Over the last couple of tidbits in this series, I have used the following quote from professor Ibram Kendi to reveal the liberal position on what they call ‘social justice’: "When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities are the result of racial discrimination”.                    
              -Ibram Kendi, University Professor, Author, Professional activist
 
To refute Dr Kendi, I am using Dr Thomas Sowell’s great work, ‘Social Justice Fallacies.’ Let’s move forward.
  On page 23, Dr Sowell writes, “Within the United States, the median per capita income of such Asian ethnic groups as those of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Korean ancestry is more than twice as high as the median per capita income of Mexican Americans. These Asian groups also have higher median per capita incomes than the median per capita of White Americans. Asian Indians have nearly three times the median per capita incomes of Mexican Americans, and a median per capita income more than $15,000 a year higher than the median per capita of White Americans. Among full-time, year-round male workers, Asian Indian males earned over $39,000 a year more than white male full-time, year round workers.”
   Sowell continues, “Is this the 'white supremacy' we are so often warned about in some quarters? Even among low-income, non-white groups, there is considerable overlap with the incomes of White Americans. For example, 2020 census data show more than 9 million black Americans with higher incomes than the median incomes of White Americans. There are also thousands of Black millionaire families, and even several Black billionaires, including Tiger Woods and Oprah Winfrey.”*
  On page 24, Sowell writes, “Nevertheless, economic differences between different groups are a special concern when discussing different rates of poverty. For example, the poverty rate among Black American families as a whole has long been higher than the poverty rate among White American families as a whole. But, over a span of more than a quarter century since 1994, in no year has the annual poverty rate of Black ‘married-couple’ families been as high as 10 percent. And in no year in more than half a century since 1959 has the national poverty rate of Americans as a whole been as low as 10 percent.”
  “If Black family poverty is caused by 'systemic racism,' do racists make an exception for Blacks who are married? Do racists either know or care whether Blacks are married?”
  “By contrast, single-parent families have much higher poverty rates than married-couple families, whether they are Black or White. White, female-headed, single-parent families have had a poverty rate more than double the poverty rate of Black-married couple families in every year from 1994 to 2020, the latest year for which data are currently available. If “White supremacists” were so powerful, how could this happen?”
  “Male headed, single-parent families are rarer than female-headed, single-parent families, among both Blacks and Whites. White, male-headed, single-parent families have had a lower rate of poverty than White, female-headed, single-parent families. Nevertheless, White, male-headed, single-parent families have also had a higher poverty rate than Black married-couple families, in every year from 2003 to 2020.
  Statistical differences between races are not automatically due to race---either in the sense of being caused by genetics or being a result of racial discrimination. Differences in the proportion of single-parent families among various racial groups are other differences that affect differences in income. So, are differences in median age, and in education, among other factors.”
“Just as income disparities are by no means unique among American racial or ethnic groups, neither are disparities within such groups necessarily any less than disparities between these groups.”
  “In New York City, for example, in school year 2017-2018 there were ‘dozens’ of places in low-income minority neighborhoods where public charter schools and traditional public schools, serving the same local community, were housed in the same buildings. When Black and Hispanic students in both kinds of schools took the same statewide test in mathematics, the charter school students achieved the official “proficient” level in mathematics more than 6 times as often as the children of the same ethnicities in traditional public schools housed in the very same buildings. These are huge disparities within the same groups, so that neither race nor racism can account for these huge differences. Nor can culturally biased tests.”
 In conclusion, Dr Sowell repeatedly uses facts to refute the liberal ideology of “Disparities in income equals White racism” argument! However, what I find most amazing is that liberals such as Ibram Kendi, along with Kimberly Crenshaw, Derek Bell, Robin DiAngelo, Nicole Hannah Jones, Tim Wise, Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Lamont Hill, etc., can still have such great influence making an argument that possesses such overwhelming, irrefutable, contradictory evidence!
  However, I do understand the two reasons for their influence: 1. money and 2. political power! Liberals are awarded considerable positions of societal power and are paid large sums of money--to advance racism and division in America! Tragically, we now live in the day of 2 Thessalonians 2:9: “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie!”
 
 
*If you want to see the many footnotes in the book to determine the source of Dr Sowell’s facts, you will have to purchase the book. I purposefully left them out.
 
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You can define ‘finite’, only within the definition of the ‘infinite’!
You can define ‘limited’, only within the definition of ‘unlimited’!
You can define ‘man’, only within the definition of ‘God’!
You can define ‘enough’, only within the definition of ‘more than enough’, i.e.abundance!            

  Liberalism’s greatest argument for the existence of Systemic racism, White racism, and White supremacy is captured in Ibram Kendi’s statement: "When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities are the result of racial discrimination”.                     
          -Ibram Kendi, University Professor, Author, Professional activist
 
