Battles, not Riots

Posted on 3 March, 2011 by mark

One of the most common themes in Scripture is that of warfare, whether the issue is the continuing battle between good and evil, the conquest of the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua, or the prophesied battles still yet to come.    Furthermore, we are often instructed by the Bible in military terms, such as the admonition to “put on the full armor of God“, or to recognize that the Word is a sharp, “double-edged sword“.  Remember, too that the “battle belongs to the Lord“, or YHVH.

This last month has seen no shortage of evidence that we live in a time of carnage, riots, warfare, and  battles.  Economic warfare and battles over resources and trade are increasing turning “hot”.  From Egypt, to Libya, to Wisconsin…people are angry, and taking to the streets.

But if we are, as the Word also instructs us, to “choose this day Whom you will serve,” it is important that we make sure to know which battles are really His!  After all, even atheists are quick to point out (whether it is true or not) that most wars are fought between opponents who claim that God is on their side.  And, yes, the discerning are now beginning to recognize that the deceptive “elohim” who should not be confused with the “I AM” of Abraham, Yitzak, and Yaakov is really the “prince of this world”.

There is a big difference, in other words, between a “battle” which glorifies YHVH, and something else.  Something else perhaps best described instead simply as a “riot”.

When Joshua led the children of Israel into battle, directed by YHVH Tsevaot, they were invincible.  But when those same warriors decided to fight on their own, without Him to “go before them,”  they were routed.

In 1776, the thirteen colonies in America formally began a long battle for independence from a British king whose “character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant”.  Indeed, by that year the war had already begun.   But their leadership clearly “declared the causes which impel(led) them to the separation”.  They prayed, and sought His blessing and guidance.  They not only outlined the lawful basis for those necessary actions, but expressed their faith in Him as Creator, and sought the protection of “Divine Providence” for their cause.

In stark contrast, the French Revolution was much more like a riot than a battle fought for principles outlined in Scripture.  Far more “revolutions” in the intervening centuries seem to end in chaos and despotism befitting the leadership of the ‘prince of this world’ than the Author of the Word.

This last year marked the time when Egypt, once an oil exporting nation, crossed the line into being a net oil consumer.  Oil revenues were no longer able to fund the burdens of their welfare programs.  People who spend a high percentage of their meager income on food are the first to feel the effects of runaway food price inflation, and the most severely affected.  The riots in Egypt — like much of the rest of the Middle East — were brought to a head when food price hikes, in no small part a result of “Quantitative Easing” by the “printing presses” of the Almighty Fiat Dollar, simply became too much for the masses to bear.  Both the inflation and the riots continue to spread.

Unlike the ‘fed’, states in Amerika are not licensed to print “money”.  They will thus be among the first casualties of the coming governmental bankruptcy epidemic, as the inevitable rotten fruit of dishonest weights and measures becomes increasingly impossible to hide.  The conflict in Wisconsin is the first of many to come.  It is not about “unions” versus “taxpayers”,  or who will be “disappointed” when promises which CANNOT be kept are revealed to be lies.  Anger is coming to a head.  People who do not understand WHY their “piece of the pie” is being stolen do not recognize that a system built on a rotten foundation, a violation of the bedrock principles of the torah of YHVH, is destined to collapse.  They do, however, sense what is inevitable, and seek to “get while the getting is good”.   “Both sides” will lose. The result will be violence and riots, not a “battle” for the glory of YHVH, because His teaching and instruction was never part of the equation.

YHVH promises “blessings” for obedience to Him…not “pension benefits”, or “essential services”.  Riots follow just like plagues when masses of people who have been deceived come to the realization that the empty promises of another master don’t measure up to His Covenants.  When Scripture repeatedly warns us to veer “neither to the right, nor to the left” off of what is called a “narrow path“, it is because there are two ways to end up in the ditch!

