America Needs A Day of Atonement

America has lost discernment between right and wrong, and needs to seek reconciliation before judgment comes upon the nation.

Reblogging today’s essay from Joseph Farah at WND, because it is timely, and important.  For those of us who observe the annual festivals of the Lord, Farrah’s essay is perhaps more prescient and important in considering how the lessons of this festival season are needed in this nation right now.  And for those who do not observe the biblical festivals – perhaps the message in this essay is one every Believer will agree with.  These days should enhance your faith and understanding in Christ, and Lord knows – we only have Him to rely on to save us from where we seems o be headed as a people and nation.

America Needs A Day of Atonement

They call it a Jewish holiday – Yom Kippur.

It’s the Day of Atonement, all right, but it’s not just for Jews. As Leviticus 23 makes clear, today is not a Jewish holiday, it’s one of the Feasts of the Lord, or, more precisely, one of the Feasts of Yahweh.

In other words, it’s for everyone who believes in the One True God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Christians should especially find it appealing, since they believe in the forgiveness of sins by the one they consider to be the Jewish Messiah.

What has become increasingly clear to me in my study of the Bible over the years is that Jesus – or Yeshua, as He was known to his brethren – did not come to Earth in human form as the Son of God to start a new religion called Christianity, which, after all simply means followers of the Messiah.

Yeshua came to fulfill the promises of the Hebrew prophets. Neither he nor anyone else in the Bible ever suggested we should celebrate His birthday on Dec. 25 – the traditional birthday of the pagan deities Tammuz and Mithra. Neither He nor anyone else in the Bible ever suggested we should celebrate the Babylonian holiday of Ishtar, or Easter. In fact, neither He nor anyone else in the Bible ever suggested we should observe Sunday as the Sabbath.

These were all traditions of men trying to blend pagan cultures with a touch of Christianity.

But the God of the Bible doesn’t like mixing pagan mythology with His commandments or pagan holidays with his appointed feasts.

That’s why it may surprise some of you that this Christian, this follower of Yeshua Ha’Maschiach, is observing Yom Kippur today – the Day of Atonement. My family will fast and pray just like Jews around the world and more and more Christians who are rediscovering the Hebrew roots of their faith.

The Day of Atonement is a high holiday – a Sabbath. I’m not working today until sundown. And I stopped working yesterday at sundown. That’s because by God’s reckoning of time, the day begins at sundown, not sun up and not midnight.

What I am saying to Bible believers is that God doesn’t want us celebrating our pagan holidays. He expects us, however, to observe His divine appointments. Those come weekly at sundown Friday from sundown Saturday. And there are additional spring and fall feasts, or appointed times, like Yom Kippur, in which we are called out to meet Him.

Some modern American Christians might arrogantly suggest they don’t have to atone for any sins because Jesus already did that for them. While it’s true that Yeshua died for the sins of those who make Him Lord of their life, that atonement doesn’t come without sincere repentance.

And repentance is not a one-time act. It’s not a collection of magic words we say one time in our lives so that we have license to sin some more. Repentance is a continual process, because we all fall short of the mark.

It’s not just individuals who need a Day of Atonement.

In ancient Israel the high priests prayed for the sins of the nation, too.

America could take a lesson from that experience.

We are a nation in moral free fall.

We’ve lost our ability to discern right from wrong.

We don’t even accept that there is such a thing as sin anymore. Sinners are just those practicing alternate lifestyles.

But this can’t go on forever – just as it couldn’t go on forever in ancient Israel when the nation went adrift.

God is longsuffering because He loves us. But like any good parent, He will not enable His children forever. He will discipline them in an attempt to bring them back to His authority – not wishing any should perish.

So if you think today is just another Jewish holiday, think again.

Today is one of your God’s feasts, one of His appointed times. He wants to meet with you. He wants to bring you back into covenant with Him.

