Did I Miss Something?!

Last Wednesday I read an article posted by Joseph Farah on the WND website that aroused my anger.  The article is titled, "Farrakhan's Declaration of War."  It can be found at www.wnd.com/2015/08/farrakhans-declaration-of-war.  The article begins: "Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has declared war on white America.  Did anyone notice?  Did Barack Obama or Attorney General Loretta Lynch notice?  Did I miss the condemnation of Farrakhan's call to violence by this long-time supporter of Obama - a man who once called him 'the Messiah?'"  The unparalleled racial incitement to violence came, shockingly, at a service last Sunday at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Miami.  Citing the Quran as his inspiration, Farrakhan, 82, called for the rising up of an army of 10,000 black male volunteers to kill white Americans.  'Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400-year old enemy,' he said.  'Death is sweet.  The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter.'  In his fiery speech, Farrakhan said he was looking for '10,000 in the midst of the million ... 10,000 fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny' to retaliate against white Americans because of their alleged oppression of black people.  'Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breath of those whose children have been slain,' he said.  'So, if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us.  Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.'"


Friends, did you hear anything about this speech on Good Morning, America or Nightly News?  Did you read anything about it in your local newspaper?  Of course not!  Did you hear what this long-time friend of our President just said?  He issued a call for young black men - 10,000 of them - to rise up in a war against white people.   Instead of blacks killing blacks, it is better that blacks kill whites.  Friends, there is no call to investigate Louis Farrakhan.  There is no call for his arrest for creating a national terroristic threat.  Yet let one small-town bakery say that it will not furnish a cake for a same-sex wedding because doing so would violate a religious belief, and the government comes after them for violating someone's rights, fining them and even threatening imprisonment.  Yet, here is a man who can stand in a Baptist Church and declare that the black people in America should declare war on white people in America...and nothing is done. 


On another note, I read another article written by Raymond Ibrahim and found on the Middle East Forum website: www.medforum.org/5423/us-oath-of-allegiance-shariah.  The article begins: "The Obama administration recently made changes to the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in a manner very conducive to Sharia, or Islamic law.  On July 21, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced some 'modifications' to the Oath of Allegiance that immigrants must take before becoming naturalized.  The original oath required incoming citizens to declare that they will 'bear arms on behalf of the United States'; and 'perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States' when required by the Law.  Now the USCIS says that 'a candidate may be eligible to exclude these two clauses based on religious training and belief or a conscientious objection.'"  The article then goes on to state: "These changes serve incoming Islamic supremacists especially well.  For, while Islamic law allows Muslims to feign loyalty to non-Muslim 'infidel' authorities, it bans Muslims from living up to the pretense by actually fighting or killing fellow Muslims on behalf of a non-Muslim entity, such as the United States."  The writer of the article then cites the example of Nidal Hassan, the U.S. army major who went on a terror rampage when he received orders to Afghanistan.  He could not kill another Muslim.  The author closes with these thoughts that should bring alarm: "In short, the first loyalty of any 'American Muslim' who follows the Koran is to fellow Muslims, regardless of their nationality.  It is not to American 'infidels', even if they be their longtime neighbors whom they daily smile to.  Hence why American Muslim Tarik Shah, who was arrested for terrorist-related charges, once boasted, 'I could be joking and smiling [with non-Muslims] and then cutting their throats in the next second'. ... Now, in direct compliance with Islamic law, the Obama administration has made it so that no Muslim immigrating to America need every worry about having to defend her - including against fellow Muslims or jihadis."  Does this news make you feel any safer? 


I keep going back to that passage in Isaiah 5 where the prophet declares, concerning his own day - the times of the 8th century BC - "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."  Our moral structure has become so corrupted that little structure remains.  Those moral foundations upon which our nation and culture were based have crumbled and are nearing total destruction.  Another passage of Scripture comes to my mind: "When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? ( Psalm 11:3).  Do we throw up our hands and say, "what's the use?"  Do we cower in despair?  How I love that very next verse: "The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD is on his heavenly throne.  He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them." (Psalm 11:4). 


Friends, isn't great to know that our God is still seated on His throne in glory?  The actions of the Louis Farrakhans' of this world do not intimidate Him one iota.  He does not become discouraged when He sees the vanity of men.  And because He is on the throne, I might become angry at what is happening around me, but I do not become depressed.  Because He is on the throne, I might raise my voice in strong objections to decisions that are made, but I still remember that God has said, "You are more than conquerors through him who loved you" (Romans 8:37).