I have been sitting on this for a while, thinking about it for a long time.
The debate continues as to whether Scripture endorses, or at least permits, or rather forbids women from certain roles within the Body of Christ. May women be deacons? May women be elders? May women be pastors? May women be bishops? May women teach or lead in church?
At stake, of course, is how to live rightly before God, how to do what God has in mind, and to live within the space and the design God has laid out for humankind. And, questions of women’s roles—whatever they may be—within the Body of Christ, as experienced in church life and among believers, also touches more broadly on what God may have in mind for women and men in marriages, in families, in communities, in the socioeconomic sphere, and in the political sphere.
Four Models of Gender Theology
Years ago, I found a site that gives a basic overview of the various ways Christians have been trying to navigate these questions. These are my summary thoughts based upon that site, Adrian Warnock’s article on Gender: Complementarian Vs Egalitarian Spectrum.
Patriarchy
Is a social system in which males are the primary authority figures central to social organization, occupying roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control of property, and where fathers and husbands hold authority over women and children. The underlying premise that supports this view holds to the inherent superiority of men and the inherent inferiority of women, a position held for thousands of years by cultures around the world. In the west, during the Age of Enlightenment, classical Greek scholars were rediscovered, teaching this view.
Men are in some sense superior to women and should rule over them in every area of life. Women should not hold leadership positions in the church, nor even in the workplace. In fact some feel that women should not work at all if they have children, or even in some cases if they are married.
The woman’s role is to devote herself to the care of her husband, and her children. The man’s role is to protect and provide for his wife and children’s physical needs from the moment they marry.
Proponents of this view would point to biological and psychological differences between the genders which it is believed make humans more suited to these roles.
Here is the key: Patriarchy approves the institutions of male rule and privilege, and affirms female subordination, as both natural, due to male superiority, and mandated by Scripture.
Complementarianism
Believes that God created male and female as complementary expressions of the image of God—male and female are counterparts in reflecting God’s glory. Having two sexes expands the view. Male and female in relationship reflects truths about Jesus that are not reflected by male alone or female alone. Nevertheless, though both sexes bear God’s image fully in their own right, each does so in a unique and distinct way.
Strong Complementarian
Men and women have differing skill-sets, therefore differing roles which “complement” each other.
The woman is honored as she brings something to the equation which a man cannot, and vice versa. Like patriarchalism, there is a strong hierarchy in which men lead and have authority, women follow and obey. Unlike patriarchalism, the woman is seen to have equality of worth and status before God. Each gender is encouraged to feel dignity, and bring their unique contribution.
Moderate Complementarianism
There is a clear distinction between the world of work and that of the family and church. Women can and should pursue full and active careers, and women will be honored and valued whether they choose to stay at home with children, or whether they choose to work.
There are differing roles in the home, but, the authority resting with the husband is limited. The husband is more likely to discuss decisions with his wife, listen to her preferences, then make his decision in accord with his wife.
Complementarian theology maintains that when the husband willingly lays down his life for his wife as Christ laid down his life for the church, it should be an easy matter for his wife to follow him.
Leadership positions are limited in the church. Elders and pastors remain male roles; however, women may have a number of other leadership roles.
Soft Complementarianism
No distinction is made between the roles of men and women at work, nor in the home, in terms of division of labor. The concept of “mutual submission” will be part of the marriage relationship. There may be some idea that the husband leads his wife, but it may not be clear what that really means in practice.
In the church, the main leader will invariably be a man, however couples may both be called elders (with the husband in the lead role). Though women may teach from time to time, it is within the ‘team’ of husband and wife.
Here is the key: Differing, often non-overlapping roles between men and women, where men lead and women follow, is manifested in marriage, church leadership, and elsewhere as biblically required.
Egalitarianism
Also known as equalitarianism or mutualism, agrees with the complementary view of male and female, and additionally believes all people are created equally in God’s sight—equal in fundamental worth and moral status, while recognizing diverse skills, abilities, interests, physiological, and genetic traits. Mutualism affirms God designed men and women to complement and benefit one another, while asserting believers are equal before God and in Christ; have equal responsibility to use their gifts and obey their calling to the glory of God; and are called to roles and ministries without regard to class, gender, or race.
Moderate Egalitarianism
Some different instructions are recognized which the Bible gives to men and women; however, interpretation is notably different than with complementarianism.