Obama Declares At UN: The Future Must Not Belong to Practicing Christians

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”. -Barrack Obama 9-25-12

Since all Islam demands everyone recognize Mohammed as God’s true prophet – for the Salafists, sufis and shia – anyone who does not acknowledge the prophet is considered not only an infidel – but slander the prophet by their refusal to submit to him.

Obama knows this having been raised a Muslim in Indonesia.  His speech at the UN was an all-out assault on not only freedom of speech, but of faith.  In cleverly cloaked words to deceive ignorant Americans, key phrases ping the ears that the Muslim world will understand what Obama really means.  While the media will parrot that Obama was condemning ‘extremism’, the fact remains that Islam itself is extremism.  His words paint a target on the First Amendment, Free Speech and right to religious exercise – all targets of Obama AND Sharia Law proponents.

As Kevin DuJan notes at Hillbuzz -

Today, Obama spoke out against free speech and wished for a world where those who criticize Islam will be punished (or even executed) worldwide. 

Let’s be really clear about this, folks:  the man sitting in the Oval Office thinks it’s a good idea for global blasphemy laws to be enacted to serve a worldwide state religion, ISLAM.

As DuJan rightfully notes, Obama had published in his ‘memoirs’ ‘Dreams From My Father’, that if the political winds shifted against Islam, he would stand with Muslims.  That is more than apparent since Obama enabled the Jihadist Islamists to take power in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and other places in the Mid East and has done NOTHING to punish the Islamists who attacked our embassies and killed the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and 4 other Americans.

Instead, Obama slammed Free Speech rights in the US, blamed a video on Youtube and apologized to the Muslim world in TV ads running in Pakistan and elsewhere.

I cannot state it any better than Erick Erickson did at Red State.

The Future Must Not Belong to Practicing Christians

In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly today the President of the United States declared that the future does not belong to practicing Christians. Already, the media and the left are in full denial, probably based on their general lack of understanding of theology. This would have been a gaffe had Mitt Romney said it. But with Barack Obama, he’s just speaking bold truths. His bold truth declares that the future does not belong to practicing Christians.

Pay careful attention to what he says.

The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. Yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed, or the Holocaust is denied. Let us condemn incitement against Sufi Muslims, and Shiite pilgrims. It is time to heed the words of Gandhi: “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.” Together, we must work towards a world where we are strengthened by our differences, and not defined by them. That is what America embodies, and that is the vision we will support.

Now, that’s the full paragraph so no one can claim I took him out of context.

But consider this.

It is an orthodox Christian belief that Mohammed is not a prophet. Actual Christians, as opposed to many of the supposed Christians put up by the mainstream media, believe that Christ is the only way to salvation. Believing that is slandering Mohammed. That’s just a fact. If you don’t believe me, you go into the MIddle East and proclaim Christ is the way, the truth, and the life and see what happens to your life.

Then Barack Obama went on to say “Yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed, or the Holocaust is denied.” Note he says we cannot “slander the prophet of Islam” but it’s only the image of Christ in the next sentence — not actually Christ himself desecrated. If this is so, why does Barack Obama’s government continue funding the National Endowment for the Arts, which funds Christ in piss, the Virgin Mary painted in dung, etc.?

Now, in point of fact, this is a major difference between Islam and Christianity. Christ came to this world as an enemy of the world and expected to be impugned. He also tells his followers that they should expect to be impugned. There is joy in being persecuted for following the Risen Lord. In Islam, if you impugn Mohammed, you get a fatwa on your butt.

And then there is the first amendment. The President of the United States tried to have it both ways in his speech.

I know there are some who ask why we don’t just ban such a video. The answer is enshrined in our laws: our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech. Here in the United States, countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. Moreover, as President of our country, and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so. Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views – even views that we disagree with.

We do so not because we support hateful speech, but because our Founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views, and practice their own faith, may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can become a tool to silence critics, or oppress minorities. We do so because given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech – the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.

