The Violence of Peace

Post 271

“…And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many…” Daniel 8:25a.

Even a child can easily describe the stark difference between violence and peace; these two natures are polar opposites with opposing effects. These opposing natures are at perpetual war with one another like light and darkness, good and evil, or black and white. So why in Daniel 2:40-43 did God choose iron and clay to represent the division portion of the Daniel 7 fourth Diverse Beast? The reason is because this kingdom is a division of dark and darker; there is no real light in it to contend with the darkness (Matthew 6:23), but in their lively contention you could’t convince them of that.
God divided the light from the darkness back in Genesis 1:4, which makes us confident that Black and White cannot occupy the same space at the same time or Evil cannot exist where Good dwells… but since we saw that the separated waters mingled afterwards, can light and darkness mingle too? John 1:4-5 tells us that while life as light can actually shine in the darkness the darkness cannot comprehend it, but strangely II Corinthians 4:6 tells us that God made the light to shine out of the darkness, and Psalm 139:12 even supports this strange notion. So what are we to do in the confusion? I John 2:8 provides a new commandment regarding a sure separation within ourselves regardless of the complications around us. The sure separation from the darkness is in Jesus Christ the true light carried within us. Light shining out of the darkness.

Violence can indeed abide with peace, and peace combined with another element can produce violence, much as iron law and the people’s democracy can unite to produce either good or evil. The Republic of America and the Republic of China have historically shown the vast differences of application with essentially the same basic elements, which we now know that the mysterious difference is in the waters of different natures, somewhat like sea water and fresh are both waters but distinctly different eco systems.
Continuing our investigation of “What is peace?” allow me to provide an example of the confusion that already exists deeply in America on this topic. Please note: I am not allowing the witch to preach for me, but rather showing you that she is indeed a witch promoting a Christain message:
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The Good Witch:
Since it’s the Halloween season here in America the TV is inundated with the familiar Halloween themed programs. But unlike my childhood’s horror movies, slasher movies, and dark occult movies like The Exorcist, today’s Halloween TV has another presentation. Today we have an emotionally alluring Halloween; like Harry Potter, vampire romances, and beautifully feminine witches like Cassandra Nightingale with nothing but goodness in her heart, presented in The Good Witch, a Hallmark Channel presentation (*1).
This is a delightfully family orientated movie with virtually nothing objectionable even to the most discriminating- with the exception of perhaps a few kisses by adults and one very “feminine” gown.
In this movie, good is good and bad is bad, and Cassandra always stands on the side of good against the evil and always in a wonderfully unifying resolution to the good of everyone, even the local prude who stands against her for her “dark ways.”

Throughout the film, beginning with the very title, beautiful, graceful, and kind Cassandra, the new resident of a sleepy little town, is revealed with all the obvious signs of practicing the dark arts of witchcraft, but in a way that allows doubt to the truth of what you see. The things and events you observe could be just unusual coincidence, but the “oddity” is just too coincidental to ignore, and by it, we are confident that we are supposed to know she is a witch. In this way the viewer is allowed the option to “see” an honest to goodness witch, or just an innocent woman who “sees” life a little different than you or I.
And while her obvious occult practices are left to wonder under a very thin mask of un-confession, her pure and good heart and her ability to intelligently produce perfectly timed favorable results to the benefit of the community are unquestionable. This woman is a wonderful asset to this town and everyone could learn a-thing-or-two from her about kindness and understanding.

Now add to this complexity the local know-it-all busybody prude with a mean heart that takes a disliking to Cassandra and determines to drive her from town as a witch.
She gets a significant portion of the town to rise up against Cassandra and her shop of “odd trinkets,” but even in trying hard to describe it like the movie presents it, I cannot present the innocent perspective that the movie artfully provides, and because of it I cannot accurately present the dilemma, so allow me to just declare it:

In the wonderfully family movie, Cassandra is the innocent and the dumpy prude is the narrow-minded “Christian” disruption to the peace of the town. In a great extension of kindness, which is her normal nature, Cassandra befriends the obnoxious woman and eventually wins her heart of friendship and brings peace to the town. The movie succeeds in completely disarming your clear recognition that this woman is truly a full blown witch and allures you to side with her completely as the innocent, like was done for the beast in “Beauty and the Beast” and the dumpy prude is as Gaston, who sees the evil for what it is; evil.
As hard as it is for today’s American Christian to condemn the Beast, it’s that much harder to condemn a beautifully soft natured woman with a wonderful personality of kindness, who just happens to practice witchcraft.

