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Toxic Children
by M. John Allen
Once again, this message is so
important that I’m including it both in our Sermon/Bible study section and The
Real Truth.
Before I begin, though let me
make something clear to all of our readers. I run a majority of the material
in The Real Truth ezine from things I get
off the internet. I think most people will understand this point, but let me
make it perfectly clear right now: just because I include something in The
Real Truth ezine does not mean that I agree with it
100%, but it is included to stimulate thought and reflection. Each person has
to decide for themselves how much to believe or not to believe, but I in no
way endorse everything these articles say, and there are some areas where I
disagree with them very much.
One recent example is the
article about Dulce New Mexico and the Nazi connection. The article tries to claim that
there are aliens behind the things going on there. I don’t believe that. I
believe that many things that are claimed to be aliens are either government
hoaxes to cover covert weapons experiments, or they are manifestations of
demonic activity. Now, it is remotely possible that demons could be
possessing the bodies of some strange reptilian creatures from underneath the
earth or somewhere else, but that is far fetched. It is very possible that
humans in government and elsewhere THINK they are dealing with aliens, but
they in reality are not, but are dealing with BEINGS FROM ANOTHER
DIMENSION, which the Bible labels as demons. So I guess you could consider a
demon to be an alien, but the Bible tells us what they really
are. One of these days I will have to give a study on this subject, because
it is very fascinating.
Just as one example, we know
that holy angels can manifest themselves in physical bodies. What most people
DON’T KNOW is that before the Flood, according to the apocryphal Book of
Jubilees, much of which has a ring of truth, demons had this same power.
However, things got so bad, because demons were posing as humans and teaching
them all kinds of bad things in person, that God took away this power. That
is no doubt why demons like to possess people and animals, so that they can
once more experience physical sensations.
Man can cause genetic mutations,
and may some day be able to produce animals made to order much more so than
by selective breeding today. If man has this power, it is logical to assume
that at one time SATAN HAD MUCH MORE POWER, AND MUCH MORE KNOWLEDGE. So, if
Satan knew thousands of years ago that he would want to pose as alien beings
from outer space, and if he and his demons suspected God would take away
their power to manifest physically someday, then it is remotely possible for
him to have genetically engineered some animals that could in later ages be possessed
and used for a mass deception of the people of the world to convince them
that aliens existed. I don’t know if this is true or not, but it is within
the realm of possibility. It is also possible that these animal’s
hands and bodies could be used as tools by the demons to make spacecraft and
other artifacts. Of course, demons have the power to float things through the
air, so they could do it without physical tools at all. So don’t think that
just because certain high technology of a seemingly alien type exists that it
couldn’t be created by Satan. I am just throwing this out as food for
thought, so that if some really miraculous things do happen in the future [and the
Bible says they WILL], you won’t be deceived like the rest of the world will
be.
Of course, Satan has a lot to do
with what we are going to discuss today: KILLER KIDS! It seems that teen, and
even pre teen violence is on the rise in an ever escalating cycle of violence
and mayhem. Why is this? Why is it happening now? And what can we do to keep
our children from becoming the next criminals in the headlines?
Before we answer these
questions, I would like to take you back to a time of abut a hundred years
ago, or maybe slightly more. It was a much simpler time. A time of well
defined values of right and wrong, but also a time of family togetherness and
community cohesion and cooperation.
I want you to imagine that you
are positioned outside a great big farm house on a typical family farm of the
day. You are looking in the dining room window. It is dusk. Everyone has
returned from the day’s work outdoors, and the lanterns and candles cast
their gentle glow upon the faces surrounding the dining room table. there is
a mother who is bringing out supper from the kitchen. Seated around the table
are a sturdy farmer, his eldest son of 17, and other sons and daughters,
about six children in all.
