The Travail of The Christian Faith

Introduction

When the confederation began over a century and half ago, the public rhetoric that Canada was a "Dominion" was taken from the Bible verse of Psalm 72:8. Laws regarding personal morality in the land reflected popular Christian standards. The public calendar was marked by Christian holidays, especially Christmas and Easter, and Sunday was traditionally a day of rest. Today, just like in many Western Christian civilizations especially those which through the vehicle of faith and the 18^th century industrial revolution became world powers and great influence to other parts of the world in terms of religious beliefs, economy and social lifestyles, Canada’s romance with faith has deteriorated. Jesus Himself foresaw how the challenges of changing time and age will erode the faith of many when in Luke 18:1-8 He asked: “when the Son of man shall return, will He find faith on earth?” In other words, if the Son of man were to return to the Dominion of Canada and the world today, will He find faith in the lands? Or, has Satan so much taken a hold of the nations and their citizenries that the faith of Canada and others has failed?

Faith Laid The Foundation

Before the 18th century European Enlightenment, it was tradition in Europe that political stability depends in part on the people's allegiance to one church, established as an arm of the royal government. European kings were known as "vicars of Christ" long before the pope assumed that title, and many colonial administrators saw their own role in a religious light. British North America also began as long ago as 1497 when John Cabot working on behalf of the British Crown first discovered the coast of North America and claimed Newfoundland for the English. Our European fathers and first movers who voyaged to make this land our home on natives land did so by faith.  They recognized the supremacy of God and depended on Him for help. We see this in founder of Montreal,  Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve as he, in 1643 (more than two centuries before the beginning of confederation) erected a wooden cross at the summit of what is today Mount Royal to thank God for sparing the young colony from rising flood waters. As of 1861, just 6 years before John A. Macdonald and other politicians would help begin the coming together of the colonies to form one nation, all of the over three million white populations who lived in British colonies of North America identified as Christians – about half of them were Catholic and half Protestant. And so was the Dominion of Canada indeed founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law in 1867 by godly men and women.

Growing Secularity

During the 18^th century, both French and British governments began taking the tradition of alliance to a church for granted to open the door to the idea of a dichotomy between religion and the secular due in part to pressure by separatists and anti-faith aficionados whose vulgar attempts to null faith on scientific grounds rather was providing even stronger proofs for belief. But like little leaven, the movements have today evolved governments into Principalities and Powers against faith – the greatest instrument used in fighting faith (not the fight of faith that Paul recommended) by faithless campaigners today is the State. Thrown out by the Canadian parliament since 2008, absconded by the British House of Commons, and under strangulation at the Capitol; the rake is on, to demolish the structures, symbols, teaching and expressions of faith and remove them from our public places. In Quebec for example, Bouchard-Taylor commission's recommendation on matters of faith and religion contained in the 2008 Abridged Report states; “Catholicism has left an indelible mark on Québec’s history. Traces of it are all around us. Under the principle of the neutrality of the State, religious displays linked to the functioning of public institutions should be abandoned. Thus, we do not believe that the crucifix in the National Assembly and the prayers that precede municipal council meetings have their place in a secular State. In both instances, public institutions are associated with a single religious affiliation rather than addressing themselves to all citizens.” In the neighboring nation United States, on April 15, 2010, a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled on the National Day of Prayer as unconstitutional, claiming the day amounts to a call for religious action. Today, Christmas season is being replace by Holiday – what we now hear is “Happy Holiday” instead of the age long “Merry Christmas.”

Science Cancel Atheism

The movement towards completely secularized society began with the revolutions in science, philosophy, civilization, and politics. It is somewhat funny how that since the fall of the first man Adam in Eden; the more our eyes are opened to know, the farer we seem to want to run from the Maker, either out of fear and shame that we are naked and helpless or out of utter pride that we know enough to do on our own and independent of Him. Knowledge belong to the Creator. The one who planted the tree of knowledge of good and evil, He is the author of all knowledge and He is all knowing. And rather than oppose or diminish God, scientific evidence instead proof Intelligence behind the cosmos, i.e. the universe is the work of Intelligent Design (ID). Canadians and the human race did not evolve from some Ape; man was created in the image of God by God. And if for reasons of our knowledge, creativities, inventions and innovations that we continue to build and continue to evolve our society to the present hi-tech driven super modern world we denigrate Faith and curse God, then what will one do at that time, when he sees an even greater wonders that is coming, things that have eluded human intellects and abilities in soon to come time? In Revelation 13, there comes a time of the end when a common beast and nonhuman creature will be given power to do great wonders, including giving life and breadth to a molten image of another beast and causing it to speak. If indeed science breed reasons and we are indeed reasoning with open minds, we would before now realize that we have proven the existence of Jehovah Energy!

