Who can know the mind and heart of the Lord at this moment, since He does not reveal it to us. But knowing that God is a person with emotions and feelings (Ephesians 4:30), how can we fail to realize that this was very painful to the Lord. How can one love another without being pained when the object of our love does something very bad? Christ shed tears during His sojourn upon the earth: why cannot we believe He shed tears in this moment? Hear the dismay, disappointment, and shock in His words. This thing ripped God’s heart.

In that moment God foresaw all of the pain and suffering that the world must endure because of what had been done. God saw every arrow in flight; the glitter of every sword; the pain of every betrayal,; every eye sunken in death; every sparrow that would fall; every tear that would drop to the earth; every disappointment, every lie, every cursed thing that would come upon the earth and its inhabitants in the next thousands of years. God could not change the consequences of this act.

There was nothing that could be done now to stop the process of events that would wreck the world and its inhabitants. God cannot lie. God cannot break His word. It is impossible. He had spoken, and it must be done according to His word.

“… I did eat.”, said Adam. “… I did eat.”, said Eve, and so what was left to be done? If God could have broken His word, and did, then every atom in the universe would have disintegrated, and there would have been the ultimate chaos. God commanded that they should not eat, but they responded, “… I did eat.” God says, “Ye shall not,” and man replies, “I will.” It has been so ever since the beginning.

The serpent was the villain. The serpent corrupted their faith just enough. This account of what happened in the garden is attributed by some unbelievers to the Gilgamesh tales of ancient Babylonia. Some assert that the Biblical record of the fall developed into Jewish literature when the Jews were carried off to Babylon. Here is what one writes: “Now in the retelling, however, these (Gilgamesh) tales acquired new meaning. and became adapted to the God of Israel. It was related that the first man, Adam, had been created of clay, and had been immortal until a wise serpent had said that one who ate of the Tree of Knowledge should be as a god – deceitfully failing to mention that to retain this high estate the eating of the fruit must be continued. Adam had eaten of the Tree, and had been punished for presumption, and driven out of Eden; and because they (Jews) hated Ishtar, and because they (Jews) were afraid of blood and the chronic uncleanness that was attached to woman, they (Jews) laid the blame of the debacle on Adam’s mate.”¹

The truth that nothing good could evolve from something bad never occurs to the evolutionist. The Word of God is beyond all measure the most beneficial thing the human race has ever laid its hands on, yet some choose superstition rather than truth. Ishtar was the Egyptian name for Astarte (as TAHR tee), which was the goddess of the Phoenicians, and called Ashtoreth in the Old Testament. It is not nedessarily true that “the Jews hated idolatry,” but they were commanded to hate it. That the Jews wrote into the book of

Genesis that the woman was to blame for the fall is no more than an opinion put forth by those who do not understand the Bible as the Word of God, and don’t want it to be true.

A great step of faith is needed to believe in a mythological tale rather than the scientifically accurate and highly rational Bible. The Bible has not changed in 2,000 years. Translated into different languages, it remains the same. Many books of the Old Testament have not changed in a much longer time. The doctrines in the Bible have remained unchanged for all of this time. What the Bible teaches about God, His plan and purpose for the universe is the same as it was when it was first set down. Evolution literature is in a constant state of flux. Even the definition of evolution is being changed, and debated every day. The leading evolution high priests in the nation have discarded the sacred writing of evolution found in The Origin of the Species by Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life..

Dr. Harry Rimmer has written these words, “In the library of the Louvre in Paris, there is, or there was, an alcove containing miles of shelves, all crammed with books on various phases of science, which had become obsolete in two hundred years. That section was devoted as a graveyard of ideas and theories. Students consulted the contents of those thousands of volumes largely to amuse themselves with a review of the history of human error!”² The Gilgamesh epic has not changed either, but it is not in daily use by millions of people as is the Word of God. The Gilgamesh tales are buried in the sands of time.

The woman made a mistake. The man made a mistake. Their mistake cost all of us more than we know. Do not blame Adam and Eve for your sin, however. You are condemned because of your own sin, not only Adam’s We were in Adam when he sinned, and therefore we are as guilty of disobeying God as Adam was. Please note Hebrews 7:9,10. “And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham, For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisidec met him.” Levi did something before he was born. He did something while he was yet in the body of his great granddaddy Abraham. When, pray tell, does a man appear in the body of his ancestors? Is it scientifically possible for all the human race to have been physically in the body of Adam when he was created? It must be so.