  This sentiment is one of the foundational pillars for their idea of ‘Wokeism’. Tragically, through the ‘Cancel Culture’, liberals have succeeded in trapping this nation into the wholesale acceptance of the spirit of Kendi’s statement, spreading deep-seated division in our culture, literally imposing victimology on a generation of young people from college campuses down to kindergarten.
  Allow me to continue using Thomas Sowell’s book ‘Social Justice Fallacies’ to dismantle the liberal myth that income disparities among races prove White supremacy!
  On pages 19,20, Sowell offers what he calls ‘Episodic Factors’ to reveal other causes of differentiation among people groups. He writes, “In addition to ongoing differences among peoples, there have also been unpredictable episodic events---such as wars, famines, and epidemics—that can disrupt the development path of particular peoples. The outcomes of military conflicts can be a matter of chances that are incalculable---and yet able to determine the fate of whole societies or nations for subsequent generations or centuries.”
  Sowell continues, “As things turned out, Europe has been far from being a culturally, economically, or otherwise homogeneous civilization, with its peoples having the same quantity and kind of human capital across the continent. Instead, the languages of Western Europe acquired written versions centuries before the languages of Eastern Europe. This had major implications for the education of the people in these two regions, who had little chance to be equal in endeavors requiring the kinds of knowledge and skills taught from books in schools and colleges.”
  “Eastern Europe has been poorer and less industrially developed than Western Europe for centuries, and the homicide rate in Eastern Europe has been some multiple of the homicide rate in Western Europe for centuries.”
  “Nor was the east-west divide the only cause of national inequalities within Europe. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when only 3 percent of the population of Great Britain was illiterate, the figure for Italy was 48 percent, for Spain 56 percent, for Portugal 78 percent. There were similar disparities in 1900 within the Habsburg Empire, where the rate of illiteracy ranged from 3 percent in Bohemia to 73 percent in Dalmatia. Massive scholarly studies found great differences in both technological and in the number of leading figures in the arts and sciences in different parts of Europe.”
  “It was much the same story in Africa, where in 1957 only 11 percent of the children attending secondary school in Nigeria were from the northern part of the country, where a majority of the population lived. Someone born in northern Nigeria had nowhere near the same chances as someone born in southern Nigeria—a fact reflected in the different economic success of tribes from these different regions of the country.”
  “Both in Europe and in Nigeria, different circumstances led different groups to different levels of literacy and different school attendance. In Europe---in centuries past, when people were far poorer, some groups working agriculture had little need for literacy, but often had great need for the work of the children, in order to keep families adequately fed. In such circumstances, children’s education was often sacrificed, depriving them of even second-hand knowledge of a wider world.”
 
  In conclusion, I leave you with a final confirmation from Thomas Sowell: “Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, just as much as differences in knowledge and skills --- and such differences create differences in economic outcomes.”
  To call income disparity between Blacks and Whites in America ‘systemic racism’ is once again proven false!!
 
 
*If you want to see the many footnotes in the book to determine the source of Dr Sowell’s facts, you will have to purchase the book. I purposefully left them out.
 

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The law of sowing and reaping, present in much of God’s creation, was created according to God’s nature, and was given to mankind to demonstrate how His nature works (Rom1:20)...ABUNDANT!
                -Derrick Jackson
 

  I begin this tidbit with the final statement from my last tidbit; a quote from Ibram Kendi which expresses the sentiments of liberalism: "When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities are the result of racial discrimination”.
  As Kendi’s view on income disparity among races becomes incorporated into the human mindset, its’ end result is envy. Why? Because humans cannot change their race, so they also cannot change the income disparity among races, so the only consequence is to look sideways at White people as unjust, i.e., as oppressors of Blacks and people of color! Therefore, the only remedy—from the liberal point of view---is to hit the streets in protest, at best, which produces nothing; or at worst, to become violent, tearing down what others have built!!
 Allow me to continue using the book ‘Social Justice Fallacies’ by Thomas Sowell to refute Kendi and other liberals who have tragically convinced an entire generation of Americans that they have been unjustly treated. Remember, Psalms 11:3 -“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
  On page 15 in his book, Sowell quotes economic historian David S. Landes, with what should be obvious to any human being regardless of age, location, religion, or time period: “The world has never been a level playing field.” My response to every liberal is equally obvious: How can the world be a level playing field when the God who created it made the earth so vastly different, including in it so many differing elements and natural resources?!?! And to top it off, the same God made man like Himself, giving each individual human differing gifts, potential, and purpose. It is simply impossible for income to be the same because it is impossible for people to produce the same. God created productivity as the foundation on which humans are to possess income.
  Sowell continues on pages 15,16: “Western Europe and Northern Europe have long had more of the natural resources used in an industrial revolution---iron ore and coal, for example—than did Eastern Europe or Southern Europe. But none of that mattered during the many thousands of years before human beings’ knowledge developed to the point where they were capable of creating an industrial revolution. Which part of Europe was more advantaged or disadvantaged varied with particular eras, and the human knowledge available in those eras.”
  “Nature has been no more fair between the sexes than in its treatment of other social groups, societies, or nations. Human double standards of sexual behavior for women and men have been a pale reflection of how selfish, stupid, or irresponsible a man may be; he will never become pregnant. The plain and simple fact that women have babies means that they may not have equal chances in many other aspects of life, even when some human societies offer equal opportunity for people with the same developed capabilities.”
  “The seemingly invincible fallacy that only human bias can explain different economic and social outcomes among peoples is belied repeatedly by hard facts in societies around the world. Whatever the condition of human beings at the beginning of the species, scores of millennia had already come and gone before anyone coined the phrase “social justice”.”
  Under the category of “Environment and Human Capital,” on page 17, Sowell writes. “Other people in very different and more favorable circumstances may or may not develop a comparable sense of honesty and cooperation. In short, honesty is one of the many factors that cannot be assumed to be equally present in all places or among all peoples. Nor does empirical evidence suggest an equality in this factor, any more than in many other factors. Among the simple tests used to assess the honesty in various people and places have been projects that deliberately left wallets containing both money and personal identification in public places in various cities around the world.”
  “When on such a project in 2013 left a dozen wallets were left in public places, in various cities, the number of wallets returned with the money still in them varied from eleven out of twelve in Helsinki (Finland) to one out of twelve in Lisbon (Portugal). Moreover, the one wallet that was returned in Lisbon was returned by a couple visiting from the Netherlands; no Portuguese returned any. An earlier test found 100 percent of wallets returned in Norway, 67 percent in the United States, 30 percent returned in China, and 21 percent returned in Mexico.”
 
  Wow!!! The evidence continues to mount that people are different in every area of life, so the liberal ‘Social Justice’ argument that income disparity ought to be the same or similar, or that White Supremacy is its very real and present cause…is once again proven false!
 