Yahushua said that a “house divided cannot stand“.  While His house is never divided against itself, the concept of “playing both ends against the middle”, “heads I win, tails you lose”, creating a problem and posing as the solution (the “Hegelian Dialectic”) or “order out of chaos”, has been a proven tactic of the Adversary for millenia.   There is no “right side” to be on when all who participate ignore His Word.

We are advised in Rev. 18:4 to “come out of her” and not to participate in the sins a system of “whoredom”, built in rebellion to Him.  A similar warning is in YesheYahu (Isaiah) 52, where we are told not to “touch the unclean thing“, nor to go out by haste, or flight, because YHVH will “go before you“.   If we are not prepared for the “plagues” which are coming, whether they take the initial form of economic collapse, or the fear which can result from the inevitable consequences of what follows, whether it is food shortages, civil unrest, or martial law, it is all too easy to succumb to fear.  Those who fear YHVH instead, “build their house upon the Rock“, and know what should be done because they also “know the season“, will not fear what happens in the world.  We must save ourselves only for those battles where He goes before us.

But there is another way to be “suckered in” to riots, and that is by anger.  Deception DOES abound.  Dishonest weights and measure ARE an abomination, and the destruction wrought by the “rich men of the earth” and their false master will be massive.  But those who riot end up fighting one another — without understanding why — are victimized and deceived yet again.  When “many are offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another,” because many are deceived and iniquity (torah-less-ness) abounds, and the “love of many shall wax cold“, the right answer is still not to “partake of her sins“, or her plagues…and instead endure.

Those battles which are not fought in accord with His ‘torah’, the “teaching and instruction” of Scripture, in His Name and for His glory, are ultimately nothing more than riots.  They never end well.  Those who follow Him must not participate.  We should walk in His light, and have “no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.”

It is comforting to remember the promises that He made to His people:
“Chatzak!  (Be strong and of good courage!)
…YHVH goes before you.  He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.“

He will fight for us in the real battles, far more than we for Him.  What we must understand up front is how we are to know that we are “on the right side.”  Don’t be deceived into fighting in riots; the only battles we are to participate in are the ones where He goes before us.

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Transition Plagues

Posted on 9 February, 2011 by mark

One of the most popular questions today, among those returning to a study of Torah ‘for themselves’, is whether we are entering the End Times, or not.  What will they look like, how will we know?  And, more specifically, perhaps – how long do we have left?  With the usual tongue-in-cheek proviso that “I don’t do dates!” — I will suggest the following.  It is certainly, one way or another, the ‘end time’ for each of us as individuals, and even secular economics and history make it clear that we are seeing the End of the Almighty Dollar.  After all, NO fiat currency in history has survived very long, and the dollar clearly won’t be the first.

Nations, and Empires, have risen and fallen since the Sacrifice of the Messiah.  But the End has not yet happened, even though some of the events over the last century or so certainly qualify as tragedies, horrors, and even holocausts.

But another look at the story of the first Exodus can give us some interesting perspective…particularly when it comes to those first few plagues that were visited on Mitzraim (or Egypt”).  I frequently observe that when one looks at the pagan culture of that nation, it becomes clear that each plague was literally a “judgment” of one or more specific gods (really elohim, or “mighty ones).  From the river Nile, to frogs, to various insect pests — each was worshiped in one way or another, and was held up in turn by the REAL Elohim and put to open shame.

But what might give us a bit of a look at current conditions is the observation that the first few plagues against THEIR false ‘gods’ also had a couple of other important characteristics as well.  The ‘magicians’ of Pharaoh — for a while at least — tried to duplicate what YHVH did.  They, too, turned their rods into serpents (even though that didn’t work out as planned for them).  They, too, created some more frogs (and perhaps regretted that decision as well).

Today, the ‘magicians’ of the modern pharaoh also claim to have ‘godlike’ powers.  After all, man can control the climate — or so those who push the fraud of AGW, or “man-caused global warming” would have you believe; forget about the effects of everything from volcanoes and the Gulf Stream to the sun itself.  And while the magicians (and “Maestros”) at the Fed cannot create more gold or silver, they have certainly made up a lot of paper and called it ‘money’.

