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The King Alfred Plan aka Rex 84 (To Lock Up Minorities in Wartime or Dissension)

By Royal Awakening — 7 years ago

Divide and Conquer

It’s no coincidence that in these times there are a lot of things going on that keep us from seeing the bigger picture while a war is brewing.  Governmental agencies as well as the authorities that run them have had long standing policies and procedures they implement during times of war,  civil unrest and rebellion as well as to cause internal conflict and war.

A leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest.  The document outlines how military assets will be used to “help local and state authorities to restore and maintain law and order” in the event of mass riots, civil unrest or a declaration of martial law.

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The primary function of military assets will be focused around, “breaking up unauthorized gatherings and by patrolling the disturbance area to prevent the commission of lawless acts,” states the document, adding, “during operations to restore order, military forces may present a show of force, establish roadblocks, break up crowds, employ crowd control agents, patrol, serve as security forces or reserves, and perform other operations as required.”  On page 20 of the manual, rules regarding the use of “deadly force” in confronting “dissidents” are made disturbingly clear with the directive that a, “Warning shot will not be fired.”

Round up the Minority and the Minority Supporters

Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border.  During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive “scenario and drill” developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be “national security threats.”  The large nuber of “American citizens” to detained are identified in a subsequent memo entitled the King Alfred Plan later named Rex 84.

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Here is an outline of this memo: (I’ve Added Headers and bold text to make the areas of importance clear)

KING ALFRED PLAN
In the event of widespread and continuing and coordinated racial disturbances in the United States, King Alfred, at the discretion of the President, is to be put into action immediately.

PARTICIPATING FEDERAL AGENCIES
National Security Council
Department of Justice
Central Intelligence Agency
Department of Defense
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Interior

PARTICIPATING STATE AGENCIES

Memo: National Security Council

Even before 1954, when the Supreme Court of the United States of America declared unconstitutional separate educational and recreational facilities, racial unrest and discord had become very nearly a part of the American way of life. But that way of life was repugnant to most Americans. Since 1954, however, that unrest and discord have broken out into widespread violence which increasingly have placed the peace and stability of the nation in dire jeopardy.

This violence has resulted in loss of life, limb and property, and has cost the taxpayers of this nation billions of dollars. And the end is not yet in sight. This same violence has raised the tremendously grave question as to whether the races can ever live in peace with each other. Each passing month has brought new intelligence that, despite new laws passed to alleviate the condition of the Minority, the Minority still is not satisfied. Demonstrations and rioting have become a part of the familiar scene.

Troops have been called out in city after city across the land, and our image as a world leader severely damaged. Our enemies press closer, seeking the advantage, possibly at a time during one of these outbreaks of violence. The Minority has adopted an almost military posture to gain its objectives, which are not clear to most Americans. 

It is expected, therefore, that when those objectives are denied the Minority, racial war must be considered inevitable. When that emergency comes, we must expect the total involvement of all 22 million members of the Minority, men, women, and children, for once this project is launched, its goal is to terminate, once and for all, the Minority threat to the whole of the American society, and indeed, the Free World.

Chairman, National Security Council

Preliminary Memo: Department of Interior

Lock Them Up Indefinitely and terminate, once and for all, the Minority threat

Under King Alfred, the nation has been divided into 10 regions. In case of Emergency, Minority members will be evacuated from the cities by federalized national guard units, local and state police and, if necessary, by units of the Regular Armed Forces, using public and military transportation, and detained in nearby military installations until a further course of action has been decided.

1 – Capital Region
2 – Northeast Region
3 – Southeast Region
4 – Great Lakes Region
5 – South Central Region
6 – Deep South Region
7 – Deep South Region II
8 – Great Plains, Rocky mountain Region
9 – Southwest Region
10 – West Coast Region

No attempt will be made to seal off the Canadian and Mexican borders.

Secretary, Department of Interior
* 849-899 King of England who slaughtered thousands under the disguise of protecting the European religion of Christianity. As a result he was revered as one of the most noble Kings in the history of England.

Combined Memo: Department of Justice
Preliminary Memo: Federal Bureau of Investigation & Central Intelligence Agency

Target Minority Groups and Organizations and their Leaders

There are 12 major Minority organizations and all are familiar to the 22 million. Dossiers have been compiled on the leaders of the organizations, and can be studied in Washington. The material contained in many of the dossiers, and our threat to reveal that material, has considerably held in check some of the leaders. Leaders who do not have such usable material in their dossiers have been approached to take government posts, mostly as ambassadors and primarily in African countries.

The promise of these positions also has materially contributed to a temporary slow-down of Minority activities. However, we do not expect these slow-downs to be of long duration, because there are always new and dissident elements joining these organizations, with the potential power to replace the old leaders. All organizations and their leaders are under constant, 24-hour surveillance. The organizations are:

1 – The Black Muslims
2 – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
3 – Congress of Racial Equality
4 – Uhuru Movement
5 – Group On Advanced Leadership (GOAL)
6 – Freedom Now Party (FNP)
7 – United Black Nationalists of America (UBNA)
8 – The New Pan-African Movement (TNPAM)
9 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
10 – The National Urban League (NUL)
11 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
12 – Committee on Racial and Religious Progress (CORARP)

NOTE: At the appropriate time, to be designated by the President, the leaders of some of these organizations are to be detained ONLY WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY CANNOT PREVENT THE EMERGENCY, working with local public officials during the first critical hours. All other leaders are to be detained at once. Compiled lists of Minority leaders have been readied at the National Data Computer Center.

It is necessary to use the Minority leaders designated by the President in much the same manner in which we use Minority members who are agents with Central and Federal, and we cannot, until there is no alternative, reveal King Alfred in all its aspects. Minority members of Congress will be unseated at once. This move is not without precedent in American history.

Attorney General

Preliminary Memo: Department of Defense

This memo is being submitted in lieu of a full report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That report is now in preparation. There will be many cities where the Minority will be able to put into the street a superior number of people with a desperate and dangerous will. He will be a formidable enemy, for he is bound to the Continent by heritage and knows that political asylum will not be available to him in other countries.

The greatest concentration of the Minority is in the Deep South, the Eastern seaboard, the Great lakes region and the West Coast. While the national population exceeds that of the Minority by more than ten times, we must realistically take into account the following:

1 – An estimated 40-50 percent of the white population will not, for various reasons, engage the Minority during an Emergency.
2 – American Armed Forces are spread around the world. A breakout of war abroad means fewer troops at home to handle the Emergency.
3 – Local law enforcement officials must contain the Emergency until help arrives, though it may mean fighting a superior force. New York City, for example, has a 25,000 man police force, but there are about one million Minority members in the city.

We are confident that the Minority would hold any city it took for only a few hours. The lack of weapons, facilities, logistics — all put the Minority at a final disadvantage.

Since the Korean War, this department has shifted Minority members of the Armed Forces to areas where combat is most likely to occur, with the aim of eliminating, through combat, as many combat-trained military servicemen as possible. Today the ratio of Minority member combat deaths in Vietnam, where they are serving as “advisors,” is twice as high as the Minority population ratio to the rest of America. Below is the timetable for King Alfred as tentatively suggested by the JCS who recommend that the operation be made over a period of eight hours:

1. Local police and Minority leaders in action to head off the Emergency.
2. Countdown to eight hours begins at the moment the President determines the Emergency to be:
a. National
b. Coordinated
c. Of Long Duration (8th hour)
3. County police join local police (7th hour)
4. State police join county and local police (6th hour)
5. Federal marshals join state, county, and local forces (5th hour)
6. National guards federalized, held in readiness (4th hour)
7. Regular Armed Forces alerted, take up positions; Minority troops divided and detained,
along with all white sympathizers, under guard (3rd hour)
8. All minority leaders, national and local detained (2nd hour)
9. President addresses Minority on radio-television,
gives it one hour to end the Emergency (1st hour)
10. All units under regional commands into the Emergency (0 hour)
“0” Committee Report:

Survey shows that during a six-year period, production created 9,000,000 objects, or 1,500,000 each year. Production could not dispose of the containers, which proved a bottleneck. However, that was almost 20 years ago. We suggest that vaporization techniques be employed to overcome the production problems inherent in King Alfred.