Total equality is expected in the workplace, and at home. There is recognition the wife is meant to relate to the husband as the church does to Christ, and the husband is to relate to the wife as Christ does to the church. However, the marriage is one of equals in which decisions are negotiated together. Though every church role is equally available to men and women, more often a man is to be the overall leader, and do the majority of teaching.
Strong Egalitarianism
Men and women are equal in value, role and opportunity. Women can and will lead congregations, and do everything that a man has opportunity to do. In the home, the marriage will be one of equals, with mutual submission stressed, in which each leads in areas of strengths.
To be identically equal does not mean to be identical in kind, but opportunity for fulfilling a particular role should not be dependent upon gender.
Here is the key: Gender, in and of itself, neither privileges nor curtails a believer’s gifting or calling to any ministry in the home, the church, or in the community. Instead, male and female complement each other in every sphere as equal partners.
Feminism
Agrees with the egalitarian view and additionally is proactively engaged in the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities, which involves organized activity in support of women’s rights and interests.
Strong Feminism
Involves a certain devaluation of men in response to the perception of millennia of male oppression. A strongly feminine environment in church, home, and work is promoted and encouraged, at the cost of a male presence, or appreciation.
Here is the key: In addition to supporting equality for every person in every sphere of life and the church, it is necessary to actively advocate for the rights of women and women’s interests.
Biblical Record
For centuries, scholars have sifted through the scriptures, seeking God’s guidance on how to understand God’s design and call for people, and for gender, and there are some excellent books out there that explore these topics carefully and wisely.
I have been studying this topic for at least a dozen years, perhaps more. But it was not what I was thinking about, or asking God about, when I began to read the Gospel of John in Greek. I am not a Greek scholar, so my reading was slow. That ended up being a really good study tool. Because as I slowly read, I began to notice things I would certainly have missed had I read more fluidly. And one of the things I noticed rocked me.
The more I studied, the more I realized Jesus calls women to discipleship and apostolic ministry.
In the following four weeks, I will post four videos based upon my research.
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Sister Joanne, I’m no scholar in these studies but to me when the word feminism comes up in any context, especially religion, it’s all a “Pandora’s Box” as it has and does lead to radicalization and confrontation. Balance and harmony are what Jesus would tell us is imperative and being “plain and simple about the facts” we can see that there are “absolute differences between men and women” not only obviously physically but also psychologically! These inherit differences are there I believe for “a good and complementary purpose.” This to me points out that just from the standpoint of purpose God of course knew what He was doing when he created Man in His own Image and likeness; spirit and mind couple in this realm with physical matter!
Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” 27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
I’m certain as I understand this life and physical existence that God wanted mankind His “centerpiece” of this world to be “harmonious and balanced” and because men and women have been created with distinct differences and abilities or qualities, this can only be truly beneficial when they both accentuate their differences to complement and complete each other for an “overall purpose of unity” where together they make “the complete human package or unit.”
In today’s modern world we see “rebellion” on many fronts against this “basic fundamental condition” or tenet, where at times some women try to be the same as men or even visa-versa in all areas of human behavior, performance and capabilities. Do we see in the animal kingdom this feuding or opposition between the sexes? No we do not, and that would be counterproductive to the species, but, some humans try to have it their own way much too often and try to second guess or outsmart God; while some now even totally reject Him saying He is a folktale or worse. I say this is obviously work of the Devil, who wants disarray and rebellion against God by the very part of creation that God made His centerpiece! So now we see radical attitudes and ideas being promulgated or even foisted and pushed to the hilt with things like “transgenderism and gender reassignment” gone wild throughout! To me that there is even such a debate or “contradictions of basic truths” going on that have served Mankind well throughout the ages; is indicative of the fact that we must surely be in “End Time” or in any event the Season to fulfill it, according to Bible Prophesy or the Word of God!
I truly don’t think for a moment that God intended for men and women to “duel each other to no end” (rabid conflict) in order to eventually destroy each other, which is exactly what is going on these days; surely this is beyond madness and into the realm of the diabolical! I also know that hardcore feminism took off in the early 20th century along with Communism, and they do go “hand-in-hand” being that as I see it, both were inspired and manifested by Satan through men like Karl Marx, who actually was known to worship the father of all lies! What follows is a bit of conversation by a well-known scholar in this area of historical truth.
