There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
18:10 The name of the Lord. In Hebrew culture, a name was not a mere label, but usually an expression of the character of a person. God’s covenant name, “Lord,” is associated with His character as Savior of His people (Ex. 3:13–15; 15:1–3 and notes).
a strong tower. The security of the righteous is based on God’s character as a faithful Savior.[1]
18:10A tower of strength Both a watchtower (2 Kgs 9:17) and a place of refuge (Judg 9:51). The Psalms often compare God to a tower of refuge (Pss 18:2; 61:3; see note on Prov 18:1–3).[2]
18:10 The name of the Lord. This expression, found only here in Proverbs, stands for the manifest perfections of God such as faithfulness, power, mercy, and wisdom, on which the righteous rely for security (cf. Ex 3:15; 15:1–3; Ps 27:4, 5)[3]
18:10 — The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
Where do you run when trouble comes? How do you react at the first sign of hardship? Do you run directly to the tower of God, or do you jump into pits of despair or flee to earthbound huts?[4]
18:10 The name of the Lord stands for the Lord Himself. The Lord is a place of refuge and protection for those who trust in Him. Therefore, in the moment of fierce temptation, call upon the name of the Lord, and He will preserve you from sinning.[5]
Ver. 10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it and is safe.—The security of those who trust in God:—
I. Explain what is to be understood by “the name of the Lord.” No particular virtue or charm attaches to the sound or pronunciation of the name. In a mistaken veneration for the name the Jews refused to pronounce it at all. But a rash profanation of the name of God is unspeakably more criminal. By the name of the Lord we are to understand the Lord God Himself—His nature, as it is discovered to us in all His glorious perfection, particularly in His power and goodness to save and deliver them that put their trust in Him. Three principal ways by which God hath discovered Himself to mankind.
1. The visible creation.
2. The written Word.
3. The daily administration of His providence.
II. What is implied in the righteous running into the name of the Lord as a strong tower? The epithet “strong tower” conveys to the mind the idea of protection and defence. God’s almighty providence is the surest and strongest defence against all enemies of whatever kind, let their art, their activity, their malignity be what they will.
1. Running into the name implies the lively exercise of faith both in the power and the willingness of God to protect. It is only by faith that we can go to an invisible God. Faith, in applying the power and promise of God, receives very much strength from the examples of His mercy, either towards ourselves or others. The name is recorded in every page of the history of providence.
2. The righteous “runneth into the name” by the exercise of fervent prayer. Praying is the immediate and direct means of imploring the Divine assistance and protection. Faith is the habitual principle, and prayer is the actual application of it. Though God knows all our wants perfectly, He requires that we implore His assistance by prayer. And prayer is the natural remedy to which all are ready to fly in extremity.
3. The righteous “runneth into the name” by diligence in his duty; which implies three things:
(1) Diligence in all duties in general.
(2) A watchful attention to his conduct in every time of trial or danger. Whether his danger arises from bodily distress, from worldly losses, from slander and reproach, the first and great care of the Christian should be to keep his conscience undefiled.
(3) The diligent use of every lawful means for his protection and deliverance.
(4) A renunciation of dependence on all created help. We run into the strong tower from everything else.
III. The perfect security of the righteous.
1. Wherein does this safety consist? “Is safe” might be rendered “is exalted,” “placed on high.” God preserves them from dangers which they could not escape. They have the promise of strength and support in the time of trial. They are sure of deliverance in the end, and complete victory over all sufferings of every kind.
2. The certainty of it is based on the Divine perfections, on the faithful promises, and on the experience of the saints. Learn—
(1) The sinfulness of distrust.
(2) The remedy for distrust. (J. Witherspoon, D.D.)
Two defences—real and imaginary:—
The two verses put side by side two pictures, two fortifications: “The name of the Lord is a strong tower”; that is so, whether a man thinks it or not; that is an objective truth and always true. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,” because “in his own conceit” he has made it so. So we have on the one side fact and on the other side fancy. The two pictures are worth looking at. “The name of the Lord is a strong tower.” Now, of course, I need not remind you that “the name of the Lord,” or “the name of Jesus Christ,” means a great deal more than the syllables by which He is designated, which is all that we understand generally by a name. It means, to put it into far less striking words, the whole character of God, in so far as it is revealed to men. So we have to recognise in that great expression the clearest utterance of the two thoughts which have often been regarded as antagonistic, viz., the imperfection, and yet the reality, of our knowledge of God. His name is not the same as Himself, but it is that by which He is known. Our knowledge of Him, after all revelation, is incomplete, but it is His name—that is to say, it corresponds to the realities of His nature, and may be absolutely and for ever trusted. “The name of the Lord is a strong tower,” which, translated into plain prose, is just this—in that revealed character there is all that shelterless, defenceless men can need for absolute security and perfect peace. We may illustrate that by considering either Him who defends or him that is defended. On the one hand, perfect wisdom, perfect love, perfect power, that endure for ever; and on the other hand, men weighed upon by sore distresses, crippled and wounded by many transgressions. These two, the defence and the defenceless, fit into each other like the seal to its impress, the convexity to the cavity. Whatever man needs, God is, and whatever dangers, dreads, pains, losses, sorrows, sins, attack humanity, in Him is the refuge for them all. “The name of the Lord is a strong tower.” Do you believe that; and is it an operative belief in your lives? “The righteous runneth into it”; and what is that running into it? Neither more nor less than the act of faith. One of the words of the Old Testament which is frequently translated—and rightly so—“trust,” has for its literal meaning to flee to a refuge. So, says our teacher, the way to get into the fortress, and to have the solemn battlements of that Divine name round our unarmed and else shelterless weakness, is simply to trust in Him. But the word suggests the urgency and the effort that will always go with faith. “The righteous runneth into it”—not dawdles in it—“and is safe.” And that takes effort and means haste. Do not put off your flight. And stop in it when you are there, by that constant communion with the name of the Lord, which will bring you tranquillity. “In Me ye shall have peace.” Stay behind the strong bulwarks. But there is a formidable word in this old proverb. “The righteous runneth into it.” Does not that upset all our hopes? I need not say anything about the safety, except to make one remark. The word rendered “is safe” literally means “is high.” The intention, of course, is to express safety, but it expresses it in a picturesque fashion which has its bearing upon the word in the next verse, viz., it sets before us the thought that the man who has taken refuge in the strong tower goes up to the top of it by the winding staircase, and high up there the puny bows of the foe below cannot shoot an arrow that will reach him. That is a truth for faith. We have to bear the common lot of humanity, but the evil that is in the evil, the bitterness that is in the sorrow, the poison that is in the sting, all these may be taken away for us. And now I need only say a word or two about the companion picture, the illusory imagination. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and a high wall in his own conceit.” It is very hard to have, and to be concerned about, and to use, the external good without putting our trust in it. The Bible has no foolish condemnation of wealth. And we all know, whether in regard to money, or to earthly loves, or to outward possessions and blessings of all sorts, how difficult it is to keep within the limit, not to rely upon these, and to think that if we have them we are blessed. What can we do, any of us, when real calamities come? Will wealth or anything else keep away the tears? What will prevent the sorrows, deal with the sins, or enable us to be of good cheer in the face of death and disease, and to say, “You cannot touch me”? Ah! there is but one thing that will do that for us. “The name of the Lord is a strong tower.” The other man has “a high wall in his own conceit.” Did you ever see the canvas fortifications at some entertainments that they put up to imitate strong castles?—canvas stretched upon bits of stick. That is the kind of strong wall that the man puts up who trusts in the uncertainty of any earthly thing, or in anything but the living God. Let us keep ourselves within the Divine limits in regard to all external things. It is hard to do it, but it can be done. And there is only one way to do it, and that is by the same act by which we take refuge in the true fortress—viz., by faith and communion. When we realise that God is our defence, then we can see through the insufficiency of the others. (A. Maclaren, D.D.)
