Hashkama: Truth? Truth… Truth… Truth… Truth… Truth…Truth
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? (Galatians 4:16)
Truth has become the enemy of the State in the Western world. In Church and in State truth is violated and raped, often unreported upon and ignored by authority and the public in general. The Church consists of people that believe all manner of things that are contrary to the truth of God. Some ‘Christians’ hold to a doctrine that Jesus was a great rabbi, but he is not God the Son; others believe that there is only God the Father. Some believe that as long as you love nothing else matters, so we have homosexual love and lesbian love and all manner of loves. What kind of love is our love? Is it the love that derives from the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ… agapé love? (See John 21:15). Jesus asked Peter three times, “Do you love Me? (John 21:15-17). The first two times Jesus used the Greek word agapé. Twice, Peter responded with the Greek word phileo, which is a brotherly or friendship type of love. The third time Jesus asked Peter, “Do you love [phileo] me? Peter responded using the word phileo. Restoration can be a painful process, and can come to us by Jesus asking us probing questions. He wants the truth from us. Peter was honest and truthful with Jesus, and Jesus gave him purpose and a mission, not condemnation. How often during one’s lifetime does Jesus ask, ‘Do you agapé Me? How does one respond? Having used the word for brotherly love, Jesus didn’t ask Peter if he loved him more than worldly wealth and health. He asked him do you love me more than these – presumably more than the disciples who were there. When it comes to the Word of God, do we truly love Jesus more than we love others?
Pontius Pilate cynically, said to Jesus, “What is truth?” Like many today, Pilate was blind to the one who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Some today ask the same question since it became fashionable for everyone to have their “own truth.” When one considers Pilate, and the fact that his mind-set was that of the world power of the time as it led up to the sac of Rome – Are we in the same self-destructive mind-set in our day? In the Governments recent prorogation[i] under Boris Johnson, an attack was made on truth itself. Johnson was in a battle to “get Brexit done.” Truth as a value in the constitution dates back to Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, in the eighth century, issued the first national body of law; namely the Dooms of Athelstan. Truth mattered in those days, but less so now it appears. The punishment for lying under Athelstan’s law, lasted beyond this life into the after-life. “If it be found that any of these have given wrongful witness, that his witness never again be believed… And he who shall swear a false oath, and it be made clear against him, that he never be oath-worthy, nor let him lie within a hallowed burial-place, though he die…” “What is truth?” was not in question in Athelstan’s time as it is now. If there is no such thing as ‘truth’ then there cannot be lies; and if there is no such thing as lies, then there cannot be a “father of lies” (John 8:44). It negates the Fall and just about everything else in Scripture. Having one’s own truth has dire consequences for civilization, and Rome is a prime example. All roads from Rome led to corruption of every kind until it collapsed from corruption within and enemies without. This is a picture, painted in the colours of the rainbow, showing the approaching sac of Britain. Great Britain was a world power, but is increasingly becoming the size of a man. Corruption within, and enemies entering from without with the intention of taking possession of the nation, are increasing year-by-year. We prefer to think of that as a fairy tale. Consider the strength of Islam in our nation. Police forces, MPs, and civil servants, are all afraid to confront Islam when it crosses British law. Some will perhaps remember the word given by David Pawson.[ii] God gave him a warning that Islam will be allowed to become the predominant influence in the UK. David was so shocked at what God had revealed to him that he was unable even to tell his wife about it for six months. David has gone, but his word remains. In a message he said that God had told him: “Britain is going to become an Islamic nation.” God also said, “and my people are not ready.” The Church wasn’t ready then, and it isn’t ready now. Why was I convinced that what David said will come to fruition? It was about the year 2003, we were travelling from church to church when a leader mentioned what Pawson had said. At that time, I didn’t know that David had spoken about Islam in this way. The leader said that a well-known national leader had told him it was rubbish and that it would not happen. He asked for my opinion. I told him that I firmly believed David’s words because I had come to a similar conclusion myself. Apparently, the national leader later changed his mind. If Britain does indeed turn to Islam, then the lie is going to replace the Truth found in Christ Jesus in many lives, as well as in the national government and religion. It will do so with the blessing of a duped people. Prince Charles, future king and head of the Anglican Church, has a soft-spot and admiration for Islam, and readily accepts Islamic money, even from the Bin Laden family. If we judge Christianity in this nation by the Anglican Church, then the faith is certainly in jeopardy[iii]. In August, an article stated that Justin Welby “Can’t handle the truth.”[iv] Politicians struggle to define what is a woman. The Anglican Church struggles to define what is marriage according to God’s word?[v] LGBT has a stronghold in this denomination. Communism and Woke are other forces at work, breaking down the foundations of our land. “Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being…” (Psalm 51:6). If the Church moves away from God’s truth it will be as destructive a force as those mentioned already.