“Karl Marx Meets the Devil: A Conversation with Historian Paul Kengor”
Paul Kengor:
“I’d say a little bit. I knew a pretty good deal about it already, and I had been thinking for years about writing a book on this. And I’m sure that you, Al, you probably are familiar with Reverend Richard Wurmbrand, the founder of Voice of the Martyrs. He did the book Tortured for Christ in the 1970s. He also did a book called Marx & Satan, and that was I think mid-80s. And I have that, I have it marked up. Also, I read Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals, which had a chapter on Karl Marx.
Paul Kengor:
And the one book that I wasn’t really familiar with, I had seen it referenced by Johnson, but it was the first time I had dug into it, was Robert Payne, who was a biographer of Marx. Just a really impressive British intellectual, kind of a thoughtful man of the arts, of letters, a theater critic, drama, English. Very learned individual. In no way any kind of ideologue. And he did a number of biographies of Marx. He did one in 1968 that was published by Simon & Schuster. He did another that was published by New York University Press. And he’s really the guy who found a lot of this.
Paul Kengor:
Marx’s writings about the Devil were first discovered by his original biographer, a guy named Franz Mehring, and I know you probably want to get to this, so I might be talking a little bit out of order, but when Franz Mehring discovered these writings, he told Marx’s daughter. He said, “You should not let this stuff see the light of day. This is bad. This is really quite frightening stuff.” So I knew about those things, but once I started digging into a bunch of Marx biographies with a specific intent.
Paul Kengor:
You know how this goes, doing research on something like this, where you really start mining and looking for the material. I did a book, God and Ronald Reagan back in 2004. I think I had read every biography of Reagan, and so I knew some of the religious stuff, but not until I went back to Edmund Morris’s Dutch, until I went to Lou Cannon’s biographies and looked for every religious reference. Went back and read all the letters, went to the Reagan Library. Then you line it all up and you’ve got this giant puzzle thrown out on the floor, and you start lining up the puzzles and you say, “Wow, there’s a lot here.”
Albert Mohler:
One question-
Paul Kengor:
Go ahead.
Albert Mohler:
… that as an historian and historical theologian I try to employ is asking whether a question is anachronistic and out of its time. And so there’s a sense in which we might say that the question of something like an obsession of the Devil on the part of Karl Marx, that if that’s all of a sudden discovered now and considered troubling now by Professor Paul Kengor at Grove City College, well, that’s not that significant an issue.
Albert Mohler:
But if it turned out to have been significant to people at the time, that adds historical cogency and importance, and that’s one of the reasons why I appreciate you mentioning Mehring, because he very clearly identified the problem dealing with the primary source material, and as you say, was so alarmed by it he did everything he could to prevent the publication.
Paul Kengor:
Well, and kudos to a Marxist scholar at the Marx-Engels Institute named David Riazanov who discovered this material and preserved it, made sure that it was known. And non-kudos here to all the recent Marx biographers, hagiographers, who, Dr. Mohler, they ignore all of this stuff. They ignore all of it. All of it. And they certainly ignore the poetry, and if they do come across certain things that I included in the book, to be fair, some of these things are reported by Marx biographers, Francis Wheen and a few others, but they’ll downplay it. And they’ll almost give it a kind of wink, wink. They’ll think it’s playful or endearing. They use words like that. Or cute. It’s strange.
Paul Kengor:
It’s, “Oh, here he is, and his friend describes him as, ‘Eyes like a wet goblin.’ Look at this nice little horseplay between Marx and this individual.” Horseplay? Look at it. The guy is describing Marx as if he’s possessed here.
Albert Mohler:
So let’s talk about that.
Paul Kengor:
Yeah.
Albert Mohler:
Let’s actually bring our audience in on the core issue. And that is that your argument is that Karl Marx had an obsession with Satan, and clearly, even as he sought in every way possible to kill off God, and even organized religion, he had enormous sympathy for the Devil, and clearly, in some sense, believed in the Devil. Now, we’re going to talk about what that may have meant, but he clearly believed in the personification of evil.
Paul Kengor:
Yeah. And some of those poems, for example. And I will say this, it’s often hard to know if what he’s writing about, like any writer or any poet, he’s internalizing, he’s projecting. It’s what he believes, it’s what a character believes. But when you see the whole composite, this isn’t like Edgar Allen Poe writing a scary story. You can see in Marx case it’s very reflective of what he believes. And I open the book with a couple stanzas from a couple different poems, and the one from The Player, Marx says, “Thus Heaven I forfeited. I know it full well. My soul once true to God, is chosen for Hell.”