The name of the Lord a strong tower:—
It is essential that man’s hopes should rest on a firm basis.
I. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. Names have a twofold use—to distinguish and describe. Our names generally serve only to distinguish the individual. Sometimes, however, they describe as well as distinguish, and when this is the case, their significancy is greatly increased. The name of God is descriptive; it describes the attributes of His character as revealed to us. What God is in Himself is implied in the name Jehovah, the existent. What the Almighty God is to His sinful and rebellious creatures is a matter of anxious inquiry. He is condescending, full of compassion, ready to forgive, slow to anger, yet by no means clearing the guilty. Such is the name of the Lord, which the text reminds us is a “strong tower.” A tower is a place built for shelter and security. Its strength consists in the durability of the materials of which it is composed. God’s name is called a strong tower, on account of the strength of the foundation on which they build who are sheltered within it.
II. The conduct of the righteous. He “runneth into it.” The real Christian is the one who is earnest in the pursuit of everlasting life. He is impelled by a sense of danger. He is animated by the hope of safety.
III. The safety of the righteous within the tower. He is safe from—
1. The assaults of the devil.
2. From the world.
3. From his own natural depravity.
4. From the accusations of the law.
5. From the accusations of conscience.
6. From the fear of death. (J. R. Shurlock, M.A.)
On trust in God:—
As a strong tower was considered, under the ancient system of warfare, to be a place of entire security from harm, this text is nothing else than a figurative manner of expressing the extreme importance of putting our whole trust in God. The reasonableness of this duty will appear if we consider the Divine perfections.
1. God’s unlimited power. It is proclaimed by the heavens, the work of His fingers, and by the earth, which He has suspended upon nothing. Everything declares that He is at least fully competent to our preservation and deliverance.
2. His particular providence, as displayed in the government of the universe. Even things which we are wont to regard as casual and trivial are subjected to His perpetual control.
3. His beneficence. He is ever ready to relieve and to bless. He is not only competent, He is willing to promote our good.
4. His tried and approved veracity “God is faithful, who hath promised.” In our intercourse with each other, experience is the basis of confidence, of mercantile credit, and of moral character. The same principle should lead us to place confidence in God. Two remarks to guard the subject from misconception.
(1) God may sometimes appear unkind, and yet be not the less deserving of our full reliance.
(2) A compliance with the Divine will is an indispensable requisite to a well-grounded confidence in the Divine favour. A right trust in God includes personal exertions towards attaining the objects of our desire. (J. Grant, M.A.)
Our strong tower:—
There are many war similes in the Bible.
1. Men mistake by resting satisfied with unstable and insecure bases. The sense of dependence is in every man so strong that no man can be happy quite alone, and leaning on nothing. Men try to satisfy themselves with one or other of three things.
(1) Health. They assure themselves that if they were to lose all they possessed, their health and energy would enable them to make their way in the world again.
(2) Friends. They say, “I have friends who are well ofif, and they will be sure to help me.”
(3) Money. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit.” Neither of these “towers” can be safe trusting-places. Health is uncertain. Friends fail. Money takes wing. If they provide some little shelter from the common sorrows of life, they can provide none for those spiritual sorrows which are the real sorrows.
2. Men cannot be truly strong for life until they have God behind them. To know a man is to apprehend all that makes up his individuality, or to “know his name.” So the “name of God” includes everything that spheres Him as God: a just apprehension of God and His relations—a true knowledge of God. To know God in covenant is a strong tower. The “God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” is God known through relationships and tried by experience. That God can be our “tower.” In Scripture, to know the name of any one implies familiarity and confidence; and to know God by name implies such confidence as makes Him to us a strong “tower.” To do anything in the name of another is to carry with you their authority, as with the ambassador or the old prophet. The name of God is a storehouse of wealth and strength, from which all recurring needs can be supplied. Then comes the moral force needed to deal with—
1. The attacks of life.
2. The defences of life.
3. The retreats of life. Who can use this defence of God? Only the man whose purpose is to live the righteous life, and whose constant effort is to realise his purpose. (Weekly Pulpit.)
The name of the Lord:—
I. Christ is a Stronghold, for as such He has been appointed and ordained by God. Wisdom.
II. Christ is a Stronghold, because of the absolute perfection of His obedience, and the entire adequacy of His atonement. Holiness and justice.
III. Christ is a Stronghold, because God has actually accepted of His vicarious work. Faithfulness.
IV. Christ is a Stronghold, because as a King He hath sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Power.
V. The testimony of men—those “who have fled for refuge.” (James Stewart.)
Our Stronghold:—
Strong towers were a greater security in a bygone age than they are now. Castles were looked upon as being very difficult places for attack; and ancient troops would rather fight a hundred battles than endure a single siege. He who owned a strong tower felt, however potent might be his adversary, his walls and bulwarks would be his sure salvation.
I. The character of God furnishes the righteous with an abundant security. The character of God is the refuge of the Christian in opposition to other refuges which godless men have chosen; and as a matter of fact and reality. The purpose of God in our salvation is the glorifying of His own character, and this it is that makes our salvation positively sure; if every one that trusts in Christ be not saved, then is God dishonoured. His character is the great granite formation upon which must rest all the pillars of the covenant of grace, and the sure mercies thereof. His wisdom, truth, mercy, justice, power, eternity, and immutability, are the seven pillars of the house of sure salvation. This is true not only as a matter of fact but also as a matter of experience. Even when the Lord Himself chastens us, it is most blessed to appeal against God to God.
II. How the righteous avail themselves of this strong tower. They run into it. They do not stop to make any preparation. And the running implies that they have nothing to carry; and that fear quickens them. When a man enters a castle, he is safe because of the impregnability of the castle, not because of the way in which he entered into the castle.
III. Entering the strong tower is a joyous experience. For “is safe” the margin reads “is set aloft.”
1. This is a matter of fact. He is safe, for who can hurt him? Who has power to reach him? What weapon is there that can be used against him?
2. This is a matter of experience. The believer in his high days (and they ought to be every day) is like an eagle perched aloft on a towering crag. Yonder is a hunter down below, who would fain strike the royal bird; he has his rifle with him, but his rifle would not reach one-third of the way. So the royal bird looks down upon him in quiet contempt, not intending even to take the trouble to stretch one of his wings, for he is quite safe, he is up aloft. Such is the faithful Christian’s state before God. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
A place of refuge:—
In the ancient Greek states certain temples afforded protection to criminals, whom it was unlawful to drag from them, although the supply of food might be intercepted. As early as the seventh century the protection of sanctuary was afforded to persons fleeing to a church or certain boundaries surrounding it. In several English churches there was a stone seat beside the altar, where those fleeing to the peace of the church were held to be guarded by its sanctity. (Chambers’ Encyclopædia.)