 
 
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God connects His glory to meeting Your need (Phil4:19). 
​-Derrick Jackson

   Psalms 11:3 -“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
 
I continue to use evidence from Thomas Sowell’s book ‘Social Justice Fallacies’ to argue against the current liberal agenda to destroy America by imposing their myths of ‘Social Justice’ in attempt to undermine the Judaeo-Christian ethic upon which this nation rests.
   Regarding inequalities among ‘GROUPS’, on page 11 Sowell writes, “Yet different groups, with different median ages---varying by a decade or two—are unlikely to be equal in endeavors requiring either the physical vitality of youth or the experience that comes with age. When Japanese Americans have a median age of 52 and Mexican Americans have a median age of 28, their different representation in different occupations and at different income levels is hardly surprising. If these two groups were identical in every other respect, age differences alone would still be enough to make them differ in incomes, since middle-aged Americans have higher median incomes than Americans in their twenties.”
   Sowell continues, “With nations---as with classes, races or ethnic groups –age differences alone are enough to make equal economic or other outcomes very unlikely. There are whole nations whose populations have a median age over 40 (Germany, Italy, Japan), and other nations whose median age under 20 (Nigeria, Afghanistan, Angola). Why should anyone expect a nation where half the population are infants, young children and teenagers to have the same work experience and education---the same human capital—as a nation where half the population is 40 years old or older?”
   On page 12, Sowell writes: “Different nations are also located in different geographic, climatic and other settings, with different advantages and disadvantages. Even if their populations had identical potential, they could hardly be expected to have equally developed capabilities, after centuries of being confronted with the task of surviving and evolving in very different settings around the world.”
   Sowell continues, “Is it surprising that Europeans have long had the benefit of far more maritime trade than Africans? Adam Smith noted this geographic difference back in the eighteenth century, and he also rejected claims that Africans were racially inferior. Other scholars have likewise described the numerous and severe geographic handicaps of sub-Saharan Africa especially. Distinguished French historian Fernand Braudel concluded: “In understanding Black Africa, geography is more important than history.””
   Moving on to page 13, he writes, “The pattern reflected the great difference between the cost of water transportation and land transportation, which in turn affects economic prospects in many ways. Most of the large cities around the world are located on navigable waterways, because transporting the huge volume of food required to keep people fed in those cities would be enormously more expensive if all food had to be transported solely over land—especially before the modern invention of railroads and trucks during the past two centuries. Even today, places with access to navigable rivers have great economic advantages, especially if these are navigable rivers that connect to coastal areas.”
 
   In conclusion, if a company has 50 machines that all produce the same widget; and each widget requires the same resources; the same measure of energy; and, each machine requires the same upkeep--only then can an outcome be the same. But…humans are different, and infinitely more advanced than machines!! Therefore, because human input cannot be the same, human outcome can never be the same!!! 
   So, contrary to the liberal myth of making White racism the foundation for income disparity among the races in America, Almighty God has given us certain innate skills and abilities, all of which need to be developed and pursued to their perfection. How these skills and abilities are valued in the marketplace is the determining factor in the income of any individual…not race!   
   Therefore, income disparity among Whites and Blacks does not equal White racism!!! Therefore, Ibram Kendi’s position: "When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities are the result of racial discrimination” …is false!!!*
 
 
*In my opinion, Kendi’s statement is not just false, but racist! As a university professor, there is simply no way Kendi is unaware of all the facts in Dr Sowell’s book, most of which is not only common sense, but understandable to a child. In other words, Kendi simply chooses to believe a lie. “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” -2Thes2:11


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Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.          -Jim Rohn

I’m using Thomas Sowell’s book ‘Social Justice Fallacies’* to help uncover the deception perpetrated by liberals on our nation in their pursuit of what they call ‘Social Justice’. In his book Sowell identifies many of the fallacies and systemically refutes them. Let’s begin.
   Liberalism has had its greatest success specializing in sowing division in America by its use of  the word ‘equality’. Equality’s original (and Biblical) definition refers to the human nature. For example, humans are equal in nature…because of the Image and likeness of God(Gen1:26). However, liberals have redefined ‘equality’ to mean ‘the same amount’. Using their re-definition, they have successfully created an atmosphere of division in America leading to anger and hatred by marketing pseudo philosophies such as: “the Disparity of Income among races.”
   Beginning of page 8-9, Sowell writes on the ‘Origins of Inequalities’:  “Unequal circumstances begin in the womb. Research has shown nutritional differences among pregnant women reflected later in IQ differences among their children, when these children were old enough to be tested. Mothers’ intakes of various substances can have positive or negative effects on a child’s IQ and general well-being.”
   “Even where we might reasonably expect to find the greatest equality of developed capabilities—among children born to the same parents raised in the same home- research going back as far as the nineteenth century, including countries on both sides of the Atlantic, has shown that children who are the first-born in their family have, as a group, higher average IQs, a higher rate of college completion, and are over-represented among high achievers  in a variety of endeavors.”
    “In the United States, for example, a study found that more than half the National Merit Scholarship finalists were a first-born child, even in five-child families, as well as in two-child, three-child and four-child families. In other words, in five-child families, the first-born was the finalist more often than the other four siblings combined. Other measures of educational success or career success have likewise shown the first-born---and an only child—to be over-represented among the top performers in various endeavors, whether in the United States or among top performers in other countries surveyed.”
   On page 10, Sowell continues, “Conversely children raised where there is only one parent present have been found in a number of studies to have a higher incidence of many social problems—again, both in the United States and on the other side of the Atlantic. Studies of boys raised without a father present have found them very much over-represented among people with pathologies ranging from truancy to murder.”
   “As one study put it, these pathologies were more highly correlated with fatherlessness than with any other factor, surpassing even race and poverty. Fatherless boys had a higher than average rate of incarceration, whether they were black or white, though the incidence of fatherless boys has been higher among blacks. Not all differences between races are due to race---either in the sense of genetics or in the sense of racial discrimination.”
   “Clearly, there were no “equal chances” for these boys whether the were treated fairly or unfairly by people they encountered in institutions ranging from schools to police departments. Girls were also affected negatively, as reflected in such things as higher rates of teenage pregnancy, when raised by one parent. Very similar patterns of pathology were found in England, where the ethnic makeup of the underclass is very different from that in the United States. In England, the underclass is predominantly white, but it shows many social patterns very similar to the social patterns of low-income blacks in the United States, even though the English underclass has no legacy of slavery to be used as an automatic explanation.”
   Obviously, these facts don’t sit well with contemporary liberalism which blames America’s ‘Disparities’ on ‘racism’--by which they have now redefined to mean ‘White racism’.** In other words, liberals contend that Blacks and people of color, who are branded as “marginalized” minorities, whose suffering is due to the oppression of White people, i.e.White supremacy!
   Of course, the folly of such a position is completely refuted by vast numbers of Blacks and people of color who are successful in America.
 
