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Thoughts on the Nation: An Answer for YankeeDaddy (and others who might want similar answers)

Yesterday, I received an interesting response by YankeeDaddy to my last post.. I was going to respond to him within that post but it actually covers what I wanted to say next.   Here’s the reply…

Welcome, Yankee Daddy…

This is your first time visiting… I admire a man who knows what he believes but please try reading what I said again and don’t jump to conclusions. Think a little bit about what I said.  Love does no wrong to a neighbor…so who's our neighbor? Just who are those aborted babies? What about our children being corrupted with teaching about “alternative lifestyles”? What about our children who must listen to folks who teach that there is no God when they themselves have no clue and no authority to speak at all about it? What the poor who receive promises from folks who will never deliver just to get their vote? That’s not love, my good man, and like it would be true for any person, a government that does or allows these things is no one’s friend.

You must understand also that my wife and I have spent nearly a year investigating this stuff that only some time later showed up in the news like WorldNetDaily and FoxNews, etc. Much of it was well before anyone figured that Obama would win the primaries and certainly not all of it made it to prime time. It likely that you haven't heard the half of it but perhaps you have.

I was discussing how things “should be”… examining the authentic to clearly see the fraud... examining how it is supposed to work. The citizen’s obligation to a good government and a good government’s obligation to a good citizen … and bad ones as well. Love does no wrong to a neighbor… and one of those principles that goes along with that is avoiding false accusations even though we suspect the worst.

I have commented at length about the godlessness in this nation and you are only touching on a small part of it and while it is on record he has been intimately involved in some of these things, we would have a difficult time attaching all of the wrongs of the world to Obama in any more specific way than we could with anyone else. What about a Congress that knowingly put us into the economic mess we are in who tax us into oblivion for their deeds and a judiciary that by in large has ended up permitting these atrocities? What about Clinton who actually made it financially advantageous to send our jobs overseas so that so many people are now in hardship?  If we imagined for a moment that Obama was taken off by an alien spaceship for a while, would wickedness concerning the same things all of sudden leave with him? I would think not.

What is happening here is that you are not identifying the “opposition” correctly. He may or may not be involved with any of it but if we were to suppose he was, then he would be only one member of a large group who would be doing the same thing and they wanted him in office. Don’t be distracted by one man. This matter of doing wickedness to a neighbor is bigger than any single man. And it is too easy to become as bad as those you condemn.

You have had some strong words but I need to warn you of something. They can get you in trouble so don’t be talking idly. We must not bear ill will for anyone. That is not our calling. In all this we need to be exceedingly careful because as you saw during the election, the media can make a saint or a devil out of you at its whim and there doesn’t even need to be any truth to the matter. In fact, if any of the stories are true that I see in the news about conspiracies, (and after what I've seen this year, I suspect that they are being concocted to be a setup for somebody) you just about figure that it’ll be the “fundamentalist” Christians who will be blamed even though none of them are even remotely willing to think of doing that. I’m already hearing some elements of hate speech from Christian-haters going in this direction. It wouldn’t be entirely unreasonable to think it could even be one of their own leftists who does something like that, it gets covered up, and some Christians, who were nowhere near there, get blamed anyway. That’s not terribly far from the devious way it happened in Nero’s day in Rome. Don’t be foolish! Just don’t even go there.

So I might advise one thing… the one whose temper flares quickly extinguishes just as quickly in adversity. You have written some serious words which may indeed reflect the thoughts of some. Yet those who are able to keep the flame of freedom and God’s grace toward man burning continuously and seek to do good in the land will have the courage to do the right things in the face of trouble.

Remember the Objective – bring the message of Christ in a world in need of a Savior.

Remember the Strategy – love one another so that the world may know you are His disciples

Remember the Tactics – let the fruit of the Spirit show in our lives to bring the grace of God to man so that the Spirit’s conviction of sin, righteousness, and judgment will be very persuasive in drawing men unto Himself. For against the fruit of the Spirit, there is no law.

It will then be that a person’s heart is filled with God’s goodness and good fruit will result to the benefit of the community and the nation.

Here are some other things to think about…

Prayer for Obama, our president-elect, makes a lot of sense since there is no leader in this world that the Lord cannot control. If you are worried about what he's going to do, then pray. Before I would do anything besides prayer, I would inquire about it with the Lord. Why?