But when it came time for next plague, of lice…something different happened.  The magicians tried to duplicate the acts of the True Elohim, but could not!  And with the plague of flies, YHVH declared that He would “sever” His people in the land of Goshen, and put a division between them and the rest of Egypt.

Here, then, is something to consider.  The plagues we can already see on the horizon are clearly yet another proof that YHVH’s “Iron Law”, that we reap what we sow, has never been “done away with”.  The bitter fruit of dishonest weights and measure — fake, un-Constitutional, worth-less (and less), fiat money — will result in incredible disruption as that system inevitably collapses into inflation and bankruptcy.  Other plagues will follow just as surely as night follows day, and bust follows boom.  Food price inflation, and shortages in many places in the world, are already being reported…and will spread.

If the pattern of the original Exodus repeats, and I believe that it will – at some point, then other judgments against the false ‘mighty ones’ of the current worldly systems of the modern versions of Babylon and Mitzraim will follow.  Possible candidates for that humiliation are literally legion, and perhaps fun to speculate about…from “science” – like the false creator called “evolution” to nature worship “herself” …to medicine and “pharmacopoeia”…to “institutions” like Washington, Wall Street, and Hollywood.  (Although perhaps it could be argued that some of those are already plagues in their own right.)

We are at an interesting juncture today.

We have not yet begun to see our Creator make a “division” between His people and those who serve Pharaoh and Caesar…if indeed He that is part of His plan at all during this cycle. But IF He chooses to do so, it evidently still lies somewhere in the future. He has, however, without question, promised us blessings for obedience to Him, and eventually to deliver us out of all the lands where we have been scattered.  There will be much more to do, of course, as we prepare ourselves to come out of her.  Just as He has always done, He has given us instruction as to what we should know, and how to follow Him.

Meanwhile, all of us will have to put up with the frogs, and the coming lice.  It is best to be prepared, either way.

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Mishpatim

Posted on 31 January, 2011 by mark

The Torah portion (or “parsha”) for this week is called “Mishpatim” in the Hebrew, for “Ordinances”.

Some here may find the audio podcast of this teaching, done by myself and Jeff Gilbert, particularly interesting.  It was recorded from the “Talking Torah” room on Paltalk.  In particular, I contend that this portion is one of the most “politically INcorrect” in all of Scripture, and also among the most ignored.  It is also the place where the entire basis for what was once, back when we were a nation of “law, not of men”, called the ‘Common Law’ can be found:

Talking Torah teachings – Mispatim – 29 January, 2011

[ “Talking Torah” on Paltalk is a weekly gathering of “Torah-Observant Believers” in Messiah.  It is live each Shabbat (Saturday) beginning at 7:00 AM Mountain Time, 8:00 AM Central with a recorded study.  The live teachings begin at 9:00 AM Mountain.  This week, Jeff Gilbert did the first session, and I followed live thereafter.  Both of us also participate in a weekly “Torah Teachers Round Table” program on KPJC Radio, Salem, Oregon, which is podcast on Hebrew Nation Radio, as well as a number of other daily and weekly shows.  Many of those links and podcasts are on the audio/links page here.]

This section of Scripture follows immediately after the giving of the “Ten Words”, or “Ten Commandments”.  If those instructions are understood in the context of, first, how we are to “love YHVH”, and then how we are to “love our neighbor”, then “Mishpatim” is a teaching on HOW that is to be done.

Even the ordering of what YHVH tells His people is important!  Note that the Commandments can be understood as a summary of how, having been “brought out of bondage” by His “mighty hand”, we are to live as free people.  Thus, the very next section is a “double-edged sword” of His Truth — because the next thing He outlines concerns the “other side of the coin”:

Those who fail to walk in obedience can enter again into bondage.  But those who learn to walk as bondservants to the Most High can “dwell in His house forever”.

And His ordination of marriage is a key part of that understanding as well.