(The “0” Committee Report is referring to the problems that occurred in Nazi Germany when the furnaces were not hot enough to burn the bodies that Hitler had killed. The bodies clogged up the furnaces thereby causing a problem that the above committee recommends avoiding by building high-volume (nuclear-powered) incinerators that burn 5,000 degrees. It should be noted that steel melts at approximately 2700 degrees!)

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.

To Sum it Up and Tie it all Together

Don’t be fooled by all the fluff and do not allow them to ake you engage in behavior and activity that will allow the to say “that’s why we need  to lock them up”.  These things are all being done intentionally in order to make you an enemy of the state and a threat to “public safety”.

Revelation 13:5-10

5And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints

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And the Gates of Hell Shall not Prevail…

By Royal Awakening — 7 years ago

The Gates of Hell: A Deeper Understanding 

In Matthew 16:18, Yahusha (Jesus) declares:
“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

Many pastors and preachers interpret this passage as a call for believers to be strong and unshakable in their faith, likening them to a rock that the enemy cannot overcome. While the importance of a firm foundation is undeniable (Matthew 7:24-25), there is a deeper and often overlooked meaning in this passage regarding the role of the church in spiritual warfare.

What Is the Purpose of a Gate?

A gate, by design, is not an offensive weapon—it does not attack or advance. Instead, it serves as a barrier, keeping something in or out. A gate is only effective as long as it remains intact and unbroken. If a gate is torn down, opened, or breached, it has not prevailed because it has failed in its purpose.

Now, consider Yahusha’s words again: “The gates of hell shall not prevail.” If a gate cannot move or attack, then the church is not meant to be passively defending itself against hell—the church is meant to be on the offensive, tearing down the gates that hold people captive.

Spiritual Warfare: The Church’s Duty to Tear Down Strongholds

Scripture repeatedly affirms that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces of wickedness that seek to imprison the people of Yah (Ephesians 6:12). The “gates of hell” represent these oppressive powers, which include false doctrines, principalities, and systems of control designed to keep Yah’s people in bondage.

The duty of the church, therefore, is not to remain stationary on the rock, waiting for the enemy to come. The duty of the church is to tear down these gates and liberate those held in spiritual captivity.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 reinforces this:
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

Biblical Precedents: Yah’s People Breaking Free

Throughout history, Yah’s people have found themselves entrapped behind the gates of oppressive nations due to their disobedience. The Old Testament reveals a repeated cycle:

  1. Israel rebels against Yah by following other gods and refusing to heed His prophets.
  2. Yah gives them over to their oppressors, allowing them to experience hardship and captivity.
  3. In their suffering, they cry out to Yah for deliverance and repent.
  4. Yah raises up a deliverer, leads them out, and restores them—until they fall into rebellion again.

This pattern is evident in multiple accounts:

  • Egyptian Captivity (Exodus 2:23-25): “And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.” Yah then raised up Moses to break them free from Pharaoh’s gates.
  • Judges Cycle (Judges 2:18-19): “And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge.” Each time they repented, Yah provided a deliverer to help them escape their oppression.
  • Babylonian Captivity (Jeremiah 29:12-14): “Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity.”

The extra-biblical texts also confirm this pattern:

  • Book of Jasher 75:12-14 records how the Israelites suffered under Egyptian bondage until Yah heard their cries and sent Moses.
  • Book of Jubilees 23:22-23 warns that disobedience leads to oppression, but repentance leads to deliverance.
  • Book of Enoch 46:6-7 describes the wicked rulers and kings who oppress Yah’s people but will ultimately be overthrown.

Historical Examples of “Gates” Built Through the Destruction of Knowledge

One of the most effective ways rulers and oppressors have historically kept people in bondage is through the destruction of knowledge and the rewriting of history. By eliminating access to truth, they have built “gates” to imprison entire civilizations in ignorance.

1. The Burning of the Library of Alexandria (circa 3rd-4th century BCE)

The Library of Alexandria, one of the greatest centers of knowledge in the ancient world, housed vast records of history, science, and philosophy. The destruction of this library—whether by Julius Caesar’s forces, later Roman emperors, or religious zealots—was a massive blow to historical knowledge. Many ancient writings that could have provided deeper insight into the world’s true history were lost forever.

2. The Council of Nicaea and the Suppression of Texts (325 CE)

At the Council of Nicaea, Emperor Constantine and church leaders decided which books would be included in the Bible and which would be deemed heretical. Many ancient texts—including the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, and other writings used by early believers—were removed from common circulation. These books, which contained deeper revelations about fallen angels, the Nephilim, and the spiritual battle between Yah’s people and wicked rulers, were labeled as “apocrypha” or “forbidden.”

The rewriting of religious history helped establish a controlled version of faith that aligned with imperial rule, making it easier to keep people under religious and political domination.

3. The Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge by European Colonizers (1400s-1800s)

During the colonization of Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world, European powers systematically destroyed or suppressed the records, oral traditions, and religious practices of indigenous peoples.

  • The Burning of the Maya Codices (1562 CE): Spanish conquistadors burned nearly all of the Maya civilization’s written records, which contained advanced knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, and history. Only a few codices remain today.
  • The African Slave Trade & The Erasure of Identity: Enslaved Africans were stripped of their original languages, histories, and spiritual beliefs. European and Arab slave traders actively suppressed knowledge of their Hebrew and Israelite heritage, severing them from their true identity.
  • The Berlin Conference (1884-1885): European powers divided Africa and rewrote its history, promoting the idea that African civilizations were primitive. This false narrative was used to justify colonial rule and keep people mentally enslaved.

4. The Systematic Suppression of Black History in America

During slavery and segregation in America, enslaved people were forbidden to read or write. Laws were passed to prevent literacy because knowledge leads to liberation. Even after slavery, efforts to rewrite history continued:

  • The Lost Cause Narrative: After the Civil War, Southern historians promoted a false version of history that glorified the Confederacy and minimized the horrors of slavery.
  • The Destruction of Black Wall Street (1921): In Tulsa, Oklahoma, an entire thriving Black community was burned to the ground, and many records of Black economic success were lost.
  • Education Suppression: Even today, there are ongoing efforts to control how history is taught, ensuring that certain truths remain hidden or distorted.

The Call to Come Out from Behind the Gates

Many of Yah’s people today remain trapped behind these gates—bound by false doctrines, oppressive governments, corrupt leadership, rewritten history. and worldly systems. Just as in ancient times, Yah is calling His people to come out from among them before judgment falls.

Revelation 18:4 echoes this command:
“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

This is why Yahusha’s message is not just about standing firm—it’s about storming the gates of oppression and setting the captives free (Luke 4:18). Those who remain behind these gates when judgment comes will suffer the same fate as their oppressors, just as Israel’s disobedient remnant perished in Egypt, Babylon, and other captivities.

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The Great Gay Debate… The Damned Homosexuals

By atlcustoms — 8 years ago

The debate surrounding homosexuality and its perceived condemnation remains a highly contentious issue among churches, religious followers, and even within the government. These discussions often revolve around biblical interpretations, particularly verses such as Leviticus 18:22: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” As a result, many condemn homosexuality, sometimes focusing solely on it as a sin above others.

In response, some churches, camps, and programs have been established with the goal of “praying the gay away,” based on the belief that homosexuality is not innate but rather the result of demonic possession or personal choice. Additionally, some argue that God despises homosexuality, citing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as divine punishment for such behavior. Common phrases like “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” and “Man is meant to be fruitful and multiply” are used to argue that homosexuality contradicts nature, and therefore, defies God’s design.

Now, let us examine these references in their full context to uncover the truth of these matters and discern what God truly says about them.

Before we examine the scriptures, it’s important to clarify a key distinction: there is a significant difference between being gay and being a homosexual.

The term homosexual originated in the English language in the 19th century and is used to describe someone who engages in sexual relations with the same gender. Because the word itself contains “sex,” the emphasis is often placed on the act of sex. However, many people labeled as homosexual may choose not to engage in sexual acts for various reasons, such as personal convictions, lack of desire, concerns about disease, or societal pressures.

