrists (1 John 2:22) Never mind the harsh language from God in the OT against false prophets.
So. Were they wrong not to "love" the false teachers?
Indeed,
we are told repeatedly we are to mark them, avoid them, not listen to
them, close the hospitable door on them, put them out, warn them, keep
away from them, give them to satan, but nowhere does it say to love
them, care for them, or pity them.
Indeed, John advises the elder
lady and her children not to even allow false teachers into their house
NOR give them a greeting! If we do, God considers that we are
participating in their evil deeds. (2 John 1:10). The John MacArthur
Commentary on 2 John 1:10 says this-
Irenaeus
relates that the church father Polycarp, when asked by the notorious
heretic Marcion, "Do you know me?" replied, "I do know you, the
firstborn of satan." (Against Heresies, 3.3.4)
John himself once
encountered Cerinthus (another notorious heretic) in a public bathhouse
in Ephesus. Instead of greeting him, however, John turned and fled,
exclaiming to those with him, "Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall
down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of truth, is within." (Against
Heresies, 3.3.4)
Charein, (greeting) means 'Rejoice' It was a
common Christian greeting, conveying the joy believers had in one
another's presence. But it is an affirmation of solidarity that is
totally inappropriate for false teachers, who have no part in the truth
of genuine Christian fellowship.Such emissaries of satan must be exposed
and shunned, not affirmed and welcomed.
False teachers like to
decry such treatment as harsh, intolerant, or unloving. But love forbids
dangerous spiritual deception to gain a foothold among Christians.
John's pastoral admonition is perfectly consistent with Jesus'
denunciation of false teachers as ravenous wolves, thieves and robbers,
whose only purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy. The church cannot aid
or abet such spiritual outlaws by doing anything that would acknowledge
them as Christians. The one who does so, even by doing something as
seemingly innocuous as greeting them, participates in their evil deeds
by helping them to further their deception.
I reserve all my
criticism, judgment, and righteous indignation for the false teachers,
and all my love for Jesus the Man-God, His people, and His revealed
word. During the few times I've had opportunity to engage directly with a
few of the false teachers I've written about, I hope I was lovingly
showing them the error of their ways. THAT also is love, though the
world doesn't call it love. Love is to admonish and correct so hopefully
they do not persist in their tragic path, or worse, taking others with
them.
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
The Danger Facing the Church Love
also comes out of sincere faith, not the hypocritical faith manifested
by false teachers. Faith that has no pretense creates love. A false
teacher has a dirty heart because it's never been cleansed by the true
gospel of faith in Christ. A false teacher has a guilty conscience
because his impure heart triggers it. But his conscience may have
reached the point where it's so scarred that it's lost its sensitivity.
And a false teacher has hypocritical faith. He's a phony--he wears a
mask. That kind of life will never produce the love of God. The goal of
the false teacher is not to create an environment of love, but to feed
his ego and fill his pockets.
Lesson 107: A Final Warning: Beware of False Teachers! (Romans 16:17-20) Years
ago, a seminary professor told his class at the beginning of the
semester that they would work together on one major project during that
semester. They would move systematically through the New Testament to
categorize every area of truth and determine how many times each area is
addressed. Their goal was to find what one thing is emphasized more
than any other in the New Testament. When they completed the project,
they were amazed to see that warning against false doctrine is
emphasized more than any other thing, even more than love, unity, and
experience (Renald Showers, in “Israel My Glory,” [April/May, 1995], pp.
24-25). I have not verified their conclusion, but they’re probably
right. ...
J. C. Ryle was a
champion for the truth in the Church of England during the 19th century.
I’d recommend that you read him. In Warnings to the Churches ([Banner
of Truth], p. 110), he wrote about how difficult yet necessary
controversy in the church is. Then he added, “But there is one thing
which is even worse than controversy, and that is false doctrine
tolerated, allowed, and permitted without protest or molestation.” After
acknowledging that many would view what he writes as exceedingly
distasteful, he states (p. 111), “Three things there are which men never
ought to trifle with—a little poison, a little false doctrine, and a
little sin.”
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gang-raped at a University of Virginia frat party? Rolling Stone
magazine conducted an extensive interview with the so-called victim and
ran an enormous editorial on the crime, without bothering to interview
the presumed attackers. Turns out there were so many “discrepancies” in Jackie’s story that Rolling Stone was forced to print a humiliating retraction. Whatever “issues” Jackie has in her life, it didn’t involve a gang-rape by the members of the fraternity she accused.
This kind of feminist-fueled nonsense just feeds into the “rape
culture” hysteria plaguing colleges today, in which men are presumed to
be rapists merely for possessing the right equipment, and women are
presumed to be honest and virtuous whenever they interpret a passing
glance from a man as a preliminary attack.
“The feminist power agenda has caused serious problems on college campuses,” wrote David Usher in a column entitled “Feminism: Today’s women’s Ku Klux Klan.”
