I find it EXTREMELY interesting that “BLM” is no longer the nightly focus of the mainstream media! I specifically remember that the same mainstream media reporting Black males being shot and killed by police at least 2-3 times (or more) per week from 2016-2020ish! And, I also remember that BLM assumed the role of leading protests nearly every night against the police!! However, if BLM was right about their version of police brutality against innocent Black men*, where are all the media reports today confirming the ongoing continuation of the police execution of young Black men!??!
  On the contrary, did the cycle of targeting Black men by police END from 2020-2024, during Joe Biden’s presidency? Were the BLM riots so successful that Black men are presently no longer being “targeted” by racist White cops? If so, why the silence?
  As a matter of fact, why the silence either way? I would think that if:
1.the trend of Black men targeted by police continues to this day…
                               or,
2.the trend of Black men targeted by police is discontinued to this
day…
...that either trend is worthy of nationwide reporting!!  
  Furthermore, I would also think that ‘IF’ the trend that Black men are no longer being murdered by White cops is true--especially from 2020-2024, during Biden’s tenure, that his administration would have made this a major political celebration of their ability to govern successfully.
  In addition, if it were true that Blacks are no longer murdered by cops, and the media gave the credit to Joe Biden, would he not have been reelected in a landslide?!?! On the contrary, what we have is a TOTAL blackout; i.e. COMPLETE silence…by the mainstream media! But Why?
  The answer is simple! The accusation that racist White police officers targeted innocent Black men** from 2016-2020; or 2020-2024; or 2024-2026***…was NEVER TRUE! The mainstream media, along with BLM; AND Academia, AND Entertainment(both Hollywood & Music)…all lied!
  When the NBA, and the NFL players wore ‘Black Lives Matter’ t-shirts, in response to BLM’s claim that White police officers are executing innocent Black men, they sold a lie to the American people! When Collin Kaepernick influenced young Black children to kneel at their football games in protest of the National anthem and American flag; AND when LeBron James arrogantly made his political commentary on Black men being killed by White police officers, they all LIED! And finally, when Mayor Muriel Bowser had the streets of Washington, D.C. painted with ‘Black Lives Matter’ in huge letters--she sold a lie to Americans!! Tragically, we are living in the ‘Day of the Lie!’
  Moreover, if you ever supported BLM and became absolutely convinced that racist White police officers targeted innocent Black men, sadly, your support originated from 4 areas:
1.The mainstream media
2.You didn’t do research yourself
3.Black victimology
4.You wanted to believe ‘THE’ lie
  The Bible says, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (2Thes2:11)
   So, let’s do the research now! If you’re interested in the most recent police fatal shootings, there are several places to find them. I choose the liberal Washington Post4*!
  First, the WP’s latest police shootings statistics4* reveal that police fatally shot MORE people than the times when BLM was protesting. So…the question is, if this amazing statistic is true, and it is---why has not the WP (liberal media) shown those ‘MORE’ videos of ‘MORE’ Blacks being killed by the police? Why the Blackout?
  Second, the WP shows that a “MUCH” higher ‘percentage of Blacks’ are shot…than Whites. OH NO! Does this mean everything BLM shouted about the racist White police is correct? Does this mean everything I have said so far is wrong? Absolutely not! You must remember the WP is liberal, and liberals interpret through their worldview! In other words, in this context, the liberal worldview seeks to protect their contention: “Innocent Blacks are shot and killed by racist White cops!!!”
  So…how did the WP arrive at: “the percentage of Blacks” shot and killed by police is greater than that of Whites? And, how do they ‘interpret’ their report? They take the number of Blacks shot and divide it by the population of Blacks in America, and then conclude that  “Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than White Americans.” So...if their math is accurate, and it is, why do I have a problem, you ask?    
  First, and I repeat, the WP (and liberalism) needs to protect their lie propagated for over 10 years: ‘racist White cops are killing innocent Black men’. Second, because they listed every person fatally shot by police, they had to list the reasons that those people were shot---which is where their bias is unveiled!! For example, the vast majority of reasons White, Black, Hispanics are shot by police is because they were a threat to the officer who shot them. In other words, those who were shot were--more often than not…violent!!! Just go to the WP website and check it for yourself!
  Third, because the WP is forced to list the numbers of people shot BY RACE, their bias is uncovered for all to see! For example, from 2015 to 2024, the WP4*showed that “10,429 people were shot and killed by police; 4659 Whites; 2486 Blacks; 1717 Hispanics; and 380 others.” These numbers indicate that police kill more Whites than Blacks, which has been a consistent statistic throughout decades!!! I repeat, the cold, harsh numbers have always revealed that more Whites are killed by police than Blacks. As a matter of fact, in many years, Whites killed by police double the number of Blacks killed by police!! Therefore, to cover this irreconcilable statistic with their conclusion, they had to switch to and use the “percentage of Blacks” killed by police rather than the numbers!
  Fourth, please answer the following question…HONESTLY!! How can racist White police officers ‘target’5* Blacks to kill them--because they are Black--while simultaneously killing more Whites? Because this cannot be rationally justified, nor ignored, the WP had to switch from the numbers to percentages!
  For example, when Blacks were targeted for lynching by White Democrats--because they were Black---did they mistake White people for Blacks and end up lynching MORE Whites than Blacks? NO! Why? Because the Blacks were their targets!!! Or, when Blacks were forbidden to vote—because they were Black—did the White Democrats mistake Whites for Blacks and end up forbidding MORE Whites than Blacks from voting? Once again, NO! Why? Because the Blacks were the targets! Therefore, if Blacks were targeted by police for murder, they would have killed more Blacks…not more Whites!
 Fifth, BLM, both liberal Whites and Blacks, all believe that “police brutality” is high on the list proving White racism, i.e.White supremacy6*. In other words, using White Privilege; Whiteness; Critical Race Theory(CRT); Intersectionality; Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome(PTSS); 1619 Project; How to be an Anti-racist, etc., they argue that not only are White policemen racist, but in the broadest definition of the word ‘racist’---White people are racist!! I repeat, liberals believe White people are racist because they are White7*!!! Therefore, they can conclude that White police officers murder innocent Black men---because they are White—despite the numbers!
  Moreover, another unresolvable problem with the interpretation of the Washington Post is revealed in their statistic: the number of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics killed “per million of their population”. For example, Whites are killed at ‘2.3 per million of their population’; Blacks are killed at ‘6 per million of their population’; Hispanics are killed at ‘2.5 per million of their population.’ Therefore, the WP believes it can interpret these three facts as follows:  ‘6 per million of their population’ for Blacks is greater than the Whites' 2.3 per million of Whites, therefore, “Racist Whites cops murder innocent Blacks”!
  On the contrary,  these 3 facts create another unresolvable problem. In order for liberals to interpret these 3 facts to support their argument against police, they have to conclude:
-Whites are racists based on the statistic: .0000023 (2.3/1,000000)
-Blacks are ‘not racist’ based on the statistic: .000006 (6/1,000,000)
-Hispanics are ‘not racist’ based on the statistic: .0000025 (2.5/1,000,000) (although the
  Hispanic number is greater than Whites)
My final question is: how is it possible that an entire group of people, i.e.race, can be condemned as either racist or non-racist—based on such SMALL statistics of their populations? The only answer is BIAS!
 