It is depressing to know that women without God can be very evil. “… What is this that thou hast done?…”. The great evil for American women in our day is to submit to abortion. I noted in the newspaper that some medical schools are now offering courses in abortion. The case of the boy and girl up in New England that put their baby son in a dumpster to die, is evidence of how irrational the abortion mind set is in our country. It is a national tragedy, and it is a personal tragedy. It would seem that no woman could murder her baby and ever feel anything but remorse and guilt afterwards A woman who has an abortion must surely spend the rest of her life moaning in her soul, “What have I done?” But God saves women who have had abortions. He will even save the abortionist.

What a jewel is woman. She was the last thing God made. A woman is a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a saint of matchless worth. That is a godly woman. Yet she was the means by which Satan reached Adam. Satan could have touched Adam in no other way. Only for his wife would Adam turn from God. How great is the woman’s responsibility. The morals of the world ride on her gentle shoulders She must assume the care, not only for her own virtue, but for every man she encounters. When the women of a society lose their virtue, then the society sinks into immorality.

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1. Homer W. Smith, Man and His Gods (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953), p. 117.

2. Harry Rimmer, “The One Book That Will Never Change,” The Sword of the Lord, February 7, 1997, p. 10.

            “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” These words from the Book of God are the very cornerstone upon which our government rested, and our culture reposed. I use the past tense because when we elected a Muslim to lead the nation, we deserted both. When Obama declared to the world that we are not a Christian nation, he spoke the only honest words he ever said. Though I agree with Obama, I am outraged that he would broadcast this to our avowed enemies. Many people in the nation, like the ancient Corinthians, are “called to be saints,” but we, like the ancient Corinthians, live in a heathen nation, governed by a heathen administration that has denied our heritage.  
                “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” These immortal words did not emerge from the Book of God, but they came from pure minds that were saturated with the Book of God. They could have well come from the mind of God. These words place the Nigerian child, born in absolute poverty, on the same level, in the eyes of God, as the child born to the CEO of a great company. God loves that child as much as the CEO’s child, and will just as quickly redeem him, and answer his prayers.

            Muslims indeed believe in a Creator. The Qur’an is virtually the same as our Old Testament. It even speaks of God by plural pronouns. However, Muslims went astray by accepting the Hadath, the mumblings of Muhammad. The Catholic Church went astray in a similar way by placing the dogma of the church above the Book of God, and giving the traditions more authority than the Book of God. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also erred because they accepted the Book of Mormon, and made it superior to the Book of God.  Jews had made the same error at the time of Jesus. He condemned their practice of making the Law “of none effect by your tradition.” (Matthew 15:6). We Baptists are making a similar error by adopting the hundreds of versions of the Bible that flood the market: each new version worse than the one before. Why can’t things get better instead of worse? Why do men have such an aversion to truth?

            The Book of God begins with the Creator, and goes through the death of Jesus, and His resurrection, to the judgment. This is what Paul did in his sermon on Mars Hill (Acts 117:24; 31). Satan is sly enough to persuade men to write stuff that other people will believe, and cause them to turn from the truths of their Creator to a lie.

            Too many people have believed the lie of another religious fanatic who wrote stuff that began a new religion. That man was Charles Darwin, and his lie is that God does not exist at all, and the cosmos came into being by an explosion. (Dr. Isaac Asimov said it was an explosion of a molecule, but where did the molecule come from?). Millions of people in the United States have been duped by this religion and its gospel. Their gospel is called evolution. Theological evolution, the idea that God used billions of years of evolution to bring the world into being, is only one other attempt to reconcile science with the Book of God. It is not worth discussing.

            The problem is this: Since the government of this nation is built upon the truth that a Creator has granted us our freedoms, people who reject God’s existence cannot claim to be Americans. They will reject this idea, but their actions are geared to the destruction of the American dream, and installation of a totalitarian, or socialist government of some sort, but without God. This is what we are being governed by. This government was elected essentially by the sort of people I designate as Barakovites. It is painful to come to this conclusion because I suspect some of my best friends, and maybe even some relatives, fall into the category of Barakovites. Some of these people seem devout, and most of them are good, decent citizens of the nation.  