The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes.  Proverbs 21:1 (NASB)

If we combine that with:

The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. Proverbs 16:9 (NASB)

Its not hard to see if the Lord hears and answers our prayers and Obama is not the man of sin in II Thessalonians 2 setting up things for the very end where the Lord Himself  allows a strong delusion on those who refused to love the truth, then it stands to reason that the righteous can cry out to the Lord on behalf of all those babies slain by abortion and the injustice shown to the righteous in the land, etc. and pray that Obama be kept from doing any grievous things that would ultimately result in wickedness, then we have done what we need to do on that front. In fact, I could think of no better prayer than to ask the Lord to alter the outcome of all that he would do such that it would result in goodness and righteousness for everyone (even himself) instead of any wickedness.  Now I might imagine that Obama might even go for that one himself… at least we could hope for that.  But put first things first. The point is to promote goodness and righteousness for all people in our nation not exercising wickedness to get rid of wickedness. It is folly to think that anyone could fix anything that way.

That does not mean that one should always exclude more drastic measures such as done during the Revolutionary War for the grievances mentioned in the Declaration of Independence for the atrocities done by the Crown toward the colonists but those should always be the means of last resort as it was in that case. I’m sure that we’ll know fairly quickly what the extent of the danger we face, if there is any. To be sure, we are certainly on alert. Yet it must be acknowledged that you are anticipating serious issues to come to pass, not that they have already come to pass unless you know something I don’t.

If you think this is stupid, let me tell you that all that I’ve asked the Lord for in the last three months, except for asking that Obama not be elected, has already been answered in some rather amazing ways and those requests went well beyond Obama alone. Now I don’t consider myself special and I’ll bet there were numerous others who prayed the same things. I can even see that his election may even be the path of removing all the atrocities that you mention but God is setting up things right now to that end. Not that Obama himself would remove them but what God would allow him to do would result in total removal of the current wickedness in our government by God’s hand alone.

Next, we need to realize that Obama didn’t put himself into office, a lot of voters (and perhaps fraudulent votes as well) along with a lot of money donated by other people who wanted him there. If you just focus on the one man, what will you do with the rest?  The wickedness goes a lot deeper than anyone might think Obama might do. He has an army of sympathizers who could, on their own, corrupt the very foundations of our Constitution and Bill of Rights without him. To a great degree, they already have done this by making law from those two documents subject to relativistic thinking.

In addition, wickedness seems to have entered a whole lot of people who one might not expect to be really bloodthirsty, evil folks. I can start to see the turn in the media (and elsewhere) all sorts of hate directed toward believers.  The awful truth for them is that what they hate is the very thing that allows them to live. If you think not, remember Abraham’s request to God concerning Sodom… if only ten righteous are found in the city, will you destroy it? They may be contemplating Sodom’s folly in removing too many righteous and then find themselves destroyed.

Finally, you had asked me what I would do if… That’s actually an easy answer. I’ll do whatever the Lord permits me to do. Nothing on heaven or earth can touch me without His permission and I can be sure some would certainly like to mess me over if they could. I already know that this has happened before. What would I eat, what would I wear, … He’ll provide what I need. There are some amazing stories I could tell.  What will I do without my Bible? I will remember it all exactly when I need it because the Holy Spirit will make up for what I cannot do myself.  He’s done that before, too, right in the midst of witnessing to a friend of mine over several years and remembered text I couldn’t remember reading before but I found it in the Word later.

Yet that's the kind of God we have. He's with us and while we can often take ourselves into the depths of imaginations of what might happen and which for the vast majority of the time, never will, we can never say that He leaves or forsakes us. Yes, it could get bad. Who, even in their right mind could not imagine something they could call "the worst"? Then imagine again and find something yet worse again. However, who, among us, has the courage to think of better things and pray to the Lord for that? I hear a lot about what people fear these days. Should we not speak of and pray for what we hope for that is good? Reflecting on it, that indeed is the better way... faith, hope, and love. Faith in Christ brings hope for life and opens up into .... loving one another as its greatest development. It is the rebirth of faith in our hearts that trusts in Christ for our salvation.  Likewise, it is the rebirth of faith that our nation, built on those same principles, can return again to being what the Founding Fathers had envisioned long ago. Yes, indeed pray for that.

I’ll close with this thought again… may good triumph over evil without becoming evil itself.  Blessings, Mr. Vee

Insights:

Thoughts on the Nation

Its been a while since I’ve written, life has been busy. That’s good news in times when a lot of folks are losing their jobs from the financial mess that’s happened. The elections are over and honestly… they were rather boring to me since I have had no favorite from the beginning. So we have a new president-elect and Obama will become the president in January. While I’m not aligned politically with him, I do wish him well and have already started praying to the Lord on his behalf (and our country) just as I have for President Bush.  In these troubled times, I do not envy the task he has before him. I wonder if McCain was actually the winner this time around given the circumstances we see happening before us.  At any rate, I encourage everyone to pray for our leadership especially that they have wisdom to guide the country to good and not the opposite, to bring and keep a good, free peace here without oppressive control, and to allow the citizens the ability to carry on their lives without undue hardship, free to think and do good as they see necessary. That has worked well in the past since it allows people to be and do what God has made them to be.

