Of Lanterns and Huxtable's

                                               

The first comic book my father gave me was Captain America #117 I was seven years old—Hence, Cap and the Falcon have a singular place in my heart. Interestingly, Captain America is the only hero the Marvel Cinematic Universe has portrayed with any resemblance of the source material. The Falcon they have made into a mockery of the hero I enjoyed growing up.

Though Cap has always been my favorite comic book hero, whenever the question arose as it always does when talking superheroes with your enthusiastic friends, “what power would you want in real life, or who would I want to be? The answer for me was not the Star Spangled Avenger. Growing up as I did reading Edgar Rice Boroughs, Jules Verne and the like—I wanted to be a Green Lantern.

Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner and John Stewart, were all, in their own way, exemplars of devotion to duty and honor, not to mention many of the off world corpsman like, Katma Tui, Tomar-Re, Kilowog… All the epitome of heroism.

This missive is not, in truth about the Lanterns HBO/Max show—Though I could wax endlessly on Hollywood’s dogged determination to denigrate baby boomer’s childhoods with extreme prejudice and ruthless efficiency. This show is easily the most blatant example of overt racism I can recall.

Hollywood traffics in a diabolically subtle form of racism—It’s clothed in 21st century postmodern virtue signaling. However, the discerning can see it for what it is, plane dealing agitprop. That is if the viewer is a disciplined thinker.

A particular scene stuck in my craw tenaciously—Hal Jordan, upon meeting John Stewart’s parents stated they were “The salt of the earth” and “The Mid-Western Huxtables.” Thus far, the first three episodes have established, the senior Stewarts as irrational, unstable, irresponsible horrors.

Lanterns, like the MCUs treatment of the Falcon, Ironheart, and every other Black superhero, paints Stewart and his parents like hopeless victims of systemic racism. Endlessly lamenting their station with lines like; “They will never see us.” The us being the earthly white establishment, and further extending to the Green Lantern’s bosses, the Guardians of the Universe.

This is odd when one is reminded the show established the Guardians approached the senior Stewart first—He exhibited fear when tested and the Guardians moved on to Hal Jordan, who was completely without fear. They saw Senior, they just found him fearful and therefore rejected him. One can only surmise, this is truly bad writing.

Obversely, there was not an atom of victimhood displayed in the Huxtable clan. Where the Stewarts ignored John’s older siblings, the Huxtable’s heaped support evenly across all five of their children. The Oldest of John’s two brothers stated John acted like a white boy and was in fact not Black at all.

The sentiment the writers are attempting to engineer, is the idea Blackness is singular—Anything outside of what they portray as Black culture, is to be ridiculed. In other words, dedication and hard work separates you from Blackness. Ironically, the families idea of testing young John’s fearlessness, is abandoning him in the middle of a sketchy, urban Black neighborhood, forcing him to find his way home.

The Huxtables and the spin off show “A Different World” never failed to delve into political issues—However, they never did  it from a victim mentality. They represented the irresistible force of self determination. They taught family, in the generational sense, stewardship, personal responsibility. They connected their children to music, art, education…

It seems to me, modern diversions seek to reduce Black American culture to it’s baser elements—Entertainment like the Cosby Show, with it’s elevation of Jazz, Blues, Black painters, poets and scholars, was corny—Twerking at Presidential campaigns, trap music, defending the lawless and dependence on government largesse, disregarding cultural norms in personal appearance, language, self control… These are “Keeping it real.”

As a Black baby boomer, and like everyone else of my generation, the constant refrain from my family and teachers was always “Sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you.” According to the progressives, words are violence—If you so much as look sideways at certain young Black folks, you risk being physically assaulted by actual sticks and stones.

My family, like the families of the overwhelming majority of my peers, taught me I may have to work harder than others, but nothing was beyond reach—I repeated these lessons to my own scion—I heard my father say more times than I care to count: “Son, whatever you do in life, don’t be common.”

