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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The Labor Union

Listening to Charlie Kirk recently, a sincere young man asked Charlie how he, as a believer, could reach people for Christ? Charlie, in a well meaning way, praised the young man for desiring to do so, and gave him encouragement. He also suggested a few things tactically, which were sound.

I could not help thinking about the young man’s question long after the exchange. The reality is, the young man CAN”T reach people for Christ. We as followers of Christ, in our zeal to share our faith often conflate the idea of “Reaching” people with the good news, with “Reaching Out” with the Gospel. They are two very different things.

Christ never instructed us to “Reach” people. He told us to reach out and share our faith. The reaching part is reserved for God Himself. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28:18-20

Those words are called the “Great Commission.”In Matthew chapter 10, The Lord gives a more detailed outline of how, what to expect and how we ought to react, when witnessing. Nevertheless, know this, there is nothing you can say, or do, no fact you can relate, no truth you can reveal that can “Reach” a person’s heart for Christ.

I Corinthians 3:
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Our job is not to convince, but to plant and water seeds. This is a process I can personally witness to—Before I followed Christ, when I was yet a Muslim lost in false religion, people planted and watered seed in my life often. The words spoken by these men into my life nagged at me in the back of my mind literally for years… “Muhammad is dead, Christ is alive!”

It was not until God Himself gave me my measure of grace, as Paul explains in verse 5 above, did my heart soften. We are not capable of believing the truth absent God’s grace, He gives us the desire to respond to His Word. Otherwise, we never would. Christ taught: “For many are called, but few are chosen.” THAT, is what the disciples used to call a hard saying; who can hear it?

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: It is the Holy Spirit who convicts and quickens the Word of God in us, allowing us to hear the Good Shepherd’s voice. Back to I Corinthians: 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Our job as laborers is to plant and water—God does the reaping. Our mindset should not be what can I do to reach, but rather how can I reach out. We should not be discouraged when someone fails to fall to their knees in our sight in repentance, tearfully reciting the Sinner’s prayer after we lay out some brilliant apologetic for Christ.

Instead, our job is to “…sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” I Peter 3:15 Remembering always faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17

We are commissioned to share our faith, it is through the Lord’s grace we believe and it is our responsibility to plant and water seeds. It is how we boldly stand for the Lord and lovingly reach out that matters. We should not be timid, love is bold IF you care about others.

It is a lovely thing when someone you shared your faith with, at some future date—someone you did not think heard a word you said, later tells you they are now a follower of Christ. When we are faithful, these occasions do occur and we thank the Lord for His grace and the chance to see a little fruit harvested.

The Apostle teaches: But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. I Corinthians !5:10

And:

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

WE can’t “Reach” anyone, we CAN and should reach out! When we faithfully labor, God Himself gives grace and belief and always gets the increase. That’s my idea of a labor union.

To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me. Colossians 1:29

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The Handmaid's Truth

The left is fond of fear-mongering the idea of the rise of a theocratic America—Conflating the idea of preserving morality, self control, personal responsibility for ones actions, even proficiency in language and mathematics, with the imposition of oppression. Especially the oppression of women based on Biblical principle.

This mania on the left ignores the fact the freest nations in history for women, have existed in nations where the majority is Christian. Observing the rise of socialism on our campuses and amongst our politicians harboring a genuine hatred for our own nation—The parallels between what is happening here and the historical record of places with true oppression are in stark relief.

Anyone who has done a comprehensive, or even a middling but serious study of socialism, realizes the incongruity of an alliance between Marxist/Communist ideology and any Abrahamic religion. The very idea of say a Democratic Socialist Muslim, like the rising New York politician Zohran Mamdani, stretches all credulity. At least it should.

To be a Marxist Christian, Jew, or Muslim, is to give full reign to cognitive dissonance to a fanatical level—One must clearly give more credence to the philosophy of men ahead of the precepts of the God revealed in the Holy Bible and the god of the Qur’an.

However, the Mamdani’s of the world are not without solid precedence. The Iranian revolution deposing the Shah of Iran in 1979, was driven, in large part, by socialist Muslims in concert with Islamic fundamentalist groups. The playbook is identical to what we see playing out amongst our youth on campuses and with so many young Americans, like the ones propelling the New York Assembly-Man today.