I know that not all countries in this body share this understanding of the protection of free speech. Yet in 2012, at a time when anyone with a cell phone can spread offensive views around the world with the click of a button, the notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete. The question, then, is how we respond. And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence.

Just words, Mr. President? You say “there is no speech that justifies mindless violence,” but all last week you condemned a ridiculous video trailer for a movie that does not exist. Your government ran advertisements in Pakistan denouncing the video. What of free speech, Mr. President? Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless.

Oh wait, you did it again in the same speech where you said “there is no speech that justifies mindless violence”:

At times, the conflicts arise along the fault lines of faith, race or tribe; and often they arise from the difficulties of reconciling tradition and faith with the diversity and interdependence of the modern world. In every country, there are those who find different religious beliefs threatening; in every culture, those who love freedom for themselves must ask how much they are willing to tolerate freedom for others.

That is what we saw play out the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.

Time and again the President of the United States tries to have it both ways.

But are they just words?

The fact is, many religions do not recognize Mohammed as a prophet. In the widest swath of Islam, that denial is, in and of itself, slander. So what exactly are you saying Mr. President?

As an exit point, with all of President Obama’s statements on tolerance in his speech, we should remember that tolerance is really not a Christian virtue. As Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia noted, “We need to remember that tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty — these are Christian virtues. And obviously, in a diverse community, tolerance is an important working principle. But it’s never an end itself.” The Archbishop also noted that evil preaches tolerance until it is dominate and then it seeks to silence good. That’s not a statement that the President is evil in any way, shape, or form, but we should be mindful when the secular world demands tolerance for all, tolerance for all means we cannot have standards of faith to live by, because those standards obviously require we be intolerant of sins this world has embraced.

Jihad Egyptian President Issues Conditions for American Surrender To Islam

Obama to release Gitmo Jihadists, then condemn American Christian before the UN, while Egyptian President issues more demands on America.

In the wake of a media-ignored week of worldwide American castration by Jihadist Islam, the punches from the Trojan Horse that is the Obama regime keep on coming.

Breitbart reports that Obama will release 55 Jihad terrorists from Guantanamo Bay this week:

Obama is about to release or transfer 55 Gitmo prisoners, despite reports that the Libyan believed to be behind the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was a former Guantanamo inmate transferred to Libyan custody.

Breitbart also reports Obama will condemn an American Christian before the world and denounce his supposed film ‘Innocence of Muslims” at the UN this week.  John Nolte reports:

Not only are we seeing the White House and State Department call more attention to the Mohammed-mocking “Innocence of Muslims” than any terrorist network ever could’ve hoped for, but the President’s indefensible scapegoating of the film and filmmaker to draw attention and blame away from U.S. security failures apparently knows no bounds.

On top of all that, Flopping Aces does an ace job – of tying together all  the existing and confirmed news stories to piece together the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President, is issuing demands for American capitulation and surrender to Islam – that Obama himself is making possible.

They note the story that Obama is now taking defacto orders from Morsi of Egypt as the Islamist spells out terms for US/Arab relations.

Egypt’s new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi said the United States needed to fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect for its values and helping build a Palestinian state, if it hoped to overcome decades of pent-up anger.

A former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mr. Morsi sought in a 90-minute interview with The New York Times to introduce himself to the American public and to revise the terms of relations between his country and the United States after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, an autocratic but reliable ally.

Flopping Aces notes that the overall pattern from Egypt is to 1.) demand the US accept Islam as its own rule, 2.) calling for the suspension of free speech in the US and to put on trial anyone who offends them. 3.) Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi states: ‘One Of The Tenets Of The Muslim Brotherhood… Is The Islamic Caliphate And The Ruling Of The World… The Day Will Come When We Will Be The Masters Of The World’

Obama’s response to these demands given his actions this past week and this coming week appears to be unconditional surrender, complete with bow.  Obama is stretching all our necks to the sword of Jihadist Islam.

DELIBERATELY.