Slavery
Teach the truth
British history is taught as though we were the devil in disguise, white privileged racist slavers and so forth. The history of slavery is twisted and distorted beyond recognition to fit the woke agenda. Why can’t we just teach the facts and let the students/readers come to their own conclusions? This nation is wilfully opening itself up to deception, and to control by forces previously foreign to these shores.
Slavery didn’t begin with the Trans-Atlantic slave trade as some have re-imagined it. The great civilizations of Mesopotamia, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome and all the civilizations in Central America and Africa were built upon slave labour. Slavery was indigenous to Africa and Arab countries before it made its way to Europe. It was widely practised by the tribes of the American Indians long before Columbus arrived there; and in the 19th Century, many black Americans owned slaves themselves.
There was the Islamic slave trade across the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. European involvement in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to America lasted for just over three centuries. While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Islamic slave trade – Two women for every man were enslaved by Muslims. The mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10%. Slaves dying during transit in the Trans Sahara and East African slave trade was nearer 90%. The Atlantic slave trade was largely for agricultural work, while most slaves destined for the Middle East were for sexual exploitation. Another difference is that slaves in America were allowed to marry and have families, while most of the male slaves in the Middle East slave bazaars were castrated, and most children born to the women were killed at birth. The Arab involvement in the slave trade lasted fourteen centuries, and continues today in some places. We could look at the grooming gangs in British towns and cities today – Oldham, Telford, Aylesbury, Banbury are examples. The Maggie Oliver Foundation[vi] highlighted police failures in tackling this issue and failing to provide justice to the young girls that were gang-raped continuously by Asian (Muslim) grooming gangs (Read testimonies at the link below[vii] where Government and police failed to act. See also the Mark Steyn Show at GBNEWS.UK – 3rd August 2022. One child’s mother has had to hide away in ‘safe houses’ to survive).
Racism & Diversity
Civil Servants are taught that Britain is a “racist” country and that white officials should never contradict people from ethnic minorities. A training video for civil servants at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, says that white civil servants should be aware of their “privilege.”[viii] One source said: “The term white privilege has no place in Government. This divisive nonsense is designed to brainwash thousands of civil servants with an ideological agenda.” It’s divisive, and a House divided cannot stand (Mark 3:25). In August, Jacob Rees-Mogg said that Civil Service diversity roles are ‘created by the woke for the woke.’ Attorney General Suella Braverman said that modern training methods are ‘brainwashing civil servants.’[ix] She has scrapped diversity and inclusion training in her department. While all Western institutions are built around the idea of integrity and accountability, political deceit appears to be a new discipline. Suella Braverman, the Attorney General, said about ‘Diversity’, “We must really get serious about taking on this divisive mindset and call it out for what it is: a new religion with a new priestly caste.”
Not having white skin does not offer sure-fire protection. In July of this year a report stated that Maureen Martin, whose family arrived from Jamaica in 1960 and settled in Lewisham, has been an active member of the Christian Peoples Alliance since 2015. She was sacked from her job, which she had held for thirteen-years with L&Q Housing, after she stood for Mayor of Lewisham – because she shared her Christian beliefs about marriage in her election manifesto[x].
Westminster
People in Parliament are sworn into office using whatever holy book belongs to their particular religion, putting their holy book on a par with the Word of God, thereby replacing the Truth with the lie. We are surrendering bit by bit already, and the bits are getting larger. The foundations have all but crumbled; the edifice is preparing to collapse. In the last decade in particular, lying in the political realm has increased. If enough people believe the lie is truth, it doesn’t matter whether it is truth or not; and that is true of numerous lies that are driving national and world policy, causing hardship, famine, and misery for the masses. It isn’t man-made climate change that we need to fear, it is the consequences of swallowing the fake science and the like of Net-Zero that will bring destruction.
