If We Must Act

We warned some years ago that the only way conservatives can survive in America would be to violently purge the government — at all levels — of leftists. Not just government, but the same purge must happen in media and academia. Anything that resembles dialogue and compromise is impossible simply because the left rejects all boundaries hindering their agenda. Sooner or later they will seize control and commit violence against anyone who opposes them. This is a fundamental doctrine of leftism. It’s kill or be killed.

And a substantial portion of lefties won’t wait until they have control; they will unleash violence to gain control: ANTIFA’s Mask Slips: Trump’s Roundtable Sends Shadow NGO Network Behind “Riot Inc.” into Panic; and Antifa Is Threatening Families Of Law Enforcement: Homeland Security.

Hebrew language had only nouns and verbs. Some of you may recall I once explained the concept of “evil” in Hebrew culture. It was not an adjective or adverb, but a noun, a condition resulting from something else. It was a matter of effects, and it was subjective. What has an evil effect on you may not be evil to someone else because it doesn’t threaten them in any way. Calling someone “evil” would be more about what they accomplish against you personally as you reckon what response you may have, if any.

The Hebrew word (chamash) — typically translated “violence” — is similar. This one is a verb. The image is someone grabbing you and shaking you very hard. By extension, it would include any number of actions that have the effect of shaking your health, wealth and safety. It could be simply words that cause distress — false accusations, for example. It is associated with oppression, injustice, wicked intent, etc.

I want you to notice that “violence” in the Bible is not defined legalistically as it is in American culture. You don’t sin by beating or killing someone trying to rape your wife or daughter. That’s not “violence”; it’s defense. At a deeper level, the difference between American and Hebrew culture should be obvious.

Westerners say that “life is precious”. They mean that taking life requires all kinds of special permits and vested authority, with a ton of training to match. Even then, there’s a big show of investigating every fatal outcome to make sure it was all proper. In a great many local jurisdictions, defending your life or that of your family is not a valid reason to kill someone. You would owe government officials a whole bunch of explaining and proving to escape punishment and the odds are against you.

Acts of war are reckoned separately, an entirely different category. You are under orders to go kill the enemy. It’s not the same as domestic disputes.

While the Law of Moses also demands an investigation, the barriers to escaping condemnation weren’t too awfully high. The underlying concept is that your actions must not threaten covenant shalom — peace with God. But the idea that every life is precious is wholly absent from Hebrew thinking. Sure, your life might be precious to some folks, maybe even to God, but your demise might not be a tragedy to the community. If you were outside the Covenant boundaries, you were likely asking for it. Neither the community as a whole, nor any faceless bureaucratic government as a proxy for the community, has a vested interest in your continued existence.

This is the crux of the matter: Our government claims to represent the will of the people, when it has only rarely done so. Once in power, it’s not even the bad people — it’s a wicked system of mere pretense. The government claims a vested financial interest in every human life, as if the whole matter was reduced to economics. This trumps all other considerations. Thus, it has nothing to do with actual morality and peace with God, but whether the government deems the person’s life valuable strictly in terms of dollars.

Covenant people cannot reckon things that way. We know that the most horrifying terrorist thug is no doubt precious to someone out there, but that is not our concern. They are a threat to what God has given us. We must bear the question before the Lord, asking how He wants us to respond. Some of us are called beforehand to prepare to defend the covenant community. Whether or not we defend others who may or may not contribute to our shalom is a question for the context and conviction. Does it glorify God in this moment?

The point here is that human lives are not inherently precious. Taking someone’s life for any reason is not subject to material calculus, but is a matter of the moment, and we should not hesitate when that moment comes. We have a duty to God to demonstrate His value system, not the one promoted by godless government arising from pagan culture.

We won’t support the likes of ICE and other federal law enforcement for their own sake, but we might get involved in their favor accidentally because we oppose leftist terror. Somewhere down the road, we may turn our weapons in the other direction when government-sponsored Zionist terror becomes a problem.