            This essay is not meant to be a political thing. I am convinced that Republicans have governed us as unconstitutionally as Democrats. In fact, we have not been governed by the tenets of the Constitution since way back: maybe the second or third administration. I know it ended with Jackson, and his “to the victor go the spoils” ideas.

            I have pointed out before that no Saint (saved person) can vote for a Democrat, and please God at the same time. The Democratic Party stand on women’s rights can be found at Appendix 1 at the end of this essay. The rationale for this remark is simple: God only can create (give life) life, and only God (and the state to whom God gave the right) has the right to take it. People must make serious choices in their voting privileges:

1. Devotion to God, or devotion to party
2. Loyalty to God or loyalty to union
3. Vows to clubs, lodges, etc., or vows to God
4. Is my race more important than my membership in the family of God?
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            This list could be greatly expanded, but there is not room here even if I could think of them all. The reason you cannot please God by voting for a Democrat is because the Democrat is bound to the position given in the Appendix, and God is not the author of death, nor the Author of confusion. I used to make a great many people angry by scrawling “Unborn Babies are People, Too” on the back of my truck. I will not argue the case here because all people should know by now that abortion has no place in the Constitution or the Book of God.

            My prayer: “Heavenly Father, Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done this day. Our nation is steeped in sin and wickedness. The selfishness of evolutionary dogma and atheism has caused our people to forget Thee, and all the blessings (good things) Thou hast given us. Many people in this country have placed government in their hearts in place of their Creator. I ask Thee, Father, to help me and my family to behave according to Thy will: quietly, harmlessly, lovingly with no malice toward any man, and obedient to our government. This administration holds power because it is Thy will, and we pray that Thou wilt remove it. But people have the sort of government they deserve. Give me and mine the grace to love people, and rebuke them when they are wrong. Protect Thy children from this wicked and untoward generation. In the name of Jesus Christ, Thy crucified, resurrected Son I pray. Amen.”

Appendix 1

  Reproductive rights

The Democratic Party believes that all women should have access to birth control, and supports public funding of contraception for poor women. The Democratic Party, in its platform in 2000 and 2004, called for abortion to be “safe, legal and rare”—namely, keeping it legal by rejecting laws that allow governmental interference in abortion decisions, and reducing the number of abortions by promoting both knowledge of reproduction and contraception, and incentives for adoption.

The Democratic Party opposes attempts to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade which recognized abortion as a right. As a matter of the right to privacy and of gender equality, many Democrats believe all women should have the ability to choose without governmental interference. They believe that each woman, conferring with her conscience, has the right to choose for herself whether abortion is morally correct. Many Democrats believe that poor women should have a right to publically funded abortions.

Some Democrats explicitly oppose the legality of abortion on moral grounds, including former Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

A substantial number of party members have been shifting to the center on this issue. Some believe in programs to make abortions less frequent as well as making sure the procedure is legal and available. Senator Clinton of New York said in early 2005 that the opposing sides should find “common ground” to prevent unwanted pregnancies and ultimately reduce abortions, which she called a “sad, even tragic choice to many, many women.”

In the absence of the sight of God’s angry face, the mocker takes great delight in using God’s name in vain, and scoffing at all His works, and leading others in the impudence nad ruin of irreverence. There will be no friends around encouraging him when he stands in the presence of God, the righteous Judge at the Great White Throne (Revelation 22:11ff).

Adam heard the questions of the God Who had been his friend and companion, but was now his Judge. Man must flee to the Lord God when the Lord God is a friend. There is no pardon in the hand of the Judge. Pardons are not handed down from the bench. God was Prosecutor and Judge as He stood with the trembling figure of His erring creature before Him. Adam surely knew the principle laid out in Hebrews 10:30: “For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.” God’s judgment is always right, the criticism of heretics notwithstanding.