In contrast, the word gay refers to a person who experiences romantic or emotional attraction toward the same gender. The term has much older roots, dating back to before the 14th century in archaic French. Interestingly, when translated into Hebrew, gay corresponds to the term homo, meaning “same” or “uniform.” The concept of homogenization refers to making something uniform or blending diverse elements into one. By contrast, reverse homogenization separates a uniform structure into distinct parts.

A biblical example of these concepts can be seen in the creation of Adam and Eve. In the beginning, God created Adam alone—there was no Adam and Eve or Adam and Steve, only Adam and God. Genesis 2:7 states:

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Adam existed as a singular being (homogenized), fulfilling the role God assigned to him. However, God declared that it was not good for man to be alone and decided to create a suitable helper. After forming all the animals, none were found to be an appropriate companion. Then, in Genesis 2:21-22:

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.”

Here, God took a part of Adam and made it into a separate being—this is reverse homogenization, where one uniform structure was divided into two distinct parts. Yet, in Genesis 2:24, the two were meant to reunite:

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

This represents re-homogenization, where the two distinct parts come together again as one. If God originally made one and then separated it into two, is He not also capable of placing the balance of two within one, just as it was in the beginning?

By definition, eunuchs were individuals who, for various reasons—biological or social—did not engage in traditional heterosexual relationships. In today’s terms, this could be compared to those who identify as gay or homosexual, as society often labels individuals based on their deviation from expected norms of attraction and procreation.

What Does God Say About Eunuchs?

Rather than condemning eunuchs, God acknowledges and honors them:

Isaiah 56:4-5
“For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.”

This passage shows that God values those who are faithful to Him, regardless of their status or ability to procreate. He promises them a place of honor, even greater than that of traditional family lineage.

Acts 8:36-38
“And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.”

This account reinforces that eunuchs were fully accepted into the faith. God and The Bible does not condemn eunuchs—instead, God acknowledges their existence, grants them a place of honor, and welcomes them into His covenant.

 

Born That Way

The term gay describes the natural disposition of a person such as a eunuch. In Matthew 19:11-12, Jesus speaks about different types of eunuchs:

Matthew 19:11-12
“But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

Understanding Eunuchs

Historically, the term eunuch referred to men who had been castrated, usually at a young age, which affected their hormonal development. However, in ancient texts, the term was also used to describe men who were impotent, celibate, or simply not inclined to marry and have children.

Eunuchs were often employed in royal courts and harems as servants or guards because they were considered trustworthy and had no personal ties to aristocratic families. Many societies believed eunuchs lacked the same desires and ambitions as other men, making them more reliable in certain roles. The Byzantine Emperor Leo VI even banned eunuchs from marrying in the 9th century, reinforcing the idea that they were not meant for traditional male-female relationships.

What About  Sodom and Gomorrah?

Many people believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed solely because of homosexuality, but the Bible provides a much broader explanation of their wickedness.

What Does the Bible Say?

Ezekiel 16:48-50 clearly outlines the sins of Sodom:

Ezekiel 16:48-50
“As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.”

This passage highlights pride, greed, laziness, mistreatment of the poor, arrogance, and abominations as the key reasons for their destruction. There is no mention of homosexuality as the primary sin.

What Does the Book of Jasher Say?

The Book of Jasher (or Sefer haYashar), an ancient text referenced in Joshua and 2 Samuel, gives additional insight into the extreme wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah. Chapter 19 describes how these cities were brutal, inhumane, and merciless, particularly toward the poor and outsiders.

Examples of Their Wickedness:

  • A poor man was secretly given food. When the people found out, they burned alive the woman who helped him.
  • A traveler was given food and water by a kind young woman. As punishment, the people covered her in honey and let bees sting her to death.

These laws didn’t just permit evil—they punished kindness.

The Truth About “Bedding” in Sodom and Gomorrah

Many people focus on the attempted assault of Lot’s angelic guests as proof that Sodom’s sin was homosexuality. Genesis 19

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

However, the Book of Jasher explains that “bedding” was a cruel form of torture and humiliation used against outsiders, not an act of love or attraction.

Jasher 19:3-7 describes their sadistic practice:

  • The cities had special torture beds in the streets.
  • If a man arrived in town, the people would force him onto a bed.
  • If he was too short, they would stretch him until he nearly died.
  • If he was too tall, they would crush him until he was near death.
  • When victims cried out for help, the people mocked them, saying, “Thus shall it be done to a man that cometh into our land.”

 

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This was not about sexual desire—it was about power, cruelty, and humiliation.

Why Did God Destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?

The wickedness of these cities went far beyond one sin. They were corrupt, heartless, and completely devoid of mercy. Their actions provoked God’s judgment, as Jasher 19:44 states:

Jasher 19:44
“And the Lord was provoked at this and at all the works of the cities of Sodom, for they had abundance of food, and had tranquility amongst them, and still would not sustain the poor and the needy, and in those days their evil doings and sins became great before the Lord.”

This perfectly aligns with Ezekiel 16:48-50, showing that their destruction was due to their pride, greed, oppression of the poor, and extreme wickedness—not simply because of homosexuality.

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because they were a lawless, merciless society that thrived on cruelty and injustice. The idea that their downfall was solely due to homosexuality is an oversimplification that ignores the full biblical and historical context.

The real lesson from Sodom and Gomorrah is that God despises oppression, injustice, and a lack of compassion—and that when a society reaches a certain level of wickedness, divine judgment follows.

Gays Don’t Procreate, You’re Supposed to be Fruitful and Multiply!

Some argue that same-sex relationships go against God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” since they cannot naturally produce children. However, a closer look at the Bible reveals that this command was not universally given to all people at all times.

Was “Be Fruitful and Multiply” Given to Adam and Eve?

Contrary to popular belief, God did not issue the command to be fruitful and multiply to Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Instead, He pronounced curses upon them due to their disobedience:

  • The Serpent was cursed to crawl on its belly and live in enmity with humanity (Genesis 3:14-15).
  • Eve was cursed with pain in childbirth and subjugation to her husband (Genesis 3:16).
  • Adam was cursed with toil and hardship in working the land (Genesis 3:17-19).
  • Both were expelled from the Garden and forced to live in a fallen world (Genesis 3:23).

Nowhere in this passage does God command them to multiply.

Who Was Commanded to Multiply?

The command to be fruitful and multiply was later given to Noah and his sons after the flood:

Genesis 9:1
“And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”

This command was given in a specific context—to repopulate the earth after its destruction. It was not a blanket command for all people in all circumstances.

God Decides When and With Whom to Bring Forth Children

Throughout Scripture, we see that God not only commands people to have children at certain times but also prohibits it in others:

  • God directed Abraham’s servant to find a wife for Isaac from a specific lineage (Genesis 24:7).
  • God commanded Jeremiah not to marry or have children because of the coming judgment upon the land (Jeremiah 16:1-4).

This shows that procreation is not simply a matter of nature—it is directed by God’s wisdom and timing.

God’s Sovereignty Over Creation

God, who created the heavens and the earth, is in full control over life and its continuation. He has the power to give and take away:

  • He made a donkey speak (Numbers 22:28).
  • He commands the stars to shine or fall (Job 38:31-33).
  • He can stop or allow life to be produced according to His will.

If God commands the stars to fall, will they not obey? If He commands mankind to cease producing, will mankind not also obey?

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400 Years A Slave

By Royal Awakening — 8 years ago

The Land of the Free (except slaves)

The year 1619 was the year in which the first black or ”African” slaves by Dutch ships arrived in the British colonies of North America or what is known today as The United States.  From the year 1619 to 1865 the blacks in America endured the worst kind of slavery and servitude mankind had never known before.  We know about it. We hear it every year during black history month ( even though most accounts are filtered and downplayed to protect the public from all of the horrific atrocities that befell the American slaves ). In the year 1865 the 13th amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation came into place changing the status of “slaves” to “free”. XIII NEITHER SLAVERY NOR INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE, EXCEPT AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME WHEREOF THE PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN DULY CONVICTED, SHALL EXIST WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, OR ANY PLACE SUBJECT TO THEIR JURISDICTION

1619-1865 = 246 Years a Slave

By reading this we can safely deduce that this amendment left open 2 forms of slavery and servitude allowed in the United States.  Number 1: Penal labor when convicted of a crime.  When you are convicted of a crime and go to jail or prison you are then again enslaved and become a source of free labor for the government or state.  We know that there has been a mass incarceration of blacks since this institution on this proclamation; even when it was illegal and a jail-able offense just to look at a person of another race or to even gather together.  Therefore putting them in prisons and reducing them to slavery once again.