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Links to newest “Come out of her” teachings

Posted on 17 January, 2011 by mark

Here are two links to the most recent set of teachings from the Shabbat “Talking Torah” sessions, via Paltalk.  In both cases, the first speaker is Jeff Gilbert, of Talking Torah Ministries, in Costa Rica, and Mark Call is the second.  (Thanks to WayToZion.org for editing and hosting the podcasts!)

Talking Torah teachings for 8 January, 2011

Talking Torah teachings for 15 January, 2011

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Offense and Opportunity

Posted on 12 January, 2011 by mark

There is a very good reason why He said that the way which leads to His Truth is very narrow and “few there be that find it.” The Truth is not popular, it does not sell much in the way of the world’s products, and it doesn’t tickle the ears.

More and more people are seeking to be “like the Bereans”, and thus realize that Yahushua the Messiah was not born at Xmas, nor in the dead of winter at all. Scripture, of course, makes this clear, through multiple witnesses, to those with “eyes to see”.  However, many people still note the high incidence of depression and suicides surrounding the “holi-day” and bemoan that the “reason for the season” is more than consumer sales figures.

Some of you may remember the “trauma” of discovering the awful truth as a child…that there is no Santa Claus! More of us, however, can — or perhaps WILL — remember the trauma of discovering the “Second Shocking Truth” about Xmas.  There was NO ‘messiah’ born on December the 25th!

There is in fact a reason why the Adversary, and his commercialized minions and symbols — from ‘yule logs’ to ‘Satan Claws’ — have so been able to “twist” such a false ‘holy-day’: it was never His to begin with.  Any encyclopedia will tell you whose birthday falls just after the winter solstice, and where each of the legion of pagan customs originated.   But read Jeremiah 10:1-10, and the many other warnings in places like Deuteronomy 7:25-26, the story of Ezekiel 8 and 9, and most of Deuteronomy chapter 12 and 13.  The real issue is NOT simply that He was not, and indeed could NOT have been, born in December*, much less on the winter solstice  (on the same supposed day as Mithra, or Semiramis, or Sol Invictus, or Zeus, or whatever false pagan name for the same lie is substituted). The problem is that our Creator and King clearly says NOT to do such things, much less claim that they please Him in any way.

The REAL Messiah taught what was Written — even when it contradicted the traditions of men. Many folks were thus “offended” at what He taught. Enough to kill Him, in fact.  But He loved all of us — them included — enough to stand up to their error, and their rejection, in SPITE of their offense at Him.

If He is in fact the Master, and we desire to be told “well done, good and faithful servant,” why do we so often persist in IGNORING what He says we SHOULD do, like keeping the REAL Appointed Times He specified that we were to “keep forever“, while instead doing things He says are abomination to Him, and then calling those pagan celebrations “holy-days”?

Breaking with our traditions…even one we learn is offensive to Him…is hard.  Santa continues to serve the purpose for which his false master crafted that myth.  But please consider something about this time of year:  it is a great opportunity not only for teaching — ourselves and our families — but for practice at what it means to “come out” of Babylon as well!

Accepting the Truth of what the Bible says about money can really be hard.  Most people who are “employed”, or need to shop at corporate stores for food, argue that to “come out of” the world’s economic system is difficult, if not impossible.  This is by design, I contend, and is why the prophecy that we are heading toward a time when “no one may buy or sell” without some “mark” from that system of the Adversary is so important.  After all, just saying “NO!” to “exposing the nakedness” of your wife or young daughter to the abuse of an oath-breaking minion of the TSA is too hard for most people to resist…especially if they have a plane to catch.  Doing without the fiat “money” that ‘the world’ claims is a necessity is even harder.

Dealing with the ‘shock’ of leaving Christmas behind should be easy by comparison!  Now that the solstice itself, and the hype surrounding the “reason for the season,” has passed, perhaps the Truth will be easier for some to handle.