China
In July, CNN, CNBC, AP met with Chinese Communist Party Propagandists, seeking together to “malignly influence” US politics. Bureau chiefs for the above took a meeting with the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), which is part of China’s billion-dollar “United Front” effort. The friendly front aims “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign governments to take action or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.” Britain, under Cameron’s government, came close to having Chinese built power stations and 5g wireless network. Rishi Sunak reportedly has business ties with China. On 3rd August, Chanel 4 News released a video report on how the UK is flooded with Chinese state-owned CCTV cameras, which are involved in grave human rights abuses. “Chinese state-owned cameras are in schools, hospitals and in high streets across the UK on YouTube.” A report states that Hikvision[xi] markets its dystopian surveillance technology, which includes facial recognition and behavioural analysis, to British consumers. Their technology is also used to facilitate the Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghurs, from forced sterilisation in “re-education camps” to violent torture. The USA has already banned Hikvision and Dahua. The question has been asked, isn’t it time the UK banned them too? There is a petition in place that you can sign.[xii]
China’s expansionism takes many forms, and is now flexing its muscles over Taiwan, a collection of islands situated about eighty-miles off the coast of southern China. It is home to twenty-three million people, and has been ruled in times past by Dutch colonisers, China’s Qing emperors, and Imperial Japan. Having done away with its Qing dynasty in 1911 the mainland was known as the Republic of China. The fighting goes back some one-hundred years. China was a dis-united nation, and under the Chinese Nationalist Party – fighting on behalf of the Republic – allied with the Chinese Communist Party attempted to reunify the country. In 1927 they began the Chinese Civil War. There was a lot of in-fighting, but by 1931 the Nationalists were in control of most of China. The war was put on hold when Japan invaded. Japan was defeated in WWII, and the Nationalists and Communists resumed their fighting. Supported by Russia the communists were dominant, and in 1949 the Republic of China was forced to retreat to Taiwan, which was already under its control. Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) established the People’s Republic of China on the mainland. The old enemies continue in a standoff to this day. Taiwan views itself as an independent country, while China views it as a breakaway province to be ‘reunified’ – though the Communists have never ruled there. Xi Jinping who will soon be in his third term in office, has put “complete reunification” with Taiwan high on his agenda, whether Taiwan wants it or not. President of Taiwan, Tsai Ingwen does not want China anywhere near him. The Chinese dragon is spitting threats of fire to anyone that opposes them or who interferes in any way. China is enjoying its Peoples Liberation Army launching three days of live-fire military exercises in six areas around the island of Taiwan. It must be terrifying for the inhabitants of that island. China has done its best to make the world afraid of its might and power. However, one tiny nation has refused to quake in fear. Lithuania has recognised and is standing up for Taiwan against the Chinese Communist Party. Confronting the global bully is a risky business, to Lithuania’s prosperity and wellbeing. One commentator has said, “The Communists in China are a minority of fascists who have enslaved their citizens and do not represent the hearts and minds of their people. They want to force their enslavement upon the rest of the world, and will attempt to do so at almost any cost. Interesting, particularly when Chinese technology giant Tencent has disregarded rising tensions between Beijing and the West to invest in a British start-up building simulation software for the Army. In a deal said to be too financially insignificant to trigger a National Security review, the Chinese gaming company took part in a £15m funding round for Hadean, which develops technology to allow tens of thousands of virtual soldiers onto digital battlefields. In a further twist, Tencent joined the funding round alongside In-Q-Tel, a US venture capital investor backed by funds from the CIA. Hadean has also secured funding from the Government’s Future Fund, the start-up rescue fund launched by Rishi Sunak during the pandemic. It is also being advised by experts from the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF). Launched in 2018, the NSSIF invests in highly sensitive defence start-ups and is closely linked to GCHQ. It also offers start-ups access to security experts at the heart of Britain’s intelligence community. The deal therefore means the British Government, a CIA-backed fund and one of China’s biggest technology companies are partners in the same venture. Craig Beddis, Hadean’s chief executive, said the company had been “highly cognizant” of the origin of its investments and said shareholders such as Tencent would have “no access” to sensitive technology. He added that the stake was too small to warrant notification under the UK’s National Security and Investment Act, the spearhead of a clampdown on Chinese investments in Britain.
A recent study by a group of scientists, former defence officials, and intelligence officers determined the COVID-19 virus came from a Wuhan, China laboratory. The group, known as Team B III, said that the Chinese Communist Party intentionally unleashed it on the world. The finding and more appear in a new book called: “The CCP is at war with America.” China has not been held to account by the world, even though Covid is still rampant.
We have covered a lot of ground so will leave it until next time. Peace to you.
[i] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/supreme-court-decision-prorogation
[ii] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/david-pawson-challenge-islam-christians-pt3-sounding-media
[iii] https://anglican.ink/2022/08/02/as-bishops-meet-anglican-future-is-already-written/
[iv] https://anglican.ink/2022/08/02/justin-welby-cant-handle-the-truth/
[v] https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2022/07/28/with-same-sex-marriage-in-the-spotlight-where-does-it-stand-across-the-anglican-communion/
[vi] https://www.themaggieoliverfoundation.com/latest-news/press-release-oldham-review
[vii] https://www.themaggieoliverfoundation.com/latest-news/press-release-oldham-review
[viii] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/28/white-civil-servants-told-britain-racist-woke-training-video/
[ix] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/suella-braverman-scraps-diversity-lessons-cbr9z6nt9
[x] https://christianconcern.com/comment/election-matters-the-case-of-maureen-martin/
[xi] https://youtu.be/BhHJoKMp1CQ
[xii] https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-hikvision
