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The Deranged Zionist Attack on Our Republic

December 10, 2023 by Steve Matthews

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill testifies during a House hearing on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

One can find many examples of high-ranking government officials and others in positions of influence complaining about threats to “our democracy.” 

In 2018 when the great internet purge of conservatives began with the unpersoning and deplatforming of Alex Jones, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said,

Infowars [Infowars is Alex Jones’s news organization] is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.  These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it[1]

More recently, Nancy Pelosi opined that the prospect of Donald Trump being re-elected as president would be a “nightmare scenario” and that “our democracy” is “at stake” in the 2024 presidential election.[2]

This is an odd statement.  Pelosi is asking readers to believe that if Donald Trump is re-elected by the voters as president, that somehow this is a threat to “our democracy.”  It seems to this author that this would be the very definition of democracy: the people getting the elected officials whom they choose. 

What Pelosi seems to mean is that if Donald Trump is re-elected, the voters made the wrong choice.  While there’s nothing wrong with disagreeing with the result of an election, it’s silly to deem it a threat to “our democracy.”   

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Is the Next Wave of Covid Vax Deaths and Injuries Upon Us?

December 3, 2023 by Steve Matthews

It’s been a while since I’ve commented on the Covid scam/plan demic and the appalling toll the poison death shot has inflicted on the people who were duped into taking it.  But some recent personal experiences as well as new revelations from New Zealand have prompted me to return to this subject.

Regarding personal experiences, in just the past few days, I’ve personally heard three people attribute health problems to the Vax.  This is remarkable.  Until this weekend, I had not heard a single individual in my hearing, with one exception, link the Vax with an injury, either something that happened to them or to a loved one.  Yet without any prompting, I’ve heard such talk three times in the last three days. 

This raises the question in my mind, are Vax deaths/injuries accelerating, or are people simply beginning to recognize the linkage between the Vax and deaths and injuries, or is it that people have suspected the linkage all along but were afraid to talk about it and now feel emboldened to speak out?  It’s hard to say.  But here are a few examples of deaths and medical problems that I have heard about likely caused by the Vax.

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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, an Update: Part 3, Does God Require Americans to Support Israel?

November 26, 2023 by Steve Matthews

People gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, for the March for Israel rally. Credit…Leigh Vogel for The New York Times

“If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you….”

  • Bill Clinton before the Israeli Knesset, October 27, 1994

In his essay “Who Really Owns the ‘Holy Land’?,”[1] Robert Reymond quoted President Bill Clinton’s words before the Israeli Knesset.  The full quote in his paper reads,

If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you…it is God’s will that Israel, the Biblical home of the people of Israel, continue forever and ever…Your journey is our journey, and America will stand with you now and always.”

Now some may find such rhetoric surprising coming from Bill Clinton.  After all, isn’t Clinton a Democrat, and, as we are told, Democrats hate all things Israel? Isn’t rabid support for Israel a conservative Christian Republican thing?  Well, not so fast.  Yes, conservative Republicans certainly are big supporters of Israel, in particular, conservative Republican dispensationalist Christians.   But support for Israel crosses party lines.

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Radio Lux Lucet 104: Thanksgiving 2023

November 22, 2023 by Steve Matthews

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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, an Update: Part 2, Israel’s Palestinian Problem and Ours

November 19, 2023 by Steve Matthews

Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks at a Christians United for Israel event on July 19, 2022

Agents of both Israel and Rome are active in the United States, both gathering intelligence and influencing policy. The U. S. government is manipulated by foreign interests. Both Israel and the Vatican see the United States as their proxy in this religious war.

  • John Robbins, “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century”

I’ve written extensively in the space about the Vatican’s manipulation of the government of the United States, in particular as it relates to immigration.  Israel and its manipulation of the American government, not so much. It’s always seemed like a daunting task to me.     

But the recent events surrounding what’s being called the Israel-Hamas War have served both to bring that manipulation to light and to make commenting on it all the more necessary. 

A recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) titled “The West Should Welcome Gaza Refugees: Europe and the U.S. accepted millions who fled earlier wars”[1] makes a good place to begin this examination.    

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Headed Downhill and Picking up Speed: Ohio’s Election Disaster

November 12, 2023 by Steve Matthews

Elizabeth Chasteen Day, organizing director for ACLU of Ohio, cheers during a gathering for supporters of Issue 1 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus. Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch.

But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16

A note to the reader…Before starting on this week’s post, I want to let you know that, Lord willing, I plan to pick up my recent series on “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, and Update” starting next week.  This weekend I was out of town and that played havoc with my usual writing schedule. And wanting to post something, I thought I’d offer my thoughts on Ohio’s much-commented-on election results from last Tuesday. 