Our Savior said many times that many people would be offended by Him, and his Word, but that those who are NOT would be blessed (Matt. 11:6).  In the “Parable of the Sower” (Matt. 13:21), He even said that “when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word,” those who have no root in themselves would “immediately stumble“.  There is no question the truth about “Xmas” is offensive to many.   Paganism, especially when it is disguised in “Xtian wrappers”  is a stumbling block to many more.

We live in a time of great deception.  Given the advent of mass media and scientific propaganda, economic manipulation, and pervasive new technology for control of the masses, we may well be in the time of the greatest potential for widespread deception in all history.  If we are to learn to “come out of her”  (Rev. 18:4, of course) and “resist the devil” in spite of his expertise at the Big Lie, then coming to grips with the peer pressure,  paganized family traditions, and  even our own warm, fuzzy feelings surrounding Xmas may be a good place to start.

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*  A bit of Bible research, associated with the birth of John/Yahuchanon “the Baptiser” supports the claim that the Messiah was actually born in the fall, almost certainly during the Feast of Sukkot (aka “Tabernacles”) — where all of His people traveled to Jerusalem, and stayed in a “sukkah” (a word coincidentally often translated into Olde English as “manger”).

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Podcast update

Posted on 28 December, 2010 by mark

I have spent a LOT more time over the last few months doing live radio and on-line teaching than writing.  Unfortunately, that has meant that this website has gotten a bit less attention than I would otherwise have liked.

Now that many of those shows are available via podcast, however, at least the ability to keep more material on-line and available through the web has improved dramatically.  The shows that I do on Hebrew Nation Radio are linked through this site (see the “Audio” page) and available via free subscription there as well.

Today’s News and commentary show is here:

Mark Call News for Tuesday, December 28th

The last “Come Out of Her” show is here:

Come Out of her, My people

and all of them will be updated and available via this link:

Hebrew Nation Radio Podcasts

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Merry X-mass

Posted on 23 December, 2010 by mark

There is a very good reason why He said that the way which leads to His Truth is very narrow and “few that be that find it.” The Truth is not popular, it does not sell much in the way of the world’s products, and it doesn’t tickle the ears.

He was not born at Xmas, nor in the dead of winter at all. Scripture makes this clear repeatedly, through multiple witnesses, to those with “eyes to see”.

There is a reason why the Adversary, and his commercialized minions and symbols — from ‘yule logs’ to ‘Satan Claws’ — have so been able to “wrest” such a false ‘holy-day’: it was never His to begin with. Read Jeremiah 10:1-10, and the many other warnings in places like Deuteronomy 7:25-26, the story of Ezekiel 8 and 9, and most of Deuteronomy chapter 12 and 13.  And any encyclopedia will tell you whose birthday falls just after the winter solstice, and where each of the legion of pagan customs originated.

And the issue is NOT simply that He was not, and indeed could NOT have been born in December*, much less on the winter solstice on the same supposed day as Mithra. The problem is that He clearly says NOT to do such things, much less claim that they please Him in any way.

If He is in fact the Master, and we desire to be told “well done, good and faithful servant,” why do we so often persist in IGNORING what He says we SHOULD do, and keeping the Appointed Times He specified that we were to “keep forever“, while instead doing things He says are abomination to Him, and calling those pagan celebrations “holy-days”?

For those who know the Truth but can’t understand why He would take no delight in having His Word perverted, take a listen to a cute, simple example:

How would YOU feel about it?

And why do you think what has happened to “Christ-Mass” is so easy to explain?

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*  A bit of Bible research, associated with the birth of John/Yahuchanon “the Baptiser” supports the belief that the Messiah was actually born in the fall, almost certainly during the Feast of Sukkot (aka “Tabernacles”) — where all of His people traveled to Jerusalem, and stayed in a “suka” (a word coincidentally often translated into Olde English as “manger”).

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To Serve the People

Posted on 1 December, 2010 by mark

Submitted for your approval…

A story of the Near Future…in the Constitution-free Zone.

