Friday, July 30, 2010

Hero’s Last Action Plants More Anti-Immigrant Seeds into Americans Soiled

Governor Schwarzenegger’s Overtime Veto Terminates Worker’s Hopes!
     There aren’t many Americans throughout this great country who have not enjoyed the heroic antics of one of its greatest super star heroes, Arnold Schwarzenegger. His Terminator movies are legend and his fans are legion. Audiences throughout the world have loved his on screen antics for the last three decades, while some critics have panned his acting abilities. Big deal! Heroes don’t have to know how to act, they just have to kick bad guys’ butts.
     As California’s current Governor, he has received mixed reviews from both sides of the aisle, but his veto of the “Overtime Bill” for farm laborers may have sullied his image forever. You see, politicians can make many bad decisions, as they often do, based on how they will affect his re-election. But Arnold is not running for another term; thereby, even as a lame duck Governor, he could have endeared himself to the world for coming to the rescue of yet another one of society’s victims. That’s what Arnold is best known for, protecting, rescuing and defending victims.
     Yes! Farm workers are victims of a system and process that has used and abused those hard-working souls over a century. We bring them in to do menial labor when we need it the most and then ship them back after the job is done. These are they who helped make America's agriculture community the strongest and most productive conglomerate in the world. They stoop over all day long in the sweltering heat to pick the fruits and vegetables we put before our family tables on a daily basis. People can rant all they want to about “Illegal Aliens” and how they are a drain on the American tax-payers, especially how they take jobs away from needy American citizens. But, Seriously! When was the last time you saw an American picking lettuce under the hot California sun?

     Schwarzenegger vetoed SB 1121 July 28, which would have given farm-workers overtime pay after 40 hours in a week, putting it on a par with other non-management jobs in California. Obviously western growers and farmers are ecstatic! The California governor told the press that federal law exempts farm workers from any overtime and only the sates of Maryland and Minnesota require growers to pay workers overtime if they exceed a weekly limit. Schwarzenegger said he believes agricultural work is different from other industries because he claims it is seasonal, subject to the unpredictability of weather conditions and requires the harvesting of perishable goods. He says increasing overtime would harm California’s agricultural businesses and make the state’s largest industry less competitive with other states. Agribusiness employs slightly over 450,000 workers in the peak harvest months of August and September.

     I know the Governor and worked on the publicity when he was the Commissioner for the Los Angeles Inner-City Games and again when he was honored by a local youth group who worked with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yes, I loved his movies. We all need our heroes! However, this is one of those unique moments in history where a person could have left a lasting legacy on his career, in both movies and government. But, no, Arnold took the easy and rewarding path, as most of American society has when it comes time to do right thing by our nation’s farm-workers.
     Now, you can’t complain about those folks being here illegally or the Immigration and Naturalization Services would have been out in the fields, gathering and arresting them and sending them back to Mexico as Arizona is doing today. I guess they are waiting until after September when the peak-picking season is over.
     Arnold! I don’t know how other folks feel about your Last Action heroics, but frankly, your rhetoric of compassion is nothing but True Lies. You gave farm workers a Raw Deal with your decision, which is one normally made by traditional political Barbarians. Arnold, you resorted to Kindergarten Cop tactics, you have left a lot of Collateral Damage among the many in the Latino community who admired you. You will never be able to Erase the damage you have done to the farm worker spirit. But if my Total Recall is correct, The Sixth Day before the final week of life could be right around the corner. Now Arnold, no matter how much of a Running Man you may be, and maybe will even try to Jingle All The Way to your banks and retirement homes, there is a diabolical Predator coming over the horizon, and you soon may well feel Red Heat breathing down your your neck.
     However, there is a Hercules-type of act that you can undertake, as any good Commando of God’s army does, you can study the following verses of scripture to help you understand what is truly God’s will for our American society and its leader members in regards to the poor, downtrodden, alien and homeless, and also to know how to prepare for the bad days ahead. Not only do they need to know this Arnold, but you, especially, in the aftermath of the decision you made that Terminated any future financial hopes for America’s farm workers.
     Because, you see, Arnold, there is more to life than Pumping Iron to succeed in life. You and all of our nation’s leaders need to do things God’s way; not the way of those folks who donated money to your campaign so they could control the mantles of power. Yes Arnold, The End of Days are right around the corner, and you and those other leaders who pressured you into vetoing this bill most certainly want to be prepared for Judgment Day!
     Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute, (Proverbs 31:8)
     Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other, (Zechariah 7:10)
     You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God, (Leviticus 24:22)
     The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the LORD, ( Numbers 15:15)
     The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the alien living among you, (Numbers 15:16)
     You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who have settled among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, 23 In whatever tribe the alien settles, there you are to give him his inheritance," declares the Sovereign LORD, (Ezekiel 47:22-23)
     But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do, (Deuteronomy 5:14)
     Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation, (Romans 4:4)
     What does the worker gain from his toil? (Ecclesiastes 3:9)
     Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge, (Deuteronomy 24:17)

