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Amy Grant & LGBTQ Spiritual Infection


John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© December 23, 2022

On December 18 I posted, “A Sooooo Corrupt Society”. In the intro portions of that post I shared the sad state of corruption afflicting the U.S. Government and American Churches (sadly the full spectrum of Christianity in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Rite [Orthodox] and Protestantism). Looking at the Church aspect, Cultural Marxism is a devilish spiritual virus blinding Christians to the Word (essentially the Will) of God and Biblical Morality. Here’s a paragraph of note:

UNFORTUNATELY, the same corruption diluting the U.S. Constitution has also began to sway leadership in organized Christian Churches leading too many so-called Ministers of the Gospel to question the efficacy and validity of God’s very Word leading to such anti-God Marxism as Liberation Theology among Catholics and among Protestants the tenets of Critical Race Theory (HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE)  and Black Liberation Theology (HERE & HERE). Much of which cancels the Plan of Salvation in Christ and Biblical Morality leading only to forced acceptance of Humanist salvation and Humanist morality.

You might ask, “Why the rehash?”

I became a Christian in 1978. God knows I am not perfect and yet God also knows when I missed His Mark I strive to correct my path. In case you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of years between 1978 and 2022 (nearly 2023). I’ve had more course corrections than I’d like to share in a divided and “Sooooo Corrupt Society”. There are way too many “I’ll be the first to cast a stone” of condemnation than I wish to deal with.

It’s important for me to share my personal journey has hit the ditch a few times over the decades because I’m about to share a disappointment I have with a very public Christian figure I have admired as an inspiration in those so early years of my Born Again beginnings.

I have discovered on the WND news service that Contemporary Christian artist Amy Grant is allowing the performance of a same-sex wedding of her niece on the family farm.

I understand trying to find supportive bonds among family, but it is disappointing to view a person of Grant’s stature choosing to ignore Biblical Morality in the name of family or possibly worse, selecting an anti-God Secular Humanist moral relativism as the justification for validating LGBTQ perversion. Amy Grant is quoted using God’s love by twisting it mean acceptance of sin, or at least it appears that way to me (quoted from WND):

When Amy was interviewed by PrideSource.com, she said, “I know the religious community has not been very welcoming … but with God everybody is welcome. Everybody!”

On Proud Radio she said, “It’s so important to set a welcoming table … you’re loved. Gay. Straight. It doesn’t matter. … It doesn’t matter how we behave. It doesn’t matter how we’re wired.”

Amy says, “God simply wants us to love Him and love each other.”

Somewhere along Grant’s journey she forgot or unlearned God’s Love brought God incarnated as a human to the pay the price redeeming humanity from sin to restore the God-human relationship in Believing in the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus. God’s Love is Restoration NOT acceptance of God-separating sin.

18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” (Bold Emphasis Blog Editor’s) –John 3: 18-21 NKJV

Too often people quote John 3: 16 failing to read what follows.

The Old Testament penalty for the LGBTQ lifestyle is quite harsh and involves a death penalty. The Redemptive work of Jesus the Son of God allows for Repentance and Restoration blotting out the sin and the penalty for sin. Redemption makes the Believer a New Creation in Christ Jesus. Your human spirit – my human spirit – became newly created the old man (or old person to the pronoun addicts) died and the new man or person is now a new human spirit. Romans 6: 6-7; 2 Corinthians 5: 17 NKJV:

Romans

6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been [b]freed from sin.

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Footnotes

a. Romans 6:6 rendered inoperative

b. Romans 6:7 cleared

2 Corinthians

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  

In Christ we have a new human spirit residing in an unredeemed mortal body. It’s only by constantly inputting God’s Word (His Will) does our new creation spirit overcome the desires of our unredeemed bodies. In my case it was my measuring stick to answer why I strayed into a ditch off the straight and narrow. How does one get out of the ditch:

1 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. –1 John 1: 6-10 NKJV

My disappointment in Amy Grant is she has tossed decades of influential worship music to be blinded by the demonic virus that promotes acceptance of the ungodly and immoral LGBTQ lifestyle as if it is something God is okay with in the name of love. The problem is that LGBTQ love is NOT the God-kind of love in His Holy Word.

Below are two WND posts from December 20 and 21 reporting from a Biblical perspective on Amy Grant hosting her LGBTQ niece’s wedding on her farm.

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Amy Grant to host gay wedding: Does this honor God?

Larry Tomczak: ‘One’s music can inspire millions; one’s example can mislead multitudes’

Amy Grant (Video screenshot)

By Larry Tomczak

December 20, 2022 7:12pm

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“Honor marriage and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband.” – Hebrews 13:14 MSG

[Author’s note (Tomczak): I attempted to give this article to Amy prior to publishing. She declined to read it, saying, “Even if I am misrepresented; even if I am in the wrong, God knows my heart.” Having reviewed the article first with five senior leaders, including Dr. Michael Brown and one of Amy’s original pastors, we pray and entrust this to God.]

Months ago, Joe Biden hosted a gathering with gay icon Elton John and 2,000 LGBTQ celebrants on the White House lawn. If I had been invited, I would’ve attended to evangelize just as I have at 20-plus gay pride events.

In situations like this, it’s extremely important to discern God’s will. If I were a new convert, knew there’d be nudity, drugs and revelry, struggled with same-sex attraction or if I was younger and prohibited by my parents, I wouldn’t go.

Apart from a strategic LGBTQ outreach, could I envision ever hosting a homosexual/lesbian event at my church or on my property? I wouldn’t do it.

A news story recently stated that Christian music legend Amy Grant was hosting a niece’s gay wedding at her farm. I believe she’s doing this sincerely as a goodwill gesture, but it’s generating understandable concern about its appropriateness and what it communicates. Having ministered with Amy in the past at “Jesus Festival” events, I know she is a loving person.

What Would Jesus Do?

Iconic Christian leader Charles Spurgeon cautioned, “Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It’s knowing the difference between right and almost right.”

The Bible directs us to “examine all things, hold fast to that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21) and exhibit maturity, demonstrated by “discerning between good and evil” (Hebrews 5:14).

God wants our “love to abound more and more with knowledge and discernment so that we may approve what is the best” (Philippians 1:9-10).

Amy said recently, “There’s many things I don’t understand about God.” Perhaps the beauty of His holiness with His love is one of them.

The Back Story

A young man openly shared his sad story of being abused and later “coming out” as a homosexual. On Proud Radio, he explained how a “counselor told him it didn’t matter how he got to being gay and that there wasn’t a glory spout to turn on to make him straight … so he left the church that didn’t accept his lifestyle and went out into the world to be gay. …’and to hear Amy say that I am welcome at God’s table as a gay man is so affirming.'”

The young man with his new gay identity now prefers to refer to God as a female. “I call God ‘She’ to fight the patriarchy.”

When Amy was interviewed by PrideSource.com, she said, “I know the religious community has not been very welcoming … but with God everybody is welcome. Everybody!”

On Proud Radio she said, “It’s so important to set a welcoming table … you’re loved. Gay. Straight. It doesn’t matter. … It doesn’t matter how we behave. It doesn’t matter how we’re wired.”

Amy says, “God simply wants us to love Him and love each other.”

The Basics – ABC

A reasonable question: “Is this another ‘crossover’ move, similar to when Amy crossed over from “Contemporary Christian Music” (CCM) to a more “pop culture” genre? Let’s examine the situation from a purely biblical worldview, resolving not to accommodate culture but align with sacred Scripture.

A. Affirm God’s Design

The entire Bible unambiguously defines God’s design for marriage to be one man and one woman (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:31).

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths” (2 Timothy 4:3–4).

B. Believe and Behave

A combination of charity and clarity is essential in communicating that a homosexual lifestyle is directly contradicting Scripture where there is not one verse that endorses it. God’s Word prohibits it plus conveys hope and transformation for those struggling in it (see 1 Corinthians 6:9-11). God’s help comes when those struggling admit their problem. A homosexual man asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “What do I do with my problem?” He helped him to freedom because “he admitted he had a problem.” Only then could he help him with a solution (see Bullseye Challenge, chapters 18-20).

Jesus Christ stated unequivocally, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord and not do what I say?” (Luke 6.46). Loving God and obeying His Word are nonnegotiable. The Bible warns us of those who practice sinful homosexual/lesbian acts (Romans 1:25-28) and then “give hearty approval to those who practice them” (verse 32).

Jesus engaged compassionately with sinners but did not excuse sin (Samaritan woman, John 4:1-18, and the woman caught in adultery, John 8:1-11). He said, “Go and sin no more.” We’re called to do likewise, conveying acceptance of the person but not approving of his or her sin.

We affirm God’s unconditional acceptance (welcoming us into relationship when we “repent and believe”), but there is no unconditional approval of behavior contrary to what God prohibits. Jesus’ directive to Paul was “to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, in order that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me” (Acts 26:18).

C. Consider Example

“Be holy, blameless and above reproach” (Colossians 1:22), not without sin but not bringing shame on the Body of Christ or disgrace to the Name of Jesus. “Whoever misleads one of these little ones who believe in Me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung about his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).

“Not many of you should become teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment” (James 3:1). This is serious stuff!

Billy Graham, one of Amy’s and my heroes, mentioned in his less mature years foolishly going into an English pub (drinking a nonalcoholic beverage), then seeing a photo of his visit prominently featured in England’s newspapers to discredit his reputation, impact the crusade plus possibly cause some to stumble.

Billy would never be seen alone in public with another woman other than his wife. When Hillary Clinton once requested a private meeting, he declined, asking her understanding so as not to ever adversely influence others.

When King Saul committed suicide, David lamented but took pains to handle the tragedy discreetly, directing women not to report the scandal in public to avoid bringing reproach on the Name of the Lord (2 Samuel 1:17-20).

We will give an account if we influence others wrongly. One’s music can inspire millions; one’s example can mislead multitudes. Youth are especially vulnerable to LGBTQ propagandists who “promise freedom while they themselves are slaves to depravity” (2 Peter 2:19).

Here’s the deal: As we humbly seek God’s guidance, may the Good Shepherd “lead us in paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake” (Psalm 23:3).

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Amy Grant hosting same-sex wedding, now Christians schooling her on ‘sin’

Pop star coming under heavy fire from Franklin Graham, other believers

Amy Grant (Video screenshot)

By Bob Unruh

December 21, 2022 3:12pm

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Pop star Amy Grant, whose early years in the music industry had her focus on Christian music, recently announced that she is allowing a same-sex wedding, involving a family member, on her farm.

Which prompted noted evangelist Franklin Graham, the chief of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the worldwide Christian ministry Samaritan’s Purse, to remind her of something biblical.

