Come out of her My people
“Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her sins and lest you receive of her plagues,” God has cautioned. Revelations 18:4
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before a mediocre and treacherous leadership that is so paranoid, deluded, lunatic? And I'll tell you...because they are lovers of self and the lie and not lovers of GOD and His truth. They are lovers of the lie and not lovers of the truth.
Atrocities have been carried out in the name of the American citizens and in an atmosphere in which leadership officials have routinely behaved as though they were above God's law, and thus accountable to no one. People have been rounded up, stripped, shackled, beaten, incarcerated, and in many, many cases killed, without being offered even the semblance of due process. No charges. No lawyers. No appeals. No law. Simply and murderously, killed, slaughtered outright.
"Does our law judge a man before it knows him and knows what he is doing?" John 7:51
What you sow…so shall ye reap.
When leaders state that certain events have not happened, and yet we have the victims before us to testify that they did, man does not hear him, and so, government loses its credibility, and it loses its authority. This has been a hallmark of the American administrators. We see before us today governments that lack natural authority and have to make up for that by the use of force in order to protect the lie. They do not have the support of the people because they are not trusted by the people because this force has been routinely used against even them...it has not heard the man.
We hear many fine words seeking national unity, cooperation, and harmony, yet, almost in the same breath orders are given to military units to shoot civilians, protesters are rounded up, many disappear, and many are tortured...their voice is never heard.
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. Prove this to yourself…stand up and try to oppose these representatives of the people...they will not hear! There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn. There is no going back because the lie would fold in on them and will destroy them. Yet, to go forward in the lie means destroying those whom they fear without ever hearing what they have to say. These are the ones who know the truth even if they were the very ones who mistakenly supported the lie.
"This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Martin Luther King: 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York.
Lawlessness should never be an option for a nation, and yet for our nation, America, it has. Once the rule of law has been extinguished, you're left with an environment in which moral degeneracy can flourish and a great nation can lose its soul.
“Do you not remember when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He be taken out of the way, And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the workings of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders. And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” From a letter by the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians…II Thessalonians 2:5-12.
God is spirit and truth. So it is God who is voluntarily and willingly taken out of the way through the propagation and willing belief of lies. But truth is more than merely quoting scripture. It is facing tat which agrees with the final reality as demonstrated by history, which it seems few want to concern them selves with today…often preferring to keep their heads in the sand through the belief of the lie. It is in applying the timelesness of the truth to that which agrees with today, the final reality.
Truth, simply put, is that which agrees with the final reality. It was written ages ago for man's learning and yet, some men fail to come to the knowledge of it...instead, always attempting to come to that knowledge through endless learning...or study of it.
In order for it, (the truth), to restrain the lie, truth must be spoken at all its turns…the word…in season and out…at the cost of even our fleshly lives. Rejecting it or avoiding it does not change it or make it go away. The more that truth is rejected or avoided, whether out of fear of persecution, or fear of being rejected, the stronger the lawless one of the lie becomes. He is emboldened by our fear of him, rather than our fear of going against the truth, and is caused through the doubt his lies create. And yet, he fears the truth, not in reverence…but in anxious anguish that it will expose his lie. He suppresses it out of fear, often under the excuse that the majority of the world cannot handle the truth as it should be presented it. He makes a great show of protecting the world from the truth, which he calls a lie, yet, he makes that decision for all of us in order to protect his lies, fearing that the truth will expose him for who he is...which is a sinner among saints.
It is the duty of all to educate ourselves in this truth, to learn that which agrees with the final reality, for ourselves, not to fear it as the lawless one does, but rather to embrace it in its starkness and harshness against the lie, humbling us to one another in order to make us whole, as in, mankind as a whole, intertwined with one another for the purpose of our mutual help, our mutualn assistance, and our mutual protection in times of trouble, which is to keep ourselves from the lie.
We do this in order to confront problems in a Godly way, which includes mercy, grace, and kindness; that is our Comforter who comforts. It is only a matter of knowing the fullness of what the problem is, from all sides. It often means going against what is the status quo, to be unfashionable, to go up against what is generally thought to be true and discover for ourselves what is true rather than accepting as truth what those who are trying to protect as a lie may tell us is true.
The sword of truth, set to protect the tree of life, turns in all directions…but the lawless one would like it to cut only one way, as long as it cuts in the direction of another, whatever keeps him from being exposed. It is easier for me to avoid the lie in myself if I am pointing it out in you...but in order for me to understand the truth about you, I must first begin to see the lie in myself.
“Do not put your trust in princes (rulers), nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help (salvation). His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his plans perish.” Psalm 146:3&4. but instead, put it (your trust, your faith) in the truth and who God made us and says we are...And He called us by our name Adam, which is to say, man, as in mankind...and He ( God ) made us to be in His image...according to His will...and by His hand and not our own...and "God saw what 'He had made,' and called it very good."
Whatever you are, if you are truthful about it, you are what God made you...who are you to say, why have You made me this way...and He called you "very good." All is as it should be, for God works all in all for His good.
