Ship U.S. Speeding Toward Visible Iceberg

There is no U.S analyst that I have greater respect for than the Washington editor of the excellent and independent The Nation magazine. Christopher Hayes' writing is incisive, penetrating and well informed. Yet, in his pursuit of truth, he does not seem to be concerned about whom he offends. Nevertheless, his writing appears to have the same serious blind spot that is forced upon virtually every professional Western journalist. In order to fulfill the expectations of both his employers and most of his readers, the Western journalists must write from a secular and mostly humanistic perspective which totally ignores the no small reality that there is a strong, possibility that the very Creator of our Universe is alive and well. Additionally, the omnipotent Living GOD has serious convictions that deserve our most sincere consideration.

The main exceptions to journalists' consistent exclusion of the relevance of the existence of GOD is when the writer is employed to write on religious subjects, or is expected to expose the supposed superficiality of his own Christian and Muslim stereotypes. For instance, the ubiquitous Christopher Hitchens has made himself wealthy from exposing his own stereotypes. Or, there is the acceptable mentioning of GOD when the obvious purpose is either to ridicule the excesses of Islamic extremists or to ridicule Evangelical Christians.

When examining the writing of The Nation's Christopher Hayes, it is important not to confuse his name with the Christopher Hitchens. Interestingly, both first names are based upon the title of GOD's anointed Messiah – the Christ.

Significantly, in the recent annual special issue of the March 22nd, Time magazine, there is a special feature about "10 Ideas for The Next 10 Years." The Nation's Christopher Hayes was the capable and appropriate analyst whom Time chose to write a feature article entitled "The Twilight of the Elites." In this revealing article Mr. Hayes is not bashful in exposing the corruption in the last decade of many previously respected and reliable U.S. institutions. He strongly states in his opening sentence "In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society – whether it's General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, or the mainstream media – has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both. And at the root of these failures are the people who run these institutions, the bright and industrious minds who occupy the commanding heights of our meritocratic order."

Amazingly, though I doubt if the exceptionally positive thinking, Christopher Hayes would acknowledge that he has much agreement with the distinguished Saint Augustine's belief in original sin, it appears from his opening observations that he is presenting convincing evidence that U.S. elite leaders are consistently demonstrating to the world's citizen that Saint Augustine's strong case for a belief in man's "original sin" is being vindicated by the fall of many of America's elites.

Furthermore, Hayes' apparently accurate, but disgusting statistics which he cites regarding the virtually unbelievable greed of U.S. CEO's is beyond being nauseating, criminal, and wicked. He cites the Economic Policy Institutes' statistics that in 1978 the ratio of average CEO pay to average employee pay was about 35 to 1. So now with approximately thirty years having passed with vastly more educational opportunities for American leaders to have increased their enlightenment, their compassion and their sense of fairness and justice, you would appropriately expect there to be much less disparity between the average CEOs pay and the average worker's pay. Most certainly with the vast opportunities for human compassion to expand, you would not expect an even greater disparity in favor of the already filthy rich CEOs. But instead of improving, excessive wickedness has prevailed in the hearts and minds of the CEOs. According to evidence by Nell Minow, a lawyer and corporate governance expert, "the CEOs have found ways to manipulate the levers of governance and devise ingenious methods of guaranteeing themselves windfalls regardless of their company's performance."

So insanely and wickedly, the former insane ratio has become even much, much more sinful, criminal, and unjust than it was thirty years ago. The ratio has actually increased from a wicked $35 to $1 ratio in approximately three decades to $275 to $1 in favor of the wicked, greedy CEO's. Thus, according to the New Testament writing of James, one of the younger brothers of the Messiah Isa/Jesus, these wealthy, evil men who have flagrantly denied their own workers their just pay, will eventually cry out in agonized disbelief at their own severe, but deserved judgment. Listen to the grave warning of Isa's brother James in chapter 5 of his letter in the New Testament addressed to the twelve Jewish tribes who were scattered far and wide.

"Come now, you rich, weep, and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.

"Indeed, the wages of the laborers who have done your work, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the Lord of Sabbath.

"You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and have virtually murdered innocent men who cannot resist you."

