Ten days symposium: Hatred on the streets; tyranny on the horizon. Day 5

Ten days symposium: Hatred on the streets; tyranny on the horizon. Day 5

 29/10/20

By Tarisai P Ziyambi

The terrorism in France, the violence in Philadelphia and the political tribalism in the US can only end in tyranny of the elites under the banner of Law and Order. History has shown that there is only one winner when the pendulum is swung on whatever direction is popular with the masses, it is the authors of the Hegelian dialectic that gain the success of their synthesis. What am I saying this morning; be careful to avoid being swayed by the winds of the thesis and antithesis, the tyranny synthesis is declared by the scriptures and we should not lose our focus despite varied smoke screens. John the Baptist was not a reed shaken by the wind, he stood firm on principle even though it resulted in his beheading. Shall we Christians live in fear of terror by day or night, terror of the plandemic and the constant death statistics on the media, shall we fear the mandatory vaccines and the decrees to compel is to worship the image of the beast despite our dictates of conscience? Fear makes us irrational and easily manipulated, no wonder we have surrendered our rights to the politicians and find ourselves in ecumenical alliance with Jezebel, now we are do nothing Christians in a time when we should "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins" Isaiah 58:1. I seriously believe that we have been muzzled by spiritual masks and we are afraid of breathing in the fresh moving of the Holy Spirit. The time has come for us to arise from our stupor and sound the alarm against hate, against hypocrisy, and against authoritarianism of the politicians who divide the people into tribes for political power. Let freedom reign in France and freedom of speech used wisely without intentionally inciting violence, let freedom reign in the streets of Philadelphia US and Lagos Nigeria, to stop police brutality and yet uphold law and order which protects civil liberties, let freedom reign in China to Zimbabwe allow freedoms of religion, of association and consent of the masses in deciding their future without intimidation and the cancel culture. The age of tyranny is upon us which calls for raising of the Reformers. Only those who resist to imbibe in error and propaganda will be able to name the Beast and refuse to be marked by his number which is in the indoctrination schools, the media and the false professors of religion who unite with the unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the dragon (kings, governors and ruler), the Beast (Papacy, self exaltation) and false prophets ( lamb-like beast, apostate protestants and hypocritical self). Now this was my passionate monologue.

Today we will be discussing the problem of hate and it's effects on our streets and it's long-term effects on our future. The breaking news report that " World leaders condemn Nice attack as France terror alert level raised to maximum. Leaders from around the world have offered condolences and expressed their solidarity with the people of France after the nation suffered a second suspected Islamist extremist attack on its soil in a fortnight.President Emmanuel Macron said France was “under attack” in the wake of the killings inside the Notre-Dame basilica in the coastal city of Nice on Thursday which left three worshippers dead, but he vowed the French people would “not give in to any terror” in fighting intolerance...Condemnation also came from Middle East, Arab and Islamic leaders, who drew a clear distinction between their religion and violent acts that claimed to defend it. Turkey, which is embroiled in a row with France over publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have triggered a wave of attacks against French people, was among the first to respond to the attack" The Guardian News by Kim Willsher in Paris and Ben Doherty. This terror in France and it's causes cannot be ignored because it touches on the freedom of expression and speech and it's limitations. In the Scriptures we are told regarding the tongue (speech), "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be" James 3:5-10. From these verses, we realize that the our words matter and should be used with wisdom, I understand also that we often err when exercising this right and the Christian will make effort to remedy the resulting harm by the tongue. 

Apostle James continues to say that "Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace" James 3:13-18.

The rightful use of the tongue should also be coupled with freedom to offend without censorship or the extremes of beheadings. John the Baptist was beheaded for speaking against the adultery of Herod and Herodias ( Phillip's wife). The attempt by the state to limit freedom of speech to avoid such violence itself Orwellian. The totalitarian regimes benefit by limiting speech for the purpose of the "common good".  It requires patriotism to defend fundamental freedoms which have been acquired through the spilling of blood by our founding fathers.

"The first point in this inquiry is, What is patriotism in any country? What is patriotism in itself? Patriotism is usually defined, in brief; as love of country; but love of country is more than the love of the mountains and hills, the plains, valleys, rivers, and rills, of which the country is composed. More fully defined, patriotism is the spirit which prompts obedience to the laws of one’s country, and to the support and defense of its existence, rights, and institutions. Thus, love of country is really love of the institutions and the principles which make a country what it is in all respects. If love of country were simply love of the mountains and hills, valleys and plains, rivers and rills,—the landscape,—of which the country is composed, there could never be any such thing as civil war; for plainly there could never be any dispute over that, among people inhabiting the same territory. It is evident, therefore, that patriotism in truth lies in love of the principles and institutions which make a country what it is in all respects it is loyalty to those specific principles and institutions. Hence, the patriot is correctly defined as “any defender of liberty, civil or religious.” A.T Jones [ What is Patriotism in the United States].

So what are those liberties, civil or religious we ought to be in patriotic about?"There can be no question but that the Declaration of Independence was the beginning of this nation ( United States of America). And the first principle embodied in that immortal declaration is that “all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. The first and greatest of all the rights of men is religious right. And “religion” is “the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it.” The first of all duties is to the Creator, because to him we owe our existence. Therefore the first of all commandments, and the first that there can possibly be, is this: “Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.” Mark 12 : 29, 30.

The religious right does not mean bigotry which manifests itself in "Sharia" like intolerance. "The darkest chapters of history are burdened with the record of crimes committed by bigoted religionists. The Pharisees claimed to be children of Abraham, and boasted of their possession of the oracles of God; yet these advantages did not preserve them from selfishness, malignity, greed for gain, and the basest hypocrisy. They thought themselves the greatest religionists of the world, but their so-called orthodoxy led them to crucify the Lord of glory" DA 309.2. 

The only way we can resist the rise of tyranny is uphold human rights which are the fruits of the Protestant reformation which was kindled by Martin Luther, who on the 31st October 1517 began the process of ending the dark ages of popery. " Calvinism has also had profound effects upon the development of Western Law,and especially upon American law. The Puritans carried forward the Lutheran concept of the sanctity of individual conscience and also, in law, the sanctity of individual will be as reflected in property and contract rights... Seventeenth century Puritans, including men like John Hampden, John Lilburne, Walter Udall, William Penn and others, by their disobedience to English law, laid the foundations for the English and American law of civil rights and civil liberties as expressed in our respective constitutions: freedom of speech and press, free exercise of religion, the privilege against self-incrimination, the independence of the jury from judicial dictation, the right not to be imprisoned without cause, and many other such rights and freedoms. We also owe to Calvinist congregationalism the religious basis of our concepts of social contract and government by consent of the governed" Berman, The Interaction of Law and Religion, 66-67 in Robbins Ecclesiastical Megalomania Pg 22-23.