Where Is YOUR Allegiance

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Theme Scripture

And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: ⁴ ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I ^[a]bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. ⁵ Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. – Ex 19:3

Query:

Speaking of allegiance…if the earth is GOD’s to whom should we then be preeminently loyal?

•            GOD or USA, or any other nation.
• ·        GOD or the President, or any other ruler of humankind?
• ·        GOD or the Pope, Pastor, Rabbi or any other religious leader of humankind?
• ·        GOD or the US Constitution, or any other governing rule of order?
• ·        GOD or your Boss?
• ·        GOD or your family?
• ·        GOD or your friends?
• ·        GOD or your pets?

Where are you aligned?

Discussion:

According to ‘dictionary.com’ the following is the definition of ‘Allegiance’.

• the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.

• loyalty or devotion to some person, group, cause, or the like.

You may think this a series of ridiculous questions and on the surface you may be altogether right. For it is absolutely clear to Christians where their loyalties lie and in what priority. Or, is it? Or, should it be? 

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”—Ex 20:3

Most Christians feel comfortable in their allegiance but if the 2016 election for President in the United States [U.S.] is any indication of where allegiances may exist the great divide of that country begins to rightly ask the questions above. This blog is not for political discussion but in trying to make the point of GODly allegiance the past election found Christians, as a whole, on one side or the other regarding their loyalties of ‘political persons’ and for those feeling divided off from those who do not share an opinion then it is in fact FITTING to ask “Where does your allegiance lie?” No matter which side of the divide there are some whose verbal and activist commentary has flirted with and sometimes is outright adoration, adulation, and reverence of either a woman or a man, albeit, both seeking the office as head of state in the U.S. Some Christians have become apologists for either of the individuals minimizing behavior and acts that run completely contrary to the Christian Character and at odds with the GOD they worship.

“37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.  38“This is the first and great commandment. 39 “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” –Matt 22:37-40

First and foremost, the Christians’ allegiance to GOD must not be to just some ‘entity’ as an ethereal or imagined idea of a GOD. It must be to GOD the Almighty whose whole being is about LOVE as expressed through a complicated yet quite understandable structure of obedience, fidelity, righteousness, mercy, grace, -- not at all in this order. Also, not to be forgotten -- a clear path to one of two destinations upon completion of our physical life: One to joy as a reward and the other no joy as a reward.

Did you know GOD is quite articulate as to things he hates?

“These six things the Lord hates,

Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:

17 A proud look,

A lying tongue,

Hands that shed innocent blood,

18 A heart that devises wicked plans,

Feet that are swift in running to evil,

19 A false witness who speaks lies,

And one who sows discord among brethren.” – Pro 6:16-19

Jesus explains who the originated lying: “Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” – John 8:42-47 [Read this selection in context in your own Bible beginning at John 8:1]

Contrast Jesus to the devil, father of the lie: “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” – John 14:6

Corralling this discussion back to GOD and allegiance to HIM incomparably and supremely, we must ask ourselves the first question above: “Speaking of allegiance…if the earth is GOD’s to whom should we then be preeminently loyal?” Our Christian life, our Christian words, our Christian actions, should all be obvious to anyone who knows a Christian. They should see they are loyal with an unwavering allegiance to GOD first. Thereafter, you may have your own idea of priorities as to whom you devote your loyalties with the single caveat, GOD and GOD alone is #1 where the Christian’s allegiance lies.

We may face expulsion from some facets of our lives BECAUSE we are Christian, because our allegiance is primarily and preemptively to GOD. However difficult such matters may seem to endure we are not the first to suffer such. We learn from our first century Christian leaders: “²⁶ Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. ²⁷ And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, ²⁸ saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!” ²⁹ But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.” – Acts 5:26-29

So, as we realign our individual allegiances as Christians  -- GOD is first. As we begin to tuck the other loyalties in under GOD be sure to remember we do not want to be so loyal to someone or something that we undermine our loyalty to GOD by any actions or words which do not become the CHRISTIAN life. We do not cover over lies no matter who tells them; we do not foist one man/woman above another because we prefer one person thus overlooking or giving the impression of tacit acceptance to the person’s actions or words despite our CHRISTIAN principles.

To the Nation we obey GOD’s WORD: “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.” – Rom 13:1

To the President: “4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. 7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.” – Rom 13:4-7

To your Christian Leadership:” Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.…Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.” Heb 13:7, 17

To the governing documents of your nation please refer to Acts 5:29 as your cornerstone. If obedience to your governing documents does not require you to go against GOD or HIS Word then Rom 13 covers the answer.

