Lent - Week One - Micah
The roadmap to Righteousness is filled with pitfalls everywhere.
As God set his plan in place to share his life and love with mankind he found there would be enemies who wanted to destroy his purpose using the Hebrew nation. Call it jealousy from the nations who refused God’s choices or simply those who did not stand up to the requirements of a people who would give back to their creator what they received as grace.
Somehow the stories beginning with Noah found one man who worshiped God and would follow the creator with diligence and honor. Throughout the Old Testament we find prophets whom God called and sent to his chosen people to bring their sluggish faith back to his commandments. Many years went by and each prophet was sent to a portion of Israel to counsel and convince them of God’s love for them. What had occurred for centuries were men who were not qualified but God touched the lips of some and moved the blocks of fear from all with the courage to bring God's Word into their hearts and the minds of the remnants they were sent.
There always were enemies of God’s intentions to bring the Hebrew nation to a final land they could call their own. It took hundreds of years before the land God told them they could have as ownership for their home. On May 14, 1948 the new nation of Israel was established and the nation of Israel finally could call this tiny strip of real estate their very own. However, since that historical event, there has been one crisis after another by Paelstinians as to the proper ownership of the Gazza strip and other portions of this nation.
But the real problem has been the intention of many outside nations wanting to disrupt the peace Israel enjoyed and refusing to accept their right as a religious people whom God called way back in the time of the prophets as being God’s chosen people.
After Alexander conquered Persia and Israel Jews were subject to the subsequent rule of Alexander and his successors. A few generations later, 165 BC, the Maccabean revolt results in a brief period of independence for Jews from Greek rule, on August 21, 2018.
Move back to WWII when Hitler invaded Poland and took over his rule to control the whole world, beginning with European nations first. The sad scenario is when many Jews had migrated to Germany and were enjoying success as a separate nationality, Hitler became hateful and history proves the Third Reich killed over six million Jews, many in camps that put men and women in gas chambers. Many others were put in ovens and burned alive. Children were not exempted.
Now, move ahead 80 years from 1944 to 2024 and find the atrocious event that occurred October 7, 2023 when the Palestinian Sunni Islasmist group (A US designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO) led surprise attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip, More than 1,200 Israelies and foreign nationals (including at least 35 US citizens in Israel) were killed.
There are no films available on the atrocious events of these attacks. We were told by reports that babies had their throats cut and beheaded. Women were raped, and many at an outdoor concert were brutally murdered running for their lives. And now, May 2024 many universities are joining with radical protesters in putting Jerusalem down and calling for the murder of Jewish people and even ostracizing Jewish students at their universities.
The pitfalls of reaching righteousness has become a road of collapsing people who should be standing for Israel and all Jews. None of them have done anything to earn this discrimination that threatens the lives of millions again in the 21st century.
As we alway hear these words spoken over and over; “Those who discard the past are bound to repeat it again.” Was the termination of Jews promoted by Adolf Hitler not enough? How many more innocent women and babies will this enemy (Hamas) perpetuated by Iran, want to destroy because of their belief in God. Is there never any more faith in these Muslim nations?
I was explicit in this next section in at least one article that we have a president in Washington, DC who is no more of a leader for the Free world as he is for his own ability to maybe write his name without help. The Democratic party is out for one thing, and power is their mantra. By speaking outside of both sides of their mouths, they are corralling innocent citizens towards the path of no-return for a democracy that is aimed at Marxism. Once that socialistic entity arrives the hammer is going to fall and if we are still here (the possibility of the Rapture is a hope for us now) we will experience a world of evil and unrest without law and order to be found anywhere.
As reported before, the unrest at our universities and the cooperating of some professors uniting with Palestinian sympathizers the chances of bringing a peaceful conclusion without the presence of God is almost non-existent.
One thing is certain, too many people that listen to news from ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC or CNN are not hearing the absolute truth of what is happening in the world. Fox news is the only media that has not fallen corrupt as the other outlets. As President Trump always mentioned in speeches that Fake News was not wanted but there they were only printing what suited the far-left media that favored corruption to become the headlines without the truth a free press should be interested in writing or speaking.
Of course we should not be surprised at a lack of free press writing when most of these reporters are also in favor of curtailing or censoring free speech as well. In a Marxist press, you’ll only hear what the government in charge will allow to be spoken. That already is the mode in Russia, China, and other nations that already compromise free speech as well as other rights.
The First two amendments to the Constitution, rights and guns are at risk of losing their proper place of the people’s rights to pray, speak freely, and carry weapons as our forefathers saw as a necessary right for citizens. And citizens are people who are naturally born here or immigrants who are accepted through the right of nationalization, not sneaking into this nation because of Joe Biden's Ridiculous manner of opening the border to anyone to come in. Let’s hope he doesn't even come close in this election. The office of president is a respected office we must hold up as a proud nation. But we do not have to respect the person who swore on a bible to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. Respect the flag but not the one who lies about our Constitution.
Ralph B. Hathaway