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end (Ecclesiates 3:10-13)

Time Has Changed

Since the age of enlightenment, the non-religious population began to grow although not without disruptions by wars, natural disasters and other life threatening events that pull more people toward belief. For instance, in the wake of the Second World War, church attendance at weekly services was high, and resources that once went into war was now devoted to building peace, giving leaders confident in the strength of the churches. However, in the 1960s, church attendance and vocations to the ordained ministry fell off sharply, most dramatically in Québec, and other places. At the end of the 1960s, many Catholic and mainstream Protestant leaders had agreed that religious institutions would have to align to changing times by accommodating church doctrine to science, and by articulating a social gospel that address the material issues of economic inequality, racism, sexism, and North America militarism. Harvard Theological Review of 2006 proposed a two-way dialectic between theology and the world – the former opening its door to the later as essential to the healthy growth and development of both faith, our understanding of the world, and our constantly evolving culture which we bequeath to our children. Presently, nearly one-quarter of Canada's population has no religious affiliation with the non-religious population younger than the general population according to the 2011 National Household Survey. The strong efficacy of the Christian Faith that was the bedrock of governance and source of societal values in Canada and other Western countries is today being abandoned. Also, the glory and piousness attached to religious events and rites by our fathers and founders of our nation now meet cold blooded generation.

Conclusion

Where is thy faith O Canada/nations (Luke 8:25)? Whereas faith is a personal thing of the heart, allowing the wind of unbelief and ungodliness to blow away the structures, symbols and expressions of the Christian Faith across the country and nations plays so much to raising a generation that would/do not know the Lord. The Enemy knows what he is doing. Signs and symbols are also key ways and parts of communication; the three wise men trailed the star in the sky to Baby Jesus when He was born. Seeing historic signs such as the cross on Mont-Royal in Montreal or other crosses and faith symbols on  old buildings converted for secular uses across the country can spark some curiosity that could lead individuals to inquire, learn about and embrace the Christian Faith. In sport, a coach is being sacked when he fails to lead his team or ward to success. The Lord God seems the only Coach, Mentor and indeed Father who have never failed, yet Canadians and nations pride in “sacking Him!” We’ve "sacked Him" from our government, families, schools, businesses, marriages and relationships, careers, and our personal lives; still, He seats in Heaven and continues to rule in the affairs of men, and keep our land glorious and free! As we all continue as nations under Heaven, the call is for all Canadians and every nation to reflect on the labors of the heroes past who had no comfort of today but survived and succeeded in taking the message of Salvation in Jesus Christ to the nations, though not without regrettable human tendencies. Faith in God Almighty through His begotten Son, Jesus Christ, is the absolute essential for our life and peace .

“"I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Ever since the time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty” (Malachi 3:6-7)

Ubong Ambrose is a prolific author & Lead Pastor at Seat of Honor Ministries, Ottawa Ontario

Justin Appeared In Coat of Many Color Years Back Before He Became Canadian PM, Prophetic!

 

Stunning! Like the biblical Joseph, there were signs that the then much younger Justin will come to lead a country so diverse and at a time so demanding like no other in at least modern history. Here we are today – in a time where not only the burden of providing smart leadership to the nation is crucial; but even more is the task of ensuring all Canadians eat amidst drought and famine or call it economic slump caused by the pandemic outbreak that has hit the world over to the point that many cannot even risk going to work at certain times.

What does it mean? In the Bible, Joseph’s first dream was that he saw his eleven brothers looked up to him. In the second dream, not only were his eleven brothers going to look up to him, but also his father and mother. And just thereafter, his father being a prophet, when he had pondered over Joseph’s dream was inspired to bless and extend Joseph’s vision to become global such that not only were his father, mother and siblings going to look up to Joseph, but also, all nations of the world. This, Jacob did by making for his son, Joseph the coat of many colors. There is no color on the flag of any nation that was not on Joseph’s coat of many colors. And after he had gone through many ups and downs, Joseph became in charge of Egypt, the ancient world's center and power of that time, and Joseph rose to become the PM of Egypt in a time of global drought/famine, a time where even money failed in Egypt.