Paul Kengor:
And I think that one, Al, is pretty autobiographical. Because his soul was once true to God, and Heaven he did forfeit. Now, I don’t know if it was chosen for Hell, I think he made the choice that he made, he made the choice to reject God.
Paul Kengor:
And then there was a second one that I open up with, and he talks about it, he says, “See this sword, this blood-dark sword, which stabs unerringly within my soul? Where did I get this sword? The Prince of Darkness. The Prince of Darkness sold it to me. The hellish vapors rise and fill the brain until my heart goes mad, until I go utterly insane.” So really, some chilling poetry.
Paul Kengor:
And also too, these poems and his plays, they’re filled with destruction, death, suicide pacts, and of all things, you’re a historian. Can you name for me any individual that you could think of in all of history who had two daughters who killed themselves in suicide pacts with their husbands, of all things? And Marx writes about fair maidens, pale maidens, suicide pacts. Marx had two daughters who killed themselves in suicide pacts with their husbands, one of which Marx was quite cruel to, Paul Lafargue, because he was partly Cuban, and Marx was an out and out vile racist, and he referred to Paul as, “The gorilla,” and there are letters between him and Engels going back and forth.” albertmohler.com/2021/02/10/paul-kengor
Sister Joanne, I bring all of this up for a couple of reasons. First I did a bit of research and wrote a couple of essays about Marx who I have no doubt was a very evil man, potentially possessed! But the most worthwhile reason to mention all of this here is how stark and plain it is to see, how Satan is working ferociously throughout the planet now via Communism and its many advocates, also having entered many of the predominate Christian Church denominations! All of it to bring on so much diabolical conflict, toward the one ultimate goal of destruction; and “Feminism” fits precisely right into this plan, just as “Socialism and Feminism are a marriage made in hell!”
So I know there are millions of people on this planet that would scoff or even worse attack what I say vehemently, but, that is of no consequence to me, because I see God’s truth and God will judge, so I have no fear of what side of history I’m standing on in regard to this issue!
Now then, we can see at the very least how this topic and drastic change going on rampantly is a very slippery slope that isn’t only disruptive to humankind, but its surely a prescription for annihilation as any abomination and massive transgression against God Almighty has always been and will be in the future; here in this case on the order of Sodom and Gomorrah or up the road Armageddon!
I had previously stated: People like the brutal Chinese Commie leader Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot would have played right into the game plan for an entire Asian Continent to be ruled by brutal atheist Communism!
Criminal traitor terrorists are running rampant trying to destroy the order and decent society we’ve built over the centuries to be replaced by communism. If that happens then the real suffering will begin and those that enabled its creation will then find out how they are so expendable and not going to shout, riot or make any overtures ever again; if they don’t want to be slaughtered!
We now have American universities that rather than being institutions of high esteem and higher learning they have morphed into leftist guerilla indoctrination training camps where young minds are warped, poisoned and led astray to madness and destruction.
Dr. Kengor corresponded about his book and the demonic forces at work in the life and thought of Marx.
“Communism begins where atheism begins,” said Karl Marx. Of Christianity, Marx added: “The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility. The social principles of Christianity are hypocritical…. So much for the social principles of Christianity.”
The Roman Catholic Church condemned communism as a “satanic scourge” conceived by “the sons of darkness.” Of socialism, in 1931 Pope Pius XI issued his seminal Quadragesimo Anno, where he stated: “Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”
Paul Kengor: I deal with that very carefully, and why Marx’s hagiographers have studiously avoided it. I do not hazard to assess whether Marx was, say, possessed, though others have. “There were times when Marx seemed to be possessed by demons,” recorded Robert Payne in his seminal 1968 biography of Marx—probably the best and most insightful biography of Marx. Payne, a man of arts and literature, not a right-winger, and a respected academic not expected to level such a shocking charge lightly, asserted of Marx: “He had the devil’s view of the world, and the devil’s malignity. Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing works of evil.” Read my book and you’ll get an exhaustive walk through all of that ugliness. It isn’t pretty.
CWR: Why was the Roman Catholic Church so vehemently against communism, opposing this lethal ideology, even before the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848? How did communist ideology infiltrate into Roman Catholic seminaries?
Paul Kengor: This is a major part of the book, and perhaps one of the most halting sections of the book for churchgoing Christians. Part 4 is called “Infiltration and Manipulation.” It includes six chapters on the very deliberate and cynical infiltration of churches by communists in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union. Communists had striking success with the penetration of the mainline Protestant denominations, particularly the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, and what became Presbyterian Church USA.