SO, in real life; here on the streets of America, who is going to be the obnoxious prude and drive the witch from town? And if we do, what a black mark of “Hate Speech” we would get! (*2). And now tell me Christian American, how do you think we should implement the following scripture?

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18.

“Oh that’s easy” you say, “We are not under the law but under grace.”
Fair enough.
So dear Christian, what do you do if your wife regularly sleeps with the priest? Is that OK too because we are not under the law? Let’s read the context in which the above easily rejected verse is found:

“Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death” Exodus 22:19.

“Woe, OK, that is bad” you reply, “but instead of Capital Punishment let’s just put them in rehabilitation.”
Fair enough.

But will you also put the witch in rehabilitation, or are we going to “massage” that away too? Read the next verse of the context:

“He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed” Exodus 22:20.

Oh, now that is just barbaric! right?
But why do you suppose God put these three widely divers ordinances together in a single context under Capitol Punishment? If we look, we see that we have a very great difference of reaction between them, from; “Each to his own,” to “That’s nasty!” to “Don’t be ridiculous!” But man did not make the laws; these are God’s opinion on things.
You see God doesn’t play emotional games and his laws are not suggestions. There are REASONS why he gave us these laws, and like Cassandra using her magic to do good, your corrupted goodness of peace in disobeying God brings confusion that eventually brings the un-solvable violence of Noah’s day as the context continues:

“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword: and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless” Exodus 22:24.

“BUT!” I hear you shout, “Are you really recommending a return to the barbaric Witch Burning of early America?”
Of course not.
That event was perhaps handled by wicked men and the results were quite possibly the deaths of many innocents along with a few guilty…perhaps (*3).
But while you struggled with my actual meaning of Post 266 “It’s About To Snow,” because I seemed to tell long time Christians to quit your job in order to find God, Jesus was far more radical than I:

“Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire” Matthew 18:8.

Does Jesus really want a bunch of self-mangled people in wheelchairs roaming his streets of gold? Of course not. What he was actually saying is to urgently figure out how to keep your hands and feet from being an offence!
Now here is the really had part to swallow; BECAUSE we can’t seem to figure out how to stop our own members from bringing offense, our only choice is to amputate them to end the offense. But BECAUSE we can’t bring ourselves to do that either, God himself is sending the Muslims to do that job for us!
Do you suppose because wicked men will handle this job, many innocents will again be killed along with the guilty, as supposed in the Witch-Burning?

NOW, if God is sending the limb-hacking Muslims in real life, how much of a metaphor do you think Jesus’ statement was? How much of a metaphor do think my job quitting instruction was? Don’t get out your knife first; get out your Bible! But if you just can’t find the time, then get out your knife! It’s THAT serious. Is America’s great unemployment rate God’s divine aid to cut off our jobs so that we will have the time to find him? Does that sound too radically religious to believe?

“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption…which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam…who loved the wages of unrighteousness;” II Peter 2:12-15.

Like Uzzah before the falling Ark (II Samuel 6:6-7, I Chronicles 13:9-10), America has already moved beyond a right answer; Touch it and die, or let it fall and live without the Ark. This is the quandary of November 6th 2012 (*4).
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“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy (7922) also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand…and by peace shall destroy many” Daniel 8:24-25.

Policy 7922 sekel; from 7919; intelligence; by implication success:-- discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
7919 sakal; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence intelligent:-- consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent (-ly), (give) skill (-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand (-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise (-ly), guide wittingly.

Circumspect: Careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences: prudent. - Merriam-Webster electronic dictionary app.

Example: “The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies [CIA], military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intelligence_community#Members).