Credit System = Debt System

The second kind of slavery or servitude is allowed with the words “nor involuntary servitude” leaving open voluntary servitude.  Well who would volunteer to slavery or servitude?  Well the day you have children you voluntarily give them over to your government to be issued certificates and numbers that place them within their system of ownership.  They become property just like a vehicle or home.  If you skip a tax payment on your home or car even if you hold the title can they still not come take it?  Stop sending your child to school can they not come take it? If it is yours no one should be able to stake claim on whats yours and take it.Once you or your children are entered into this system and assigned a class, they are indoctrinated and then put into a work-field in which many make only enough to pay for housing and food.  Then a system of debt is imposed upon them saying you do not make enough so you have to get credit, extend yourself beyond what you make and pay it back, therefore ensuring your remain within their system of work to continuously pay off the debt you have incurred to live.  And they promote this system as more valuable saying the more we can extend a debt to you the higher your status will be.

1865 – 1965 = 100 Years a Slave

So since 1619 the “African Americans” in America has been subjected to many different forms of slavery, and still subject to rules laws and practices that were enacted before, during and after the times of “voluntary servitude” in the United States. 1865 did not end slavery in the United States at all, it just concealed it under better terms.In the South, there were “slave codes“; the goal was of these codes were to reduce influence of free blacks (particularly after slave rebellions) because of their potential influence on slaves. Restrictions included prohibiting them from voting (although North Carolina allowed this before 1831), bearing arms, gathering in groups for worship and learning to read and write. A major purpose of these laws was to preserve slavery.

Black Codes

Black Codes were laws In the United States passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War.  Black Codes were also enacted by Northern states such as Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and New York prior to the Civil War to ban free blacks from residing in those states.  These codes were modeled after the earlier slave codes and had the intent of restricting the freedom of black people, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.  States were particularly concerned with controlling movement and labor, as slavery had given way to a free labor system. Although freedmen had been emancipated, their lives were greatly restricted by the Black Codes.Black Codes were part of a larger pattern of Southern whites trying to suppress the new freedom of emancipated black slaves, the freedmen.



The defining feature of the Black Codes was broad vagrancy law.  Homeless unemployed Black Americans were arrested and fined as vagrants or a person, often in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income.. Usually, the person could not afford the fine, and so was sent to work in convict leasing camps. In these camps is where they would remain, “paying their debt”, and inevitably be re-enlisted back into slavery by white slave holders.which allowed local authorities to arrest freedpeople for minor infractions and commit them to involuntary labor. Preexisting White American belief of Black inferiority informed post-war attitudes and white racial dominance continued to be culturally embedded; whites believed both that Black people were destined for servitude and that they would not work unless physically compelled.The racial divisions which slavery had created immediately became more obvious.  Blacks also bore the brunt of Southern anger over defeat in the War.  The Black Codes outraged public opinion in the North because it seemed the South was creating a form of quasi-slavery to negate the results of the war.The 1865–1866 Black Codes were an overt manifestation of the system of white supremacy that continued to dominate the American South.

Because legal enforcement depended on so many different local codes, which underwent less scrutiny than statewide legislation, , that even under military rule, local jurisdictions were able to continue a racist pattern of law enforcement, as long as it took place under a legal regime that was superficially race-neutral.  In 1893–1909 every Southern state except Tennessee passed new vagrancy laws.  These laws were more severe than those passed in 1865, and used vague terms that granted wide powers to police officers enforcing the law.  In wartime, Blacks might be disproportionately subjected to “work or fight” laws, which increased vagrancy penalties for those not in the military.

A general system of legitimized anti-Black violence, as exemplified by the Ku Klux Klan, played a major part in enforcing the practical law of white supremacy. The constant threat of violence against Black people (and White people who sympathized with them) maintained a system of extralegal terror.

“Jump Jim Crow”

The origin of the phrase “Jim Crow” has been attributed to “Jump Jim Crow”, a song-and-dance caricature of blacks performed by a white actor in blackface.   As a result of Rice’s fame, “Jim Crow” by 1838 had become a pejorative expression meaning “Negro”. When southern legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed against blacks at the end of the 19th century, these statutes became known as Jim Crow laws.

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States beginning in the 1890’s.  These laws continued to be enforced until 1965.  They mandated by law racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1896 with a “separate but equal” status for Blacks in railroad cars.  These Jim Crow laws revived principles of the 1865 and 1866 Black Codes, which had previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of Blacks in America.

White Southerners encountered problems in learning free labor management after the end of slavery, and they resented black Americans, who represented the Confederacy’s Civil War defeat: With white supremacy being challenged throughout the South; many whites sought to protect their former status by threatening, lynching and killing blacks who exercised their new rights.”  White Democrats used their power to segregate public spaces and facilities in law and reestablish social dominance over blacks in the South.

Separate but Equal: The Law of the Land

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1868, which guaranteed “equal protection” under the law to all citizens. Under the doctrine, as long as the facilities provided to each race were equal, state and local governments could require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation be segregated by race, which was already the case throughout the former Confederacy

Though segregation laws existed before this decision it emboldened segregation states during the Jim Crow era, which had commenced in 1876 and supplanted the Black Codes, which restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of blacks during the Reconstruction Era after the civil war. 18 states had segregation laws.

In practice the separate “but equal” facilities provided to blacks were always separate but rarely equal; usually they were not even close to equal, or they did not exist at all.  The facilities and social services offered to African-Americans were almost always of lower quality than those offered to white Americans; for example, many African American schools received less public funding per student than nearby white schools. In Texas, the state established a state-funded law school for white students without any law school for black students.  The majority of all black schools received old textbooks, used equipment, and poorly prepared or trained teachers.  A study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that black students were emotionally impaired when segregated at a young age.  State voting right restrictions, such as literacy tests and poll taxes created an environment that made it almost impossible for blacks to vote.   The finding contributed to at least 58 more years of legalized discrimination and oppression against black and colored people in the United States.

Strange Fruit Hanging From Those Trees

Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a group.  The verb comes from the phrase “Lynch Law”, a term for a punishment without trial. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for inventing the phrase: Charles Lynch and William Lynch, who both lived in Virginia in the 1780s.  Charles Lynch was a Virginia planter and American Revolutionary who headed a county court in Virginia which incarcerated Loyalist supporters of the British for up to one year during the war. While he lacked proper jurisdiction, he claimed this right by arguing wartime necessity.  Subsequently, he prevailed upon the Congress of the Confederation to pass a law which specifically exonerated him and his associates from wrongdoing.  This move by the Congress provoked controversy, and it was in connection with this that the term “Lynch law”, meaning the assumption of extrajudicial authority, came into common parlance in the United States leading to many “lynchings” of blacks in the United States.

In the United States, during the decades before the Civil War assertive free-Blacks, Latinos in the South West and runaways were the objects of racial lynching.  But lynching attacks on U.S. blacks, especially in the South, increased dramatically in the aftermath of the Civil War, after slavery had been abolished and recently freed black men gained the right to vote.  More than 3500 were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968.

Lynching, as a form of punishment for presumed criminal offenses were performed by self-appointed commissions, mobs, or vigilantes without due process of law took place in the United States both before and after the American Civil War, most commonly in Southern states and Western frontier settlements. Racist extremism with an eye to viciousness and public spectacle was frequently evident, as exemplified by the first lynching in St. Louis when in 1835 a black man named McIntosh who killed a deputy sheriff while being taken to jail was captured, chained to a tree, and burned to death on a corner lot downtown in front of a crowd of over 1,000 people.  In the South, members of the abolitionist movement or other people who opposed slavery were usually targets of lynch mob violence before the Civil War. During the war, Southern Home Guard units sometimes lynched white Southerners who they suspected of being Unionists or deserters.