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration Kindle Edition
by Paul Kengor //www.amazon.com/Paul-Kengor/e/B001IODG8A/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Paul Kengor having a robust podcast discussion here:
//youtu.be/ucU3rgjsbcI
For now I close with the following Scriptures and firstly what Thomas Aquinas stated so well!
“For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.” ― St. Thomas Aquinas
2 Corinthians 4:4 “in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
John 9:39-41 “And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”
John 8:24 “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
John 12:48 “He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.”
Revelation 21:8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Thank you for all of your research on this, brother-in-Christ Lawrence. Both the words “socialism” and “feminism” have become hot button words, for sure, and much wrong has been done in the name of both. It is not forgotten that the word “Nazi” is derived from the longer German phrase that means “National Socialism.” Germans embraced Hitler’s ideas early on because he really did come through with his promise to stabilize Germany’s economy, bring order and family values back into the mainstream culture, and restructure manufacturing and commerce to benefit the ordinary person, the “folk.” Hitler’s Volkswagen really was a car “wagen” for the people “volk.”
That was, at least in Marx’s theory, the whole point of socialism. It was an economic model that favored the ordinary person and removed the opportunity for some people to make money from other people’s labor and creativity. He got his ideas from the Bible—see, for example, Exodus 16:14-16 and Acts 2:44-45–but he removed God from the equation, and we can see today that his effort is impossible to achieve without the Lord. And, we know, it became yet another weapon in the hands of powerful and selfish men who had no regard for human life, let alone honor to God.
Feminism began as a movement seeking to bring social, economic, and political equality to women. When feminism began, women did not have the right to own their own property, get a university education, vote in political affairs, or have a career in most areas. The noble wife described in Proverbs 31 had more rights and opportunities than a woman in nineteenth century England or America. But again, unscrupulous people as well as those filled with a sense of outrage and injury have done and said many things in the name of feminism that has hurt rather than helped women, and men.
Today, the conversation continues. Are women equal in worth and ability as men? Do women deserve the same opportunities and rights as men? May women live, work, and lead in the same ways as men? I’ve been reading what commentators have been writing on this topic, and I have also been going back to the scriptures to study them myself. I am very thankful that in our world today I have the opportunity to get a university education, that I can write books and put my own name on them (in the nineteenth century, women often had to publish their serious books under a man’s name).
I have no truck with violence, with rage and hatefulness towards others. That is not the Lord’s way.
What I discovered in the Gospel of John about Jesus’s call to women happened quite by accident, and for the past three years I have been thinking hard about the implications. Of course, as with every scholar and theologian, I may not have it all right. So I am sharing what I’ve researched with others. Perhaps there is more to see that others can help me see.
Grace and peace to you, your sister in Christ, Joanne
Sister-in-Christ Jesus, Joanne!
I don’t care if Mary Poppins started a Socialistic movement many years ago; the reality is what it actually is today and has been for several decades while there is insurmountable evidence to prove it was totally flawed from its inception! There is ample evidence in the historical record that demonstrates how brutal all of those past Nazi, Socialist, or Communist regimes were, and how each Communist or so called “Socialist People’s Governments” were not at all, but instead were absolutely brutal and they all murdered millions of their own citizens! From Lenin and Marx to Stalin, Chairman Mao in China to Pol Pot in Cambodia, as the evil of Communism has over time carved a large swath through Eastern Europe and Asia and as well here in the Western Hemisphere since the early 1900’s. In China just because it’s called the “People’s Republic of China” doesn’t mean for a minute that the 2.3 Billion citizens there are living under “an umbrella of freedom” and “power to the people” run country; when in reality it is solely operated by “one of the most brutal and evil regimes in human history,” the CCP which even does organ harvesting by singling out the living victims for such an inhuman atrocity by pulling in anyone they choose even off the streets it’s been said or from selective organ harvesting data bases; and add to this horror the example of “genocide” that is continually being reported, were millions of persons have been exterminated for a number of State Edicts!
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“The declarations follow reports that, as well as interning Uyghurs in camps, China has been forcibly mass sterilising Uyghur women to suppress the population, separating children from their families, and attempting to break the cultural traditions of the group.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said China is committing “genocide and crimes against humanity.”