“God defines what is sin, not us; and His Word is clear that homosexuality is sin,” he said in a social-media statement. “We have all sinned, and in order to have a relationship with God and spend eternity with Him in Heaven, we must turn from our sin and put our faith in His Son, Jesus, Christ, who came to earth to die for our sins.”

Grant has adopted the secular concept that love is love and all love is the same. [Blog Editor Bold Emphasis: Example of anti-God Secular Humanist moral relativism.]

She said, “Jesus, you just narrowed it down to two things: Love God & love each other.”

In a new WND column, bestselling author Larry Tomczak said of the situation: “We will give an account if we influence others wrongly. One’s music can inspire millions; one’s example can mislead multitudes. Youth are especially vulnerable to LGBTQ propagandists who ‘promise freedom while they themselves are slaves to depravity'” (2 Peter 2:19).

The Western Journal also delivered a Bible lesson to Grant.

“God’s Word admonishes us many times that one cannot serve both God and man. … James 4:4 states, ‘You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.'”

The commentary charged, “Christian music icon Amy Grant should take this verse into serious consideration as she continues to use her vast platform to support godless perspectives.”

It cited her “announcement regarding her intent, along with her country music star husband Vince Gill, to co-host the same-sex wedding of her niece…”

The Western Journal noted, “According to ChurchLeaders.com, this is not the first time Grant has openly supported homosexuality and the LGBT community. … ChurchLeaders cited a 2013 interview Grant did with the pro-gay news site ‘PrideSource,’ in which she referred to Christians who abide by God’s Word with regard to homosexuality as ‘the religious community.'”

She said, “I know that the religious community has not been very welcoming, but I just want to stress that the journey of faith brings us into community, but it’s really about one relationship. The journey of faith is just being willing and open to have a relationship with God. And everybody is welcome. Everybody.”

And, the commentary noted, “ChurchLeaders cited an even more disturbing interview that Grant gave with ‘Proud Radio’ host Hunter Kelly in 2021. It ‘doesn’t matter how we behave. It doesn’t matter how we’re wired,’ Grant said. ‘We’re all our best selves when we believe to our core, ‘I’m loved.’ And then our creativity flourishes,’ stated Grant.”

The Western Journal said, “Grant is heavily implying here that people are born gay in how they are ‘wired’ and dangerously believes that our acts and behaviors have no impact on our standing with God. She is also implying that those afflicted with homosexual urges should not feel any kind of conviction to repent and turn from their sin so long as they believe that they are ‘loved.'”

The publication, like Graham, warned Grant, “Indeed, we are loved by a God who sent His only Son, while we were yet His enemies, to die for our sins so we might be reconciled with the Father. But God cannot tolerate sin and its deliberate practice under the twisted guise of ‘love.'”

Graham added, “If we love God, we will seek to obey His Word. Jesus told us, ‘If you love Me, keep My commandments’ (John 14:15). … The Bible says, ‘Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out,’ (Acts 3:19). For me, loving others also means caring about their souls and where they will spend eternity. It means loving people enough to tell them the truth from the Word of God. The authority of God’s Word is something we can never compromise on.”

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Agreeing With God is Always the Wise Move


John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© November 17, 2022

If one rightly divides the Word of God according to the Almighty’s original intent rather than Woke/Leftist theologians trying to fabricate alternative meaning through either deceptive word-tricks or downright human lying; the LGBTQ lifestyle is an unwholesome abomination to the Will of God (meaning God didn’t make anyone LGBTQ – It was choice). God’s clarity (Leviticus 18: 22; 20: 13; Romans 1: 18-19, 26-28 NKJV):

Leviticus

18 22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

20 13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

Romans

1 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who [a]suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is [b]manifest [c]in them, for God has shown it to them.

Footnotes

a. Romans 1:18 hold down

b. Romans 1:19 evident

c. Romans 1:19 among

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their [a]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the [b]men, leaving the natural use of the [c]woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Footnotes

a. Romans 1:26 Lit. females

b. Romans 1:27 Lit. males

c. Romans 1:27 Lit. female

So, now enter the Leftists-Globalists (and the brainwashed) imposing societal-cultural transformation demanding that all who agree with God Almighty are bigots.

Which brings to a post I read at CBN News: ‘The Battle Is HIS’: Candace Cameron Bure’s Daughter Defends Mom Amid Attacks Over Celebrity’s Christian Faith.

I agree with God. Candace Cameron Bure agrees with God. AND God Almighty is a majority of ONE, regardless of how many humans claim God is wrong.

The back story is Bure departed from the Hallmark network over embracing the godless LGBTQ and moved to the Great American Family (GAF) making actual family values movies.

Below is the cross post.

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‘The Battle Is HIS’: Candace Cameron Bure’s Daughter Defends Mom Amid Attacks Over Celebrity’s Christian Faith

Candace Cameron Bure – Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

By Tré Goins-Phillips, Faithwire

November 16, 2022

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The daughter of Christian actor Candace Cameron Bure is coming to the celebrity’s defense as the star faces intense ridicule for sharing her faith in a recent interview.

“The Lord blessed me with the best parents I could’ve ever asked for,” wrote Natasha Bure, “raising us up in the Word of God and bringing glory to HIS name. I don’t know where I’d be without both of them.”

[Blog Editor: I don’t do Instagram to embed as CBN News did. Below is a Web Capture of Natasha Bure’s Instagram post appearing on CBN News]

In a newly published interview with the Wall Street Journal, the elder Bure celebrated her move to Great American Family, a Hallmark Channel competitor led by former Crown Media executive Bill Abbott.

She told the WSJ, “I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.” At another point, Bure acknowledged that — unlike Hallmark, which is leaning into LGBTQ storylines — GAF “will keep traditional marriage at the core.”

The backlash against Bure began almost immediately.

Hilarie Burton of “One Tree Hill” fame ridiculed Bure as a “bigot” and former “Dance Moms” star JoJo Siwa wrote in an Instagram post: “I can’t believe after everything that went down just a few months ago, that she would not only create a movie with intention of excluding LGBTQIA+, but then also talk about it in the press. This is rude and hurtful to a whole community of people.” [Blog Editor: Boohoo for a community embracing Godlessness. It’s never too late! Repent! Embrace the forgiveness embodied in Christ’s Redemptive work.]

Bure’s former “Full House” co-star Jodie Sweetin commented on Siwa’s post, writing, “You know I love you.”

The attacks against Bure’s faith have been cruel and consistent, but her daughter’s love for her mother is evident.

In addition to her Instagram post, the younger Bure heaped praise on her mom in an Instagram Story after a follower asked her to share her “favorite thing about your mama.”

“How much she loves Jesus and how firm in her faith she stands,” wrote Natasha Bure. “She is bold. She is kind. She is so creative and has one of the greatest hearts. I look up to her in many, many ways. [I] continuously feel blessed that God gave me her as my Mama.”

As for Bure’s career, the 46-year-old star is set to debut 18 Christmas movies on GAF this holiday season. Her first new film, “A Christmas… Present,” is set to premiere Nov. 27.

She left Hallmark for Great American Family earlier this year and now serves as the burgeoning network’s chief content officer, producing — and starring in — film projects across the channel.

When Bure first announced her partnership with GAF in April, she said in a statement she was “very excited to develop heartwarming family and faith-filled programming and make the kind of stories my family and I love to watch.”

“[GAF] fits my brand perfectly,” she continued. “We share a vision of creating compelling wholesome content for an audience who wants to watch programming for and with the whole family. Great, quality entertainment with a positive message is what my partnership with [GAF] is all about.”

Bure said her goal is to strike a balance between faith-focused and family-friendly entertainment that will be appealing to believers and unbelievers alike.

“I want to be able to tell that story in a beautiful way, but also that is not off-putting to the unbeliever or someone who shares a different faith,” she added.

Please pray for Bure and her family as she faces condemnation for her faith.

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Wake-Up to God’s ORIGINAL INTENT When Voting


John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© October 5, 2022

Regardless of the Christian beginnings of this post, the bulk of the thoughts deal Antisemitism and the wonderment to why Jews might support modern perpetrators of Antisemitism in America.

I’m a supporter of Biblical Morality and Biblical Christianity. I was sad to discover that search engines (and not just Google) have become so warped by Secular Humanism they ignore the standard Biblical interpretation in favor of placing website toward the top justifying sin as normal. The homosexual sin was my first test search. Indeed, search engines appear to me to be so complicit to twisting Biblical wording to justify sin as normal rather than the ORIGINAL INTENT (boy that sounds familiar) of the CREATOR of ALL that exists. So here I focus on the CREATOR’s ORIGINAL INTENT rather than man-made word twisting justifying sin as acceptable. For Christians to contemplate primarily from Chapter 2 of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John (Revelation 1: 11; 2 – Amplified Bible, Classic Edition):

Revelation 1:11

11 Saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. Write promptly what you see (your vision) in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

Revelation Chapter 2

2 To the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him Who holds the seven stars [which are the messengers of the seven churches] in His right hand, Who goes about among the seven golden lampstands [which are the seven churches]:

2 I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance, and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men] and have tested and critically appraised those who call [themselves] apostles (special messengers of Christ) and yet are not, and have found them to be impostors and liars.

3 I know you are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and you have not fainted or become exhausted or grown weary.

4 But I have this [one charge to make] against you: that you have left (abandoned) the love that you had at first [you have deserted Me, your first love].

5 Remember then from what heights you have fallen. Repent (change the inner man to meet God’s will) and do the works you did previously [when first you knew the Lord], or else I will visit you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you change your mind and repent.

6 Yet you have this [in your favor and to your credit]: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans [what they are doing as corrupters of the people], which I Myself also detest.

7 He who is able to hear, let him listen to and give heed to what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches). To him who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant to eat [of the fruit] of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

8 And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, Who died and came to life again:

9 I know your affliction and distress and pressing trouble and your poverty—but you are rich! and how you are abused and reviled and slandered by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

10 Fear nothing that you are about to suffer. [Dismiss your dread and your fears!] Behold, the devil is indeed about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested and proved and critically appraised, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be loyally faithful unto death [even if you must die for it], and I will give you the crown of life.

11 He who is able to hear, let him listen to and heed what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches). He who overcomes (is victorious) shall in no way be injured by the second death.

12 Then to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Pergamum write: These are the words of Him Who has and wields the sharp two-edged sword:

13 I know where you live—a place where Satan sits enthroned. [Yet] you are clinging to and holding fast My name, and you did not deny My faith, even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed (martyred) in your midst—where Satan dwells.

14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: you have some people there who are clinging to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a trap and a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, [to entice them] to eat food that had been sacrificed to idols and to practice lewdness [giving themselves up to sexual vice].