 
 
*FYI, I purposefully left out his footnotes to save space. If you want to know the origin of his information, i.e.studies, you will have to purchase the book.
**The word ‘racism’ has been re-defined to mean ‘White racism’. This is why liberals do not believe Blacks can be racist.
 
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.     -Jim Rohn
 

   Two of the more frightening passages of scripture that describe our contemporary American culture are:
 Amos 8:11:“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD”
And, Psalms 11:3: “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
 
Over several decades, liberalism has successfully incorporated the tactic of the using "Social Justice" to erode the Judaeo-Christian ethic upon which our nation was originally founded. However, in his book ‘Social Justice Fallacies’, which I plan to use in this Tidbit series, Thomas Sowell does a wonderful job refuting those ‘Fallacies’ which are being used to deceive the government, academia, business and even the church!
   Sowell writes, “At the heart of the social justice vision is the assumption that, because economic and other disparities among human beings greatly exceed any differences in their innate capacities, these disparities are evidence or proof of the effects of such human vices as exploitation and discrimination.” He continues, “These vices are in fact among the many influences that prevent different groups of people---whether classes, races or nations---from having equal, or even comparable, outcomes in economic terms or other terms. But human vices have no monopoly as causes of economic and other disparities.” (pg2)
  In short, Sowell uses facts and stats to refute the liberal myth that inequalities and disparities among groups in America are always racial…because America is a racist nation!!! On the contrary, Sowell writes, “there are innumerable things that can create unequal chances, some of which are worth examining in some detail.” (pg3)
   Sowell continues, “A more general question arises when the incomes of women as a whole are compared to the incomes of men as a whole. This leaves out many specific differences in the life patterns of women and men. One of the most basic of these differences is that women are full-time, year-round workers significantly less often than men. U.S. Census Bureau data show that, in 2019, there were 15 million more male, full-time, year-round workers than female, full-time, year-round workers. The work patterns of women include more part-time work, and some whole years many women are out of the labor force entirely, often due to staying home to take-care of young children.” Sowell continues and concludes that, “When these and other differences in work patterns are taken into account, male-female differences in income shrink drastically, and in some cases reverse. As far back as 1971, single women in their thirties who had worked continuously since leaving school were earning slightly more than men of the same description.” (pg6,7)
   When liberals demand ‘pseudo’ rights, it creates great division within the culture. Envy becomes the norm, which leads to anger and then hatred! Hatred leads to violence, and even climaxes in murder (1Jn3:15). On the contrary, God, who is the author of our rights, does not provide special rights for special interest groups of people. On the contrary, God only provides human rights, which are general rights for all humans!
   As we continue to explore Dr Thomas Sowell’s book ‘Social Justice Fallacies’ my objective is not only to rebuild the foundations as cited in Psalms 11:3, but more importantly to inspire a love for God’s word as America and our churches are delivered from the judgment of Amos 8:11!!!!
  
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 “The doctrine of original sin is the only philosophy empirically validated by centuries of recorded history.” -G.K. Chesterton 

  Jeremiah 13:22 declares, “If you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?’...” I have used this passage to address one of the most important questions of life: Why? From childhood to adulthood, it is written on the human heart to understand: Why? Why has this happened to me? To us? To our family? To them? To our race? To our nation? To the world? Either good or bad—like Jeremiah, humans inherently want to know!
   Over the past couple of tidbits, I addressed the Why? as it relates to wars. So far, I addressed two wars: The War for Independence in 1776; and the Civil War in 1861. In this tidbit I want to address World War 2 in 1938-1945.
   Since the end of one of the most violent conflicts in world history, intellectuals have written volumes on World 2. So, a short tidbit like this can only address a few generalities on the war. Therefore, the question of this tidbit is: What was in the mind of God when Adolf Hitler rolled into Austria in 1938?
   Although there are literally multitudinous places to begin, I would like to use the words of Hitler and Nazi leaders to attempt to uncover God’s purpose in WW2. For example, in 1943, the Nazis unveiled their victimology for all to see in an educational pamphlet titled, “The Jew as a World Parasite.” (In German, “Der Jude als Weltparasit.”) “In this war for the very existence of the German people, we must daily remind ourselves that Jewry unleashed this war against us. It makes no difference if the Jew conceals himself as a Bolshevist or a plutocrat, a Freemason or uses some other form of concealment, or even appears without any mask at all: he always remains the same. He is the one who so agitated and spiritually influenced the peoples that stand against us today such that they have become more or less spineless tools of International Jewry.”
   Moreover, Adolf Hitler began writing his final will and testament: "Centuries will pass, but out of the ruins of our towns and cultural centers, the hatred will renew itself against those ultimately responsible … international Jewry."
   At another time Hitler said, “The Jews are undoubtedly a race but not human. They cannot be human in the sense of being an image of God.”
   And still another time Hitler said, “History will recognize our movement as the great battle for humanity’s liberation, a liberation from  the curse of Mount Sinai. God is a tyrant who orders people to do the very things one doesn’t like.”
   In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote, “The Jews were responsible for bringing the Negroes into the Rhineland…it suits the purpose of the cool calculating Jew who would use this means of introducing a process of bastardization in the very centre of the European Continent and, by infecting the white race with the blood of an inferior stock, would destroy the foundations of its independent existence.” 
   And finally, also from Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote, “In that I defend myself against Judaism, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
   In addition to his antisemitism, no honest person questions Hitler’s desire to dominate the world! He declared: “With this world we cannot ever reconcile ourselves. ... I can beat any other power in the world.”
   And again, on August 22, 1939, in a document, which was entered into evidence at the Nuremberg Trials, and well-before Hitler attacked Russia, he wrote: “Accordingly, I shall in a few weeks stretch out my hand to Stalin at the common German-Russian frontier and undertake the redistribution of the world with him.”  
   These statements, as well as many others, vividly uncover Hitler’s objectives for the Jew AND the world! BUT….in starting a ‘WORLD’ war, which obviously involves several nations of the world, why was Hitler so enamored with the ‘little ole’ Jew? In other words, how are the Jews related to Hitler’s desire to dominate the WORLD?
   In 1930 there were 2.07 billion people in the world of which 15.2 million were Jews, accounting for .007% of the world’s population.  Currently, today's 15.7 million Jews are .002% of the just over 8 billion people in the world. In 1933, only 1.5% of the German population was Jewish. Of the 250 ministers in the government, 4 were Jewish.
   In her excellent book, ‘For the Soul of the People’, on page 124, Victoria Barnett quoted Otto Dibelius, a Berlin CHURCH leader who lived during Hitler’s tenure: “In the last 15 years in Germany, the influence of Judaism has strengthened extraordinarily. The number of Jewish judges, Jewish politicians, Jewish civil servants in influential positions has grown noticeably. The voice of the people is turning against this.”
   In addition, on page 125, Victoria Barnett also quoted a German PASTOR: “Anti-Semitism is justified, but this antisemitism must remain with the Biblical set limits.”*  In other words, ‘Jew-hatred’ infected not only Hitler, but the entire German culture—including the church! Tragically, this evidence for the false converts to Christ in the German church!!!
   So, Hitler’s infatuation with the Jews can only be explained from the Bible. There is only one answer to antisemitism: Satan! Very simply, Deuteronomy 7:7 reveals two reasons for Satan’s venom--through Hitler---toward the Jews:
1.God set His love upon Israel
2.God chose Israel 
   Because Satan hates God, and therefore what God loves and has chosen---hence, Israel is the most persecuted people group in world history!!
 