In light of such vivid New Testament warnings, when you observe the extreme economic depravity that the supposed best and the brightest have forced upon the American people evidenced by these depraved CEO's, you soon realize that today these men's wickedness is well beyond the wickedness that was so severely condemned in the days of the writings of the Risen Messiah's younger brother. Obviously, a shocking, unpleasant reality should overwhelm us all. The Just GOD of the now Risen Messiah is closely observing the severe economic greed and degradation that has enveloped our entire nation. And this GOD of the Universe's own Risen Messiah, who during his days on earth established his own credibility to be believed by such spectacular accomplishments as raising a close friend from the dead after four days of total death. In fact, his friend Lazarus had been in his tomb so long that his grieving sister Martha expressed her concern to the Messiah that if they took away the stone to the tomb's entrance that there would be an overpowering smell. Despite the potential smell, the stone was removed and the now famous, but formerly dead Lazarus was given totally new life by the Messiah. In fact, it is recorded that the Messiah's miraculous raising of Lazarus from death created such a public relations disaster for the highly embarrassed Jewish religious establishment that the Chief Priests immediately began to make plans to not only put Isa/Jesus to death, but also to murder the raised to life, Lazarus (John 12:10).

Another exceptionally notable miracle by the Messiah which further established both his credentials and his authority took place on the strictly enforced non working Sabbath day, thus seriously arousing the intense hostility of the legalistic religious establishment. On that legally enforced non working day the iconoclastic and compassionate Messiah deliberately shattered the wrong understanding of the legally enforced Sabbath Day by giving first time sight to a grown man who was not only blind, but who had been born blind (John 9). But my point in mentioning only these two miracles out of the many documented miracles that the Messiah performed by power from GOD which miracles even the Holy Quran respectfully acknowledges, is this.

Because these amazing miracles which document the credibility of the Messiah's special anointing from GOD Himself, took place almost two thousand years ago, thinkers today make a decisive and horrible error in judgment. They wrongly and superficially conclude that this passage of twenty centuries since these significant miracles occurred somehow make them insignificant and irrelevant compared to events occurring in 2010 America.

But such reasoning is seriously flawed. For the Eternal GOD of the Scriptures is a generational GOD. And simply because there were no T.V. cameras to record what happened at the time on this earth of GOD's now Risen and still alive Messiah, does not make his observations and warnings less relevant than the observations of so many spokespersons today. Therefore, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, Fox News, Russ Limbaugh, and even The Nation magazine's brilliant journalist, Christopher Hayes, or even the wealthy Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, or even the six Catholic Justices who control the votes of the mighty and virtually infallible U.S. Supreme Court, don't begin to cancel or neutralize the many ominous warnings that were given about preparing for the last days that came from the lips of our now Risen Messiah.

Therefore, what I would like to virtually shout is this. For U.S. society today to be saturated with influence on our thinking by all of the Twenty First Century ubiquitous Johnny come lately celebrities who now dominate our T.V. screens, but who will disappear in several decades, and in foolish contrast blow off as irrelevant the truly wise eternal words and teaching that have GOD's own now Risen man as their source, is a colossal error in Judgment, which vast multitudes of rejecters of truth who live today will eternally regret.

With this concept in mind, I will reluctantly attempt to correct some of what I see as the superficial and potentially dangerous conclusions of The Nation's brilliant Christopher Hayes after he made some exceptionally helpful observations about the deep incompetence and corruption that now is impacting and virtually dragging down present day U.S. society. There was definitely a grave tone to his observations that left the serious reader with this distinct impression of impending catastrophe that unless there are serious modifications made in our society among especially those who are setting the super negative example for the rest of us, a downward spiral will inevitably continue from which our U.S. society will not recover.

But my observation is that he subconsciously realizes that our U.S. situation is so dire and ominous today that he is reluctant to actually acknowledge that our ship of state is like a giant Titanic racing toward a very visible iceberg with all of us on board closing our eyes and convincing ourselves that this impending collision with the iceberg will be so destructive and horrifying that such a devastating collision will obviously not occur. This false reasoning and commitment to denial is regretfully quite similar to how Mr. Hayes accurately points out that some of the finest minds in our nation at the Federal Reserve failed to notice an eight trillion dollar housing bubble that finally exploded with disastrous economic consequences. And similarly, though wise thinkers are shouting to our nation that our U.S. national debt is so out of control that it is threatening the very survival of our economic system as we know it, these warnings are mostly only occurring in scholarly journals such as Foreign Affairs. Even an independent, wise magazine like The Nation refuses to truly sound the needed alarm week after week and month after month. Yes, these magazines should be relentlessly warning us all that we truly are a Titanic Ship of State, which is definitely on a collision course with a giant, very visible and predictable iceberg.

