SIFTING
All the apostles thought themselves as invulnerable
to the wiles of the Devil. The very one that Catholicism credits with the
foundation of the universal Church denied Jesus. His intentions were good as he
said, “Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death” (Luke 22:33),
but then what did he do? He denied Jesus three times. He followed the pattern
of Judas; he followed Satan as Satan was in Judas.
Christians think they are safe from deception. Satan has many
bags of tricks. He entered Judas for the his love of money. He led Peter away
because of fear. Everyone has a stronghold because Satan will not leave
Christians alone. Each of the disciples said that they would follow Jesus even
unto death (John 14:31) but when the time came, they followed Jesus nowhere!
Jesus had a purpose for Peter. He kept Peter safe: “But I
have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted,
strengthen thy brethren” (Luke 22:32). Peter’s faith could have failed;
Jesus said so. The idea that one is eternally secure is a lie from the Devil.
Faith is an endurance test and lasts to the end (Mat 10:22). Why would Jesus
pray for his faith? To strengthen the others. They all could have failed, and
if they had, Christianity would have died out.
Even today, many think they are firm in their faith. Jesus
told Peter that the Devil would sift him as wheat (Luke 22:31). How is wheat
sifted? It is ground up into powder, screened to detect anomalies and lumps,
and the worst thrown out. With that ability, Peter, the self-proclaimed
strongest Christian, thinking that he was destined for greatness, denied Jesus
three times. Even the strongest Christians are weak, and the Devil sifts them
without them even knowing it.
Why do Christians sin? Satan is sifting them to test their
allegiance to Jesus. Why are some Christians so gullible to the ways of the
world? Satan is easily sifting them. He turns the crank on the sifter, and in
silence even the strongest Christians are “sifted.” All those exclamations that
I know that I know that I know I am saved are an encouragement to Satan to
sift harder.
I recently argued with a younger person about how he had
been duped. Since he was so intelligent, he just could not believe that he was
so gullible. Satan can use knowledge against the person. That is the original
“sifting” that the Serpent did back in the Garden. Adam and Eve only had
knowledge of good, and they were easily deceived. Once they had the knowledge
of evil, they began to see that shifty Serpent had sifted them without them
even knowing it! He “turned their crank” as the expression goes, and they did
not even know it until they had been sifted. Sometimes the strongest Christians
are sifted the easiest because they think that they are spiritually strong.
Jesus prayed for Peter. On what subjects? That his faith would not fail him,
and that he would stay strong in the faith to strengthen the others.
Peter did not stay strong of his own strength. Jesus’s
prayer preserved his faith. Peter’s faith preserved the faith of others. Peter
denied Jesus three times and the play seemed to end. However, the other
apostles followed Judas who hung himself. By leaving Jesus, the apostles
metaphorically hung themselves. If it had not been for the prayer of Jesus, the
Judas Tree would have been full of deniers who thought that they were strong
but were weak.
Jesus preserved the apostles because of His Purpose. He was
to die for mankind and the apostles were to spread that to the world. What if
they had not? Then, they would serve no purpose and Satan would have indeed
sifted them all out. They were allies with Jesus and knew Him personally… and
you think your faith is so strong that Satan will never sift you! You foolish
man or woman!
How is Satan sifting the Christians during this time of
tribulation? He is pitting one against the other. Just as the apostles argued
who would be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, now they argue whose love is
greater. They bloviate with, My love is greater because I am not a racist. Satan
created a sifting method for that. They think their love is stronger because
they proclaim themselves better. They do not hate the minority but hate the
others who Satan is sifting. Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance stated in full
follows:
Unlimited tolerance must lead to
the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those
who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against
the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and
tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we
should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we
can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public
opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim
the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily
turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational
argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their
followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach
them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should
therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the
intolerant.
Popper’s Paradox endorses violence and hatred to diminish
hatred. The young person in my example thought it okay to hate me to show love
for others. Satan was sifting him. He was on a high horse and the shining
knight was implying that his love was greater than mine! It may be
because love is hard work. That is the reason Jesus commanded love; if it came
easy, no command would have been necessary. With that said, those who are the
most tolerant have greater intolerance. Satan sifts them by making them greater
in their own eyes and they are merely followers of Judas in route to his
hanging tree.
I know that love is hard and try hard. I often fail, but I
pray to Jesus that I am never sifted. I must stay strong to strengthen others.
I can not do that without Jesus. His Holy Spirit must comfort me during times
of tribulation. It pains me to see so many of my fellow “priests” beguiled by
Satan as they are sifted so easily. Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance is an
instrument of the left. George Soros has made it his scheme to destroy America
and eliminate God at the same time. He uses the most tolerant of people for his
purpose, and it turns out that their methods are the most intolerant.