Notice that Adam did not object when God said, “. . .I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” God had commanded Adam, and Adam knew that God had a right to command him. Should the Creator not have the right, authority, and power to command His creature? The creature thinks more highly of himself than he ought to think. The creature has a rebellious spirit that makes it very difficult for him to obey. There can be no shame in obeying the Creator. I have never gone wrong when I obeyed the Creator. God’s command was God’s law. The ruler of the universe must have laws in force. Man with a free will must have laws to restrain the use of that free will. Man, contrary to common contemporary belief, does not have the right to do anything he pleases. No living thing on Earth has the right to do everything it pleases.

Corliss Lamont, voice of the humanist religion, wrote, “This means that all teachers and employees in school, college, or university are entitled to full liberty of expression and association.”1 Imagine what a bag of worms that opens up. But humanists are the world’s foremost hypocrites, for they do not practice that principle. I was fired by the Cherokee County School board for exercising my “. . .full liberty of expression…”. My full liberty of expression happened to include teaching my students biblical principles, and that was not approved by the humanist judge who handed down a decree that forbade Alabama school teachers from teaching the Bible in the classroom. Humanists declare that everyone should be able to do whatever he pleases, but they don’t permit it. If they were in full control of all our governmental powers, no one would go to church. Neither would anyone go to church in America if any of the religions in this country were in political control, except for the Protestants and Baptists who are presently in control, and guarantee freedom of religion.

God gave Adam one law. One simple, reasonable law. One law to delineate the position of God and the position of man. God was King and man was subject. That was not unreasonable.

I Corinthians 14:33 says, “. . .God is not the author of confusion but of peace,” and laws are for the purpose of maintaining peace. Even the matter of the universe, every atom is subject to divine law.

God’s question went directly to the heart of the matter. Adam and his precious wife must give an account for their deed. “. . .Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” “What’s the big deal about eating an apple?” the world demands. That we do not know what sort of fruit it was never seems to dawn upon a world that has little patience with the details of spiritual matters. It is this lack of caring for the details of eternal matters that is responsible for deceived souls being deceived. Who cares about the details of evolution as long as we can believe that scales turned into feathers, or the beaks of finches are different.

The big deal is that disobedience to the command of God is the capital crime of the creature with the free will. Sinners go to hell because they disobey the command of God, namely to repent. (Acts 17:30). Disobedience to man’s law may or may not be wrong, for man’s laws are not always based upon God’s laws. But every disobedience to God is wrong.

Adam’s classic answer is recorded to the shame of every man, in verse 12. “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” Beautiful Eve was not now the wife of his bosom. She was the woman that God had given him. This is Adam’s second sin. He is a sinner now, and apt to say evil things. The knowledge of evil has not made him a better man – it has only made him a man with evil propensities. “Woman” is an honorable word. A very devout professor, Miss Ruby Wagner, said in class one day that she hated the word “lady,” and wished that preachers did not feel compelled to call women “ladies.” Jesus called His mother “woman.” The word “woman” is no less honorable than the word “man.” But as Adam used the word in his answer to his Creator, it was dead wrong. When a man refers to his wife as “the old woman,” he is committing a sin against God and his wife. “The ole lady” is no better. Speaking disrespectfully about his wife, indicates that a man has little self-respect, for a man’s wife is his own body. (Ephesians 5:28,29).

Adam did not confess his sin until he had a scapegoat. He laid the fault on his “woman,” and then he confessed. Such a confession is unacceptable, as the subsequent institution of the curse reveals. Repentance is not blaming somebody or something else for our sins, and then confessing them. Repentance is assuming the burden and guilt of our sins ourselves. We must stand in the presence of the almighty Judge open and honest with Him and with ourselves. Everyone will be judged according to their deeds. Parents who neglect their children are guilty of a great crime against God and man, and they will give an account for their abuse of that child at the judgment bar of God. But that does not justify that child for a life of crime against God and man. That child, born condemned, will give an account of his deeds unto the Lord Judge, and God will sentence him on the basis of his works.

All of us, sinner and saint alike, will give an account to God. God will interrogate us. “. . the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” (Revelation 20:12).

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” ( II Corinthians 5:10).

God’s interrogation awaits all of us. I want to be prepared with a Substitute, not a sick excuse.

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1. Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1979), p. 271.