Obama To Give Himself Sweeping Power To Control Internet Content

Executive Order granting the president sweeping power over the Internet is “close to completion.”

After the Congress repeatedly killed attempts to give power to Obama to regulate and control the internet, Obama has decided to ignore Congress and issue another decree – errrr Executive Order, granting himself the power to take over the internet and shut it down or regulate it in the name of ‘security’.

Obama had already signed an Executive Order back in July that granted him an “internet kill switch” in the event of a ‘crisis’ or ‘national emergency’ that he, himself will define.  But that was not enough power.  It is the CONTENT on the internet that Obama disagrees with, that he wants to shut down.

This new Executive Order, in conjunction with DHS and other Executive agencies – will grant Obama sweeping power and control over the internet and it’s content.  Given the fact the Obama regime continues to blame a YouTube video for the 9-11 attacks and Islamic uproar at United States Embassies in the Middle East, Obama appears he will use the crisis as a justification for his decree to put the internet and it’s content under his direct control.

Testifying before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Janet Napolitano said that the order is still “being drafted” and vetted by various high-level bureaucrats. But she also indicated that it would be issued as soon as a “few issues” were resolved. Assuming control of the nation’s Internet infrastructure is a DHS responsibility, Napolitano added.

Once Barack Obama signs his name to this edict and assuming compliance with its mandates changes from voluntary to involuntary, he will possess powers only dreamed about by the most ambitious dictators of history.

“In the wake of Congressional inaction and Republican stall tactics, unfortunately, we will continue to be hamstrung by outdated and inadequate statutory authorities that the legislation would have fixed. Moving forward, the President is determined to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today’s cyber threats and we will do that,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in an email reported by The Hill.

It is the hallmark of all Marxist dictatorships to control the flow of information.  In the name of security the Obama regime is assigning itself control over the flow of information.  This should frighten every American, especially considering his regime is repeating the suggestion that offending Islam is not freedom of speech, and is become a national security issue.  Therefore – under that pretext, Obama will justify his dictatorial action.

Obama Apologizes To Muslims in Pakistan

The Obama Regime is running a series of ‘apology’ ads in Pakistan on U.S. taxpayer dime, blaming YouTube Video that is blocked in Pakistan.

U.S. Embassies around the world are falling and burning.  Ambassadors are being raped and executed by Jihadists.  Obama responds by blaming a Youtube video and apologizing and blaming America and Americans for the jihad attacks and subsequent uproar.

The Regime is spending 70 thousand of our tax dollars to run an ad of comments by Obama and Hillary Clinton blaming a Youtube video that is blocked from viewing in Pakistan, for the Islamic violence that has spread to Pakistan in the aftermath of the Al Qaeda/Jihad attacks on the U.S. embassies in Libya and Egypt on the 11th anniversary of 9-11.  The ad buy, subtitles the comments of the regime in Urdu – the primary language in Pakistan.

Redesigned American Flag – Selling On Obama Campaign Website

It’s the new symbol for Obama’s Amerika – the signet of change and tyranny.

Obama flags entitled “Our Stripes” designed by Studio MPLS.  Rip down Old Glory and fly this abomination instead.  Show your support of Dear Leader.

 

UPDATE 9-23 – this flag has been quietly removed from Obama’s campaign website.  No explanation given.

You can no longer order them at store.barackobama.com

Obama in 1995: ” ‘The Entire History of America Is Towards Concentration of Power and Oppression’

Obama talks about government Collectivist decisions as ‘it has to be Democracy with a ‘small d’.

1995 video depicts Barack Obama calling for a society based on collectivism and ”common good” as being the way “forward” – which is his 2012 campaign slogan.

