Lawlessness - Part III

Lawlessness – the law of retaliation (Lex Talionis)

We are living in discerning times these days in America. What was once a concerning matter has become a matter fallen to the wayside and hardly ever spoken out loud about. For that matter, these are now more disconcerting times than ever. Yet the alarm bells are not ringing as loud as they should be and people are not yet up in arms about the matters around them. What should be is rather not all like it was or has been either past or present.

Now people are asking what to do about these times before us. Nobody is asking how it should be and why we have strayed from this path that once served us well and peacefully. Have we simply ignored the signs of the messages written on the walls or do we no longer care? Better yet, what are the answers to the lawlessness around us? Are we not peacemakers and peacekeepers in this society and does it not require us to maintain the peace through the means allowed by law and order?

There appears to be a prophecy of disrespect for the law. There appears to be a rampant feeling or culture growing that grossly disrespects our way of life and the threats coming onto us are not just from within but also from outside our country. Those who provoke from the inside appear to be paid hoodlums or protestors who are recruited to bring hate and chaos to the streets. Through their own confessions, they are hired, lawless thugs to do the work of the devil and cause people to live in fear and agony.

On the other hand, these variously politically motivated prophesies calls for action and demands we do something about this turmoil and distinctive anti-Christian blasphemy and discrimination that is happening in our land. For some reason, Christians have been singled out to be the target of hate and suffering through prosecution and persecution by the government and corporate means. One can only suspect that rich and powerful people are the ones provoking the poor to divide the communities even more than this class warfare has already done. Let the truth be told that this is how the hate was created.

Today, men, women, and children are afraid to walk down the streets without being killed, raped, accosted or assaulted merely for being out there and attacked for no reason. No longer is prayer allowed in our schools or mentioned out loud in meetings or halls. Some states are removing the Ten Commandments and saying that they are not allowed to be displayed publicly when for almost two centuries, they resembled our moral and ethos standards this country was built on.

Our national anthem is under attack as those who protest our wars, our social justice policies and our way of life kneel rather than stand when our flag is brought forward by those brave men and women who wear their uniform proudly and stand between war and peace, good and evil and life and death. Thus, it seems we are under attack and subject to the moral judgment of others who do not favor our beliefs or our rights to equality under the law and the protection to seek the pursuit of happiness like before.

There are certainly several prophecies that seek to destroy our self-respect and the delicate existence of our humanity. There are also those who seek to destroy our way of life as Christians and give or submit to another religion that is more dominant and not at all aligned with American cultures, customs, and traditions. This conflict has brought us great pain and sorrow and when the judgment comes, people fear that if they speak out they will be arrested for an alleged ‘hate crime’ that was once protected under our freedom of speech act.

Lawlessness is a big problem today. It challenges our way of life every day we walk out of our homes and into the streets. In fact, even our homes are no longer safe as home invasions are frequent and the police assigned to protect and serve cannot respond fast enough to prevent or intervene with these type of crimes as they are burdened with the violence in the streets and sidewalks. These tactics to preoccupy the cops are just another way to give the thugs and thieves the run of the streets and find their prey.

These lawless thugs seem to promote hate and violence for a reason. Their objective is to disrupt and instill fear on the people who want to live in peace. They don’t respect the rights of others as they demonstrate their vile and vicious behaviors by stomping on our flag and attacking people who are gathered to exercise their rights of speech and whether politically or religiously motivated, they interrupt their voices by voicing their own above those who want to speak their mind as allowed by our laws and freedoms.

So where are we on this matter of lawlessness and justice for the noble and humble peacemakers. Where do we stand between the calling of justice and freedom? Do we tend to promote violence through the point of tolerances and caution or do we satisfy our own needs through the law of retaliation and seek justice where justice has failed?  Have we taken the point of tolerances too far and have become weak? We must be sure that whatever course we take, we take the course of understanding and promote peace, not war and harmony,and lastly never dominance or tyranny.

What are we allowed to do to stand guard on our freedoms and how do we reject this intrusion of peace by those who carry things too far. We know that these thugs and protesters are taught and paid by those who prophesize war and disorder. We know there are many false teachers out there promoting hate rather than love. Already we can foresee and forestall all wars and commotions. The writings are on the walls and yet nobody speaks.

From the time we were rejected and disrespected, we should rise up and fight this wrongful attack on our civilization and freedoms. Let us hear the messengers of peace as we reject the hate and listen to the truth that under law, we can carry our swords to protect each other. We should not let them defeat us and take us from our homes. The sword should never be departed and carried along the side to keep us safe. Let those who refuse the gospel find justice in the manner we fight them. Let them see that although we come as messengers of peace, we are quite prepared to become a soldier and become the messengers for war. For there can be no peace without war as the heart is only trusting when the conflict is under control.

But if we are to keep the faith and become the messengers of war, let our hearts be fixed in trusting God. For if we stay within the eye of faith and keep peace in mind, we shall not be afraid or walk around with troubled hearts. Even during troublous times, when we accept Christ as our Savior, we know that we shall endure fair justice to the end.

We shall avoid all the misery of this lawlessness around us and ruin their attempts to attack us in broad daylight or at night, in our homes or on the streets. There shall be earthly judgments and the beginning of sorrows but in the end, we shall prevail and suffer no more. We know that our Lord foretells the preachings of love, charity, and hope as the gospel. We also know that the world will not end until the gospel’s work has been done and in Christ, we no longer fear the evil as their ruins are coming and coming down hard. As peacemakers, we can find comfort in our consolation for peace; we can seek comfort in our conduct as we protect what is rightfully ours.

Though we must take what God has given us, we know that the day’s end of our enemies is near. We shall make their days shorter as our days grow longer with all that is hateful and wrong cut off from our world. We recognize the power of the gospel, we see the sins of evil, greed, and lust. Surely we can recognize the signs of whatever is out of reason and reduce the suffering through prayer as we hold steadfast against this evil. In times of public trouble, we must gather our strengths and keep an eye of faith in the middle of our mind. Through the necessity of life and safety, we gather our forces to serve our own purpose rather then submits to theirs. We are good men, women, and children who wish to remain peaceful but when pushed back by these lawless acts, must defend ourselves and retaliate according to the principles allowed under our laws.

We should preach our faith in the open. We must not fear the deed of those who carry with them the flames of hate and anger. Let us show due diligence and make our day of judgment show the coming of our Lord and know that no enemy, no deceiver shall ever prevail against us. Let us show that those who perseveres to the end shall be saved and those who are misled by false prophets shall vanish into the flames of hell and be around us no more.