     You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns. You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt, (Deuteronomy 24:14-15)


     Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty, (James 5:4)


     "So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty, (Malachi 3:5)


     Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns, (Deuteronomy 24:14)


     The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice, (Ezekiel 22:29)


Do not rob the poor because they are poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate; for the Lord pleads their cause and despoils of life those who despoil them, (Proverbs 22:22-23)


     Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you. You have despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths, (Ezekiel 22:7-8)

     Poverty… may befall a wise man, virtuous man, a faithful man… Extreme poverty and necessity may befall the godly.… [But these] are the poor of God’s making, and our duty in respect to them, is… to pity them… comfort them… relieve them, and support them in deeds, (Proverb 30)
     If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. (I John 3:17-18)


     "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first, (Matthew 20:8)


For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress,a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat, (Isaiah 25:4)

     He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing, (Deuteronomy 10:18)

     If you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, 7then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever. 8 But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless, (Jeremiah 7:6-7)


     This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (Jeremiah 22:3)


     "Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!" (Deuteronomy 27:19)


     Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law, (Deuteronomy 31:12)


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100 Pianos: Are You In Tune With God or The Church's Fellowship?

...that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. --John 17:21

     Someone may fear that we are magnifying private religion out of all proportion, that the "us" of the New Testament is being displaced by a selfish "I."
     Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.
     So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
     Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life. The Pursuit of God, pp 90, by A.W. Tozer.

Revival does not begin when thousands of people gather together in large stadiums, motivated by charismatic preachers to pray and collectively worship; it begins when each one of us surrenders to God’s will in our own back yard.” Joe Ortiz, author, The End Times Passover, July 30, 2010



Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Many American Christians Who Hate Mexicans Believe They Are Doing God a Service

     "All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. 2They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. 3They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you, (John 16:1-4)

     There is a despicable rising stench of hatred and malice permeating today’s society by many in this once God-fearing nation, spewing forth vitriolic venomous diatribes at some of God’s children, due to their fear that their culture is being diminished by the presence of Mexican and other Latinos crossing the border into this country. This attitude and regurgitated bile goes against the will of God, but, sadly, these perpetrators believe that God is on their side.
     While the immigration problem needs fixing, cooler heads do not prevail but instead many American citizens (led by many who call themselves Christian) are presently exacerbating each other to spew forth odoriferous epithets towards a people who mainly seek work to feed their children.
     Many so-called pundits on numerous radio and television talks shows and on the Internet (many who claim they speak for God as well) are equally as guilty (if not more so) by feeding the American public with lies and distorted statistics as fuel to turn glowing embers of fear and mistrust into a raging inferno. This will eventually result in another war between God’s creation in this nation and there will be nothing civil about it.
     Many true disciples of Christ recognize how many of Satan’s minions (the Father of lies) are inciting the emotional fears of many Americans to turn against their fellow human beings. And, as these disciples speak out, reminding their fellow Christians that these actions are not in compliance with the Gospel, they themselves are being branded as non-believing children of God, and nothing short of being called unpatriotic Liberals and traitors to their country.
     At the heart of this lunatic phenomenon, is the deep-seeded fear that the predominate culture is being diminished by the presence of Hispanic immigrants from Mexico and other South American countries. This ethnic fear, which to them is destroying the once Norman Rockwell image of what they feel America should look like, not recognizing that the multi-colored, multi-language and cultural differences throughout the entire world have changed (albeit disconcerting for many) as we approach the end of this world as we know it.
     Ersatz religious prophets and prognosticators are preaching the end of the world as we know it, which bears some truth. Most certainly we are one day closer to the end, but no one knows (nor is supposed to guess and speculate) the exact day regardless of thousands of novel formulae they present. If their contentions are correct, rather than humanity banding together and get closer to God for rescue from tribulation and wrath, they are turning against one another as never before.