   In conclusion, BLM was/is a hoax!
 
Wait for part 2!
 
*The BLM website emphasizes this point, calling for: “an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people and all oppressed people”.
**This applies to times prior to the following time periods too.
***Presidential 4-year terms of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump. In other words, BLM and liberal Democrats used this as evidence to present Donald Trump as a racist!!
4*https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
5*Image in your mind a target with a bullseye at the center. Can a person point a gun at the bullseye on the target, pull the trigger, and the bullet end up hitting another target 90 degrees to the left of the originally shooter? Not unless bullets can change directions in mid-flight!!!
6* America is a racist nation
7* Which is ‘THE’ definition of racism.
 
 
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"Right is of no sex; Truth is of no color;  God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."   -Fredrick Douglass

​  One image is of Evyatar David, a 2023 Hamas hostage, digging his own grave in captivity, and the other is the Holocaust. Notice the striking resemblance? The Holocaust motto is “Never Forget” and “Never Again”. Journalist Greg Bouwer wrote, “And so “Never again” must not mean “Never again to Jews alone.” It must mean “Never again to anyone, anywhere” — and it must compel action, not just sentiment.”* Therefore, Christians must join the Jews to ‘Remember’ the Holocaust…which is arguably the most horrific event of the 20th century!
  As a young person, I can remember studying the Holocaust in school and wondering how this could ever happen anywhere, to anyone, at any time!! It literally sparked an itch that ‘tragically’ I did not begin to scratch until 15 years ago. After which, I began reading one book after another, beginning with William Shirer’s seminal work “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”.
  After the horror of October 7, 2023, I was inspired to make a renewed commitment to remember Yom HaShoah going forward. That infamous day was so horrible that it reminded me of the Holocaust! AND…what’s just as bad, if not worse, because I have studied historical anti-semitism, all the anti-semitism that has arisen after October 7, created in me a fear of another Holocaust…in this day!!!!
  I wholeheartedly agree with the Yom HaShoah motto of “Never Forget” and “Never again”, so allow me to give you 3 real-time examples of contemporary Jew-hatred that, at least for me, put the potential of another Jewish slaughter fast approaching in our rear-view mirror!
1.For my first real-time example, I offer one of the more popular slogan’s of today’s anti-Jewish, anti-Israel protests: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine must be free.” To adequately address the deception in this statement requires an honest answer to two questions: I.Is this true? II.Where does it lead, or what is its’ end?
I.Is this statement true? The vast majority of the people who protest using this phrase can neither name the ‘sea’ nor the ‘river’ to which they refer!!! How then can they know if there is any truth to their slogan? Tragically, ‘truth’ is NOT a value of either historical or contemporary anti-semitism/Jew-hatred!
  Furthermore, those who use this slogan have WILLFULLY chosen to be ignorant of the fact that there has never been a land, nor a nation called Palestine!! Why then do these people protest?!?! First, antisemitism is hatred, and hatred is irrational! Second, liberalism’s ‘Unholy Trinity’: a.the liberal academia, b.the liberal media, and c.the liberal government…have conspired to blatantly ‘LIE’ about ‘all things’ Israel!!!
  And…how do they lie? ‘Wokeism’ has filled America with the myth that all our problems are caused by: ‘The Oppressor’; ‘The Majority’; ‘The Wealthy’; or ‘White people’**. THEN…the antisemites simply ‘fit’ Jews/Israel into these categories! For example, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they simply declare Jews/Israel: ‘i.The Oppressors Of The Poor, Defenseless Palestinians’; ii.of being ‘The Majority in Israel’; iii.of ‘The Wealthy Who Control The Economies Of The World’; and of course, iv.The Jews Are ‘White People’! Therefore, …those terrible parasites (Jews/Israel)...must be blamed!
II. Where does this slogan lead, or what is its end? For this slogan to be fulfilled, the Jewish people must be removed from the “stolen” land of “Palestine”! But the million-dollar question is.… Where should the 7 million Jews go, once “Palestine” has been freed? Are we to assume that the same nations that use this slogan will welcome the Jews into their countries?!?!  The answer to this question is in the slogan: 'Push Israel into the Sea!’ Obviously, is a call for genocide. Therefore, the Jews/Israel must die! Ironically, this is also called ‘Projection’! I repeat, the very people who accuse Israel of genocide are themselves guilty of propagating genocide against Israel! In other words, this slogan calls for a second Holocaust! AND therefore, THE reason we must remember Yom HaShoah!!!
2.My second real-time example is Candace Owens. Candace has been an outspoken critic*** of Israel for several years. Although she rejects the label of an antisemite, out of the abundance of her heart, she speaks (Mat12:34). For example, just last week, after Israel responded to a Hezbollah bombing/attack by bombing Lebanon, Owens tweeted: “there will never be peace in the world while Israel exists.”****
  Although claiming to be a Christian, her statement reveals she neither reads, understands, nor believes the Bible! Here is one example,
11.And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12.And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
                                                             -Is11:11-12
  As one of the great prophecies of Scriptures, Isaiah 11:11,12 declares that God will return Israel to ‘their’ land a SECOND time. Historically, we know God brought Israel back into their land from Egypt under Moses…was the first time. Yet, we can discern the ‘second’ return because in this prophecy, Isaiah lists the “NATIONS”--plural, AND…the “ISLANDS OF THE SEA”—plural…from which Israel will return. In other words, there is only ‘one’ time in history that Israel returned to their land from the ‘nations’ and ‘islands of the sea’! When was that?  1948!!!
  Moreover, Owens declares in order to obtain world peace, we must rid ourselves of Israel’s existence!! Once again, and to the contrary, the Bible declares the opposite:
36.If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
37.Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.   -Jer 31:36-37
  In other words, the WORD OF GOD declares the ‘ONLY’ way for Israel to cease being a ‘NATION’ is for the “ordinances”***** of the heavens, i.e.the earth, moon, stars, etc., to leave their God-ordained movements!!! Therefore, Owen’s words “…while Israel exists!” cannot mean anything other than a call for the annihilation of the “NATION” of Israel!! In other words, Owens is calling for a second Holocaust!
  3.My third real-time example is yet another infamous contemporary name for Jews/Israel: “Jew-as-Nazi”******. Although anything is possible for antisemites, it’s going to be very difficult to surpass the ‘Projection’ in this pejorative!!
  Regarding this new name, Journalist Deborah Gastfreund Schuss declares: “a perverse misappropriation of the Holocaust, which is being weaponized to slanderously portray Jews as modern-era Nazis. Known as Holocaust inversion, the narrative has already seeped into US schools’ Holocaust curricula and other lessons even before the Hamas-led massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023.”
  By using the name “Jew-as-Nazi” on Jews, as the world joined together to put a stop to the Nazis, so once again, the world must join together to put a stop to Israel! This is yet another call for a second Holocaust!
  In conclusion, Christians must join the Jewish people to actively remember Yom HaShoah, and aggressively act, and raise our voices at any attempt to repeat it!!
 