I wish I could feel at ease like I have with most other presidents elected during my lifetime. I think the last time I felt some concern was when President Clinton was elected. He ended up being popular to some, even an icon to others, I think he was the first president that really disappointed me, not being able to personally control himself with the ladies while office. I guess I expect more from a man in the highest office of the land who should be the best example from among us. I suppose I’m an idealist in that regard but I think we all have expectations like that of our leaders at some level.

That’s what is driving my prayers for Obama. He has been such an enigma to many and it hasn’t been hard to find that he’s hung around and fraternized with people that most good peaceful, hardworking folks would avoid like the plague.  He has promised many things to the electorate which upon close examination may not be too healthy for our country.  Yet he is our president and he comes in to it with less advantages than prior men for those facts alone. He doesn’t have a history of choosing good men to be around him and the foundations of those promises talk of doing things that have been quite obviously failing and destroying nations for quite a long time.  In this I have some pity for him, its going to be rough for him even when he’s a powerful man now. While he’s been practicing all these years to become president, he has little to fall back on when he’s required to actually “be” a president.  It is already starting to hurt him and the people are looking at his past associations and wonder if his new cabinet choices are better choices than before and that obviously reflects upon the men he chooses and the people who selected him to run in the first place and putting his fellow party members in the same questionable light. I guess in the headlong rush to put their man in office, they didn’t think about that.  All that points out some really key points to pray for in the years ahead for the leadership of our country.

Frankly, this teaches me an important thing. Whatever we aspire to do, there is a required training period and personal testing in order to do the job well. I have been reminded of this lately with a noticeable increase in law enforcement folks patrolling around the countryside here when things seem to be ok. It seems good to see them around but it is also a little disconcerting as well since it makes one wonder “what’s up?” since these folks are busy people but I digress. Each one of these people had to be trained to properly do law enforcement activities. The state and local governments do not hand a guy or gal a gun, a fast car with flashing lights and radios and go around acting out what they see in their imagination as a policeman although there is the rare occasion when we wonder about that.

So it also goes for the leadership we have in our government. If our elected leaders are lacking in wisdom and experience in doing good things and making good choices and decisions, then we should pray all the more that the Lord would give them what they need to do their job effectively. Along with that, we should also pray that the Lord would inhibit their ability to do things that would not be good for themselves and the country. There’s nothing wrong with asking the Lord to keep all of us from making bad decisions and keep us out of trouble so it would be good to pray for our leaders the same way. Perhaps we didn’t do that when all the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle came to light and we now know that some of our leaders did not do the right thing even though they thought it was ok. Yes, they are responsible for their actions but so are we. They were put there by the people and folks weren’t doing proper oversight of their “elected officials” and left them in office to keep making the same mistakes and now we are in a financial mess. So there’s plenty of blame to go around. The better way is to pray for our leaders since it is so obviously hard to be in those positions without engaging in things that are not beneficial for the country and harmful and/or embarrassing to themselves.

Paul tells us some really important things about all this in Romans 13.

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.

For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.  Romans 12:1-14 (NASB)

Now these are good words and being respectful of our leadership is right for Christians. Yet I wonder if we really understand all of what is being said here. We need to understand that God has established the Law and all that supercedes man’s opinion. The person who is governing does so because there is a higher law that allows them to be put in that position to do that job. In this passage, more often than not we focus on the individual citizens being subject to the government and that is right. However, we need to read closely to what the government, as God’s minister, is there to do. Let’s take a look at that.

1.    All authority comes from God and therefore must represent His Law properly.
2.    Authority is given to present and enforce God’s Law to the nation.
3.    In order that these people who are given authority can make a living, we pay taxes and the other things mentioned.  The matter of making a living sets what is “due”. Other matters like protecting the nation are also funded from these things, which is allowing the government to do its God-given authority to fulfill its role to “love the people it governs” by protecting it.
4.    Fulfilling that Law requires that people love one another, doing no wrong to a neighbor. The government has oversight into this and should be promoting this and be allowing the people do what they are to do before God themselves… to love one another… and not take over than job itself.
5.    The government itself under that Law should then also understand that it is also responsible to love the people it governs, doing no wrong to any of its citizens.

We should note in Romans 13:3 that the people under the government should not have to be fearful if they are loving one another and doing no wrong to a neighbor for that is God’s purpose for government. If people are doing good and the government still makes them fearful, then the authority the government exercises is not in line with God’s intent.  If there are activities which are not quelled which makes the people fearful by some doing or threatening harm to them and the government is not acting to protect them, its is negligent in its duty.  The government is in place to support those who are doing good as defined by God’s Law, loving your neighbor as yourself.