“Every man for himself” blare their thunderous mantra for survival.

     Matthew Henry’s Commentary on John 16 speaks volumes of what we witness today, and what many true disciples will experience in the end times before Christ returns. Albeit the early Catholic Church has left a legacy of committing heinous crimes against so-called heretics through its Crusades and Inquisitions, a time is coming in the present day when so-called Christian entities (in cahoots with the state) will vigorously come down on those who speak God’s truth, especially how God ordains that we treat aliens as if they were native born citizens, and at the least in a humane manner.
     Many of today’s disciples are also speaking out against the atrocities being committed throughout the world concerning inhumane governments, as well as about the Zionism Movement (which dictates that the state of Israel has been ordained by God to rule Palestine. The atrocities being committed against innocent woman and children in Gaza are no different than what we are witnessing in the United States against Mexicans. Sadly, many evangelicals who support the politically born (not biblical) philosophy of Zionism, will be among those pulling the executioner’s switch on many of God’s true disciples who stood up against those who believe they are the favored children of God.

This is what the great Bible commentator of yesteryear, Matthew Henry, had to say about this deception:


~ The sword of civil power: "The time cometh, the hour is come; now things are likely to be worse with you than hitherto they have been; when you are expelled as heretics, they will kill you, and think they do God service, and others will think so too.’’ (1.) You will find them really cruel: They will kill you. Christ’s sheep have been accounted as sheep for the slaughter; the twelve apostles (we are told) were all put to death, except John. Christ had said (ch. 15, 17), You shall bear witness, martyreite— you shall be martyrs, shall seal the truth with your blood, your heart’s blood. (2.) You will find them seemingly conscientious; they will think they do God service; they will seem latreian prospherein—to offer a good sacrifice to God; as those that cast out God’s servants of old, and said, let the Lord be glorified, Isa. 66:5. Note, [1.] It is possible for those that are real enemies to God’s service to pretend a mighty zeal for it. The devil’s work has many a time been done in God’s livery, and one of the most mischievous enemies Christianity ever had sits in the temple of God. Nay


[2.] It is common to patronise an enmity to religion with a color of duty to God, and service to his church. God’s people have suffered the greatest hardships from conscientious persecutors. Paul verily thought he ought to do what he did against the name of Jesus. This does not at all lessen the sin of the persecutors, for villainies will never be consecrated by putting the name of God to them; but it does enhance the sufferings of the persecuted, to die under the character of being enemies to God; but there will be a resurrection of names as well as of bodies at the great day.
III. He gives them the true reason of the world’s enmity and rage against them (v. 3): "These things will they do unto you, not because you have done them any harm, but because they have not known the Father, nor me. Let this comfort you, that none will be your enemies but the worst of men.’’ Note, 1. Many that pretend to know God are wretchedly ignorant of him. Those that pretend to do him service thought they knew him, but it was a wrong notion they had of him. Israel transgressed the covenant, and yet cried, My God, we know thee. Hos. 8:1, 2. 2.



Those that are ignorant of Christ cannot have any right knowledge of God. In vain do men pretend to know God and religion, while they slight Christ and Christianity. 3. Those are very ignorant indeed of God and Christ that think it an acceptable piece of service to persecute good people. Those that know Christ know that he came not into the world to destroy men’s lives, but to save them; that he rules by the power of truth and love, not of fire and sword. Never was such a persecuting church as that which makes ignorance the mother of devotion.
IV. He tells them why he gave them notice of this now, and why not sooner.