 

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Genesis 41:57

In Canada, not only have Canadians looked up to Justin and his government during this period, but also the major political parties which in this case stand for Joseph’s father and mother – especially the Liberal and the Conservative parties which often produce or give birth to the nation’s leaders.  The Liberals, Conservatives, New Democrats and Greens all applied for the federal government's wage subsidy program – depleting the treasury by about $670,000 every month to pay up to 75 per cent of their combined 200 employees’ pre-pandemic salary. But Justin’s biological parents/family had also since moved to Goshen in their finances to the murmuring of the Conservatives.

In their usual stunt though, the Conservatives, even as they are taking their own pie as a political party, have at the same time stirred some controversies over the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). Well, call me names or in the usual untrue claim, say you work harder than most who benefit from CERB, but it has been a time of some leveling, too negligible and short a time though to even think of talking about beginning a process to reduce centuries of wealth inequalities; of the flow of cash also into the marginalized segments of Canadian families and population who like the Israelites in Egypt, their strength have been the primary driver of the economy of this great country. Whereas the largely Conservative minds that control and hoard wealth sit in offices to sign papers, bully and constantly scheme to  continue to relegate these segments of Canadians to peasantry, they themselves (the conservative minded) have continued to take home hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars annually doing very little or nothing. And before you crucify me, I am a registered and voting member of the Conservative Party who just recently mailed in my vote for the party leadership in favor of the person Erin O’Toole team in their letter/email to me introduced and described as being same as Mr. Trudeau and the liberals. When I got Erin’s team’s letter, I didn’t wait to hear from the candidate they had introduced to me as being same as the PM, as that was enough info for me to decide who to cast my party leadership vote for. I was excited to hear that we have or can have somebody just like Mr. Trudeau in the Conservative party.

So, years back, young Justin, like Joseph, had, for emphasis and affirmation, not one time dressed to showcase the diversity of a country he will later come to lead. He appeared as Aladdin with black face/skin coated over a European Canadian lad. On his head is the Asian Indian turban with a big Amerindian feather comb running from center front to the back of his head. The T-shirt shows youthfulness; the large belt or waistband with shoulder straps announced strength and one who will be ready when this time comes, to shoulder the burden of the nation. Again, the fact that he made this appearances many times, just like Joseph dreamt again, established that he was born and was being groomed to come to power at a time where never before is the burden and the destinies of especially the so call Canadian minority and aboriginals will be in his hands. Like the Biblical Magi that trailed the uncommon star in the sky to go and see baby Jesus, the Indo-Canadians (Asia-Indians) saw not just their turban but even more, the rising star and with smiles and excitement about what was to come, joined themselves with him in those occasions. Little wonders why Indo-Canadians are a major player in the present government. I am only jealous that perhaps there were no blacks/Africans present in those occasions to also join themselves to him. These appearances were iconic representation of multicultural – dreams of a unique and crucial time where all people, no matter their colors, tribes, tongues, culture, and beliefs will look to him to provide leadership in this country.

The Asian Indians are there smiling and celebrating their leader in Indian turban; the Amerindians run to him for hugs and tight embrace, taking selfies; while the Conservatives are stirring up some blacks/African Canadians to be upset. Upset for what? That your country leader sees himself in you and sees you in himself? Ask a typical so call Conservative minded Canadian of European root why they are causing agitations among you and using you against yourselves, and they will say they are trying to save you from identity theft. Yeah! That is how dumb their bigot mind is, mistaking you for the dumb one. I call on the blacks/African Canadians to bone up and stop being misled to cry for nothing when we should be celebrating and rejoicing. Those who trick you to cry when indeed you should be celebrating are simply ridiculing you.

Black Face ~ Yeast Of The Conservatives And Republicans: Beware!