“Why should the Shah be rich and live in a palace while so many Iranians are poor?” Equity, equity, equity. And so it was, going back to the early 20th century, reaching an apex in the late 1970s. You had in Iran (This is not a comprehensive list, there were many more) the Unified Socialist Party (Persia) 1904, Communist Party of Persia 1917.

In the 20s Socialist Party (Iran), Young Communist League of Persia, Revolutionary Republican Party of Iran. The 40s the Comrades Party, the Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists, the United Front of Progressive Parties founded by the communist Tudeh Party and the Iran Party. The Iran Unity Party,

1951 the Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation, 1960s the League of Iranian Socialists, Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries. 1970’s the Maoist Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran), Peykar: Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, the Movement of Militant Muslims, the  Iranian Islamic socialist political group led by Habibollah Payman. The Organization of Working-class Freedom Fighters.

1980s and still in existence we find, the Marxist/Leninist Fedaian Organisation, the Communist Party of Iran. So called Islamic Socialists, Like the “Democratic Socialist Muslim” Zohran Mamdani ushered in the modern regime of Islamic, Sharia law fundamentalist, lead by the Ayatollahs and Mullah’s since 1979.

What Mamdani wants, is freedom as defined by HIS ideology, one ironically alien to the easily manipulated American youth aligning themselves with Hamas and Hezbollah. A youth driven by a mutual hate with terrorist groups for America, fostered by socialist Academics. Everywhere socialism and Islamism take root around the world, they lead to real oppression, not merely “Tales” like the ones penned by Margaret Atwood and hailed by the soft minded across the world.

The American left screams for equity, while sympathizing with peoples and groups who have little regard for personal choice and freedom. Women waving flags in solidarity with Hamas and Palestine, denigrating the action taken in Iran by the current administration—While never dreaming of giving up their inalienable rights to suffer through what women in these places endure and will continue enduring if the status quo is maintained, or if Israel indeed ceases to exist from the “River to the sea” as they are wont to chant.

Where are the Atwoodian Gileads in the world structured on the torturing of Old Testament Scripture? The only such examples extant, are those beginning outside Biblical pretext. It is irrational to fear the fictional red garments of the Handmaid’s Tale, while ignoring the worldwide examples of  the very real garments worn by oppressed women under the socialist/Islamist Handmaid’s Truth.

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society—the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society—this is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not “abolished.” It dies out.

Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (1901)

Ludwig Von Mises wrote ” The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn.”

This is still the modus operandi of the American left, open borders and control of enterprise—The only problem is these concepts lead not to universal peace, but rather the murder of 100s of millions throughout the 20th century—Endless war and bloodshed as the revolution continues to impose Marxism on a world rejecting it. An endless cycle of violence, poverty, lack of resources and misery.

The creeds of the left are not reconcilable with the Holy God revealed in the Holy Bible, you cannot be both a socialist and Christian. You cannot pretend to be a Jewish Socialist like Bernie Sanders—The left may tolerate you calling yourself a Christian, or Jew while advancing atheistic materialism, they simply call you a “Useful Idiot” behind your back. Meanwhile, with bated breath they patiently wait for the day they grasp ultimate power so they can crush the faith out of you.

“The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.”

Karl Marx, Das Kapital

The simple reality is, Marxism begins from a pretext of envy, it is plain dealing covetousness—Born of a lack of personal industry, driving malcontents to seize, rather than build. To redistribute rather than contribute. It all comes down to the lazy individuals desire for money, outstripping the drive to earn it for themselves.

Make no mistake, money is the idol of the left, hence the obsession with controlling it. To Paraphrase Orwell—all-are-equal—but-some-are-more-equal-than-others. Certainly the case in the chronicles of history where the intelligentsia overseeing the proletariat live far better than their “Comrades” n'est-ce pas?


On the other hand God in His Holy Text teaches “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24

So it is no wonder we find men like Mamdani echoing the words of their political and philosophical progenitors—When he offhandedly comments on the importance of “Seizing the means of production” In an interview with the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021. 