“… he drove them all out of the temple, …” How many were there? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? He drove them all out along with their sheep and oxen. Where were the temple guards? Where were the scribes and Pharisees? Hiding under the pews? Were noses bloodied: eyes blacked; backs striped? These men who had no respect for God’s house, had respect for God’s muscles. Jesus wasn’t called “the Son of Man” for nothing. Who leads the Lord’s army? Jesus was indeed the absolute Man, but not only for these two reasons. Jesus, took little children up on His lap, and blessed them. Can we believe He did not laugh with them as He blessed them? A strong man it takes to notice little children, and bless them with attention, and smiles of approval. Jesus had compassion on people. He couldn’t stand to see folks hungry.

“(For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” (I Timothy 2:5). Jesus was a disciplined individual. When the tempter came, he was weak and on the verge of starvation. He was dizzy; His stomach was bloated and painful. His entire being pleaded for nourishment. Bread, hot and fragrant, would give Him instant relief. Satan told Him all this. But Jesus had a discipline and self-control that made Him rise above self, and remember His responsibilities. There was nothing wrong with bread, but it was wrong to yield to the temptations of Satan.

Consider the America male. Enter a box that presents pictures and sound. It draws his attention away from his family. The man tells himself he deserves this. He’s free to do as he wishes. He is attached to it while his little children go to bed. When they’re older he buys them their own tv’s and computers. There is no prayer for them. No Bible stories. His wife goes to bed cold and alone. He watches moving image that cause him to lust. He’s told to “grab the gusto,” and he does. He’s told how good hamburgers are, and he eats too many. He sees people beating each other senseless, and he thinks they are real men. He sees tatooed bodies, and thinks they will make him more a man. He has to his own skin. Satan tells him he should watch ball games on Sunday. He agrees, and lays in a supply of chips and Buddumber as the tv commands. He becomes detached from his family. They develope life styles that turn into living hells, and then they go to hell. He doesn’t notice. He gets fatter and fatter. His belly falls down over his genitalia, and even “Viagre” doesn’t help. He decides he needs more pizza and beer.

It isn’t long until he has to take tablets to make love to his wife. Then he finds another woman because he blames his wife for his impotency. The harlot tells him all about how bad his wife is, and he agrees. His wife is not as attractive as she once was. Fox news tells him that all women should be gorgeous and witty. He becomes unable to deny himself any pleasure. He loses his self-respect and control, and goes out in public wearing sissy short pants with his hairy legs exposed to the gaze of little children who learn that a man is just an animal, after all. A pair of flip flops, and a cap on backwards makes him look even less manly. The tv has told him that an unshaven face is cool and sexy. The most primitive savage on the earth would hold him in contempt.

Incidentally, let me inject something here that I think I have written on this page before. Just what is nakedness?

For anybody who is interested, God has made it plain what it is. Go back to Exodus 20:26, and read; “Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.” God is instructing the priests as to how they must dress to appear before him.

They are to wear long robes down to their ankles. Just look at any picture of an ancient Israelite, and you’ll see. Now get the picture: a priest goes up steps to the altar. When he gets to the top step, look down at his feet. How much of him can you see. His ankles, his calves? God says that is nakedness. Does the verse say that to you? Does it matter what a 3500 year old book says? Notice two things: God is immutable (unchanable), and His Word is immutable. Society changes – God doesn’t. My conclusion (and yours?): America is a land of nakedness. Read on.

Conclusion: we’re only savages or animals because savages and animals go naked. There are a few problems with those conclusions. First of all, savages do not have access to clothing as we do. Secondly, hopefully we have risen above savages. At least our ancestors had. As for the animals, their gracious Creator provided them with covering. Hide, hair, fur, feathers, scales, shell. He even painted these coverings to make them more beautiful and protective. But man, with his thin skin, He left naked: exposed to the elements and sharp points. God evidently wanted to clothe him, not in fig leaves, but skins. Skins of righteousness. The natural man (and even most Saints.) want to do nothing God wants him to do. If we were honest, we would print “If God wants it – I don’t” on our coins instead of “In God we trust.”

The American male has created a nation that’s being governed by unam (unAmerican) fools. Men have lost their manly discipline, and reduced themselves to a state of disrespect that has wrecked the country. Not until men have gained their sefl-respect will the nation began to recover. (Don’t hold your breath.) Until men have sense enough to recognize the best Man Who ever lived as their ideal, we will languish in a stupor of stupidity.

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