As mother sets the last dish on
the table and takes her seat, the father tells all the children to bow their
heads, and the entire family bows their heads. Tonight, it is the youngest
child’s turn to say grace, and the child recites a heartfelt prayer of
thanksgiving to God for the blessings the family has. They all say A-men, and
start eating.
the conversation of starts out
with everyone telling how their day has went. The younger kids have been in
school, where they have learned the basics of reading, writing, and
arithmetic. There are no students carrying knives or guns to class (at least
NOT to harm other students with, that is; surely at times
some of the older children plan a hunting expedition after school, so they
might bring their guns, but no one ever dreams of hurting someone else with
them). Children sometimes do get into fights on the playground, but there is swift
and sure corporal punishment for such incidents, and so they are rarely
repeated. School is for learning, and that is pretty much what the children
do in a well organized, well behaved way.
The older children of course
have been helping out mom and dad on the farm. Winter is coming fast, and so
preparations of the barns and chicken coops and other buildings have to be
made before the weather gets cold. Occasional discipline problems are handled
by father with a firm, yet loving slap on the rump of the offending child.
The children know the family rules, and they know they will be punished if
they break them, so they usually don’t. Mom and dad teach values from the
Bible, and dally family Bible readings are the norm and not the exception.
The children know the Ten Commandments by heart, and know that they should
obey them. Everyone by and large has a love for his and her neighbors in the
community, and they share each other’s tragedies and triumphs.
Of course, there is the
occasional horse thief, bank robber, or other criminal who is swiftly dealt
with. But in this world, only real crimes and real
criminals are pursued and punished. There is no such thing as an “illegal
drug,” because everyone knows that what one does with one’s own body is their
own business between God and themselves, but there are very few if any drug
addicts because people just have been taught to know better than to abuse
their own bodies. They know from the town drunk or perhaps a man who takes
too much opium or cocaine (yes, heroin, opium, and cocaine were readily available
in those days in any pharmacy without prescription, and were used as pain
killers or for other medical problems; in fact, just before 1900 the Bayer
pharmaceutical company introduced two new products, one had a brand name of
Aspirin, and was for pain, while the other had a brand name of Heroin, and
was used for respiratory ailments, but abuse was rare) what the penalties of
such behavior were. The town drunk or drug addict was a social outcast. If he
kept on his path of self destruction he ended up with no family, no friends
-- nothing. And that was something to be avoided at all costs because family
and friends were everything.
Yes, that certainly was a time
of different values than today! Money was fine, but people basically believed
the Biblical admonition that a person should have neither too much of it,
lest he forget and curse God, nor too little, lest he be hungry and steal!
People valued honor and their good name more than mere money, and those who didnt’became social outcasts and con men who were likely
to end up in jail as an example to decent folk not to go down that path.
People were free to do with
themselves and their family whatever they thought was best. No pesky social
worker threatened to take children away from their parents because they were
not acting according tot he social norm -- but since by and large society
took its values from the Bible, child abuse and molestation were very rare
indeed.
At that time, the church was a
strong force in society. People heard corrective sermons almost every week.
And these sermons were longer than the 15-20 minute vacuous wonders heard in
most of today’s churches! A sermon was at least an hour, and many times
longer. It was filled with exhortations from the Bible on how to live, and
the amazing thing is that people paid attention! The church imparted the
strong family values to its people, and they applied it as best they could.
The result: an orderly, law abiding, safe, and decent society!
Let’s recap, then, what society
was like back then. You had strong, healthy families, where a loving couple
married for life and were totally devoted and committed to making their
families work. The family was the building block of society, and was strong
as a rock. It was led by a strong father figure and nurtured by a loving
mother. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins were all close by, and
family get together were a joyous and fun filled experience for all.
Everyone, friends, family, etc., helped out in times
of crisis.
Adultery and fornication were
virtually unheard of. And divorce was a shame so strong as to dethrone a
king, even as late as 1930’s England!
Sometimes
people did drink to excess, or maybe used occasional drugs, but if they were
minors, the parents quickly corrected these problems. If it was an adult,
like Prime Minister of England Gladstone or Sigmund Freud, who both used to
use a little opium from time to time, it was a personal matter only and none
of anyone else’s business unless it became an abusive situation. and then,
the penalty was the ultimate penalty except for death: to become a social
outcast or misfit. That was punishment enough back then to keep most people
in a healthy way of life.