Yet to leave it there leaves too much open for poor interpretation. We see even in these verses Paul brings up adultery, murder, stealing, coveting, and doing wrong to a neighbor as examples of not loving your neighbor as yourself. Yet while it is important for us to share and help the needy because they are our “neighbors”, the government is not an instrument of man to promote the covetousness of one group over another which oftentimes tends to be the case these days. Yet we can clearly see that the coveting brings on the first three in those examples and if one cared to watch closely enough to the political process this year, we saw men promising things to enflame the covetousness of one group over another. It was not a good thing to watch. We have recently seen those who have reacted with severe violence to the repudiation of gay marriage in California but we do not see the prevailing government in that state taking any action. This is an obvious example of the government’s negligence in this instance.  Where were folks to protect the rights of those who opposed the measure? It is obvious that those involved in the violence were not loving their neighbor as is required for obeying good government. Their deeds, no matter how they want to justify them, were evil.

Nor was it good to see the news media and various political entities commit blatant, insolent, and willful perjury before the public eye.  In that same Law, one is not to bear false witness, which also means to not intentionally mislead. It too brings serious injury to the people of the land and is a violation of God’s Law and His intention for the purpose of government. It does not bring good to the people of this land no matter for whatever reason it was done.

Another thing Paul brings out is the concept of government’s right to bring on retribution to evildoers. It is clear that its role is to “bring wrath on the one who practices evil” as defined by God’s Law. If a government brings force to bear on people who are doing good according to God’s law, the government is operating outside its authorization and we can be sure God will take care of all of it in due time. For those reading who do not believe in God, it is not hard to understand the principle of “what goes around comes around”. Such a principle carries with it a positive aspect to it as well. A government that does good will bring good on itself.  If it feels the increasing need to control things as seems to be happening, it is merely the obvious expression that the government in some area has not done good beforehand.

Paul goes on to stress that carousing (festivities accompanied by impurity and obscenity of the grossest kind) and drunkenness, sexual promiscuity and sensuality (arrogant, brutal, insolent lack of sexual restraint and debauchery), and strife and jealousy are additional examples of the deeds of darkness, the lack of love for one another.  These things are certainly things that those who name the name of Christ are not to participate in but in context, are things that the government is required to regulate and provide conditions where these things do not proliferate or endanger the citizens at large.

Further, God permitted our country to be founded on the Constitution and its amendments known as the Bill of Rights, which further define how our country, in particular, loves one another. The Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the freedom of assembly, the freedom to petition, the freedom of the press, prohibits unreasonable search and seizure, cruel and unusual punishment, and compelled self-incrimination. The government is not allowed to establish a religion and is not allowed to prohibit free exercise of religion either. It is not allowed to deprive any person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law and more. In fact, it is the Bill of Rights that actually allows us to change our government leaders without bloodshed. It is truly an act of loving one another even when we may be divided on many issues.

Yet for all of the good that the Bill of Rights defines for Americans, the Bible still says it best in the fewest words…

“Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”

So as we move forward with our new president, it is clear that there are important responsibilities that we, as the people, are to do toward the government and likewise what the government’s responsibility is toward us. Yet both sets of responsibilities reside in the same notion… Love does no wrong to a neighbor… therefore love is the fulfillment of the law… the very essence of what America is all about

Let us  pray that we do well in this regard and hope that the new government will do the same. Let neither of us do it in words only but in truth.

Lord, I thank you that we were once again able to have an election to determine who would be our next president and I am glad that we were able to resolve the question without bloodshed. I do pray that even though I do not hold the same political persuasion he does, I ask that you assist him to work on behalf of our country and nation for true good that follows Your intent of this nation being a people who just might have a chance at demonstrating loving one another in all the right ways.  I ask that you assist him to bring goodness and righteousness and peace to all the people of the land.  I ask that you bless him as he follows what You alone have designed as being good leadership of good government.  In addition, I ask that you give him wisdom to know the difference between the good and the evil in himself and those who help him and help him to choose the good and reject the evil according to how You truly see things, Lord, and not how he or I or anyone else might think.  I ask you to protect the people of this land and even our president from himself and others in leadership in making foolish and unwise decisions and I pray that You gently inhibit and block any attempts to do such foolish things and kindly instruct us all in what is a better thing to do.  I pray that everyone that will be leading this nation will have a fresh realization of the precious thing we have in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights and how good men from long ago respected Your Law and wanted such a good thing for all who would follow after them. I also pray for our nation that we all would turn our hearts toward You and your goodness with hope that the United States of America can continue to be the example of men and women looking for something better than the base instincts that come from our own hearts and better than the desire to replace You and your Law with a government based on men worshipping themselves and their own unstable and foolish thoughts.  May You continue to protect us from our enemies who have set it in their hearts to destroy us for a myriad of reasons. In the end, may good triumph over evil without becoming evil itself. In Jesus’ name….   Amen….   Mr.Vee

Insights

Sometimes the Word of God expresses something so well, there is no need
to add anything to it.  Here is what is going on in Mr.Vee's head and
heart as he prays for you, His people, and our country. I hope you will
join me.

