When was the last time you heard or read, a self-professed Christian begrudging the poor a welfare check?
When was the last time you saw any church, giving the poor a handout that did not have an investment attached to it? Would you sell your soul for a can of chicken noodle, green beans and a loaf of bread?
When was the last time you witnessed "goodly Christians" on the way to their favorite football game, but they looked away in disgust without an ounce of charity in their heart when seeing a dirty, hungry homeless man or family, women and children living on a street corner, or perhaps in their car... and not a kind charitable hand extended to them? They have money for their football tickets, but not enough to purchase a loaf of bread and peanut butter for the less fortunate, the same children of God.
These persons are self-centered, puffed up (see the Days of Unleavened Bread), vain, wicked, idle professors of faith. Christianity has sunken so deep in its idolatry of money and self-serving greed that it now preaches a gospel of wealth, Jesus wants you to be rich! says one televangelist. What false prophet is this, who uses the name of God for his vain glory and pleasure. For it is they who profit the Lord nothing. Why should the Lord, Jesus Christ, do away with the Old Testament scriptures when he himself quoted them to the religious hypocrites of his day? The same evil wicked religionists who murdered him in cold blood for the crime of speaking the truth... the truth of God's word. Those murderers of Jesus, are alive and well, the same religionists who put more credence in their false teachings, than to have faith and reverence in God.
Zechariah 7
1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
2 Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,
3 speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?”
4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
5 “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?
6 ‘When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?
7 ‘Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying,
9 “Thus has the LORD of hosts said, ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;
10 and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’
11 “But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing.
12 “They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
13“And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the LORD of hosts;
14“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
Is it sin to oppress the widow and fatherless? Why indeed it was and still is! according to the prophets. The rich and powerful, setting themselves over such and exploiting the meek and defenseless for their own gain, all for an ill gotten profit. Those wretched conservatives, professing their christianity out of one side of their mouths but from the other side, would soon have child-protection laws stripped away and free to operate 20 hour a day, 7 day a week sweat shops exploiting defenseless women and children, for profit. These greed-worshipping capitalists, call themselves "Christian" but are the enemies of God.
Judaism 101: Yom Kippur
http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm
The name "Yom Kippur" means "Day of Atonement," and that pretty much explains what the holiday is. It is a day set aside to "afflict the soul," to atone for the sins ...
How many of those persons boasting themselves to be saved and "Christian" or "Jew" even understand the true meaning... the deep, spiritual relevance behind the Old Laws, the Old Holy Days such as the Day of Atonement?
I know, because I myself have experienced hunger and wished that one soul might have sympathy. In truth, few cared. It seemed many "Christians" were happy for my suffering and were too "goodly and saintly, holier than thou" to give bread to some person of my lowly estate. I should suffer! I should perish, as God should not dwell in one as unworthy as I! I cannot help but to feel sympathy for the homeless and the poor, the fatherless. The Lord has WRITTEN HIS LAWS IN MY HEART AND MY SOUL through harsh worldly experience. Typically, my suffering sprange from mistreatment at the hands of one who professed a godliness, beyond reproach but in secret were a sniveling hypocrite, devising evil schemes and malice against those who were vulnerable. Through empathy, as I have suffered immensely, so I feel deeply for the suffering of others. The Lord has taught me the meaning of Suffering, not for his pleasure, but for the sake of sorrow... OTHERS' sorrow through my own. I have learned EMPATHY.
In youth, raised under the harsh Jewish laws, I observed keepers of the Day of Atonement. For about 2 decades of my youth, that is 20 years... that is enough time to know, and I saw their annual ungodly ritual, firsthand. What I concluded by observation (what they do) vs. what is written (what they say Atonement is about) is that the ""Holy" Day of Atonement was a day you were made to starve, get sick, suffer in vain, because God must "enjoy" making you suffer. Their god is a sadist, without love. It seems that misery and curses are the only thing that can make their evil god of wrath, "happy". God hates you, right? So he commands you to go without food for one day in the year, from sunset to sunset. For his sadistic kicks, not to bring you into remembrance of the sufferings of others, his children.
They lie. It is they who enjoy crushing the meek under their heel. Their sadism, their narcissistic egocentrism, that it is about themself and their pleasure without a second thought of another human being.
I heard the adults in the congregation speak of their special diets before the fast, their altered lifestyles, devising ways to "beat the suffering" rather than embracing it... to "feel the pain" that might be caused by this tiny, little Day of Atonement. Tis only a day!! Little to nothing of the observance had anything to do with "drawing closer to God" by examining one's empathy with their fellow man. It was ritualistic. Shallow. Completely lacking in spiritual depth. Meaningless. Nothing to do with God, or atoning for one's sins. It had everything to do with their self-serving pursuits of creature comforts. They went hungry and thirsty for 24 hours. It was all in vain because these blinded hypocrites learned nothing and sunset came and went and they happily feasted on their wealth of groceries. They were no wiser to the prayers offered up by the homeless souls ten miles away, on a street corner, perhaps freezing without the benefit of a blanket or a bite to eat. Souls which God does hear... but that same God, does not look favorably on those believers who blindly fasted for 24 hours... as it was not for God, but a vain act, a ritual which they do not understand.
The Day of Atonement, one day of 365, they were suppose to be made to feel the pangs of hunger and thirst, of sorrow that children of God are suffering for days, weeks, months as they sit homeless at the side of the road. The poor souls who are without food to eat. The poorest of the poor. It happens all the time. Turning away. Good sister Sarah cannot trouble herself with giving bread to the homeless, for she must pay for her luxury BMW and would not be caught dead, at the "lower class" side of town working in a homeless shelter. Shunned, as "sub-human" by "good christians". How many Christians would extend a helping hand to ex-cons on parole, to give them employment and forgiveness, the second chance that so many want for themselves? They know nothing of God. These workers of evil, do oppress the widow, do indeed exploit the fatherless and to enter their churches, their religious dogma, would lead others into dismal ignorance and spiritual blindness to be enmity between one's own self and God.
I had an Agnostic recently remark, that he found his own country revolting, as though there is a sickness in their minds... people who will spend so much money on football tickets, but if they see a mother and children on the street corner on their way... they would indeed keep driving, without second thought, and attend to their own pleasure over another person's suffering.
I know the Bible. And such wisdom was not uttered from the "holy lips" of a Christian, but from the lips of an Agnostic, whose heart was in the right place with God's commands. I know where many so-called Christians stand with God, and it is not where they foolishly believe they do.
I know not their gods, nor will I worship them.
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