 
 
*https://israelinstitute.nz/2025/04/yom-hashoah-and-the-meaning-of-never-again-in-a-world-that-forgets/
**This is a mixture of liberal racism and Marxism. And it is
*** In September 2024, Dennis Prager laid out answers to Candance Owens accusations against Israel. Although she promised, to this day, she has not responded.
**** https://whereisthebuzz.com/candace-owens-faces-genocide-accusations-after-israel-tweet/
https://x.com/realcandaceo/status/2041948361570283553?s=46
*****The Hebrew word for “ordinances is chôq, khoke; from 2710; an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage):—appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree (-d), due, law, measure, × necessary, ordinance (-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.                                   -Strong’s
See Tidbit April 9, 2026. https://www.derrickjackson.com/tidbit/the-re-gathering-of-israel
****** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/yom-hashoah-calls-upon-us-all-to-fight-the-jew-as-nazi-lie/ar-AA20LqEp
 
 
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If you can get a kid to stop dreaming, you can get him to conform to the authoritarian system without even knowing it.                                                     -John Lovell

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
                                         -Genesis 1:14
 
The Hebrew word for “signs” is ʾôwth. It means: a signal (lit.) or (fig.), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:—mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token. -Strong’s
  The definition of ‘owth’ teaches that the ‘signs’ of Genesis 1:14 possess a miraculous element*. In practice, God adds the natural principles of ‘timing’ and ‘interdependence’ to further highlight and thus demonstrate the miraculous element of  His ‘signs’ to us! On the other hand, however, and tragically, the ‘unbeliever’ often ‘chooses’ to attribute God’s miraculous ‘signs’ to chance or luck. 
  In addition, the first time the word signs”** is inspired in the Bible is the context of Genesis 1:14, which also includes three natural events: ‘seasons’, ‘days’, and ‘years’. Because God includes ‘signs’ in the context of these three events, He teaches us that His signs are also designed to be both natural and common. In other words, as ‘seasons’ are common, occurring several times each year, and ‘days’ and ‘years’ are even more common than ‘seasons’, so too Genesis 1:14 teaches that ‘signs’ were God designed to occur naturally and common.
  What’s more, Psalms 19:1-3 teaches that the creation is designed to SHOUT the glory of God. So, Genesis 1:14 and Psalms 19:1-4 were both inspired to teach us that signs are miraculous, natural, common, interdependent, timely…and they SHOUT the glory of God!
  So, God gives ‘signs’ to literally make Himself so obvious that humans are without excuse (Rom1:20)!!
  Likewise, the nation of Israel is also a sign! Why? In 1948, Israel was born in one day(Is66:8). In other words, from 586BC to 1948 is the period of time in Luke 21:24 called the Times of the Gentiles---which is the time many Gentile nations ruled over Israel! Incredibly, if you're counting, that period was 2,534 years!!!
  And what’s more, from 70AD, when the temple was destroyed, until 135AD, when Bar Kochba, the false Messiah, was defeated by the Romans…all the way until 1948, Israel did not even exist among the nations of the world! Incredibly, the time from 135AD to 1948 is 1,813 years!! I repeat—during those 1,813 years, the name of Israel did not exist among the nations!!
 Therefore, what is an incredible miracle in world history, in God’s Sovereignty and Providence, He reached down from heaven, and after thousands of years, re-birthed the nation of Israel. There is no other nation in the world, and in the history of the world, that can make this boast—Israel is unique! God made Israel a sign to history, and to the contemporary world in which we now live---that His calling on the nation of Israel is irrefutable! I repeat, the very existence of contemporary Israel…is a sign from God to the world!
  Now let’s verify Israel’s unique re-gathering from Scripture:
Isaiah 11:11-12: “Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12. And He will lift a standard for the nations, and assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
  Notice that God will “again recover the second time”. The first time happened when God brought Israel back from Egypt under Moses. However, in Isaiah 11:11-12, Israel’s remnant will return from many nations; therefore, this cannot refer to God bringing His people back to Israel from Persia under Cyrus, after 70 years in Babylon in 516BC, because that return was from only one nation. Incredibly, Isaiah 11:11-12 refers to Israel’s return in 1948!
  Incredibly, Isaiah accurately prophesied the 1948 regathering in 700 BC, a full 2,700 years before it came to pass! Glory to God!!!
  What about Isaiah 43:5-7?
5.“Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.
6.“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth,
7.Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”
  Or, What about Deuteronomy 30:1-10? Verses 3-4 get right to the point:
3. THEN the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
4.“If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back.
  Or, What about Ezekiel 11:17-20?
17.“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’
18.“When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.
19.“And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
20.that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.”
 
  Notice in this passage that God will:
1.“assemble you out of the countries.”
2.“among which you have been scattered”.
3.“I will give them the land of Israel.”
4.“I will give them one heart and a new spirit.”
5.“Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.”
 
  There are many more! But this passage from Ezekiel 11:17-20 also states that Israel will be given a new heart…'AFTER' coming into the land. In other words, the Jews return to the land of Israel---as unbelievers!!
 
  God’s prophecy is amazing!
  God’s love for Israel is amazing!
 
The return of Israel to the land in 1948 is the GREATEST miracle of our time!
 
 
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The desire for sameness is based upon a pseudo-idea of how achievement works.
-Derrick Jackson   

   The Bible declares in Luke 21:24, “…Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” The “Times of the Gentiles” refers to the ‘time’ when Israel does  'NOT’ govern their land. So, what period of time is the “Times of the Gentiles”? Beginning in 586BC, when the Babylonians took Judah into captivity (Dan 2:24-45), until 70AD, when the temple was destroyed; continuing on through 135AD, when the Romans defeated the false Messiah, Bar Kochba, and what’s known as ‘The Diaspora’ began, all the way up through 1948 is what’s Biblically known as the “Times of the Gentiles”. In other words, from 586BC through 1948, a period of 2534 years, many different Gentile nations ruled over the nation of Israel!
  Furthermore, in 135AD, when the Romans drove the Jews out of Israel, they changed the name of the land to Philistia to erase any connection of the Jewish people to their land. Therefore, in the natural realm, from 135AD through 1948, the nation of Israel did not exist! I repeat….in the natural realm, no nation of Israel existed between 135AD and 1948!!!!
  On the contrary, however, from God’s perspective, or Biblically, Israel did not cease to exist! And Why? Because God’s covenant of salvation with Israel is “everlasting”! In Tidbit 2 of this series, I used the term “Double Whammy” to describe how in just one verse, Isaiah 45:17 defines Israel’s salvation as: 1.“everlasting salvation” AND,  2.“forever, everlasting, forever!” In other words, from God’s point of view, Israel has a beginning…but Isaiah 45:17 dramatically emphasizes that Israel’s salvation…has no end!!! Therefore, God sovereignly declares Israel has NEVER ceased to exist!
   Moving forward, we discover yet two more confirmations of God’s “everlasting covenant” (“forever, everlasting, forever”-Is45:17) of salvation with Israel! In Romans 10:1, Paul writes, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved”*.
  And again, Paul reveals even more details of the word “saved” in Romans 10:1, by adding the word “ALL” in Romans 11:26-29:
“26.And so all Israel shall be saved:** as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27.For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.***
28.As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29.For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
 
   So, in Romans 10:1 and Romans 11:26-29, Paul refers to a “future” time of Israel’s salvation! Therefore, …if Israel does not exist:
1.How can Paul pray for Israel’s salvation…AND
2.How can Paul declare “ALL Israel shall be saved…AND
3.How can Paul…in the ‘future’ context of Romans 10:1 and Romans 11:26-29 declare “the gifts and calling of God is without repentance.”
 