Social media is saturated with examples of senseless violence as children raise children, without a stable frame of reference for how to do so. So, they run wild. Students attack teachers without parental correction—In fact, teachers often face violence from parents for attempting to maintain order.

The cultural Indicators are not difficult to apprehend in the post Huxtable Black entertainment world—The Satanic idiom, “Do what thou wilt,” has been wholly inculcated in our communities. Adolescent parents have abdicated authority for generations now, resulting in an infinite regress of abhorrent behavior.

Failing to recognize, or admit to the modern zeitgeist infecting much of the Black community today, augurs a self inflicted degeneration. It is up to us to stop blaming others and regain control of our dignity, self respect, and self determination. We Have to stop celebrating degeneracy and promote truth, beauty and order.

Genesis 6
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Luke 17:
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Digital Publius/The Geek Who Sits On High

I Cassius

 

I am writing this as a short treatise on the machinations of the enemy of all mankind and the way he manipulates truth and history to lead many, (particularly in this case, Black Americans) astray. Before I begin, a little about my own background.

My name is Hassan Ibn Nurullah, I have written under the Name Digital Publius for some 18 years now. Digital Publius of course being a modern allusion to Publius, the pseudonym used by John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton when writing what became known as the Federalist Papers.

I was born a Muslim, and remained so for the first thirty years of my life. My father Shahid Abdul Nurullah, though he raised me a Muslim, impressed upon me the importance of seeking the truth. He taught me faith was the most important decision I would make in life. This lead to a life long interest in comparative theology.

Thus, I studied at least a bit of everything from Animism to Zoroastrianism—At the age of thirty, the Biblical precept stating: “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17 Became manifest in my life. I chose Christ based solely on logic. If everything written about the advent of Christ as prophesied in the Old Testament were one hundred percent fulfilled—It was logical to assume the Holy Bible would be equally accurate in what it taught about His return. It was time to look more closely at Jesus.

Yielding to the logic as substantiated by history, seeking His face in spirit and truth lead to my coming to love the Lord with all of my heart—just as He displayed His love for us all by His finished work on the cross. Though I was born into an Islamic family, my name at birth was Edward Finley Robinson III. My father changed our names shortly after.

I’ve been asked many times, why, after coming to Christ, I did not return to my birth name? Especially after the events of September 11th, 2001 and the subsequent challenges my Arabic name heaped upon me. It’s always been my belief having an Arabic name has afforded many opportunities to share my faith in Christ I may otherwise have not been granted.

As a Muslim boy, one of my heroes was heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali—Like my father, he was persuaded to adopt a form of Islam as his chosen faith, and he too changed what he called his “Slave Name,” Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.

The original Cassius Marcellus Clay, was a white Kentucky planter—Clay freed 44 of the personal slaves he inherited, paying them wages to stay on and work. Some he could not immediately free due to complicated probate laws endemic to the antebellum South.

Clay became an abolitionist while a student at Yale in the 1830s. He established an abolitionist newspaper, “The True American” which had to be fortified with iron doors to keep out violent and vengeful pro slavery factions. The Paper was armed with two cannon, but was still eventually sacked, his printer stolen. He was undeterred and soon opened another paper in the free state of Ohio.

He suffered several assassination attempts, yet still became a founder of the Republican Party and was influential in his friend President Lincoln’s signing of the “Emancipation Proclamation.’
Lincoln named him the U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Clay donated 10 acres of his land to John G. Fee, an abolitionist who founded the town of Berea. In 1855 Fee founded Berea College, open to all races.

One of Clay’s manumitted slaves named his grandson Cassius Marcellus Clay, in honor of the man who fought so ardently to end the bestial practice of chattel slavery in the United Staes. That grandson went on to bestow the name to his son Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., the same who went on to become Muhammad Ali.

Ironically, Ali exchanged what he considered a slave name, though given to him as a remembrance of the man who risked all to end slavery—Choosing instead to adopt a name connected to a man, faith and culture who has arguably done more to advance slavery, in the past and contemporaneously, than any culture in history. Especially Black slavery.