While describing the Antichrist and by degree, the many leaders before him, this also perfectly describes Cassandra in her circumspect use of magic to make it desirable in her town and thereby raise a whole generation of socially accepted witches, which God will destroy by the third party hand of this Beast who will then make a public statement condemning the brutal act.
The power of this Beast is the power of Miry Iron; it is the Waters from above the firmament; it is the “They” of his clay. His power is the supernatural combined with the human law. It is the iron and the clay. The problem is that the democratic clay will not allow the iron to destroy the witch for some time, and so she rides on the back of the Beast for a while (Revelation 17:3).
Now although the translation “wonderfully” seems an unfortunate use to describe a thing so grand it is possibly miraculous, it is not a poor choice of words. It is a very accurate translation of his kind of destruction through peace, just as Cassandra brought witchcraft to the town by her wonder-full charming and beneficial presentation.
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Something to Compare Against:
America has already so confused her light into darkness that she cannot now see that the Yin and the Yang, which she borrowed from the Orient religions, are both darkness in the same circle:

“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:23.

The mental perception of light is now a conditioned evaluation of comparison with the “obvious” darkness in the same circle, and in so doing, the confident proclamation is that; “I am obviously the white side,” while God casts the whole Yin-and-Yang circle-of-darkness into the fire as the abomination of a strange god.

Evil is easily seen as evil against the clean. So the evil needs a greater evil to be compared against and so accepted as the clean by comparison. This is the fundamental rule in all TV and movie presentations of evil. It makes you, the third party participant, determine the goodness of the two sides in a provided conflict; one is evil and therefore the other is good. How good is it? That doesn’t matter to the carefully crafted presentation and so is not evaluated in the setting; it’s just a lot better than the evil and so it is good by default.

In “The Good Witch” Cassandra plays the part of an outside Problem-Solver between contending locals. In a primary case; between a young bully and his victim, the bully is obviously the “evil” and his victim is obviously the “good.” But now the super wise Cassandra is able to devise a creative environment where evil can be won over to the good and all turns out even better than a compromise; Cassandra’s magical policy has won the day!
NOW, by comparison between the “good” victim and the “super wise” Cassandra, which is the good and which is the evil, so to speak? Obviously Cassandra’s magical ways are far “gooder” than the failures of the good victim.
What we have just seen is the demonic supernatural Miry Clay take a superior place above contending humanity of Potter’s Clay and Morter. Instead of casting out the witch as instructed, humanity now is grateful to the witch for her supernaturally wise help that brings peace to contending humanity.
The one that was “put in her place” is the only one in town who saw the witch for what she was; a witch, but in her own corrupted nature of Morter she is like “the pot calling the kettle black.” And now we have a new “evil” against which everyone in the town can be compared. The victim, the bully, and the witch can all compare themselves against the prude and see themselves as a unified global community of good against the evil Christian...whom they want to join them in peace, but she will have none of it! Suddenly the witch is the tolerant one offering peace, but only if the Christian will quit contending with her practices of witchcraft. Destruction by Peace.

Harry Potter (*5) would not be acceptable unless there was a greater evil presentation against which his goodness could be compared. Any “Muggle” that stands against witchcraft is just such a usable comparison, and so we see the perfect “set up” as Harry’s Muggle parents are not even nice people. These films are not entertainment; they are indoctrination of the Devil against the scriptures themselves. Peruse the Muggle link and compare it to the scripture’s important separation between waters/spirits. It is startling!
But; do you really think I will convince any Christian Harry Potter lovers?

“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” II Timothy 3:4-5.

I constantly marvel at the detailed accuracy of scripture: this is not a simple list of generics; it is very specific:

Traitors from God are ones who are his people but have subversively changed loyalties to give aid to the enemy, example; Christians who love and defend Harry Potter so that he is allowed to infiltrate without opposition.

Highminded are those who stand on elevated ground of illusion, above the clear instruction of scripture. These people use self-rationalization to explain why their views are morally better than God’s, (see Romans 11:20-21 to make it directly personal).

Highminded 5187 tuphoo; from a derivative of 5188; to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit:-- high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud.

