The Association of the Covenant People
Burnaby, B.C. Canada
VIOLENCE
by HOLLY MILLS
"The God of my rock; in him will I trust. He is my shield, and
the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my
saviour, thou savest me from violence."( 2 Sam. 22:3) "O Lord,
how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto
thee of violence and thou wilt not save!" (Hab. 1:2)
Recently while I was walking with friends we saw some sort of a
dispute between and a young man and a woman. I didn't see the
encounter at first but my friend said that it looked like there
was some domestic violence taking place across the street. She
had seen the man hit the woman. As I looked over the woman was
walking behind the man and he turned around, stopped and said
something to her and then slapped her. We yelled out at that
point and the woman turned around and walked back towards us with
her head down. We asked if she was ok but she just walked past us
with her head down and the fellow was gone. This was some
thing I had never witnessed before and it was rather surreal. The
man did not seem at all concerned that he was hitting this woman
in broad daylight in a very public area and I guess it made me
realize that violence to many people today is just a natural way
of expressing their anger and frustration. We do not seem to know
how to control ourselves today and we just allow our natural
feelings to express themselves. Without Christ in our lives it is
very easy to feel this way as it is our natural reaction.
There are many demonstrations of this violence in the world
today. We have the Occupy movements some of which have
had violence erupt. We have the student demonstrations over high
student fees, violent demonstrations in the Middle East and now
others erupting in our Israel nations as well. They all have a
different reason but it seems that people think that the way to
solve their problems today is by violent means. "For the violence
of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made
them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the
land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. (Hab. 2:17).
We have so much violence in our world today. Violence seems to be
becoming the answer to problems, such as abortion, neglect and
abuse of the elderly, abuse of children and abuse of animals.
Violent criminals who have raped and killed young children are
not given the sentences they deserve and the families of these
young children never receive justice. "Her prophets are light and
treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary,
they have done violence to the law." (Zeph. 3:4). God's laws have
been abandoned and evil fills our lands. We have lost our way and
do not allow God to work in our lives and change our hearts. We
continue to do things our own way and try to make God fit into
our plans rather that changing ourselves to fit into His plans.
We are so arrogant and really deserve everything that we get, but
luckily for us, God is merciful and will save us from ourselves
if we will only repent and turn to Him.
"And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what
shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man,
neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages."
(Luke 3:14)
When I read these words of Jesus I realized how far down we have
come. Can you imagine yourself trying to say these words to this
selfish and self-righteous generation? Here in British Columbia
we have many contracts coming up with our Government employees
and they are asking for the moon. Now, I'm not saying that I know
all of the issues with these employees but from what I've heard
so far I do not feel sorry for them. With all the troubles in the
world today and so many people struggling to make ends meet these
spoiled people still want everything that they can manage to get
for themselves. There is no humility in our lands. So now we have
the prospect of having more strikes and confrontations.
In the end violence never solves our problems and we know this
cannot go on forever. We have a mighty God and we must pray that
He will save us from the violence in the earth. One day soon this
violence will end with the final act of violence destroying the
Babylonian system that has enslaved us for too long. Our Lord
Jesus Christ will then return to set up His millennial kingdom.
Hallelujah!
"And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and
cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great
city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all."
(Rev. 18:21). "And after these things I heard a great voice of
much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory,
and honor, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and
righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore,
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they
said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever." (Rev.
19:1-3).
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A TALE OF TWO TRAGEDIES
by PASTOR JORY STEVEN BROOKS, CBIA
Last November, 2011, my nephew was attacked in his own home by a
knife-wielding assailant during a break-in and robbery. He
received multiple knife wounds as well as having his neck slit
ear to ear, and was left for dead by the thief. Fortunately he
was able to weakly dial his cell phone and ask for help at the
emergency telephone-assistance number ... "911." An ambulance -
quickly arrived in minutes to stanch the bleeding, administer a
large blood transfusion and rush him to a nearby hospital. He
survived, just barely, facing weeks of convalescence, and was
told that if the medical team had arrived only ten minutes later,
he would have bled to death. My nephew was able to identify his
attacker, a man living in the neighborhood, and last week, the
assailant's trial concluded in Detroit with the conviction of the
defendant on all three counts: attempted murder, assault, and
robbery. Despite the viciousness of the attack, not a word about
it appeared in any newspaper, radio, television, or other news
source.