So, if Paul refers to the ‘forever salvation’ of “all Israel” i.e.Jews, in a future time, when is that future time when “all Israel”…shall be saved?!?!
   To even attempt to answer this question in the context of “Is Israel, Israel?”, we must first assume that at some point the ‘Israel’ i.e.Jews, of Paul’s day is a different ‘Israel’, i.e.Jews of this day.
  So, because Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans before 70AD, which is the future to Paul, did Israel, i.e.the Jews, somehow change their genetic heritage before, during, or after 70AD? What about 135AD? What about anytime before 1948? In other words, what is the evidence that  Israel, i.e.the Jews of 1948, are not descendants of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob? And more importantly, how did this change, i.e.switch…take place?
   If contemporary Israel is not historical Israel, to what ‘Israel’ is Paul directing his revelation in Romans 10:1 and Romans 11:26-29? Remember, in the natural, there was no Israel from 135AD until 1948! So, is another ISRAEL going to rise to receive Isaiah’s and Paul’s “everlasting salvation”? If so, how will we know when, where, or who that Israel is?!?!?!
   Should we ask Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, or Nick Fuentes to identify this ‘other’ Israel…for us?
 
   For the fourth time….“Is Israel, Israel?” And, for the fourth time, the answer is contemporary Israel is ‘ABSOLUTELY’ the Biblical/historical Israel!!!
 
*Paul borrows the “saved” of Romans 10:1 from Isaiah 45:17, where I repeat, it is called: “everlasting salvation”!
**Along with Romans 10:1, Paul again borrows the salvation of Romans 11:26-27: “And so all Israel shall be saved”, from Isaiah 45:17, which again means “all Israel”…not some Israel, possesses an “everlasting salvation” or “forever, everlasting, forever” (ad owlam ad).
***Remember, God promises to sovereignly remove their sin, through their repentance (Zech12:10; Matt23:39).
***Whose sin is God taking away? The context of Romans 11 refers to Israel, i.e.the Jews.
 
 
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Action’ is the common denominator for all motivation   -Derrick Jackson

  In part 1, I offered natural reasons why contemporary Israel is historical Israel. In part 2, I gave my first Biblical reason. In this tidbit, I want to reveal other Biblical reasons why contemporary Israel is Biblical/historical Israel.
   Biblically, God continually judged Israel for their sin! Why? Because God is perfectly righteous (Deut32:4), He must judge sin (Gen18:25; Ps89:14)! For example, God brought the pagan nation of the Assyrians against the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722BC--for their sin; and subsequently brought the pagan nation of Babylon against the Southern Kingdom of Judah in 586BC--for their sin! I repeat,  Israel is judged repeatedly for their sin!!!!
  However, because God is no respecter of persons, He also judges the Gentile nations for their sin. For example, why do the following nations no longer exist: the Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Amalekites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites?!?! Because God is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His works(Ps 145:17), He brought judgment against these nations for their sin! Tragically, because the sin of these Gentile nations was so great, God’s judgment was all-consuming, i.e. His judgment FOREVER destroyed these Gentile nations from the face of the earth!
  However, God makes a difference between the nation of Israel and nations of the world in Jeremiah 46:28: “Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.”
  In other words, although God judges all nations, including Israel, for their sin, Jeremiah 46:28 reveals a distinction between Israel and the Gentile nations!!! But why? Even though God is perfectly just(Deut32:4), God has a unique call on Israel, which separates Israel from the nations of the world.
    For example,
“18.The Lord has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;
19.and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the Lord your God, as He has spoken.”                                     -Deut26:18-19(NAS)
 
“23.And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods?
24.For You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, O Lord, have become their God.
25.Now therefore, O Lord God, the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house, confirm it forever, and do as You have spoken”   
-2Sam7:23-25(NAS)
 
   In other words,
1.God judges both the Gentile nations and Israel for their sin. Romans 2:9 declares: “Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile”. The word “First” in Romans 2:9 reveals the Divine order of judgment. In other words, Israel will be judged for their sin before or prior to the Gentile nations because God made His covenant first with Israel. So, God has higher expectations for Israel than the other pagan nations.
2.He gives both Jew and Gentile space to repent(Rev2:21; Gen15:16)
3.If Israel does not repent, God must judge Israel first, which means although He may judge Israel using different measures or intensities of judgment (2Chron12:7), BUT…He will NEVER totally destroy Israel from the face of the earth.
4.If the Gentile nations do not repent, God can choose to give those violating nations a measure of mercy, BUT…He can also choose to forever destroy them from the face of the earth (Gen15:16; Ex17:16).
   Therefore, Israel is the only nation in the world, AND in the history of the world, that God will not completely wipe from the face of the earth for their sin! Why? I repeat, because God’s unique call on Israel….is forever! For example, the word for “forever” in 2Samuel 7:24 and 25 is the Hebrew word ‘owlam’! When ‘owlam’ is applied to God, it means eternal; or, God has no beginning and no end. However, when owlam is applied to God’s creation, it means that creation has a beginning, but no end.
   Because Israel is a creation of God(Is43:15), when owlam is applied to Israel, it means the nation of Israel has a beginning, but has no end. In 2Samuel 7:24, God applies owlam to Israel…therefore Israel has a beginning, but cannot have an end!
   Again, all this does NOT mean God will not judge Israel according to their sin! I repeat, all throughout the Old Testament, Israel was judged for their sin--repeatedly!!! However, because God has a unique covenant with Israel, and that covenant is forever (owlam), unlike what God did with other nations who sinned against Him, He cannot judge Israel into total oblivion!! Therefore, Israel cannot cease to exist…because their existence is rooted in the ‘forever’ covenant of God with Israel!
   So, when Israel became a nation again in 1948, that was God’s ‘forever’ covenant working on them. In other words, although Israel had not been in existence before 1948--in the natural realm--because of God's 'forever' covenant, the nation of Israel could not remain in that non-existent state, but had to literally manifest, i.e.come back into existence, or back into the natural realm---and I repeat, because of God's "forever covenant"!
      And what's more, now that Israel is back in existence, that same 'forever' covenant will prevent them from ever going out of existence...again(Jer31:36-37)! 
 
   So, “Is Israel, Israel”?  ABSOLUTELY!!! God’s covenant with Israel is FOREVER!!!
 
*Is 43:15- “I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King”. The Hebrew word for “creator” is “bara”, and is the same Hebrew word used by God to create both the heavens and earth, as well as man in Genesis 1!!!
 
