Perfect

This was first printed on Nov. 20, 2008.  It was true back then, and it is even more true today seven years later.  Many of you have never read this post, so I thought I would repost the main body of work, written by my Jewish friend Chana.

I have titled my post ... "Perfect" ... because as we look back upon America after seven years of the Obama administration, we see just how "right" Chana was.  She entitled her post ... "Aggressive, Disruptive and Apocalyptic."

See if this statement has been fulfilled by the leader of this country ...

"Once a society is corrupted, a man comes along who embodies everything wrong with it, to crush and destroy it."

Chana wrote ...
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Cardinal James Francis Stafford is completely right in his assessment of Barack Hussein Obama.



Calling him "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic" he speaks of Obama's "clenched jaw," "his sapping operations against the city" and points to his mission statement that, "We are not only going to win this election, but also we are going to transform this nation. The first thing I will to do as President is to sign the freedom of choice act. I put Roe at the center of my lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught constitutional law. I don't want my daughters punished with a pregnancy. On this issue I will not yield."

Cardinal Stafford talks of how Obama speaks of the killing of his own grandchildren to prevent what he calls a "punishment" to his daughters. Horrifying!



But here is something that is not only found in Obama's thinking but in the thinking of the entire pro-abortion world … that children are somehow a punishment. Again, the world finds itself in complete opposition to its maker who calls children a "blessing." No, they say, it is a punishment, an inconvenience to be gotten rid of because of selfishness.



How can you call it selfishness? Because most abortions are done not to save anyone's life but to kill off a life that the host finds inconvenient. They are willing to destroy another life in order to make their own life somehow better. This is the basis of all murder isn't it?



When the perpetrator kills someone for their insurance, or because they wish to steal something from them say in commission of a robbery, or when they kill for hatred it is selfishness at the heart of the murder. Certainly Kayin (Cain) murdered his brother because of selfishness and greed. In finding himself not on a par with Hevel (Able) he grew jealous and was greedy for the good reputation his brother had. His brother, in Kayin's eyes , stood in the way of those things and so he got rid of him because Hevel was inconvenient to Kayin's life.

It's not a good time to have a baby, it's too expensive, it's too much of an inconvenience right now. Awful, but we are in the midst of a generation who thinks these are actual valid reasons … so far from G-d are they.


No one's life is in danger in the vast majority of these cruel and bloody operations as the pro-abortion crowd wants you to think here. They cloud over the issue that the most common reason for abortion is because the mother finds the child inconvenient to her life right then. She doesn't want to be "punished" with a child.



Hiring a hit man does not keep your hands clean of murder, however. If you pay for the job the blood is on your hands as well and as a nation which has encouraged the on going destruction of human life the US and other nations are covered in … no wading in … blood up to their waist.



48 million dead children … want to talk about holocaust? There it is right there and no end in sight and that's just in the United States!!

Is the economy going to hell in a hand cart? Are you dissatisfied with the politics of the land and the way things are going?

You cannot break the law, you cannot fly in the face of your Creator and have your own way and still receive blessings. You just cannot. Those blessings will be taken from you until you repent.



Men have had a lowering of testosterone for just a bit over 30 years now … count back. Roe vs. Wade was Jan. 1973.



Infertility has become a huge major problem in the United States and has hit its present state of emergency really for about 30 years … count back again.


With the advent of Roe V Wade the fertility numbers in the US have declined. No one tells young women who decide on abortion that infertility is often a direct result of abortion.



Dartmouth College found that a re-criminalization of abortion would lead to an additional 320,000 births per year in the US and they say this as though it's a horrific thing.



Yet in both the US and Europe the declining birth rates are leading to the complete loss of certain national groups.



If you do not have 4 children you have not replaced yourself on earth and eventually if everyone limited themselves to 2 or less children the population will die out. But, 320,000 more births are looked at as horrific in the eyes of those who find children a punishment.

What Goes Around Comes Around?


