The Cry for Justice

Few people realize how corrupt this country is and the gross injustice inflicted by the state on its citizens. People who know me for any length of time might hear me speak of the various crimes committed by the state against the poor. Time would fail me if I told of the myriads of zoning, credit, criminal and drug laws that ensure the maximum prosperity for the rich, being built on the backs of the poor. In time, perhaps on these pages I will tell some of the story.

For this post, I direct the reader to a short and pointed opinion piece called "How the Justice System Works" by Jeffrey Tucker. To read of this oppression of the poor will make anyone who cares one wit for the poor to grieve. Not since Hugo's day in France have we seen such exploitation. Here a just a few verses touching on the subject:

Deu 24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deu 27:19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Pro 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

There are of course many more, but these should provide a taste. Do you see some common threads? We should provide for our poor with our surplus. We are not to profit by them. We are to help and defend them. What do we do today? As Mr. Tucker observes, we extort them; we fleece them; we profit by them. Woe to America. God will surely judge:

Psa 146:9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Meditate upon these verses. Look up more. Search your Bibles for these words: usury, widow, fatherless, stranger, poor and the like. See if you don't see who these verses are talking about. Observe how these people are treated today. Pray for America to repent. Do not support (with the notable exception of Ron Paul) the current political regime - both parties. Eschew this world's kingdoms, and pray and work for the kingdom of God. Ponder how you can help the poor and rescue them from their oppressors.

May God have mercy upon us.

Why does the Christian Right Oppose Ron Paul?

I personally withdrew from politics several years ago. I had several reasons including - it was a pointless exercise, it concerns man's Kingdom and not God's, and how can a Christian even think of participating in a realm so corrupt that it perverts everything that it touches.

The last point is one I could never see changing. After all, politics is the very art of compromise and corruption. I never thought I would ever see that idea not holding up. I never thought I would ever see an honest politician. I am still flabbergasted to find such a man, and even more so to find he has held federal office for many years. Of course, this man is Ron Paul, and he has demonstrated for us all what many of us have thought to be impossible - to hold a high elected office and not be corrupted nor ever compromise with its ways. Even more amazing are the thousands of supporters of such a man. That many Americans have come to reject worship of the state is a most encouraging sign.

What is not encouraging is that the majority that name the name of Christ still hold to their worship of the state instead of Christ. They sold their souls decades ago to the devil in order to gain control of one of his earthly kingdoms. In so doing, they rejected God's kingdom.

Recently, I have been puzzling over why seemingly decent Christians, even homeschoolers prefer the likes of the "Huckster", aka as Huckabee to an honest and decent man like Ron Paul. My dear wife, Susan, offered this morning a most sound answer - they love power. Ron Paul doesn't doesn't offer power. He offers freedom. If Americans are free, then no one will have power over them. While her answer is of course sound, just for curiosity sake, I would love to ask members of the Christian right some questions, and hear from them their answers.

Here are my questions:

1) Why do homeschoolers prefer Huckabee over Paul considering that Huckabee is a big supporter of federal funding and involvement in local education? According to the HSLDA, it is because the Huckster is better on "Islamofascism" - LewRockwell.com. Since when is foreign policy a concern for homeschooling? If somehow we keep a few terrorists in some dungeons around the world and homeschooling is regulated to the point of impracticality, how does that serve homeschool interests?

2) Since I have heard this justification ("Islamofascism") come up a number of times, including from the Huckster himself, for supporting Huckabee, I would like to ask a few questions about it also:

1. Why is the supposed threat of terrorism (of which there has been none in about 7 years), so much worse than the real threat of a totalitarian police state (of which currently kills far many than all of the terrorist attacks, right here in the USA)? How many people need to be tortured and/or killed by police tasers before the Christian right considers it a threat?
2. Why is Islamofascism a threat, when Christofascism is not? Since fascism is normally considered a heavily regulated socialist state, does not America fit the definition a lot better than a bunch of Arab tribes who like to fight each other?
3. My last question on Islamofascism/terrorism is the one I would like answered the most above all my questions. When did Christians begin to love their own lives more than anything else on earth? Their support for just about anybody over Ron Paul, citing mainly the threat of terrorism, shows this fact clearly. I have more to say on this subject later.