15 You also have some who in a similar way are clinging to the teaching of the Nicolaitans [those corrupters of the people] which thing I hate.

16 Repent [then]! Or else I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

17 He who is able to hear, let him listen to and heed what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches). To him who overcomes (conquers), I will give to eat of the manna that is hidden, and I will give him a white stone with a new name engraved on the stone, which no one knows or understands except he who receives it.

18 And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, Who has eyes that flash like a flame of fire, and Whose feet glow like bright and burnished and white-hot bronze:

19 I know your record and what you are doing, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your recent works are more numerous and greater than your first ones.

20 But I have this against you: that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and who is teaching and leading astray my servants and beguiling them into practicing sexual vice and eating food sacrificed to idols.

21 I gave her time to repent, but she has no desire to repent of her immorality [symbolic of idolatry] and refuses to do so.

22 Take note: I will throw her on a bed [[a]of anguish], and those who commit adultery with her [her paramours] I will bring down to [b]pressing distress and severe affliction, unless they turn away their minds from conduct [such as] hers and repent of [c]their doings.

23 And I will strike her children (her proper followers) dead [thoroughly exterminating them]. And all the assemblies (churches) shall recognize and understand that I am He Who searches minds (the thoughts, feelings, and purposes) and the [inmost] hearts, and I will give to each of you [the reward for what you have done] as your work deserves.

24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not explored and known the depths of Satan, as they say—I tell you that I do not lay upon you any other [fresh] burden:

25 Only hold fast to what you have until I come.

26 And he who overcomes (is victorious) and who obeys My commands to the [very] end [doing the works that please Me], I will give him authority and power over the nations;

27 And he shall rule them with a sceptre (rod) of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, and [his power over them shall be] like that which I Myself have received from My Father;

28 And I will give him the Morning Star.

29 He who is able to hear, let him listen to and heed what the [Holy] Spirit says to the assemblies (churches).

Footnotes

a. Revelation 2:22 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

b. Revelation 2:22 Literal translation.

c. Revelation 2:22 Many ancient manuscripts so read.

Way too many people slip into Antisemitism and castigate ALL Jews for the tendency of far too many Jews embracing the Globalist-Marxist-Pseudo-Fascist dictates of the WEF on an international scale and the Leftist Democratic Party (now closer to Marxism than anyone would have conceived during the days of JFK or Senator Scoop Jackson and a few others). To those condemning ALL Jews for the choices of Left-Wing Jews (Jews by heritage ONLY and not by Covenant), shame on you!

If you are a Dem-Marxist voting individual, you might not realize you are voting for issues contrary to specific Torah Law issues which in essence separates a Jew from the Torah-Covenant made by the mediator Moses between God Almighty and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

UNFORTUNATELY, I suspect the same kind of Word-twisting employed to fool Christians on the CREATOR’s ORIGINAL INTENT also is disseminated to fool Jews. The following quotes are from The Complete Jewish Bible by Chabad.org:

Homosexuality

Leviticus – Vayikra 18: 22

22You shall not lie down with a male, as with a woman: this is an abomination.

Leviticus – Vayikra 20: 13

13And a man who lies with a male as one would with a woman both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon themselves.

Pushing Gender Identity Issues among Children Undermines Parental Authority

Exodus – Shemot 20: 12

12Honor your father and your mother, in order that your days be lengthened on the land that the Lord, your God, is giving you.

Deuteronomy – Devarim 5: 16

16Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God commanded you, in order that your days be lengthened, and that it may go well with you on the land that the Lord, your God, is giving you.

According to Dennis Prager:

“Parental authority (as much as divine authority) is probably the greatest single obstacle to the Left attaining control over a society. Therefore, the Left, like all totalitarian movements and like all cults, has always sought to undermine parental authority. That is precisely what has been taking place in America over the past few generations. In every case, the diminution of parents’ authority over their children is portrayed as reasonable and even morally necessary, but the end is clear: Allow left-wing laws and institutions to direct your children.”

The Fundamental Human Distinction – TWO Genders created: Male and Female NOT Innumerable Genders

Genesis – Bereshit 5: 1–2

1This is the narrative of the generations of man; on the day that God created man, in the likeness of God He created him.

2Male and female He created them, and He blessed them, and He named them man (Adam) on the day they were created.

Abortion – I’ve noticed among Jews the wisdom of the Talmud (which a kind of Torah commentary) is sometimes given more weight than the ORIGINAL wording of the Torah. Talmud scholars cannot seem to agree on the literalness of Exodus 21: 22-25 with many scholar leaning toward a dilution of the Torah penalty. I don’t depend on the Talmud, so you can guess where I stand.

Exodus – Shemot 21: 22-25

22And should men quarrel and hit a pregnant woman, and she miscarries but there is no fatality, he shall surely be punished, when the woman’s husband makes demands of him, and he shall give [restitution] according to the judges’ [orders].

23But if there is a fatality, you shall give a life for a life,

24an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

25a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.

When the laws of men are held in higher esteem than the Covenant of the Creator, Jewish red flags should be raised.

Deuteronomy – Devarim 6: 1-7

1This is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances that the Lord, your God, commanded to teach you, to perform in the land into which you are about to pass, to possess it.

2In order that you fear the Lord, your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments that I command you, you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life, and in order that your days may be lengthened.

3And you shall, [therefore,] hearken, O Israel, and be sure to perform, so that it will be good for you, and so that you may increase exceedingly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, spoke to you, a land flowing with milk and honey.

4Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God; the Lord is one. [Blog Editor: In full disclosure this is where Jewish adherents to Covenant have a problem with Trinitarian Christians. Most Jews have a difficulty with the Three Persons (Father, Son & Holy Spirit) are ONE Godhead Christian concept. To which I can respond time will tell when the Messiah returns in hopefully religious Jews and Biblical Christians recognize without any present day brow beating persecution as Christians did in history.]

5And you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your means.

6And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart.

7And you shall teach them to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Returning to the idea that religious Jews who support the Dem-Marxist Party principles might desire to change that support. If you are not a religious Jew but proud of your Jewish heritage, YOU too might to re-seek a Covenant status. If you have not noticed, Antisemitism is rearing its ugly head again. There is actually a mapping project that wants to track where Jews are located. If German and European Jews who just wanted Gentile acceptance would have been more forceful to the designs of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution, perhaps the Holocaust could have been avoided. Jews SHOULD WONDER OUTLOUD what kind of purpose mapping Jewish locations serve!

CBN News has the story. I could not embed the very important CBN video, but you should watch: https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/video/?video=613551

Sadly, the CBN News article tries to play a balancing act between what the article calls Far Left Antisemites and Far Right Antisemites. No doubt much of the interview information comes from the Faux-Elected Biden Coup Administration. If you ask a Dem-Marxist any Conservative-Patriot supporting the ORIGINALIST Constitution or Trump-style America First or the MAGA Movement are called Far Right racists. AND THAT IS A BLATANT PROPAGANDA LIE! The Far Right Jew-Haters are typically Neo-Nazis, KKK, Skin Heads, and that kind of ilk which actual Conservative-Patriots shun like an actual plague rather than the made-up Plandemic lies fostered on Sheeple.

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‘Tremendous Anxiety in the Jewish Community’: US Jews Targeted by Anti-Semitic ‘Mapping Project’

The Mapping Project video screen capture

By Heather Sells

October 3, 2022

CBN News

BOSTON, MA – Jews in the US are becoming more concerned for their safety and for good reason. In addition to growing violence, a new way of targeting them is underway.

Creators of The Mapping Project have developed an interactive website that seeks to expose those who support the colonization of Palestine by revealing the names and addresses of close to 500 organizations and individuals in Massachusetts, many who are Jewish.

Rob Leikind, the regional director for the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in New England, is listed and he’s sounding the alarm, alongside a host of other Jewish advocates and community and regional leaders in the Boston area.

“There’s tremendous anxiety in the Jewish community,” Leikind told CBN News. “This is a moment where people feel like things have changed.”

Ellie Cohanim, the former deputy special envoy on anti-Semitism at the State Department says the map puts Jewish individuals and institutions at risk. “This is coming at a time when there is a rise in anti-Semitic incidents and attacks all across the country,” she said.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) tracks anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assault in the US. Last year, it recorded 2,717 incidents, a 34 percent increase from 2020 and the highest number since it began tracking in 1979.

The American Jewish Committee states that one in four American Jews have been the target of anti-Semitism in the last 12 months. Those included physical attacks, verbal harassment and online targeting.

The AJC calls it a severe problem, requiring urgent attention.

Leikind notes that history is repeating itself. “The anti-Semitism which after the Holocaust was kind of an obscenity, today is becoming normalized again. That people who have those ideas, who kept them to themselves now feel increasingly comfortable expressing them,” he said.

Jewish advocates like the AJC see the threat coming from both the extreme left and the extreme right. For example, in 2018 far right white supremacist ideology motivated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter to kill eleven people.

Leikind explains the disturbing line of thought.

“Jews are somehow the engineers behind a vast conspiracy to turn America into mud people. We’re race mixing, all of a sudden going to turn this country into a homogenous country where white people will no longer exist. That idea sounds crazy to many of us,” he noted. “But it now has a fairly substantial audience.”

On the left, there’s anti-Zionism which leads to anti-Semitism say Jewish advocates.

“The notion that Israel is the worst place on earth,” Leikind explained. “That Israel is the exemplar of all that is bad with the nation state, with nationalism, that Israel is the avatar of modern colonialism.”

Cohanim points out a trend in Europe where attacks on Jews increase when there’s conflict in Israel. That’s now happening in the US, most recently during Israel’s conflicts with Gaza.

“We had caravans of Palestinian-flagged cars driving through Jewish neighborhoods, particularly looking for Jews to attack and in fact they did attack Jews, all across this country,” she told CBN News.

The FBI is keeping tabs on the Mapping Project. In Boston, a wide array of elected officials and community leaders have denounced it.

In light of that, Leikind is even more focused on building bridges and encouraging conversations about anti-Semitism, hoping people will learn to better tolerate and even appreciate their differences.

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How the Book of Jude Addresses the Last Days


This blog typically shares the insights (usually more documentation-based insights rather than just opinions) of others. These past few years the sharing is the result of imposed Woke-Dem-Marxist tyranny hindering American Liberty, warping American culture and staining Biblical Christianity.

Today’s share is from a Prophecy Update Newsletter delivered to my inbox on 7/8/22. The Newsletter points to a lot of websites. The post that gained my interest is by Jack Wellman at the website What Christians Want To Know. Mr. Wellman looks at the Last Days through the lens of the Epistle of Jude. The title: “How the Book of Jude Addresses the Last Days.” There is an interesting correlation between the days Jude inspired by the Holy Spirit to pen the Epistle and today’s tyranny. Christians should love the read, the Woke Sheeple – not so much.

