They who hate you shall reign ovr you FOUR

 What got me started on this theme of Amerian's being under God's judmgnet was the recognition that what we are all mostly engaged in is purshing back the effets of God's judmgnet hat have already come upon the nation.  The MAGA movement is all about reotring America to our former prosperity and strength and standing in the world, and it certainly seems a righteous caue when you see how the forces arrayed against us, even our own govenemtn, have been working to destroy us, from within as wel as from without.  Open borders and massive illegal immigration are destroyers, they are also the product of corrupt lawless and evensheer evil ideologues.  Pushing all that back seems certainly to be a righteous thing to do that would amount to a genuine restoration of the best of America.    the problem is that at the same time I was reminded of how Nine eleven was GOd's judgment on the nation, although few ever acknowledged that and many denied it, even many pastors of Churchers you would think would know the Bible well enough to get that uch right at least.  God protestc people who obey Him, He brings peace and prospertyithyto nations who follow His law, but desruction and judgment to nations who transgress His law.  That message is on just about every page of the Old Testament, it would be hard to miss it.

We never repented of our national sins in response to the attack on the WtC.  Like Israel in Isaiah nine:ten we simply went about rebuilding what God had destoroyed, even with more duarable materials.  At the end of that passage God 's hadnd is said to be stretched out still because they didn't repent, but simply ignored Him, even perhaps ignoring the whole idea that they were under judgment, went about using human means to solve what they regarded as a human problem.  But the problem has a higher level to it.  It did then and it does now in America as well.  A supernatural level.  God was punishing Israel for their sins and wanted them to repent and turn to Him.  Same thing with us.  The WTC was a waring blow.  It could have been much worse.  It was a call to repentance and ot one word was said to that effet by anyone in public positiojn or power.  If I'm wrong I'd love to know it but I certainly don't remember anyting of the kind.  We sang a lot of God Bless America and went about rebuilding the World Trade Center and eery year we remember the calamitywith never a glance at God's role in it.  People seem to assume that Hefeels about it the way we do.  GBig istake.

I'd rather not think that MAGA is just a way of circumentin t our responsibility to God but I'm afraid that's what I've concluded over these last wfew days of thinking about it.  God is having mercyu on us in all this, that's for sure.  I suppose we could say that wemrica has had such belssings in the past back when we were a truly CHristiabn nation, that we still have blessings on the books we haven't yet run out of.  That could be.  But we've been piling up sins for quite a while now too and it's just a atter of time before they outrun the blessings.

And I don't mena to say that I now that's the best way to think about it, it's just one way that makes sense and might be true. B ut I suppose we could be more on the brink of disaster through God's judgment than any of us can guess.

There's SO much more to write but I have to stop for a while.  

They who hate you shall reign over you / European version

 It's hard writing about this because I have so little hope that I can persuade anyone of it, even if there were anyone reading what I write, which of course is iffy in itself.   Remembering how few CHristian pastors recognized tht the attack on the WtC on Nine Eleven was Bodf's judgment on the nation Keeps me on the pessimistic side.  A few gave that message, most did not.  

Then of course after it was understood to have been the work of Islamic Jihadists and one would have expected them to be regarded as our enemy, instead they have seemed to grow in favor in the country since then.  Mark Levin noted this recently and then again how they have settled into the country and are gubuilding their own commujities, all without changing anythibg in their view of America and the West and showing no dsigns of any interest in assimilating to the cultures of the West.  They want their own enclaves apart from the culture where they can follow thweir own laws and pursuie their own cultural pratices which are in most cases much at ods with ours.

Islam is only one part of the enemy force arrayed against us, but at the moment it seems to be the mbiggest and maybe most organized threat.  Our own supposedly homegrown American Left seems to be siding with them, withoutr enemies in general, against their own country.Of course they donb't think of it this way but that is in fact what they are doig.