The name of God a refuge:—
The name of God is his harbour, where he puts in as boldly as a man steps into his own house when taken in a shower. (H. G. Salter.)[6]
Ver. 10.—The Name of the Lord is a strong tower. The Name of the Lord signifies all that God is in himself—his attributes, his love, mercy, power, knowledge; which allow man to regard him as a sure Refuge. “Thou hast been a Shelter for me,” says the psalmist (Ps. 61:3), “and a strong Tower from the enemy.” The words bring before us a picture of a capitol, or central fortress, in which, at times of danger, the surrounding population could take refuge. Into this Name we Christians are baptized; and trusting in it, and doing the duties to which our profession calls, with faith and prayer, we are safe in the storms of life and the attacks of spiritual enemies. The righteous runneth into it (the tower), and is safe; literally, is set on high;exaltabitur, Vulgate; he reaches a position where he is set above the trouble or the danger that besets him. Thus St. Peter, speaking of Christ, exclaims (Acts 4:12), “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” “Prayer,” says Tertullian (‘De Orat.,’ 29), “is the wall of faith, our arms and weapons against man who is always watching us. Therefore let us never go unarmed, night or day. Under the arms of prayer let us guard the standard of our Leader; let us wait for the angel’s trumpet, praying.” Septuagint, “From the greatness of his might is the Name of the Lord; and running unto it the righteous are exalted.”[7]
18:10 / Synthetic. The point is that yhwh is a refuge for the righteous. This is the only time that the phrase, the name of the Lord, occurs in the book. According to the Deuteronomic theology, the Lord’s Name dwells in the Temple; the name is the person. Safe is literally “on high” (Hb. niśgāb, the word translated as unscalable in v. 11); see 29:25.[8]
18:10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe.
We find here the only occurrence in Proverbs of the phrase the ‘name of the Lord,’ though see ‘the name of my God’ in Proverbs 30:9. The ‘name of the Lord’ stands for the Lord Himself. His name is the revelation of who He is; it is His attributes making themselves known to man. Thus, the expression does not speak about something belonging to the Lord, but who the Lord is in Himself. As such, it becomes a common way of speaking of one’s confidence that God will be God in one’s own experience. ‘Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God’ (Ps. 20:7). ‘I will wait on Thy name, for it is good, in the presence of Thy godly ones’ (Ps. 52:9b). ‘Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth’ (Ps. 124:8). Here the specific ‘name’ is Yahweh, the covenant name of God (Exod. 3:14–15).
This self-revealing God is said to be ‘a strong tower.’ That trust in the ‘name’ of the Lord is tantamount to trust in the Lord Himself is clear, in that elsewhere the Lord Himself is spoken of in similar terms. ‘For Thou has been a refuge for me, A tower of strength against the enemy’ (Ps. 61:3). ‘The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright’ (Prov. 10:29a).
Ancient cities often included a tall tower built as a place of escape for the citizens, should they come under attack. When the enemy came, they would flee to this place of security and refuge. ‘Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he camped against Thebez and captured it. But there was a strong tower in the center of the city, and all the men and women with all the leaders of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up on the roof of the tower’ (Judg. 9:50–51).
The righteous are said to ‘run’ into the tower which the Lord is for them. The verb is used in a metaphorical sense to describe the confident faith a righteous person places in God’s ability to keep and protect him. When one so trusts in the Lord, he finds that he is ‘safe.’ The word translated here as ‘safe’ is a military term which means, literally, ‘set on high’ or ‘exalted’ (i.e. they are kept above the threats of the enemy). The same expression is used in Proverbs 29:25b: ‘he who trusts in the Lord will be exalted.’ For similar expressions by Solomon’s father David, see Psalm 27:4–5 and 91:14. Solomon apparently had learned well from his father (Prov. 14:26).
Such confidence in God as our shelter, refuge and fortress is expressed many times throughout the Scriptures, especially in poetic writings (2 Sam. 22:2–3, 33, 51; Ps. 18:2; 27:1, 4–5; 61:3; 91:1–2; 144:2). This secure confidence in our God of such sterling character is now to be contrasted with the fool who trusts in the fleeting nature of his wealth (v. 11).[9]
10 Verse 10 presents the defense of the righteous against the destroyer (baʿal mašḥît), the last word of verse 9. Its A verset presents the cause—that is, his defense is “the name of the Lord,” which is implicitly likened to “a strong tower” (10a) and its B verset the consequence—the righteous first runs into it and then is protected (10b). The name functions as a character description rather than as merely a label of identification. Of the Lord (yhwh see 1:7) refers to Israel’s covenant keeping God who reveals himself through the sages (see 3:5) and signifies his essence (such as personal and spiritual) and attributes (such as powerful and gracious). Is a fortified (or strong) tower denotes a storehouse either in the countryside (1 Chron. 27:25) or in the city that by its strength and height (cf. Isa. 2:15) was firmly fixed and inviolable (see 10:14; 14:26). People fled to such towers when attacked (Judg. 9:46–53; Ps 61:3 [4]). In sum, the sublime nature and character of the Lord who stands behind the book of Proverbs provides and protects the righteous (see I: 97). Runs means to move quickly by moving the legs rapidly (cf. 1:16) and connotes to act quickly, decisively, with all diligence (6:18). If there is an antithesis with the slack person of v. 9, there may be an implied alliteration with ḥārûṣ, the opposite of being slack (see 10:4). Into it refers to the tower under siege. And is protected on high (weniśgāb) marks the (con)sequence of his running into the strong tower. Śāgab in Qal means “to be very high,” and in contexts of attack connotes to be protected. In practice, when attacked by injustice and gossip the faithful gives himself completely to the teachings of this Book which the Lord promises to uphold (see I: 107).[10]
10Security, the name of the Lord. The Lord is fully able to protect those who trust in him. The first line establishes this truth, and the second focuses on the trust of the righteous. This is the only place in Proverbs where “the name of the Lord” occurs; it signifies the attributes of God, here the power to protect (cf. Ex 34:5–7). The metaphor of “strong tower” (migdal-ʿōz) sets up the imagery of the second clause: “running” metaphorically describes a wholehearted trust in God’s protection (see Isa 40:31), and “safely on high” (niśgāb; “safe,” NIV), a military term, stresses the effect. Other Scriptures delineate how God protects his people in different circumstances.[11]
[2] Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., Whitehead, M. M., Grigoni, M. R., & Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Pr 18:10). Lexham Press.
[6] Exell, J. S. (n.d.). Proverbs (pp. 463–466). Fleming H. Revell Company.
[7] Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed. (1909). Proverbs (pp. 349–350). Funk & Wagnalls Company.
[8] Murphy, R. E., & Carm, O. (2012). Proverbs. In W. W. Gasque, R. L. Hubbard Jr., & R. K. Johnston (Eds.), Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (p. 91). Baker Books.
[11] Ross, A. P. (2008). Proverbs. In T. Longman III, Garland David E. (Eds.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Proverbs–Isaiah (Revised Edition) (Vol. 6, p. 162). Zondervan.
The Bible is clear that Jesus dealt with sin at the cross—the perfect sacrifice for all sin, for all time, for all who believe. So why are we still tempted?
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)
Sin will reign if it can: it cannot be satisfied with any place below the throne of the heart. We sometimes fear that it will conquer us, and then we cry unto the Lord, “Let not any iniquity have dominion over me. This is His comforting answer: “Sin shall not have dominion over you. ” It may assail you and even wound you, but it shall never establish sovereignty over you.
If we were under the law, our sin would gather strength and hold us under its power; for it is the punishment of sin that a man comes under the power of sin. As we are under the covenant of grace, we are secured against departing from the living God by the sure declaration of the covenant. Grace is promised to us by which we are restored from our wanderings, cleansed from our impurities, and set free from the chains of habit.