As to your boss, your family and your friends our Christian commitment is to behave always in ‘Love’ as a testimony to Christ.

Finally, Jesus gave us this one last commission: “Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” – Matt 28:19-20

Whatever we do our testimony should lead non-Christians to Christ; Should confirm our allegiance to GOD in our words and actions; Should witness as to our faith in whom, in what and why. That also means our many loyalties would be seen in support of all that is part of this paragraph. Having said that, is there division in your life because of disagreements of a political nature that may have come between yourself and your family or other Christians? How might you resolve or heal the division? We have the holiday season coming and hopefully time with loved ones. If we have tension or division let’s try to heal it leading by example. We have this rule of thumb:

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God” – 1 Cor 10:31-32 †

 Bibles Designations

KJV – King James Version

NIV – New International Version

NWT – New World Translation

ASV -- American Standard Version

DISCLAIMER: The thoughts published on this blog, in total, are the opinions, thoughts and considerations of the writer/author of every post published. It is assumed that research by the reader will lead the reader to their own conclusions. It is not the writer’s intent to make a judgment of anyone but to allow GOD’s Word to do what it does. “For the word of GOD is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from GOD’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” – Hebrews 4:12 [NIV]

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What Is This New Global Religion Part 1

Special Thanks to the Graphic Artist

     ....the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying...for all the earth is Mine - Ex 19:3a,5b

      The New Global Religion has begun to issue its vision for the global community for the future and has focused their vision to snatch the human race out of the jaws of mass extinction if all goes as planned within the next decade. But a few questions right off the top beg to be asked and answered.

How will countries/cultures/peoples who worship/protect cattle respond to cattle being deemed too dangerous to human survival?

Earliest estimates of cows/bulls as having significant religious affiliation with laws regarding their preservation, or sacrifice, or reverence date back to the 3rd millennium BC in Ancient Egypt.

Some of the countries/cultures held that the cow/bull should be spared slaughter. Some held that only the bull and only specific bulls could be slaughtered. In other countries/cultures the bull or a young female that has not born a calf/aka heifer, are prized for specific religious purposes. Even to this day there is a vigilance in waiting or manufacturing the perfect red heifer by those known as the Temple Institute in Israel in order for the Third Temple of GOD to be built.  

Today, in some parts of the world, cattle are considered sanctioned by a government for reasons of religion, health, practicality.

Cows/bulls/cattle are revered by some religiously because they have a living soul. Others are sanctioned against slaughter because they provide milk from which other dairy products can be made and human life sustained. Yet others are sanctioned for practicality purposes, mostly to protect the animal from being over slaughtered.

Nearly 6 millennia of history the cow/bull are important to cultures whether religious or secular.

Today, so many things that have been preserved through religious practice, national cultural practice or secular culture have become the focus of chaotic breakdown. In some western cultures the bovine species has been singled out as having some alleged effect on the environment by way of their ruminant digestive process [methane gas expelled from the mouth or bottom and found in their poop] and the alleged impact on natural resources in those place where there is cattle farming. [Point of interest may be that the concentration of any live animal farming releases methane gas via manure. And yet, chicken, bovine and equine manure each provides special elements to the soil for vegetable and fruit gardening.

How exactly will the reduction associated with cattle [and other animal] farming be accomplished? By the cessation [or reduction] of biodiesel products used heavily in all facets of farming, no matter if it is vegetable, fruit, animal/fowl. It appears, while the bovine gets the blame for all the methane gas it is actually biodiesel gas -- not methane gas -- which is the focus of the latest new green plan resolution in February of 2019 in the US House of Representatives. So why the focus on the Bovine? It may well be a diabolical plot to take a millennials old religious symbol and turn it around from worship to disdain and from preservation to destruction.

Interesting trivia: The Jews from Exodus who had just left Egypt where cow worship was practiced and who made a golden calf for worship -- about 3000 of them died as a result of making for themselves an idol to worship. So, whether you worship the cow/bull/cattle or just want to protect them for nonreligious reasons, making them the poster animal guilty of ruining the earth and ultimately eliminating them seems a complete disregard to the manifold proponents of the bovine around the world. Doesn’t it seem a tad diabolical to you?