After the war, southern whites struggled to maintain their social dominance. Secret vigilante and insurgent groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) instigated extrajudicial assaults and killings in order to keep whites in power and discourage freedmen from voting, working, gathering together, worshipping  and getting educated. They also sometimes attacked Northerners, teachers, and agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau.  Mobs usually alleged crimes for which they lynched blacks. In the late 19th century, however, journalist Ida B. Wells showed that many presumed crimes were either exaggerated or had not even occurred. Mob violence arose as a means of enforcing white supremacy and it frequently verged on systematic political terrorism. “The Ku Klux Klan, paramilitary groups, and other whites united by frustration and anger ruthlessly defended the interests of white supremacy. The magnitude of the extralegal violence which occurred during election campaigns reached epidemic proportions.  During Reconstruction after the war, the Ku Klux Klan and others used lynching as a means to control blacks, forcing them to work for planters and preventing them from exercising their right to vote.

Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family’s grocery store.  Till’s reported behavior, perhaps unwittingly, violated the strictures of conduct for an African American male interacting with a white woman in the Jim Crow era South.   Several nights after the store incident, a few men went armed to Till’s great-uncle’s house and abducted the boy. They took him away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till’s body was discovered and retrieved from the river.

In September 1955, Bryant and Milam were acquitted by an all-white jury of Till’s kidnapping and murder. Protected against double jeopardy, the two men publicly admitted in a 1956 interview with Look magazine that they had intentionally killed Till.  In 2017 the woman accuser admitted that “inappropriate action” from Emmett till never occurred.

A lot of these laws, practices and doctrines were overturned and supposedly outawed by a series of Supreme Court decisions, starting with Brown v. Board of Education of 1954. However, the overturning of segregation laws in the United States was a long process that lasted through much of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, involving federal legislation (especially the Civil Rights Act of 1964), and many court cases.

1965 – 2017 =  52 Years a Slave

The Civil Rights Act of 1964  is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States[5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It prohibited unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.  Its duty is to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964.

This law was not without opposition.  When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the “Southern Bloc” of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell: “We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states.

There were white business owners who claimed that Congress did not have the constitutional authority to ban segregation in public accommodations. For example, Moreton Rolleston, the owner of a motel in Atlanta, Georgia, said he should not be forced to serve black travelers, saying, “the fundamental question…is whether or not Congress has the power to take away the liberty of an individual to run his business as he sees fit in the selection and choice of his customers”.  Rolleston claimed that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a breach of the Fourteenth Amendment and also violated the Fifth and Thirteenth Amendments by depriving him of “liberty and property without due process”.

Resistance to the public accommodation clause continued for years on the ground, especially in the South.  When local college students in Orangeburg, South Carolina attempted to desegregate a bowling alley in 1968, they were violently attacked, leading to rioting and what became known as the “Orangeburg massacre.”  Resistance by school boards continued into the next decade, with the most significant declines in black-white school segregation only occurring at the end of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s in the aftermath of the Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968) court decision that held that New Kent County‘s freedom of choice plan did not constitute adequate compliance with the school board’s responsibility to determine a system of admission to public schools on a non-racial basis. The Supreme Court mandated that the school board must formulate new plans and steps towards realistically converting to a desegregated system.

Can't We All Just Get Along

Rodney King Riots

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Fast Forward to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots.  These riots were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992. The unrest began after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of Rodney King. It then spread throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area as thousands of people rioted over a six-day period following the announcement of the verdict.  Before the release of the Rodney King tape which showed footage of King being beaten by police while lying on the ground, minority community leaders in Los Angeles had repeatedly complained about harassment and excessive use of force by LAPD officers.  An independent commission formed after the release of the tape concluded that a “significant number” of LAPD officers “repetitively use excessive force against the public and persistently ignore the written guidelines of the department regarding force,” and that bias related to race, gender, and sexual orientation were regularly contributing factors in use of excessive force.

Mark Fuhrman and the O.J. Simpson Trial

The Fuhrman tapes are 13 hours of taped interviews given by Los Angeles police officer Mark Fuhrman to writer Laura McKinny between 1985 and 1994. The tapes include many racist slurs and remarks made by Fuhrman, including uses of the word “nigger,” descriptions of police brutality perpetrated on black suspects, misogynist slurs and descriptions of the harassment and intimidation of female Los Angeles police officers by male officers. Portions of the tapes were admitted into evidence during the O. J. Simpson murder case. In the tapes Fuhrman also made many references to the “planting of evidence” and implied that police brutality and evidence planting were common practice in the Los Angeles Police Department.

The 1995 OJ Simpson murder trial was one of the most sensational moments in recent US history. The world watched as the fault-lines of American race relations were laid bare in a Los Angeles courtroom. Simpson, a former American football player and actor, was found not guilty of murder in October 1995. His eight-month trial took place just three years since riots had rocked LA, following the acquittal of four white LAPD officers  filmed viciously beating black motorist Rodney King.  The O.J. Simpson trial as well as the Rodney King Trial highlighted and put on center stage racial tensions and injustices suffered by Blacks in America in the 1990’s.

Black Lives Matter

Fast Forward to 2013  after George Zimmerman was acquitted  of the shooting death of black unarmed 17 year old Trayvon Martin.  This killing as well as its subsequent acquittal was made into a public outcry because of decades of unfair and unequal treatment towards the Black communities and people, especially within the criminal justice system and by the hands of police whose duty was supposed to be to protect and serve them.

The killing of an unarmed 17 year old black male walking home with nothing but an Arizona tea and a bag of skittles and no one was held accountable; served to prove to the black community that no matter what you did or didn’t do as long as you were black you were an open target and the system would not grant fair justice for them, even in death.

In the weeks, months and years since there began to be a public outcry against black lives that were taken senselessly by the criminal justice system; the Black Lives Matter movement began to bring attention and focus to the tragic losses of life that continued to occur within the black communities by the justice system.

Some of the most notable killings were:

Michael Brown

Unarmed Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.  In November, a grand jury declined to charge Wilson in the fatal shooting. Brown’s death and the lack of charges against Wilson sparked protests, some of them violent, in Ferguson and across the nation.  On March 4, the Department of Justice announced that it too would not charge Wilson for the shooting after an exhaustive investigation.

Tamir Rice

Tamir Rice, 12, was shot and killed by Cleveland police after officers mistook his toy gun for a real weapon.  The two police officers involved, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, have not been charged.  Rice’s family has filed wrongful death lawsuit against the officers and the city of Cleveland.

 

Eric Garner

Eric Garner, 43, was killed after he was put in an illegal chokehold for 15 seconds by a white police officer — allegedly for selling loose cigarettes. Garner said “I can’t breathe” 11 times as he was held down by several officers on a sidewalk.  The officer who put Garner in the chokehold, Daniel Pantaleo, was not charged.  Garner’s death sparked peaceful protests across the nation, with demonstrators adopting the phrase “I Can’t Breathe” as a symbol and slogan of protest.

Philando Castile

On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer, after being pulled over in Falcon Heights, a suburb of Saint Paul.  A St. Anthony police officer patrolling Larpenteur Avenue radioed to a nearby squad that he planned to pull over the car and check the IDs of the driver and passenger, saying, “The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery. The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just because of the wide-set nose. I couldn’t get a good look at the passenger.”

According to dashcam video, after Yanez asked for Castile’s driver’s license and proof of insurance, Castile gave him his proof of insurance card, which Yanez appeared to glance at and tuck in his outer pocket. Castile then calmly informed Yanez: “Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me.”  Before Castile completed the sentence, Yanez interrupted and calmly replied, “OK,” and placed his right hand on the holster of his own holstered weapon. Yanez said, “Okay, don’t reach for it, then … don’t pull it out.” Castile responded, “I’m not pulling it out,” and Reynolds also said, “He’s not pulling it out.” Yanez repeated, raising his voice, “Don’t pull it out!” as he quickly pulled his own gun with his right hand and reached inside the driver’s window with his left hand. Reynolds screamed, “No!” Yanez removed his left arm from the car and fired seven shots in the direction of Castile in rapid succession. Reynolds yelled, “You just killed my boyfriend!” Castile moaned and said, “I wasn’t reaching for it.” Reynolds loudly said, “He wasn’t reaching for it.” Before she completed her sentence, Yanez again screamed, “Don’t pull it out!” Reynolds responded, “He wasn’t.” Yanez yelled, “Don’t move! Fuck!”  Of the seven shots fired by Yanez at point blank range, five hit Castile and two of those hit and pierced his heart.