We must lie down in despair and be “content to serve the Egyptians” if we were still as slaves working for eternal life; but since we are the Lord’s free men, we take courage to fight with our corruptions and temptations, being assured that sin shall never bring us under its sway again. God Himself giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
“Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry” 1 Corinthians 10:14
A friend came over to watch my latest movie I got in the mail. We ordered Chinese food to be delivered. At the bottom of the sack were two fortune cookies. I like fortune cookies. They are just sweet enough without totally wrecking my diet. I cracked mine open to see what silly fortune lay inside. I always like to look and read it, roll my eyes, then toss it away, ignoring the lotto numbers on the reverse side. This time, it was empty! No fortune. At first I felt rather cheated. Then God, in His subtle way, let me know He was teaching me a lesson.
As Christians, we are to worship only the Triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three in one. After all, the first and second commandments instruct believers to have no other god before Him and not to worship idols. Today, we don’t sacrifice to Egyptian, Roman or Greek gods and goddesses, or bow down to Baal, but idol worship is still prevalent in many subtle ways in our culture.
Like reading a fortune from a fortune cookie. Have you read your horoscope in the newspaper? Do you avoid ladders or black cats? Habits and traditions seep in. It may sound innocent enough, but each time, it is chipping a little chink in the armor of the Spirit of God. Whether we realize it or not, each time we turn our attention away from His control over our lives there’s a slight indentation from an arrow aimed at our faith, a crack that lets in a tiny bit of temptation. No big deal, or is it?
The next time you wish upon a shooting star, blow on a dandelion, throw salt over your shoulder, knock on wood, read your horoscope or crack open a fortune cookie, think about it. God is a jealous god. He wants us to rely on Him and remember He is Lord over our lives, our thoughts and our actions. A fortune-less cookie became a fortunate lesson for me. It was a reiteration that my Lord is all I need. Jesus told us not to be anxious about our futures but to seek first the righteousness of God. (Matthew 6)
Next time, I’ll pray for another empty cookie! I still like to eat them.
Question: What are you relying on instead of God’s Word?
You may think that you are tried more than other people are.
If you knew the value of it, you would praise God for the trials that come your way.
It is in the trials that you are purified; it is through the fiery furnace of affliction that God gets you in the place where He can use you.
The person who has no trials and no difficulties is the person whom God dare not allow Satan to touch because he could not stand temptation.
Before God puts you through the furnace of afflictions, He knows you will go through it, and not one single temptation comes to any person more than he is able to bear; and with the temptation, God is always there to help you through.
Abraham was tempted and God helped him through to victory. God wants to make us like Jesus.
As we look back over our spiritual journey we see that there has been a good deal of our own way, and that the end of our way was the beginning of God’s way.
We cannot enter into the deep things of God until we are free from our own ideas and ways.
How mercifully God preserves us from calamity.
Hebrews 4:16
“Let us therefore, come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.“
There’s no way I can withstand the allure of temptation on my own. My feelings neutralize my resistance. My flesh craves gratification. It’s a war, fought on the battlefield of my soul…my mind, will and emotions. I win only as my spirit works in partnership with the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 26:41
“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Satanic Pedophile Extortion Cult Uncovered By FBI After NY Arrest A November 2021 arrest in Queens, New York led to the discovery of a satanic cult of pedophile extortionists known as 764, which has been linked to significant criminal activity around the globe. The organization, which goes byseveral aliases, was uncovered by the FBI while investigating alarming posts on social media made by 23-year-old Angel Almeida of Astoria, Queens, When the FBI searched his New York apartment, they found … books pertaining to the Order of Nine Angles (a satanic occultist group). They also found a flag with the insignia of a US -9A offshoot, the Tempel ov Blood,
Putin Signs Decree To Draft 130K Young Men In Fall Conscription In a fall call-up, Russia is drafting 130,000 more young men for compulsory service, based on a decree signed by President Putin on Friday. Men aged 18-27 will be recruited for a one-year period from Oct.1 and Dec.31, however, this latest conscription drive will not involve sending this new batch to fight in Ukraine,
Is The US Military Laying The Groundwork To Reinstitute The Draft? By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average American citizen is a subsection entitled “Casualties, Replacements, and Reconstitutions” which, to cut right to the chase, directly states, “Large-scale combat operations troop requirements may well require a reconceptualization of the 1970s and 1980s volunteer force and a move toward partial conscription.”
RFK Jr. Flees Democrat Plantation, Set to Run as Independent RFK Jr. is reportedly on his way out of the backdoor at the Democrat Party – which made it abundantly clear he was not welcome at any rate – and is set to run in the 2024 presidential election as an independent.
Record Crowds Expected at Temple Mount During Sukkot Celebrations Authorities at the Temple Mount are gearing up for a significant influx of Jewish worshipers during the Sukkot celebrations, according to a statement released on Friday. Already, there has been a noticeable increase in visitors to the site in Jerusalem’s Old City, with a 20 percent surge during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur festivities compared to last year.
Biden State Dept funds group with ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Phoenix Center for Research and Field Studies—affiliated with the Islamic University of Gaza and which received a $90,000 grant from the U.S. State Department—has ties to two entities designated by the United States as terrorist groups, according to a Sept. 27 report from the Washington Examiner.
Dianne Feinstein dead at 90 California’s longest-serving senator announced that she planned to retire at the end of her term in 2024.
Canadian School Libraries Remove All Books Published Before 2008 I’ve said over and over that “inclusivity” means anything but including everyone—it means tolerating, promoting, and celebrating one viewpoint and excluding all others. This was demonstrated yet again by a decision made by a school district in Ontario, Canada, which directed school libraries “to remove all books [published] prior to 2008” in the name of “equity” and “inclusion.”
New York City, New Jersey brought to a standstill by flash flooding A coastal storm unleashed a deluge of heavy rain on the New York City Tri-State area from late Thursday night into Friday night, leading to flash flooding, stranded motorists, street closures, subway suspensions and hundreds of flight delays and cancellations. Water rescues were reported in neighboring New Jersey.
Nigeria: Air Force personnel arrested and detained for two years for speaking at Christian event Here is yet another indication that the Nigerian government is on the side of the Islamic jihadis who are rampaging through the country. They cannot or will not do anything effective to stop the jihadis, but they’re ever-vigilant about Christian air force personnel speaking at a Christian event. And so the jihad in Nigeria continues unimpeded.
‘Outrageous’ Approval of New Moderna Shots for Kids Could Spark School Mandates, Doctor Warns Parents should be concerned that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month granted full approval to Moderna’s “Spikevax” COVID-19 vaccine for children 12 years old and older — because now that the vaccine for school-age kids is no longer an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) product, states and schools may be more likely to mandate the shots, according to Dr. Meryl Nass.
California: Class action filed against Gilead Sciences for death and injury by remdesivir A ground-breaking class action lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in a California superior court against Gilead Sciences for people injured or killed by remdesivir. The complaint alleges violations of consumer protection laws, false advertising, deceptive promotion, negligent misrepresentation, and other charges related to the marketing and administration of remdesivir, also known as Veklury.
A comparison of Government reports suggests the COVID-19 Vaccinated are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome The 5 PHE tables below from their excellent Vaccine Surveillance Report, separated by 4 weeks, clearly show the progressive damage that the vaccines are doing to the immune system’s response. People aged 40-69 have already lost 40% of their immune system capability and are losing it progressively at 3.3% to 6.4% per week. Weekly Decline in doubly vaccinated immune system performance compared to unvaccinated people…
The Gateway Pundit reported that this will be the President’s third stop over three weeks in Iowa, whose caucus is expected to be held on January 15. Trump attended the Iowa vs. Iowa State football game last month and made several campaign stops in Iowa on September 20.