And to back up all of this, the
church was a moral bulwark of society. The pulpits thundered almost every
week with admonitions from the Bible about the right way to live.
Let’s now shift abut a hundred
years into the future. We are in our time now of the last decade of this
turbulent 20th century. Everything has changed! Let’s see just a few of the
things that have changed.
We are outside the family house
in a middle class suburb in an average American city of today. It is about
dusk, and we expect that maybe the family will be gathering for the evening
meal.
We are wrong. Suzy, who is 16,
has a date with her boyfriend tonight. She hurriedly heats a TV dinner in the
microwave, gulps it down, and is ready just as the doorbell rings just before
5:00. It is her latest boyfriend, and she gets in the car for
an evening on the town. It’s Friday night, so they go to a couple of knock
down, drag out parties which are just a build up to the all night rave they
are going to attend from abut midnight until whenever.
Suzy is drunk by the time she
gets to the rave. Her and her boyfriend meet some other people at the rave.
One has a couple of joints, another some cocaine, and a third person has some
hits of LSD, so they really are going to party tonight! A few hours of dancing to
a heavy techno beat totally blasted out of their minds leads the six friends
[3 couples] to go to a back room in the house where they are having the rave.
There, they are joined by some others for some frantic sex and more drugs and
booze.
The party ends about 8 AM the next morning. Suzy is ready to “crash.” Her
boyfriend drops her off at home, but there is no one to greet her as she
stumbles into the door and heads to her room. Dad doesnt’live
at home, and mom is already off to work. Suzy collapses in bed and sleep s
all day, only waking up when her mother comes home. Mom just looks at her and
asks her how she is. Suzy says she’s fine and mother just tiredly accepts it.
She suspects something went ont he night before,
but is too tired to ask. At least Suzy is still alive.
Dad doesnt’live
at home anymore, because he fell in love with his 30 year old secretary,
divorced mom, and is now living with the secretary. They don’t plan on
getting married, because they both believe in the “no rings, no strings”
philosophy of no commitment. The secretary is pregnant with an accident, and
dad and the secretary are deciding whether to have the child or have it
aborted.
Dad sends in his child support
and alimony payments whenever he can, and sometimes
visits his kids on a weekend when he is not too busy doing something else,
which seems to be most of the time now. The children see less and less of
their father.
Mom has to work a full time job,
six days a week, as a busy advertising executive to support herself and the
children. The money she gets from her estranged husband isn’t anywhere near
enough to make ends meet. Between work, taking care of a house, two kids, and
her new boyfriend Jack, she really doesn’t have time to breath. It seems like she is just
some kind of robot, a machine that keeps her little family going.
She wonders about how life has
gone. Her mother had essentially the same life she has, but she remembers
that Grandma had stayed married to Grandpa her entire life. Grandma had stay
dome raising her family of five, and seemed to enjoy every minute of it.
Grandma was not enlightened, though, abut things like women’s rights and
equality. she had stayed at home all her life raising her family. Mom had
been a good corporate lawyer, but had gotten divorced abut three times
and had raised her four kids mainly with baby-sitters and the television set.
Mom was now living by herself in a retirement community in Florida, and only got to see her grand children once or twice a
year. but she remembered that her Grandma had always seemed to be there, a
second mom when her own mother was at work late. Grandma and Grandpa’s house
had seemed like a refuge to her when she was a little girl, a place of calm
in the storm of society around them.
Grandma hadn’t had a big career
or made big money, but somehow, she had seemed to be happier than either
herself or her own mother. She had seemed contented and happy with life. Her
head had been so full of foolish old fashioned notions, though! But sometimes,
she wondered to herself if the choice of a career over Grandma’s life was
such a bargain...... but she had no time to think of this, she had to get
ready to go out with her boyfriend as soon as she got home.
Kip, the youngest child, was 14.
He got home from school abut 3:30 in the
afternoon. Suzy was getting ready to go out with her boyfriend, so he
couldn’t talk to her. She just screamed at him if she tried. So Kip changed
into his “street clothes,” heated some frozen leftovers from something mom
had made last week, gulped it down, and headed out to Roger’s house for some
fun.
