Representation games

At some point, even people who are trying not to notice how frequently (((they))) show up in media and entertainment and politics are going to start looking ridiculous as well. We're not quite there yet, but if the current trends hold, then it won't be much longer.

Current President Donald Trump was said to have been antisemitic when calling out Adam Schiff, a congressman who has been trying to get Trump out of office since the day he took it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/aoc-accuses-trump-anti-semitism-over-attacks-lyin-shifty-schiff

Per the accusatory tweet:

Understand that Trump is engaged in deliberate, atrocious, targeted antisemitism towards Chairman Schiff.

Then ask yourself why no one cares to denounce it - esp when his accusation of it towards others drove full news cycles earlier this year.

The article linked then goes on to describe how almost the entirety of Trump's political opposition is Jewish. This is supposed to make it seem like Trump has it out for modern Jews, but ends up pointing out how many Jews have problems with Donald Trump.

For example:

Since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry on September 24, President Donald Trump and his acolytes seem to have borrowed a page from the Daily Stormer playbook. And here’s the thing: As with the president’s outrageous insistence that foreign governments dish up dirt on Joe Biden and his son, they happen to be banging their anti-Semitic drum in plain sight.

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To be clear: More than 200 House Democrats have signed onto an impeachment inquiry and yet the president chose to target only three of them by name, two of whom are Jewish: Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler, chairs of the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. The third target was — surprise! — a woman of color, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Shamefully, he attacked all of them as “savages.”

How is such rhetoric not racist?

Here's the thing: Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of a Jewish lobbyist.

Chuck Schumer, often seen hand in hand with her, is also Jewish.

As the article would later point out, Jon Stewart is also Jewsih, but only ethnically and is "irreligious".

Why do I point this out? Well, when the article mentions that there are over 200 Democrats, Trump went after the ones who have been in the media, given the limelight. Of all the people on the list, not every one of them has national exposure in the news. Schiff and Nadler are both ranking officials in their respective political associations, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties respectively. Both of them are leaders, not simply random supporters that have been singled out. By their own actions on the political stage, they have drawn attention to themselves and what they are trying to do. And they're both Jewish.

So, were Trump to put forth any sort of criticism at all related to any of these rather well-known figures in the political and media arenas, he could be accused of being anti-Semitic simply because at some level he disagrees with or opposes people who are Jews, whether ethnically or religiously or both. Inherent in this is the implication that Jews are not capable of doing anything wrong, that to disagree with or oppose them is some moral evil, that they are above reproach.

Now, given all this, what did God say about Israel again?

When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:
“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For the land has committed great harlotry
By departing from the Lord.” - Hosea 1:2 (NKJV)

And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also. - 1 Samuel 8:7-8 (NKJV)

Even Jesus got into it as well, the damnable anti-Semite!

For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— then he need not honor his father [a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ” - Matthew 15:4-9 (NKJV)

It gets even better later on.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. - Matthew 23:15 (NKJV)

Why is that "great"? Well, you do know who founded Rabbinic Judaism, right?

While there have been Jewish groups whose beliefs were claimed to be based on the written text of the Torah alone (e.g., the Sadducees, and the Karaites), most Jews believed in what they call the oral law. These oral traditions were transmitted by the Pharisee sect of ancient Judaism, and were later recorded in written form and expanded upon by the rabbis.

Rabbinic Judaism (which derives from the Pharisees) has always held that the books of the Torah (called the written law) have always been transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition.

Yup, you're reading that right. The sect of the historic Hebrew faith which is responsible for modern Judaism is the same one that Jesus Christ called a "son of hell". He didn't do that just once either.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. - John 8:42-44 (NKJV)

Pointing out that Jews are like their father, and that their father is the father of lies, is anti-Semitic.

So Jesus Christ was an anti-Semite. And Donald Trump is an anti-Semite. Also those who reject the works of modern Judaism, or ethnic Jews, are anti-Semitic. Everyone who doesn't bend the knee and serve those who now call themselves Jews is anti-Semitic. It's a term that has become so ridiculously overblown and overplayed that people cannot any longer ignore the inherent supremacy implied by those who accuse others of being anti-Semitic, and thus demanding penance, if not subserviance, to Semites as a consequence.

Jews are no longer God's chosen people, by their own choices, and their resentment of all that reminds them of this is growing ever more apparent.