In Matthew 16:5-10, Jesus and his disciples had gone across the lake, and His disciples had forgotten to take bread. Jesus said to them “be careful!” And, a bit more explicitly, He said again to them “be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” The disciples discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.” Then Jesus, being aware of their discussion, said to them, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? How is it you do not understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Then for the third time, Jesus, in plain and clear terms said to them “but be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Firstly, to have dark or black skin is not disability. In Song of Solomon 1:6, it is clear that our ancestral terrains or environments on earth – how much and how long our ancestors have been exposed to the sun/UV light is the cause of the variations we see in human skin color across the world – “look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me ...” So, anyone can desire to appear or look dark or black. Lest the same people who push the black face propaganda simply to gain politically, the same will continue to caricature people with black skins as not welcoming, unfriendly, angry and aggressive as they have been doing for ages now. Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives and the Republicans, you the so call ‘people of color’!

Secondly, the usual trick and manipulation is to get you buy the lies that they are with you and for you. If they can get you buy the lies that your skin makes you less a human being/breed than them and that you are accursed to suffering because Job exclaimed “My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat” (Job 30:30) following his suffering in the hands of Satan; that you are disadvantaged being black and for that you are vexed, that you love not yourself and are/have nothing to be desired: that there, is their very delight and pleasure. They have always thrived in casting the mental spell to make others feel inferior and beggarly; that way, they feel like proud warriors who have the aids you need to fill the phantom deficits they have created in you to their advantage. Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives and the Republicans, you the so call ‘people of color’!

Third and very importantly, the high and disproportionate rate of imprisonment of especially black males in America is going down though slowly with the numbers still a big outlier when compared to other skin colors or ethnicities. The data chart below is from Pew Research Center and covers the trends and declines in blacks’ imprisonments and two other social groups in America from 2006 to 2018.

From the above chart, we notice that in 2006: 2261 in 100,000 blacks were imprisoned; 1,073 in 100,000 Hispanic; 324 in 100,000 ‘White’. Then as of 2018: 1,501 in 100,000 blacks were imprisoned; 797 in 100,000 Hispanic; 268 in 100,000 ‘white’. What is the point here? The astronomical rate of black male imprisonments is going down, and we should not allow them to subtly turn the tide against our wives and daughters – black females. If we keep falling for the  yeast of the Conservatives as they try to lead us to think and believe that other people  desiring to be black and to appear black is offensive, what the Conservatives will soon do is make a piece of legislation to render any form and by any mean, of appearance in a skin color that’s not your birth’s skin color illegal. And before you know it or realize, they will turn and say look, their women are spending on all manner of creams and cosmetics to brighten or lighten their skin color. Look, their women are breaking the laws, come, let us throw their women into prisons. And now they would have created a window to use and turn also to imprison our women and that, perhaps even more massively. We should not let their usual manipulations work this time around. Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives!

But if you still want to be the doubting Thomas or play dumb to follow the yeast of the Conservatives, any way in the Western world, to think that the clamor against ‘black face’ compensates for their hates and discrimination and your years of economic exclusion by the Conservatives; if what you need right now is this inappropriate sympathy and if you choose to submit to being misled to misappropriate inappropriate sympathy for a payback or compensations for perennial deprivations, I am saying to you, think again. According to Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public policies, in their Journalist’s Resource – Research on today’s news topics of August 5, 2019, black men are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police officers than their ‘white’ (‘white men’) counterparts. The American Journals of Public Health report of 2018 put the ratio at as high as 3.5 times. So, think again before the same people, in no time from now, turn and make our women their target. It will be more aggravating for them to now turn to our sisters, wives and daughters and throw them into prisons for using creams and soaps and makeups to try to look less tanned, even when we are still battling the high rate of our males incarcerations. And come to think of it, what is it that is wrong with your skin or face that they are misleading you to feel nobody should try to look like you? Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives and the Republicans!

Stone Me, Not The LGBT

I am the one that is supposed to get stoned, for the fierce confession, expression, and demonstration of my faith in Christ in season and without season. Even when it is not convenient and a degree or law is passed to bar me from exercising my faith, I do without fear or favor what the Holy Spirit moves and bids me to do, declaring to this generation or anyone, the goodness of the Lord, the present and the future reward of faith in Jesus Christ, and the reward for being children of this world as I am directed, because I am so broken to the point it is ‘not I but Christ,’ totally dependent on the Lord and His leading. I am the one who is out of this world, for although I am in this world, I am not of this world and I do not do as the world. I am the one who is supposed to face persecutions and tribulations for not bowing to golden images, mammon, money nor conform to the dictates of this world but declaring and standing for the truth regardless of the consequences. (Daniel 3:8-30, 6:7-23; Acts 7; Acts 16:16-40; Luke 23:13-48; Acts 24).