What religion do you know whose members loathe it? Or, blame all things perceived as awful happening anywhere on earth on their religion? Seriously? What kind of religion is so bad it is equally hated everywhere on earth by its committed members? A diabolical one maybe?

Why make something you hate the focus of religious fervor?

Query: What religion do you know that is utterly despised and feared -- ultimately blamed as the cause for all things perceived to be bad on earth? Where the members have such loathing for the object of their fervor, conviction and commitment? Who have reached down to the smallest of their children to instill fear of death because of their loathsome religion? This author is not aware of any religion for which the object of worship, conviction or commitment is contempt and revulsion by its members? To be clear, the question is not how nonmembers view another’s religion but how the actual advocate and believer of this growing global religion views their own? If you actually detest something with such intense passion, why would you be seduced into worship like behavior? It occupies your every waking moment. You will take time off from work and school to publicly proselytize through mass rallies? Why would you scare your children? Isn’t that sort of dark? Doesn’t it seem diabolical to you?

Does it matter to you all previous prophesies of this global religion failed? -- The question of believing any religion with a failure rate @100% is equally questionable. Considering the fervent ardor believers exerted for each of their predictions just to fail – is it not diabolical?

How many things and what kinds of things did this newish global religion prophesy to happen and by what dates for such things as mass extinction of humans? Water rising? Ice caps/icebergs melting/etc.

Like many religions this one too has a body of past and present prophesies [they call predictions – turns out in this case to be semantics] that did not manifest as advertised or is likely not to manifest at least by authority or likelihood of this strange global religion. For instance, failed claim of Famine disastrous by 1975; world food supply will need to be tripled to feed the 6-7 billion people living by year 2000. The solution? Control world population.

DATA POINT: While hunger is by no means gone a report from 2018 had this to say as part of a broader report: “2015 marked the end of the monitoring period for the two internationally agreed targets for hunger reduction. The target for the Millennium Development Goals for lower-middle-income countries as a whole was to halve the proportion of hungry people by 2015 from the base year(s) of 1990-2, or from 23.2 percent to ll.6 percent. As the proportion in 2014-16 is 12.9 percent, the goal has almost been met. Following the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals aim to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030 (FAO et al., 2017).” -- https://www.worldhunger.org/world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-and-statistics/

 The same ‘expert’s failed prophesy in 1967 that twenty years hence if luck does not intervene, everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam. Obviously people are still on earth. The world population in 1967 was 3.467 billion – two years later in 1969 3.61 Billion. In 2018, 7.5 billion.  

 Then there was the failed prophesy of a new ice age by the beginning of the new millennial year of 2000. Again, failed prophesy in 1970 that in less than a decade of that year the ‘oceans would be as dead as Lake Erie’ and Americans would be subject to water rationing in 1974 and food rationing in 1980. Yet another failed prophesy in 1971: In fifty years fossil fuel bio products being thrust into the air could so eclipse the sun with a ‘dust’ the average temperature could drop by 5-10 degrees if it happened over several years. We are now less than 2 years away from the end of the 50 years when such fallacy was first introduced to the global stage. Instead of average temps falling the temps are being touted as being ABOVE average and instead of dust occluding the Sun it is actually alleged to be more exposed due to holes in the atmosphere? In 1974, the adherents of this religion suggest in another failed talking point about the ice packs in the waters around such countries as Iceland having grown so thick there is a southward migration of Armadillos. From the Midwest? But not from Iceland? 

From 1971 to 1974 whiplash set in as the failed prophesy of only 3 years of too much dust in the atmosphere to 1974 the same fossil fuels were eating away at the Ozone. The media archives are filled with literally decades of failed prophesy from scientists who actually forgot or denied that humans have no control over the universe big or small. But their efforts to scare everyone into some different controlled activity [like population control] or to negate some popular activity despite the lack of evidence manifesting their dire calls may beg the question: Doesn’t it seem a tad diabolical to you?

Ponder this: Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge? 3 Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me. 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.” – Job 38:1-4   

“Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.” – Job 40:2

See Part two:https://lightwritingmattersactivist.blogspot.com/2019/10/special-thanks-to-graphic-artist-doyou.html

  

©Lightwritingmatters 2015

 Bibles Designations

KJV – King James Version

NIV – New International Version

NWT – New World Translation

ASV -- American Standard Version

DISCLAIMER: The thoughts published on this blog, in total, are the opinions, thoughts and considerations of the writer/author of every post published. It is assumed that research by the reader will lead the reader to their own conclusions. It is not the writer’s intent to make a judgment of anyone but to allow GOD’s Word to do what it does. “For the word of GOD is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from GOD’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” – Hebrews 4:12 [NIV]

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What is this New Global Religion Part 2

Special Thanks to the Graphic Artist

....the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying...for all the earth is Mine - Ex 19:3a,5b


Do you think mental health or human life being adversely affected by the onslaught of even MORE dire prognostications, despite all previously failed conjecture, to be acceptable in order to promote this global religion?