The Prophet Muhammad was himself a slaveowner. The first man to perform the call to prayer, Bilal ibn Rabah, was an African slave who was manumitted only after his conversion to islam. It is forbidden in the Qu’ran to enslave a fellow believer—Every none Muslim is up for grabs.

This was still the case during the early years of the founding of the United States. The Marine Corps. Hymn features the line, “From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli…”
The Shores of Tripoli refers to the American war fought against the Barbary Pirates.

These corsairs were sponsored by Islamic states and ravaged the Barbary Coast, (Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco) capturing over a million slaves from Europe and other non-Islamic nations from the 16th to 19th centuries.

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, the ambassador of Tripoli. When Jefferson asked why the Islamic corsairs were seizing American merchant ships and enslaving American crews despite peaceful relations, the ambassador stated that it was authorized by the Qu’ran as a religious duty to make war upon and enslave non-Muslim nations.

It is interesting to note, while some of the most zealous advocates of the so-called “Palestinian” cause are Black Americans—the Black neighborhood in Gaza City is called by the local Arabs, Haret al-Abeed, the (“neighborhood of the slaves").

Ignorance is the driving factor perpetuated by Satan—If Muhammad had not been ignorant of the Holy Bible, he would never have been deceived by the entity calling itself Gabriel in that Arabian cave—He would have remembered this dire warning explicitly repeated in Galatians 1:

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Awareness of these verses would have saved Christian and non-Christian nations throughout Asia Minor and Northern Africa like Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Damascus and Jerusalem and so many others in Europe and elsewhere, from conquest, conversion, or slavery at the hand of the sword of Islam.

Likewise, we in America are ignorant of true history and susceptible to Marxist reinterpretations and the doctrines of devils. So many of us worship our skin above all else, racial identity has become an idol. We are blind to anything not serving the narratives fed to us daily—We forget to whom we belong.

 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Romans 1:25

We focus on silly things like what name we are called as if it is even remotely important and are then trapped by lies, false hope, bitterness and misguided goals, and we wonder why we are so divided. Slavery was ended in our nation by people who sought first the face of God. We, are obsessed with focussing on the evil, while completely missing the national testimony.

This is a nation which has always strived to correct our past evils. Slavery was the default setting of the whole world. The remarkable thing about our history is not we had a brutal form of chattel slavery—But rather, without outside pressure, we ended it, and have worked over the intervening ages to end it wherever it is found.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6

Digital Publius

Good Cop Bad Cop

In the days of our lives as comic shop owners and dealers, a big part of the profession is the acquisition of comics and collectibles. Profit being the driver of such endeavors, naturally one attempts to risk as little capital as possible in these exchanges. We therefore created our version of good cop, bad cop.

It worked like this—a person enters the shop with an idea to sell something. Whoever met this person first is automatically bad dealer. We would look through the horde very pessimistically. “We already have several of these we can’t sell… no real market for these… blah blah blah and so on…” Bad dealer expresses a disinterest in the collection and then tenders an offer so low it’s guaranteed to disappoint the seller, as insulting a price as possible, bordering on the absurd.

Bad dealer then turns to good dealer and says: “I don’t really want any of this stuff, take a look and see what you think.” Good dealer runs through the stuff, with the occasional, “We could use one of these… I do know a customer who asked about this… blah blah blah…” The seller is heartened by the affirmation of his goods by the more affable dealer. Good dealer then offers a price, still blefuscudian in scale, but just enough more than bad dealer’s price, they would agree and sell us the goods.

This was a very good system and almost always successful, leaving us pleased with ourselves and cackling maniacally as we priced out our newly acquired booty. Shameful really.

I recount these experiences in the ersatz Comic Cafe to highlight the methodology now being employed by the modern left in the United States contemporaneously. The modern left leaning electorate, falls into two camps regarding the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America in the Democrat Party.

Some, due to the negligence of our education system, actually believe in the ideas expressed by the DSA. They have no frame of reference for what socialism has wrought historically across the globe. Bereft of disciplined thinking, they, like their pinko predecessors, are keen to immanentize the eschaton at all cost.