“California just enacted ‘Yes Means Yes,’ a widely criticized law
converting college life into a witch hunt for a non-existent campus rape
‘crisis.’” While this situation is horrible, unfortunately it reflects a growing
trend of an increasing chasm between the sexes. Women are claiming
everything from an appraising glance to a misplaced word are “sexual
assault,” and as a result a growing number of men are withdrawing from
any association with women at all, as a means of defense or survival if
nothing else.
Thus was born a movement called “Men Going Their Own Way,”
or MGTOW. I had never heard about it before last fall, but once brought
to my attention, I’ve seen related stories cropping up all over the
place. Many men, it seems, have decided women aren’t worth the trouble.
They are eager to participate in one-night stands, but that’s about the
extent of their willingness to commit. This in not just a case of “Why
buy the cow when the milk is free?” Instead, for many men it seems the
cost of the cow is simply too high.
In a lot of cases, I can’t say I blame them. I may not like their misogyny, but I can understand the sentiment. “Never before in history have relations between the sexes been so
fraught with anxiety, animosity and misunderstanding,” notes Milo
Yiannopoulos in a Breitbart article.
“To radical feminists, who have been the driving force behind many
tectonic societal shifts in recent decades, that’s a sign of success:
they want to tear down the institutions and power structures that
underpin society, never mind the fall-out.”
This article interviewed European men who are grim about their
future. “Marriage is dead,” noted a young gamer. “Divorce means you’re
screwed for life. Women have given up on monogamy, which makes them
uninteresting to us for any serious relationship or raising a family.
That’s just the way it is. Even if we take the risk, chances are the
kids won’t be ours. In France, we even have to pay for the kids a wife
has through adulterous affairs.”
“[T]he sight of society breaking down, and ordinary men and women
being driven into separate but equal misery, thanks to a small but
highly organized group of agitators, is distressing,” continues
Yiannopoulos. “Particularly because, as increasing numbers of social
observers are noticing, an entire generation of young people – mostly
men – are being left behind in the wreckage of this social engineering
project.” You can hardly blame men for withdrawing from society, Yiannopoulos concludes. “Cruelly derided as man-children and crybabies for objecting to
absurdly unfair conditions in college, bars, clubs and beyond, men are
damned if they do and damned if they don’t: ridiculed as
basement-dwellers for avoiding aggressive, demanding women with
unrealistic expectations, or called rapists and misogynists merely for
expressing sexual interest.”
This is confirmed by another article,
which recounts how “Seventy percent of American males between the ages
of 20 and 34 are not married, and many live in a state of ‘perpetual
adolescence’ with ominous consequences for the nation’s future. … Far
too many young men have failed to make a normal progression into adult
roles of responsibility and self-sufficiency, roles generally associated
with marriage and fatherhood. … The high percentage of bachelors means
bleak prospects for millions of young women who dream about a wedding
day that may never come. … Young women who adhere to a moral code and
refuse to participate in the ‘hook up’ culture are now considered social
misfits. … And they face even more daunting odds of finding a husband
than their promiscuous sisters.”
That’s because if young women are not willing to “put out,” many men won’t have anything to do with them. And if women are willing to sleep around, the men take advantage of this for purely sexual reasons, not as a means to a deeper commitment. Then, of course, the men will wonder if they’ll later be accused of
rape, no matter how willing the female participant might have been. In short, men and women are so suspicious of each other’s motives,
neither can trust the other and often withdraw into eternal singlehood
rather than risk ugly consequences. The result of this mutual distrust
is rampant meaningless uncommitted sex and a dearth of solid, happily
married couples. Can you see this as a recipe for a stable society in
the future?
I find this trend poignantly sad. As one reader put it: “Trust me,
nobody wants to be on their deathbed and only see the people who want
their money gathered around. Which is what happens when you abandon the
role of father and protector, and instead ‘go your own way’ as some kind
of weird Peter Pan, never growing up, but always getting older. …
Victory isn’t achieved by living your life alone. Victory is achieved
when you find someone who fits you to a ‘T’ and marry them. Modern
feminism hasn’t corrupted all women, you just need to get outside of
your comfy life and find them.”
This attitude is countered by a bitter comment from the Breitbart
article from a man who went his own way: “For the past, at least, 25
years, I’ve been told to do more and more to keep a woman. But nobody’s
told me what they’re doing to keep me.” So many women who hate men. So many men who hate women.
Why does this concern me? After all, my husband and I just celebrated our silver anniversary. We couldn’t be happier. We have no sons who might someday get accused of rape for no reason.
But we have daughters, daughters who show every promise of someday being
a good man’s dream wife – if there are any good men left who are
willing to risk marriage at all. But too many men will look at
statistics, facts and figures and decide to foreswear off all women. And
I couldn’t blame them. It’s just sad.
Patrick J. Buchanan
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