“I would challenge a reading of American history that would say the entire history of America is towards concentration of power and oppression. I think that American history moves in waves and cycles. I think that recapturing the spirit that existed not just in the civil rights movement but in the union organizing movement, in the populist movement….make democracy work in the way that it should be worked.” – Barrack Hussein Obama, August 1995

UPDATE: MEDIA BURIES OBAMA VIDEO, TRUMPETS ROMNEY VIDEO

Obama media spends 3 days raving about hidden Romney video and declare his candidacy ‘dead’.  Same media ignores or barely mentions the video posted above.

Obama To Free World Trade Center Terrorist, Will Return Him to the Islamists In Egypt.

Egyptian Islamists visited White House on numerous occasions, followed by Embassy Attacks and now Obama Regime to release Blind Sheik.

 

The media has had a blackout on reports that the Islamists in Egypt have been visiting the White House and requested that Obama release one of the most heinous convicted Jihad terrorists in our custody.  Back in June, Rep. Peter King (R) NY who sits as Chair of the Department of Homeland Security Committee demanded to know from Obama officials why the administration allowed Hani Nour Eldin, a self-proclaimed member of a  designated terrorist organization to enter the United States unimpeded and attend meetings inside the White House with senior-level Obama administration and State Department officials.  King sent a letter to Janet Napalitano demanding answers to serious questions that went unanswered.

Then on the 11th Anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, American embassies in Egypt and Libya were attacked and 4 Americans were killed, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. The Obama regime insisted it had no warnings of the impending attacks and continues to insist the attacks were caused by a YouTube video.   In response to the Jihad attacks and acts of war on America’s embassies, Obama directed the U.S. government to take into custody – a U.S. man involved in making the video whom Obama stated last night was a “shadowy figure”.  For Obama’s regime, clamping down on American free speech rights to impose defacto Sharia law in the United States, is the proper response to Jihadist terror.

While Obama’s regime insists it had no intelligence about any threats to our embassies, Fox News has obtained a 3 page DHS letter warning two days before the 9-11 attacks, that Jihadists in Egypt demanded that the Blind Sheik be released, or they would “burn the embassy down with everyone in it.”

The Sept. 9 statement said “the time has come for a strong movement from you, O sons of Egypt, to release the detained” sheikh. “Let your slogan be: No to the American Embassy in Egypt until our detained sheikh is released.” 

It continued: “Starting now, let the faithful among you form follow-up committees in charge of taking the necessary measures to force America to release the sheikh — even if it requires burning the embassy down with everyone in it.” 

Obama ignored those warnings, as did his State Department.  Apparently deliberately so – because Obama now appears that he will cede to Islamist demands and direct the State Department to release the Egyptian sheik who is the WTC bombing mastermind.  Breitbart reports that the US State Department is now actively negotiating with Egyptian President Morsi’s government about transferring Omar Abdel-Rahman from US custody to Egyptian custody.

Citing health reasons, this brings to mind a similar situation when Scotland released the Pan Am 103 bombing mastermind Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi to Libya where he was welcomed home as a hero, and did not die ‘within weeks’ as was cited as the reason for his release.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy believes the deal to release Rahman has already been reached by the administration, and they are just waiting until after the election to announce it. McCarthy believes this is why the DOJ so strongly ruled out Rahman’s “release” but said nothing against his “transfer.”

A group of Congressional leaders released a copy of a letter sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder expressing “concern” about the possible release of Omar Abdel Rahman after it was learned the the State Department was in negotiations with Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Morsi to secure his release to Egypt.

This is more than incompetence from the Obama regime – this is deliberate aiding and abetting of Jihadists, while imposing defacto Sharia Law on American citizens.

Prelude To The End of America

Radical Islam and today’s progressive, postmodern leftists–led by the current President of the United States, sadly-share the same philosophical premises as any run of the mill suicide bomber.

Kudos to Dr. Sanity for stating the only sane thing that can be said when taking the events of the past week, and this Regime’s actions into consideration – and arriving at a sum of where it is all going to end up.

Reblogging her blog, because the truth needs to be read by as many as possible, if for nothing more – than as a witness.