I was just rereading the first part of Douglass Murray's book, The Strange Death of   ... wow now I can't remember if it's death of Europe or death of the UK, but he does talk about both, staritng with Britain which is ihis own home turf.  yhey got started down this parth of destruction deaces before it became much of an issue here but the language they used is very much the same as we keep hearing here.  Well we're a nation of immigrants after all, if youi object to the influx of immigrants you are racist, a white supremacist.  The way it is talked about makes it impossible for sane boices to beget a hearing. In fact anyone who dares to tell the truth about ythe dangerous sitatuion that is resulting from such large scale immigration as they have been experiencing for decades and we are now trying to cope with as well, gets fired from a job or voted out of office and generally gets called namesa and marginalized in the public arena.

Those who see what is going on, see the real dangers and speak about it the most perisistently, nevertheless do not include God in their analysis of the problem, except to note that all these immigrants are antiChristian and we are losing our own religion along with outr western culture which is really the product of tht religion.  Maybe I'm ot listening to the right Christian sources enough lately but I don't hear anything about how this is all God's judgment on America and on Europe and on the HCristain nations of the West in general.  

It's certainly a  It's certainly a tricky message to give into a coungtry which has lost most of its knowlege of our Chrsiyain past and would regard what usesd to be understood as normal Christain concepts as very strange and ridiculous now.  And gthere are so clearly human players involved and we are so used to thinking in terms of human causes of human stuations , introducing God, whom nobody thinks about much any more, at least not in such large scale terms as ruling over nations, seems a lost causre.

Even people who are sympathetic to the idea that Christianity played a large role in the making of th West are not themselves necessarily believers and may reject the very idea of taking the religion itself seriously with all its supernatural elements.  Even Richard Dawkins the intrepid Darwinist atheist, confessed to being a cultural Christian but has no notion whatever of taking the relgion of that name seriously.  Douglas Murray who authored the book I mention above said on the podcast Uncommon Knoweldge a couple of year ago, episode 385, Does Got Exist, he can't consider the religion itself although he appreciates what a great influence it had in forming thje UK and America and Europe as well.   We've been through the nineteenth century, he said, as if that fact should make it abundantly clear whey we can supsedly never go back to the true religion.  And Tom Holland who awas another guest on that podcast and wrote the book Dominion with a subtitle referring to the christain revolutoi that built the west, does not identify himself as a believer although in studyijgn the history that led to his book he has d come to the concludsion that the west and the UK are far more Christian than he'd had any idea, and how he appreciates very uch the moral rframework of the West that has that derivation over the moral gframework of Greece andR Rome which he'd previously though had the greater influence, he still isn't a CHristian in the sense of believe what the Bible teaches.

Wghichh is all both good and bad, encouraging in a way but alwso very discouraging.  What we need, given that the West, the UK, America, are sufferin from all this destructive immigration among other destructive treands, is a revival of the true Christain religion.  Nothing else will save us.  Some pushback at the mroal level could slow it down a bit I suppose but if we want to save  America, let alone the uropean west which is so much further gone, there is no other solution whatever than a return to the religion that built us in the first place.  

Yes, the religion, the whole wsupernatural divinely authored religion that is found in the Bible.

There are a thousand paths that could be taken inn the elucidation of this melancholy fact and it can't be done by me because I don't have the necessary knowledge, and it can't be done in a blog post or ten blog posts anyway.  But if the west is to be saved WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO TH GOD OF THE BIBLE< THERE IS NO OHER SOLUTIO.

Christains at least should be taking this to heard.  If nobody else gets it at least we shold get it and set ourselves the task of doing whatever we can to bring it about.  Confession of our sins and the nation's sins, prayer prayer and more prayer, political efforts wehre possible to reverse the trends that have brought down God's wrath on us and so on.   I hope ad pray for that but I'm as weak as everybody else in motivation, hope, optimism, energy for the job.  

Help, Lord.

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Also want to comment that after hearing the post read aloud of course I' m aware of myu many typos, but I also have the impresion that some of them aren't errors I would have made.  I have no way of orving it but it's particularly disturbing to think something else is alterning what I write.  An overzealous spelling program maybe.  Or a hacker?  I don't know.