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How the Book of Jude Addresses the Last Days

By JACK WELLMAN

[I could not locate a posting date but Prophecy Update delivered 7/8/22]

What Christians Want To Know

The Book of Jude seems as if it’s almost written for today and it really is, because these are the last days leading up to the return of Jesus Christ.

The Last Days

The Book of Jude seems as if it’s almost written for today, and it really is, because these are the last days leading up to the return of Jesus Christ. To begin with, the “last days” have been the “last days” for the last 2,000 years. Since Jesus’ ascension, we have always been living in the last days. The phrase “last days” or “end times” is very prominent in the New Testament (Acts 2:17; 2 Tim 3:1; Heb 1:2; James 5:3; 2 Pet 3:3), even though two centuries later, Jesus has still not came back. Why? We are now and have been living in the last days since Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, meaning Jesus could come back at any moment. That is what all ages of the church have believed and had expectations of. The true church has always had an eager expectation of the soon return of Christ. The trouble they saw around them prompted them to believe it was the last days. And that’s as it should be. We should all be living as if Jesus were coming back this very minute, because, He could! The Book of Jude is not very long (only one chapter), but its twenty-five verses have much to say about the last days, and our day today. This book is strikingly similar to the way it was in Jude’s day too.

Jude in NT

Jude

Jude is the half-brother of Jesus Christ, having the same mother but not the same father, and the range of the date of this book is incredibly wide, with conservative scholars placing it between the years 70 to 90 AD. The reason I think the date is much later is because Jude refers to the Apostle’s predictions for the last days (Jude 1:18) as having come true (Jude 1:17), but clearly, Jude’s epistle is just as relevant today as in the day it was written. Jude begins by telling us who he is, that being “a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James” (Jude 1:1), so Jude is a servant of Christ more than His half-brother. Jesus is not Jude’s brother anymore. He is his Lord and Savior. The Greek word for servant is actually slave (“doulos”), and there is a huge difference between being a slave and being a servant of Christ. A servant can quit their job, get fired, do a poor job, and go home after work, but a slave, particularly one of Christ’s, is owned by the Master, but the Master is good and He is merciful, and like a good master, He provides for all of our needs. Incidentally, in Jude’s day, slaves were more like family members than what we think of as slaves. They were sometimes adopted into the family. That was never so with a servant.

The Original Gospel

Gospel of John

Jude originally wanted to write this letter (book) about one thing and that was their salvation, but something came up and he had to change the content. This book is very different from the rest of the New Testament books because it refers to a later time period than most of the other books do. And you can read a sense of urgency in Jude’s words, as he says he “was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3). Contending for something means fighting for something, and in this case, it was fighting for the original message (the gospel) that originally came from Jesus Christ (Mark 1:15). What we are fighting for is the preservation of the original faith that was once “delivered to the saints.” This means, it was “once and for all,” and that’s it.

The Canon is Closed

No more revelation is necessary today for God has already (past tense) spoken (Heb 1:1-2), no matter what people say. What God has said in His Word stands and it is settled in heaven. Please notice that this statement is in the past tense: “once for all delivered.” It’s enough for “all” and it’s sufficient for all. Nothing more is needed for us. I’ve heard it said, “If it’s new, it’s not from God; and if it’s from God, it’s not new,” so “new revelations” trouble me because we cannot ever be certain of the source. Of Scripture, we can always be sure! Just like what is happening today in the modern church, “certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ” (Jude 1:4).

Satan’s Churches

You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination“ (Lev 18:22). 2 Affectionate Gals

There have been and still are satanic churches who have satanic ministers preaching another gospel (2 Cor 11:14-15), and today, they are even allowing homosexual marriage and even condoning it. They argue, “Since they love one another, what is wrong with that,” but remember, Eve loved the forbidden fruit. Bank robbers love money, so love cannot justify the means. Many swallow these lies because of those who brought them in came in under the cover of darkness and have “crept in unnoticed.” They are subtle and small changes to doctrines at first, but then they can grow, but if they are wrong on one point, why believe them on the other doctrines. If they had been noticed, someone would have said something, but that’s why Jude believes we must contend for the faith originally delivered by Christ and expounded by the Apostles.

The enemy is very clever, yearly adding elements to the gospel of Jesus Christ that were not in the original. They add baptism, works, the sacraments, tithing, Sabbath observance, or something else they must “do.” It is often, “Jesus + something.” That means it is not actually the gospel originally delivered (Gal 1:7-9). It can’t be added too because God has already spoken through His Apostles and Prophets, but most clearly through the Son of God, Jesus Christ (Heb 1:1-2), and His own hear Him speak clearly and plainly in the Gospels (John 10:27-28).

Satan’s Ministers

Since the date of this book’s writing may have come after most of the Apostles had died, it makes sense that the prophecies the Apostles gave had been fulfilled. Jude writes about “the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Jude 1:17), and what “They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions” (Jude 1:18). We know it’s not those within the Body of Christ that Jude writes about, but “these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit” (Jude 1:20). It is those outside the church of Jesus who infiltrate and try to weaken the gospel of repentance and faith (Mark 1:15). Looking religious means nothing to God because it’s not about religion; it’s about a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. We are reminded that Satan’s own ministers can look like angels of light (2 Cor 11:4-5), but they only appear that way, because they bring a message of darkness.

Satan’s Gospel

… even the Devil can appear to be a preacher of righteousness … – Apostasy Presented as Light

A gospel look-alike that neglects matters of sin, repentance, confession, sanctification, living in holiness, coming out of this world, being Jesus’ disciple, and doing what Jesus’ disciples would naturally do (Matt 25:35-36). If the Apostles were here on earth today, they would be appalled at some of the “buffet-style” religions that claim to be Christian. There is only one way (John 6:44; Acts 4:12) and not a little of this and a little of that. Without the whole gospel of repentance and faith (Mark 1:14-15), you have half the truth, and a half-truth is a whole lie…straight from hell.

Conclusion

We can be students of prophecy but overlook Jesus. I believe it is still best to focus on Christ and to be ready for His appearing at any moment and to live that way. Is Jesus’ return soon? Are we living in the last days? I don’t know to the first one, but yes to the “last day.” I know a better question: “Have you put your trust in Christ? Are you ready for His appearing because He could come at any moment?” If not, there are other prophecies that will come true someday for you (Dan 12:2-3; Rev 1:7, 20:12-25), so it’s not too late to repent of your sins and place your trust in the Savior. Do that today, while it’s still called “today” (2 Cor 6:2). Eternity is a very long time to be wrong.

Here is some related reading for you: Book of Jude Commentary: Study and Summary

Resource – Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), Crossway Bibles. (2007). ESV: Study Bible: English standard version. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Stand Against the Rulers of Darkness


I watched a video yesterday showing people in the thousands in the EU rising to protest Jab Mandates EVEN in the face of police brutality. I was reminded of similar police brutality against Civil Rights protestors in the 1960s. The newscaster than turned to the USA noticing near American bowing to the idol of Jab Mandates in comparison to the EU.

Justin Smith is noticing the same complacency among American Christians as atheistic Communism and godless immorality is promoted as normal and acceptable to the Creator – IT IS NOT acceptable according to God’s Word!

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Democrats and Communists Subvert the Christian Church – Down the Highway to Hell 

By Justin O. Smith

Sent 11/4/2021 1:03 AM

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  ~ Ephesians 6:12 (King James Bible)

The Christian Church is failing in America, withering under the decades long vile attacks from secularists, humanists, atheists and communists, and from Marxist apparatchiks within the federal government too, as its leaders speak of being “civil” and finding compromise. They have pushed the Church away from the actual Word of God in a heresy called “moral relativism”, that has worked to pave the way for the Democratic Party Communists’ immoral political agenda to indoctrinate the bulk of the American population into a Godless mindset and strip our Freedoms and Liberties from us in the process.

This is not a day or a time for niceties and civility, when faced with such uncivil, hateful evil, that has insinuated itself so far into our society that Americans are seen exhibiting the most reprehensible and despicable behavior, not seen in our country until now. When all of this is embraced by the Democrats, one must ask why anyone would seek compromises that allow the continuation of the destruction of our society.

Fear rather than real courage and faith in God is counseling too many pastors, ministers and reverends across America, who in turn are reading Scripture in a passive and fatalistic voice “Thy will be done”, as if that is a commandment to sit quietly in the Church and meekly accept any and everything thrown at them by an ever growing, exponentially more authoritarian and totalitarian State, bent on destroying the very Free Will and Right to one’s own conscience bestowed on us by God.

Preachers and their congregations should be standing and shouting to the heavens, “We will do Thy will, Lord, we will do Thy will.” 

Although we are all sinners and Churches and the salvation that comes through Jesus Christ are needed for this reason, a great number of people climbing into the upper hierarchy of the Church are there, not in search of redemption and salvation for themselves and others through Our Lord and Christ. They have insinuated themselves into the Church’s power structure as a means to subverting the Church and passing heresy off as the Word of God. 

How far the Church’s leaders have fallen from the message Jesus delivered to the world and His example set by the cleansing of the Temple, as described in Matthew 21:12-13 [KJV]:

“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.”

And yet we see so-called “ministers” now regularly performing “gay” or “same-sex” unions as if these immoral abominations were true marriages, in the most proper sense and understanding of the word. Along with this perversion and deviancy, we find Pope Francis, a fake “Jesuit priest” who is nothing less than an outright globalist and Communist, telling Catholics it’s perfectly acceptable to receive a Covid vaccine made from aborted baby parts, as he continuously skews The Word of God and conflates Communism with Christianity.

[Blog Editor: Along with the embedded Breitbart article on Pope Francis support for the Marxist doctrine cloaked in religion called Liberation Theology, Justin provided a Youtube video exposing Francis Communism:

Youtube VIDEO: Pope Francis Encourages Communist Groups as “Veritable Invisible Army”

Posted by Lepanto Institute

Premiered Nov 1, 2021

The Lepanto Institute released a new video report, exposing the celebration and promotion of militant communists in a Vatican event initiated by Pope Francis. The report focuses on the organizations and speakers that were celebrated in a video produced by the Vatican for the fourth annual World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM).

According to the WMPM website, the purpose of the meeting “is to create an ‘encounter’ between Church leadership and grassroots organizations working to address the ‘economy of exclusion and inequality’ by working for structural changes that promote social, economic and racial justice.” But many of the organizations participating in the meeting are self-avowed militant Communists.