What does ALL this have to do with the purpose of World War 2?      EVERYTHING!
 
    All these facts, and many more, align with God’s great plan to reveal to the world the greatest sign of this current generation!  And what is that sign? The re-birth of Israel after 2500 years! In 1948, just 3 years after the end of WW2, God returned the Jew back to His Promised Land!
Scatter:
   God said, And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. -Deut28:64; Deut4:27
  This prophecy can only refer to 1948, because Israel was not scattered among the nations when in Egypt.**
Re-Gather:
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.
 
Once again, this can only refer to 1948, Why?
Scatter:
God judged Israel for their sin and kicked the divided kingdoms out of the land: Israel in 722BC; and Judah in 586BC. Although they returned to the land under Cyrus, king of the Medes and Persians in 536BC: Israel was not in control of the land!!!  They did not own it from 536BC until 1948AD!
Re-gather: In 70AD, when the Temple was destroyed; and 135AD, when Bar Kochba, the pseudo messiah was defeated in war by the Romans---Israel was dispersed (a.k.a.the Diaspora) to every nation of the world as Isaiah 11:11,12 declares---but regathered in 1948—in ownership of the land.
 
The key to the prophecies of Deuteronomy 28:64(4:27) and Isaiah 11:11 is: land ownership.
 
Land Ownership: Two Times
1.Israel returned and regained ownership of their promised land the first time under Moses in 500BC
2.Israel returned and regained ownership of their promised land the second time in 1948:
 
In conclusion, in the Providence of God, He used World War 2, as the womb from which He would fulfill His promises in 1948:
1.Rebirth of Israel
2.Return of Israel back to their Promise Land…a second time!
I repeat, the purpose of WW2 is Israel!
 
 
*Does the Bible advocate antisemitism? Absolutely not! Every writer of the Bible was Jewish!!! These ‘pseudo’ Christians are simply inventing things!!!
**The divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah were scattered to two nations in 722BC & 586BC; but the prophecy of Deut28:64 uses the verbiage “scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other”, which agrees with Isaiah 11:11.
 
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God moving in past, present, and future to bring about His good and perfect will, in individuals, families, and nations, etc., using both good and evil; often without you knowing, nor understanding it! Providence is a sovereign move of God, according to His goodness.
            -Derrick Jackson

  Over the past several tidbits, I used Jeremiah 13:22, which declares “If you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?’...” to address the question of ‘Why?’. In tidbit 5, I expanded the “Why” question from a personal ‘Why?’ to include a general ‘Why?’, in order to address reasons for wars. Last week was the ‘War for Independence’; this week is the Civil War.
  From the beginning, historians have argued primarily these three reasons for the Civil War:
i.State’s rights
ii.Preserve the Union
iii.Slavery
 
i.Stephen Douglas used the term Popular Sovereignty to argue that in free governments, rulers are the people's servants. In other words, he meant that states should have the right to decide the issue of slavery independent of any Federal government interference.
ii.At the beginning of the contest, President Abraham Lincoln argued his objective in the Civil war was to preserve the Union. For example, in perhaps what was Lincoln’s most infamous letter ever written, he penned the following to Horace Greely: “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.”
 
Well! This seals the deal, right? No more evidence is necessary for the reason for the Civil War? Right? Incorrect! Ironically, some of the greatest evidence to the contrary comes from ‘OTHER’ words of Lincoln! Why?     
   Because he changed!