President Trump made a huge entrance at the college football game rivalry, greeting fans and an agriculture fraternity, flipping burgers, and signing footballs. Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was also at the game with no support for his “tailgate” event, so his team resorted to cheap attacks and doxxing against First Lady Melania Trump. Thousands also lined up to salute President Trump as he left the stadium. Trump leads “DeSanctus” by 37 points with 51% of support among all candidates in an Iowa GOP primary poll from last month.
“45 is wheels down in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa—after a great two days in California,” Dan Scavino posted on X after the President landed in Iowa at 2:47 am.
45 is wheels down in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa—after a great two days in California…
He will be delivering remarks at the “Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus Event” in Ottumwa at 2:30pm (US/Central).
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Can faith thrive in a post-Christian culture? This week, Steve and the gang hang out with Voddie Baucham to discuss the overlap of culture, politics, and Christianity. Voddie’s latest book is a revised and updated version of his 2004 classic, “The Ever-Loving Truth”
The disastrous consequences of oligarchs meddling in politics are too well known to need more attention here. But what about the plutocrats’ record? The question merits attention, because right now two American plutocrats are engaged in erratic attempts at solving two of the hottest international problems. Elon Musk, the owner of X (Twitter), Tesla and SpaceX, and reputed to be the richest on the man planet, says he has a plan to end the Russian war in Ukraine. For his part, George Soros, now operating through his son Alexander, is busy campaigning for a deal between Tehran and Washington to give President Joe Biden’s forthcoming election campaign the boost it badly needs.
George Soros has been engaged in his grand plan for bringing the Islamic Republic of Iran into the fold for almost three decades.
The scheme reached the peak of its success when the so-called “New York Boys” seized control of the executive branch of government in Tehran under President Hassan Rouhani, a British-educated junior cleric dreaming of leading the Islamic Republic into the “modern world”.
However, as might have been expected, the Soros scenario ultimately failed because “Supreme Guide” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has bigger dreams for the Islamic Republic. Khamenei believes that the West is heading south to decline while China, Russia and Iran have emerged as leaders for a “New World Order”. Now, however, we know that Khamenei’s leadership troika exists only in his fantasies. China and Russia treat Iran as an untouchable to be kept at arm’s length.
Will the plutocrat’s peace scenario work? I doubt it. Being anti-American and anti-Israel form the Iranian regime’s core identity.
In the 1920s, the American plutocrat Armand Hammer orchestrated a similar scenario with the newly-born Soviet Union under Vladimir Lenin. He persuaded Washington to give the Bolsheviks a chance to learn the beauty of getting rich through capitalism and trade. Hammer won the argument and Lenin won the civil war that without the “Great Satan ” pumping money into his war machine, he would have lost.
The USSR survived for six more decades, challenging the US for world leadership.
In the 1930s, other American plutocrats tried to tame Germany’s Adolf Hitler in the name of saving the peace in Europe.
Almost 20 years ago, a group of British plutocrats assembled at the home of the Kuwaiti Ambassador in London told the guests that the “Palestine problem” would be resolved by pumping £200 million into the West Bank’s economy, providing “decent housing and modern shopping malls” for Palestinians.
The man orchestrating the miracle was Peter Hain, Minister of State for Africa, the Middle East and South Asia in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government.
Well, Hain is gone, along with the £200 million which, god forgive us, may have ended up in the accounts of corrupt Palestinian Authority officials and their own plutocrats in Western banks.
If war is too serious a matter to be left to generals, international politics is even more so if left to oligarchs in the east and plutocrats in the west.
Biden’s dog ‘Commander’ bit another Secret Service Agent last week. This is the 11th time the dog bit an agent. And this is the second dog the Biden family has had that bites agents. Via TODAY segment
Dr. Robert Malone, MD,posted a shocking update on the Biden Family’s dangerous puppy “Commander” on Twitter this weekend.
Commander bit at least ten Secret Service Agents in the last year – THAT WE KNOW OF!
Judicial Watch reported on Joe Biden’s latest aggressive German Shepherd.
In April 2022, we released records detailing multiple attacks on Secret Service members by President Biden’s dog, Major, at both the White House and Biden’s lake home in Wilmington, DE.
It’s happening again with Major’s replacement, Commander.
We received 194 pages of records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealing 10 attacks by President Joe Biden’s German Shepherd, Commander, on officers and agents of the Secret Service between October 2022 and January 2023. In several cases the agents required medical care, including at a hospital. The records do not include any possible recent events.
We forced the release of the records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Secret Service failed to respond adequately to a December 2022 request for “records related to incidents of aggression and bites involving the Biden family dog, ‘Commander.’” Judicial Watch filed the request after receiving a tip about the dog’s behavior.
Acquired in December 2021, Commander, a purebred German Shepherd, replaced Major, which was reportedly “given to family friends” following a series of attacks on Secret Service and White House staff.
Dr. Malone offered this observation on Biden’s latest biter Commander.
THIS IS THE BIDEN’S SECOND DOG THAT WE KNOW OF THAT HAS TURNED EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE. This is not normal.
Dogs that bite without warning is usually because fear aggression.
Unlike most other types of dog aggression, fear aggression in dogs has no warning signs. Because they will react only when they think that there is no other option but to defend themselves, these dogs won’t growl, bare their teeth, or snarl before they nip at their source of fear. In most cases, this behavior is caused by a trauma in the dog’s past.
Fear aggression is often caused by abuse (for instance, a dog getting physically punished or mistreated). The fact that this is at least the SECOND dog that has developed aggression is not a good look for the Biden family.
No one should have to work in an environment where there is a large, aggressive dog that is biting lots of people so hard that it is sending people to the hospital. In a normal situation (err.. that means you or I or anyone else), a police report would have been filed about an aggressive dog that drew blood long ago -particularly if someone ended up in the hospital. There would have been a hearing or a court case. A county official or judge would order such a dog euthanized as soon as a history of multiple bites was documented.
Heck, such a story would have made the local newspapers. Ten dog bites in a four month period! What is wrong with these people? Responsible pet owners do not allow their dogs to bite at least eleven people!
Finally, the District of Columbia has strict laws regarding biting. There are fines, penalties, laws that are being broken. Keeping a dangerous animal is against the law in DC. Why isn’t this law being enforced? As soon as someone went to the hospital, the city was required to investigate and should have taken immediate acton.
I hope a presidential nominee takes this up as campaign issue. This is important.
Dr. Malone then added the District of Columbia’s code for aggressive animals.
Code of the District of Columbia Chapter 19. Dangerous Dogs For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(A) “Dangerous dog” means any dog that without provocation:
(i) Causes a serious injury to a person or domestic animal; or
This is the definition of gaslighting. This is the definition of evil.
Joe Biden’s handlers posted a video of Joe Biden viciously attacking Trump supporters. Biden describes every tactic of the left’s power grab on every single institution in America today – then twists reality to say these are traits of MAGA.
Biden blames MAGA Republicans as the greatest threat to America today.
Thank goodness Democrats have perfected election fraud. No clear-thinking American suffering through this dismal presidency would ever vote for more of this BS, failure and deceit. And Democrats know this.
Here is Old Joe Biden describing Democrats but blaming MAGA in a tweet posted earlier today.