We live in the McDonald's fast food age. People get angry if the internet takes 20 seconds more than they are willing to wait. Impatience has been bred by quickie service and quickie solutions.


Sacrifice is a thing of the past. We are told that in order to "have a life" you must be "free" of encumberments. If you have problems you don't have a "life". If you have kids you don't have a "life".

 

"Oh, I can't wait till my kids are grown up so I can have a 'life'" people say. Do you note here that they don't know what life really is?!! When G-d is not number one on your agenda, you cannot understand the meaning and purpose of life and certainly G-d is being pushed out of American life to the extent that his name is anathema in public and "Life" has been redefined as good times and getting things, having things, stuff etc.

Churches and Synagogues are empty on weekends while your local Home Depot and Malls are packed to capacity. There is where the heart of the nation can be found.



Because this is the mind set of the majority of Americans, America has been given a president elect who reflects just those very attitudes.  He is the perfect man for America today.



Black American's have more abortions than other groups … he is perfect for them.



He is a child of iffy circumstances and marital problems. His mother married a bigamist or polygamist and divorced several times … perfect again for America.



He took drugs and is proud of it … perfect for most Americans of the newer generations.



He thinks children are a punishment to endure … perfect again. Right on the money for the "I don't like to commit / I don't really want kids / too many kids" kind of people.



His money attitudes are perfect also for a generation which views work as "not having a life" and for a generation that left G-d in the dust behind them and needs to seek fulfillment in various feel good activities to make them feel good about themselves.



He is man of little accomplishment who has big ideas about himself … perfect again. He sacrificed little but expects much in return.



Cardinal Stafford is right. This is a nation that is already divided. Some are weeping constantly at the sin and filth they see taking over in all areas of life. They are sighing and crying over it.



Then there are those who rejoice that things will change even more to accommodate their sin and their selfishness.



We are indeed past the crossroads and well into the punishment phase of our national existence. Only those who pull out of it and continue to cry over the devastation of life will survive. There is a reckoning coming … "mida keneged mida" ... what goes around comes around.

And the handwriting is already on the wall. Obama and our disquieting array of politicians are our punishment for our attitudes and beliefs which are so far off the mark.

It is all well and good to find fault with Mr. Obama but he is simply a product of what the nation is or has become. Until people change, things won't either.

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Chana ... you were right back then, and you are still right today.  America needs God.

Thank you my friend for all your help over the years.  God bless ...

A link to her blog ... http://lemonlimemoon.blogspot.com/


Producing Solomon

Let me begin by saying that God is neither the author or approver of sin. 

However, as the Creator of all things, God upholds, directs, disposes, and governs all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest event to the least, by His Sovereign Providence, so that as God, within His providence, makes use of means; yet is free to work within those means, outside those means or against those means ... at His pleasure.

I believe God ordains whatsoever comes to pass ... but what looks like permission to sin by giving man a free will and the capacity to sin knowing that man would sin … even so, the sinfulness proceeds only from the man and not from God who, can neither be the author or approver of sin.

R.C. Sproul says ... "We trip and stumble over the word ordain.  We think that affirming divine ordination of all things must mean that God either does evil or imposes it on righteous creatures, forcing innocent people to do sinful deeds.  No.  He ordained that His creatures should have the capacity for sin.  He did not force them to exercise that capacity, but He knew that they would exercise it."

I suppose one could say that because God gave man ... a free will ... that means God ordained sin.  Evidently, for reasons known only to Himself, God made the decision to let sin happen.  God could not and did not sanction it, but He did not stop it. 

So ... in choosing not to stop it, God therefore ordained it.

We just don't know why God allowed sin in the world.  But we do know that when God ordains anything, His purpose is always for good.  Am I saying that sin is good?  No.

But I am saying that sin exists, only because in His sovereignty, God had a purpose in ... ordaining it.  Evidently, God has esteemed that sin should be allowed to happen in this world.
 