On June 16, 2017, Officer Yanez was acquitted of all charges. He had been charged with manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm.

Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland was a 28-year-old black woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop.  Officer Encinia stopped Bland on the afternoon of July 10, 2015 in Prairie View, Texas, for failure to signal a lane change.  Dashcam footage shows that Encinia initially wrote a routine traffic violation warning for Bland. After he returns to her car and speaks briefly to her again, he asks her to put out her cigarette. She responds, “Why do I have to put out a cigarette when I’m in my own car?” Encinia orders her to “get out of the car”, and, when she repeatedly refuses to exit, he tells her she is under arrest. Bland repeatedly asks why she is under arrest, and Encinia responds, “I am giving you a lawful order.”  She refuses to leave her car, stating she is not under arrest as she is unaware of the reason and not obliged to. Encinia then opens her car door and tells her more than a dozen times to get out of the car before he tries to pull her out. After struggling, he draws his taser and points it at Bland, shouting “I will light you up! Get out! Now!”, at which point she exits her vehicle.  

Once Bland is out of her car, the officer orders her to put down her cell phone and tells her she is going to jail. In response, Bland asks why. In the video, both Bland and the officer move to the passenger side of the vehicle and are no longer visible, while they continue to argue heatedly. Bland can be heard crying and screaming.   Police stated that at 9:00 a.m. July 13,  Bland was found “in a semi-standing position” hanging in her cell.  Her death, which was ruled a suicide, was followed by protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence against her.

A grand jury declined to indict the county sheriff and jail staff for a felony relating to Bland’s death. In January 2016, Encinia was indicted for perjury for making false statements about the circumstances surrounding Bland’s arrest and he was subsequently fired by the Texas Department of Public Safety In September 2016, Bland’s mother settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the county jail and police department for $1.9 million and some procedural changes. In June 2017, the perjury charge against Encinia was dropped in return for his agreement to end his law enforcement career.

Now They Seek to Label YOU as Terrorists!

Since its inception the Black Lives Matter movement has received stark criticism from its opposers. Some critics accuse the movement of being anti-police.  A Sergeant of the Dallas Police Department filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against Black Lives Matter in September 2016, which accused the group of inciting a “race war.”  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that Black Lives Matter is “inherently racist” and called the movement anti-American. According to Giuliani, the Black Lives Matter movement divides people and exacerbates racial tensions.

There have also been attempts and petitions signed to label the Black Lives Matter movement as a terrorist group, citing “Terrorism is defined as ‘the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims… This definition is the same definition used to declare ISIS and other groups, as terrorist organizations…Black Lives Matter earned this title due to its actions in Ferguson, Baltimore, and even at a Bernie Sander rally, as well as all over the United States and Canada.”   It been asked that the Pentagon recognize the group as such “on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety.” (rumor has it they have labeled them as that).

In a memo obtained by Foreign Policy from early August, the FBI claims that the continued concern over “alleged” police abuse has fueled a rise in violence against police. And that rise in violence has produced a new kind of terrorist. It reads in part: “The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence,.”  “The FBI assesses it is very likely incidents of alleged police abuse against African Americans since then have continued to feed the resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the Black Identity Extremist movement,” the report states.   So basically, the future likelihood of threats from a group that as far as we know does not exist (yet) is a potential threat that needs to be taken care of.

The National Defense Authorization Act greatly expands the power and scope of the federal government to fight the War on Terror, including codifying into law the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects without trial. Under the new law the US military has the power to carry out domestic anti-terrorism operations on US soil.  Former president Barack Obama when discussing  this law was quoted saying “There may be a number of people who cannot be prosecuted for past crimes, in some cases because evidence may be tainted; but who nonetheless pose a threat to the security of the United States.”  There may be = “there is a possibility” just like there was a possibility of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq… He was also quoted saying “If and when we determine that the United States must hold individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war; we will do so within a system that involves judicial and congressional oversight.” and “Right now in distant training camps and in crowded cities, there are people plotting to take American lives. That will be the case a year from now; five years from now; and in all probability ten years from now.”  In other words if we think, feel or assume you are a threat to the United States in any form you are a terrorist (again with the definition being “the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims”) in order to prevent these things from possibly and probably inevitably occurring we have to detain these people on our assumptions without trial until we determine there is no threat.

Dig That Ditch For Yourselves

For 398 years from 1619 to 2017 blacks in America have been violently targeted for oppression and unfair treatment for political as well as financial gain.  Whether it was via the whip and shotguns by the slave master used to intimidate the slaves and keep them under control, the Ku Klux Klan and their nooses, robes and burning crosses keeping blacks from voting, or even by the police and military force that violently shuts down peaceful protests and marches against unfair treatment and arrest any participants they’d like with threats of more violence and arrests if their protests continue.  After 398 years of this you seek to label blacks as the terrorists?

Just in case no one was keeping track; it was not blacks who hijacked and crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; and hijacked 2 more jets and crashed them  into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. leaving Total dead and missing around 2,992.  It wasn’t blacks who placed a car bomb outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, which exploded collapsing wall and floors killing 168 people, including 19 children and 1 person who died in rescue effort.  It wasn’t blacks who mailedlLetters containing anthrax spores to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others.

Kipland Philip Kinkel (born August 30, 1982)

In May 1998 After killing his parents at home, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, drove to Thurston High School, where he killed two students and wounded 23 others.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

In 1999 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold, students at Columbine High School, killed twelve students and one teacher. They injured 21 additional people, and three more were injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair committed suicide at the end of the massacre.

Jeffrey Weise

In 2005 16-year-old student Jeffrey Weise, killed his grandfather and grandfather’s companion at their home. He drove to Red Lake Senior High School. Armed with his grandfather’s police weapons, Weise killed five students, one teacher, and one security guard, wounding seven others, before committing suicide.

Seung-Hui Cho

In 2007 23-year-old student, Seung-Hui Cho, killed thirty-two students and faculty members at Virginia Tech, and wounded another seventeen students and faculty members in two separate attacks before committing suicide.

Adam Lanza

20-year-old Adam Lanza, killed twenty-six people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school. Lanza brought four guns with him. He killed twenty first-grade children aged six and seven during the attack at school, along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psychologist. Two other persons were injured. Lanza then killed himself as police arrived at the school.

James Holmes

James Eagan Holmes was convicted of the murder of 12 people and the attempted murder of 70 others in the 2012 Aurora shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Holmes surrendered outside the theater and informed officers he had also  booby-trapped his apartment with explosives, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad.

Omar Mateen

Police say 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla. in June 2016. At least 49 people were killed, and more than 50 were wounded and taken to area hospitals. Mateen was killed during a firefight with police.

That’s 140 deaths and 150 injuries just between these 8 people alone.

Strange Fruit in a Strange Land

Acts 7:6

Acts 7:6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.  7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

We know the story of Abraham and his children, and the covenant in which God made with him. Genesis 15:12  And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

You is Kind You is Smart You is Important

You are that seed.  This and many other prophecies are about you.  The Bible is the other side of black history; that has not been taught to you.


Jeremiah 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith theLord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

God is calling his children.

2 Chronicles 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

I’ll leave off with these New Testament parables which were written about these things:

Matthew 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

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Which Resurrection Story are You Celebrating?