Psalm 5 (NASB)

Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my groaning.

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God, for to You I pray.



In the morning, O LORD, You will hear my voice;

In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch.



For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; no evil dwells with You.



The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; you hate all who do iniquity.

You destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.



But as for me, by Your abundant lovingkindness I will enter Your house, at Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You.



O LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my foes; make Your way straight before me.



There is nothing reliable in what they say; their inward part is destruction itself.

Their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.



Hold them guilty, O God; by their own devices let them fall!

In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, for they are rebellious against You.



But let all who take refuge in You be glad, let them ever sing for joy;

And may You shelter them, that those who love Your name may exult in You.



For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, you surround him with favor as with a shield.

May the Lord preserve and bless His people who love Him. 

Blessings, Mr.Vee

Edit: The You Tube Video that was "yanked" on the Saturday post (below the videos shown below) has reappeared in a Version 2. Please take the 10 minutes to understand the basis for how we got into this "economic mess".

Follow Up on the Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Cover-Up

Edit: Based on the re-appearance of the Saturday's post You-Tube perhaps there are some reasons to have some hope for Warner Music.  It is never good to hide the truth on something this big.  Here's more information much of it documented on C-Span....

Take a look at this from NakedEmperorNews.com:

Here's another one from the same source:

Get this... these Democrats have known that the problem existed years ago and they willfully obstructed good efforts to fix this problem long before now.

So note the names, ladies and gentlemen, from your respective states and
districts and do your duty as an honest, decent, and law abiding
American and vote these politicians out of office and/or pull them out
of office by referendum who have obviously have been paid off to
support the fraud at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that has brought this
supposed need that the U.S. Treasury put up $700 billion to bail out
this bunch of criminals and the relevant management teams.

I had held back any real judgment on Obama for months seeking facts to
find out where he really stood on things. Since then, we’ve seen some
incredibly poor decisions and poor judgment on who he associates with with regards to
having an  upstanding and blameless life. Now we are seeing one of the
entities that is supporting his election campaign. Every American will
now be suffering for his part and others in his party in this thing 
How much more do we need to see to understand that Obama is not
the man we want for president and that we, as Americans, have some "house cleaning" to do in the Congress as well?   Mr.Vee

ALERT!  ALERT!

The You-Tube that was so instructive and enlightening concerning the
whole issue going on in Washington concerning the "$700 Billion bail
out" has been removed due to Warner Music copyright claims.  Yet it is
public knowledge that the entertainment industry, in general, is in the
tank for Obama... and Obama's folks have been setting out to suppress
any negative news, even if it is true, and calling it all "lies". Please refer to recent news related to Obama's folks attempting to usurp the governor's powers of the state of Missouri's to force its law enforcement resources to shut down all opposition to Obama and the governor's repudiation of Obama and his folks for "police state tactics" and denial of the use of the state's law enforcement resources to enforce such suppression in violation of the constitutional right to free speech in the First Amendment.

America, your freedom of speech is being threatened by trial lawyers
and corrupt politicians and the godless power structure. If you value
your first amendment rights and that of everyone else, and potentially every other right given in the Bill of Rights, it is time to
stand up and do something constructive... and I do mean now....  May
the Lord bless, keep, and protect in every way as you confront this
wickedness, expose it, and defeat it.

Yet do not shrink back... others have faced equally perilous fates... and the Lord has delivered them...

I am reminded of the Book of Esther in all this.  It is a book you need to read. It is the story of a heroic queen who risks her life to save her people when the powerful in her government planned to kill all her people ... and ultimately Esther as well. Her uncle spoke some solemn words that are important for us now and I would encourage each of you to examine what the Lord would have you do right now as I tell you what Mordecai said to Esther that changed the course of events for her entire people....

Then Esther spoke to Hathach and ordered him to reply to Mordecai:

"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king to the inner court who is not summoned, he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days."

They related Esther's words to Mordecai.

Then
Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not imagine that you in the
king's palace can escape any more than all the Jews.For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance
will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's
house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty
for such a time as this?"

Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

"Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three
days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way.
And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law;
and if I perish, I perish."

So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.

Esther 4:10-17 (NASB)

Consider what your role is in saving your nation... let us not only pray and fast but also to do whatever the Lord has given to you to do to preserve it by any legal and good means.  Blessings and strength and power and success from the Lord... Mr.Vee

Commentary

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis

Another diversion from bibilical subjects but what timing! I had just commented on the current situation in our
country in the last post and guess what showed up on You Tube... 

