"Behold, We Did Not Know This:" A Response To Normalization Of Relations With Cuba

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked?

Selah

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.  Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked,” Psalm 82:2-4, ESV.

"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless," Isaiah 10:1-2, ESV.

Pres. Obama chose to normalize relations with Cuba despite their history of oppression against the Church.  His actions have not brought about a change for the better in the Cuban government, rather, they have ENCOURAGED a Godless and despotic regime to continue in their oppression. 

THIS is the responsibility given to our leaders by God; pay close attention to the warning He includes:

"Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.  If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?  Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, AND WILL HE NOT REPAY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORK," Proverbs 24:11-12, ESV, emphasis added.

Pres. Obama and former SecState Hillary Clinton cannot claim ignorance.  They may never answer to the courts of man, but God says the day is coming when they will answer to HIM.

Crackdown on Christians in Cuba

When Fire Favors The Wealthy...

So a new Grand Rapids, MI, open burn ordinance has been announced that "allows" some people to have a recreational fire on their own property.  Minimum lot size is 5,000 sq. ft, so that eliminates about 85% of all properties in the city.  My own property is 3,750 sq. ft.  The property owner must pay an additional tax of $50/yr (the cost of the annual permit they must purchase), the fire pit must be "...at least 20 feet away from any structure or fence and must be contained in a pit or chimenea. No fires are allowed on high risk fire days or Ozone Action Days.

Fires must be extinguished by 10 p.m. and residents need permission from their neighbors on either side."

SERIOUSLY?!

My neighbors who use powerful fireworks before, during, and after the allowed holidays throughout the year don't have to ask my permission before lighting them off until 1:00 or 2:00 am, they don't have to worry that the smoke in our neighborhood is thick enough to cut with a chainsaw or that the average lot size is closer to 50' x 50' (2500 sq ft), and they don't have to purchase a permit to light off their completely unconfined fireworks.  This new ordinance, which is being tested for 2 years and will be reconsidered in 2018, favors large property owners - with a few exceptions, the wealthiest citizens of the city. This is a garbage ordinance that, once again, tramples private property rights - especially those of the less-than-wealthy.