By atlcustoms — 8 years ago

If you haven’t read all three, then I behoove you to do so.  When you do I ask you these two questions: Who was there at the tomb to see that Jesus was not in the tomb and had been resurrected, and why was there so much doubt from the disciples when they seen Jesus nor did many of them recognize him?  My purpose in this is not to deny that there was a resurrection at all.  In fact Elijah and Enoch were both taken into heaven in the old testament of the bible and I believe that wholeheartedly and therefore believe that many of those who were God’s chosen ascended up to Him upon their deaths.  But none of the prophets and chosen before were assigned the position of a God and worshiped as such, but their messages sent from God were remembered.  2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  The truth in itself does not need to be rightly divided because all of it is true, it is the lies that need to be divided from the truth.  If you have four accounts of the same story and so many details of them are completely different, then there is something fishy about that story to me.  2 Timothy 2:18  Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. Daniel 11:14  the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

Matthew 28 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Or are you celebrating this one:

Mark 16 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

or this one:

Luke 24 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.8 And they remembered his words,9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.10 It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? 42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.43 And he took it, and did eat before them.44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things. 49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

or lastly this one:

John 20 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Or do you believe what Jesus says will happen when he is resurrected:

Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.25 Behold, I have told you before.26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

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You Are Being Sodomized by the Sodomites and it isn’t the Gays

By atlcustoms — 8 years ago

Many have been taught that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed solely because of homosexuality—that these cities were filled with men engaged in same-sex relations, prompting God to burn them down. This belief is reinforced by the English word “sodomy,” which is defined as sexual acts involving anal or oral intercourse. The term originates from medieval Latin sodomia, referencing Genesis 19:5, where the men of Sodom demand to “know” Lot’s guests. This passage has been commonly interpreted as an indication of homosexual rape.

But is this truly the full story? Let’s take a closer look at what the Bible and other historical texts actually say about Sodom and Gomorrah.

What Does Scripture Say?

In Genesis 18:20-21, God declares that Sodom and Gomorrah’s sins are “very grievous,” prompting Him to investigate further.

Genesis 18:20-21
“And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”

In Genesis 19, the men of Sodom surround Lot’s home and demand that he bring out his guests so that they may “know” them. This phrase has often been interpreted as a request for sexual relations.

Genesis 19:4-5
“But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.”

Lot refuses and even offers his daughters instead, further reinforcing the idea that the men’s intent was violent and immoral.

What Does “Know” Really Mean?

The original Hebrew word for “know” in Genesis 19:5 has often been translated as “to have sexual relations.” However, an alternative reading suggests that the more accurate translation is “to bed“—a reference not to sex, but to an act of torture.

This idea is supported by the Book of Jasher (The book of the Upright), an ancient text referenced in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18. This book provides additional details on the practices of Sodom and Gomorrah, revealing that “bedding” was a form of sadistic punishment rather than a sexual act.

Jasher 19:3 And by desire of their four judges the people of Sodom and Gomorrah had beds erected in the streets of the cities, and if a man came to these places they laid hold of him and brought him to one of their beds, and by force made him to lie in them.
4 And as he lay down, three men would stand at his head and three at his feet, and measure him by the length of the bed, and if the man was less than the bed these six men would stretch him at each end, and when he cried out to them they would not answer him.
5 And if he was longer than the bed they would draw together the two sides of the bed at each end, until the man had reached the gates of death.
6 And if he continued to cry out to them, they would answer him, saying, Thus shall it be done to a man that cometh into our land.
7 And when men heard all these things that the people of the cities of Sodom did, they refrained from coming there.

What Was “Bedding” in Sodom and Gomorrah?

The Book of Jasher describes the horrific custom of “bedding” strangers who entered the city:

  1. Special beds were placed in the streets. If a traveler entered Sodom, the people would seize him and force him onto one of these beds.
  2. If the man was shorter than the bed, they would stretch him until his body fit its length.
  3. If he was taller than the bed, they would cut him down to size.
  4. If he cried out, they would ignore his pleas for mercy and declare that this was simply the custom of the land.

This was not an act of sexual desire but one of cruelty, humiliation, and brutality.

Genesis 19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; 9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn;

Understanding Lot’s Offer and the Corruption of Sodom

In Genesis 19:7-9, Lot attempts to reason with the violent mob outside his home, urging them not to commit wickedness. He then offers his virgin daughters instead, but the crowd refuses and insists on seizing the strangers (the angels).

Many have interpreted this passage to mean that Lot was trying to appease a group of raging homosexuals who wanted to sexually violate the angels. According to this view, the mob rejected his daughters because they were only interested in same-sex relations.

However, the Book of Jasher provides additional context that challenges this interpretation.

The Sin of Sodom: More Than Just Sexual Immorality

According to Jasher 18:13-15, the people of Sodom engaged in public sexual violence and ritualistic abuse during their city-wide festivals. This passage describes how men took their neighbors’ wives and daughters, violating them in plain sight, while their husbands and fathers remained silent. This reveals a deeply corrupt and lawless society where rape and brutality were normalized, not just among men but against women as well.

Thus, when Lot offered his daughters, he was not simply presenting an alternative to an act of homosexuality. Instead, he was making a desperate attempt to protect his guests from a sadistic form of torture that the Sodomites regularly inflicted on strangers.

“And He Will Needs Be a Judge” – The Corrupt Legal System of Sodom

The mob’s response in Genesis 19:9 reveals their hostility toward Lot for attempting to judge their actions:

“And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.”

The Book of Jasher 19:1-2 expands on this, describing how Sodom had a deeply unjust judicial system run by four corrupt judges. The names of these judges were later translated by Abraham’s servant Eliezer, revealing the nature of their rule:

  • Serak (The Abundant One) → Shakra (The Lustful One)
  • Sharkad (The Free One) → Shakura (The Doubly Lustful One)
  • Zebnac (The Giving One) → Kezobim (The Lost Wanderer, The Confused One)
  • Menon (The Consoling One) → Matzlodin (The One Who Does Not Seek Justice)

These names expose the city’s culture of excess, lust, lawlessness, and injustice. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah did not just engage in immorality—they created a legal system that protected and encouraged wickedness while punishing the righteous.

The Wicked Laws and Customs of Sodom and Gomorrah

The Book of Jasher expands on the deep corruption and brutality that defined Sodom and Gomorrah. Their society was not just immoral but deliberately cruel and unjust, targeting the weak, the poor, and even their own people who showed compassion.

A Corrupt Judicial System

One story from Jasher 19:12-21 illustrates the complete perversion of justice in Sodom:

  • Eliezer, Abraham’s servant, witnessed a man of Sodom attack a stranger, steal his clothes, and leave him naked.
  • When Eliezer intervened to help, the attacker struck Eliezer on the forehead with a stone, causing him to bleed.
  • Shockingly, the attacker demanded payment, claiming that the act of drawing blood was a service, and this was “the custom of the land.”
  • When Eliezer refused, the man took him before Shakra, the judge of Sodom, who ruled in favor of the attacker, ordering Eliezer to pay for his own injury.

This reveals that Sodom’s legal system was not about justice, but about justifying evil.

Systematic Oppression of Strangers and the Poor

The Book of Jasher explains the meaning behind Genesis 18:20, where God declares that the “cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great”—this was the suffering of the innocent at the hands of a wicked people.

1. Robbing Travelers (Jasher 18:16-17)

  • When a traveler came to Sodom, the entire city would gang up on him, stealing his goods little by little.
  • If he protested, each thief would say, “I only took a little,” until he had nothing left.
  • Once the traveler was left penniless, they would chase him out of the city.

2. Starving the Poor to Death (Jasher 19:8-10)

  • If a poor man entered the city, the people would give him gold and silver, but they would refuse to give him food, ensuring he would starve.
  • When he eventually died, they would take back their money and strip his body of clothing.
  • This cruel practice was repeated every time a poor person entered their land.

The Righteousness of Paltith and Her Martyrdom

One of the most tragic stories involves Paltith, Lot’s daughter.

  • A poor man came to Sodom seeking food, but the city’s cruel law forbade anyone from helping him.
  • Paltith secretly fed him by hiding bread in her water pitcher when she went to fetch water.
  • The people became suspicious when the man survived for many days without food and set a trap.
  • They caught Paltith in the act of giving him bread and brought her before the judges.
  • Her punishment? The people of Sodom burned her alive in the street.

A similar fate befell a young woman in Admah, another city in the region:

  • She offered bread and water to a weary traveler who had nowhere to stay.
  • The people accused her of violating their laws against hospitality.
  • Her punishment was horrific—she was covered in honey and left to be stung to death by bees.
  • Her cries of agony reached the heavens.