If you want to understand how the country got into this financial mess
with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... take a look at this You Tube video…
you might even want to look at it a couple of times to take it all
in... the facts are all there... you can even look them up on Google… it
is 10 minutes long… and worth your time... there is a short thing for McCain at the end but the rest is eye opening...

May this information be helpful in learning where the "godlessness" that is being taught in our schools, and legislated in our government is taking us. Beware of those who have become the people of Romans 1:18-32.  Please pray for wise and honorable men who trust in God for our leadership and in our schools.  We need them more than ever now.  Blessings, Mr.Vee

Insights



Some Recent Thoughts on Romans 1:18-32 and the Elections

After paying attention to the news for quite a while now, globally and
with elections coming up and I began to notice something rather obvious.

There is no way to unite the nation.  There is a great divide between
the godless and the godly and always has been. This is where our nation
is today. The details found in Romans 1 make this clear. Once it seemed
to be that it was communism against capitalism but the scriptures here
show us something different. We can see this because it is not about
debate over what good can be done better anymore. It is about how
depraved our nation can become before it destroys itself against those
who want to live peacefully and respect the persons and property of
others. It is the greedy who claim to be generous against those who
work hard to provide for the good of themselves and others.

No matter how we look at it there are no good choices for president.
However, when the evidence weighs strongly for the Democrat contender
and his other party mates matching the desires of the godless, then it
is time for godly people to reject him and them. I say that in sorrow
knowing that there used to be a time when there were better, more
capable men with a higher form of morality presented to the nation from
that party. One can only hope that our republic will survive the test
it is now undergoing (and I’m not talking about a financial crisis) but
instead a morality crisis that threatens our foundations. Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac are only symptoms of a larger problem involving the
emerging system of indoctrination of godless principles to each and
every one of us. Is it not clear that someone did not fear God for
their deeds done to bring down these institutions that originally
brought them great profit.  The men in our government involved in this
problem predominantly in that party put greed before country,
dishonesty before the security of the nation. It is time to do what
American do when our representatives dishonor themselves and their
country… vote them out.

Yet there is something to be learned about the candidates themselves and the impression that they present to us that say something important about our nation.

No. Obama’s not our man but he represents a portion of our nation that
has lost its moral compass and has exchanged it for more degrading
passions and dangerous notions. Those who would sell the soul of our
nation to reach for an empty prize of socialism and communism are
working themselves into full control and overthrow of the government.
We only need to examine recent history to understand that such things
lead to much more oppressive human conditions than we have been
accustomed to in the past.  It is truly a pity that so many of these
who are idealistically hoping for the godless “ring of power” will be
“used” and then find themselves the first to be “thrown under the bus”
by their own comrades. There is no honor among thieves and they will
find out soon enough.

Biden represents a loud mouthed fool who talks more than he ought and represents a
side of our nation that we make coarse jokes about…  used car salesmen
and dishonest lawyers. He shows us a side of our nation that is all
about ripping people off and those who deal dishonestly when honesty
would have paid them better. An icon of “smoke filled rooms” and
speakeasys, Biden represents yet another of the godless crowd.

McCain, is the better choice and is much more experienced but reveals
the weak and tired morality that godly America has become under the
constant attack of the godless. He represents our tired churches and
organizations dedicated to doing good who have lost their momentum and
direction and cannot decide just exactly what is really right anymore.
However, if they ever found out what was right again, they would do it.

Sarah Palin has inspired many simply because she has reminded us of our
greatness and our past commitment to God, better ideals and morals, and
clean honest living. She represents the every day man and woman. The godless have already incessantly pounded on
her character and her husband’s in order to do what Romans 1 says
godless people do to get what they want. She is like many of us in the
United States who honor God and try our best to do what is good for all
and work hard while we’re doing it. Would we expect any different
things for ourselves than she has already endured from those who are
godless? I would think not.

Given that President Bush has endured the most humiliation from the godless for the fewest offenses and these were often trumped up, he represents the godly people of this country who have taken it on the chin from the godless for years and still endure. He is like the student who believes in God and is being humiliated because of his faith before the class by his godless professor yet walks out with honor. He has taken abuse from every quarter and has held his chin up high and I've never heard him whine. Folks say they don't like him but I see him as a real man who can gut it up and do what needs to be done and dismisses all the do-nothing whiners.

Beyond the presidential candidates and our current president, there are others... maybe we can do those later...

Rather than make this November a referendum on Obama, consider a wider
purpose. Vote for a referendum on the godless power structure that is
using him to weaken our country and destroy our lives and livelihood. Do not leave out Congress nor the Senate.

Begin praying now that men of honor who trust in God, no matter what
party they are from, will be elected to the seats in our government.
Pray that deceit will not win and that the godless will be given the
“bum’s rush”.

