SAME OLD SAME OLD
ISRAEL, AMERICA & HISTORY OF ONE WICKED MAN By: Resa LaRu Kirkland
I know, you've heard it before.
And yet, here we are...again.
As a history lover, I cannot help but notice the trends, cycles, behaviors, and consequences that humanity has repeated since leaving Eden. Oddly enough, in spite of the diversity of this planet, there are some things that are the same no matter where, when, or to whom they happen. Those are the things of eternal consequence, the things that truly matter when all the fluff and distraction of life is tossed aside.
They are what happens when good people choose evil.
Yea, and we also see the great wickedness one very wicked man can cause to take place among the children of men.--Book of Mormon, Alma 46:9
It has never ceased to amaze me that no matter which tribe of Israel you study--the Bible is about the tribe of Judah and the Book of Mormon is about some of the descendants of Judah's little brother Joseph, who left Jerusalem in about 600 BC and traveled by ship to the promised land of America--there is the same cycle. The people start out righteous, constantly seeking to do good. As a result, God blesses them with great gifts of knowledge, technology, wealth, abundance, peace and wisdom.
But then a curious thing happens, a thing that inevitably leads to THE ONE INEXORABLE TRUTH, a truth that Father knows but that we have to learn over and over again, and usually the hard way. Please follow me through the progression, as there are several steps that lead to the final, full understanding of this eternal truth.
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For those of you new to WARCHICK writings, the above is why I refer to America and Israel as the "Joes" and the "Jews." Nearly all archaeologists and historians agree that the peoples who wound up in England, Scotland, Ireland, and parts of Western Europe descend from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, the two sons of Joseph; that's not even counting the group mentioned above who were already in America when Europe landed, those who came to be known as the American Indians. That means that every Founding Father was of the House of Israel through the tribe of Joseph, thus fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy about the Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph, and Daniel's talk of the "Big branch" and the "Little Branch" of the same tree: Israel. This also indicates that the "New Jerusalem" and "New Zion" spoken of over and over again in the scriptures is in America, which makes perfect sense when you understand that nothing can stop God's plan, not even blood-thirsty Muslims stealing Jerusalem. ("16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more." Old Testament | Joel 3:16-17. Zion roars and Jerusalem utters? AFTER Zion shall Jerusalem be holy and Israel restored to the House of Israel by Zion, no less? Sounds like America and Israel in the past 100 years to me! America certainly roars, and I am always in awe of the way Israel quietly goes about being the most remarkable nation on earth.)Those of you who read me know that I am fond of saying, "We must stick together, the Jews and the Joes, in the war against the great evil of Islammunism." Whether you like it or not, America, you are the prophesied Joes. What, you thought it was just a coincidence that the whole world refers to our warriors as "Joes?" Not only from His mouth shall we know the truth, but from the mouths of millions shall it be eternally confirmed. And for those of you in full "Why I never!" gasping, I have one question: Do you honestly believe that God would command only ONE of the tribes of Israel to write their history? If so, where in the OT did He command ONLY Judah to write, or forbid any of the other tribes of Israel from writing? Yeah, that's what I thought. I swear to you this day that He commanded ALL 12 tribes to write their histories, and the day will come that we discover the Sticks of Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Gad, Levi, etc.)
Rather than these gifts inspiring man to be even more righteous, they cause him to begin to believe in his own knowledge, power, wisdom, and wealth. The more he gains, the more he credits himself. He begins to dismiss God, leaning instead unto his own understanding, and engaging in the only practice that divided Heaven in the pre-existence: the evil tongue.
Through the gift of this same free will that he will come to viciously suppress in others, this man will start planting little seeds of discontent among the righteous, stirring up emotions in order to disarm the logic center of the brain, as he knows all too well that logic and truth are NOT on his side. He will take little wounds and pick at them until they are red, swollen, and infected. Even when he gets his way, it will not be enough. He will use his free will to force others to do things his way over and over again and again, to greater and greater extremes of evil and insanity, focusing on tiny, imaginary, or long-ago offenses in order to try to justify unjustifiable behavior. (Think of the femmies, hippies, and minorities of the past 40 years. Even when the majority have agreed that there were wrongs in need of righting--and acted upon them--it was not enough. What generally starts as a just cause that most can see--equality--inevitably morphs into wretched elitism--affirmative action.)
By this point he will be too mentally stunted to even recognize that by destroying the free will of the righteous, he is cannibalizing his own, for one of the foundations of THE ONE INEXORABLE TRUTH is this: what starts with one group never ends with that group. He who seeks to deprive the righteous of free will for his own selfish gains shall inevitably be enslaved by those very same mandates.
Thus we see that a group that once dwelt in righteousness and peace begins to chip away at its own foundation. It is Satan's ultimate, gleeful, low-down double-cross: convince one man to obliterate the free will of another man, then enslave and cannibalize the man who aided and abetted you.
Two destructions for the price of one. And it all begins with one free man, one good man, who chooses to become one wicked man.
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