“A woman named Ceres Hadich, representing a Brazilian organization called Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), shows up in the Vatican video at … A LOT OF GOOD INFO TO READ]

Please don’t try presenting the popular fallacy from the Commie’s and Socialists that suggests we are supposed to obey man’s law according to God. I suggest You all reread the Bible. We are commanded to obey man’s law so long as it aligns with God’s Righteous Law.

America has largely been overwhelmed on the federal and state level by men and women who act as rulers and terrors against that which is good and righteous, and those charged with leading their respective churches and denominations, whether we speak of Baptists, Presbyterians and so forth, are crumbling in the face of adversity, as they pedal heresy in their weak attempts to remain relevant and keep the pews full with congregants, however false their piety may be. 

It is clear as day to anyone paying attention to history, both long past and recent, that the Democratic Party, working hand-in-hand with Marxist-Maoist Communist regimes around the world, represents a clear and present danger and an existential threat to all America. It proves itself to be the manifestation of Hell on Earth, through the advent of Critical Race Theory being taught in our institutions and even some churches and the Covid Vaccine Mandates and Passports, and many other attacks on everything good and decent in America.

As evil and immoral as we know Baby Murder (abortion) to be, once we look at the Big Picture and past other Democratic Party pet projects, like LGBTQ propaganda, “gay rights”, the homosexual infiltration of Christian churches, redistribution of wealth — better known to Conservatives as THEFT, supplanting personal responsibility with the Welfare Nanny State and the attempted abrogation of the First Amendment and our right to worship our God freely, Americans find that the Democratic Party Communists want Conservative and Independent Americans dead, no hyperbole here. 

They demand compliance with their forced vaccine passports, or they will refuse us life-saving medical treatments, your job, your home and the right to enter a Walmart or local grocery to buy food. It doesn’t matter to them that you might die from their eradication of your ability to properly and freely function in society, even though they claim to be looking out for your safety and well-being through such tyrannical mandates. All of this is devastating to families and America’s children, but what do the Commies care, other than they get control of the next generation of America’s children, and that should scare the Hell out of any normal American. 

The words of Rene Girard, renown philosopher and anthropologist, are apropos, in this instance. Writing in ‘I See Satan Fall Like Lightning’ in 2001, Girard sorrowfully notes:

“The majestic inauguration of the ‘post-Christian era’ is a joke. We are living through a caricatural ‘ultra-Christianity’ that tries to escape from the Judeo-Christian orbit by ‘radicalizing’ the concern for victims in an anti-Christian manner.”

Of late, America has witnessed parents, such as Lily Tang-Williams, making a strong stand in various cities and states against CRT, and we have also seen many policemen, firefighters, nurses and even pilots and flight attendants fighting vehemently against the Workplace Covid Vaccine Passports, in cities like Chicago, Seattle and New York and all across America. However, over the past year, when they could have made a real difference and a meaningful impact, America heard meek silence emanating from the nation’s Churches and congregations, as they simply caved-in and submitted to the mask and vaccine mandates and the lockdowns, much like World Outreach Church, the largest church in Murfreesboro, TN with over 7600 congregants. 

Where was the Church and its congregations? Why weren’t they coming out forcefully and en masse against all of this Communist and Globalist tyrannical “reset” mess from the very start? 

Did any congregations fire a preacher for being insufficiently aligned with and obedient to the Word of God, for lacking in moral strength?

For several years now, the Church has been so obedient to the State’s illegal, tyrannical diktats and, with very few exceptions, advocating that obedience for their adherents, that one might almost think them to be acting as agents of the State, collaborators in forcing the Faithful to bow and embrace the cold chains of tyranny and serfdom.

Who else other than just myself believes that opposing tyrants in the most forceful manner is wise, logical and righteous? 

Many modern Christians state that their preacher shouldn’t be delving into political and policy matters that direct the nation and our society, and those are the very misinformed Christians who have never properly understood that a society’s religious beliefs, or lack thereof, play an integral part in their government. If not for the Black Robes standing in the pulpit each Sunday, during the 1770s, there might never have been a War for Independence. 

It seems unnatural to me, as a Freedom-loving individual, to simply sit and hope and pray that somebody helps alleviate the situation and saves me from an out-of-control federal and state government, but many Christians have no problem doing that very thing. They fail to realize that opposing, dissenting and acting against an oppressive state is a righteous, necessary and moral act, as well as the wise thing to do.

If every knee is to bow, shouldn’t it be bowed to God and not Joe Biden and his authoritarian regime that violates Christian principles daily and seeks to destroy Western civilization in America?

We are on the brink of totalitarianism, despite the glimmer of hope many take from the recent Republican win in the Governor’s race in Virginia. It wasn’t a huge mandate against Leftism, and in the meantime, the Marxists are still plentiful as lemmings throughout public education, and the trend towards cradle to grave “care” from the government and tyranny continues at an incredibly accelerated rate.

Today, many will tell you that we are living in the End of Times and the Covid Vaccine and subsequent Vaccine Passport is the Mark of the Beast. If it isn’t, it sure is acting the part and aligning fairly true with Scripture, as Americans and people across the globe see the perversion of the state and the perversion of the Church. And regardless of all the calls for love and moral living emanating from both the truly faithful Christians and the Deceivers lurking within the Church, Conservative Christian Americans are not blind to the lengths taken by the Marxist-Maoist Cancel Culture Democrats to erase God from our society and their clear intentions to eradicate the Church and everybody whose views stand diametrically opposed to their sick, tyrannical vision for America. 

The Church and Christians, and honest, moral America patriots, must do more to challenge the corrupt Biden regime and the evil and tyranny that is advancing across our land, in order to stop these vaccine mandates. Submitting to the idea of Covid Vaccine Passports will make the next step towards Chinese-style Social Credit Scores and even more massive surveillance of everyone a surety, followed by mandating abortions as a public health matter and placing one’s entire life choices in the hands of tyrants to approve or not. And don’t be surprised when the powers-that-be refuse to allow people to be gainfully employed through normal channels, unless they renounce their Christian faith, since traditional America was built and largely stands today upon Christian and Western principles and virtues.

Don’t just sit in the Church saying “God will save me” or meekly submit to oppressive rulers. Draw a line in the sand and resist.

And just as there was a 1968 song with the refrain “God damn the pusher man”, we should all be singing and shouting to the heavens, “God damn the Democrats” as a most fervent prayer. Damn the Democrats for denying God and reveling in their unrepentance and numerous sins against God, America and all mankind, so disinterested in God’s salvation, only concerned with their continued ability to subvert the Christian Church and wallow in the depravities and perversions found along the Highway to Hell.

“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.” ~ Revelation 13:11 [KJV]

By Justin O. Smith

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Destroying America on the Altar of Gender Identity


Barack (the treasonous-Dem) Obama on the eve of his 2008 election as POTUS told his supporters that his fellow traveler Dem-Marxists were about to fundamentally transform America. It turns out old Barry was only the transformation-seed planter. The Dem-Marxists control of Dementia-Joe and election crimes seeing the fruition of transformation-seeds spring from despotic-corrupt dirt. There is plenty of despotism transforming America with godless impunity. Justin Smith examines the LGBTQ corrupting fruit.

The LGBTQ seeds and fruit are particularly perditious because in order for that godless lifestyle to be normalized, God’s Word must be diluted to irrelevance which places a target on Biblical Christianity. (Hmm… One should wonder why Dem-Leftist-Marxist controlled States placed a premium on shutting down Christian Churches during the scamdemic that has a 99% survival rate.)

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,

10 Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

As a reader, especially as a Christian – There are MANY corrupters of the Faith who will tell you not to believe what you read but rather believe what the corrupters tell you the (false) meaning of what you can read. Twisting Truth to mean something else is simply a Satanic lie. For the sake of Biblical clarity the Knowing Jesus website has a Scripture list from God’s Word entitled, “23 Bible Verses about Homosexuality”. At the end of the Justin submission I’ll cross post that list.

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Destroying America on the Altar of Gender Identity

The LGBTQ Movement Seeks to Squash America’s Christian Founding

By Justin O. Smith

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“Gay identity became possible thanks to capitalism’s emancipatory side: its liberation of the individual from material dependence on the family. But that sexual freedom wasn’t automatic — it required decades of militant struggle. Today, we need more such struggles to combat the oppressive aspects of capitalism, which keep gay and straight people alike from living fully free lives.”   ~ John D’Emilio, gay rights activist, 1979

“Be gay and be happy.” My, my, my, how that sentence’s meaning has changed since I was a boy. “Gay” was generally accepted as meaning “lighthearted”, and it was primarily defined as such. Today, the first definition in all dictionaries names it as ” … characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s same sex”. 

To hear many on the Left tell it, everybody and his brother wants to be “Gay” or “Transgendered” now – and being a part of the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered-Queer Community is better than having a scoop of chocolate ice-cream with Joe Biden. 

The homosexual and transgendered communities across the nation have never been content with just being able to be left alone and engage in their immoral, twisted, demented, deviant, perverted and immoral lifestyles. Since the 1960’s these mentally ill and gender dysphoric individuals have fought to force society to validate this diseased lifestyle and submit to its demands for such idiocy as changing the commonly accepted pronouns used in the English language and allowing biological men to compete in sports events against biological women; and even worse, they coach and push children of the youngest years to demand “gender transition”, with too many immoral judges all too willing to allow it, whether the parents support it or not, backed by corporations, politicians, schools, Hollywood, medical institutions and the media. 

Inauguration Day January 20, 2021; with President Trump’s seat in the Oval office not even cold yet, Joe Biden, always willing to accept the most outlandish policies from the Left, [JOS] signed his Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, and in the process, he essentially expanded the definition of “sexual discrimination” for governmental purposes, to include gender identity and sexual orientation. He exhibited that he “had their (LGBTQ) back”, when he also directed all the executive agencies to correct and align their policies with his order as a tool and puppet in office for America’s “Gay Community”.

One might daresay that a decade ago, surely two decades ago, very few teachers or principles or politicians and government officials had ever heard of transgender or “gender identity”. But that has all changed in this current political environment that is hostile to America’s traditional virtues, values and principles, as the terms are broadly defined and often morph depending on the setting. There has never been a concise, definitive legal or logical definition of the term and most often, any definition are tautological and reference broad generalizations regarding a person’s own sense of self and psychological knowledge of their own gender. 

“Gender identity” has been marketed as something as normal as buying a new bike or pair of tennis shoes. [JOS] Children are being taught that they can choose to be either sex, depending on their feelings, rather than address the mental confusion and any issues that would even make them question their sexual identity in the first place.

