Absolute Power

How much do you rely on the Internet? Can you make it through your day without this tool? Senator Joseph Lieberman has introduced a bill, which just moved to the Senate floor, that will surrender total control of the Internet to the government. If passed, the government will have the power to shut down the Internet for up to four months under a "declared national emergency." The ramifications of this are staggering. First, it opens the door to absolute power over thoughts and ideas that the government deems innocuous. It gives the President the power to kill the Internet for a period of time, upon declared emergency. But what constitutes an emergency? If you never thought George Orwell's prophecy could come true, believe it, because you are living it. Big Brother is demanding that you think, act, and believe only what is in line with their ideology. And this shows just how far they will go to obtain that power. If you believe your government has the best in mind for you, you are deceived or are unwilling to see the truth. The only thing government wants is more power.

Loving You

The title of this piece is taken from an Elvis Presley single and movie of the same name. I find it an apt oxymoron for the general attitude toward Israel in the world today. Abraham, considered the Father of the Jews, lived sometime between the late 20th century B.C. and the middle 19th century B.C. Genesis 12:3 records a promise made to him by God, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." Now, while that covenant was made almost four thousand years ago, it still hasn't changed any. God is still God, and God is not going to change because man changes man's standards to make sin more acceptable. So, if God Almighty is not going to change His views on Israel, then why does the hatred of Israel continue to grow among mankind? Sadly, God told us this is the way things would happen, but He didn't say they had to happen this way. Everywhere one looks today, he is confronted with a withering barrage of putrid filth degrading Israel for one thing or another. The most recent assaults and violations are Helen Thomas, Dean of the White House Press Corps, telling the Israelis to, "get the hell out of Palestine and go back home!" (see the video at http://www.breitbart.tv/helen-thomas-tells-jews-get-the-hell-out-of-palestine-and-go-back-to-germany-poland). She went on to explain that the Israelis are a conquering army, having conquered the Palestinians, and that the Jews should return home to "Germany and Poland." These two countries have historically provided the fiercest persecution of Jews in the history of the Jews of the Diaspora (Jews living in the time between A.D. 70 and A.D. 1948.) Also, just today, 5 June, 2010, Egypt announced that it would suspend the citizenship of any Egyptian man married to an Israeli woman. With these and many other examples to cite, it is only by God's magnificent mercy that He has spared His hand of judgment on America, and indeed, the world. As a Christian viewing current events through that lens, I have to marvel and wonder, "God how long will you wait to settle your accounts?" But that's why He is God and I am not. God has no obligation to settle all His accounts by sundown. So, current events today provide an interesting paradox; on the one hand there is God, the Supreme Ruler of the Earth and Creator thereof, who made a covenant with Israel and swore allegiance to that covenant. On the other is mankind whose hatred of Israel grows daily. Something has to give, and it is my guarantee that it will not be God.