Then you have the Democrat voter who is repelled by ideas like doing away with the Senate, defunding police, abolishing ICE, replacing the Presidency and Supreme Court, unrestrained immigration, the abolition of prisons and so on. This is the constituency the media paints as the true base of the Democrat Party.

However—Many of these ideas are a part of the mainstream in the Democrat Party as exemplified by the rise of the so-called “Squad.” All of whom expressed similar platforms for the Party over the last decade or so. The rejection of Squad members by voters in the recent primaries represents a reset.

The ascendency of the Democratic Socialists is the Hegelian chess move meant to deceive the electorate into believing the Democrat Party is not as unhinged as the DSA makes them appear. Van Jones, Rahm Emanuel, Harold Ford and the James Carvilles of the Party, are the good cops. The Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, Bernie Sanders and the AOCs of the Party are the bad cops.

The good cops may dismiss DSA positions involving rewriting the Constitution, Hamas, policing, prisons and immigration they claim to consider outside the progressive movement. Yet Van Jones states; “I’m a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I’m rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reforms, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life,"

To which I remember the words immortalized by the Bard “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Changing the words you use to frame an idea, does not do away with the idea. Make no mistake, so-called mainstream Democrats share the same vision as the so-called extremists amongst them. They are simply using the extremists to make their intrinsically Marxist vision for the United States more palatable to the masses they seek to bamboozle into voting for them.

When Hasan Piker dons a Chairman Mao outfit publicly, it is theater meant to drive those predisposed to vote democrat to hold their noses, and vote for who the Party really wants to win—the so-called mainstream Democrat candidates who in their hearts believe just like the rest of the far left.

The confirmation of how these people really believe slips out from time to time—A good example is when the “Moderate” Democrat pundit Harold Ford, was shown to have the Andy Warhol portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on the wall in his home. While you can attempt to write this off as kitsch—I would ask, would you hang a pop art portrait of Hitler on your wall as kitsch if you did not agree with Hitler’s National Socialism/Fascism? If not, why not?

Mao’s Marxist ideology lead to a far greater body count than Hitler’s National Socialism. The reality is men like Ford do in fact agree with Mao’s Marxist principles. When mainstream Democrats like Rahm Emanuel says things like; "Never let a good crisis go to waste,” They reveal they are not shy when employing the Hegelian Dialectic.

Do not be deceived these people are of one accord, the good and bad cop always have the same agenda.

“Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” I Corinthians 15:33

Digital Publius

 

Do You Have An Ear To Hear?

A treatise on A Song or Psalm of Asaph 83:1-18

Keep not thou silence, O God:

hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:

and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,

and consulted against thy hidden ones.

(The United Nations, is in constant condemnation of Israel—No nation in the history of the world has faced more ridicule for simply protecting itself. This is even more interesting when one considers the constant compromises Israel has made over the decades in an attempt to foster peace, only to be rewarded repeatedly with broken treaties and attacks.)

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;

that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

(“From the river to the sea…” is the stentorian refrain heard in every corner of the world where opposition to the very existence of the Jewish State festers—Heard on college campuses , mindlessly issued out of the mouths of misinformed and misguided khafiyah clad students. Echoed in every major city where the easily manipulated dwell—ever eager to don the armor of profound ignorance, armed with a seemingly endless supply of freshly printed signage and empty gestures.  All proudly and self-righteously in pursuit of the latest cause they are incited to champion.)

For they have consulted together with one consent:

they are confederate against thee:

(The Pslamist is making it plain this confederation is the enemy of God, not Israel. Conspiring, condemning and assailing the nation, is simply the instrument of attack against the God who declared through the Prophet Zechariah: “For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.)