1. Why he told them of it now (v. 4), not to discourage them, or add to their present sorrow; nor did he tell them of their danger that they might contrive how to avoid it, but that "when the time shall come (and you may be sure it will come), you may remember that I told you.’’ Note, When suffering times come it will be of use to us to remember what Christ has told us of sufferings. (1.) That our belief of Christ’s foresight and faithfulness may be confirmed; and, (2.) That the trouble may be the less grievous, for we were told of it before, and we took up our profession in expectation of it, so that it ought not to be a surprise to us, nor looked upon as a wrong to us. As Christ in his sufferings, so his followers in theirs, should have an eye to the fulfilling of the scripture.



2. Why he did not tell them of it sooner: "I spoke not this to you from the beginning when you and I came to be first acquainted, because I was with you.’’ (1.) While he was with them, he bore the shock of the world’s malice, and stood in the front of the battle; against him the powers of darkness levelled all their force, not against small or great, but only against the king of Israel, and therefore he did not need to say so much to them of suffering, because it did not fall much to their share; but we do find that from the beginning he bade them prepare for sufferings; and therefore, (2.) It seems rather to be meant of the promise of another comforter. This he had said little of to them at the beginning, because he was himself with them to instruct, guide, and comfort them, and then they needed not the promise of the Spirit’s extraordinary presence. The children of the bride-chamber would not have so much need of a comforter till the bridegroom should be taken away.
V. He expresses a very affectionate concern for the present sadness of his disciples, upon occasion of what he had said to them (v. 5, 6): "Now I am to be no longer with you, but go my way to him that sent me, to repose there, after this fatigue; and none of you asketh me, with any courage, Whither goest thou? But, instead of enquiring after that which would comfort you, you pore upon that which looks melancholy, and sorrow has filled your heart.’’

1. He had told them that he was about to leave them: Now I go my way. He was not driven away by force, but voluntarily departed; his life was not extorted from him, but deposited by him. He went to him that sent him, to give an account of his negotiation. Thus, when we depart out of this world, we go to him that sent us into it, which should make us all solicitous to live to good purposes, remembering we have a commission to execute, which must be returned at a certain day. He had told them what hard times they must suffer when he was gone, and that they must not expect such an easy quiet life as they had had." (Matthew Henry Commentary on John 16
     Brother Matthew Henry well knows (and identifies) those who truly represent Christ and the will of the Father. So many others, who claim they know God but use portions of His words to distort the true intentions of His will, do so at their own peril.
     Yet, those who do follow Christ, who do pick up their cross, will find many who call themselves Christians actually driving nails through their hands and feet for preaching God’s truth!





     Like many times during America’s sordid history, when they killed off native Americans and imprisoned the remaining few in reservations, captured native Africans from their homeland and enslaved them for almost two centuries, when they stole much of Mexico’s land (and have abused its labor force for over a century, moving them in and moving them out when the work was done), just like during the Crusades and the Inquisitions, many true followers of Christ were labeled heretics and burned at the stake for speaking out against the church’s and state’s leaders during that horrendous period.
     Although the church leadership knew what it was doing then, in collusion with the state and the money-changers of the world, today’s church and state leaders remain eerily silent. They don’t want to disturb the status quo. They will lock themselves away(hanging their heads with shame) and remain quiet until after the elections are over with, while at the same time stoking the fires in secret ways. And their parishioners will continue playing church and pretending they are right with God, instead of standing up and speaking forth the truth about its failure to do God’s will.
     In the meantime, as diabolical forces that killed those who stood up against tyranny, back then, many of today’s American Christians will actually applaud (and be involved with) the efforts of renegades who are attacking Mexicans, and will sincerely believe they are doing God a service.
     Click both links below to see actual videos of those who claim God is on their side, and the following one from a brave woman who challenged them at a recent city council meeting in Virginia.


Actual words from those who claim God is on their side


Words from a courageous woman who challenged that claim




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