The Ten Commandments...

A couple of days ago my attention was caught over a video of a man who was pinned by the knee of a police officer over his neck. It all resulted in the man's death. Later I found out that his name was George Floyd.

It all stirred up a massive outrage in the USA and all across the planet. The reaction was natural although based on half of the story which makes me wonder. It was a horrible sight to witness by all means. A black man lost his life under the foot of a white police officer. That of course fueled immediately the racist issue which has been used by the neo-marxist propaganda for far to long, giving it unnecessary fuel.

I am not going to to talk about what triggered the events. There is no doubt in my mind that every death is a tragedy in itself has died. My mind refuses to believe that this tragedy was racially based and I can't help but wondering what has triggered all rhis. Disobeying the law, can easily deteriorate in very dangerous situations, where both sides become extremely defensive for different reasons. It is important to keep a sober mind and to be in support of justice, rather than revenge. 

The only questiom, a fair one I might add, that remains is if  the police officer has taken the life of a human being deliberately or not while on duty, knowing that everything was being caught on camera. As I was debating all this through comments on several different Facebook posts, I remembered that the Bible, as does the penal law everywhere, speaks and makes a difference between those who killed on purpose and those who caused the accidental death of a person.

"You shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has fkilled any person unintentionally may flee there.

The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for trial.

The cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge. You shall give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.

These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death."

(Numbers 35:11-16 NASB)

It is important to remeber also that "Though shall not kill" is the sixth commandment. No one is entitled to take anyone's life. Few days after I wrote the first lines in this article I started thinking about the ten commandments, and as I was reading them I realised what the real problem was. Have a look at those ten commandments and be honest with yoursleves: which one is a general standard for the world today really?

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2. Honour thy father and thy mother
3. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
5. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery
8. Thou shalt not steal
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
10. Thou shalt not covet

What is your answer to the question "Am I living this"? Do you ever wonder how the world would look like if a vast majority would live by the moral standards given to us by God? Isn't breaking the ten commandments the source of ALL the problems this fallen world is facing today?

I was reminded once again that this one amazing book, the Bible has an answer for everything really. Personally, since I really went deep into studying it, I found put that truly one can find all the answers to every big question one can think of in life. That is why it is called the living word of God. And having read the above, I had yet another confirmation that the Christian moral standards are indeed the foundation  of all the Christian nations and that whenever those Christian moral standards are under attack disaster strikes.

Following up, we can now see people rioting. Violent riots. Violent riots in protest of something that we have incomplete, little or no knowledge about. And it seems to me that they are out for revenge, not for justice. It seems to me that revenge is being confused with justice. And, like in 1992, there are some who will use this to steal and destroy, raiding and looting even the work and property of their own community and race.

Here is a proof to that. One of the most emotional things that happened during the1992 L.A. riots, revisited some six months later. People will never learn they say, but this is rather proof of the fact that they have no knowledge and fear of God.

Indeed it all appears to be about the lack of faith in God that stirs the actions in a godless society. A society that speaks hypocritically about love and moral standards all day long, but fails to act upon it whenever the going gets tough and perverts justice into revenge being animated by feelings rather than facts, reason and truth.

Work of the Devil: 2020 Pandemic

As a Christian I believe that this COVID-19 pandemic definitely is a conspiracy. As a more worldly principle, coming out of personal experience, since I grew up in a East European socialist country ruled by a communist dictatorship, witnessing the poverty, the mass manipulation, the terror and the killing, whenever I see capitalism under attack in any form I do not pay any attention to it, as I know that the Marxist propaganda, just like the devil, mixes the truth with lies. Therefore I would never consider believing a documentary that puts a capitalist succes as Bill Gates along with a communist like Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus of the WHO.

The spiritual battle must have effects not only on vertical level but on horizontal level too, otherwise it is absolutely ineffective. If we do not act courageously on the horizontal level according to our belief and instruction how are we His disciples? How can we claim that we have a vertical connection with our Maker if we do not act accordingly?

The devil is indeed behind all this, but he also uses men and women who are of him, who serve him, who put his plans in actions. And even if they dont know it and see it, as they are spiritually blinded, that does not excuse us not confronting them.

Therefore, if they are of the devil, acting on horizontal level so should we. And by that I mean that if they conquered the institutions and secularized the world, we should at least attempt to reverse that process, not to promote a fatal dooms day that we dont know when it will be coming.

Actually, that should be a massive alarm sign. It is possible that what we actually put on display is not obedience to God even if we too think so. It is possible that we actually use obedience to God as an excuse, and it is circumstancial evidence that we are in fear or demoralised. And that is not right!

I completely disagree with any pastor who promotes obedience to the government, especially with regards to congregating as I remeber Christians who would congregate secretly under persecution and threat of death from the early days of Christianity. Remember the Roman empire? Remeber Nero, the Colosseum, the lions, the human torches?

Are we so weak? Are we doing the right thing? Should we be more outspoken or should we keep quiet? Do we stand for the truth or not when acting in one way or another? Should we stand still or should we act? Should we only pray and have devotional time privately, hoping that this is going to go away without our contribution? Well, the devil is obviously ACTING. SO SHOULD WE! And the least we can do is to speak the truth at alm times.

"I don't know" is not an option anymore. It is eluding and ahvoiding taking responsibility. I remember a very popular heretic who went on a worldwide popular TV show and when asked sensitive questions by the host he would start his answers with "I dont know...". In a otherwise well deserved rebuke, a well respected preacher then put it plainly: "Give us some men who KNOW the truth!". I would add to that "Give us some men who are not afraid to speak".

Chris Irinoiu