As a Christian, the idea of supporting socialism of any kind, or the likes of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or the latest cause célèbre Mamdani, is patently absurd, I believe the Bible, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8

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Unstable Christianity?

One of the earliest Hallelujah moments for me as I began my walk with Christ some thirty odd years ago came as I studied this passage in the Gospel of Saint Luke first chapter:

39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;

40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.

41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

It filled me with joy! The revelation of the nascent John the Baptist in Elizabeth’s womb reacted to merely hearing the voice of the mother of the also nascent Christ—How wonderful the workings of God! This likewise marked the end of my heretofore pro-choice position on the  issue of abortion.

You see, as a Spirit filled Christian, I realized like a thunderbolt from heaven, I could not reconcile the incongruity of a person, woman or otherwise having agency in determining the fruit of her womb's worthiness of the God given gift of  life. It pricks at my heart this is not readily understood by all who claim faith in the child growing in Mary’s womb.

The child growing in Elizabeth’s body was no less John the Baptist than the fellow who shouted; “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.’ The Child in Mary’s body was the same Christ who said; “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

Given modern thought, many would have advised Mary it would have been wise, given the circumstance of Christ’s conception, to “choose” ending her pregnancy. The idea the person growing within her has no right to life. Particularly when one considers His mother lived in an age of dire consequences for adultery, and the views in the day on fornication.

It struck home for me personally as I and my then future wife had made the very “choice ourselves when she became pregnant early in our relationship—I paid to abort what would have been our first child. We allowed our lack of faith at the time to rob us of a blessing, though the child’s origin was outside God’s prescribed order. Marriage, then sexual relations.

It was compounded by my having made the same decision earlier in my life with another woman. It was a decision not made due to a lack of resources, but rather motivated purely out of selfishness and the wish to avoid distasteful scrutiny. I did not see the children as people, just an ill timed inconvenience.

Then one reads Psalms 139:

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

This drove me to repentance, Prostrate I asked the Lord’s forgiveness, He being faithful to His Word , through faith in Him who has forgiven me. By faith in His promises, proven not by blind belief, but by evidences of His actions in my past I take solace in the hope I shall know these offspring robbed of an earthly life in the eternal life to come.

Had I not early in life been a faithless unbeliever, I would have reacted like Joseph did as recorded in Matthew the first chapter:

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.

22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Indeed, hopefully, I would not have fornicated to begin with. Scripture teaches in James the first chapter: Verse eight; “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” This prompts me to ask those who claim Christ as personal savior committed to Him, who still advocate for “Choice” on behalf of "women's rights,"  are you double minded? If not, how do you reconcile this in light of God so often making statements like:

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5, and:

Isaiah 49:1

Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

Galatians 1:15

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

Ephesians 1:4

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

Romans 8:29

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

Isaiah 44:2

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

How do you argue a woman, or any man has the right to undo what God has made? How do you reject participating with God in His acts of creation? How is your wisdom greater than the creator of ALL THINGS? I ask these questions sincerely, as we all must answer for what we have done in the body when we stand before Him. I know I am not the first to make these points, or to posit these questions, yet I am driven to do so in this hour—I do pray we examine ourselves and our choices in light of God’s revelation. It is through these revelations we are able to apprehend the character of God.

Second Timothy Chapter 3, verse 16 states, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness". 

We ALL sin and fall short of the glory of God, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”—Yet we are all called to conform to His Word. We are not citizens of this world and should not follow the ways of the world. We are called to take on the Mind of Christ and to seek His kingdom first. So I ask you, on the question of life, have you gone astray? Can you hear the Good Shepherd's voice? Are you an unstable Christian?

Digitall Publius

Voting For Bondage

The roots of American Black folks slavishly supporting Democrat/Leftist ungodliness are out there—If you care more about truth and doing what’s right, than being right, rubber stamping policies designed to make you feel good, rather than DO good. Black Christians, as I have pointed out in the past, are the largest Christian group who vote Democratic.

Christians who allow their faith to inform their politics, find it difficult, if not impossible to vote for the Democrat Party—This was the case with me when I came to a saving faith in Christ. As I began studying the living Word of God with all of my might, it occurred to me as a mental side note, I could not vote as I had in 1992 for Bill Clinton in the 1996 election.