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites;

of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

(The ancient nations named here, make up the greater part of the Islamic world in the Middle East—Made up of the descendants of Esau, whom God says He hated. Moab the people born of the deceptive incest of Lot’s daughter with him.  The Ishmaelites who no longer worship the Holy God Ishmael learned to worship from his father Abraham. Instead they worship the god of forces called Allah, bringing to pass the prophecy we read about Ishmael in Genesis: “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”

Surely there is no more accurate description of the spiritual scion of Ishmael in the modern world. History is witness to Islam, from the Muhammadans inception, has objectively spread destruction, death and terror in every corner of the globe it has touched.)

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;

the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

(Philestia and Tyre were the “Sea People” Who trace their origins to Crete, they were invaders from Greece who conquered much of Canaan, now part of the Gaza Strip. When the Roman Emperor Hadrian destroyed the Jewish rebellions and destroyed the second Temple—He, like the modern enemies of God attempted to wipe Israel permanently off the face of the earth. It was Hadrian who renamed Israel Palestine, the Latinized version of Philistine in an effort to humiliate the nation by naming it after the Hebrews ancient enemy.

Again, the Philistines were Greek, not Arabs, or any other semitic people.

Israel was gone—The people called Palestinians prior to 1947 were largely the few Jews still living in Palestine after Rome forced the Jewish diaspora. This does not mean there were no Arabs in the land, there were wandering bands of bedouin nomads. There was however, no Palestinian power structure—No national guiding force, until the remigration of Jews in the late 19th and 20th centuries, leading to the recreation of Israel as a nation—An occurrence thought to be an Impossibility for a thousand years.

Assur also is joined with them:

they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites;

as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

Which perished at Endor:

they became as dung for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb:

yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

Who said, Let us take to ourselves

the houses of God in possession.

(Walid Shoebat, a former leader in the PLO and terrorist put it best: “The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, muslim Sherkas from Russia, muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door.”)

O my God, make them like a wheel;

as the stubble before the wind.

As the fire burneth a wood,

and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

So persecute them with thy tempest,

and make them afraid with thy storm.

(See Revelation 12:12-17 and Revelation 2:1-3, 10)

Fill their faces with shame;

that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever;

yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

(Whenever a word is repeated in Scripture, like we see the word “Shame” repeated here, God really wants your attention. Shame is a very important emotion, it corrects when one has a heart to be corrected. If you resent correction, you will ignore shame and stay in error. As God puts it, “your conscience is seared,” or your, “Heart is hardened.” Don’t let this be you, seek God’s face.

All you who rail against Israel, rail against God Almighty Himself—There is no replacement theology, it is a doctrine of devils. When the Church age ends with the rapture of believers, God’s full attention will be on delivering Israel from her enemies, and bringing the lost root of Jesse to an understanding Jesus is Lord.) With whom will you stand?

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH,

art the most high over all the earth.

Amen… It is so!

Difgital Publius

Same As It Ever Was...

 

This work is being written for believers first, believers with a heart for, and healthy fear of our sovereign God, the Creator of all things—It is my prayer it will also reach non-believers and be a seed in fertile ground leading to a harvest for our Lord and Savior.

We all know the story of Sodom and Gomorrah—Two cities destroyed for their gross sexual immorality and murder. No passage of Scripture more fully exemplifies this truth than the following.

“And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 

And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 

And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, 

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly”— Genesis 19:1-7

The men of Sodom were so besotted by sexual sin, they had no regard for the ancient laws of hospitality. No, these men were driven only by their desire to have sexual relations with the two strangers Lot made welcome in his home. They were even willing to use force as verse 9 records.

“And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.”

The men of Sodom resented Lot, who was a stranger in the city, not a native, trying to judge them for their proclivities. Sexual immorality was normalized in Sodom—Now. you may have noticed I omitted verse 8 in this passage. I will return to it in due time, but first a few words on this besieged fellow Lot.

Lot was the close cousin of Abraham, they were like brothers. Both Lot and Abraham traveled together and both had great wealth in goods and livestock. Lot was a good man and they both decided, to avoid the strife, which had built up between their herdsman, it would be best if they split up.