 
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Motivation comes through vision, thoughts, and words, but only your resulting actions can turn that motivation in reality.                                                  -Derrick Jackson

   In my last tidbit, I offered several ‘natural’ reasons to affirm that contemporary Israel is indeed the Biblical(historical) Israel. In this tidbit, I want to break open the Word of God to offer my ‘spiritual’ reasons that contemporary Israel is synonymous with Biblical/historical Israel.
   The King James version of Isaiah 45:17:
“But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.” 
  The New American Standard version says:
“Israel has been saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated to all eternity.”

   The context of Isaiah 45 begins with God introducing Himself to Cyrus, the pagan King of Persia! God points Cyrus to His works of creation as evidence for His sovereignty and power over all things, and in this particular case, God refers to using King Cyrus to free His people, Israel, from their 70-year exile in Babylon.
  Next, notice that everything that occurs up to verse 17 depends on God alone…not on the actions of Israel!! I repeat, Isaiah 45:17 declares the action of this context is God working sovereignly in behalf of Israel…apart from their involvement!
   Now that the foundation is set, let’s interpret Isaiah 45:17. My first keyword in this verse is “saved” (yasha), which means wide or free, to be safe; deliver, help, preserve, rescue (Strong’s). My second keyword is “salvation” (teshûʿâh) and means national deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory (Strong’s). In addition, yasha is a root of the second word teshûʿâh. These definitions are critical because, they show what ‘GOD ALONE’ is going to do for Israel!
  Let’s continue. The word “everlasting” in Isaiah 45:17 is the word ‘owlam’ and means eternity or everlasting; continuance, perpetual (Strong’s). In other words, when ‘owlam’ is applied to God, as in Psalms 90:2- “…even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God”; ‘owlam’ means eternal—or, that which has no beginning and no end. ‘Eternality’ is an attribute of God and means He has no beginning and no end. So, God was not created, but always has, and always will…exist as God!
   On the other hand, when ‘owlam’ is applied to man, or a specific aspect of God’s creation, it means ‘everlasting’ or ‘forever’, or has a beginning, but no end.
  Let’s now move forward to the latter part of the verse: “world without end”! The Hebrew words are: “ad owlam ad”!  First, notice the word “owlam” appears a second time in this verse! Second, the definition of ‘ad’ means duration, perpetuity, eternity (Strong’s), which means that although ‘ad’ and ‘owlam’ are different Hebrew words, they are synonyms, possessing ‘eternity’ in their definitions!
   For emphasis, allow me to repeat myself. God inspired into the latter half of Isaiah 45:17 the Hebrew word ‘ad’ before and after the word ‘owlam’: ‘ad owlam ad’…even though both words have ‘eternity’ in their definitions! Literally, ‘ad owlam ad’ could be interpreted as ‘eternity, eternity, eternity’!
   So, the first ‘owlam’ in verse 17: owlam teshûʿâh is “everlasting salvation” and refers directly to the salvation of Israel; and the second ‘owlam’ (‘ad owlam ad’), which has ‘ad’ before and after it, also refers to the “salvation” of Israel.
   I’m aware that the words “ashamed” and ‘confounded” are followed by the words “world without end”(‘ad owlam ad’), but both “ashamed” and “confounded” are part of God’s salvation for Israel. In other words, the two words describe aspects of God’s salvation to Israel, or what God does as part of saving Israel.
   So…why all the emphasis on the salvation of Israel in this context? There can be only one answer: to emphasize, highlight, underscore, describe…the ‘length of time’, and ‘width of space’…that God SAVES Israel!!
   In other words, the literal interpretation of Isaiah 45:17 is a double whammy! In the first part of the verse, God calls Israel to an “everlasting salvation” using the Hebrew words “owlam teshûʿâh”. However, to make certain we understand His point, God repeats His focus on Israel’s salvation using the Hebrew words:  ‘ad owlam ad’ (“world with end”)!
Following is a visual:
      1.first part of Isaiah 45:17, God promises to save Israel using the
         words “everlasting salvation” (owlam teshûʿâh)!

In case you missed His point, God repeats Himself using different words:

      2.second part of 45:17: God AGAIN points to Israel’s salvation, but
         adds “ashamed” and “confounded” into the context, as part of His
          salvation for Israel
 
BUT…the focus of the first and second parts of the verse is the same…God’s wonderful salvation for Israel!
   As a reminder…because the word “eternity” (no beginning and no end) is reserved for God, the words ‘owlam’ and ‘ad’ in Isaiah 45:17 cannot refer to God. Because Israel is a creation of God(Is43:15), the words ‘owlam’ and ‘ad’, can only refer to Israel, and Israel’s salvation.
   Therefore, and incredibly, the first part of Isaiah 45:17 means Israel’s salvation is ‘owlam teshûʿâh’:
             “Everlasting salvation” or
             “Forever salvation”
   And the second part of Isaiah 45:17 means Israel’s salvation is ‘ad owlam ad’:
             “Forever, Everlasting, Forever” or
              “Everlasting, Forever, Everlasting” or
              “Forever, Forever, Forever” or
              “Everlasting, Everlasting, Everlasting”
 
What an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING revelation!!
 
   How can the words “Everlasting” and “Forever” apply to Israel’s salvation if Israel does not exist, or has changed to another Israel? On the contrary, from the time Israel was created…to this day, the existence of Israel, and the salvation of Israel are…EVERLASTING, i.e. FOREVER!
 
So, “Is Israel, Israel?!?!  ABSOLUTELY YES!