Today God Urgently Seeks Chicken Littles to Warn Us

Many U.S. children were often read the children's story of Chicken Little. This pesky little chicken was inevitably stirring up alarm by constantly warning whoever would listen that the sky was actually falling when it obviously was not. So the main lesson that we supposedly learned from the story of Chicken Little is that when a person gives false warnings, as a result virtually no one will listen when events are about to occur, which do actually deserve serious attention.

Though this may be the lesson that Chicken Little has taught us, there is a secondary lesson that we ignore to our great peril. That is, when the sky has actually begun to fall and we refuse to recognize the obvious signs that the sky is falling and we are in denial about these serious warnings, the obvious result is that we are in deep, deep trouble.

The point is often made by superficial readers of the Old Testament Scriptures that alarmists today often attempt to be Prophet Jeremiah's. (Nabi Yeremiah in Arabic.) Those so called alarmists are supposedly giving false warnings when no warnings are deserved. But that evaluation is to totally mischaracterize the whole historical setting of the Prophet Jeremiah's ominous warnings to his generation. It is not that his warnings were unrealistic, but that his totally realistic warnings were totally ignored. Therefore, as a devastating consequence of ignoring this Prophet of GOD's warnings was that his dire predications were fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar's mighty Babylonian army destroyed Jerusalem and took the people of Israel into a long devastating Babylonian captivity. Furthermore, this whole awful Babylonian destruction and captivity inspired the broken hearted Prophet Jeremiah/Nabi Yeremiah to write one of the saddest summaries of man's wicked refusal to heed the warnings of an obvious messenger of GOD. He poured out his crushed heart in his Biblical book of Lamentations.

I seriously ask, who will it be who will write the Book of the Lamentations for a future devastated U.S.? At this point I would say that it has only been MSNBC's Keith Olbermann who has demonstrated with his tears, anger, and intellectual honesty that he may become the writer for the devastated U.S. of a U.S. Lamentations. Because it appears to be only this nationally prominent person who allows his often crushed heart to enter into his sober analysis. But the Jeremiah quality that Mr. Olbermann appears to lack is the courage and perspective to actually warn about the devastation that is quite probably coming to the U.S., though he often does allow his broken heart to get involved when something like a Bush Conflagration and immoral bloodbath has already occurred. But before the chaos occurs, regrettably Mr. Olbermann resembles the false Prophets of Jeremiah's era that were a dime a dozen in his time. These popular prophets refused to treat the seriousness of the Nation's wounds and offered only superficial treatment for these open wounds. Hear Jeremiah's words about the false prophets of his day denying the seriousness of the impending Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem.

"They have lied about the LORD; they said, 'He will do nothing. No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine."

"The Prophets are but wind, and the word is not in them." (Jeremiah 5:12, 13)

"They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace." (Jeremiah 6:14.)

In contrast to current superficial prophets, who will be the courageous T.V. commentators who will read Professor Niall Ferguson in Foreign Affairs and faithfully warn U.S. citizens about the dire dangers that are vividly printed in large bold print on the March/April 2010 cover of the Foreign Affairs journal which is actually published by the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.

Decline and Fall

"When the American Empire Goes, It Is Likely To GO QUICKLY" by Niall Ferguson.

The precise title of the Harvard Professor's essay is: Complexity and Collapse – Empires on the Edge of Chaos.

If a prominent T.V. news Commenter were to seriously echo the Professor's warnings more than once, he would likely lose both his job and his platform for his warnings because of the fact that his profit driven network would never allow the tender ears of the American people to hear such ominous alarm bells that ring from the honest pages of the Foreign Affairs journal.

Of course the following one quote will not do justice to the Professor's comprehensive article. Nevertheless, reading his whole article should leave all of us shaking for both the economic future and the general future of the U.S. Empire. When you factor in the economic insanity featured in today's Seattle Time's sport page where a 26 year old baseball catcher that I had never before heard of, signed a contract for one hundred and eighty four million dollars for eight years, you realize American values are across the board – crazy.

Our Professor observes in his essay: "Great Powers and empires are, I would suggest, complex systems, made up of a very large number of interacting components that are asymmetrically organized, which means their construction more resembles a termite hill than an Egyptian pyramid. They operate somewhere between order and disorder – on the edge of chaos… A very small trigger can set off a 'phase transition' from a benign equilibrium to a crisis."