First, Lincoln ultimately came to the conclusion that the Civil War was a result of:
1.the sins of America
2.AND then…he identified that sin as slavery
 
  For example, after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln set a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, for MARCH 30, 1863. He proclaimed: “The awful calamity of civil war...may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins."
  And second, on March 4, 1865, in his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln declared, “If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came….Yet, if God will that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsmen’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword…”
  So…why did Lincoln change? In 1862 (and 1863) the war was generating horrendous casualties, which placed Lincoln under massive pressure resulting in terribly erratic behavior. These four events (plus 1) happened:
            1.the Greely letter (August 1862)
            2.Lincoln met with 5 Black pastors, essentially blaming Blacks
               presence in America for  the nation’s present condition, and
              then ask those same preachers to lead the efforts to colonize
              Blacks out of the country—to make this a single race nation!!
            3.In September of 1862, he promised to sign the Emancipation
                Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which declared, “All persons
               held as slaves within any state of rebellion, shall be then,
               thenceforward and forever free.”
           4.In December of 1862, he offered a deal to the South that if they
              would lay down their arms, they could keep their slaves for
              another 40 years.
           5.He signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863
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In addition, the Battle fought at Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863, resulted in over 50,000 casualties. In November of 1863 Lincoln visited the area near the battlefield to dedicate it as a National Cemetery and made his famous Gettysburg address. Subsequently, speaking to a clergyman, Lincoln said, “When I left Springfield, I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ. Yes, I do love Jesus.” In other words, he was born-again at or around the time of his visit to Gettysburg!
  However, in spite of him wavering from the pressure, he knew God was using him even ‘before’ he was saved at Gettysburg! The following is irrefutable evidence:
“…so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will – that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above. I frequently see my way clear to a decision when I have no sufficient facts upon which to found it. But I cannot recall one instance in which I followed my own judgment, founded upon such a decision, where the results were unsatisfactory; whereas in almost every instance where I have yielded to the views of others, I have had occasion to regret it.”     -Abraham Lincoln
 
“I hold myself in my present position and with the authority vested in me as an instrument of Providence…I am conscious every moment that all I am and all I have is subject to the control of a Higher Power, and that Power can use me or not use me in any manner, and at any time, as His wisdom and might may be pleasing to Him.” 12/1/1862                -Abraham Lincoln
 
And finally,
…if God gives me four more years to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be – what its Divine Author intended it to be – no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.”
                                                                       -Abraham Lincoln
 
  In conclusion, the greatest evidence that God sovereignly determined the Civil War to free the slaves are the slaves themselves. The slaves understood well that if the North won the war, they would be free. What is the evidence? Most certainly, the slaves were aware of not only the existence of the Emancipation Proclamation, but that Lincoln signed it on January 1, 1863—before the war was over!!
   Second, although Blacks fought on both sides of the war, the Blacks that fought for the Confederacy were forced, whereas the Blacks willingly fought for the North! For example, the 54th Massachusetts and the 29th Connecticut Black regiments.
  For my final evidence, when President Lincoln and the Black 29th regiment visited Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, a Black officer reported, “As President passed along the street, the colored people waved their handkerchiefs, hats, and bonnets, and expressed their gratitude by shouting repeatedly, “Thank God for His goodness, we have seen His(God’s) salvation.” The White soldiers caught the sound and swelled the numbers, cheering as they marched along. All could see the President, he was so tall. One woman, standing in a doorway as he passed along, shouted, Thank you, dear Jesus, for this sight of the great conqueror.” No wonder tears came to his (President Lincoln’s) eyes when he looked on the poor colored people who were once slaves, and heard the blessing uttered from thankful hearts and thanksgiving to God and Jesus. Thousands of colored men in Richmond would have laid down their lives for President Lincoln.”*
 
Yes! In His Providence, God chose the Civil War as the final tool to end slavery in America!
 
 
*A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States (New York: Citadel Press, 1990), Vol I, pp. 489-490, “Negro Fighters for Freedom and Unity, 1863-1865,” taken from J.J. Hill, A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops (Baltimore, 1867), pp. 25-27.
 
 
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The definition of Providence: The care and superintendence of the invisible, benevolent hand of the sovereign God over all His creation.
  In more common vernacular, God works behind the scenes, i.e.without your notice or even prayer, to bring His benevolent will to pass in your life.

   In Jeremiah 13:22, the prophet declares “If you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?...” In this passage, the prophet attempts to address one of the most difficult personal questions of life: Why? In my four previous tidbits I dealt with the question of “Why” on an individual basis.  However, I want to broaden this tidbit to include mankind in general as I look at the ‘Why?’ of war.
   God gives His ‘general’* view of war in James 4:1-2:
1.Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
2.You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