This year has been an eye-opener. It isn’t about Republican and
Democrat. Its all about whether we can stand before God and have Him
say of our nation…”You have done well.”

Blessings, Mr.Vee

Update & Commentary



I’m Still Here… Battling the Distractions of Life... Trying to Stay Focused on the Lord

I hope you all are doing well. I’ve been pretty busy along with Bee. A
lot of things have been going on and I’ve been feeling very preoccupied
lately and would really like to get back to writing again. I miss it. 
So I haven’t been dallying around…

We’re still finishing out all the outside construction work that has
been lingering since earlier this year but thankfully we are very close
to finishing now. Just one more item left!!!

In the last week, I just started a brand new job and had been working
on bringing that to pass through the summer since my original contract
work had finished out in May. I’ll probably be traveling soon in
conjunction with that.

I have also been helping our church find a new worship pastor since
June and praise the LORD, we have been successful. He and his family
are coming to stay with us temporarily for a few weeks until they can
find permanent housing in the area.  I have to agree with Bee. I enjoy
helping folks with hospitality although I hardly have a speck of
gifting in that area.  So we are fixing up the guest house, even as we
speak, to receive them.

Also, in the last few weeks, my son, John, came back from college to
live with us for a little while during the first couple of weeks this
month. We have been occupied with preparing and executing a move for
him. Just a few weeks before that he had landed a great job back here
where we live. What timing! We’ll get to move him again as soon as he’s
build up enough reserve to find himself a new apartment here locally.
The Lord is good!

We need to get really high speed internet here but we are a bit out of
the way and one fellow is willing to work with us but doesn’t do the
antenna installation for the wireless service. Sigh. So I guess I’m
going to do that here soon. Bee is fretting about all the work to be
done up on the roof. I must confess that I don’t particularly like it
either.

We have also been looking into the “Truth Project” this summer and are
preparing to work with this in our church in the next month or two. If
you’ve never went through that material and you have any inclination
about understanding the differences between how the world thinks and
what God has said about it, you need to see this… perhaps more than
once. There’s a lot there but it is well done.

I’m also starting a home Bible study next week on God’s Character.
Please pray that this goes well. I have already started praying for
those who will be coming. This has been a big thing in my life and even
through all the hubbub this year, I have learned a lot about trusting
in His character. All the things that I used to worry a lot about, and
sometimes still do, has shown each time He comes through every time
just exactly how He tells us He is like in the Bible.  So, once again,
the “teacher” gets to really experience what he’s been teaching. Yes,
the LORD is good.

That’s a quite a few distractions, isn’t it?  Yet that isn’t all!

Add to all that the craziness going on right now in the election stuff
(unbelievable what people will convince themselves is true with a man
of no substance and a running mate even worse) and I’m praying that the
party of the reprobates not only loses but does so in a big way… The
reprobate party?  That’s the one that doesn’t mind killing babies,
promoting corruption in government and business but saying otherwise,
promoting lifestyles and partners quite against what God has said it is
supposed to be, taking away the rights of those who are good, honest
citizens. They are the ones who desire to manipulate the petroleum
market to force the lie of Global Warming and false concern for the
environment down the throats of the citizens, and taking away the
earnings of hard working Americans on the lie that more taxes will help
things out in our nation and our schools (and have done just the
opposite)… and then cry out its Bush’s fault to distract the nation
from their own despicable conduct.  And there’s more… the list goes on
and on. Our country has tried all that for years now and it hasn’t
worked.  Why do I call it the “reprobate party”? That’s because while
most of them like their donkey symbol, there are a few others that
really go along with them but have taken on a different name.  Throw
out all of the bums of the “reprobate party” in November! Don’t just
stop with the presidential ticket! Go for the rest of them! Clean out
all the real bozo’s.  And take every opportunity to reduce the ratings
(and thereby cut their revenue) for the media outlets who are in the
tank with these folks and espouse the same. We just don’t need that
baloney any more.

Now we have the Russians on the prowl and wanting to begin their
conquests again, feeling their oats being flush with petroleum money
from Central Asia. Make no mistake. They have threatened Europe with
the Georgian invasion. The first thing is to control the pipeline or be
within minutes of doing so. Why shouldn’t they expect their neighboring
countries like the Ukraine and Poland to get a little nervous and want
US missile installations on their soil? They say they aren’t afraid of
a Cold War. Nice, predictable, Russian hubris. Dangerous to be sure but
there are other dangers in this world that are even worse than them or
what they can do. Being allied to the Islamofascists is very risky
business and they’ve been around a lot longer than the Russians and
they don’t care about dying. One might wonder if they can really handle
true “religious opium” in their own midst.