Speaking only as a layman who reads and reads, I make the following calm observation that I would prefer to scream to American society from the top of my lungs, than to quietly write in my own essay.

Look around! From greedy CEOs to greedy bankers, to greedy sports stars, to greedy profit driven health insurance companies, to intellectually imbalanced political leaders who use false information to start horrible wars, to powerful Pentagon officials who love to have the latest pet weapons, to unbalanced and unethical weapons sales persons, to a staggering national debt, to threatening global warming, to the unbalanced domination of the U.S. Supreme Court by six Roman Catholic Justices, our nation has such an excess of triggers (without even considering the nuclear trigger) that it will be a greater miracle that one of these triggers does not soon set off chaos than if our nation somehow does avoid setting off one of these triggers which will possibly and even suddenly lead to chaos for our vulnerable nation.

But the great limitation for even our brilliant public commentators such as Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, and Christopher Hayes is that they are stuck in a here and now mentality and mostly ignore lessons from the ancient past as well as ignore major future problems. (The main exception is the iconoclastic, but soon retiring brilliant Bill Moyer of PBS.) There is no way that any of these thinkers, even including Bill Moyer, will accurately draw important lessons from the ancient Prophet Jeremiah's time. Nor are they likely to look forward for more than the ten years as is in the title of The Nation magazine's Christopher Hayes, when he contributed a frightening essay to Time magazine about the next ten years. In view of the ominous facts that he cited in his penetrating essay, it is almost ludicrous how unrealistically optimistic he is about his relatively superficial proposals and observations that will hopefully make major contributions to solving the current incompetence, corruption and rampant greed that is tearing apart the sensitive fabric of our democratic nation. Before we consider his far from adequate solutions, we will look again at our 26 year old athlete who has perfected throwing, catching, and batting a baseball to such a high level of competence that his Minnesota baseball organization, in order to increase their chance of winning and thus make more money, have signed him to a $184 million dollar binding eight year contract.

This contract for one uniquely gifted athlete is ludicrous, insane, and destabilizing for our society and is grossly wicked and criminal for how it undermines society. Of course, his immoral contract is not the fault of this now super wealthy young man. But this totally disproportionate contract does reveal the deep, deep degeneration in the values of our society. Furthermore, I sincerely submit that the eternal Creator of the entire Universe sees this contract as DESPERATELY WICKED.

One of the main sins that the perceptive Prophet Jeremiah/Yeremiah pointed out that was directly leading to the Nation of Israel being brutally conquered by their Babylonian enemies was that the descendents of the Prophet Jacob and their leaders had entirely lost their "awe of GOD" and had created different types of man-made idols to attempt to replace that awe of GOD, that GOD deserves.

"Your wickedness will punish you…

'Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your GOD and have no awe of me,' declares the LORD Almighty.'" (Thus reads the very relevant parallel to today's America, Jeremiah 2:19.)

Since we as a nation have thrown our necessary "awe of GOD" into the garbage and have exchanged our awe of Him for our worship and awe of human athletic idols and our awe of movie idols which we have unwisely created, these are only obvious symptoms that our entire society is in a downward spiral heading for a horrendous crash.

Then you add to that type of wickedness and guilt the virtual rivers of blood that are still crying out to GOD against the U.S. for what we have done against Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Palestine, and even is still crying out from the American Indians and the African American slaves who were abused and slaughtered and who often cruelly suffered agonizing deaths on slave ships besides what they suffered under many supposedly Christian, but cruel slave masters.

Yes, our U.S. society has mostly lost its awe of GOD. But we do not realize that while Christianity is frantically throwing overboard our fear of GOD, Middle Eastern Arab Islam is simultaneously growing in its awe of GOD. And though it may be difficult for both Christians and even Muslims to believe this amazing reality, a new dawn is about to burst forth on the Middle East. Because of so many millions of Muslims having a faithful awe of GOD, Islam will soon be rewarded with an enlightened understanding of one key verse in the Holy Quran whose true meaning has previously been misunderstood to mean that GOD's Messiah did not actually die and rise from death. But when this verses exact wording is closely analyzed, this verse's teaching does agree with both the emphatic teaching of the Injeel's Scriptures preceding the Holy Quran and with historical reality that the Messiah did temporarily die, but then defeated death when GOD raised him up alive by His own Wisdom and Might. An-Nisa 3:158.