Recent psychology articles on the effects the stress from this religion is having on its believers have popped up. This is a most recent article on September 5, 2019, [https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/climate-change/mental-health-climate-change-research/  ] assessing there are mental health effects caused by natural disasters, hurricanes and other extreme weather events. But, is that any wonder? The same can be said when disaster befalls someone by way of house or business fire; by death due to catastrophic illness or by violent crime. Yet, natural disaster is the thrust of yet another component of evil the adherents believe their religion has manifested. Does it sound like something you’d want to support with your money, your energy, your mental health? There has been much written from 2011 forward about the mental health effects of this and other religions. Doesn’t it seem a little diabolical to be so involved in something you loathe so very much that it effects your mental health?

Since humankind has soared in pointing out what they perceive as hugely consequential catastrophic events leading to animal extinction or mass human extinction and have been ringing the proverbial warning bell for decades you’d think their historical record would support their decades long human call for concern. Initially, perhaps more people were interested but when one human fire alarm after another was false people grew numb. Recently, the movement has become global and is filled with religious like passion the bells are clanging louder, more often and with more fear stirred in the uninformed. Yet, cyclical periods of time, more historically correct than the fabrications, have proven to be the case.

It is not that this author denies we are heading towards a scary time when humans will in fact see much change in our earth, in our heavens and in our lives. But it should not come as a surprise. It has been foretold as coming events surrounded by palpable signs from about the last 1500 years BC to about the first century AD. Now, who could have such a perfect record of predictions, prophesies, prognostications? And could this ONE also have the solution?

Is the new global religion the latest competition for masses filling the void left because they have not looked to their Creator to fill that void? If this religion, the competitor, has a failure rate of one hundred percent and potential for loss of life due to the stress it exerts upon its members would it not be logical to assume it may be diabolical in origin?

Is it less likely the ONE who created the earth is actually responsible for its continuing in its created purpose? And that cyclical weather phenomena are part of the natural law placed in motion shortly after the flood of Noah’s day?

Is it truly conceivable to think humankind could make some great impact that GOD would declare as a solution? Or, do you believe ONLY GOD has the solution?

The person who believes in an all-powerful Creator GOD knows GOD is the only one who has: a] Authority; b] Capabilities; and c] Appointed Time for troubles, like this global religion’s prophesies, but with much different results!

A global religion whose members all despise it but who would justify annihilation of cattle [or any species] by global fiat a solution? Or, how some of its members are so mentally distressed they suffer from depression, anxiety or worse feel so defeated suicide is the only solution. Could you consider this religion's effects globally or personally seem diabolical?

Those who believe in GOD know -- GOD alone has provided a way to escape the troubles coming to earth in the future, near or long term. It seems true the earth will undergo a huge change but not one man could ever impede, thwart or redesign for their own purposes. In the following Bible quotation Verse 2 describes the escape. Vs 3-4 describes what earth will be when the big change is finished. Here is what GOD says: “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.  4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also, he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” – Rev 21:1-5   Eternal promise of the ONE who created the earth! †

©Lightwritingmatters 2015

 Bibles Designations

KJV – King James Version

NIV – New International Version

NWT – New World Translation

ASV -- American Standard Version

DISCLAIMER: The thoughts published on this blog, in total, are the opinions, thoughts and considerations of the writer/author of every post published. It is assumed that research by the reader will lead the reader to their own conclusions. It is not the writer’s intent to make a judgment of anyone but to allow GOD’s Word to do what it does. “For the word of GOD is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from GOD’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” – Hebrews 4:12 [NIV]

>>>>>>All artwork contained on this blog entry as well as archived/historical entries belongs to ©Lightwritingmatters 2015<<< permission must be requested and approved by the author to reproduce in any format and for any reason. √† 

NOTE: Artwork not copyrighted by Lightwritingmatters 2015 stands with this statement: “no copyright infringement is intended” or is otherwise attributed.