(And I add Blinken is one of the worst and weakest US Secretary of State appointees in modern history so we can assume things are much worse than he states!”
The UK parliament declared in April 2021 that China was committing a genocide in Xinjiang. bbc.com/news/world-asia-china
China uses incarcerated prisoners of conscience as an organ donor pool to provide compatible transplants for patients. These prisoners or “donors” are executed and their organs harvested against their will, and used in a prolific and profitable transplant industry.
As transplant nephrologists and medical professionals, we aim to spread awareness about organ trafficking, particularly forced organ harvesting, to colleagues, institutions, patients and the public. We are involved with organizations like Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting and International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, which have done considerable work in this area for over a decade.
China currently has the second-largest transplant program in the world. Transplant operations in China increased rapidly in the early 2000s without a corresponding rise in voluntary organ donors, which led to questions about the source of the organs.
During this period of rapid transplant growth, practitioners of the Buddhist Qi gong discipline known as Falun Gong, were being detained, persecuted and killed in large numbers by the Chinese government. Similarly, China in 2017 began a campaign of mass detention, surveillance, sterilization and forced labour against the Uyghur ethnic group of Xinjiang.
theconversation.com/killing-prisoners-for-transplants-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china-161999
Sister Joanne I apologize for being so harsh and indeed negative with all of these factors I bring out here; but I do at times see the horrific reality of what this human race is currently doing to the innocent, or just each other across the board! And so I can’t try to soften these horrible truths without feeling that I would be a part of the problem in this world for not speaking up or seeing the facts and truth for what it is, like some member of a herd mentality that just “goes along to get along!”
My reason for pointing this gruesome practice and violation out is to demonstrate the old adage of “Power Corrupts” and “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely!” Our America Forefathers were well aware of this fact of life and of the evil that dwells on this planet since recorded history with no need to see the future that we now live in to make the right decisions they did; and now with technology that evil is flourishing like never before, imagine how “freaked out” and how “sad” they would be to us in this mess now! I also state that we can easily demonstrate how Hitler with his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and madman Dr. Josef Megele, “Angel of Death,” he performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers, and was one of the doctors who administered the gas Wikipedia!”
All of these most despicable examples of the evil in some persons with power, were all “dancing to the beat of a different drum,” which had “nothing to do with Christian Principles and Beliefs” or any hint of Godliness and doing the Almighty’s will on earth to bring peace and tranquility; on the contrary all they did was serve the infernal beast Satan.
“The Nazis effectively used propaganda to win the support of millions of Germans in a democracy and, later in a dictatorship, to facilitate persecution, war, and ultimately genocide. The stereotypes and images found in Nazi propaganda were not new, but were already familiar to their intended audience.
• The Nazis were skilled propagandists who used sophisticated advertising techniques and the most current technology of the time to spread their messages.
• 2 Once in power, Adolf Hitler created a Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda to shape German public opinion and behavior.
• 3 Nazi propaganda played an integral role in advancing the persecution and ultimately the destruction of Europe’s Jews. It incited hatred and fostered a climate of indifference to their fate.
“task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.”
“Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Hitler established a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels. The Ministry’s aim was to ensure that the Nazi message was successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press.” encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda
We can demonstrate the parallels of that time period and this most hideous political mindset with what we see going on now in America with so many radical, insane and absolutely evil agendas being codified and presented as good like the mutilation of school age children for the WOKE, Transgender Agenda of the Left, and also while the Church of Jesus Christ is being infiltrated deeply simultaneously. None of the aforementioned or this very fact now mentioned here, are from any God view of Humanity based on “Divine Word of God” but are rather so far removed from that place of righteousness while only serving as, all work of the Devil; and that I say with certainty calling it out for what all of it is!
If my irritability is palpable and easily detected by anyone reading my commentary I would say to such a person you are fine-tuned and perceptive which is good; thank you. But the reason for my angst is the fact of how much has transpired in global and indeed America history over the last 100 years, but yet, we see the “off the wall movements or agendas” taking place feverishly with so many of our citizens, some of them even claiming to be Christians! All of it going on under our noses basically with little to no resistance or complete rejection of such ideas or policies being propagated in our colleges and public elementary school systems damaging countless young children’s hearts and minds, making them part of the bigger problems down the road to come! Do the masses really learn from history and do they want to prevent the horrors of the past from ever happening again; it sure doesn’t seem so to me with the way things are going!