This is the same guy who indicted his chief political opponent 91 times!
Joe Biden just described the Democrat Party from their movement to defund and demonize the police, to packing all of the institutions of power, to pushing the most outlandish conspiracy theories in human history, all for power!
And they blame this on MAGA – the middle class Americans who want to keep America strong and prosperous.
You really have to appreciate their blatant deceit!
MAGA Republicans attempting to abuse power and spread conspiracy theories are a threat to the character of our nation. pic.twitter.com/jNTXY1WsmV
Video claiming to show destroyed German-made Marder APC on Rabotyne front Sept. 30
Western “idiots“ are “actively pushing us towards World War III,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Telegram Sunday. Ukraine’s October counteroffensive plan is “camouflage for Zelensky’s scheme to steal more money from the West,” Sputnik News quotes former State Department liaison Lt. Scott Bennett as Ukrainian casualties top 90,000.
“The number of high-ranking morons is rising in NATO member states,” Medvedev wrote, attacking the UK’s newly appointed Defense Secretary Grant Shapps as a “freshly minted cretin” for suggesting sending UK military trainers to Ukraine, making them a “legitimate target” for Russian attacks, Medvedev threatened.
UK instructors in Ukraine would be “be mercilessly destroyed, and no longer as mercenaries, but precisely as British NATO specialists,” the former president wrote.
Medvedev also blasted the head of the German Bundestag defense committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, as “another fool” for urging Germany to send Taurus cruise missles to Ukraine for attacks on Russia, claiming this would be “in full compliance with international law.”
“In this case, (Russian) strikes on German factories where those missiles are being made would also be in full compliance with international law,” Medvedev said.
As losses from the Ukrainian counter-offensive top 90,000, Russia obviously feels emboldened to issue more threats against Ukraine and the west. On the anniversary of the accession of the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to Russia on Sept. 2022, Medvedev threatened Russia would be conquering more territory in Ukraine.
The war will go on until the current regime in Kiev is “destroyed and the historic Russian territories are liberated from the enemy,” Medvedev wrote Saturday. “Victory will be ours. And there will be more new regions within Russia,” the ex-President wrote.
As Ukraine and the NATO-aligned Institute for the Study of War continue to claim minimal advances on the Zaporozhye front, pro-Russian website SouthFront released grueling combat footage seeming to show horrific battlefield losses suffered by Ukrainian forces. Russian drone footage claimed to show a “cemetery” of about 30 Ukrainian armored vehicles destroyed in the area of Rabotino-Verbovoe in the Zaporozhye region.
Fighting has been particularly intense on the Donetsk front near Artemovsk and Avdeevka, where the Russian Ministry of Defense claims to have repelled 31 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Russia claims Ukraine lost more than 1,760 troops, 40 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, as well as 70 motor vehicles Sept. 24-29, and 430 men in the last 24 hours alone.
The AFU command was forced to redeploy units of the 33rd, 67th and 110th mechanized brigades from other fronts in order to make up for significant losses of manpower during failed assaults on Kleshcheyevka and Andreevka near Donetsk, Russia claims.
“The enemy’s losses (on the Donetsk front) over the past 24 hours amounted to 430 Ukrainian servicepeople killed and wounded, four armored combat vehicles and two cars. In the course of counter-battery fighting, a US-made M777 howitzer, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer and a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were hit,” the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed.
The problems faced by Ukrainian troops in the course of their counteroffensive in Artyomovsk and in the south are similar to those faced in the Zaporozhye region, Russian journalist Vladislav Ugolny writes on Russia Today: “The AFU doesn’t have sufficient forces and means to break through Russian defense. As a result, battles have turned into a ‘meat grinder’ of infantry units supported from afar by armored vehicles, artillery, and, in Russia’s case, aviation.”
“If anything, making progress near Artyomovsk would only harm Ukrainian forces – the price of advancing in this direction is growing by the day while the odds of achieving real success remain minimal,” Ugolny writes. “Yet instead of learning from the mistakes of the first ‘Bakhmut meat grinder’, Kiev continues to fall into the same trap.”
“The American media, the most professional liars and propagandists since (Nazi) Germany’s Goebbels, have already planted in the minds of Americans that ‘Trump supporters’ are becoming Russia-sympathizing domestic terrorists who may try and assassinate Biden,” former US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counter-terrorism analyst Lt. Scott Bennett warned.
Speaking to Sputnik News’s Oleg Burunov, Bennett called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky “a madman, or being told what to do by madmen—or both. I suspect the latter. “
The alleged Ukrainian October counteroffensive plan is “camouflage for Zelensky’s scheme to steal more money from the West, and show some kind of good faith effort that would invite future ‘re-construction’ donations and investments by the West. The military reality is that Ukraine is destroyed, the war is essentially over, and the Russian military and people have prevailed.”
America’s reputation as “the land of the free” is rooted in the Anglo-Saxon legal and political tradition, not in diversity and multiculturalism. Law as a shield of the people instead of a weapon in the hands of rulers is a British achievement that Britain’s American colonies inherited. It was the accomplishment of a specific ethnicity known as Anglo-Saxon. Bringing rulers to the same accountability to law as the lowest peasant was a centuries-long process beginning with Alfred the Great in the 9th century and culminating in the Glorious Revolution of 1680.
In this legal tradition law is based in the customs and mores of the people, not on edicts issued from rulers, government bureaucrats, regulatory agencies, and activist judges. Obviously, this conveys an ethnic basis to law. A Tower of Babel–the fate of all diminishing white countries today–has no common customs and mores and no basis for law other than rulers’ edicts enforced by power.
Throughout the Western World today the people have lost the protection of law as a shield and suffer under rulers who wield law as a weapon. In the United States today demonstrators and rally attendees are turned into “insurrectionists” and sentenced to prison. Even US President Donald Trump is being subjected to four fake felony prosecutions in order to prevent him from being elected president.
During my youth law was seen as a shield of our rights, not as a weapon to be used against us. US Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland explained in 1934 that the purpose of law was to discover innocence or guilt, not to dispose of an enemy:
“The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocent suffer. He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor–and indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.”
US Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson saw it the same way:
“Any prosecutor who risks his day-to-day professional name for fair dealing to build up statistics for success has a perverted sense of practical values, as well as defects of character. . . . A sensitiveness to fair play is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.”
In 1940 Jackson said that unethical prosecutors are a threat to justice because of the danger that the prosecutor
“will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm–in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political view, or being personally obnoxious, or in the way of the prosecutor himself.
Robert Jackson’s 83-year old description of unethical prosecution precisely describes all of the “investigations,” impeachments, and indictments of President Trump that have been ongoing since 2016 for 8 years and show no sign of abating. The prosecutions of Trump are clearly prosecutions for the purpose of getting rid of a leader who presumes to challenge the ruling establishment. The prosecutions of Trump underline the termination in the US of the impartial rule of law.
Today try to find in the US a prosecutor as defined by Sutherland and Jackson. Try to find a prosecutor who has any interest in justice. They are only interested in coerced plea bargains in order to build their conviction rate and run for higher office on their name recognition. If you dare to go to trial, exculpatory evidence is withheld and prosecutors bribe witnesses to testify against you. The judge is angry because you are adding to his case load. High profile targets such as Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump are favorites even when there is no personal animosity of the prosecutor against them. When the prosecution is driven by animosity, as it is in Trump’s case, it signifies the legal system’s acceptance of law as a weapon, not as an instrument of justice.