Not a word ever appeared even in our local community newspaper!
Not a word when the crime was committed, nor when the perpetrator
was convicted. A crime is a crime, and although it really should
not matter to the news media, the fact is that the attacker was
black and my nephew is white.
Contrast the above with another such tragedy that occurred
recently in the small town of Sanford, Florida. On February 26,
2012, seventeen-year old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed
during an altercation with a neighborhood watch captain, George
Zimmerman. For weeks now, the news media has been in an absolute
frenzy about it, with news reports harping over it on every news
hour all day long, week after week, usually parsing the same
information already reported over and over. The "Project for
Excellence in journalism" report from the Pew Research Center
stated that about one-fifth of the total news space during the
first week in April was devoted to the shooting. Pew states that
they sampled a broad cross-section of news outlets, including
social media, blogs, newspapers, radio and television. One-fifth
of the total news reporting in the entire United States, day
after day, devoted to just one tragedy, when there are many
thousands of murders and other crimes each year all across
America!
It is impossible to ignore the stark difference in news coverage
between the two aforementioned tragedies. Yet the unfortunate
fact about this is that the sole reason for the media bias in
such news coverage is the element of race. The victim, Trayvon
Martin, is black, and his attacker (as we are told over and over
to make absolutely sure we understand) is "white."
In actual fact, George Zimmerman is only "half-white." His mother
is Peruvian, and in television news stories, Zimmerman actually
appears quite dark complexioned. Yet in one news story after
another, the emphasis is on the term, "White Latino."
In all of this grossly-excessive news treatment, the left-wing
controlled media outlets further purposely engaged in what they
call, "spin," to convince the listening audience that the death
of Trayvon Martin was a racist attack by a white man on a
defenseless black man. The Media Research Center revealed, for
example, that the "Today" television show purposefully and
deceitfully edited the "911" tape from the shooting to make
Zimmerman appear to have been motivated by race. After internet
blogs publicized this outrageous media falsification, the Detroit
Free Press reported that "NBC apologized last week for 'the error
in the production process' and promised an internal probe." (But,
of course, such falsifying of the news is no accident. Nor will
it end anytime soon.
Why does the media go to all of these lengths to distort and
twist the truth in their news coverage? To the agnostic leftists,
"truth" is defined as whatever advances their cause. It appears
that the Martin case was seized upon for psychological warfare to
support their view of white America as "racist." We are being
conditioned to not oppose the influx of millions of nonChristians
who are redefining our nation as "secular" and "nonChristian."
(Notice that the media has banned the term, "illegal alien" in
favor of "undocumented immigrant," as if their citizenship status
is just a formality.) The results of this can be seen in the
decline in Christian religious faith and morality throughout our
land.
As an example of this psychological conditioning tactic, a U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency official, Al Armendariz, recently
discussed government enforcement policies. MSNBC.com on April 30,
2012 quoted this government official as saying that the Romans
conquered a village by taking "the first five guys they saw and
they'd crucify them." He added that the EPA, similarly, makes
"examples out of people who are not complying with the law ...
you make examples out of them, use it as a deterrent method." Now
do you understand the reason for the incessant news coverage of
Trayvon Martin?
The reader should not assume that the above account of my
nephew's near-death is simply an isolated incident, as another
example in my own experience will demonstrate. On a Saturday
evening in April, 1990, our long time church board member,
Dorothy Ogburn, drove to a health food store on Grand River
Avenue in Detroit to buy some items for our church banquet the
following day. Since there was no parking spot open on the road,
she drove behind the building to park. As she stepped out of her
car, a gang of youths attacked and robbed her, beating her uncon-
scious with their fists. A witness called the police, and Dorothy
was transported to an area hospital only to die a few days later
from her wounds. The attack was especially vicious, for she had
severe bruises all over her body nearly from head to foot. Of
course, our church members were horrified and upset about this
sweet lady being beaten to death, so a few days later my
associate pastor went to the police precinct to enquire on the
state of the murder investigation. To his surprise, he was told
that there was no murder investigation at all. The desk Sergeant
told him, "She was just an old lady anyway." It really should not
have mattered to the media or the police, but Dorothy Ogburn was
white, and her attackers were black, as was the police officer on
duty at the police precinct.