   I have always believed that there are no dumb questions…‘IF’ the person asking the question sincerely desires an answer. I can only choose to believe the many who ask the question of the title of this tidbit…are sincere!
  First, this question is only asked of Israel!!! In other words, no other nation is questioned regarding their past-present identity! For example, no one asks if the great historical nations like China, India, or Egypt are the same as contemporary China, India, or Egypt!! No one has the chutzpa to ask of the more recent nations: Is Canada, Canada? Is Russia, Russia? Is Bulgaria, Bulgaria? And…what about the United States?
  Furthermore, regarding nations like Ghana, which was born in 1957; Nigeria in 1960; and Sudan, which is recognized as the most recent independent nation, born in 2011; YET…not ONE media personality or political pundit asks whether these nations are legitimate!!!
  So, why is this question directed ‘ONLY’ at Israel? The simple answer is: closeted anti-semitism! People like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and a host of liberal Social Media pundits, all accuse Israel of genocide to support their ‘declaration’ that the contemporary state of Israel is NOT…Biblical Israel!! On the other hand, groups like the Black Hebrew Israelites just boldly shout: “Black people are true Jews; the real Israel!”
  However, if contemporary* Israel is not Biblical/historical Israel, may I ask two questions:
1.Who are the people presently in the land of Israel, who call themselves Jews? AND...
2.Who are the real Jews/Israelites?
    The first reason I believe that contemporary* Israel is in fact Biblical/historical Israel is a ‘natural’** reason, or what I call the ‘Persecution Argument’. In short, the ‘Persecution Argument’ goes like this: No other nation in the world, or in the history of the world, over such an extended period of time, has ever experienced such persecution as the Jews/Israel!!! If you follow the Jews back in time for thousands of years, you will find one glaring, common denominator: PERSECUTION! Everything from murder***; to expulsion from countries; to being blamed for plagues; all the way down to prohibition from living spaces and certain types of employment! Sadly, the word “Jew” is, and has been, synonymous with persecution!
    So…why is Jewish persecution more intense and more common than any other? The number one reason is God’s unique calling upon the Jew! Deuteronomy 7:6-8 declares
6.For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7.The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8.But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.****
    Therefore, because of God’s unique call on Israel/Jew, Satan has repeatedly tried to destroy them from their beginning (Gen 12:1-3), when God created Israel(Is43:15)---to this present day, all the way to the future (Rev12)!! In other words, because Satan cannot attack God, he attacks those whom God loves! Thus…the origin of Jew-hatred, and its action of persecution…is Satan!
   Because it is only natural to ask why persecution exists anywhere, at anytime, for any group or person, it is therefore reasonable to ask why Israel has been persecuted, and so intensely persecuted...for 2700 years! And I repeat, the ‘Persecution Argument’ contends that reason is God’s unique call on the Jew.
   If you require more evidence for my ‘Persecution Argument’, look no further than the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is not responsible for the mass murder of the most people in history, it is determined by most to be the worst tragedy because of the creativity the Nazis used in slaughtering Jews! Here is the question: Did Hitler not know he was slaughtering the wrong people? Was Hitler not aware that…the Biblical/historical Jew had passed away, and the contemporary Jew he tried to annihilate…was not Jewish!?!?! 
   Considering Tucker Carlson's and Candace Owens' views on contemporary Israel/Jews, for either of them to attempt to answer the previous question must be quite confusing!! However, I assure you…it was not confusing for Adolf Hitler! He perfectly understood what he was doing!
   On the contrary, this confusion would have quickly disappeared if Hitler had simply chosen to annihilate millions of Black people instead!!! Remember, according to the Black Hebrew Israelites, Blacks--are the real Jews(Rev2:9)!
  And what’s more astonishing is that before the Jews were burned in Nazi ovens, why did not a single Jewish victim shout, “Hey Adolf, you’ve got the wrong people, we ain’t the real Jews, the Blacks are!” Let me tell you, if any pseudo-Jews had faced Hitler’s gas chambers, I think they would have quickly capitulated, confessing to their real identity! However, the record is clear…there was no Jewish capitulation on the actual identity!
  Allow me to offer one more piece of evidence for my ‘Persecution Argument’. World War 2 ended in 1945 when many Jews who survived the Nazi genocide fled to what is now the land of Israel. Tragically, a mere three years after surviving Hitler’s genocide--the same Jews—faced a second genocide when they were attacked by 6 surrounding Muslim Arab nations—who promised to push the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea!!
   Gratefully, in God’s providence, those 6 Muslim nations neglected to read Deuteronomy 20:4: “For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” Therefore, on May 14, 1948, which Isaiah so accurately prophesied would happen “IN ONE DAY” (Is66:8); after 2534 years (586BC to 1948)---the nation of Israel was re-born!
   Can you literally name another nation in history with so many attempts, and differing methods to destroy it, than just the few I have mentioned about the nation of Israel?!?!
  So, “Is Israel, Israel?” Their unique persecution shouts a resounding…YES! There has never been, nor will there ever be---more than one nation of Israel! I repeat, No such ‘Biblical/historical Israel’ and ‘contemporary Israel’ exists!  
 
  To be continued!
 
 *To ask “Is Israel, Israel?” requires the existence of ‘contemporary Jews’ and ‘historical Jews!’ First, why is this even a question? And second, to answer “Is Israel, Israel?” requires the following:
1.Who are the historical Jews? & Who are the contemporary Jews?
2.When did the division or transition happen?
3.How did the division or transition happen? 
Just one problem…these three questions can only be answered by an anti-semite!!!!
**I will offer spiritual reasons in future tidbits.
***Both accused of murder; AND being murdered!
****Other passages confirming Israel’s unique call: Deut26,18,19; Jer31:35-37; Rom1:16. 

  Ms. Eilish’s statement is typical liberal 'doctrine'; a doctrine that inundates the Hollywood and music industries! Because liberalism is a 'doctrine' of the religion of atheism, Billie Eilish’s statement illustrates the godlessness of liberalism.
  Before we get to God’s view, let’s examine the “Nobody is Illegal on Stolen Land” argument, which is derived from the “America is stolen land” argument, which rests on two false premises:
1.‘The First” argument
2.‘The Ancestral Land’ argument
 
 ‘The First’ argument goes like this: ‘The Indians were here ‘first’, and the evil colonists came along later and, through deception, sabotage, and murder, stole the land from the naïve and peaceful Indians!’
  The false premise is: ‘whoever was on the land FIRST is/are the rightful owners of that land (property)!’ 
  I would like to offer two rebuttals. Rebuttal A.‘Might makes right.’ At the time of the arrival of the Europeans in Jamestown and Plymouth, there was no legal authority, and therefore no laws governing land/property ownership. America was populated by thousands of Indian tribes, and the ‘might makes right’ law, a.k.a. ‘law of the sin nature’(Rom8:3-8), was the law that dominated human existence--not just in America--but all over the world! Indian tribes often followed animals hunted for their survival, i.e., hunting and gathering; or they might do some primitive farming, which, when the ground no longer produced as they desired---they moved the tribe! If someone was on that land, the law of ‘might makes right’ kicked in! Like other human tribes all over the world, war often determined land ownership! Therefore, land existed in an everlasting flux! There was no such law as: “We were here first, therefore we own the land!”
  Rebuttal B. To be totally honest, the ‘we-were-here-first’ argument is simply childish, i.e. immaturity at best! For example, a couple of years ago, my wife tried to park in a parking spot in downtown Naperville, the city where we live. As she turned into the spot, a woman was standing in the middle of the parking spot and refused to move because she was saving it for a friend. A big argument ensued, the police had to be called, and the woman was arrested. What was her argument? “I was here first!”
   I have seen “The First” argument used in churches over seating; in restaurants with bars, where bronze name tags are literally attached to seats, and in many other scenarios. Simply, it is immaturity!
  Finally, when Ms. Eilish made her statement, social media ferociously attacked her hypocrisy by challenging her to immediately abandon her $5.4 million California mansion, which sits on the land of the Tongva Tribe…who owned the land FIRST!! Incredibly, even a Tongva spokesperson, who subscribes to the same ‘The First’ false premise, got involved, declaring, “As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land.” He continues, “Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property… we do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.”
   The Tongva spokesmen offered me a perfect lead-in to my second false premise: ‘The Ancestral Land’ argument. Driving Ms. Eilish's statement, “Nobody is Illegal on Stolen Land” is the argument ‘America is Stolen land’. Without a second thought, the Tongve spokesman very naturally and easily declared: “…her home is situated in our ancestral land.” The false premise is as follows: Because the Tongve tribe once occupied the land in the ‘Los Angeles basin’, where Ms. Eilish now lives, makes it forever the land of the Tongve tribe! 
  My initial response is: ‘Says who?!?!’ God certainly never said anything like this! And, as far as I am aware, no ‘Ancestral Land’ law exists—it’s a complete invention—created out of whole cloth to justify a claim to land where there is none!
   And, what’s more...if in fact an ‘Ancestral Land’ law did exist, which I repeat is interpreted as: if an individual or group owns land, they forever own that land; and if someone else now lives on that land, they must return it! Can you imagine if this law were ever enforced? It would lead to the greatest land or property transfer back and forth …in the history of the world! And, what’s worse, it would destroy the economies of the world! Why? Because it would destroy productivity! How can any land be made to produce if it is constantly being transferred back and forth between people? Especially between people who have no idea how to make it produce?
  Can you imagine farmers having to turn over their land to people who have never farmed? I mean, businesses would be destroyed because they rest on land, which would have to be returned to people who have never run a business—all because of some invented ‘Ancestral Land’ law?!?!? I repeat, it is possible to make land produce when it is being passed back and forth! Land exchanging hands as the term 'Ancestral Land' requires, would be unworkable even for people who were experts in making the land produce!!! Why? People who have skills in one area do not mean they have skills in another area! 'Ancestral Land' is a nightmare!
  Lastly, but most importantly, what does God think about land, including the land of America? First, as I just mentioned, the first command God gave man was to be ‘fruitful’, which means to be ‘productive’ (Gen1:26-28). Therefore, God gave land to mankind to produce! In Genesis 10:5, God revealed the nations of the world, declaring, “By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; everyone after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.” Subsequently, God reveals more detail in Deuteronomy 32:8: “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” Acts 17:26,27 confirms Deuteronomy 32:8.
  As further confirmation, when Israel sinned in 722BC, God kicked them out of their land! In 607BC, 597BC, and 586 BC, God kicked Judah out of their land for sin! And finally, the Gentile nation of Babylon lost its nation and land…because of their sin!
 Therefore, God blesses nations by giving them land. And, through God’s righteous judgment,  when a nation reaches a certain level of sin, He judges that nation by removing them from their land!

