Wednesday, September 15, 2021

 

WHAT NOW?  WHAT POSSIBLY CAN BE EXPECTED?

The recall election result of Mr. Newsome was easy to predict due to the fact that the State of California is run by Democrats and the greater population for California resides in Southern California where the people for the most part, are democrats, and uphold the Democrat’s ideology.  We saw the same upholding of Democrat’s ideology in the last presidential election; we should not be surprised.  What now?  What can possibly be expected?

          What now?  Should a person, or family, leave California thinking that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, or state line.  That is a distinct and possibly a very good solution to what possibly can be expected.  It is a good decision if a person does their studies to ensure that wherever they go they are not changing one thing for another.  Let’s look deeper!

          Are there examples that shows what possibly might be expected?  A person does not have to look any further than down under in Australia and New Zealand.  I spoke to a young lady at the Sundial Bridge one day recently who was from Australia and attending a school here in Redding and I heard all about Australia and she quickly stated how grateful she was to be in the United States due to all the lockdown, government control over people, where it is now a totalitarian country and the freedom for the people is all but gone.  Who thought that any nation would become so totalitarian and smacks of George Orwell’s book: 1984.  If you had not read it, I suggest that you do so that you can be forewarned of the possibility that we might expect.  Look at other nations beyond Australia and New Zealand to some of the European countries, and other nations that are becoming more and more totalitarian.

          There are two choices: 1.  You can leave the state.  2.  You can stay and fight!  This is your choice and neither one if not done cannot be used to accuse you: we do have free choice!  I am reminded that the American people no matter what difference they may have between themselves have one thing that cannot be taken away from them and that is the willingness to fight for freedom and independence.  Some may be asleep and have fallen into complacency but that will end when the government attempts to take away their freedom and independence; and may not look like that the moment but history tells us a different story.

          The men and women of 1776 fought against the tyranny of Great Britain and fought for freedom and independence against a mighty army and they were only farmers, some gentlemen, and a small militia, through snow, frozen rivers, smallpox, lack of food, even a lack of clothing, stood firm against this tyranny who wanted to make them as servants to their country.  They fought and won, furthermore they wrote the greatest document for any government and nation and that was the Bill of Rights, and our Constitution.  Today, even here in the United States, in our state of California, there is an onslaught by those who wish to destroy what was fought and won by our forefathers.  The push to require a vaccination or lose your rights cannot be upheld by our constitution and can be only upheld if you do not stand fight whether you stay in California or whether or not you leave.  The fight is national.  Of course, a husband and wife with children have a responsibility to protect their children at all costs.  And if this means to leave the state; leave!

          What now?  The Democrats who have rule upon the state of California have not attempted to improve our infrastructure, and to remove the homeless who are infecting our cities, allowing criminals to be freed, and allowing illegals to enter our state.  Businesses have failed, schools have been allowed to teach theories against our Constitution will continue if we do not fight.  I am not speaking of an armed rebellion, necessarily, only about that it is the last resort and we’re far from that at the moment but we can fight by voting properly for freedom and independence and for the removal of those whose ideology is totalitarian, socialism, and even possibly Communism.  Teach your children the truth about our nation and our freedoms and independence.  Be involved both in your local communities, our state and even our nation, show them what it means to be a citizen of the State of California in this case, and our nation.

          We have been forewarned, the book of 1984, an important read, and we have the examples of New Zealand and Australia and even some nations in the European continent.  Complacency, lethargy, apathy, have no place in your life because we are in a fight for our lives and for the lives of our progeny, our neighbors, our citizens of the United States.  If you don’t think it can’t happen here, just look around.

          What now?  That is up to you!  What can you possibly expect?  You know the answer to that question!

Thursday, September 9, 2021

 

Wrath of God: A Mystery

Who can stand before His indignation?

Who can endure His anger?

His wrath is poured out like fire,

The rocks are broken asunder by Him.