Imagine if you will, the situation if the racial roles had been
reversed. Suppose that a gang of white youths attacked, beat, and
killed a defenseless black woman. It takes little imagination to
realize that such a state of affairs would have resulted in
extensive and continuing media coverage coast to coast. Why this
racial double standard? Is the life of a black man or black woman
more valuable than a white life? Where is the liberal
paean to "color-blindness" and "equality"? The hypocrisy they
show is incalculable.
Will things progress to a modern fulfilment of Christ's words in
John 16:2? "They shall put you out of the synagogues [or
churches]: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will
think that he doeth God service."
The point to be made is that these events are a definite sign of
the end times, and the "time of Jacob's trouble" according to
prophecy. The prophet Jeremiah wrote, "Alas! for that day is
great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's
trouble; but he shall be saved out of it." (Jer 30:7) Daniel
wrote of this and added a note of encouragement saying, "And at
that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that
same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every
one that shall be found written in the book." (Dan 12:1) Amen!
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NOTE:
The basic ground-roots of it all is that the Israel nations of
the West, are filled with violence of every type, from a fist to
the face, a kick in the stomach, to beatings, to rape, to
killings, to mass killings by one or more mad-men, to gang
violence. God tells us without mincing words that in our lands
"blood touches blood" - it is ever going on. And Jesus said that
before He returns "love will wax cold."
We have gross, raw, violent movies, and now raw violent TV in its
"drama programs." We have gone from the so-called sport of
"boxing" to the play-acting of "circus wrestling" to the now more
and more popular "anything goes fighting" - fists, kicking, and
just about anything while your opponent is on the floor. Now we
even have women boxing; guess that is woman's liberation for you;
next it will no doubt be "anything goes fighting in the ring" for
women.
So for a carnal nation of people how do you stop violence. Well
all we have to do is look at Singapore, and learn the simple
truth. So do your research, go on the Internet and see how the
Singapore Government stops crime and violence. Oh of course you
can also look in the Old Testament of the Bible and see how God
told carnal ancient Israel as to how to stop crime and violence.
But we have rejected the Bible and God. Hence we are in the stew
pot of blood touching blood - we have violent Western nations,
who wonder why or how to stop violence when there is a mass
killing by some nut, but we do not even have the brains or sense
to look at how Singapore does it. And if your nation is like
Canada (the Government not the majority of the people) your
Government thinks capital punishment is "barbaric" even for
serial killers or mass murder killers, or child killers, or
police killers.
So we in the West habor violence, even promote raw violence, in
the name of "sport" ..... we seem to like violence in the overall
general way, so God will one day give us ALL THE VIOLENCE we can
stomach and even more. We are one day going to be given violence
in no uncertain way, until there will only be 1/10th of us
remaining alive at the coming of Christ to earth. In fact the
whole world will be given all the violence it seems to craze,
until the world is just about to destroy all human life from the
planet.
Fortunately God the Father will send Jesus back in time to stop,
to destroy those who are destroying the earth, and to bring the
earth real peace at last. It will be a peace where God's laws
will go from Jerusalem; a time when if someone is going to do an
act of wrong, there will come a voice out of the air, saying,
"This is the way, walk you in it." An invisible police force to
enforce peace and a law abiding attitude.
All this and much more is foretold in the pages of Bible
Prophecy. I have expounded for you on this website ALL the
prophetic books of the Bible, and told you what shall surely come
to pass in the years ahead, the bad and the good.
It is time for you to study the prophetic books of your Bible,
and learn the mind of God, then get in harmony with the Eternal
God, and be a part of the first resurrection, to be on Jesus'
team when He comes again.
Keith Hunt
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