The whole neighborhood gang
seemed to most often end up at Roger’s. Roger lived in a big house down the
street, but his parents didnt’usually make it home
until 7 PM or later. They were both corporate lawyers and worked
long hours. Naturally, Roger’s mother’s husband was not his real
dad, but a stepdad, her mother having remarried two
years ago after she divorced the doctor that was her first husband. But the
doctor NEVER had time for her, and so she had fallen in love with someone at
the office, and started sleeping with him, and before she knew it she was
divorced. The whole thing had been tough on the kids, but...
Roger was the leader of the
neighborhood “gang.” As soon as his “brothers” arrived, they would decide
what to do, which was usually to go down to the local school and shoot some
hoops. But other times, someone would have some pot, or some booze they had
gotten from their parent’s liquor cabinet, etc.
Lately, though, things weren’t
fun enough Life was getting boring. Roger was thinking of maybe starting to
get into exciting things, like snatching purses, or practicing knife
fighting, or even maybe getting hold of a couple of guns, and showing those
punks on the other street who was boss. The possibilities were turning over
very fast in Roger’s mind these days, and he was leading his bro’s into these
same ideas. Maybe they could start having some kicks, and get away from a
boring life.
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What a contrast between these
two stories! One pictures a well ordered, healthy society, and the other
pictures a society adrift, with each person going in their own direction, and
none of those directions being very healthy. Missing format he picture of
today’s world is a strong family, a strong church, and a moral sense of direction.
Everything is “relative,” and people do’t seem to
think beyond the pleasures of the moment. It is in fertile ground like this
that our toxic children take root and grow -- some of them into monsters who
murder their classmates and teachers in cold blood!
But there is more going on
underground than meets the eye today. Building on a relativistic recent past,
where the old values were perhaps only upheld two generations ago, the modern
“family” is even less equipped to cope than the previous generations. And the
church is not generally a place people can turn, because the ministers in
most churches spew forth the same relativistic filth that society at large
has come to accept. But built on this is an insidious new school curriculum
called Goals 2000, which should be bad enough even to shake our present day
jaded society. Let me include here a disturbing post on Goals 2000 that I got
off the internet this past week. It should be enough to disturb any thinking
person.
1:06PM 6/6/98+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Saturday, May 23, 1998 14:14:42
From: Lynn M Stuter
The following was emailed to all
Washington state Senators and
Representatives.
It is time we started speaking
the truth and standing by it.
It is time to hold our elected
representatives accountable. Lynn S.
In the last year there have been
a number of incidents in which
children have killed teachers
and students on school grounds. This has
happened in Washington,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and
Oregon that I am aware of. On the same day that the Springfield,
Oregon,
incident happened, a Washington youth stepped off a school bus in a district
north of Seattle, then shot himself through the head. In a two year time
frame, in the Moses Lake [Central
Washington] area, a youth
killed his
teacher and three other
students; the cousin of one of his victims killed
his mother, sister, and himself;
and four youths killed an elderly couple
because one youth had a grudge
to satisfy.
Why wasn't this happening six
years ago, ten years ago? The
commonality in all of these
incidents is Goals 2000. Far fetched you
say--not hardly.
At the time of the Moses Lake incident, I told several legislators that
unless and until the matter of what
these kids were being exposed to in the
classroom was addressed at the
state level, this was going to keep right on
happening--and time, sadly, has
borne that out.
Education reform is not about
educating for intelligence, it is about
process, it is about modifying
and changing a child's behavior to
produce the wanted society, the
wanted workforce of the 21st Century.
The techniques being utilized
are techniques that should only be used by
clinically trained and
clinically licensed medical personnel and then only
under certain circumstances. The
use of these techniques by teachers in a
classroom setting constitutes
medical malpractice and the result is kids who
are powder kegs waiting to go
off--kids who take guns to school and murder
teachers and classmates. As I
told legislators at the time of the Moses
Lake killings--you are only
going to twist some minds so far before they
will snap. Minds are snapping.