PRELUDE TO THE END OF AMERICA

I never thought I would see the day that Liberty itself was crucified on the altar of political correctness; but I can now see the outline of the cross on the horizon:

On a day when Egypt is appeasing its mob by issuing arrest warrants for the people responsible for the film (a capital offense there, do note), this is what’s running in the biggest paper in Los Angeles. Turns out the author, Sarah Chayes, is a former assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is no surprise. As Matt Welch notes, lately the strongest pressure on private citizens to limit their criticism of Islam has come from the top of the Pentagon. Bob Gates called Terry Jones when he first threatened to burn a Koran to ask him to stand down, then Martin Dempsey called him again a few days ago when the Mohammed movie broke big. Not content with asking citizens not to make Islamists mad, Chayes wants to blow a hole through the First Amendment using Supreme Court precedent so that they can be compelled to shut up.

The disgusting and fundamentally anti-American article from the LA Times referenced above, follows Administration thugs coming in the middle of the night to bring the blasphemer in for questioning; as a General in the U.S. Military calls some pastor to discuss his tendency to burn Korans.

Those of us who have noted over the years the cozy, ideological relationship between the political left and radical Islam are not surprised by this behavior (see here and here as only two examples–and there are many more on this blog). It makes perfect metaphysical, epistemological and ethical sense, since Radical Islam and today’s progressive, postmodern leftists–led by the current President of the United States, sadly-share the same philosophical premises as any run of the mill suicide bomber. Only their behavior has not yet escalated to the violence of the bomber, since they do not yet have to resort to violence to achieve their sharia.

Make no mistake, however, this is the prelude to the end of America. A prelude to the end of the precious IDEA that is America.

In less than 4 years, the Bill of Rights is well on its way to being supplanted by Islamic blasphemy laws with the purpose of restricting free speech; while at the same time all the President’s men and women are intent on limiting the rights of Christians to practice their religion in the public sphere; and turning a blind eye to Iran’s dream of a world without Israel or the Jews.

The progressive dream of a “living, breathing Constitution” that can change with the whim of a future dictator can now be seen to personify that document so that it can once and for all be distorted, maimed and even murdered by the postmodern elite.

Mitt Romney is excoriated by a Rodeo Clown Media because he dared to speak several Truths (about dependence on government by almost half of the US population; and the unremitting Palestinian and Arab hatred of Jews and Israel) that no one in the medial or on the left wants to hear.

When Truths are gleefuly proclaimed as gaffes; when Islamic terrorism in Egypt and Libya and around the globe is treated as if it were a criminal matter, instead of a matter of national security; when speaking out against Islam in the United States of America is treated as a possible crime by our own government; when our “free” media thinks the big story is Mitt Romney’s daring to criticize Supreme Leader Obama when our Libyan Ambassador and others are murdered and the black flags of Al Qaeda fly over US embassies around the world; when you have a privileged, entitled jackass like Sandra Fluke (who demands that you pay for her birth control) highlighted and celebrated by a major political party–then you know that the American idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is coming to a catastrophic an end, not with a bang, but a whimper.

The very essence of America is what is at stake this November.

It may already be too late to turn things around. I hope not. Four years ago, I would never have thought it possible, but now I think that it is more than probable. We have been dragged to the edge of a moral, political, and economic cliff.

If Barack Obama were running against a dishrag, I would vote for the dishrag.

The Islamic Post-American World

What a Post-American world looks like, Islamic leaders tell us that the only way we will have peace is if we let them decide what sections of the Bill of Rights we get to keep.

Daniel Greenfield hits another one out of the park:

The left has a choice to make. They can either choose Americanism or the Koran, and for the most part they have made their choice. And we need to make ours. This is not a debate over policies, but over basic freedoms. This is not a conflict over what percent of taxes we will be paying, but whether we will have even the most basic civil rights left by the time that the international order of savages and murderers, and their transnational representatives, are done with us.

Sultan Knish Blog: Anti-American Savages of the Post American World