Recent events, such as the suspension of Tanner Cross, a Loudon County, Virginia teacher and Governor Rick DeSantis (R-FL) signing the ‘Fairness in Women’s Sports Act’ (SB 1028), have further exposed the truth of the subversive, detrimental consequences American suffers at the hands of the LGBTQ community and those who advocate for its agenda. It’s all been a part of a much larger plan by the Communists to bring American society, the traditional family and the republic to its end, from the start, in order to give government greater control over America’s children, as one mechanism for placing and holding all America under a Marxist regime, as our Christian founding is systematically silenced, squashed and eradicated from any and all public forums and arenas.  

[Blog Editor: What happens when God-rejecting LGBTQ comingles with Communism in America?

On June 1, 2021; Governor Rick DeSantis raised a furor among the transgendered across the nation, stating:

“We believe in the state of Florida, of protecting the fairness and the integrity of women’s athletics. And I can tell you this in Florida, you know, girls are going to play girls’ sports and boys are going to play boys’ sports, that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to make sure that that’s the reality. So the bill that we’re doing today will ensure fairness for women athletes for years to come in the state of Florida. It says that athletic teams or sports that are designated for females are open to females. And we’re going to go based off biology.”

On May 27, 2021; [JOS] Tanner Cross, who teaches at Leesburg Elementary School, was placed on administrative leave, for simply exercising his First Amendment right as an American and a Christian to state his firmly held conviction regarding any advocacy of the current delusion that people can and should be any sex that they believe themselves to be. He was addressing the topic in an open discussion before the Loudon County School Board that had requested a public discussion and input.

Tanner defiantly stated:

” … I am speaking out of love for those who are suffering from gender dysphoria“

— whereupon he referenced a 60 Minutes segment focused on thirty young people harmed by being pushed to “transition” before continuing with –

“It’s not my intention to hurt anyone, but there are certain truths that we must face when ready. We condemn school policies like 8040 and 8350 because it will damage children (and) defile the holy image of God. I love all of my students but I will never lie to them regardless of the consequences. I’m a teacher but I serve God first and I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl, and vice versa, because it’s against my religion. It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child and it’s sinning against our God.”

Although I’m not a pastor nor have I ever played one on television, I learned at the feet of my dear ol’ Grandma Mamie, a teacher and a lay Pentecostal minister for most of her adult life, that the New Covenant found in Christianity through the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross offered us all redemption and salvation from our sins, if only we recognize His victory over death, profess our faith in Him as the One True God and ask sincere forgiveness of our sins. And this applies to any and all members of the “Gay Community” too, but it doesn’t mean they can ask for forgiveness one day and be out in the streets the next day brandishing their flamboyant rainbow flag as advertisement for homosexual encounters or having “Transgender Day” at public libraries across America.

Most Americans would be happy to let people be who they choose to be, but much like myself, we don’t accept or support their lifestyle, and we don’t want their unhappiness and beliefs to be used as an excuse to trample on our rights in a free society. As biological men and women, the LGBTQ of America have the same exact rights as anybody else, no more and no less, but their movement and the calls from Joe Biden and many state Governors, as well as executive orders, laws already passed and newly proposed “transgender equity” laws will grant the LGBTQ Community privilege over everybody else in America, to the detriment of all.

An interview from August 2020 reveals the full depths of the depraved nature of this movement, if only through this short segment, that [JOS] reads:

“… Meanwhile, when children are no longer necessary for survival, they begin to represent familial love and domestic happiness. They become symbolic of the success of the marriage. 

Once marriage changes its meaning in this way for people, critical questions are posed to all society: What kind of intimacy do you desire? What kind of partnership is going to emotionally fulfill you? Once these questions are posed to people en masse, new answers become possible.”

This transgender Gay Rights agenda has been accelerated and made rapid advancements on [JOS] large part due to initiatives and bills enacted during the Obama era, at the behest of leftist and queer advocate, Penny Pritzker, a billionaire and cousin to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker [Blog Editor: Pritzker transgender agenda: HERE & HERE], who issued [and] created [JOS] the Affirming and Inclusive Task Force in 2020 to supposedly improve the learning environment for transgender and otherwise “gay” students by affirming and supporting them. The movement was further advanced from 2010 to the present by foundations, such as George Soros’s Open Society and John Stryker’s Arcus Foundation, one of the largest LGBTQ non-governmental organizations in the United States that also drives gender identity ideology worldwide. And equally alarming, look deep enough and one finds that the Walt Disney Corporation has donated one hundred million dollars to children’s hospitals across America and Europe that have gender clinics for children and adolescents. 

The Open Society Foundation has been an extremely significant force and influence behind the gender identity nonsense in America, that seeks to normalize the transgendered and homosexual lifestyle in America, through its Human Rights Campaign and white papers such as ‘License to be Yourself: Trans Children and Youth’ and ‘Supporting & Caring for Transgender Children’. Unfortunately, many major pharmaceutical giants, major corporations, international banks and Big Tech are all supportive of the Soros initiatives. 

Similarly, the Arcus Foundation funds many research centers focused on children, while also advancing the notion that children can be born in the wrong sexed body, through documents such as ‘Improving Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Middle and High School Students’. One must also note that the Arcus Foundation supports Lambda Legal, an organization working to achieve the “full recognition of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals (and) transgender people …”, and all of the Arcus Foundation’s funding goes only to those willing to embrace the gender identity ideology.

One also finds influential subversives and deviants such as James Pritzker who is now known as “Jennifer” — Penny Pritzker’s cousin. Jennifer gave $1,760,635 in 2020 for “Gender Identity and Human Sexuality” through “her” Tawani Foundation. “She” has used “her” incredible wealth to purchase influence through paid lobbyists and politicians who do “her” bidding and drive gender identity programs into children’s schools. 

In the meantime, as the freaks, perverts and mentally ill descend on major cities around America to flaunt their queer nature and character in celebration of Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender Pride for the entire month of June, all America should take note of the major corporations who support disrespecting the American Flag and spitting upon America’s rich religious and predominantly Christian heritage. Watch them slobber all over themselves in their pro-LGBTQ advertisements, while they proudly adopt the colors of the Queer Rainbow Flag for their logos, as school systems, companies, city councils, universities, medical associations, and many churches too slobber right along with them splashing LGBTQ propaganda all over their social media sites and products. 

For anyone who fails to see that rights are only human and inalienable, not “gay”, I have nothing for you. The answers and solutions to this growing problem are just as self-evident as the inalienable rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and those virtues and principles found in the Word of God and the Christian values upon which America was founded.

If America is to stop this one gargantuan assault on the nation, the fine, righteous and decent Americans must set the agenda from this point on, by refusing to allow the enemy from within to dictate the narrative, language, concepts and priorities on the political battlefields. They must stop the lobbyists’ and the massive and incredibly wealthy foundations’ influence in the halls of government, in large part by opening society’s eyes to the insanity and hate for America beneath this gender ideology, while simultaneously rejecting immoral candidates for all government offices, especially school boards, who advocate this Satanic crap, and the moral relativism of so many modern-day churches, that no longer teach the Gospel and the True Word of God. 

America must reject the further abuse of Her children — God’s Children — by the twisted, sick and warped deviant and perverted Democratic Party Communists within the country. No longer should anyone tolerate the growth and advancement of this sickness, this mental disease, because in toleration, one is complicit with the evil acts of these queers who are destroying our children’s bodies and America Herself at the altar of “gender identity” and “Gay Rights” where no such rights exist.

As one finds in Romans 1:18, 26, 27 and 32: 

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness … For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. … Who knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”  

By Justin O. Smith

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23 Bible Verses about Homosexuality

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Most Relevant Verses [Verses quoted are the New American Standard Bible (NASB). Clicking the embedded verse link will list various English versions of that Scripture in the Bible.]

Leviticus 18:22

You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13

If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:9-11

realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

Romans 1:21-27

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

1 Kings 14:24

There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12

He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

2 Kings 23:7

He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

Genesis 19:4-8

Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.” But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him, and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly. Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

Genesis 19:5-7

and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.” But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him, and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

Judges 19:16-24

Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites. And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?” He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, for I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to my house, and no man will take me into his house.

Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything.” The old man said, “Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square.” So he took him into his house and gave the donkeys fodder, and they washed their feet and ate and drank. While they were celebrating, behold, the men of the city, certain worthless fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house that we may have relations with him.” Then the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my fellows, please do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not commit this act of folly. Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please let me bring them out that you may ravish them and do to them whatever you wish. But do not commit such an act of folly against this man.”

Romans 1:18-32

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

1 Timothy 1:8-10

But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

Jude 1:7

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Genesis 19:5

and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.”

Deuteronomy 23:17

“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

Judges 19:22

While they were celebrating, behold, the men of the city, certain worthless fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house that we may have relations with him.”

1 Kings 22:46

The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.

Romans 1:26-27

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

1 Timothy 1:9

realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers

Genesis 1:27-28

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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How to Dismantle 10 of the Worst and Most Crafty LGBT Arguments


I ran into a bunch of posts I simply did not have time to share on my Blog. ERGO, today I will include this intro and cross post several shares that I pray YOU as well will share if you find the info of value.

 

The first share is a video on Youtube highlighting ten invalid excuses that the godless LGBTQ uses to validate the sinful lifestyle. (I am a bit surprised this hasn’t been censored by Youtube – could still happen.)

 

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In this video, How to Dismantle 10 of the Worst and Most Crafty LGBT Arguments, you will learn how to defend God’s marriage between 1 man and 1 woman.

 

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Will You Obey God or Will You Obey the Government? Frightening Challenges to Americans’ Conscience


I read this CBN article rapidly and did not notice President Trump’s name in it. BUT the theme of this article is the very reason the Dems, the RINOs and various forms of Leftists want Trump gone by any means necessary. The theme is Biblical-minded Christians are being placed in a position to choose between their Biblical Christian conscience and the ever increasing government mandate to de-Christianize American culture. President Trump is an obstacle to this Leftist de-Christianizing transformation.

 

5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be [a]carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the [b]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. –Romans 8: 5-8 NKJV

 

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Will You Obey God or Will You Obey the Government? Frightening Challenges to Americans’ Conscience

 

By Paul Strand

December 11, 2019

CBN News

 

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WASHINGTON – Religious liberty today faces more challenges than ever.  If you pay attention to the headlines, you know these are dangerous days. The battleground is often in the courtroom, where a frequent defender of religious liberty there sees new reasons for hope.

 

Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Senior Counsel Luke Goodrich points out every human has a conscience, and the government shouldn’t be messing with it.

 

“It’s that inner voice that urges us to choose the good and reject evil,” Goodrich told CBN News.

 

Big-Time Battler for Conscience Rights

 

He has fought for the right of conscience several times before the US Supreme Court, and writes about huge challenges to it in his new book titled Free to Believe: The Battle Over Religious Liberty in America.

 

“When the government comes in and forces us to violate our conscience, it’s forcing us to go against our human nature and violating a fundamental human right,” Goodrich said.