(Nahum 1:6)

          People are prone to dwell upon passages that seem to conform to their views and predilections.  Christians often disregard the harsh words of God, His grave threats, His relentless commands and His words of doom; Christians would rather stand for the virtues of God, especially those virtues we would like to see in human beings.  To avoid these harsh words, those passages in regards to the anger of God, some Christians recoil, and some treat those harsh words allegorical, some are repelled by those words.  To use allegory or a metonymy in regards God’s wrath as a synonym for punishment, is to misread authentic meaning, to misrepresent Biblical thought.  To experience God’s anger and believing you were provoked by God is to make an attempt to adjust, or to shift, to evade the true nature of God’s wrath.  The passions of anger, or wrath is often pictured as sinister, a malignant passion, or an evil force, and must be suppressed under all circumstances.  The truth, is that those features, extraneous solution and exuberance an overflowing and your enjoyment or approval, are not the essence of God.  In regards to man can be a blessing, but more often is fatal, especially reprehensible when it is associated with malice, and fraught with danger.  Anger can cause a person to surrender and capitulate unrestrained, and will end in disaster.  On the other hand, the absence of anger deprives a person of their strength or efficiency making them useless or worthless as to their moral sensibility.  Patients, equality of holiness, apathy, activity in the practice of virtue in the soul if it is not associated with righteous indignation, will have a poor outcome.  Therefore, if the anger is to be a blessing it must be a righteous anger, righteous indignation:

“He who follows righteousness and mercy

Finds life, righteousness, and honor.”

(Proverbs 21:21)

God’s anger cannot be accounted to be unpredictable or irrational.  God’s anger is never a spontaneous outburst, but a reaction occasioned by the conduct of man.  The love of God in His relation to man is not indiscriminate an outpouring of good, given by the condition and merit of the recipient, rather it is an intimate sensibility, manifesting itself in His sensitive and manifold reactions.  God is a righteous judge, and righteous indignation is part of Him:

“God is a righteous Judge,

a God Who has indignation everyday.”

(Psalm 7:11).

          The anger of man has only one view in the end; vindictiveness, vengeance, and to prove their rightness.  It is not that there is not the cause for anger but that anger must be held in check if it is not righteous indignation for that anger.  God’s wrath in anger has one end in view; redemption and salvation.

          In our world today, especially here in the United States it is easy to become full of anger due to poor governmental decisions and mandates.  It is easy to desire that your anger be satisfied, and cause you to act in ways that may seem a right answer to your anger, only to have another poor government to be in charge over you.  It is OK to be angry, or mad, but that anger or madness must be held in check by a righteous indignation causing you to make ways to overcome the evil that you see against the citizens of the United States.  Your anger must be better than just for you to be satisfied.  God’s anger was His desire for His people to return to Him.  Are you not satisfied with our government?  If so, become active and intentional to rectify this problem of poor government.  You have representatives, those that you hired to do work for you, to contact and in today’s world it is easy with e-mail.  There are town meetings, or even with local government there are meetings at City Hall that you should be aware of or attend.  When the time comes to vote, this is a time for you to make a change.  We do not take up arms and go to physical warfare with bullets and bombs and hand grenades, no, that was necessary in 1776, but it is not necessary today because our fight is within ourselves not against another government.  The time for talk is over!  The time for action is now!  Will you allow God with His righteous indignation leads you so that your anger in wrath has a basis of righteous indignation and are using God’s law, principals, commands, that tell us how we are to satisfy our danger and our wrath.  Beware of others who wish to fight, not with words, but with military armor.  We’re not pacifist, but we are followers of Jesus Christ, He is our leader, and if the person who is leading you not a true follower of Jesus Christ, get away from that leader.  Christians make up the majority religion in the United States, therefore, let is join together in prayer, in worship, in legal action.

“Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says Jehovah, of hosts:

‘My cities shall again spread out through prosperity;

Jehovah will again comfort Zion,

And will again choose Jerusalem.’”

(Zechariah 1:17)