The Jeremiah 50 Factor

I've just uploaded my latest home page piece, this one for the summer here, and I always blog a bit to introduce it. There is always something I can add to the discussion, sometimes something I simply could not fit in the home page piece.

It is really hard to do that right now. The reason is simply there are too many insanely demonic things heaving up from the Infernal Palace that I just don't have the time or wherewithal to get into them. Lots of others do, and that's fine -- I'd even made mention of Victor Davis Hanson who does a spectacular job of constantly reminding us of how Hell's designs make their way into interminably legitimate Ecclesiocratic behavior.

Sometimes it just gets overwhelming. I can, however, make a brief reference to what I see in Scripture that reminds us that no matter how maniacally destructive are the arrangements of Cain's Legacy, God wins in the end. As heinously lethal is the Culture War, "Mercy triumphs over judgment."

I've been reading in the books of Chronicles in my devotional time and am reminded about how often a king or two abandoned faithfulness to God and went on over to Baal worship and "high-place" construction. When I read about all that today I thought to myself, "Huh, worship of another god (Baal) who is showcased as super-duper popular (revered in the "high places") -- how is that much different than raising flags and banners for LGBTQ+all-that-other-sexually-immoral-stuff?"

Just last night I was watching a really cool older piece on the Gemini 8 mission, there on the NASA channel, and when it was finished, the NASA television people felt it necessary to feature a number of NASA workers who proclaimed themselves as you may expect: "I'm gay." "I'm a lesbian." "I'm trans." "I'm queer." Some six or seven of them cheerfully pronounced to the viewers that, actually, they really want us to be really okay with their new-found proclivity to do grotesquely unrighteous things with their genitals. Really, that is it, what they are saying means nothing else or they wouldn't be sharing those things right into the camera with the biggest smiles on their faces.

Anyway, during my devotional time this morning I also slid over to the 50th chapter of Jeremiah, and found these items.

First, just an expansive declaration from God that He will judge Babylon. It was an evil empire as all get-out, and it was toast. God minced no words. It is a bit ironic that He was using the very same Babylon to judge Judah for its idolatrous unfaithfulness. The point is, with what is going on in our own beloved United States, the very same judgment awaits this country.

Second, the rationale for such a judgment. It came in God telling Jeremiah that He was bringing judgment against the arrogant, and that they would not be able to escape His notice. Huh. The arrogant. I simply cannot help think that not only is the whole sodomist crusade about this thing "Pride," but that the best mass media utilizing LGBTQ+ hustlers are some of the most nauseatingly arrogant people on the planet.

Third, there was that verse about Sodom and Gomorrah. Wow. Right there towards the end of that 50th chapter. Specific mention of those places in particular. Why wouldn't the judgment of God against the horrific turn the United States has taken be something like that? 

Funny, I just caught scenes from two different movies where some gigantic blazing rock from space pulverizes the earth. First 65, as in 65 million years ago when Adam Driver crash-lands that far in the past and then at the end of the film gets his spacecraft to lift off back into space right as the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs is about to make earth-fall. Then there was Greenland where Gerard Butler and his family make their way to a huge military bunker just as that asteroid smashes into the planet.

God did the same kind of thing to Sodom and Gomorrah, and it was exclusively because of the legions of people brazenly not abiding by the inviolate principle of one man and one woman in a marriage having their own children. And please, don't blither that that wasn't what it means or there are exceptions or any of those pathetic excuses that are merely feeble attempts to dismiss this truth. Some well-versed apologists will say that the Jeremiah events and declarations were about God's judgment on Judah, and those things at that time should not apply to our world. That's beside-the-point as well because this is about God's character and His complete rejection of evildoing -- then and now.

The absolute only escape is Jesus Christ, who, quite frankly, tarries greatly. Good thing, because that means many have a shot at turning to Him in repentance and commitment. The best thing about that relates to an interesting story in the gospel accounts when some bad dudes were doing some bad stuff and the disciples turned to Jesus and said -- yes, they did say this: "So Jesus, how about raining down some asteroids from space on these guys, you know, like the whole Sodom and Gomorrah thing? Huh? Huh?"

No, okay, I know it wasn't worded exactly like that, but the idea was no different.

Interestingly Jesus didn't concur. 

Good thing for all of us.

At least for now.

No, what He did say was this. "You do not know the spirit you are of. The Son of Man did not come into the world to destroy men's lives but to save them."

Aren't we all deserving of God's perfectly just wrath? Yes, unequivocally. What is so harrowing is this month, a month so many of us knew would be the ugliest "Pride Month" of any of them, so many spew and spit at their detractors. They essentially flip up a middle finger with cameras and microphones in their faces, and they hear cheering all around. One moment they are enraged about the "privileged" who are "oppressing" them, the next they are beaming about their wickedly institutionalized concupiscence.

Oh yes they are already under the frighteningly heavy weight of judgment.

But right now? At this point? At least a few moments before the end of days?

There is mercy.

God's mercy and grace and forgiveness as well as His healing and deliverance and eternal salvation offered as a father offers it to that, yes, to that prodigal son of his.

Right now. 

Condemnation does have its purpose, but Reconciliation is way better. My only prayer that accompanies any of my ministry here is that when the very last minute of this creation is redeemed, my reader looking at these words right now would be at least holding on to the edge of the gangplank that is attached to the mighty clipper ship that is Jesus Christ.

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Anyway, again, the whole point of this post is to introduce my latest home page. It actually gets a bit into the troubling exasperation of industriously sharing transcendent truths with others and feeling a bit of despair when the takers are not as many as you'd like them to be. That passage about Jesus rebuking the disciples for not being presently mercy-minded was in the ninth chapter of Luke.

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The image of the spaceship liftoff at the moment of the asteroid's imminent arrival is a screenshot from a posted scene online. The first image was clipped from the wonderful website Jerm Warfare. It is a graphic rendition of a palace at a popular theme park, one that is marauding through the culture with the best sodomist indoctrination. Finally I can't help but add the following as I review this post and subsequent to peeking at the Jerm Warfare site myself to see the latest there. Sometimes a cartoon with a few words is worth a thousand other words.

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