My faith in Jesus, the joy and peace thereof of my salvation and the brunt of the cross is my choice, and that choice does not have to stand in the way of other peoples making and living their own life choices in this world as long as theirs also do not infringe on my own right and they are not a threat to my life and properties. There is nothing wrong if through my prayers the Lord hearkens and raise righteous leaders over the citizens. Still, others who do not believe have the right not to be exiled from their own countries or be punished for the lives they choose to lead. Israel was a theocracy, yet in 1 Samuel 8, the elders of Israel demanded to Prophet Samuel’s displeasure that he made for them a king to judge them like other nations instead of the prophet’s sons. Prophet Samuel prayed unto the Lord about it, and this was God’s response:

 

“And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.” ~ 1 Samuel 8:7

You are so upset that people are ‘transgending’ from man to woman and vice versa, and you want the government to stop them; are they changing the way you created or made them? Oh, they are marrying man to man, and woman to woman; are they reversing the natural order or violating the institution you set in place? Unlike Prophet Samuel, obviously you are not praying, but have allowed selfishness, hate and rage to overtake you; is the Lord Baal that you should punish people whose choices violate the Lord’s order but neither take away your own right  and liberty nor are they a threat to your life and properties for Him? Civil authority has the responsibility to provide a level playing ground for citizens to live and exercise their rights as long as such individual’s right does not infringe on the rights of others and do not constitute a threat to the lives and properties of others.

For believers, although faith is a force, faith is not by force, I should not manipulate and use, except by the Lord, civil authority to stop other peoples’ right of choices. Rather, it is my sole responsibilities to pray for all people for Jesus died for the world, that all may come to the knowledge of Him, profess, confess, and demonstrate my faith and godly values in/to my communities. It is my calling to preach, rebuke, and foretell the coming judgments of the Lord both to citizens and those in authority and not force it, let the Lord do the conviction and conversion. But because in this generation I seek and want to keep my praises and not offend my friend, my cousin, family member or anyone else for that matter, I have relinquished my “go ye” responsibilities to civil authority while I now focus on bogus lifestyles with ease even as I am showing less Christ-like in my own daily living. I get the government to do my job because I cannot afford a day in court or jail, let alone years in prison like Apostle Paul (Acts 24) as it will mean disrupting my tight schedule and itinerary of religious activities and vacations. I rant and whine about government giving tiny handouts to the poor and low-income earners of my society, whereas I have been far bigger a burden and user of the government as a system and enabler for me to continue to take and hoard wealth and live my religious life at ease while systematically robbing and excluding others to poverty. I see no need for me to have anything, let alone all things in common with others, even when the Kingdom of Heaven I am professing and claiming to be looking forward to has no place for factions (Acts 4:32-35; Galatians 3:28-29).

I am the one who supposed to lead my children in the way they should go so that when they grow up they don’t depart from it (Proverbs 22:6), but I have become too busy with religious activities, going all over the place and not be in my children lives to do my part. The pursuit of fame and the things of this world have caused a negligence of my responsibility. Then I have turned and blame the society, the world as if I know not that the world is as the field of Wheat and must grow together with the tares/weed until the harvest (Matthew 13:24-30). I want to control and use the government to root out the tares, trying to put myself in the place of the owner of the field, desperate to get rid of the tares even when the harvest is not yet and not even Jesus’s to decide, let alone mine. Yes, little leaven leavens the entire lump (Galatians 5:9), but that, although true also for the bigger society, is primarily for the church – the body of Christ. How come I am not audacious to do in the church and among (would be) citizens of the Kingdom which actually begins from my own life and temple of the Holy Spirit, to keep it pure and holy for the Lord, that which I am trying to get civil authority to do in the society. I can’t look a brother or sister in the face and prayerfully say, ‘brother/sister, that which you are doing or about to do is not pleasing to the Lord,’ but I want to let civil authority do it for me. In Genesis 4:1-15, the Lord God placed a ‘seven-fold vengeance’ to whoever kills Cain mark on Cain. Cain was cursed by the Lord for killing his brother Abel. But that did not mean that anyone should have to kill Cain. For if I use civil authorities to punish for the Lord those who do not live for Him in this world today, what more punishments await them in the end, at the appearing of the Lord. I should better be careful, lest I become partaker in another man’s doing or worst still, stand multi-fold of the coming rewards of such doings.