I said all of that because I have been thinking about Solomon ... more specifically about his parents ... David and Bathsheba.  Think about this ... had it not been for the David and Bathsheba story ... Solomon would not have been.
 
David would go up to the rooftop patio of his palace home in the cool of the evening ... perhaps to be alone or to meditate and pray.  It was there that he could raise his heart in his hands as he looked up to heaven and worshiped God.  But one evening, he turned his eyes next door, and there was Bathsheba ... in all her naked beauty ... bathing in the dim light of the setting sun.

It's as if it's Adam and Eve all over again.  Just as the enemy of their soul was in the garden to offer them the forbidden fruit, here that night with David, that same old enemy ... who seems to always be around, waiting for the right opportunity ... presented the forbidden to David's eyes. 

David had a choice.  What would have happened if David would have diverted his eyes and turned away from what would naturally be pleasing to his soul of flesh?  Bible history would be changed, and the beauty of this woman would not have been more than a surprised ... "wow" ... what a beautiful woman.  But instead, a longing look grew into a lustful desire for the forbidden.

Did David make his plans to make her his own after seeing her just one time?  So I wonder ... how many times did David go to his rooftop in the evening, hoping to see the forbidden fruit again?
 
But what about God?  Did He play a role of any kind in this story?  It seems as though God places choices in front of us daily.  Of course it could be just how life works.  Either way we do have to choose, don't we.

As far as man is concerned, choice started with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.

Ancient Hebrew writings teach that the Tree of Life stood directly beside the Tree of Knowledge in the midst of the garden.  In fact, some of these writings suggest that these two trees grew from the same root.  This of course cannot be proven.
 
But, since all life comes from God, could not this common root represent the fact that all life … whether it produces good or evil … has its life source rooted in God?

If the ancient Hebrew writings are correct ... both of these trees were located "in the midst" of the garden.  In order for Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Life, they would have to come near to the Tree of Knowledge, close enough to see the forbidden fruit … the only tree they were commanded not to eat from.  They would have to … confront it … each time they went to the Tree of Life. 

If God placed this choice before them, should I conclude as well that He may also do the same with us?  Does God have a role in any testing we may face?
 
I don't know if the enemy of his soul set David up, or whether it was allowed by God in His Sovereign Providence, making use of those things at His disposal to bring about His purpose for the nation of Israel.

So David takes Bathsheba as his own and bad things happen.  Urias, Bathsheba's husband was sent to the front lines to die in battle.  David and Bathsheba's first child dies as well from the hand of God. (II Samuel 12:15) 

Which brings me back to my thoughts about Solomon.  Had it not been for David seeing Bathsheba taking a bath ... Solomon would not have been born.  Solomon was the offspring of this marriage/union between David and Bathsheba.

I know many people will question my earlier statement that ... "God ordains whatsoever comes to pass."

Did God have a role in the story of Joseph?  Consider how Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery.  It seems as though God ordained or arranged for his brothers and the slave traders to cross paths so God's will would be accomplished.  Look what Joseph years later says to his brothers ... "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good."  

The Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 1:11, that it is God who ... "worketh all things after the counsel of His own will."  Even slave traders, sin, and evil?  Why not. 

A Sovereign God can use any and all means at His disposal to bring all things to pass according to His purpose and decree.  I believe this is what happened with David and Bathsheba.  Even Satan can be an instrument God uses to bring about the end result He desires.

Am I saying that God caused David to lust after Bathsheba?  Absolutely not.  God does not tempt man to sin.  But as we have already seen, He may place something before you to test your resolve as He did with Adam and Eve.  The other tree.   

God knows the heart of each man, and He can use man's free will of choice to accomplish His purpose in the matter.  I suppose God could have used another way for David and Bathsheba to give birth to Solomon ... but He didn't.    
  
It's to bad that David didn't know what Solomon would later say in Proverbs 4:23 ...

"Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life."   (Amplified Bible)

So once again history proves Romans 8:28 to be true ...

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

That just about says it all.


Comments are welcome.