They who hate you shall reign over youTWO

 Another sin of the nation that came to mind when I asked God abou t it was something I know I'd never have come up with on my own, and even now it's hard for me to convince myself it's a sin.  I am willing to accept that it is but it's been so long since anyone took it seriously I have trouble arguing for it.  This is the honoring of the Sabbath.  I remember when stores were closed on Sunday and when all of a sudden they were freed fro that obligation and all very soon sarted stayijng oprn ll night and it's been that weay ever since.   I son't remembe if the natiobn did much more than require that stores be closed on Sunday in recognition of the Sabbath, and it wasn't identified as the biblical Sabbath in any case hat I recall, but I do run across the practice in manyh old books.  Christian books.  bunyan's Pilgrims' PRogress, Rylesz Holijness, others.  At least in the UK Sabbth-breaking was regared as a seriious offense and I don't know if or when that stopped.   They forgbade all sorts of things on the Sabbtah ike sports.  Remember the movie Chariots of Fire?  The runner who would not compete on Sunday because of the Sabbath law in his country which he was determined to hoor.   I don't recall if we had any restrictions on sports here or not.  I never followed football so I wouldn't have known about that and now Sundays are crammed with football games.  

If this is a sin god is judging the country for what are the chances we'd ever give it up and go back to the old practice of shutting thihhngs down on Sunday?   It would take a massive Christian revival for any such idea even to cooccur to anyone let alone enough people to bring it about.   that measns the nation is just going to contiue under judgmetn for this and al the other sins we are far from likely to resicind.   We an do what Daniel did and acknowledge or confess them to god, but correct them I don't see happening.  The Jews even corrected their marriages to foreign women when they realized that was an offense to God and a violation of His covenant with them.  But I don't see us correcting anything.  That's going to leave us suffering from god's judgment until the nation is completely destroyed.  Yes, even with a great deal of mercy and push back at the same time apparently which is what we're getting with Trump's being in office now.  Another sin I forgot to mention was one that has been my own favorite for a long time that I managed to forget this time, the head covering for women in church. This one is for the churches exclusively.  Althoughj that biblical requrirement was extended to the cutlure at large wherever it was practiced, and it was practiced throughout the last two thousand years by all christian nations and hcnhurches until the middle of the twentieth century, I don't think the Bible requires it beyond church functions where women apparticipate in prayher and discussions of god's word.  It's something that would have to be discussed in the light of history for some time by the churches before we'd know for sure how to go about reapplying it, but at least it's clear from the passage itself, First Corinthians Eleven, two to Sixteen, that women are to cover our heads to acknowledge our place in the hierarchy of authority, while men are required by the same passage to uncover their heards, which is where we got the rule that women remove their hats whenever they eneter jnot onlyh church but any building at all.    

I've wondered for a long time, ever since I studied that passage and did a fair amount foof research on it and came to the conclusion that it's being violated in the churches these days, I've wondered if god might be withholiding revival for this reason, among others I'm sure, but this one too.   I could even seen that it played a rule in kicking off the whole feminist mvoement, even brought women into the pulpit in some churches which is clearly against god's ordinance, and had asnowballing effect on the culture bringing out all sort s of things in the sexual realm, marriage, the whole shebang from divorce to gay marriage.  Along with the Sabbath I'm sure there are very few in the whole nation who ahve ever given it a second thought as a sin that could have had even small consequances let along these sweeping ones I've been wondering about.  Somethining to pray about.

Mark Levein keeps talking about the growing power of Islam in America.  I think we need to wake up andco nsider doing sonething drastic if we want to push this back.  Political solutions aren't going to do it.  I hope god continues to bless us on that level of course, but I think wif we want to stop of the dstruction of america we are going to ahve to consider some preety drastic reversals of law and practice.  Wre talk about being a Christain nation but that's a joke in the light of the national sins I'e mentioned and I'm sure I only know a few of thejm.

Creationist Topics After the Flood

 tarting a new post means losing the prie position for the previous post and I want that post to continue to be seen so this is a reminder that it's there.  The nation is under god's judgment.  That was true at Nine Eleven and nothihg has happened to change that status.  We are no doubt accumulating judgment and all the noise and tumulet going on with the protests against ICE among a million other versiosns of the same mentality I regard as expressions of that judgmetn.  We need to pray against it by confessing the sins of the nations for starters.  The post I'm talking about is titled They WWho Hate You Ashall Rreing OVer YOu.  

