A Teaching on the Paschal Mystery
The Crucifixion of Christ all over again!
Since the text of this article deals with the anarchy happening during the university sit-ins and protests near the end of April 2024 and into May 2024, the prominence of actual occurrences may have subsided. The date of this writing is April 30, 2024. However, the events of the anti-Israel and death to all Jewish people is a tragedy that resembles the assault on Jews at the desire of the Third Reich. Hitler is not the first or the last to use hatred towards Jews.
It could be the speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941; The Day of Infamy!” The result of the current anarchy will not kill thousands as in the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. But it will go down in history as one of the direct assaults of an entire people in the United States, and Israel as a way to perform genocide to meet the evil of a world gone mad.
We cannot stand by and allow free speech to become corrupted with hatred so strong that the manner to shut down other freedoms of anyone we do not agree with is totally out of sync with more than one entity striking at the head of a God-given people whom he chose as his city of the end times. “Therefore, if you harken to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my special possession, dearer to me than all other people, though all the earth is mine. You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.” (Ex 19: 5 - 6).
Undoubtedly, most, if not all these protesters do not have any affiliations with God, the bible, or even any understanding of a spiritual people who place the word of God as a priority. This is not an odd example of the young today. Throughout the thousands of young children who’ve reached beyond puberty without family insistence of praying to a deity that is real and the idea of righteousness towards their neighbor has all but disappeared from the slightest thought of right from wrong.
There is no doubt that once most kids are confirmed the church no longer holds any purpose and as soon as they move into dormitories, and as soon as they are convinced that a sorority or fraternity gets their attention the trap is set and what any adherence to religion is all but a dim view from the past. Where we can see that faith in God is not a requirement to develop a spiritual life. It doesn’t provide for the parties, sexual gratification, or drinking orgies. What we are looking at with these protests and the damage they are doing is the result of putting on the symbol of another Satan soldier. Standing up for anything that can control the rights of those who claim to be a free society and members of the God who spoke to Moses as written above.
Reaching out to another religion, national, or race of people with antagonist feelings, we become exactly like Hitler and the end will corrupt our sense of righteousness.
“Let no one in any way deceive you in any way. For unless the apostasy comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one doomed to perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so as to seat himself above an object of so as to seat himself in the temple of God, claiming that he is a god-do you not recall that while I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work” (2 Thes 2: 3 - 7).
The anarchy, that at this writing, is a perfect sign of what is about to happen. When exactly we do not know, but it's assurance is written in scripture and especially in the Book of Revelation. Cf also Daniel 11; 36 - 37).
Pray for these uninformed youth who are at the college level without any knowledge of God, the Church, and the difference between heaven and hell. (Father, forgive them, they know not what they do, (Lk 23: 34).
This can be the Crucifixion of Christ repeating itself with a 21st century look at Satan’s last vestige in his quest to destroy humanity and take as many souls as he is able to hell for all eternity.
Ralph B. Hathaway
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