PART I – THE END OF TRUTH
Jesus was pretty serious about TRUTH. After all, in John 14:6 He identified “truth” as a part of the essence of His nature. Christ said: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” And when being questioned by Pilate, Jesus offered truth as one of the purposes for His incarnation. “I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” (John 18:37) And when talking about the End Times, Christ’s first warning to His disciples – and to us by extension – warns of falling for the opposite of truth. “Take heed that no one deceives you.” (Matthew 21:4) In John 8:44, He tells the Pharisees, “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.” TRUTH, absolute and unchangeable, is at the center of the Kingdom of God. That’s why it is important to Him.
But have you noticed? We have a truth problem in America. First the Enemy came and hijacked the culture….and in the process, he eliminated truth. Or should I say TRUTH’? An essential part of that process was when he grabbed hold of our education system. That was infiltrated over a century ago. And when that happened he gained control of our kids. Next came morality. If you feed in social and scientific Darwinism and shake well, you get a morality based on the arrogant, self-important musings of man. So in place of God’s Laws, we were given things like abortion; I mean ‘It’s our bodies,’ isn’t it? Then he sowed LGBTQ Rights and gender confusion. We can’t even recognize the plumbing any longer. Finally he gave us Identity Politics. We are to think according to our birth status. If we are Black we are to think one way. If we are Gay we have another agenda. Hispanics, Women, Whites, Muslims, Immigrants – all have become either protected groups or oppressors. It is pure tribalism.In the process of all of this we have enthroned sin. And now it has gone even farther. We celebrate sin. The day that the Supreme Court declared Gay Marriage the Law of the Land, the President celebrated by bathing the White House in rainbow lights, that symbol of sin forbidden by the Creator Himself. Thus the Enemy hijacked the culture, in this case by redefining the meaning of marriage – and in the process he hijacked the TRUTH itself. When it comes to pursuing the unnatural, immoral and unseemly, no pagan society of millennia past has anything on us.
That takes us to Charlottesville. It all started over the proposed removal of Confederate monuments. The monuments had become to some, a symbol of racism, of slavery. To others, it was an emblem of a lost past, of State’s Rights and a historic past that tied to Washington and the Revolution. [This may come as a surprise to some, but only 27% of respondents said that Confederate statues and monuments should be removed.[i] Even a plurality of African Americans believe that the statues should remain. 44% said keep them, 11% were not sure and 40% thought they should be removed.[ii] Yet this movement to tear down the statues is not monolithic even among minorities. In Texas, “a group made up of predominantly African-Americans has called for Confederate statues in Dallas to remain standing.”[iii] Yet despite all that the Confederate symbols are coming down all over America. In the middle of the night, Baltimore just removed four statures dedicated to the Confederacy.[iv] That followed a mob toppling of a monument in Durham, NC. New Orleans removed four statues back in April.[v]] So protests formed to register displeasure with the removal of the symbols. And there were bad elements involved in the protests, Nazis, KKK and the like. But they got a permit and were ready to exercise their 1st Amendment rights.
Then, the day before the protest Governor McAuliffe of Virginia warned folks to stay away because counter-protestors were coming and they expected them – the counter-protestors to act violently against the original group. So it gets even more complicated from here. About a half-hour or so before the start of the gathering, while most folks were already there, police began ordering them to leave, go home. Well that wasn’t going to happen. And then the counter protestors showed up, ready for a fight. Now the White Supremacist groups had come armed with “shields, protective gear, rods” and some even had guns. Antifa and BLM counter-protestors blocked the streets where the pro-monument group was to march. Then the Leftists launched an attack using “mace, pepper spray, bricks, sticks and foul liquids.” (chemicals) All the while, the police stood idle and the let the fights go on for quite some time before stepping in.[vi] And of course, the biggest tragedy James Fields, went berserk and drove his car into the crowd of counter-protestors killing one and injuring 19. And after the attacks and the violence came the assault on TRUTH.
The President immediately came out with a statement that condemned in general terms, the violence coming from both sides. But that wasn’t good enough. The anti-Trump forces – Democrats, the Mainstream Media and the cowardly Republican Establishment-types demanded he condemn the White Supremacists specifically. So the next day, the President does just that. But now that isn’t good enough….because he waited, so he must not really mean it….and those are his supporters anyway…..so by waiting he’s signaling to them that he doesn’t really mean it…..because Trump must be a semi-secret racist too. Such was the drivel spewing from the mouths of the talking heads on CNN, NBC, NPR and the like. The ideology vomited forth by White Supremacist groups like the KKK, the NAZIS, and the like is reprehensible and need be condemned. So is the racism of Black Lives Matter with their chants of “Pigs in a blanket, fry-em like bacon” along with the violence spewed by the Antifa forces in so many venues as they rioted – such as in Berkley – to shut down free speech. [Their motto may be ‘The First Amendment for me but not for thee!’ Their have been many Leftist protests that have erupted in violence and rioting – and yet the Mainstream Media and the Dems & Establishment Republicans – have not publicly clamored for presidential condemnations. There was Oakland, Akron and Pittsburgh in 2009. Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and Oakland in 2010. Oakland again in 2011. Chicago and Anaheim in 2012. There was the Ferguson riots of 2014, all based on a lie, when even the Obama Justice Department could not find the conviction that was wanted. 2016 gave us violence in Chicago, St Louis, St Paul, Milwaukee, Charlotte. And there was Berkley 3 times in the last year. What a convenient forgetfulness!
But President Trump did not forget and spoke truth. He realized that there would be no pleasing or placating the Forces of Deception that reside in the Deep State that is committed to his destruction and removal from office….at any cost. “You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. I’ll say it right now.” [That’s a Truth the Left does NOT want to hear; that there were no good-guys in this fight. That would not fit their agenda.] And so he chided them even more. The MSM had been referring to the non-racist elements at the rally as the Alt-Right. They had given in the meaning of anyone who does not support the Left’s agenda. So he called the ‘other’ elements from the Left’s counter-protest, the ones that were not BLM or Soros-bought protesters – (and there is proof that there were those) – he called them the Alt-Left. You see what the Left is doing is setting out the case for ‘guilt by association.’ If you don’t want the monuments torn down…you are a racist and a bigot and you secretly favor the Nazis.
This is all part of the game. The Left has convoluted the truth here because Truth is NOT the object. In fact, it is an impediment to their agenda. This is all about redefining good and evil. Remember, they’ve redefined our culture, so they could redefine the Truth. In Genesis 2:16-17, we see that God gave but one commandment to Adam and Eve. “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” One commandment! Put in simple terms it boils down to this: ‘Don’t Play God!’ But as human beings, we’ve been violating it ever since.
[i] POLL: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues To Remain, The Daily Caller, August 17, 2017
[ii] Most Black Americans Don’t Want Confederate Statues Removed, Daily Caller, August 17, 2017
[iii] Predominantly black group fights to keep Confederate statues in Dallas, NY Post, August 16, 2017
[iv] Baltimore tears down controversial statues, WTOP, August 16, 2017
[v] Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the United States, New York Times, August 17, 2017
[vi] Who was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville?, Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2017
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