Lovers of pleasures is not the problem here, it’s loving pleasures more than God. God says don’t love Harry Potter, but because you are already drawn in, how do you un-love what you love? But the more important question is; How do you want to when you don’t want to? Like a drug addict, this is a difficult problem, which is why God already said; don’t even become familiar in the first place. Just DON’T. But they do. In fact the encouragement to our kids in a positive light is to “Just Do It!” In otherwords; “To hell with the consequences!”
These “good Christian” people cannot see themselves as guilty because they are busy comparing themselves with the far more guilty and so see themselves as clean (II Corinthians 10:12). It is to these blind and guilty Christians that the law of God has been provided, but their dirty-grace faith is a solid protection against that law that brings conviction and so repentance is never found.

This is the setting in which America now approaches their Presidential vote of November 6th. And while I didn’t personally know a single person who confessed they would vote for Clinton a second time, I know a lot that are proud to declare they will vote for Obama again. The darkness is growing rapidly.
But that is not the Mystery.
The mystery is that I, along with many concerned Christians, will vote for Romney.

“So, Why is that a mystery?” you ask.
Because it’s very easy to see that Obama and his Muslim loyalty is a Type of the Antichrist destruction of God’s people, but it’s far more mysterious to see that Romney is a Type of their captivity in Babylon. The mystery is why would God’s people choose Babylon? One is destruction by violence; the other is destruction by peace. But peace rides the violence like the Harlot rides the Beast. The harlot needs the Beast as a basis of evil from which to proclaim her goodness for public acceptance. So knowing this, how can I choose the Harlot? I will expound on this in a following post.
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(*1) Not A Recommendation:
Please do not imagine I have provided these titles as recommendations for you and your family to watch, I am simply revealing the truth behind the programs you already let your family watch in ignorance and are therefore completely defenseless against their demonic indoctrinations.
The Good Witch - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Witch).

(*2) Hate Speech Legislation:
The following is excerpted from a WND report;
“The federal “Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009,” signed into law by President Obama, enhances penalties for “hate crimes” deemed to be motivated by “actual or perceived sexual orientation” of a victim…
AFLC said it has filed a petition to the high court asking for the review.
The case contends that the “hate crimes” law violates the plaintiffs’ civil rights, since it opens Christians to becoming the target of federal investigations, grand juries and even criminal charges just for opposing or publicly criticizing the homosexual lifestyle and “gay” activism.
The petition points out that all 50 states already have laws punishing violence, and that, as Attorney General Eric Holder himself has admitted, there is no evidence that “hate crimes” go unpunished at the state level. In 2008, of the 1.38 million violent crimes reported, only 243 dealt with the victim’s sexual orientation.
The Hate Crimes Act was dubbed by its critics the “Pedophile Protection Act” after an amendment to explicitly prohibit pedophiles from being protected by the act was defeated by majority Democrats. During congressional debate, supporters argued that all “philias,” or alternative sexual lifestyles, should be protected…
The pastors explained that as Christian leaders with a duty to teach God’s Word on moral issues such as homosexuality, they have “willfully” and actively engaged in expressive conduct regarding the morality of homosexuality – conduct that could subject them to investigation and prosecution under the Hate Crimes Act, which does not limit its prohibitions to physical acts of violence, AFLC said.
But judges to date have said such a threat of investigation, prosecution and jail time doesn’t mean that the pastors have grounds to pursue a challenge…
Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in October 2009 after Democrats strategically attached it to a “must-pass” $680 billion defense-appropriations bill.
The law cracks down on any actions that could be linked to criticism of homosexuality or even the “perception” of homosexuality. As Congress debated it, there were assurances it would not be used to restrict free speech.
Obama boasted about the “hate crimes” bill when he signed it into law.
“After more than a decade, we’ve passed inclusive hate-crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray or who they are,” he said.
The bill signed by Obama was opposed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which called it a “menace” to civil liberties. The commission argued the law allows federal authorities to bring charges against individuals even if they’ve already been cleared in a state court.” - (http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/potential-10-year-terms-for-bias-challenged-by-pastors/).