The New Amerikan Gestapo known as the TSA, which is alleged to stand for something promising a little temporary security in exchange for a few remaining God-given Rights, has been getting some bad press lately.  More and more of the Sheeple seem to be waking up to the fact that taking porno shots of children, old folks, and even nubile young women — and rudely groping those who refuse to submit — is nothing but Security Theatre.

Now it seems that the widely-reviled (by the State-Loving Press, anyway) “National Opt-out Day” may not have been as much of a “bust” as the sycophants were gloating.  Obviously, most of those who were not inclined to being treated like cattle simply refused to travel by Government-Run Airlines…and opted instead to either stay home, or go by car…while that option still exists.  Reports reveal that most of the offending Naked Body Scanners were simply turned off during the High-Profile Days…thus avoiding any embarrassment for the Transport Sexual Abusers, and, coincidentally, their victims as well…at least briefly.

But sometimes the Truth comes out anyway.   The following is a bit of extrapolation…based on current trends and a bit of whimsy:

The phone rings  in the office Benjamin deHamas, editor of the Washington Verdad — the nation’s most-respected news source.   “Ben, listen up.  Remember that misguided protest against TSA back when we first started installing the Enhanced Body Scanners, and a few miscreants actually objected to how we were taking care of them?  Well, there are evidently still a few Neanderthals out in fly-over country who don’t trust us, and are actually not doing their Duty!  Well, not voluntarily, anyway.”

“I find that hard to believe, Madam Secretary, but what did you have in mind?”

“We have decided to take a new direction now when it comes to Security.  After all, if we can’t protect people, who can?  We’ve even got a great name for the new Policy…it’s called ‘To Serve the People’, and we’d like your help again in announcing the initial phase-in.”

“Of course…we are always happy to help, as you know.  Catchy title, by the way…it even sounds kinder and gentler.”

The problem seemed to be that even those people who appreciated the New, New Enhanced Screening were starting to grumble about how long it took to get to work, or the store, now that even local mass transit and most interstate highways involved waiting in sometimes long lines for the search.  In order to streamline the process, and to demonstrate the degree of Customer Sensitivity at the TSA, the new process would extend the much-envied “Trusted Traveler ID Program” not just to VIPs, like pilots, bus drivers, Licensed Press, and Members of Congress, but even to NON-government workers!  First would be those who had already applied for Special Hardship Permits, of course…but eventually everyone might be offered the opportunity to “opt out”!

Free trips to the very playground where Officials convened to consult with the Federal Reserve itself would be offered to the first few rounds of selected  applicants.  “Get a background check, a blood test, and a free all-you-can eat trip to Jackson Hole as a reward…just to show the traveling Public that we are REALLY here ‘to serve the public’!”

“Wow, Madam Secretary, that sounds tremendous.  I hear the food there is really something to dream about, too.  Almost makes me wish I could sign up again myself!”

“Don’t worry, Ben.  I’m sure we can arrange a Press visit for you early on as well.  Just help us inform the People about what we have planned.”

After his staff meeting, a reporter who the famous editor knew only as “Mark” stopped him by the door, and asked him if he had seen the New Policy Guidelines.   “No,” he responded. “What does it matter?”

“Because they seem to be classified.  Even the front-line TSA Search Duty proctors haven’t seen ’em.  Doesn’t that seem a bit odd?”

“Aw, come on, Mark,”  deHamas said.  “It’s National Security, for cryin’ out loud.  Of COURSE it’s classified.”

“Sure, Mr. deHamas.  That’s my regular beat, and I know their procedures, but my sources always get me advance copies anyway.  How else can we have the stories ready in advance of the procedures?  But this is different.”

“You’re starting to sound a bit like one of those internet extremists,” he quipped.  “Next thing I know, you’ll be quoting the Bible!”   Mark didn’t find that funny.  “OK, see what you can find on it.  But don’t waste too much time; we’ve got an announcement to put out.”  And that was that, or so he thought.

