Suffering

Matthew Henry comments on the text of Jeremiah the Prophet of God as he speaks of suffering.

Here are two excerpts from the commentary that I believe are important lessons for us all.

First Jeremiah speaks of Godly suffering, then he speaks of brutish men, particularly brutish preachers.

I have included the definition of brutish from Noah Webster's Dictionary, which gave Biblical meanings of words as well as those contemporary to the time.

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But I said, when I was about to complain of my wound, To what purpose is it to complain? This is a grief, and I must bear it as well as I can. This is the language rather of a sullen than of a gracious submission, of a patience per force, not a patience by principle. When I am in affliction I should say, “This is an evil, and I will bear it, because it is the will of God that I should, because his wisdom has appointed this for me and his grace will make it work for good to me.” This is receiving evil at the hand of God, Job_2:10. But to say, “This is an evil, and I must bear it, because I cannot help it,” is but a brutal patience, and argues a want of those good thoughts of God which we should always have, even under our afflictions, saying, not only, God can and will do what he pleases, but, Let him do what he pleases.

Every man is either a saint or a brute. But it is sad indeed with a people when their pastors, that should feed them with knowledge and understanding, are themselves thus brutish. And what comes of it? Therefore they shall not prosper; none of their attempts for the public safety shall succeed. Note, Those cannot expect to prosper who do not by faith and prayer take God along with them in all their ways. And, when the pastors are brutish, what else can be expected but that all their flocks should be scattered? For, if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch. The ruin of a people is often owing to the brutishness of their pastors.

Brutish

BRU'TISH, a. Like a brute or beast; as a brutish form.

1. Insensible; stupid; as brutish men.

2. Unfeeling; savage; ferocious; brutal.

3. Gross; carnal; bestial.

4. Ignorant; uncivilized; untaught.

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Swine Flu Hysteria

Have you noticed how frenzied the media reports were over the "swine flu"? The regular strains of flu that come around every year kill more than 30,000 people in the United States alone.

So far, this is much ado about nothing. I am not disregarding the deaths that have occurred, and the tragic loss the families of those victims feel.

I was stationed in Germany in the US Army during the last "swine flu" hysteria. That would be the one that lead to the giving of a quickly made and inadequately tested vaccine to millions of people, with the end result being that more people died of the vaccine than of the flu, and hundreds of people were left with permanent paralysis, Guillane-Barre Syndrome, blindness, and other debilitating legacies of the vaccine.

Those of us on duty in the military had no option concerning the taking of the vaccine; it was take it or face a possible Courts Martial.

The end result of that wise decision by the powers that be was that, in addition to many military personnel suffering the same permanent damage that I listed spoke of in the paragraph above, but the readiness state of our military forces was crippled due to the fact that in United States Army Europe, so many personnel were too sick to perform their jobs, I doubt we could have resited an invasion by Russia across the East German and other Communist borders.

Temperatures in excess of 104 degrees Fahrenheit were common. So many were ill there was not enough room in the hospitals for all the seriously ill, and so barracks became the medical confinement areas for the sick.

All due to the vaccine. We had no reports of actual swine flu cases in the military population.

Think about it.

The Title of this post will take you to an article about the Bird Flu Hoax when you click on it. Undoubtedly, there will be many stories on the "Great Swine Flu Hoax of 2009".

Planned Parenthood Crimes

Planned Parenthood offices are often advising candidates for abortion who are underage, as played by undercover investigators, and tell them their boyfriend is an adult, to lie abut the age of the boyfriend.

Click on the Title of this post and watch the first of three videos.

All health care professionals and social workers are required by law to report the sexual abuse of minors by adults, but they don't.

Planned Parenthood is devoted to the abortion mill machine.

The Truth about guns imported to Mexico

The new Administration, the gun control groups, and the Media are constantly telling us that 90% of the weapons seized in Mexico from drug cartels are coming from the United States.

Read the truth; click on the title of this post to read the report that gives the real figures.

Why are they lying to the public? Well, the have an agenda, and that is to tighten restrictions on gun ownership, and most likely to eventually try to ban gun ownership by private citizens.

This is why they lie about the facts. Hitler was all for gun control, too. When he took power in Germany, only the military and the police were allowed to have guns.

Swine Flu: Pandemic or Hoax

Here is an interesting article at HealthMUSA:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2433

It is notable that so far this "epidemic", and that what the World Health Organization has called, has killed far fewer people than the seasonal varieties of flu normally do, which is over 30,000 per year in the USA alone.

There has been no indication of infection of swine, not even in Mexico.

More on this at this link:
Natural Health Information Articles and Health Newsletter by Dr. Joseph Mercola

Since the "normal" types of flu we see have proved more deadly, then why the big panic over this?

Could it be because it fits an agenda for universal health care, and more control over our population for the government, which is currently represented by Barack Obama, a Democratically controlled Congress, and an iffy Supreme Court?

What does the Book of Revelation have to say about the end times? There will be a one world government, a one world religion, and death and destruction shall be rained down upon the wicked who remain.

How will the one world government be brought to be? We are members in the United Nations, and organization which has the potential to be the seat of power of the Anti Christ. Our elected representatives are pushing a UN agenda on gun control, world health, birth control, and all manner of things that will require the surrender of this nations sovereignty, and force us to answer to a world court, so that eventually, if you are not charged with a hate crime for speaking the truth of God's Word, by US authorities, you will be charged and tried in a world court.

Time is short. Fight back now. Stop voting for the Democrats and Republicans in the knee jerk reaction to the elections that they like to see. They keep us divided so that we can't focus on the evil they are up to. Vote your conscience, not your party; there is a difference.

It is up to We the People to fight the shenanigans of both major parties. Find out what the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Parties are really about.

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Don't buy the CNN line, or that of the other main steam new organizations which used the offensive terms "tea baggers and tea bagging" to denigrate this grass roots movement. Don't buy the Republican attempt to co opt this movement. Newt Gingrich speaks for himself and not for the TEA Party.

The term "tea bagging" is an offensive reference to an act that is popular in the homosexual community and has nothing to do with tea and everything to do with a sex act so vile I will not describe it here.

Don't let them marginalize us, herd us like cattle, treat us like sheep; think, learn, and act.

Above all, pray for the Guidance of God as we are fighting spiritual warfare as well as a war in the market place of ideas.

The Administration is acting illegaly.

Contrary to the Constitution of the United States, and against all law, President Obama is demanding that investors who hold prime stock set aside their first rights to payment in bankruptcy proceedings for Chrysler Corporation.

We're not talking about the wealthy here. Many of these investors are mutual funds, and teachers and municipal employees retirement funds. Large numbers of elderly retired people who are counting on those investments for a minimum retirement will be pushed aside if the Administration gets away with this.

This could be your mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, the elderly and frail woman next door. This will affect your children's future retirement options.

Protest, now, and often the roughshod way that your rights, the rigths of your friends and family, your children, are being pushed aside in a mad ruch to make all people equally poor, and equally in poor health.