   In short…God is Sovereign over the land, and either gifts or removes that land to nations, according to His perfect justice! 
“The  Lord is righteous (just) in all His ways…”  -Ps145:17
“…For all His ways are just…and without injustice”  -Deut32:4

  In conclusion, To Ms. Eilish: there is bad news and good news.
Bad news: Your statement: “Nobody is Illegal on Stolen Land,” is completely false.
Good news: On the contrary, in spite of your foolish statement, you don’t have to move out of your house! 

  In Jeff Flynn-Paul’s book, ‘Not Stolen’, he describes the gods of the Mesoamericans: primarily the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas. He writes: “Aztec religion was polytheistic, which absorbed many concepts from earlier Mesoamerican cultures, particularly Maya. Though they believed in an ultimate god, they also worshipped many lesser deities who represented various concepts, objects, and places. One of the central concepts of their religion was that human blood was needed in order to keep the world from falling apart; the gods had given blood at the time of the world’s creation, and humans were therefore obliged to give this blood back or risk the dissolution of the world. There was a great deal of entropy in their religious philosophy, meaning that continuous rituals (including human sacrifice) were necessary in order to keep the world operating on its present course. The symbolism of the skull was widespread in Mesoamerica, though skull worship was taken to new heights by the Aztecs and their allies. Aztec priests were seen as those responsible for providing gifts to the gods, while rulers were charged with providing the proper number of sacrificial victims for their temples. When a people were conquered by a neighboring tribe, those who were not sacrificed would be forced to adopt the religion of the conquerors, though oftentimes important local deities would be incorporated into the calendars of the conquerors themselves.” (Pg92)
  Flynn-Paul continues on pages 143-144. “The Aztecs engaged in cannibalism on a far grander scale. This was on account of the sheer number of excess human corpses that their culture created on an annual basis. The very first group of Spaniards captured by Mexican Indians in 1520 was ritually slaughtered and cannibalized along with their Indigenous allies. As reported by the Guardian in 2015, a group of fifteen Spaniards, forty-five colonial soldiers, fifty women, ten children, and “hundreds of their Indigenous allies” were captured and put in cages. Like a scene out of a particular disturbing movie, one or two a day of the Europeans and captured Indians were chosen at random and sacrificed in a gruesome manner, within earshot of the other prisoners. The bodies were then dismembered and cooked, and the flesh distributed to the people of the town”.
 “The slow, steady pace of human sacrifice, which occurred over the course of many months, shows a desire to propitiate different gods on their feast days—for example, rain gods preferred children. But archaeologists also speculate that it served to provide an ongoing source of protein for the people of the town. The Aztecs were notoriously short of large domesticable animals to use for food, so this steady ritual of human sacrifice met a social need for protein. The town where this occurred was previously named Zultapec—but after this windfall of sacrificial victims, its name was changed to “Tecoaque”, which meant “the place where they ate them.”
  I want to offer two purposes for this tidbit. But I want to offer my second (2) purpose, first!  The Bible teaches that sin does three things:
1.Blinds. It causes misunderstanding, delusion, confusion, and deception. (Lu11:34,35  Rom1:21)
2.Enslaves (spirit, soul, body) Pro29:6; Jn8:31-32,34; Rom8:2
3.Death/Murder (spirit, soul, body). Rom6:23; Gal6:8
  In other words, sin not only destroys the spirit and body, but also corrupts the mind, so that humans begin to reason through their sin. I repeat, when sin dominates a man’s life, that person ultimately thinks through his sin! For this reason, God says beware that the light within you is not darkness(Lu11:34,35). Titus 1:15 says it best: “…but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”
  Flynn-Paul’s research confirms the Sovereign God had good reason to inspire the ‘FIRST’ commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”(Ex20:3). In other words, false religions are not simply differing points of view; or another form of worship; or multiculturalism! Flynn-Paul confirms that as sin matures over time---the end of sin, especially the sin of idolatry---is violence and murder!
   The first purpose (1) for this tidbit goes even deeper into idolatry! Like sin, but slightly different, John 10:10 teaches that Satan also does three things to humans:
           1.Steal
           2.Kill
           3.Destroy
  Throughout human history, and once again as Flynn-Paul confirms, people groups from all over the world have fallen into human sacrifice—which is the reason God forbad it in Israel (Deut12:31; Deut18:10). Tragically, following the nations around them, in spite of God’s clear commands, Israel fell into not just human sacrifice, but an even worse: child sacrifice (2Kgs21:6).
  How does a human come to the point of human sacrifice, especially the sacrifice of a child? The Biblical answer is ‘Demon possession’! Deuteronomy 32:17 declares that idolatry is not just the worship of a false god, but the worship of demons: “They sacrificed to demons who were not God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dread” (NAS).
  Over time, as sin and/or Satan matures in a human life or a nation, the climax is violence and murder(Gen 6:1-13)!  
  What then is abortion? Abortion is not a woman’s right; nor is the baby a product of conception (POC); nor is abortion birth control; nor is the child an imposition!  On the contrary, God’s thoughts and ways are higher than man’s (Is55:8,9)! Therefore, God declares:
1.Humans are created in God’s image and likeness(Gen1:26-28)
2.Human life begins* at conception(Ps51:5)
3.Using His own hands--God knits 'each and every' child together in a mother’s womb (Ps139:13 ESV, NLT)
4.Abortion is murder (Ex20:13), taking innocent human life (Pro6:17)
5.A person is ‘fully’ deceived by their sin to murder a child in the
womb(Tit1:15)
6.Abortion is child sacrifice, and is literally the worship of
demons(Deut12:31; Deut18:10; Deut32:17; 2Kgs21:6)
 
* -Human Embryology & Teratology, 2nd edition, 1996, pages 8, 29, Ronan O’Rahilly and Fabiola Miller: 
“Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed. … The combination of 23 chromosomes present in each pronucleus results in 46 chromosomes in the zygote. Thus the diploid number is restored and the embryonic genome is formed. The embryo now exists as a genetic unity.”
 