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I must be awfully naive.   I jist  dn't expect to be ridiculed for mentioning tht God answered my prayers with information that I asked Him for.  Not by Christians anyway.  The more I think about it though, the more I see ow they might very well ridiculoe me.  Think I'm making myself out to be some kind of prophet maybe.  To my mind all I'm doing is giving God the fglrowy for what seems to be a very good helpful idea rather than igoring Him and taking the credit myself.  And I assume other Christians live the sme way and hear from God the same way when Tthey ask Him for this kind of help.    

Paul Garner and Todd Wood went back to their topic about the aftermathj of the Flood, on their podcast Let's talk Creation.  Episode 129.  I know the number because it's one of my favorite topics and I'll want to listen to ait again, no doubt a few times.   

They are answering some critics of a three part series they did a while back on this topic and I have to say I am not impressed with the critics at all.  In fact overall I'm getting frustratied with the Christian creationist camp.  I  have so wanted to find people to discuss some ideas with but I keep finding how far away from my way of thinking about these things other creationists are.  Even when we're sort of in the same ballpartk they are pursuing differing angles on the question.    I've often tried to anser to myself why I didn't spend more time learning about the creationist views.  There are a few websites out there where I could have spent a lot more time than I ever did.  I got some ideas from them but surprisingly little in the end.  I've thought part of it was that they get too technical for me and I think tht's true, but it's more than that.  I like thinking things through on my own an that's true too but that's not it either.  I think closer to the truth about it all is that I got started in a debate format where I did my own reearch and came up with my own ideas and when I hewcked out the creationist sites they weren't pursuing the same ideas i the same mway I was and I juist kept going back to working through my own.  SOmetimes I recognized that we were on the same page and sometimes I got some good leads from them but on the biggest issues for my purposes I worked it all out myself and ended up in some other place than the creationists did.  And I've been learning that is the case from this podcast by Wood and Garner.  I enjoy their discusseions but I don't see things the wa they do and I have the gall to think I could be right and they wrong.  

To really spell out my point of view would take a lot of work and I suually just ive a post or two on a particular topic.  But I can see now that unless I do that work of producing all the evidence and the line of reasoning that got me where I ended up creationists just aremtn' going to take me seriously at all.  Theuy might not takeme seriously anyway  of cours.  I get my evidence from some rather odd places and I certainly have no field experience in iether geology or biology so it's all reading and thinking which doesn't get many points in the sciences.  

Oh good grief, I'm suddenly so tired I can't keep sitting here.  I'll have to come back to this later.  Sorry.

Paul had some good answers to the criticism that they were trying to cram too many post Flood events into too little time, pointing out thta many of those events would have been simultaneous offor one thingl.    That's one I don't want to get into here more than that excpet to say that my own model, and yes I think I can claim to hae a creationist model, has a LOT of those events all happening simultaneously.  The three hundred years from the Flood to Abraham as given by the Msasoretic text of the Bible is plenty oftime for what I have in mind.

I also still object to the idea they have that there was a great deal of tectonic upheaval during the Flood and I have eveidence for my point of view on that one I hope I have the energy to spell out some time sooh.  

Same with their idea that the Flood ended around the end of the Cretaceous period.  I thik all the sediemntary strata through the Cenozoic were laid down by the Flood and I think I can produce evidence for that too.  Some time.

Some of the evidnece I have in mind could take hundreds of pages to spell out because some of it needs to be argued against conventional interpretations That I think are wrong, but there's quite a bit that can just simply be demonstrated with out all that argument.

I'm not familiar with he Columbia River Basalt but found the discussion ineresting and Paul's answer to the critic very good.  

The idea of the floating debris raft as the vehicle for transporting the aimals dispersiong from the Ark into the rest of the world came up again.  I thijk Todd's way of talking about it is a lot better than the critics' but I don't think the raft idea is at all necessary because in my scenario the continents haven't been separating for enough time for them to have a whole ocean between them needing the secure cort of conveyanfdce they have in mind.  But I don't want to get into that one right now either.  All these things take a lot of discussion and too much space on a blog post.  