Lot chose to go towards the Jordan Valley on the outskirts of Sodom. There he pitched his tents and prospered—Due to much warfare between several of the local kings which Abraham and his men dealt with. Lot at some point is lured by the comfort and security of Sodom and moves into the city.

His wife and daughters enjoyed big city life, one or more of his daughters married local men, embracing the culture. Sin is always seductive, yet Lot himself never participated in the sin of the Metropolis. However, it did wear him down.

The sin of Sodom was so perverse, it reached a point which God could no longer suffer to exist. “And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.” Genesis 18:20,21

Knowing his beloved brother Lot dwelt in Sodom, Abraham pleads God’s mercy on behalf of the city, bold bargaining ensues between Abraham and the Lord, ending with a promise from God to spare Lot and his family. Which brings us back to one of the most shocking revelations in all of Scripture in my estimation, preserved in verse 8 of chapter 19—Surely one of the most controversial.

“Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.”

Lot offers his last two virginal daughters to the wicked mob threatening to rape the angels under his protection. What to think of this? Is this a sign of how far Lot has fallen while under the influence of the city? Is it a sign of how much he fears God, showing he is willing to sacrifice his daughters to save the angels?

Well, if it is the latter, Lot has missed the mark as we read Proverbs 17:15; “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.” And Romans 3:8; “And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.”

The withering effect of being in constant contact with immorality, and normalizing sinful behavior is further illuminated by the behavior of Lot’s wife. The household was warned not to look back as they fled the judgement raining down on the two cities… “But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” v26

So strong was the allure of sin, she could not keep herself from looking back at the city she lived so sumptuously in, so comfortable with sin, she longed for the corrupt city, now judged by the Holy God Abraham served. The error of the actions of Lot’s wife leads to further sins, which escalate to the condemnation of whole peoples as we shall find out next.

It is then chronicled, the two remaining daughters of Lot, upon the death of their mother, fear him having no male heir, Lot’s name will die with him—They concoct a plan to get their father drunk and sleep with him to create sons for him. This they do, the eldest first and then the younger.

“Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the firstborn bear a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.” v36-38

Where do you think the onerous sin the daughters of Lot committed by getting their father pass out drunk and incestuously bering sons was learned from? Scripture tells us in II Peter 2:  And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) v6-8

We now know where it lead—The birth of two of the most obscene nations remembered in Scripture, the Moabites and the Ammonites. Chief among their sins was the practice of sexual promiscuity and immorality as practiced by their mothers the daughters of Lot—Which lead to them worshipping gods requiring they sacrifice the babies made in the pursuit of sexual pleasure.

Perverting the beautiful God created intent of sexual relations between man and wife—The opportunity to participate in God’s creative will expressed through childbirth. Rebelling against the first command of God to man; "Be fruitful, and multiply,”

Homosexuality and abortion are two of the chief weapons employed by the enemy of all mankind. Solely devised to keep us from bearing fruit and multiplying—Calling all love good love and the destruction of life in a mother’s womb a choice preserved for the mother is a deception keeping us from fulfilling God’s will for us.

II Peter further elucidates God’s displeasure with this sort of behavior v9-10 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. (We can have a whole other writing on the second half of these verses.) Lets move on…

This is why those who call themselves believers in Christ while advocating for women having the right to choose killing their children in the womb do not respond when you point out  verses like Psalm 139:13, Jeremiah 1:5, Isaiah 44:24, Job 10:8-12 and most importantly Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Until you are blue in the face.

You can say you believe in God, yet this is of no effect if you do not first have a Godly fear of Him and actually believe what He says. You demonstrate your lack of fear and belief when you normalize and co-sign what God calls abominable behavior. You also evince a lack of true love for your fellow man when you fear cultural rejection more than telling people the truth. The wages of sin is death. This is precisely what we learned from the example of Lot and his daughters.

v12-15 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;


When a person can’t honestly answer the question “What is a woman?’ For fear of losing political support or acceptance with the crowd, you fear men and  not God. There is no greater misplaced fear you can have. “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew10:28

When you chant “my body, my choice,” or, “All love is good love,” and the like, you are not being kind—You are being indifferent at best and doing evil at worst. We all have to decide whom it is we will serve in this life, the world, or the Creator of the world.

