"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

Incongruous….

September 11, 2014….

Mr. President:  NEVER AGAIN.

Lindsey Graham Warns Obama - Do This Again, And We'll Impeach….

Sen. Lindsey Graham has warned the president that if he ever releases Gitmo prisoners again without first coming to Congress, he will be impeached (Graham Warns Obama).

Right.

When is it going to sink in that we no longer believe you or most of your colleagues - in EITHER House?  

You have more than enough to go to impeachment right now, but the House has allowed three previous articles of impeachment to die in committee.  Even the most liberal democrats have expressed outrage at this latest act.  

Strike while the iron is hot - NOW!  

Forget this "next time…" garbage.  You're dealing with an intransigent president, not a naughty 2 year old.

Impeach.

EPIC - Trey Gowdy gets a standing ovation on House Floor - 'We Make Law!'

Partial Gov't "Shutdown" and Military Personnel....

I just read the following post regarding the son of a friend who is stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina:

"Just found out ***** ***** not only has no commissary ( I can understand that) but now the Defax (Mess hall) is closed and they aren't feeding him either. He now has to go off base and fend for himself."

So now not only are our military personnel not being PAID, they aren't being FED, either; the commissaries are also being shut down due to the partial government "shutdown."  In order to buy groceries or eat, on-base personnel must now leave their bases and buy their necessities at the more expensive civilian stores and restaurants, yet the Commander in Chief of US military forces demands that they remain on active duty.

Do you see the lengths to which Pres. Obama displays his contempt for our military personnel and makes them endure his anger because of the attempts to derail his agenda?

Pres. Obama's Speech Against US Involvement In syria....

I love it when speeches made by senators come back to bite them as presidents! I have taken the liberty of making a few very minor changes to this speech:

"Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war speech, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don't oppose all wars.

My forbears signed up to fight wars in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific. They saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; they heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. They fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and they did not fight in vain. I don't oppose all wars.

After Sept. 11, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported the administration's pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such tragedy from happening again. I don't oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism.

What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Hillary Clinton and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like John Kerry to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through its worst years since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear — I suffer no illusions about Bashar Hafez al-Assad. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, launched armed attacks against his own people. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Syrian people, would be better off without him.

But I also know that Assad poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States or to his neighbors, that the Syrian economy is in shambles, that the Syrian military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Syria will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Syria without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the president today. You want a fight, President Obama? Let's finish the fight with terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that effectively targets foreign threats while protecting the Constitutional rights of American citizens. You want a fight, President Obama?

Let's fight to make sure that the U.N. inspectors can do their work in Syria, and that we vigorously enforce a non-proliferation treaty, and that former enemies and current allies like Russia safeguard and ultimately eliminate their stores of chemical, biological, and nuclear agents, and that nations like Iran never use the terrible weapons already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe. You want a fight, President Obama?

Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Obama? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through sensible development of our enormous domestic oil and gas resources.

Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair. The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain."

This speech was originally delivered by then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2002 in Chicago to protest US involvement in Iraq. To see how minor the changes I made are, view the transcript of the original speech: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99591469

"We need your honor..."

Fine, then let's see that honor demonstrated by the Commander in Chief first.

“We need your honor, that inner compass that guides you, not when the path is easy and obvious, but it’s hard and uncertain, that tells you the difference between that which is right and that which is wrong,” Obama said. “Perhaps it will be the moment when you think nobody’s watching. But never forget that honor, like character, is what you do when nobody’s looking.”

Practice what you preach, Mr. President.  You have no moral authority to make such a demand.

Let me paraphrase your other relevant remark from this address:

“Those who commit dereliction of duty after receiving numerous please for help, who order troops to stand down when our ambassador and his staff are being murdered, who direct the IRS to target conservatives and others with whose ideology you personally disagree, who tell Christians that they must fund abortion and give vocal approval to homosexuality in violation of their First Amendment Rights, who direct the Department of State to provide funding and weapons to islamic terrorist organizations and hostile governments, and who direct immigration and other law enforcement agencies not to enforce our laws regarding illegal aliens, just to give a few examples, are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that makes our country strong.” 

True leadership doesn't make demands of others that it doesn't first make of itself.

Pres. Obama to West Point Grads: "We need your honor..."

"Jamie Foxx: 'Our lord and savior Barack Obama'"

At the Soul Train Awards Sunday (11/25/12), comedian Jamie Foxx encouraged those in attendance to give thanks to God and "our lord and savior Barack Obama."

Folks, this is blasphemy.  There is ONE LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS THE CHRIST. 1 Corinthians 8:6, "yet for us there is ONE GOD, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST, through whom are all things and through whom we exist."

I am reminded of a similar situation that was recorded in Acts 12.  There was a group of people with whom King Herod was angry.  Wanting to appease him, those people came together, groveled, and then sat through a speech.  Wanting to appease Herod even further, when he was done with his speech, the people all shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”  Verse 23 of Acts 12 records, "Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, BECAUSE HE DID NOT GIVE GOD THE GLORY, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last."

This is not the first time that deity has been attributed to Pres. Obama.  A page from a commemorative calendar being sold during the DNC conference in North Carolina features a photo of the birth certificate of Obama along with the words, "HEAVEN SENT,  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16."

This is blasphemy of the highest order, something that God does not take lightly.  Isaiah 42:8 records this statement by God:  I AM THE LORD; that is MY NAME; MY GLORY I GIVE TO NO OTHER, nor my praise to carved idols."  What applies to God applies equally to His Son, Jesus the Christ:  "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.  I and my Father are one..." (John 10:29).  Jesus used the primary name of God, I AM, as His own:  "Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am...'" (John 8:58).

It is truly time for the people of this nation to fall on our faces before God to confess this blasphemy, to throw ourselves on His mercy.

And to the PASTORS of the African-American congregations of this nation,  "I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: PREACH THE WORD; be ready in season and out of season; REPROVE, REBUKE, AND EXHORT, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming (indeed, it is already here - added) when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears THEY WILL ACCUMULATE FOR THEMSELVES TEACHERS TO SUIT THEIR OWN PASSIONS..."  (2 Timothy 4:1-3).

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/26/jamie-foxx-calls-obama-our-lord-and-savior#ixzz2DKxjLvCA