Therefore, when this new correct understanding of this one key verse out of the Holy Quran's hundreds of verses is accepted by millions of Middle Eastern Arab Muslims, new fresh meaning will be provided for a prophetic statement made by the now Risen Messiah when he was on this earth. There will be a new favor shown to Middle Eastern Muslims as especially Western U.S. Christians spiral into more and more disfavor with GOD and in contrast Muslims will gain more and more favor with Him through their new acceptance of His Risen Messiah. Thus, since this will be occurring in these last days, the Messiah's amazing statement of "The last shall be first and the first shall be last," Matthew 20:16, will take on new meaning that will be much enjoyed by multitudes of Muslims as they recognize new evidence of the blessings of GOD's Living Messiah in their midst. Yes, unless Western Christians soon wake up to the reality that they have destructively replaced GOD's Living Messiah with the idols of militarism, arrogance, entertainment, and greed, it will be Muslims who will inevitably become first as many American Christians sink further into the quicksand of idol worship.

Returning to the two suggested, but overly optimistic and unrealistic solutions for the current downward spiral of the U.S. that I consider to be way too little, way too late, which Christopher Hayes hopes will be sufficient to turn the U.S. around. His two hopeful trends are:

One:
The elites' failures of the past decade should teach us that institutions of all kinds need input from below. But I ask, is input from below really a new insight or is it just an old insight that powerful men with money and influence will continue to fight against. For how long has the following truism been around? "Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely." For more than a Century, this truth has been avoided while powerful men have successfully oppressed those with less power.

Two:
His second great reason for optimism is quite void of anything that is close to a fear of GOD or an awe of GOD which the Scriptures tell us are the true foundation of wisdom. But instead Mr. Hayes puts his hopes and faith in man's achievements through the highly technological Internet, which is fast becoming another idol to worship and depend on instead of our relating to the Living GOD.

In his words: "If there are heartening counter trends to the past decade of elite failure, they're the tremendous outpouring of grass-roots activism across the political spectrum and the remarkable surge in institutional innovation, much of it facilitated by the Internet."

Then Mr. Hayes goes on to find renewed hope in more bottom up activity in contrast to past top down models such as farmers' markets challenging the industrial food distribution cartel and charter schools challenging undemocratic and less than transparent school systems.

Yes, these are positive trends. And though we even have what I personally consider to be a splendid, ethical, brilliant, capable President in Barack Obama, I still ask if any from bottom to top surge enough to counter the poisonous venom which has now invaded our political process through the very Republican party which has become venomous and committed to destruction even though it supposedly has an Evangelical Christian backbone. But this predominately Christian political wing has chosen to abandon an awe of the Almighty and has begun to worship its man created idol of totally abandoning ethics under the guise of pretending to be pro-life. But while being supposedly pro-life, pro-war, and pro-guns simultaneously, they use any pretense that they can to destroy our Democratic Union. Yes! We are in a very dangerous and precarious period today when those who are claiming to be the good guys are turning out to be the bad guys and those falsely labeled the without GOD persons, are more often being more reasonable and far more compassionate than those who fly high their supposed obedience to the Messiah flag.

Similarly to how GOD once used the falsely labeled bad sons of Ishmael (Genesis 37:26, 27) to save the supposedly good-family of Jacob who actually attempted to murder their hated brother Joseph, all members of the supposedly good, though murderous sons of the conniving Prophet Jacob, GOD will soon use many Messiah loving Muslims to ultimately save Christians and even to save their persecutors, the devious Jews. This will be despite many Christians and Jews virtually despising Muslims and feeling quite superior to Muslims. Yet, it will be GOD through His Living Messiah who will soon being stability to the destabilized predominantly Arab Muslim Middle East. This new era will begin despite the fact that the supposedly born again President Bush brought weapons, blood, hate, suffering, death, and chaos with no tangible honest excuse for bringing this virtual holocaust to innocent, vulnerable Iraqis..

So tell me. Does it not make more sense to not trust in Christianity, which is never mentioned in the Bible and the word Christian is only mentioned in the Bible three times? But instead, doesn't it actually make more sense to replace trust in Christianity with trust in the humble man who is GOD's Risen man from Bethlehem? This compassionate now Risen man established his excellent credentials by what he did, (healed the sick, raised the dead, gave sight to those born blind, exposed the calloused hard hearts of compassionless Israeli religious leaders and culminated all his compassionate acts by miraculously walking out of his own tomb-alive) even more than establishing his credentials by what he said?