I have become too complacence, lost in the lust of this world, I call political meetings in the name of prayers. I have left the love and passion of my faith and now, being shallow, depend totally on the government not just to create enabling environment before I can practice my faith, but to also force others to not live their choice lifestyles. I just want to serve God the easy way even though the Scriptures say, “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion” (Amos 6:1). Even though it has been perhaps a period where the church had (entered) her rest in certain regions of the world, for my complacency, the fanfare is over, and the odds are up. I have to henceforth constantly seek and embrace grace to continue in the fight of faith for my Kingdom inheritance (Judges 8:28; Judges 2:11-14; 1 Timothy 6:12-16; Zechariah 4:6-10).

  

Low and Chaos, not Law and Order

With the brutal killing of Gorge Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer that has generated waves of protests across the United States of America and the world over, on top of the damaging Corona Virus pandemic, the Conservative pride, US President Donald J. Trump is going ever low and chaotic. We are in a season and time where God is poised to overturn things (Ezekiel 21:27), and the universe must rally its matter to work to weary and wither the oppressing strength of even the strongest of men and their magicians. Mr. Trump is today more confused and full of hate than ever; he demonstrated his believe which is also common among many less-tanned-skinned conservative leaders and followers, that the world has not passed the era where the Holy Book or religion is used as a cover to oppress, ‘dominate,’ and colonize other people, when he used force (armed men in uniform) to confront and dispel peaceful protesters in front of the White House just for him to go and take a photograph in front of a church opposite the White House. Mr. Trump held up the Bible as he posed for the photo, an emblem of historical use of the Bible and the Judo-Christian religion to dominate and repress other people across the world.

The people have chanted right. The likes of the killer of Mr. Floyd are the real Virus that for centuries have brutally killed others across the world for no other reasons than their delusional claims to supremacy. In other words, what the Lord is displaying to the world in this time and season is a reminder that as the Corona Virus makes it hard for people to breathe, the self elevated sects have caused and are causing legions across the world not to be able to breathe. Today as we see, there is elevated global outcry to stem inequality – a mindset that makes some sects assign to themselves higher and better than others status, leading to their brutal oppression, maltreatment, and discrimination of those they claim are lesser.

Again, paradigm shifts in the republic of men is always not easy as often, blood is spilled, and lives are lost in the process. You may ask as men; how is the Lord overturning things and the blood of His people are being spilled? You forget that sometimes the enemy just need to touch one or some of God’s people/anointed for the spirit of change to be stirred in Moses and the spirit of Moses to raise upon the masses to rise and confront the oppressors (Exodus 2:11-13; Numbers 11:25). Also, the death of a saint is no loss to God as Heaven rejoices, and Jesus stands to receive His own (Psalm 116:15; Acts 7:55-59).

Mr. Trump claims he is the president of law and order, whereas spiritually and physically, his reigns is low and chaos, and for which purpose he came to power. And what else would you have expected of someone whom despite inheriting millions of dollars from his father’s estate would be facing and struggling with serious financial distress and no meaningful business today, but for the availability of bankruptcy of which he has taken advantage of five times and his mastery in using the US tax loopholes.

Conservative My Pain: The Heart-wrenching Story of Uzodima

Uzodima was barely eighteen-year-old when she got raped by some miscreant in the Southeastern State of America. While she was still going through the trauma, she discovered she was pregnant, and that the pregnancy was due to the rape. And although she was turned between terminating the pregnancy and keeping it, she really had only one option in a state where abortion is strictly illegal, besides her fear and love for the Lord. So, she ended up carrying the pregnancy to term and giving birth to a baby boy whom she named, Bolobolo.

Now, Bolobolo had become the family Uzodima did not have and Uzodima loved him so much despite the circumstances of his conception. As a matter of fact, the joy of her baby seemed to have erased completely, the ugly memory of her rape. As Bolobolo was growing up, Uzodima, an orphan herself, now bearing the brunt of single motherhood, worked two peasant jobs to take care of herself and her boy. She would do anything for the boy.