The Justification for Sodom’s Destruction

These accounts explain why God declared in Genesis 18:20-21 that Sodom and Gomorrah’s sin was “very grievous.” Their evil was not just about sexual immorality—it was an entire culture built on:

  1. Systematic oppression of the poor and vulnerable
  2. Corrupt courts that rewarded wickedness
  3. Torture and public executions of those who showed compassion
  4. A complete rejection of justice, mercy, and righteousness

God’s judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah was not just an act of divine wrath—it was divine justice against a people who had made cruelty their law.

The Wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah and God’s Judgment

The Book of Jasher gives deeper insight into the extreme wickedness that consumed Sodom and Gomorrah. Their sins went beyond immorality—they were a people who delighted in cruelty, especially toward the poor and those passing through their cities.

A City of Cruelty and Injustice

  • The people of Sodom were not just inhospitable; they were intentionally brutal.
  • They tortured and starved the poor and needy, refusing to give them even a morsel of bread until they died.
  • If anyone dared to help a starving person, they too would be tortured and put to death.
  • Once their victims died, the people would rob them of all their possessions, even fighting over their belongings until the strongest person claimed them.
  • This was not an isolated practice—it was their law. Anyone who entered their land was subject to their violence, and they would say:
    “Thus shall it be done to any man that enters our land.”
  • They were like a lawless gang of violent mobsters, committing rape, robbery, pillaging, plundering, and murder without remorse.

Why God’s Judgment Was Inevitable

The Bible records in Genesis 19:13 that God’s angels declared:
“For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.”

The Book of Jasher explains why their sins were so great:

  • Jasher 19:44 – Sodom had plenty of food and peace within their land, yet they refused to help the poor and needy.
  • Jasher 19:45 – Their sins became so great that God sent His angels to destroy the city.

Even the Prophet Ezekiel reveals why Sodom was destroyed:

  • Ezekiel 16:49-50 – Their sins were pride, laziness, excess, and cruelty to the poor.
  • Despite having everything they needed, they chose to oppress and mistreat others.
  • Their haughtiness and abominations led God to wipe them out.

God’s Justice and the Perversion of His Law

God is a God of wisdom, justice, and righteousness. He does not only distinguish right from wrong but also just from unjust, fair from unfair. Everything He does has a purpose and reason.

However, there are those who twist God’s laws to fit their own agenda—condemning people based on a part of the law rather than the whole truth.

  • When people spread a distorted version of God’s judgment, they corrupt the understanding of the people.
  • This perversion of God’s law leads to a society that is wicked, unjust, and immoral, just like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Sodom was destroyed because of unchecked evil, and its fate serves as a warning to any nation that rejects justice, mercy, and righteousness in favor of oppression and corruption.

The Spirit of Sodom: Oppression, Injustice, and Cruelty

Sodom and Gomorrah were not just cities of immorality—they were places of systematic oppression, cruelty, and injustice, where the strong preyed on the weak without mercy. Their legacy lives on wherever injustice flourishes.

  • If you use your power to exploit the poor and needy while they suffer and perish, you are acting in the spirit of Sodom.
  • If you are trapped in a system designed to keep you poor, sick, and powerless while others profit from your suffering, you are experiencing the same oppression as the victims of Sodom.
  • If the justice system is built to work against the vulnerable, enforcing unfair and biased laws that strip them of their dignity, wealth, and even their lives while benefiting the rich and powerful—you are witnessing the modern-day spirit of Sodom in action.
  • If you are drowning in debt, struggling under a system that keeps you weak while others grow stronger off your hardship, you are being exploited just as the oppressed were in Sodom.
  • If you live in a place where those in power declare, “We do not want you in our land,” and they subject your people to cruel and inhumane treatment—starvation, torture, public executions, lynchings, and other forms of brutal punishment—you are living in a modern-day Sodom.

Sodom was not just a city—it was a system, a mindset, and a way of life that glorified oppression and fed on injustice. Wherever greed, cruelty, and exploitation thrive at the expense of the poor and powerless, the spirit of Sodom is alive—and history shows that God does not leave such evil unpunished.

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Will a Man Rob God?

By atlcustoms — 8 years ago

 

The infamous scripture/passage spoken and read when it comes to the church and it’s members when it comes to paying tithes and offering.

Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 

Who wants to be cursed with a curse? Right? Many pastors and preachers say or preach that many people  who are in poverty or have financial issues or setbacks  Of course it would be great to receive a blessing that there won’t be room enough to receive.

One thing I have learned about God is when he speaks HE SPEAKS.  He speaks in complete sentences and when he gives revelation he gives FULL revelation in complete understanding, wisdom and knowledge. I’m not saying He rambles, but he does not say three words unless only three words are necessary, he does not speak a couple versus in one part of a chapter in part of a book that contains other books and chapters.  He will go on and on until the point is made and understood.  Trust me I know.

What does this have to do with robing God and tithes and offering?

Ecclesiastes 5:13 “There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.14 But those riches perish by evil travail: “

Well what many pastors fail to realize, teach or tell is that the beginning of this passage isn’t this verse, nor is it the first verse in this chapter but begins in the chapter before that specifically says

Malachi 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

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Malachi 2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Here is a little background on Levi and the covenant God made with him.

Numbers 8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.8 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of their’s, every meat offering of their’s, and every sin offering of their’s, and every trespass offering of their’s which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord.18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.20 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord‘S heave offering to Aaron the priest.29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

Of course, when I saw the movie that perception quickly changed; the characters are full of life, love, and joy, and the audience instantly empathizes with them on a raw, human level. KAWS statues play on a similar deceit. Initially they have a sterile, robotic feel, but when you view them in their human-scale sizes and see their playful aesthetic, you experience an unexpected sense of connection.

Welcome to the Oscars, Or as some people like to call it, the white people’s choice awards

The Big Short takes a comedic approach to a dark subject, and I wanted to portray the same witty, chaotic vibe in my poster. Keith Haring was my inspiration because his high-contrast, brightly colored political work, which touches on grim subjects like rape, death, and war, hinges on the same contrast as the film. The poster is based on the film’s alligator-in-an-abandoned-pool scene; the alligator represents the main characters in the movie, who took advantage of the 2008 housing bubble and left the world in desperation when it burst.

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I chose to focus on the muddy gray areas and loopholes within Bridge of Spies. The Cold War was fueled by each side’s increasingly dire hypotheticals, causing mass paranoia among citizens and governments alike.

A large part of the film’s narrative focuses on the extent of protection under the law, especially for a Soviet spy. I reimagined Lady Justice, mixing her blindfold with the American and Soviet flags to represent how both countries were tied to their individuals principles of justice even while locked in an unending battle for the upper hand. Set in the eponymous 1950s borough, Brooklyn features then-contemporary imagery that now exemplifies the commodification of Brooklyn as a global brand.

Just as the Pop Art movement utilized mass advertising and irony to re-contextualize commercial art, I drew from today’s vintage, artisanal design trends, which are inspired by that era and setting. In that vein, I applied the animated footage and vector elements to illustrate how the contrasting settings of Brooklyn and Ireland re-contextualized the protagonist’s identity through a fluctuating sense of home.

The 88th annual Academy Awards are underway, and viewers are anxiously awaiting the ceremony to find out if their favorite flicks and actors win, which categories will see big upsets, and which speeches and performances will stand out.

Not to mention how host Chris Rock will approach the Oscars So White controversy, and who he will target during the opening monologue. Did Leo finally take home a golden statue? The buzz began during the red carpet events prior to the official event. Jennifer Jason Leigh, nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Hateful Eight, seemed slightly out of it during her interview with Ryan Seacrest on E!’s special. But arguably the biggest surprise was Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant).

If hosts were nominated, I wouldn’t be here; instead, you’d have Neil Patrick Harris.

Rock, who addressed the issues with ease and expected humor, added that he did seriously consider quitting after so many people spoke out and pressured him to do so. But the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart, he said, as the crowd erupted in laughter (including Hart himself, who was in the audience).

Arguably, the best part of Rock’s monologue was his blatant dig at Jada Pinkett-Smith and her vocal boycott of the Oscars. Isn’t she on a TV show? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties, he said.

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