As both the Secretary and the Pravda editor expected, the new Policy was a big hit…and applications swamped the system.  It didn’t hurt that Jackson Hole had a great reputation as the place where the elite came to enjoy the finest cuisine the nation had to offer, especially since food prices had gotten so high after the collapse of the dollar.

The streamlined “Trusted Traveler Program” turned out to be simplicity itself as well.   A single, almost painless injection took care of not only the insertion of the tiny, tamper-proof, National ID device itself, but simultaneously allowed the ‘wonder-chip’ to transmit DNA information to a nearby reader.  Everything about the signup process was not simply easier, but so much more “customer friendly” than the intrusive, but necessary, “Strip and Bend Over Duty” (or “S-BODY”) that those people who had not yet “Embraced the Change” still had to struggle through, whether it was at airports or public transportation, or at the Roadside Duty Stations.

Ben deHamas, of course, was tapped to cover the first set of non-VIP “Trusted Travelers” allowed to go through the new process, and be given their Internal IDs.  He was literally headed out of the office, briefcase in hand, en route to the VIP Concourse at Obama Global Airport, when Mark stopped him at his door.

“Don’t get on the plane, Mr. deHamas!  I finally got a copy of the New Policy book!  It’s not what you think!”

“Good grief, Mark.  What could be the problem with a program called ‘To Serve the People’?”

He could see the fear in his staffer’s eyes as he answered.

“It’s not a customer service manual,”  he said.  “It’s a cookbook!”

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*  Apologies, obviously, and a tip of the hat, to the late Rod Serling and his famous Twilight Zone episode, called “To Serve Man.”

This little cautionary tale is intended as an only somewhat tongue-in-cheek reminder that the “veneer of civilization is very thin”.

And, given that the Constitution has already been “served up on a platter”, what could be that much more shocking?

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Taking off the gloves… part 2

Posted on 29 November, 2010 by mark

Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;  and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. — II Timothy 4:2-4

Last month I wrote that it was time for the “gloves to come off” when it comes to speaking the Truth of YHVH “boldly” when we, as watchmen, see that the “sword is coming upon the land.”  Recently the land of the formerly-free upped the ante:  the velvet glove of pretense was removed, to reveal a brutal iron fist within, as the aptly-nicknamed Transportation Sexual Abusers (TSA) at major airports began to force many would-be travelers to choose between an ogling of their Naked Body Scan and a brutal groping of their privates…because it would make the gullible “feel safer”.  There was a time when any five-year-old girl hearing such a ridiculous claim knew it was a lie, and would not have fallen for it.  But the “many” are again deceived, while hundreds of stories of horrors and atrocities abound over the internet.  Meanwhile, the mainstream press steps up the propaganda to those who (obviously) have nothing else LEFT to hide.

The Bible repeatedly uses terminology like “to reveal the nakedness” in the context of forbidden acts, and things which cause shame.  Truly, this month the nakedness of Police State Amerika has now been revealed to the entire world.  The World’s Biggest Lie may now well be, “No need to trust in God any more…only the Almighty State can keep you safe.”  So shut up, get in line, raise your arms, and follow orders, in other words.

But what continues to concern me as well is the response of far too much of the State-created, Caesar-approved, 501c(3) “church” and its licensed “Clergy Response Team” apologists.   All too often the same people who preach that God’s “Law is done away with!” will turn right around and claim that Romans 13, however, means that you must now be “under the law” of men instead.  Somehow the obvious contradiction eludes those whose salary seems to depend on which master writes the check, and offers the tax-exemption.

We have been warned (Matthew 24, Mark 13, etc) that the deception to come would be incredible.  The fact that the world’s reserve currency is a fraud, an abomination, and repugnant to the Constitution of the land which prints it, surely qualifies as a major ‘deception’, as does the theatrical depravity at airports which masquerades as “safety”.  The ForeclosureGate fiasco, where literally trillions of dollars in increasingly worthless mortgage “securities” have been passed off as investments, has been called the greatest financial fraud in history…which is saying something, given the scale of recent financial fraud!  But the plagues which inevitably must follow the unraveling of such Big Lies are barely just beginning.  History shows that wars, both economic and eventually the bloody kind, generally follow.  As do false saviors.