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before a mediocre and treacherous leadership that is so paranoid, deluded, lunatic? And I'll tell you...because they are lovers of self and the lie and not lovers of GOD and His truth. They are lovers of the lie and not lovers of the truth.
Atrocities have been carried out in the name of the American citizens and in an atmosphere in which leadership officials have routinely behaved as though they were above God's law, and thus accountable to no one. People have been rounded up, stripped, shackled, beaten, incarcerated, and in many, many cases killed, without being offered even the semblance of due process. No charges. No lawyers. No appeals. No law. Simply and murderously, killed, slaughtered outright.
"Does our law judge a man before it knows him and knows what he is doing?" John 7:51
What you sow…so shall ye reap.
When leaders state that certain events have not happened, and yet we have the victims before us to testify that they did, man does not hear him, and so, government loses its credibility, and it loses its authority. This has been a hallmark of the American administrators. We see before us today governments that lack natural authority and have to make up for that by the use of force in order to protect the lie. They do not have the support of the people because they are not trusted by the people because this force has been routinely used against even them...it has not heard the man.
We hear many fine words seeking national unity, cooperation, and harmony, yet, almost in the same breath orders are given to military units to shoot civilians, protesters are rounded up, many disappear, and many are tortured...their voice is never heard.
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. Prove this to yourself…stand up and try to oppose these representatives of the people...they will not hear! There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn. There is no going back because the lie would fold in on them and will destroy them. Yet, to go forward in the lie means destroying those whom they fear without ever hearing what they have to say. These are the ones who know the truth even if they were the very ones who mistakenly supported the lie.
"This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Martin Luther King: 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York.
Lawlessness should never be an option for a nation, and yet for our nation, America, it has. Once the rule of law has been extinguished, you're left with an environment in which moral degeneracy can flourish and a great nation can lose its soul.
“Do you not remember when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He be taken out of the way, And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the workings of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders. And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” From a letter by the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians…II Thessalonians 2:5-12.
God is spirit and truth. So it is God who is voluntarily and willingly taken out of the way through the propagation and willing belief of lies. But truth is more than merely quoting scripture. It is facing tat which agrees with the final reality as demonstrated by history, which it seems few want to concern them selves with today…often preferring to keep their heads in the sand through the belief of the lie. It is in applying the timelesness of the truth to that which agrees with today, the final reality.
Truth, simply put, is that which agrees with the final reality. It was written ages ago for man's learning and yet, some men fail to come to the knowledge of it...instead, always attempting to come to that knowledge through endless learning...or study of it.
In order for it, (the truth), to restrain the lie, truth must be spoken at all its turns…the word…in season and out…at the cost of even our fleshly lives. Rejecting it or avoiding it does not change it or make it go away. The more that truth is rejected or avoided, whether out of fear of persecution, or fear of being rejected, the stronger the lawless one of the lie becomes. He is emboldened by our fear of him, rather than our fear of going against the truth, and is caused through the doubt his lies create. And yet, he fears the truth, not in reverence…but in anxious anguish that it will expose his lie. He suppresses it out of fear, often under the excuse that the majority of the world cannot handle the truth as it should be presented it. He makes a great show of protecting the world from the truth, which he calls a lie, yet, he makes that decision for all of us in order to protect his lies, fearing that the truth will expose him for who he is...which is a sinner among saints.
It is the duty of all to educate ourselves in this truth, to learn that which agrees with the final reality, for ourselves, not to fear it as the lawless one does, but rather to embrace it in its starkness and harshness against the lie, humbling us to one another in order to make us whole, as in, mankind as a whole, intertwined with one another for the purpose of our mutual help, our mutualn assistance, and our mutual protection in times of trouble, which is to keep ourselves from the lie.
We do this in order to confront problems in a Godly way, which includes mercy, grace, and kindness; that is our Comforter who comforts. It is only a matter of knowing the fullness of what the problem is, from all sides. It often means going against what is the status quo, to be unfashionable, to go up against what is generally thought to be true and discover for ourselves what is true rather than accepting as truth what those who are trying to protect as a lie may tell us is true.
The sword of truth, set to protect the tree of life, turns in all directions…but the lawless one would like it to cut only one way, as long as it cuts in the direction of another, whatever keeps him from being exposed. It is easier for me to avoid the lie in myself if I am pointing it out in you...but in order for me to understand the truth about you, I must first begin to see the lie in myself.
“Do not put your trust in princes (rulers), nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help (salvation). His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his plans perish.” Psalm 146:3&4. but instead, put it (your trust, your faith) in the truth and who God made us and says we are...And He called us by our name Adam, which is to say, man, as in mankind...and He ( God ) made us to be in His image...according to His will...and by His hand and not our own...and "God saw what 'He had made,' and called it very good."
Whatever you are, if you are truthful about it, you are what God made you...who are you to say, why have You made me this way...and He called you "very good." All is as it should be, for God works all in all for His good.
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