Try to find a honest prosecutor or judge prosecuting Trump supporters and sentencing them to tens of years of imprisonment for attending a political rally. Unarmed people conducted by police on a tour inside the capital, as the videos released by the House Speaker show, are tried as “insurrectionists” attempting to overthrow the government and establish a “Trump coup.” The use of law as a weapon by the Biden Regime has sent 1,000 American patriots to prison on this false charge. Law schools don’t protest, Bar Associations don’t protest. The judiciary aids the false convictions. The Congress does nothing. The media eggs on the false prosecutions.
Every one of these prosecutors and judges are abusing power for the sake of factional politics. If you don’t know what factional politics is, look it up. It was defined by our Founding Fathers. They feared it would destroy democracy and the rule of law.
In my book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions published 23 years ago, I pointed out that “law and order conservatives” enabled government to set aside protective aspects of law in order to easier and more certainly convict the Mafia, drug users, child abusers–whoever the target was at the specific time. I said that the law that is set aside in the interest of easier conviction is also set aside for the rest of us who are not Mafia, drug and child abusers, and that this conversion of law into a weapon would destroy nine centuries of Anglo-Saxon accomplishment in shielding people from arbitrary prosecution by rulers.
This has now happened. The British who created civil liberty and the Americans who inherited it have lost the protection of law.
“Law and order conservatives” determined to incarcerate criminals, “patriotic conservatives” anxious to protect “national security” from “the Muslim threat,” and woke ideologues determined to demonize and even criminalize white people as racists, while overrunning the ethnic basis of their countries with immigrant-invaders, together brought about the destruction of law as a shield of the people.
One can understand the frustration of Americans when criminals escape justice and when the country’s security seems to be undermined by treason. But when Americans accepted asset forfeiture laws in order to more easily convict criminals and accepted Presidents Bush and Obama’s claims that the “terrorist threat” justified suspending habeas corpus and due process, they forgot Sir Thomas More’s warning. In A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, asks his critic, who is urging him to disregard the protective features of law in order to better pursue wrongdoing, what will happen to the innocent if the law is cut down? When the law turns on us, Sir Thomas asks, “where will we stand?” This is the question President Trump’s lawyers are pondering, and the question applies to everyone of us. If a President of the United States can be ruined because a couple of blacks in positions of power for which they are unqualified hate Trump, what protection does law afford the rest of us?
American parents are arrested, even beaten, for protesting at school board meetings that their kids are being brainwashed that they are racists and their daughters are being sexually assaulted in rest rooms by males claiming to be transgendered females despite still having the male sexual apparatus and lusts. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/loudoun-county-father-school-cover-up-bathroom-assault-daughter
Think about Seth Rich’s murder on the street in Washington D.C. Seth Rich is the person who is believed to have leaked the Hillary Clinton emails documenting her participation in criminal activity about which nothing was done. Seth Rich was found dead on a Washington D.C. street, allegedly, according to the Democrat D.C. police, a victim of a robbery. Nothing was missing from Rich, not his wallet, not his credit cards, not his cell phone. Some robbery. His murder has never been investigated and never will be. A corrupt Democrat “police force” has declared a robbery when there is zero evidence of a robbery. An unsolved and non-investigated murder remains.
Instead of investigating a murder, Trump and Trump rally attendees are being framed and incarcerated on false charges. It is obvious that the US “Justice” Department has weaponized law. The US Attorney General is serving neither law nor justice. He is serving factional politics. He is a disgrace to law. The fact that a person devoid of integrity is Attorney General of the United States is all the evidence required to know that the rule of law in America is stone dead.
William Blackstone wrote that weaponized law is tyranny and that when executive power weaponizes law, it is incumbent upon Parliament to impeach and punish the conduct of the government’s “evil and pernicious counselors.” The US Congress has taken no such steps, which means the legislature has abdicated its responsibility and assented to the establishment of tyranny.
The Empire of Lies has deep-sixed William Blackstone’s “rights of Englishmen” embodied in the US Constitution as the Bill of Rights.
The United States and the Western world have become a tyranny. This is an unavoidable conclusion.
There is no “the one” as in the movie The Matrix or “V” as in the movie V for Vendetta to rescue us from tyranny. How are we going to escape the tyranny that has descended upon us now that law is weaponized? The Democrats’ indictments of Trump are no different than Stalin’s indictments of Nikolai Bukharin and the Bolsheviks who made the revolution as capitalist spies.
In the framework of Identity Politics imposed on us by liberals and the Democrat Party, the inculcation of hate is the most important element. Hate is inconsistent with objective law. There can be no hope for a rule of law until Identity Politics is purged and unity among the people restored.
In a fiery series of messages on X, Donald Trump Jr. has unleashed a scathing critique of establishment Senate Republicans.
His target? The Senate’s proposed stop-gap bill that, among other things, aims to send $6.1 billion in aid to Ukraine. Trump Jr. is not holding back, naming names and calling out what he sees as betrayal by Republican leaders.
“If only these RINOs fought this hard for things that actually helped American citizens!!!” Trump Jr. wrote.
Trump Jr. began his tirade by focusing on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), writing, “RINOs in the Senate are trying to jam billions more in Ukraine funding down our throats. Our voters deserve to know who is selling them out. First up: Mitch McConnell. He says funding Ukraine is the GOP’s #1 priority. Call his office & let him know if you agree! 202-224-2541.”
RINOs in the Senate are trying to jam billions more in Ukraine funding down our throats. Our voters deserve to know who is selling them out.
First up: Mitch McConnell.
He says funding Ukraine is the GOP’s #1 priority.
Call his office & let him know if you agree! 202-224-2541
He didn’t stop there. Trump Jr. continued to call out other high-ranking Republicans, including Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN).
“Next on our list of RINOs putting Ukraine First is John Cornyn. He sold us out when he supported Biden’s gun control bill & now he’s selling GOP voters out AGAIN to send billions more to Ukraine. He really deserves a PRIMARY – Texas can do better! Call his office: 202-224-2934,” Trump Jr. tweeted.
Next on our list of RINOs putting Ukraine First is @JohnCornyn.
He sold us out when he supported Biden’s gun control bill & now he’s selling GOP voters out AGAIN to send billions more to Ukraine.
He really deserves a PRIMARY – Texas can do better!
He also took aim at Sen. John Thune, stating, “America Last Sen. John Thune is leading the charge in the Senate to sell out GOP voters & send billions more to Ukraine. He also wants to replace Mitch McConnell as GOP Senate Leader one day. MAGA must NEVER allow him to be elevated. He’s Mitch 2.0!! Call his office: 202-224-2321.”
America Last @SenJohnThune is leading the charge in the Senate to sell out GOP voters & send billions more to Ukraine.
He also wants to replace Mitch McConnell as GOP Senate Leader one day. MAGA must NEVER allow him to be elevated. He’s Mitch 2.0!!
Senator Katie Boyd Britt also found herself in the crosshairs. Don Jr. accused her of reneging on her campaign promises. “When Sen. Katie Britt ran for Senate she told Breitbart she was against Ukraine funding. Now she is working w/ McConnell to sell out conservatives & give Ukraine BILLIONS more. No wonder Mitch praised her as having a ‘similar view’ on Ukraine as him! Call her office: 202-224-5744.”
When @SenKatieBritt ran for Senate she told Breitbart she was against Ukraine funding.
Now she is working w/ McConnell to sell out conservatives & give Ukraine BILLIONS more. No wonder Mitch praised her as having a “similar view” on Ukraine as him!