James 4:1-2 is a straightforward statement regarding wars between nations! The phrase: “your desires for pleasure that war in your members?” in James 4:1 refers to man’s sin nature. Man’s sin nature is defined as the evil which exists in every human from conception (Ps51:5;Rom5:12).
   For example, David describes the sin nature in Psalms 51:5: “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” And, Paul also describes it in Romans 7:18-20NAS:
18.For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing…”
19. “…but I practice the very evil that I do not want.”
20. “…but sin which dwells in me.”
So…in general, human wars originate in the sin nature of man!
  However, there is a very important ‘different’ side of war. For example, God describes Himself as a man of war(Gen15:3), which describes the aspect of God’s righteous nature that must respond to man’s sin. In addition, God repeatedly reveals His name as the Lord of Hosts (Ps24:10; Is14:24), which means the ‘God of armies’. Furthermore, in response to their sin, God determined Himself at war with Amalek “from generation to generation”(Ex17:16), which means forever! And finally, the archangel Michael is the angel of war(Jude9; Rev12:7)…all of which means in addition to man’s sin nature, God ‘uses’ war as judgment to bring about His perfect will in the earth to judge man’s sin. In other words, because God is perfect, holy, and righteous, He can ‘use’ evil to bring about good(Gen50:20; Judg14:1-4; Jn11:49-50;Rom8:28).
   On the other hand, and yet another variable is that God deals with Israel just a bit differently from other nations due to His ‘forever calling’ (2Sam7:22-24; Ps106:8,10). For example, God promises to fight for Israel against her enemies, to win their battles(Deut20:4), which God will also do for other nations when their behavior and cause is righteous. However, one difference is that when God judged Israel for sin (for example see the book of Judges; Joshua 7:9-11; Assyria(722BC); and Babylon 586BC) His ‘forever calling’ did not allow Him to completely destroy Israel from the face of the earth, like other nations who sinned against Him; such as Amalek(Ex17:16), and other nations found in Genesis 15:19-21. That is a short overview on how God dealt with war between nations in the Biblical text.
   Although I do not know the reason for all wars, I do believe God has unveiled to me reasons for some wars. In the time and space remaining, I would like to address the reason for a war in America’s past: the War for Independence in 1776, a.k.a. The Revolutionary War.
   In short, God used war to separate Britain from America’s 13 colonies ‘because’ of the calling on America to be a beacon of freedom to the world. From 1776 to this day, the Declaration of Independence serves as one example of God’s call on America to gift and establish freedom—not just in America—but in all nations of the world!! In other words, America’s Declaration of Independence introduced God’s first purpose of government: to secure individual human freedom (rights)---I repeat—not just to America, but to all nations everywhere!!
   However, God’s freedom is not defined as an absolute freedom to choose anything! Why? Remember, man’s sin nature! Founder James Wilson declared, “Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” In addition, Founder Fisher Ames, author of the First Amendment stated: "The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the...ignorant believe to be liberty." In other words, there is no absolute freedom to do anything you want!
    On the contrary, the Founders of this nation defined freedom first as the right to choose the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as its spiritual foundation!!!! Why a freedom to choose God? Because our wise Founders were either Christians or Christianized and fully understood that humans have a sin nature(Rom7:14-21), which means if freedom is without restraint, man’s choices will include the sin nature, i.e.sin--which does not free mankind, but blinds him(Jn1:9;Ps36:9;Lu11:34-36) and enslaves him (John8:34)!! Remember, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”(Pro14:34)
   Furthermore, man’s ‘freedom’ not only requires a choice’ to choose God (Ex20:3; Josh24:15), but to also choose one’s unique calling(2Tim1:9)—which are heads and tails of the same coin. I repeat, God’s freedom, i.e.America’s freedom begins with two choices: 1.To choose God; 2.To choose His unique individual purpose.
   Although there is much evidence for ‘freedom’ as God’s gift to America, allow me 4 examples:
1.The Declaration of Independence says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
   The absolute key to this statement is that the rights of freedom are God-given!! In other words, humans can’t define freedom, nor the rights of freedom—without God!! Why? Because of man’s sin nature!!
    Another example of man’s sin nature is found in Romans 8:3 –“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh(sin nature), God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” Why did God condemn sin in the flesh? Romans 8:7 declares–“Because the carnal mind (the thinking of the sin nature) is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  Although God gave Adam the freedom to choose from any tree in Eden, He commanded him not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—which God sovereignly determined as sin! In other words, freedom to choose sin does not exist!
2.God’s calling upon America for freedom is what inspired Leviticus 25:10 to be impressed on America’s Liberty Bell: “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof…”
3.The second President John Adams said, “…it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.”
4.President Abraham Lincoln declared, “The Declaration of Independence gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”
   Notice the word “all” in Lincoln’s statements. Lincoln was speaking ‘prophetically’; expressing the call of God upon America to reveal freedom…to the world!!!!
 
   In conclusion, the War for Independence was not only a war for America to become free from Britain; but that God would use the war to catapult freedom around the world!   
 
*God determines two reasons for war in scripture:
            i.General reason, i.e.the sin nature (Jms4:1,2)
            ii.Specific reason (God’s judgment upon one or both parties
               involved in the war for sin (2Chron12:1-2;1Sam15:1-2)!)
In addition, remember God has two ‘wills’ toward man: 1.Benevolent will(Lu2:14); 2.Judgment will(Eph5:6). Technically, God’s only will is benevolent, however, because He is absolutely just, He must respond to man’s sin, which results in what is called His Judgment will.
 
 
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"Religion and liberty are the meat and drink of the body politic. Withdraw one of them and it dies... without religion we may possibly retain the freedom of savages, but not the freedom of New England... If our religion were gone, our state of society would perish with it and nothing would be left worth defending.”
               -Timothy Dwight, Grandson of Preacher Jonathan Edwards,
                chaplain in the Continental Army

  The last 3 tidbits I have endeavored to expound on the question that Jeremiah asked for the children of Israel; ‘Why have these things happened to me?’ (Jer13:22). In other words, Jeremiah is teaching how to respond to the most difficult question of life…why has this bad thing happened to me?
  After addressing the theology of the ‘Why’ question in my past 3 tidbits, I now want to address how to apply the ‘Why?’ theology to my life. Of course, the reason this is so important is that bad things cause personal suffering which is the number ‘ONE’ reason people reject God.
  Two confirmations:
1.“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” -1Tim4:1
2.The Bible dedicates an entire book, i.e. Job, to understanding how to deal with the pain and sufferings of life.
 