The one I tought I might give a more careful answer to is the one about the rapitidity of diversitfication of the animals as they spread out from the Ark to their eventual preferred haitats.

But again I'm tired and going to take a break.  Back soon I hope.

They who hate you will reign over you

 This is a message I've wanted to write but haven't been sure how to go about it.  It's a message I wish could be read by the entire nation.  WQow, does that sound arrogant.  But I do.  I think God would \\\\\has inspired it, but if nobody reads it then I'll know He didn't.  That's OK.  It's been on my ind and I want to be in His will so if I'm not then I'm not.  My mistake and that 's that.

This started up in my head aboua week ago, or was it two, with something Mark Levin said on his radio show.  How strange it is that Islam has only sgrown in influence in this country isince Nine Eleven twenty five years ago, something I've written about here from time to time. Yes it's strange but my explanation has always been that it's because we are under God's judgment.  The attack on the World Trade Center was God's judgment on us but we did nothibng about it except blame our human enemies and comfort ourselves as well as we can.  

God's judgment on a nation is a punishemnt for violating His law, for sin in orther words, national level sin.  When you understand that you are i violation of god's Law you don't ignore it, you repent.  You want the juydgment to go away, God's judgments ar hard to bwear.  The aattack on the WTC was very mild by comparison with what He could have done and we should have taken it to heart and tried to repair our relationship with HIm.  But nothing of the sort happened.

ot Not many at the time recnized it as God's judgment on the nation.  A few did, David Wilkerson comes to mind and I now there were some others but I'm notsure who any more.  IMostly what we heard from the Christain pulpits of America, however, was denials that God had anything to do with it, that God doesn't do such things, that God has nothing but sympathy for us in our suffering.  Well, God surely does have suympathy for us in that suffering, but at the same time He was trying to get our attention so we could address the real reason the attack happened.  Sure, our enemies hate us tand on thehuman level that'saenough of ane explanation.  But on God's level those humans werejjuust His agents of judgment.

AThis perspecive comes fro thje Bible.  Ony a biblically educated Christian would get what I'm talking about.  In the Old Testament Godd is shown to have puished His people Israel in many ways over time, mostly by bringing enemies to attackand destroy.  Assyria came gainst the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom of Judea was carried off captive by Nebuchadnear to Babylon where they remained captirves for seventy years.  

wasWhen God gave His law to the people through Moses He gave the warning that they would be blessed and prospered if they obeyed it but cursed and punished if they did not.  The title I put on this post comes from Leviticus 26where some of the blessings and cursings are spelled out.  Being ruled over by they who hate you has always stood out in my mind as particularly frightening although of course famine and disease and murdering armies aren't a pleasant thought either.  

The people sinned against God's covenant from the begining.  All thorugh the Book of Judges, soon after the people were stetttled in the land, they had trouble with the Midianities and the Philistines.  When they were given a leader, such as gideon and Samson and others, and recognized their sin, GOd gave gthem relief from their enejies.  But wards continued thorughtout their history.  And it was clear that it was because of the sins of the people that they occurred.  When the demolition of the northern kingdom by Assyria and then the captivity of the southern kingdom by Babylo came around, they had been warned many times over that they were at odds with God and needed to repent.  Isaiah and Jeremiah gave such warnings, although all the prophets

There is always a strong note of assurance at the same tine that God wants to bless the people, that if they will at least adcknowledge their sin and return to Him He will relent and bless them again.  they are His people after all andHe loves them.  That is why He is warnig them.  they commit idolatries and He punishes them but alwayso says Return to Me.  

America is not GOd's Chosen People in any way that can be compared with Israel, but on the other hand Christians are His people and America was a Chrsitain nation from its inception.  Besides that the Bible makes it clear that God rules over all the nations of the earth and brings judgmetn against them too.  N  Nineveh was an Assyrian city and God sent His prophet Jonah to warn them theat they were going to be punished for their sins.     