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito was not spared either. Trump Jr. questioned how West Virginia, one of the most pro-Trump states, could be represented by Capito, whom he labeled as one of the worst anti-Trump RINOs. “Call her office: 202-224-6472,” he urged.
Next up on the list of Senate RINOs selling out GOP voters to bailout Ukraine is @SenCapito.
Capito SUPPORTS sending billions more to Ukraine!
How is one of the most pro-Trump states in the country represented by one of the worst anti-Trump RINOs?
Trump Jr. also called out Sen. Todd Young, stating, “Todd is one of the worst neocon RINOs in the entire US Senate. He is working with Mitch McConnell and the Democrats to sell out GOP voters and pass a CR that sends BILLIONS more to Ukraine. Call his office and let him know what you think: 202-224-5623.”
Meet @SenToddYoung – Todd is one of the worst neocon RINOs in the entire US Senate.
He is working with Mitch McConnell and the Democrats to sell out GOP voters and pass a CR that sends BILLIONS more to Ukraine.
Call his office and let him know what you think: 202-224-5623
He went on to expose what he sees as a deceptive tactic by Senate Republicans, tweeting, “Just so everyone understands what’s happening – Senate GOP RINOs are trying to add a weak border security amendment to the CR to trick people into accepting a bad bill with billions more to Ukraine – Even though they know it undercuts House conservatives against Biden & the Dems.”
Just so everyone understands what’s happening – Senate GOP RINOs are trying to add a weak border security amendment to the CR to trick people into accepting a bad bill with billions more to Ukraine – Even though they know it undercuts House conservatives against Biden & the Dems! https://t.co/yQVcH8Drup
In a follow-up tweet, Trump Jr. took the time to thank the senators he views as standing against this move. “Thank you to these America First patriots in the US Senate for leading the fight against unlimited Ukraine funding: Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), JD Vance (R-OH), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Mike Braun (R-IN), RogerMarshall (R-KS), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Josh Hawley (R-MO).”
The Gateway Pundit reported that in a 88-9 vote, the Senate passed a stopgap measure that will temporarily prevent a government shutdown for 45 days.
The vote concluded with three hours to spare before the fiscal year ended.
The short-term spending bill, also known as continue resolution, was passed by the House earlier in the evening in a 335-91 vote.
Here are the nine Republican Senators who voted against the measure:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn)
Sen. Mike Braun (Ind)
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas)
Sen. Bill Hagerty (Tenn)
Sen. Mike Lee (Utah)
Sen. Roger Marshall (Kan)
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky)
Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio)
Sen. Eric Schmitt (Mo)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) did not vote.
Here are the Republican senators who voted to pass the stop-gap resolution, which does not include any additional aid to Ukraine.
Barrasso (R-WY)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lummis (R-WY)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Mullin (R-OK)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-FL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
Donald Trump Jr.’s aggressive stance against Senate Republicans advocating for more Ukraine funding is more than just a series of tweets; it’s a rallying cry for conservatives who feel betrayed by their own party.
As the political landscape continues to shift, one thing is clear: the battle for the soul of the Republican Party is far from over, and Donald Trump Jr. is making sure his voice—and the voice of the America First movement—is heard loud and clear.
Dr. Scott Atlas resigned from his post as a temporary coronavirus advisor to President Trump in November 2020. Dr. Atlas was brought on in August 2020 as a special government employee for 130 days. Atlas resigned before his tenure ran out. Atlas’ less restrictive approach to the pandemic, especially on lockdowns and school closures was seen by many Trump supporters as a counter-point to the restrictive, doctrinaire views of leading White House Coronavirus Task Force members Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx.
Fauci and Birx destroyed millions of lives and killed millions of people with their COVID policies that prevented any promising medications from being distributed to the masses.
Dr. Atlas was pushed out of the COVID team despite the scientific evidence he brought to the team that was rejected.
It was only later that it was confirmed (what The Gateway Pundit had reported since early 2020) that Dr. Fauci funded the Wuhan labs where the doctors worked on gain-of-function experiments with COVID viruses.
Dr. Atlas early on rejected Fauci and Birx and their destructive and tyrannical policies. Atlas reported that two-thirds of COVID deaths had at least 6 comorbidities. Atlas unloaded on Fauci for his lockdowns that destroyed millions of lives. Atlas early on reported that there was no reason for children and young adults to take the dangerous vaccines that did not prevent a person from coming down with the disease.
This week Dr. Scott Atlas joined KUSI News out of San Diego to discuss the COVID vaccines that are still being pushed by the Biden regime.
Dr. Atlas told KUSI that doctors and politicians still pushing the COVID-19 vaccines are a complete disgrace.
Dr. Atlas: “I don’t know if we’ve elected the dumbest people in the country to be in charge or what’s happening here but, we have a country that now recommends a booster for everyone over six months of age. An experimental drug, for a virus, particularly children have no serious risk from who are healthy. This is a virus that has lost a lot of it’s lethality anyway. The overwhelming majority of people have long term immunological protection from previous infection. I don’t care what these bureaucrat say, we have to look at these numbers, look at the studies, look at the data, use your brain. I don’t know what else to say, it’s frightening, it’s very sad that these people have power still. I’ve said it before, we have to vote these people out… It will only end by people having a brain, common sense… (on doctors prescibing COVID vaccines) They are a complete disgrace. Most of our doctors are really sheep.”
Dr. Scott Atlas: Politicians and doctors still pushing COVID-19 vaccines are a complete disgrace Source: KUSI News (YouTube) pic.twitter.com/R2NA2Whp1V
During ‘The Five’ on FOX News on Friday, host Greg Gutfeld took shots at his own network and the RNC for including Univision in the second Republican debate.
Much like Megyn Kelly, Gutfeld criticized moderator Ilia Calderon, noting the liberal bias embedded in her questions.
At one point, Greg qualifies his criticism, saying this was more on the RNC than FOX but his point was already made.
Fox News anchor Greg Gutfeld compared his network’s partnership with Univision to that of Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney.
The two networks came together to host and moderate the second Republican primary debate on Wednesday. A panel of moderators included Dana Perino of Fox News, Stuart Varney of Fox Business, and Ilia Calderon of Univision. Gutfeld congratulated Perino on Thursday during The Five, claiming she was “shouldering the load for two hours.”
“My problem with the debate wasn’t really the candidates at all because the outcomes you get are created by the design, and Fox joining Univision perhaps was the worst partnership I’ve ever seen since Bud Light hired Dylan Mulvaney,” Gutfeld said.
“I mean, you have a host unload a litany of liberal cliches whose premises we challenge successfully every day. And yet, they were treated as approved truths,” he said of Calderon. “She had no follow-up to each one, which is weird, so it was like a deliberate list prepared by the DNC to tweak the candidates, to tweak the audience. It didn’t feel like a journalism debate to me. It felt like The View without pastries.”
Here’s the video:
Greg Gutfeld was outraged that Univision host Ilia Calderón was part of the 2nd GOP debate on Fox. I guess berating a Latina host will help win more Latino voters for Republicans. Why reach out to anyone outside of the Fox base? Sounds like a winning strategy. pic.twitter.com/kk7U0IZyBM
Will the GOP finally get the message about this? No one was happy with how this debate worked out and it’s all because the GOP repeatedly allows people who hate Republicans to moderate debates.
Kiev’s alleged push for another counteroffensive, this time in the autumn, can be perceived as the West’s red herring, Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counter-terrorism analyst, told Sputnik.
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