In the case of George Floyd’s death, everyone has already
judged him innocent and Derek Chauvin guilty. Is that a righteous thing to do?
“Judge not lest ye be judged” and use the same metrics for others as you would
for yourself to be judged (Mat 7:1-3). To be honest, I pre-judged the
situation. I believed that Floyd was an honest man and that the officer was
cruel. That may be the case, but then again, everyone must await the facts. Is
that not what you would want for yourselves? Would you want a lynch mob to try,
convict, sentence, and hang you? That is the method of “Judge Lynch” justice
from the Ku Klux Klan. That’s the Nazi method from German Judge Roland Freisler.
Now it is the American justice system and even Christians see it as okay! Why?
Satan is sifting them and turning the crank ever so gently that they fail to
realize it.
Now look at Popper’s Paradox again. I have underlined
several key points. “Keep them in check by public opinion.” “Them” is everyone.
The media creates public opinion and generates hatred. They remold the most
tolerant until they are the most intolerant and the greatest haters. Each time
the liberal news media is tuned in, the listener is remolded. They present the
news to influence the outcome. Liberal (Marxist) doctrine is propagated to
influence even the most tolerant Christians to be haters. Popper’s Paradox
aligns well with Propaganda minister George Goebbel’s in the Third Reich.
People will believe the lie, and the more preposterous the lie, the more
gullible they are. Think not? Democrats and liberals actually believed that
President Trump was a Russian agent because of media propaganda. Many
Christians hate Trump and fell for the lie as well. Preposterous accusations
are called the “Big Lie” and they are so absurd that they could not possibly be
made up! They actually believe that Trump is a racist just because he loves our
country.
The Big Lie is that conservatives are racists; that all the
thoughts of Christian conservatives are on hating their fellow man. That is
absurd. True Christians know that all races are sinners and that Jesus came to
redeem them all. They also know that all men can be evil, and that includes all
races. Blacks and foreigners are never innocent just because they are
minorities, All races are racist; none are immune from racism because they are
of a different color. But the courts and the media have dictated that only
whites can be racists, and many go out of their way to prove that they are not!
It can be seen all the time. Guilty, tolerant people treat
blacks and other minorities differently. They patronize them by treating them
special to show just how loving they are. That is much like the Pharisees
praying in public to show how pious they were. Liberal people reveal their
hypocrisy by always being there to help the weaker (sic} race who cannot make
it on their own without “whitey’s” help. Those who truly are tolerant interact
with people on an equal basis. If a black man is bad, he says, “You are bad.”
If a black man is good, you appreciate his goodness. You don’t tell him out
good he is because that is patronization. All they want is to be equals, and
only a few to be better.
Americans have been indoctrinated by the PC Police to
believe that they must pull up lesser (sic) people because they are little more
than incapable children. That is the “plantation attitude” that guilt-ridden
Democrats have for their former slaves. We enslaved them, but now we must
elevate them. Most do not need their former masters to “help” them any longer.
They know how they were “helped” for two centuries and cannot stand Democrat
help any longer!
“Rational thinkers are kept in check by public opinion” in
that same point. Liberals think that they must control the thoughts of the
general public. The “fake news” and the educational system, now accompanied by
the entertainers, keep Americans in check all the time. Everyone is told what
to believe and are castigated if they do not comply to the control. Roseanne
Barr paid the price. Because she supported Donald Trump, the entertainment
industry sifted her as wheat. Why are there few journalists, artists, and
educators who are conservative? Because Satan sifts them out with the help of
so-called tolerant people.
The next underlined point from Popper is, “We should claim
the right to suppress them if necessary even by force.” The George Floyd case
is an example of the left, never letting a serious crisis go to waste. First
off, it was not a serious crisis. People are cruel to people all the time.
Abortion is the most cruel, but few seem to care. It was just another crisis
where one man was hateful to another, if the allegation is true. George Floyd
was not a just a black man, he was a fellow human being who happened to be born
with black skin. However, so-called “tolerant” people must always distinguish
color. Did Floyd die just because he was black, or did he die because there was
overuse of conflict in a tense situation? The intent of Chauvin will never be
known unless he reveals it himself, yet even well-meaning Christians think they
know his motives. (I fell for that pre-judgment myself as I did in the Rodney
King case.)
