Two authoritarians of a feather. One’s already been convoyed. The other is scared to death of getting the same.
Were you to ask me what Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and Jay Powell all have in common; I would answer you this: a belief in their own unaccountable power.
In his book Lex Rex (Latin for The Law is King), Samuel Rutherford set forth the Christian idea that governors, as well as the governed, alike were both under the law.
Throughout most of human history, it was the exact opposite. Rather than the law being king, it was Rex Lex, the king is the law. Put differently, The law is what the king says it is, and he himself is above it.
The notion that the law – and we mean by “the law” the law of God – is king and not man is a thoroughly Biblical and Christian idea. It is not an accident that Protestant Samuel Rutherford set forth this idea in a book instead of some Roman Catholic scholar. The idea that both the ruler and the ruled stand under the law and are responsible to God is a concept that was rediscovered at the time of the Reformation in implemented in those nations to which the Reformation came.
Those of us who live in the West, as badly decomposed as it is, have enjoyed the privilege of living under a system of government that acknowledged this principle. As recently as two years ago, one could still think of this great idea as operable. But beginning in 2020, Western governments initiated a coup détat of sorts, replacing the Protestant idea that the law is king with a technocratic tyranny in which unaccountable bureaucrats and puppetized elected officials rule us like kings.
ICE agents forced to coordinate travel for illegal immigrants, some with criminal records: source
The illegitimate Biden Regime continues its all-out effort to put Americans last.
If you have any doubts about this, the reports from Bill Melugin of Fox News about the illegal alien travel service the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is running should help clear them up.
Illegal aliens continue to flood our southern border due to encouragement from the Biden Regime. And once they’re in the country, instead of being deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they should be, they’re being bussed – at taxpayer expense! – to destinations in the nation’s interior.
American citizenship, a jewel prized throughout the world, continues to be treated like so much garbage by the federal government as it steadfastly refuses to do anything to close the absurd birthright citizenship loophole. Allan Wall reports that Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda, governor of the Mexican state of Baja California, deliberately left Mexico to give birth in Brawley, California, 34 miles from the state capital. Simply by being born on US soil, her son was automatically granted American citizenship to go along with his Mexican citizenship. That’s what birthright citizenship is.
I had meant to write this post last week, but, as they say, life got in the way. So here’s the belated version for you.
As do many, I find New Year’s a convenient time to stop and reflect on the year past and consider what may lie ahead.
In my case, I like to mention upfront that I’m thankful to the Lord God Almighty for the opportunity to write this blog during 2021. Before I begin each post, I pray that the Lord would grant me the grace to write truthfully, clearly, and in a way that glorifies His name and edifies his people. Moreover, November 2021 marked the seventh anniversary of my prayer to God asking him to help me write at least one blog post a week. By his grace I have kept this pace, posting at least one new item every week since then. Thanks be to God for giving me the strength to do this!
There are times as a writer when I really do wonder if I’m doing the Lord’s will or my own. Has God called me to do this work, or am I just kidding myself and rebelling against him? That he has honored my prayers for this blog, that people still seem to get something out of it, and that I continue to enjoy writing are big hints to me that, yes, I am doing what the Lord has called me to do.
[L]et it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.
– Daniel 3:18
The Book of Daniel records for us one of the most famous of all acts of civil disobedience, the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego to go along with King Nebuchadnezzar’s command to fall down and worship his golden image.
In like fashion today, Christians are being asked, ordered is more like it, to fall in line and worship a new golden image, this time in the form of mask mandates, social distancing, lockdowns, and forced vaccinations where one is given the choice, take the jab or lose your job.
Indeed, the vax fanatics are so filled with confidence and their own sense of moral superiority that they seem not to realize that the policy prescriptions they so ardently pursue sound as if they were lifted right out of Revelation 13. There we read the famous passage about the mark of the beast and the consequences for not taking it.
He [the beast] causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name (Revelation 13:16-17).
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My point in citing this passage is not to argue that the Covid jabs, so beloved by authoritarians the world over, are the mark of the beast which John wrote about. But I do mean to suggest that at the very least, the maniacal effort on the part of Western governments – and that in the face of mounting, hard evidence that the jabs are both unsafe and ineffective – to force vaccinate their populations is most certainly an act that is of the same spirit as the mark of the beast described in Revelation.
Opponents of critical race theory attend a Loudoun County School Board meeting on June 22 in Ashburn. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
Across America, school boards have been losing the battle over Covid restrictions and Critical Race Theory to American parents.
Now they’re getting serious and calling in the heavy artillery.
At least that seems to be the case given the whiney, tattletale-style letter the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent to Joe Biden requesting help from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the U.S. Secret Service and its National Threat Assessment Center, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
All this, because parents don’t like “education professionals” teaching their kids to hate them, their nation, and their entire civilization.
“As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” reads the letter.
In other words, the NSBA thinks all the red-neck parents out there in fly-over country who oppose the brainwashing of their children should just shut up already. And if they don’t, they should be hit with charges of domestic terrorism and thrown in the clink right along with the J6 defendants and all the other deplorable types who deserve to be locked up.
That is to say, the NSBA wants to make disagreeing with school boards a federal offense, in much the same way as many would like to see Covid skeptics locked up who dare express disagreement with Anthony Fauci, the WHO, and Bill Gates.
Lest anyone suppose that I’m advocating an “anything goes” policy at school board meetings, that is not my point at all. As with any public meeting, there are rules of conduct that apply in school board sessions. If someone gets out of line, there are ways of dealing with that person, up to and including arrest if the occasion requires it. These situations can be handled by local law enforcement. But the NSBA wants to make a federal case out of it. Calling on the nuclear option of DOJ shows that the school boards’ main concern is not with ensuring Robert’s Rules of Order are followed. Surely a stern gavel, a security guard, or the local police can handle this. No. Something more sinister is at work here. It appears that the real goal of the school boards is to avoid altogether answering to parents, the very people who pay for the schools, for their appalling decisions on everything from pornographic curriculum, to transgender bathroom and locker room policies, to unscientific mask requirements for students. The goal is the criminalization of dissent from the progressive educratic party line.
Lux Lucet 