Simply put, I could not figure out how I could be both a Christian and a Democrat. The gulf between God’s Word and the left’s political platform was simply too wide. Sadly, the gulf has expanded exponentially in the subsequent 30 years. Yet, the majority of Black Christians compartmentalize their faith when they enter the voting booth.

The Black Christian’s politics supersedes the tenets of God—I have heard Black Christians cite the specious idea of a separation of Church and State as often as I hear it from the most virulent, militant atheistic activist. The Democratic Party is never so hostile and frenzied as when they condemn the slightest homage to Devine Providence in the public square. Going so far at the 2012 DNC convention, as to literally boo God when including references to “God” in the Democrat platform was proposed.

So the Democrat Party works to reverse a state’s right to mandate the Ten Commandments in public school class rooms—While decrying school violence. Incapable of acknowledging a sign saying from an Immutable Source, Thou Shall Not Kill, may just serve to lower school mass shootings.

I understand the left’s dilemma, It’s tough teaching our kids to respect life, while advocating for destroying it in the womb. How do you teach reverence for God while telling children He made a mistake when he made them a boy, or a girl? How do you teach them not to lie, or covet, while telling them it’s perfectly normal to discard healthy parts of their growing bodies, so they can appear like the gender they envy?

No, you can’t have those pesky Commandments around, they get in the way of our anti-life agenda. The Democrats are committed to killing babies in the womb and mutilating children so they themselves, can never experience participating in the greatest collaborative creative act, working with God to bring human life into the world. A true blessing.

Yes, the Democrats boisterously gainsay publicly acknowledging our Creator… Until election time rolls around. Then they affect dialects meant to endear themselves to Church congregants  all across the nation. That is Black congregants. I can’t recall a Democrat candidate ever being filmed at a majority white congregation on the political stump. I’m still waiting for a Democrat to whip out a bottle of Lea & Perrins at a White church the way Hillary broke out the Frank’s in the Black church.

Even though the God they proclaim with their lips to serve declares: “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” Psalms 139:13,14  They still side with the Party arguing what grows in a mother’s womb is not human life, and you are not wonderfully made, remake yourself by cutting the bits off you find offensive.

The Democrat strongman has a hold on the Black man’s soul through decades of conditioning and the cooperation of those Margaret Sanger called, silver tongued Black preachers and leaders when she began implementing her “Negro Project.” Folks like Mary McLeod Bethune, W. E. B. DuBois, and Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Is it any wonder why so many Planned Parenthood abortion mills are found in urban areas? WE will support all of the ungodly things the left peddles, as long as they keep promising largesse to the Black community.

The biggest fish Planned Parenthood landed to convince the Black community it was merciful to kill our own babies, was the Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was the first recipient of the Margaret Sanger “Humanitarian” award. The following is an excerpt from his prepared acceptance speech:

“There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess.

There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist — a nonviolent resister. She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her.“

“Obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions.” You somehow “enrich humanity” by destroying it? I am reminded of the Apostle Paul’s words in Romans; “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 left has convinced so many good is evil and evil is good. They don’t want teachers to pray with students, but they are fine with telling them to hide their gender identity from parents. The American flag triggers, the Pride flag uplifts. Sexually explicit books are welcome in elementary school libraries, while parents objecting to children being sexualized are painted as extremists—Further, legislators fighting for parent’s rights are labeled book banners…

We are so committed to the flesh, we are ignoring the spiritual evil being propagated. The left relentlessly, through the media they control, sell the idea Black folks are under racist attack every waking moment of our lives—They get us to co-sign the most ungodly things with our vote. Is it any wonder they have convinced us not to replace ourselves in society by embracing every anti-life agenda known to man?

But hey, no more mean tweets! We may be paying more for everything, but at least our sons will be able to castrate themselves in the most humane way possible. Orange man and Project 2025 bad—Drag Queen Story Hour good. It’s not about being a “One issue voter,” It’s about demonstrable good and evil.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Ephesians 5:11

Digital Publius