I am so glad that the LORD knows about all these plans and is waiting for
the right time to make an end to it. It looks like so many of the
correct pieces are falling into place to create the final showdown
between Babylon, the Beast, and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We
have to wait to see if they ALL fall into place.   Blessings, Mr.Vee

Commentary



The Russian / Georgian Conflict


NOTE: I had just read Beeyond Sight’s post regarding Russia’s Invasion
of Georgia and the subsequent clarification of what really happened in
a comparable event with Poland in WWII where Germany first invaded
Poland and then 16 days later Russia did as well yet Russia kept
Poland. In that invasion, the Soviet government announced that it was
acting to protect the Ukranians and Belarusians in the wake of the
Polish government’s collapse.  Sounds a lot like a repeat of history
here…

I left a comment there that I will share with you all below…

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It is easy for Russia to play the sympathies of various ethnic peoples
in order to achieve its ends. They know how to manipulate opinion
(psy-ops) and they know how to put their operatives in places all over
the world to influence that opinion. South Ossetia is no exception.
While there is some truth to what Krazno1 has said and that makes it
believable enough, it is not all there is to know about this. There is
much to be learned by taking a look at what's been going on for a while
now between Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine. The key here has been Georgia
and Ukraine has sought out NATO membership. Why? These folks know what
its like to live under the hammer and sickle. When given a chance, they
want something else. Let's not forget that.

What about the people who live there? With due respect for their
opinions, there is an aspect we should not dismiss. There has been
considerable time elapse to allow "operatives" (Russian & Ossetian
Russian sympathizers) to stir up discontent and cause certain events to
happen which would require any government to act decisively in order to
keep order. If skillfully planned, these events would be designed to
alter public opinion and cause a population to choose something against
their best interests. We know how that works here in the US with the
media because we are more aware of it since we seem to still have
enough outlets for additional information which sheds a lot of light on
such deception.

I do not like anyone to be oppressed so I do not think that Russia will
ease the Ossetian's situation at all. If Georgia was oppressing people,
then their removal by the Russians will end up betraying the South
Ossetians worse because they had hoped for better. This is not the
first time this has happened in history.

Remember that Georgia has the most to lose by a conflict with Russia.
Russia has the most to gain and incur little harm to themselves. The
military & geographical considerations are impressive and would
allow for a military launching platform further south even to the
acquisition of both Armenia and Azerbaijan as well in order to link up
with Iran.

Why would linking up with Iran be important? The nuclear connection.
Iran's spurning of the IAEA and the peaceful use of atomic power makes
them strange bedfellows with the Russians but it achieves the
apocalyptic ends of Iran's leadership.

If we understand that Russia's indirect provocation of Georgia in order
to make it look like a takeover of Georgia is justified correlates well
with Iran's more provocative stance against Israel (wiping them off the
map) which would also provoke action from Israel to make Iran look
justified in wiping Israel off the map as they have declared that they
would. Same plan, different approaches... all based on conquest and not
peace. Never mind one has religious trappings and the other is based in
materialism. Wickedness isn't terribly creative since it always leads
to death.

Remember only Armenia and Azerbaijan remain to link them up to Iran.
Watch the news. I'll bet that they'll fall next for "whatever reason"
and line up a war theater that looks a whole lot like setting the stage
for Ezekiel 38. Starving Israel of oil is just the beginning... Mr.Vee

Quick Comment on Printing the Revelation Charts…

One of my friends messaged me about some trouble he had with the charts running off the page so I thought it might be good to post a little piece here on how to get that done if you are having problems.

The series “The Timeline Analysis of the Book of the Revelation” in six
parts is intended to be printed out in two (2) passes on regular
8 1/2" x 11" paper. .. one pass to do
the "blog text" (in portrait mode) and the other for the "chart" (in landscape mode).

While I really appreciate Xanga for blogging, it wasn’t always as
friendly as I would have liked when doing this series with its charts. 
The detail necessary for the charts and to do them with a nice readable
text size was simply much different than that necessary to display the
regular blog text. To have made the blog text and the chart text print
out nicely in one printing pass would have made the “chart text” much
too small and blurry. I thought it would be better to have a “two step
process” than give you charts you couldn’t read.

The best way to go about this is to do a “print preview” to find out
how many pages are in the post for the “blog text” only. Print that out
in “portrait mode” first.  

Then right click on the chart itself. It is a JPEG file and you can
copy that to your computer and print it however you usually do it from
there. I’ve tried it in both Firefox and MS Internet Explorer and they
both work. MS IE might require a bit of tweaking in the Photo Printing
Wizard but there are other much easier ways to print it out in IE so
this should not be very hard if you done much of your own "picture file" printing at all.  

I hope this helps….  and I hope your day is going well.  Blessings, Mr.Vee