As far as looking back a hundred years, yes it was good that women got the right to vote and share in many of the decision making processes of our new and growing Nation under God! Back then we were coming out of the predominately “Agricultural Age” and moving headlong into the “Industrial Revolution” which would “change the paradigm in more ways than one” and some of it for the better, but, also so much not! This “New Age” did afford opportunities for so many to live what would be considered by most a “better standard of living” and “having so much convenience or free time” or what’s called “leisure time!” But we know the old adage, “an idle mind is the devil’s playground” and that “too much of a good thing can become deadly!” I think where we are now is like the old adage of “letting the cat out of the bag” and that coupled with a “frenzied or harried society” where, yes women compete for most anything a man can seek to accomplish or acquire, but, ask yourself at what cost does this luxury come to the fore! In the past men had to be tough and leaders ready to jump into action, to save and protect in all manner of physical hardships or disasters and of course to go “fight the inevitable wars” while the women bore children as always and stayed home to care for the entire family’s needs and comforts, while doing many other positive things at the same time, teaching the children etc.; it was no picnic for wives and mothers just as it wasn’t for the bread winner protector husbands and fathers. Oh yes for better or worse we got “the whole enchilada” as they say with so many varying issues and problems since we as a civilization leaped out of that “old farming agricultural age” of keeping it all “pretty simple” to what we have now, which is way overly complicated and disruptive to the cultural norms that once carried mankind for millennia, now being turned on its head!
Of course this is no exercise to summon opinions in order to point fingers, because again as I see it, we are all guilty of something whether directly or indirectly or just for the simple fact that we belong to this society and agenda that now has its “own head of steam” propelling us deeper into what is evolving for better or worse like some massive marital conglomeration of factors and circumstances beyond the individuals control, certainly not the bliss we all would love, but surely it’s having cause and effect upon each and “every mother’s loving son and daughter!”
I guess we would do ourselves more good if more people would “get along” and try to be united to see the actual “Truth” and act upon it with the best principles we can summon straight from the Scriptures, the word of God! But the average citizen is caught up in a system controlled by the very powerful of the world; not the best people by any means or stretch of the imagination!
So in closing for now; I absolutely reject Socialism and what I really call it, knowing it to be Communism where people live for the State and are basically owned not by God but by the Party who are nothing but a bunch of wicked people in a cult to control everyone and thing around them, and not the other way around as it should be where the individuals are able to be self-actualizing and fully independent human beings with all the power to control the government apparatus collectively; whilst this is the preferred arrangement that God Himself ordained for His children while living here in the flesh seeking to do His will above all! We need a truly “God fearing people” today like never before, and that is unfortunately waning or lagging behind all of the many powerful cult agendas or even distractions, as they gaze into their smart phones! Not good!
God bless you and all who read here!
Brother-in-Christ Jesus,
Lawrence
Sister-in-Christ Jesus, Joanne. Thank you for this thought provoking and stirring presentation that ignited certainly some passion in me, but moreover, more faith in God’s plan!
Ephesians 6:11-13 “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.”
Sister I can empathically state with a clear conscience and heavy but also joyful heart, that this is where we as a humanity are right now, at the very precipice, that Lucifer with the many demons has driven the human race for millennia; pushing it ever more closely to the “Day of Final Judgment!” Bible prophecy is unfolding before our eyes; in America the stark evidence of what evil is at work is absolutely undeniable and evident throughout! Just a few decades ago public elementary school boards would discuss suggested film presentations as part of the curriculum, and whether one Disney film over another should be selected in order to make sure that the content would not be upsetting to the grammar school children; but fast forward to the present and all manner of vile and even diabolical presentations are permitted, mandated and being heavily promoted not only in the public forum, but, also in the “grammar schools” along with transsexual curriculum or at times even pornography to little children as normal fare for these little ones!
The war is raging before our eyes and in our truest hearts, we if containing our faculties, wits and basic common sense should see this happening without any difficulty, as the changes are rampant and blatantly in the face, wickedness sometimes cloaked in mesmerizing subtle trickery!