 

But as America moves toward a post-Christian era, issues long felt by believers and their conscience as wrong are now exalted.  Therefore any opposition to them is condemned as rank discrimination.

 

‘Will You Obey God or Will You Obey the Government?’

 

Goodrich explained, “We have experienced a major cultural shift in the last 10 to 20 years where traditional Christian beliefs about truth, about human life, about human sexuality…they used to be fairly broadly accepted or at least uncontroversial, but now those long-standing Christian beliefs are actually viewed as a threat.”

 

He added, “We’re seeing all kinds of new religious liberty conflicts and Christians really being put to the choice: will you obey God or will you obey the government?”

 

The biggest current battleground: homosexual and transgender rights.

 

“If you’re a Bible-believing Christian and you hold a traditional view on sex and marriage, then the rapid advance of gay rights is certainly the most significant religious liberty threat today.  And we’re seeing conflicts in multiple areas all across the country,” Goodrich noted.

 

The government long ago said you can’t discriminate based on someone’s race or sex. If the Supreme Court this term rules “sex” includes sexual orientation or transgender status, it could mean real trouble for those with biblical views on human sexuality.

 

Jack Phillips x Thousands

 

You could likely multiply by the thousands new legal problems of the kind suffered by Christian baker Jack Phillips, who refused to make a cake celebrating gay marriage and ended up in a legal battle over his conscience rights for years.

 

“Thousands of religious organizations will face new lawsuits and new liability simply for acting on their long-standing beliefs about human sexuality,” Goodrich predicted.

 

At one point, supporters promised same-sex marriage wouldn’t harm anyone. Well, depending on how the high court rules, Goodrich pointed out those same people could go all out, claws bared, to get their opponents.

 

“There’s a strong effort right now, particularly among progressives, to brand traditional Christian beliefs about marriage as a form of bigotry, and then use the power of the state to punish those religious beliefs and practices,” he said.

 

Bigotry or Believing in What’s Actually Best?

 

On the other hand, Frank Wright of D. James Kennedy Ministries maintains believers back only one-man, one-woman marriage because it’s healthy for families.

 

“The Bible says it because it’s for our welfare. It’s what enables families to flourish,” Wright told CBN News. “The secular research going back decades is irrefutable. Children do better when they have a mom and a dad.  And they are safer, they are more economically secure, they have less bad outcomes in life in terms of drugs and crime and all these things. It’s God’s design because it’s what’s best for us.”

 

He’s sad that homosexuals and their allies view the conservative support of one-man, one-woman marriage as bigotry and hatred.

 

Wright explained, “If they were to come to me and say ‘Why do you hate me?’ I would explain to them that I don’t. ‘You and I see this issue totally differently.  I don’t hate you.  Why should I hate you?   And why should you hate me because we disagree?'”

 

How Culture Views ‘Good’ Religion vs. ‘Bad’ Religion

 

Goodrich believes some of this comes from how modern society views religion.

 

“I think our culture is not really hostile to religion per se, but rather draws a distinction between good religion and bad religion,” he explained.

 

Goodrich added the culture sees so-called “good religion” as, “Fairly relativistic. You keep it private. You don’t make absolute truth claims and you don’t make any intense moral claims.”

 

On the other hand, this same culture sees bad religion as one that makes moral judgments among other things.

 

“Makes absolute truth claims. It doesn’t stay confined to the four walls of the home or the church, and it gets out there,” he said. “It evangelizes. It claims truth and it actually makes moral judgments.  And that kind of religion really today is deemed to be bad, and folks are much more willing to use government power to punish those sorts of belief.”

 

Forced to do the Transgenders’ Bidding

 

As for the transgender issue, the Obama administration mandated that doctors and hospitals provide surgery for men who wanted to be turned into women and women into men.

 

Goodrich explained the government was ordering doctors to perform those surgeries, “Even when it violated their religious beliefs and their medical judgment.  And if they didn’t do that, they would be deemed to be discriminating and would be subject to government penalties.”

 

Abortion is another battleground where supporters try to demonize those who can’t and won’t back it.

 

Those Against Abortion Labeled as Discriminators

 

“If you as a Christian, whether you’re a doctor or an employer, if you oppose abortion, you’re somehow denying health care to women and discriminating against women,” Goodrich explained.

 

This Becket lawyer fought for both the Little Sisters of the Poor and Hobby Lobby’s pro-life stand before the Supreme Court.

 

“The government was trying to force them to provide abortion-causing drugs in their health insurance plans or in their businesses, even when their conscience told them ‘you cannot participate in an abortion,'” Goodrich said of his clients.

 

Many Dark Clouds, But a Silver Lining

 

The high court ruled in favor of both, and Goodrich says believers can take hope in how often their conscience rights win in court.

 

“There are some real difficulties ahead, and we should take stock of where we’re at and be realistic. But at the same time, there’s a lot of reason for hope.  We have a 90 percent win rate and we’re undefeated at the US Supreme Court,” Goodrich said.

 

He warned, however, Christians need to prepare for defeats and learn how to show Christ’s love even to a culture that’s turning more and more against them.

 

How the Bible Can Guide Us in Such a Time

 

“Much of scripture is written to Christians who are facing suffering and persecution for their faith.  And as Christians, we need to recall those teachings and let those influence us,” Goodrich argued. “And it’s not just about winning or fighting a culture war.  It’s actually more about being like Christ in the midst of these conflicts.”

 

What this attorney hopes for is a government that just leaves religion alone as much as possible.

 

For instance, in public schools, it shouldn’t force students to pray, but can allow a time where they can pray if they want. It shouldn’t build a cross on government property, but it can let those there stand. It shouldn’t oppose religion OR promote it. It should just let it be.

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One Need Not Condone Depravity


Seek Truth in the Light of Christ

 

In today’s 21st century Western Culture has almost completely been transformed to detest Biblical Morality. In relation to transformation much of society would regard me with the epithet of Homophobe. The intent being to paint my character as a racist White Nationalist hater of the LGBTQ lifestyle.

 

1) Many people don’t realize a Homophobe is literally one with an unnatural fear of homosexuals. I have no such fear. Rather I choose to agree with God Who abhors anything trying to change the intent of His Creation. Before Christ God’s abhorrence was especially bad news for those who rejected the Creator’s intent. After the Resurrection of Christ all who willing turn to God’s Plan in Christ Jesus can escape the bad news for wrong choices.

 

2) And next, I would be working against the Creator’s intent thanks to Jesus that would lead me to the bad news consequences facing all rejecting the Living Savior Jesus Christ the Son of God. I’m hardly close to perfect in that regard, but everyday I strive to be in compliance to the Creator’s intent through the mercy afforded in Christ.

 

Justin Smith is about to take you on a journey (with some commentary/links from yours truly) about the corruption America is experiencing as a result of the LGBTQ agenda to discredit Biblical Morality. Be wise and strive to seek God’s Mercy for anything contrary to the Creator’s intent.

 

Murfreesboro’s TN fourth annual Pride Fest on the Square 9/8/19. photo by Enrique Geronimo (Original photo post – An unfortunate pro-pride post)

 

JRH 9/10/19

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Whoever Defends God Defends Man

 

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One need not flaunt or condone a noxious, depraved and immoral lifestyle to be welcoming to all people in a community, regardless of where one lives, but the MTSU [Middle Tennessee State University] Sidelines seems to believe otherwise, as it celebrated and praised the 4th Annual (Gay) Pride Fest and the supportive “hugs” handed out by some confused citizens, who encourage this lifestyle through their “support”, in Murfreesboro, TN recently [A pro-LGBTQ post reporting on homosexual abomination event]. This, after the entire month of June was celebrated as LGBTQ Pride Month across the nation, by those so indifferent to the spread of this abomination, this disease, in our land, as bare-assed homosexual men in bondage leathers and women dressed similar to whores and harlots were seen in America’s major cities, form San Francisco to New York and Miami [AFTAH exposés on public LGBTQ perverseness (warning-images will be offensive to Biblical-minded Christians): Outside of Capital Pride, the puppy mosh, SF 2008 Folsom Street Fair & worse but not suggesting to search].  And, while this didn’t happen in Murfreesboro, it certainly won’t be long before it does, given the community is already showing itself susceptible to its subversion and perversion.

 

Some may protest that these people are free to choose and live any lifestyle they wish. And I would agree; however, that doesn’t mean that I am going to celebrate that lifestyle with them, nor should anyone who truly seeks to do what is right, true and moral, since the freedom and liberty our ancestors fought for had a certain expectation that Liberty’s time honored moral underpinnings and the Judeo-Christian principles its ideas were based upon were to be preserved and defended.

 

Liberty and virtue must go hand-in-hand, especially since a free people have a greater propensity to misbehave than serfs in shackles, and all America today needs something greater than themselves — God if you will — and a moral code or inner force and conscience to replace the lack of external restraint. Virtue cannot truly be a virtue unless people are free to choose it.

 

Men and women who pursue same-sex relationships may revel in their “freedom”, but they are slaves to the sickness and disease of homosexuality — “atypical gender behavior” — such as it was described until 1978; and, their lifestyle is not righteous or virtuous, since it stands in direct contradiction with God’s Word, in which Leviticus 18:22 reads: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” -KJV [Blog Editor: The incredulous path to psychiatry/psychology normalizing LGBTQ: Homosexuality: The Mental Illness That Went Away & Is Homosexuality a Mental Disorder]

 

 

On August 30th 2019, Andrea Ganna of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Finland released the findings of her study, that looked at 490,000 [Blog Editor: reports appear to disagree on the number involved in the study. E.g. Justin evidently found a report listing 490,000. Breitbart reports 470,000, Be Healthy News reports 480,000 & it appears to me the articles appear to report based on their socio-political outlook.] people and same-sex behavior. She and her colleagues reached the same conclusion reached by the Human Genome Project several years ago, through data that proves sexual behavior is volition and has moral, social and health implications. People are not born gay and the illusive “gay gene” is a myth and doesn’t exist, and it is not impossible for them to change and turn away from their sad lifestyle.

 

Always eager to promote and validate all manner of casual sex, including “Man-Boy ‘love’“, the politically correct sex researchers and the Leftist media, ever ready to chip away at America’s nuclear family, have suppressed any medical evidence that runs contrary to their Pro-Homosexual narrative. Instead, they showcase fake “science” and genetic studies, such as those conducted by Alfred Kinsey in 1948 and 1953, focused on male and female sexual behavior, respectively, that fail to be successfully replicated anywhere else.