By peace, the Mortor son of Satan that occupies the highest office in America has enacted legislation of destruction against those that would stand on the commands of God in defense of this nation against God’s wrath.
If Sodomy and Child molestation are to be protected not only against prohibiting the act but against even the suggestion that it is reprehensible, then what abominations could possibly be seen as reproachable? Surely not witchcraft. But what do you expect a Jehovahless leader to do when so-called Christians filled with hate are accused of beating to death a sodomite? The government is simply trying to solve a complex problem of sin while mired in iniquity themselves. And so is the Church today.

(*3) Witch Burning of Salem Massachusetts:
It is quite troubling that after 320 years have passed, we seem willing to proclaim that we know the truth of the events. I am certainly not suggesting the women were all in fact witches rightly put to death, but neither can I confirm that innocent women were murdered in a religious paranoia. The fact is we just don’t know, but we nonetheless sure like to use that one-year event as a standard to proclaim “never again, at any cost.”
Is this reaction not a more sure form of anti-religious paranoia than the event of so long ago was religiously hysterical? Consider this telling brief statement in the article that obviously stands against the horrible events of a presumed hysterical religious people:

“Witchcraft was then used by peasants, who invoked particular charms for farming and agriculture. Over time, the idea of white magic transformed into dark magic and became associated with demons and evil spirits.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials).

This statement is hauntingly familiar with the recent troubles of Uganda described in An Unconventional War (http://yourservantinchristministries.org/?p=360). Will their children one day, 300 years from now, describe their very real solution as hateful witch burning? Most probably.
So why am I against obeying the scriptural law to Capitally punish all witches? Because we are no longer righteous before God to do that job. First we must purify our own hearts and actions before God, and become his clean and holy people, and then we will have clear wisdom in how to deal with people dabbling in ignorance vs. those that are committed to witchcraft. This self-cleansing from sin was the secret of Uganda’s success when no previous effort could prevail.

Remember post 256 On The Olympics? I showed that this same “white magic,” today called superstition, is prevalent not only in the pagan culture but in the Christian church as well. It is indeed time for a very real and serious purging, but the knife must fall on our own limbs first! (Matthew 7:3-5, I Peter 4:17).

(*4) All Bad Options:
See also a similar “no good answer” quandary of II Samuel 24:13-15 and notice the comparable 3 months option without God’s presence, as we saw in II Samuel 6:11-12. David chose the option that was most directly handled by God alone but the price was still very high, the punishment must be paid. Uzzah had no such option in his two-party choice of either/or. And neither do we; Like whoever put the Ark on the cart, the powers that be have already set us up to fail.

(*5) Harry Potter:
“harry (v.)
O.E. hergian "make war, lay waste, ravage, plunder," the word used in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" for what the Vikings did to England, from P.Gmc. verb *harohan (cf. O.Fris. urheria "lay waste, ravage, plunder," O.N. herja "to make a raid, to plunder," O.S., O.H.G. herion, Ger. verheeren "to destroy, lay waste, devastate"), from *harjaz "an armed force" (cf. O.E. here, O.N. herr "crowd, great number; army, troop," O.S., O.Fris. heri, Du. heir, O.H.G. har, Ger. Heer "host, army," Goth. harjis), from PIE root *koro- "war" (cf. Lith. karas "war, quarrel," karias "host, army;" O.C.S. kara "strife;" M.Ir. cuire "troop;" O.Pers. kara "host, people, army;" Gk. koiranos "ruler, leader, commander"). Weakened sense of "worry, goad, harass" is from c.1400. Related: Harried; harrying. Harry
masc. proper name, a familiar form of Henry. Weekley takes the overwhelming number of Harris and Harrison surnames as evidence that "Harry," not "Henry," was the M.E. pronunciation of Henry. Also cf. Harriet, English equivalent of Fr. Henriette, fem. dim. of Henri. Nautical slang Harriet Lane "preserved meat" (1896) refers to a famous murder victim whose killer allegedly chopped up her body.” - (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=harry).
Thank you Tonis Anton for the information, this was just too good to leave as as unattached link.
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