In America we're pretty weeak on the prophetic warning program.  It

s not a theme you hear much from any pulpit, a few but not many.   Jonathan  Cahn who opastors a Messianic Jewish Christian church, wrote a book title the Harbinger in which he pointed out soe uncannuy parallels between a paassage in Isaiah nine and events following the attack on the WTC.   In Isaiah nine God has sesent punishemtn on Israel and they are repotrted to  say:  The bricks are fallen but we will reuilding with hewn stone;  the sycamores are destroyed but we will replant with cedars.  Instead of repenting for the sins that had brought the judgment, they put all their effort into trepairn ght edestruction caused by the judgmetn of God, using stronger materians to proetect against fursther destruction, hewn stone over bricks, cedards which are hardier than sycamores.    the passage goes on to say that it certainly didn't do anything to bring the judgment to an ends end:  for "His hand is stretched out still."

And what I am saying is that His hand is still stretched out in judgmetn over the nation of America.  WQe never did anything to repent of our sins aaoinst God, even to acknowledge them, what we did, as Jonathan Cahn points out, is rebuild the ETC, layeing, guiess what, a hewn stone for itsfoundation;  and in a chaurch yard that was close to the disaster a sycamore tree was destroyed, and the chuyrch replaced it with a confier, a hardier tree like a cedar.    That's the uncanny parallel Cahn pointed out.

So here we are with Donal Gtrump as pResident and he is doing a great job of making america great again, really remarkable, and we have to regard thisa as God's mercy oi our nation.  He is working ahard to restore the nation after years of its being destroyed by various poilitices of the Democratic party, open borders that brought even criminals int who have raped and killed citizens and people who have benefited from our services paid for by American citizens and gotten us into trade deals that only hurt us and weakened our military and I know there is a long list but my ind keeps going off it.  Anyway the idea ishouild b dlear enough.  This is what Trump is doing a gerat job of cofrecting.  And again, this can only be God's mercy on the nation.

But will it hold?  I know a lot of us on the Right are worried that we'll lose Republican seat in Congress wqith the upcoming midterm elections and that would be a big setback for Trump's policies.  Unfortunately it's pretty much an established pattern that the incumbent administration loses at the midsterms, and even thoguhj trump is doing marvelously well it could happen this time too, and then we'll see more thof the left's destructions just take over, including impeachemewnts of Trmp that of course he doesn't deserve.  He hasn't deserved anythig they've thrown at thim that they call justice, ti's all made up political warfare, but it creates chaos and confusion and what needs to be done to gfix things doesn't happen and gets set back.   

Ghe left' hasn' stopped its destruction , in fact increased it, since Trump came into office for his secdon term.  They seem to be destermined to destroy the nation alogheter.  And the fact that they seem o have that much ability to succeed at is t as they pobviously have, and lahalf the nation aggreeing with them, mostly because they hear only what the leftwing media want them to thear,  the fact that they have that much power is what makes me thingk it's go tsomething to do with God's judgment on the nation.  hen God is happy with a nation He prospers andblses it, He doesn't allow enemies, internal or externalt to harass and destroy it.  We aren't quite at the point therehwere  They who hate you will reign over you  but if we are under God's judgmetn and we do nothing to push it back as usual, it could happen.

What can we do?  Well, for starters Chrsitains ALL Chrsitans should be praying our hearts out with fasting where possible.  And part of the parayer should be gthe acknowledgment that the natio is deserving of God's judgmetn.  We need to lay our snis before Him and convfess them and do what we can to turn them back, but at least the acknoweldgement would be a start and He would listen.

So, what are our sins?  I'm sure I don't have enough of a sense of them myself, but when I asked Him to spell them out I got a few I couldn't have listed myself, they just didn't occurrer top me.    I easily tthink of the effect of the Sixties with all its liberation movements, sexual liberation, gay liberation, women's libseration.  I think there was some cause for womn to object but the probjme is it got pushed by the Marxist point of view tand brought in anayalysis of Patriarthchy and all that which is really an attack on Chrsitainity.  But the liberations in general were really just one big Sin LIberation movement.  After the sixties it became comon for people not to get married but just live together and if that only lasted a few monehts they might go n to someone else and so on.  All that is a big violation of God's Moral Law.  Gay Marriage which only came about recently is a direct violation of God's ordinance of marriage between a man and a woman.  Marriage itself has been udner attack in the nation.  But we seem to have become all too accepting of it .  It;s just the way things are these days, we've adapted to, we hardly ever thing k of it as wrong at all, and of course for most people the idea of sin would be preposterous anywaya, the idea that we are offending God just utterly ridiculous.  But if we are, and I know we are, God is continuing to bring judgment against us for thesae among other sins.

