Blizzard of Discontent

Blizzard of Discontent

To show you how long ago this incident was, which took place in the gold market, Tunis Tunisia, Yasser Arafat had not yet moved his operations from North Africa to Israel. My God told me about Arafat's "stable" of young blonde European boys who lived with him. The world never said anything about Arafat's homosexuality. We know that his wife lived like a queen in a Paris hotel. (Via U.S tax dollars) Arafat was a "pretender" in the Middle East peace processes, particularly to Jimmy Carter. I had forgotten what I was doing in this gold market but an Arab woman, dressed in white, including a white burka, isolated me in a corner. She spoke perfect English, evidently not afraid that anyone else would hear her. I could tell from the openings in her burka that she was wearing gold rimmed glasses. She said, "Why don't you American's learn the truth about what is going on in this tortured North African world?"

The question still deserves an answer. After 2,000 years, this side of the cross, billions of the world's population, still lost...still never knowing the truth of sins ruin and Christ's redemption.

In this blizzard of discontent throughout the world, even those who know the truth live so recklessly-often trying to imitate their unbelieving neighbors. Even those chosen-elect, do not know the basics of Christianity. The blessedness of God's "eternal contract" with those who are his, those separated.

The greatest act of worship known to man, worthy of going to the Lord's table in remembrance of Jesus, taking every jot and tittle of the law to the cross, atonement, symbolic, wine, remembering his death for all sin...bread, healing for all disease and informative (Isaiah 53).

"For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul" (Lev 17:11).

Jesus kept the pass over. It was the blood of an unblemished lamb on the door post, that saved those in the house from the death angel. No one in the house was questioned, too many have stumbled at the foot of the cross, the blood covers all. God gave his son, his son gave his life.

So many have asked why there is so much blood in the Old Testament, there was so much sin. Adam and Eve had no sicknesses-sin. By one man, Adam, sin came into the world. By one man, Jesus, all sin was forgiven, grace, faith, gift for those who will accept his salvation and Peter looking back said, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24).

We can not add anything to the transmuted symbols (bread and wine) at the communion table. Remembrance of what he did on Calvary should be uppermost in our minds, every day of our lives.

Christian discipleship is an every minute, every day, blessing. It is ridiculous to even argue with an unbeliever, "throw in pearls before swine" (Mat 7:6). "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit" (Proverbs 26:24-25).

Recently, I went to my cardiologist. Most human beings do not realize the essential importance of their circulatory system-that magnificent pump (the heart) which forces blood through the 2,000 miles of vessels in the human body, giving nutrition to the cells. If the human being understood the importance of his circulation, his blood supply, he would eat, exercise, and think with greater carefulness.

And so it is with everything else concerning the blizzard of present day living and discontent, the average citizen, attempting to hold on to his home...just trying to survive, is like the boxer in the ring against the superior tax collecting government. The government is going to eventually beat you to death. Voting makes no difference. Stalin said long ago that it is the one who counts the votes. We must get rid of electronic voting machines-discern corruptors of government. The greatest comfort-blessing of life is to know that life ends by escaping the blizzard of discontent, eternal rest-bliss for those redeemed by the blood of Christ.