Like a small child whose approval of their parents relies entirely on the parents doing what the child wants, the harlot Israel is still demanding that everyone, including God, serve them on their terms. Their arrogance and hubris sheds new light on historical events where, again, they were not the majority of representatives in Germany or the Soviet Union, but they were the figureheads. They were in front of people, championing causes, and placing themselves in positions of power and influence.

So keep this in mind the next time someone whines about anti-Semitism. These are a people who rejected the God who loved them, whose hypocrisy even Jesus Christ called out plain as day, and who still to this day believe that they will someday save themselves from the damnation they are entirely responsible for in the first place. These people are not superior in any measure, they are sinners in need of a savior, and they will be crushed once again by the burdens they try to place upon their shoulders.

Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. - Revelation 3:9 (NKJV)

Pray for Jews to surrender their pride, to declare Jesus Christ as Lord, and to believe that God raised him from the dead, so that they can be saved. Otherwise all that awaits them is devastation, whether in this life or the next, because they are still living in the flesh, and being good children of their actual father, perfecting themselves in lies and deceit and manipulation.

Daily Bible Study: Proverbs 3:9-10

Honor the Lord with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits of all your increase;
So your barns will be filled with plenty,
And your vats will overflow with new wine.

Proverbs 3:9-10 (NKJV).

Short passages can contain a lot of complexity to unpack, but this one isn't one of those. The wisdom here is very simple, and while I might throw a slightly different perspective on it, it all still flows thematically with what has already come in Proverbs before it.

First, I'll note that the word for "honor" is "kabad or kabed" and while there are some other meanings, this particular one, just simply "honor", obviously fits the best, though you can get a sense for how those other definitions fit via the phrase "weighing a decision."

Of the three other times this particular phrase is used, two of them are in reference to "honoring your father and mother".

The reason I bring that up is that the modern concept of a tithe, of the sacrifice to God, is sometimes framed in that we're just stewards of God's resources, they aren't really "ours", and so returning them to God is more like putting something back in a "Lost and Found" for God.

Historically, for Israel, the sacrifices they made had a more formal purpose. For one, they were necessary as part of showing contrition to God. Secondly, the sacrifices made were provision to the Levites who spent time in the maintenance and operation of God's temple, and so would not have the capacity to also tend to fields and livestock.

This responsibility fell on all of the Levites as well, and so they relied on the offerings to God from the other tribes to sustain them. While it might seem like it's trivializing the nature of the responsibility, God's temple was rather like a kitchen, with the sacrifices regularly being "for a sweet aroma to the Lord", and the instructions on preparation of the sacrifices looking startlingly similar to that of a modern cooking recipe. While the actual acts held much more significance as part of the rituals for Israel, it doesn't detract from the fact that the regular sacrifices were part of an established order, an agreement, between God and Israel, and that it served multiple purposes at the same time.

Also, that God likes good cooking, but I digress.

After Jesus' death and resurrection, those who place their faith in him become a temple themselves, literally. The New Testament refers to the body of the believer as the new temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell in.

If honoring God under the "old" covenant included making sacrifices to the pleasure of God and those who were tending to God's temple, and for the maintenance and upkeep of the temple itself, while the specific actions taken to "honor God" would change with the "new" covenant, why would the heart of what God desired in that sacrifice, through humility, to change?

God designed the reality we exist in, and it is not accidental that when we are in harmony with the creator, we can find harmony with the created, and in turn disharmony with that which is in rebellion with God's order. Obedience to God produces abundance and wealth because God designed the mechanisms by which abundance and wealth could exist in the first place. This is why the commands of God are rarely ever arbitrary, or without both spiritual and physical purpose.

God is good, so God's commands are also good, and so while the struggles we face won't get any easier, the fruits of our labor are increased when we honor God through what we have and what we gain. Our abundance is not to our own benefit alone, but a demonstration of the goodness and greatness of the God we worship and obey, and how we respond reflects who we worship, who we honor.

In the same manner that we honor our father and mother by taking heed of their rules and laws on our lives as children in growing up to become adults, so God also places burdens, constraints, and demands on us in maturing as humans, created in the image of God, for the express purpose of bringing glory to God. It seems paradoxical, but when we live under this limitation, when we sacrifice to God's glory from what we have wrought with our own efforts, God glorifies us in return with blessing and favor.

What we earn, what we have, is genuinely ours to decide what to do with, but the entire system in which that gain, let alone existence itself, is possible belongs to God, and we can either keep what we have reaped and thus experience the entirety of our reward, or we can honor God and experience even more.