-The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 6th edition, 1998, pages 2-18, Keith L. Moore: 
“[The zygote] results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us
as a unique individual.”
 
 
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"I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right."
​                    - G.K. Chesterton

  The above is a topic subtitle found on page 108 of the book ‘Not Stolen, The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World,’ by Jeff Flynn-Paul. This is an outstanding expose’ of the liberal agenda to destroy America’s historical record as the world’s leading country for both opportunity and prosperity. I highly recommend it.
  Flynn-Paul writes of several critics who falsely charge America “that it was only colonialist exploitation of nonwhite peoples that made modern Westerners rich.” (pg108). For example, he cites activist author and professor Ibram Kendi, who often quotes Eric Williams ’argument in ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ that the transatlantic slave trade was the main source of modern European wealth. In Kendi’s eyes, every European with a Gucci bag only has it because one of his African ancestors worked for them, directly or indirectly, as a slave sometime in the past.”     Flynn-Paul follows up, quoting Noam Chomsky, another American professor and political activist, who in his book ‘Year 501’ declared: “the colonies of the New World offered enormous riches. The Acts and wars expanded the trading areas dominated by English merchants, who were able to enrich themselves through the slave trade and their plunder-trade with America, Africa, and Asia, assisted by “state-sponsored wars…” (pg108).
  He continues with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a renowned American writer known for his works on race, who “likewise testified to Congress in the summer of 2020 to the effect that in the nineteenth century, half of all American wealth as derived from or was reliant upon slave labor. Presumably, for Coates, the other half would have been derived from land appropriated from Native Americans. This tale has all the ingredients to stoke a rage born of injustice. It paints a picture where in the year 1500, BIPOCs across the globe were on an economic par with Europe, poised to create a harmonious and prosperous future for themselves. But European rapaciousness, driven by the alienating logic of capitalism and a thirst for conquest, not only stole this bright future but also rendered BIPOCs desperate and subservient, while white people used colored capital to create a glittering civilization for themselves. In this view, Europeans have been little more than schoolyard bullies for the better part of a millennium.”(pg109).
   There is only one problem! None of these critics’ accusations align with historical facts! Flynn-Paul writes, “Indeed, researchers repeatedly show that transatlantic slavery contributed only a modest sum to total European GDP. At the very height of the slave trade, between 1750 and 1800, this amounted to somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 to 10 percent. Before and after that period, the numbers become even more inconvenient for anyone trying to make this argument. According to the global GDP figures published by Angus Maddison in his seminal ‘The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective’, European per capita wealth in the year 1000 was about the same level as the rest of the globe---that is to say, $400 to $500 per person, measured in 1990 international dollars. Maddison’s 2010 figures are freely available online and in various printed formats.”*
  “Between the years 1000 and 1500—long before Europeans could be accused of exploiting more than a tiny handful of nonwhite people—a remarkable thing happened. The per-person GDP of Western Europe steadily grew to nearly double the global average, while the GDP of every other region stagnated or grew by a modest amount. Maddison’s dataset shows European per capita GDP in 1500 at nearly $800, while Mexico, Peru, and Africa still stood where they were five hundred years earlier—at about $400. Nor did the per capita GDP of Mexico, Peru, or Africa plummet after the arrival of the Europeans—it simply remained on the same slow-growth trajectory that it had been on for centuries. So much for the notion that European arrival constituted an economic disaster for the majority of Indigenous inhabitants.”(pg110)
  “Meanwhile, the richest non-European areas in the year 1500 were China and India, whose GDP has been estimated at $600 and $500. This is a modest increase on the $450 per person these societies had produced in the year 1000. In the five centuries during which they were unmolested by European colonialism, then, China and India only managed to grow their economies at a few per cent per century. After 1500, the European economy continued to grow at the same strong pace that it had done in the preceding five centuries. It did not suddenly grow at a faster pace, even as it forged Wallerstein’s “World System”. “Over the eight hundred years between the year 1000 and 1800—both before and after colonization---Europe’s GDP experienced a remarkably consistent growth rate of about 10-15 percent per century. European per capita GDP went from $800 in 1500 to $900 in 1600 to $1000 in 1700 to $1200 in 1820.” (pg111)
  “This suggests that the European economy was already set on its growth trajectory prior to its colonial adventure and the discovery of New World colonies---while very helpful for some regions at certain times---did not significantly alter the growth trajectory of the Western European economy as a whole. All of Maddison’s data thus points to the conclusion that the relatively small amount of wealth generated by New World trade—including both slavery and land appropriations from the Natives---was mere icing on the economic cake of long-term European growth. Stronger evidence against Ibram Kendi’s wishful thinking would be difficult to find!” (pg111).
  Kendi, Williams, Coates, Chomsky etc.,** are just a few of the many liberal academicians who have had major influence across America, promoting their myths. However, because many liberals who think like them are Americans, it is obvious that their actual target is not Europe, but America! They use Europe only as a launch pad to attack the obvious, and undeniable opportunity and prosperity America has provided for the world!
  Tragically, their atheism has created their deception (Tit1:15; Rom1:21,28), preventing them from understanding that God, i.e.the Bible, i.e. the Judaeo-Christian ethic…is the real reason for both Europe, and then America’s riches…not colonialism nor slavery. Angus Maddison’s research is the literal, undeniable evidence that their attempts to explain away American prosperity are absolutely false!***
  The Bible declares righteousness exalts a nation (Pro14:34), and although America’s past has neither been innocent, nor perfect as it relates to righteousness…yet its’ past has been penitent--- allowing the eternal God to work His righteousness--over a period of time—culminating in God blessing this nation more than any other nation in the history of the world!
 
*Maddison’s dataset is available at the University of Groningen website: “Maddison Database 2010,” Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen, https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-database-2010
  
**Despite all the claims by various activists, professors, and writers, the research shown above by Maddison shows that the statement that “the transatlantic slave trade was the main source of modern European wealth” is false. It is just one of the many attempts to purport/cast Europe as benefiting economically from slave labor during the colonial period. Of course, the greater purpose for eliciting these “so-called facts”---which are actual lies--is part of an agenda to infiltrate and incorporate into the mindset of young Americans that this nation has been racist from its foundation to this present day. 
 
***See the following confirming graphs
 
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