I have a curriculum, obtained
via the Nine Mile Falls School District,
entitled "Language
Circles." In the front of the book, it instructs the
teacher in the methods of
creating conflict in the child to attain the
wanted behavioral change. I
obtained the curriculum via a mother whose
child was being exposed to this
curriculum. The child was having
nightmares!!!! When I looked at
the curriculum, I could fully understand
why. The curriculum is sordid,
sadistic, masochistic. When the parent --the
wife of a minister--complained
to the teacher, the teacher told the parent
that she (the teacher) hoped the
parent wasn't "imposing her moral values on
the child." To give you
some idea of what the curriculum included, the
following is an outline of one
story from this curriculum:
The young boy, Fles, escapes from the "establishment" in which
he
resides, to the
"nature" beyond. He plays in a stream and accidentally
breaks the mask covering his
face. He has been told that if he sees his
face, he will die, so he curls
up on the bank, waiting to die. When he
doesn't, he realizes
how beautiful his face is, and that the mask isn't
necessary and races back to the
"establishment" to tell everyone they don't
need to wear their masks. The
final paragraph of the story reads,
"'Please,' he cried, but
they didn't hear. A tear ran down his cheek. He
didn't struggle as the gray
synthetic bag dropped over his body." Can you
imagine the effect of this story
on the mind of young child forced to read
it by a teacher? Can you
comprehend the debilitating effect of such a story
on a young mind? Yet children
are being exposed to stories such as this,
even ones worse, on a daily
basis in the classroom under education reform.
Another prime example is
"The Giver" in which the child is exposed to
graphic infanticide, sadism,
masochism and a warped sense of reality.
As you may or may not recall, a
copy of "Rage" by Stephen King (under a
pseudo name) was found by the
bed of the boy who killed the teacher and
three students at Frontier
Junior High in Moses Lake. What do you expect
when kids are being exposed, on
a daily basis, not to mind expanding works
of literary accomplishment, but
to mind numbing and mind altering garbage,
most of which is sadistic,
masochistic and sordid? This material isn't what
parents are shown on
"curriculum night," it is supplemental teaching
materials that most parents
aren't even aware exists. The Future of
Washington Schools Project
survey shows that 86% of all parents haven't a
clue what education reform is
about. These parents haven't a clue that
teachers are no longer teaching
from textbooks!! Parents still believe that
teachers have the same moral
standards and principles as they [parents] do;
they trust that the teachers are
the "experts." In too many instances, that
trust is blind to what teachers
are doing--the teachers are simply doing
what they have been told to do,
and they don't stop to think about what they
really are doing. Yes, parents have a responsibility to know
what their
child is being taught, but
exactly when has the debate on education reform
ever taken place? Who from the
state has taken the time to truly be honest
with parents about the realities
of education reform and when has that
happened? The fact of the matter
is that it hasn't. Parents have purposely
been kept in the dark because
most don't have the time to do the research
that a few grassroots activists
have done. They are too busy trying to pay
the excessive taxes being
burdened on families to support the programs
destroying families and
children!!!!!
Couple these curriculums with
the DARE program that teaches children
that taking a gun to school is a
"choice" that the child must make. It
doesn't say, "Guns
kill." It doesn't say, "Guns don't belong at school." It
doesn't say taking a gun to
school is wrong. It says taking a gun to school
is a choice, and if you choose
to do it, it's okay because you choose to do
it. What do you expect? You
don't tell a child that such is a choice. You
tell him that it isn't a choice.
Children must have limits. If they aren't
given those limits, they will
seek those limits--even if such is destructive
to themselves and others!! Moral
relativism, values clarification and
nondirective education are
destructive, pure and simple.
As I have stated repeatedly,
unless and until our legislators are
willing to stop sticking their
collective heads in the sand and start
addressing the realities
of what children are being exposed to in the
classroom on a daily basis, the
killings are going to continue. You can
continue to blame the problem on
children's access to guns (the media bent),
but children have always had
access to guns. It was not until the last ten
years in which children have
been immersed in behaviorally modifying
techniques in the classroom that
this problem has occurred. While these
techniques have been perfected
in classrooms over the last thirty years,
children have not been immersed
in them to the extent they are now being
immersed under "Goals
2000" and "School to Work".