  So, let’s jump right in and examine one of the more difficult situations of America’s past: slavery. The most important questions we must ask ourselves regarding American slavery are: If God is God, what was He thinking/doing during American slavery? Why did God allow the enslavement of Blacks if He is such a good God? Can God be ‘just’ if He allowed such cruelty to be perpetrated upon Black people?
  Allow me an example. In the movie ‘Emancipation’, star actor Will Smith plays the role of Peter. One of the most powerful and emotional scenes in the film occurred near the beginning when a Black slave who had just been whipped, beaten, and chained, was tossed back into a slave-holding pen while all the other slaves watched helplessly. A slave sitting next to Peter (Will Smith) begins shaking with fear after viewing this situation. Peter turns to the trembling slave and begins to encourage him to think about something good, i.e.his family, to calm him down.
Then Peter suddenly declared, “God is with us!” The first slave who is still trying to recover from his beating overhears Peter’s words is stunned, and angrily replies, “How can you say that to him? God is with us! Where is He? And why has He not set you free? Stand up and praise your God for all He has done for you! For all of us! God is not with you! He is nowhere! He sends that fool (referring to a slave preacher) to tell us about His word, to be a good slave; to be obedient to your masters! Is that what God says to you?” As Peter listens intently, tears begin rolling down his face; and then he responds, “God says many things! I do not know why God shows Himself to some people, and not to others, but if you do not know Him. I will pray for you!”
  In other slave/oppression movies, the norm is to call the oppressed to anger, hatred, and revenge against the oppressors!!! But not the writers of this movie! I’m fully convinced the Holy Spirit inspired Peter’s response! I repeat, although the suffering in this scene was unimaginably horrific, Peter (Will Smith) did not curse God, nor White people; and just as important, nor did he attempt to offer some deep theological explanation! In short, Peter did not attempt to explain something he did not understand! Yet, despite his inability to understand, Peter’s response showed that he retained his faith in a ‘good’ God—despite his suffering! ‘THIS’ PRINCIPLE is ‘THE’ key to answering the question of ‘Why?’ in our personal lives when facing suffering and tragedy!  
  So, am I saying the response to slavery is to do nothing? No! To ONLY pray? No! Is there an answer to the question of slavery* from God’s perspective? The answer is…YES!! To begin we must remember the first principle of determining God’s Will: God is good, at all times, and in every situation---because His nature is good (Ps119:68; Ps136; Lu18:19) and…He cannot deviate from His good nature…ever!
  Furthermore, God’s nature is multi-faceted, which in short means along with His goodness, He is just (Gen18:25; Ps96:13), and His justice is perfect (Deut32:4) because He is perfect, i.e.without sin(2Cor5:21; Ps92:15). This means God cannot be unjust anywhere or at any time…because He is absolutely righteous!
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  First, ‘God’s Will’ is two-fold:
1.Benevolence Will. Because God is good, He is benevolent toward all mankind. Luke 2:14 declares: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men”
2.Judgment Will. Because God is both perfect and just(Deut32:4), He must judge sin (Gen18:25; Acts17:31). On the contrary, if He does not  judge man’s sin---then He is unjust!
 
  The Judgment Will of God is ‘THE’ most complex Biblical doctrine because of its many facets. So, to understand and explain American slavery, we must first determine God’s will regarding the issue of slavery—because He is same yesterday, today, and forever(Heb13:8), i.e.His will is the same for all humans, at all times, everywhere…because God is just(Deut32:4)!
  The Bible declares Rehoboam sinned against the Lord and took all Israel with him (2Chron12:1,2). In God’s righteous judgment for their sin, He determined to send Shishak, the king of Egypt to wipe them out, unveiling to them the “WHY”, i.e. the reason Shishak was attacking. In other words, there is a reason, i.e. a ‘Why?’ for everything that happens in this life—good or evil (Is1:19; Pro26:2; Job37:23; Deut28)!
  Because they did not know the reason, and because God is perfectly merciful(Ps136)--which means even in judgment He desires mercy (Jms2:13)—God sent the prophet Shemaiah to announce the reason Shishak was attacking: “…Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.” -2Chron12:5
  Incredibly, the people humbled themselves and declared: “The Lord is righteous!” (2Chron12:6). These words are a simple declaration of God’s nature of Righteousness (Ps129:4). In other words, the people declared all God’s ways are righteous(Ps145:17)—including the absolute justice of wiping them out through Shishak--for their sin!
  Of course, this teaches one of the first principles of understanding how to deal with suffering and pain: I. Declare the righteousness of God’s judgments, no matter how difficult the situation. In other words, NEVER BLAME GOD FOR EVIL…especially in your time of suffering!
  Incredibly, God took the people’s declaration of righteousness as repentance and sent Shemaiah back to Rehoboam:
“And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.”           -2Chron12:7
 
  2Chronicles 12:7 confirms that God’s initial judgment for their sin was absolute: to destroy them—because sin requires justice(Rom6:23). However, while under absolute justice, because of their repentance, God gave them mercy…but that mercy resulted only in a ‘some’ (partial) judgment. Verse 7 says, “Therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them ‘some’ deliverance.”
  So, what was the final, i.e. ‘some’ judgment? Verse 8 declares: “Nevertheless they shall be his ‘servants’; that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.” The Hebrew word for “servants” is ebed, meaning slave.
  This teaches 2 types of slavery: i.slavery to God, and ii. slavery to man. Because God is good, slavery to God is good (1Cor7:22; 1Cor6:20; Mk10:44). However, because man is evil, slavery to man is wicked (Gen1:26-28; 2Chron12:8; 1Cor7:23).
  Therefore, 2 Chronicles 12:1-9 teaches slavery is a judgment of God for sin! This truth is confirmed by the entire book of Judges, where Israel was in and out of slavery for their sin lasting over 450 years. A third witness is both the nations of Israel and Judah were taken into slavery for their sin in 722BC, and 606 BC respectively.
  I repeat, slavery is a judgment of God upon a people group for their sin! This means when Blacks were brought enslaved to America, the reason was sin committed in Africa!!! Blacks are not the only group enslaved in history; slavery has existed in all people groups and nations—all over the world--for thousands of years!!! This does not make the enslavers innocent…for God condemns both kidnappers(1Tim1:10), which is the foundation for slavery; and the enslavement of men(1Cor7:23)!!
  In conclusion, because God is Sovereign (ruler over all), no event, nor situation; nor anything good or bad, can happen outside of God’s will. See God’s 2 wills above. If this is not true, then God is not Sovereign, i.e.He does not rule over all! In other words, there absolutely can be nothing good or evil, regardless of its scale or magnitude, that can occur without the involvement of the Sovereign God—Who rules over all! Why? If the devil can act apart from God’s will, then he is either equal with God, or greater than God---both of which are false!
 
*While I recognize slavery is an extremely difficult topic, and can literally take volumes to unpack, I can offer some basics. 
 
 
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“…the spread of Christianity and Christian influence on government was primarily responsible for the outlawing of infanticide, child abandonment, and abortion in the Roman Empire (374AD)”
-Alvin J. Schmidt in ‘How Christianity Changed the World’, Christian Ethics, Wayne Grudem, pg475