I recently received another in what has become a series of emails from a Christian evangelical clergyman whose first name is evidently “Doctor”.  He seems to take great offense at my public writings critical of the lies of such torah-less-ness, and which apply the prophecy of Jeremiah 16:19 (that we have “inherited lies, and things wherein therein there is no profit”) to modern Amerika.  How can I continue to emphasize how important it is that those who understand His Truth repent, begin to “come out of her”, and to be separated from the coming plagues.  I was asked pointedly whether there wasn’t “anything else” that I could talk about, and advised that it evidently wasn’t loving to warn people about lies, or suggest they separate from lawlessness…much less, evidently, to “convince, rebuke, or exhort.”

I disagree dramatically…and, in this particular case, not even very respectfully.  Those who lead or teach are held to a higher standard (Hosea 4:6, Matthew 5:19, etc).  The point of “blowing a trumpet” when the sword comes upon the land, according to Ezekiel 33, is to warn those whose lives are in danger.  Quite frankly, as I read that missive, I could not help but be reminded of the story of a “pastor” in Nazi Germany who was concerned that his “sheep” might be disturbed by hearing the screams of passengers riding the rails to a nearby concentration camp…and thus advised the church choir to “sing louder”.

Our Father warns those charged with such responsibility, and who FAIL to do their duty, that, “his blood I will require at your hand.” How much more so, then, those “blind guides” who not only preach “lawlessness”, but teach others to ignore the warning?   The “dust from our sandals” is not the only Witness against such perfidy.

We have been informed (Amos 3:7, etc) that YHVH does nothing without first declaring Himself through His servants, the prophets.  The essential message of every prophet in Scripture is ultimately almost identical:  Repent (or turn, in the Hebrew t’shuvah) from “wickedness”, and return instead to Him, lest the inevitable consequences of rebellion follow.  Learn to walk again in obedience to His “torah”, the instruction that He gave to us, in love, so that we might be blessed.  Both history and Scripture teach that the outcome for every single nation which forgets that essential Truth is the same.  And the warnings today, I contend, have NEVER been so clear.

“For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them…But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.” —  I Thessalonians 5:4-5

Sometime “love” means telling people the Truth…even when it doesn’t soothe “itching ears”.

“One who turns away his ear from hearing torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.“ — Proverbs 28:9

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The New ‘Biggest Lies’

Posted on 9 November, 2010 by mark

The alleged “controversy” about AIT (who cares what it is supposed to stand for) at airports and, increasingly, evidently hidden in vans on Amerikan streets, fascinates me.  It’s not just that the Naked Body Scanners are an abomination from the pit of a police state hell-on-earth, however, it’s how a disgusting majority of the sheeple comprising the still-traveling public continue to submit supinely (well, standing with arms outstretched, anyway) to the abuse.

But there are encouraging signs.  A few vocal individuals, like former Express Jet airline pilot Michael Roberts, have been willing enough to say “No!” to such invasion, even at the cost of their job.  Many, many others have simply decided to avoid commercial air travel whenever possible — although the response of the Terror State Administration and those who fund them has simply been to “bring the show on the road.”

Others of us fight such Evil in additional ways.  Ridicule is such an alternative.  While questioning the Gestapo-inspired Thugs manning the turnstiles at an airport is guaranteed to result in missing a flight, and probable arrest — to do so in print or in person  will still probably just get someone put on a list, for now.

So, in the spirit of speaking the Truth “boldly”, as we all ought to, I offer the following observation:

Remember when the Number One “Biggest Lie” in America was, “I’m from The Government and I’m here to help you”?

Now there are two more:

“Naked Body Scans are good for you,”  and

“We don’t save the Kiddie Porn pictures…or your wife’s.”

Ridicule sometimes works when Right and Reason don’t.

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