But in regard to what he did say, do we give his words true consideration and serious attention though his many miraculous compassionate acts have validated his amazing credentials and are further supported by his longitudinal perspective dating from before Abraham to the distant future. Yet, do we take this virgin born now Risen man's words seriously? Or, instead do we blow his words off? And do we prefer to hang on every word of popular T.V. pundits who appear to have much to say, but whose relatively shallow words seriously lack longitudinal perspective and are spoken with only here and now resumes. But they do have many words to say about the here and now, but totally lack virtually all of the needed long term perspective that has necessary eternal foundations. Please consider these following samples of Isa/Jesus' penetrating words that reveal his balance, but perceptive eternal perspective. Then compare his words of wisdom and life with the much more limited perspective of the exciting here and now events discussed by the ubiquitous T.V. pundits whose words will be irrelevant tomorrow like a pile of dried up leaves.

Eternal Words in Contrast to Pundits' Limited Here and Now Words

1. Matthew 6:19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy… but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy.
2. Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
3. Matthew 10:22 They will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
4. Matthew 11:23 And you (Jewish) Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No! You will be brought down to the depths. For if the miracles performed in you had been performed in Sodom, Sodom would have remained until today… It will be far more bearable for Sodom on the Day of Judgment than for you (Jewish Capernaum).
5. Speaking of his own super sensitivity to bruised and broken people, he quoted from the ancient Prophet Isaiah and applied Isaiah's prophecy directly to himself (Matthew 12:18-26).

   "I will put my Spirit upon him and he will proclaim Justice to the nations.

   "A bruised reed he will not break and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out until he leads justice to victory and in his name the nations will put their hope."

6. Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish (whether or not this huge fish was literal or was only a part of a figurative story to make a point about Jewish prejudice against foreigners), so the son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. So the men of Nineveh (from Iraq) will stand up at the Judgment with this generation (while speaking to Jews) and condemn it (condemn that generation) for the people of Nineveh (foreigners) repented at the preaching of Jonah and now one greater than Jonah is here (and even though the greater Messiah is here, you Jews refuse to repent.)
7. Matthew 15:18, 9 The Messiah quotes from the Prophet Isaiah to expose empty worship of men's rules rather than worshipping GOD. "These (Jewish) people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in Vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men."
8. Matthew 17:22 The son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him and on the third day he will be raised to life."
9. Matthew 18:4 "Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven."
10. Matthew 21:12, 13 "Isa/Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. (And while he was totally disrupting their blasphemous commercial activity in GOD temple court, he combined key statements from both of the ancient Prophet's of Isaiah and Jeremiah/Yeremiah.)

    It is written, he said to them, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you are making it a den for robbers.'"

11. When the Messiah attempted to help his home town Jewish neighbors to realize that foreigners were as important to GOD as Jews, his home town Jews attempted to murder him. Therefore in Luke 4:25, it describes how He chose two incidents to cite from the Old Testament about the Prophet Elijah feeding a foreign widow during a famine and later the Prophet Elisha healing a hated Syrian military man of incurable leprosy. That the Messiah emphasized the fact that GOD healed foreigners when GOD did not direct His Prophets to heal Jews who had similar problems, infuriated the jealous Jews who did not approve of GOD helping non Jews.
12. His stern warning in Matthew 22:52 of "All who draw the sword will die by the sword," could not be more blatantly ignored by the U.S. Military Industrial Complex and the horrible consequence of the U.S. blatantly ignoring this warning will soon become observable to the entire world.
13. Matthew 23:34-39 His agony over this horrible rejection by the rejecting, calloused leaders of Jerusalem virtually broke the Messiah's tender heart. Matthew 23:37-39 And as he wept over the beloved city he vividly reviewed in his mind the historical pattern the wicked religious leaders of the city had of murdering GOD's Prophets, which has left it a spiritually desolate city even today. His emotional words as recorded by Matthew were:

    "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the Prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you (O Jewish Israelis), you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'" (Which even the Jews until today have not yet said.)

14. Matthew 24:29-31 "Immediately after the distress of those days 'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken."

    "At that time, the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds in the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and the angels will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."