3) We have had unrestrained abortion on demand for over 30 years now. Politicians have come and gone, all proclaiming to be pro-life and wanting to overturn Roe v. Wade. Their promises have rung hollow. We now have a candidate to who does what he says, and honestly tells us that with a simple majority vote in congress this terrible ruling could be thrown out, without even violating the constitution. Yet, neither democrats, republicans, and even pro-life groups have been willing to support such a bill whenever he brought it up in congress. This man is Ron Paul and is now running for president. If elected, we would have the best chance in decades of getting rid of the Roe v Wade ruling. Why is the Christian right and all pro-life groups not lining up behind this man's campaign? I think I have my answer - Islamofascism. We rather kill a million or so American babies each year, than risk our own precious skin in a the remote possibility of a terrorist attack. Or perhaps it isn't our life we fear so much as some more petty risk like loss of convenience, money or entertainment?

My point in this post is not so much to be politically stumping for Ron Paul, as to point out not only the hypocrisy of the Christian right, but to try and shame its members to repentance. To that end, I would like to come back to the threat of terrorism again.

Because of the perceived threat of terrorism, Americans, including members of the Christian-right (who say they believe the bible) are willing to do the following:

1. Wage unprovoked war on another country.
   
2. Support a war, that includes such atrocities as bombing innocent civilians, running over women and children who get in the way of a convoy, and torturing innocent people.
3. Support incarceration without trial, for even Americans.
4. Support torture.

Let us contrast these actions with some of the teachings of Christ.

1. Love your neighbor as yourself.
2. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it
3. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Christian, how can you support torture, war, murder of women and children, except that you love you own life more than others? How can you do that and still call yourself a Christian?

Please pass this message onto friends and relatives. See if you can solicit any answers for me. You can write me at ministry@micah68.org

May we all love not our own lives, even to the death - Rev. 12:11

Will Christ Appeal to GenX as does Ron Paul?

I recently read an interesting piece on LewRockwell.com called Ron Paul’s Appeal to the Youth. It talked about how for many years the libertarian movement was not gaining any traction among the youth today, and many called for various sorts of pandering in order to attract them. Here is a quote of this thinking from the author:

Ron Paul is much like the stereotype that we have been told would not appeal to the youth. He is a devout Protestant in his early seventies, happily married for half a century, a medical doctor who puts more care into being genuine and persuasive than coming off as being with it. But this honest messenger has gotten more young people visibly excited about the message of liberty than any other single approach or campaign in the history of the movement, certainly in so short a time.

This comes as a shock, and as somewhat of a refutation, to two groups of people: Those libertarians who thought that a veneer of youth, freshness, and modernity was absolutely necessary to appeal to today’s youth; and those curmudgeonly types who dismissed kids these days as a bunch of narcissistic and ill-informed brats with no interest in the direction of their country and future of their families.

What really struck me upon reading this quote was how much "those libertarians" thinking was like those of today's evangelicals. I finally left their fold years ago after realizing what a dead-end their compromising and pandering was. They insisted that in order to reach the youth, we must speak their language. In other words, we must wallow in the gutter of filth and fornication and be like them but with Christian terminology added. No clearer example can be found than that of "Christian Rock" music. That it is almost universally held among evangelicals that we can listen to music that glorifies and worships fornication at the very heart and somehow sanitize it with religious lyrics is incredible. I must also add that the legalist's view that only "old-time" gospel quartets are sanctified in the eyes of God is just as preposterous, but that is another story.