Lynn M. Stuter
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Now, I think you can begin to
understand the reasons for the escalating of outrageous violence in schools
among our young. But for every spectacular incident of teen violence today,
how many seeds for future adult crime and violence are there? It’s really
frightening when you think about it!
Lets face the facts. What kept
people behaving themselves in the past were a strong family and a strong
church that were teaching the difference between right behavior and wrong
behavior. The absolute standard then was summed up in the Ten Commandments.
Children even memorized them! Families and churches did not leave to the
state their own responsibilities.
Today, we try to shape people’s
behavior too late by passing laws against what we don’t like. This method doesnt’work. Once someone grows to adulthood, if they
haven’t formed good moral character, then they won’t listen no matter what
kinds of laws you japes.
And the absence of a strong
family unit leaves youth alone to pursue perverted kicks and entertainment of
their own choosing. And they have a ready source of ideas in deviant behavior
from television, music, and the world around them.
But really,
the key to this whole thing is the destruction of the family unit, and
especially the absence in many homes of a strong father figure. The National
Fatherhood Institute has some disturbing statistics to back this up. The
institute reports that in single parent households, children are 20 times
more likely to have behavioral disorders, 32 times
more likely to run away, 9 times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times
more likely to abuse drugs, 5 times more likely to commit suicide, 14 times
more likely to commit rape, 9 times more likely to be detained in a juvenile facility, and
20 times more likely to end up in prison. when you add to this
the outright destructive teachings of the Goals 2000 and the Schools to Work
programs, I think you can see a real
big part of the problem.
But, there is a cause for
every affect! All of this did not happen by itself or in a vacuum.
There is plenty of blame to go
around, but if you read my articles on education, found, if I remember
correctly, in chapter 6 of my book, The Restoration of Truth, found in
our library section, we have now had a failure of ALL the basic
institutions of society: the family, the church, and the schools. All three
are part of the problem. Corrective measures should come from somewhere, and
this has traditionally been the CHURCH, but so few in the churches today dare
to speak up or offer practical solutions.
Many today scoff and sneer at
the Bible. They think it doesnt’have any meaning in
our modern day and age. They think it’s a lot of old bedtime stories to
frighten children. Even less listen to bible prophecy, or realize
that it applies to our lives today.
But ancient prophecies written
thousands of years ago are coming true with eerie clarity today. For those
who have eyes to see, they paint an ominous picture for our future. Jeremiah
told us exactly WHO is to blame fro our present problems today. Notice what
he said:
“My people have been lost sheep.
Their shepherds [leaders, especially political and RELIGIOUS LEADERS] have
led them astray; they have turned them away ont he
mountains. They have gone from
mountain to hill; they
have forgotten their resting place [other scriptures show that the Lord is
our resting place]. All who found them have devoured them; and their
adversaries say ‘We are not offended, because they have sinned against the
Lord, the habitation of justice, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’” [Jer. 50:6-7]
Yes, our people are LOST because
no one tells them the difference between right and wrong anymore.
Furthermore, the leaders THEMSELVES are full of sin!
But our leadership today is a
reflection of a decadent, dying culture. When church leaders are caught in
adultery or some other heinous sin, many just laugh it off, and expect us to
believe that they have repented, when the pattern of abuse has gone on FOR
DECADES! Yet they brazenly forge ahead, thinking they are doing God’s work. A
top former minister in one of the church’s of God thinks he can do just this,
and that people will just go along.
We also have the spectacle of
one of the most immoral and corrupt presidents the United States has ever
had. His level of sleaze and filth is SIMPLY UNPRECEDENTED SINCE THE DEMENTED
LAST EMPERORS OF ROME! Yet, just like those decadent, ancient Romans at the
close f THEIR CIVILIZATION, so our modern Romans fail to realize
that morality, honor, telling the truth, etc. ARE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS IN
ANY LEADER, AND THAT A LEADER WHO DOES NOT HAVE THESE QUALITIES SHOULD BE
INSTANTLY REJECTED! Instead, a frightening 70% of Americans admit that
Bill Clinton is morally depraved, but they don’t dare! That means that our
civilization is VERY CLOSE to its fall!
