{"id":58,"date":"2010-03-26T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-12-17T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:58:38","slug":"easter-and-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Easter and Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes the words that we use are quite enlightening, particularly if we ever stop to think about them.\u00a0 More often than not, they give us insight into assumptions we make, and things that we thus take for granted, even when they are utterly wrong.\u00a0 The end of this month of March brings us a dramatic comparison with two false gods – neither of which is what\u00a0they appear to be.<\/span><\/div>\n

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A word like “insurance” is instructive, for example.\u00a0 Notice how many of the men of faith described in the Bible needed insurance, because they simply refused to believe that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was able to honor His promises to them.\u00a0 (OK, I let a bit of sarcasm seep in.\u00a0 But hopefully the reason will be obvious.)\u00a0 Similarly, where once the “widows and orphans” of a city were a witness to the\u00a0ability of its people to demonstrate their faith by their works, today coercion and theft replace voluntary “charity”. <\/span><\/div>\n

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There is\u00a0 a certain irony in observing that insurance companies once called some types of disasters “acts of God” — often so that they could deny coverage.\u00a0 Now a government that wants to mandate insurance denies God. <\/span>And we see that a “health plan” which has far more in common with the “Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto” than it does the Bill of Rights\u00a0— much less the Ten Commandments — has replaced freedom of individual choice, at least for those who serve Caesar.<\/span><\/div>\n

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We are also told, undoubtedly to the shock of those who once signed the Declaration of Independence, that such “insurance” is somehow a ‘right’.\u00a0 Not a\u00a0Right endowed by our Creator, certainly, but\u00a0one granted by\u00a0the would-be masters in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Unlike those Rights once protected by the Constitution,\u00a0however, this\u00a0new one\u00a0is funded by theft, what the Bible calls the “abomination” of dishonest weights and measures, and enforced at gunpoint — by over 10,000 new armed\u00a0bureaucrats\u00a0.\u00a0 Worse still is that this “right” is one that people who once believed they were free CANNOT REFUSE.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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How can this be, given that even the Sovereign Creator of the Universe gives us a choice — whether to obey Him, or not, and serve Him, or not, and love Him, or not?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Admittedly, it’s difficult to even summarize the serious violations associated with a billing running well over a thousand pages in just a few paragraphs – especially when even those who supposedly approved the thing have not even read it.\u00a0 But the principles are clear, as are the transgressions.\u00a0 Can the Right to “free exercise” of faith in YHVH still be claimed when the ability to say “no” to “another master” is denied?<\/span><\/div>\n

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The same week that saw the first widespread coerced “purchase” of any “product” in Amerikan history is also the week leading up to the Pesach, or Passover: the\u00a0memorial of the sacrifice of our Savior, the perfect Lamb.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this, too, has seen “substitution” of an even more subtle and insidious sort.\u00a0 Imagine if you can how a Creator who clearly desires that His Name be glorified must feel when He sees that the most important event in all human history – which He fulfilled perfectly, in His perfect timing and in perfect accord with His promises — has been replaced by\u00a0an impostor.\u00a0 Not only has His calendar and day been changed, and the the feast that He said to keep “forever” been forgotten by many of those who claim to serve Him, but forbidden symbols of pagan idolatry have replaced those He specified, and even the name has been changed to glorify a pagan fertility goddess!\u00a0 (Ishtar\/Astarte\/Ashteroth\/Easter)<\/span><\/div>\n
Our Savior, of course,\u00a0warned repeatedly that we cannot serve two masters – whether YHVH and “mammon”, or Caesar, or ‘the world’.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The answer, of course, is simple, albeit perhaps unpleasant to contemplate.\u00a0 We have a choice – and many have already made it.\u00a0 The fact that there is massive deception involved is not new (see Genesis chapter 3, for the beginning of a process that has continued ever since) does not make it any less insidious.\u00a0 Nor does it excuse us for having been blind to the Truth; after all, we have been warned over and over again.\u00a0 There really is “nothing new under the sun<\/em>“.<\/span><\/div>\n

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So whether it’s a pagan fertility goddess named ‘Easter’ and symbolized by chocolate bunnies and candy eggs, or the slavery of “health care” mandated by a master who denies any Authority superior to itself\u00a0over its property – its “human resources”– the principle is the same:<\/span><\/div>\n
those who will not serve YHVH will in the end serve the\u00a0‘prince of this world’.\u00a0\u00a0 There indeed is a time to “come out of her”, and to “be not a partaker of her sins”.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The prophet Isaiah said it this way:<\/span><\/div>\n

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“Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,\u00a0 So will I choose their delusions, And bring their fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answered, When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes, And chose [that] in which I do not delight.”<\/em> —\u00a0\u00a0 Isaiah 66:3-4<\/span><\/div>\n

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He tells us to “choose this day Whom you will serve<\/em>“.\u00a0 Choose wisely.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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