    (As Muslims would appropriately expect, his wonderful words from the Injeel about his glorious coming when he will have his angels gather those who love him, is very much in agreement with the powerful and wonderful verse from the Holy Quran's own Al-Fajr/The Dawn, 89:22).

    "And your Lord comes with the angels in rows."

    For those who might protest that the words "your Lord" is not referring to the Messiah coming, but is referring to ALLAH coming, this protest cannot be true. The Lord is definitely referring to Isa/Jesus because it is common agreement among respected Islamic theologians that since ALLAH fills the Universe; He should never be spoken of as moving from place to place which the word "comes" definitely implies.)

15. Matthew 27:11 "Meanwhile Isa/Jesus stood before the Roman Governor Pilate and the governor asked him, 'Are you the King of the Jews?'"

    "Yes, it is as you say, Jesus/Isa replied."

16. Matthew 4.4 When Isa/Jesus was resisting the attack from Shiitan/Satan in the wilderness, to defend himself he quoted a wise statement from the ancient Prophet Moses/Musa which contains truth to guide all people of all time. Matthew: 4.4

    "It is written: 'Men do not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from GOD."

    But consider the alarm bells that should be ringing in all nations that the Roman Catholic Church, which claims to live on nourishment from the Word of GOD clearly refuses to obey the Word of GOD. Yet, despite its flagrant disobedience, it is no less than six Catholic Justices who actually control the world influencing U.S. Supreme Court. Since there are currently not Alarm Bells sounding, reading the March 29th, 2010 Newsweek should change that. That harsh article should set off enough bells to be heard in the most remote parts of the desert in the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia. The article tells about the twelve thousand dollars a month still being paid monthly, including a palatial apartment, for a sexual predator Roman Catholic Priest. Yet, that disgraced Priest even today has voting influence on who will be the next ruling Pope. So I was forced to temporarily pause from my reading of the article to prevent myself from being nauseated from what I read.

    According to Newsweek as an active member of the College of Cardinals he can assist in electing the next Pope and works on at least seven Vatican committees.

    In the light of this utterly deplorable public situation in the Roman Catholic Church, I sincerely ask myself this relevant question. "How can Roman Catholic Supreme Court Justice Roberts keep smiling in each of his ubiquitous official photographs?" Instead, he should obviously be weeping if he truly cares about justice and sexually abused children.

    Furthermore, the president of the U.S. and his compassionate wife must be silently weeping that official protocol prevents them both from publicly admonishing the six Catholic Supreme Court Justices for not publicly rebuking their own Church for the out of control disgrace being implied against the name of the living Messiah by their Church.

    I am absolutely convinced that if dozens of religious authorities in an Islamic nation such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would commit similar shameful sexual abuse by sexual predators against thousands of defenseless Muslim children, there would be a much more honorable response than is currently occurring in the U.S. Undoubtedly, both the King and his Council of Legal Advisors would take swift and appropriate action against each of the disgraced sexual predators. And we can be certain that not one of them would continue to disgracefully receive $12,000 per month and a palatial apartment.

    Yet, despite this exposure of the complicity and cover-up at the very top levels of this world dominating Catholic religious institution in defending blatant sexual aggression of thousands of vulnerable Catholic children, there is no public alarm that six of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices continue to choose to give their religious loyalty to this increasingly disgraced religious institution and also to continue to support and be obedient to this apparently very complicit, supposedly infallible current Pope. If six of nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices do not publicly acknowledge that they must recuse themselves from ruling on any matter that remotely involves Roman Catholicism, it will be a public legal disgrace. And that very likely situation of six Justices needing to temporarily withdraw themselves from the Court would leave the U.S. Supreme Court with only three Judges to make potentially world impacting decisions, even impacting Islamic nations. This is due to the recent 5 to 4 controversial, disgraceful Supreme Court Decision allowing U.S. corporations in all nations including Muslim Nations to spend unlimited amounts of money in order to control by massive advertising who is elected to offices in the U.S. government.

17. Mark 2:16-17 "When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees, saw him eating with the 'sinners' and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, 'why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?'"

    "On hearing this, Jesus/Isa said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'"

18. Matthew 18:21-22 "Then Peter came to Isa and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?'"

    "Isa answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, but up to seventy times seven.'"

19. Matthew 21:43-46 The Messiah spoke the following amazing words of rejection to the Jews after telling of the exposing Parable of the Disobedient Tenants of the Vineyard, which the Jewish Chief Priests and Pharisees realized he was directing against them.