This prophecy in the first
chapter of Isaiah pretty much sums up our situation, and what is about to
happen to our people:
“Hear O Heavens, and give ear, O
earth! For the Eternal has spoken: ‘I have nourished and brought up children,
and they have rebelled against me; the ox knows its owner and the donkey its
master’s crib; but Israel does not know, My people do not consider [marg. understand].
“Alas, sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers [yes, God knows that everybody’s
doing it,” all right!], children who are corruptors! They have forsaken the
Eternal, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned
away backward.
“Why shall you be stricken
again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head [leadership] is sick,
and the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there
is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have
not been closed or bound up [there is no one around to tend to our national
problems, or tell us of our sins], or soothed with ointment.
[And now, God predicts what will
soon happen because of our sick situation if we don’t do anything about it, I
suggest you note this well:] “Your country is desolate, your cities are
burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence; and it is
desolate, as overthrown by strangers, so the daughter of Zion is left as a
booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
[Yes, God shall take away our national greatness,,,, but note this also:]
Unless the Eternal of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would
have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorra [utterly
destroyed].
God then indicts us, telling us
He won’t listen to our prayers, acknowledge our offerings, or recognize our
sacrifices. He won’t listen to our many prayers, nor will He hear beacuse “your hands are full of blood [yes, God sees and
abhors our violence].
God then instructs us on the
solution to this problem: “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away
the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do
good; seek justice, reprove the oppressor [our current legal system helps the
oppressors]; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
“‘Come now and let us reason
together,’ says the Eternal, “though your sins are like scarlet, they shall
be as white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
If you are willing and obedient [that is, to God’s way of life, as summed up
in His Ten Commandments], you shall eat the good of the land; but if you
refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured byt he
sword,’ for the mouth of the Eternal has spoken.” [Is. 1:2-20 you might wish
to finish reading this chapter, it is very enlightening.]
There are so many more
scriptures that I could go into, but this message would just get too long if
I did.
In this message, we have
contrasted the world of the past with the world of the present day. We have
seen that the church and the family, which used to be the underpinnings of
the well ordered, healthy society f that time, have been replaced by moral
relativism and outright depravity. We have seen that the results are
reflected more an dmore in our depraved children,
especially with a wicked new curriculum being taught int
he schools.
God calls this nation to
repentance while there is still time. Unfortunately, this warning is falling,
by and large, on deaf ears. But if you will turn your life around, and will
repent of your sins and start living according to GOD’S WAY F LIFE, which
builds within us the VERY HOLY RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER OF GOD, then you and your
family can escape many of the horrors of the future, and live a more happy,
fulfilled life today. All the information you need to make these changes and
to understand God’s Truth and His way of life are in the library
section and the sermon sections of this website. Step by step, you can learn
that there is a way of life that works and that makes sense.
IN order to grow and to get
closer to God, you must unlearn the lies that society has filled you with. If
there were no God, then these things wouldn’t matter, except that His way of
life does work when applied, of course. But there is a God, so this matters
for all eternity.
God is concerned with how we
raise our children, but, if we ourselves don’t understand the right way of
life, then how can we teach it to our children? So first, you need to
inculcate the precious knowledge and Truth of God into your daily life, and
then you can be a success showing your children how to live. Once this happens, we
will be able to, as the Proverb says, “Train up a child in the way he should
go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” [Prov.
22:6]. then, the curse will be lifted, and in YOUR FAMILY AT LEAST, you can
start reaping the blessings that come from living God’s way of life.
God sets before us life and
death, blessings and cursings. He commands us to
choose life, but the choice is always up to us. I pray that more and more of
you will choose life, and not go down the drain with this evil nation when
its fall comes!
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