At 18, Bolobolo completed high school and was offered admissions by 4 Ivory universities in the country of which he went on to start undergraduate program in Astrophysics in one of the universities.

But the newfound joy of Uzodima and the foreseen fruits of her years of tears and hard labor was soon to be cut short. It was beyond sad that one of the 2017 mass shootings in the country happened in Bolobolo’s college, and Bolobolo was one of the victims killed.

Uzodima was beyond devastated and ever since has been in the psychiatric as, in what physicians have said is hopeless except by miracle, she continues to stab and cut herself (not others) with any sharp object she lay her hands on and at anytime and without being able to say a word.

Analysts conclude, Uzodima from the deep conservative state was obviously only growing and conserving her pains, working so hard to grow it from bearable to unbearable, from less painful to devastating. Not that any value can even be placed on the life and what a child mean to the parents ~ the psychological effect of losing such a loved one, yet, USDA projected spending on a child over the cost of 18 years is about $250,000.00. And whereas abortion is ungodly and Uzodima was adherent to the good way despite the circumstances of her pregnancy, how can one make sense of somebody carrying a child in her womb for nine months, giving birth and nursing the child to school age, raising the child to the point of starting and completing the first year in the university, only for the conservative gun and kill values to steal such joy, kill the dream and the glorious prospect, and destroy the lives and family.

It is worth mentioning that the so call nationalist who carried out the rampage that killed Bolobolo and many others, was guided to appeal to (or pin it on) Mental Health by his conservative lawyers. Mental illness that used to be a medical designation, is now a sign of violence that makes people sane enough to plan, acquire the things they need to execute their plans (or have a successful mission), pick a day and go on shooting rampage of other innocence and law-abiding citizens.

Is it even possible for one to be pro-life and pro-gun at the same time? God created life for us to live; man invented gun to hunt, kill and be killed. Gun is deadly. Unlike shields, walls, bullet proofs and the like, gun is a deadly attacking weapon of war. The defense or self-defence reason always used and touted by the conservatives is “attack or shoot first before you get shot,” and people have been shot death because they are “suspected attackers,” and the shooters claim they fired their shots in self-defence. In a confrontation between two persons, whoever first aims well or precisely and shoot or pull the trigger first, stands a better chance of killing the other. Imagine also that all or many of such confrontations are without guns, how many deadly clashes would turn out to be without death. The greedy conservatives always want to have it not just both ways, but all ways – grab-it-all; even a coin with clear cut Caesar’s face is also theirs. Can one serve God and mammon?  To be pro-gun is to be pro-war, it is to be pro-death. And the disproportionate acquisition and ownership of fire arms by demographics raises questions as to whether the whole pro-gun thing by conservatives is in part to help the ‘you will not replace us’ fight/war by nationalists who are the more likely to acquire and own fire arms according to data.  

The same conservatives are saying climate change or even concerns about our environment, the atmosphere is a hoax, that we should continue to burn through it and care nothing about the negative effects of our industrial processes on our planet. God gave us the earth not only for us to focus on eating the fruit thereof and that, selfishly; but, also to dress it and to keep it (Genesis 2:15). Ever noticed how conservative leaders, including conservative religious leaders are often chubbier, when compared to their liberal counterparts? It is all about eat and drink and harvest all today to store up for themselves and without including much people; the fewer they are the more they can accumulate for themselves, they believe. To not address concerns about our climate early may also imply to grow and conserve any potential risk and problem to reach devastating state. After all, any woes that befalls us in the future due to it can easily be blamed on the sins of California and Hollywood.

The Good News is that the Lord Jesus, who came to liberate also from the pains and selfishness of the Pharisees or conservatives knows those who are His and will continue to make all grace abound unto us.

3 Compelling Reasons Trump's Presidency Is Also Divine

Perhaps there has never been a leader in at least modern history of the United States of America with as many character flaws and questions as the 45th president, Donald J. Trump. From his personal life and affairs  with women, his open bullies and racial hates; to his dubious business dealings that perhaps inform in part the reasons he probably has not and will never release his tax returns through out his presidential campaigns and his presidency. Mr. Trump has defied many standards and traditions of the American Presidency.