The left made that a “serious crisis” and the orchestrated mob
action was planned for someone under the influence of Popper’s Paradox. A good
educated guess is George Soros, but he follows Judas, not Jesus. The mob again
is under the spell of the Devil and because the world does not believe in him,
they think that they are under control of things. They are sifted as Peter was,
but much easier because Jesus is not with many of them, and if he is, they fail
to hear the Comforter.
The violence seen in cities ran by the socialists is the
“force” that they think will convince. Sadly, Americans have been convinced
that hatred is an acceptable form of controlling hatred. Even some Christians believe
it is acceptable to kill and rampage in the name of social justice. They would
make great Klan members whose members had the same notion. Each member of the
violent mob is sifted and are the naïve fools that Satan is using for his
purpose; which is to destroy America and God’s influence in this country.
The next Popper point is to, “Begin by denouncing all
argument.” I have had family and friends denounce me as a “hater” because I
believe that mob rule is evil and not true justice. I have been denounced as a
“hater” because I believe true justice is the accused have a fair trial. Most
people don’t want to be known as “racist” and “hater,” so they are intimidated
into staying quiet. Name-calling denounces all rational argument. Because the
left defines political correctness and has the tools to enforce it, free-thinkers
are put into a position wherein they must shut up.
The next Popper point is to, “Teach them to answer arguments
by the use of their fists or pistols.” In other words, to do away with hatred,
violence is the second recourse. However, American is to the point
wherein violence is the first recourse. When a black man dies by the hands of
the law, the assumption is always that the victim was innocent. The liberal
assumptions are that the black man can do no wrong, and that the police are
always wrong. How did they like it when they were always prejudged that way by
corrupt Democrats and the KKK? Not so much!
The violence you see at the present is right out of Popper’s
Paradox, and it is the tool of the left. That Soros said that he would bring
down America by manipulating the back people may or may not be a reliable quote
but that is his M.O. It fits well with the communist vision of America
destroying itself from within. The militant blacks and whites that are burning
buildings, killing policemen, and robbing businesses are being manipulated. By
whom is debatable, but ultimately, they are being sifted by the Devil. How
about the “innocent protesters?” They may not be “Peters,” but they are much
like the other apostles who did not outright deny Jesus, but abandoned civility
anyway. Those protesters who are not being violent are considered
“cheerleaders” by the violent and by many of the duped people; those “stupid
American voters” that the left uses for their purposes and votes.
The last Popper point is the Paradox itself: “In the name of
tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.” Tolerance seems to be a
noble characteristic, and on the part of God, that is an asset of His. For
people, scripture teaches obedience and sin is not to be
tolerated. Ultimately God is the most intolerant of sin than anyone because the
wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23). Toleration of sin is the doctrine of the
world and is not of God. Sin is not to be tolerated for anyone, even those who have
been oppressed. God never consents to anger and destruction. Those are the
Devil’s way of sifting out the righteous from the unrighteous.
In essence, Popper’s, Soros’s, and the left’s Paradox is
that it is okay to hate the haters. They have identified Christians as the
greatest haters. Satan sifted so well that many Christians go out of their way
to prove that they are not haters. Their attitude is to Look at me… look how
loving I am of these lesser, unfortunate people. Minorities become “trophies”
in their house to show just how non-racist they are. Blacks have advanced
from servanthood to mantle decorations. Liberals, you have truly
emancipated them as Democrats would have you to do.
It is not okay to hate for any reason, even to stop hatred
(that’s why it is paradoxical). It is murder, according to scripture. So-called
“tolerant” people are murdering the intolerant in their hearts. Who then is the
most intolerant? The tolerant. That is oxymoronic and only morons would think
that irrational way.
One time I went to a Klan rally in Bowling Green as many
Christians did. I saw Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance first-hand. I stood with
the Christians because I am a Christian. I am not a hater. Soon the Christians
were inflamed and screaming hateful words toward the Klan members. They were hating
the haters, and those who claimed to be tolerant were more intolerant than the
Klan. I went away from both groups of haters and stood alone under a tree. I will
not hate for any reason.
I do have a regret: Before the rally, a young man with a
Nazi tattoo and flag was preparing for the rally near me. I watched that
skinhead dress for the occasion and said nothing. What should I have done? My
commission was to tell him about Jesus because Jesus wants that none
should perish (John 3:16). Jesus loves him as much as me or the other
“Christians” at the rally. I should have told the Christians to cease their
hating because Jesus loves that man that Satan had sifted early in his life.
You see… politics and religion cannot be kept separate. The
notion of a wall between church and state is the Big Lie, and Christians have
fallen for it. God takes care of everything, and He will soon take care of the
mob in His time. I have faith that He can and will and that I cannot.
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