    "Therefore, I tell you that the Kingdom of GOD will be taken away from you (the Jews) and given to a people who will produce its fruits." And this is the tragic situation that still remains for the Jews to this day.

20. Matthew 23:12 "For whoever exalts himself (like the U.S. and Israel today) will be humbled, and whoever humbles humbles himself will be exalted."
21. Matthew 28:18-19 Then Isa/Jesus came to them and said (after he had risen from his tomb) 'All authority in heaven and earth is given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations…
22. Matthew 18:10 "See to it that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see my Father in heaven." (But the Catholic Church today does look down on the little ones and Church officials have often covered up when these little ones have been sexually abused by official trusted Catholic Priests.)
23. Luke 6:24 "But woe to you who are rich for you have already received your comfort. (Consider how filthy rich both CEOs and the Vatican are.)
24. Luke 8:17 "For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open."
25. Luke 9:57-58 These were Jesus/Isa's shocking words of reality to persons who wanted to have it both ways at the same time. They supposedly wanted to follow him while giving up virtually nothing.

    So his reply to the man who superficially said:

    "I will follow you wherever you go."

    "Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." Yet, in naked contrast to the Messiah's humility, the Roman Catholic Church pays $12,000 per month to one disgraced predator Priest who is even said to have had the favor of the current Pope.

26. Luke 17:26-30 Because Americans, including Christians, are so preoccupied with pleasure today and forget tomorrow and the awful lessons suffered by past generations who forgot God, we show no concern for the terrible swift judgment that occurred to both Lot's generation and Noah's generation. But the wise and compassionate Messiah reached back into ancient history and used both those ancient generations as ominous warnings that both Jews and Gentiles of future generations would suffer similar Judgment as both Noah's and Lot's generations if we do not take future Judgment extremely seriously.

    "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage up until the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all." (Yet, they were needlessly destroyed because other Scriptures make it clear that Noah had been warning his own generation for years.)

    "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day of the Son of Man is revealed." (But despite the Messiah's stern warnings about entire generations being unprepared, and even though there had never been a man more qualified to have his sincere warnings taken seriously, very few of us allow the Messiah's words to shock us into caring whether or not such a catastrophe will catch us by surprise.) We act as though his serious words were an irrelevant joke. But the Messiah did not joke. So today's ubiquitous comedians and commentators who ridicule his warnings will not have the last laugh at the Messiah's expense.

27. John 2:18-21 After the Messiah had driven the money changers out of GOD's Temple, leaders of the Jews demanded a miraculous sign to prove his authority for his having violently disrupted their blasphemous commercial activity in the Temple area.

    His prophetic reply to those leaders was: "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days."

    But after his later death and amazingly being raised by GOD alive after that death, he revealed that the temple he had spoken of being raised up was his body. It was not the Jew's Man Made temple that he would raise up. Thus, his own resurrection was GOD's ultimate proof that it is His Messiah who had His authority to expose the corruption of the Jews anti-GOD religious establishment.

28. John 4:32-34 Isa/Jesus explained to his disciples that he received nourishment from a kind of food that was beyond physical food.

    "My food, said Isa, is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work."

29. John 6:32-35 Isa revealed to the Jews that he was able to give them a spiritual bread and a type of water that was well beyond satisfying the temporary hunger and thirst that Moses' bread and water had temporarily satisfied the disobedient Jews while they wandered in the wilderness.

    "Isa declared, 'I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.'"

30. John 15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a person remains in me and me in him, he will bear much fruit.
31. John 10:11 I believe there is a fitting way to end this paper, whose purpose has been to expose how the U.S. is rapidly destroying itself by having so many of its leaders and people worshipping such idols as money, pleasure, militarism, greed, and making idols out of the limited visions of famous personalities, leaders, pundits, and other various superficial prognosticators.

    In contrast to trusting in these misleading idols, it is true wisdom to bond with and to follow GOD's Messiah who can truly be trusted. So especially should the following metaphor of the trustworthy shepherd which the Messiah Isa applied to himself, be meaningful to Middle Easterners who have observed so many caring shepherds showing true concern for their sheep.

    "I am the good shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."

32. Luke 23:24 GOD's Messiah's prayer for GOD's forgiveness for those Jews who at that very time were slowly but cruelly murdering him and also was his prayer for the Jews of today and for all of us who still continue to reject him. So these were his eternal words of love and compassion.