We kill our children today just like the Baal worshippers of the past. Our modern children are killed in the womb to erase the consequences of our promiscuity, our immorality—They are no less a sacrifice to pleasure in the service of self.

Christ loves you, He hates our sin—It is sin which separates us from Him. Yet He did not abandon us to our sins, he made a way to reconcile us to Him. It requires faith and obedience. The Lord taught us far more about the wages of sin and hell than heaven. Narrow is the gate to heaven and broad is the way to damnation and it is often paved as the bromide asserts, with good intentions.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Proverbs 14:12

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A Letter to "Christian" Critics of Israel and Skin Worshippers

 

To the “Christians” who seem to think they were put here to criticize Israel a question—What makes the current state worse than the Israel of antiquity? What did they have, maybe a couple of Kings God called good? God did not choose the Hebrews because they were good, just, or obedient.

Modern Israel is exactly like it was in the Old and New Testaments. They, like you are lost absent faith in Christ. The fact is Israel exists in the modern world because God said it would. Are we supposed to put our faith in the actions of nations and their governments? God forbid!

These are the same people who sent men like Saul out to search out Christians to persecute and kill before his encounter with God on the road to Damascus.

God made a covenant with Abraham and promised him a land, and a Messiah from his seed, God charged them with HIS Oracles. Christ called the leadership of His day a “Brood of vipers.” Herod ordered babies slaughtered to prevent the birth of the very Savior who was promised.

You expect Israel to be less evil than every other nation in history? My Bible warns there are none righteous, no not one. Nevertheless…

“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people[a] should be kept alive, as they are today.” Genesis 50:20

For the skin worshippers, who stake all their identity on the immutable fact of the skin color you were born with, the types who insist the White man is somehow more evil than any other race. Those who teach the current Israelis are not in fact Biblical jews, but usurpers. You know, the ones who insist the Hebrews were Black, as were the Egyptians.

If you hold to those beliefs, like Herod, two Black Pharaohs ordered the slaughter of Black babies. Moses, who you teach was also Black, was born in spite of the Black Pharaoh’s best efforts, escaped and grew up a Prince of Egypt himself. Upon discovering his true origins, Moses ends up killing an Egyptian who was severely beating a Hebrew slave.

Would this be considered Black, on Black, on Black crime?

Exodus 1:
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

“And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;” Exodus 3:7

The Bible teaches the slavery the Egyptians inflicted upon their Black Hebrew brothers was so sever it utterly broke the Hebrews physically and spiritually. Joseph’s own brothers, sold him into slavery in Egypt, not unlike so many of the African tribes who sold those they conquered into chattel slavery during the Atlantic slave trade. In fact, you can't convince me the very real genocide waged on Christians in Nigeria today, is less evil than anything Europeans exacted.

What I am about to suggest next, is going to make the deceived head’s explode—Like with Joseph who saved his people during severe famine—Many Africans came to a saving knowledge of Christ due to their bondage. Indeed, what man meant for evil, God meant it for good.

I say this often to unbelievers who do not understand faith. Faith is not belief without proof, it is trust in God without the slightest reservation. In my case, it is a faith born from personal experience in my life as I struggle in my walk with God, and the evidence of Him doing everything He said He will do historically in the world.

The state of Israel is one of those things—God said it and it is so. I don’t freak out about the perceived, or actual sins of Israel anymore than any other nation in the history of the world. Man is intrinsically evil without regard to skin color, nationality or any other worldly distinction—We must remember Matthew 7:3, as well as John 7:24.

I'm not distraught over what the people of Israel are doing, any more than other nations, not anymore than what color Egyptians and Hebrews were, or are. If you not only believe in God, but also actually believe God—No group is more or less evil than another—So… be my guest, obsess on Israel—meanwhile, yours truly is watching what God is doing.

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28

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