Nehemiah, Chapter 4, Verse 3
We prayed to our God and
posted a watch against them day and night for fear of what they might do.
Here this references the
Jewish people as they attempt to rebuild their great nation and the enemies of Judah
encircle them and poise to launch an attack against them. Sounds like the battle cry
of the unbelieving secular media against the current administration in DC and
those who are carrying their guns and their bibles who resist them. One wonders
what the god of a secular media is.
The media view themselves as their own gods—masters of their own fates. Many of these self-made gods control our media. As gods, they want no competition. They reject the truth that God is God alone and that He will hold them accountable for mocking Him and His followers. Thus, the truth is hell to them, even before they get there. They express their hatred for God’s truth by heaping venom on anyone who declares the truth. They are rewriting American history, to fit their desire for self-worship, want to silence truth. Thus, whenever a Christian lovingly and thoughtfully points them to the truth of history, they hound them down, accusing them of “racism,” “hate speech” and “bigotry.” Why? Because truth to them is hell, so they want to muzzle their message. To them these truths are hell, so they respond by likening Christians to the Taliban and the Jihadis … can you imagine?
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The Christians who
founded the hospital movement.
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The Christians who
founded the library movement.
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The Christians who
founded the orphanage movement.
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The Christians who
founded education.
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The Christians, who
have and continue to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and care for the needy.
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The Christians who
sacrificed and continue to sacrifice in following the role model of their
Savior who gave His all on a cross to save them. How can they say that
Christians are likened to the Taliban?
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The Taliban who shoot
women in the head at close range in soccer stadiums.
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The Taliban who bury
people alive for their sins and misdemeanors.
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The Taliban who stone
women to death for mere accusations.
This day is called the
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, because on it Mary visited her cousin
Elizabeth, whom, as the angel had told her, God had blessed with a son in her
old age.
I have always thought
that on this occasion the reason Elizabeth was so enlivened at the leaping of
John in her womb was because as an older pregnant woman she may have feared
that John was stillborn? Is it possible that John the Baptist was Jesus’s first
miracle? It is an interesting thought.
The Canticle of Mary
My soul
proclaims the greatness of the Lord, My Spirit rejoices in God my Savior For He
has looked with favor on His lowly servant. From this day all generations will
call me blessed: The Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is His
Name. He has mercy on those who fear Him, in every generation. He has shown the
strength of His arm, He has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast
down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled
the hungry with good things, And the rich He has sent away empty. He has come
to the help of His servant Israel for He has remembered His promise of mercy, the
promise He made to our fathers, To Abraham and his children forever.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was
in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
EXPLANATION OF THE CANTICLE
In this hymn Mary with
joy praises God, the Lord, that He has regarded her humility, and made her to
be the Mother of His only-begotten Son, wherefore she should be called blessed by
all generations; and she declares the truths and mysteries which the
incarnation brought to light. The mercy of God, namely, reaches from generation
to generation to them that fear Him. He scatters the thoughts of the proud, and
puts down from their seats the mighty; but He exalts the humble. He fills those
who hunger for justice with good things, but those who think themselves rich He
sends away empty. He receives all true Israelites, and performs in them the
promises which He gave to the fathers. This hymn is repeated by the Church
every day at Vespers, in praise of the work of redemption, begun by the
incarnation of the Son of God in Mary. Would that every Christian, since he
becomes one only by Christ being, as it were, born in him, might share those
feelings which the Blessed Virgin and Mother has expressed in this hymn of
praise, and, with the Church, daily praise God for the mystery of the
incarnation
The gift of Wisdom[3]
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