{"id":303,"date":"2010-08-09T23:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T05:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2012-11-20T23:08:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T06:08:30","slug":"false-prophets-and-black-robed-priests-of-another-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"False prophets, and black-robed priests of another god"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s “news” and this week’s traditional Torah portion (Re-eh, <\/em>including Deuteronomy chapters 12 and 13) — as so often happens when it comes to regular study of Scripture — seemed to have an almost stunning connection.<\/p>\n

In a week which saw an openly “gay” California judge discover yet another “right” in the Constitution which YHVH Himself calls an “abomination”<\/em>, the admonition of Deuteronomy 13 to avoid being snared\u00a0 by false prophets seems particularly poignant.\u00a0 San Francisco Federal Judge Vaughn Walker claimed in his own variant of trashing the last verse of Deuteronomy 12 that he struck down California’s “Proposition 8” ban on state licensing of homosexual “marriage” because he saw no “rational basis” for “singling out gay men and lesbians” for denial of the Almighty State’s blessings.\u00a0 “Indeed,” the would-be Lawmaker pontificated, the “evidence shows” that the Amendment — passed by a landslide 70 percent majority of voters in that presumed “democracy” of a state — “does nothing more than enshrine” in that state’s Constitution “the notion that opposite sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.”\u00a0 Motivated solely by “animus”, he continued, the law played on “fear” that parents might end up with “children who are not heterosexual.”<\/p>\n

What struck me about all of the debate, all <\/em>of the news coverage, and ALL of the “ruling” was the utter blindness of what is laughably called “both sides” to the “elephant in the room”, or the Bible that was notably absent <\/em>from it!\u00a0 There was a LOT of mention of “traditional marriage”, and some reference to generic “religion”, along with “history”.\u00a0 But if there even WAS any power in the Universe superior to Big Brother and His Almighty Power to license and (RE-) define “marriage” – you wouldn’t know it from this “decision” or any of the coverage of it.\u00a0 Just try a search for the word “Bible” on the mass of media spin, or the 136-page ruling.\u00a0 If you find the Word at all, it will almost certainly be in respect to some “history” that we are now far too sophisticated (or “rational”, to use Walker’s favorite disparagement)\u00a0 to care about;\u00a0 that so-called “animus” that no doubt springs from the “hate crime” mentality of believing the Bible.<\/p>\n

How far we have fallen from a nation where once there was unanimous agreement* that certain Truths were “self-evident” and that God-given “Rights” came from a Power superior to any government of men, to one where there is “no rational basis” for paying Him even any attention.\u00a0 What fallen men now call “law” and twist so badly that evil is now called good<\/em> is not only sanctioned, but subsidized.<\/p>\n

The message here, in other words, is not about “homosexuality” per se, <\/em>or the trap of allowing Caesar to “license” that which YHVH ordains and has given us the rules for.\u00a0 But there may be no better illustration<\/em><\/strong> of just what the Torah has to say about why YHVH prohibits “adding\u00a0 to” and “subtracting from” His “Law” than this latest “enticement” to “go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers has known”.<\/p>\n

Even a cursory reading of chapter 13 of Bemidbar, <\/em>or Deuteronomy, will show just how vehemently He detests those who attempt to deceive His people into serving other “mighty ones”\u00a0 (or elohim <\/em>in the Hebrew).\u00a0 But verses 6 through 11 are perhaps the most graphic (as well as the ones most likely to be on new lists of “prohibited verses” for the\u00a0 State-licensed, Caesar-blessed 501c(3)\u00a0 Sycophant “Faith-based” Church <\/em>in the near future).\u00a0 Even if it is our beloved brother, or the “wife of our bosom”, or our lifelong friend, who says to us that we should serve these other mighty ones<\/em>, “of the mighty ones of the people who are all around you”, <\/em>we are not to “agree <\/em>with” them, “listen<\/em>” to them, “pardon<\/em>” them, conceal <\/em>them or even spare <\/em>them.\u00a0 Serious stuff indeed**.<\/p>\n

Now, I know from experience that some reading this are skeptical…and no doubt think that referring to those who construct ‘new law’ from a courtroom bench as “black-robed priests of another god” is too extreme.<\/em> After all, never attribute to “conspiracy” that which is adequately explained by “incompetence”.<\/em> But one does not have to be a ‘conspiracy theorist’ to realize that the Bible is True, or to observe that there really IS a force for evil, or that the\u00a0 Adversary can use those who don’t even believe in him for his purposes.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but observe that the newest “justice” now sitting on the US Supreme Court is an acolyte of what the press and most of Washington regard as the TWO MOST IMPORTANT issues which could possibly come before that august group of revisionists:\u00a0 abortion and ‘gay rights’.\u00a0 Besides being Maximally Politically Correct, what do they have in common?\u00a0 Not merely that they are both acts prohibited\u00a0 repeatedly by the Bible; it is that they are things which are literally condemned in the strongest possible terms.<\/p>\n

Note how the Rights that were once called “God-given”, and protected explicitly <\/em>by the “thou shalt NOT” wording of the Bill of Rights, are now — at best, neglected —<\/em> from freedom of assembly, speech, worship, to the Right to ‘keep and\u00a0 bear arms’, to what were once quaintly called “warrants”.\u00a0 But the “new” Big Brother-created ‘rights’ – notably abortion and sodomy- are more important than ANYTHING actually written in the text of the Constitution!<\/p>\n

I once referred to such Caesar-ordained imitations <\/em>of real Rights as “privileges”, because they were granted by government, rather than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and\u00a0 Jacob.\u00a0 But that doesn’t go far enough.\u00a0 So far as the prince of this world <\/em>is concerned – they are Sacraments.<\/p>\n

No wonder our real Father tells us we are to be so hard on such lying “mighty ones” and their false priests.<\/p>\n

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* As the Declaration of Independence made very clear in its opening paragraphs.<\/p>\n

** I personally find the ISR translation of The Scriptures<\/strong><\/span> to be my own preferred rendering of these passages, because of their faithfulness to the concepts in the original Hebrew.\u00a0 At one time, based on renderings like the KJV\/NKJV, I concluded that these warnings pertained only to obviously false gods, or pagan practices, like Easter (Ishtar) eggs and Sol Invictus Mithra-related Xmas ‘traditions’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YHVH says (in Deut. 13:7) that we are not to serve the “mighty ones of the people who are all around you”, when they entice us to serve other gods. The news continues to demonstrate that Truth. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11,1],"tags":[213,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}