What I want to focus on right now is that Ron Paul has won over millions of young adults, and he has done it without a trace of pandering. He may not have won many of the corrupt baby-boomer generation or the so-called "greatest" generation, but they only seem to respond to who panders most and best. Their hearts for the most part love the lies and those who tell them. Many of this new generation are sick of the lies. They are sick of the compromising, and they are sick of the pandering. I have always maintained that we don't need to water down the gospel in order to be effective in winning souls to Christ. Christ Himself will win souls by the thousands and even millions if we will only preach Him without compromise. As Ron Paul has demonstrated by his success with his message of liberty over socialism - it is not that the gospel lacks power, but that it has never really been preached (in modern times) without adulteration with worldliness. For years my message has fallen on deaf ears.

I see new hope now though. I see hope in this new generation. Granted as many of them are indeed "narcissistic" and so much human wreckage. However, many are not, and even among those who are, there is a longing for the truth. Not phony religion as has been preached for years, but the honest to God truth: the genuine gospel that was preach first by Christ, then by Paul, lost for hundreds of years, again picked up by Tyndale and Bunyan, but lost again until now. I believe either now or soon to come will this message be brought to light again. It is already brought to light today. As many are reading this may read online Tyndale's great treatise on justification by faith. It is called "The Parable of the Wicked Mammon", and you can read it here online.

I am even more emboldened today than ever to preach this gospel. I caught a glimpse of part of Tyndale's book just today, and his message is still wonderfully radical even to me. I hope to share more of this gospel in the coming weeks and months, but I'll share a piece with you now. Jesus didn't die so that you could have a better life as so many preach today. No, Jesus died so that you could have peace with God. If you have peace with God, sure, you won't be a drunkard anymore, but then again, many can become sober even without it. No, getting sober is not the gospel, even though that will happen. The gospel is that we can have peace with God. Many of us have yearned in our hearts for it for many years, but never knew how. In order to start, we must do two things. First we must learn to fear Him - "the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom". Second, we must ask God to show us what we really are. As long as we believe there is any good thing dwelling within us, we are blind and do not see. Only when we see ourselves as the wretches we truly are, only then can we come to God just as we are with nothing to offer Him. Only then can we have peace with God.

I hope I have given you some food for thought. Do not lose hope at the hopeless looking situation today. Ron Paul has preached his message of liberty for 30 years, and only now has anyone noticed. It has been said that success is when preparation meets opportunity. Now is the time for preparation. Tomorrow, perhaps God will provide the opportunity. Let us prepare now for that time. Read your bibles daily. Prepare your minds to answer questions like "why should I follow Christ?" and "tell me why I should believe your religion over others?". If you cannot clearly explain how peace with God is not religion, and what man's religions really are, then go back to the books and study some more.

I have neglected my editing work on Tyndale's book for many months now. I am going to try to finish it before Christmas so I may have copies available for gifts. Heretofore, I have had no plans to get an ISBN number or offer it for sale through regular retail channels. However, with Ron Paul's example before me, perhaps America is ready to receive his message. After being out of print for 150 years, and long ago forgotten, it is again time to bring it (and the gospel he so effectively teaches) to light again.

God's blessings to you all.

P.S. If you want to see what all the excitement about Ron Paul is - go to his website: RonPaul2008.com, and even better read the kind of interviews with him you won't see in the press at lewrockwell.com/blog.

Introduction to the Micah 6:8 blog

I have been toying with starting a blog to complement my website - micah68.org. Since I have difficulty maintaining a timely newsletter, I have decided a blog with help to fill in the gaps. Of course blogs are not edited, so that is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that I can write more often. The curse is being set to pen with less deliberation and editing, the writing will of course be poorer, but even if we can live with that, I may on many occasion - misspeak. The probability of such errors, especially when teaching on the word of God is not a course I care to embark on. However, despite the risks have chosen to start a blog. I pray both God's and my readers' forgiveness and forbearance.

My God bless this humble work and build His Kingdom.

Grace to you all.

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