First, like any other leader or person in authority, Mr. Trump did not become president without divinity. Authority is established and appointed by God (Romans 13:1). And, according to Daniel 4:17; God rules in the kingdom of men, He gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men. And whereas to some in America and across the world, Mr. Trump's presidency has cost them human dignity, opportunities, relationships, and their (American) dreams, making it a bad omen; there are certain others also that Mr. Trump's presidency excite and incite, and for those ones, it is the good thing they've been waiting for all their lives. Even the spirit of the American nation as a country is crying out as its cedes its place, reputations and role on the global stage. and if you are among those with eyes that see and you are asking how could this be God, how did God allow evil to befall us, what did we do wrong? Your answer can be found in Job 2:9-10. it is like foolishness to always only expect good from God and not evil, trouble or adversity? It is in adversity that we can learn to appreciate good.

Second, and very importantly, God allowed Mr. Trump to become the head and leader of the Conservative/Republican party and the conservatives to expose their hypocrisy. Mr. Trump has been raised as the conservatives’ standard bearer for conscience and soul searching. This,  in a way is, Jesus, again receiving from the stone-carrying conservatives, those who they say have committed or are contemplating abortion, the lesbians, gays,  transgenders and others they have brought out to stone. And Jesus is asking them, "who among you has not sinned, let him cast the first stone," then going down to scribble something on the ground for them to search themselves by looking at their flag-bearer and model, Mr. Trump. God is still writing on the ground, and we can bet by the time He raises His head, all the stone-carrying conservatives would have one by one dropped their stones and begone in shame. Then the Lord will turn to the accused and say "where are your accusers? Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more!" And even if this means go and commit abortion no more, be gay or lesbian no more or do any other thing you are accused of or were caught doing no more, it would be that Jesus is saying it out of His immense love, mercy and compassion, and with His knowledge and understanding of our frame and struggles as human beings and with His outstretched Arm of grace that is ever ready to help and save at any point and time. Jesus is not like the control-loving and self-seeking hypocrites who but for Christ, are just as filthy and guilty, and who leave the planks in their own eyes to get too nervous about the specks in their brothers' and neighbors' eyes (John 8:1-11; Matthew 7:5).

Third, at the eve and in season of change, often, historically, there is bound to be rattling. And rattling is not without casualties. There can be terrible breakdown before breakthrough. God wants to do a new thing, and part of it is to tame religious control to pave the way for more of true and genuine spirituality whereby individuals personal relationship with Him become paramount; to tame global control of other sovereignties by so called supper powers, and empower nations that fine this a period to re-strategize and not have to remain perpetually subjects to others by always begging for aids. This is because the giver is higher than the receiver and the borrower is slave to the creditor. It is in part the reason He allowed the rise of an American king that taunts and shames certain other countries of the world and the people of those countries in the 21^st century. Every time there is about to be a change or new order in the world, some terrible and terrifying kings ascend the reigns, both words which have been used severally by many across the world to describe Mr. Trump.

It must be noted that if today’s story is written for tomorrow’s history readers; it will sound just like when it was time for the children of Israel to change status ~ to be delivered from the hands of their slave masters, and power had to change hands. For that to happen, another Pharaoh that did not know Joseph arose in Egypt (Exodus 1:8). In today’s story, it will probably be that another king (or “president”) whose grandfather was a German immigrant also, arose (or was elected) in the United States of America that did not know (or pretended not to know) that America is a country of immigrants. And that the king began to bully and brutalize especially, the non European Americans, saying, ‘look, they are increasing in number, they are taking our jobs, killing our people, “taking the girls,”…, and so on and so forth. And, without in any way promoting any conspiracy that is out there by any means; it might also be written that at the eve of the fourth year of the reigns of the king of America, when it was close to the time for him to stand re-election, that it came to pass that the Lord God caused the spirit called plague to enter into certain men of reason  in Wuhan – China. And the men thought to themselves, 'what shall we do to further upset and destabilize the already stubborn and unsteady king of America?' And although the men of Wuhan feared that innocence lives will be affected in the world, they went ahead to release a biological pathogen that would plague millions with disease, causing the  death of millions of people and bringing the world to a stand still because of the spirit of plague. And that, whereas men of reason and lay people across the world called the pathogen corona virus, for it makes it hard to breath; the king of America called it Chinesisches Virus, meaning Chinese virus in German ~ his ancestral language, for the king of America thought to himself, ‘the people of China have done this to get at me.’ But the king would not for fear of the people say this out publicly many times.