WHn I askewd God to remind me of our sins He brought divorce to my ind which isn't one I would have thoguht of, but Jesus makes it clear in the sermon on the mount that God hates divorce and that remarriage is adultery.  I think it was in the fifties though I'm not very sure of dates, that laws pertaining to divorce were strongly relaxed and divroce became way too easy.  I think I recall that out of ten of my daughter's friends, nine had divorced parents.  It's no small sin.    And I might as well add here that tihte idea that there is any justivation for divorce in God's eyes is wrong.  There is this idea that there is a special exception for sexual sin but that's just a rmidsreading of the text.  Jesus sayid that divorcing one's wife  jexcept for the sin of formination, causes her eto commit adultery.  This is ead as if it said that fornication is an exception which is very strange sinsce what it says is tht if he cause is fornication then she isn't comitting adultery if she remarries, which is bovious,m rbecause she's already commiitted adultery.  It's a simple grammatical point.    I can think of all kinds of reasons a couple shouldn't stay tohgether, esepcially in the case of violence and abuse, but I think scripture doesn't aallow divoerce even in those cases.  I can'at argue in favor of it, I just think that's the case.  God wants marriage to remain marriage.  Children need an insact family foe one strong reason but tht'smy own easoning.  Anyway I'm not going to argue it just say that it's clear that scripture does j  The only justification for divorce given in scripture seems to be if a believer is marriage d to an unbeliever and the unbeliever wants to seprate, that's the only one I know of.  But again I'm not arguing any of this, I just want to say that he rampant divorce in the nation is no doubt oe of the reaosns we are under God's judgment.

Another He brought to my id was the Scopes trial.  Evolution.  Hm.  Evolution as the scientific law of the land.  Hm.  Of course it is a complete denial of the exisgtence of God or cousrse  we'd be under judgment for that.  It's an idolatry.

How about Jim Crow.  We paid for slavery but Him Crow stood for years and although it came to an ened we may still be under jdugmetn for it.    Same with aborion.  The Supreme Court recently finally removed Roe v Wade from its position of national sin and threw it back on the states where it has somehow continued with even greater numbers of abortions than before.  All that shed blood is certainly crying out to god for redress.  

So I'm thinking all this noisy drestructive activity against the peace of the nation by the Left is a congtinuation fo God's judgmetn and if we want it to stop  it isn't going to be done through politics or any human menas, ti's going to take our recognition that the nation is junder God's judgment aAND AT LEAST OUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF WHATEVER SINS WE ARE AWARE OF THAT       Sorry caps lock onm,  at least acknowledge the sins.  Daniel confessed the sins of the Israelities in His prayer i Daniel Nine, each of us can do the same for America.  I guess only the born again Christains wer e really able to do this but if we all do it with real conviciton and fewrvor He may listen.

I know I made a mess of this wih typos, I just hope they don't make the gthinkg unreadable.  Sorry sorry orry, I can feel them happebing under my findgers but I can't do anything about them because of my blindndess.  Sorry.

Butr I would really like this message to get out to a lot of people.  I hope I'm not the only oe giving it but I haven't heard it coming from anywhere else lately.

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jTrump has been making me nervous lately

 Sure I'd like to see us acquirig Grelnland.  I'm taking this down as I originally wrote it.  I'll just sketch in that I am nervous when Trump threatenes something like taking Greenland by force.  Just threatening it, even if it is part of a netotiating strategy, bopthers me because it's just plain wrong, and you don't threaten to do something wrong even if you don't intend to do it.

The other thing that's making me nervous is that he told the Iranian protestors against their tyranical govern,ent that "help is on the way" but that help hasn't yet materialized and I worry that it may not.  I hope I'm wrong.

Update, Thursday:  Sounds like Trump got some kind of a good deal arranged during his time at Davos with the WEF.  P  Somethhing like sovereignty over part of Greenland though not the wholej.  

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