We see the aforementioned in elementary schools and throughout modern culture now and it wasn’t but several decades ago that “a moment of prayer to God Almighty” was removed from public schools while simultaneously “abortion rights were given to Americans!” That is an absolute culture shock and it was “absolutely intended” or “demonically inspired as part of the Evil One’s planned assault upon America the nation under God!” Was all of this effort being made in some 3rd World Nation or severely lacking place with squalor and destitution? No it was specifically “directed full bore at America” that was shining as “a beacon of hope and justice in the world” in order to “set the world on fire” if you will and begin “to bring humanity to its knees to worship lies, false gods and Satan himself!” America “rejected God” and began to devolve to the point where we are now, with “the majority of citizens in a tizzy and running hog-wild like so many pagan idolaters worshiping one thing or another and even themselves” as the “Principalities and Powers” rise up and attack the world through many vectors; even many pop culture icons say like an Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Sam Smith or Madonna have been doing flat out in ya face!
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When this Nation founded by “God fearing” men of integrity moved forward to the present time when the heirs of this great nation, that’s us, “began rejecting God and our only Savior Jesus Christ” by the millions the portal was opened to bring in demons and all manner of evil in place of school prayer and societal moral integrity, in a Nation where at one time it was clearly understood and was seen how sodomy as the Scriptures clearly state, is an egregious mortal sin before God. This at one punishable by death in ancient times according to some societies; but most important as an abomination before God it would certainly be entitled to the second death, which God can mete out upon a soul’s final judgment, complete separation from God eternally! This was even actually recognized as a criminal offense here in America just several decades ago in many locales, but, now sodomy is held up as just some good thing between a man and another man, some form of love and pleasure, to be honored as well promoted, as it is in many public schools now; along with being elevated on “a pedestal of worship” in the entertainment industry; that its absolutely and obviously become an indicator of the diabolical presence in the people now! Hollywood has become the evil abomination that God allowed me through a Godsend to realize before it was too late for me decades ago, just before I leaped into it “head-over-heals,” most probably to be lost forever if “His grace” wasn’t upon me!
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
“Theologians have sought for centuries to determine what the essence of sin is. Some have chosen sensuality, others selfishness, and still others pride or unbelief. In the Old Testament, God applied different penalties to different sins, suggesting variations in the seriousness of some sins. A thief paid restitution; an occult practitioner was cut off from Israel; one who committed adultery or a homosexual act or cursed his parents was put to death (see Exodus, chapter 22 and Leviticus, chapter 20).”
“However, remember that whether our sins are relatively small or great, they will place us in hell apart from God’s grace. The good news is that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins and the sins of the whole world at the Cross. If we will repent and turn to Jesus in faith, our sins will be forgiven, and we will receive the gift of eternal life.”
billygraham.org/story/billy-grahams-answer-what-is-sin-are-all-sins-equal-in-gods-eyes/
Let’s take note of some history here for deeper reflection on the “Principalities and Powers” at work back when “Pagan Idolatry” was ruling most of the known Ancient World!
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“Ishtar’s role as a liminal deity gave her unique authority over the cultural roles and boundaries of Mesopotamian societies as well. Corresponding to Ishtar’s own ability to transcend categories, the goddess of love enabled her followers to defy or even redefine social boundaries, particularly those related to gender roles. Men who became priests of Ishtar, known as gala, would sometimes assume non-binary gender roles, dress in women’s clothing, and were allowed to engage in homosexuality.”
http://www.thecollector.com/ishtar-goddess-of-love-mesopotamia/
I’m certain in my own mind and heart deep into my soul that the floodgate has been opened wide with all manner of evil spirits and demons possessing America and many of its inhabitants now! This is “a War beyond all Wars” ever witnessed by this generation and all previous ones combined, as the “levels of demonic influence coupled with High Technology” absolutely places mankind at “the literal precipice of Annihilation” and more aptly put “God Almighty’s wrath!”
So with all of the “role switching” and “gender twisting” going on throughout our society and culture right now, if a person doesn’t see this horror unfolding and has no idea what it means I do pity them, but, if they see and know, yet still do not care to challenge this evil then they get their just reward when God judges them to the “Second Death!”
Luke 12:4-6 “I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him! 6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.”
And we should know by now this is what it’s all coming to without any doubt; we have been forwarded and are given amble opportunity to repent while seeking the only One who can save us giving eternal salvation and peace with total joy, Jesus Christ! Amen.
Revelation 21:7-9 “The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. 8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.” 9Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Psalm 111:9-10 “He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name. 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!”
Ecclesiastes 12:12-14 “And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body. 13When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man. 14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.”
Amen.
With love and prayers,
Brother-in-Christ Jesus, Lawrence.
Pray, pray, pray to Jesus Christ. The choice is; we each choose for ourselves heaven or hell.