 

[Alfred Kinsey the immoral creep by the immoral Left to transform acceptance of perverted social mores:

 

 

 

 

 

People can choose their own sexual lifestyle as they wish, to their own benefit or peril, however, for myself and many others, most Americans would see them keep it in their bedrooms. But, in these days of sexual oversaturation and hyperactivity, when the LGBTQ community has been designated an entire month to celebrate their sexual proclivities on the street, while the straight, heterosexual, child-producing majority is essentially ostracized and even referred to as “white nationalists” as a pejorative, then it’s safe to say that America has a major problem.

 

In March, the Washington Post reported quite supportively, that Sarah McBride, a transgender advocate read stories to kindergarten students in Arlington, Virginia, exposing them to transgender issues without many of the parents’ approval. These are children, who still believe in Santa Claus, and yet, here we see a criminal act, no different than pedophilia, being perpetrated against them, in the name of “education”, with McBride reading at one point: “I have a girl brain but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way.”

 

Such an incredibly complicated conversations on adult matters are flat out wrong and inappropriate for such incredibly young children, and they would be considered risqué even for many high schools. This ‘education’ is tantamount to pedophilia, and it should be outlawed across the nation through federal legislation.

 

In a June 17th interview for ‘Them‘ magazine, Sunny Hitchings, nineteen years old and a second generation queer, who has attended San Francisco Pride, detailed his/her (?) childhood growing up with kinky, poly, queer parents. His mother openly practiced bondage and sadomasochism for most of its childhood, and although Sunny states that he had multiple parents, his most influential parents were his mom and his chosen stepdad, Moo, a queer transgender man who was formerly his mother’s lifestyle submissive mate. And raised by these freaks, as a teenager, Sunny was taught by his mother how to choke and be choked for erotic pleasure.

 

America has even witnessed young boys, as young as 9 to 11 years old, exploited by their parents, in the same manner that Andrew and Wendy Napoles have exploited 11 year old Desmond, convincing him that he is a transgender youth from about the age of five. They now tour the country with Desmond dressed as a “Drag Queen” and dancing, gyrating and performing in front of grown homosexual men, essentially being sexualized and prostituted, in a display that can only be called deviant and unnatural; and unbelievably, he is being glorified by mainstream media and shows like ‘Good morning America’. [More disgusting Desmond Napoles exploitation news: HERE & HERE.]

 

There isn’t any limiting principle on the Left, the “anything-goes” crowd, any longer. None of them seem willing to say that nine, ten and eleven year old drag queens are a demented idea, nothing to be encouraged and celebrated. As teen magazines currently coach teen age girls in all areas of sex and encourage them to become prostitutes, one must wonder if Pete Buttigieg will teach his children some Good Ol’ Gay S&M, allowing them to grow up with leather daddies and erotic chokers as mentors.

 

If American society was sane, this would not be possible, if not legally, then certainly not morally and definitely not commercially. Our culture seems to be in a death spiral and heading downwards at terminal velocity, without any will to stop the madness.

 

The American world and times, such as they are and left to the Queer minority and its lobbying groups, would have us all call our own humanity into question, and accept that each of us can now choose our own role in society, our own gender, by rejecting the given element of nature and sex and one man and one woman intended to join in matrimony for the purpose of procreation and the worship of the Lord Our God. They would have us reject the Biblical creation account, being created by God as male and female, and the very essence of our being, as they facilitate a profoundly false anthropological theory, reduced to mere spirit and will, the manipulation of one’s nature and a point where man chooses for himself what his nature is to be.

 

[Radical LGBTQ Agenda YOU Will Not Find on MSM:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Normal, well-adjusted heterosexual people understand the human nature isn’t some abstract to be reshaped and made anew, better than what God Himself has done, impossible as that task would be. Our nature is provided us by our bodily identity, and if we dispute male and female as God’s created reality (Genesis 1:27) and the pre-ordained duality of man and woman, then the core family’s place, understood through Creation, is made to be next to nothing and children lose their place in the world and the dignity that belongs to them. Seeing one’s self as greater than one’s Maker and able to recreate one’s self strips one’s dignity as a creature of God, removing God from the core of one’s being, and aside from destroying America’s families, it also paves the highway to Hell and Eternal Death.  [Blog Editor – SEE: Genesis 3: 4-5 & UNMASKING SATAN’S LIES]

 

It is clear that denying God harms individual dignity, families and America. The defense of these things are righteous and necessary. Whoever defends God is defending man.

 

By Justin O. Smith

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Edited by John R. Houk

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Take America Home to Better Days


Norman Rockwell

Christmas Homecoming by Norman Rockwell

 

If you are a Baby Boomer (or actually older), you’ll appreciate Justin Smith’s reminiscing of younger days. If you are from any generation of Americans that are post Baby Boomer born, you should read this as a Jeremiad warning of a possible (Justin might argue probable) American decent into a dark future.

 

JRH 7/21/19

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Take America Home to Better Days

[Before the] Destroying the [of] American Family

 

By Justin O. Smith

Sent 7/20/2019 7:08 PM

 

Older men, such as myself, surely must sit in amazement and incredulous dismay at the direction the “Women’s Liberation” movement has taken America, since the 1970s, as it is currently and regularly stated in many sectors of society, that men’s energy and sexuality must be “harnessed and directed”, while at the same time men and their masculinity are attacked, as something “toxic”. Women in all settings, especially the nuclear family, used to be the harnessing factor, but now, it seems they spew a hatred of men better than anything of socially redeeming worth.

 

It is important to recall that this movement emanated from the Communist Manifesto and the teachings of Marx and Engels, and it was aimed primarily at accelerating the destruction of the nuclear family.

 

And when one looks at the results, one finds it has succeeded better than could be imagined, as today, America sees large populations of angry young men, void of social mores, without any direction for their lives and largely unemployed or a perpetual student; they are men-boys without any interest in babies, who have grown up shiftless and violent.

 

Far too many of America’s young women exhibit the same ailments and social ills, as the young men, while even worse, they are neglectful of the children they have borne, they are unkempt and in many instances, they exhibit few of the finer feminine qualities and bear little resemblance to women. We can call them “female”, but as for “women” that remains questionable, for they are far from the strong women of yesteryear that helped strong men build an Exceptional and strong America.

 

Those embittered young men who are involuntarily celibate, “incels“, say that this condition is forced on them, because women simply will not have sex with them. Yet, they do nothing extra to help themselves appeal to any woman at all. Women, on the other hand, heap on an extra amount of abuse and do nothing to help them change, ridiculing them instead.

 

Women blame the “patriarchy” for their hostile attitudes to modern men, and yet women work, own property, vote, hold public office, drive, have credit in their own name, go to college, have sex whenever they want and they even murder their own babies at will, and they have done all of this for a very long time. So, I don’t know exactly what the patriarchy is doing to hold them back, but they’ve been pretty inept to this point.

 

Deny it all you wish, but this vicious cycle is a direct result of the immoral policies long advocated by the Democratic Party, in the name of “the people”, “freedom” and “the Constitution”, when the exact reverse was the only truth. It’s always been about power and control, and it’s a firm truth that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, which is the reason Democrats say, “it takes a village to raise a child” and advocate the lie that the State’s interest in the children of their domain supersedes the parents’ rights.

 

Currently, women similar to women of yesteryear, all the good and decent conservative Christian women of America today, are the natural caretakers of our children, and as such, they also double as the societal gatekeepers. Throughout history, women wielded more power than many admit, through their families and the social circles of the world.

 

When I was a young boy and we would attend family reunions or holiday gatherings, I recall the interactions between my numerous aunts and uncles, the great aunts and uncles especially, as the men were sent outside to drink their beer and spit their tobacco, with the hilarious rolling of the eyes from the women and their warnings to stay away from the kids and watch their mouths. These same rough and tough strong willed men would wash up and behave themselves at the table, when dinner was served, lest the wrath of the Aunts come down upon them like a ton of bricks, and then they rose on Monday and went to work, because they had families depending on them. However, today’s Aunts are right beside the men, drunk as skunks or high as a kite on meth or heroin or whatever the day’s drug of choice might be and encouraging this bad behavior to their children, on the record and fully displayed for all the world to see.

 

If a man wanted to be accepted in society and have any sort of decent home life, he stayed out of trouble, worked a steady job, stayed clean and took care of business in general, with most even attending a church of one denomination or another, never drinking, or at least drinking too much, and staying away from women who drank too much. Even being in the companionship of a divorced woman was frowned upon at one time, although I do agree this was probably taking things too far, for any time, since sometimes some people just shouldn’t be together; and, these were the men most sought after by women, in years gone by.

 

Women were more sophisticated, refined and decorous in those days, They were more kind and loving and took care of themselves and their families. One wouldn’t find any of them leaving their children alone, while they spent the entire night at a club, and their houses weren’t such messes that even a self-respecting badger or bear wouldn’t live there. And unlike so many of the women today, they didn’t treat their vaginas like a hostage situation was underway and the only way in or out was through a financial transaction of goods or hard cash, quite similar to the oldest profession.

 

We humans are supposed to be far above the animal world. We are supposedly better than the animals who mate and then go on their way without another thought other than surviving another day, yet more often we see our young acting not much better than the animal kingdom. Too many single parents are trying to raise children, on both sides of the genders, and it makes for a difficult situation and so often a less than desirable and suitable situation for any child, that brings suffering to all.

 

From and economic viewpoint, I don’t see us ever returning to a time where women didn’t work outside of the home, and not many would really want that, although I know many conservative women who actually prefer devoting all their energies to their family’s needs and obtaining them through the best of their abilities. However, with technology making life so much easier and no one having to spend a whole day doing laundry and such things, and with food easily accessed at the local grocery store, one would think it leaves much more time for men and women alike to attend the churches and synagogues and to get closer to those Judeo-Christian principles of Our Founding, to get better acquainted with the Western virtues of Our Founding [Blog Editor: A closer examination of Western virtues & America’s Founding in this essay entitled, “Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding”] and to counter the trends of immoral secularism aimed at destroying the foundation of our families, society and culture.

 

It’s all about personal freedom and choices.

 

Our youth are choosing to turn their backs on God and America’s Founding principles, because they have succumbed to the pretty Marxist lies and propaganda that glorify every vile and evil thing imaginable under the sun. They prefer the glitz and the supposed glamour that comes with the immoral lifestyles that are so prevalent today, the lifestyles that bring nothing but misery, sorrow and a hard death, with one’s conscience and soul blackened nearly beyond redemption. They will soon learn a hard lesson, and we can only pray and work towards the end that leads them back along the path of God’s Righteousness and a life well lived, with having lived it reward enough, the sweet kind and loving memories taking Us home to better days, and children held close as the treasure they are.

 

By Justin O. Smith

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Edited by John R. Houk

Text enclosed by brackets and all source links are by the Editor.

 

© Justin O. Smith

 

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