On Tuesday, November 7, Ohio voters shocked the nation by voting to add a very liberty abortion provision to the state’s constitution and passed a law legalizing the sale and taxation of marijuana.  Commenting on the abortion vote, one article I saw had the headline “The Ohio Vote is Only the First Step in America’s Descent into the Valley of Death’s Shadow.”[1] To which I thought, “I’m not so sure.”  Not to defend the vote or abortion generally.  That’s not what I mean.  What I mean is that it certainly isn’t the first step in America’s descent to destruction.  The West in general, and America in particular, have been collapsing for well over a century.  Tuesday’s vote was hardly the first step in our destruction.  We’ve been taking such steps for my entire life, and I’m 57 years old.  I was born in 1966 and America was even then in the throes of the sexual revolution and the hippie sex, drugs, and rock and roll culture. The Civil Rights Movement was destroying civil rights and feminism was on the rise.

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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century: An Update, Part 1

November 5, 2023 by Steve Matthews

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) answers questions after a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting on Thursday, November 2, 2023.

Speaking before a Republican Jewish Committee audience, newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said,

Steve Scalise mentioned that my first act as the Speaker was to bring the resolution to make formal and official in the Congressional record our resolve to stand with Israel and against the barbarism of Hamas and all of its accomplices.  But I want you to know it’s not an accident that the first resolution was for Israel and my first trip was to come and be with you.  I want everybody to know where we stand…Israel and the US enjoy an unbreakable bond.  It’s forged over decades, of course, of bi-lateral assistance and there are lots of reasons that we do that…Last night I spoke with him [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] on the telephone.  The Prime Minister called me, and I used those very words myself.  I said, “Bibi, it’s good over evil; it’s light over darkness” …I assured the prime minister of our unwavering support of Israel and her people, and I assured him that our Congress and under my leadership we will be there until the end.  We will be there until the end of this conflict. As a Christian, I know and we believe that the Bible teaches very clearly that we’re to stand with Israel; that God will bless the nation that blesses Israel….[1]

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Reformation Day 2023

October 29, 2023 by Steve Matthews

The Wittenberg Church Door where Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, October 31, 1517.

In two days, we will mark the 506th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door. 

Luther wasn’t the first to push back on the theological and political abuses of the Roman Church-State.  John Wycliffe in England had done so 150 or so years earlier.  Jan Hus, another reformer, was murdered by the Church-State in 1415, just 102 years before Luther’s famous act.

Predating these men were the Waldenses, Italian Christians who left the Roman Church-State and built their own civilization in the valleys of the Alps.   According to Wylie in his History of the Waldenses, “When their [the Waldenses] co-religionists on the plains entered within the pale of the Roman jurisdiction, they retired within the mountains, and spurning alike the tyrannical yoke and the corrupt tenets of the Church of the Seven Hills, they preserved in its purity and simplicity the faith their fathers had handed down to them.”[1]

As our nation, as the whole of the formerly Christian West, turns more and more away from its historic Protestant roots and more and more toward tyranny of various stripes, I cannot help but wonder if we twenty-first century Protestants will not have to follow in the footsteps of the Waldenses to escape what appears to be a coming wave of persecution in our own time.

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Antichrist’s Illegal Alien Assault on America, Part 5: Items in Brief and Closing Remarks

October 22, 2023 by Steve Matthews

Pope Francis stands on an altar facing the U.S. before celebrating Mass during a February 2016 trip to Juarez. The papal visit was one of the El Paso Times’ top stories of 2016. Robin Zielinski/Las Cruces Sun-News

There are a few items I’d like to address before wrapping up this treatment of Exsul Familia Nazarethana (EFN), the Apostolic Constitution that provides the theoretical framework for the Roman Church-State’s massive and ongoing illegal alien assault on the United States of America.[1] The first of these is Rome’s “welcome the stranger” argument.

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Antichrist’s Illegal Alien Assault on America, Part 4: The Example of Moses

October 15, 2023 by Steve Matthews

Pope Francis stands on an altar facing the U.S. before celebrating Mass during a February 2016 trip to Juarez. The papal visit was one of the El Paso Times’ top stories of 2016. Robin Zielinski/Las Cruces Sun-News

While Pius XII chose to build his case for mass welfare migration on the flight of Joseph and his family to Egypt recorded in Matthew 2:13-15, this is not the only passage in Scripture on which to build a doctrine of immigration.  One could argue that, in fact, it is not even the best passage of Scripture to cite for that purpose.

There are several important differences between the situation with Joseph’s family and the sort of mass border rush that’s taking place in America under the current presidential administration.  One of these we’ve already mentioned: Joseph and his family were truly asylees according to the modern definition of the term, but many of those pouring across America’s southwest border are economic migrants.[1] Certainly, one can sympathize with those seeking a better life, but their situation is not the same as those fleeing for their lives due to persecution.

But the problems with Pius XII’s argument don’t end there.  One minor point worth noting is that both Judea and Egypt were constituent parts of the Roman Empire at the time of Christ’s birth.  Fleeing from Judea to Egypt was simply going from one Roman province to another.  Even Pius XII pretends to acknowledge that national borders matter, yet he builds his immigration case on an example where notional borders did not come into play.

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